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Complete Military History Of France

Neutron

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- Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.

- Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman."

-Italian Wars - Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.

- Wars of Religion - France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots

- Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.

- War of Devolution - Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.

-The Dutch War - Tied

-War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.

-War of the Spanish Succession - Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.

- American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."

- French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.

- The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.

- The Franco-Prussian War - Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.

- World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

-World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.

- War in Indochina - Lost. French forces plead sickness, take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu

- Algerian Rebellion - Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.

- War on Terrorism - France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.

The question for any country silly enough to count on the French should not be "Can we count on the French?", but rather "How long until France collapses?"




Tron
 
Neutron said:
Very true.

Yes, it was. We in the U.S. can count on the French ... to always act in their own interests, and to show no gratitude when anybody helps them.
 
Hillarious...

Reminds me of a skit done by one of my favorite British commedians, Rowan Atkins. He does a skit called "Hell" where he plays the devil welcoming lost souls to eternal damnation. He calls out various groups of people, fornicators, various religeous sects, and lawyers most notably, and then he calls out "the French... are they here? Good... if you'd just come right down front here with the Germans." :evilha:
 
And Too..

Always gets their ass kicked as bad as the Brits when they decide to mix it up with someone else. At least the brits don't surrender.


Tron
 
Very funny, bubblehead! I always knew there was a sense of humor amidst all that seriousness. 😉

Ann
 
Very entertaining Tronny as far as it goes........

....I think maybe "Battle of the Nile" and "Trafalgar" should have been worth a mention, and you missed out probably the best fight ever put up by a French army, in French North Africa during the "torch" landings of WW2 against the Allies!!!


Just by way of redressing the balance a little, what happens when an American army fights a war largely by itself? i.e. without significant allies? like say, Cambodia or Vietnam?


BTW what is the meaning exactly of your current signing off sentance? we now have our largest Armed forces deployment since 1945 on its way to the gulf, and we are your ONLY political and military ally, yes I know you guys have the worlds biggest swinging military dick , but proportionally our commitment is much bigger than the U.S. So how about you change it to something about the garlic munchers or the sausage merchants?
 
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Rule Brittania!

Red's right about the UK contribution, and I, for one, am glad to have them along.

But the Brits screwed up big-time in the last century. If the Empire had used its colonial administration of the Middle East to civilize the Arabs, we wouldn't have to fight a war now. Though, in all fairness, civilizing the Arabs may not be possible. Time will tell, I suppose.

Strelnikov
 
Wow, all this international strife is probably cause for much hilarity in certain communities.

By the way, isn't the Statue of Liberty a French product? I'm pretty sure it was a gift to you from the quote/unquote "Frogophiles". As for Germany, we gave you the words "Kindergarden", "Rucksack", "Gesundheit" and "Zeitgeist", so without us your toddlers would squat in the streets, you wouldn't be able to go backpacking, you'd have to commit a small act of heresy anytime someone sneezes, and your intellectuals would have no way to prove their cranial superiority in conversation. You OWE us.

As for Britain, she gave you - um - the idea to invent baseball, since cricket is so horribly daft.
 
I'm with Marauder on this one. Lots of countries have lost wars, even America. Perhaps the French don't have a great military, but their cultural contributions are many.
 
Thanks for that Strell but...........

......I think you will find i am right in all my remarks in the obove post, unless you can convince me otherwise.
 
Uh...

Trafalgar and Nile were NOT wars, they were battles in wars. Battles where the French predictably got whipped but just battles nonetheless.
Oddly, the one time the French did fight like studs was during WW2 when the Brits were running from the continent with their tails between their legs, after getting their balls handed to them by the Germans. I mean at Dunkirk, the French did a superior job of covering the Brits during their cowardly retreat. Torch isn't a good example by the way. The Frencj heart really wasn't in it, they just wanted to be left alone and one of the reasons the USA were against hitting the French hard was they were hoping the frogs would rather just turn NA over vice fighting. It turns out the US was right.

Uh amk, learn your history, the US has never lost a war, Vietnam was NOT a US loss. It's odd we often think of losing that war when we never lost a battle, and killed over a million Vietnamese. South Vietnam lost that war due to her own incompetence.

As for anyone else helping us in Iraq, Honestly we don't need ya. 5 US Carrier Battlegroups guarantee that 🙂. As G.W. said, you're either with us or against us, and as usual the Brits are taking the path of least resistance.


Tron
 
I agree Neutron I think really the only point of having support from Europe would be maybe to supply food and beverages. Militarily they would be more of a hindrance than a help. The only exception to that might be England.
 
I Don't Know...

kurchatonium...

English food pretty much sucks and as for beverages, Australia makes a hell of a lot better beer!.


Tron
 
Well I agree on the English food maybe they could supply music or something to entertain our troops. 🙂 I have never tried Australian beer if it is that good maybe I ought to try it.
 
you know Neutron, this was a GREAT post. you know, as well as i know, hell as well as EVERYONE KNOWS, the French suck. why we havent bombed those ingrates is beyond me. no matter what we do, France always seems to offer criticism. whether we are in the right or wrong, they open their mouths. again, if it wasnt for us, they would still be speaking German.

a friend of mine had this joke. why are the streets of Paris lined with trees? so the German army can march under some shade.

here's another one. this is for the sports fans. France was the preseason scrimmage for the Germans before the "real" fighting began.

if anybody remembers, there was one country that Hitler was excited about conquering. he did a dance when he found out that particular country surrendered after 6 months. yep, it was France. Hitler wasnt dancing when he conquered other countries, but when France fell, he was moonwalking through the Arc de Triumph. again, if it wasnt for the U.S., the French flag would have went from their original flag colors, to white (surrendering) to the swastika. damn ingrates. i guess they are speaking up because they want to feel significant again. i say we should show up in Paris with a bunch of sparklers and watch them quit right before our eyes.

as for Britian, i like them. they support us no matter what. they have our backs. who are the two main countries trying to blow up Iraq? the U.S. and Britian. they are the only true ally we have.
 
Well I think England and Israel are the only strong allies we have left. I wish though England had spent more on keeping their military up. Still its nice to know who your real friends are.
 
I have to disagree. Vietnam was most definitely a loss. What was the goal of the war? If I'm not mistaken it was to protect the sovereignty of South Vietnam. And where is South Vietnam now? It can be argued that it was a war we could not win. I would have to say, however, that over 50,000 killed and Billions of dollars spent and nothing to show for it a loss. Unless of course you have stock in Bell Helicopter.
 
don't forget the forgien leigon

wait.. they are mainly german, always have been, so maybe we shouldn't count them?
french culture? efervesent vinager? my parents taught me a little poem years ago; oh the french they are a funny race! they fight with their feet, and f**k with their face!
you could make the argument though, that the french military didn;'t lose in v.n., as the mojority of the fighting was done by the leigon, who were press gang germans. and hell they were worn out from fighting for the privious 6 years.
america "technicaly" didn't lose in v.n., republic of. and our military in no way lost there. but we didn't win either.
steve
 
Originally posted by Marauder (some deleted)
Wow, all this international strife is probably cause for much hilarity in certain communities.
As for Germany, we gave you the words "Kindergarden", "Rucksack", "Gesundheit" and "Zeitgeist", so without us your toddlers would squat in the streets, you wouldn't be able to go backpacking, you'd have to commit a small act of heresy anytime someone sneezes, and your intellectuals would have no way to prove their cranial superiority in conversation. You OWE us.


With regard to relations between the U.S. and Germany, I must once again quote from a Tom Lehrer song, this one being entitled "MLF Lullaby":

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then.

I think that Lehrer has quite a way with comic understatement.😀
 
Iggy Pop..

Uh stick with things you know about..
The goal of Nam was nOT to protect Sv Sovereignty. There wAS no real goal to Nam. THAT was the problem. Everytime we'd try to establish one the polticians would change it.
We won eVERY major battle in that war and left because we were tired of fighting. NOT because we got beat.


By the way. Yes let the Brits supply music 🙂 They do music dAMN well.


Tron
 
Hey red indian!

Reread my post - I did NOT disagree with you.

Some 20 yrs ago, I saw a BBC documentary about the Argentine War. Near the beginning, it showed the British expeditionary force marching through Portsmouth to the troop ships. The Guards Band was playing "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina".

The British Military is, for its size, the best in the world. Even better, they have a way of doing things with style, something us "colonials" would do well to emulate.

Strelnikov
 
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