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The Submarine Row Marks the Dawn of the Franco-British Rivalry
- h2odragon 5y agoOf course previous relations have been purely amicable and puppy-like, even: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
- mytailorisrich 5y agoThis is not usually considered to be "Franco-British" because it involved the Normans, not France. But obviously, with Agincourt, the 100-year War and Joan of Arc, the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, etc. examples of historically 'typical' relations between France and England are plenty...
- h2odragon 5y agoThanks, my ignorance of the history there is vast; pretty much summed up by "white people in that area have been fighting each other for millennia, that's just how they are"