The Continental Congress
obliged Franklin with a hazardous mission of attempting to
annex French speaking Canadians into the fight against England. This failed as miserably as Benedict Arnold's invasion of Canada about that same time. Franklin had not even
dressed appropriately for the bitter cold and feared that he would die on this journey. He must have started to feel some
apathy for his cause.
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