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March 16 Through September 13, 1785: Supplementary Documents, December, 1776, through July, 1785 - Couverture rigide

Franklin, Benjamin

 
9780300267952: March 16 Through September 13, 1785: Supplementary Documents, December, 1776, through July, 1785
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300267959 ISBN 13 : 9780300267952
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This volume in the venerable Papers of Benjamin Franklin covers March 16 through September 12, 1785, Franklin's final days as minister to France and his voyage home

This volume covers Franklin's final months as minister to France and his voyage back to America. He received his long-awaited permission from Congress to return home; accepted the king's parting gift of a miniature portrait surrounded by diamonds; settled his accounts; and arranged passage for himself and his two grandsons on a ship bound from England to Philadelphia. Franklin instructed the French government on the culinary uses of maize and wrote a lengthy "eye-witness" account of China that includes directions for making tofu. His last public act in France was signing the Prussian-American Treaty of Commerce, which contained three unprecedented articles: the two he wrote in 1782 guaranteeing protections during wartime for noncombatants, and a third guaranteeing humane treatment for prisoners of war.

On the English coast, Franklin met with his Loyalist son William and witnessed William's signing over his American property to his son William Temple Franklin. Aboard the London Packet, Franklin wrote three scientific papers, including the copiously illustrated "Maritime Observations." His original line drawings are reproduced here for the first time. The volume ends with an appendix containing supplementary documents from the French mission.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ellen R. Cohn is senior research scholar in the department of history at Yale University. She lives in New Haven, CT.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300267959
ISBN 13 
9780300267952
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
768
Éditeur
Cohn Ellen R.
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