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When even [[Benjamin Franklin]] could not persuade the French king to give the American revolutionaries further material assistance, Washington prevailed by sending his own aide-de-camp to Versailles—and by prayer. | When even [[Benjamin Franklin]] could not persuade the French king to give the American revolutionaries further material assistance, Washington prevailed by sending his own aide-de-camp to Versailles—and by prayer. | ||
[[File:Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States'', Howard Chandler Christy (1940)]] | |||
== The Constitutional Convention == | == The Constitutional Convention == | ||