On this day 250 years ago in London, King George III delivered his first address to Parliament since the Declaration of Independence. The King touted the success of British arms in defeating the Americans in Canada and the Battle of Brooklyn and offered no plan for a peaceful resolution of the War, but instead declared

that they have now openly renounced all Allegiance to the Crown, and all political Connection with this Country: They have rejected, with Circumstances of Indignity and Insult, the Means of Conciliation held out to them under the Authority of Our Commission; and have presumed to set up their rebellious Confederacies for Independent States. If their Treason be suffered to take Root, much Mischief must grow from it, to the Safety of My loyal Colonies, to the Commerce of My Kingdom, and indeed to the present System of all Europe.

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We must, at all Events, prepare for another Campaign.

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34338506?seq=5; https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-31/king-speaks-for-first-time-since-independence-declared