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Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Scientist): American Revolution
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Nonetheless, two days before Franklin died, John Adams wrote a prophetic passage, which galled him to write but which nonetheless has turned out to be the case. He said he was disgusted by the lie already going around about the Revolution. “The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin’s electrical rod smote the earth, and out sprung General Washington, that Franklin electrified him with his rod, and thence forward these two conducted all the politics, negotiations, legislatures, and war.”
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Franklin and his fellow Americans were neither submissive nor awed by authority. If Britain was intent on subjugating the colonies, imposing taxes and maintaining restrictive mercantile trading rules, the only alternative was independence.
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All this was how Franklin stimulated the French to pay attention to him, so that the American cause became popular in very many aspects of French society. These ten months that Franklin managed to keep the American cause alive were finally redeemed at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777, when British General Burgoyne was forced to surrender with his entire army, which had foolishly marched down from Canada. Franklin was vindicated and became the toast of the town.
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A committee of merchants in Philadelphia sent to Dr. Franklin a copy of their non-importation agreements, with a request that he would communicate them to the British merchants, who were concerned in the American trade. In his reply, dated July 9th, 1769, he commended their zeal, and remarked ; "By persisting steadily in the measures you have so laudably entered into, I hope you will, if backed by the general honest resolution of the people to buy British goods of no others, but to manufacture for themselves, or use colony manufactures only, be the means, under God, of recovering and establishing the freedom of our country entire, and of handing it down complete to posterity." This advice he often repeated; and, although he was too far distant to partake of the feeling kindled by sympathy throughout the colonies, yet his sentiments accorded perfectly with those of his countrymen.
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