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Many of the lords and barons were tired of their taxes being raised. They gathered their armies and went to the kings castle. They demanded that he signed the magna carta, which said that he could not raise taxes without first getting the consent of a council of his lords.
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This document was passed by Parliament to protect the basic rights of English Citizens from the monarch.
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Son of Frederick the Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
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His father commonly known as 'poor fred' died. He was mainly unmourned and his parents both despised him.
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The war began before George the Third was King but ended three years after his ascension to the throne
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This was a conflict between Britain and France and Spain. There was also another conflict between Prussia and severl European countries.
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George the 2nd died of an aneurysm at the age of 77, leaving George the 3rd as the king.
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King George was originally smitten with the Lady Sarah Lennox but was advised against the match by Lord Bute. He met his bride on their wedding day but the couple enjoyed a suprisingly happy marriage and King George never took a mistress. Lady Sarah Lennox was a bridesmaid at the Kings wedding.
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He was crowned at officially made king, although he had already held the office for about a year
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This decision upset many people because they thought Bute to be incompetent.
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George Augustus Frederick
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Another treaty that helped restore the peace between France and Britain after the Seven Years War.
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Frederick Augustus Duke of York
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restored peace between the the British and the French after the Seven Years war.
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The Stamp Act placed a tax on every piece of printed paper used in the colonies. While this did cost the colonists money, it wasn't as much the cost as it was the reasoning behind the tax. Most taxes were created to regulate commerce, but the Stamp Act was created just for profit
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This forced colonists to host British soldiers in their houses and to feed and support them.
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William Henry, Duke of Clarence
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Charlotte Augusta Matilda
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Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent
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Augusta Sophia
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Lord North stayed in office for ten years. Many of his policies helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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A group of rebels began to harass the soldiers. The soldiers began to fire into the crowd and killed 3 men, 8 more were wounded.
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Princess Elizabeth
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Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
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Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex
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A group of colonists known as the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships and threw all of the tea into the harbor to protest the unfair taxes
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Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
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This act made it so that the British governor was in charge of all town meetings in Boston. There was no more representative government in Boston.
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This act extended Canadian borders to cut off some of the western colonies.
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This act said that British officials could not be tried in the colonies. They had to be taken back to Britain to be tried. This left many British officials free to do as they wished in the colonies.
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King George closed Boston Harbor to everything except British ships.
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King George supported Lord Norths policies that started the war and then lost all 13 of the colonies in the war.
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Mary, Duchess of Gloucester
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Princess Sophia
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Prince Octavius. He died at age 4 of smallpox and devastated his parents.
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Prince Alfred died of smallpox at the age of 2, devastating both of his parents.
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Princess Amelia- final child
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The Treaty of Paris end the war and gave the Americans independence. The British lost their hold in North America and many chances to expand their empire through this loss.
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This is one of the first major cases of his madness. His son had always been problematic and King Geoge attempted to smash his head against the wall during a bout of madness.
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William Pitt raised taxes massively to fund the war. Several people within the government were also charged with sedition for pushing parliementary and government reform. These things, combined with several bad harvests, made King George a deeply unpopular king. The French revolutionary government fought with several other countries than just the French government. They were continously at war with Great Britain from 1793 to 1802
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Napoleon and his forces began to wage war against many different nations including Great Britain. The conflict ended for a short while in 1802 but they began fighting again soon after.
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The man fired two shots, both of which barely missed King George. Although the shots were close, King George was apparently unfazed and did not seem to notice the bullets.
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This Act combined Britain(England and Sctoland) and Ireland into one group, the United Kingdom. The Irish Parliament was abolished and one parliement with Irish representation existed in London.
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Ended Hostilities between Great Britain and France. Did not last long as the Napoleonic Wars reiginited soon after.
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He suffered from porphyria and had a relapse that incapacitated him until his death in 1820.
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After Napoleon was forced to abdicate he staged a daring attack at Battle of Waterloo. He lost and was exiled to St. Helena and told never to return, marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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He had a huge porphyia attack duing dinner at Christmas, 1819. He talked incessantly for fifty-eight hours and then sunk into a coma. He finally died on February 16, 1820 at the age of 81.
