https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166943
Our problem is not that we have forgotten France's aid, without which the Revolution might not have been won at all, or not been won by 1783; it is that we are too beholden to our own myths to

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/27/europe/france-parliament-election-explainer-intl-cmd/index.html
France's snap parliamentary election is one of the most momentous in decades, for both the country and the rest of Europe. Within two weeks, France could have a hard-left or hard-right

https://www.history.com/news/benjamin-franklin-france
Franklin's Homecoming. America could not have won the Revolutionary War without France. Schiff estimates the total value of French material and manpower at roughly $20 billion in today's money

https://www.history.com/news/american-revolution-french-role-help
It would be an army led by Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau together that struck the decisive blow at Yorktown. 5. They gave the upstart colonists political legitimacy. Bettmann Archive/Getty

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/01/16/could-the-french-have-won/
It does not require "a long chain of one-directional 'ifs'" to argue that the French could have won in 1936 when Hitler illegally occupied the Rhineland and France could have easily defeated Germany. This opportunity was missed, and the twentieth century took its tragic course. Felix Oppenheim. Amherst, Massachusetts. To the Editors:

https://www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/research-and-collections/essays/how-did-the-french-alliance-help-win-american-independence
Without the direct and indirect assistance of France, it is doubtful that Americans could have won the war for independence. From 1776 to 1783 France supplied the United States with millions of livres in cash and credit. ... France also committed 63 warships, 22,000 sailors and 12,000 soldiers to the war, and these forces suffered relatively

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/02/22/could-the-french-have-won/
This bolsters his assertion that Hitler could have been brought down by defeat and that France could easily have won, but it is hardly a balanced treatment. Whenever Nazi generals express doubts or dissent, May takes their anxiety at face value; when French generals show comparable apprehension or pessimism he interprets it as instrumental

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnkkng554w8o
National Rally could win power in France for the first time. It is led by 28-year-old Jordan Bardella and in parliament by Marine Le Pen, who has fought for the presidency three times and lost

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-snap-election-how-does-it-work-whats-next-2024-06-18/
PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - France holds a parliamentary election on June 30 and July 7. Opinion polls show the far right could win. Here are some key facts about the election and what comes next

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-elections-2024-far-right-snap-election-protests-paris-ecb-economy-emmanuel-macron/
France is now being mentioned in the same breath as Italy as the Achilles heel of the EU. Since the June snap election, France has had to ride one storm after another. After the far right won the most votes, weeks of protests shook poor, immigrant neighborhoods from Marseille to Lille, stretching the police to the limit during the Paris Olympics.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/if-france-kept-fighting-how-world-war-ii-might-have-gone-17590
The Military: France had extensive assets available to continue its resistance against the Axis powers. The French Fleet was the most notable of these; France possessed two of the world's most

https://www.historynet.com/suppose-france-not-fallen-1940/
The Battle of France began on May 10, 1940. It ended just six weeks later on June 25, when the French government capitulated to Nazi Germany after a disastrous, humiliating defeat. By that time, Belgium, the Netherlands, and tiny Luxembourg had also fallen to the Germans, leaving Adolf Hitler in complete mastery of Western Europe.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-enters-election-mode-after-far-right-win-european-parliament-vote-2024-06-10/
RN won 31.4% of the European Parliament vote while the Renaissance party coalition had 14.6% ... the day after French far-right win in European Parliament vote and the announcement of early

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/4/25/doomed-to-defeat-france-1940
General de Gaulle is credited for placing France, against the odds of 1940, among the winners in 1945. General de Gaulle was a defender of political control of the military, who claimed to be the true French government in 1940, because he was under-secretary of defense not because he was a general. Nonetheless, he never limited his role as an

https://www.espn.com/soccer/insider/story/_/id/40390971/why-france-england-germany-more-wont-win-euro-2024
Turkey qualified for the Euro 2024 round of 16 after a dramatic 2-1 win over Czechia. (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images) Euro 2024 is unfolding like a classic horse race. First, you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_Axis_victory_in_World_War_II
Depictions of the Axis powers Wochenspruch der NSDAP 26 January 1941 claims that "National Socialism is the guarantor of victory". Themes. Helen White stated that a hypothetical world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War is a harsher and grimmer place to live in than the real world, where Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers lost the War in 1945.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/09/europe/macron-dissolves-french-parliament-europe-intl/index.html
CNN —. France's President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the country's parliament, the National Assembly, and called a snap election after an exit poll showed his Renaissance party is set to

https://www.reddit.com/r/ww2/comments/vtlgyi/could_france_have_won_in_any_way_shape_or_form_in/
Could France have any, any sort of chance winning against Germany in May of 1940. As it seems like they had no chance whatsoever. French aerial reconnaissance actually found one of the largest military traffic jams in history as the german armored divisions poured into the ardenne. French command didn't believe their own men, but if all

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-le-pen-expects-clear-far-right-win-power-over-macron-2024-06-27/
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is confident her party will win an absolute majority in parliament, form a government and impose limits on what President Emmanuel Macron can do to support

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/we-better-off-napoleon-never-lost-waterloo-180955298/
"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/u1c9vl/would_the_french_have_really_been_able_to_defeat/
It's not possible to say conclusively that this or that could or could not have happened in retrospect on a question like this. On paper a more mobile, offensively minded and organized French military with an equally vigorous British could have made a difference. But the French army was not organized for such an operation in any way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/jagl3w/could_france_have_possibly_won_the_francoprussian/
However the Prussian advantages in logistics and leadership were far more important in the strategical aspect, while France owns strength could only at best secure tactical victories. As such a French victory although possible, war is a chaotic affair, was unlikely. It would have most likely come down to a massive mistake by the Prussians at

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/opinion/joe-biden-tom-friedman.html
The Republican Party, if its leaders had an ounce of integrity, would demand the same, but it won't, because they don't. That makes it all the more important that Democrats put the country's

https://news.sky.com/story/who-could-england-face-in-the-knockout-rounds-of-euro-2024-13158474
It puts England in a seemingly good position on the supposedly "easier" side of the knockout draw, as they will avoid the likes of France, Portugal, Spain and Germany on their way to the final

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/articles/cq55x8y8yxqo
BBC Sport assesses the 21 stages of the Tour de France, with pointers to where the race could be won and lost. ... The 111th edition of the Tour de France gets under way in Florence, Italy on

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/presidential-polling-averages/
The polls could underestimate Biden's or Trump's support. A polling average is the best way to understand the state of play in a presidential race, but as we know from previous presidential

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/24/nx-s1-5017544/paris-olympics-air-conditioning-usa
The U.S. is among the countries bringing portable AC units to the Paris Olympics this summer since the Athletes' Village won't have any. Many athletes are worried about competing in extreme heat.

https://global.espn.com/football/insider/story/_/id/40390971/why-france-england-germany-more-wont-win-euro-2024
Going into Euro 2024, England were billed as one of the favorites, but some questionable performances in the group stage have raised some concerns about their favorite status. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Euro 2024 is unfolding like a classic horse race. First, you've got your speed horses

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/27/biden-trump-debate-winners-losers/74196401007/
Similarly well-watched events have brought in the green for the two candidates. Biden's campaign said he raised $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union address.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoricalWhatIf/comments/129i4l/what_if_france_defeated_germany_in_19391940/
Vichy France could have surfaced later on, maybe taking place of Nazi-Germany. Germany would be less advanced today (less cities would have been destroyed), but with less holocaust and more (jewish) scientists alive and living there today. ... France and Britain would have won if they had invaded Germany while the German Army was busy in the