"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:38:45 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
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"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:48:44 +0100, Skysurfer wrote:

ArtKramr wrote :

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's
because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so
you would not have to speak in German."

Who helped USA to get its independence from UK ?
Enough said.

The French were at war with Britain, they were an absolute
monarchy that had no interest in US independence. They were
simply trying to fight the British (at York town).

The French did not win Yorktown, Alan.

That was Green and his 300 iron cannon.

Without that, Washington surrenders at Yorktown, to half the English
fleet.

You are correct. I never said that the French "won" Yorktown, I merely
alluded to their motive for being there.

What you wrote is a no-sequitur and revisionist history.

The one thing the French point to WRT their friendship with America is that
America has never been at war with France. This whole affair is more like
an old married couple having a spat.