french military victories

[Ben Kenobi]

The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.

I suppose crushing all opposition in Europe for 15 years is considered a loss?

Napoleon came very close to winning Waterloo, especially considering the worthless Dutch allies of the British.

[Drake Tungsten]

More crap. Carthage lost 3, for starters.

Romans and Italians are not the same...

[GePap]

The utter and complete ignorance of ths man who wrote that long post is easy to see from his take of the Thirty Years War: France achieved most of its diplomatic objectives during that war and came out stronger than before.

But of course, rabid francophobia verging on rabid racism is appallingly common in the US today.

[Sten Sture]

of course it is ludicrous! It is from a humor page for godsake!!

What did you think it was, a scholarly piece??

[GePap]

The sad thing is that many take it as given, even if it is from a humor page. Don't underesatimate the utter stupidity of many people.

[ravagon]

Lol@Sten

Somebody posted it in the sdc5 suggestion thread a while back but its still entertaining.

http://www.strategypage.com in the funny section.

[axi]

If a country were never to lose wars, it would have conquered the world.

And the French won the battle of Poitiers, stopping the Arabs from taking Western Europe.

Now the Celts, that's a nation that's lost every single war it fought. Arthur didn't change that, nor did William Wallace.

[Sten Sture]

ravagon - strategypage is how I saw it too, though I'm sure being caught visiting that website could get me kicked out of San Fran. Don't tell anyone, please!


GePap - point taken. I will state for the record here that I love France, and all of the French people that I have met, and a relative used to be the Ambassador to France, so Go France!

[Kramerman]

World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

Ouch!
...but true...

[Kingof the Apes]

That is hilarious.

[orange]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

More crap. Carthage lost 3, for starters.

Romans and Italians are not the same...

Papal states and Italians are not the same thing

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by GePap
The sad thing is that many take it as given, even if it is from a humor page. Don't underesatimate the utter stupidity of many people.

Nobody ever accuse GePap of having anything resembling a sense of humor.... Geez some people

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by axi
And the French won the battle of Poitiers, stopping the Arabs from taking Western Europe.

Arabs in Western Europe?

SUPPLY LINES!

[Az]

the muslims were established in spain then.

it is conceavable that they'd take A PART of france, but not all of it.

In any case, they wouldn't be able to hold it for long.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Azazel
the muslims were established in spain then.

it is conceavable that they'd take A PART of france, but not all of it.

In any case, they wouldn't be able to hold it for long.

It's still going across the Mediterranean, unless it was entirely Spanish Arabs who were attacking. Supply lines would still be a problem.