History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0766 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The French Alliance
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The idea
France, still smarting from defeat in the Seven Years' War, supplied gunpowder, money, soldiers and naval forces that the anchor calls decisive in the defeat of Great Britain.
In practice
Lafayette arriving in seventeen seventy-seven as a volunteer and serving as Washington's aide-de-camp.
Where people slip
Spain joined against Britain in seventeen seventy-nine without recognising American independence until seventeen eighty-three.
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