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DDH | The Last Off Ramp
There are moments when diplomacy does not prevent a war. It merely reveals what the war is actually about. On September 11, 1776, three representatives of the Continental Congress crossed under a flag of truce to Staten Island. Benjamin Franklin,John Adams, and Edward Rutledge came to hear what Admiral Lord Richard Howe could offer a people who had declared themselves independent only two months earlier.
The setting suggested civility: a fine meal, carefully arranged surroundings, and polite conversation among gentlemen. Beneath it lay an impossible divide. Howe could offer pardons, but only…
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