AcknowledgementsFamily TreeMapsAuthor's NoteIntroduction1 Prince of Wales: June 1738-May 17562 Seizing an Empire: May 1756-October 17603 `I Glory in the Name of Briton': October 1760-January 17624 Victory: January 1762-February 17635 The Problems of Peace: February-October 17636 Sugar, Stamps and Silk: November 1763-May 17657 Rockingham Repeals the Stamp Act: May 1765-December 17668 `The Apple of Discord': January 1767-June 17699 `That Factious and Disobedient Temper': June 1769-April 177210 The Boston Tea Party: June 1772-July 177411 `Blows Must Decide': August 1774-April 177512 `The Battle of the Legislature': April-November 177513 The Declaration of Independence: November 1775-July 177614 The Road to Saratoga: July 1776-December 177715 Global War: December 1777-June 177816 `If Others Will Not be Active, I Must Drive': June 1778-March 178017 Disaster at Yorktown: March 1780-October 178118 `The Torrent is Too Strong': October 178i-July 178219 `America is Lost!': July 1782-July 178320 `On the Edge of a Precipice': August 1783-May 178421 Alliance with Pitt: May 1784-October 178822 The King's Malady: October 1788-February 178923 Recovery, Revolution and War: February 1789-May 179424 The Whale and the Wolf: May 1794-December 179825 `The Corsican Tyrant': January 1799-February 180126 `A Fearful Experiment': February 1801-September 180427 Tory Spring: October 1804-October 180928 King Lear Redux: October 1809-January 1820Conclusion: The Nobility of George IIIAppendix: The Misdiagnosis of `The King's Malady' as PorphyriaNotesBibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex