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  • And With That…

    And With That…

    …my dear readers, the grand adventure that has been Dave Does History, at least as a stand-alone website/podcast, has come to end. What happens going forward will be folded into the Plausibly Live umbrella, mainly because its simpler for me, and as I get older and less able to focus, it makes sense on my…

The Last Offramp – Dave Does History

On September 11, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge crossed to Staten Island under a flag of truce. They came seeking the limits of Britain’s peace offer and discovered there was no offer at all, only pardons in exchange for submission.The Staten Island Peace Conference failed to stop the war, but it clarified what the Revolution had become. Independence was no longer a bargaining position. It was the cause for which Americans would have to fight.Listen to the latest Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live.#DaveDoesHistory #AmericanRevolution #StatenIslandConference #JohnAdams #BenjaminFranklin #DeclarationOfIndependence #RevolutionaryWar
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