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To: shibumi

They haven’t won a war since Napoleon.


8 posted on 01/17/2010 12:24:31 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: RedStateRocker
"They haven’t won a war since Napoleon."

They surrendered twice in WWII?

Once to the Nazis and again to the U.S.A.?

yitbos

11 posted on 01/17/2010 12:31:01 AM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: RedStateRocker
Sorry, wrong. They beat Austria in 1859, Russia in the Crimea (more forces in the Crimea were French than English), and the First World War is a French victory. Remember the commander of the coalition was Foch.

The defeat of the French armies has never been caused by the cowardice of the poilu, but some bad generalship.

19 posted on 01/17/2010 5:42:25 AM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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