[OT] French was: [SG]Artillery

This could become another of those much-beloved OT discussions, still...

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
> Otherwise the French would have learned something in
> the time period between 1870 and 1940 (a mere 70
> years, I'll admit) that would prevent their getting
> beat twice (and within 2 Brit Corps of getting beat a
> third time in between them).

Haven't you conveniently forgotten a minor conflict called " WW I " that
happened within that timespan ?
IIRC, the French won that one. Admittedly, they had allies, but so did
the
Germans.

Plus, AFAIK, after 1940, the Free French forces fought quite decently.

Greetings
Karl Heinz