GEORGE III.

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The Reign of George III from his Accession to the Throne October 25th 1760 to the Present Period. This visually arresting and minutely detailed chronology presents two concentric spirals radiating from a central portrait of George III, offering a spectacular timeline of a half-century of conflict embellished with portraits of the king, Pitt, Fox, Nelson and Wellington.The inner delineates the "various administrations formed during his reign" while the outer charts major events including the conclusion of the Seven Years War, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, campaigns in South Asia, and the opening salvoes of the War of 1812. The densely printed text also includes relevant statistical information, particularly as relates to the major campaigns: numbers of troops under arms, sailors at sea, prisoners taken, cost of supplies, but also the funded national debt, annual expenditure, and, ticking steadily throughout, the price of a peck loaf. In each corner is a portrait of a hero of the period: "In an age abounding with so many Warriors & Senators, whose equals the page of History can scarcely produce, it is difficult to select the most suitable characters to adorn this design, or those who have been most active in the great Events of our own times, but none seem to have diffused the rays of glory with greater splendour round the nation than Nelson and Wellington. Fame will transmit to distant posterity the vigorous eloquence of Fox and Pitt, & exhibit them as patterns

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