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French aid to American Revolution fuels US independence
Beaumarchais and Vergennes devised a covert French supply network via Hortalez et Compagnie, shipping armaments and gunpowder to America. Franklin and the American mission won broad French backing after Saratoga, leading to the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Alliance, with French soldiers and ships aiding Washington's forces.
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France
Great Britain
Vergennes
Royal Arsenal
Washinton
Beaumarchais
Britain
Paris
Roderique Hortalez Et Compagnie
Spain
America
United States
Hortalez Et Compagnie
Royal French Arsenal
Europe
Continental Congress
Arthur Lee
Silas Deane
Benjamin Franklin
Lee
Deane
Franklin
Voltaire
Passy
Boston Independent Chronicle
General Burgoyne
Saratoga
Massachusetts
Conrad Alexandre Girard
Philadelphia
Boston Gazette
Jameston
New York
Lewis
Louis XVI
Monsieur Gerard
Congress
Washington
Valley Forge
NEW Jersey Gazette
Trenton
Isaac Collins
American Antiquarian Society