Order of the Crown of Stuart

[macwilkin]

And without a George III and Lord North the colonies might not have been inclined to be rebellious.

Not as simple as that, though. The colonists were not innocent in the events leading up the Revolution, especially when it came for paying for the French & Indian War and the British regulars that defeated New France.

One estimate I have read says that British subjects in GB were paying twice the amount of taxes American colonials were.

Not to mention all of the Americans engaged in illicit trade with the Dutch & French (in the case of the latter, even before the war ended).

George III really had nothing to do with the seperation, apart from declaring the US in rebellion after the first shots had been fired. Parliament bears more of the responsibility, but even MPs such as Edmund Burke and William Pitt spoke on behalf of the American view.

As I tell my classes, the Revolution is not "Star Wars", it was our first Civil War.

Todd