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Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, President Washington, along with most of our Founding Fathers, watched this chaos unfold and wanted no part of it. Both France and England wanted U.S. support. The French, because they felt that they came to our side in time of need, and the British, because they believed we had more to gain by siding with them.