Complete Military History of France

[FUNKED1]

Also I wonder...  Are people like the original poster actually ignorant of French military history?  Or do they just pretend to be ignorant in order to make fun of the French in retaliation to perceived slights?

[ramzey]

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[Hangtime]

Originally posted by B@tfinkV
yup you do all this and then invade any country that tries to produce similar weapons because you are scared it will happen back to you.

One rule for you and another for anyone else?

Can i just add: I love America, Americans and there is not an ounce of envy or hatred within me for my western cousins.

comments like that of Lasz ("i would welcome europe invading america") are the things that make me wonder.

and it pisses me off that my granfather and many other relatives fought in a huge war only for some sunburnt gun toting nutball to come along and say 'your grandfather fought like a POS, he got his azzz saved by my country'

thats just insulting to the limit.

LOL! What a nice wide brush YOU paint with! Take the blue pill. Laz said he welcomed a UN invasion. Europe is the UN? I Read the tread twice. Saw no Sunburnt Nutballs saving the world. Or saying yer gramps fought like a POS.. though I would like to know why the brits stopped fer tea on the way to the Rhine.

Lastly.. yea, it's one rule for us; and another for anybody else. That's what your team and ours jointly decided when we formed NATO and got everybodys autographs on a non-proliferation treaty.

...ya thin skinned euorpeeeing panzie.

[Hangtime]

Jeezuz frikkin cripes, Ramzey; haul that down. You trying to get the thread closed or have the entire damn o'club locked up? Where in hell's yer brain?

[Shuckins]

Ramzey aint' long for this whirl.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Squire
"If you consider strategic objectives, 1812 was a tie."

By todays rules would have to have a shoot out now to declare a winner. No more ties.

The US remained the US and remained a sovergn nation.

The Brits didnt reabsorb the colonies into their empire

I'd say we won

[skernsk]

Heh, look up Ramzey, the black helo's are moving in for the kill:lol

BTW, the French lost alot of wars.  America won alot amongst themselves or against countries like Mexico (which even the French could have defeated).

In the 20th century aint nothing touched America on the battlefield.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by B@tfinkV
....

One rule for you and another for anyone else?

....

and it pisses me off that my granfather and many other relatives fought in a huge war only for some sunburnt gun toting nutball to come along and say 'your grandfather fought like a POS, he got his azzz saved by my country'


thats just insulting to the limit.

Note...  "sunburnt gun toting nutball" is apparently not an insult.  otherwise the post would be hypocrisy and that can't be...

[B@tfinkV]

Originally posted by Hangtime
LOL! What a nice wide brush YOU paint with! Take the blue pill. Laz said he welcomed a UN invasion. Europe is the UN? I Read the tread twice. Saw no Sunburnt Nutballs saving the world. Or saying yer gramps fought like a POS.. though I would like to know why the brits stopped fer tea on the way to the Rhine.

Lastly.. yea, it's one rule for us; and another for anybody else. That's what your team and ours jointly decided when we formed NATO and got everybodys autographs on a non-proliferation treaty.

...ya thin skinned euorpeeeing panzie.

just because i have a strong opinion about something do not be so foolish as to assume i am worked up or 'my thin skin' has been perforated.


I grow tierd of debating this subject seeing as, like usual, im trying to protest the worth of football on a basketball court.






PS: to holden his groin: 'sunburnt, gun toting nutball' is what Lazs considers a compliment.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Originally posted by skernsk
BTW, the French lost alot of wars.  America won alot amongst themselves or against countries like Mexico (which even the French could have defeated).

Cough*cinquodemayo*cought:t

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by B@tfinkV
PS: to holden his groin: 'sunburnt, gun toting nutball' is what Lazs considers a compliment.

see? I knew it couldn't have been an insult.

[Hangtime]

Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Cough*cinquodemayo*cought:t

Ahhh HA!

Leave it to a Frenchman to point out how utterly ignorant most americans are with regards to the hugely intresting (and always dramatic) history of the OTHER American Democracys..

"The French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez.  The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left.  The French, however, had different ideas.

Under Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay.  They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire.  His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota.  Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.  The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War.

The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did.

Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French.  American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French.  

On the 5th of May, 1862, 100 miles east of Mexico City, Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president), the Mexicans awaited.  Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns.  Needles to say, the Mexican Army was less stylish.

General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his crack cavalry and attack the French flanks.  In response, the French cavalry charged and were promptly butchered by Diaz's better trained and American augmented troop. The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders but were chopped up rather briskly by the weather and a few hundred head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians, who didn't seem to much like the French either.

When the battle was over, the French were far fewer and without cavalry. The Mexicans had won a great victory which in no small part kept Napoleon III from supplying the Confederate Army for another year and eliminating the threat of a military alliance between a French Mexico and the CSA 14 months before the battle of Gettyburg.  "

Thanks, Frenchy.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by lazs2
batfink... I would welcome an invasion of America by the UN...  I hope it is led by frenchmen...

lazs

Oh I can see the headlines now.

"French led UN Forces Defeated by Drunken Rednecks" LMAO

[straffo]

Camerone !

oops sorry ,it's what happen when you have former légionaires in your familly

[Hangtime]

The French 'Alamo'. Capt. Danjou's 60 vs 2,000 mexicans. They refused surrender 4 times.. and when down to just six men and out of ammunition; they fixed bayonets and charged. Incredible story of heroism and the core event for the Legend of the Legionnaires.

"Mes enfants! I command you now. We may die, but never will surrender."