AET?
Anyway that was a wholely indecisive conflict that was never resolved separately as it just merged with the War of the Austrian Succession.
I daresay the Romans would disagree.
Anyway, at the risk of coming off as a humorless wet blanket, I’ll just note that despite atrocious performances in a few conflicts ( perhaps most notably the Franco-Prussian War and the opening phase of WW II ), French military history has plenty of distinguished and impressive moments.
Methinks you are nit picking here mate, Italy changed sides when they deposed Mussolini so for all intents and purposes they lost and ended up on the winning side…if that makes sense
TAMERLANE: AET= After Extra Time (soccer talk)
As for the Romans disagreeing you have to remember that at the time of the Height of the Roman Empire they were about the only civilized country on earth, in other words they had nothing to beat.
Yeah, they did sort of the same thing in WWI, so they seem to be pretty good at that. Call it superior strategy!
Ah, a Britishism. Fair enough :).
I daresay the Parthians and Sassanian Persians would disagree ;). Indeed at times, such as at Carrhae or Edessa, they were quite forceful in their disagreement.
This has to count for something
It is calculated that New Zealand lost nearly one third of its entire male population to World War 1, taking the country over two generations to recover, and seriously impacting on the economy of the country for the next 30 years. During the Great War, New Zealand raised 110,368 troops for active service overseas, of which number 100,444 actually proceeded overseas for service. The number of New Zealand men killed, directly and indirectly in the Great War was over 17,500.
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There was the rarely mention conflict over Bosnovia in 1927, I believe the entire country was wiped out by some kind of death ray.