Ka cika wannan magana: Bayan nasarar da aka yi a Yorktown, rundunar sojojin Faransa ta tafi West Indies a matsayin wani ɓangare na shirin mamaye mulkin mallaka na Jamaica na Britaniya. A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1782 a
Yaƙin Saintes, rundunar sojan Faransa ta sha wahala sosai kuma 'yan Burtaniya sun kama de Grasse. Dukansu Faransa da Birtaniya sun fahimci wannan nasara don mayar da ikon Birtaniya na manyan teku. Tun 1779, sojojin Allied sun kewaye sansanin Birtaniya a Gibraltar. A shekara ta 1782, wani babban hari na Faransa da Spain a Gibraltar ya kasa, kuma ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka aka sauƙaƙe sansanin. Wannan ya gabatar da babbar matsala ga Vergennes, kamar yadda yarjejeniyar kawancen da ya yi da Mutanen Espanya ta yi wa Faransawa alƙawarin ci gaba da yaƙi har sai Gibraltar ta kasance ƙarƙashin ikon Mutanen Espanya. Rashin samun iko da Gibraltar na iya tsawaita yaƙin har abada.