Excerpt from America's Foreign Policies: Past and PresentIn 177 5 the liberty-loving colonists raised the Standard Of revolt against the mother country. The Odds against them were over whelming, only the prospect of securing outside aid gave any real promise Of success.France was the logical ally. Humbled to the dust by England in the recent Seven Years' War, she was thirsting for revenge and for the restoration Of her-prestige and power. What could be sweeter than to ruin England by helping to liberate the richest and most desirable part Of her colonial empire?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.