The Final Battle of Yorktown

[ogarrrr]

@stalkingalizee The normans conquered England, they were North men or Vikings. Does the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 ring nay bells, the seven years war, the fact that Britain owned most of France until we finally got kicked out after the 100 years war, the Napoleonic wars, the Great War in which we had to take heavy casualties at the Somme so that you could vainly hold onto Verdun, WW2 in which half of your country was undere Nazi control, the half was under Nazi influence.

[ogarrrr]

Interestingly the one battle where the French beat the British, the Americans where mostly camp workers such as cooks etc. After the battle the commanders of the French and British forces dined together, the Yanks weren't included.

[paintballKid545]

im american and not to offend anyother american here but if the british sent as many troops as it did against for example napoleon then we would not have won the war

[boss180888]

@paintballKid545 they didn't have that big an army...

[paintballKid545]

@boss180888 WHAT! england had one of the most largest and most effecient army in the world also if you read my comment it says IF they sent a full force READ FIRST

[paintballKid545]

@boss180888 WHAT! england had one of the most largest and most effecient army in the world also if you read my comment it says IF they sent a full force READ FIRST also i wasnt talking about the battle itself i was talking about the whole war

[boss180888]

@paintballKid545 look, they never had over 100 thousand men in their army before victoria's era( and maybe even much less) while the french for example had 400'000 men in their army with louis XIV and about a million at napoleon's top power, so YES the british never had much of an army!! and at the american revolution the best army in qualitiy was the prussian whereas the strongest armies overall were the french,austrian and russian's, the british had a decent army but it wasn't even close...

[paintballKid545]

@boss180888 You think 40,000 men isn't alot

[boss180888]

@paintballKid545 yes, that is what i just said. when compared to the numbers i gave you of the other major powers.

[paintballKid545]

@boss180888 there are more factors that effect battle then numbers. Manuverabillity, terrain, weather, speed, the list is endless

[boss180888]

@paintballKid545 and 1v1 quality,yes, i know captain obvious, the thing is england never realistically had any chance to invade france alone with success, while france could grab 1/3 of it's army any time and destroy england if it wasn't an island surrounded by their navy.

[paintballKid545]

@boss180888 Wow way to speak about something all to obvious

[boss180888]

@paintballKid545 so you agree?...lol

[paintballKid545]

@boss180888 I agree with the logic of what you just said which actually had nothing to do with the main arguement which you couldn't even stay on topic with

[boss180888]

@paintballKid545 ooooh you meant 40 yhousand was a lot in the «american rovolution war»? yes yes sure it was a lot but i never heard any country that moves 100% of their troops to one location so...anyway that's enough, good day to you then!

[paintballKid545]

@boss180888 yessss now you understand

[RUPERTDOUGLAS90]

It wasn't only the USA tired of Brit trash and their bullshit, France, spain, and many other countries were also tired of England trash and their bullshit at the time.

[jimbo271uk]

@RUPERTDOUGLAS90 fair enough, but we still managed to burn Washington to the ground in 1814,lol

[KingsofSparta]

the french are only good at two things:

1.kissing

2. surrendering

[tk291100]

@KingsofSparta - B R I T I S H E P I C F A I L- LOL The british got their ASS KOCK OUT by the french and american. One high british ranking oficer or watever they called that, have an heart attack upon hearing the French will help the American. :-)

[KingsofSparta]

@tk291100 go away you bizzare human being

[TheIceman567]

@tk291100 And glad to have France as an ally and glad France was there :o)

[stalkingalizee]

@KingsofSparta Is that why France has the best battle record in history? People seem to forget we defeated Germany 3 times, conquered England, saved Europe from the Moors, conquered continental Europe and had an empire that when the sun rose on one end, the sun fell on the other. Lets not forget now... we overthrew two dictators in one year. Kiss that...

[KingsofSparta]

@stalkingalizee ? ilet me remind you of napoleon defeat at waterloo, french needed help from usa and britian to win ww2, i have plenty more but i can't be asked to write as its late bye :)

[stalkingalizee]

@KingsofSparta Let me remind you Napoleon defeated himself long before that facing Russian winter. The force at Waterloo was not the Grande Armee but a motley bunch of garrison loyalists outnumbered 2:1 by a Prussian-Anglo alliance. I was not referring to WWII as that would be as bad as Nazis beating UK sitting in Poland's spot. France defeated Germany as the HRE in the 30yrs War, as Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars and in WWI. 3X they surrendered to us... I have 200 other victories to write

[KingsofSparta]

@stalkingalizee i dont care give the history lesson to someone else

[TheIceman567]

@stalkingalizee No man The British needed help even in Waterloo the Prussians saved Britain's ass in the Battle. The british never won vs. Napoleon on their own.

[robertbatty]

up the Dukes the Duke of Wellingtons Regiment

[kevinkards1]

tratiors

[TrollWarlord28]

nice camp colorful hhahaha

[jansoir1982]

George Woodbridge (american historian illustrator) summed up the Yorktown campaign in the following words: "The strategy of the campaign was Rochambeaus. The french fleet was there as a result of his arrangement. The tactics of the battle were his. The american army was present because he had lent money to Washington. In total naval and military participants, the french outnumbered the americans between three or four to one. Yorktown is Rochambeau's victory. "

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@jansoir1982

this wasnt even a fuckng battle. 6,000 brits surrendered after some 150 KIA

There must be something terrifying about the French Navy

[patriots497]

helped out alot, gee thx. =P

[UnitedProviences]

He left out the French, how can you forget their 11,500 troops.

[rockandstroll]

@UnitedProviences Agreed, America take far to much credit for this war, they always boast about saving countries asses in the word war, but the French certainly saved their asses here, something they rarely mention.

[formigny]

Bonjour,

Le marquis de Rochambeau n'était pas amiral mais bien général du corps expéditionnaire français de Virginie. Il y eu aussi l'amiral De Grasse qui commandait la flotte française dans la Chessapeake.

Salutation et friendly from France