The ineptitude of King George iii in Regards to the American Revolution King George iii or George William Frederick acquired the reigns of king in 1760 at the age of twenty-two from his then deceased Grandfather. After only a short time, King George iii directed Parliament to tighten England’s control over the American Colonies. In response to this the American Colonies became increasingly frustrated, all the while King George iii was oblivious to this frustration.Finally, with the Tea Act, the American Revolution began to inaugurate. The existence of the American revolution and possibly the loss of the american colonies can be attributed to the poor leadership of King George iii. The sheer inexperience of the king, the king’s inesses, along
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After only a short time, King George iii began directing Parliament to tighten England’s control over the American Colonies. While he managed to superintend Parliament to some degree. the new king had troubled keeping the Tory and Whig political groupings on the same page, as he found it difficult to find ministries that would garner support from the House of Commons. He simply lacked the ability and experience to bring compromise or a mutual understand between groups. The king did find a prime minister in january 1770, his name was Lord North. For the most part, North did help the government deal with the national debt from the seven year war using various source of revenue. Lord North successfully managed to reduce the national debt £10 million by 1775. Though this was monumently helpful for Britain, the Tea act had already been passed by that time, and with the passing of the Tea Act, the American Revolution began to inaugurate. The inauguration of the American Revolution could have been eschewed through the use of monarchical …show more content…
It was believed that the king suffered from acute intermittent porphyria, which was later changed to variegate porphyria, after Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter put their theory forward in 1964. This tended to be a bit of a controversial issues, as put by the British Journal of Psychiatry, ”...they rejected three detailed papers by experienced American psychiatrists reporting manic-depressive psychosis. In spite of detailed objections by porphyria experts, Macalpine and Hunter were able to garner support from historians, some psychiatrists and, surprisingly, The Royal Society. With the support of the play and film The Madness of King George by the former historian Alan Bennett and the composition Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies, the diagnosis has gained general acceptance.” Recent papers have shed light on the kings’s actual mental illness. For Example, Timothy peters, an honorary senior research fellow at University of Birmingham, had used OPCRIT and found that King George iii suffered from episodes of acute mania or bipolar disorder type 1 (Timothy Peters). OPCRIT has been proven to be reliable with diagnosing bipolar disorder, as it is said “Excellent agreement was found between interviewer OPCRIT diagnoses and OPCRIT diagnoses made by the best-estimate lifetime consensus procedure for DSM-III-R (kappa = 0.83) and ICD-10 (kappa = 0.81). (Azevedo
After only a short time, King George iii began directing Parliament to tighten England’s control over the American Colonies. While he managed to superintend Parliament to some degree. the new king had troubled keeping the Tory and Whig political groupings on the same page, as he found it difficult to find ministries that would garner support from the House of Commons. He simply lacked the ability and experience to bring compromise or a mutual understand between groups. The king did find a prime minister in january 1770, his name was Lord North. For the most part, North did help the government deal with the national debt from the seven year war using various source of revenue. Lord North successfully managed to reduce the national debt £10 million by 1775. Though this was monumently helpful for Britain, the Tea act had already been passed by that time, and with the passing of the Tea Act, the American Revolution began to inaugurate. The inauguration of the American Revolution could have been eschewed through the use of monarchical …show more content…
It was believed that the king suffered from acute intermittent porphyria, which was later changed to variegate porphyria, after Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter put their theory forward in 1964. This tended to be a bit of a controversial issues, as put by the British Journal of Psychiatry, ”...they rejected three detailed papers by experienced American psychiatrists reporting manic-depressive psychosis. In spite of detailed objections by porphyria experts, Macalpine and Hunter were able to garner support from historians, some psychiatrists and, surprisingly, The Royal Society. With the support of the play and film The Madness of King George by the former historian Alan Bennett and the composition Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies, the diagnosis has gained general acceptance.” Recent papers have shed light on the kings’s actual mental illness. For Example, Timothy peters, an honorary senior research fellow at University of Birmingham, had used OPCRIT and found that King George iii suffered from episodes of acute mania or bipolar disorder type 1 (Timothy Peters). OPCRIT has been proven to be reliable with diagnosing bipolar disorder, as it is said “Excellent agreement was found between interviewer OPCRIT diagnoses and OPCRIT diagnoses made by the best-estimate lifetime consensus procedure for DSM-III-R (kappa = 0.83) and ICD-10 (kappa = 0.81). (Azevedo