Is Britain the bestest country in the world ever?

[Le Rosbif]

They obviously didn't count the battle of Twickenham, 19 October 1991, when the legendary Mick the Munch broke the siege of the English lines by ramming Marc Cecillon 5 yards back off his feet and hitting him into the ground so hard there's still a dip in the grass known as 'Skinner's Hollow'.

A fine move, that as a very fair play French Gentleman from Toulouse I can only applaud. (you bastardo)

[Moscow Mule]

Really?

Yes - what, exactly, was your point as I've obviously missed it?

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[Le Rosbif]

No they won that war.

If you are unsure please check with the Dept of French history at a Chinese university

No that was not a war, but a battle of the indochine war.
The very same that was picked by the yanks who said that they would finish and put an end in a few weeks.

Let me remember how they called this war that they "won" with very few expenses.

Oh yeah, the vietnam war.

[lilelvis2000]

No.

I like Sweden and Canada more. Oz is okay too.

Britian is about no. 5 - but I still like it here and am planning to have my parents move over permanently....my dad will only come kicking and screaming.

[BlackenedBiker]

No that was not a war, but a battle of the indochine war.
The very same that was picked by the yanks who said that they would finish and put an end in a few weeks.

Let me remember how they called this war that they "won" with very few expenses.

Oh yeah, the vietnam war.

France in good company then.

Definition of a good strategy.

Choose an un-winnable situation against an un-shakable ideology. Receive a long drawn out running bitch slap. Lay thousands of tonnes of mine ordinances so you will p1ss the locals for decades to come and then run home to Mommy.

Did France make lots of over-blown war movies to try and glamourise the clusterf**k as well

[expat]

Actually to be fair (if I may use a word difficult to translate into some languages) France did win a lot of battles in the period covered by the Chinese web page. What happened there was that the Corsican who led them invented a new military concept which only he (as a result of the Revolution) had the ability to implement: the grand army conscripted from the whole population. This allowed him to put into the field an army 5 times the size of the next biggest in the Western world, and so win a string of victories. But it could only be an offensive army, since as the commander quite correctly observed it marched on its stomach. When the grand army was put on the defensive and thrown back inside France, it was pillaging France itself for provisions, and from then on, despite enthusiastic political support for the emperor, his army could not survive.

So in a sense the French topped off this string of victories by defeating Napoleon too!

[sasguru]

Actually to be fair (if I may use a word difficult to translate into some languages) France did win a lot of battles in the period covered by the Chinese web page. What happened there was that the Corsican who led them invented a new military concept which only he (as a result of the Revolution) had the ability to implement: the grand army conscripted from the whole population. This allowed him to put into the field an army 5 times the size of the next biggest in the Western world, and so win a string of victories. But it could only be an offensive army, since as the commander quite correctly observed it marched on its stomach. When the grand army was put on the defensive and thrown back inside France, it was pillaging France itself for provisions, and from then on, despite enthusiastic political support for the emperor, his army could not survive.

So in a sense the French topped off this string of victories by defeating Napoleon too!

Indeed the gang rape that Russia perpetrated on France after starving her was most heinous.

[Le Rosbif]

France in good company then.

Definition of a good strategy.

Choose an un-winnable situation against an un-shakable ideology. Receive a long drawn out running bitch slap. Lay thousands of tonnes of mine ordinances so you will p1ss the locals for decades to come and then run home to Mommy.

Did France make lots of over-blown war movies to try and glamourise the clusterf**k as well

Nope, not a single one

As for trying to exorcise the shame of WW2, we've made a lot of comedies such as:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060474/

or my favourite:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076684/

(which start with a close up on a French military truck dodgying his way at full speed through a stuka bombing and the narator saying something like. "May 1940. According to the French Head of Command, the French Army was retreating in excellent conditions. No Army before ever retreated in such excellent conditions nor especially in such quick conditions. The Head of command was not going as far as saying that it was a pleasure to retreat this way, but almost! The opinion of the 7th telecom compagnie on the subject was slighty different.") Cult movie

[Le Rosbif]

So in a sense the French topped off this string of victories by defeating Napoleon too!

And it was well ahead of its time since the German did exactly the same over 200 years later!
When will other countries understand they should learn from us?

[sasguru]

So are we to conclude France is the bitch-slapped whore of Europe?.
England, Germany, Russia and Vietnam have all had their way with her.