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2007-02-18 06:53:30 · 6 answers · asked by princess 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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France financed the American revolutionary war with money, soldiers, and weapons. In total, the continental army was 40% French from Rhode Island to Virginia. As far as money, the French spent $29 million in money valued at that time. Today, it would be almost a billion dollars. Yet most important, the French gave the Americans a high ranking admiral with a fleet of war boats, and two high ranking generals, including General Lafayette who captured the English commander in chief Cornwallis that resulted in the end of the war.

2007-02-18 07:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by mac 7 · 1 0

i imagine we would have ultimately, besides the undeniable fact that the French honestly were a decisive aspect. once there grow to be an major attempt through the colonists it would possibly have persisted till the British drained of the wrestle. honestly the reality the British were very much all for the French in the conflict of 1812 grow to be a aspect in our no longer getting our butts very critically kicked even more beneficial than they were. (keep in suggestions the British sacked and burned the Capital in that conflict.) we've a tendency to underestimate the braveness and make certain of the colonists who took the British on at the same time as they were undisputedly the most ideal and maximum helpful military in the international. yet--as has been the case regularly in this u . s .--the modern conflict grow to be no longer a properly-loved reason in England and that i doubt the regular public would have supported the attempt it would have taken to ruin the persons.

2016-12-04 08:22:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Spain and, particularly, France were principle allies. Of course, they were also quite willing to use the colonies as proxies in their long-term struggles with Great Britain.
Without the aid of the French, the war would probably have gone a lot longer and might not have been won.

2007-02-18 21:00:37 · answer #3 · answered by bdunn91 3 · 0 0

mostly the French and the Spanish. The Spanish would never had entered the war if there had not been strategic gains to be had by them. As a result the obvious focus of their efforts would be to protect current colonies and capture the British controlled Gilbralter and Minorica Islands which were on Spain's backdoor. With regular and militia forces scattered throughout South America, Central America, Mexico, Caribbean, Philippines and Spain, any declaration of War against Britain would open all of these areas to raids by British naval landing parties.

2007-02-18 07:01:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

The U.S. had many allies throughout the war, namely the French (Marquis de Lafayette), the Polish (Casimir Pulaski, Thaddeus Kosciusko) and the Spanish helped a bit as well.

2007-02-18 08:04:06 · answer #5 · answered by tk_pinna 2 · 0 0

We didn't have any "official" allies, but you could consider the French to have been on our side (General Baron Von Steuben was French and helped to develop a regimen to train new U.S. troops), but no one really played a major role in the U.S. independence (other than the U.S. and British, of course)

2007-02-18 07:06:39 · answer #6 · answered by Steve-O™ 3 · 0 3

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