Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ƙungiyar soja ta fara da talauci. Faransanci Admiral d'Estaing ya tashi zuwa Arewacin Amurka tare da rundunar jiragen ruwa a 1778, kuma ya fara haɗin gwiwa tare da Janar John Sullivan na Amurka don kama wani sansanin Birtaniya a Newport, Rhode Island. D'Estaing ya dakatar da aikin don fuskantar rundunar jiragen ruwa na Birtaniya, sa'an nan kuma, duk da roƙon Sullivan da Lafayette, ya tashi zuwa Boston don gyarawa. Ba tare da goyon bayan jiragen ruwa ba, shirin ya rushe, kuma dakarun Amurka a karkashin Sullivan sun yi yakin basasa kadai. Fushin Amurka ya yadu sosai, kuma an kashe ma'aikatan jirgin ruwan Faransa da yawa a cikin tarzoma ta Faransa. Ayyukan D'Estaing a cikin wani mummunar hari
a Savannah, Georgia ya kara lalata dangantakar Faransa da Amurka.