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We look at the factors that drove France to join the American Revolution despite the obvious ideological problems with a divine right monarchy supporting a revolution.
For France this was an opportunistic war, with the seemingly perfect chance to humiliate the ancestral enemy. And as Louis XIV put it, the wars were all about who could control the Indes trade.
Rather than the usual coverage of French involvement in the 13 colonies, we cover the sugar trade, war int eh Caribbean and the Armada of 1779 and the Spanish defeat at the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
France made a serious bid to conquer the British sugar islands in the Caribbean, the attempted invasion of Jamaica is covered, which was ended by the Battle of the Saintes.
We also cover the Armada of 1779, yet another attempt to invade Britain.
And what lessons did the French learn from this war? What did the British learn?
