George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
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Lived 1716 to 1785 · aged 69
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Major-General George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, PC was a British Army officer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1775 to 1782.
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The Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 where Sackville first distinguished himself. He was wounded and captured by the French.
In The State Tinkers (1780), James Gillray caricatured Germain (second from left) and his political allies as incompetent tinkers of the National Kettle. Posted on the wall behind Germain is the "Plan of Minden".
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Major-General George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, PC was a British Army officer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1775 to 1782. Serving in the North ministry during the American War of Independence, he was a hardliner, "the chief architect of the American War in Britain," receiving significant blame for Britain's defeat.
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Lived 1716 to 1785 · aged 69
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