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Muskets Changed Course of History at Portsmouth
In early 1777 American forces faced 5 000 to 6 000 British and Hessian troops in Canada. Count Beaumarchais and Benjamin Franklin helped secure French aid, leading to shipments of 11 000 Charleville muskets and other supplies to Portsmouth. The muskets proved decisive at Saratoga and helped secure American independence. The story spotlights the American Independence Museum in Exeter New Hampshire which preserves related artifacts and offers educational programs.
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America
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Atlantic
Count Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais
Silas Deane
London
France
Louis the XV
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Europe
John Jay
Paris
Mercury
Piscataqua River
Washington
Portsmouth
Spain
Netherlands
Governors Lane
Exeter
Ladd Gilman
Folsom
New Hampshire
Independencemuseum.org
New England
Burgoyne
Saratoga