His war against us was lost at home, on English soil, through English disapproval of his course, almost as much as it was lost here through the indomitable Washington and the help of France.

That is the actual state of the case, there is the truth.

Did you hear much about this at school?
Did you ever learn there that George III had a fake Parliament, largely elected by fake votes, which did not represent the English people; that this fake Parliament was autocracy's last ditch in England; that it choked for a time the English democracy which, after the setback given it by the excesses of the French Revolution, went forward again until to-day the King of England has less power than the President of the United States?
I suppose everybody in the world who knows the important steps of history knows this--except the average American.

From him it has been concealed by his school histories; and generally he never learns anything about it at all, because once out of school, he seldom studies any history again.

But why, you may possibly wonder, have our school histories done this?
I think their various authors may consciously or unconsciously have felt that our case against England was not in truth very strong, that in fact she had been very easy with us, far easier than any other country was being with its colonies at that time.