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    From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to All on Sunday, August 03, 2025 21:25:00
    "Throughout his long and illustrious career, Benjamin Franklin
    nursed a not-so-secret desire to annex Canada and make it
    American.

    "When he was not busy conducting scientific experiments or
    representing American interests at home and abroad, Benjamin
    Franklin hatched one plan after another to join Canada to the
    American colonies and then later to the United States. These
    were not solely intellectual efforts. He went to Montreal in
    1776 to try to turn around the faltering occupation by American
    forces. As lead American negotiator at the 1782 peace
    negotiations with Britain in Paris, he held the fate of Canada
    in his hands. Ill health and other American priorities then
    forced him to abandon his decades-long campaign to possess
    Canada.

    "Franklin's elevation to the status of an American icon has
    pushed this signal failure into the far reaches of collective
    memory in both Canada and the United States. Yet it shaped the
    future of North America and relations between the two
    neighbours over the next two and a half centuries.

    He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex
    Canada | Paperback

    Madelaine Drohan

    Dundurn Press | Dundurn Press

    History / Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867) / United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) / Biography & Autobiography / Historical

    Release date Sep 30, 2025
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