The French claim sovereignty over the Moon

[get2grips]

and their mothers are hamsters

I fart in your general direction

[Techno]

I was blaming one of the dogs ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Singapore is always glossed over when surrender is mentioned

Losing the Hundred Years War is often overlooked as well

[FierceKitty]

And Dunkirk. And selling out the Czechs. And the retreat from Kabul. Yorktown. The first Boer War. Having to be rescued by the Prussians at Waterloo. Having to be rescued by the French at Inkermann. And the fact that English armies lost the English Civil War, the Baron's Wars, the Wars of the Roses, Hastings....

[Sandinista]

also losing to the Dutch and having their leader made king

[Orcs]

And Dunkirk. And selling out the Czechs. And the retreat from Kabul. Yorktown. The first Boer War. Having to be rescued by the Prussians at Waterloo. Having to be rescued by the French at Inkermann. And the fact that English armies lost the English Civil War, the Baron's Wars, the Wars of the Roses, Hastings....

So we lost a few battles  - but we did end up owning 2/3rds of the world  . 

At least we were on time for the various wars - unlike the Americans

[get2grips]

So we lost a few battles  - but we did end up owning 2/3rds of the world  . 

At least we were on time for the various wars - unlike the Americans

Polite cough...1 third

[FierceKitty]

we did end up owning 2/3rds of the world  . 

At least we were on time for the various wars...

"Peace for our time." And when that didn't work they belatedly joined in. "On time" my tonsils!

If you really own something, chances are you've still got it a few years later.

[Orcs]

Polite cough...1 third

Correctrion accepted if thats the land mass, but I was including most of the seas and Oceans as well, as we ruled them as well

If you really own something, chances are you've still got it a few years later.

We were benevolent and gave it as a gift to our Colonials

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well most of them.

IanS

[get2grips]

We were benevolent and gave it as a gift to our Colonials

  Nope...think the second world war did for us...

Bankrupt;
Lost an Empire;
Rationing;
Bomb damaged cities;
Nearly 500 000 casualties.

And the pride of knowing we stood, ALONE (in the beginning), against THE most evil regime the world has ever seen.

[Sandinista]

Alone?

[Fenton]

Dont forget the 57% increase in the crime rate 

[fsn]

And Dunkirk. And selling out the Czechs. And the retreat from Kabul. Yorktown. The first Boer War. Having to be rescued by the Prussians at Waterloo. Having to be rescued by the French at Inkermann. And the fact that English armies lost the English Civil War, the Baron's Wars, the Wars of the Roses, Hastings....

France 1940 was a very small British army being evacuated when a very big French army collapsed. The army at Waterloo was a allied one - more Germans than British (even a big chunk of the "British" army was Kings German Legion) and Wellington was holding until the Prussians could link up.  

also losing to the Dutch and having their leader made king

Anything's better than a Catholic. I think Willy 3 was more of an invitee than a proper conqueror. His wife, after all was in line of succession.

[get2grips]

Alone?

As a nation, at that time, yes!  This is not to belittle the efforts of thousands of partizans and Nazi resistors.

[fsn]

Ah! The Resistance!

Why do we never speak of the collaborators?

[Orcs]

Ah! The Resistance!

Why do we never speak of the collaborators?

I watched a documentary the other day and apparently in Northern France in 1940/41 only 1% of the French resisted in any way.

This however is not what i have found - All the French Totty I have tried to conquer have resisted 100%. 

Although there was a quite attractive waitress in Normandy this year who did give me extra helpings of Whipped Cream,  or Chantilly Plus was what she actually said.   

[clibinarium]

Anything's better than a Catholic. I think Willy 3 was more of an invitee than a proper conqueror. His wife, after all was in line of succession.

?

[Fenton]

Ah! The Resistance!

Why do we never speak of the collaborators?

I have just been reading about the British Free Corps...Interesting stuff

[Ithoriel]

Alone ... so Australia, Canada, India, etc were just no-account colonials not worth mentioning!??

Pretty much every nation has had it's up and it's downs on the world stage. It's moments of heroism and it's times of ignominy.

"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...." ― George Bernard Shaw