Does France actually have the best military record of western nations?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

From another forum. Valid points made here:


France accmoplished what no other European nation has ever been able to do since the Romans, which is be the dominate european power for over a century.

More so, they were the dominate European power many times and for long stretches.

Napoleonic empire was larger than any other european empire, ever.

Charlamagne empire was also gigantic.

Although England, in the 18th and 19th centuries, was finally able to start conquering land (though still failed at getting any other european land) and was able to overtake France to be th elargest colonial empire, that was really a blip in history and England was never dominate any other time.

Germany?
Sure, they made some nice little commotions in the 20th century, but they failed to maintain any kind of military power for any real period of time.

Spain?
blah. They had a colonial empire for a short period of time, most of which was just theoretically owned by them, not anything they held militarily.

dunno who else might be thought to challange them. Obvious the Romans were the sh**t for awhile, but Italy has been basically nothing since then.