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This might just be the American in me, but the UK bankrolling the 6th coalition with today’s equivalent of $500 *m*illion when our annual defense budget is hundreds of billions is extremely entertaining to me.
Just wanted to say how much I love your channel and the historical input you provide in each video. I am loving this Napoleon series! Thank you for all you do!!
I wonder if there is any interesting series on the Seven Years War to react to on youtube. That could be interesting to see you react to. One the one hand, we'd have the american theatre of it, the French and Indian Wars, and in Europe we'd have Frederick the Great fighting Austria, France and Russia.
Lützen is imported to us Germans because the German flag (black, red, gold), has the colors of the volunteer force uniforms fighting in Lützen. The volunteer force was the first pan German army that started the road to German unification, they wore black uniforms, with red epaulets and gold buttons. After the 1918 revolution the social democratic government choose the colors of the Lützow Free Corps and not the colors of the German Empire (red, white, black) for the German flag. Hitler had the colors changed back to red white and black, but after WW2 German went back to the colors of the Lützow Free Corps. If we had a socialist uprising in 1918 and not a social democratic one, Germany could have ended up with the rainbow flag after WW1, because the rainbow flag was the official flag of the German Peasants' War. God saved Germany from the rainbow flag by showing the Peasants a rainbow on the day of their final battle, motivating them to die to the last man because they thought god had giving them a sign.
P.S. Metternich wrote somewhere that napoleon said to him, he should not be angry for losing all his troops in Russia, because he had mainly lost Germans in Russia. Metternich had to remember Napoleon that he himself was germane.
P.P.S. Breslau is where may grandma was born, who cares about the Red Baron.
Fairly new to the channel and I have loved this series! Keep up the great work.
Napoleons grand tactics become useless without experienced officers to coordinate the complex troop movements that are required.
One thing that i do not fully understand. How Great Britain had so much money at this time? It seems they are richer than everybody else
I wonder how Napoleon Bonaparte felt when he would reflect on these massive intricate battles. Did he get a ego boost? Did he get some sort of high? Is he nostalgic for his previous battles? Did he want more? Did he sully in his regrets? Or always thought of improving? Haha, sorry so many questions.
littel context for the Battel of Grossbeern: Saxony and Prussia where rivals for a long time. Prussia managed to become a great power by, amongst other things, tanking allot of Saxon Land. Saxony never forgoth this of course and so they thad personal beef with prussia, whitch is why the fougth so hard in that battle.
Yes, the present King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf is a Bernadotte. But also directly related to Queen Victoria and through a weave of branches to the old Royal house that got deposed in 1809 after Gustav IV Adolf lost Finland to Russia
I believe 13:32 refers to a comment made by me about how the size of Russia cuts both ways. Just thought I would tip my hat at you for acknowledging it.
the thing about european battles being much bloodier than american ones is that america didnt really have a proffessional standing army all the way until ww1 id agree, it was a hodge podge of militia and volunteers, so battles were won and lost based on which side broke rank first, but european armies are much more proffessional and have better stomachs both in terms of men filling the ranks and officers, so battles only end when one side really cant fight anymore, instead of the raw men breaking rank and fleeing
06:25 It might seem like Henry II was aiming for control of the church, but at the time the worst penalty that could be meted out to the clergy was a fine, so it could be thought of as trying to re-balance justice as he could perceive it.
28:40 if you allow them to come to you, they’ll join forces and outnumber you by far. By attacking the individual armies, you can potentially defeat them in detail
Went to Leipzig on a class trip in 10th grade. When you are there, also visit the St. Nicholas Church (St. Nikolai or simply Nikolai in German) there, as it was one of the epicentres of East Germany's collapse. And there is an old SED fallout bunker about 20km east of Leipzig (Museum im Stasi Bunker/museum in the Stasi bunker), designed to secure the local party leadership should nuclear war start. Also interesting to see, although I don't know if there are English tours etc and apparently there is some disagreement about the way stuff is portraited since it didn't change in 30 years. And the zoo in Leipzig is worth a visit
Gotta respond to this one.
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The Anti-Atunshei.
https://youtu.be/-pZG7snE7tU
The Vitoria video is chronologically ahead of this, and especially ahead of the leipzig episode. They made it later than most of the series so the videos are not in order.
Something worth noting. In 1860 the Entire US population numbered under 32 millions (not sure if that counts slaves, if it does not add another ~6 millions). In 1812, the population for France (and over seas colonies) was 50 Million, Great Britain was also around 50 mil (again counting colonies), Russia around 35 mil, Austria about 23, Prussia almost 11. If we include all the smaller nations i would not be suppressed if the population total of the nations involved exceeded 200 mil at that time. So having all these battle in quick succession with casualties that rival that of Gettysburg is, for lack of better words, sustainable compared to the American Civil War. If we had had 3 or 4 Gettysburg's in a 3 month period, the casualties would have rivaled the total combat fatalities across the whole war.
When it comes to the supply situation it actually wasn't all that bad for the russians. They got a lot of supplies through Prussian ports and Swedish Pomerania. So they didn't have a complete lack fo supplies. The Swedish also come with a quite sizeable fleet, and the Danish Fleet (Which had prior been a naval superpower in Europe), had been burned by the british in 1807.
Also obviously the Royal Navy at this point thanks to the sacrifice of Admiral Nelson have complete naval dominance in the English channel, the Baltic and the general Atlantic around France & Spain. So there were also a lot of critical supples, mainly food and Ammunition for the russians coming through there. A slight annoyance to this was the garrison at Danzig, since it was the largest port they had access to, but Swedish Pomerania had a series of smaller ports they were able to use.
It's also worth noting that there generally were some Army Commanders that people recognised could put up a serious fight against Napoleon, but relatively speaking they were unavailable.
1: Arthur Welsley, is currently fighting in Northern Spain and busy with Soult, a very capeable commander.
2: Charles, Archduke of Austria, I believe was slightly sick at the time of Leipzig, he generally struggled a bit with health (Though he would live till 1847). Also he had other responsibilites and therefore left command to Schwarzenberg. Also he has responsiblities other than that as Duke of Teschen
3: Kutuzov, as mentioned in the video had recently died.
So thats also part of the allies strategy.
27:04 British debt to GDP would exceed 200% of GDP in 1815. However, Britain was the only country able to pull that off and the only one that could grow it's way out of that at the time thanks to trade and industry, both made possible by it's victory over Napoleon.
Doing the individual battles would be some awesome videos
Hey, you should really check out the Iron Dice podcast series The Fight For The Republic, about the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, amazing bibliography, great insight
you have so much knowledge. watching your videos are so joyful. please react to napoleons marshal series as well. wish you best!
napoleon my guy. take the L and the deal. I would've jumped on that Austria deal. LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY possibly.
What’s the music used in this short?
yes hes blodline still sits on the throne