After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-historyThough sometimes undervalued in wider cultural memory, almost every historian of the American Revolution acknowledges that without aid and intervention from the Kingdom of France in the conflict, independence from Great Britain was a pipe dream.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/strange-bedfellows-why-france-intervened-american-revolutionShould not then we be indebted for the help we had? And didn’t Benjamin Franklin play the same role that Zelinsky has done today with our country? The French even sent soldiers to the U.S. to fight along side us.
