In the big scheme of things, the United States is a rather young country.

Yet during its history, it has managed to declare war on a shockingly large number of European countries,

including Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Yet through all the turmoil,

there is one country the US has never gone to war with.

France.

Except for that one time when we sort of kind of did. France. France without actually going to war with France on the Battle of Yorktown, I noted how the United States owes its independence to France.

If it weren't for the support of France during the Revolutionary War, the American colonist probably would never have won.

Granted, France wasn't doing this out of the kindness of their heart,

and it was really more a case of my enemy's enemy is my friend,

but nonetheless, France's help was vital in the cause for independence.

However, it wasn't generically France that assisted the United States, it was the King of France. All of the aid given to the

colonists was done by the Aensian regime, which is the name given to the

system under the French monarchy. In return, the newly independent United States, who had just broken free of their king,

served as an inspiration for the revolutionaries in France, who just a few years later started

a revolution of their own. You'd think that these two new republics would be great friends,

given how much they had in common.

There were French supporters of America, like the Marquis de Lafayette,

who actually fought in the continental army.

And likewise there were Franco-files amongst the American founding fathers, including Benjamin Franklin

and Thomas Jefferson.

Both revolutions had similar intellectual roots, and there were almost no major issues of contention between the two countries, given how far apart they were from each other.

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