Quote#War
[S]hould a French war be our fate, I trust you will concurr with me…
Quote byGeorge III of Great Britain · 1738–1820
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord North (9 February 1778), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. II, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), pp. 153-154.
English (original)
[S]hould a French war be our fate, I trust you will concurr with me in the only means of making it successful, the withdrawing the greatest part of them [the troops] from America, and employing them against the French and Spanish settlements; but if we are to be carrying on a land-war against the rebels and against those two powers, it must be feeble in all parts and consequently unsuccessful.
— George III of Great Britain
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