"You know our policy. We don't discuss our policy. We of course support revolutions raged by the peoples of the world, but we don't send a single soldier abroad. The revolution of any country must depend on the people of their country. That was the case with George Washington, in your eight-year war of independence. Of course, at the time you had the assistance of the volunteers of Lafayette; they were not troops sent by the State of France."—Zhou Enlai, 1972
Answer: After the British left the city in March of 1776, Washington sent in a force of 1,000 smallpox-immune American troops to occupy Boston in order to avoid further spread of the disease.
