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George III of the United Kingdom is most well known for losing the American colonies and for his madness.
Was he a King who sought to promote unity on an Empire wide basis but suffered from recuring illnesses and stresses that drove his health to ruin while simultaniously becoming the scapegoat of American anger or was he a mad monarch who was too obsesed with keeping hold of the colonies that he forced the country to fight too long and too hard to keep territory that he had driven to revolution by heavyhanded tactics?