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Why We're Wrong About George III

Dan Snow's History Hit

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Taking the Empire Beyond the Seas

I'm not for a moment saying that the americans didn't have the right to set themselves up as an independent nation. They deserved their own country. However, they don't have theright to blame george the third for hol lade of things that he didn't do in the course of it. The soldiers who weren' given a show trial for yes, exactly well t but equally, it wasn't a show trail. John adams represented them for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. It was all going to be spent at home protecting the west. I think if that was going to an excuse for revolution, for imposing taxes on without our consent, mago

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