SUMMARY George III was king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1811. The third monarch from the House of Hanover, George was just twenty-two years old when he succeeded his grandfather, George II, as king in 1760. His reign was shaped by the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), the Irish Rebellion (1798), and the French Revolution (1783–1815), but he is best known as the “tyrant,” called “unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in the Declaration of Independence (1776), who lost the American Revolution (1775–1783). In reality, George III supported his cabinet’s authority and...