Was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in India?
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Vs. France was not so careful with its gold (or less able to squeeze the maximum military advantage from each Louis d'or), and the crushing cost of that war led to a fiscal crisis which precipitated the French Revolution in 1789. King Louis XVI's head was chopped off in 1793. (U.S. President George Washington, a local hero of the American Revolution, was very careful to proclaim - and enforce - neutrality in the French Revolutionary Wars between Britain and France.)