"How France Helped Win the American Revolution" Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Jun 2019 4:14 p.m. PST |
"When 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin boarded the Continental sloop-of-war Reprisal in Philadelphia on October 26, 1776, for a month-long voyage to France, Gen. George Washington's Continental Army was losing the American Revolutionary War. The hope and excitement spawned by the Declaration of Independence, announced just four months earlier, with Franklin among the signers, had been replaced by the dread of impending defeat in the face of the overwhelming military power of the British army. Franklin knew his mission was straightforward, if not simple. He would use his intellect, charm, wit, and experience to convince France to join the war on the side of the fledgling United States of America. Franklin's popularity, persuasive powers, and a key American battlefield victory were crucial factors that led France to join the war in 1778…"
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| Brechtel198 | 17 Jun 2019 4:52 a.m. PST |
And without the French, the US would most likely have lost. The Continental Army and the French were the two main reasons the US won. And the two indispensable Americans were George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.