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To: JLS

Had it not been for their anxiety over the English, they would have stood in bed.The French became envolved in the Revolution for the sole purpose of squeezing the English financially.


37 posted on 06/07/2004 1:06:50 PM PDT by Adrastus (If you don't like my attitude, talk to someone else.)
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To: Adrastus
You have to detail out the picture of the French regarding who and why they became involved in the American Revolution.

Not quite sure "squeezing" is applicable.

For instance, there was the Noilles family who LOST the French North American fur trade when the UK took over Canada at the conclusion of the French & Indian War.

One of the son in laws, Lafayette, came back and took away a good part of that fur trade from the UK. He also recovered, in full, the deer hide trade!

The King of France had obtained a substantial chunk of his income from French North America before that war. He'd also made money from the furniture business, but his primary source of aged and pre-cut hardwood had also been lost to the UK.

A free and independent America was definitely in the commercial interest of the French.

46 posted on 06/08/2004 4:02:14 AM PDT by muawiyah
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