On this day, 26 October in the year 1775, King George III went before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
On October 26, 1775, King George expanded on the Proclamation in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament. The King insisted that rebellion was being fomented by a "desperate conspiracy" of leaders whose claims of allegiance to him were insincere; what the rebels really wanted, he said, was to create an "independent Empire." The king indicated that he intended to deal with the crisis with armed force, and was even considering "friendly offers of foreign assistance" to suppress the rebellion. A pro-American minority in Parliament warned that the government was driving the colonists towards independence, something that many colonial leaders had insisted they did not desire.
Image of a scan of the Proclamation of Rebellion issued by King George on August 23, 1775.
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