Napoleon the III is like his nephew or something. For you Pre-IB students on S.P.A.M., its in your World History Textbook. Look it up. Now Napoleon...lost in 1814 at Waterloo after escaping from Corsica only to be exiled again on some island off S. America. The first time he was exile was after his retreat from France and his army basically stunk as he lost his best troops. Like Hitler after him, they counted on a quick victory. But they failed to supply proper winter fighting gear and equipment and realize how large Russia is. (Hitler also cancelled four engine long range heavy strategic bombers that could have bombed Russian factories - the Soviets just took the factories apart and moved them east, out on the minimum range of the longest ranged German twin-engined medium bomber....and that my friends was at the extent that they ever got into the Soviet Union)
The French are the first to have the MODERN army were units support one another in corps size opeations...like infantry, cavalary, and artillery (not counting support units) operating together under a unified command. Each element of the French army (each corps) is essentially a fraction of the full French army and can function independently against a foe. Before that an army would be made up of units from all sorts of tyoes of divisions/regiments/brigades assigned to a commander where they were dependent on the higher headquarters. (its out there, find it and read it...don't remember where....naval history is more interesting and the French definately lost at sea a lot...only one victory comes to mind and that deals with Yorktown and the American War for Independence)
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Originally posted by LBK Rules
Iraq has enough bios to kill this planet hundreds of times over.
Bush should have taken them by surprise.
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Which Bush....
1) George H.W. Bush (41st POTUS 1988-1992)
2) George W. Bush (43rd POTUS 2000-20??)
so is it 1 or 2, or is it a family thing?