Willem Default
Space Marshal
Indeed, and if it wasn't for Napoleon III (Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew, don't ask about 'the Third' part) France could have had a very successful 19th century. The only two major military fuck ups by the French I can think of in the last 200 years are the Franco-Prussian War and Dien Bien Phu in 1954. I guess you could say the Crimean War too, but no one performed well in that on either side.People forget that way back when, the French were one of the major military badasses in Europe. They fought with England and Spain like it was the national sport. They also emerged victorious in the longest military conflict ever, which was called the Hundred Years' War, but actually lasted for 116 years, because 100 years wasn't long enough for the amount of ass-kicking that France wanted to do.