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Besides EpicHistorys Marshals videos, I also highly recommend watching another one of Montemayor's videos on the War in the Pacific, particularly his videos about Coral Sea, Midway, and Savo Island. Unlike some other Youtube videos, he actually shows the "fog-of-war" on the battlefield being experienced from both sides so you can understand the decisions each side made throughout all the battles.
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Glad you Will continue the series. Its so worth it & if you just have a little interest in this time & Napoleon, then its simple a much watch series.
What is often overlooked in why the Battle of Aspern-Essling took place is not Napoleon's "over confidence", it was his desire to have a major battle to force the defeat and therefore close the campaign quickly on his terms. His enemies would often try to avoid battle, and he would be required to use his higher mobile army to maintain the initiative. It is his belief, based on the limited information at the time, that Charles' Austrian army was trying to avoid battle. Napoleon had to cross with limited engineering on a fast moving Danube river at Aspern-Essling. This was rectified for the Battle of Wagram.
You should react to "Desert Storm – The Annihilation of the Iraqi Navy at the Battle of Bubiyan – Animated" by a channel called "The Operations Room." He does a really good, detailed look at modern wars and battles. This video in particular gives you a good view of the planning and scale of Desert Storm.
Nice, merry Christmas to you! 🙂
And cheers from Vienna, I passed by near Aspern yesterday, which is part of the city nowadays. (pronounced like "Ahspehrn" in German, although Austrian speakers are pretty lazy prounouncing "er" closer to "ah", so no rolling American "R").
23:50 "Rassdorf" is supposed to be "Raasdorf".
I heard about the cold spell that hit the northern US. I bet the Canadians are gloating a lot right now.
YEEEEEEEEES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG.
FINALLY COMPLETING THE NAPOLEONIC SERIES
i also got my main account back now. you might know me for "edict of Caracalla" and "Wallachia is an exonym"
anyway, Wagram is the continuation of this. then Spain 1809-1811. Salamanca 1812. Napoleon in Russia 1812(3 videos: Invasion, Borodino, Retreat). Road to Leipzig and Battle of the Nations(both in 1813). France Endgame 1814 and Waterloo 1815. dunno if you did Toulon 1793.
now the new series is Napoleon in Italy 1796-1797. the first episode appeared covering the first month ending with the battle of Lodi. PMF Productions has a better series on this campaign(so far) than them though(at least that's how it feels.)
you should react to the Marshal's series after. Lannes, who d13d here, is one of the best.
I live un North East Ohio as well, I also lost power, all was ok, and still had power yesterday.
I always thought that what the Austrians did to the bridges could have been done to the confederate pontoon bridge at Williamsport during Lee's retreat from Gettysburg. Civil war generals never seemed devious enough to me, a little too gentlemenly to think of stuff like that.
You should watch Soviet storm it's the best at covering the eastern front in ww2
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On the point about fuses that you made around @11:30 – it's actually a fascinating time, because the first precursors of modern artillery fuses are happening concurrently with the Napoleonic wars – so already, by the Civil War, bombardment with mortars and similar stuff is vastly more standardized and "down to a system" whereas there is almost no standardization around the early 19th century – the british bombarded Copenhagen with mortars in 1807 and caused it to surrender, which was quite a technical showcase, in some ways.
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Two somewhat related thoughts on this great reaction video (as practically always): Most of the villages where the battle took place are now part of Vienna proper. Just goes to show how things change within relatively short period of time. That's just urbanization as it occurred all over the Western world,
The other thing is: About 200.000 soldiers were part of the Battle of Aspern. That's about as many soldiers as fought in all wars of independence in the Americas combined. In other words: How few soldiers liberated North and South America at about the same time of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars is just mind blowing.
There is so much to dive into about the Napoleonic wars. Radetzky was one of the best commanders the Austrians had, I hope someone translates his memoirs someday.
2:35 The Netherlands became formally independent in 1648 after they engaged in a struggle for independence against the Spanish Habsburgs (Eighty Years' War). They became a French satellite state in 1795, and Napoleon later made one of his brothers, Louis, King of Holland. Then it was annexed directly into France until the French were driven back across the Rhine in 1813/1814.
The Southern Netherlands (roughly present day Belgium and Luxembourg) remained with Spain until 1714, when the territory was ceded to Austria after the War of the Spanish Succession. This area was also conquered by the French Republic early in the Revolutionary Wars.
Great vid Chris! Just got back driving through your neck of the woods from Twinsburg to Baltimore. I dont miss the windchill in NE Ohio.
this guy is stealing content
I recommend The Campaigns of Napoleon By David G. Chandler
By the way, if you wish to learn more about Napoleon and do not mind a bit of fiction here and there, I recommend Simon Scarrow's Napoleonic "saga" (Young Bloods, Generals, Showrd and Fire, Fields of Death). Not all battles are described there but the books also cover less visible aspects of Napoleon's (and Wellington's) life.