Ha! Yeah, I'm trying to remember -- I don't think George III was specifically presented as evil or whatever at school, but what I remember from school was what you say, where George kind of was the public face of British Tyranny vs. Our Heroes the Founding Fathers, and so small!me, along with presumably everyone else, drew conclusions from that.
Yeah, similar. It wasn't that my history classes talked about how G3 was a terrible monarch or a terrible person. I barely remember G3 at all. What we talked about was how monarchy was bad, and how the lack of the rights that would end up in the American Bill of Rights was bad, and G3 and his ministers wanted to keep their subjects from having those rights, so we had to fight for them.
So less that G3 was terrible and more that he was not progressive enough, was the message I got. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen/listened to Hamilton.) I came away with a vaguely negative impression, but I certainly didn't have the sense that he was personally worse than any of the *other* monarchs we covered!
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Re: Great Northern War: Johann Patkul
Date: 2021-11-20 02:05 pm (UTC)Yeah, similar. It wasn't that my history classes talked about how G3 was a terrible monarch or a terrible person. I barely remember G3 at all. What we talked about was how monarchy was bad, and how the lack of the rights that would end up in the American Bill of Rights was bad, and G3 and his ministers wanted to keep their subjects from having those rights, so we had to fight for them.
So less that G3 was terrible and more that he was not progressive enough, was the message I got. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen/listened to Hamilton.) I came away with a vaguely negative impression, but I certainly didn't have the sense that he was personally worse than any of the *other* monarchs we covered!