I'm not disagreeing, but think about it: It's like trashing somebody's army, then strutting around using all of his stuphz! I'm sure
@Bottom Hat would approve
Fun fact, with the french helping with the American revolution, and building a long lasting friendship, we sent a few goodies.
One of them was the metric system. To free you from the Brit system. Sadly, the dude from the "Academie Nationale" had his ship captured by the Brits, and the poor guy died in jail in England. As such, you never got the metric system.
Doubly ironic, since the Brits eventually, and for once, did the right think and adopted the metric system.