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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: DeGaulle and the French
Message-ID: <538@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 11:22:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 11:22:01 1985
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Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo by a combined Anglo-Dutch-Prussian
force which outnumbered the French by a nearly 2-1 margin.  The
reversal of Napoleonic France's fortunes in the early nineteenth
century is directly attributable to the degree to which Russians,
Prussians, Austrians, and British outnumbered the French.   The fact
is that even with the dramatic numerical advantages enjoyed by the
anti-French coalitions which arose from the Revolution to the Congress
of Vienna, France was only defeated after her enemies had learned
enough from 15 years of consistent defeat to reasonably imitate
French methods.

The French have a glorious history of military incompetence, as does
each and every other country (no exceptions!!!!), but the francophobes
need not exaggerate their case.......

					David Rubin
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