This plain suit would have created a stark contrast between Franklin and those in the elaborate dress typical of the opulent ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

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 ... 1780 he wrote French Foreign ...

In 1778, France signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and Franklin would later write a letter to Congress, ...