King George III never even read the Olive Branch Petition from the Second Continental Congress. Instead, he issued a proclamation that included these lines: “…many of our subjects in … our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them…have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion…we have thought fit to issue our Royal Proclamation, hereby declaring, that {all British citizens} are obliged to exert their utmost endeavors to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice.” While it is always easy to defend the American colonial viewpoint, are there arguments or phrases of the above British proclamation that you would agree with? If so, why?
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