One against thirty, is that fair?

Speaking of the relationship between France and the United States, aside from the universally known story of George Washington, the founding father of the United States, there was another chapter of history that the French were unwilling to mention: the time in the early nineteenth century when the Americans took advantage of France's misfortune and seized her vast colonies.

This event occurred only a few decades after the War of Independence. France, which had just helped the Americans win their independence, was threatened by them and forced to sell 2.6 million square kilometers of land in North America for the absurdly low price of 15 million US dollars.

What did 2.6 million square kilometers of land mean? Mainland France covered roughly 550,000 square kilometers. The land the Americans seized while France was in trouble was about five times the size of mainland France.

This history became an everlasting pain in the hearts of the French. Added to that was the fact that Louis XVI had staked the kingdom's entire fortune on supporting the Americans, causing the French impression of the United States to plummet overnight.

It was hardly an exaggeration to say that most French politicians avoided this chapter of history. It was a wound second only to the Franco-Prussian War.

Now that France had a chance to take advantage of America's misfortune, the French naturally would not let it pass. After reaching an agreement of interests with the United Kingdom and Australasia, France actively prepared for war, ready to carve a hefty chunk from the United States.

Although France had suffered tremendous wounds in the previous World War, to the point that French society as a whole had become timid,

that depended on whom they were facing. Before a country like the United States, whose military strength was not