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==Background and Reception==

==Background and Reception==

After the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]], the King refused to receive the ''Olive Branch''.  His response to Bunker Hill was to issue the [[Proclamation of Rebellion]], declaring the colonists to be rebels, closing the American ports, and warning foreign nations not to trade. This contemptuous treatment convinced many that the colonists need hope for nothing at the hands of the king, and also had an effect on the king's own men.  Many English army officers resigned their commissions rather than serve against the Americans.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ro4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA222|title=Reading courses ... prepared under the advice and direction of Edwin Markham|date=1907}}</ref> When the subservient "king's friends" in parliament voted 25,000 troops, most of them had to be hired in Germany.  Shortly after the news reached America that the British government had hired [[Hessian (soldier)|Hessian soldiers]] to help fight their battles in the colonies, even the most conservative began to admit the necessity of separation.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6T0XAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54|title=School Civics: An Outline Study of the Origin and Development of Government and the Development of Political Institutions in the United States|date=1919}}</ref>

After the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]], the King refused to receive the ''Olive Branch''.  His response to Bunker Hill was to issue the [[Proclamation of Rebellion]], declaring the colonists to be rebels, closing the American ports, and warning foreign nations not to trade. This contemptuous treatment convinced many that the colonists need hope for nothing at the hands of the king, and also had an effect on the king's own men.  Many English army officers resigned their commissions rather than serve against the Americans.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ro4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA222|title=Reading courses ... prepared under the advice and direction of Edwin Markham|date=1907}}</ref> When the subservient "king's friends" in parliament voted 25,000 troops, most of them had to be hired in Germany.  Shortly after the news reached America that the British government had hired [[Hessian (soldier)|Hessian soldiers]] to help fight their battles in the colonies, even the most conservative began to admit the necessity of separation.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6T0XAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54|title=School Civics: An Outline Study of the Origin and Development of Government and the Development of Political Institutions in the United States|date=1919}}</ref>

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