Speaking of the Hundred Years' War lasting...116 years, one of my history teachers in school was very pro-English and anti-French, and because I was extremely contrary, I would naturally argue the opposite position. One day, after school, we had this exchange:
Teacher: The French were so weaksauce they needed a sixteen-year-old girl to lead them! Me: She was sevent--wait a minute. The English were so weaksauce they got their butts kicked by a sixteen-year-old French girl! Teacher: Don't you have a bus to catch? Me: They ran when they saw her coming! Teacher: Your bus is leaving soon, Mildred!
I say I won that exchange. :P
So yes, I'm in favor of the English needing a reason for why the Germans didn't get their butts kicked by a French teenage girl. ;)
Note: we don't actually know how old Joan of Arc was; like many peasants, she didn't know herself, and she made her best guess at her trial. Young, anyway!
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Date: 2021-02-28 06:01 pm (UTC)Teacher: The French were so weaksauce they needed a sixteen-year-old girl to lead them!
Me: She was sevent--wait a minute. The English were so weaksauce they got their butts kicked by a sixteen-year-old French girl!
Teacher: Don't you have a bus to catch?
Me: They ran when they saw her coming!
Teacher: Your bus is leaving soon, Mildred!
I say I won that exchange. :P
So yes, I'm in favor of the English needing a reason for why the Germans didn't get their butts kicked by a French teenage girl. ;)
Note: we don't actually know how old Joan of Arc was; like many peasants, she didn't know herself, and she made her best guess at her trial. Young, anyway!