The problem with amateur American historians on the internet... As opposed to the professionals, who dribble drive-by snark and Wikipedia links? You could sta

The problem with amateur American historians on the internet... As opposed to the professionals, who dribble drive-by snark and Wikipedia links? You could start your remedial reading with: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolu... Other than in an abstract sense, what does the American Revolution have to do with the Postwar Reconstruction, some 170 years later? And how does that mute or counter the statement I made?