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A Revolutionary War history told through eighteenth-century illustrations: Utterly absorbing (The Times, London).
Americans are steeped in the history of the American Revolution, but often the fog of myth shrouds the reality. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British caricatures of politicians and generalsfor the most part favorable to the Colonists. For George III, Lord North, and Britain, the war was a disaster that need not have happened. The problems of coping with a country five thousand miles away with a tradition of representative government, a free press, and a spirit of independence were just too much. But they, together with Generals Howe, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, and others, were mercilessly lampooned. Washington, the hero, is spared, although there are surprising and dark elements to the American victory illustrated here.
Using prints and caricatures from the periodsome never before publishedand drawing on his own experience in politics, Kenneth Baker provides vivid and memorable images that illustrate these extraordinary historical events.

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Table of Contents EPILOGUE King George THE GREATEST IRONY of the - photo 1
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EPILOGUE
King George

THE GREATEST IRONY of the American Revolution was that when George Washington assumed the role of president in 1787, he was given greater personal powers than were ever enjoyed by George III. He could appoint not only ministers but ambassadors, consuls, administrative officers and Supreme Court judges, and as commander-in-chief he could send his country to war, make treaties and conduct his own foreign policy independent of Congress.

George Washington Washington to John Adams Sir you have given yourselves a - photo 2

George Washington
Washington to John Adams:
Sir, you have given yourselves a King under the title of President.

In 1776 it suited the rebels to demonise George III as a tyrant. In earlier years the target for attack had been the British Parliament and insensitive British ministers, but it was necessary to have a more personal target to motivate the patriotism of the foot soldiers of the revolution. The United States had to be seen to emerge as a nation by confronting and defeating a foreign despot.

The consequence of the Revolutionary War was that the people of America swapped a hereditary monarchy with limited powers for an elective monarchy which had much wider powers. The revolutionaries who had hoped for some wider distribution of power in the new American state were disappointed. Hannah Griffiths, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, in 1785 said it in verse:

The glorius fourth again appears
The day of days and the year of years
The sum of sad disasters.
When all the mighty gains we see
With all their boasted liberty
Is only change of masters.

The constitution agreed in September 1787 was shaped by a Conservative elite planters, farmers, merchants, lawyers, bankers and businessmen the radicals and revolutionaries were simply excluded. The President, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court created a centralised government whose powers far exceeded the British colonial system that it had overthrown. The popular uprising known as Shays Rebellion was ruthlessly suppressed in 1786 and in 1794 when disgruntled Pennsylvanians objected to an excise duty on whisky, which was virtually indistinguishable from the levies that Britain had imposed thirty years earlier. Washington ordered 15,000 troops to quell the revolt. Tom Paine, the hero of 1776 and who had coined the phrase The United States of America. on visiting again at the end of Washingtons second term, wondered whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

Washington had become the first president in April 1789. He was partially deaf and almost toothless, but he knew that he was needed to bind the country together. One of his first acts was to designate 26 November as a day of Thanksgiving. The founders of the constitution had made the executive head, the president, also the ceremonial head of the country. Washington revelled in this and during the debate on what title should be used to show respect he secretly favoured the style of High Mightiness. He was one of the wealthiest men in America Robert Morris, the wealthy New York banker, referred to him as Americas first Millionaire. He had all the trappings of a monarch: six white horses drew his canary-coloured carriage and when he ceremonially visited New York a choir on a ship alongside praised him in verses sung to the tune of God Save the King. His wife, Martha, held court in her salon on Friday evenings, just as Queen Charlotte did in her drawing room in London, and her husband remained aloof, not shaking hands with anyone. Many appreciated these trappings of royalty the African-born Phyllis Wheatley put it neatly in verse:

A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine,
With gold unfading, Washington! Be thine.

George III On hearing that Washington was not going to stand again as - photo 3

George III

On hearing that Washington was not going to stand again as president for a third term, he generously acknowledged that he was the most distinguished character of the age.

BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING

Bicheno, Hugh, Rebels and Redcoats, Harper Collins, 2003

Bingham, Clarence, Paul Revere s Engraving, Athenaeum, 1969

Black, Jeremy, War for America , Sutton Publishing, 1991

Black, Jeremy, George III: America s Last King , Yale University Press, 2006

Brooke, John, King George III, Constable, 1972

Burns, Eric, Virtue, Value and Vanity, Arcade Publishing, 2007

Cash, Arthur H, John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty . Yale University Press, 2006

Dolmetsch, Joan, Rebellion and Reconciliation , University Press of Virginia, 1976

Fenn, Elizabeth, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic 1775 -, Hill and Wang, 2001

Harvey, Robert, A Few Bloody Noses , John Murray, 2001

Hibbert, Christopher, George III: A Personal History , Viking, 1998

Jones, Michael Wyn, The Cartoon History of the American Revolution, London Editions, 1977

McCullough, David, 1776, Simon and Schuster, 2005

Murrell, William, A History of American Graphic Humour, Cooper Square Press, New York, 1933

National Maritime Museum, 1776, Catalogue for an exhibition held in 1976

Rienner, Lynne, Resistance, Politics and the American Struggle for Independence, Lynne Rienner Publishers 1986

Schlessinger, Arthur, Prelude to Independence, Alfred H Knopf, 1958

Simms, Brendan, Three Victories and a Defeat, Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2007

Urban, Mark, Fusiliers, Eight Years with the Redcoats in America , Faber, 2007

Weintraub, Stanley, Iron Tears, Rebellion in America , Simon & Schuster, 2005

Wright, Esmond, Fabric of Freedom, Macmillan, 1961

LIST OF CHARACTERS

ADAMS, John, 1735-1826 Always slightly jealous of Washington. A Peace Commissioner in France and ambassador in London. A leading federalist and was Americas second president.

ADAMS, Samuel, 1722-1803 A failure in business but a brilliant success as an urban terrorist. Inveterate plotter, fanning flames of mayhem and master of rent-a-mob. Founded Sons of Liberty and signed the Declaration of Independence. Distrusted and overlooked.

ANDR, Major John, 1750-1780 Served as an officer at the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown and Monmouth. ADC to Howe in 1778 and appointed Adjutant-General by Clinton in October 1779. Responsible for running spies the M16 of the day. A long and secret correspondence with Benedict Arnold, who wanted to defect, led to a clandestine meeting in rebel-held territory in September 1780. Failing to get back to the English boat he had to spend a day disguised in civilian clothes; that was his death-knell as it made him a spy for which he was to hang.

ARNOLD, Benedict, 1741-1801 A brilliant field commander popular with his troops. Outstanding in the march to Quebec and Saratoga. Defected to the British in 1780 and led daring raids in Chesapeake Bay. Not really welcomed in Britain after the war, dying there poor and almost forgotten.

BRANT, Colonel Joseph, 1742-1807 The Mohawk British army officer who robustly resisted Washingtons ethnic cleansing of Indian tribes. Visited London twice and was awarded land concessions from the British Government for his people in Canada.

BURGOYNE, John, 1722-1792 Gentleman Johnny responsible for Britains first devastating defeat at Saratoga. Returned to London to defend his reputation and serve the Whigs.

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