Enlightenment ideals propagated by the French were influential in causing the American Revolution, and the success of the Americans inspired the French Revolutionaries. ... While not recognized as a 'cause' of the French Revolution, it is clear that the U.S. move for Independence from Britain changed history.
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The South was fighting a defensive war. The confederates prefer a defensive doctrine to defeat the numerically superior Union forces and to invite foreign powers especially Great Britain in their side thus winning the war against the Union forces in the American civil war.
