{"title":"History - Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867)","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"he-did-not-conquer-benjamin-franklins-failure-to-annex-canada-9781459754188","title":"He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eThroughout his long and illustrious career, Benjamin Franklin nursed a not-so-secret desire to annex Canada and make it American.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he was not busy conducting scientific experiments or representing American interests at home and abroad, Benjamin Franklin hatched one plan after another to join Canada to the American colonies and then later to the United States. These were not solely intellectual efforts. He went to Montreal in 1776 to try to turn around the faltering occupation by American forces. As lead American negotiator at the 1782 peace negotiations with Britain in Paris, he held the fate of Canada in his hands. 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