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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1700831, member: 26302&quot;]Yes. We had no Navy, so the British could have always retreated to their ships even if we had cornered them on land. Yorktown, the last major battle of our Revolutionary War, was where US and French troops, (mainly US though), cornered the British. The French fleet happened to be nearby, and was able to keep the British from access to their ships. Hence the British had to surrender.</p><p><br /></p><p>The French Marquise de Lafayette is a true US war hero.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said though, even though we do owe the French a debt of gratitude, (which some may say was repaid in WWI and WWII), the French did it as part of a larger global campaign against the British, and not any special love of the US. In fact, a few years later the French Revolutionists quoted the US Declaration of Independence extensively, so it didn&#039;t work out very well for Louis XVI unfortunately. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, the US used to have a special love of France for all she did for us. I wish we still did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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