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There was almost a revolution in france in 1836 or something but torrential rainfalls lead to the protest being cancelled.
How related is that to the famine? I've never heard of this, but I've heard of the revolution of 38, and the famine in the 40s. Do you know how related these events are?
Since it's 19th century France, it wasn't cancelled but more like postponed
Britain 1848. It was the Chartist movement, and they were planning a massive march on Parliament to deliver their Charter of Rights. It was such a large movement that the government called in 100,000 extra constables, including former Prime Minister Robert Peele and local Frenchman Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.
Thing is Hannibal was never defeated in Italy during that campaign. The problem was without local support or reinforcement he couldn't muster a siege of Rome. Both of that had nothing to do with the avalanche.
Exactly. I highly doubt that avalanche had much to do with the ultimate outcome. Initially Hannibal used his lesser numbers to his advantage through clever schemes to obliterate entire Roman armies, but once Rome became wise to his tricks it turned into a much more traditional conflict where army size matters a lot more, and Hannibal was simply unable to maintain those numbers, being in enemy territory and all. Even if literally none of his army died on the way to Italy I don't know if the outcome changes. He'd surely last a lot longer, but the Romans were never going to call it quits.
@@cowsaysmoo51 pew one could comment so much about Hannibal.
One thing one always has to point out when discussing the Punic wars is that propping up the enemy is often done to make yourself look better for having defeated them.
So for example the whole fleet battle stuff where Rome build an enormous fleet lost it completely and then just build a bigger one is doubtful. More realistic is they never suffered total defeat at sea and used crews and what those learned.
But Hannibal and his invasion seems quite legit because it was actually a crisis. And Rome did not really make it a numbers game. They just outright refused to battle him. Kind of how Russia did it with Napoleon. Although they did not manage the whole scorched earth approach. Hannibal stayed in Italy for quite some time and his army survived on literal plunder of the client tribes that Rome abandoned to him. He couldn't turn those against Rome though. And a siege of a city as massive as Rome is all about attrition. People forget that the army performing the siege tended to lose a lot of men as well.
For the time the Roman approach was unusual. Not unheated of. But usually a power beaten in the field so badly sought terms. Rome's response was battles are not the war.
Both Hannibal's tactical brilliance (Cannae became basically a verb among Generals in times to come). As Fabian's strategic response are taught in military academies to this day.
More men at the start would not have been a constant supply line so not have made any difference on the can I lay siege to Rome question. In fact they likely would just have meant more attrition loses during the first winter in Italy.
Roman had curb stomped the other City States in Italy several times and none of them were willing to actively oppose/fight Rome, thus no hard support for Hannibal.
Hannibal would've defeated Rome with the full support of Carthage. But because of the political enemies in the senate who were afraid that Hannibal was gaining too much power he wasn't properly backed. Rome was ruthless in the way they waged war, a country focused on their military tradition, on the other hand Carthage was mostly a naval power focused on economy and trading. For example one of the reasons why Carthage lost First Punic war was because they demobilized their navy and refitted ships for trading, in the meantime Rome rebuilt yet another fleet for war.
Rome realized it was a fight to the death, Carthage didn't.
@@cowsaysmoo51 I don't think they wised up to his tricks at any point really. Even after the Battle of Cannae Hannibal was ambushing and destroying Roman armies in Italy left, right and center. The only battle he lost was Battle of Zama, that he was recalled to fight not with his own army, but with a hastily assembled force. His Numidian cavalry couldn't arrive from Italy in time.
Battle of Cannae was literally the Roman's attempt of "wising up to his tricks" by fighting the battle on the narrow field thinking that Hannibal wouldn't be able to use his cavalry effectively and they got beaten even worse than before.
So I googled the "Hannibal causes an avalanche" one because I like Hannibal and had never heard of that before. I found a single reference to it. A poet, named Silicus Italicus, wrote a heavily dramatized version of Hannibal's life in an epic poem, which is called the Punica. In the poem, the various Roman gods take an active role and sometimes even directly speak to Hannibal and Scipio. Hannibal, outraged at the ice blocking his path, stabs it with his lance. The gods then ironically punish him by causing an avalanche.
Also the poem was written over 200 years after Hannibal's death.
Yeah I don't know about that one.
"Time travel, right? Anything we do, could totally change history!"
"Yes, just like every other day of your life. Stop worrying about it"
Quote from the Doctor Who episode Thin Ice (2017)
Fantastic quote, honestly. Really makes every day feel much more significant.
That's good adice, Marty.
From what I've read, King's prepared speech wasn't going all that well, which is what prompted Jackson to shout out "Tell them about the dream!" in reference to him having used a similar theme in earlier speeches.
The speech was going well and the crowd was very responsive which lead to King getting caught up in the moment. There is video of him giving the speech. You can see things you might have missed just reading it.
Fun fact, it actually would have been better if the Titanic hit the ice berg directly it would have saved the ship. The turn caused the iceberg to grind against the side, opening up several bulkheads. But if the ship hit head on the brunt of the collision would have hit the ship’s “collision bulkhead”, the one section of the ship completely sealed off by watertight bulkheads, meaning that while some people would have died from the collision, the damage would have been minor enough for the ship to limp its way to port for repairs
whilst that is true, there was staff sleeping areas in the front section of there ship, and at that time hundreds of members of staff were asleep there. a large number would've been killed, and the media would've blamed the senior officer on the bridge at that time for not taking any evasive action (with hindsight it certainly would've been better to hit the iceberg dead on, but in the moment the crew on the bridge did the right thing)
Or if the centre propeller had been designed to keep working when in reverse, it’s likely that the Titanic would have avoided the iceberg completely
Concerning Titanic binoculars theory. I have always pondered; on that ship you mean to tell me there wasn’t one person who could opened the cabinet. There wasn’t a maintenance person that could have broken/unlocked the cabinet. That has always struck me as ridiculous.
That's White Star Line property, they'd have to pay for that!
New ship, first voyage, etc I can definitely see them being like “ehh, don’t want to be the one to damage it “ … that’s why “soft openings” are a thing.
The sinking of the Titanic is a lot more complicated than simply one guy not having binoculars. Check out the channel Historic Travels, Sam is one of the most thorough enthusiasts when it comes to Titanic research and facts. He even has claimed that even if the lookout had binoculars, it may not have saved the doomed Titanic.
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Another thing... if they had never seen the iceberg at all then the ship would have struck the iceberg more directly. A more direct strike would have caused serious damage and most likely injured or killed several people, but the chances of Titanic sinking would have been almost 0.
I found your channel about a month ago. I love history and just learning but you remind me of my dad so so much. He past last year and just the way you react and call out miss information. I just appreciate you.
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I love how your reaction to Hannibal accidentally dropping an avalanche on his army is, "Well, not all of them died. '
I think one of the most interesting theories about the sinking of the Titanic is that an atmospheric phenomena opticly lifted the horizon up, which made it impossible for the lookouts to spot the ice berg in time, because it was hidden behind the fata morgana like false horizon.
I'm not an expert on Hannibal, but I have read a bit, and one of Hannibal's biggest problems in trying to defeat Rome was that while he easily defeated the Roman armies on the field, he wasn't able to effectively besiege their cities. (Also he was hoping to subvert or win over Roman citizens to Carthhage, so he really didn't want to destroy any of the cities, if he could at all help it.) While he was able to convince some cities to turn away from Rome, he was able to do so only by offering a better deal than what Rome gave them, which meant alliance, nit subservience. So, basically that meant they would provide supplies to the Carthiginans, but not troops.
So, while a larger initial army may have helped somewhat, and might have let his siege of the Italian peninsula last longer, ultimately, I personally think that it wouldn't have been enough to overcome the advantages Rome had and the restrictions Hannibal placed on himself.
Again, though, my expertise comes from reading two books on the subject, so someone who knows more than I do might be able to say more.
What you say is true. I will also add that Hannibal abandoned his Italian campaign not because of a troop shortage but because he was recalled to defend the Carthaginian homeland from Roman invasion.
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Roosevelt also had a metal eyeglasses case in his pocket, which helped as well. Also, way to go Milwaukee, our great claim to flame
People also forget that the day that Ferdinand and Sophie visited Bosnia It was also a hugely patriotic day for Serbian nationalism.
Imagine if we had lost the American Revolution and were still under British control. Then, Prince George (later George IV) goes on a parade in Boston on July 4th.
@@PhantomBanker literally was gonna say that
@@PhantomBankeryeah but WW1 was happening no matter what happened that day. Just would have delayed the inevitable.
@@PhantomBankerthen there would be no July 4th
The Titanic’s ultimate owner, JP Morgan, was supposed to be on the ship but canceled at the last minute claiming to be ill. After the sinking he was found healthy with his mistress. Morgan’s libido may have saved his life. Had he gone down with the ship there may not have a Federal Reserve or income tax, for which he was the architect. Given that several prominent critics of the proposed Federal Reserve and income tax, including John Jacob Astor, died on the Titanic, maybe the April 15 tax filing deadline also being the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is not just a coincidence.
Binoculars are only useful for looking at things you've already spotted! Lookouts didn't scan the horizon with binoculars, they'd give themselves tunnel vision! They used the naked eye to get a full field of view of everything that was in front of the ship and then used binoculars to get a closer look at things they saw. The iceberg was hidden in by false horizon generated by thermal inversion. Not only that, the sea was completely calm, and with no waves there was no breaking water at the base to give away its location. On top of that, it was a moonless night, so the ocean was completely black in every direction. They were travelling through a void with the only light coming from the dimly lit ship and the stars, which reflected off the still water. Murdoch even probably saw the iceberg from his vantage point on the bridge between the time the lookouts saw it and when they called it in. When the sun rose, the survivors in the lifeboats saw that they were surrounded on all sides by icebergs, big and small, that had been completely invisible that night. Binoculars wouldn't have saved the Titanic. The ship was a victim of circumstance - it was in the wrong place at the wrong time and suffered a freak accident unique in maritime history - sideswiping an iceberg along just enough of its hull that it sank.
The original video has such a quintessential and typical "American pop history enjoyer starter pack" selection of events - American revolution, French revolution, WW1 and WW2, the Cold war, Titanic, etc.
“How many funnels are on this drawing? 8? There were only four…”
It’s these small moments why I love and your channel lol it’s so informational it’s amazing
17:13 with stories like that, it's no wonder we have a Nimitz class carrier named after Teddy. The carrier's nickname, incidentally, is "The Big Stick"
A nickname inherited from the battleship Iowa, incidentally.
One of the best off the cuff moments of Bush was "now watch this drive"
Regarding Hannibals' decision that cost them the war was not so done by the Avalanche but the fact that he didn't march onto Rome itself to get the surrender but waiting on their surrender letter. By doing so, he vastly underestimated Rome's capability as a martial state and bought them sweet time for them to send out an army to Carthage. I think that's what really changed the history
My favorite off the cuff speech is Bobby telling Indianapolis about MLK's death.
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Most monumental?
Vasily Arkhipov who probably saved the world from nuclear war. He happened to be 2nd in charge of the flotilla of Soviet submarines and the one he was one thought that war was happening and wanted to launch the nukes. Usually only 2 people are needed (and they agreed to launch) but since he was on the sub they needed his approval also. He refused. Saved the world.
But yeah, DDay was not that important. The Soviets captured/killed more Nazis in one operation (Operation Bagration) than the Allie’s were fighting in the entirety of Europe.
In regards to the first point about the Titanic, there's a British TH-cam channel called History Hit that did a video where they interviewed a historian on the Titanic. According to the historian, due to the conditions that night, the binoculars could have actually delayed the response time because it would have come into view much later than what did happen.
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This reminds me of that book by Stephen King..11.22.63 about a story of a Teacher who was showed a “Time Portal” and was asked to go back in time to stop the Kennedy assassin from killing him.. to “save” the world for a better future… but that wasn’t the case.. there’s a great mini series on in wit James Franco on Hulu.. amazing Mini Series❤
VTH, you’ve been a video making machine since you got back from Europe and keep up your great video-making work!!!!!
Discovered some fun channels through yours (which I discovered because I got a video of you recommended where you reacted to one of my favorite channels, if I recall correctly one of your first Sam O'Nella reactions). Always cool to see your take on history. Would love to see you react to some Dutch History or Dutch-American historical connections. (New Amsterdam, American War of independance connections, Allied history since the US's founding etc)
Kings and generals the first crusades reaction?? It’s a long series but it’s amazing
I think hannibal was at war with the roman republic, not the roman empire
there was also the guy who saved single handedly world from nukewar in cuban missile crisis
Shame that Petrov is not more widely known, giving how he is the only reason we are not living in the nucelar fallout.
Petrov only didn't fire back because the radar only showed one missle coming towards the USSR. He knew that if this was a first strike, the US would have sent dozens if not hundreds of missles, so something didn't add up.
It always brightens my day when you upload, Chris. Thank you for everything you do.
1:43 It also appears to be drafting off another vessel because the smoke is ahead of the first funnel.
“3 inches to the right”…and then in July 2024…yea that would have definitely changed history without just a quick turn of the head
The only thing that was lost by Rommel not being present at his HQ on June 6 was the subsequent hit to his reputation that would have come from his utter impotence to make any difference against the landings. The statement that the Germans couldn't gauge the weather because he wasn't there- so Rommel was the only meteorologist in the Wehrmacht? I suppose you could say that some leadership might have let their guard down because if Rommel left, there mustn't be a threat. But the average soldat or Osttruppe manning bunkers; they have no idea that Rommel is at a birthday party and were carrying on just the same. Rommel being in Normandy does not change the aerial dominance of the Allied Air Forces over the Luftwaffe or the Allied naval dominance of the channel. The biggest thing the allies missed out on by Rommel not being able to order an armored counter attack against the beaches was we'll never know whether Rodney, Ramillies, or Warspite can flip over the most panzers.
Nights are traditionally known to be dark. (And they couldn't get to the SPARE binoculars? Does that not imply that one pair WAS in use??)
I find the petrov incident is pretty interesting because it happened days after the first chapter of fist of the north star released which starts with a nuclear war destroying the world. Very interesting.
King kind of improvised the I have Dream part of his speech. He knew what he was going to say and he had done the I have a Dream thing in previous speeches. He decided in the moment to add that part into the speech.
If I remember correctly, the cloud cover over Kokura was the result of a bombing raid on another target. The smoke from said bombing caused the coverage.
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I actually had no idea about the speech being improved, but I thought that factoid was going in a diff direction, by which I mean that MLK wasn’t even supposed to be at that march (which in itself was a major last minute change)
He did organize it, but it was originally a much more agitative leftist march that made JFK really nervous and led him to call up MLK and beg him to show up on the day so he could mediate the whole thing
Now I don’t know how far in advance this was, which is why I figured the speech being improvised was due to that, but I guess it was a few days ahead of time and it gave him a chance to prepare something only for him to shirk whatever he had and deliver one of the great orations of our time completely off the cuff, just wow
Another fun fact about the speech, he later went on to say (and I’m paraphrasing) ‘the dream I had has since then become something of a nightmare’
A fun fact, my maternal grandparents are from Kokura, and I would never have existed if it had not been cloudy that day. So, you could say bad weather gained you at least one consistent viewer.
Fun fact: Gavrilo Princip is considered a national hero in Serbia. There are statues of him.
On 15 March 44 B.C.E, the day of Julius Caesar's Assassination, a young man walked up to Caesar on his way to the Senate and tried to hand him a piece of paper, telling Caesar to read the note as it concerned him personally. The man was restrained by Caesar's honourguard and Caesar give his secretary the note to read after the meeting.
That note contained an *in depth* description of the plan to assassinate Caesar, with names and itineraries. Had Caesar read that note earlier, he could've preempted his assassins.
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Correction for Princip: he was not a "Black Hand" member. Unification or Death, aka. Black Hand was a secret military society for unification of Serbian lands. Its members were army officers. Princip was a member of "Young Bosnia", a revolutionary student organization, also standing for unification. Princip was a student, not an officer. Some members of Black Hand helped organize the Young Bosnians for assassination.
Whether there was access to binoculars or not, it wouldn't have mattered because as we all know those in lookout were too busy catching glimpses at two star crossed lovers making out close to the boat deck to keep their eyes out for bergs.
Actually, it was too dark that night, no moon for the bergs to reflect light off of, and the sea was calm with no waves breaking making it easier to determine locations of bergs. It was black as pitch that night.
I would add Lincoln’s last minute decision to change commanders from Hooker to Meade before before Gettysburg
It was only Lincoln's decision because Hooker resigned. He chose to accept it but he didn't fire Hooker.
What happened to Casual History? Did they delete their channel I can't find it anywhere
I wouldn’t call me an expert on Hannibal but ive studyed a little. I would say he may have gotten a bit further but ultimately it wouldnt have mattered. His style of warfare wouldn't have gotten him an ultimate victory with or without the avalanche.
While it was the incident that started wwi, it is a huge stretch to say there wouldn't have been some other incident to kick it off. The continent was a powder keg and war was going to be inevitable. This just happens to be the one that lit the fuse
Finally early, happy to have a video to drink my coffee with!
in regards to Franz Ferdinand; "not without a lot of "luck"", it was also very lucky to happen at the same time as the rise of the proto-global military industrial political complexes.
One of the examples of this phenomenon that doesn’t get brought up enough is the Battle of Aughrim.
In 1691, one of the most decisive battles for control of Ireland, and the rest of the British Isles, was about to happen with French and Jacobite forces about to face off against Williamite and Dutch soldiers. And while the Jacobites were on the losing tide of the war thus far, it was possible that Aughrim could have been a decisive turning point in their favour. But at one of the crucial points of the battle, one regiment of Irish soldiers reached for their boxes of ammunition… only to find that the English style musket balls they had brought were too big for the French flintlocks that their allies had been supplied, meaning they were defenceless and they were forced to retreat from their position in a fit of panic. While this one point probably didn’t lose them the battle entirely and the loss of an effective cavalry commander elsewhere was more devastating for the Jacobites, it certainly didn’t help and is demonstrative of how one simple overlooked detail can be devastating on the battlefield.
The I have a Dream speech was heavily plagiarized. His plagiarism is well documented in his academics, speeches etc
I have no issue with that. He wasn't publishing a research paper.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Boston University determined his phd thesis was invalid due to plagiarism. They didn’t revoke it due to political pressure
@@jeffslote9671I imagine most people of that era have plagiarized tbh.
In fact, I suspect quite a bunch of papers and theses from the 50s- early 2000s have significant plagiarism in it.
One about the Titanic Binoculars, would've made no difference as there was no moon, claim seas, and had a false horizon. The Iceberg barely showed by the stars, so seeing the nothingness zoomed in would've done nothing.
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be”- the Beatles
First one: I'm sorry but binoculars would not have helped the look-outs see the iceberg any sooner on a moonless night in the middle of the Atlantic ocean in 1912. How lookouts worked was the scanned in front, when they are able to see something in the distance THEN they use the binoculars. Even if they did have access to them, it would not have mattered. Bc they did not see the iceburg until it was way to close and had LESS THAN A MINUTE to react. There is NO one person to blame for the sinking fo the Titanic. No one, not even White Star, claimed that their Olympic Class Liners were 100% unsinkable. Just that they were as safe and as unsinkable with the technology and features that they have. 4 watertight compartments full of water and the ship still finds equilibrium? That's a feat in of itself when the Costa Concordia capsized with only TWO watertight compartments breached with our modern technology and materials? But oh lordy it's this officer changes fault, its the Captains fault, its this person its that persons. The sinking of the Titanic was a freak accident that no one could ahve predicted would happen of all the ship accidents that occurred up to that point.
Sorry for the rant. This trying to pin the accident on one person is old.
Just to be a bit pendatic here, Hannibal would be more accurately described as an enemy of the Roman Republic.
Just like with Waterloo, if D-Day hadn't succeeded then there would just be another "D-Day". The Axis were doomed anyways, so in the broad scheme of things, it would've probably just prolonged the war if anything. Love your input as always VTH.
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And they were busy watching Jack and Rose makeout
I don't agree with the Titanic one. I've researched the event extensively and I've never seen any source point the blame at that second officer.
Alexander The Great "Having the fish!"
Suggestion: React to Volker Pispers' History of USA and Terrorism, a five-part video with English subtitles.
If I remember correctly, I've heard the story behind the impromptu nature of "I have a dream" at least a couple times... definitely once in African American History class, and I think also during the fifty year anniversary discussions, of which there were quite a few.
King had been working with the "I have a dream" theme, including the famous phrases we know today... for a while... he gave in the ballpark of that same speech several times, and could "riff it" off the top of his head...
AND... "I have a dream" may well have been the speech he would have given if left to his own devices and preferences... that the "I have a dream" theme was already by that time one of his "go to" speeches at least opens that door.
AND... via Hoover's FBI, and just general Kennedy Administration bleepery... the Kennedy Administration was aware of the content of the various speeches King had been giving, and might give in Washington... and rumor is King was explicitly asked to NOT give the "I have a dream" speech, as it might "rile up" people who didn't want integration... like... real integration... if little black boys and girls sit down at a table of brotherhood with little white boys and girls... you've effectively achieved real integration... metaphorically it's a pretty good way to get the point across... so Mr. King, please don't give THAT speech.
So he had some other speech planned and written.
And Mahalia Jackson had already been present at a bunch of King's other speeches... and "I have a dream" was her favorite flavor...
So MLK Jr. started with his prepared speech... and it was going like it was going...
Which Mahalia Jackson thought was boring, and not powerful, and less than the occasion deserved.
And she knew King could "riff" and switch gears to "I have a dream"... he knew that speech off the top of his head.
There's a tradition in black churches, and the audience's reaction during sermons... and King was a preacher, so this applied... that the audience will "affirm" and "shout out" during a sermon. Audience participation.
So it would not be unusual that if Mahalia Jackson wanted to hear her favorite speech, that she would shout it out... so she did. Several times during the early part of Kings speech, you can hear Mahalia Jackson in the background of the audio recording saying "Martin, tell 'em about your dream!".
Remember... the Kennedy Administration had effectively asked King to give a more boring speech... and King WAS in fact giving the more boring speech...
Mahalia... several times... Martin, tell 'em about your dream!
And the rest is history.
King shifted gears.
He riffed the "I have a dream" speech we know today.
And/but... Mahalia Jackson was what drove it going that way.
And ironically it might have landed as more powerful and authentic, and more likely to leave an impact because King was saying it from memory, and not from something written in front of him.
So MAYBE it's even "good", in the total arc of things, that the Kennedy Administration asked him to dumb it down. It's possible that the ad lib nature might have actually worked better, as something we remember, than what he might have written if he PLANNED an "I have a dream" speech.
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I just started this video but I stg if Franz Ferdinand's assassination isn't included in this I'll be upsetti. The amount of pure luck that went in to that killing, man...
Edit: goddamn right 😂
The King story is true, although I have heard different versions. One had that Lena Horne, who was behind King during the speech, asked him to talk about the dream.
On the King holiday in 2009 (the day before O’Bama’s first inauguration) CNN received permission from the King family to play the entire speech. The beginning of the speech was a bit boring and he was losing the crowd. Then he closed his notes and as an associate of King’s said, he took everyone to church.
I mean, Hannibal might have had an easier time in Italy without that avalanche, but in the end, it didn't really affect the campaign that much. The only thing that screwed Hannibal was the fact that he hesitated to march on Rome.
"Not all of it." Lol
If you listen to a recording of MLK's speech, you can hear the woman calling out in the background. Wild to think if that's true, because it really is one of the greatest orations in American history.
Something that *could* have dramatically changed world history but didn’t: long before he broke with Rome Henry VIII had a jousting accident where fragments of broken lance miraculously didn’t enter through the eye-slit of his helmet, which could have easily killed him. If it had, there would have been no Protestant Britain, and the entire power balance of Europe would have been different for centuries - would there have ever been a British Empire? - as well as the settling of the New World potentially looking very different and by different nations.
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Hello, greetings from Argentina.
At arround 18:25 talking about "improvized speeches", it reminds me July 20th 1969 when Neil Armstrong said ..."one small step for a man.. one big (huge) step for mankind"... This is probably one of the most backquoted sentences in modern history along with "I have a Dream".
As far of the present title of the video, I´d like to add a "last minute decision" made by former President John F. Kennedy by overruling the third wave of Marines to Pig Bay in Cuba. Some other historians said that Pig Bay wasen´t the best spot for disembarking due to a swamp soil, however, despite that fact (either it is true or not) the overall outcome of that decision probably made posible F. Castro won the revolution and we all know what happend after that. We, in Latinamerica, know the negative effects of that outcome. Socialism and comunism drained into our cultures bacause of Cuba´s (and obviously the former USSR) support. The unanswered question still remainds..."what if...?" That is one of the most common questions we history lovers like (at least in my case). It certenly boosts our imagination.
In my humble opinion, history is not being taken as seriously as it should in the present; a lot of events (personal or social) can be prevented by knowing historically facts.
My deepest respect from an history enthusiast to you, Professor, from NE Patagonia, Argentina.
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Haven't watched the video yet but Stanislav Petrov deserves to be on this list
Hooray he's on the list 🏆
I don’t like saying the Archduke’s assassination caused WW1. If it wasn’t him, it would have been some other damn fool in the Balkans.
Even if the titanic was still hit by the iceberg maybe the angle of the ship might have made it put less holes in the ship and maybe it still sinks but gives them more time and there isnt as quite of a panic leaving the lifeboats to be more filled and maybe it takes long enough to sink that the rescue ship arrives when more people are still alive in the water.
Would add John Parkers decision to go get a drink.
Love the reaction Chris! Regarding the Titanic, while what they told was true, I don't believe binoculars could've saved her from colliding with the iceberg. Staring into the open ocean on a moonless night through binoculars would've been just as useful as using your own eyes. All you'd see is black. Could binoculars have spotted the iceberg sooner and given the crew 15-20 more seconds to move out of the way? I think it's possible, but I highly encourage those who are interested to check out guys like Sam of Historic Travels and Mike of Oceanliner Designs. They are pretty much experts when it comes to Titanic and other ships, and their videos are really informative!
Will you do a breakdown of "The King's Man"?
Hey Chris can you react to more possible history he has released a bunch of great stuff
His viewer voted videos are actually quite great
Tbh all of his videos are interesting and thought provoking
Love your vids btw
1 pair of binoculars on the titanic? Lol
Wasn't Rommel to far away to take command on D-day anyway because of agent garbo misdirection?
There is a Historiographical Problem about General Rall's entire division being wiped out. Who survived to tell the story? Who was even able to piece it together?
Colonel Rall's brigade wasn't wiped out. Only 22 out of 1500 were killed. In other words, almost all of them survived.
1:12 yo whys Kennel Joseph drawn as a knight?
If you had to narrow it down, what would you consider to be the most important thing to happen in the war? Would it be Germany invading Russia? Or the attack on Pearl Harbor? Or maybe even the escape at Dunkirk.
Germany invading the Soviet Union was the turning point. To me that's the biggest game changer.
the backcountry of france has the most beautiful statues and memorials for american soldiers
The MLK speech being number 1 is kind of cherry picking a bit. You can say the same thing for FDR and his speech regarding Pearl Harbor. It was written as “December 7th, 1941 a date which will live in world history.” He changed it to “a date which will live in infamy.”
5:35 WW1 would've taken place even if the Archduke made it out alive.
Interesting video
Dont know why the titanic staff didnt just break open the locker that had the binoculars. They are there for a reason. You just replace the lock when you get to the states. 🙄
The original video is not available which is why I’m talking about it here, but surely the British soldier deciding to spare hitler’s life in ww1 should be there.
Very random but if you have or haven’t seen the trailer The ministry of ungentlemanly warfare what did you think of it and could you react to it please and give me your opinion, it looks like great fun.❤🏴🇬🇧
“In naval history” Titanic was not a naval ship
According to Merriam- Webster the term naval once could mean "of or relating to ships or shipping" but marks this definition as "obsolete." This usage still lives on in terms like "naval architecture" which applies to design, maintenance etc. of all ships not just military ones. However, judging from this video I would think that Casual History was ignorant of the old fashioned terminology and just misused "naval."
5:20 Franz Ferdinand and Sophie never made it to the hospital. They were on their way there, when they were assasinated and Gavrilo Princip didn't just happen to be on that street. Franz Ferdinand's driver took a "wrong" turn on to the street that they were supposed to drive on in the original tour route of the city and when he was informed of the change of plans and realized the mistake and tried to reverse out, the car stalled. Gavrilo Princip had been waiting on that street in his assigned spot on the tour route for them. People like to falsely claim it was all a big accident and Gavrilo Princip just happened to be there by some miracle, but really the only coincidence here is that somebody forgot to instruct the driver that they're going to the hospital and not the original route.
Happy Black History Chris!!!! Looking forward to some Black History reactions! 😊