The Franco-American Alliance 1778 (In Our Time)
1778 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaties France entered into with the United States of America in 1778, to give open support to the USA in its revolutionary war against Britain and to promote French trade across the Atlantic. This alliance had profound consequences for all three. The French navy, in particular, played a decisive role in the Americans’ vi
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Around 1778
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)