[Loud Mime]

"In a life of so much accomplishment, Benjamin Franklin had his most devastating disappointment in his son William's choice to remain loyal to the King during the American Revolution. "Nothing," he said at war's end, "has ever hurt me so much ... as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son." Loyalists comprised some 20% of the white American population in the colonies during the war, and their ranks included men and women, rich and poor, immigrants and native-born. But Benjamin chose to reject his mother country, and his son chose to disobey his father. Benjamin never forgave William for his "disloyalty."

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[metesky]

That Bill Franklin. What a... dare I say it? What a bastard.

[highball]

I know - I was really just making a joke.

But it’s always worth a reminder. We like to look back on the Revolutionary War as a unified, singular effort against a common enemy, when it was anything but.