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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Fluffy; The French didn't "Publicly" Support....there's a big difference in covert and overt support. France was at war with Britain at the time and the idea of covertly supporting an upriseing was appealing becuase it could draw troops away from France. It's why Britain hired Hessian mercs to fight in the Revolution...though ironically, by the end of the war 8,000 of the orginal 12,000 Hessians were fighting for the US.
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France was not at war with Britain in 1776' dude.
Your entitiled to your own opinions not your own facts.
The Revolutionary War, began as a war between Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.
France did not declare war until 1778' & Spain and the Dutch Republic—French allies also entered war at this time.