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The Committee of Secret Correspondence was a committee formed by the Second Continental Congress and active from 1775 to 1776. The Committee played a large role in attracting French aid and alliance during the American Revolution. In 1777, the Committee of Secret Correspondence was renamed the Committee of Foreign Affairs.[1]

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Committee of Secret Correspondence

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The Committee of Secret Correspondence was a committee formed by the Second Continental Congress and active from 1775 to 1776. The Committee played a large...

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Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War

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Congress created a Secret Committee for domestic intelligence, a Committee of Secret Correspondence for foreign intelligence, and a committee on spies, for...

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Edward Bancroft

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Society of London, though he did not receive his M.D. from the University of Aberdeen until 1774. When the Committee of Secret Correspondence sent Silas...

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Founding Fathers of the United States

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Assembly and president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety. He was also a member of the Committee of Secret Correspondence and member of the Second Continental...

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United States Department of State

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on the Committee of Correspondence that was used by the colony of Massachusetts to communicate with the other colonies. The Committee of Secret Correspondence...

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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

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"Letter:  From Benjamin Franklin to the Committee of Secret Correspondence". Letter to Committee of Secret Correspondence. National Archives. Retrieved September...

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Continental Congress

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various standing committees to handle war-related activities, such as the committee of secret correspondence, the treasury board, the board of war and ordnance...

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List of American spies

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ISBN 162376422X. Franklin Ben; and Morris, Robert (1776-07-08). "The Committee of Secret Correspondence to [Silas Deane]". "Philadelphia, July 8th, 1776." "Reprinted...

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First Continental Congress

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elected in his place for the balance of the session. Charles Thomson, leader of the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence, was selected as the congressional...

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Second Continental Congress

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only after creating three overlapping committees to draft the Declaration, a Model Treaty, and the Articles of Confederation. The Declaration announced...

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United Colonies

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Declaration of Independence, which was overseen by the Committee of Five and written principally by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia over a period of two weeks...

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Minutemen

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the leaders, set up Committees of Correspondence in parallel with their fellow Patriots in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Colony of Rhode Island and Rhode...

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Francis Folger Franklin

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Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. In 1736, four-year-old...

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Congress of the Confederation

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meeting in secret all summer in the Old Pennsylvania State House, which by then was renamed Independence Hall, from the famous actions of there eleven...

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The Apotheosis of Washington

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of Washington is the fresco painted by Greek-Italian artist Constantino Brumidi in 1865 and visible through the oculus of the dome in the rotunda of the...

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Silence Dogood

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of a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. Once every two weeks, he would leave a letter under the door of his brother's printing shop. A total of 14...

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President of the Continental Congress

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powerlessness of the office of president of Congress. The president was also responsible for dealing with a large amount of official correspondence, but he...

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Sons of Liberty

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York and Connecticut, and the name of Sons of Libery was first used in Boston. January bore witness to a correspondence link between Boston and New York...

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Pierre Beaumarchais

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provisions, all of which would never be paid for. In an August 18, 1776, letter from Beaumarchais to the Committee of Secret Correspondence and under the...

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Betsy Ross flag

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presentation, Betsy Ross was merely one of several flag makers in Philadelphia, and her only contribution to the committee's design was the change in star shape...

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List of films about the American Revolution

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Below is an incomplete list of films which include events of the American Revolution. This list does not include documentaries or short films. British...

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John Locke

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Ontology. Cambridge University Press. p. 136. "The Correspondence Theory of Truth". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2020. Archived from the original on...

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Thirteen Colonies

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department known as the Southern Department, and a committee of the Privy Council called the Board of Trade and Plantations. In 1768, a specific state department...

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Siege of Yorktown

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p. 335 Davis p. 21 Davis p. 36 Jared Sparks (ed.), The diplomatic correspondence of the American Revolution, Nathan Hale and Gray & Bowen, Wikidata Q108716907...

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Haym Salomon

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Salomon is mentioned nearly 75 times in Morris's personal correspondence relating to selling bills of exchange to raise cash for the Revolution. Inflation...

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Superintendent of Finance of the United States

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in a message to a Committee of Secret Correspondence, to argue for the use of executives. Congress was open to other methods of finance administration...

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