History, Natural History & the Arts
In June 1776, the Second Continental Congress faced a question every new nation must answer: how do you make other countries take you seriously?
Declaring independence was one thing. Convincing France, Spain, or the Netherlands to risk war on your behalf was another. [Read more…] about The Road to Independence: The Model Treaty
The American Revolution wasn’t just a War for Independence. It was part of a wider age of revolutions that reshaped the Atlantic World.
The latest Ben Franklin’s World podcast explore how the Haitian and American Revolutions happened side-by-side rather than separately. The 1763 Treaty of Paris reshaped French and British imperial policy. [Read more…] about Haiti, France, and the American War for Independence
The American War for Independence (1775–1783) centered the Great Lakes in the middle of international conflict. By the 1770s, as tension between Britain and its American colonies reached a breaking point, Fort Ontario which had been constructed during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), was essentially abandoned.
It was located on Native land as defined by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the boundary line established by the subsequent 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. [Read more…] about Fort Ontario During the American Revolutionary War
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