George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. As a scholar of early America, I believe, however, that George III has gotten ...

King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.

The loss of the American colonies was a great blow to the King and the Napoleonic Wars, with threat of invasion, dominated the end of his reign. His son George acted as Prince Regent during the years ...