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The British Army ran faster than the French to the sea but the joke is always on the French. It's also a very anglo-saxon joke…
by mahkeiro 4y ago
The British Army ran faster than the French to the sea but the joke is always on the French. It's also a very anglo-saxon joke…
- ARandomerDude 4y agoA British route is not even in the same league as compete national capitulation.
- mcv 4y agoThe French fought hard. The problem was twofold: 1. The German army in 1940 was utterly unstoppable. They didn't just conquer France, they conquered half of Europe. The French army was seen as the best army in the world at the time, but they were utterly unprepared for the new way of warfare the Germans introduced. 2. Petain.
- mahkeiro 4y agoHad the channel not been there, the UK would have surrendered like the French…
- galgot 4y agoBeen like this since the 100 years war... Some tourism on the continent or else, then run back to the security of their island if any trouble. And spitting their British exceptionalism contempt across the channel and the rest at any occasion. Our best "friends".