The Worst Betrayals in History
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- During war, knowing who you can trust is a matter of immeasurable importance - whether it’s on the battlefield itself, or determining the fate of an operation in the war room. Betrayal of this trust can have catastrophic consequences that ripple far beyond personal grievances, impacting the entire trajectory of war and human history. Throughout the centuries, human conflicts have witnessed their fair share of betrayals, backstabs, bribes and sabotage. Here are 5 of the most treacherous betrayals in History.
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“Ghost, come in! This is Price! We're under attack by Shepherd's men in the boneyard! Soap, hold the left flank! Do not trust Shepherd! I say again, do not trust Shepherd! Soap, get down!” Captain Price
Doesn't compare to order 66.
Yeah I was about to say Anakin's betrayal was probably the greatest.
Beat me right to it. 😂
Back when Call Of Duty was actually a damn good game
Sigurds betrayal by his brother because of Bryhildr.
Siegfrieds betrayal by the king
Theseus's Betrayal by the government
Jesus's betrayal by Judas Iscariot, Israel, and Rome.
The death penalty was actually abolished in Norway at the time. The Norwegian government brought it back *just* for Quisling.
Lol
Only abolished in peacetime to be correct. Quisling was executed along with 36 others, both norwegians and germans after the war was over.
Yep
Same in Holland
Kool
The betrayal and assassination of Oda Nobunaga by Akechi Mitsuhide. Maybe not one of the worst of all time, but definitely one of the most well-known.
None knows it u mad capping😂
@@thebigflop3118 Only if you're in the west
Yeah, I was surprised Oda Nobunaga wasn't on this list
Never heard of them
Well known?
"There's been a rebellion sir, don't worry the situation is under control. I'm sorry sir, its time for you to leave"
And so it is.
We do not grant you the rank of Master.
@@robertmclease How can you be on the Council and NOT be a Master?
@@basedelontake a seat young skywalker
@@A_random_iron_warrior What about the droid attack on the Wookies?
Benedict Arnold is a tragic figure who shows the incompatibility between a congressional democracy and military honor. He was one of George Washington's most decorated officers and a genuinely couragous soldier of the Revolutionary War who led Americans under his command to great victories, losing his foot in battle. Yet the political leadership let him down time after time that eventually disillusioned him to the point of betrayal. If he hadn't made that decision, he probably would have been remembered as one of the great generals of American history. He's like an American version of Coriolanus.
That is also a problem with personal ambition.
A soldier should not do his dutty looking for rewards and medals, if now being promoted bothers you maybe you shouldn't try a military career. And I say that as someone who, if things go well, in a few months I would enter on my countrie's military academy.
So you haven't been passed over for a promotion you know you deserve after successfully leading your men to unlikely victory time & time again. It's natural for anyone to feel slighted over that@@Huma270490
@Huma270490 you're young and naive. Come back after serving for 20 years, losing part of your body, mind, and spirit during your service, and being passed over/disregarded time after time by inferior underlings. Then tell us how you feel
@@Huma270490when you reward someone with treachery don't be surprised they become treacherous.
@@mattf82 no excuses. he's a traitor
Major General Nikita Dragovich betrayed his Russian soldiers to use them as test subjects for NOVA-6
Resnov! FREEDOM!
@thomaslopez8395 for you mason! Not for me!
@@thomaslopez8395 This is Step 1!
Secure the keys!
@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground Step 2! Ascend from darkness!
@@onekill31STEP 3!!!
This is somehow the first time I've heard of Arnold having reasons to betray beyond "they were mean to me."
Not that it is justified, Benedict Arnold was also under great influence of Peggy Shippen and her family to betray the colonials. Shippen's family were known Loyalists and Shippen had even dated a British officer in the past before dating and marrying Benedict Arnold. Despite all this, Arnold is a traitor to the United States and is rarely viewed in a positive manner.
Yeah, he definitely had his reasons.
you mean ignoring all his military advise that was eventually proved right, and not giving him credit fore when they did happen to listen to him. or was it ridiculing and shaming him when he wouldnt fall in place like they wanted. lost one of the greatest american patriots by being underhanded political beings, rather than patriot soldiers.
@@abcdefbcdefg8352foreshadowing for certain...
To be fair, he was in the right, it's funny how all the most hated people in American history are actually decent people while the most liked people in American history are horrible monsters
I'm French, but I hardly see the sinking of the French fleet by UK as a betrayal. Unfortunately for the sailors lost, Admiral Darlan and all the French government collaborated actively with the Nazis. Darlan even fired upon the US troops during the landing in North Africa. There is no doubt that this fleet would have ended-up in the hands of the Nazis
The French likes to run away
@@DeezzzzzzNuts12That is not true, I am British and The French have fought fought valiantly many times. And won many many wars.
This is true. It really comes down to leadership. When weak, you get the results that the French suffered in spectacular fashion in 1871 and in 1940. But today and since De Gaul the French are about as effective as their British and American counterparts. If for some reason, we ever came to blows with the French today, their effectiveness would come as a very nasty surprise.@@MrMrmcook2008
Tell that to the families of your fallen French man
@@DeezzzzzzNuts12 France has woon battles than any other nation in world history,, Britain is number 2
My grand grand-father was at Mers-El-Kebir, he was onboard the ship that managed to flee from Oran's docks, the Strasbourg, sister-ship of the Dunkerque which were almost sunked there. Out of all ships the one with the most unfortunate fate was the Bretagne. A shell landed in the boilers causing a fire on all the bridge line, until it reached some ammo storage which blew up before the ship turned over and sunk.
Mine was in the Commandant Teste, the seaplane tender that also served at the tender for the whole fleet.
He told my grandma that he feared that one shell would ignite the fuel in the tender tanks. The Commandant Teste was full and could have ignited the neighbouring ships.
But no, fate spared this ship and my grand grandpa had to watch the sailors from the nearby Bretagne trying to save themselves.
I'm not sure if this could have been possible but he reported that he had seen the sailors of the Bretagne banging on the portholes of the ship as they were stuck on lower decks.
@@jbc13200 the Commandant Teste was truly a miracle on it's own as it never moved from the docks. As for the Bretagne's sailors, what you said is true, not all of 'em died durant the fire or the explosion, most of 'em actually drowned, the doctor of the Bretagne could remember hearing lots of banging noises as he managed to get through portholes before the ship turned over. As someone that is from the region, Brest specifically. This tends to get a bit more personal. And when you know that all of this was for nothing as they held their promises the day the germans/italians tried to invade Free France and the docks to seize the ships. All ships were scuttled right off the bat.
@@matsoudo5980 Another information concerning the Bretagne. It flipped showing her belly, but sailors could be extracted by cutting the hull, and they did that.
Another interesting note:
More than one ship successfully escaped, despite the British mining the exit.
And finally, the attack on Mers el Kébir went on for a couple of days as the British tried to sink the Dunkerque. I still have the picture of the Terre-Neuve bridge that exploded resting on the bridge of the Dunkerque.
The Strassbourg sucessfully sailed to Toulon .
( Who wasn't under german control like Churchill said )
A sad state of affairs all around, but honestly the real 'betrayal' there was the French government making peace. Even now the great myth that the 4th Republic was the 'real France' while Vichy was illegitimate lives on.
Mars el Kabir wasn't just a betrayal, It was a full on circus of incompetence, miscommunication and pride escalating a situation when it really didn't need to. Some notable incidents include:
The French admiral not relaying the complete list of conditions the British gave him to the French government when asking for instructions. The French admiral refused to speak or discuss the terms with the British representative because the British officer was a Captain and thus beneath his own rank. The British had sent the captain because he spoke fluent French while the Admiral in charge of the fleet did not speak French.
I would recommend Drachniefel's video on the incident, there is so much to this incident this video doesn't have enough time to go over a third of it accurately.
Mers el Kebir doesn't seem like a betrayal at all. The French were submitting to Germany - that made them the enemy. Does Simple History understand the word "betrayal"?
@@FancyMcDancy Because even though the French were surrendering, they still wanted Britain and the other nations fighting Germany to win. Especially since British victory meant they would be liberated from the coming German occupation. Many French military units that had the opportunity to do so took their ships or equipment and joined the British forces, considering the Vichy government a German Puppet government, which it basically was. Other French units who couldn't escape did what they could to deny the Germans French equipment by scuttling ships, destroying their own tanks etc.
The French ships were given several options by the British. They could come with them to England and continue fighting the germans there under the free french government, sail to a neutral country like the united states (who was neutral at the time) and wait out the war. Scuttle their own ships to deny them to the germans and have the crews be taken either home, England or a neutral country. Finally the last option the British had was to sink the French fleet by gunfire, which the Brit's didn't want to do but had orders to deny those ships to the Germans, who in all likely hood would have used them against England.
The French Admiral basically refused to discuss the options with the British entirely because they sent a Captain to speak with him and he felt insulted by the fact they didn't send someone of equivalent rank, even though the Captain was fluent in French and the British admiral wasn't.
He also dithered and asked for directions from his government but told the government that the only choices the British were giving him was "Give us your ships or Die" The British also knew what he sent because he transmitted in a code the British had gotten from the french government in order to better cooperate against the Germans. The British gave the french every chance for a peaceful, honorable solution, and the French Admiral essentially threw a tantrum and got his fleet sunk due to the Royal Navy having to take the final option because he wouldn't even talk about it with them.
Seriously, the British TH-cam Historian Drachnifel has a solid video on it.
@@GritimoTheOdd I know.
While I do agree the French admiral played a massive role in the outcome, especially in hindsight (even Churchill saw it this way) it was a betrayal of an ally that killed over a thousand of its servicemen.
I think the polish home army being abandoned by the Soviets during the Warsaw uprising should be in this video.
Along with Constantinople being abandoned by the West during the siege in 1453.
The Soviet Union was never allied with Poland.
@@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female True, Poland was stuck between two mad dogs both trying to rip Poland to shreds.
Where does the 300k Afghans being abandoned by the current US administration fall under?
@@Rensune Your acting like the US had any other choice.
@@RensuneThe US gave the Afghans everything they needed. They had the Taliban outnumbered and outgunned by a 4-1 margin and what did they do? Capitulate with barely any fight
"Dimitar, Dragan, Goran, Mijo... Should I go on and name them all!?" - Niko Bellic to Darko Brevic
I had friends, but I had other friends! The one Goran and his guys killed...
There's also this betrayal that's rather overshadowed and underrated. General Luna, who is a Philippine hero and practically the only General during the American Colonization,
Well known for his unusual tactics, bravery, and most importantly his commitment to serve the Philippine Republic
was the only one who was willing to fight against the Americans and could fight them effectively while the President Amilio Alginaldo and and the Government was sure that they would grant them independence from the Spanish and rejected ,their previous rulers and rejected his ideas. When Luna was called he was only lead into a trap, assassinated by his own people
So they killed their best bet at independence, not very smart.
As a Filipino, this betrayal made the reason why the Filipino Millennials today remembered Andres Bonifacio, a poor man with less education but with fiery brave man who founded the Philippine Revolutionary organization, the Katipunan was THE first President of the Philippines. Bonifacio too was betrayed by Aguinaldo during the 1896 Philippine Revolution against Spain where he was cheated by the first ever elections, accused of treason and rebellion against the newly established government that would be the precursor of the government of the Republic of the Philippines we all know and he was believed to be killed under orders by Aguinaldo.
It's funny that Andres Bonifacio is getting more recognition than Aguinaldo after his death. Everyone celebrate November 30 as "Bonifacio Day" and a national holiday in our calendar in the Philippines while Aguinaldo was left forgotten, only June 12 as Philippine Independence Day and a 5 Pesos coin as his legacy, proving how corrupt and failed leader Aguinaldo was that his flawed leadership continues to our government today. So sad but true.
Let’s also not forget Januario Galut who aided the Americans with tactical knowledge of providing a weak point for the Americans against General Gregorio Del Pilar troops at Tirad Pass.
In Benedict Arnold's defense, he had his Valor stolen by other American commanders. He wanted his due glory but was never recognized.
I was going to say this. You beat me to it by 41 minutes.
Against him, Benedict Arnold was a bit of a glory hound.
Imagine betraying the memories of the dead who followed you because you didn’t get your flowers.
America didn’t betray Arnold. He’s a coward who was looking for power. He never wanted to serve his country. He saw the military as a means to gain power in a new country. This is the guy who in Washington’s position would have tried to become King.
Imagine Audie Murphy joining the Germans because he didn’t get a Medal of Honor. Arnold is trash.
well, he wasn't t the only one that happened too, Washington himself had to deal with a lot of back stabbing. Arnold could have changed his mind at any time and Washington proved how much he valued Arnold by offering basically second in command of the army. Yet the fool still betrayed him, and instead of being know as one of the best generals second only to Washington, his name isn't on a single monument
So his ego betrayed us?
He earned the hate.
As a Greek I'm glad someone remembered how disgusting the betrayal of 1204 was. I think an honorable mention would be Tsar Peter of Russia peacing out with Prussia as soon as he came to power while Russia was on the verge of victory after years of fighting.
Yeah as a catholic it breaks my heart
Thats like 800 years ago lol it has nothing to do with you
Learn history @@Adonnus100
@@armaholic5949 i know history. Brah its fuckin ages in the past you're not connected to it in any way
@@Adonnus100 Of course not, but it still breaks my heart that people who claim to have the same faith I have would do such a thing.
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest is also a pretty big one. Roman general Varus was betrayed by his auxiliary officer Arminius who ambushed him and his legions. Not only did this betrayal halt Roman expansion into Northern Europe, wipe out three legions, and tarnish Varus' name but Varus saw Arminius as a friend (or at least trusted him). It must've been devastating for him and could be the reason for his suicide during the battle.
You can't blame Varus. That scumbag Arminius was a Roman citizen & Legionary officer for God's sake! Varus didn't believe it when a German chief told him that Arminius was plotting against him.
After all, would you ever think ill of not only a fellow Roman citizen but also a fellow officer?
Why would it be a betrayal? It was the people who betrayed and humilated the barbarians who deserved it first. Not to mention the Romans never keep their word
Who says romans didnt keep their word? Lmao who was the general that was allowed to leave carthage to go back to rome to sue for peace rome told him they were going to keep fighting so he returned like he said he would and was executed. Thats honor.@@Tuturial464
@Tuturial464 Arminius was raised as a Roman and Varus trusted him. What he did is dishonorable and his final death by the people who he betrayed Rome for is poetic. Arminius is currently burning in Hades for his treachery.
@@Tuturial464 Well, it's a pity the barbarians couldn't be civilized by the more advanced Romans.
N°1: Alterac's betrayal of the Human Alliance during the Second War, truly a moment in history
I feel most of the human kingdoms have betrayed each other at some point.
After looking closer I can confirm each kingdom has been involved in at least one great betrayal.
@@Anderre_Belmont yeah, kinda, they all left Stormwind alone during the first war (it was due to Deathwing intervention anyway), Gilneas never wanted to join the war, Dalaran was busy doing Dalarian things, Kul'Tiras forgot they were a navy power, Stormgarde was dealing with trolls, and everybody else look away when Lordaeron fell (some kingdoms tried to send help but it just wasn't enough)
@@Un0Tipazo Kul'Tiras forgot like a fox. They knew what they were doing by waiting in the wings.
The assassination of King Terenas by Arthas
what a great loss, alterac lmao
I would have included on this list Arminius' betrayal to his Roman commander Publius Quinctilius Varus during the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest which wiped out three Roman Legions and halted Rome's expansion into Germany forever.
YEAH! VILEST TRAITOR!
Roman citizen, Legionary scouts officer, and Germans say that he was a patriot?! The only way he could be a patriot was had he renounced his citizenship and resigned his commission before leading the Romans to an ambush he himself picked as the Legion's scout commander.
If I remember correctly, those legions numbers weren’t ever used again and were never reformed.
"halted Rome's expansion into Germany forever" Why "Halted"? Elaborate, pls.
@@extremathule982halted as in totally destroyed three legions. He set a trap and after this the Romans never seriously expanded into Germany.
_How about the USS Liberty?_
This should have been #1
Wasn't that an accident? There's a difference between friendly fire and treachery.
@@matt4048dude when you do some research and scratch the surface a tiny bit you'll see that it was in no way an accident. We have radio transmissions of the Israeli pilots confirming it was a United States ship but they were ordered to fire on it anyways. But the real kicker is my friends dad was a Navy SEAL during that time and he was sent to Israel as part of a security detail to guard some of the Jewish Synagogues.
They were flying the American flag, very visible. Israel was about to attack Egypt and was afraid US would warn them. It WASN'T friendly fire or an accident.
It would get censored if it was added.
I was expecting to see also the betrayal of Ephialtes in the battle of Thermopolis and the last stand of the 300 Spartans.
same here 300 the Spartan was winning till one of their own betray them
@@SoldierSpiderxthe Athenians or Corinthians never showed up either
and the prelude to Barbarossa 1941 - the (Non)-Aggression-Pact between the Reich and the Russ by Ribbentropp and Molotov.The greatest scale of treason.
@@armorman55they did? There were 300 Spartans and 7000 Greeks from the surrounding provinces, including athenians
Freedom!-William Wallace
Mir Jafar, whose name is regularly used as a synonym for betrayer, can be assumed as the Benedict Arnold of South Asia.
He sold out his entire country for a tea company. Of course he’s reviled
That's why they gave this name to the vilain and traitor in Disney's Aladin.
"I Horus heresy will kill the emperor and become Warhammer 40000" was truly a saddening moment
Nah. It was pretty predictable, from the start .
1. Primarchs made with chaos powers.
2. Legions loyal exclusively to Primarchs
3. Not healthy father/son relations. Emperor used them as tools for crusade.
4. Leaked info about massacre of Thunder warriors.
5. Edict of Nicea.
6. Emperor leaves the crusade...
@@alexzero3736 1. The primarchs were made with warp essence and warp≠chaos usually
2. Loyalists in traitor legions were purged
3-5. Fair
6. The webway needed his attention
You did Horus Hersey , you are the Warhammer 40k
@@rambot_14o43 pretty sure Big E wiped all his sons memory. Plus he never told anyone the risks of chaos
@@glaxi95
I can’t believe that horus heresy would do this to the warhammer 40,000
Can't believe Shawn Micheals putting Marty Janetty through the barber shop window isn't on here
That never happened. Janetty the coward tried to escape by Jumping through the window
Ciampa betraying Gargano is up there
Can't you frickin read the title of this video????
The bards still sing of that deed today.
I couldn't believe it when it happened. I still can't believe it!!!
The Barber Shop was never the same after that.
Vidkun Quisling was so hated that the name Vidkun went out of favour in Norway. The weird thing is, in his mind, what he was doing was totally patriotic and serving his country. He maintained this belief right up the end, including when he faced the firing squad. Even weirder, Hitler betrayed him a bit. He continued to serve Hitler, but Hitler lost interest in him. He got a flash car out of Hitler, though.
Ironically, the people Hitler genocided, the survivors of those would seek refuge in Palestine and ended up betraying those who gave asylum
Now they’re doing a genocide on them
@@Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus1
Interesting how you Christian's love shoving your religion down people's throats, even under comments that have nothing to do with your death cult.
However, it's no surprise given the history of your religion.
@@Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus1no
*Ah, curse your sudden, but inevitable, betrayal!*
😂😂😂
Note that the collaborationist Vichy French forces fought the British in Syria, Madagascar and in North Africa when the Americans landed in late 1942.
Fair play to them.
France went to war against Australia in Syria and Lebanon, and lost. The French were then humiliated by being forced to signing an armistice in Bastille Day. Afterwards, the Australians marched 30000 treacherous French troops out at the end of their bayonets. There is nothing more repugnant than an ally that turns on you to fight, particularly with a vengeance that was deficient in the defence of their homeland.
Munich 1938 was also a pretty serious betrayal.
USS liberty
We are going to see a huge betrayal in our lifetimes. A few Catholic/Orthodox prophets (such as Alois Irlmaier, Seiner Van Rensburg, etc) who have already correctly predicted major events that happened and have seen visions of the future, claim to see WW3. At some point during WW3, China will betray Russia and begin a massive invasion of the country. It would happen at a point at which Russia would have invaded as far France.
@@robertoughton61yes it was
@@robertoughton61 I think he's saying the Munich Agreement, which took so much territory, population, and fortifications away from Czechoslovakia, with them not even getting a seat at the table, was a betrayal by Britain and France.
@@blueseercontent the betrayal was that Czechoslovakia exist and that is wasn't part of austria.
In 68 in Vietnam a 400 man marine unit unexpectedly engaged around 4000 entrenched NVA regulars. They called for help from an ARVN armor unit who just held back and refused to engage the enemy for the most part. At that points in my mind they became the enemy as well. The marines prevailed with air and artillery assets
“Good, that’s one less loose end”
The one that I love when Benedict Arnold took over Philadelphia again he had a tally of everything regained during that one and the mayor or the governor of Pennsylvania seen it as him trying to gain any form of Fortune over what he was doing and demanded that either he gets court-martialed for it even though it was a standard practice to do exactly what that is, or PA was not sending extra troops. It's that exact moment when people believe he changed his mind and changed coats
you left out ALOT about the attack on mers-el-kebir, like the complete incompetance of the french officers who were so pompus and stuck up that they refused to listen to anything the british officers were saying, even going so far as refusing to take messages from british messengers because they were not high enough rank to talk to them.
And what of Churchill? You have to be brainwashed to actually believe him
@@joshuaandre8911What about him
What had happened in the Battle of Thermophylae is one of the best examples of betrayals in history.
Not mentioned in the video about General Arnold is his massive role in leading the Continental defense and counterattack from the Bemis Heights during the Saratoga campaign. Many of his fellow officers considered him to be the true author of victory, not Gates. And he was widely praised for it. The Hero of Saratoga and Balfour Island tried to turn over West Point. It was a shock to the entire country.
Arnold was always looking for a way to improve his personal wealth. Peggy Shippen was complicit in her husband's betrayal. Contrary to the relationship portrayed in "Turn", the relationship between Peggy shippen and John Andre was notnromantic.
"Good that's one less loose ends"
- General Shepherd
Good work!!!- Thanks for sharing 👌👍🏿
Japanese during WWII : "Geneva Convention, more like Geneva Suggestion"
Geneva Convention more like Weneva Canlisten
They’d take a copy of it, and use it to- *[CENSORED]*
Not even a suggestion. Ignored it completely.
@@MichaelGibbons-uk2mcduh. They never even signed it in the first place lol
The japs didn’t even sign the Geneva convention because they knew they had zero intention of following it. Same as the Soviets
The attack on Mers El Kebir was necessary. At that point the only British dominance was navy. Germans were ruling the ground and the skies. They could not risk it. When Hitler invaded the rest of France couple years later French honoured their promises and sinked their fleets but the British could not be certain of that in 1940. İts sad but its not a betrayal British gave all the honourable options to French but all was rejected.
The saddest thing about betrayals is it doesn't comes from your enemy.
😂
Morgana quote lol
Betrayals come from friends not enemies
Well Quisling was everyone's enemy
The saddest part about animal cruelty is that it’s not done by animals 😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭
In fairness to the British: You'd be insane to believe Hitler would keep his word if he could lay his hands on the French fleet.
Peace in our time????
Somerville must have been the happiest Englishman ever. He got to stick it to both the French AND the Germans in one move.
Britain’s worst act of treachery was against Australia in 1942, first abandoning a division of Australian troops at sea to leave them unprotected and then ordering the Commonwealth to not support Australia in any way when it was attacked by Japan. Only New Zealand refused the command and negotiated the ANZAC Treaty to really give it to Britain that its Empire was finished.
The line of British treachery was sending the 6th Division to Greece and Crete without Australian government approval so that Churchill could meet his promises to Greece. Then trying to over rule the Australian government who decided to withdraw from Tobruk after holding it for many months in siege conditions without rest. Then trying to redirect ships bringing home troops to fight Japan and send them to Burma by arguing that Americans could be substituted. In that hour those Americans were very untrained and without combat experience (especially for jungle as they had been intended for use in Iceland). Then holding back the Australian pilots and planes for Europe and North Africa and insisting that Australia also continue sending all cadet pilots for use in Europe in British squadrons.. It took Britain 13 months to release Australian Spitfire squadrons to be on station at Darwin. All British Hurricanes were kept for Burma so that Churchill could keep India. Nothing was sent until 1944. Forcing the RAN to operate their old ships well beyond serviceability just to hold the line for the British. Then promising the Australian Government that Singapore was invincible, thinly spreading the Australian forces sent, denying them opportunity to train and using them as scapegoats to blame for Churchills own mismanagement as the cause of defeat. Any British ship withdrawing from Singapore station went west to India so as to not be of use to defending Australia and New Zealand or any British Pacific territory.
I mean I can't blame the British for not wanting to take a chance with the French fleet Hitler lied to them every step of the way why would he stop there?
In the Netherlands, there was a version of Vidkun Quisling; his name was Anton Mussert, leader of the NSB; he too was executed after the war.
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies
The sadder part is betrayal is being done to you by the same group who asks or demands loyalty from you
That's why it's called betrayal
No they were enemy's you just didn't figure it out in time.
Quisling was everyone's enemy
Oh man so original I totally didn't just read this one comment above.
My only issue is calling John Andre a Major General, when he was only a Major
and claiming that only French officers were killed Mers-El-Kebir
Everyone can agree that Mers-El-Kebir was terrible. Yet it's so complicated, you can see how such a disaster occurred. Strategies, logistics, fears and egos all played a big role.
True, the germans would never have kept their word to keep the ships out of the war, so I consider it a lesser evil but still pretty damn shameful.
yeah i didnt really understand that one either, i seriously hope there was more at play than was shown here because it comes across as a massive case of French pride, stubbornness & stupidity costing ~1300 unneccesary lives.
if anyone can elaborate please do...
@@Mobius-ce1zx France had a huge navy, but the country itself had been captured. The French government had been replaced by a puppet government controlled by the Germans.
Britain feared the Germans would take the French ships, even though they promised not to. (True to Hitler's Germany, they did break their word later and do just that). So, Britain gave the French an ultimatum, join us, go neutral or face the consequences.
Many French leaders sent their ships to Allied ports and some French ships made their own way there, long before this.
This French Admiral was faced with: should he follow his government orders (though a puppet gov't) or should he join the Allies against his country's invaders.
His biggest failure (in my opinion) was in not respecting the ultimatum's timeline or at least seeking more time or a compromise. He didn't choose, so Britain had to.
The moral issue that after this, French ships (Allies) had to fight other French ships (Vichy/puppet gov't) was a travesty that proved how complicated the issue was, even without other nations involvement.
French puppet government sunk the fleet in Toulon when germans came to take it, and Toulon was much closer from the occupied part of France than Mers-el-kebir.
Britains had no guts and no honor, that's already why they fleed to Dunkirk, then from Dunkirk during the german attack.
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Germany was able to sink three French warships at Dunkirk, plus many other British and Allied ships. The puppet gov't kept an entire fleet out of the fight. So, they were more effective for Germany, than its own soldiers. Then they kept the same fleet out of the war for four years on the premise that Germany said they wouldn't try to use it. Then Germany tried and they sank them; still instead of sending them to help their allies.
That fleet sails at Dunkirk, the British army escapes, but now with their weapons and the French army also escapes. Then that fleet takes part in the Battle of the Atlantic. The whole war could have been over maybe two years earlier.
The deposition of Edward V in 1483 and later the role of the Stanleys at Bosworth in 1485 were two examples of betrayal that changed the course of English and British history.
Glad to see my home island martinique in an episode! There is a great story about France sending all its gold there during ww2.
Some context for the Crusades: they were basically a way for the Pope to call upon an armed pilgrimage from Europe to save the failing East Roman Empire from the Turks under the slogan of "Bring the Cross back to Jerusalem".
By the 4th Crusade, 100 years after the first, many of Europe's monarchs were either dealing with conflicts of their own, or not falling for the ruse anymore, which is why the initial call for the 4th Crusade went relatively unanswered compared to the previous ones'...until some people realized it was an easy opportunity to get a religious mandate to deal with nastier affairs, like looting and pillaging a rebellious neighbor, or removing a monarch that isn't quite to their liking.
No ruse.
What a load of nonsense. The crusades were a response to pilgrims being slaughtered by those of the religion of peace.
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The Westerners by then had realized that the money was in Constantinople and not in Jersualem. After the slaughter, the Eastern Roman Empire's fate was sealed while the Westerners eradicated it's people and moved it's treasures to the West. Even to this day the Horses of Saint Mark are proudly desplayed in Venice while the majority of the arts like statues were destroyed, smelted into gold.
The British Sinking the French Fleet was awful, but they didn't really have much choice lest the powerful french battleships fall into German hands.
The options given to the french Admiral were pretty reasonable. It just meant the Admiral wouldn't be in control anymore.
So you have a situation which could have quite easily been resolved amicably, but for 1 egotistical Admiral would wouldn't swallow his pride for the interests of his own sailors and the Allied nations. If he'd just handed them over, they'd of been safely in port in the UK and that would have been that.
Instead, he forced the British hand into destroying them and sadly many many sailors along with them.
1 mans ego costing the lives of so many of his own people. A very sad day indeed.
He didn’t even have to hand them over. He was given the option to sail them to the US to be disarmed. This was within his orders if he came under attack and the British offered that option. But rather than sailing as a free force fleet or heading to the US he decided that his pride was worth more
I have to add that the British officer sent to talk to the French Admiral spoke perfect french and had worked with him as a naval liaison as part of his staff.
@@paintedblue1791 The problem was the officer was a 'lowly' captain so the French Admiral got offended.
What is this coping? What the British did was absolutely unacceptable and quite frankly typical of their nature. After all, this isn't the first time the English have betrayed their allies.
@@antoinedemm7533And what would you have done? Just let the Germans get a brand new fleet?
Excellent video 😊
This channel is worthy of a mention on the list
Wait, what? Your ally is about to quit and give the enemy a huge industrial and military boost AND put them on your doorstep. You ask them not to give away everything....please, not EVERYTHING!!! They say "No, EVERYTHING!" So, you have to take away something and you are the betrayer??? I think you got mixed up on that one, Simple History. Great channel, though!
One of the worst betrayal for me is in the battle of Sekigahara by Kobayakawa Hideaki. There were two sides in the 1600's war, western army led by Mitsunari Ishida and eastern army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Kobayakawa Hideaki had joined western army in hope for regency over Bungo region from Mitsunari. But the problem is, Western army only had few loyal figures to Mitsunari and some of Loyal Toyotomi Retainer (Clan which Mitsunari Served) joined Eastern army instead, like Kato Kiyomasa and Masanori Fukushima. And Hideaki saw that and concern of western army victory. In battle itself western army were led by by Mitsunari himself, Otani Yoshitsugu, Kobayakawa Hideaki, Ukita Hideie and Konishi Yukinaga there were also Mori clan led by Mori Hidemoto but not the daimyo himself, Mori Terumoto. Eastern were many such Tokugawa Ieyasu, Kuroda Nagamasa, Todo Takatora, Fukushima Masanori and others. After few hours battle, both sides seems to be tied but Ieyasu send his Musketeers to fire at Hideaki troops forcing him to betray western army and attack Otani Yoshitsugu (Mitsunari's right hand man) therefore ensuring eastern army Victory and Soon to be Tokugawa Shogunate to rule all japan within 200 more years
And more Kobayakawa Hideaki joined previous battle on Mitsunari's side by attacking Fushimi castle under Tokugawa clan.
I was just there a few weeks ago. It changed everything for Japan from being open to trade with the west to being closed off. Being closed off led to the Meiji Reformation which led to the militarist imperialism which led to alliance with notsees in WW2.🦋
The Heshemite betrayal of the Ottomans is also one I personalky think. It reshaped the middle east and continues to haunt the region to the day
Thing about Quisling. His name is in Norwegian become synonymous with "Traitor". He was also the first person in Norwegian history to finish the Norwegian War Academy with 100% score (Top grades), and none has ever done it since. Also want to note that the king didn't flee until the invasion was a fact and the invasion force got stopped at "Oscarsborg", where we sunk the Blücher. We weren't at war before that. Just being threatened by a major power. We were trying to be as neutral as Sweden, but our ports combined with Quislings attempts at telling the Germans the Norwegians were emphatic to their cause caused the invasion. (We didn't have discovered resources at the time (Oil, aluminum, Tungsten), and our national population was only 3/4 the number of people in Berlin). Only nation to have more partisans per capita compared to us were the Yugoslavs. (Not saying we had the second largest resistance movement, just the second largest per capita next to Yugoslavia). Most of which is due to the king refusing to acknowledge the "New" Norwegian government. I hate the Danish (As is required of a Scandinavian brother) but picking their prince for our King is one of the greatest things we've done as a nation. Long live Olav!
*Another great, well-needed video. Well done Simple History, well done🎉.*
Sack of Constantinople was the greatest revenge in history. Enrico Dandolo was blinded by the byzantine emperor when Enrico was 60 years-old and 30 years later he did his revenge.
I'm surprised John McCain wasn't mentioned
btw The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon might be a brave idea for the French fleet to prevent their ships from being used on German hands and this might be their only choice
@@rena-mq2bgmost intelligent hillbilly:
Churchill had already decided this was to be a war of annihilation. He didn't think any compromise was possible with Germany. Therefore military expediency took president over legality.
Continuing the war at this point was sheer lunacy, but one could certainly argue that today. We should be very glad.
You having said that, I am not a fan of counterfactual history, will never know what would have happened. Be it better or worse.
Just imagin the French after that betrayl would have been so pissed on the British that they would have joined the axes for taking revange on Britain.. it was a BIG risk from the British!
It was pure luck that meant they sank the fleet at Toulon. The British in 1940 could never risk it. @@rena-mq2bg
At the Battle of Sekigahara, 15 000 troops under the daimyo of the Kobayakawa clan, Kobayakawa Hideaki, betrayed the Western Army under Ishida Mitsunari, to whom they've been allied, and fell down on the positions of Akaza Naoyasu, Wakizaka Yasuharu, Ogawa Suketada and Kutsuki Mototsuna, whom promptly defected too, and collectively the number of turncoats swelled to 19 300 troops, which then attacked Ōtani Yoshitsugu, who was already engaging Tōdō Takatora and Oda Yūraku. The turncoats destroyed Yoshitsugu's army, and soon Fukushima Masanori with the turncoats flooded into the wide open right flank of the Western Army, thus completely wiping them out. This betrayal definitely changed the fate of Japan and the outcome of the Sengoku Jidai.
Sounds like an anime plot
@@SlaaneshM30 this is historical and an anime plot used it as a base along with some typical anime things like superpowers
wow, that was really interesting! I love this channel.
"When the Prophets learn of this, they will take your head!"
"When they learn? (chuckles) Fool. They ordered me to do it."
Vito Spatafore betraying Paulie Walnuts needs to be on here. How much more betrayal can Paulie take?
And where is Fredo on this list? This TH-camr owes an apology!
What about Maj.Gen. James Wilkinson of the US Army who informed his Spanish masters about the Lewis and Clark Expedition but the Corps of Discovery proved too fast for the Spaniards to catch(Wilkinson was Agent#13on Spanish payroll)
Tell me more about it, it seems interesting
A video on the Bosnian War Camaro/"God's Rambo" would be one of the coolest things ever
Excellent list. I would add the battle of Sekigahara to this. It totally changed the direction of Japan with a couple of betrayals mid battle.
Just a correction: it is 'The Royal Rifles of Canada' and not the Canadian Royal Rifles.
**Trips and falls over** Aw darn, somebody left their semantics just laying around here...
Meh, Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea?
I came here for the Hungarians arresting Vlad the Impaler in 1462 after Matthias Corvinus told Vlad they will come with reinforcements against the Ottomans as it was agreed.
4:46 The Battle of Hong Kong, kind reminds me of the battalion Zuko wanted to protect but got scared and banished for it, from ATLAB.
You overlooked Mir Jafar. His betrayal sowed the seeds for 200 years of British rule in India and reduced the country from accounting for 23% of the World GDP when the British arrived to Less than 1% when they left.
This is just a hit piece on the British Empire. It is not a betrayal to call your own dominion in to support the war effort
This is exactly what this is . The actual betrayal is the neo liberal media constantly trying to discredit the history and heritage of Britain , the US , Canada and Australia in order to run a globalist agenda .
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Honestly with Benedict Arnold, our continental government fucked him up.
Who?
@@havoc3-243cares about your ignorance and lack of history
It does seem a lot more gray then what we were taught in school
True
@@Aramaru-yx9hzhe wasn't that important anyway.
It's truly amazing how seldom if ever the people behind the desk who send people to their death are ever with them.
You forgot one, "the lannisters send their regards"
Can't believe the time my mom wouldn't take us to McDonald's even though we were driving right past it didn't make this list 😒
In her defense you had chicken nuggets at home in the freezer
Whadda you think, she's made of money?
Besides, you just went to KFC last wednesday.
You must be living in California, after minimum wage was hiked to $20 per hour, parents dreaded taking their children to any fastfoods.
The Canadian forces who fought in Hong Kong fought valiantly the were just overwhelmed by the numbers brought
by the Japanese but they certainly didnt backdown the British officials did criticize what they viewed as inferior
troops the truth was the opposite. Throughout World War I and 2 Canadians (along with the Anzacs) were the elite troops asked to do the impossiable and often delivering
Can't speak for the first part, but everything I've seen about Canadian troops on ww1 and ww2 does show that they fought exceptionally well
The trained and provisioned ones who survived fought really well. The untrained and unsupplied ones who died, weren’t very good
The Canadian Forces at HK, equipped with nothing but small arms and aging fortifications, survived longer than the British garrison (which actually OUTNUMBERED the invading Japanese) at Singapore.
@@SoldierOfFate There was more British personnel at Hong Kong than Canadian. The Singapore garrison, while larger, had no air support, naval support, or armoured support, and had lost control of the city's water supply.
@@Wubbs64Do you smell burnt toast by chance?
Worst wartime betrayal is the US response in the Manhattan Project towards the other British and allied scientists that forced Britain to reconvene its original 'tube alloys' nuclear program.
Such a great channel
1:10 while that WAS a betrayal, it was a pretty necessary one. The French had already betrayed us by negotiating/signing a seperate peace. And Hitler had already repeatedly lied. There was no way he was going to keep his word about the french naval forces.
nonsense
You missed the fact that "Quisling" is now another word for traitor. For instance, you can say; "Judas was a quisling to Jesus." It even was used in modern times and recently, Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong was described as quisling.
Pretty sure many people surnamed quisling are probably ashamed of their surname due to its association with betrayal..
Also the term Judas is more commonly used for traitors
they did quisling dirty 💀
They clearly haven't heard of the greatest traitor Alcibiades
The roman empire tried multiple times to conquer hispania (modern Portugal and Spain), and failed. The hispanic-celtic tribe had mountains and hideouts to their advange. But eventually, the leader - Viriathus, was betrayed by his 2 best friends/soldiers that told the romans all his strategies and hideouts. Thats how the roman empire manage to conquer Hispania which eventually lead to the conquer of the Gauls (France). Even to his day, Viriathus is very well knowed hero.
Dishonesty & Greed seems like a sad fact, when honorable trust and respect for each person is broken it's the regular people who suffers. 😓😡😢
The 2nd story, the c-force, that is very much just an unfortunate example of War. There are countless examples of undergeared, underprepared troops being sent into seemingly impossible situations. I can think of many examples, look at any colonial regiment used in ww2, we had african troops from the colonies attacking german positions with sadles and scaps or armoury. Even elite troops like the 101st were sent into the ardennes forest with no winter clothing and no protection for the shelling they encountered. This is just 2 of hundreds if not thousands of examples from ww2 alone just off the top of my head.
Quisling is synonymous with betrayal. It's the word used for describing a person betraying their own country today in most of the Scandinavian countries. It's frequently used in Sweden for example.
Great summary, but one of the biggest is missing. The Munich Betrayal should definitely be there.
Don't rly see how the British move at Mers el Kabir was treacherous. The French were treacherous by collaborating with the Nazis. So they got what they had coming. Somerville was generous for allowing them a second chance to sink the boats themselves and they simply confirmed their treachery with their response to that.
100%. Don't know why they wouldn't just dock in britain for the time being.
@@AR15andGODBecause north africa would have been put in a dangerous situation, did you listen to the video ?
The worst was the failure to save General Charles "Chinese" Gordon. If a relief force had been sent sooner he would have survived. A great English hero who died too soon.
The British public and even Queen Victoria all blamed his death on Gladstone.
Critics like to claim that he wasted valuable British resources. But they ignore that he REFUSED to abandon THOUSANDS of innocent civilians to their death at the hands of the Mahdi and his bloodthirsty followers.
Getting to know the story behind Canadian troops defending Hong Kong in WWII. Thank you.
the biggest betrayal suffered was the battle for quincy. The minutemen general awaited reinforcements but his LT showed up with the enemy and slaughtered 'em all. :(
"the time has come, execute order 66"
I found out a few years ago that Benedict Arnold was one of my ancestors
who?
@@TojiFushigoroWasTaken never heard of him.
Some potential future video topics
1. Otteman genecides
2. Spanish civil war
3. Syrian civil war
4. Barbary pirates
5. Hunt for osama bin laden
6. 2013 egypt coup(hope i spelled that right)
7. Theodore Roosevelt's african hunting expedition
8. Fall of the Otteman Empire
9. Vlad the inpaler
10. Battle of the bulge
11. 1916 shark attacks
12. Uganda Tanzania war
13. Jeffrey epstein did not kill himself
14. Russia empire invading crimea
15. Fall of soviet union/ failed coup
16. Rise and fall of romanian dictator
17. Christmas truce
18. Rise of benito mussolini
19. Failed assination attempt of south Korean president
20. Rise of xi ping
Not sure if you can call Mers el Kebir a betrayal considering that the British sent an officer to tell the French admiral exactly what their intentions were. A sneak attack it was not.
the french are still sore over operation catapult. if only the french admiral wasnt so arrogant
If only the British weren't so scared
@rena-mq2bg half of France was working with the Germans.. Britain had a right to be scared, considering it was the only country left in Europe to fight. France lost men due to stubborness.
@@Banginyermamsince93 you clearly are cherry picking facts while ignoring the timeline of events... It was a betrayal, why is it so hard to acknowledge?
@rena-mq2bg because a lot of France was working with the Germans. The French navy were also given multiple choices that would have kept the navy intact.. they chose to go with the destruction of their ships. Wouldn't surprise me if they were planning on giving them to the Nazis tbh, can't think of any other reason why they wouldn't sale their ships to colonies abroad or hand them over to their allies.
@@Banginyermamsince93 where do you think Mers-el-Kébir is situated? Seriously, you are expressing your opinion over a topic you know nothing about because your own bias was challenged...
Canadian kids: "Britain betrayed us"
German kids: "Laugh in Volkssturm"
Your animations are perfect man Im waiting for an ottoman empire video
I don’t see Bolivar anywhere here, and he is the biggest military traitor who has ever stepped foot on this earth.
Since the beginning of his “Independence war” he was secretly working for the British, he was an extremely privileged well known racist who personally hated Hispanic Culture and the Spanish Empire, a devoted Freemason who’s intention had absolutely nothing to do with “Liberation of the Americas” for he himself sign the financial slavery of all the new born nations. He committed genocide with the Pastusos a native population of Colombia, people there still see him as the traitor he was. He personally led the British into the interior of the Spanish Empire , something for 300 they hadn’t been able to do. He allowed that Briton Cocrahne to literally sack the entire royal treasury of Peru leaving the young nation to start out with absolutely no currency, his own family was scared of him and the evidence suggesting he was nothing more than a British asset to divide and conquer the Spanish Empire is overwhelming, yet since these 1800s globalist won they control the narrative so kids in Latin America grow up hearing that he’s a hero and a liberator.
Am I the only one who expected Arminius's betraying the Romans and Varus in the lead up of the battle of Teutoburg Forest?
Kinda disappointed not being shown here but exceptional video nonetheless.