Analysis Of Benjamin Franklin's Article, In Paris

Many young American students are taught that the revolutionaries of our country won independence with little help and had no struggles forming a new country. This is not true in any way. Without help from other nations, the little American militia would have been standing against a major world military power at that time. Most of our aid came from France. France did not want to help at first but after some convincing they joined on and eventually became the scale tipper on the war. The articles, In Paris, taking the salon by a storm and Allied with France the enemy of our enemy, disprove different common myths about the Revolutionary War, show two sides of the allied France, and teach important lessons about the revolution that are not taught in class. …show more content…
He was going to France to encourage them to send aid to help the hungry and untrained militia. This article challenges the myth that the Americans fought the war and won by themselves without any outside help. This is what is commonly taught to middle school students across the nation. That the farmer boys rose up and defeated a world power at that time. This all leads into the article, Allied with France: the enemy of our enemy, which shows the underlying fights in this war. England was caught between two fights of American independence and a fight for world dominance against the French. This article challenges that the French were always there to help out, shows that they had ulterior motives, and reveals that they were sometimes unreliable allies. Both of these articles were credible because they were loaded with facts to back the accusations made. Not only were they credible but they also reflected each