Yep. The British did a good job of that at The Somme against the Germans, and at Gallipoli against the Turks.
As they say, “War is a series of calamities that result in victory.”
sick and tired of the French bashing. he British generals cut and ran for the beaches after the French premier said France had lost. In doing so they stranded the Belgium army as well. The French lost more troops after Dunkirk than before. Napoleon only conquered all of Europe but i guess he wasn't French, but Corsican. The French navy was instrumental in the British defeat at Yorktown. In WW1 the French generals learned quicker than the British ones. Just ask any Canadian about Vimy and Passchendaele, or Dieppe in'42. The French have a large presence in Africa today. They are all over central Africa. The French army, like the French people, were betrayed by their politicians. Unlike the Russians, they did not have the time and distance necessary to learn how to defeat the Wehrmacht. Flame away.