Re: Anglo-French war plans in 1940?

"Andrew Clark" <aclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Belgium was invaded in *every* Anglo-French-German war of the 19th and 20th
century, over eight times by a quick count.

Are you counting the Napoleonic Wars? Because
a) Belgium as a country did not exist then,
b) Germany as a country did not exist then.
c) The general framework and tenor of European
affairs at that time was radically different
from Europe after 1815.

I count only two "Anglo-French-German" wars after
1815: the two World Wars.

There was also the Franco-Prussian War, which
could be considered a French-_German_ war, since
Prussia had all the remaining German states as
its allies. However Belgium was not invaded in
that war.
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