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To: quidnunc

Does this mean the French won?


2 posted on 05/28/2005 5:53:21 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

No, but they now lost less pitifully but just as badly.


5 posted on 05/28/2005 5:55:13 PM PDT by dufekin (United States of America: a judicial tyranny, not a federal republic)
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To: tet68
Does this mean the French won?

Well, to be fair, the French wage war mainly for the clever quotes:

"Nous somme dans une pot de chambre, et nous y serrons emmerdes." - Marshal McMahon at the battle of Sedan

25 posted on 05/28/2005 6:28:14 PM PDT by Grut
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To: tet68

More like they continue to attempt to establish a French version of victory in which surrendering is the same thing as winning.


37 posted on 05/28/2005 7:01:40 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (<-- sick of faux-conservatives who want federal government intervention for 'conservative things.')
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To: tet68
Does this mean the French won?

see french military victories

56 posted on 05/28/2005 9:16:45 PM PDT by glorgau
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