9 years and 4500 Dead Americans

[Beest]

Originally Posted by SamIam

No one freed us from colonial rule but ourselves. We appreciate our liberty the more because of that. Let others do the same.
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I'm not great student of American history but, I understand there was a significant contribution by a foreign military power in the Revolutionary War. I don't know if it's considered that the colonists would have succeeded without French assisstance.