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Few butterflies:
1. Could U.S.A. win without direct military intervention from Bourbon France? While the French liked to stick it to the British in any way they could, what if they considered it is not worth the price to send troops half way around the world to fight the British, when they could do it back home. (It is considered that THE major drain on France's treasury at the time was supporting the colonists with money, weapons, supplies and troops). As most weapons and gunpowder the Colonists used were of French manufacture, I personally don't think the Revolution would be successful without the French arming and supplying it, so again: without just the French troops fighting for the Colonists, would the Revolution succeed?
2. If France did not intervene at all, no war against the British, no money, no weapons and no supplies (so no huge military spending, government debt and crushing impoverishment of its citizens) would there be a French Revolution?
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