Napoleon's First Campaign: The Little Corporal (Epic History TV Reaction)
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It's incredible to see the amount of Napoleon's future marshals who fought in this campaign.
Not only marshals, but many others. Family too, Eugene and his younger brother Louis Bonaparte. Many other generals too.
Chris looked like a boy in the candy store when the ad for the napoleon souvenir shop was playing
Napoleon's rise through the ranks from an artillerist is even more impressive considering that one mistake in training and he would have been... Napoleon Blown Apart.
That is such a good pun
23:30 we croats later fought under napoleon. He famously stated "give me 100,000 croats and i can conquer the world" when witnessing croatian hussars in battle, our hussars were famous across europe and were the original hussars
Is this real??
@@saldana7395 yes. Hussars originated in croatia and serbia as a guerilla light cavalry force that harassed ottomans. The origin of the word husar is gusar(pirate) due to their hit and run tactics.
As for the quote it went like this
Napoleon: who are those soldiers?
Marmont: croats
Napoleon: they are the most fearsome soldiers in europe. If i had 100 000, i could conquer the world
During the battle of berezina in the campaign of 1812, croat hussars under general šljivar came to napoleons aid and saved his life. His response was "croats! Am i glad to see you!"
The last episode of this Italian campaign will be released later this month. Looking forward to napoleon's marshals series.
"I know they've also got Napoleon's Marshals, which we haven't done yet"
So I guess he's just openly baiting us now huh? XD
Well this is a pleasant surprise.
One thing to mention about this series is that the channel they collaborated with, PMF Productions, started his own Italian campaign series before EHTV. Even going to Italy and mapping out things like troop movements. Personally? I prefer their series to EHTV's. They go into more detail with the military strategy and mindset of the commanders. He kinda paused his series to help EHTV with theirs. I highly recommend you check them out as well.
It’s incredibly high quality yeah
Im not sure if you’ve ever heard of Kriegspiel, but it was a game made by the Prussians in order to simulate battle as realistically as they could, and train their officers.
The reason I bring it up is because there’s a group I recently joined called the International Kriegsspiel Society, and they Play an online version of the Game. They actually do a great job of making the game more approachable for non-military people. The main time periods they simulate are the American civil war, and the Napoleonic wars. For example, in a few days there’s going to be a huge Waterloo Kriegsspiel. So I was wondering if maybe you’d be interested in playing it for the gaming channel? It’s definetly very different from most games you play there, but I think you might appreciate it, especially considering the time periods they cover.
As always, I love your channel, keep up the great work!
Then there’s also the Kriegspiel chess variant practically two players knowing where their pieces are (but don’t know where their opponents are. (You play on 2 separate boards) and there’s on judge or umpire that says if the move is legal or not.
That sounds honestly really cool! Maybe I’ll check out the online game!
This is great. I woke up this morning saying to myself "Hope Chris does something on Napoleons early career" Ask and you shall receive lol
Super excited for this Napoleon movie. Someone should do a movie on Grant
I saw a docuseries on Grant by the History Channel. Grant wasn't only a phenomenal General, he was a great President and stellar person.
Not selling his slave, but instead having him freed when he could really use the money, continuing Lincoln's legacy and utterly obliterating the Ku Klux Klan.
It confuses me that his statues are being taken down along with Lincoln. Clearly most of my fellow Americans are ignorant of our history.
This series has been soooo good. Last episode hits this month + Napoleon movie coming.
Exciting times for French History!
Fun to rewatch and see the reaction from a professional historian on this campaign.
*4 to 1 on a 200 yard river bank as the assaulting force* 👏
The original series from Epic History TV is fantastic. I’ve watched all of these multiple times. Glad your doing additional reactions to these ones!
Glad to see your channel blowing up Chris. I've been watching you since your early days on your gaming channel and Ultimate General videos. Keep up the great work buddy, love the content.
Nothings as good as Florence Kentucky. When you drive through it says "Florence Ya'll" on their water tower
Indeed it does! I always call that airport the Cincitucky Airport.
Welcome to all the new historians joining us! It's always good to see new members on the channel!
Always enjoy Epic History! They do such a great job making videos!
It is so interesting that Napoleon is Cosican, Hitler was Austrian, and Stalin was Georgian. I think there is something to the idea that those on the outside can see our society more clearly and exploit our passions to a greater extent. It does give you a different perspective. I await the next Puerto Rican dictator of the USA.
Found your channel maybe a week or two ago. Thank you for all the awesome content and history you have been teaching me
Oh man your reactions really are so good aren't they.
Looking forward to you also reacting to the bios on his Marshals.
All the well to you sir.
Love your work..
Much appreciated!
Would be awesome if you reacted to Epic History’s series on Napoleon’s marshals. Goes into detail about their accomplishments and faults. As you say, many of them were vital to his dominance
Artillery being used to pin down soldiers is basicly a extension of the of arrows. If I'm not mistaken arrows where also mainly used to keep peoples heads down whilst moving so that they would not be able to respond effectively to other attacks. So similar concept I guess. 🤙
Love these Napoleon reactions and your reactions always make my day. :)
On another note I doubt you’ll see this but can you please go back and react to the series“Napoleon’s marshals” that has like 6 parts. It’s a follow up series to the original Napoleon series and it’s extremely well researched.
At the very least know that many of us are hoping for a day that you will react to the marshals series.
Have a good day and regards from Sweden.
Been waiting for this reaction for so long. Thank you.
Great video! I always love your Napoleonic reactions.
One thing I'd like to add (I don't think it was mentioned in the video) is that Napoleon, in his terms with the Piedmontes, included the crossing at Valenza. This was because he knew that Beaulieu would find out about the terms one way or another and would think that Napoleon would cross at Valenza. However, his actual plan was to cross at Piacenza all along. That's why Beaulieu had all his forces ready to defend Valenza while Napoleon got a headstart to Piacenza.
i saw you posted this video and my excitement was incredible..HERE WE GO!
Loving the new look man! And been waiting for this ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Napoleon is both Italian and French. We can share him.
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He turned his back on his Corsican and Italian roots after a revolution on Corsica and such I think. I could be wrong.
I think it was a little bit of Corsica turned it’s back on him because he was too French but France wouldn’t fully accept him because he was just from a “poor” noble Corsican/Italian family
@@mrfalloutlore5973 Something like that. The French Assembly allowed Corsican nationalist Pasquale Paoli to return thinking he'd be more palatable to run the island. Paoli for his part disliked the execution of Louis XVI and backed the royalists, even going so far as to asking Britain to make Corsica a protectorate. Paoli also sabotaged the French expedition to Sardinia which forced Napoleon to make a choice. Napoleon and his entire family disavowed Paoli and from this point onwards, Napoleon identified more as French than Italian-Corsican.
Yes true, but technically speaking Napoleon did not have French blood. He was a Coriscan of minor noble Tuscan and Genoese Italian descendant.
Gotta admit, the hair of Joachim Phoenix looks just like the Napoleon paintings.
Epic history! Always so high quality and you add so much to there already packed with Information video.
Great work, and thanks for the York Lancaster reply from my comment, really appreciated it
Made my day, thank you Chris!!!!
This series is so good...Loved your reaction !
Glad you’re starting this series 👌
I wonder if there is some historical fiction out there of a grunt in the Italian Army of France. Imagine how wild that would be? 17 years old and Napoleon takes command of your unit and within a few short years he's Emperor and you helped get him there lol.
32:00 this is called 'stealing a march'. Julius Caesar was a master of it. His armies were always not where the enemy thought they were, or he would arrived from a distant place days before he was expected to and catch an opponent not yet prepared.
Can’t wait for the Marshal reaction video
Been waiting for this!!!!!!
These videos to me are the best!. Theyre simply, Epic! 😁
3:00 This made me wonder about Napoleon's parents, since we don't hear about them much.
His father died at 38 in 1785 of stomach cancer, but his mother Letiza lived to 85, dying in 1836, outliving her son by 15 years and her husband, who was three years her elder, by 51.
This is the same timeframe as Eliza outliving Alexander by 50 years.
Wait what… wow did not realise that his mother outlived him by 15 Years!!! Sure I knew he died when he 51 which was quite young but his mother dying 15 years later is interesting!
@@MonkeyBanjo7 She doesn't get much coverage because of her sons, but yeah she was there through it all. Corsica became French in 1769, so this woman lived through the reigns of Louis XV, XVI, the French Revolution and the myriad governments that entailed, the rise and fall of her son, the Congress of Vienna and the return of Louis XVIII, Charles X until his abdication in 1830, and 1/3 of the reign of Louis-Phillipe.
16 more years and she would've seen her grandson ascend as Napoleon III.
@@richeybaumann1755 When you put that into perspective as well, thats crazy!
Looking like a young Wilhelm II
This put a big smile onto my face.
So happy that you are going to play total War Napoléon.
I love this game even tho I never played it ...
The height thing is mentioned by a lot of french sources in people's low first impressions of napoleon. Part of it seems to be his constant companionship with people taller than him. marmont and murat went most places with him in the early years, messena was clearly taller too.
He was average for the time but many of the dashing heroes of the time, werent.
Take things now, its pretty much become a meme of men under 6" being considered short by the young, even though the average is 5'9
I love your longer reactions and your Napoleon/Epic History TV stuff. But its currently 2am i’m slightly drunk and i’ve got to be up to go to the Imperial War Museum in the morning so i may well fall asleep, no offence! 🏴
Love the moustache man. Love the content
It's an awesome series. I can't wait to see more
was waiting for this... lets go
25:50 that trick has been used for thousands of years. It's a classic because more often then not it works. The best way to use this is to fill the tents with straw and when the enemy attacks your camp have fire arrows shot into the tents then attack the attackers. Trapped between fire and you the enemy is doomed. Great way to eliminate vanguard calvalry.
Excited to see the new Napoleon movie.
Well done . Can't wait for movie
I love your videos- especially about my favorite historical character, Napoleon.
I have to ask what’s up with all the BHA kit?
Great you watched the ad. This one is good !
I would recommend the video's of pmf productions who worked with Epic History tv on this series, they were pretty good and would cover basically the same but still has a slightly different and more detailed look on the first few episodes.
Seconding my first comment. Your commentary adds SO much to the narrative of the video.
I would love to see a Vlogging through History Collab reaction of you and Mr. Terry reacting to History legends review of the new Napolean film.
As always great commentary along with epic history's exceptional visuals and storylines. As a side note if you're looking into playing napoleon total war definitely check out the darthmod version as it really unlocks the bigger scale for troop numbers involved in these conflicts much better than the original release.
Can't Wait For The Movie
I gotta admit that was a perfectly placed add.
9:21 don't worry,we'll would like these awesome merch as well VTH.❤
Well we all now know what Chris is doing this afternoon. SHOPPING!😂😂
Hi Sir, greetings from chile! 🇨🇱
Just a heads up, the final (and fifth) episode is yet to be uploaded, but is set to be released later this month
Napoleon total war is a fantastic game, sadly its small community is dying with the removal of game chat but its still amazing. The multiplayer campaign is great too, should give that a go if you have people to play with.
I miss the good old days (precisely in 2013-2014 for me) when the multiplayer was quite full of people
Thems were the days man
Would love to see you dive into the history of Stefan Cel Mare or Stephan the Great and the Battle of Vaslui
Greeting from Moldova 🇲🇩
I checked out the store. Pretty cool.
I have to imagine a soldier who is stealing food from rats will lay down his life for a commander who treats them as they deserve.
I love this series , history = Awesome napoleon = Awesome
probably 3 of napoleons best marshalls right there with him, lannes, berthier and suchet
Looting and pillaging is a common issue through the centuries.
In WW1 when the Germans conducted their last great offensive in the West one of the issues for German commanders was that German troops captured Allied supplies and as they had been short of food and drink they gorged themselves and got drunk rather than continuing the attack. This helped buy time for the Allies to organise and counter attack.
34:29 I live in Georgia and it’s a bit like that but it seems like a lot of places from Antiquity: Athens, Rome, Sparta, Smyrna, Ithaca, Corinth, Cairo, Bethlehem.
But on second thought we do have a lot of European ones: Vienna, Woodstock, Eton, Macon, Pelham, Dublin, Chester, Rochelle, Milan, Turin.
The boutique Napoleon is also supplying the costumes for the new movie. I forgot how extensively but it seems they’re supplying most of the military uniforms.
Great mustache dude.
The stache makes me laugh and I love it
15:43 Famous quote by Napoléon:
"Une armée marche avec son estomac"
"An army marches with its stomach"
Love the mustache my man! You look like you could've been a Union Officer (from Ohio of course.)
If you're wondering the bee symbols on the Marshall's baton ar references to the merovingian era.
Basically those kingdoms in red are like the Coalition of the Willing for the Napoleonic Wars. "I have the Coalition of the Willing' said the British King.
Chris has been looking at Napoleon stuff before it was cool.
May I once again suggest EpicHistory TV's other recent video on the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate? I know it's a bit outside your traditional wheelhouse, but frankly I'd find it more interesting to see your reaction to that than to Philomena Cunk.
The tache really suits you chris
Awesome reaction. Hope you react about the Alexander and crusade war on their epic history channel too.
History is a crazy story.
Because of the trailer for the movie, I also dusted off the Total War Napoleon campaign. I look forward to your game. As I was re-introduced to it, I now remember how difficult that game is.
My enemies are many My equels are none- Napoleon Bonerparte
France is the epitome of the "how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man" meme
hope this helps grow the channel even more!
If your gonna do this, you have to do Napoleon’s Marshals. It is 10/10 content.
20:00 and do not forget Quattre bras a day before Waterloo.
Now wer talking
Brilliant vedio ❤❤
I'm half Dutch. We were a republic and the people against the house of orange had a French style revolution. That's why France was able to conquer us. we had stopped the sun king not too long before in 1672
A game you might to look into (a bit dated) that has always covered almost every aspect of Napoleonic war is "Wars of Napoleon". No tactical per se, but, incomparable in everything else.
Anyways, just an idea.
Looking forward to more.
All the best.
Cheers.
About his attention to logistics, didn't Napoleon coin the phrase, "An army marches on its stomach"?
When do we get the reaction to episode 5 Rivoli ? 😊
Really looking forward for the Total war series, im a big fan of total war games.
But before you play the game, i have a tip to say. in case you don't know, you can adjust the army size in the "game option".
2nd, some of total war games can be really rough especially if you doing it for youtube, so it might be a good a idea to use trainer (i use the most trustworthy "WeMod"), but of course don't use the "god mode"
Didnt Napoleon also make the famous quote: Men will fight and die for a piece of coloured ribbon.
The Levée en masse combined with the school for officers and opportunities for everybody was great boon for the French. They made good use for both unemployment and fertile lands, while still being the place to be for everyone in Europe to see modernization on all levels.
40 miles in less than 36 hours!
Makes me think of a quote from Napoleon, I believe this was about Austerlitz: "I only won by marching", meaning in the early days his army got a solid advantage as Napoleon knew to have them move quickly.
The quote was about Ulm not Austerlitz.
@@ArnaudReille there are too many victories to remember, I can't recall them all! 😁😉🤣
You mentioned Napoleon’s height.
Two things played against him.
He was usually seen next to the French Guard.
And Wellington was well over Six Feet Tall.
Also, even before that, I would think that soldiers would not exactly follow the same height distribution as men of their country would, but be taller than the national average. At the very least, militaries tend to have a minimum height they require men to be to be eligible to enlist. So if you're slightly below average height compared to all men in your country, you'd be significantly below average compared to the military.
at first i wasn't sure how i felt about it, but now im digging that stache Chris, actually makes u look like you're in ur early 30s imo. maybe cause i've a bud that's 28/29 and u look a lot like him that stache haha
How was he able to coordinate troops and issue commands in the heat of battle?