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To: Valin; All
A interesting footnote of history, is that the French Navy did not win another naval battle until they sunk, the Greenpeace vessel, "Rainbow Warrior" in Wellington, New Zealand. But they had to be typically sneaky and French to win that one.
57 posted on 03/16/2004 8:52:38 AM PST by U S Army EOD (The last person to die for a mistake in Vietnam, should have been Ho Chi Minh)
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To: U S Army EOD
If I remember correctly, most of the french fleet in WWII was sunk by france's ally (England) in North Africa or scuttled by the french in Toulon. :-)
65 posted on 03/16/2004 10:13:13 AM PST by SAMWolf (No one wants to talk about the number 288, it's too gross.)
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