The French, for some obscene reason, are the unluckiest bunch on
any battlefield. Thoroughly screwed in WW1 and WW2, and lost plenty
of battles in history. The best and furtherest they have gone is
under Napoleon, only to have been defeated by the British on the
seas, and finally on the land. To then add insult to injury, the
Brits have a statue of Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson right at the
Eurotrain station at Trafalgar square. 
Surrender monkeys or not, they certainly lose more than half the
time.
