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Condoleeza Rice says, "Fr4nc3 and t3h U.S r buds!" by Illiad2006-11-19 12:55:59
  Question about the "joke" by wtfunkymonkey2005-02-08 15:12:10
    Not even close to accurate. by Illiad 2005-02-08 15:19:44
It's skewed, in a Bill O'Reilly "No Spin Zone" kind of way.

The Gauls were not French, they were Gauls. Caesar was not Italian, he was Roman. The distinctions are important.

The French "mostly losing" the Hundred Years War is incredibly misleading and in several ways false. In the end Charles the VII united the various dukedoms into what is known as France today, which was a considerable task. France was never quite so fractured and weak again.

Those are just the first two. It's crap "history" like this joke that perpetuates false beliefs. I could write a similar list about the U.S., or Britain or Russia and skew it in such a way that it would be similarly damning to anyone who didn't know much about military history.

If I ever meet the American "patriot" who came up with the list originally I'm going to belt him with my Oxford's Companion to Military History.

[ Reply ]
      the devil is indeed in the details. (n/t) by wtfunkymonkey2005-02-08 15:23:24
      Don't do that! by krikkert2005-02-08 15:25:31
        The first one's not a danger by Eric3_141592005-02-08 15:51:46
          But... the poor book! by arktus2005-02-08 15:58:36

 

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