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**rickshaw-major** · 27-05-2009, 10:44

Originally Posted by Sixty

Did you lot all fall asleep during your LOAC training? Never get away with another Agincourt after the prisoners incident last time.

Now you've done it! The fecking PC pinko brigade will be out in force complaining about anything with a UK leaning.

And some dotty, sandal-wearing, corduroyed, bearded, bespectacled, lefty, Guardian-reading, apologetic fecking looney who "lectures" at some sh1t "University" will start whining about war crimes and how "we" should pay cash to the good citizenry of France and of all the other sh1tty countries we have suppressed.

There - I feel better now and it's time for lunch

**Cuddles** · 27-05-2009, 10:45

Erm...I'm not sure that we would want a rerun of Trafalgar these days...our gallant boys in blue could muster some 45 surface combattants (on paper) plus another 20 or so minor warships and 13 subs. The combined Franco-Spanish fleet however would include some 48 surface combattants, 30 minor warships and 14 subs. They would also have air superiority. As for their marines, they outnumber poor old Royal by a high ratio - have their own armour and some baby tanks.

Waterloo would also be a close run thing!

**Grownup_Rafbrat** · 27-05-2009, 10:48

Originally Posted by Cuddles

Erm...I'm not sure that we would want a rerun of Trafalgar these days...our gallant boys in blue could muster some 45 surface combattants (on paper) plus another 20 or so minor warships and 13 subs. The combined Franco-Spanish fleet however would include some 48 surface combattants, 30 minor warships and 14 subs. They would also have air superiority. As for their marines, they outnumber poor old Royal by a high ratio - have their own armour and some baby tanks.

Waterloo would also be a close run thing!

As indeed it was last time.

**light_projector** · 27-05-2009, 10:57

Why the feck is it held in France anyway - should be in Portsmouth where it all started.

I'm sure all the Brit and Canuk vets would rather be in Pompey drinking English beer than kissing some garlic reeking frog.

**Werewolf** · 27-05-2009, 10:58

Originally Posted by Grownup_Rafbrat

Originally Posted by Cuddles

Erm...I'm not sure that we would want a rerun of Trafalgar these days...our gallant boys in blue could muster some 45 surface combattants (on paper) plus another 20 or so minor warships and 13 subs. The combined Franco-Spanish fleet however would include some 48 surface combattants, 30 minor warships and 14 subs. They would also have air superiority. As for their marines, they outnumber poor old Royal by a high ratio - have their own armour and some baby tanks.

Waterloo would also be a close run thing!

As indeed it was last time.

Wellington was the first to admit it. He credited Blucher's Prussians arriving late in the day as being one of the things that turned the battle in his favour.

**rampant** · 27-05-2009, 11:09

Battle of Cravant
Battle of Vernuei
Battle of St. James
Battle of La Hogue
Battle of Schellenberg
Battle of Blenheim
Battle of Ramilles
Battle of Oudenarde
Battle of Wijnendale
Battle of Malplaquet
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Battle of Montreal
Battle of the Saints
Battle of the Blue Licks
Battle of Ballinamuck
Battle of Aboukir
Battle of Rolica
Battle of Vimeiro
Battle of Porto (2nd)
Battle of Talavera
Battle of Barrosa
Battle of Lissa
Battle of Albuera
Battle of Badajoz
Battle of Salamanca
Battle of Vittoria
Battle of Sorauren
Battle of Orthez
Battle of Montmarte
Battle of Toulouse

Boy that's tiring did I miss any?

**Sixty** · 27-05-2009, 11:15

Originally Posted by rampant

Boy that's tiring did I miss any?

Yes. The Battle of BaugÃ©.

**rampant** · 27-05-2009, 11:18

Originally Posted by Sixty

Originally Posted by rampant

Boy that's tiring did I miss any?

Oi, rubbin their nose in it not ours. (Although I do have a soft spot for beating the English).

**fantassin** · 27-05-2009, 11:29

Bad choice of photo to induce French bashing...the veteran on the right has been decorated by the French with their highest honour, the Legion dâ€™Honneur...not bad for a country supposedly snubbing veterans...

PS: If HM wants to come, itâ€™s really simple, just return the exhibition ship HMY Britannia to duty....no need to ask for hospitality then....