Solomon was an associate of Robert Morris, Washington's chief funding sourcers. Morris had run out of money prior to Yorktown and he reached out to Solomon to loan him £20,000 in order to finish the job. Your reasoning that Patriots would only fight if their funding was certain requires more sauce. I personally have examples of original pay tables from Putnam's camp in Redding, CT (where my home property is situated on a portion of the old campgrounds), known also as CT's Valley Forge, 1778-1779. Records are made of payments to soldiers, some in £ and pence, and others in provisions - clothing primarily or other camp provisons.
The French were not financing the war entirely but as a pivotal contributor to Washington's victory at Yorktown they certainly saw the formation of the US breaking away from the UK as a possible way for regaining land lost in the French and Indian War.
Solomon was an associate of Robert Morris, Washington's chief funding sourcers. Morris had run out of money prior to Yorktown and he reached out to Solomon to loan him £20,000 in order to finish the job. Your reasoning that Patriots would only fight if their funding was certain requires more sauce. I personally have examples of original pay tables from Putnam's camp in Redding, CT (where my home property is situated on a portion of the old campgrounds), known also as CT's Valley Forge, 1778-1779. Records are made of payments to soldiers, some in £ and pence, and others in provisions - clothing primarily or other camp provisons.
The French were not financing the war entirely but as a pivotal contributor to Washington's victory at Yorktown they certainly saw the formation of the US breaking away from the UK as a possible way for regaining land lost in the French and Indian War.