A Brief History of the Gun up to 1875 | Get Off My Lawn Edition | Polandball/Countryball History
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With the kind of effort you're putting into these videos I'd really encourage you to keep monetization on! The intro is not worth taking away your hard work's compensation
Godspeed :D
Fantastic video. very refreshing to see good content from a small creator. I would honestly consider removing the intro to keep monetization. I enjoyed it a lot, but this kind of work deserves recognition and reward. It's up to you though, of course.
Like kraut the small youtuber with 1 hour countryball animation like brain4breakfast
what can Penetrate armor or not ,there can be extremely many factors .
And Cuirassiers have often wearing armor deep in to the 19 century .
and arrows , where that not more bolts ?
i think Relativ thin arrows would likely just shatter by the shot .
"Basicaly just a giant gun"
- People who invented artilery
"Basically just a small cannon"
- People who invented muskets
@@thewelcomer5698 basically a Long stick that shoots powder and can kill people
"Angry tube"
More like, "Imagine if we can give everyone a small cannon" - Some madlad who had too much to drink
@@fluent4530 long unnecessary detail stick with metal that kills people
Just want to add that Japan had warrior monks trained to use matchlocks. Gun monks. Yes.
Thats fucking awesome lmao
"Like dude religious gun ninjas"
" How much crack have you been smoking"
-Japanese general to noble
Just imagine modern priests trained to use modern rifles
@@tanksinatra3968 And the Lord said let there be light
*Cue muzzle flashes from their guns.*
There's also a group of people in China called the Miao guntribes. They're the only people in China allowed to own firearms since guns are literally part of their culture
You went from teaching me how to play video games to teaching me history. Kickass
Goddammit it was a trap! How is it that we didn't see it coming...
If you play Paradox game, it is about time to fall in love to history tbh
@@Razgriz032 and then lose that love after taking a highschool history course
@@Razgriz032 My love of history lead to me paradox
@@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999 They don't teach real history only state approve propaganda. Youll never see a history class be critical of its own nation.
Ironically enough, A lot of American guns during the revolution were Rifled, since they were mostly hunting tools, and because they weren't mass produced items like the British guns usually were. Guess American Gunsmiths figured they may as well make them nice, given how hard it was to make one in the early days. Also explains why a lot of them were engraved, and had something of an artistic flair to them.
Yes, rifles were for hunting, and their reload time was not good for line infantry, where rate of fire as a formation was more important. Of course in case of a guerilla fight rifles were better, and skirmish units in armies did use rifles and not smoothbore muskets.
The main reason rifles weren't widely used until the breech loaded rifle was that a muzzle loaded rifle is very difficult (and slow) to reload.
@@1EthanCC the union used them in mass due to the minne ball making it easier to load rifled guns as the Minnie ball could expand in the barrel and put a good spin
I also heard that newer ones were made with thicker barrels than usual. This was because they could just make the caliber a little bigger overtime instead of just having to completely replace it once the rifling was worn out.
@@bluemobster0023 also manufacturing tools enabled rifled barrels to be made much faster and cheaper during the mid 19th century
I never thought China would have had a case for civilian gun rights.
well almost every nation ever had civilian gun rights at some point in time, but with better policing and urbanization this became more of a liability then a benefit to most governments. most of them still do but it is heavily monitored.
@@jornzwaagstra1150
Its more round communism that gun rights went the way of the dodo
We can thank them for totalitarian regimes
@@commisaryarreck3974 Wasn't Marx pro-gun tho? It was only the later totalitarian regimes that throw it out of the window(for obvious reason)
@@potatobutroasted4308 You can argue that Marx was pro-gun right until the end of the coveted revolution, where since everything became owned by the state, so did the weapons they used to install communism itself, but there wouldn't be a need for everyone to still have them. But he doesn't specifically state what weapons should be done with after Communism was installed, like most things with Marx's doctrines and sayings.
@@potatobutroasted4308
It had several meanings
Gun rights in many nations disappeared after the Soviet atrocities in fear of more uprisings from these genocidal maniacs
Communism requires a totalitarian state to first of all better the situation and then voluntarily give up absolute power. It will never result in something else. It simply cannot result in anything but a totalitarian regime and crimes against humanity
Oh and allow me to ask you, what was Marx's answer to the Jewish question. Wouldn't be the only time commies conveniently cherry pick his writings
*"Gun and Arrow"* sounds like a band
Portugal: gives guns to japan
Japan: *"So anyway i started blastin myself"*
Those guns were from malacca
Shouldn't it be Nobunaga because the guy was a huge gun wanker
@@marseldagistani1989 as soon as nobunaga had huge success other clans started to adopt it, if i remember correctly by the time of the first "unification" (under nobunaga) it was pretty common to have riflemen (matchlockmen ?)
Portugal: You need guns? No problem.
Japan: _And so I mowed down Samurais with rifles._
the guns were from malacca
step 1: praise lord
step 2: pass ammunition
Yes
Step 3: get into positions.
Apparently, the puckle gun was advertised with two types of ammunition; one for shooting at fellow christians and another for shooting at non-christians. The former was round and the latter was square, which was thought to do more damage
Should make it cross shaped to deal holy damage
the based gun
Civil bullets for civil people, uncivil bullets for uncivil people
"Defending your King, your country, and laws,
Is defending yourself, and the Protestant cause."
yah my dad told me about this, its to increase the pain of death
Correction: the rifling does not increase the bullets velocity, the spinning of the bullet causes it to gain angular momentum which makes it more stable and therefore accurate, think of a spinning top that doesn't fall over by spinning quickly
It increases velocity by allowing a tighter fit between the barrel and the bullet, which is also the reason why muzzle-loading rifles take longer to reload than muskets.
It does also mean it loses velocity slower.
Hi, big gun nut here. You did a great job trying to compress 800 years of history into 11 minuets but you did make a small mistake in the video. At the end you say the only important innovations that are missing for a modern firearm are magazines, intermediate cartridges and automatic fire. You would 100% want to mention smokeless powder in that list since it remains one of if not THE most important innovation in firearms and their history. Smokeless powder effectively doubled the range of an infantryman, allowed much more complex firearms to be developed since smokeless powder does not leave fouling (residue) that can clog up the mechanics of an action, and allowed cartridges to drop from 11-12mm with black powder to 8-6mm with smokeless while being more powerful and accurate in 20 years or so. The first smokeless powder rifle (the lebel 1886 developed by the French) is one of the most significant firearms in history and was the equivalent of a major power getting its hands on a working laser rifle today. The scramble that other nations had to do to keep up with the lebel's cartridge cannot be understated. Modern day firearms cannot function without smokeless powder and while magazines, intermediate cartridges, and portable automatic fire are all important, they could not happen without smokeless powder.
I'm happy to hear you liked the video! In regard to the omission of smokeless powder... I was not aware that smokeless powder had such an effect. Was it the smokeless powder alone that caused such massive improvements, or were other factors involved as well? For example, it's my understanding that, at around the same time as the adoption of smokeless powder, pressurization became more efficient - leading to greater range/velocity/etc.
Thanks for the info - and once again, I'm happy you enjoyed the video!
@@CallMeEzekiel It was 100% smokeless powder alone. Smokeless powder was much more efficient than traditional black powder that it allowed one to fire a bullet roughly twice as far and roughly twice as fast. The pressurization became more efficient because of that powder change. Nations scrambled to meet the new standard that 8mm lebel set for firearms and would either rush adoptions of new rifles or attempt to rework black powder rifles to smokeless powder. Some notable examples would be the German Gewehr 1888, the British Lee-Enfield (Long lee not SMLE) , the American Krag Jorgensen, the Italian 1891 carcano, and South American Remington rolling blocks converted to smokeless to only name a few. Most of these rifles would be replaced by better less rushed designs, but the lebel's cartridge was the reason for this rush. I would highly recommend C&Rsenal's 1st video that they ever released about the lebel. The video is unlisted as they replaced the episode with a much more thorough longer video, but that video is over an hour long and if you are simply looking for the basics of the lebel and its effect on firearms history you cannot beat C&Rsenal. This should clear up any questions you have, if not ill try to answer them as best as I can. th-cam.com/video/xMj94EukVQc/w-d-xo.html
@@CallMeEzekiel Can confirm and offer some more insight; smokeless powder (really a catch all term for many _different_ propellants) even enabled all the other improvements which could not have been done without it. Also being entirely different and almost unrelated chemically, it removed the 'velocity' problem; black powder can only propel things so fast nomatter how much of it you pack behind a bullet. Before this, the tradeoffs to get a smaller bullet were generally not considered worthwhile, but afterwards became the only thing that made sense.
You also got the english longbow correct in a very good way. Though I think the talk of early firearm penetration is a bit overstated, along with early firearms being somehow inexpensive; they were expensive by comparison, but lasted a long time and could be practically owned by the state, and reduced manpower costs by allowing for conscripts to use them.
An outright mistake is that rifling imparts greater velocity; it imparts a spin which allows for greater accuracy. The tighter fit needed for rifling to work might however cause an incidental increase in velocity over the more common smoothbores, but if they made those with a similar fit it would have the same velocity; the loss in velocity/ accuracy was seen as a good thing because a smaller bullet relative to barrel size allowed for it to be loaded noticeably faster. As pre minie ball and similar improved projectiles (where the bullet was loaded small, but on firing the base would flare out and engage the rifling) the rifling had to be effectively manually engraved onto the ball by pushing it down the barrel and manually deforming the bullet to twist it past said rifling. Because these were muzzleloaders, and there was exactly one way to get the bullet down there. This also raised problems with fouling (from the black powder) making it increasingly difficult to shove the ball in a tight fitted barrel as more shots were fired. This is another reason why the big militaries leaned towards smoothbores for a long time, it effectively increased reliability.
Also, the increase in firepower was negligible from rifling itself; it is incorrect to say this allowed the return of open order. Simply the advantages of riflemen skirmishing became worth the risk of dealing with cavalry (who themselves had transitioned to mainly being firearm and sword based rather than carrying lances), with the increased amount of damage a small unit of more accurate gunmen could do in such a fashion.
To be pedantic I'd say the early experiments with different firearms weren't all that wacky and were often just ahead of their time (or rather, ahead of the machining technology necessary to mass produce them and make them usefully widespread), and mostly unrelated to the percussion cap. There were for instance a variety of breechloading attempts mostly stymied by manufacturing, expense, blackpowder fouling, or a combination. Really the percussion cap enabled breechloading in the long run, by enabling something which could create a gas-seal around the cartridge. If you don't have that, the fast moving gas quickly wears at the nice machined surfaces in the back of your firearm. And you did kind of skip a few decades with stuff like the revolver and metallic cartridges (rather important given the above; they are themselves a critical step that goes unmentioned, and you can't have a paper gas seal with those pressures). I could be even more pedantic about things in the last few seconds like the internal or integral magazines versus interchangeable magazines, automatic _loading_ being a rather critical step, etc, but beyond those specifically it gets relatively unimportant for the broad view. Then we start talking about things like accessories, materials, and ergonomics being major progress enabling developments.
Another thing to note on smokeless powder was that it was known about earlier; however, it was too strong for most barrels at that time. I believe most barrels back then were steel rolled over a rod to create the tube; thus there was a structural weakness where the rolling welded together. When barrels were being bored via machines (which also allowed easier rifling) then the stronger barrels could withstand the smokeless powder.
In WWI I believe the austrian-hungarian rifles were using a mix of black and smokeless powder in part to reduce cost and I also think to prevent damage/straight pull being blown back?
Mannlicher M1895 was said rifle.
phat
Keep your rifle by your side!
Excellent work as always, Ezekiel.
Beautiful song
“ok so you know this powder”
“yeah”
“i want it to be like used to like propel this arrow”
“why not a metal ball”
“your a Guinness”
they're an Irish beer company?
lol your a guinness **drinks him up**
*"Get off my lawn addition"* nice
Im a simple man, I see someone hate on California and I subscribe.
As a Californian....
I do the same
Man how can you F up as bad as the left California government?
@@benivinson3693 the worst part is they’re actually trying not to suck. But they still do
Chinese liberation of Japanese south africa crisis war starts the 9th opium war. Victoria 2 2021
sounds about right
@@ARP_1956
You know like crisis wars over occupied cores you know. Big deal cause the japan player put all their canned food over there in South Africa. No way china's gonna get it without UK or maybe US or France siding with them in the crisis though.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
Let’s have a world war over 10 Km of the Sahara desert
Subbed for vic 2.
stayed for the memes
and now the history.
“Basically a Giant gun with explosive ammunition.”
-A dude
Sad Czech here. We gave the world terms like pistol and howitzer since Hussites were among the first who used guns against armored crusaders and they are not mentioned even once.
But seriously, this is very nice video. Thumbs up
I am Czech and I never even heard of Hussites having guns or creating definition of pistol.
Jsem Čech a nikdy jsem neslyšel ohledně toho, že by Hussité měli pušky nebo že by vytvořili definice pistole.
@@yeboxxxchannel2505 Hussites had handheld firearms called píšťala, which is the origin of pistol. It did not look anything like todays pistol.
Howitzer comes from the word houfnice, which was an early anti infantry canon.
Your country probably have some of the best gun laws and carry laws in europe.
"Peasants were banned from owning firearms... but criminals don't follow the law..."
Some things never change.
9:15 I don’t know why, but the way America is looking at Japan in this scene makes me laugh 😂
That intro threw me back to wandering post apocalyptic massacheussets looking for my son
6:22 Minor Error, rifling works for the same reason gyroscopes work, just on a smaller scale. Basically spinning bullet less eager to catch wind than not spinning bullet.
The ottomans be like: *PARRY THIS YOU FUCKING CLASSIC*
"criminals dont follow the law"
california:
Man keep your rifle by your side is still a banger
Very good video sir. I came for victoria 2, stayed for this amazing content.
man,you're way too underrated
Just found your channel, it's very underrated
10:27 French response to the blitzkrieg 1939 colorized
Was that spain "prepare to die" speech a reference to The princess Bride?
3:33 someone you can absolutely not forget are the landscknect Swiss mercenaries that literally fought for everyone and against everyone at least once
Gonna watch this till I bump it in the algorithm.
Dude, I found your channel from your Victoria 2 tutorial, but stayed for videos like this. Great work!
I think you missed Smokeless Powder as a notable "final" development, but awesome video nonetheless
5:51 Given what has been going on in "western countries" like Australia, you Americans were ABOSLUTELY right to keep your guns.
This was a really good video, and it does great work condensing all this history. But one mustn't underestimate the importance of taking those cartridges, and making them out of brass. Metallic cartridges were hardier, more resistant to the elements, and later on, provided a gas seal by having the brass expand to completely fill the chamber, allowing the gun to make much better use of the powder it had.
It's still a damn fine video though!
Keep the vids coming Ziki you are doing marvelous work.
Firearms: why democracy exists.
The 1800s was the century of the most change for guns. Flintlocks kicked the century off, then came percussion caps, revolvers, the first successful breech loading weapons, breech loading cannon, metal cartridges, smokeless powder, early successful repeating rifles, and much more.
I still don't understand why you're not more popular
One of the best channels out here
Better yet youre not constantly begging for donation or spamming shitty advertisements or sponsorships
Mad respect my man. Here's hoping youtube finally picks up your quality content and explodes in popularity like it deserves
Loved your video man !
I subbed to you cause of Victoria 2 I didnt expect such a good documentary
both good content
and writes down music credits in the description
amazing
Really good video my man
you deserve more views
"You are in glorious Nippon - most peaceful clay on Earth" said Japan being at constant war.
Just found your channel, subbed! Awesome content keep it up 👍🏻
10:40 M1 Abrams and a Stuka with cannon pods. interesting. Please do a seond part going up to the modern day!
I love these videos
10:48 so...next video about sun tzu?
good vids good art,you got my subs
That song at the start gives me flashbacks of killing super mutants in the commonwealth
Ok a knight with twi flinlocks charging in horses to battle is one of the most epic things i can imagine, and i know it really happened and You cannot tell me otherwise
Bullets were also around long before the invention of guns or black powder. They used to be shot out of slings instead of guns during ancient times, and to great effect.
Perfect choice in outro music
god i love how apolitical you present your videos
great video
The stuka at the end is when you want to give a t34 four 37mm big holes.
Outro was awesome.
i really love the art in this vid btw
Great video
Nice choice for the end song
Something that you forgot to mention with rifles is that the bullet needed to fit into the grooves of the rifling for it to have it's full effect and because of this it needed to grip the walls of the gun which made it slower to load which was another problem. This was fixed later on with a type of bullet created by a Frenchman that was improved by an American that expanded after it was fired so it could have the same reload time as a musket and the advantages of a rifle.
Tanks are also big armored Guns
I like what you did with the music
Portugal introduces guns to Japan
Also Portugal: *this won’t backfire at all*
These videos are so much fun for real but I really miss the gaming videos man. I hope we get to see some in the near future
6:24 One thing to note is that rifling doesn’t increase velocity, it actually bring it down since some kinetic energy is spent spinning the projectile instead of pushing forward. This is why tank guns started using smooth bore barrels in the late 60s with the introduction of the T-62 and it’s 115mm U-5TS gun, since it’s fin stabilized projectiles didn’t need rifling and therefore could fly faster and penetrate more armor.
10:40: One major development you are missing is the development of smokeless powder. Smokeless powder has many benefits such less smoke to so the battlefield doesn’t turn into a giant vape cloud where nobody can see, drastically reduced residue which aids in the function of automatic firearms, and higher pressures which allows for higher velocity guns.
Overall a very well researched and discussed video, typically not seen outside the Guntuber realm.
We shitting on California now, bet.
Intro starts
Me: Wait is this from fallou-
Song:FLASH BAM ALAKZAM
The Song Choice was perfect 👌
Very good video
early guns used soft lead so the shot didnt do much outside of close range.
you could still get a volley at close range but after that its hand to hand.
cavalry had the upside of getting in and out but would most likely be used or useful if given to light cavalry since they can rotate in and out of range whereas heavy cavalry can do the same but you miss out on the shock value of heavy cav if not used in a charge.
Can't wait for part 2
i heard that apparently they didnt wanna discover gunpowder but instead elixir that makes you immortal
fun fact, Ming era China imported european guns to use agains the Manchus, but the Manchurian cavalry kept killing their armies while they were reloading
Excellent use of keep your rifle by your side
One other thing about early rifling is that powder frequently built up in the grooves, so the operator couldn't fire many rounds without cleaning it. This restricted the gun's usage to skirmishes.
6:20 I don’t think it have the round better velocity but the spin gave it better stability so it’s flight path was straighter and more stable.
Another problem was the fact that early bullets were essentially mini cannonballs that were liable to bounce around (due to the fact many musket and cannon balls didn’t take up the entirety of the calibre of the gun) inside the barrel when being fired which really hampered accuracy.
This is why up to the napoleonic wars and after infantry formations with muskets were in big lines, the thinking was to aim in the general direction of the enemy and the sheer number of guns being fired at once would make up for the inaccuracy of the guns.
Fun fact the guy who invented gun powder was trying to make a life potion
Gun ownership was more legal in the past than people think.
Back in the 1920's you could still just buy guns like any other item in Sweden.
The era of 1880-1930 was an era of prohibitions of a lot more things than alcohol around the world.
Best video
Will you be doing a part 2 Pin/Bolt primers WW1 and WW2,etc...
I'd like a timeline in the bottomnof the scrren of the video, helps give an idea of when each innovation took place. Otherwise its a great video dud 👍
That Minecraft TNT/Creeper sound effect at the start of the video made me jump
good content
"The only innovations we're missing are magazines, intermediate cartridges, and automatic fire."
Richard Jordan Gatling would like a word with you.
The guy who invented gun powder has a kill assist count in the hundreds of millions.
Could you make a part 2 :)
Tank guns today are smooth-bore and fire arrows so we have basically come full circle with our top of the line direct fire cannons.
this man compilates months of searching in 11 minutes
Keep Your Rifle By Your Side is unironically a banger.
Very good
Finally somebody who gives me the same vibe as brain4breakfeast
i was playing minecraft while this turned on and the creeper sound scared me so much
Oda Nobunaga (he and his ally won, but the Oda line kinda died so whatshisface got to be shogun) was shot twice by an assassin, his armor stopped the bullets, and he was pissed
Great video, though I was hoping to know more about its development in Asia, India to be specific. Keep it up