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To: Brooklyn Attitude
"Be sure to subtract the thousands of French casualties suffered to free America from the Brits..."

989 French killed in our revolution is a flea on an elephant's balls compared to our losses in WWII-France...

The Army Extracts section of the SF booklet lists the 989 French soldiers who were reported as dying in U.S. theater of operations during the American Revolution (the 990 circled below is in error). About 25% of these died during in the 1778-79 operations (under D'Estaing) and about 75% died during the 1780-83 operations (under Rochambeau).

IAC, the French were here to get revenge for their prior loss to the English in the Seven Yeats War...

15 posted on 06/29/2023 12:44:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: SuperLuminal; A strike

“989 French killed in our revolution is a flea on an elephant’s balls compared to our losses in WWII-France...”

You guys are missing the point. Without French support we very likely would not have won our independence from the Brits. Maybe you don’t think that was worthy of some gratitude.


17 posted on 06/29/2023 2:10:32 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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