George III - The Last King of America

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

George III is forever known as the king who lost the 13 American colonies. In the US he is thought of by many as a tyrant king, taxing and subduing from across the Atlantic. Professor Jeremy Black tells Don that there is much more to his character, and his relationship with America.

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0:00.0	Hear ye, hear ye, I bring news from the Second Continental Congress.
0:06.4	On this day, July 4, 1776, they have issued the unanimous declaration of the 13 United States.
0:16.5	All around the 13 colonies, the Declaration of Independence was read in towns and villages,
0:22.4	extolling the need for an Enlightenment-driven America to forge its own
0:26.5	path, and a long list of grievances with their ultimate ruler, their monarch from across
0:31.8	the sea, King George III of England.
0:35.0	Three months later, the revolution against the British in full swing,
0:40.0	King George
0:42.6	the third is making his first speech to Parliament since the declaration.
0:44.3	He acknowledges that all was not going well for the British in their war with the American
0:48.4	colonies. But what he wasn't to know was that things would only get worse and George III would become the last
0:55.1	King of America. Hello everyone. Welcome to American History Hit. I'm your host Don Wildman. In the American Revolution
1:12.3	period, George the third loomed large.
1:15.8	He was the Craven king we had outgrown, the enemy we opposed.
1:20.2	We were done with being subjects of English rule, but we were really done with George.
1:25.6	In the Declaration of Independence, which is roughly 1,300 words long,
1:29.6	over 700 of them are devoted to a list of grievances against the crown, nay against George
1:35.7	the third himself.
1:37.4	He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly.
1:40.2	He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
1:45.5	He is plundering our seas, ravaging our coasts, and burning our towns.
1:50.0	And of course he imposed taxes without consent, but the list goes on and on more than 25 grievances.
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