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George Sackville, 1st Viscount Sackville (January 26, 1716 – August 26, 1785) was a British soldier and politician who was Secretary of State for America in Lord North's cabinet during the American Revolution.
Lord George Germain was born George Sackville, the third son of Lionel Sackville, the Duke of Dorset and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
George finally saw his first battle, leading the charge of the Duke of Cumberland's infantry in the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.
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 GEORGE, 1ST VISCOUNT SACKVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE, 1ST VISCOUNT SACKVILLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
, 1ST VISCOUNT (1716-1785), generally remembered as Lord George Sackville or Lord George Germain, third son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st duke of Dorset, was born on the 26th of January 17,6.
What hopes of success there were in such a struggle Germain and the North cabinet dissipated by their misunderstanding of the situation and their friction with the generals and the army if-i the theatre of war.
Sackville, in characteristic fashion, stipulated for a viscounty, as otherwise he would be junior to his secretary, his lawyer and to Amherst, who had been page to his father.
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Sackville (45°54′N 64°22′W, AST) is a town in Westmorland County, located in South-Eastern New Brunswick, Canada, only eight km from the Nova Scotia border and 45 km from the regional city of Moncton.
Sackville is the home of Mount Allison University, one of the most prestigious universities in Canada.
The original town of Sackville was situated around several mills at Silver Lake in present-day Middle Sackville; the town's central business district moved to the present location after the Intercolonial Railway of Canada built the Truro-Moncton mainline south of town along the edge of the Tantramar Marshes.
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 GERMAIN, GEORGE SACKVILLE, 1ST VISCOUNT SACKVILLE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
He was known as Lord George Sackville until 1770, when under the terms of a will he took the name Germain.
With the 4th earl of Sandwich, Germain has received much of the blame for the British reverses in the American Revolution.
He and John Burgoyne were the chief authors of a plan (see Saratoga campaign) to end the Revolution by splitting New England from the rest of the colonies.
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Sackville, George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount, Baron Bolebrooke of Sussex...
Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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There didn't seem to be negative repercussions to the European stalemate of the Seven Year's War.
In 1763 King George quietly returned him to the roles of the Privy Council.
This made Germain the primary minister responsible for surprising the revolt in the colonies.
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 SACKVILLE, GEORGE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1716-1785) - Online Information article about SACKVILLE, GEORGE, 1ST VISCOUNT ...
Junius Letters, with the authorship of which Sackville was erroneously credited.
fell to the colonial office, and Germain was practically the director of the war for the suppression of the revolt in the See also:
What hopes of success there were in such a struggle Germain and the North cabinet dissipated by their misunderstanding of the situation and their See also:
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 George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Sackville (of Drayton), George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount, Baron Bolebrooke of Sussex
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 1775 Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ LocalColorArtists.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
May 10 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress meets, elects John Hancock president, raises the Continental army under George Washington as commander and authorizes the colonies to adopt their own constitutions.
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Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip (15 December 1713 - 2 February 1802) was a Great Britain statesman of the 18th century.
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 Germain, George Sackville, 1st viscount Sackville - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Germain, George Sackville, 1st Viscount Sackville, 1716-85, British soldier and statesman.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Sackville, George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716-1785), Soldier and statesman.
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