Jan. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost the American colonies, died at the age of 82.

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Are there legitimate comparisons between President Donald Trump and King George III? Rebecca Noble/Getty Images; Kean Collection/Getty Images George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Curator Julie Miller provided a tour of the Library of Congress' "The Two Georges" exhibit, which examines the parallel lives of King George III and ...

George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During both the first and now the second term of President Donald Trump, ...

In the spring of 1775, the royal governor of Massachusetts, appointed by King George III, commanded 700 Redcoats to march to Lexington to suppress the colony’s Patriots. Almost exactly 250 years later ...

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