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...Chatham, Va., a community of 1,822 residents not far from a highway connecting it with Greensboro, N.C., and beyond. In the center of town is the courthouse of Pittsylvania County -named after William Pitt the Elder, who was the Earl of Chatham. Chatham boasts the elegant, Episcopal-run Chatham Hall school for girls on one side of town and the Hargrave Military Academy on the other, as well as 19th-century wooden houses with broad front lawns and wide verandas...
TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane visited Chatham for several days to chat with the townfolk. His report...
...provide for the accelerated war, much of Britain's industry has been mobilized. Yorkshire looms are supplying soldiers' uniforms, and Chatham sail-and ropemakers are working overtime to help equip ships for the Atlantic convoys. Other manufacturers throughout the kingdom are equally busy providing linen, shirts and blankets-not to mention muskets and cannon. To feed the Germans, farmers are being asked to grow more cabbages...
...mere force that vast continent and that growing multitude of resolute freemen who inhabit it, even if that or any other country was worth governing against the inclination of all its inhabitants." With typical wit, Fox made the same argument to Lord North in the House of Commons: "Lord Chatham [government leader when Canada was taken from the French], the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great never gained more in one campaign than the noble Lord has lost. He has lost a whole continent." Colonel Isaac Barre, a fiery speaker whose face was disfigured at the Battle of Quebec...
...opposition, though often eloquent, is divided, dispirited and lacking the fiery leadership of someone like Lord Chatham. (Now 67, ill and half mad, he rarely even visits Westminster.) The merchants and manufacturers who depended on the ?4 million American trade were earlier among the most influential opponents of the war, but so far the hostilities have done relatively little harm, since British businessmen have found new customers in Russia, Spain and Italy for Birmingham steel, Manchester cotton and Yorkshire woolens. They seem largely unaware of Whig estimates that the fighting will cost roughly ?10 million a year (with the national...