WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Continental Congress sent a third agent, Arthur Lee, to help Franklin and Deane with negotiations with the French.

Detailed explanation-2: -Benjamin Franklin, the most distinguished scientific and literary American of the colonial era, was the first American diplomat. 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: -The Continental Congress, formed in 1775 after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, sent Benjamin Franklin to join Silas Deane to gather support from France for its independence struggle. Franklin and Deane were joined by Arthur Lee to negotiate a Treaty of Alliance and Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France.

Detailed explanation-4: -Franklin returned to Philadelphia in 1775. There he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he was instrumental in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation to form a new union.

Detailed explanation-5: -A few short months after the Battle of Saratoga, representatives of the United States and France, including Benjamin Franklin, officially declared an alliance by signing the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance on February 6, 1778.