On this day in history, Sept. 27, 1779, John Adams assigned to lead peace talks with England
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John Adams was assigned the duty of negotiating peace with Great Britain in 1779, two years before George Washington's victory at Yorktown gave the envoy a position of strength.
"When I reflect upon the importance, delicacy, intricacy and danger of the service, I feel a great deal of diffidence in myself." "These are the times in which a genius would wish to live." — Abigail Adams The Treaty of Paris represented a powerful personal triumph for John Adams. Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
The New England patriot, who at the Second Continental Congress passionately implored the other colonies to join Massachusetts in its revolt against the crown, had just returned from his first mission to Paris when he received word of the new assignment that would send him back overseas.