主题：【文摘】北美独立战争: 美国人编出来的神话 -- 李根

the importance of French assistance. Actually, it is widely believed that without the diplomatic effort of Ben Franklin in Paris and the French money, gun, navy support, the independence can never be won.

French king did not fully commit until the success of Saratoga battle.

France intervened because it wanted to revenge for its failure in the 7-year's war (also called French Indian War in the American textbook).

Many Chinese do not know it because the selective translation by some Chinese authors. In New England, most Americans know and acknowledge the French assistance in their final independence. I had several interesting conversation with local people on the "French Indian War".

BTW, lots of places are named after the French in the State of NY, Vermont and New Hamphsire.