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>>Or we could have the real history which is not the >>stereotypical version. I mean, what this book >>contains is common knowledge and is what the rest of >>the world outside the USA learns at school. The >>French bailed the yanks out big time, the British >>didn't send much of their actual army, largely >>conscripts and mercenaries and when they did grant the >>USA its independence they kept the land with the good >>resources (new foundland) themselves and left the >>states with pretty much barren and useless land, which >>fuelled the advance into the west. The only time >>America came close to going up against the actual >>professional British army, was during the war of 1812 >>after the British had defeated Napolean. At that >>point as the Napoleonic veterans headed over to >>America, the USA requested peace and lost the war, >>before even actually facing them. The historical >>scrore for US vs Britain is 1 all. And the US's >>victory was more Britain vs France anyway. >> > >Two things to add to this, first of all don't forget >to add Spain to the equation who were smarting over >the loss of Florida a decade or so earlier. The other >item is about France. The Revolutionary War was just >one more battleground in the long eighteenth century >antagonism between Britain and France. Britain of >course had surprisingly beaten the French out of North >America in the Seven Years War 1756 - 1763. The French >were humiliated by being beaten by a smaller, upcoming >nation and were looking for anyway to get their >revenge on Britain. Getting involved in the >Revolutionary Wars was just such an opportunity. >However, their dabbling in this rebellion would >actually sew the seeds of their own destruction. They >spent so much on supporting the American rebels and >building their Navy up that they would fatally stretch >their tax base. They did not have access to the >sophisticated banking system that had bankrolled the >British victory in the Seven Years War. They had to >rely on direct taxation to finance themselves. It is >no exageration to say that the French support for the >American Revolution would lead to their own Revolution >a decade later as the government strained to pay the >price for the humiliation of their old enemy. > >Let them eat cake!
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