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    He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex     
   Canada | Paperback   
      
   Madelaine Drohan CDN   
      
   Dundurn Press   
      
   History / Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867) / United States - Revolutionary   
   Period (1775-1800) / Biography & Autobiography / Historical   
      
   Published Sep 30, 2025   
      
   "Throughout his long and illustrious career, Benjamin Franklin   
   nursed a not-so-secret desire to annex Canada and make it   
   American.   
      
   "When 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. Ill health and other American priorities then   
   forced him to abandon his decades-long campaign to possess   
   Canada.   
      
   "Franklin's elevation to the status of an American icon has   
   pushed this signal failure into the far reaches of collective   
   memory in both Canada and the United States. Yet it shaped the   
   future of North America and relations between the two   
   neighbours over the next two and a half centuries.   
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