At 9/7/06 10:13 PM, Draculea wrote:At 9/7/06 11:22 AM, _holly_ wrote: Britain did defeat France. Trafalgar Britain destroyed the spanish and french navy .Did I say they didnt?
The Battle of Leipzig wouldn't of happened because before Britain stepped in, most of the allied forces in that battle were on napoleons side.What do you mean it wouldnt have happened? Britain wasnt involved in it. France lost a major defeat there, possibly one of the largest before WW1.
Russia managed to push france out of russia. (at the early stages of the war) If Britain hadn't stepped in, Spain,Portugal,germany,belgian, and france would of quite easily destroyed russia!You must not know much of the conflict, because Russia had decimated Napoleons army with just their weather. Technically Napoleon won the war, but he couldnt control the vast country and on his way home he lost more than 97% of his 691,500 manned army. If he had maintained the allied status with Russia, he could have focused his eyes on Britain, which he might have been able to defeat.
I' sorry but if Britain never was, french would be your national language.Go watch the history channel sometime, or do they not have that in Britain (or were you are from).
Not spanish...
France suffered huge defeat in russia but after russia napoleon regrouped with huge armies. The french loved him!
Britain Defeated Napoleon twice. They captured him twice. The British Embassy in france today is napoleons house!
Napoleon used a tactic in his armies that no other armie could withstand, the coloum, which was a huge block of men which just marched strait into the enemys formation and most just ran. These Coloums had 10's of thousands of men in,marching strait towards you would be incredibly frightning. They Defeated Prussians, spanish, portugese, Russians! But the British who had the best Infantry In the world (and the shittest cavalry)
Stood in line 3-4 ranks thick and the huge french coloums would march towards the lines which looked so weak and frail, and then the British would start firing Platoon fire 4-5 shots a minute which eventually destroyed the french coloums.
Welligton also had a number of german calvalry regiments which were the best in the world. The British Grenadiers and the Highlanders proved to be the very best Infantry And the royal green jackets.
Anyway the whole point of this was that you would be speaking french if it wasn't for the British, and you would of because instead of Britain being the dominant power of north america it would of been the french.
