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Gee, and this has a rather pendantic and overly-self-important tonal
quality as well.... definitely not funny.




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.
:
:Adam
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