Frace helped the united staes after the 911 incident
Some thought war was too drastic. They thought "wait a second, let's not do something crazy here. Let's just try to work with Britain to get our rights back, instead of overthrowing the whole thing and establishing our own thing. That's just too much." Some thought that we would lose the revolution (which, in all honesty, they had good reason to think that) and didn't want to upset Britain.
Because they believed that everything they were put in a tomb with would end up with them in the afterlife, and the more elaborate their tomb, they would live a more luxurious life in the afterlife.
The Continental army of General Washington were camped in the Valley Forge in 1777 - 1778. There was no war in the valley yet it was here that the troop had almost quit. They were here blood, war - beaten, and batle - weary.
