The French are just getting their revenge for us nicking their Indian colonies, abandoning them at Dunkirk ( although over 100 thousand French troops were evacuated ), the attack on their fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Waterloo, Trafalgar, Quiberon Bay, the Nile, the Peninsular campaign, Agincourt, Poitiers, Crecy, Malplaquet, Ramillies, Blenheim, Oudenaarde, etc, etc, etc.