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Originally Posted by soopaman2
All I know is he tried to charge the 13 colonies for the debts his country incurred during the French and Indian War, and he got revolted on for his tyranny.
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Actually since one of our own started the war and most of it was waged here, they thought they had good cause. And so did the colonies. The complaint wasn't that there were taxes, but that the colonial legislatures were allowed no hand in deciding what should be taxed. The legilatures then asked for a seat in parliament for each colony, which was refused, hence the cry "No taxation without representation". Even then the revolution didn't start until the colonial Governor of Massachussetts tried to confiscate an armory owned by the local militia. George III wasn't really a tyrant; he just didn't understand why these ungrateful colonials didn't want to act like good subserviant British subjects.