Creating the United States

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Franco-American Alliance under Attack

Franco-American Alliance under Attack (041.02.00)

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The alliance of France and the United States had already produced the pivotal victory of the war at Yorktown, Virginia, when a British satirist published this belated pictorial attack. This etching shows a rattlesnake, representing the United States, giving a basket of frogs to a Frenchman. A short verse advises Britain to use the peace negotiations to drive a wedge between France and America.