from an email
“A no-fly zone in Libya has been in the news. Recall some history; back in 1781, at the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia, George Washington won the Revolutionary War because the French fleet blocked the British fleet from rescuing General Cornwallis. This was a No-Sail Zone. The French seem always up to this sortie thing.”
France’s no-sail zone saved Washington and us Americans.
Mais que non y oublierait pas du brave Rochambeau et sa armée de 10,000, les manteaux français, les chaussures, les pantalons, les mousquets, le poudre, les cannons, les rations, et l’argent et crédite française! Vive la France, la premiere alliée des Etats Unis!