While the reigns of George I and II had been marked by a royal detachment from the administration of American colonies, King George III asserted ... When the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 ...
Roberts’s new book is The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, a biography of the monarch who led England during the American Revolution and who has been made into ...
Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.
Carla Gardina Pestana, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly.
The loss of the American colonies was a great blow to the King and the Napoleonic Wars, with threat of invasion, dominated the end of his reign. His son George acted as Prince Regent during the years ...