This Month in the American Revolution: France Becomes Ally, Treaty of Paris Ends French and Indian War

From the American Battlefield Trust.

FEBRUARY 6, 1778

**  The United  States and France become allies.

FEBRUARY 10, 1763

**  The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War.  The English drive the French from North America and the English national debt soars.  This led to the unpopular taxes in the colonies.

FEBRUARY 11, 1768

**  The Massachusetts Assembly  issues the Massachusetts Circular Letter, denouncing the Townsend Acts.

FEBRUARY 14, 1779

**  Battle of Turtle Creek, Georgia.

FEBRUARY 27, 1776

**  The Battle of  Moore's Creek, North Carolina.

--Cooter