'blaggard Margrave flensed violently' is a googlewhack. Makes sense too...vaguely.

Weird site though!

lol, wtf is that site all about?

I don't know any "googlewhacks," but go to google, type "french military victories" and click the "I'm feeling lucky button." (NOTE: NOT search)

also if you type "find chuck norris" and then push the "im feeling lucky button" it has a similar result

Lol. Though actually that site is inaccurate. The French have won a war. Just One problem. There was no deaths, no battles, and no casualties. Not even a confrontation. A single family or small country (can't remember which) declared war against them because the French King insulted them.

Actually my name is a googlewhack. Apparently I published one thing in college that made it onto the internet without my knowledge.

Wow, my name (First, Middle and last name- in that order) gets 407,000 hits.

As far as I can tell, 2/407,000 actually refer to me.

A true googlewhack s 2 word, that when typed into google, bring up 1 result.

is 2 words*

Here's one that's two words and one result. Inspired, by woooo himself. Warning: This could break this thread. =/

"impale wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

And now phpDip joins the few sites on the internet that have ever used that many o's in an exclamation of woooo...

how about Chrispminis sodmized?

Sadly to be truly inspired, you would need to be able to type "victoire militaire francaise" into google.fr Sadly it lists many many websites given over to French wins!

If you do much searching for specific strings of words (i.e. with the search words in quotation marks), then you'll find lots of stuff with few, one, or no hits..
But that breaks the rule of only being two words long I guess.

That French Military Victories thing is funny, but completely wrong. The French were on the winning side in both WW1 and WW2.

@amonkeyperson - where the hell did you find that?!

Spy, that doesn't mean that France were doing well, now does it?

France was overun in WW2!

But of course it's not true, but it's still funny.

@spyman "They were on the winning side in both WW1 and WW2"

Well so was Paraguay, who officially declared war on Germany three days before the end of both wars... it doesn't mean they did anything to help.

I think that is France's biggest problem with Britain... they can't bring themselves to admit that we saved them.

They didn't invite our Royals to the D-Day commemorations this year. Furthermore, they claimed it was primarily a Franco-American event!

Wow amonkeyperson. I'm impressed. Two unrelated posts on a forum for a game I used to play. =D

Doesn't Napolean count for the French?

Napoleon was Corsican, with his family originally hailing from the Italian mainland. The original spelling of his name was 'Buonaparte'. In his youth he was a Corsican nationalist.

yeah but most of his marshalls were french and their troops were french so they have to count

Very true. You have to bear in mind though that virtually every major battle the French won he was in command. Areas where he was not in command tended to be problematic. Examples are Italy after his initial campaigns and the Iberian peninsula. Haiti is also another good example. It was his leadership that was the deciding factor. French armies of the time were good, but they couldn't win wars without his leadership.

Hereward, I believe the Corsica was sold to the French just prior to Napoleon's birth, so he would be French, would he not? If that were not the case he could not have ascended to become Emperor. It's sort of funny in that if Corsica hadn't been secretly sold to France, it would still be Genoese and Napoleon would never have been able to do the things he did.

You're right, it was sold to France. I really don't think that 'made' him French any more than the French creating the Confederation of the Rhine made Bavarians Rhinelanders. As far as I recall Napoleon was sent to France to remove him from the influence of the insurgency in Corsica. I can't remember the name of the particular rebel, but there was a man he admired. In any case, he wasn't French in native tongue, culture or blood.

All that said, he was a damn fine general and France's armies and marshals of the time were also formidable. That doesn't mean they could have won wars without him though :D

Fair enough. I don't think anybody really thinks that France has never won a battle or war and is militarily incompetent. It's been a major military power for much of European history, though I think that is coloured poorly in modern times by their opposition to the Iraq War and their humiliating defeat in WWII.

I just found out there was a whole TV series about this in the UK with Dave Gorman!