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Think about how different things could have potentially been if Napoleon, knowing he was terminally ill, had lead the charge of the Old Guard at Waterloo essentially to martyr himself in battle "for France." If it's possible for him to be any more legendary, that'd have done it in my book.

Waterloo is another movie by the same creator and trust me war and peace has a much larger setting more variety and the uniforms are in more mass numbers then just 3 nations also most of the French soldiers just wear the same uniform minus the old guard and some are just reused like the 5th regiment of line you can see a few sprinkled everywhere as well as the Grenadiers

You can hate the movie understandably but you can like the detail of the uniforms

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you missed the politics of why the Metropolitan army off france wore red- the colonial forces like the foreign legion had nice khaki colored clothes. France ket flipping between socialist and conserviative governments. the socialist hinted maybe they wouldn't have nay army at all, relying on citizen soldiers. in the face of this the conservatives refused to allow ANY relaxing of the uniform of the metropolitan army, in effect while every other army marching onto the field in WW1 has field uniforms, the british most noted to be very hard to see, the french governmnet refused to allow any relaxation of the uniform and so in effect marched to war in dress uniforms as if it were still 1814. The british had done this in the crimea in the 1850's "We're fighting a european power not natives" and learned how stupid it was.

btw sand is a second-lieutenant

It's ironic but the guns in the Oscarsborg Fort were made by Krupp in Essen Germany. So the Blucher got to find out just how effective German guns could be. The torpedoes were the old Whitehead type but they still did the job with the second one doing more damage than the first which hit near the bow. The second one hit amidships right in the engine room. The Altmark was the supply ship for the sunken pocket battleship Graf Spee and the men on board were all the captured merchant marine sailors from ships the Graf Spee had sunk. The Oscarsborg Fort bombing did little damage as it had deep bunkers where the soldiers stayed out of harms way.

Serbian casualties sre rough estimate. Deaths count up to 1/3 of the population

Much better than the big budget and totally Hollywood ‘Saving Private Ryan’. Ryan was a well made war movie, but at base still a overly chatty soap opera, with modern emo, and angst coming out the wazoo. This movie spared us of that, and I for one am great full.

Lieutenant Sand has the rank of second lieutenant and not first lieutenant.

The movie is perfect but one thing is Wellington Arthur Wellesley should have (brown hair, and red british clothes) but he had (Blonde hair, and blue clothing) I could not determine the color of the movie wellington's hair

I think, you do not know Danish military tactics, as well as NCOs obey the officers. The Danish Army at the time was not 1940 current standards, they are fighting an Army that knew manouvre warfare- hence took Poland and by June took France also taught you Amis, and the Tommies how it should be done.They were reservists with a training was not existent. Secondly, you are looking through the lense of current warfare practices... Arm chair arse clown!

The Vietnam War did not go well for the Americans. Despite weapons more than 100 times greater than the Viet Cong forces and around 58,000 American soldiers dead, our American friends returned home with their “tail between their legs”, as we say back home. Another historical fact! Does this make Americans cowards?

snuff my boy, snuff.

think of a boxing match.. first 10 rounds, UK vs FR.. round 10-13 FR second wind. Round 14 upper cut for the UK. round 15 while dazed German smashes the jaw. Even after we gave him water and a sponge. out for the count. never heard from them since.

I enjoy that you do know your shit. rare in your landmass today.. You really do know it, not footnotes. not a quick study. authentic. awesome.

1:00:47 -Do you know the penalty for plundering sir? -stoppage of gin Sir..? -DAMN YOUR SIR IT DEATH!

They changed to terror bombing London after UK Terror bombed Berlin for 6 days, is that true?>

That wasn't cocaine they were sniffing...it was blended snuff

Fun fact - Germany did in fact have two large undiscovered oil fields right on its doorstep Matzen in Austria and Schoonebeek in the Netherlands - together these fields held over 1.5 Billion barrels of oil + Hungary too had a fair bit of oil as yet undiscovered Algyő (84 million tonnes) and Nagylengyel (45 million tonnes). In my opinion this is the ultimate what if, and really the only way germany could have won or at least got some kind of negotiated peace. I should also add that this more or less solves germany's rubber crisis (yes rubber too was in great demand and after oil the second most sought after resource) - giant resources needed for synthetic oil would be freed up and used for the production of synthetic rubber, thus solving that problem as well.

Remember it was the FRENCH who stabbed the British in the back that got the USA its independence, the Americans could have never beat the British on there own merit, the SNEAKY French in collaboration forced the British to leave what is now called the USA…

29:44 That doesn't sound right. Rome was built on the backs of soldiers recruited from the peninsula before it expanded to other territories.

9:14 The biggest gain the Italians made from World War 1, was that their chief rival (Austria-Hungary) was destroyed. 10:48 Russia suffered significantly, but from a large population base. France suffered significantly, from a smaller population base. It's one of the reasons that so many French soldiers were old in World War 2. They had to go up against a country with twice their population.

Italia not being first is a colossal fuck-up, Rome 2nd in the empire of Rome. Crazy.

He fucked up massively by not putting Italy 1st; also technically not a province. Putting Rome 2nd in the empire of Rome, nuts.

One of those geographic names that has several different locations with similar sounding or spelled names. In this case there is the Island of Elba and also the Elbe River which is in Eastern Europe and is one of the common geographical stop lines throughout history and thus the scene of numerous battles.

Smokeless Powder. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Battlefield was clouded by smoke. Bright color uniforms made sense.

The commander of the last square of the Old Guard at Waterloo is ordered to surrender by the British general Colville, Cambronne respond: "The guard dies but does not surrender"

Wellington was a commander years a head of his time. He was obsessed with training and logistics, a consummate diplomat when it came to holding an allied force together (peninsula war). He never lost a battle in India or Spain. Napoleon had never fought the British and totally under estimated Wellington. He should have taken on the British first, if he’d defeated the Duke the Prussians would have withdrawn. A fatal mistake.

It is difficult to say what Napoleon may have suffered from, without a direct prognosis from a doctor. He may have suffered many conditions from IBS to Gastro Enteritis or stomach ulcers (being yhe Emperor of France fight against all the other empires of Europe can do that for you). Some say he had duodeanol cancer or even lead poisioning.

Imagine the tale « so how was your first week of military?» naah nothing much just shot down germanys biggest warship.

The best idea they came up with first was to ditch the shiny tuba and reflective vest. 🚫📯🦺 🤔

The Blücher is still leaking diesel to this day, you can smell it when passing the site.

5:59 he was retired, but un-retired himself when he realized war was coming

Brilliant BUT I can't see either of these 1. ZULU from 1964 (real events with actual people) 2. Black Adder Goes Forth (TV comedy series but props / set designs are really good but the last minutes of the last episode is a real stunner)

Are the soldiers with the red outlining in their shakos an the tall plume fusiliers

Grouche said “nah fuck that man told me to get the Prussians an I ain’t coming back without the hat”

Aren’t the black watch the 42nd I thought the Scottish regiment in Waterloo was the 92nd

Blücher has balls to be at the front of a Calvary charge

The guy who explains what the other guy explains while having researched... nothing.

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To me it looks like Napoleon knew he couldn’t win so sent 3rd of his army away to make sure France had some defense.

the "spears" were not ceremonial. They were to protect the colours from cavalry

Its snuff...you fool

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The Iron Duke was also an Irish ☘️ nobleman many forget this

Contrary to the legend, the battle of France was extremely deadly (Nearly 61,000 French soldiers killed against almost 50,000 German soldiers killed in six weeks of combat, whereas for example there were 57,000 US soldiers killed in 11 years of war in Viet Nam 1962 to 1973 and during the Battle of France in 1940, 4,711 German soldiers were killed or wounded per day in May-June 1940, compared to 4,222 in June-November 1941 during Operation Barbarossa in Russia.)The idea that the French soldiers would have surrendered without fighting comes from the German propaganda broadcast in the world news at the time . In reality, 1 million 500,000 of the 1 million 800,000 French soldiers were taken prisoner during the last week of the battle from June 18 to 25, 1940 and this is the consequence of the disastrous first speech broadcast by the new head of the French government, Marshal Pétain on 17 June 1940 who declared to have started negotiations with the Germans and a fateful sentence "It is with a heavy heart that I ask you to stop the fight". Thus the French population and the French soldiers who listened to the radio understood this sentence as an order to immediately cease fighting , so that the French soldiers then surrendered massively allowing thus to the Germans to advance without combat on French territory during the week of June 18 to June 25 date effective entry into force of the armistice. It is a gross political and military mistake of Marshal Pétain to give this speech on 17 June 1940 when the Germans had not yet crossed the river Loire and even when the Negotiations for an armistice with the Germans had not even begun since the armistice will only be signed on 22 June 1940, that is 5 days later and will be effective on 25 June 1940. Of course the Germans will film the French soldiers who were massively going during the last week from 18 to 25 June 1940 without specifying the date and the reasons for the behavior of the soldiers French, all the more so since almost all the viewers of the cinemas in the world where the images of German propaganda were broadcast ignored the speech of Marshal Pétain on 17 June 1940.

Btw DeGaulle took à bâillon être in the stomach in WW1, pushed back the communists in Poland in 1920 and led the French to victory in WW2… also look up Leclerc with a higher number of kills per tanks than the americans…

In 1940, the Germans just got a series of lucky strokes pumped up on emphitamines (yup, drugged up, with less empathy and no need to sleep). The French won battles with their B1 tanks, kept the Germans from crossing the fortified maginot line. Germans went through the non fortified line and to the ocean while the French did bet that they would go behind the fortified line on the east. Also the Belgium blocked the French from waiting for the Germans in Belgium which also messed up the defense. Don’t forget the Germans had pumped up their hardware from countries they had already invaded… as for the planes, Germans outnumbered the French planes due to production delays in france… Germans just had a lot of luck. One of my gransfarger died in 1940. The other one was in Marco and took part in the invasion of Italy by the French troops in 1944 and fought in monte casino… neither was a coward.