King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.

A timeline of what led to the fatal collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a military helicopter.

On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost ...