The history is there. You are attempting to give credit in the Revolutionary War to a nation that fought the Seven Years War (French and Indian) to subdue the English colonists and establish dominion if not hegemony over the Colonies. The French lost that fight.
traité de Paris 1763, the British took over the french colonies, it wasn’t enough, they burnt houses and deported the French colons
So then the American Revolution.
Where were the French at Boston?
Where were the French at New York?
Where were the French at Trenton?
Where were the French at Princeton?
no, tea party was yours ! but anything that could undermine the Brits was welcome for the French
Did the French fleet even attempt to stop the English armada sent to put down the revolution? No. Did they raid the English supply ships? No.
Cheesapeake is a successful blocus, as well the divertion in the Caraibeans, that prevent the english armada to get along the eastern american coasts
Were they at the mall? Damn near..sunning themselves in the Carribean. Their entire fleet.
sunning ? have you read how many died of sunning ?
When Washington’s Army was marching barefoot through the snow at Valley Forge, where were the French? Providing food and supplies..NO
why then that the history books mention Yorktown as the decisive battle ?
until there, the american army was kinda heteroclite and unprepared
Time and again the French hedged, waiting for another chance to establish hegemony if the Brits were weaken and withdrew and the Colonials were spent.
no, it wasn’t in the alliance treaty, but having a revenge on the Brits was quite a joyful dream
The French finally showed up at the end, way past the date they had promised when they saw Washington was going to gain the final victory. Yes, Washington liked the Marquis de Lafayette but Washington knew how to dig trenches prior to Lafayettes arrival at Yorktown.
umm, not quite !
The French response was swift and powerful. Washington retreated to his hastily erected Fort Necessity and awaited both reinforcements and a French attack. When the French attacked on July 3rd, Col. Washington had only 284 men fit for duty. By evening, in a pouring rain, with a third of his men dead or wounded and their powder wet, it was clear that the English position was untenable. The French offered terms, and Col. Washington surrendered. The French now, for a time, were masters of the Ohio country.
http://www.fortedwards.org/gwpage.htm
would you still pretend that he was such a good tactician ?
The French as a whole were opportunists who blew their opportunity because they had bankrupted themselves attempting to do what they couldn’t do then and can’t do now …fight and win. The history is there. The French were on the margin and even then reluctantly.
no, we had the same rights to be in America, this was a war against the english preheminence, that we unfortunately lost, but your people whose culture was anglo-saxon did quite a good job to eradicate what was french
I must say that Virginia still kept some remembrance for french help, La Fayette got a placee, idem for Louisiane…
otherwise the Anglo-saxon settlers made sure that the French that complied and that accepted the dominent rules, forgot the french culture and the french language
