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George views the American Rebellion as an almost personal affront. There are no grays in his view, only stark blacks and whites, wrongs and rights. Over and over, he emphasizes that "those deluded people" have forgotten their duty, to him and to England. "Every means of distressing America must meet with my concurrence," he wrote Lord North last year, "as it tends to bringing them to feel the necessity of returning to their duty." He quoted to North with approval the opinion of Major General Frederick Haldimand, one of the government's leading experts on America, that "nothing...
...maintains that France's Treasury cannot afford a possible conflict with Britain and that the American Colonies will eventually win their freedom anyway. Vergennes, however, has never forgiven Britain for stripping France of most of its colonies after the French and Indian War. He sees the American Rebellion as a means of getting back at Britain, that "rapacious, unjust and faithless enemy...
...founding of the dynasty: from 100 million to nearly 300 million. Just to the south of Ch'ien-lung's empire, a new civil war is raging among the Vietnamese. Chief victors so far: the three Tay Son brothers, Nhac, Lu and Hué, who started a rebellion four years ago against the tyrannical and inefficient regime of the Nguyen family. Originally bandits in the Robin Hood style, the Tay Sons soon gathered enough peasant supporters to challenge the Nguyen armies in the field. This spring they captured the settlement of Ta Ngon (pronounced Saigon), and the eldest...
When the British first began searching for mercenary forces to put down the American Rebellion, they turned not to the German princelings of Hesse and Brunswick but to mighty Empress Catherine II of Russia. They even made a formal offer of £1 per man for 20,000 of her infantrymen, to set sail this spring. Catherine rejected the plan as "undignified." Besides, said she, "I am just beginning to enjoy peace...
...temporarily imposed a kind of order, but it is clear that their strength is that of men, not of enduring institutions, and that the fall of the empire is inescapable. Gibbon is no moralist intent on admonisinng modern readers, and he has no interest in encouraging American Patriots in rebellion, but he does demonstrate Rome's lessons for other peoples...