Like a lighthouse, one day it will illuminate the universe.
At the crossroads of Europe, the position of France within Europe is strategic, Latin culture and Romanized, this nation that covers more than 2000 years of history is the oldest established nation of Europe. France's successor to Rome.
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 in front of coalitions of several nations aimed at destroying it:
- Coalitions of Bouvines (1214), France faces the Holy Roman Empire, England and Flanders
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- Coalition of the war Folle, France Vs Brittany, England, Castile and leon, Holy Roman Empire and Lorraine.
- Italian Coalitions, France vs Aragon, England, duchy of naples, Spain, Holy Roman Empire and this several times.
- Coalition war devolution, France vs Spain, England, Sweden, United Provinces.
- Coalitions of Hasbourg, France and Ottoman VS Austria, England, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Scotland, United Provinces, Savoy, Holy Roman Empire.
- Napoleonic Coalitions, France vs all Europe.
and even more ...
On all the Grounds and continents France has shown to the world what it was worth in combat. The genius of these soldiers is still being studied today in the largest military school in the world.
