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History Unplugged Podcast

The Last King of America: George III, His Battles With Madness, and Being a Thoroughly Underrated Monarch

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon: a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities (picture the preening, spitting, and pompous version in Hamilton). But in 2017, the Queen of England put 200,000 pages of the...

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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

1:09.9

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

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strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

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British King George III has suffered about 300 years of bad publicity.

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It starts with a declaration of independence, in which Thomas Jefferson describes him as a

1:48.3

tyrant who wants to suffocate the American experiment in its cradle. He has refused to

1:53.5

ascend to laws necessary to the public good. His abdicated government here, he has dissolved

1:58.9

legislative houses repeatedly, his plundered or seized ravager coast burnt our towns and destroyed

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