There was never a good war or a bad peace.

Franklin's famous cartoon, Join, or Die.

In an effort to promote Unity among the colonies, Benjamin Franklin penned and then published this cartoon in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.

The colonies were at odds as to whether to engage the French and their Native allies over the land west of the Appalachians in what would become known as the French and Indian War.

The cartoon came to take on greater significance as the Revolutionary War approached and has lasted as one of the most enduring images in our Nation's history.

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The image and information above is drawn from Wikipedia.