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Adam and Easter wrote in message <34EF91...@SPAMotn.net>...
>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.
>


Come on now, Adam, you are not supposed to confuse these Americans with
FACTS. They know they are the center of the universe and that the world
revolves around them. Facts will only shatter what they have grown up
believing.
--
Willy
...King, I didn't know we had one.
  I thought we were an autonomous collective!
                      Monty Python