I guess if I have one reason to hate the French it is because they got involved in one of are colonial wars I wont mention the colony it is not that important.
They massed troops and ships on there coast forcing us to deploy are best troops in Britain, they used the French fleet to stop us outflanking the colonial army.
Any way an ally is an ally
Cheers Tony
And you believe the reasons for their loss would be what?
There was an excellent article in Command magazine, Issue #22...you might be able to find it at a wargaming shop somehwere. The article went into areas of World War II that were really under-researched--it was more along a set of questions than a set of detailed answers to those questions. One thing that the author was curious about were patterns of behavior: for example, why the Imperial Japanese Navy could manage to be quite competent at the tactical level, adequately competent at the strategic level, but quite INcompetent at the operational level once the war was on in earnest--planning operations that required the Americans to act in the fashion that the Japanese plan needed to succeed, that sort of thing.
The pattern of behavior he observed with the French is that they fought as best as they were able against the Americans, the British, and the Australians--in fact, they turned in a quite credible record against all comers except the Germans and the Japanese. Again, it's not the question of an isolated incident, it's a long-running pattern.