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To: Emperor Palpatine
When Admiral Howe’s British fleet showed up, Admiral DeGrasse FLED with his numerically superior fleet.

DeGrasse was a great seaman and fighter. E.G., His actions prevented the British from shipping in more troops and supplies at the battle of Yorktown, enabling Washington and Rochambeau to force a British surrender..

As the Revolution wore on, your typical continental soldier carried a French musket, powder and shot, wore a French-supplied uniform and boots, slept in a French-supplied blanket, even ate French rations. Artillery: French. Our Army units, modeled on the French.

Rochambeau, the French Army Chief in our Revolution, to which France also sent over 10,000 troops, was also a master strategist ... which old George was sometimes not. Lissen, the Frogs had a couple of bad centuries, and we bailed them out in WWI and II, but they are the US'oldest, if not constant, ally. There is even a well-founded theory that the money they spent on us, and the taxes they raised to get it, ruined the French Monarchy and led to THEIR Revolution!

And, they are plenty brave, just sometimes unlucky. Very good Navy. Very good Air Force. Very good Army. Of course, getting them to use force on our behalf is sometimes difficult ... as with any other ally.

39 posted on 04/05/2008 8:40:23 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Double Domestic Crude Production. Increase refining capacity 50 percent)
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To: Kenny Bunk

U.S. Marines train with French Marines in Horn of Africa desert

http://www.hoa.centcom.mil/Stories/Aug06/20060803-002.html


52 posted on 04/05/2008 9:00:04 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Kenny Bunk; LS; Jeff Head; Southack; Emperor Palpatine; HAL9000

Maritime/historian ping re: the French alliance with the USA.


86 posted on 04/05/2008 8:23:28 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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