Word: iii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Declaration then lists 27 specific charges against King George III. Among the most important...
June 17. Colonial forces driven from Breed's hill, near Boston's Bunker hill, but inflict casualties of 1,150. Aug. 23. George III proclaims Americans have "proceeded to open and avowed Rebellion...
...Vice Admiral Richard Lord Howe's armada arrives in New York to reinforce Major General Sir William Howe, perhaps this week, all British military might in the New World will be commanded by two men who not only are brothers but are thought to be cousins of King George III (their grandmother, the Baroness Kielmansegge, was once a favorite mistress of George I). Despite this royal connection, the two brothers, whom the Crown has now charged with suppressing all rebellion in the Colonies, were until lately among the staunchest advocates of a reconciliation...
...April, it was the first opportunity for free competition in a century. Says Massachusetts Congressman John Adams: "Foreign nations, all the world I hope, will be invited to come here. And our people [will be] permitted to go to all the world except the dominion of him [King George III] who is adjudged to be Nerone Neronior [more Nero than Nero]. I think the utmost encouragement must be given to trade...
This is the year, the British government promises, that the Rebellion in America will be crushed. "Once those Rebels have felt a smart blow, they will-submit," predicts King George III, while Colonial Secretary Lord George Germain confidently talks of victory in one vigorous campaign. The vacillations of Lord North, the head of the government, seem ended: he now demands that the Americans be reduced to "a proper constitutional state of obedience...