| I know this is a stupid email forward from five years ago, but still pathetic. France undisputably won the Hundred Years War and the Thirty Years War. It won the Dutch War, too (although it failed to conquer Holland). It certainly won the American Revolution. It won the French Revolutionary Wars going away (and those were *not* a war against other French people), and it won World War I. It's ridiculous to say that a country "lost" a civil war. Nobody says the Seven Years War was a French victory, whatever name it was known by in North America (not used by French people!). And several significant, indisputable French victories are oddly omitted - the Crimean War, or the 1859 Italian war. Just awful all around. |