George III - Ruthless Mad Monarch or Suffering Victim?

George III - Ruthless Mad Monarch or Suffering Victim?

  • Ruthless Mad Monarch

    Votes: 4 7.5%
  • Suffering Victim

    Votes: 49 92.5%

  • Total voters
    53
I'll bite. I didn't vote because I think he was a bit of both. In the 1700s the Monarchy still had a LOT of influence on Parliament and could have worked much harder to reconcile with the colonies. King George was not willing to allow the colonies to separate peacefully or even give the colonists the protections and guarantees they sought. With that being said, George III was a very sick man at times and often acted pretty wacky, but during his lucid periods he was not a wonderful benevolent despot. He saw the colonies as subservient appendages subject to the whims of King and Parliament and peopled by ungrateful whiners.

Benjamin

Hey wait...this thread doesn't have something to do with my insightful and unbiased defense of the American Revolution in a previous thread? Does it?:D
 
That would be interesting, yes.

But porphyria only passes down the male line.

... bringing us to George IV, who by all accounts was a complete
and utter oxygen-thief.

ObWI: August 2nd, 1786 - Margaret Nicholson brings a sharper knife,
and successfully stabs George III, giving our latter-day Heliogabalus
an extra 34 years to waste money and chase women from the throne.
Can we parlay this into a second English Revolution?
 
You know, I thought I'd get some American Fanatacists who would blame King George for all their problems pre-revolution and accuse him of being a tyrant and so on but thus far everyone seems to be in agreement that he was just a poor suffering victim of circumstances and illnesses. Are there no American Fanatacists left?

Never come across any in books or in school in my lifetime.
 
Britain was by no means beaten militarily after Yorktown but the political will to carry on went
Exactly. America was a Britain's Vietnam. They could have continued fighting and could have won eventually. The war just became a political nightmare as it dragged on.
 
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