America forgets the French connection

TO those Americans engaging in that tired old game of France-bashing, does October 19, 1781, mean anything? This is the ultimate French connection.

It is the date that Americans, liberated by French money and military power, stood side by side, flanked by 22,000 French troops, and watched the defeated British army under Gen Cornwallis depart the American colonies with their tails between their legs.

Do these same France-bashers not remember that it was French money and weapons that armed the Continental Army; that it was the French general Rochambeau who delivered arms and training to the Continental Army, and struck the crucial blows that allowed Americans to achieve their ultimate goal of freedom and independence?