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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, (1706-90) is best remembered as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, as well as the author of the most widely read American autobiography, the one book, incidentally, that Davy Crockett took with him to his death on the Alamo.

Yet Franklin began by seeking to maintain British rule in America, under George III - "the best of kings" - not to undermine it. He loved Britain almost as much as he did America, and long endeavoured "with unfeigned and unwearied Zeal, to preserve from breaking that fine and noble China Vase, the British Empire".

Moreover, he was a ...

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