Thursday, April 1, 2010

Benjamin Franklin

No major battles occurred on this date.

But in 1774, Benjamin Franklin writes an open letter to Britain’s Prime Minister Frederick North from the Smyrna Coffee House in London. This facetious letter suggests that the British impose martial law upon the colonies and appoint a “King’s Viceroy of all North America.” Ironically, Lord Noth does just that one month after in Massachusetts.
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