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    Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
    Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
    Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
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    Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It

    Written by Larrie D. Ferreiro

    Narrated by David Colacci

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    In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie D. Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts, Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded. France and Spain provided close to the equivalent of $30 billion and 90 percent of all guns used by the Americans, and they sent soldiers and sailors by the thousands to fight and die alongside the Americans, as well as around the world. Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781681683195
    Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It

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      he role of the French and Spanish in American independence. So trans-Atlantic it hurts—but it’s a new angle for me on the Revolution, which is really about how it fit into Continental power politics and often about how frustrating the French (and to a more limited extent the Spanish) found the fractious colonists, who could help them only if they committed to independence.