You sound like you're about to cry and I'm going to school your ass just for the sake of it, I'm going to teach you your own history, with your "own" language I use quotes because "american", just like ebonics, isn't a language, there's only english That's right you don't even have your own language, and that's a fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War >>France's help was a **major and decisiv**e contribution towards the United States' eventual victory and independence in the war. However, as a cost of participation in the war, France accumulated over 1 billion livres in debt, which significantly strained the nation's finances. The French government's failure to control spending (in combination with other factors) led to unrest in the nation, which eventually culminated in a revolution a few years after the conflict between the US and Great Britain concluded. Relations between France and the United States thereafter deteriorated, leading to the Quasi-War in 1798. "Major and decisive" As in you would have been eradicated without the french you stupid mutt