Question: The help of a global war between Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies was supplied by what founder?
Context: Hunter's Ironworks, also known as Rappahannock Forge, was a historic iron furnace located on the Rappahannock River, near Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia.  It was founded by James Hunter and was in operation by the 1750s.  With the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, it supplied the Continental Army and navy with muskets, swords, and other armaments and camp implements.  Due to its wartime significance, Gov. Thomas Jefferson ordered special military protection for the complex.  The ironworks contained a blast furnace, forge, slitting, merchant, and other mills, nailery, coopers’, carpenters’, and wheelwright shops and houses for the managers and workmen.  The iron works operations terminated in December 1782.  Some of the buildings may have been used for other purposes into the 19th century At the time of its listing in 1974, the property had 21 contributing structures and 1 contributing site; none survive today. The Restraining Acts of early 1775 were two Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, which limited colonial trade in response to both increasing and spreading civil disobedience in Massachusetts and New England, and similar trade restrictions instituted by elected colonial representatives.  With time the foment would spread to most of its American Colonies.  The first restraining act, (15 Geo.  III c. 10) known variously as the New England Trade And Fisheries Act, the New England Restraining Act, or the Trade Act 1775 (c.10), limited the export and import of any goods to and from only Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies; it also prohibited the New England colonies from fishing in the waters off Newfoundland and most of America's Atlantic coast, without special permissions and documentation, and imposed stiff penalties on both perpetrators and administrators if violations occurred.  Previously legal or finessed trade between the colonies themselves or with other nations was prohibited, and enforced by naval blockade, effective July 1, 1775.  The second restraining act, (15 Geo.  III c. 18) known as the Trade Act 1775 (c.18), similarly limited the export or import of any goods by way of only Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies for most colonies south of New England; it was passed shortly after the first, upon receiving news in April that the colonial's trade boycott had spread widely among other colonies.  Only New York, Delaware, North Carolina and Georgia would escape these restraints on trade, but only for a few months. The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775 in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies represented in that Congress.  The Congress had already authorized the invasion of Canada more than a week earlier, but the petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and beseeched King George III to prevent further conflict.  That the petition was followed by the July 6 "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms" made its success in London improbable.  In August 1775, the colonies were formally declared to be in rebellion by the Proclamation of Rebellion, and the petition was rejected by Great Britain—even though King George had refused to read the Olive Branch Petition before declaring the colonists traitors. The history of the Thirteen Colonies began in 1607 with the founding Jamestown.  British colonization of the Americas continued in the following decades with the establishment of more colonies on the present-day East Coast of the United States.  By 1740, there were thirteen contiguous colonies, each administered separately as part of the British Empire.  The Thirteen Colonies collectively declared independence in 1776 and formed a union which they named the United States of America.  This led to the American Revolutionary War, which formally ended with the signing of the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The Continental Army was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America.  Established by a resolution of the Congress on June 14, 1775, it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain.  The Continental Army was supplemented by local militias and troops that remained under control of the individual states or were otherwise independent.  General George Washington was the commander-in-chief of the army throughout the war. The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 45) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.  More than twenty representatives of several Northern and Mid-Atlantic colonies had gathered to plan their defense related to the French and Indian War, the front in North America of the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.  The Plan represented one of multiple early attempts to form a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary defense and other general important purposes." The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.  The Thirteen Colonies had very similar political, constitutional, and legal systems, and were dominated by Protestant English-speakers.  They were part of Britain's possessions in the New World, which also included colonies in Canada and the Caribbean, as well as East and West Florida. The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The Russian Empire's role in the American Revolutionary War was part of a global conflict of colonial supremacy between the Thirteen Colonies and the Kingdom of Great Britain.  Prior to the onset of the war, the Russian Empire had already began exploration along North America's west coast; and, the year following the combat's conclusion, the Eurasian empire established its first colony in Alaska.  Although the Russian Empire did not directly send troops or supplies to the colonies or British Empire during the war, it responded to the Declaration of Independence, played a role in international diplomacy, and contributed to the lasting legacy of the American Revolution abroad. Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably.  Public school systems existed only in New England.  In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
Answer: James Hunter