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I would like to see your take on historia Civilis' video on the history of work
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Are you able to do cgp gray video on canada flags
Was this like Pickett's folly in the Civil War?
Have seen a few youtube video's where at Waterloo most "officer commissions" were not actually paid for. Somehow since Waterloo that seems to have changed. One thing I didnt realize was that it was a good 7 years before the Civil War and seeing how the British had such a decisive advantage with rifles over smooth bores it seems strange that the Confederates were so far behind.. Yes, smooth bores could shoot over 200 yards but were not that accurate but when you are shooting at a line shoulder shoulder chances are if you missed your target you would hit the man next to him. There is a youtuber who made a very good video about this after someone said smooth bores were useless over 75 yards . Still, I would assume the "snipers" used rifles with grooves or whatever they are called. Back to the Charge of the Light Brigade, still remember the movie with Errol Flynn.
Interesting video
What you said about McClellan being an observer really answers a ton of questions one might ask about his decision making in the Civil War.
I think the Ride of the Rohirrim was more influenced by the winged hussars at the second siege of vienna 1683
I learned about the charge of the light brigade from Assassin's Creed Syndicate, because in the game Earl Cardigan doesn't shut up about it 😂
About british rifles: French armament was superior, notably with the excellent Minié rifled rifle, which rumor said was deadly at more than 1,500 meters, and which the British only adopted to replace their smoothbore rifles at the time of the attack in Crimea, as well as the new 12 howitzer cannon, known as the Emperor's cannon
There's a movie about the charge of the light brigade from 1968. From what I've seen of clips on yt, it looks pretty good.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)".
Wow, I always thought civil war amputations were mostly just whiskey and a saw, I had the misconception they didn’t have anesthesia. But does that apply to the south as they had fewer resources? Were most their amputations with anesthesia too?
If only they had also learned how to actually deal with trench warfare, maybe the western front wouldn't have become such a meat grinder in WW1.
Love the videos! Here in Plymouth (UK) we have an "18-pounder" cannon and a "24-pounder" cannon that was used during the Crimean War that were restored and now overlook the water on the Hoe. Seeing them in person brings home how terrifying it must have been to have been shot at by these. All wars are terrible but the 19th century sounds like hell on earth.
Union and Confederate soldiers dressing like the French soldiers is an ego check we needed
@are you going to make any new danish history content since the Queen of Denmark is abdicating
Edit: should’ve watched longer, you mentioned it.
For your information Chris, after a series like this one, they make a long episode called “[name of the series] lies” where they go over things like misspellings, flag mistakes, decisions they took to tell a cohesive story (for instance choosing one source over another), giving some books on the topic that are interesting as well as covering topics that they left out because they couldn’t fit it in the series.
It’s too long and specific for you to make a reaction out of it, but I think you might enjoy it in your spare time
"Young McClellan" this was just 6 years before Bull Run/Manassas… after which he became head of the brand new Army of the Potomac.
He was still a young man while in command of the Eastern Theater.
14:29 Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Shogun leader of Japan) also died in the 16th century Japanese invasion of Korea.
Alexander abolished the serfdom but he introduced life debts, which ment every serf had to do 50 years of free labor as conpensation for freedom, so nothing really changed. Hence why russians were so upset during 2nd nicholas reign
I recommend you watch the 1968 film "The Charge of the Light Brigade" directed by Tony Richardson.
So look at how the men felt something you probably know is what the men for the 1st Minnesota felt at Gettysburg which can be best summed up as we are SOL and today I die they all knew what was going to happen when they started that charge
I knew nothing of the Light Brigade and what happened other than it's name, until today. I'm 50 years old and my dumb-ass always associated "Light" as not the opposite of 'Heavy", but the opposite of "Dark". So I always pictured them in white with gleaming metal reflecting the light.
I feel dumb for admitting it, but y'all don't know who I am. 🙂