Show ROCHAMBEAU'S US U'S OPEN HAND The Debt Our Nation Owes to a Famous Famous Fa Pa- Frenchman Americans of ot today are too apt to forget the great debt due from this nation to France for the aid given to our ancestors during the Revolutionary war It was not nol only emily the individual l services of men like the Marquis de Lafayette Baron de Kalb Kaib and Gen nor the tho invaluable aid of the season seasoned d veterans under Count de Rochambeau and the powerful fleet of twenty eIght ships of the line under tinder underCount er Count de Grasse In addition to this France furnished the sinews of war from the want of which the cause of liberty h had bad d suffered guttered more more- than from the want of men I Ih Even after the arrival If er Of the French troops In Philadelphia when the combined armies were preparing to march t to the aid of ot Lafayette Washington found that the men men- of ot the Northern regiments were dissatisfied and protested against being moved t l td the South A A. large part of the troops had not received any pay for tor j. j long time and had occasionally given evidence of great discontent The service upon which they were going vas ws disagreeable disagree able and the douceur of a little hard hardmoney hardmoney hardmoney money would have the effect Washington thought of putting them In the proper temper In Inc this emergency he was accommodated by the Count de e Rochambeau with a a. loan of which being distributed among the different regiments and anti otherwise used for the relief of the distresses of th tile American soldiers had the desired effect The pecuniary pressure was relieved by the arrival In Boston of Col John Laurel Laurens Lau Laim rel rens rena from his hie mission to France bringing with him two and a half halt million of livres In cash being part of ot a subsidy of six million of lines res granted by the French King |