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To: ClearCase_guy

One of the few times our French Allies acted like French troops and not surrender monkeys.

But then, that was before the best were killed off in Napoleonic and Prussian wars.


6 posted on 04/28/2016 8:19:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Most of the French commanders lost their heads to the guillotine during the French Revolution.


16 posted on 04/28/2016 8:35:02 AM PDT by NRx (It's sad when there is no one running for President that I can vote for with a clear conscience.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
One of the few times our French Allies acted like French troops and not surrender monkeys.

But then, that was before the best were killed off in Napoleonic and Prussian wars

ungrateful and false

In World War One more than 8 million Frenchmen were called up. There were 4.2 million casualties,, with 1.3 million of them fatalities.

48 posted on 04/28/2016 1:46:29 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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