To: MikeinIraq
"when have the French EVER done that?"
Well, on dry land at Waterloo Napoleonic Old Guard was offered opportunity to surrender, but declined it and went down together with their exalted self-esteem, so we do have an example of that mentality. But it happened 190 years ago. Besides, it was on dry land, not on water.
30 posted on
05/29/2005 9:01:55 AM PDT by
GSlob
To: GSlob
well and that was Napoleon too....they probably had a certain pride with them, something seemingly sorely lacking in France ever since...
33 posted on
05/29/2005 9:05:36 AM PDT by
MikefromOhio
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To: GSlob
And Napoleon was not french. He was Corsican.
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