OT: How The HELL Did They Do It?

[Riccardo]

Garcon Green

Man I gotta get photoshop on the new computer..

[IronEagle]

Man I gotta get photoshop on the new computer..

Hahahaha. What has been taking you so long?

[Eagle Road]

And if they would have LOST? They would ALL have hanged for treason, NO?

[Melchior]

And if they would have LOST? They would ALL have hanged for treason, NO?

Shut up.

[common wealth]

Thank the French

[slag]

Le bwah!!!

[Eagle Road]

Shut up.

LOL, I should have guessed history and fact would have overwhelmed some on here.

[IronEagle]

Thank the French

Touché!

[DEERSPINE GUY]

THEY GAVE THEM FOUR LOCO AND THEY CRASHED OUT ALL DRUNK, SPLIT THEIR HEADS OPEN AND.................

[RSE]

[Kelly Green]

Bull

Find me one Frenchman who participated in the debate over the Declaration or the sessions that produced the Constitution.

As for the army, von Steuben was the one who made soldiers out of the farmers at Valley Forge -- not the French.

[RSE]

Interesting, interesting that you could choose to glorify the one German who assisted the colonists when the rest of his countrymen were allied with England (after all, the Hanovers were German) instead of the colonists' allies the French.

But then, you always did have a soft spot for Shollenberger.

P.S. And if you knew the answer to the question in your initial post, then why did you start this thread?

[DEERSPINE GUY]

I THOUGHT IT WAS............



IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE WON THE WAR!

[IronEagle]

This French guy helped out a little.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert...s_de_Lafayette

[RSE]

In the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), France fought alongside the United States, against Britain, from 1778. French money, munitions, soldiers and naval forces proved essential to America's victory over the Crown, but France gained little except large debts.

Benjamin Franklin served as the American ambassador to France from 1776 to 1783. He met with many leading diplomats, aristocrats, intellectuals, scientists and financiers. Franklin's image and writings caught the French imagination – there were many images of him sold on the market – and he became the image of the archetypal new American and even a hero for aspirations for a new order inside France. The French goal was to weaken Britain, both to keep it from getting too powerful and to exact revenge for the defeat in the Seven Year War. After the American capture of the British invasion army at Saratoga in 1777, and after the French navy had been built up, France was ready. In 1778 France recognized the United States of America as a sovereign nation, signed a military alliance, went to war with Britain, built coalitions with the Netherlands and Spain that kept Britain without a significant ally of its own, provided the Americans with grants, arms and loans, sent a combat army to serve under George Washington, and sent a navy that prevented the second British army from escaping from Yorktown in 1781. In all, the French spent about 1.3 billion livres (in modern currency, approximately thirteen billion U.S. dollars) to support the Americans directly, not including the money it spent fighting Britain on land and sea outside the U.S.[1]

French aid proved vital in the victory of the Americans seeking independence from Britain. The U.S. gained much territory at the 1783 Treaty of Paris, but France – after losing some naval battles – fared poorly there. It did get its revenge and made a new ally and trading partner. However the high debt France accumulated was a major cause of the French Revolution in 1789, and subsequent Quasi War between Revolutionary France and the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_...olutionary_War