How the French saved America : soldiers, sailors, diplomats, Louis XVI, and the success of a Revolution /
Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America. To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even be...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: December 18-28, 1775
- Part I. A mutual courtship
- Part II. Approaches and retreats
- Part III. Making the connection
- Part IV. Together: first steps
- Part V. Together: struggling through
- Part VI. A triumph and a fare thee well
- Epilogue: 1783-1844.