Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

  1. Dec 10, 2020 · Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father and a polymath, inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat. Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. ...

  2. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on 17 January 1706. He attended school only briefly, and then helped his father, who was a candle and soap maker. He was apprenticed to his brother, a printer ...

  3. Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was a American Founding Father, and scientist. He has also been known as "the First American". He was a very important person in the American Revolution and helped make the Thirteen Colonies one nation. As a leader of the Enlightenment, he influenced European scientists.

  4. Feb 12, 2023 · Sent to France in 1776 to secure critical French allyship, Benjamin Franklin proved remarkably successful as American minister in negotiating treaties of commerce and defensive alliance that brought essential financial loans, military supplies, and combat troops into the Continental Army's war effort. Leveraging his widespread fame and cunning ...

  5. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Mass., January 17, 1706, into a Puritan household. He had 16 siblings, but four of them died at birth. He was 15th overall in the birth order, and he was the youngest of five brothers. His mother, Abiah Folger, was his father's second wife.

  6. Born on January 17, 1706, to a poor English chandler (a candle and soap maker) living in Boston, Franklin was the 15th of 17 children. Franklin left school at 10 and began an apprenticeship in his ...

  7. Mar 13, 2024 · Who was Benjamin Franklin really? Franklin, starring and executive produced by Academy, Emmy, and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Douglas, is n...

    • 2 min
    • 4M
    • Apple TV
  1. People also search for