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Originally posted by aznkid1008
they just cut the time alil we still would hav won.
you have got to be kidding me.
Without the french:
No guns and no supplies, therefore no ability to carry on sustained fighting. Meaning, the revolutionaries would have been throwing rocks and twigs at the British Redcoats.
No naval support, which played a huge role in the victory at Yorktown (1781), the deciding battle of the Revolutionary War.
The war was not, by any means, close to the end when the French got involved. Saratoga (1777) triggered French approval- the war did not end until 1783. Again, the key words here are "sustained fighting." Though the Continental Army was able to score one in the Battle of Saratoga, it had no means by which to carry on an extended war. The revolution with the aid from the French took ~6 more years of hard fighting- fighting that would not have been possible without French supplies and weapons.
The most important point about Saratoga, a point stressed by historians and educators around the country, was that it secured French aid- not that it was a sign of assured american fighting prowess and victory, because frankly, America was still a long ways away from any sort of fighting ability and even further away from any glimmer of hope for victory.
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Last edited by Crazydeb8ter on 03-24-2003 at 12:48 AM
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