Answer:
The correct answer is C. France supported the colonists because it wanted to reduce British power.
Explanation:
The Anglo-French war took place from March 1778 to September 1783 and involved the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of France with their respective allies.
The conflict originated from the outbreak of the contemporary American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies of the North American continent: France's goal was to weaken England, prevent it from becoming more powerful and thus take revenge for the defeat it suffered in the Seven Years' War. After the American capture of the invading British army in Saratoga (1777), and after the French Navy was rehabilitated, France was ready. In 1778 France recognized the United States as a sovereign nation, signed a military alliance, and created coalitions with the Netherlands and Spain, which kept Britain without a significant ally to help it.
The Anglo-French conflict developed mainly in a series of naval actions between the respective fleets, fought as much in the waters of the English Channel and in the eastern Atlantic as in those of the Caribbean, while a French army was landed on the North American mainland to bring help to the rebels of the Thirteen colonies; from 1782 a French fleet was also sent to the waters of the East Indies, where the British were engaged in the second Anglo-Mysore war in India. After various vicissitudes, the conflict ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on 3 September 1783: France obtained some small territorial gains and other economic concessions, advantages which, however, did not compensate for the heavy financial expenses incurred for the war. The financial disruption arising from the Anglo-French war was then among the causes of the subsequent French Revolution.
