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Brad Julsonnet wrote:
> 
> > of course your victory in the war of independance had nothing to do with
> > french help....
> 
>    Basically thats right.The French were too chicken shit to enter the war
> until they knew if the US was winning.

That statement is basically historically inaccurate. French troops were
fighting alongside Colonials from the very beginning. France had a
long-standing hostility with England and they were only too happy to
assist in giving England some difficulty. France supplied the Colonial
army with weapons that they could not get otherwise, trained the
pathetic soldiers in the army (they were mostly undisciplined farmers),
and donated food, clothes, tents, and bedding. The strength of the
French fleet in the Atlantic is the only thing that kept Cornwallis from
getting out of Yorktown or receiving the reinforcements he needed to
break the seige. The Colonials had NO Navy. France supplied one and it
proved to be absolutely essential to winning the war.

Adam
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