Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son William was exiled to Britain because of his Loyalist activities during the American Revolutionary War. William Franklin, born around 1730, was the acknowledged illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin.
The Republicans were able to gain the presidency in the election of 1860 because they scored a decisive win in the north.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness
