Secret American Revolution Peace Conference! If the British were so powerful why did they do this?
In September 1776, British forces in America suddenly paused their attacks on General Washington's forces and requested a Peace Conference with the Continental Congress. If they were so powerful, why did they do it? Maybe they weren't as strong as they wanted everyone to believe.
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What was really going on with the British Command and Parliament? And why would the Americans humor them with a meeting on Staten Island?
The conference report can be found in Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume 5, 1776, page 765. Available here: https://archive.org/details/journalsc...