. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... land was alienating the Americans by hertreatment of them. Choiseul conceived thehope that, by offering the Americans freetrade with France, they would be made toresent the course of England even moredecidedly. When the Revolution began the FrenchGovernment was fully prepared for it, andwas ready to avenge the loss of Canada byaiding the new republic in its efforts to throwoff the authority of Great Britain. It wasmerely waiting to see whether the Americansw
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... land was alienating the Americans by hertreatment of them. Choiseul conceived thehope that, by offering the Americans freetrade with France, they would be made toresent the course of England even moredecidedly. When the Revolution began the FrenchGovernment was fully prepared for it, andwas ready to avenge the loss of Canada byaiding the new republic in its efforts to throwoff the authority of Great Britain. It wasmerely waiting to see whether the Americanswere able to maintain the stand they hadtaken. The news of the defeat on LongIsland, the loss of New York, and the retreatthrough New Jersey, filled the friends ofAmerica with serious alarm, and it was gen-erally believed in Europe that the Americanswould not be able to withstand the superiorforce of the mother country. In the early spring of 1777 it was knownin Europe that the American army, which. OBVERSE. SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES. REVERSE. Great Britain would ultimately cause theirseparation from her; and ten years beforethe war began the Duke de Choiseul, theprime minister of Louis XV., had sent BaronDe Kalb to examine and report the state offeelings of the colonists towards Great Kalb was a shrewd observer, and furnishedhis government with ample proofs that Eng- it was supposed had been driven in hopelessdisorder over the Delaware without themeans of continuing the war, had suddenlyrallied and beaten a force of veteran troopsat Trenton, and again at Princeton, and hadrecovered New Jersey from the enemy. Thisintelligence produced the most profoundastonishment in Europe, and was received in THE YEAR 17;;. 413 France with genuine satisfaction. TheAmericans were extolled as a race of heroes,and the prudence and good generalship ofWashington were spoken of with the highestpraise. The French Government now felt justifiedin aiding the patriots,but it proceeded withcaut
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