I don't think that's true, France was itching for revenge after the thrashing she got in the Seven Years' War and she waited until Britain was distracted by a minor insurrection in 13 of Britain's 26 North American colonies and then plunged the blade into Britain's back.

However, the cost of France's North American adventure and the European war that resulted tipped her parlous economic state over and resulted in the calling of the Estates General in 1789 to raise money, which resulted in a revolution, which finally resulted in the result of the revolution being put down permanently on 18 June 1815.

But you are right about the home front, those bleeding-heart liberals in their coffee clubs in London, not to mention a scurrilous media and the usual leftwing, effete, intellectual pundits crying crocodile tears about the rebels constituted another stab in the back.

Also, too many British commanders, like Tarleton, were pussies. If sterner measures had been taken from the first, the whole thing would have been over by 1777.

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