I'm sure that's what you learned in Home Skule... but it just ain't true.
Says you. And by the way, I actually went to and graduated from High School. So you can ditch that "home-skule" bullshit, numbnuts.
Funny, you seem to have abuot a fifth grader's understanding of the Revolutionary War.
I mean, if you think the King had real power at that point....
How else did the troops get here, dimwit?
Here's more history for you as quoted from a source:
"When George III assumed the throne in 1760, upon the death of his grandfather, he was full of resentments. Power had been draining away from the monarchy for seventy years, and he meant to reverse this. His widowed mother encouraged this, exhorting him to "be a King, George. Be a King!".
George III could have ensured himself a tranquil reign had he retained Pitt as his Prime Minister, and been content to reign as the royal figurehead you suggest he was. His mother was being consoled by the third Earl of Bute, John Stuart, and it was to Bute he turned for guidance on how to "be a King". Together they decided that Pitt must go and replaced him with Grenville, whom the King found tedious and called "Mr. Greenville". Pitt had toyed with the idea of direct taxation of the colonists in 1759, when he was annoyed at what he thought was slow payment of war taxes from the colonies, but dropped the idea when he was assured that such a move would set off a firestorm of protest.
The colonists thought they had already paid quite a lot in taxes during the war, besides raising and supporting many thousands of troops for his majesty's campaigns in North America. Grenville decided to impose taxes to help retire the remaining debt and to pay for the maintenance of troops in the colonies at levels never seen before. With the French gone from North America, in no small part due to the fighting men of the colonies, who could these troops be meant for if not the colonists themselves? The first protests at this scheme of taxation were from the King's own party, and as a policy it was most unwise, for it gave the nascent Patriot movement its cause.
Through subsequent ministers and different plans for taxation and other oppressive measures, the King held fast to his policy of bringing the colonists to heel. Upon passage of the Port Act the King jeered from the throne at the weakness of the opposition. "The die is now cast" he told North. "The colonies must either submit or triumph."
In his removals of Pitt, and of Grenville (due to affronts to his mother during the regency), and his selection of North, and his several refusals to allow North to resign, the King was much more actively involved in North American policy than you seem to imagine.
The essence of folly has always been to adopt policies directly contrary to your own self-interest, and then to cling to those policies with pathetic stubbornness."