Archeologists Uncover How Napoleon Lost At Waterloo

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  • @bernardmcmahon351
    @bernardmcmahon351 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Alice Roberts is a very good presenter, her knowledge and enthusiasm interviewing other archaeologists makes her presentations so interesting

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      YES, SHE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEGES FELLOW EXPERTS IN OTHER SPECIALTY , RELATED AREAS.

    • @mrdogshit
      @mrdogshit 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      shes very smart and has an interesting voice I forgot his name right now but listen to his podcast the Scottish gentleman Tony Robinson is very easy to listen too not many can make history interesting

  • @PG-zv9mf
    @PG-zv9mf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    9:54 "The artifacts from the bottom of this trench date to the year of the battle" as the shot slowly pans across Phil Harding standing in the bottom of the trench 😂

    • @wisecoconut5
      @wisecoconut5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Now that is funny!

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      GOOD OLD PHIL, I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THAT OLD

    • @duudsuufd
      @duudsuufd หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@MrDaiseymay Thanks to your answer, I get it!

  • @alfredpaquin3563
    @alfredpaquin3563 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Wellington knew the terrain, and the weather was a disadvantage for Napoleon's cavalry.

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Any excuse

  • @tonyjames5444
    @tonyjames5444 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Wellington knew all about the sunken road by the farm and everything else about the battlefield of Waterloo, he'd identified the site a year earlier and recognised it would be a perfect spot to hold an advancing enemy.

    • @williamcurtin5692
      @williamcurtin5692 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Peer was peerless.

    • @tonyjames5444
      @tonyjames5444 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @iberian5319 Yet if Wellington and his allied army had broke and retreated before the Prussians arrived Napoleon would've won so the British having the right to name to battle was right.
      As I said Wellingtons aim was to hold until the Prussians arrived which he did, if the roles were reversed I'm certain Wellington would've had no problem allowing Blucher to claim the victory and name the battle on behalf of his Prussians who fought to hold the ground.

    • @tuttebelleke
      @tuttebelleke หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In an other British documentary about Waterloo, it is explained that Napoleon's artillery in certain places of the battlefield could make no more advance, being stuck in the mud, unable to reach Wellington's troupes. These researchers went to battle location and simulated the wet underground (it rained for 3 days before the battle) simulated the artillery and tried to make any move by help of several horses and men. Their conclusion was: Napoleon's artillery must have been completely stuck.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      WITHOUT THE PRUSSIAN HELP, WE WOULDNT HAVE WON, BUT WE DON'T MENTION THAT, WHOOPS DMMMN !

    • @duncbee
      @duncbee 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@MrDaiseymay Yet everyone knows so what is your point. Napoleon should have won at Waterloo but he didn't as usual he came up against Wellington and lost. Wellington fought a defensive battle because he had no choice he simply didn't have the troops to anything else. Marshal Ney went on the missing list with his troops and had he not done that Napoleon would have won.
      However as Napoleon pointed out he'd rather have a lucky General and on that day the luck was with Wellington. Blucher was late and it got to a point where the battle started turning and Wellington knew it he was hanging on for dear life and its well documented.
      Napoleon had all the benefits. A large chunk of Wellington's Army had been fighting for Napoleon earlier he couldn't guarantee they would fight as he needed. Napoleon was on home turf he could supply his army much more easily and get replacements more easily. In fact the biggest surprise of the battle is that Napoleon lost Wellington certainly wouldn't have if the situation was reversed. He would never have allowed Ney to go on a wild goose chase with 30,000 troops.
      Wellington was a soldier Napoleon was a demagogue. Napoleon's generals didn't question him Wellington's did. Napoleon never dealt with British tactic of placing cannon below the horizon.
      The simple fact Napoleon lost every campaign he fought against Wellington. The march to Russia destroyed his best army and never got over it. Totally and utterly outplayed by the Russians. Napoleon is not the genius people claim. Strategically he stank.
      Blucher was part of Wellington's Army not the other way round.

  • @RealAndySkibba
    @RealAndySkibba 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    I feel like they should've just asked ABBA.

    • @sharioverend1618
      @sharioverend1618 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You are the funniest

    • @beast4661
      @beast4661 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😂😂❤

    • @DangerGrouse
      @DangerGrouse หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅😅😅

    • @williamcurtin5692
      @williamcurtin5692 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love that song but I like Stonewall Jackson's (American country singer) take in 1959 better:
      Waterloo Waterloo
      Where will you meet your Waterloo?
      Every puppy has his day
      Everybody has to pay
      Everybody has to meet his Waterloo
      Little General Napoleon of France
      Tried to conquer the world
      But lost his pants
      Met defeat
      Known as Bonaparte's Retreat
      And that's when Napoleon
      Met his Waterloo

    • @henrykszuplakszuplak6578
      @henrykszuplakszuplak6578 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I feel like they should've just dug on the east side of London Waterloo.

  • @stephenconnolly3018
    @stephenconnolly3018 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Always a program if professor Alice Roberts is in it.

  • @Ap-cm7mx
    @Ap-cm7mx หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    NOW THE WHOLE STORY: I think the team has found only 3 skeletons at Waterloo. More than 25000 tons of bones (human/horse) from Napoleonic battlefields were exported to England to be processed into fertilizer at facilities in Doncaster. Sources from the 1860s report that bones from the Crimean War (1853-1856) ended up there as well. The mentioned "Waterloo Teeth" provided (as it was called) a "Healthy Waterloo Smile" for London's elite. The British were called the Vampires of Europe when all this happened.

    • @MarkoZalad-x4j
      @MarkoZalad-x4j หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes Victor Hugo was a guest at a Country estate near Doncaster when 20,00o Bushells of Bones from the mass graves at Waterloo, Austerlitz and Leipzig were ground down at a Bone Mill on the Don at marshgate and turned into Fertiliser, then ploughed into the fields where I live on the Escarpment.

    • @Ap-cm7mx
      @Ap-cm7mx หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MarkoZalad-x4j Thank you, I had not heard that. A few weeks ago I watched another attempt on TH-cam to rewrite this history. The "explanation" provided for the absence of bones focussed this time on the "1815 peasantry" supposedly burning bodies on an industrial scale as well as the "current locals" as "being uncooperative" to support archeological work at Waterloo to uncover the dead. Developers are accused of "disturbing the field of honour" so that "the evidence" will be lost forever. Trying to cover up the Fertilizer/Teeth story is one thing but pointing the finger at the "1815 peasantry" as well as the current locals is another.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@MarkoZalad-x4j WHAT DOES THE FLOUR TASTE LIKE AROUND THOSE PARTS ?

    • @MarkoZalad-x4j
      @MarkoZalad-x4j หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @ PUT ME OFF GROWING vegetables in my Garden! There were 3 mills so flour was ground in a separate Mill, also a Mustard mill!

    • @2adamast
      @2adamast หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I knew Wellington cut down the trees after Waterloo as he owned the place, so he harvested his army too.

  • @tonyjohnson8752
    @tonyjohnson8752 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Yay. Good ole Phil Harding. I knew him by his voice before I saw him.

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      'E's got a new hat, though.

    • @philipm06
      @philipm06 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Ooh arr.

    • @ledacedar6253
      @ledacedar6253 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Who wouldn’t recognize Phil by his accent & ways of expressing his opinion.

  • @steveshepherd2712
    @steveshepherd2712 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    And here in Ontario Canada while metal detecting I found a Wellington half penny token that lists the battles on the penisular against Napolions army. The token was struck to pay the surviving troops many of whome ended up in Canada after the war of 1812 against the Americans 😉

    • @judibill72
      @judibill72 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      AND UNLIKE THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY THE USA LOST THE BATTLE. WHO DO WE VERIFY? SIMPLY CANADA IS A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY.

    • @pigdroppings
      @pigdroppings หลายเดือนก่อน

      The whole reason for the War of 1812 was for the US to grab Canada from the British while they were busy fighting the little Italian Napoleone.
      The Canadians didn't want to be grabbed, and defeated the US Army which left with its tail between its legs.

    • @mrdogshit
      @mrdogshit 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@judibill72 we like our Canadian cousins we all fight together like a big family

    • @petemc5070
      @petemc5070 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@mrdogshit Like a big mafia family.

    • @ledacedar6253
      @ledacedar6253 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@judibill72yeah not any longer Canada under Trudeau the tampon guy we are owned by his WEF allegiance! Brain dead, no rights to think let alone speak or it’s life in jail with thousands owed to the crown!

  • @FlyTyer1948
    @FlyTyer1948 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Any evidence of Sharpe onsite? ;-)

  • @dewardroy6531
    @dewardroy6531 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thank you, Dr. Alice Roberts and everyone!

  • @megapangolin1093
    @megapangolin1093 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Lovely programmes, Alice. I am rivetted every time. You look incredible as always.

    • @Rebel1972x
      @Rebel1972x 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂😂😂😅

  • @理高
    @理高 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Professor Alice Robert, most beautiful academic scholar.

    • @mightymike2192
      @mightymike2192 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not so much any more. Haha.

    • @StevenBrown-w5b
      @StevenBrown-w5b หลายเดือนก่อน

      What do you mean?

    • @judibill72
      @judibill72 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Celebrate the intellectual ability . Looks had nothing to do with it.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mightymike2192 YO00000 CAD, MIGHTY IDIOT

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@judibill72 Waaal NOT QUITE CORRECT

  • @j.r.shartzer
    @j.r.shartzer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    TVF spreading the Alice Roberts content across all their channels. I will follow it all.

  • @jfc213
    @jfc213 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    dr alice is a true wounder she is woundefull thanks

    • @MickRiley
      @MickRiley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Shes a professor now I think

    • @kcstafford2784
      @kcstafford2784 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      sure wish she would get rid of the nasty red and go back

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน

      A WHAT?

  • @davidthomas6859
    @davidthomas6859 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Yay ,Phil has a new hat 😊

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน

      ONLY THE SECOND ONE IN 80 YRS

  • @FatManWalking18
    @FatManWalking18 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    i could listen to Dr Alice read from washing machine repair manual.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน

      I WISH SHE;D READ MINE, i CAN ONLY WORK ONE PROGRAMME, AFTER 15 YRS

  • @justinneill5003
    @justinneill5003 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Apparently on returning to the site of the battle some time later, Wellington was shocked to see the Lion Mound, because the soil used to create it had altered the topography of the land around it. “What have they done to my battlefield!” I think were his words.

  • @artbargestudio
    @artbargestudio 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you Alice! Another brilliant episode!~

  • @chadwhitman1811
    @chadwhitman1811 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Marshal Grouchy's inability to make contact and engage the recently defeated but not destroyed Prussians under Marshal Blucher was the main reason. Wellington was in a tight fix when old gaurd advanced and is alleged to have said ' give me night or Blucher' .Blucher arrived first caught and the French in critcal moment and defeated Napoleon's army and maybe the first time truly defeated Naploeon who was left no real options but surrender.

    • @Rusty_Gold85
      @Rusty_Gold85 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Town of Wavre had a deep ravine creek with two bridges , buildings that were on fire all resulted in a plug he couldn't get through quick enough

    • @StevenBrown-w5b
      @StevenBrown-w5b หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grouchy was fighting his own battle at Wavre , at the time .

    • @2adamast
      @2adamast หลายเดือนก่อน

      Napoleon asked for a parade the day after Ligny with all his troops, costing Grouchy nearly a day. And could have held Crouchy on his right flank to counter Wellington's plan, instead of imagining Blucher marching to Liege. Napoleon was aware of Blucher by two o'clock, long before the night.

  • @BobBlarneystone
    @BobBlarneystone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I read somewhere that the bones of the soldiers buried at Waterloo were dug up and ground for fertilizer. Is that so?

    • @emilioalcazar-su9vi
      @emilioalcazar-su9vi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And for making a kind of sugar..

    • @flashladderacrobat
      @flashladderacrobat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      yes , that was the norm in that age, it became so bad the practice was eventually outlawed.

    • @gl2773
      @gl2773 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Spread on the fields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia. At least they came home…

    • @andriesscheper2022
      @andriesscheper2022 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes. And to produce bone coal used to refine beet sugar in Northern France. There almost isn't a bone to be found left. That's where grandpa went! 😮

    • @AndyJarman
      @AndyJarman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Funny how we can accept poor penniless workers being torn to pieces by the hundreds of thousands, yet we feel it is somehow undignified to treat their dead bodies with disrespect. We truly are a curious creature.

  • @MichaelCampin
    @MichaelCampin หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Exactly what happened to HMS Hood, not a good idea to have ready use ammo with open doors to the turrets and the ammo and charge storage

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      YOUVE ANSWERED YOUR OWN QUESTION.

  • @BaronsHistoryTimes
    @BaronsHistoryTimes 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    4:00
    Wellington's victory is properly Wellington AND Blucher's Victory... it was a joint plan they put in place that riskily lured Napoleon into the battle.
    Without Blucher fulfilling his part in the trap, the battle would have been 'Wellington's Massacred Army'.
    Hougoumont pronounced with the 'H'... 'ooo' rather than 'Who'
    6:00
    Wellington actually sent thousands more soldiers to directly and indirectly support the Hougoumont buildings and orchards and woods.
    7:00
    Napoleon could not see the chateau or the wall as the woods in front blocked the view to his command post. He actually sent orders to his brother to only capture the woods.
    8:00
    There were German defenders inside Hougoumont too, not just British. Hundreds of Green uniformed Nassauer troops joined the defence just before the French attack. The story of just 800 reinforcements sent by Wellington to help defend the Hougoumont area is not correct. Several brigades of mostly Germans were moved in and around the area.
    19:00
    The ammo supply waggon was noticed and fired at by the French skirmishers.

  • @TonyWhite-n9p
    @TonyWhite-n9p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I have such a crush on Prof. Roberts. Smart, gorgeous and so cool

    • @ledacedar6253
      @ledacedar6253 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah well I’m competing you as a woman who loves women & she’s quite the healthy woman, attractive & intelligently a great communicator. Most men don’t like to communicate feelings, intuition or thoughts too often but that’s okay for us lesbians

  • @katiemoyer8679
    @katiemoyer8679 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lovely and scholarly presentation. Thank You to all involved. 👌

  • @michaelpfister1283
    @michaelpfister1283 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Hawker Hurricane fly-by was an awesome touch. :-) Great story.

  • @vodcancoke
    @vodcancoke หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I met Napoleon, bloody nice chap

  • @johnpinkerton772
    @johnpinkerton772 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Excellent segment!

  • @markthornton7347
    @markthornton7347 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1815 was a very wet year do to volcanic activity in Indonesia, it rained egregiously for the three day battle...on the 18th the French did not start at 7 0r 8 am as one could on a fine summer day but later , at 11:30 after the soaked fields could be negotiated...and we all know what the results of a late start can do to ones aims for the day....

    • @Rusty_Gold85
      @Rusty_Gold85 หลายเดือนก่อน

      moving in the mud was a slow sticky problem not the myth he waited for it to dry out .

  • @margarance
    @margarance หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great episode. The Hurricane/Spitfire thing is a real triumph of branding over fact that should be taught in schools because in the modern world we need to constantly separate reputation and reality. Hougoumont Farm is amazing. We visited several years ago and sat in our camping car having afternoon tea and discussing the issues of access and location. To see ‘Phil the dig’ on that original road surface was really game-changing.

  • @williamcurtin5692
    @williamcurtin5692 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Overconfidence by the "Ogre" and leaving Davout in Paris- one shudders to think what Quatre Bras might have been like with him in Ney's place. And absolute coolness and battle control by Wellington, the "Sepoy General".

  • @giabgr
    @giabgr 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So much I never knew about this train station!

  • @Jls75
    @Jls75 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome!

  • @mikedawe692
    @mikedawe692 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    For those who forget the lessons of the past…

  • @LordLouie-u9b
    @LordLouie-u9b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Nice video

  • @briancrowther3272
    @briancrowther3272 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Am seeing Alice at the State Theatre in Sydney Friday week, 29th Nov 2024. Love her stuff. Am from the UK living in Sydney since the early 80s. Brought up at Ruislip, next to Notholt Aerodrome where the 303 squadron flew from. My grandad had the contract for the paving in the war at the aerodrome. We used to in the summer hear the spitfire, lancaster and hurricane coming back from an air show to land at Northolt. Wed run out of the 1936 house, through the French windows to watch these 3 do a little show for us before they landed. Getting entional here. Mum was about 13 when the Battle of Britain took place and lived in that house. During the raids she would hide under the stairs, the safest place bar the Anderson shelters, (little airaid shelters fir a family in the back gardens), ( grandad had a contract to build those too). She would count the bombs, if she counted 6 she had survived, as the dropped in 6's. One time one landed on a house 2 doors down and on the house on the other side of the road. Both destoyed, amazingly, the families in their Anderson or out. Our house had the windows blasted out and the ceilings come down. Mum was ok, so were her Mum and Dad. Lucky for me and my brother. Lots ofvstories like this to tell. Mum was always scared of thinder. I never thought about it. My daughter at about 21 yrs was livingvwith Mum on a gap year before uni in Australia. Mum told her that was because she was scared of the bombs i feel so sorry for the kids and people in Gaza and Palestinevtiday being slaughtered in a genocide perpetrated by Israel and facilitated by the USA. If Mum was suffering from 13 to 92yrs, what will it be like for the Palestinans undergoing worse now?

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay หลายเดือนก่อน

      THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR FAMLIES HISTORY, I WAS BORN IN 1941, DURING AN AIR RAID ON MY CITY. WE LIVED NEAR THE SPITFIRE FACTORY AT CASTLE BROMWHICH, AND OFTEN SAW SPITFIRES ROARING OVER OUR HOUSE, HEADING FOR R.A.F BASES. I SUGGEST THAT YOU SHARE AND EXPRESS YOUR OPINNONS , OF THE MIDDLE EAST WAR, WITH YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER'S, ETC, AS i USED TO DO, YOU MAY GET RESPONSES, FOR AND AGAINST YOUR VIEWS.

  • @divarachelenvy
    @divarachelenvy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    thanks prof

  • @sev-nutz8524
    @sev-nutz8524 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    No one tried to sell me their book on this video and that's awesome! 😎

    • @wisecoconut5
      @wisecoconut5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And it is U.S. politics free! Bonus!😂

  • @Tony-z3p1r
    @Tony-z3p1r หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful museum there ..well worth a visit !

    • @RoyCousins
      @RoyCousins หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sadly the Museum of London closed in 2022, but is due to re-open as the London Museum at a new site at Smithfield in 2026.

  • @Novotny72
    @Novotny72 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The Poles: a great bunch of lads

  • @whipsnadepoacher
    @whipsnadepoacher 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Please change the title. You didn't visit one wreck. That said, a well done series. Thank you.

  • @Sam-nz6ju
    @Sam-nz6ju 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    He lost because the Coldstream Guards held the Farmhouse on Wellingtons right flank.
    Just saying.

  • @knarftrakiul3881
    @knarftrakiul3881 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One thing I've noticed Is archeologist dig nice square ditches. I'd like to hire them to do my footers 😅

  • @helenswan705
    @helenswan705 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Most appropriate, I watched the last segment of this on Remembrance Day

  • @TheFlyingHaggis
    @TheFlyingHaggis หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where wid we be if it wisnae fur oor wellies?
    The lovely Alison is here to explain ❤

  • @philiprayner
    @philiprayner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Napoleon made one mistake he should have brought up heavy mortars and Leveled Hougoumont

  • @kevingray3550
    @kevingray3550 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    AEthelred was not "unready" in our modern sense that he wasn't prepared of organised. In his case "unready" meant that he was "ill advised" or without adequate counsel

  • @Oh-hardy-har-har
    @Oh-hardy-har-har 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    >Do not go on a warship, full of gun-powder, and smoke.

  • @zjmgxclips5633
    @zjmgxclips5633 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow that horde is fascinating,

  • @trollmeistergeneral3467
    @trollmeistergeneral3467 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why are the “Waterloo Uncovered” speakers, and others for that matter, not identified earlier in the video?
    The chap speaking at around the 8 : 10 mark, Major Foinette, for example, (later promoted to Colonel), served with the Coldstream Guards, the Regiment which saved Hougoumont Farm.
    We were apprised of this fact later, but I think we should have been told earlier.
    Phil Harding should have been identified when he first appeared in the video, although I accept we all know who he is.

  • @nPcDrone
    @nPcDrone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    What few know is that in the weeks leading up to Waterloo, Napolian was getting a lot of heat and bad press because his entire command staff was made up of white males.
    DEI initiatives swept through his camp, and unqualified people were put in charge of key logistics and artillery, and the veteran leaders were pushed to the side.
    The lack of experience and conflicting interests of the DEI hires brought his military to a grinding halt, communications broke down, and eliminating symbols of the patriarchy and colonialism took precedence over combat effectiveness and professionalism.

    • @isazaid5858
      @isazaid5858 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      اووووه تقصد نابليون المستعمر 😂 اول شخص وضع عينه على فلسطين غزاة شياطين مستعمرين 😂

    • @nPcDrone
      @nPcDrone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@isazaid5858 you must be a retard low IQ dumb ass.
      Please tell me what you think the above joke was joking about?
      And napoleon was not a colonizers. He was a pure conqueror of his neighbors. No colonies. Just conquest.
      And the colonizers from. EUROPE. *WHITE MEN" saved Europe and Asia from the French War machine.
      Freaking special Ed Mfer you are.

    • @lenabreijer1311
      @lenabreijer1311 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Actually one of his most successful generals in Egypt was Alexander dumas father, Haitian and very black.

    • @Filthyanimalyeh
      @Filthyanimalyeh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fantastic lol 😂

    • @nPcDrone
      @nPcDrone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Hellbillyhok communists do not subscribe to DEI either. All your socialist idols killed ethnic minorities and any heterosexual deviation.
      All are equal. None are raised above their fellow citizens. DEI is discrimination. You are the fascist.
      Liberty and freedom for all. Not more liberty and freedom for some and less for others.

  • @paulmicheldenverco1
    @paulmicheldenverco1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The sad thing is that most of the Poles probably never went home [or had long waites] because the Soviet Union invaded Poland by necessity, but they stayed after the war, so i'm sure many lived out their years in The UK.

  • @PierreGillet-i1x
    @PierreGillet-i1x 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It seems they have been retrieved by farmers to be used as fertilizers !

  • @obiss-e5b
    @obiss-e5b หลายเดือนก่อน

    Has it been established with any certainty if the 800 nassau troops defending the southern wall of hougamont were still using french muskets retained from when they fought for Napoleon only a couple of years previous or had been reissued with british weapons?

  • @MichaelCampin
    @MichaelCampin หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Please remember that the Hurricane could suffer more damage and was more prevalent that the early Spitfire, God bless the Hurricane

  • @kevinjamesparr552
    @kevinjamesparr552 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wellington picked that battlefield and drew Napoleon on to it

  • @missasinenomine
    @missasinenomine หลายเดือนก่อน

    51:30 Was that woman really drinking that putrid water?!

  • @kathyastrom1315
    @kathyastrom1315 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I am about 90% sure one of my 5th great-granduncles fought in the 23rd Light Dragoons at Waterloo. I know that, at the end of November 1814, he was transferred to England from the 104th New Brunswick Regiment as the War of 1812 was wrapping up. I found someone with his name in that Dragoons regiment’s paybook that began on December 25, 1814, and that man fought at Waterloo. I just have to find the previous paybook to see if the man was a new member or had been in it for longer than just a few days or weeks. If he’s there any earlier than mid-December, he’s not my guy. The National Archives does have that earlier paybook, but it’ll cost me $$ I don’t have right now to get the pages scanned. Oh well, someday eventually!!

    • @apriladelewhyte
      @apriladelewhyte 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's pretty cool, I hope you find out.

    • @nickmiller76
      @nickmiller76 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What was his name?

    • @kathyastrom1315
      @kathyastrom1315 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nickmiller76 George Goodwin. He’s listed as “Geo Goodwin” in the regimental records. There is another “George Goodwin” in a different regiment who also was at Waterloo, but I found that man’s enlistment record and he isn’t my guy. There isn’t any enlistment record for Geo Goodwin, so I am holding out hope he’s my relative.
      Another factor that adds to my confidence in the family story is that I first found it published way back in 1900. It was included in a mini-bio in a sort of Who’s Who of New Brunswick for George’s great-grandnephew. That man was born just eight years after George died, so his parents probably knew George and told their son of his exploits in Belgium.

  • @abcovanmeekeren588
    @abcovanmeekeren588 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    As a Dutchmen it's always funny to see how chauvinistic the British are if the subject Waterloo is discussed and to roll of Wellington. It's something like..we the British vanquished Napoleon. Prof. Alice Roberts mention in the youtube video " there were other people involved...as if they were not importent !..so arrogant..Just check out Wikipedia ! Wellington army total 68000 soldiers of which 31000 British and 17000 Dutch ( including from 1840 Belgium) and 20000 Hanover/Nassau/Brunswick. In other words the British army on it's own could never beat Napoleon alone !! Not to mention...if Blucher's army of 50000 soldiers did not arrive on time at the battlefields it would end up as a total disaster for the allied troops. So Prof. Alice Roberts it's time that you tell the complete story about Waterloo !...without chauvinism please !

    • @skylar7740
      @skylar7740 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      This documentary is not meant to be an in-depth analysis of the Battle of Waterloo, which was just one of several stories about multi period archaeological stories. To include every aspect of the Battle and the composition of the three armies that took part would take a whole series of many hours. There are many documentaries and books from British sources that include the role of other nationalities within Wellingtons army.

    • @luciusesox1luckysox570
      @luciusesox1luckysox570 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Ahhemm. Who was responsible for their placement, the tactics used, and whether you like it or not which soldiers were the most steadfast.... Finally It was English Guards who repelled Napoleons last ditch effort to break the allied line by attacking with his Old Guard the first time they were ever repelled by the way.

  • @christopher480
    @christopher480 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    thumbs down for you for your clickbait title.

  • @williamchamberlain2263
    @williamchamberlain2263 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nap-boy going to sleep for a couple of hours didn't help the French

    • @PaulTomblin
      @PaulTomblin หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Napoleon was very sick - either an ulcer or possibly even appendicitis.

  • @Swngflwr
    @Swngflwr 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Imagine dying and then being put in a cardboard box in a museum

  • @PierreGillet-i1x
    @PierreGillet-i1x 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where are the bones,if any, excavated in the Waterloo battle field ?

    • @creightonjason
      @creightonjason หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only one or two bodies, they were dig up and turn to fertilizer

  • @tonybaker55
    @tonybaker55 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The Hurricane section is very relevant even today, with Ukraine. They too are fighting for survival against an oppressor.

    • @terencehurst8636
      @terencehurst8636 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I see you are someone who watches the BBC 😂

  • @emilioalcazar-su9vi
    @emilioalcazar-su9vi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome the history of waterloo teethts..and the mistery of the bodies continues..

  • @PierreGillet-i1x
    @PierreGillet-i1x 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    To be fair Napoleon was badly sick, the stomach cancer he died from several years later was probably getting meaner. He actually did not leave his tent letting his generals unleashed. Ney and his cavalry shown their incredible bravery.

    • @morningstar9233
      @morningstar9233 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also many of his finer staff officers who co-ordinated his plans were unavailable/ dead.

    • @PierreGillet-i1x
      @PierreGillet-i1x 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@morningstar9233 yes , and of course Grouchy was trying to find his way to Waterloo. Very strange. He had light cavalry Hussards and Chasseurs à Cheval as scouts, in a francophone territory… really bizarre.

    • @morningstar9233
      @morningstar9233 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@PierreGillet-i1x Yes. Its curious. I've read different reasons for Grouchy's decisions on that fateful day.

    • @robharris8844U
      @robharris8844U หลายเดือนก่อน

      Blah blah blah he had hemorrhoids, he was cancer ridden, blah bah excuses excuses. The facts were he was a nasty piece of work and eventually he was out gunned and out strategised by supposedly inferior allies.

    • @mariantaylor7109
      @mariantaylor7109 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      By the same reckoning Wellingtons army which had driven the French from Spain was mostly in America and he was left with a hodgepodge with all the problems involved .After holding the French most of the day it was the arrival on the field of the Prussians that finally ensured the Allied victory

  • @christianklein5774
    @christianklein5774 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ...as i know Blücher run with the german Caverlie in the masiv frensh canonfire to asist perhaps help some british troops ther what had given him ia hie numberl off lose in his unit and he was heavy woundet , later Dnewitz Geneisenau 1taken with solwer marching tropps over all frnsh line in the 10 time numberal off frensh man , ther mnust be t (some historian withe they taken all ther madels as metal off the dead frensh and ther was low funeral culture out off low recpect as time and condition)....

  • @toxicblackwidow9841
    @toxicblackwidow9841 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Hougoumont" seems so hard to pronounce for Brits ! 🤣 Good job though. Greetings from Waterloo !

  • @chucknichter3233
    @chucknichter3233 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You can’t reuse musket balls the French have already shot. It’s not like they are just lying on the surface.

  • @gregbors8364
    @gregbors8364 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You could say he came up a little… short
    I’ll let myself out 😔

  • @robertoorsi5771
    @robertoorsi5771 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Napoleon lost at Waterloo because he split the army in two armies. At 5:00 pm Wellington had lost the battle. Blucker was arriving and Ney was far away.Full stop.

    • @miketriggs2156
      @miketriggs2156 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ney, the bravest of the brave was in the thick of the fighting. Grouchy and his corps who were supposed to keep the Prussians away from Waterloo failed to march to the sound of the guns and took no part in the battle although he did win the last battle of the napoleonic wars the next day at wavre.

  • @LindsayImms
    @LindsayImms 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “We can see from his bones that he survived some nasty insults “ 😂 come on editors??

  • @PBUCKY1969
    @PBUCKY1969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    With the observations of the sailor's skeletal injuries, we see the importance of navy rum

  • @ledacedar6253
    @ledacedar6253 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The British woman’s front teeth were like beavers teeth with the two lower front teeth way taller than the ones beside it! I can’t imagine eating & chewing with that scenario.😂

  • @duudsuufd
    @duudsuufd หลายเดือนก่อน

    27:48 That skull is alive!

  • @TheTimeDetective42
    @TheTimeDetective42 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    He was outnumbered 2:1.

  • @christopher480
    @christopher480 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How come your title doesnt match the title of the actual video?.......Is it because you uploaded it without the owners permission?

  • @christianklein5774
    @christianklein5774 หลายเดือนก่อน

    is might intrstin to the the storry off the hessian dutch a cousin off the english king and what gneisenau odert the corps de guard with that peron in the east near his tent .

  • @MountainRaven1960
    @MountainRaven1960 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ethelred the ATM!

  • @DoctorPlaga94511
    @DoctorPlaga94511 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Lord Wellington, the Iron duke, defeated Napoleón, deal with it...!

    • @joescott7763
      @joescott7763 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      With a little help from his dear friends. The Prussians.

    • @Scimiter1948
      @Scimiter1948 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Unfortunately many people cannot stand the fact that a British general commanding an allied army defeated Napoleon.

  • @albertenriquecrowleybeastc217
    @albertenriquecrowleybeastc217 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clicked on thinking huh, Waterloo video i havent seen,and i am right,but i was hoping it was a video dedicated entirely to Waterloo archaeology. My reason being is because evidence from that battle,ie victims,bodies and such are gone,most corpses and bones left being used up amongst other things as fertilizer.
    Every now and then they find some scant burials one two or three and thats if they are lucky. Very important question poised here,Imo British Tenacity is how they ended up winning that battle,and of course When Blucher arrived, it put the nail in the coffin for Napoleon's comeback.

  • @rickcarmack5850
    @rickcarmack5850 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i have the biggest crush on alice and i dont care who knows

  • @JaNa-pw3sq
    @JaNa-pw3sq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Without Philomena I can't take this seriously.

  • @kenlandgren4701
    @kenlandgren4701 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I believe the soggy conditions at Waterloo impacted the French more because they were on the offensive.

    • @jggallow01
      @jggallow01 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The battle did not commence until 11:58am. Napoleon waited - wrongly - for soil to dry out so he could better maneuver his artillery. The delay made no difference for his cannon and also limited daylight to further prosecute the battle.

  • @gregedmand9939
    @gregedmand9939 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Finding remains of beheaded individuals from a Roman occupation level aren't necessarily evidence of "Roman Brutality". A cleanly executed man means that their death would be considered quite humane for the time. No matter what brought the execution to pass. Rome and other states of the time had plenty of options for how to dispose of criminals and prisoners, that were truly brutal by any standard. All you need do is look at the mass burial of executed Vikings near the coast during Saxon times. Those men were hacked and beheaded in a killing frenzy by people who weren't very good at the job.

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've heard about that , I think there were 52 Vikings in that grave in southern England, and your right they were hacked to bits, not a clean job.
      Experts believe they were captured then executed, and not killed in battle.

  • @kenowens9021
    @kenowens9021 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    She had flaming red hair when she worked on Time Team.

  • @markshepherdmusic
    @markshepherdmusic 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    OK team. We have about 7 minutes of content and a decent presenter. Let's make a 52 minute show.

  • @fado792
    @fado792 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    But, there are nearly no skeletons of the soldiers!!!. A good kept secret is that chalk from those skeletons was used for the sugar production. Maybe your ancestors have eaten some sugar with reminents of those soldiers.

    • @jhnshep
      @jhnshep หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      was it not bone meal for fertiliser?

  • @brucesiefkes4081
    @brucesiefkes4081 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i read a personal letter of a German soldier who has the same last name as I he lived a long time had 3 different wives about 15 kids who lied in leer Germany

  • @Waikato62
    @Waikato62 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Closed the gate against a flow of French, now thats's soldiering.

  • @seanfaherty
    @seanfaherty หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You don't need an archeologist to figure out the fact that he was unable to slow down the Prussians.

  • @robinjohnhill7556
    @robinjohnhill7556 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So, 20,000 bodies were dug up and put in carboard boxes in a museum. Ms Taylor was laid to rest in church yard and now her final resting place in a box in a museum. Desecration.

  • @classicambo9781
    @classicambo9781 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    25:01

  • @graceygrumble
    @graceygrumble 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How many adverts do you think you need? This is ridiculous!
    I am interested in everything and it is beautifully presented, but good grief!

  • @gl2773
    @gl2773 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the prof but there’s some lazy reporting in this programme.

  • @Rusty_Gold85
    @Rusty_Gold85 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Napoleon's Younger Brother Jerome of the 6th Division led the attack on Hogoumount. He was not of great Militarily or capital thinking and made many mistakes

  • @MarlboroughBlenheim1
    @MarlboroughBlenheim1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The majority of this video has little if anything to do with Waterloo and the part that deals with the battle is hardly a revelation - the sunken road has been known about since the battle as has the fighting at Hougoumont. The idea that the size of the armies’ musket balls had any relevance is laughable because there are no accounts of allies troops running out of ammunition and using the French supplies and no accounts of the French running out of ammunition either. Even had hougounont been taken it was ahead of the right of wellington’s line which was well hidden and would have had to have been attacked in any event. The key events about the battle are well known and the material reason for napoleon’s defeat was having to start the battle five hours late by which tome the Prussians could join- and the failure to follow up the battle of ligny properly by grouchy which allowed Blucher to regroup.
    The idea that its new news that the fighting at hougounont was fierce is laughable as well, given the accounts of the fighting and the idea that it was essential to wellington’s victory is also doubtful given the battle was fought and lost in other areas.

  • @billcook4768
    @billcook4768 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As historians Ulvaeus and Andersson have taught, Napoleon lost at Waterloo because he “did surrender.”

    • @nickmiller76
      @nickmiller76 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Although of course he didn't actually surrender until 15 July 1815, a month after the battle, to Captain F L Maitland of HMS Bellerophon.

  • @johnnyjrotten59
    @johnnyjrotten59 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This makes it sound as if the polish came to save Britain, It was Britain which went to war for polish honour.

  • @RobertBlackie-g6v
    @RobertBlackie-g6v 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don’t repeatedly show the same advert again and again ffs