King George III

<p>“Now the war has begun and no one knows when it will end,” said one minuteman after the fight.</p>

This political cartoon, made in the year 1775, shows King George III of Great Britian and Ireland and Lord Mansfield, a British judge and politician, riding on two horses labeled "Obstinacy" and "Pride." The carriage is headed towards an abyss, representing the author's interpretation of entering

<p><span class="deck">Cursed by ancestry,bedeviled by his posterity, beset by forces he could not grasp, George III is usually remembered as the ogre of Jefferson’s Declaration. An eminent English historian reassesses that strange and pathetic personality</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A domino theory, distant wilderness warfare, the notion of “defensive enclaves,” hawks, doves, hired mercenaries, possible intervention by hostile powers, a Little trouble telling friendly natives from unfriendly—George</span> III <span class="typestyle"> went through the whole routine</span> </span></p>

<p>Crowds on both sides of the Atlantic shouted “Wilkes and Liberty!” after he was jailed and tossed out of Parliament for defending the rights of Colonists and the “middling and inferior sort of people who stand most in need of protection.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> What really happened when Thomas Jefferson met George III</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A recent British ambassador to Washington takes a generous-spirited but clear-eyed look at the document that, as he points out, owes its existence to King George III</span></p>