There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France will have been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43. Of the 185 battles that France has fought over the last 800 years, its armies will have won 132 of them, and lost 43, leaving only 10 indecisive battles Thus giving the French military the record of victories in Europe and therefore in the world. France is the nation that has participated in the greatest number of war and battle throughout the history of Humanity. Over the past 800 years, France has fought over 200 years against England, over 150 against the Germanic nations, over 190 against the Spanish / Portuguese, and against many other nations. In many cases, these wars were waged against numerically inferior France in the face of coalitions of several nations aimed at destroying it. France, warrior nation. The strategies deployed by his generals are still studied today, including the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte. On all terrains and continents, France has shown the world what it was worth in combat.