How embarrassing for the USA:

[bucolic_frolic]

35. Yes

because of their roots, their deep understanding of history and oppression of
their ancestors, they know what it takes to lead, to be fair, to exercise power
popularly and legitimately.

The French experience in Canada is a remarkable study, from the dramatic
loss of the continent to the British on the Plains of Abraham*, a near Biblical
apocalypse to the devout French community, to the French Diaspora and
separatism that remains to this day and touches communities in the Northeastern
United States.

I have studied this because I am a tad French Canadian. Their well documented
Church archives make ancestry easy!

*The Plains of Abraham refer to the Battle of Quebec, fought on the flat farmland on the
river bank outside Quebec City. The farm was owned by Abraham Martin, thus the Plains
of Abraham. Both British and French commanders died in the battle: Wolfe and Montcalm.
No more important battle was ever fought in North America. It determined the future
political control of Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham