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3 giorni fa · King George III Declares War. from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2. Note: The British have won a pyrrhic victory at Bunker Hill. King George, who has been showing some erratic personality quirks since being possessed by a roach (the Devil), heads to Parliament. Enlisting the aid of Col. Banastre Tarleton, George hopes to steer
4 giorni fa · The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III. London, Macmillan, 1957; 514pp. The publication of what is often known simply as The Structure of Politics transformed the perceived political landscape of eighteenth-century Britain. Prior to 1929 British political history from 1688 was broadly conceived of as a two-party rivalry of ...
5 giorni fa · Archibald [Campbell], Earl of Argyle, by his letters to his Majesty, of the 28th of February, this year, shows that according to his Majesty’s command, he had contracted his eldest daughter, the 24th of this same month, to George, Lord Gordon, [George Gordon] the Marquis of Huntly’s eldest son; and therefore besought his Majesty to release Huntly for a time, and license him to come to the ...
5 giorni fa · The reign of King George III started over 250 years ago, but there’s no way you haven’t heard of him. He’s infamous for a number of occurrences during his lifetime, and you’ve probably seen his recent representation in popular culture, whether you recognize him as the mad husband of Queen Charlotte in her Bridgerton spinoff, or portrayed by Jonathan Groff as the tyrant king in Hamilton.
3 giorni fa · Georgian Architecture refers to the preferred architectural designs completed from August 1714 to June 1830, during the reigns of George I, George II, George III, and George IV. Georgian buildings became prominent across Europe and were popular in public and private structures.
3 giorni fa · Statue of George III. The bronze equestrian statue of George III, which stands at the junction of Pall Mall East with the Haymarket and Cockspur Street, was executed by Matthew Coates Wyatt and erected in 1836. The statue represents the king in military uniform, on his favourite charger, and with his cocked hat lowered in his right hand.
3 giorni fa · He was a strong Tory and supporter of the policy of George III. and as such obnoxious to the Wilkes party, whose poet, Churchill, satirized him as 'Dulman' in The Ghost (iii., 993–998). 'Our Dulman with a face was bless'd, Where no one passion was expressed ; His eye, in a fine stupour caught, Implied a plenteous lack of thought; Nor was one line that whole face seen in, Which could be ...
