Better tell the map makers!
I will, Northern ireland is part of the United Kingdom. The full title being 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ireland', hint hint. Another fail .....
Really? He conquered England with 20,000 men. It took 120,000 to conquer France. The only real trouble they had was in Scotland, hence Hadrian's wall.
Oh dear. How long did the campaign take? Anyway, Julius licked the French and ran away from the Brits, getting back to the point
She sacked Rome? They outnumbered Roman Legions 23:1 and lost 80,000 to 400. It is the most lopsided defeat in history. The only victory was catching a single Legion out of formation which left London undefended with the campaign in the West.
Try Colchester, then London. Feeding falsehoods is always the french way
Germans beat France twice, France beat Germans thrice.
Aided by? Your nation, I mean your whole country and it's empire capitulated. Not only that it collaborated! You only need to see now that Germany is doing economically what it couldn't do militarily. Then again, as your gold reserves are where?
The Dutch spoke Flemmish, not German so it isn't like saying.
The Dutch have been trying not to speak German for centuries. Look where it's got them. He didn't give the throne to the French king. Nor did his son etc etc.
Whose oil? Territorial waters. Oil companies ........ Still, doesn't fault my points re A-L
Everyone doesn't want to speak yours. That is why you get offended when France cuts out English words from the lexicon. You have Francophobia...
No need, dustbin language. English is the language of the air and the default language of the sea. Get used to it old boy
This coming from a guy who uses a spoof wiki page as his reference.
Oh dear. I'm responding to dozens of posters and one quick link I made is lapped up by the frog. Tres bien monsewer, tres bien
You have already been schooled on that... just shows how arrogant you are to the facts.
Hallo pot, this is kettle. You are loud and clear. Get with the facts. He either fought as a frenchman for the king of france or he didn't. My money is on the latter.
I always had it, William served Phillip I as his vassal. You apparently don't know what that means.
If he was his vassal, why wasn't Phil the King of England?
Phillip I didn't have his first child until 1081. When was the Battle of Hastings... do the math chav boy.
Chav? From a frenchman, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You should go on the stage
It is for the intelligent. Next...
It's for girls and the french (which is the same thing), NEXT!
I count half a dozen obvious points with another half left to your obfuscation of fact. You might have me on one.
I have you on everything but two points that I've even forgotten they're so trivial. Give in, just like your national trait
Philip had no children to give it to. Louis the VI wouldn't be old enough to take the throne for another 40 years.
Okay, a cousin, a niece, a dog? He didn't because he couldn't.
There have been 53 major wars in Europe
France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43.
In 189 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 136 times,
lost 43 times and drawn only 10.
Giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe."
How's that ?
Major wars? You mean skirmishes, surely? Your nation signed its absolute capitulation in a railway carriage not twenty odd years after it gleefully took revenge on Germany. 72 years versus nearly a thousand .....
Half of la Legion are French citizens. :shocked:
I am, seeing as it's supposed to be strangers. Thought only officers were french, but I do recall in the dim and distant past something about french citizens being allowed to join. 50%? Really? Source?
Normandy was a vassal so it was under his control. Vexin was not which is what William was trying to take and Philip I came in and finished the job.
You sign a piece of paper and the french think it's cut and dried. Vassal my butt! He was as much a vassal as I'm french.
No, you don't ruin a perfectly good cartoon by saying a frenchman watches it
How could they hold the line when they were embarking on ships? Read up on the battle of Lille and how 40,000 Frenchmen sacrificed their lives to save your retreating Army against 120,000 Nazis lead by Rommel among others. No reason to be an ingrate when they saved the British Army from annihilation.
Oh dear, you've got personal now. I must be getting on your nerves :cool; I never said I was ungrateful for the sacrifices made muppet! The Brits held the line whilst the evacuation continued, we then took as many french as Brits onboard to fight with the jumped up Colonel.
And the BEF would have surrendered if 1st Army hadn't held off the Germans. If UK shared a land border with Germany it would have collapsed even faster considering the poor state of the British Army. Only the Soviets were able to stop them after losing 5X the land and troops of France and a winter we didn't have. Now getting back to Singapore, you outnumbered the Japanese almost 3:1 and surrendered in one week. That is really sad.
We did, we surrendered an entire army that was losing the fight and had run out of water. If they had known what was going to happen to them .... Then again, your entire nation and empire surrendered. Now that is really, really, really sad.
You lost 1840, 1880 and had a draw in 1919... considering your poor performance in Sangin, I don't know to call that a victory. What ever happened to that force retreating in 1842? 20,000 left and only one returned. :shocked:
Oh dear, you do need to read up on your history. It's like the legion battle honours, remembering defeats such as Camerone and Dien Bien Phu
Yeah, I have with 2eme REP. I have known many British paras and they had far more respect for France.
To your face and soldiers always do in any case.
I sincerely doubt you're 2 REP frankly for a number of reasons, not least of which 2 REP were only there in 2010 IIRC. For a start, you don't understand banter and got personal
You're just quoting Wikileaks. Now if we look at what the yanks say about the French ...... Patton for one. That's the problem with Wikileaks, didn't realise the harm it would cause.
Because you didn't have enough resources and will to deal with the problem. USMC did a bang up job after they relieved you in Sangin.
How many troops? How many helicopters? How many aircraft? How many armoured vehicles? How many deaths? The US Marine Corps is bigger than the entire Brit armed forces.
As for the french in Afg, you're just quoting Wikileaks. I'm quoting your President.
Apparently you didn't even read the article you posted which said 1,400 French troops would stay until 2014. So another one of your baseless claims is thrown out the window. French troops were nowhere near Helmand so I can't imagine what you would know.
Try Kandahar. Been on exercise in the UK with them as well. Doing comabat operations are they?
I served with several former British paras as brothers and never had a negative word to say. There is nothing wrong with your soldiers guy except low morale, but your leadership sucks.
I agree with you, for once and as I said above, soldiers will always get along. You've taken the banter far too seriously to be a proper squaddie
I feel for your soldiers who have to suffer such incompetent leadership and lack of resources. But then that was Labour's fault?
Yep. Assange should be strung up though and I'll pull the trapdoor handle!
If I shoot a missile I have taken the shot. It works...
Nah, fire a missile. Stop wheedling and admit it, just this once. You know you want to ........
