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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. King George III Declares War Against their American Colonies in The Town and Country Magazine; or Universal Repository… [London: Printed for A. Hamilton, Jun… and G. Robinson, August, 1775]. Single 8vo issue, disbound. Approximately 211 x 130 mm. Bound sheets, spine with binding remnants (light toning, occasional foxing, occasional corners creased). EARLY MAGAZINE APPEARANCE OF THE KING’S PROCLAMATION OF WAR AGAINST THE REBELLIOUS AMERICAN COLONIES. On p. 445 is King George III’s proclamation “For suppressing Rebellion and Sedition… Whereas many of our subject in diverse parts of 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 sustained them, after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce… have at length proceeded to an open and avowed rebellion…” This proclamation was issued after King George III learned about the Battle of Bunker Hill.