Woop woop, another Spanish victory. Who cares about the other side, we fucking won 😎 soy español a qué quieres que te gane????
>You heard what Koch just said. Bir Hakeim is new evidence of the thesis I always defended: the French are, after us, the best soldiers in Europe. Even with its current birth rate, France will always be able to field a hundred divisions. After the war, we will absolutely have to build a coalition which may contain a country capable of military exploits such as Bir Hakeim wich stun the world.
Hitler after the Battle of Bir Hakeim where 3700 French soldiers held their position for 16 days against close to 40 000 soldiers of the Afrika Korps and their italian allies.
Hitler also had personnally thought french soldiers during WW1.
Imagine getting killed by a bloke wearing tights and a chainmail miniskirt. You’d be mortified
I tried but I didn’t find anything nice that soviets have said about us during ww2, they found us stubborn and annoying.
Bertrand du Guesclin French? He was hardly considered nobility – so called “minor nobility” and he was definitely not French. He was Breton. Britanny was only incorporated into France 200 years later. This is like saying Paul von Hindenburg was a Polish General and President.
To add: his presence in Castile in 1367 was not under French flag, he helped Count Henry of Trastámara, fighting for the crown of Castile and Leon. All current day Spain.
[edit] Wow, a downvote within a minute. Someone is offended, lol.
I think there was a French President that said that our food wasn’t the worst in the world, which is high praise indeed from a Pierre, even if it was only because you hate Finnish food more.
Ignore him Pierre, please walk calmly towards our longbows.
Super fierce tights.
In 1566, **Dutch nobles petitioned the Spanish regen**t to relent in the suppression of protestantism in the Low Countries. When the nobles presented their petition to the regent, one of her councillors, Berlaymont exclaimed something along the lines of **”Fear not madam, they are nothing but beggars’** (N’ayez pas peur Madame, ce ne sont que des gueux) The nobles did not forget this insult, and started using it as a badge of honour. Days later, one of the movement’s leaders, Henry of Brederode, declared that they were all ‘willing to become beggars for their country’. When the insurrection started to gain power, rebel privateers threw their lot in with the movement, dubbed themselves the ‘Sea Beggars’, started attacking Spanish forces, and liberated the city of Brielle
I don’t remember it exactly, but a british (que asco) sailor once said “If I see a spaniard it better be by sea, because if it is by land may Saint George protect us”
Far in western reaches of Iberia there is a people that cant rule itself nor do they allow to be ruled by others. 🫶
What is this humble bragging? Are we collectively going to suck our own cocks here?
In France we have an expression when a woman is having her period.
We say: “the British are invading”
>!Because it will be bloody, or maybe because of their red uniforms !<
“I pretty much liked the Hungarians, Ive never seen happier people having fun in our monastery ever”
Heribert, monk of St Gallen, 926AD
They dubbed our invasion and hostile power grab a ‘glorious revolution’.
Seeing how me managed to defeat ourselves at Karansebes, anything nice said about us is probably a lie.
Don’t think we’ve ever received much praise from our european rivals
the only one i can think of was Admiral Gravina on his deathbed saying ‘I am a dying man, but I die happy; I am going, I hope and trust, to join Nelson, the greatest hero that the world perhaps has produced.’
Or maybe Bittrich talking about British paras at arnhem saying ‘in all my years as a soldier, i have never seen men fight so hard’
Talking from memory and I’m sure military historians will correct me:
Isn’t that the battle where someone lost a heart of a dead man that was carrying in a box on tour through Europe?
Barry, let me swoon into your arms
Goethe composed a poem called Mignons Gesang, aka Kennst du das Land?, and it’s one of the most flattering odes to Italy.
Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn,
Im dunklen Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn,
Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht,
Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht,
Kennst du es wohl?
Dahin! Dahin
Möcht’ ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehn.
Do you know the land where lemon trees blossom;
where golden oranges glow amid dark leaves?
A gentle wind blows from the blue sky,
the myrtle stands silent, the laurel tall:
do you know it?
There, O there
I desire to go with you, my beloved!
Caesar called the Belgians(Belgica) a very brave people
Although they were celts, and thus not related to the current Belgians
I don’t think the sea has ever said anything nice about us. The other rivalries aren’t important.
**~The Dutch in the Medway.~**
**(1664-72)**
**By Rudyard Kipling**.
***If wars were won by feasting,***
***Or victory by song,***
***Or safety found, by sleeping sound***
***How England would be strong!***
***But honour and dominion***
***Are not maintained so,***
***Threy’re only got by sword and shot***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
***The moneys that should feed us***
***you spend on your delight,***
***How can you then, have sailor-men***
***To aid you in your fight?***
***Our fish and cheese are rotten,***
***Which makes the scurvy grow –***
***We cannot serve you if we starve,***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
***Our ships in every harbour***
***Be neither whole nor sound,***
***And when we seek to mend a leak,***
***No Oakum can be found,***
***Or, if it is, the caulkers,***
***and carpenters also,***
***For lack of pay have gone away,***
***And this the Dutch men know!***
***Mere powder, guns and bullets,***
***we scarce can get at all;***
***Their price was spent in merriment***
***and revel at Whitehall,***
***While we in tattered doublets***
***From ship to ship must row,***
***Beseeching friends for odds and ends –***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
***No King will heed our warnings,***
***No Court will pay our claims –***
***Our King and Court for their disport***
***Do sell the very Thames!***
***For, now De Ruyter’s topsails***
***Off naked Chatham show,***
***We dare not meet him with our fleet –***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
It’s kind of hot how naturally submissive the English and Welsh are. They just want to serve their Franco-Norman masters.
Not sure what the rivals say, but the spanish tried a lot and werw only able to take Portugal due to a succession difficulty and even then they got kicked out after only 60 years. Even napoleon’s troops were left hanging at the doors of the Cidade Invicta. When the spanish came with armies our breadmakers turned them into loafs, never doubt our love for cod and our land.
You guys have rivals?
Reinhard Heydrich said this about Czechs:
“You can persuade or break a Nordic or Germanic man. A Czech, a Slav, is hard to persuade, he will always bend, and you will never break him. And the consequence of this is that we must constantly step on him so that he always remains bent, so that he will obey us and cooperate.”
I guess that’s a compliment. He also got shafted by Czech-Slovak commandos as the only high-ranking Nazi official ever assasinated, so in a way he was proven right.
The byzantine emperor loved our soldiers. I believe king Harald Hardradi was the commander of the varangian guard at one point.
Edit; there were danish and swedish aswell in the guard but Norwegians was most prevalent i believe.
Oh my, I haven’t used this phrase in eons but that’s what my brain instantly shot at me:
“Game recognises game.” Something like that?
Most intelligent Frenchman.
A Frenchie recently told me with have the second best football squad in Europe.
I’ll take it. France v England final at the Euro’s.
France to win on penalties obviously.
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Woop woop, another Spanish victory. Who cares about the other side, we fucking won 😎 soy español a qué quieres que te gane????
>You heard what Koch just said. Bir Hakeim is new evidence of the thesis I always defended: the French are, after us, the best soldiers in Europe. Even with its current birth rate, France will always be able to field a hundred divisions. After the war, we will absolutely have to build a coalition which may contain a country capable of military exploits such as Bir Hakeim wich stun the world.
Hitler after the Battle of Bir Hakeim where 3700 French soldiers held their position for 16 days against close to 40 000 soldiers of the Afrika Korps and their italian allies.
Hitler also had personnally thought french soldiers during WW1.
Imagine getting killed by a bloke wearing tights and a chainmail miniskirt. You’d be mortified
I tried but I didn’t find anything nice that soviets have said about us during ww2, they found us stubborn and annoying.
Bertrand du Guesclin French? He was hardly considered nobility – so called “minor nobility” and he was definitely not French. He was Breton. Britanny was only incorporated into France 200 years later. This is like saying Paul von Hindenburg was a Polish General and President.
To add: his presence in Castile in 1367 was not under French flag, he helped Count Henry of Trastámara, fighting for the crown of Castile and Leon. All current day Spain.
[edit] Wow, a downvote within a minute. Someone is offended, lol.
I think there was a French President that said that our food wasn’t the worst in the world, which is high praise indeed from a Pierre, even if it was only because you hate Finnish food more.
Ignore him Pierre, please walk calmly towards our longbows.
Super fierce tights.
In 1566, **Dutch nobles petitioned the Spanish regen**t to relent in the suppression of protestantism in the Low Countries. When the nobles presented their petition to the regent, one of her councillors, Berlaymont exclaimed something along the lines of **”Fear not madam, they are nothing but beggars’** (N’ayez pas peur Madame, ce ne sont que des gueux) The nobles did not forget this insult, and started using it as a badge of honour. Days later, one of the movement’s leaders, Henry of Brederode, declared that they were all ‘willing to become beggars for their country’. When the insurrection started to gain power, rebel privateers threw their lot in with the movement, dubbed themselves the ‘Sea Beggars’, started attacking Spanish forces, and liberated the city of Brielle
I don’t remember it exactly, but a british (que asco) sailor once said “If I see a spaniard it better be by sea, because if it is by land may Saint George protect us”
Far in western reaches of Iberia there is a people that cant rule itself nor do they allow to be ruled by others. 🫶
What is this humble bragging? Are we collectively going to suck our own cocks here?
In France we have an expression when a woman is having her period.
We say: “the British are invading”
>!Because it will be bloody, or maybe because of their red uniforms !<
“I pretty much liked the Hungarians, Ive never seen happier people having fun in our monastery ever”
Heribert, monk of St Gallen, 926AD
They dubbed our invasion and hostile power grab a ‘glorious revolution’.
Seeing how me managed to defeat ourselves at Karansebes, anything nice said about us is probably a lie.
Don’t think we’ve ever received much praise from our european rivals
the only one i can think of was Admiral Gravina on his deathbed saying ‘I am a dying man, but I die happy; I am going, I hope and trust, to join Nelson, the greatest hero that the world perhaps has produced.’
Or maybe Bittrich talking about British paras at arnhem saying ‘in all my years as a soldier, i have never seen men fight so hard’
Talking from memory and I’m sure military historians will correct me:
Isn’t that the battle where someone lost a heart of a dead man that was carrying in a box on tour through Europe?
Barry, let me swoon into your arms
Goethe composed a poem called Mignons Gesang, aka Kennst du das Land?, and it’s one of the most flattering odes to Italy.
Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn,
Im dunklen Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn,
Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht,
Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht,
Kennst du es wohl?
Dahin! Dahin
Möcht’ ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehn.
Do you know the land where lemon trees blossom;
where golden oranges glow amid dark leaves?
A gentle wind blows from the blue sky,
the myrtle stands silent, the laurel tall:
do you know it?
There, O there
I desire to go with you, my beloved!
Caesar called the Belgians(Belgica) a very brave people
Although they were celts, and thus not related to the current Belgians
I don’t think the sea has ever said anything nice about us. The other rivalries aren’t important.
**~The Dutch in the Medway.~**
**(1664-72)**
**By Rudyard Kipling**.
***If wars were won by feasting,***
***Or victory by song,***
***Or safety found, by sleeping sound***
***How England would be strong!***
***But honour and dominion***
***Are not maintained so,***
***Threy’re only got by sword and shot***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
***The moneys that should feed us***
***you spend on your delight,***
***How can you then, have sailor-men***
***To aid you in your fight?***
***Our fish and cheese are rotten,***
***Which makes the scurvy grow –***
***We cannot serve you if we starve,***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
***Our ships in every harbour***
***Be neither whole nor sound,***
***And when we seek to mend a leak,***
***No Oakum can be found,***
***Or, if it is, the caulkers,***
***and carpenters also,***
***For lack of pay have gone away,***
***And this the Dutch men know!***
***Mere powder, guns and bullets,***
***we scarce can get at all;***
***Their price was spent in merriment***
***and revel at Whitehall,***
***While we in tattered doublets***
***From ship to ship must row,***
***Beseeching friends for odds and ends –***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
***No King will heed our warnings,***
***No Court will pay our claims –***
***Our King and Court for their disport***
***Do sell the very Thames!***
***For, now De Ruyter’s topsails***
***Off naked Chatham show,***
***We dare not meet him with our fleet –***
***And this the Dutchmen know!***
It’s kind of hot how naturally submissive the English and Welsh are. They just want to serve their Franco-Norman masters.
Not sure what the rivals say, but the spanish tried a lot and werw only able to take Portugal due to a succession difficulty and even then they got kicked out after only 60 years. Even napoleon’s troops were left hanging at the doors of the Cidade Invicta. When the spanish came with armies our breadmakers turned them into loafs, never doubt our love for cod and our land.
You guys have rivals?
Reinhard Heydrich said this about Czechs:
“You can persuade or break a Nordic or Germanic man. A Czech, a Slav, is hard to persuade, he will always bend, and you will never break him. And the consequence of this is that we must constantly step on him so that he always remains bent, so that he will obey us and cooperate.”
I guess that’s a compliment. He also got shafted by Czech-Slovak commandos as the only high-ranking Nazi official ever assasinated, so in a way he was proven right.
The byzantine emperor loved our soldiers. I believe king Harald Hardradi was the commander of the varangian guard at one point.
Edit; there were danish and swedish aswell in the guard but Norwegians was most prevalent i believe.
Oh my, I haven’t used this phrase in eons but that’s what my brain instantly shot at me:
“Game recognises game.” Something like that?
Most intelligent Frenchman.
A Frenchie recently told me with have the second best football squad in Europe.
I’ll take it. France v England final at the Euro’s.
France to win on penalties obviously.