Funny coming from a country that got BONAPARTED in less than a week.
Your "Empire" was as solid as Somalia's unity; a Colosse with weak legs!
And don't come to our victories; we've defeated 7 fucking coalitions, colonized half of the world, sold most of our products to poor germans (France was already industrialized before Germany's unity in 1871),
in the Western world,
France is the country with the most win-to-lose wars, while Germans were resentful and jealous of the Napoleonic Epopee (Hitler's "My Struggle" source)
here are some links:
Military history of France - Wikipedia
With the most successfull general of All Time:
Napoleon Bonaparte:
The Best Military Commanders of All Time, According to Napoleon (businessinsider.com)
Top 100 Greatest Generals Of All Time (historynet.com)
List of battles and wars won by France : france (reddit.com)
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0. 387 B.C. Battle of Allia The outnumbered Gauls, led by Brennus, defeat the army of the Roman Republic led by Quintus Sulpicius and ultimately go on to sack Rome itself.
1.5 451 Battle of the Catalaunian Plains A coalition led by the Frankish king Merovech, the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila. It was one of the last major military operations of the Western Roman Empire and one of the biggest of the time. The Huns fled back to the east.
2. 496 A.D. Battle of Tolbiac The Franks, led by Clovis I, are victorious over the Alamanni.
3. 732 Battle of Tours / Battle of Poitiers The Carolingian Franks, led by Charles Martel, defeat a large invading Muslim force under the command of Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi.
4. 1066 Battle of Hastings - October 14th The Normans, led by William the Conquerer, defeat King Harold II and his Anglo-Saxon army.
4bis. 1214 Battle of Bouvines Philip Augustus of France defeated an army consisting of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers, led by Otto IV of Germany.
5. 1369 Battle of Montiel The Franco-Castilian combined forces led by Henry II of Castile find victory against a conglomerate of Portuguese, Jewish, Granadine and Marinid forces led by Pedro of Castile.
6. 1428 Siege of Orleans - October 12th-May 8th Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), Gilles de Rais and Jean d'Orleans of France defeat the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Salisbury and the Duke of Suffolk.
7. 1429 Battle of Patay - June 18th La Hire, Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) and Poton de Xaintrailles of France defeat Sir John Fastolf of England, effectively turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
8. 1435 Battle of Gerberoy French forces, led by commander La Hire and Jean Poton Xaintrailles, defeat the English.
8bis. 1453 Battle of Castillon A decisive French victory, it is considered to mark the end of the Hundred Years' War. As a result of the battle, the English lost all landholdings in France, except Calais and the Channel Islands.
9. 1515 Battle of Marignano Francis I and his French forces defeat the Swiss.
10a. 1690 Battle of Fleurus In this naval battle, the French are victorious over the Anglo-Dutch.
10b. 1690 Battle of Fleurus - July 1690 In this a major engagement of the Nine Years' War, the Duke of Luxembourg, commanding Louis XIV’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated Prince Waldeck’s Allied force of approximately 38,000 men comprising mainly Dutch, German, and Spanish troops.
11. 1745 Battle of Fontenoy - May 11th Maurice de Saxe and his French army defeat a contingent of Anglo-Austrian-Dutch-Hano troops.
12. 1792 Battle of Valmy - September 20th France defeats the invading armies of Prussia and Austria.
12bis. 1792 Siege of Lille The Holy Roman Empire is defeated in his attempt to seize the city of Lille.
12ter. 1794 Battle of Fleurus The Battle of Fleurus, on 26 June 1794, was a major engagement between the army of the First French Republic, under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburg Monarchy), commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg, in the most decisive battle of the Flanders Campaign in the Low Countries during the French Revolutionary Wars. Both sides had forces in the area numbering in the vicinity of 80,000 men, but the French were able to more effectively concentrate their troops in order to achieve victory against the First Coalition. The Allied defeat led to the permanent loss of the Austrian Netherlands and to the destruction of the Dutch Republic. The battle marked a turning point for the French army which afterwards remained ascendant throughout the rest of the War of the First Coalition.
13. 1797 Battle of Rivoli Napoleon's French forces net a victory over the Austrians.
14. 1798 Battle of the Pyramids French forces route Egyptian Mamelukes.
15. 1799 Battle of Mount Tabor Outnumbered French forces decimate a much larger Turkish force.
15bis. 1800 Battle of Marengo The French overcame General Michael von Melas's surprise attack near the end of the day, driving the Austrians out of Italy, and enhancing Napoleon's political position in Paris as First Consul of France in the wake of his coup d’état the previous November.
16. 1805 Battle of Austerlitz - December 2nd Napoleon I of France is decidedly victorious over Russia and the Austrian Empire.
17. 1809 Battle of Wagram - July 5th-6th A decisive victory for Napoleon Bonaparte over Austria's Archduke Charles.
18. 1813 Battle of Dresden The outnumbered French forces route a larger multi-national contingent.
19. 1815 Battle of Ligny Standing as Napoleon's final victory, French forces find success over the Prussians.
20. 1830 Invasion of Algeria French forces invade and conquer the North African country of Algeria.
21. 1854 Battle of Balaclava - October 25th A coalition of French, British and Turkish troops defeat Russia during this Crimean War engagement.
22. 1855 Battle of Malakoff French forces help in overtaking the Russians.
23. 1859 Battle of Solferino The French are victorious over the Austrians.
24. 1916 Battle of Verdun Casualties mount on both sides but French forces ultimately push back the German tide.
25. 1918 Battle of Amiens - August 8th-11th French, British, Canadian and Australian forces are victorious over Germany."
Peace nigga!
