@@MaxwellAerialPhotography not really Hannibal meant that quote as subtle flattery to Scipio. ‘What would you have said if you had defeated me?’ ‘In that case’, replied Hannibal, ‘I should certainly put myself before Alexander and before Pyrrhus - in fact, before all other generals!'
Hannibal was much better general than Scipio . But Rome was just too big , too many men , too much resources . Scipio Africanus may be even fifth or less . You cannot just beat Michael Jordan per one season and be called the best ever . Hannibal was in army since 'elementary school' time , he learned art of war already as a boy , his father was fierce general and hater of Rome . Hannibal was pure strategiest , not so much brave warrior like Alexander and Pyrhus which were fighting even in close combat . It's not strategy of professor who is unable to walk to store , uses car . Hannibal had BOLD strategy . Hannibal destroyed 80 000 roman legionares in just one day at Cannae . If he had greater resources , he could easily defeat Rome , they were inferior in skill to him , and his army was team , year after year , same players , like in soccer , that is key at battlefield too . Alexander never lost and is probably the greatest general in history , when you read quotes of Alexander you are amazed by wisdom and virtue . Alexander spared family of one war criminal soldier , who mutilated his soldier etc . Mother of war criminal said that if only Alexander was his son , and not that one . Scipio , who is that ? He is just not that big , he cannot be top 3 , and Hannibal did NOT said that Scipio was 1st , he precisely said that Alexander was 1st , and Scipio 4th .
If a specific metric were added to the evaluation criteria of "Greatest Generals"...Pyrrhus would stand head and shoulders above the rest. That metric is personal fighting ability. Pyrrhus fought MULTIPLE one on one duels with champions from his opponents. Two incidents are most prominent and attested to by historians close to his era. One incident was against the Macedonians, and he so impressed them with his martial skill that they eventually asked him to come be their king. The other incident was a duel he fought against the Mamertines, recorded in Plutarch's "Life of Pyrrhus". A champion called Pyrrhus out, challenging him to come fight if he wasn't dead already. Angered, Pyrrhus pushed his guards aside and rushed out to meet the champion. Plutarch describes the blow Pyrrhus gave him so: "[Pyrrhus] dealt him such a blow on his head with his sword that, what with the might of his arm and the excellent temper of his steel, it cleaved its way down through, so that at one instant the parts of the sundered body fell to either side." Now, I'm not sure I believe that Pyrrhus really cut a warrior in half (longways!), but it's clear that Pyrrhus was an amazing combatant.
It was a leader when civilization and barbarism were the same as capitalism & communism have been in our lifetimes & the 20th century. If the Americans had had any sense they would have shut up and just let communism defeat itself, as it did in the USSR.
Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (Ancient Greek: Πύρρος, Pyrrhos; 319/318--272 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic era.He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians,of the royal Aeacid house (from c. 297 BC),and later he became king of Epirus (r. 306--302, 297--272 BC) and Macedon (r. 288--284, 273--272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, cost him heavy losses, from which the term "Pyrrhic victory" was coined. He is the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives (Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι).
To be fair to Pyrrhus, the Roman military has always been built and trained to to wear down enemies, relying on stamina and attrition to win the day. If you take a look at later battles, such as Caesar in Gaul and even contemporary to Pyrrhus, with Hannibal, Rome, even in loss, wears down attackers making them unable to continue even in victory. In Gaul they brought superior numbers against Rome and just couldn't win, Carthage brought overwhelming numbers and carefully picked battlefields but always stalled out. Pyrrhus was able to win a few times, while being outnumbered and/or definitely always at a men and material disadvantage.
Wow, another great episode! I've always loved history and have a few history channels I follow. Yours is my favorite. I commute to work and leave my house around the time you release m,w,f episodes. Your episode length is about as long as my bus commmute and I so look forward to that being the start of my workday. Hats off to you Lance and thank you again!
Whenever people talk about the greatest generals, they never mention Michiel De Ruyter, whose rank was Lieutenant-Admiral General. Apparently, being on a ship instead of on a horse or in a jeep, disqualifies him from being a great strategist or military leader. He won battles against Spain, Sweden, France, and, most-famously, led a raid up the Thames and into the heart of London.
I just really began digging into Epirus' history last year and it's truly a fascinating story: from Pyrrhus, to the Despotate of Epirus (i.e. Byzantine successor state), and the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus that popped up in wake of the Balkans War.
I just want to say I've been absolutely devouring these videos after stumbling across them a couple of weeks ago. I've also just tested positive for covid and thus will be self isolating for the next week or so, which while unpleasant has been made easier by binge watching your back catalogue with my cats Grogu and Praytell on my lap. Keep up the good work! -Eden
The greatest American general of the US Civil War and perhaps in its history is largely forgotten but he would make a fine episode for the History Guy. Having won the first battle of the war for the Union in Kentucky and the most pivotal in the West that doomed the Confederacy it was surprising that he was from Virginia. Having been labeled a traitor to the South and calls for him to be changed if captured Gen. George Thomas fought many who he once served with before the war. At the battle if Chickamaga he and his men fought a desperate delaying action that saved an entire Union Army from being destroyed and possibly the War by sheer tenacity he became known for. Called the Rock of Chickmaga afterwards because of it he turned that favor by all but obliterating the Confederate Army under his former student Gen. John Bell Hood years later that it closed the West to it forever. Indeed he never lost a movement or battle he was involved with or commanded and unlike others generals North or South he went into a self imposed exile not fame and died in the command at the Presidio in California far away from its battlefields. Indeed he was writing a response to a critic who said he hadn't the the dash of others to be famous when death came for him defending his dogged and relentless pursuit that destroyed the Confederacy opening the South for Sherman to run free hastened its end all the more. He wrote a prophetic note that he'd expected his South to rewrite its history in the following years to all but exclude Slavery in its cause and be a noble but doomed defense of States Rights in the mythology of Lost Cause. Even in death he couldn't return to Virginia and as a testament to his importance both Sherman-Grant attended his funeral and the former was moved when his horse named Billy went past named after him. In Grants Tomb a bust of Thomas was placed overlooking his grave is still there though in the pantheon if the Civil War Thomas still is in exile of sorts even if his actions were central to keeping the United States remains unremebered...
‘Empiric victory’ whoa, my apologies beforehand, but kind of reminds me of marriages I know ( not mine ) or other relationships. Thank you history guy for more, uhhh, history. One of my favorite channels to watch. Though very seldom comment as you can see why
July 1st -- is also International Joke Day, American Zoo Day, Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, National Postal Worker Day. Maybe we could combine them all into one . Go to the ZOO and tell JOKES while eating ICE CREAM on the way to drop off a letter at the POST OFFICE
it feels weird to think that even during alexander the greats conquest rome was slowly making waves and would quickly find themselves as the dominant player in italy during the wars of the diodachi...
Yes, multi ton beasts with significantly intelligent brains and social family ties are a balancing act of pros and cons. Elephant #1: "So, I'm thinking that human wants us to thrust through that narrow gate, the walls around loaded with archers and a couple ballistas and tromp on some spear chuckers." Elephant #2: "Not me." Elephant #3: "First arrow embedded in my ass I'm turning and rushing back." (Much Elephant grumbling and nodding of heads, ears flapping) Elephant in back of herd: "Can you hear what they're saying of front?" Another Elephant in Back: "I think he ask someone why does an Elephant wear red sneakers."
I have loved and happily studied history all my life. Yet I'm at best half as good as THG. Thankfully, so as my history addiction is well served by the Master.
Hah! Not many beyond 100 miles from the monument know that! (I probably only know because I am from New Hampshire, & descended from Dr. Warren, the subject of the painting of the dying man about to be being bayoneted by a red coat at the battle.)
@@RetiredSailor60 😸👍 Dr. Warden didn’t owe him any money did he? Given the scores of decades of interest I don’t believe I could make a good on the debt!
There is an interesting theory that with history being written by the winners, the enemies of the victor are often elevated and given more credit than they are due as a means of explaining losses the writers of the history suffered by ascribing their defeat to superior tactics, strategies etc. One wonders how much of this has coloured our knowledge of Pyrrhus?
The reason why Pyrrhus was supported by Glaukias of the Taulantians was because his wife was a Molossian and a kinswoman of Pyrrhus (were from the same dynasty.)
Did you get a new tank shell? Unless I just never noticed there's a new one in the background and what type of shell is it and what tank would it service? It seems like they are the same millimeter just one has a longer cartridge.
So you're saying they're inflatable like a balloon? They look so realistic. I still beg the question what type of round would it be or is it just a generic made to look like any tank round? Those are really cool I might have to get me one.
"Let's declare ourselves the winners and go home" Bill Mauldin, of up front/Willy and Joe Fame. An editorial cartoonists perspective on the Soviets in Afghanistan: one in a long line of pyrrhic victories. See also the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea
The United States never tried to conquer Afghanistan or Vietnam. Those were political conflicts where the US provided support to chosen political operatives. The military industrial complex in America used those conflicts to sell weapons. A quick victory isn't good for arm sales.
@@olliefoxx7165 You’re missing the point. Whether or not conquering the nation was the goal, 7,119 days at war & 58,220 dead US servicemen in the Nam, & 7,266 days & 2,448 dead in the sandbox were the result of what amounted to a stalemate because of an entrenched, inaccessible and therefore undefeatable enemy force but only within their mountain fastness. Like the five nations before us in Vietnam and the eleven in Afghanistan, The USA poured blood and treasure into a lost cause until somebody finally quit throwing good money after bad & brought our people home. Given the same situation in the USA, where the government is already home, any resistance would be limited to those inaccessible enemy forces in fortresses of rugged, mountainous terrain- but over the favorable terrain of the vast majority of the rest of the nation, the government would crush any resistance. The Vietnamese in the afghans were not stupid. It was an old game that they already knew all the tactics and strategies for, and the biggest one was to never expose men and materiel in a meeting engagement on open ground. The used guerilla tactics and know that eventually the citizens and politicians will weary of being and occupying force and leave. The NVA didn’t commit large forces in pitched battle until the US was well on the path to withdrawal and the handover to the government of the south known as “Vietnamization”, with the crushing result of Lam Son 71. In the event of a US Civil War, occupation forces would never have to leave. We’ve already been through this once; think of the history of the carpet baggers and the reconstruction and how bitterness persists even a century and a half on.
Korea is out of order. Just finished Korea by Max Hastings. American prisoners of the North Koreans and the Chinese found marijuana when sent out to get their own firewood. Its effects did much for their morale during the last 2 years of their imprisonment. The goddamned Drug War continues. If there is a general of it I don't know their name.
If Pyrrhus had been able to obtain more funding, I think he may well have ultimately defeated the Romans. He had all the ability in world. But sometimes even that isn't enough.
Like Alexander before him and Napoleon after him, Pyrrhus was addicted to war. He was good at it, but could not figure out what to do with his life expect wage more of it.
🙄 Perhaps it will be Nato. After Natos invasion/bombing/destruction of Serbia, Iraq TWICE, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and other places Ukraine may be the turning point. The US is illegally occupying Syrian territory and oilfields in southern Syria and Turkey occupies Northern Syria. Eventually Nato was bound to run up against a foe they couldn't beat.
@@olliefoxx7165 Be assured, America has a war chest full of pyrrhic victories. The question with respect to Russia is, what exactly are they "winning"? Prevent NATO expansion? Improved trade relations? etc, etc, etc. Ultimately they may make the donbas prosperous, but looking at the rest of Russia, it doesn't seem likely.
Custer, Von Mannstein, Paulus… (The Germans had an exceptional general who was the master of the fighting retreat, falling back before the Soviet’s advance and delaying their forces sufficiently for the allies to reach Berlin- I just can’t for the life of me remember his name at the moment!)
@@franciswhite4032 I will qualify that statement by saying that it has been a long, long time since I studied any of those campaigns. It’s anywhere from possible to probable that I am misremembering the name.
Native name of what we call today Albania is “Shqipëria”. In Ancient Hellenic alphabet, it’s “ΣΚ *ΗΠΕΙΡΟ* ΙΑ” (skepiroia), where EPIRO is at the heart of the name. This results in today’s Albania being the continuance of Epirus in demography, topology, and culture.
The application of military ambition is weighed on that same scale that Anubis uses to review the attributes of the initiate as he leads a humble life of service. Pyrrhus, the reckless. God help me that I so willingly served under the lerch of such men. As described in the Bhagavad Gita, 'within action lay inaction, and vice versa.' Let the August lessons of history lay.
I’m sorry are we going to just move past “his mother chucked a ceiling tile” and killed the King and we’re just supposed to somehow move on with our lives as if that wasn’t a thing?
@MrPolinikis yeah, if I had to bet I would say Greek: but he definitely did fight in the Illyrian army, that’s kinda where he learned his form of war as a Pyrrhic victory.
Yeah. What a drag that you get something for free and that the person doing it uses advertising to support their channel. I mean after all, knowing how briefly inconvenienced you are for a minute just so the history guy enjoys his ferraris, jetpacks, and eats steak and lobster morning noon and night is vexing isn't it? 🙄🤦
@@HM2SGT it is not free, it earns from 2 types of ads. youtube ads are one. and the second is these ads that he talks about instead of sticking to the topic. I don't need wpn, I don't need to buy anything, I didn't come to buy things from this channel.
Respectfully, when TH-cam is your job and income, I would like to see you turn down sponsors. Not only do I honestly endorse Magellan TV, but their support makes production possible. But, l understand that some people do not prefer sponsored content. Thus, I only accept two sponsored episodes a month. If a brief endorsement of a product I support is offensive to you, please enjoy some of the hundreds of episodes I have produced without sponsored content.
@@ZGGordan Do you pay anything? I’ve been watching since 2018 and I’ve never paid a dime. Thus it is free. Unless you’re doing something wildly different from everyone else, for you it is also free. So don’t buy anything. Or are you so impatient that you can’t stand two minutes of turning down the volume and waiting to enjoy your free presentation?
There is something comforting about The History Guy first thing in the morning with a cup of coffee
That's what I'm doing .🙂
Nothing beats a homemade latte, my favorite cereal and The History Guy.
tea is better
cup of joe...
To each their own, and the History Guy.
To be called one of the greatest generals by Hannibal, second only to Alexander, is quite outstanding.
To be fair, Hannibal likely placed him their just to needle his Roman rival Scipio.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography not really Hannibal meant that quote as subtle flattery to Scipio. ‘What would you have said if you had defeated me?’ ‘In that case’, replied Hannibal, ‘I should certainly put myself before Alexander and before Pyrrhus - in fact, before all other generals!'
Hannibal was much better general than Scipio . But Rome was just too big , too many men , too much resources . Scipio Africanus may be even fifth or less . You cannot just beat Michael Jordan per one season and be called the best ever . Hannibal was in army since 'elementary school' time , he learned art of war already as a boy , his father was fierce general and hater of Rome . Hannibal was pure strategiest , not so much brave warrior like Alexander and Pyrhus which were fighting even in close combat . It's not strategy of professor who is unable to walk to store , uses car . Hannibal had BOLD strategy . Hannibal destroyed 80 000 roman legionares in just one day at Cannae . If he had greater resources , he could easily defeat Rome , they were inferior in skill to him , and his army was team , year after year , same players , like in soccer , that is key at battlefield too .
Alexander never lost and is probably the greatest general in history , when you read quotes of Alexander you are amazed by wisdom and virtue . Alexander spared family of one war criminal soldier , who mutilated his soldier etc . Mother of war criminal said that if only Alexander was his son , and not that one . Scipio , who is that ? He is just not that big , he cannot be top 3 , and Hannibal did NOT said that Scipio was 1st , he precisely said that Alexander was 1st , and Scipio 4th .
If a specific metric were added to the evaluation criteria of "Greatest Generals"...Pyrrhus would stand head and shoulders above the rest.
That metric is personal fighting ability.
Pyrrhus fought MULTIPLE one on one duels with champions from his opponents. Two incidents are most prominent and attested to by historians close to his era.
One incident was against the Macedonians, and he so impressed them with his martial skill that they eventually asked him to come be their king.
The other incident was a duel he fought against the Mamertines, recorded in Plutarch's "Life of Pyrrhus". A champion called Pyrrhus out, challenging him to come fight if he wasn't dead already. Angered, Pyrrhus pushed his guards aside and rushed out to meet the champion. Plutarch describes the blow Pyrrhus gave him so:
"[Pyrrhus] dealt him such a blow on his head with his sword that, what with the might of his arm and the excellent temper of his steel, it cleaved its way down through, so that at one instant the parts of the sundered body fell to either side."
Now, I'm not sure I believe that Pyrrhus really cut a warrior in half (longways!), but it's clear that Pyrrhus was an amazing combatant.
It's astounding how relevant Rome continues to be.
Even more astounding how morons can say Ancient Rome doesn't exist.
It was a leader when civilization and barbarism were the same as capitalism & communism have been in our lifetimes & the 20th century. If the Americans had had any sense they would have shut up and just let communism defeat itself, as it did in the USSR.
No to asians
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No Don,
Love to Asians!
The more things change
the more they stay the same.
Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (Ancient Greek: Πύρρος, Pyrrhos; 319/318--272 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic era.He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians,of the royal Aeacid house (from c. 297 BC),and later he became king of Epirus (r. 306--302, 297--272 BC) and Macedon (r. 288--284, 273--272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, cost him heavy losses, from which the term "Pyrrhic victory" was coined. He is the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives (Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι).
Wiki page is not proof
@@Trontotario ancient authors are and they agree that he was greek ;)
To be fair to Pyrrhus, the Roman military has always been built and trained to to wear down enemies, relying on stamina and attrition to win the day. If you take a look at later battles, such as Caesar in Gaul and even contemporary to Pyrrhus, with Hannibal, Rome, even in loss, wears down attackers making them unable to continue even in victory. In Gaul they brought superior numbers against Rome and just couldn't win, Carthage brought overwhelming numbers and carefully picked battlefields but always stalled out. Pyrrhus was able to win a few times, while being outnumbered and/or definitely always at a men and material disadvantage.
Wow, another great episode! I've always loved history and have a few history channels I follow. Yours is my favorite. I commute to work and leave my house around the time you release m,w,f episodes. Your episode length is about as long as my bus commmute and I so look forward to that being the start of my workday. Hats off to you Lance and thank you again!
As do I. What a terrific way to pass the first third of my drive!
Whenever people talk about the greatest generals, they never mention Michiel De Ruyter, whose rank was Lieutenant-Admiral General. Apparently, being on a ship instead of on a horse or in a jeep, disqualifies him from being a great strategist or military leader. He won battles against Spain, Sweden, France, and, most-famously, led a raid up the Thames and into the heart of London.
Nor is there mention of French Admiral Joseph Paul de Grasse who won the Battle of Yorktown.
A good reason is he wasn't a general, however he does show up on the greatest admirals lists.
Well I for one am familiar with him. He was a great commander, I wouldn't put him on the level Alexander however.
I just really began digging into Epirus' history last year and it's truly a fascinating story: from Pyrrhus, to the Despotate of Epirus (i.e. Byzantine successor state), and the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus that popped up in wake of the Balkans War.
The blood of Alexander was definitely in his 2cnd cousin Phyrus! Well done!
Love these videos! When we perfect cloning I say we get a bunch of clones of this dude and make them high school history teachers!
🙀 Cloning slaves and inherited avocations! 😱
I get what you’re saying. _(reductio ad absurdum/humor of the absurd)_
Better yet just stream him in on Zoom.
There is a whole catalogue of history videos already done.
No cloning needed.
I learned a lot from this video. Thanks for posting it.
I watch with the captions on.
The word pirates was used a lot 😉
Thanks THG for another great episode!
Have a wonderful 4th of July 🇺🇸
One of my favorites
I just want to say I've been absolutely devouring these videos after stumbling across them a couple of weeks ago. I've also just tested positive for covid and thus will be self isolating for the next week or so, which while unpleasant has been made easier by binge watching your back catalogue with my cats Grogu and Praytell on my lap. Keep up the good work! -Eden
The greatest American general of the US Civil War and perhaps in its history is largely forgotten but he would make a fine episode for the History Guy. Having won the first battle of the war for the Union in Kentucky and the most pivotal in the West that doomed the Confederacy it was surprising that he was from Virginia. Having been labeled a traitor to the South and calls for him to be changed if captured Gen. George Thomas fought many who he once served with before the war. At the battle if Chickamaga he and his men fought a desperate delaying action that saved an entire Union Army from being destroyed and possibly the War by sheer tenacity he became known for. Called the Rock of Chickmaga afterwards because of it he turned that favor by all but obliterating the Confederate Army under his former student Gen. John Bell Hood years later that it closed the West to it forever. Indeed he never lost a movement or battle he was involved with or commanded and unlike others generals North or South he went into a self imposed exile not fame and died in the command at the Presidio in California far away from its battlefields. Indeed he was writing a response to a critic who said he hadn't the the dash of others to be famous when death came for him defending his dogged and relentless pursuit that destroyed the Confederacy opening the South for Sherman to run free hastened its end all the more. He wrote a prophetic note that he'd expected his South to rewrite its history in the following years to all but exclude Slavery in its cause and be a noble but doomed defense of States Rights in the mythology of Lost Cause. Even in death he couldn't return to Virginia and as a testament to his importance both Sherman-Grant attended his funeral and the former was moved when his horse named Billy went past named after him. In Grants Tomb a bust of Thomas was placed overlooking his grave is still there though in the pantheon if the Civil War Thomas still is in exile of sorts even if his actions were central to keeping the United States remains unremebered...
I knew of Pyrrus but thanks for filling in some of the gaps.
Really intersting video, Belasarius - another great Roman general who is always forgotten.
Thought he was a Byzantine General...
@@nikburton9264 The Byzantines were the Eastern Roman Empire.
If only Belisarius had the same army that Narses had in the Italian Campaign.
‘Empiric victory’ whoa, my apologies beforehand, but kind of reminds me of marriages I know ( not mine ) or other relationships. Thank you history guy for more, uhhh, history. One of my favorite channels to watch. Though very seldom comment as you can see why
A very enjoyable episode, as always. However I was mildly surprised not to see one with a Canadian theme or reference, as it is July 1st.
July 1st -- is also International Joke Day, American Zoo Day, Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, National Postal Worker Day. Maybe we could combine them all into one .
Go to the ZOO and tell JOKES while eating ICE CREAM on the way to drop off a letter at the POST OFFICE
Thanks ,so few remember at what cost victory comes, history well worth remembering!
I had no idea! this is very very intresting
it feels weird to think that even during alexander the greats conquest rome was slowly making waves and would quickly find themselves as the dominant player in italy during the wars of the diodachi...
Not at all. The Diadochi were fighting each other Non Stop
Great story and personas to pull from the past! Ty
As I listened I began to wonder how helpful elephants really were to take to battle.
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Yes, multi ton beasts with significantly intelligent brains and social family ties are a balancing act of pros and cons.
Elephant #1: "So, I'm thinking that human wants us to thrust through that narrow gate, the walls around loaded with archers and a couple ballistas and tromp on some spear chuckers."
Elephant #2: "Not me."
Elephant #3: "First arrow embedded in my ass I'm turning and rushing back."
(Much Elephant grumbling and nodding of heads, ears flapping)
Elephant in back of herd: "Can you hear what they're saying of front?"
Another Elephant in Back: "I think he ask someone why does an Elephant wear red sneakers."
He is remembered!
I have loved and happily studied history all my life. Yet I'm at best half as good as THG. Thankfully, so as my history addiction is well served by the Master.
The History Guy... giving us all free knowledge under his own good will.
I very much appreciate you
Yeah that type of victory can be used to describe the Battle of Bunker Hill or more accurately the Battle of Breed Hill.
Breed hill nice call
Hah! Not many beyond 100 miles from the monument know that! (I probably only know because I am from New Hampshire, & descended from Dr. Warren, the subject of the painting of the dying man about to be being bayoneted by a red coat at the battle.)
My Colonial ancestor, Thomas Stone, probably knew your ancestor.
@@RetiredSailor60 😸👍 Dr. Warden didn’t owe him any money did he? Given the scores of decades of interest I don’t believe I could make a good on the debt!
@@HM2SGT Lol. Too funny!! Thomas Stone signed the Declaration Of Independence 246 years ago Monday.
15:19 Taken down by the ire of a mother; almost poetic.
Kings and Generals had a great series on this subject as well!
thanks
Thank you.
There is an interesting theory that with history being written by the winners, the enemies of the victor are often elevated and given more credit than they are due as a means of explaining losses the writers of the history suffered by ascribing their defeat to superior tactics, strategies etc. One wonders how much of this has coloured our knowledge of Pyrrhus?
The reason why Pyrrhus was supported by Glaukias of the Taulantians was because his wife was a Molossian and a kinswoman of Pyrrhus (were from the same dynasty.)
Did you get a new tank shell? Unless I just never noticed there's a new one in the background and what type of shell is it and what tank would it service? It seems like they are the same millimeter just one has a longer cartridge.
Yes- those are actually inflatables from The Tank Museum in Dorset, and I picked up another last week at Tankfest.
So you're saying they're inflatable like a balloon? They look so realistic. I still beg the question what type of round would it be or is it just a generic made to look like any tank round? Those are really cool I might have to get me one.
I see you picked up another souvenir while you’re at the gift shop. So you now have a 76 and an 88?
@@jonathanperry8331 one represents a 17 pounder round, the other an 8.8 cm round. Yes, inflatable.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel wow the 88. It's scary even in balloon form. Honestly they look super realistic I never would have thought that
That is a great nickname eagle.
Amazing....Thanks to all of you excellent research that goes into you video...THG🎀.....Shoe🇺🇸
This is why Georges Clemenceau said, "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men"
The sentence was: "«Άλλη μια νίκη σαν αυτή και έχω καταστραφεί" I know because I was there....
Awesome video.
Fascinating to discover that the man was more than just The Greatest Loser Ever.
"Let's declare ourselves the winners and go home" Bill Mauldin, of up front/Willy and Joe Fame. An editorial cartoonists perspective on the Soviets in Afghanistan: one in a long line of pyrrhic victories. See also the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea
The United States never tried to conquer Afghanistan or Vietnam. Those were political conflicts where the US provided support to chosen political operatives. The military industrial complex in America used those conflicts to sell weapons. A quick victory isn't good for arm sales.
@@olliefoxx7165 You’re missing the point. Whether or not conquering the nation was the goal, 7,119 days at war & 58,220 dead US servicemen in the Nam, & 7,266 days & 2,448 dead in the sandbox were the result of what amounted to a stalemate because of an entrenched, inaccessible and therefore undefeatable enemy force but only within their mountain fastness. Like the five nations before us in Vietnam and the eleven in Afghanistan, The USA poured blood and treasure into a lost cause until somebody finally quit throwing good money after bad & brought our people home. Given the same situation in the USA, where the government is already home, any resistance would be limited to those inaccessible enemy forces in fortresses of rugged, mountainous terrain- but over the favorable terrain of the vast majority of the rest of the nation, the government would crush any resistance. The Vietnamese in the afghans were not stupid. It was an old game that they already knew all the tactics and strategies for, and the biggest one was to never expose men and materiel in a meeting engagement on open ground. The used guerilla tactics and know that eventually the citizens and politicians will weary of being and occupying force and leave. The NVA didn’t commit large forces in pitched battle until the US was well on the path to withdrawal and the handover to the government of the south known as “Vietnamization”, with the crushing result of Lam Son 71.
In the event of a US Civil War, occupation forces would never have to leave. We’ve already been through this once; think of the history of the carpet baggers and the reconstruction and how bitterness persists even a century and a half on.
Korea is out of order. Just finished Korea by Max Hastings. American prisoners of the North Koreans and the Chinese found marijuana when sent out to get their own firewood. Its effects did much for their morale during the last 2 years of their imprisonment. The goddamned Drug War continues. If there is a general of it I don't know their name.
Really feeling like debasing the currency at the moment; do you (or Magellan) have any 'forgotten' History on Diogenes?
Pyrrhus sounds like the type of fellow one would like to fight and rid the earth of him.
If Pyrrhus had been able to obtain more funding, I think he may well have ultimately defeated the Romans.
He had all the ability in world. But sometimes even that isn't enough.
Like Alexander before him and Napoleon after him, Pyrrhus was addicted to war. He was good at it, but could not figure out what to do with his life expect wage more of it.
I'll bet he was the only general killed by a mother throwing a roof tile from a balcony.
What about Marlborough? And Wellington?
General Lee, General Patton..
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One wonders if the Russians will be the latest Pyrrhic victors?
You mean the Special Pyrrhic Operation?
@@apextroll Indeed, precisely.
🙄 Perhaps it will be Nato. After Natos invasion/bombing/destruction of Serbia, Iraq TWICE, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and other places Ukraine may be the turning point. The US is illegally occupying Syrian territory and oilfields in southern Syria and Turkey occupies Northern Syria. Eventually Nato was bound to run up against a foe they couldn't beat.
@@olliefoxx7165 Be assured, America has a war chest full of pyrrhic victories. The question with respect to Russia is, what exactly are they "winning"? Prevent NATO expansion? Improved trade relations? etc, etc, etc. Ultimately they may make the donbas prosperous, but looking at the rest of Russia, it doesn't seem likely.
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It is, yes. I watch on my device all the time
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... consolidate his gains.
Sherman belongs on that list.
Custer, Von Mannstein, Paulus… (The Germans had an exceptional general who was the master of the fighting retreat, falling back before the Soviet’s advance and delaying their forces sufficiently for the allies to reach Berlin- I just can’t for the life of me remember his name at the moment!)
@@HM2SGT Paulus? That's an interesting suggestion.
@@franciswhite4032 I will qualify that statement by saying that it has been a long, long time since I studied any of those campaigns. It’s anywhere from possible to probable that I am misremembering the name.
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huh. I had always thought pyrrhic referred to a pyre.
Sounds like he was a good battlefield leader, but kept fighting the same battles over and over because he couldn't establish control.
Native name of what we call today Albania is “Shqipëria”. In Ancient Hellenic alphabet, it’s “ΣΚ *ΗΠΕΙΡΟ* ΙΑ” (skepiroia), where EPIRO is at the heart of the name. This results in today’s Albania being the continuance of Epirus in demography, topology, and culture.
Why Albanians are called 'Sons' of Eagle' or 'Djemte e Shqiponjes', because Pyrrhus was called 'The Eagle'.
cope so hard
Did I miss it, or did he forget to point out that "all good stories involve Pyrrhus?" 😄
Greek king cousins of Alexander the great..said I want to bigger greece to west🙏
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Pyrrhus lost the battle of Beneventum against the Romans
Die-a -dokey. Epi-rus. Antiga-nids. Are these wrong or just alternative pronunciations?
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The application of military ambition is weighed on that same scale that Anubis uses to review the attributes of the
initiate as he leads a humble life of service. Pyrrhus, the reckless. God help me that I so willingly served under the lerch of such
men. As described in the Bhagavad Gita, 'within action lay inaction, and vice versa.'
Let the August lessons of history lay.
Back in the Saddle again
...and don't all good stories contain pyrrhusts?
Seems like Robert E. Lee. Had the cunning tactical advantage, but over extended. Robert E. Lee was a fool, nevertheless.
I guess that's why every military academy in the world studies him.
@@mikefranklin1253 -- they stuffy good and bad leaders.
I’m sorry are we going to just move past “his mother chucked a ceiling tile” and killed the King and we’re just supposed to somehow move on with our lives as if that wasn’t a thing?
To be honest, it doesn’t effect me a whole lot. Do things like that matter much in your day to day life?
considering how large and heavy those ceiling tiles were .... it was no easy task, yaknow
He seemed like a great tactician, but a poor strategist.
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Greatest commanders? One, just one. No one else even comes close. Genghis Khan.
Go ahead. Try to top him.
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Greek Calvary ? Wrong term because city states and Helena ... Greek is a much later usage
Pyrrhus was arguably Illyrian/Albanian. Even Skanderbeg himself claimed him to be a descendent of Illyrian origin.
@MrPolinikis yeah, if I had to bet I would say Greek: but he definitely did fight in the Illyrian army, that’s kinda where he learned his form of war as a Pyrrhic victory.
He was Illyrian
@@Trontotario name a single ancient source calling him illyrian then ;) that shoudl be easy shoudln't it?
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He was not Greek !!
Yeah...😂what makes you sleep better.
@@kenmasters2034truth makes people sleep
@@Trontotario yeah man, you have right.have a nice day.
@@Trontotario ok then name me a single ancient writer calling pyrrhus not greek i shall wait ;)
Great video.