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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (75430)	2/19/2003 1:47:51 AM
From: Herschel Rubin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"And France did win WWI, even if it needed America to apply the coup de grace. " You're joking, right?... Are there people who really can write sentences like this with a straight face?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (75430)	2/19/2003 1:01:16 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

France and WWI comes under the category of "France only wins when America does most of the fighting." Napoleon was a special case. He was Corsican, and his best troops were Polish.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (75430)	2/19/2003 1:13:58 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<France did win WWI, even if it needed America to apply the coup de grace> By the time the U.S. entered the war in 1917, the French were on the verge of collapse. There were widespread mutinies in the French Army. The soldiers refused orders to attack; their army was incapable of offensive action, morale was extremely poor. The Germans had decisively defeated the Russians and Italians. If the U.S. had not entered the war, in 1918 the Germans would have (for the first time in the war) been able to concentrate all their forces on the Western Front, and been in Paris by the fall of 1918. Even with the U.S. entry into the war, the Germans almost made it to Paris in 1918.