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Interesting claim in the article about French artillery at Saratoga, as it was the American victory at Saratoga that kick-started the negotiations between the French monarchy and the Continental Congress that led to an alliance and to France entering the war.
I believe the artillery at Saratoga was mainly from that captured at Ticonderoga. With the English in full control of the seas off the colonies, where would the French have offloaded these shipments of artillery? That would have been an act of war, and France was not prepared to openly enter on the side of the rebels until it looked like they would be on the winning side. It is true that the French fleet driving away the English relief vessels at Yorktown insured its surrender, but they had been driven into a defensive posture at this port entirely due to the efforts of the Americans, most of all Nathaniel Greene.
Interesting claim in the article about French artillery at Saratoga, as it was the American victory at Saratoga that kick-started the negotiations between the French monarchy and the Continental Congress that led to an alliance and to France entering the war.
According to this U. S. Army historical document, British artillery at Sarasota was greater in number and of much greater power. The Americans are known to have had 33 pieces, the largest being two 9-pounders. Ten of these were of French manufacture. The British had 36 pieces, not including what they had recaptured at Ticonderoga and which were not deployed, and these included 2 24-pounders and 4 12-pounders.
Well, France tried to kill him afterall. Hi fought for freedom in Revolutionary France only to find it all go wrong in every way possible. He was an admirable man, focused on moderation and government similar to the US. What France got instead was chaos, violence, war, and eventually a police state and dictator. He endured assassination attempts in France, his house being burned down, only to finally flee out of the country and live in exile when it seemed for certain that he would have met the guillotine.
The Royalist didn't like him because he had a hand in the collapse of the monarchy in France, the radicals didn't like him because he refused to accept the ideals of an all controlling government and the excesses of violence. And today, well has France ever really comes to terms with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror? His legacy is mixed as to accept him as a hero is to condemn their own history.
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