LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Scientist): France
built 788 days ago
Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Scientist) also shows up in the Retriever categories:
Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Early) , and more.
Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Early) , and more.
For five years Franklin stayed in England, meeting many people important in science and politics. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1762. England defeated France in 1763. Trouble with the Indians continued... and a fresh quarrel broke out between Pennsylvania and the Penns. Many members of the Assembly believed that the colony should be governed by the king rather than by the Penns. They asked Franklin to go back to England late in 1764 and present their petition to King George III.
Source:
Franklin ... played a vital diplomatic role during the American Revolution and the early national period. In 1776, the Continental Congress sent Franklin and several others to secure a formal alliance with France, which deeply resented the loss of territory to the British during the French and Indian War. American victory over the British in the Battle of Saratoga convinced the French that the Americans were committed to independence and would be worthy partners in a formal alliance. During the war, France contributed an estimated twelve thousand soldiers and thirty-two thousand sailors to the American war effort.
Source:
Franklin remained in France as a representative of America. In 1781 he was named one of the commissioners to negotiate peace with Great Britain. When the Revolution was won, Franklin was one of the signers of the peace treaty.
Source:
William had just one son, William Temple Franklin, who ... was illegitimate and whose mother also has never been identified. Temple accompanied Benjamin, his grandfather, to France in late 1776 and worked as secretary to the American diplomatic mission. After Franklin died, Temple lived for a while with his father in England, and had an illegitimate daughter, Ellen. He then moved to France, won and lost a fortune in real estate speculation, and died in poverty in Paris in 1823. He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Source:
[W]hat really undercut the argument was that when Franklin arrived, the Americans had lost the battle of Long Island, which demonstrated that Washington was many things, but a competent general he was not. The attempt to take Canada had ... failed. So Franklin was in the odious position of trying to get French assistance, which would be a risk to France, in case they got into a premature war with the British, on behalf of a revolution that it was not clear knew how to use any of the equipment that the French might supply to the revolutionaries.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
France