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>>> Tell me, how easilly could we have liberated ourselves from England without France's help?

Funny, I don't remember that part where U.S. "students" repaid them by overrunning the French embassy, and holding their staff and dependents hostage for more than a year. Sort of recall the U.S. getting involved in a war we didn't need any part of in 1914 and being drawn into another in 1941. (A leading French conservative recently remarked the France did not need to be liberated in 1944, they had worked out an accommodation with the Germans that worked well for both parties and did not need or welcome U.S. intervention. Which is exactly what Eisenhower said at the time.)

The US prevented the Soviet Union from overrunning Iran (and the Middle East) in the 1940's through 1991. France was acting in its own self interest in 1783, the U.S. out of self interest in the second half of the twentieth century. An Aussie who was in the same dormitory told me that older Aussies, remembering that the Japanese Navy got close enough to bomb Darwin, used to say "Thank God for the Yanks". Everyone in Europe and the Middle East should face Washington five times a day and say a prayer of thanks that they are not citizens of a Soviet republic.