In the hit musical Hamilton England rsquo s King George III is humorously portrayed as a cartoonish deranged villain However a new biography on King George said he was not the tyrant described in Hamilton or America rsquo s Declaration of Independence If George had been the brutal despot that Americans said he was he would have stopped their drive for independence with extreme scorched-earth measures But he was restrained by his ldquo civilized good-natured rdquo temperament Who knows if King George died with regret Would his reign have been more successful if he rsquo d been harsher with his
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