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Napoleon III? Wasn’t he the paper tiger who promptly got defeated in the Franco-Prussian war and had to cede the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine as a spoil of the war?


6 posted on 06/06/2018 7:44:45 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
Napoleon III? Wasn’t he the paper tiger who promptly got defeated in the Franco-Prussian war and had to cede the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine as a spoil of the war?

The fort was built about two decades earlier, when he was seen by many as a real tiger.

9 posted on 06/06/2018 7:50:14 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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