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We feature smart, groundbreaking research and well-written narratives from expert writers. Journal of the American Revolution also produces annual hardcover volumes, a branded book series, and the podcast, Dispatches. In the Spring of , Benjamin Franklin, still stationed in England, made what he thought was a last attempt to secure a plan of reconciliation between Great Britain and her American colonies.

One of the men he worked with was Adm. Lord Richard Howe. Though their efforts proved unsuccessful, at their final meeting on March 7, they promised to support each other if there ever was another effort. On March 21, Franklin set sail for Philadelphia. Any future effort on their part was delivered a series of blows four weeks later with the events at Lexington and Concord followed by the convening of the Second Continental Congress, the appointment of George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental forces, the battle of Bunker Hill, the siege of Boston, and the rejection of the Olive Branch Petition.

By the end of the summer, George III and his Privy Council were frustrated and dissatisfied with how their military leaders were responding to one event after another in the colonies. As a result, on August 2, Gen. Lord Molyneux Shuldham replaced Adm.