How do I keep France out of the American Revolutionary War?
I know the French were keen to get back at Britain after their North American empire was lost not long beforehand, but I'm doing a timeline where the United States breaks apart not long after it was formed (the American Revolution only just succeeds and doesn't go as well as OTL) and I was thinking that keeping the French out of the war may help the situation/enable some other things I want to do with the timeline.
I think that without French help, the Americans would have found it A LOT harder to win the revolution than what they would with French help (even if they still had Spanish and Dutch help like OTL), but I cant find a way to keep the French away.
Thanks heaps