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• While Franklin was Minister to France, he enlisted the Spanish to provide
financial aid to the Americans during the Revolutionary War. Franklin later
refused to give up the Mississippi River to Spain as a way of repaying the
Spanish for their help during the war.
• In 1783, Franklin attended the signing of the preliminary articles of the
Anglo-French and Anglo-Spanish armistice.
• In 1784 Franklin was elected to membership in the Real Academia de la Historia
in Madrid.
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