The Walcheren Failure, Part II
Widespread fever followed military sloth, writes Antony Brett-James, and the fiasco on Walcheren brought down the tottering British Government.
Spencer Perceval
British Prime Ministers: Spencer Perceval
Roger Fulford introduces the life and career of 'perhaps the dimmest' British Prime Minister.
The Assassination of Spencer Perceval
The only British Prime Minister to be murdered whilst in office was shot dead on 11 May 1812.