This political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and originally published in The Philadelphia Gazette on May 9, 1754, represented colonial disunity preceding the French and Indian War.
This reproduction of a cartoon from December 1776 depicts a meeting of Parliament during the opening months of the American Revolution. Lord North is on the left-hand side of the cartoon. A map of North America, top left, bursts into flames to the astonishment of the presiding officer.
<p><span class="deck"> Or, a dogged attempt to assemble a most remarkable company—the famous survivors of the battle lost by a British general on the Monongahela. Everybody who was anybody was there, from George Washington to Daniel Boone. Everybody, that is, but B. Gratz Brown</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It started with jaunty confidence and skirling bagpipes. Five days later it had turned into one of the bloodiest and most futile battles ever fought on American soil.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck">More than two decades before the Revolution broke out, a group of Americans voted on a scheme to unite the colonies. For the rest of his life, Benjamin Franklin thought it could have prevented the war. It didn’t, but it did give us our Constitution.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The largest army ever assembled in North America at the time attacked the French at New York’s Fort Carillon, with disastrous results.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">250 years ago, Major Robert Rogers and his rangers launched a daring wilderness raid against an enemy village, but paid a steep price.</span></p>
