[staytrue]

I think they won at the battle of hastings in something like 1066.

[xJones]

That was the Normans in 1066 and they had a large strain of Viking in them. But the question is tough. I don't think they won anything after losing Waterloo in 1815. Napoleon won a lot of battles, but he wasn't French. He was born and raised in Corsica. Sheesh, I give up.

[weikel]

Wrong. The Normans were not French at all. They were originally a tribe of Viking raiders. The French actually had a good record militarily between the time of Cardinal Richileu and the defeat of Napolean. Broken by that huge idiot Louis XIV who was spared the English capturing Paris only by Duke Churchill's being falsely accused of corruption by political enemies.