France the Enemy; France and the American Revolution.

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We look at the factors that drove France to join the American Revolution despite the obvious ideological problems with a divine right monarchy supporting a revolution. For France this was an opportunistic war, with the seemingly perfect chance to humiliate the ancestral enemy. And as Louis XIV put it, the wars were all about who could control the Indes trade. Rather than the usual coverage of French involveme...