On this day in 1776, Benjamin Franklin departed from the 13 colonies and traveled to Europe. He hoped to convince France to join the war on the colonists’ side.
On October 26, 1776, precisely one month to the day following being appointed by the Continental Congress as a representative of a diplomatic commission, Benjamin Franklin sailed from Philadelphia for France, to whom he was to enter negotiations and secure a strong agreement and treaty. Franklin was lauded all through scholarly and literary circles in France, and he easily became a mainstay in socialites.
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