I believe Franklin would have escaped the noose...he was altogether far too charming. More than this, I cannot surmise...
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Yorktown was merely the coup de grace. The British and Loyalist Cause was doomed the moment France, Spain and Holland joined the war against Britain... (You’d be speaking, erm... ‘proper’ English if the French hadn’t saved your asses...) ;)