![]() In June and most famously July of 1776, they would declare the independence of the United States of America. ![]() In June 1775 came the Battle of Bunker Hill and in July the American Continental Congress passed a Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. ![]() Yet just two years later things looked very different. George III delighted in his navy, in the extraordinary warships such as the Barfleur, on board which he dined that June evening. A powerful navy assembled confirmed the king’s sense of Britain’s ascendance. It begins, in fact, with the king’s review of his navy, at Portsmouth on a beautiful June day in 1773. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019ĭoes the American Revolution begin with George III? In Rick Atkinson’s new book, The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, the first volume in his planned trilogy on the military history of the Revolution, it does. ![]() The Royal Visit to the Fleet, a series of 4 paintings by German artist Dominic Serres the Elder completed in 1775, captured King George III’s review at Portsmouth in June, 1773. ![]()
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