Winter Storm in Wyoming / Utah

Rocheambeau, a french admiral and Lord in France committed 30,000 in silver and put up his personal lands and property as collateral in the Caribean Islands so that Washington will be able to pay his troops on the 550 mile march from Rhode Island down to Yorktown VA the 6 weeks prior to the final surrender of Cornwallis.

At that point in time Washington had zip for money. Nothing. No provisions for the army who were making threats to go home AWOL or desert. The arrival of the French silver was literally a payroll delivered to both French regiments (As normal) and to the American Soldiers, the first hard currency they saw in years. This enabled the morale to increase so they can make the foot march from RI through the combat zone of Major Deegan above what is now GWB, cross the Hudson in three places and push down into the head of Elk near Aberdeen where french ships small enough to get that far up were expected to ship them down to Yorktown.

At the time, the french battle fleet with it's ginormous haul of transports carrying artillery, livestock and other materials of war was coming out of the Caribean during the teeth of Hurricane Season to get to the Chesapeake Bay to clear the british Navy out and secure a blockade of Yorktown and pin in Cornwallis's Army, at that time in world history was one of the most lethal on the planet after destroying Greene's Army in the south and Carolina area a month prior.

Once the french landed the troops, artillery and blockaded him against reinforcement from Clinton in NYC and his fleet there that was the beginning of the end.

I have books on the floor of my bedroom that belabor the fine points of the entire revolutionary war, without which we would never be America. It was the personal fortune of the French Admiral who was extremely wealthy for his day that secured the actual coin to motivate GW's troops to actually get up and start walking 500 miles south. They say the road was covered in the blood as the feet were cut up from the trip.

I don't know about you and me, but walking 500 miles to do battle somewhere a month away is not very attractive to me. But they did it anyway. Deep down they knew they were somehow engaged in a very important adventure, one that might form a new country in which they can thrive finally free from all tyranny.

As a direct result of the indebitness, the French King and Queen's Rule was overthrown shortly after and a new Republic was born. With the old ways pernamently chopped off along with their heads. The nation itself was so indebited and absolutely broke, a few years later the Louisana Purchase money made it possible for Napoleon to begin operations in Europe. Some of which causes two particular ancestry and thier parents to find themselves in a scorched earth after 1805 with everything destroyed. Hesse Leadership in townhall made a offer they could not refuse. You had a choice to take a ticket to go to Bremen and thus get passage to America, then a new world or you got passage from Frankfort Am Main towards the Ukraine which was similar. 830000 went to Ukraine. 140000 went to America. Two of which were 20 and 22 years of age when they married a few weeks upon arrival in Baltimore. They had 5 children. Eventually about 9 generations later I come along.

You can even say that Europe has another problem. A Islamic Crusade bent on breeding children who will be raised in numbers very large to essentially breed out all European and erase their history. What they failed to do against Count Vlad coming out of Turkey with million plus and failed again in Hungary when the Constantinople empire itself failed prior to world war one preserved Christianity in Europe.

We have been witnessing about two millions plus flooding into all Europe specifically into the richer lands like Norway, France, Sweden etc to escape the destroyed lands from decades of war and terror. It is a form of religious crusade for them as well.

I expect Europe to be lost within a hundred years and leave Russia Isolated. But China and Russia are working on that problem.

 

Great this sounds like a business venture. Nothing else. I do not owe France a red cent. Once again France did not build the United States of America!
Are you going to give your citizen up and move to france? That's all you!

 

Andre the Giant...born in France

 

I am explaining our history as influenced by France so that we may build America. We built it. And here we are 200+ years later.

I have no interest in going anywhere. I die here.

If anyone wants to get into the hardline patriot side of the discussion and cause this thread to lock, have at it. Im pretty hard core when it comes to our Freedoms.

 

Do what you want. I just felt upset because the USA is the only country every other country wishes they were more like.

 

Hugs? It's ok.

 

...the French...

Sheesh! I make one little joke and look what happens.

 

Hey man chill out..the French have bad ### euro-muscle cars like the Citroën.

 

The only car I know that had air ride. I drove one for a while. Best ride of any car, hands down. Definitely not a chick magnet, which is wierd. You would expect the French to make chick magnets.

 

Yes, I would like to live in fear of being another victim to gun violence. Yes, I would like to live in fear and keep my house locked at all times, even when I am home. ( see “Bowling for Columbine”)
Yes, I would like to live in a country that above all, profits and executive salaries trump workers well being.
But definetly would rather drive I-10 at this time of year than up here.
It was -35c (-31f) yesterday morning.