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George Canning - Foreign Secretary: 1807–1809
... Canning was appointed Foreign Secretary in the new government of the Duke of Portland in 1807 ... Canning was worried that Denmark might, under French pressure, become hostile to Britain ... On the night of 21/22 July 1807 Canning received intelligence directly from Tilsit (where Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia were negotiating a treaty) which appeared "to ...

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