Talk:Holy Britannian Empire/@comment-45.30.216.112-20180712031735/@comment-2602:306:3780:2CA0:1512:8C94:1236:FC0D-20180922035824

I have to agree with the part about Benjamin Franklin being bribed. There is some indication, that C.C. might have been involved as well. Though as a disgruntled argument between both George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

To that extent, it is unlikely that Benjamin Franklin would have betrayed a nation to get back at George Washington. More noteworthy is that Benjamin Franklin had extremely little reason to back an Absolutist Monarchy. In the Real World History, he was actually having censored by British leaders when he went to air complaints from the American Colonies and to hold talks to keep them as part of the British Empire.

Instead, he became one of America's greatest Founding Fathers once he returned. There was also no reason to suggest that the British could have 'inflicted a crippling defeat' on George Washington at Yorktown. Both sides were too evenly matched in numbers, even without the French.