I was aware of that, that is why I said their support was "mostly Naval". They did a lot of work in the Chesapeake Bay area. :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 8:57 AM Subject: RE: France? > Kevin, > > Actually during the Revolutionary war France provided an army of around > 40,000 troops to assist the Continental Army in Virginia. They were largely > responsible for the surrender of Cornwallis' Army. And this was only about > 15 years after the Americans colonists were very instrumental in kicking the > French out of North America. > > larry > > -- > Larry C. Lyons > ColdFusion/Web Developer > Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > EBStor.com > 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 > Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 > tel: (703) 393-7930 > fax: (703) 393-2659 > Web: http://www.ebstor.com > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. > -- > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:06 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: France? > > > > > > They didn't provide much help in the Rev War, although they > > did provide some > > (mostly Naval). However, I didn't see piles of French > > Soldiers piled up on > > the beaches of the east coast like the bodies of US Soldiers > > at Normandy. > > Their contribution was much less than that of ours. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jochem van Dieten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 7:58 AM > > Subject: Re: France? > > > > > > > Kevin Schmidt wrote: > > > > Here it is in a nutshell: > > > > > > > > We saved their ass twice from the Germans > > > > > > If you want to dig out history, I would say that the US was merely > > > returning the favour for the support during the US war for > > independence.... > > > > > > > > > > and now they don't respect us. > > > > > > Can you give some examples of that? And I don't mean examples of > > > specific special interest groups not respecting the US > > (that is what you > > > mean by us, right?), but the mainstream French. > > > > > > Jochem > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
