[vooch]

This article omits the rather large presence of French and Italian battlefleets in the Austrian breakup of the anti sub barrage. They outnumbered the Austrians in cannon weight by far.

Yes - WWI was won by Doughboys.

The English were responsible for such wonderous achievements like the multiple attempts at national suicide at the Somme, the drunkerds failure at Gallipoli, more insanity at Ypres, Paschedaele, failure after bloody failure.

Sorry but standing doggedly while one gets slaughtered like sheep isn’t heroic it’s stupid. And this English seem particularly predisposed to celebrating their defeats as some glorious event.

It’s a odd way of thinking.

[Chainmail]

You seem to have a thing about the Brits. Their horrific loses in the Somme and Paschendaele and Gallipoli and others were sustained because of flawed tactics and poor leadership - not because of any lack of courage. They rightly remember and celebrate the salutary bravery of their men, as they should.

We "won" because they and the French held the line all by themselves on the Western Front against the Germans, while we waited for three and half years before we decided to weigh in.

No need to get snotty about the contributions of the English.