King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 (1738–1820)
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The king who lost America but held the throne for nearly six decades. George III ruled through revolution, Napoleon, and the birth of the modern British state — then spent his final decade blind, deaf, and mad while his son ran the country.
George III was born in 1738, the first Hanover monarch raised in Britain who spoke English as his first language. He became king in 1760 at twenty-two and married Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz the next year; they had 15 children. His early reign brought triumph in the Seven Years' War, making Britain the dominant power in North America and India. Then came the disaster that defined him: the loss of thirteen American colonies in the War of Independence. He fought on through the Napoleonic Wars until Waterloo in 1815 and oversaw the 1807 ban on the transatlantic slave trade and the…
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[U]pon pain of the highest displeasure, to assent to no law by which the importation of slaves should be in any respect prohibited or obstructed.
You can name me no Whig families that shall not have my Countenance; but where Tories come to me on Whig principles, let us take them.
Though I have subjects who will suffer immensely [i.e.
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Britain.
If vice and faction can be got the better of, this nation will again appear in her ancient lustre.
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