USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1778, during the Revolutionary War, Adams sailed to France to join benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee on a three-man commission to negotiate an alliance with France.

Detailed explanation-2: -Benjamin Franklin’s popularity in France bolstered French support for the American cause. The French public viewed Franklin as a representative of republican simplicity and honesty, an image Franklin cultivated.

Detailed explanation-3: -His popularity and diplomatic skill-along with the first American battlefield success at Saratoga-convinced France to recognize American independence and conclude an alliance with the thirteen states in 1778.

Detailed explanation-4: -And on December 17, 1777, after nearly a year in France without making much visible progress, Franklin engineered a gigantic diplomatic victory for the United States. The French foreign minister, Charles Gravier, the Count of Vergennes, officially acknowledged the United States as an independent country.

Detailed explanation-5: -Benjamin Franklin was one of the American Commissioners in France who negotiated the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain ending the American Revolutionary War and securing the United States ownership of a vast territory between the Atlantic coast and the Mississippi River.