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History 101; Why France avoids support of America.
Gilbert du Montier was born in 1757 and his father died before he was three years old. His mom and Grandpa died before he was a teenager but his Grandpa was rich and left Gilbert his fortune.
Gil had a thing for soldiering and used some of his new found bucks to go to military school. At Sixteen Gil had achieved the rank of Captain in the school and left the school with no battles to be fought in his homeland.
?What the heck? Well, their fighting over in that new world land, America? Gilbert thought so he went out and bought himself a boat. Had to be a big boat to get across all that water so he had to hire a crew.
Now the only crew that he could find that was willing to go over there was a battle crew since America was fighting with France?s neighbor to its west, Britain. That suited Gil just fine and off he sailed.
The year was 1777 when the boat arrived in the newly declared, free nation, America but there was all those ?Red Coats? messing with the harbor and those Americans trying to make tea.
Gil got off the boat and the games began. Gil wasn?t no friend of those British characters, being from France so he got himself involved with those trouble making American guys and got to be pretty good at that soldiering thing.
The head American guy, George Washington, recognized this young punk Frenchman with those fighting troops that got off the boat with him and declared that kid a Major General. The kid became known as General Lafayette after Washington?s promotion and the games began with this twenty-one year old General.
Fighting Lafayette went from battle to battle and came out of most of those battles unscathed but those American troops were just barely getting by.
Washington had a buddy who he had appointed the Ambassador to France, Ben Franklin who kept on going back and forth to France with his hand out looking for some kind of support. The French people didn?t want to get involved in some place that they hadn?t heard much about. ?What the heck could America do for them?? they thought. Why should we spill French blood over there? After all, those British characters weren?t any threat to France just then were they.
Lafayette saw that the Americans weren?t loosing but they weren?t winning either and they didn?t have anywhere near the resources as those British troops had so the writing was on the wall for America unless someone came along to help them. Gil really liked that George guy especially after George told him that it wasn?t his blood that made him the ruler of the new country. It was the people of the country that put George Washington in the Presidents position. France, England, heck most every country in the known world had someone leading it that got there because their dad or mom was in that position before them and mom or dad had to die before they became the leader of their land.
America had this new fangled idea, of, for, and by the people. Just might work if given a chance, Gil thought but not unless they get some help so off he sailed back to France to get some help for America.
Being the rich kid on the block, back in France, Gil got into a meeting with the King. Gil convinced the king that if he didn?t help out those guys way across the ocean where they had the help of those American guys, then England just might go east and get France.
The French king became convinced and off the French fighters went while the French king sat comfortably on his thrown.
Lafayette got back to America with all those French troops who joined up with those American guys and the rest is history. Those Redcoats got their ass kicked and handed to them in a hand basket.
Should we, America help another nation being ruled by a terrorist? A nation whose people want to speak for themselves but have been silenced by their dictatorial elite?
Let our own history speak for itself.
B.T.W. Lafayette went back to France and was immediately appointed to head the French National Guard. Lafayette saw how those folks in America ruled themselves and advocated the same democratic rule in France. That pissed the King off and in 1791 the King put Gil out of any authority and exiled him.