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In reply to the discussion: Supplies of cognac have been loaded onto the vessel using strictly traditional methods... [View all]eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)5. And it cost France dearly ...
During the war, France shouldered a financial burden similar to that of Great Britain, as debt from the American Revolutionary War was piled upon already existing debts from the Seven Years' War. The French spent 1.3 billion livres on war costs. When the war ended, France had accumulated a debt of 3,315.1 million livres,[19] a fortune at the time.
The debt caused major economic and political problems for France, and, as the country struggled to pay its debts, eventually led to the Financial Crisis of 1786[20] and the French Revolution in 1789.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_costs_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War#France
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Supplies of cognac have been loaded onto the vessel using strictly traditional methods... [View all]
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
OP
Looking at the picture in the OP, it is too calm for those few yards of sail to be doing much.
-none
Apr 2015
#31
We need more of the spirit of "liberty, equality, fraternity" here in the USA. Love this pic best:
freshwest
Apr 2015
#19
They have GPS of course, so somewhere we should be able to follow her in real time.
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
#34