♪ Voice: London, "The Gentleman's Magazine."

The American Declaration reflects no honor upon either the erudition or honesty of its authors.

"We hold," they say, "these truths to be self-evident.

That all men are created equal"?

Every plowman knows that they are not created equal.

It certainly is no reason why the Americans should turn rebels.

Atkinson: King George was determined that the Americans not be permitted to break away.

He believes, and his senior ministers believe, that this slippery slope of an American insurrection will only lead to the dissolution of the British Empire.

The sun never sets on the British Empire.

That phrase was coined in 1773.

And George is determined it's never going to set as long as he is the monarch.

♪ Narrator: And the King had sent a great fleet to New York-- with thousands of troops-- to prevent that from ever happening.

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