Between 1778 and 1782 the French provided supplies, arms and ammunition, uniforms, and most importantly, French troops and naval support to the beleaguered Continental Army. In 1781 the 29-vessel strong French fleet of Admiral de Grass protected the daring French-American military gamble against British forces in Virginia. The French navy transported reinforcements to the southern American army under the Marquis de Lafayette, fought off a British fleet, and protected Generals Washington and Rochambeau’s march to Virginia. With an almost evenly divided American-French Army of 16,000, Washington laid seige to 8,000 British forces at Yorktown and forced their surrender on October 19, 1781, for all practical purposes successfully ending the War for American Independence.
I guess the desire for independance makes for strange bed-fellows.
thats a rather deceptive post. That's not the same France that exists today. That was before the French Revolution. Since then there have been several French Empires, Monarchies and FIVE Republics. The annoying France is the 3,4,5th Republic.