The Ultimate French Failure!

[Meneldil]

All this is besides the point anyway, the french get their bad name as "cheese eating surrender monkeys" because they promptly surrendered and collaborated with the Germans early in WW2

We may have beat a retreat from a few fights in our time but never in our own back yard.

Surely, being on an Island, with huge colonies to fight for you (hint: India), might help, right? If you still think nowadays that the British Isles have never been invaded (on a serious scale) since the early middle-age because of some inherent british awesomeness, well, that's good for you.

delicious sour grapes

England indeed became a minor European power after the HYW (mostly because of the internal divisions that followed the war), and it took quite some time for it to regain her former rank.

That'd be the same Massena Wellesley beat at Fuentes de Onoro, would it?

The fact he lost some battles doesn't make him any less successful. And, dear god, even some anglo-saxon historians regard him as one of the best military leader of the era.

Anyway, glad to see that British nationalists look as funny now as they did 100-200 years ago Do you still think of Napoleon as a baby-eating ogre?