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"After issuing an appeal to the public, police arrested Chiengkham 'Cindy' Vilaysane, 31, who was taken into custody on suspicion of child endangerment, child neglect and being under the influence of controlled substances.
The child wandered away from Vilaysane while they were in the Riverside store together on Sunday.
When another shopper brought her daughter back to the her, Vilaysane said to 'just leave her', according to police.
Vilaysane then continued her shopping, checked out at the cashier's desk, and exited the store without her daughter.
The girl was found around 5pm at the Food-4-Less on Van Buren Boulevard, unharmed but alone.
Vilaysane's social media pages list her as being 32 years old and say that her daughter's name is Danica.
She posted a number of loving photos of the two together, but posted on March 2 that she was 'ready to leave whenever' with her 'husband to be'.
Vilaysane also has an older daughter, who lives with her father, police said."
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justin holmes
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As any American student can tell you, Independence Day in a nutshell was the rebellious, teen-aged colonies finally having it out with their overbearing mother country. And France helped too.
It's probably more helpful to look at the war through the lens of the power struggle between France and England. The Revolution was, in many ways, more of an episode in their drama, as opposed to an earth-shaking event, in and of itself.
The Revolution took place on the heels of the French and Indian War — one of the theaters of the Seven Years' War between the two European powers.
That North American clash provided a prelude to the Revolution, launching George Washington's military career and prompting a victorious but cash-strapped England to raise taxes on its colonies.
France's eventual decision to dive into the fight on the side of the colonists was a chance for payback.
That being said, it's understandable why the American Revolution is a bigger deal in the US than other countries— it is our history, after all. Plus, it's probably fair to say that the rebellion, along with the spread of the Enlightenment, sparked future global changes, including the French Revolution. "
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Myths of The American Revolution
France began providing arms and ammunition as early as 1776 (the war started in 1775). In early 1777, months before Saratoga, the French sent American colonists 25,000 uniforms and pairs of boots, hundreds of cannons, and thousands of muskets -- all stuff that the colonists would've had a hard time surviving without, and all stuff they had no access to on their own. And that was just the tip of the iceberg: From supplies to advice to military reinforcements, France exercised all the fiscal restraint of a drunk businessman at a strip club when it came to funding the American war.
France provided a whopping 90 percent of the rebels' gunpowder. Let that sink in for a second. Without France, the entire American Revolution would have devolved into a bunch of dudes swinging their muskets as clubs within weeks.
Still, the most important French contribution to the revolution (or, if you're British, their ultimate dick move) was the least visible to Americans. As mentioned, the reason France pampered the Patriots was always selfish. They were out to weaken the British forces -- particularly their naval strength -- in order to take the fight to them, perhaps even conquer them. That's why, for much of the Revolutionary War, the British ships tasked with kicking America's ass had to survive 12 rounds with the French navy before they could even think of crossing the Atlantic. France gleefully fought the British, eventually teaming up with Spain, declaring a war, attacking from all sides, and even setting up an invasion force. In those battles, America's independence was a fart in the desert.
So, when the Colonial army was fighting for dear freedom, history books tend to conveniently forget that they did so with French money, equipment, and backup forces, while France and its other allies were busy pummeling the empire from every other side.
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The Myth
The American Revolution is an 18th century David and Goliath tale. The Americans defeated the mightiest army of its time -- a force that was vastly superior in every way, except for their love of freedom.
The Reality
When war broke out, the Colonies boasted a population of 2.5 million. Even with just a third of them actively supporting the revolution, and just, say, a quarter of them able-bodied men, the British still had a hell of a crowd to contend with ... especially when you consider the fact that just 40,000 British soldiers were expected to subdue them. That's 40,000 soldiers facing 2.5 million people, spread out over thousands of miles, each of them a potential enemy until proven otherwise.
Colonists never, ever faced the fearsome British army of the late empire. For the most part, the field armies tasked with suppressing the rebellion were softened units that hadn't seen combat in a decade. As for asking for backup, no matter how belated: There was none to send. In 1776, the total manpower of British military might reached 96,000. That was their entire worldwide strength. With these men, the British were fighting the Patriots, while holding Caribbean possessions, while manning their stations at Gibraltar and Minorca, and Ireland, and Gold Coast territories ... and defending England itself.
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