Dunkirk

>Britain swears to protect their ally, France
>After the first skirmishes the British Army retreated
>General Alexander says no ground forces should engage the enemy, and that his men are "tired"
>Pull all British troops to a beach and sit there doing nothing for days
>France holds the line, vowing on a soldier to soldier level to defend the British sitting on the beach so they can evacuate
>Dig in and perform exceptionally well given them being outnumbered and fight with tenacity more than comparable to Japs in Iwo Jima
>Only British to participate in the battle are RAF
>British consider this a victory
>British consider French cowards
>British think they weren't cowards

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You forgot the last one.
> Britain survives to win the war.

>Britain survives
Lmao

Wew

>Implying any empire survived, allies or not

Let me make it more accurate and shorter for you.

>Britain supposed to control the sea
>France control the land
>French high command bicker amongst themselves and disgrace their nation by allowing sedan
>BEF is cut off when French high command commit one of the most embarrassing and incompetent fighting retreat in history, effectively handing the wehrmacht an easy victory
>BEF knows it's fucked, French local command wants britain to continue the fight and heroically defends the evacuation.
>Nobody in britain ever considers this a victory
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>Very same soldiers from BEF help liberate france from inevitable communism future

>where is the commonwealth

left out the part where the british were planning on returning -as in movement orders drafted loading schedules worked out and rough operational plans being worked out- right up until they heard the armistice was signed, and the remaining british units in france essentially held their sections of the front together until they ran out of ammo.

the retreat from dunkirk was meant to be tactical not strategic, to get out of the pocket and carry on the fight, the french collapsed too quickly

France is exceedingly pathetic in WWI.

They just fucking captured Paris and you niggers surrender? Holy shit. Poles resisted until the whole country was BTFO. The important bits of Northern China was occupied by the japs but the Chinks continued to fight tooth and fucking nail.

But France? oooh voolyvoo fransay, la belle city is captoored, we must surrendre.

>This thread again

Fucking kill yourself

>this thread again

They made sure to create commie empire.

>ww 1

please go american

>Nobody in britain ever considers this a victory
That's a lie mate and you know it

>In his speech to the House of Commons on 4 June, Churchill reminded the country that "we must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations."

All I've gathered from your post is that the French were supposed to defend their homeland and they failed miserably by getting utterly blown the fuck out by the Germans.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, nearly 70,000 Brit soldiers were wounded, captured or killed in the defensive battle to protect the evacuation of French and British soldiers.

Fucking anglos never had to fought a single war on their soil and still think they amount something.

The whole world is Anglo soil.

>my wife's soil

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yes since you put the stool in the pool instead of the loo

maybe because they are so good that they dont let the enemy step one foot on their soil.

Or maybe it just because their nations are surrounded by a large body of water, which one is it i wonder..

And maybe water doesn't matter to airplanes and the Luftwaffe outnumbered the RAF, creating the possibility of the RAF being destroyed, followed by a sweep of the Chanel of British ships, followed by an invasion of the Wehrmacht, which the British army had almost no hope of repealling

>it's that same inadequate Frenchman who posts these threads several times a week

>empire = great britain
Come on now, a british man living in london wouldn't consider australia a part of his homeland.

>creating the possibility of the RAF being destroyed
Are you retarded? There was no possibility of the RAF being destroyed, since they could do something as breathtakingly brilliant as "Base their planes out of fighter escort making it suicidal to bomb them."

>followed by a sweep of the Chanel of British ships, followed by an invasion of the Wehrmacht, which the British army had almost no hope of repealling
Adorable. philmasters.org.uk/SF/Sealion.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame)

Come o, now, a British man living in London couldn't be considered an Englishman.

These threads are always a waste of time because you start them from such a slanted and dishonest angle that it puts actual propaganda to shame.
>Only British to participate in the battle are RAF
Flat-out 100 percent lie, for instance. The British spent more time in combat than they did outside of it and even attempted counterattacks at Heuvelland.
If one wanted to correct history you could point to the heroic French defence at Lille. There is more than enough material to vindicate France without fabricating a history as wrong as the first one.

>France
Who cares, they can't even protect themselves.

Unfortunely films are sold on loose facts and heroic tales, but your second example proves my point.


Also, i'm not saying it wasn't an outstanding result. The effort and amount of men saved should not be disregarded just because it wasn't a victory. Any less may have changed world history

Some empires got bigger.

Ah, yes the unstoppable Kreigsmarine