Autobiography at the Opening of the Revolutionary Age, Vo...
Cross, Wilbur L. Excerpt from Autobiography at the Opening of the Revolutionary Age, Vol. 9: 1750 1790Louis XVI came to the throne Of France, as we have noted, a Well-meaning youth, in 1774. The next year the American Revolution broke out, and we have seen in a preceding volume how Franklin, the aged American philosopher, visited the court Of the youthful king to seek French aid. In America the Revolution was upheld and brought to a successful end by Washingto...