re: The forgotten French invasion of Germany in 1939

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they literally have won more military battles than any other country in the world.

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I dont know how true that stat is or where you got that from. Obviously Napoleon was an amazing general, as well as a ruler with his benefits of future societies with the Napoleonic Code. What he did in France i think says more for him than what it does for the French. I guess it takes a Corsican.

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They pretty much took over all of Europe and drove past Moscow with

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While they did defeat the coalition forces on land due to Napoleon's military genius them "driving to Moscow" was a Pyrrhic victory at best. The Russians were running a scorched earth campaign drawing France deep into Russia. It was not Napoleon's initial plan to conquer Russia. His plan was to cross the river Niemen and force the Russians into battle. They would defeat them then persuade Alexander into Napoleon's Continental System (trade embargo of Britain). Instead he got fooled into what i would describe as a poker pot committed campaign of going deeper, and deeper, and deeper into Russia chasing their army when it retreated. It got caught by winter etc and completely destroyed his army which quickly led to the down fall of him and his empire. So using this as a positive example is negligent.