As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter........
For most Americans in their current gulag status, they have no comprehension of the King George of the American Revolution. The little said about him was that he was crazy, but that propaganda does not suit the reality in King George was a fine sovereign, and was in fact a military tactician.
His main problem was like Rehoboam, son of Solomon, in having a court and parliament who being drunk with power, refused to let the leash of control loose a little to keep the Americans of Northern Israel who were complaining of taxes like the Americans of America complaining of taxes from breaking away in a revolt.
The reality of the mind King George is recorded in the personal war papers of the Revolution. For while he humiliated the Americans constantly as God put that in his heart, he also was brilliant in strategy as in his own handwriting, he wrote in detail of the campaign of the north which sent General Burgoyne from Canada with a much supplied Continental with Canadian and Indian force into America.
This movement was as Grant at Vicksburg to cut the South in two by the Mississippi.
General Burgoyne was to march from the lakes, join the Hudson River which flowed southeast and would upon acquiring that position, cut off the entire New England rebel states from the rest of America, which would as King George wrote, effectively kill the revolution by decapitating it, and leave only mop up operations as the colonies would submit.
This was not work of a madman, but a true military genius. If by God's Grace General Anthony Wayne, had not checked the Germans and cripple Burgoyne, where he had to fall back to Saratoga, the King George plan would have succeeded in reacquiring the independent colonies.
The Europeans were forever enlisting the savage Indians, who could not be controlled, but were terrorized warfare. Burgoyne could harrangue any Indian, but the reality is robbery, rape and murder were their warfare of terror, and in battle, they would not stand but evaporate from the host if broken.
The Indian savage in this war as in the 7 Years War called the French and Indian War to exterminate white people, had only one effect upon Americans, and that was to have them poor out from every village and farm, armed to attack the invaders as nothing stirred the Americans more than Indian rapine and terrorism.
7000 select red coats and Germans were sent with full stores from England to Canada for the Burgoyne march. Two to three thousand Canadians joined, and hosts of the Indian terrorists. The battle plan was for the Army of New York to unite by pushing north to meet Burgoyne at Albany, and thereby with General Washington in Pennsylvania with the Continentals, an effective cut off would result, and an irresistable force would destroy the New England colonies entirely.
The early part of the battle plan went with perfection in Fort Ticonderoga of the Americans fell, as the Americans reeled back, but at the same time the colonists began pouring out of their villages and farms to join in the battle.
There was jubilation the Court of England. The military looked at this now as victory and only a clean up operation, and the European powers abandoned the Americans to die under the bayonet of King George.
Lord Howe would sail with his forces to Delaware to engage General Washington, and leave the able Sir Henry Clinton to effect the march to join with General Burgoyne advancing after the first Americans successes at Bennington, where the Burgoyne army lost 600 men to the Americans fighting.
On September 19th, the British right under Burgoyne was met with a sharp attack by the Americans under General Gates as the Battle of Saratoga began. The Americans entrenched almost with cannon shot of the British, and by October the British stores were failing and in much need of Clinton's arrival.
It would be on October 7th, that Burgoyne with a degrading and defecting army of now only 600 men embarked on an attack to force the Americans back, and move forward to Albany and find Clinton in his advance.
The battle waged hotly with the English guns taken and retaken, but remarkably at this juncture, it was General Benedict Arnold who appeared to change the fortunes for the Americans.
Arnold had been removed from command after a heated exchange with General Gates, and was confined to camp. Upon hearing the raging battle, General Arnold mounted a horse and rushed to the front where his men were fighting.
Gates attempted to recall Arnold, but Arnold spurred his horse onward and soon with his men cheering was in front of the entire American line urging them close for the battle.
Benedict Arnold, who would betray America later, on that day began the process for American victory. General Clinton of the British with supplies for Burgoyne would fall short barely 50 miles from relieving General Burgoyne who would surrender the 15th of October.
That is how close King George came to ending the American Revolution with a most brilliant military operation from Canada.
Many were the royals of England who ruled the world, and King George deservedly has his place in being a brilliant military strategist and if not for God's plan for America, and those equally stubborn Israelite Josephite colonists would have effected a victory as he accomplished in other theaters of war for the Pax Britania.
King George was the last American Sovereign. His heart was hardened like Rehoboam and the effects were the same in ripping part of the kingdom from him.
He was though in all of it, a good king in historical context he deserves the right of that title.
agtG
