[Veracious Poet]

Actually, The French engineered the victory at Yorktown...without them I doubt the Continental Army would have won the American Revolution.

[Principled]

yes, they showed up in their ships and saved some arse that day.

[Britton J Wingfield]

That's why this is considered humor. It does not have to be literally true throughout all of hsitory.

I am grateful for Msr. Laffayette's assistance, but that France was an entirely different entity than the one that now bites at our ankles.

[pepsionice]

The French contribution at the end of the Revolutionary is always understated...yet if examined...their fleet being up near New York at the right time...the logistical help provided...the several thousand French troops being there for Washington...all made the difference. If no victory had occured at Yorktown...the war goes on for at least two more years and the Brits could have eventually taken the south and divided the entire country. The amusing thing...is that congress kicked the French out almost immedately and really didn't repay them at all. The French expected the peace treaty to give them Canada. They would have owned all of Canada and the Louisiana region, thus surrounding the American nation.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Actually, The French engineered the victory at Yorktown...without them I doubt the Continental Army would have won the American Revolution.

Correctamundo. We have only that to thank them for. But the French of today deserve as much thanks for Yorktown as you and I do for writing the Constitution. IOW, none at all.

[Zatanna]

"Actually, The French engineered the victory at Yorktown..."

No they didn't. The British fleet was delayed by a HURRICANE, not the French. The important French contributions came from French subjects like Laffiette and Queen Marie in the form of money and material. The most important MILLITARY contribution vcame from SPAIN who invaded Florida (A British possesion whose people supported the Revolution) with over 10,000 solders and support personel.