What did Ben Franklin have to do with the Revolutionary War??
2007-06-10 02:04:36 · 2 answers · asked by Coolio JW 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
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In October 1776, Franklin and his two grandsons sailed for France, where he achieved an amazing personal triumph and gained critical French aid for the Revolutionary War. Parisian literary and scientific circles hailed him as a living embodiment of Enlightenment virtues.
He tried his best to stop the revolution but had to make a decision about his priorities and the colonies.
Benjamin Franklin loved England, but Lord Granville managed to make Benjamin Franklin realize his love and his loyalty for America with the statement below.
As Franklin helped the empire fight for its life, however, he saw that colonial and ministerial ideas of governing the colonies were far apart. When he went to England in 1757 as agent of the Pennsylvania Assembly, he was alarmed to hear Lord Granville, president of the Privy Council, declare that for the colonies, the king's instructions were "the Law of the Land: for the King is the Legislator of the Colonies."
2007-06-10 02:40:17 · answer #1 · answered by LucySD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pardon my dropped jaw... you aren't SERIOUS are you?... He was doing his best to PREVENT the Revolutionary War... was constantly traveling to the courts of England and France to get support for stopping the war before it could begin.
2007-06-10 09:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋