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France has a mixed military record, but it has a fair share of victories as opposed to an unbroken string of defeats, and the people who make that claim [[Did Not Do the Research]] on several facts:
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* The Free French Forces led by General De Gaulle kicked some ass during World War II alongside the Allies. They said ''[[Last Stand|This is BIR HAKEIM!]]'' to Rommel, covering the British retreat in the process.
* Finally, the French have a reputation for revolutions. From the Jacquerie during the Middle Ages, over the French Revolution, the Communards and Mai 1968. When it comes to senselessly slaughering people, the French made their fair share by putting thousands to the guillotine.
* As for unambiguous French defeats the two most serious are certainly the Seven Years War (1756-1763), in which they lost ''all'' of their New World domains (some of which Napoleon later recovered and sold to the United States), and the Franco-Prussian War (
In a nutshell, the French are neither as incompetent as they are sometimes portrayed, nor as capable as they might have been.
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