Was replacing George III with Washington a fundamental change, or was it just changing seats of power?

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"What we want is to rule ourselves while revering the king. The king was our only tie back to our own homeland…"
§ What Paine did was that he attacked that last link. He said that the kinship was not our last bond. It's actually the root of the problem .The problem is that we are a monarchy, period. And Monarchy is always bad.
□ You don't get rich by getting powerful, you get powerful by getting rich.
○ Spring.. more and more clashes between local militias and royal army.
○ Saratoga : turning point of the war…
§ But it went on for like, 15 months.
§ What it did was pursuaded His Majesty the King of France is that a good way to humiliate the British from the French-Indian War was to help out the English.
○ Brits could never capture Washington.
§ So they changed tactics. Beginning of 1778, they attacked Savannah, GA. To isolate the south from the north
§ It was a success. So they decided to capture Charleston. So Cornwallis ...

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