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Washington and his Comrades in Arms

CHAPTER III
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He had never traveled.

He had no power to see the point of view of others.
As if nature had not sufficiently handicapped George for a high part, fate placed him on the throne at the immature age of twenty-two.
Henceforth the boy was master, not pupil.

Great nobles and obsequious prelates did him reverence.

Ignorant and obstinate, the young King was determined not only to reign but to rule, in spite of the new doctrine that Parliament, not the King, carried on the affairs of government through the leader of the majority in the House of Commons, already known as the Prime Minister.

George could not really change what was the last expression of political forces in England.


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