Boston Tea Party? It Actually Started in Philadelphia!
โThe active business of the American Revolution began in Philadelphia.โ Thatโs what Benjamin Rush and John Adams believed – because the spark that ignited the Boston Tea Party wasnโt in Boston. It was lit in Philadelphia on October 16, 1773. This forgotten piece...
Join or Die: Benjamin Franklin’s Forgotten Call for Union (1754)
Before the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin had a bold idea to unite the colonies – an idea most people have never heard of. In 1754, just before the Albany Congress, he published his famous โJoin...
Free and Independent States: Forgotten Conclusion of the American Revolution
Signed on Sept 3, 1783 – the Treaty of Paris was intended to end the war for independence. But the war didn’t officially end on that date with the signatures of Franklin, John Adams and John Jay. The treaty, made with 13 free, sovereign, and independent...