Snapshot · The Rest Is History
Over the course of his life, Franklin is estimated to have sent or received approximately 15,000 letters, making him a natural choice to organise the infant American postal system.
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After the Cockpit, Franklin lingered in London for another year trying to work with sympathetic members of the British elite, but by March 1775 he had had enough. He set sail from Portsmouth on a packet ship bound for Pennsylvania — and characteristically, spent the Atlantic crossing measuring Gulf Stream temperatures three or four times a day, providing the scientific basis for his theory. By the time he landed in Philadelphia on 5 May 1775, the shot heard round the world had been fired at Lexington Green, and British Redcoats and colonial militia were already at war [1] — Tom Holland "Franklin spent a third of his life in Britain, attended George III's coronation, and called the king 'the most amiable of kings.' He was no…" 09:25 . To patriotic Americans, the arrival of the world's most famous American was a providential stroke of timing. The Pennsylvania Assembly immediately chose him as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and his organisational genius saw him appointed to a bewildering number of committees — including reorganising the postal system, supplying Washington's army, and helping draft the Olive Branch Petition to George III, even as he privately concluded that independence was now inevitable.
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