U.S. intelligence specialist James M. Potts shows how covert French
military aid changed the course of history by enabling the
rebellious Americans to hold off the forces of George III, most
notably in the pivotal battle of Saratoga in October 1777. Potts
probes the actions of Louis XVI's government in secretly providing
vital arms and ammunition to George Washington's forces-and
much-needed subsidies to the Continental Congress-in the critical
early years of the American Revolution, 1776 to 1778. Drawing
heavily on contemporaneous French government archives and other
historical sources, Potts brings to life the colorful leading
characters in the drama: French Foreign Minister le Comte de
Vergennes; Vergennes's principal agent, the playwright
Beaumarchais; Lord Stormont, King George's ambassador in Paris;
Benjamin Franklin, the wily American Commissioner in Paris; and
numerous perpetrators of high intrigue on land and sea. Highly
effective British counterespionage operations, whose American
agents had penetrated Franklin's mission in Paris, even intercepted
his letters to the Continental Congress. Joining the Americans
openly in 1778 in their war against the British, France moved e
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