EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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Ben Franklin
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Ann Neilson
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George Washington
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to this first military treaty of the new nation, the United States agreed to provide a defensive alliance to aid France should England attack. American diplomats Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee negotiated in France on behalf of the American Colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Franklin served from 1776 to 1778 on a commission to France charged with the critical task of gaining French support for American independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Today marks the anniversary of the official French recognition of the United States in the Revolutionary War on December 17, 1777, an act that was engineered in great part by Franklin. When Franklin arrived in France in late 1776, he had established quite a reputation as an inventor, scientist, and writer.