“[I]t is by bold and manly efforts Nations have been preserved not pursueing alone the line of home defence.”

— George III of the United Kingdom

Source: Letter to Lord Sandwich (5 September 1779), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783, Volume IV: 1778–1779, ed. Sir John William Forstecue (1927), p. 435

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King of Great Britain and King of Ireland 1738–1820

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