People+in+the+Revolution

media type="custom" key="7765131" __//**Benjamine Franklin**//__
 * //__Flora MacDonald__//**
 * //Flora MacDonald grew up on Hebrides, windy islands in Northern Scotland, was remembered as a hero of American Revolution, but she was on the wrong side. Flora was committed treason twice but her enimies still adore her. In her early twenties she met Charlie Stuart, she helped him escape in a desguise as her female servent. Charles escaped to France but Flora imprisoned in "The Tower of London" and faced execution. Her bravary stories, which were so fascinating that released her. Flora, her husband, and their six children joined several thousand Highland Scots. When the revolution began Flora and her neighbors sided with the King.//** **//They feared that the second Act of Rebellion would lead to their deaths. Flora was able to leave to go back to her hometown, Scotland, because she charmed a North Carolina officer into getting her on a British ship. She soon retired and while she lay dying she asked to be burried wrapped in one of the sheets the Prince slept under in 1746.//**
 * //Benjamine Franklin was born January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachuetts. He had 17 children. He// //was sent to Boston's Latin school when he was 8, with a view to being trained for a theological career, but only stayed there for a year. His father then sent him to a school for writing and arithmetic. At 10, he was taken out of school to assist his father in his business. Since he was fond of reading and customarily spent any money he could get hold of on books, it was decided that he should become a printer. Prior to retiring Franklin had already begun his experiments with electricity, and he was now able to devote more time to them. The electric battery was not invented until after Franklin died; so he was never able to work with an electric current. However, he managed to sort out many of the mysteries of static electricity that had puzzled people for ages.// //Franklin spent his last years in Philadelphia, and gradually became infirm. Towards the end of his illness, his daughter remarked that she hoped he might live a while longer, to which he replied 'I hope not.' He died aged 84 in Philadelphia, Pennsyhlvania on April 17, 1790.//**