A Christmas Carol for King George
What could make a king understand men who would rather freeze than submit? This Christmas retelling sends three imagined ghosts to visit George III in December 1776. They lead him through the limits of royal power, Edmund Burke's challenge to Britain's American policy, and Washington's desperate crossing of the Delaware toward Trenton.
Blending Revolutionary history with a fictional Christmas Carol framework, the story asks what authority is for and what makes people willing to resist it. Its final test comes after victory, when Washington resigns his commission instead of keeping military…
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