Though King George III did not personally trigger the shot heard round the world, he nonetheless helped pave the path toward war. Here’s how he became the last king of America
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The document not only proclaimed the sovereignty of the United States, but it also cast King George III of Great Britain as the chief villain in America’s origin story.
George also leaned into his role as Britain’s paterfamilias. He emphasized order, duty, and integrity in both family and national life. In George’s world, a king had a duty to model virtue for his subjects—and they had a duty to obey. The taxes outraged colonists, who initially directed their ire at the politicians who governed them, not the king who ruled them. How could members of Parliament, men an ocean away, impose taxes without their consent?
Colonists had a nickname for these new laws: the Intolerable Acts. And though they had targeted Massachusetts, scene of the Boston Tea Party, colonists throughout North America united in their indignation. What rights would Parliament take away next? The 1763 proclamation by British King George III established colonial rule over former French and Spanish possessions in North America after the Seven Years' War—and
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