Episode 115 Congress and French Diplomacy

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Continental Congress makes no real progress approving Articles of Confederation and has trouble supporting its own army. It sends a delegation to France to get an alliance with France. Congress sends Benjamin Franklin to join Arthur Lee and Silas Deane in France, with all three receiving official commissions. Before the commissions arrive, Deane has great difficulty getting any French aid to America. Lee's interference even raises doubts in the French government about whether Deane has any legitimate authority at all to negotiate on behalf of Congress. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution, by Jonathan Dull Online Recommendation of the Week: The Crossing and Ten Crucial Days - The Musical https://www.thecrossingmusical.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Today episode 115, The Continental Congress and French diplomacy.
0:55.0	I'm stepping away from the war today to catch up on what the Continental Congress has been doing.
1:01.6	We last left Congress in early July 1776 just after it approved the Declaration of Independence.
1:10.0	Yet even after approving the language of the declaration on July 4th, Congress immediately turned to other business that same afternoon.
1:19.1	Congress voted on a diplomatic delegation to Pittsburgh to meet with Indian tribes and held another vote on providing
1:26.1	the Board of War with authority to hire employees to make flints for the Army and several other matters. In other words, there was no time to rest on their
1:35.5	laurels or even reflect much on independence. The delegates did not even get around to
1:41.8	creating the final draft of the declaration for several
1:45.0	more weeks.
1:46.9	Most of them signed the copy that we today regard as the original on August 2nd. In fact, thousands of copies had already circulated around the country
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