![]() ![]() The fight for independence lionised names like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin created icons such as the Stars and Stripes flag and Declaration of Independence and ultimately set the nation on a path to becoming a global superpower. ![]() ![]() For the US, the battles, people and documents of the war are not just part of history, but are deeply entrenched in the national psyche. It was a humiliation for the British and King George III. By the 1780s, the French, Spanish and Dutch had joined their cause, turning the conflict into a world war and providing the vital support needed to pull off an unlikely victory. Facing the superior British army and navy, as well as thousands of Loyalists, the ‘Patriots’ took up arms and declared independence to form the United States of America. His superb concluding chapter is a paean to 'the nobility of George III. Britain’s most misunderstood monarch he may have been, but this biographer has entered into this conscientious king’s troubled mind with more than customary empathy. ![]() George III did much to shape the monarchy as it is known today: he. In Andrew Roberts, George has found his Boswell, but one with the wit and erudition of a Johnson. In 1775, the tensions between Britain and its 13 American colonies – dominated by the issues of political representation and taxation – snapped, resulting in the American Revolutionary War. In his magisterial new biography of George III, Andrew Roberts exposes the insecurities behind the British Crown. In context: George III’s ‘loss’ of the colonies ![]()
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