that could become a welcome trading partner. However, the trade never materialized, and in 1793 the United States proclaimed its neutrality in the war between Great Britain and the French Republic. Some historians argue that France primarily sought revenge against Great Britain for the loss of territory in North America and India from the previous conflict. But Jonathan R. Dull states that France intervened because of dispassionate calculation, not because of Anglophobia or a desire to avenge the loss of Canada. See also Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda Benjamin Franklin Bache Edward Bancroft William Carmichael Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg Edward Edwards, British spy Franco-American alliance William Franklin William Temple Franklin Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval Rodolphe-Ferdinand Grand, banker, along with his brother Georges, to America Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius Ralph Izard John Jay John Paul Jones Anne-César de La Luzerne Louis-Léon de Brancas, comte de Lauraguais Henry Laurens John Laurens Antoine Lavoisier Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir Jean-Baptiste Le Roy Louis-Guillaume Le Veillard List of French units in the American Revolutionary War Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas André Morellet Antoine de Sartine David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, The Viscount Stormont Paul Wentworth Lambert Wickes References Notes 2008 English Bemis, Samuel Flagg. The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1935) Brown, John L. "Revolution and the Muse: the American War of Independence in Contemporary French Poetry." William and Mary Quarterly 1984 41(4): 592–614. Issn: 0043-5597 Fulltext in : Jstor Brecher, Frank W. Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance. Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. xiv, 327 online Chartrand, René, and Back, Francis. The French Army in the American War of Independence Osprey; 1991. Corwin, Edward S. French Policy and the American Alliance of 1778 Archon Books; 1962. Dull, Jonathan R. A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution; Yale U. Press, 1985. Dull, Jonathan R. The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy 1774–1787 (1975) Kaplan, Lawrence S. "The Diplomacy of the American Revolution: the Perspective from France." Reviews in American History 1976 4(3): 385–390. review of Dull (1975) in JSTOR Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette Comes to America 1935 online; Lafayette Joins the American Army (1937) Hoffman, Ronald and Albert, Peter J., ed. Peace and the Peacemakers: The Treaty of 1783. U. Press of Virginia, 1986. 263 pp. Hoffman, Ronald and Albert, Peter J., ed. Diplomacy and Revolution: The