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Would You Have Been a Patriot or a Loyalist?

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Franklin's Problem With the British Empire

Franklin thought that British policy had taken a wrong turn. He tried again and again to get the British government to realize that the British Empire could be the greatest thing in the world for a long time to come, if only. But they wouldn't listen. There were merchants in Britain who wanted to have monopoly of the American market. The idea that these colonials would have the affrontary, the gall, to think that they should be equal was not going to happen.

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