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Samuel de Champlain was born in 1574 in the province of Saintonge in France. He became a Catholic when he was a young adult Champlain’s first travels were in Spain and the West Indies. From 1601 to 1603 he was a geographer for king Henry IV, after that he joined an expedition to canada made by Francois du Pont in 1603 they sailed to the St. lawrence and Saugenay river and explored the Gapse peninsula therefore arriving in Montreal. Champlain was not important person in the expedition but proved to be useful by making uncanny predictions about a network of lakes and other geographic features of the region. Given his usefulness on the previous voyage Champlain was chosen to be a geographer on a voyage to Acadia led by Lieutenant General Pierre Du Gua de Monts. They landed in May on the southeast coast of what is now Nova Scotia and Champlain was asked to choose a location for a temporary settlement. He explored the Bay Fundy and the Saint John River area before selecting a small island in the St. Croix River the team spent the winter there. In 1608 Champlain was named lieutenant to de Monts as the set off on the St. Lawrence River. They arrived in June 1608 in what is now Quebec City. It became the hub for fur trading. In the following summer Champlain fought in his first major battle against the Iroquois making a hostile relationship that would last for centuries. In 1615 Champlain and the french aided the Hurons in a battle against the Iroquois, but they lost Champlain was hit in the knee and was unable to walk. When he returned to France he was embroiled with lawsuits and wasn’t able to return Quebec. So he spent time writing about his journeys. In 1632 the French and British signed a peace treaty making Quebec the Frenches land. By this time Champlain's health was failing. He died in Quebec on Christmas day in 1635



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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the tenth child out of seventeen children. His father was a candlemaker and a soap maker one of the lowliest of the artisan crafts. His father’s name was Josiah Franklin and his mother’s name was Abiah Folger who was the second wife to Josiah Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin’s father wanted him to become a preacher, so Benjamin Franklin went to grammar school when he was only eight years old. When Ben was in school he wanted to become a sailor, but his father did not want him to go on long voyages because one of his older brothers was a sailor and never returned from the voyage.

Ben loved school very much, but he was not very good at arithmetic. He did not care though. What he really liked was reading. Ben could not remember when he learned to read he just knew how. Ben loved books because they took him so many places and they told him so many things. Books were not very common in the 1700s, but Ben’s dad had some religious books. Although they had no pictures and the words were long and peculiar Ben still loved them. Sometimes A friend of a family would lend him a book to read or on a rare occasion his father would give him coins to spend over a book. When Ben bought a book the pages would be ripped stained and tattered, but he did not care. Ben loved history books, science books, travel books, fiction books, and biographies.

At age ten Ben stopped school. Ben spent his valuable free time improving his writing skills. A little while after Ben started working at the print shop he wrote a piece of poetry. Ben’s first piece of poetry was called “The Lighthouse Tragedy.” It was about a sea captain and his family who drowned in the storm. Ben’s second poem was about a pirate named Teach. Ben’s father said that his word choice was plain awful. When Ben studied the poems again he realized his father was right, but what could he do about it. He was not in school anymore. Ben decided he would teach himself. He just needed to figure out how. Ben soon figured out a way. He read a chapter or two from a book. A few weeks later he remembered what he wrote and wrote it down in his own words. His never matched up to the original, but he knew the faults could be corrected. Gradually Ben’s writing improved.

For three years Ben struggled all alone, reading everything in order to become a better writer. He was sure that he was getting better, but by how much was hard to tell. Soon Ben became a better writer and one of the most famous americans today.

Internet Sources: [|__http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/__] [|__https://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin-faq__] [|__http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/franklin.htm__]

Encyclopedia source: [|__http://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Franklin__]

Book Source- The Story of Benjamin Franklin