THE FRENCH COME, THE FRENCH GO
Hope and Despair

In England, Parliament repealed all legislation and taxes that had led to The Revolution … but it was too little, too late! In Paris, Benjamin Franklin won the critical alliance with France in the spring of 1778. Near Monmouth, New Jersey, Redcoat forces were forced into retreat by Washington's rejunevated army! Finally, a joint American-French victory seemed at hand as the two allies converged on the British at Newport, Rhode Island. The French, however, abandoned the Continentals in a severe storm and sailed away. America was again on her own.