Yes, you are correct, but quite incomplete. The French surely helped, but only after decisive American victories. France was already more than broke in 1763 after after England blew them away in the French - Indian war and won Canada a few years before that. If it was not for those early American victories, a very popular, savvy Benjamin Franklin and the French so vengeful of the British, we would not have had French help. To me there was a whole lot more than French aid that factored in to victory.
I am a patriot and I was taught this and more in school. You ?
Bailed us out ? To think that is short of the truth.