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Why did the Continental Congress sell bonds to foreign governments during the American Revolution?

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US Debt and foreign loans, 1775-1795. During the American Revolution, a cash strapped continental congress accepted loans from France . The French government began to secretly ship war materiel to the American Revolutionaries in 1775
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