Friday, May 6, 2011

William Franklin

No major battles occurred on this date.

But in 1775, in a candid report to William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth and the British secretary of state for the colonies, Benjamin Franklin’s son, the Royal Governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, writes that the violence at Lexington and Concord greatly diminishes the chances of reconciliation between Britain and her North American colonies.
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