King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.

George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. As a scholar of early America, I believe, however, that George III has gotten ...

Carla Gardina Pestana, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly.