Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for July 04, 2016

And didn’t have modern communications systems.

This one is a miss…

MEH

No-one cares about the colonies.

Forgot to watch the Situation Room with Wolf.

Obviously, he wasn’t on Facebook.

well, yeah—-it took weeks (however long it took for a ship to sail from the colony to the England)to get news from that far away.

He was using Vista on his PC,He got the information to late to make his move. Si Si Senor!!!

Funny, but it never happened. George III didn’t keep a diary.

Actually, in history, it was King Louis XVI on the original Bastille Day who wrote that in his diary. Happy Bastille Day you French guys, in 10 days!

nighthawksTwo weeks in ideal weather (ten days was phenominal, but occasionally happened), three weeks was more common; longer westward.

Slow news day…

“British officials in North America sent copies of the Declaration to Great Britain. It was published in British newspapers beginning in mid-August, it had reached Florence and Warsaw by mid-September, and a German translation appeared in Switzerland by October. The first copy of the Declaration sent to France got lost, and the second copy arrived only in November 1776.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#Publication_and_reaction

perhaps he also thought of himself as King of Understatement.