There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France will have been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43.
Among the 185 battles that France has delivered over the past 800 years, its armies will have gained 132 of them, and will have lost 43, leaving only 10 undecided battles
Giving the French military the record of victories in Europe and thus in the world. France is the nation that has participated in the greatest number of war and battle throughout the history of mankind.
- Over the last 800 years France has beaten over 200 years against England, more than 150 years against the Germanic nations, more than 190 years against the Spaniards / Portuguese, and facing many other nations.
Often these wars were waged against France in numerical inferiority against coalitions of several nations aimed at destroying it.
France, a warlike nation par excellence, the strategies deployed by these generals are still studying today, notably the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte.
On all the Grounds and continents France has shown to the world what it was worth in combat.
And so many others ...
But France is also the one that colonized England in 1066, this country Francise for centuries to the point that 40% of the English words are of French origin.
It is the Girl-eldest Nation of the church, for the first barbarian King of Europe has been converted to nothing but Clovis I, King of the Franks, she is therefore the protector of Christianity, even in her National borders one feels destined for it.
The one that allowed the independence of the USA by fighting in America against the English.
The country of "Dynasties" Many European King have French ancestry.
Under Saint-Louis, France is the richest and most populous country in Europe, and the most intellectually and artistically influenced in Europe.
The land of humanism and human rights and the first modern European democracy