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| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2018 1:13 p.m. PST |
…. in Revolutionary France An intersting Reading….
"Historians have long recognized the vital contributions of French soldiers and officers to the American colonists during the American Revolution. Without the assistance of the approximately one hundred French officers who enlisted
directly in the Continental Army and the ten thousand French expeditionary troops dispatched to North America between 1779 and 1783, it is doubtful that the colonists would have triumphed in their rebellion against British rule. In addition, the close contact with American republicanism that those French soldiers underwent likely played a role in disseminating revolutionary ideas in
France when they returned.2 Yet despite the vast body of literature comparing and contrasting the American and French revolutions and exploring the influences of the first on the second, scholars have afforded little attention to the natives of the United States who, bringing full circle the contributions of French soldiers to American independence, served in the armies of revolutionary
France…."
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