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Arthur Lee (1740-1792), by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1785. Lee was a successful pamphleteer for American liberties who, in 1775, became the London correspondent of the Continental Congress. He coordinated a strategy of resistance to Parliament with representatives of other colonies. During the Revolutionary War, he was one of three commissioners who negotiated the vital alliance with France in 1778. Empowered with his brother William to procure arms for Virginia, they were circumvented by Jacques LeMaire, who obtained the swords displayed below. |