Glen wrote:
John McCoy wrote:


In all of history has France ever won a war by themselves?


Napolean did quite well, for most of the 20-odd years he was
in charge.


Wasn't he Corsican?

Glen

Read back a bit. Corsica had been part of France for some time before
Nappy was born.

It's a lot like saying William The ******* was a Viking, when Normandy
was part of France before he was born there, and his parentage wasn't
all Norse, anyway.