To: El Gato
Napoleon was Corsican, Captain. Italian, actually.
France's last truly successful general was probably Charles Martel.
20 posted on
04/15/2006 11:20:51 PM PDT by
BIGLOOK
(Order of Battle: Sink or capture as Prize, MS Media)
To: BIGLOOK
France's last truly successful general was probably Charles Martel. Except of course, France didn't even exist back then.
34 posted on
04/16/2006 2:43:07 AM PDT by
BMCDA
(If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it,we would be so simple that we couldn't)
To: BIGLOOK
"France's last truly successful general was probably Charles Martel."
Or Charlemange who had many more victories but none as memorable as Martel's at the battle of Tour's.
49 posted on
04/16/2006 7:06:38 AM PDT by
joebuck
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