The Masonic plot to create the USA could not have succeeded without Franklin's diplomatic prowess, as England had the most powerful military force on the planet at the time, and only focusing the ire (and assets) of her enemies on that rebellion enabled enough might to oppose that tyranny.
What is remarkable to me is that rebellion sparked a global, or at least European, revolution, or perhaps better described as an evolution, of governments into republics from monarchies over the following century. Franklin didn't just scrabble funds for American independence, but set the course of European transformation to liberal democracy that ensued.
Of course, Franklin didn't do that on his own, but used the Masonic covert society that had spread across the feudal imperium and covertly infested every fiefdom and principality. Because of this covert nature of most of the negotiations behind his successful diplomatic campaign, history has no record of most of the critical persons and sources of support contrived by Franklin. The reality is that Franklin sold the nascent Confederation of independent states in America (which was the form of the USA then envisioned) like a high class whore on a street corner to private fortunes as a business and profit generation scheme.
On that particular, America well delivered opportunity to dodge the parasitic nobility that then dominated European financial markets, enabling private capital to invest and avoid the burden of taxation. The 3% tax on tea that famously is claimed to have inspired American revolutionaries to dump tea into Boston Harbor was symbolic of the transformation of finance free enterprise offered the European fortunes.