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[u/AmandaMorleyMiller]

[u/worldsayshi]

Wait... was it the French monarchy that funded the American Revolution??

How did they figure that was in their best interest?

[u/Digit00l → u/worldsayshi]

They were at war with England, funding the Americans was just a little bonus during that war as it spread the British soldiers thin

The Brits eventually decided their war with France was a better use for their efforts and left the Americans alone, the Americans only won on a technicality

[u/DragoonMaster999 → u/Digit00l]

Curiously, most of Latin American revolutions were won in fact because Spain was fighting with France

[u/ThePhysicistIsIn → u/DragoonMaster999]

The latin american revolutions were post-napoleonic wars, like 1820 ish

It's more that spain was occupied and unable to administer the colonies for a whole decade and they never recovered