What do you call the French Navy ?
Chicken of the Sea.
Never understood that French coward thing. Any military man with even a passing knowledge of French soldiers won’t be saying that.
The Brits surrendered Singapore to a Jap force they outnumbered three to one. The Brits fled France in WWII at Dunkirk and called it a victory. In WWII the British channel islands surrendered without firing a shot and maintained cordial relations with the Germans. recently the Brits Navy surrendered to Iranians within VIEW of their destroyer that did nothing.
In WWI French soldiers fought to the absolute limit and suffered far more dead than the Brits, yet we never hear the end of Flanders fields, poppies, etc etc.
In WWII the French Army lost roughly what we did in Vietnam in 6 weeks, 60,000 dead, 200,000 wounded, and they inflicted 49,000 German dead.
They were outclassed by modern German tactics, but they fought damned hard.
I’m trying hard to find an example of French military cowardice, but am finding none.