French military victories
 

Go to google.com and search for "french military victories" and click on the first link.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...tary+victories

-Rudey

Re: French military defeats
 

That is as funny as this thread's title! :D :D :D




This is also funny:

http://www.binarystorage.net/clients...cs/frenchy.jpg

With all due respect to any French Persons onboard...That's pretty damned funny.

ETA both of them. I had only seen Rudey's when I posted.

That's pretty funny.

I'm not a French military history expert, did anyone win anything besides Napoleon?

I think they won the 100 year war.

Charlemagne was a winner as was Charles Martel (turned back an invasion from North Africa).

Could be. After that long, they were too bored to write it down.

and the French revolution....but that's only becuase they were fighting other French. So, i guess that could be called a draw, huh?

Kitso
KS 361

The magazine above missed out on another new piece of French Airborn Technology...

It's a special new parachute.

Opens on impact.

(OK, so that was originally a Polish Joke. No offense is meant to anyone -- this could be told with any nationality)

I thought they lost the 100 yr. war, they did fight the british, right?

No, they won.. They were getting their butts kicked by superior English technology (like the longbow). Then Joan d'Arc came and rallied them to victory. Until that time, Brittany northwestern france was really part of the English kingdom.

Here's a link to some maps:


http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/hy...00yw.maps.html

Um, Napoleon was not French, he was Italian.

Try Corsican.

You're both right. He was born in Corsica in 1769. France had annexed Corsica in 1768. It had previously been an Italian state. His family was Italian nobility.

http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/REV/NAPOLEAN.HTM

He won some battles, but lost the "Napoleonic Wars".

I still maintain the last time the French could really claim victory in a war was the 100 years war. You might also be able to make an argument for WWI. The Germans did take most of France but they were held at the Seine.

I would say that the French were successful during the the 16th and early 17th centuries and the various wars of succession. They were one of if not the leading great power during that time.

I was also going to argue that they could have also claimed victory in the American Revolution. They commited troops to the fight, used their navy to attack and blockade the British, on top of launching attacks on other British possessions (forcing the British to stretch out their military). The French even convinced the rest of main-land Europe to recognize the fledgling United States and impose economic penalties on British goods.... also don't forget were the peace treaty was signed: Paris.

The documentary that I saw made no mention of Italy.

It is called, "The Corsican Brothers"

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/ima.../47/192147.jpg

They certainly helped, but it's grasping to say they won.

How about if we say that they have been on the winning side in every war they have participated in on the US side. That's assuming we can agree that the French were totally out of the Indochina (Vietnam) war by the time we got in seriously.

The time they oppossed us, The Franch and Indian War, we won. As I recall, they also aided the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Have I missed any?

As much as I hate to admit it, the French and Indian war was a side show to the real war in Europe. The reason that I argued that they could claim victory in the American Revolution was the fact that they had a vastly greater number of military resources commited to the world-wide military conflict that the American Revolution was a part of/touched off. Also it was the French who ultimately brought the British to the table to sign a peace treaty.

As for Indochina, yeah they were gone before the US commited even advisors.... but most of the troops weren't even French, there was a large number of German veterans filling out their ranks.

This reminds me of a joke email I received some time ago about supposed surplus French rifles.

The tagline I remember more than anything: "Never fired, dropped once!"

Or, the world's shortest book:

"French War Heros"

Yes, the French were at Time a Power?:confused:

That was before there were real people!:rolleyes:

The Great Powers whe Sea Fare: England, France, and Spain!

The Great Armada, got their asses Kicked and degraded from there! Napeolean, a Sicilain, tried to do battle, Got his ass kicked at Waterloo oh, was in Belgium. He got money for the Loiusianna Purchase which added 1/3 of the country of USA! Spain Lost Florida.

Did back the CSA and Lost on that one When The CSA Lost the Civil War of the United States.

Oh lest I forgert, Layfaette who led a French Contingent during the Rev War against England!


Oh The French Indian War, Da!

The Maginot Line, Sh*t Germany said Ya Stupid, lets just go around it!
Oh, On And On! Parliey Francee' not a comment on my part!

Before the Revolutionary War.

History once again proves itself, War Solves Little!:(

Hi I am Tom, I want to Kill You! I dont think like you do!:eek:

Tom, you should write a book on revisionist history :D

Can I help?