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This week episode 205 the Continental Congress enters 1779.

Over the winter of 1778-79, the Continental Congress continued its difficult work of keeping the states

united and continuing the war. Many of the leading delegates had left Congress for other duties.

Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were both in France as diplomats.

Caesar Rodney was now president of Delaware. Thomas Jefferson had returned to

Virginia where he was revising the state's statutes and would soon be elected governor.

John Hancock returned to Congress in the summer of 1778,

but after no one seemed interested in returning him to the President's chair,

he left again for Boston and focused more on his business affairs.

President Henry Lawrence, however, had his own issues while presiding over Congress.

When he first took the chair in November 17th, issues while presiding over Congress.

When he first took the chair in November 1777, he had to deal with the Conway-Caball.

Congress's big accomplishment during Lawrence's presidency was the passage of the Articles of Confederation.

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