Note: This is a raw riff to keep you abreast of what I’m reading. Grammatical errors are to be expected and I hope forgiven.
The Cavalier Treatment of America
My marginalia repeatedly remarks of the cavalier treatment of America. Roberts clearly shows that King George is not nor was not tyrannical in any degree. The argument and evidence will continue to show up in pages I’m sure, but it’s clear King George III was not tyrannical in any degree or manner. Yet George and countless others in Parliament viewed America cavalierly. Another way of putting it, George and others in his political circle and those in Parliament, were stuck in an echo chamber of local British politics and viewed America in a kind of conceptual abstract. That it was mere chess pieces to move.
The cavalier treatment however wasn’t in disdain, most in Britain had mutual respect for the colonies, but it wasn’t treated as pressing. Also, the small handful who did see the potential of America, like William Pitt, didn’t …
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