[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.

[ricpic]

It took a Grand Alliance (Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, Austria-Hungary) to defeat Napoleon.

The French army was formidable in the first decades of the 19th Century.

In WW I, of course, the tables were turned. It took the British, the French, and the Yanks to stop Germany. But the French fought ferociously. Think Verdun.

[monocle]

It remains to to be seen whether France will be victorious in the war it has declared on the English language and which France is vigorishly prosecuting.