George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
British Army general (1716-1785) · Died at 69
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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Lexington and Concord's opening shots launched the conflict that would birth the first modern democratic republic and inspire global independence movements.
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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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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.