Hello. I'm Back. Sorry for the delay on this one. There was of course quite a bit of information to sift through , and I also was on vacation for a week. Nevertheless, I am happy to be able to get this one out. George III's reign is an inherently compelling reign to learn about with so much happening from beginning to end and I thoroughly enjoyed putting this one together. Multiple revolutions, mentall illness, political faction and international wars make his story an incredible one. I hope I was able to reasonably do his story justice and I thank you for your interest in the video/channel. I also hope you all are doing well and if I catch any errors or if any are pointed out to me, I will add them to the errors and corrections section of the video description. Cheers!
Thanks for the video! As an Australian it was interesting to see when we entered into the picture. Also I really had no knowledge of anything about how/why the US revolution came about etc so that was interesting as well. It all sounds pretty strange. 😂 I guess the power of propaganda.
0:58 Birth 2:30 1st Hanovarian King 👑 grown in Britain 🇬🇧 3:38 The Father disliked The Son. Each new father George disliked his son George. Sad 😔 5:17 Queen Augusta, mother of George III looked after her 13 year old Prince. 7:17 May 1756, The Seven Years War. Britain 🇬🇧 vs France ⚜️ 9:10 1759 The Year of Great Gains for Great Britain. 9:59 REVOLUTION 🇺🇸 10:57 George III • Cultuted upbringing • Educated, liked Science, Music, Architecture, etc. *George III Morals* 12:13 Anti-Slavery George III + Morality & Duty + Faithful to His Wife 💍 14:02 George III is 1 of 9 Children of Augusta, his mother. *George III Politics* 14:43 ASSASSINS CAME TO TAKE HIS LIFE! They Failed. 15:38 United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Gains Australia 🇦🇺 as a Colony under George III. *George III’s Marriage and Family* 18:05 1st British King to take the throne without already having a wife Married Charlotte in 1761 19:08 15 CHILDREN from George and Charlotte! 20:47 Loving Father 23:38 War Victories. Peace of Paris 1763! 24:50 A small London Minority hated George III’s Tutor John Stuart, Earl of Bute *American Colonies Rebellion* 26:12 No More Taxes 🇺🇸 26:47 Pay Your Taxes 🇬🇧 29:18 Stamp Act 1765, repealed by Prime Minister Rockingham in 1766 🇬🇧 31:14 Prime Minister William Pitt 🇬🇧 got depressed. 32:45 Townsend Duties result in Boston Massacre. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💥🩸🪦 33:46 December 16th, 1773 The Tea Act 🇬🇧to The Boston Tea Party 🫖 🌊 🇺🇸 *Religion* 35:34 George III was an Anglican Protestant 36:19 1774 Continental Congress 🇺🇸 America prepares for war. 37:23 April 19th, 1775 “The Shot Heard Round The World.” 🇬🇧🇺🇸 38:51 Britain 🇬🇧 wanted to win swiftly. 39:12 1775 Second Continental Congress. INDEPENDENCE NOW! 40:09 Bunker Hill 💥, Olive Branch Petition 🕊️ 41:04 STATUE PULLED DOWN! Melted Into Musket Balls! *America Winning* 42:34 Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton.🇺🇸 43:47 Battle of Brandywine and Allentown.🇬🇧 44:29 John Burgoyne surrendered 🇺🇸 46:07 America wins The Northern theater of The American Revolution by 1778🇺🇸 46:19 Charles Cornwallis Southern Campaign.🇬🇧 47:16 Yorktown Defeat 🇬🇧 48:00 Battle of The Chesapeake 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷 48:53 Treaty of Paris 1783 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷 50:00 William Pitt The Younger, son of William Pitt *Bizarre Decline of George III’s Health* 52:43 - Stomach Pain - Back Pain - Spine Pain
Thank you for this excellent documentary. Americans, in particular, have been (mis-)educated about George III. They read Revolutionary War-era propaganda against George III rather too literally, failing to grasp that the colonists' real beef was with the British Parliament and not the King. But it was helpful for the colonists' cause to have a particular person whom they could portray as a villain and tryant, despite the fact that George III was anything but a tyrant! Your video should be required viewing for all American high school and college students, as a corrective to the absurd history we were taught.
It’s not just the us who have been misled. I feel the world has been misled as to the reasons for the war of independence. It seems that after benefiting from the protection by the British from the French, Spanish and the native tribes, the colonialist, when asked to help pay for that protection, acted like spoilt teenagers being asked to wash the dishes to support their upkeep! There was definitely a faction who were looking for expansion west and using the taxation, which, as far as this video shows, was fair recompense , as a rallying cry to self governance. I see a country who had got confident whilst under protection and wanted to stretch its legs to colonise others lands (native lands west) to grow richer and stronger, rather than the morally justified birth of a nation due to being taxed and repressed by an evil tyrant across the ocean. Even the fact all but the tea act was revoked shows that the motives of the colonists were not as moral as we’ve all been led to believe. I often wondered why Canada had kept loyal to Britain, especially French Canada, after the American war of independence, now I know. Love these videos for their frank factual accounts rather than the fluffy option led, hollywoodised telling of history.
Unfortunately all countries have different stories about the same history taught in school, I am from Holland, and we learn things quite different than students in both U.S.A. and U.K., luckily now we have RUclips / the internet, and therefor the chance to self educate us further... 😅
That’s just politics. Look at how England propagandized Napoleon’s image to the point that kids thought he was a boogeyman hiding under their bed. Personifying a conflict is just more impactful than talking about a faceless parliament.
I read somewhere that some background context was that many people who had moved here had been treated badly by the English, such as people from Ireland and Scotland, religious dissenters, etc. High handed British behavior had led to deep anger and resentment. Interesting to consider.
A very interesting documentary about a monarch who is well renowned not only in the United Kingdom, but also in the USA. King George III, I believe, tried his best to be a decent monarch and a good man to his family. But failed, unfortunately for him, due to his latent madness that plagued him multiple times throughout his final years of being king.
It’s kinda gross how he’s labeled as a tyrant in the US when he was one of the better kings in history and on top of that he was head of a constitutional monarchy. I say this as an American too.
Just listened to people profiles version l, then listened to yours. It's amazing how you made yours sound totally different with new information. Great listen as always. Looking forward to the next
I feel like this is a turning point for the monarchy. After this there is some very “modern” about them. Maybe that will be even more prevalent after Victoria idk. But I feel like because George IV and William IV are so overlooked, George III feels like the last of that time. Another solid video 🎉
George the Farmer King, so many things in common with Charles III, at least Charles can learn from history and take care to have the necessary me time! 👍
@jenniferharrison8915 he only been on the throne for less than a year though, and I'm unsure he'd go past 2030. But we'll see what our new King does. Coming from someone who agrees with being a Republic, but also not in favour of how the UK government is handling thongs right now, making me prefer a monarchy with a tad more oversight.
Very, very good. A stupendous ride through a major historic era. BTW: I have two George "cartwheel" III pennies and one halfpenny on my desk as I write this. The pennies are from 1797 (the date on the halfpenny is illegible). Created to combat counterfeiting, these coins were the first in England to be minted on a steam-powered press. "Farmer George" presided over the start of the industrial revolution in Britain. Indeed, the agricultural improvements he was so interested in made it possible to feed the ensuing growth in population.
A very underrated monarch, loved by the people of the UK, who unfortunately is only remembered for his mental health and his government’s loss of the American Colonies (now 🇺🇸). Can’t wait to see Brief History’s take on George IV 👌🏻🔥
Talking about the propaganda of the Revolutionary War, this was still present in my childhood in the 60's and 70's. There was a bunch of shorts that they put in between cartoons on Saturday mornings, called 'Schoolhouse Rock'. You can still see them on RUclips today. They paint George III as a completely detached, tyrannical and brutal control-freak. It's too bad that the Schoolhouse Rock creators didn't know about the truth, because they 'poisoned' a whole generation and more. I never knew the things about George that you brought to light today, and my opinion stands corrected. I very much enjoy your series, and can't wait for Victoria. Blessings....
So, let me get this straight.. You learned about King Charles' tyranny from a children's cartoon in the seventies? Now, you've changed your mind about him from a random video on RUclips? Well, might I suggest you learn what Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and John Adams thought of him, instead of a cartoon for children. There are also hundreds of books written by scholars and historians over the centuries regarding the causes of the Revolution. Maybe you should try getting your history from serious people instead of a goddamn cartoon.
@@tomcarl8021 Not all of them personally John Adam didn't believe ot entirely or even George Washington. But he got the blame as the villain. Eventhough the main one who rejected the American representation was the Parliament. Even if King George III agreed the Parliament will not accept it. I mean the King is nothing compare to the lord and conservative who still view American as 2nd class citizen
@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 Then explain to me why the King rejected the Olive Branch Petition? And explain to me why Jefferson blamed the King personally in his correspondence letters with the King? And explain to me why Jefferson singled him out in the Declaration of Independence?
A video series on the consorts as a spin off would be pretty interesting. When you were talking about them at the start I was wondering if the was anything between Augusta and Bute.
I recall in school, King George the 3rd was talked about as the tyrant King. We didn't go into his later years going mad, but only the American Revelation and he was the bad guy in the story. I don't know if history books changed since then, but from there, I had an interest in him. I recall when I lived-in London, I wanted to read about him from their point of view and then over the years learned that you need to read many historical books to get the truth of someone. It led to my interest in the House of Hanover and how cruel these kings were, especially George the first, to his wife. How he separated the family with no regards to anyone at all. Very interesting history.
Great channel, Sir. For future projects I'd like to suggest the various Kings that ruled between Alfred the Great and Aethelred Ii (the unready) since they seemingly get very little attention, even though Edward the Elder (Alfred's son) arguably did more to unify the kingdoms of England, and Edward the Martyr was brutally assainated, and Edwy was a completely unruly tearaway....
With regard to the USA, Britain had been subjugating the American colonies through mercantile trading rules and taxes imposed from afar for 10+ years before independence. Once it was clear that Britain remained intent on subordinating their American colonies, as evidenced by the British Army's burning of American towns and murdering of American citizens, the only course left was independence. And George's response to the Olive Branch petition was the final straw. It wasn't American ingratitude to the King that caused independence. It was British carelessness in their administration of a very valuable possession.
Exactly. I enjoy this channel but the bias is a little ridiculous in this one. I’m thinking a certain book really influenced him to exonerate George, and thus 🇬🇧, against the cunning colonial schemers.
Thank you, love to see your great content again. Would love to see (when you’re finished with the British monarchy after the Norman conquest) more content, maybe Anglo Saxon, French, holy Roman or any other kings. Everything is amazing in your videos. Even on the other great channels (like peoples profiles) there is just something a miss, like the fitting music and smooth narration in your vids. 🫶🏼
Very interesting, as always. I am looking forward to the George IV episode. In it, I hope you will at least make passing reference to my very distant cousin, Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet Warbleton. Sir John was the maternal nephew of the brewer Henry Thrale, and so an associate of Dr. Samuel Johnson. He was a gambler and horse racer, and was chief among the "disreputable" friends of the Prince Regent. He was the cause of George receiving snubs from members of high society, particularly those close to his father. When Lord Edward Thurlow invited the Prince Regent to dinner, and found that Sir John was accompanying him, Thurlow angrily said, "I have no objection, Sir, to Sir John Lade in his proper place, which I take to be your Royal Highness's coach-box, and not your table." Sir John married a woman named Letitia, who is said to have previously the mistress of both the highwayman John "Sixteen String Jack" Rann and Prince Fredrick, Duke of York(following the former's execution). The couple met during her affair with the Duke of York; Sir John was in awe of her riding ability, and so married her despite objections from family. By the time George IV was crowned and had to distance himself from his rowdy friends, Sir John had burned through his inheritance, and was forced to retire from the London racing scene. The new king gave him a pension as his "driving tutor", which allowed him to keep a stud farm in the country. When Queen Victoria came to the throne, a diary entry records that she discovered that she was paying "a Sir John Lade, one of George IV.'s intimates". Sir John is a very distant relation of mine. My research suggests he descends from the Ladd/Lade/Lad family of Kent, particularly from the villages of the Elham Valley, due south of Canterbury.
Did you know that when the movie ‘The Madness of King George’ was released in America, it was originally titled ‘The Madness of King George the Third’, but it was feared that an American audience would think it was a sequel. True 😊
Hey! You’re videos are great! Made with a great deal of effort! Just a few pointers on pronunciation of English place names, as they always cause headaches, Reading is pronounced “redding”, Chatham is pronounced “chat-am”, Warwick is pronounced “worick”, Loughborough is, “luffburra”, anywhere that ends in borough is pronounced “burra”, and shire such as Worcestershire is pronounced, “Woosta-sheer” and Yorkshire is “York-sheer”. Keep up the great work!
As an Australian I've never learnt that there was a choice between death and transportation. It was usually those convicted of lesser crimes, like stealing a loaf of bread, that were sent in the shops, for seven years. But given you had to pay your fare to get back to Britain, very few left Australia.
George III personally did not own any slaves in India. IN fact, British control of India didn't begin until 1858 -- 38 yeas after George III's death. It is true that prior to 1858, the British East India Company elsaved Indians, but George III was a constitutional monarch, and thus did not have direct authority over the East India Company.
😆 Of course! I suppose the memorization of the state capitals that was forced upon me as a child has finally got the better of me! Thank you for pointing this out. I have edited it out of the video to the best of my ability but will still add it to the errors and corrections section to be consistent. Thanks again and Cheers!
@BriefHistoryOfficial random, but are you American by any chance? To me you sound so, and you seem to be going a bit heavy on them in this video. Just saying. Not discrediting you or anything.
I find it strange as an American that im related to these royals through the Geraldine dynasty as distant, distant cousins. It was George III who put our family crest in the union jack as the red " x" representing Ireland, the so called" saint Patrick's cross". Our side of the family was deposed after the last Desmond rebellion by their cousin , Elizabeth 1. Til then, they'd been earls and dukes of Cork and Kerry, but had refused Elizabeth's orders to starve the Catholic population into submission. I think Charles should grant a posthumous pardon!
Please verify: Did King George want to allow colonies to have representation in parliament, but it was black by parliament. Please recommend some reading on this issue.
Personally, I think the King George was a genius. I hope King Charles III can be equally as successful. However I think he should have given the colonies in America representation.
Thomas Paine called George III “The Royal Brute”. With all this information in this documentary, I have to ask, was Thomas Paine a liar? Was he just another resentful revolutionary, a spiteful mutant if you will? And what exactly did he do during the French Revolution?
Hello. Thanks for the comment. The sources I used to formulate the video are in the video description. One of these sources, "The Last King Of America, The Misunderstood Reign Of George III" by Andrew Roberts, goes into great detail about Paine's criticisms, including his writing in "Common Sense". Here are a few quotes from Robert's book. Roberts writes "The thirty-nine-year-old Paine was a former staymaker,* schoolmaster, grocer and twice-dismissed excise officer, who, as his generally sympathetic biographer admits, had ‘relentlessly failed in everything personal and professional he had ever attempted’.14 As one historian has written, Paine was ‘full of rage at the ways the Old World had kept him down’.15 Sarah, the daughter of Paine’s benefactor Benjamin Franklin, wrote of him soon after he arrived in Philadelphia, ‘There never was a man less loved in a place than Paine in this, having at different times disputed with everyone.’16 Paine’s contemporaries found him ‘obnoxious, self-absorbed, impetuous, conceited and disputatious’, which might help to explain why he failed in politics in both the Old World and later in the New.17 Certainly the adjectives Paine directed against King George were evidence of an unquiet mind, for by December he was describing the King as ‘a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man’ who resembled ‘a common murderer, a highwayman or a housebreaker’.18 Calling the King sottish was particularly inaccurate in relation to someone who rarely drank alcohol and never to excess - unlike Paine himself." Roberts also writes "Common Sense was written for the ordinary populace rather than for well-educated readers, and was devoid of the customary Latin tags, classical allusions and learned footnotes of many other pamphlets of the day. Most references or allusions were to the Bible, a copy of which virtually all Americans possessed and which many knew well. Paine claimed that ‘censure to individuals make[s] no part’ of his argument, though that was demonstrably untrue when it came to Mr Guelph.... A timeless tactic of warfare is to be the first to define your enemy. Paine had struck first and hard. Common Sense unleashed a series of newspaper articles, speeches, pamphlets and letters across the colonies that now referred to the King as the ‘cruellest sovereign tyrant of this age’, a ‘butcher’ and ‘that wicked tryanical [sic] brute (nay worse than brute) of Great Britain’.29 Patriots vied with each other in condemning him in the most extreme language possible." Lastly Roberts writes "Paine had sought to imply that the King was a secret Roman Catholic, writing in Common Sense ‘that the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuitically adopted by the King and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds’.31 This attempt to play on American anti-Catholic bigotry was, as we have seen, widespread after the Quebec Act. ‘This curious observation was introduced purely to insinuate the King is a papist,’ Inglis wrote, ‘which has as much truth in it as to insinuate that he is a Mahometan or Gentoo [that is, Muslim or Hindu], for there is not a firmer Protestant in Great Britain than his present Majesty.’ It was true, but by then the huge success of Common Sense - for all its anti-Semitism, absurd exaggeration, anti-Catholic bigotry and bogus claims of objectivity - meant that its aim of blackening George’s name had been triumphantly achieved.". Another source I utilized was a book titled George III, Majesty & Madness by Jeremy Black. In it Black writes "duty, legality and order were crucial to George’s politico-moral assumptions, and he referred to the American Patriots in 1775 as ‘rebellious children’, which was the standard response to disaffection in monarchies in which the personal role of the ruler remained central, and a total contrast to Tom Paine’s view of him in Common Sense (1776) as a bad parent". If you, or anyone else has made it this far, I highly recommend both sources but especially Roberts biography for anyone reading this comment who is interested in the arguments against the idea that George was a tyrant. Cheers, and thank you for the comment.
@@BriefHistoryOfficial thank you for the response. Yeah, I pretty much got that sense of Thomas Paine. He strikes me as the sort who would have been a communist in another age. He certainly has the same devotion to the truth that they did.
I don't think we should term the American Revolutionary War as "Revolutionary". They didn't emancipate the slaves unlike the Jocabin Revolutionary French
Wow, General Sir Hilary Clinton lived from 1730 to 1975. He was 245 when he died. Means I could have met (albeit very young) someone who fought in the American wars of independence… … …
The loss of England’s most productive colonies in the America’s would mark the beginning of a permanent decline of English Power as well as the decline of the other Autocrats of the World.
Dude, what’s your deal with America? Your commentary during this video was deeply anti “colonists” and you left out many details. If you can’t be fair, why should I continue to watch? Just ugh. Ugh.
Always love these videos… very interesting to me, however, that this video went to great lengths to highlight George III’s moral stance on slavery and the Foreign Slave Trade Act in the 18th century. Did I miss the moment in the King Charles II’s video where Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade began? Didn’t King Charles establish the “Royal African Company” company specifically to involve Britain in the slave trade and to profit from it? The slave ships had the protection of the Royal Navy and the enslaved Africans were branded with the initials “DY” to symbolize the Duke of York. 100,000 slaves were transported by this king’s company, and who knows how much of that profit has been passed down from monarch to monarch til this day. Slavery began in North America before 1619, back when Jamestown was a British colony. The concept of race began in the 1600’s when rich nobles needed to justify to common people why they were using black people to multiply their wealth. This is where the terms “black” and “white” come from, and the concept of white supremacy vs. black inferiority. This is where it was decided that Noah’s sons - particularly Ham and his being cursed - represented God’s will for the different races. The ramifications of these actions that originated in Europe should not be downplayed, and people “feeling bad” about it doesn’t change the history. I think when people bring up slavery and make mention of the noble people who were against it, we should look back a bit further and find out how slavery got here in the first place. We should also note that any individual’s “good intentions” or the “environment” from which they come should not be taken as any appeasement of guilt or accountability. For example, John Adams and his son John Q Adams were the only founding fathers who didn’t own slaves. But they also both left office having done nothing to end the institution. Accountability. Anyway, I’ll be back for George IV. Thanks for your efforts. ✌🏾
I swear it was the tutors that kicked it into gear for the Brits? (Ik they weren't Brits at the time but oh well.) And I still find the Land Of The Free irony funny. Especially living in the King's land, I feel like I know a good bit about the history.
i’m american but i’ve always been fond of george iii as a man rather than as a king and even as a king he definitely wasn’t the worst. i still believe that the colonies had genuine complaints and that their version of self governance was far superior to the english monarchy but i’m glad that he wasn’t a warrior king that got himself killed during the war.
@bliss1819 You're wrong. For years, people like you got away with your ignorate crap because King George iii personal archive wasn't available. Well, guess what it available to everyone and is being digitalize. So do yourself a favour and check it out.
@@lordjazoijua94 Plus especially everyone who learn history knew that. It was the Parliament who was the issues for the colonists not the King. The King had no power to passed the law without Parliament approval. Especially the Parliament will never allowed the colonist to paid less taxes than them to be represented in Parliment when they lived in the main island.
Yikes, quite heavy-handed on the anti-colonist stance. Ex: Surely the circumstances are more nuanced than want of representation being deemed disingenuous simply bc it was turned down later. Talk about over simplification.
George III was NOT king of the United Kingdom- the UK was created following the 1st World War and the break away of the Irish Free State in 1922. Accuracy on a history channel is important for credibility!
Hello. Thanks for the comment. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was formed in 1922 after the secessionist movements in Ireland were successful. However, the kingdom of Great Britain was formed politically in 1707 after the acts of union in that year merged the parliaments of Scotland and England. Ireland continued to have a separate parliament until George IIII oversaw the implementation of the Acts of Union in 1800. This politically united the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland into one United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of which, George III was king.
Hello. I'm Back. Sorry for the delay on this one. There was of course quite a bit of information to sift through , and I also was on vacation for a week. Nevertheless, I am happy to be able to get this one out. George III's reign is an inherently compelling reign to learn about with so much happening from beginning to end and I thoroughly enjoyed putting this one together. Multiple revolutions, mentall illness, political faction and international wars make his story an incredible one. I hope I was able to reasonably do his story justice and I thank you for your interest in the video/channel. I also hope you all are doing well and if I catch any errors or if any are pointed out to me, I will add them to the errors and corrections section of the video description. Cheers!
Good job 👏🏼
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thanks!
wonderful as always 0:40
Thanks for the video! As an Australian it was interesting to see when we entered into the picture.
Also I really had no knowledge of anything about how/why the US revolution came about etc so that was interesting as well. It all sounds pretty strange. 😂 I guess the power of propaganda.
What a great man he was ❤ Farmer George
Youre the farmer in this instance..not him..
@@billdehappy1how?😅
Yes, he was a great man. Loyal to his wife and country
0:58 Birth
2:30 1st Hanovarian King 👑 grown in Britain 🇬🇧
3:38 The Father disliked The Son. Each new father George disliked his son George. Sad 😔
5:17 Queen Augusta, mother of George III looked after her 13 year old Prince.
7:17 May 1756, The Seven Years War. Britain 🇬🇧 vs France ⚜️
9:10 1759 The Year of Great Gains for Great Britain.
9:59 REVOLUTION 🇺🇸
10:57 George III
• Cultuted upbringing
• Educated, liked Science, Music, Architecture, etc.
*George III Morals*
12:13 Anti-Slavery George III
+ Morality & Duty
+ Faithful to His Wife 💍
14:02 George III is 1 of 9 Children of Augusta, his mother.
*George III Politics*
14:43 ASSASSINS CAME TO TAKE HIS LIFE! They Failed.
15:38 United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Gains Australia 🇦🇺 as a Colony under George III.
*George III’s Marriage and Family*
18:05 1st British King to take the throne without already having a wife
Married Charlotte in 1761
19:08 15 CHILDREN from George and Charlotte!
20:47 Loving Father
23:38 War Victories. Peace of Paris 1763!
24:50 A small London Minority hated George III’s Tutor John Stuart, Earl of Bute
*American Colonies Rebellion*
26:12 No More Taxes 🇺🇸
26:47 Pay Your Taxes 🇬🇧
29:18 Stamp Act 1765, repealed by Prime Minister Rockingham in 1766 🇬🇧
31:14 Prime Minister William Pitt 🇬🇧 got depressed.
32:45 Townsend Duties result in Boston Massacre. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💥🩸🪦
33:46 December 16th, 1773 The Tea Act 🇬🇧to The Boston Tea Party 🫖 🌊 🇺🇸
*Religion*
35:34 George III was an Anglican Protestant
36:19 1774 Continental Congress 🇺🇸 America prepares for war.
37:23 April 19th, 1775 “The Shot Heard Round The World.” 🇬🇧🇺🇸
38:51 Britain 🇬🇧 wanted to win swiftly.
39:12 1775 Second Continental Congress. INDEPENDENCE NOW!
40:09 Bunker Hill 💥, Olive Branch Petition 🕊️
41:04 STATUE PULLED DOWN! Melted Into Musket Balls!
*America Winning*
42:34 Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton.🇺🇸
43:47 Battle of Brandywine and Allentown.🇬🇧
44:29 John Burgoyne surrendered 🇺🇸
46:07 America wins The Northern theater of The American Revolution by 1778🇺🇸
46:19 Charles Cornwallis Southern Campaign.🇬🇧
47:16 Yorktown Defeat 🇬🇧
48:00 Battle of The Chesapeake 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷
48:53 Treaty of Paris 1783 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷
50:00 William Pitt The Younger, son of William Pitt
*Bizarre Decline of George III’s Health*
52:43
- Stomach Pain
- Back Pain
- Spine Pain
Fantastic video. Can't believe I didn't know George II and III weren't father and son.
HOORAYY! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS THIS IS SO GOOD
Your videos are legendary! Can't wait for George IV
Thanks so much for your work!
Thank you for this excellent documentary. Americans, in particular, have been (mis-)educated about George III. They read Revolutionary War-era propaganda against George III rather too literally, failing to grasp that the colonists' real beef was with the British Parliament and not the King. But it was helpful for the colonists' cause to have a particular person whom they could portray as a villain and tryant, despite the fact that George III was anything but a tyrant!
Your video should be required viewing for all American high school and college students, as a corrective to the absurd history we were taught.
It’s not just the us who have been misled. I feel the world has been misled as to the reasons for the war of independence.
It seems that after benefiting from the protection by the British from the French, Spanish and the native tribes, the colonialist, when asked to help pay for that protection, acted like spoilt teenagers being asked to wash the dishes to support their upkeep! There was definitely a faction who were looking for expansion west and using the taxation, which, as far as this video shows, was fair recompense , as a rallying cry to self governance. I see a country who had got confident whilst under protection and wanted to stretch its legs to colonise others lands (native lands west) to grow richer and stronger, rather than the morally justified birth of a nation due to being taxed and repressed by an evil tyrant across the ocean. Even the fact all but the tea act was revoked shows that the motives of the colonists were not as moral as we’ve all been led to believe.
I often wondered why Canada had kept loyal to Britain, especially French Canada, after the American war of independence, now I know.
Love these videos for their frank factual accounts rather than the fluffy option led, hollywoodised telling of history.
Unfortunately all countries have different stories about the same history taught in school, I am from Holland, and we learn things quite different than students in both U.S.A. and U.K., luckily now we have RUclips / the internet, and therefor the chance to self educate us further... 😅
That’s just politics. Look at how England propagandized Napoleon’s image to the point that kids thought he was a boogeyman hiding under their bed.
Personifying a conflict is just more impactful than talking about a faceless parliament.
I read somewhere that some background context was that many people who had moved here had been treated badly by the English, such as people from Ireland and Scotland, religious dissenters, etc. High handed British behavior had led to deep anger and resentment. Interesting to consider.
A very interesting documentary about a monarch who is well renowned not only in the United Kingdom, but also in the USA. King George III, I believe, tried his best to be a decent monarch and a good man to his family. But failed, unfortunately for him, due to his latent madness that plagued him multiple times throughout his final years of being king.
He's well renowned in the US? Are you sure about that?
@@tomcarl8021 Renowned doesn't necessarily mean a good thing. The Wicked Witch of the West is well renowned, but I wouldn't wanna meet her!
He is ‘infamous’ in America. In school we are taught at a young age that George III is one of the worst human beings ever.
Meanwhile, it’s parliament, not the Crown that we should be taught to see as the bad guy in the conflict for independence.
@@annetterisso2783renown has a more positive connotation than a negative one. Renown is an implication of fame, not infamy.
Probably the most recognizable British monarch for Americans after Henry VIII and Elizabeth
Forgot about King Arthur
I look forward to these every month, keep these up you’re an amazing storyteller❤️
It’s kinda gross how he’s labeled as a tyrant in the US when he was one of the better kings in history and on top of that he was head of a constitutional monarchy. I say this as an American too.
Just listened to people profiles version l, then listened to yours.
It's amazing how you made yours sound totally different with new information. Great listen as always. Looking forward to the next
I feel like this is a turning point for the monarchy. After this there is some very “modern” about them. Maybe that will be even more prevalent after Victoria idk. But I feel like because George IV and William IV are so overlooked, George III feels like the last of that time. Another solid video 🎉
Excellent video and well worth the wait! A complex reign and a basically decent man vilified for many things beyond his control. ❤
George the Farmer King, so many things in common with Charles III, at least Charles can learn from history and take care to have the necessary me time! 👍
@jenniferharrison8915 he only been on the throne for less than a year though, and I'm unsure he'd go past 2030. But we'll see what our new King does. Coming from someone who agrees with being a Republic, but also not in favour of how the UK government is handling thongs right now, making me prefer a monarchy with a tad more oversight.
Love your channel! Your biographies are so well done! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Like your documentaries. Also, like that there isn't an ad every 2 minutes. Thank you.
Very well done and nicely balanced. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Very, very good. A stupendous ride through a major historic era. BTW: I have two George "cartwheel" III pennies and one halfpenny on my desk as I write this. The pennies are from 1797 (the date on the halfpenny is illegible). Created to combat counterfeiting, these coins were the first in England to be minted on a steam-powered press. "Farmer George" presided over the start of the industrial revolution in Britain. Indeed, the agricultural improvements he was so interested in made it possible to feed the ensuing growth in population.
An interesting documentary on a Monarch i knew little about. Thank you for enriching my mind
A very underrated monarch, loved by the people of the UK, who unfortunately is only remembered for his mental health and his government’s loss of the American Colonies (now 🇺🇸).
Can’t wait to see Brief History’s take on George IV 👌🏻🔥
Hahaha no sorry the British people barely remember him.
11:30 George III’s books were given to the British Library. It’s one of the Founding Collections.
Talking about the propaganda of the Revolutionary War, this was still present in my childhood in the 60's and 70's. There was a bunch of shorts that they put in between cartoons on Saturday mornings, called 'Schoolhouse Rock'. You can still see them on RUclips today. They paint George III as a completely detached, tyrannical and brutal control-freak. It's too bad that the Schoolhouse Rock creators didn't know about the truth, because they 'poisoned' a whole generation and more. I never knew the things about George that you brought to light today, and my opinion stands corrected. I very much enjoy your series, and can't wait for Victoria. Blessings....
So, let me get this straight..
You learned about King Charles' tyranny from a children's cartoon in the seventies?
Now, you've changed your mind about him from a random video on RUclips?
Well, might I suggest you learn what Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and John Adams thought of him, instead of a cartoon for children.
There are also hundreds of books written by scholars and historians over the centuries regarding the causes of the Revolution. Maybe you should try getting your history from serious people instead of a goddamn cartoon.
Still today ppl get taught this.
@@swymaj02 The founders of the country believed it, for crying out loud. Read the Declaration of Independence. It's all there!!!
@@tomcarl8021 Not all of them personally John Adam didn't believe ot entirely or even George Washington.
But he got the blame as the villain. Eventhough the main one who rejected the American representation was the Parliament.
Even if King George III agreed the Parliament will not accept it. I mean the King is nothing compare to the lord and conservative who still view American as 2nd class citizen
@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 Then explain to me why the King rejected the Olive Branch Petition?
And explain to me why Jefferson blamed the King personally in his correspondence letters with the King?
And explain to me why Jefferson singled him out in the Declaration of Independence?
Phenomenal documentary by this channel, as always.
Very informative!
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Fantastic documentary. Very clearly explained. You have gone into a lot of detail, and assessed the facts fairly, without anger or fondness.
Will you also cover the Anglo-Saxon Monarchs?
Thanks for another awesome video. Loved the context provided pertaining to how the American revolution came about.
Your the best narrator there is ..Bravo
A video series on the consorts as a spin off would be pretty interesting.
When you were talking about them at the start I was wondering if the was anything between Augusta and Bute.
Well done. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Excellent documentary, thank you
I recall in school, King George the 3rd was talked about as the tyrant King. We didn't go into his later years going mad, but only the American Revelation and he was the bad guy in the story. I don't know if history books changed since then, but from there, I had an interest in him. I recall when I lived-in London, I wanted to read about him from their point of view and then over the years learned that you need to read many historical books to get the truth of someone. It led to my interest in the House of Hanover and how cruel these kings were, especially George the first, to his wife. How he separated the family with no regards to anyone at all. Very interesting history.
absolutely adore your videos!
Nicely done. I love your channel.
great work
Great channel, Sir. For future projects I'd like to suggest the various Kings that ruled between Alfred the Great and Aethelred Ii (the unready) since they seemingly get very little attention, even though Edward the Elder (Alfred's son) arguably did more to unify the kingdoms of England, and Edward the Martyr was brutally assainated, and Edwy was a completely unruly tearaway....
Amazing history lesson 👍👌😎
With regard to the USA, Britain had been subjugating the American colonies through mercantile trading rules and taxes imposed from afar for 10+ years before independence. Once it was clear that Britain remained intent on subordinating their American colonies, as evidenced by the British Army's burning of American towns and murdering of American citizens, the only course left was independence. And George's response to the Olive Branch petition was the final straw. It wasn't American ingratitude to the King that caused independence. It was British carelessness in their administration of a very valuable possession.
Good explanation. Each colony had their own history of self governance that made them very independent.
Exactly. I enjoy this channel but the bias is a little ridiculous in this one. I’m thinking a certain book really influenced him to exonerate George, and thus 🇬🇧, against the cunning colonial schemers.
Thanks for uploading this video l finally get to learn about him❤❤❤🎉🎉
Thank you, love to see your great content again. Would love to see (when you’re finished with the British monarchy after the Norman conquest) more content, maybe Anglo Saxon, French, holy Roman or any other kings. Everything is amazing in your videos. Even on the other great channels (like peoples profiles) there is just something a miss, like the fitting music and smooth narration in your vids. 🫶🏼
I will watch this later, but I imagine this one took a lot of work. :)
Very interesting, as always.
I am looking forward to the George IV episode. In it, I hope you will at least make passing reference to my very distant cousin, Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet Warbleton.
Sir John was the maternal nephew of the brewer Henry Thrale, and so an associate of Dr. Samuel Johnson. He was a gambler and horse racer, and was chief among the "disreputable" friends of the Prince Regent. He was the cause of George receiving snubs from members of high society, particularly those close to his father. When Lord Edward Thurlow invited the Prince Regent to dinner, and found that Sir John was accompanying him, Thurlow angrily said, "I have no objection, Sir, to Sir John Lade in his proper place, which I take to be your Royal Highness's coach-box, and not your table."
Sir John married a woman named Letitia, who is said to have previously the mistress of both the highwayman John "Sixteen String Jack" Rann and Prince Fredrick, Duke of York(following the former's execution). The couple met during her affair with the Duke of York; Sir John was in awe of her riding ability, and so married her despite objections from family.
By the time George IV was crowned and had to distance himself from his rowdy friends, Sir John had burned through his inheritance, and was forced to retire from the London racing scene. The new king gave him a pension as his "driving tutor", which allowed him to keep a stud farm in the country. When Queen Victoria came to the throne, a diary entry records that she discovered that she was paying "a Sir John Lade, one of George IV.'s intimates".
Sir John is a very distant relation of mine. My research suggests he descends from the Ladd/Lade/Lad family of Kent, particularly from the villages of the Elham Valley, due south of Canterbury.
Omg, here we go. The one, the only George III
Great stuff
The Thumbnail makes it look like there's a Godzilla sized George being attacked by Lilliputian continental line.
Thank you! 👏✌
Did you know that when the movie ‘The Madness of King George’ was released in America, it was originally titled ‘The Madness of King George the Third’, but it was feared that an American audience would think it was a sequel. True 😊
38:40 man, this really does sound like America called bluff.
Never even knew that this was all propaganda, dear lord.
Hey! You’re videos are great! Made with a great deal of effort! Just a few pointers on pronunciation of English place names, as they always cause headaches, Reading is pronounced “redding”, Chatham is pronounced “chat-am”, Warwick is pronounced “worick”, Loughborough is, “luffburra”, anywhere that ends in borough is pronounced “burra”, and shire such as Worcestershire is pronounced, “Woosta-sheer” and Yorkshire is “York-sheer”.
Keep up the great work!
Dear Lord. Go away.
Saw some British students struggling with Worcestershire.
General Henry Clifton lived for 245 years, that's amazing, must've been that good British tea.
As an Australian I've never learnt that there was a choice between death and transportation. It was usually those convicted of lesser crimes, like stealing a loaf of bread, that were sent in the shops, for seven years. But given you had to pay your fare to get back to Britain, very few left Australia.
Georgie had millions of slaves whom he kept in the Indian subcontinent.
Stop lying
George III personally did not own any slaves in India. IN fact, British control of India didn't begin until 1858 -- 38 yeas after George III's death. It is true that prior to 1858, the British East India Company elsaved Indians, but George III was a constitutional monarch, and thus did not have direct authority over the East India Company.
45:52 I'm sorry, he lived to be 245 years old??? 😅
It was Concord, Mass., not Concord, NH.
😆 Of course! I suppose the memorization of the state capitals that was forced upon me as a child has finally got the better of me! Thank you for pointing this out. I have edited it out of the video to the best of my ability but will still add it to the errors and corrections section to be consistent. Thanks again and Cheers!
@BriefHistoryOfficial random, but are you American by any chance? To me you sound so, and you seem to be going a bit heavy on them in this video. Just saying. Not discrediting you or anything.
I find it strange as an American that im related to these royals through the Geraldine dynasty as distant, distant cousins. It was George III who put our family crest in the union jack as the red " x" representing Ireland, the so called" saint Patrick's cross". Our side of the family was deposed after the last Desmond rebellion by their cousin , Elizabeth 1. Til then, they'd been earls and dukes of Cork and Kerry, but had refused Elizabeth's orders to starve the Catholic population into submission. I think Charles should grant a posthumous pardon!
George III is a cousin as is Sam Adams and General Israel Putnam. What a trio. Sophia Electress of Hanover is a 3rd cousin.
My teammates named their combat robot George... and I'm designing its third iteration. Came here because of that.
Please verify: Did King George want to allow colonies to have representation in parliament, but it was black by parliament. Please recommend some reading on this issue.
Personally, I think the King George was a genius. I hope King Charles III can be equally as successful.
However I think he should have given the colonies in America representation.
He was gonna, as Brief History states.
He should and even if it he did. Does it matter.
The one who approve of all this still be the Parliament. Try convincing them.
Brilliant presentation on the king who I believe well deserved it. Enjoyed to the last minute
Damn. You would have to be crazy to want to be a king.
45:52
Holy crud!!!! This dude lived for 245 years!!!!! 😉😉😁
George the 3rd was quite absurd
Thomas Paine called George III “The Royal Brute”. With all this information in this documentary, I have to ask, was Thomas Paine a liar? Was he just another resentful revolutionary, a spiteful mutant if you will? And what exactly did he do during the French Revolution?
Hello. Thanks for the comment. The sources I used to formulate the video are in the video description. One of these sources, "The Last King Of America, The Misunderstood Reign Of George III" by Andrew Roberts, goes into great detail about Paine's criticisms, including his writing in "Common Sense". Here are a few quotes from Robert's book. Roberts writes "The thirty-nine-year-old Paine was a former staymaker,* schoolmaster, grocer and twice-dismissed excise officer, who, as his generally sympathetic biographer admits, had ‘relentlessly failed in everything personal and professional he had ever attempted’.14 As one historian has written, Paine was ‘full of rage at the ways the Old World had kept him down’.15 Sarah, the daughter of Paine’s benefactor Benjamin Franklin, wrote of him soon after he arrived in Philadelphia, ‘There never was a man less loved in a place than Paine in this, having at different times disputed with everyone.’16 Paine’s contemporaries found him ‘obnoxious, self-absorbed, impetuous, conceited and disputatious’, which might help to explain why he failed in politics in both the Old World and later in the New.17 Certainly the adjectives Paine directed against King George were evidence of an unquiet mind, for by December he was describing the King as ‘a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man’ who resembled ‘a common murderer, a highwayman or a housebreaker’.18 Calling the King sottish was particularly inaccurate in relation to someone who rarely drank alcohol and never to excess - unlike Paine himself." Roberts also writes "Common Sense was written for the ordinary populace rather than for well-educated readers, and was devoid of the customary Latin tags, classical allusions and learned footnotes of many other pamphlets of the day. Most references or allusions were to the Bible, a copy of which virtually all Americans possessed and which many knew well. Paine claimed that ‘censure to individuals make[s] no part’ of his argument, though that was demonstrably untrue when it came to Mr Guelph....
A timeless tactic of warfare is to be the first to define your enemy. Paine had struck first and hard. Common Sense unleashed a series of newspaper articles, speeches, pamphlets and letters across the colonies that now referred to the King as the ‘cruellest sovereign tyrant of this age’, a ‘butcher’ and ‘that wicked tryanical [sic] brute (nay worse than brute) of Great Britain’.29 Patriots vied with each other in condemning him in the most extreme language possible." Lastly Roberts writes "Paine had sought to imply that the King was a secret Roman Catholic, writing in Common Sense ‘that the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuitically adopted by the King and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds’.31 This attempt to play on American anti-Catholic bigotry was, as we have seen, widespread after the Quebec Act. ‘This curious observation was introduced purely to insinuate the King is a papist,’ Inglis wrote, ‘which has as much truth in it as to insinuate that he is a Mahometan or Gentoo [that is, Muslim or Hindu], for there is not a firmer Protestant in Great Britain than his present Majesty.’ It was true, but by then the huge success of Common Sense - for all its anti-Semitism, absurd exaggeration, anti-Catholic bigotry and bogus claims of objectivity - meant that its aim of blackening George’s name had been triumphantly achieved.". Another source I utilized was a book titled George III, Majesty & Madness by Jeremy Black. In it Black writes "duty, legality and order were crucial to George’s politico-moral assumptions, and he referred to the American Patriots in 1775 as ‘rebellious children’, which was the standard response to disaffection in monarchies in which the personal role of the ruler remained central, and a total contrast to Tom Paine’s view of him in Common Sense (1776) as a bad parent". If you, or anyone else has made it this far, I highly recommend both sources but especially Roberts biography for anyone reading this comment who is interested in the arguments against the idea that George was a tyrant. Cheers, and thank you for the comment.
@@BriefHistoryOfficial thank you for the response. Yeah, I pretty much got that sense of Thomas Paine. He strikes me as the sort who would have been a communist in another age. He certainly has the same devotion to the truth that they did.
Well the founding fathers needed a evil villain and King George iii was perfect fit as the Founding fathers couldn't blame Lord North and parliament .
I don't think we should term the American Revolutionary War as "Revolutionary". They didn't emancipate the slaves unlike the Jocabin Revolutionary French
Wow, General Sir Hilary Clinton lived from 1730 to 1975. He was 245 when he died. Means I could have met (albeit very young) someone who fought in the American wars of independence… … …
Sir Henry Clinton
The loss of England’s most productive colonies in the America’s would mark the beginning of a permanent decline of English Power as well as the decline of the other Autocrats of the World.
Dude, what’s your deal with America? Your commentary during this video was deeply anti “colonists” and you left out many details. If you can’t be fair, why should I continue to watch? Just ugh. Ugh.
How so?.
Always love these videos… very interesting to me, however, that this video went to great lengths to highlight George III’s moral stance on slavery and the Foreign Slave Trade Act in the 18th century. Did I miss the moment in the King Charles II’s video where Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade began? Didn’t King Charles establish the “Royal African Company” company specifically to involve Britain in the slave trade and to profit from it? The slave ships had the protection of the Royal Navy and the enslaved Africans were branded with the initials “DY” to symbolize the Duke of York. 100,000 slaves were transported by this king’s company, and who knows how much of that profit has been passed down from monarch to monarch til this day.
Slavery began in North America before 1619, back when Jamestown was a British colony. The concept of race began in the 1600’s when rich nobles needed to justify to common people why they were using black people to multiply their wealth. This is where the terms “black” and “white” come from, and the concept of white supremacy vs. black inferiority. This is where it was decided that Noah’s sons - particularly Ham and his being cursed - represented God’s will for the different races. The ramifications of these actions that originated in Europe should not be downplayed, and people “feeling bad” about it doesn’t change the history.
I think when people bring up slavery and make mention of the noble people who were against it, we should look back a bit further and find out how slavery got here in the first place. We should also note that any individual’s “good intentions” or the “environment” from which they come should not be taken as any appeasement of guilt or accountability. For example, John Adams and his son John Q Adams were the only founding fathers who didn’t own slaves. But they also both left office having done nothing to end the institution. Accountability.
Anyway, I’ll be back for George IV. Thanks for your efforts. ✌🏾
I swear it was the tutors that kicked it into gear for the Brits?
(Ik they weren't Brits at the time but oh well.)
And I still find the Land Of The Free irony funny. Especially living in the King's land, I feel like I know a good bit about the history.
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Yass
Propagandists? Really. ? I’m out. That you kept using that term meant to me I can’t trust your viewpoint. Deeply sad.
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i’m american but i’ve always been fond of george iii as a man rather than as a king and even as a king he definitely wasn’t the worst. i still believe that the colonies had genuine complaints and that their version of self governance was far superior to the english monarchy but i’m glad that he wasn’t a warrior king that got himself killed during the war.
King George III was a constitutional monarch. He had the same powers and influents as Queen Elizabeth II. Not a tyrant.
@@lordjazoijua94 hereditary monarchies, including constitutional ones, are tyrannical and ridiculous by default.
republics >>> monarchies.
@bliss1819 You're wrong. For years, people like you got away with your ignorate crap because King George iii personal archive wasn't available. Well, guess what it available to everyone and is being digitalize. So do yourself a favour and check it out.
@@lordjazoijua94 Plus especially everyone who learn history knew that. It was the Parliament who was the issues for the colonists not the King. The King had no power to passed the law without Parliament approval.
Especially the Parliament will never allowed the colonist to paid less taxes than them to be represented in Parliment when they lived in the main island.
I see everyone can't handle the truth, that's alright, the truth still has a way of coming out.
The joking rhyme
George the third
Never should have occured
Losing the american colonies!
for you remember it's bad things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P r o m o S M 😥
Yikes, quite heavy-handed on the anti-colonist stance.
Ex: Surely the circumstances are more nuanced than want of representation being deemed disingenuous simply bc it was turned down later. Talk about over simplification.
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This video is so british coded. Everything the 13 colonies did / said was propaganda huh 😂😂😂😂
George III was NOT king of the United Kingdom- the UK was created following the 1st World War and the break away of the Irish Free State in 1922. Accuracy on a history channel is important for credibility!
Hello. Thanks for the comment. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was formed in 1922 after the secessionist movements in Ireland were successful. However, the kingdom of Great Britain was formed politically in 1707 after the acts of union in that year merged the parliaments of Scotland and England. Ireland continued to have a separate parliament until George IIII oversaw the implementation of the Acts of Union in 1800. This politically united the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland into one United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of which, George III was king.
@@BriefHistoryOfficial You're reaching! The term United Kingdom was never in common use prior to 1922.
@@knockshinnoch1950 I thought James I coined it (literally making coins) lol
Opening music would be better fitted as the intro to a true crime channel.