<p>Good thing there were no answering machines invented when they saved our bacon during our War for Independence :)</p>
<p>The only significant surrender I can recall by the French in recent history was to the Germans in 1940—but then again, they were in good company as most of Europe went with them. In WW1 they were slaughtered by the thousands (along with just about everyone else in that war), but I can’t recall them surrendering. They certainly paid a higher price in body count in that war than anyone else other than maybe the Germans. But agian, they were defending their home soil for 4 long bloody years. They have been defeated on the battlefield on numerous occasions in their history, but then so has everyone else. They pulled out of Viet Nam in the 1950’s (then again, so did we in the 1970’s), then again no surrender. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the French have seen things “our way” much and a lot of the time they are just flat wrong (at least from our perspective), but they don’t really have a big history of surrendering either. Hmmmmmm, must be one of those European Urban Legends.</p>