What are some of the most embarrassing 'victories' in history?
>What are 'force multipliers'
>>1276750
Something chinashills edited out of the summary.
>The defense was also stiffened by a significant number of British-supplied mortars, two batteries of French-supplied 75mm field guns and several 2 pdr anti-tank guns. Also of great importance were eight new U.S.-supplied M2A1 tanks which were deployed within the city itself.
>>1276758
Also there is almost zero chance that three IJA divisions had 600 artillery pieces. Chink revisionism at work.
>>1276671
It's technically a german victory for having driven out the Free French Forces from the Bir Hakeim well, in spite of the cost engendered for the germans.
>French and Spanish were forced to use illegal chemical weapons
>>1276780
>putting French first
If my memory serves me right, the war revolved mostly around Spaniards and their ineptiness at chasing down Rif tribes.
The war lasted from 1920 to 1926, but France aided Spain only in 1925 to confine the rebellion only to Spanish Morrocco, for it not to spread to French Morrocco.
>In May 1924, the French Army had established a line of out-posts north of the Oureghla River in disputed tribal territory. On 12 April 1925, an estimated 8,000[15] Rifians attacked this line and in two weeks over 40 of 66 French posts had been stormed or abandoned. French casualties exceeded 1,000 killed, 3,700 wounded and 1,000 missing – representing losses of over 20 percent of their forces deployed in the Rif.[16] The French accordingly intervened on the side of Spain, employing up to 160,000 well trained and equipped troops from Metropolitan, Algerian, Senegalese and Foreign Legion units, as well as Moroccan regulars (tirailleurs) and auxiliaries (goumiers). With total Spanish forces now numbering about 90,000 the Rifian forces were now seriously outnumbered by their Franco-Spanish opponents.[17] Final French deaths from battle and disease, in what had now become a major war, were to total 8,628.[18]
Don't blame us for the fuck-ups of Spaniards :3!
>>1276775
Foreign legion ftw
>>1276836
Damn they sure hid that from me at school.
That said, my grandfather reciprocated that humiliation on the arabs by torturing some in the Algerian war.
*grandfather teleports behing arab*
*unsheathes katana*
Nothin personal kid
>>1276824
Were the Free French Forces mainly comprised of Foreign Legion soldiers? First time that that's been told to me.
>>1276810
That's the grammatically correct way retard.
>>1276876
Why wouldn't "Spaniards and French" function too?
Also
>retard
Am I being called that by someone that knows only a single language, and is foreign to all the pains of wielding another language?
Lovely.
How can anyone fuck up this bad?
>>1276886
Over half the english force are pleb sailors, they are attacking forts.
>>1276671
Why do you run off and post this on other boards when you get BTFO?
>>1277540
I don't know. Why did you make it up?
>>1276671
It was so bad that Vietnam pretty much tried to erase the incident from public memory.
> “Many young Vietnamese people don’t know about this anniversary because the truth has been covered. Even elderly people don’t have any information about this battle”, said Le Trong Duc, 34, one of the protesters in Hanoi.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/anti-china-protesters/2599738.html
>>1276769
>not present in the area
Gets me every time.
>>1279634
>9 men
>200 dead
>>1276775
another rule of french warfare: Only the French who renounced their country may sometime win
>>1280958
how witty
>>1276849
>my grandpa reciprocated that humiliation on the arabs by torturing some in the Algerian War
Story time anon, don't leave me hanging
>>1276769
I wish we didn't have to have meme shit. I used to hope /his/ would actually be about history and not competing with reddit for shitposting.
>>1279572
Learning well from their colonial masters.
>>1276671
>What are some of the most embarrassing 'victories' in history?
All nazi memes aside - WWII
The Russians take it another pathetic level and actually celebrate it.
>>1281436
Moot did say a history board would end up being /pol/ but with dates
>>1281060
He was a french soldier conscripted into the ranks by 1956, and was stationed in Algers while the city was being requisitioned by the army as base, and its buildings were being ransacked and closely inspected in search of FLN soldiers. Tortures by the french army (though don't delude yourself either, the FLN were far rampant in using it against pieds-noirs and Muslims siding with the french) were most widespread during that period (now known as the "battle of Algers").
Those details, combined with that he's never opened up to his experience, neither to me, nor his wife and children, have somewhat confirmed to me that he underwent fucked-up shit there and probably had to either witness, or contribute to some scenes of torture.
So yeah my grandfather probably tortured Muslims. I'm happy that it runs in the bloodline at least.
>>1281714
Who is Moot? Do you mean mot?
>>1282041
Moot... moot's dead.
>>1276671
>pyhrric victories don't exist
What did faggot OP mean by this?
>>1282991
Nothing in the OP contradicts the idea that pyrrhic victories exist.
>>1283007
t. Hayreddin Barbarossa
