Franco-American Plot to Invade Britian


	Franco-American Plot to Invade Britian

countryboylife

10-3-2009 8:06 AM

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britain, usa, france

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Isn't it enough America bows the Knee to the Emperor Napoleon by driving on the wrong side of the road?

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Drawn up by a French general, the scheme was to bring over an American force 
of 10,000 that would find a Britain so distracted by the war on the other 
side of the Atlantic, that victory would seem certain. Just to make sure, 
however, the general suggested that the force include a corps of Native 
Americans, or “<I>sauvages</I>”, as he termed them, who would strike 
such fear in British troops that any resistance would collapse immediately.
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In 1779 a Franco-Spanish attempt was mounted to invade the Isle of Wight, 
taking advantage of the British fleet spread between America and the West 
Indies, but the force was blown off course. Jeremy Black, a professor of 
history at Exeter University, said: “It is fantastical, in terms of the 
technology but ... completely mad — there is no way they could have made it 
across the Atlantic.
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