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The "History Channel" is run by idiots with no historical education. Even their so called staff contributor "historians" sound rather dumb...
The British Navy sank the French ships with a good reason - that they could conceivably tip the balance against the Royal Navy...
The U.S. Navy was also fighting a low intensity naval battle with German U-boats by that time, so it wasn't long before we got into the war one way or another...