"On a dark October day in 1775, in a government office in Whitehall, Lord Rochford, the cabinet minister responsible for home affairs, found himself face to face with a young man with an astonishing story. In just six days, he said, King George III would fall victim to a sinister plot in which he would be kidnapped, incarcerated in the Tower of London, and forcibly abducted to his German domain of Hanover.
This spectacularly bold conspiracy was to be launched six months into the rebellion that would become known as the American War of Independence. The young informer was Francis Richardson, an American loyal to his king who served in the British army. The conspirator he named at the heart of the plot was one of his countrymen, Stephen Sayre. Both men were part of a community of over 1,000 colonial Americans who lived and worked in London, the centre of the empire and, until 1776, America's capital city.
Far away in America, colonists were choosing sides, taking up arms for or against British rule. For them, eight years of bloodshed, division and civil war lay ahead…"
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