What is the most influential nation ever? Consider how their cultures affect life today. id say its China or Rome

what do you think? mine would be 753 BC and the Foundation of Rome. the Roman Empire being the pillar of the modern age, ideas, justice, law, engineering and warfare.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110325/tuk-gallant-gurkha-gets-award-for-taliba-45dbed5.html

reminds me of a famous quote:

"If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he's either lying or he is a Gurkha."

yeh somme was a huge disaster and just ignorance on their part, i mean look at Gallipoli aswell even after they new they landed the ANZACs in the wrong place they chose to keep them there for about 9months.sonofsmeagle

without the Somme the allies would not have won WW1. The French army would have collasped at Verdun and the combined arms tactics needed to defeat the German army in 1918, would not have been developed. Plus the allies could recover from the losses at the Somme, the German army never recovered

[QUOTE="sonofsmeagle"]Whats with the British and using their loyal commonwealth troops to storm the enemy and get massacared?Desulated

They value their own people, and could care less about those that are ruled under their wing.

The Battle of the Somme during WW1 was the same fact. They claimed to have cleared out German trenches and positions, sent in Commonwealth forces to clean it up, only to have them all get slaughtered in an unholy bloodbath.

Most of the troops were Canadians too.

the nationalistic ignorance here is unbelievable. 350,000 men from the united kingdom were killed or wounded at the somme. soldiers from other parts of the british empire were about 50,000 and most of those were British born anyway

You do know who bailed the British out of Egypt right?

I'm sorry, but the British army was pretty much decimated after constant losses in North Africa and Northern Europe. While they defended their mainland from air assault, they wouldn't have been so lucky against a ground invasion that didn't happen because America got involved with the war and started heavily supplying the the British.

Wasdie

Rommel was already on the run from the British and Australians before America got involved in North Africa.

I've read a book on this, which argued that France would have been plunged into another revolution, and Britain might still be an empire today. The only way germany could have won would be in the first year of the war, if the Schlieffen plan had worked, they would have swept the Belgium and british armies into the sea and taken Paris in one move

...Obama signs a deal with Russia, to give away the serial numbers of every nuke sold to britain.

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makes me wonder who really won the revolution

im 20 and some like 10 year old kids refered to me as a "man" a few weeks ago. that made me feel old. But then again, older people still talk to me "in that way" you know, as if your a kid. so i dunno :?