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Think You Know the Revolution?

Question of the Week:

Hint: Historians debate whether recognition requires official state action—or whether a public gesture can have significant impact and, for all intents and purposes, be tantamount to recognition.

What is widely accepted by historians as the first international recognition of America's independence?

A salute to a ship flying the American flag at the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius on November 16, 1776

Silas Deane's official meeting with the French Foreign Minister comte de Vergennes on July 17, 1776

When France became an official ally of the American states on February 6, 1778

When Benjamin Franklin met with Emperor Joseph II of the Habsburg Empire in Paris on May 28, 1777