Not to the same degree that the Jacobins did but he clearly believed in the reform and liberalisation of France to remake the nation in his own image. Men who do things just for power don’t do much with the power once they get it but Napoleon reformed France’s government, economy and legal code, as well as her army. He just knew he needed to balance that out with the restoration of certain pre-revolutionary ideals such as the position of the Catholic Church to maintain stability even if, personally, he obviously would have wanted as few relics of the Ancien Regime in his Noveau France as possible.
I sometimes rewatch it JUST for the birth intro alone. It was funny enough with just the infantry coming out, the cannons had me laughing harder but the cavalry man (and HORSE) killed me. Also I love how Napoleon's horse is just Mr Horse from Ren and Stimpy, love the thumbnail.
@Brandon Dulce Denmark had one of the largest merchant navies in Europe at the time. And Britain desperately wanted to keep naval superiority. Having Denmark, right next to French controlled Hannover, potentially be invaded and their navy appropriated was too big of a risk. Alternate: Britain is a dick.
Austria after being beaten by Napoleon serveral times Austria: We Declare WAR again! Napoleon: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
It's not just that Napoleon was average height for the time, the whole "He's short" thing actually has a twofold origin: 1) He tended to have very tall bodyguards, who made him look shorter by comparison. 2) Measurements were non-standardised at the time, and French inches and feet were bigger than English ones, so the number listed for him was smaller than it would be if he were measured in England. Of course, the British propaganda people _ran_ with it.
@@raahyama4023 using standard measurements the French had a different measuring system, month names and amounts, time I think, and more so 1 foot was more in their measuring than the standard of the time it might have been 1 foot equals 13 inches which if you do the math would make 5'7 standard into 5'2 French
43:22 one of the reasons for this was that the enlightened republican governments had been so weak, unstable, and unpopular and Robespierre had been so ruthlessly totalitarian that the French people were just sick of it. by this time it had been over a decade since the revolution began and all anyone remembered was the violence it caused. they had largely forgotten how bad the monarchy was and so when napoleon took power and everything suddenly started going well, with the worst parts of the revolution gone and the best bits amplified the people decided that they didn't care that he was an emperor
Robespierre was not a bad man, he do what he had too, even if he exceded. By the ways, Napoleon was member of his party since 1791, was adjuntant to Augustin Robespierre, was a Representant on Mission in 1794, was part of the Frimaire Coup against the Thermidorians, (That is when he went to jail, by second time, the first was when Robespierre fell), And after Robespierre a new terror begun, The "white terror", against the radical jacobins. But as they oversteped their line, the Thermidorians made an alliance with Napoleon, (Thus the Jacobins) and he mow down the royalists. Then he continue helping the revolutionary cause, all the way including Fructidor, and remember, Who Napoleon was promoted as an Emperor by the survivors of Robespierre regime and other left radicals, and his title of Emperor was more in name only, to overshadow any claim by the Bourbons. Napoleon was the continuation of Robespierre, in the constitutional way, as Robespierre had say, there is a revolutionary state (HIM) and the state who he wanted, the constitutional state who protect the revolution, (Eventually Napoleon).
@@omarbradley6807Saying murdering thousands of innocent people because of his paranoia and ego is "what he had to do" is fucking WILD. Guarantee you're one of those people who never think about the aftermath and only of the revolution. He's not somebody you should worship bro. He was a nutcase. And killed slews of innocent people without valid reason
Frederick William III was such an embarrassment to his ancestors, same with his successor Frederick William IV. Napoleon actually visited Frederick II aka Frederick the Great's grave in Germany and remarked to his men: "Gentlemen, if this man were still alive, I would not be here." Yes, the most powerful man in Europe, emperor of France, and one of the greatest military minds in history said flat-out that Frederick the Great would have wrecked him.
He did not earn that sobriquet for nothing, after all... Anyone who can wage a war on (at least) three fronts, one of them being Russia, and the other Austria, come out intact, and still have time to be a patron for the arts, deserves respect.
@Deep Claymore I can tell you're German, so you've been conditioned since birth to hate any German throughout history related to war and nationalism and to love any German throughout history related to weak democracies and cowering to communists. That's quite sad, I love Germany and the Germans and I hate to think that they have no understanding of their history in the worst cases and no appreciation of their history in the best cases. Fredrich II's goods outweighed his bads: he was the first Prussian leader to assert Prussian strength in Germany which inspired the likes of Bismarck and Wilhem I to establish Prussian dominance in Germany, he made Prussia a great power, he greatly expanded Prussia's borders and finally connected it to Brandenburg, he reformed all aspects of society from education to the military, he's called "the Great" for a good reason. Saying "oh well he killed people" is such a soft outlook on history, the Mongols killed 11% of the world's population but their military genius, religious tolerance, revolutionary reforms, and encouragement of the arts and education can't be denied.
@Deep Claymore I feel like I have to say this considering the mindset in Germany: you can appreciate German war heros WITHOUT being a Nazi. Despite what German schools will tell you.
@@kidfox3971 I’m German and I went to school in Germany and I never felt that I was conditioned to hate Friedrich den Großen. He was an emperor who fought wars ok sure but that’s something a lot of them did. I remember learning about his interest in the arts and the enlightenment but not that he was a cruel dictator who we should hate. But I would love to know your reasoning behind this because I’m honestly interested why you think so. And yes you can like strong leaders without being a Nazi, but that’s something a lot of people can’t understand. Totally agree with you there.
@@ohnopleasestop483 Technically he was a king and not an emperor, as the Holy Roman emperor was also the emperor of the Germans and he resided in Austria. What's great about Frederich is that not only did he wage war successfully against the Austrians who were considered the dominant power in Germany 3 times, he also connected the two provinces of Brandenburg-Prussia together by taking East Prussia from Poland. Essentially, Prussia started off as an electorate of the HRE and a duchy of Poland-Lithuania, and Frederich turned them into a unified Kingdom of Prussia which had ripped territory from both of its overlords becoming a great power in the process. I have a lot of German friends and most of them told me all they ever did in school history classes was learn about WW1 and 2, watch Downfall, watch Schindler's List, and told to feel guilty for being German. A similar thing is happening in America right now, a bunch of anti-American snowflake teachers trying to make students feel responsible for slavery and shit.
9:41 Napoleon actually witnessed the attack on the Royal Residence of the Tuileries and saw the king’s Swiss guard getting curb-stomped by the revolutionaries, in fact it traumatized him.
He even complemented the bravery of the swiss guard, and complained about the royal forces not doing much and even said how the sans cullotes ran away after being destroyed by the swiss..
@@deepyamandas1192 He made an analysis blaming king Louis XVI, recognizing the doom stand of the swiss, and blaming the hughe amount of loot, but he was happy, and he exclaimed. We are Free again!,
i wouldn't say "witnessed", he was there already waiting for blood, as in June, the desertion of the national guard and the refusal of the swiss impresed him, but he was part of the mob who stormed the Tulleries. Of course he believed who the people was wrong by being driven by the "post stress berzerker style", but he was not against, not even neutral, Napoleon was already since 1791 a member of the Jacobin Party, that is a reason of why he was not employed in the army.
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When he said "Take notes. Quiz after the video" my reflex's immediately had me sit up straight and look for a pen. I'm 23. I left highschool years ago.
The British didn't exactly lie about his height, just gave his height in French inches which where longer than British inches and failed to mention this small detail.
As soon as Oversimplified's video came out, I was waiting for Mr Terry's reaction. And as usual he delivers a comment more in depth than even other historian's reactions don't match. Thanks for another great reaction!
Mr. Terry's students: "okay, we have an exam tomorrow and we didnt study, we need a plan..." Student A: "we could... oh no... that would be silly... unless..." Student B: "what? What's the plan?" Student A: "we could run away?" Student B: "........you're a........ GENIUS!"
Fitting perfectly to the theme of Napoleon is "The Age of Napoleon Podcast". It goes in depth about how he grew up, how he fought and goes over some more general knowledge of the era, but also about the reasons, pre revolution france and all phases of the revolution in france are also really well explored. It is really a high quality podcast and i can only recommend you, if the time around napoleon interests you.
That's right. Everybody keeps saying he was just an agressive power-hungered invader, but in reality, he was mostly defending himself, his nation, and therefore his people, against agressive power-hungered monarchies of Europe...just saying. And again, making him the one responsible for the hundred of thounsands (pretty much millions at full scale) of dead on battlegrounds is a total biaised perspective and opinion about it, as all the other european powers in that time were obviously just as much responsible as he was about this, especially considering they were the ones that started these wars almost every single time, actually ! He tried to make peace after defeating them but all they did was just backstabbing him all over again...and they only stopped the wars after they were sure the Revolution ideas that Napoleon was still expanding in Europe (even though he wasn't just making it for people and other than himself) were put to an end, by allowing Louis the 18th to come to power eventually. To me, the "allies" in these wars were just the bad guys all along.
I think the minor error might be that that version of the tricolour at that time was the Imperial Russian Merchant flag. When used by the military, it would've had the Double-Headed Eagle symbol
@@Number1Irishlad There weren't really flags at that time, France/the US were kind of the exceptions at the time. Spain and the Netherlands' flags were also merchant flags for instance. The army flags were really more like regimental flags, where as the merchant flags were usually what would become national flags, since they were used and perceived in a similar manner.
@@marvelfannumber1 but what he thought migut be the error, like i said, was using the merchant flag rather than a military flag, for the russian forces
Napoleon didn’t seem like the most skilled diplomat-it seems inevitable that ensuring loyalty was his foremost concern and he wasn’t persuading anyone to do it-so family and friends it is!
Napoleon was not the most skilled diplomat? Napoleon was awful for France! Napoleon made France the enemy of all. Napoleon left France militarily occupied, totally defeated, bankrupt, loss of territory, and stripped of a generation of young men. There is probably no one who is more responsible for French deaths and suffering than Napoleon himself. Napoleon, who through incompetence and reckless military campaigns left France worse off than she was, forced to change back to the Bourbon Monarchy because the rest of Europe said so. Napoleon even let a young United States take advantage of France in the Louisiana Purchase, allowing the US to acquire vast, valuable territory at a huge discount. The land was so valuable, that the US should have payed France installment payments for 100 years, but instead it changed the course of both countries for the next two centuries. Napoleon has deprived present-day France of trillions of dollars (with today's inflation), repeating the same mistake of Louis XVI by allowing the young United States to take advantage of France. Napoleon's "conquests" were short-term, mere occupation of territory, as he never broke the will of the people, and his enemies kept fighting him until they ultimately defeated him. He could never conquer the people he wished to subjugate, in the end, they conquered him. Napoleon made laws to reintroduce slavery in the French Caribbean, undoing another of the Revolutionary achievements. He also made laws that deprived women of fundamental rights. Napoleon's government was a failure, he set back the French military forever, he lost France territory gained in the Revolution, lost France money, lost France longtime allies, he negatively skewed the French population that would never recover and would the see the likes of Germany and the UK grow at a faster rate, and he set back France's revolutionary reforms for decades. Napoleon even married an Austrian, which did not sit well with many French not too fond of the Marie Antionette experience, but it really seems Napoleon did not care for what the French wanted, only what Napoleon wanted. Makes sense, Napoleon had been lying to France for years. He lied about how successful the Egyptian campaign was (when it was a terrible disaster that destroyed the best of the French Navy), and how many times did he drastically underestimate French casualties in battle to manipulate the French public that his victories were not as costly and were overwhelming victories. Lying to advance his own deranged personal agenda. It is only through revisionist history that people wish to change the narrative to a false narrative of triumph, patriotism, and glory when in fact, the true story was that of defeat, self-interest, disgrace, defeat and tragedy.
@@basedkaiser5352 Napoleon was a delusional, inept, reckless, wasteful disastrous loser who failed France terribly. Stop pretending France won with Napoleon. When foreign armies march down your capital, occupy your country, levy massive war reparations, take territory, restore the hated Monarchy as a generation of Frenchmen lay dead in unmarked graves, that is not a victory. Napoleon a "military genius" is a complete lie. From 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815 Napoleon had four of the worst military campaigns in history, all complete disasters when he ran the most powerful army straight to the ground, his own in total defeat. The powerful French army that won Napoleon his victories, NOT the other way around. Genius?! No, quite the opposite. Obviously people want to lie about this story, it is disgraceful, it is Hitleresque but with a substantially more powerful military.
I will go FUCKEN crazy!!! I’ll literally spam everyone of mr Terry’s videos and I’ll hack his TH-cam channel and upload a video of me reacting to the video so it will still count
Actually the people of France did vote for Napoléon to be emperor and the result was 70% for yes and 30% for no something like that and Napoléon changed the result to 80% and 20%
Napoleon was elected indeed, and the result was 99% yes, (the votes still existing) but he exagerated the numbers of voters, instead of 3M he said who where 5M, but remember who many could not vote because their pertenence to the army, who Napoleon claimed their votes, and because they where not loyal to the republic (Chouans, Vendees, etc). It was actually a referendum with Girondin, Jacobin, Montgard, and Exagerated revolutionaries.
Fun fact Napoleon’s nephew who would go on to become Napoleon III actually spoke French with an accent as well, due to all the Bonaparte’s being exiled for a time he grew up in Switzerland and attended school in both Switzerland and Germany at various points and so spoke French with a Swiss/Swiss-German accent (also you mentioning wanting to learn about Murat makes me think you’d enjoy Epic History’s series on Napoleon’s Marshals)
I believe Napoleon III was the one who commissioned Louis Pasteur to help find a way to make sure wine wouldn't spoil so quickly, thus Pasteur would discover the process of pasteurization. Also he had Pasteur develop a vaccine for rabies.
I think it's worth mentioning for his fathers defense, that he wanted only the best for Napoleon. His father in fact got him that expensive Scholarship to the French Military Academy.
He introduced merit based promotion to all citizens. You’re of course right hypocritically the Bonapartes got let off but it’s not a return to ancien regime France. Meritocracy was introduced in all positions besides the Thrones he stuck brothers on
I was about to comment on this! I find some of your videos have the same issue where it's hard to hear the original video even more so for a non native speaker :P Love your videos tho keep up the great work
Hey Mr Terry, just wanted to say thank you. I was an engineering student in University. But because of your passion for history I changed my degree to a double major in archaeology and history. Thank you for letting me find my own passion.
Fun fact: Ludwig Van Beethoven praised Napoleon for his revolutionary ideals, and even made a song dedicated to Napoleon, named "Sinfonica intitolata Bonaparte". But the day Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France before Beethoven could even add finishing touches to the song, Beethoven sprung into a rage, calling Napoleon a tyrant, and even ripping Napoleon's name out of the song's manuscript he composed for Napoleon, renaming it "Sinfonica Eroica"
I love watching your reactions. It was my high school history teacher who spotted and encouraged my love of all things history. He's the reason I majored in history. I love watching history teacher's reacting to these because of all the information given besides what Oversimplified gives out. Just when I think I know a lot I wind up learning more. Love your videos.
50:03 this is where Napoleon made the bait and bash technique famous. Where he would name himself appear vulnerable and even withdraw from advantageous ground to draw the enemy to the positions he wanted them in, then he'd attack by surprise.
An interesting thing, you had mentioned that it seems generals really have strong mother figures in their lives. I saw an interview that field marshall Montogmery had some time after WWII and the interviewer brought that up and Monty said that in his case it was not a trend he would consider himself a part of. It was more his teachers in his youth that had that influence.
From the get go, I love the arcade machines in the background you have. I hope one day they make a Simpsons cabinet, or some lightgun games like Lost World JP and Time Crisis. You'd make for an awesome teacher to have.
By the way Devon, I’m not sure if you’ve heard it on one of my older videos/live streams, but I’ve stated multiple times that you were a major influence on me doing react videos. Specifically, I think it was on your “history of the world” video that you said you’d like to hear from a history teacher about it. That more than anything led to me making videos. I thought “hey, I’m a history teacher, I could totally do that!”. Thanks again for the inspiration!
@@MrTerry No problem, I'm glad to have a reactor that can react to a history video and add context. I usually watch all of your videos that I have done reactions to so I can learn extra information. Thanks for creating the channel.
21:35 I am a little late, I know, but I would like to make one small addition, if I may. Egypt did not have quite the same strategic importance to the British at this time, as I think you realise. The Suez canal was not built until the 1860s and at this time the British were still conquering India and their control over the subcontinent was still growing. Egypt did not come under British control until the end of the 19th century and the Suez Canal was actually built by the French; the plans for which were laid out in this very invasion, as a way to undermine British trade and the Cape route. Regardless, my understanding was that the main focus, from the French perspective, was to capture Egypt and use it more as a base to drive into India on land and drive out the British. It wasn't so much that Egypt was important to the British as the French wanted to use it to undermine the British. It only later became a focus for the British for this very reason.
Hey that’s my height. Unfortunately I’m a guy in the west. So I guess I got to be General than emperor to be regarded, and not get shot down at clubs. Not gonna deal with any Josephines though
Napoleon is a sure supporter of the revolution with all the reforms in economy and government structure, true , he was ambitious, but at the same time Europe was constantly at war with France with the only solution been continuing to fight until they can no longer wage war. Also I always found the whole "balance of power" very bais like everyone constantly challenged the Austrians or the French yet didn't faced england with the protestent reformation or Russia.
Yet, I feel like Napoleon did much against revolutionary ideals in retrospect. Among other things, he gave Europe a common ennemy and allowed them to stomp hard on republics, since they could always invoke his specter. It's like if they said : "Democracy? Are you kidding!? do you want to end up with a tyrant like Napoleon ruling your nation?"
8:47 That's just a Corsican thing in general. There's an old patrician, clan-like mentality in impoverished southern European regions that's based on centuries of being rather isolated and having to rely on local bosses, similar to what you can find in some areas of southern Italy, Greece or Spain.
32:10 Didn't all of Hannibal's elephants die during his crossing of the Alps though? He definitely didn't have any by the time he fought the Romans at Trebia.
Epic history tv is my favorite history channel. But I don't think there's a lot of audience for Napoleonic in-depth history. People prefer ww1 and ww2. Their videos are still unmatched in detail,narration and more though
The thing made him an emperor was that he seperated his imperial regime from absolute monarchy. First French Empire was an upgrade of Revoluntionary republic, in which the econo-political aspects of French Revolution combined with spiritual support from the folks to create the first "constitution-absolute monarchy" in history. Thus, that nouvelle régime made Napoléon an enemy of all other European monarchies, as it was very uniquely new and advanced!
Kinda sad they didn’t mentioned more about Queen Louise of Prussia. She was an amazing queen and diplomat and even Napoleon considered her great, even proclaiming that King Frederik William III had lost his best minister when she died
I liked the context you provided about Napoleon wanting to emulate idols like Alexander the Great and Caesar. I recall my History of Warfare professor noting dozens or more Medieval Kings, Princes and other noble Knights died in battle trying to replicate Alexander's Cavalry chargers
There’s a legend (unsure if true or not but it doesn’t really matter) where Napoleon said to a cardinal, “Don’t you know I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” and the cardinal said “Your Majesty, we clergy have been trying our best to destroy the Church for over 1800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.” It’s funny and I do think it speaks volumes.
To your question on how he became in power. My conclusion from this episode on the french people's thoughts, is they probably saw him as a great leader. This guy fought in the revolution, deposed the evil monarchy, brought power to and glory to france, his marketing from Egypt mad him seem larger then life, revolutionized the laws and brought freedom of religion. I could totally see 99.9% because to then at this time, he is the only one that can lead them. His achievements to the french people probably seemed godly to them.
He absolutely only carried for personal ambition. but man did he do some good things for the french people during some extreme political/social/economic termoil and that what makes me respect him so
The Directory (the government overthrown by Bonaparte) was what followed the National Convention ruled by the Montagnards (Robespierre's faction, which emerged as a result of the splintering of the Jacobin Club in 1791-1792) overthrown in July 1794 (or Thermidor Year II according to the revolutionary calendar) by the Thermidorian Reaction, an new constitution was written in 1795. The Directory was mostly centered around five Directors which would essentially act as joint heads of state and de facto heads of the executive, a Council of Five Hundred (lower legislative house) and a Council of Ancients (upper, more conservative house with a higher age requirement). It was basically a regime made by the more conservative members of the Convention that wanted to avoid a repeat of the Terror despite being mostly complicit in it. For example, universal male suffrage was replaced by householder franchise/census suffrage, meaning only householders/upper-class people could vote. It was a failure, mostly because it was guided by classical liberals who applied laissez-faire economics to end the dirigisme or regulated economy put in place by the Convention (such as a maximum price on grain, flour and bread), which led to further inflation and food shortages, and went back or stagnated on progressive reforms made by the early Revolution, for instance on public education. Furthermore, it was also plagued by factionalism, as the pro-Directory faction kept losing elections to royalists and later neo-Jacobins, and so the executive kept organizing military or legislative coups d'État (1795, 1797, 1798) before the legislative finally imposed the resignation of 3 conservative Directors in June 1799 and then Bonaparte overthrew the Directory (with the help of Sieyès, a Director), in November 1799 (AKA the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII). Add with that military failures during the War of the Second Coalition, and you can understand why they were so disliked.
Old winter was still problematic for Russia. They got spanked by the winter for trying to attack for it. Yeah they almost took out Napoleon but they suffered for the attempt.
43:52 - The people aren't against monarchs, communism, or democracy. People are against corrupt governments. The French Revolution happened cause the people (rightfully) didn't feel that the monarchy had their best interests at heart. Maybe Napoleon didn't have their best interests either, but at least he did more for them than Louis XVI and then Louis XVIII.
44:18 the ideas that most of the revolution at the time were trying to press was... alot- as told in other videos, they kind of.. went overboard- changing the time and date systems to be different then everyone else. Marching for basically every new ideal they could- and after the time of terror and chaos. Could be pretty understandable why some were happy to jump at stable leadership. But I think it mainly had to do with the fact that that the eyes of every other monarch and government alike was more or less was against them. And as the totally not short man was able to get himself more and more in the position as a hero to many. Getting the people to fall behind him probably wasn't that unbelievable. Better the devil you know wants what's best, even if it's for selfish reasons.
46:29 For those who don't know, Hanover was a German Electorate that at the time was under a personal union with the United Kingdom, meaning the two countries shared the same monarch. The House of Hanover ruled the UK, but for the vast majority of the union, they never visited Hanover itself as London was where all the power was.
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Do you think Napoleon supported the ideals of the French Revolution, or was he just using it for his own personal ambitions?
Why can this video not be seen on your channel
Wow this is a question right out of my history class. It’s confirmed absolutely no way you are not a history teacher
Should I copy and paste my essay from history class on this exact question or not
I was told that he only wanted stability
Not to the same degree that the Jacobins did but he clearly believed in the reform and liberalisation of France to remake the nation in his own image.
Men who do things just for power don’t do much with the power once they get it but Napoleon reformed France’s government, economy and legal code, as well as her army. He just knew he needed to balance that out with the restoration of certain pre-revolutionary ideals such as the position of the Catholic Church to maintain stability even if, personally, he obviously would have wanted as few relics of the Ancien Regime in his Noveau France as possible.
Austria: Goes to war with France:
This angered Napoleon, who punished them severely.
austria: "no pwease i sign treaty"
🤣 this meme will never get old
wouldn't any European country upset Napoleon?
Napoleon: Holy Roman Empire is now gone!
It's not European military history if Austria isn't getting obliterated.
Truly one of the best oversimplified videos to date. That opening skit alone was just golden.
I sometimes rewatch it JUST for the birth intro alone. It was funny enough with just the infantry coming out, the cannons had me laughing harder but the cavalry man (and HORSE) killed me. Also I love how Napoleon's horse is just Mr Horse from Ren and Stimpy, love the thumbnail.
@@Lozzomatic Oh, I thought the horse was based on Brain-Dead Horse from Family Guy.
Edit: meant the googly eyed horse.
That's why I love his channel, his video keep on getting better with each new upload
@@Lozzomatic I guess you could say it was the INFANTry
Yeah, especially with La Marseillaise playing in the background.
Copenhagen: *exists*
This angered the British, who punished them severely
Like twice.
Copenhagenized.
Yep, that's a real term.
*enraged
@Brandon Dulce Denmark had one of the largest merchant navies in Europe at the time. And Britain desperately wanted to keep naval superiority. Having Denmark, right next to French controlled Hannover, potentially be invaded and their navy appropriated was too big of a risk.
Alternate: Britain is a dick.
@MitchTheYoshi you got it all from us. We invented that shit🇩🇰
7:54 Honestly, I don't think Napoleon would like the name "Little" Napoleon's for his pizza franchise so much.
"Average height for the time" napoleons
Well, at least it isn't "Stumpy little manlet" Napoleon's.
Imagine the marketing slogan.
"Done quick and over in 2 seconds,"
@@str2010 damn 😂
@@str2010 O U C H
France: *takes Berlin*
Berliners: *we will remember this*
"There will be consequences!"
3 wars due to this! 2 succeeding and 1 severely crippling France!
Napoleon: (captures Moscow)
Russia: [ we will remember this! ]
Yep, this was the moment that turned Prussia into the military powerhouse of the modern period
Austria after being beaten by Napoleon serveral times
Austria: We Declare WAR again!
Napoleon: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
Lazypurple reference or no?
@@s.k.9268 spongebob reference
I love the young people 😂
@@TheEmpiresStrongest You cracked the Da Vinco Code congratulations!
@@ortegaperu8510 thank you
It's not just that Napoleon was average height for the time, the whole "He's short" thing actually has a twofold origin:
1) He tended to have very tall bodyguards, who made him look shorter by comparison.
2) Measurements were non-standardised at the time, and French inches and feet were bigger than English ones, so the number listed for him was smaller than it would be if he were measured in England. Of course, the British propaganda people _ran_ with it.
The fact that almost all of Napoleon's marshals were taller than him probably contributed to this cliche too.
He actually was a little taller for the time at 5' 6".
@@Maslenain Actually no, Mortier was taller, of course, but not so many.
Rather than tall bodyguards, it was the impression created by the Shakos who they wore as hats.
His soldiers also referred to him as "le petit corporal" or "the little corporal" as a term of endearment
The only reason napoleon can look short is because the grenadiers he's portrayed with were 6' minimum
the imperial guard itself are full of 6+ lol
Also the French measuring system was weird and so in their measuring he was like 5'2 but converted to normal measuring he's like 5'7 or 5'8
@@styxscorpion4541 In wikipedia, his height was 168 cm or 5'7
@@raahyama4023 using standard measurements the French had a different measuring system, month names and amounts, time I think, and more so 1 foot was more in their measuring than the standard of the time it might have been 1 foot equals 13 inches which if you do the math would make 5'7 standard into 5'2 French
@@styxscorpion4541 Oooh, i didn't know that. Thx for the information
“There are those that think **little** of him.”
*hey* ! He’s actually average height for the time ya jerk!
@@kathyhavelka7612 wa hahaha(its crying)
Napoleon: "Hey! I'm actually average height at the time!"
@@kathyhavelka7612 😂 😆 😝
@@krealyesitisbeta5642 XD
43:22
one of the reasons for this was that the enlightened republican governments had been so weak, unstable, and unpopular and Robespierre had been so ruthlessly totalitarian that the French people were just sick of it. by this time it had been over a decade since the revolution began and all anyone remembered was the violence it caused. they had largely forgotten how bad the monarchy was and so when napoleon took power and everything suddenly started going well, with the worst parts of the revolution gone and the best bits amplified the people decided that they didn't care that he was an emperor
Robespierre was not a bad man, he do what he had too, even if he exceded. By the ways, Napoleon was member of his party since 1791, was adjuntant to Augustin Robespierre, was a Representant on Mission in 1794, was part of the Frimaire Coup against the Thermidorians, (That is when he went to jail, by second time, the first was when Robespierre fell), And after Robespierre a new terror begun, The "white terror", against the radical jacobins. But as they oversteped their line, the Thermidorians made an alliance with Napoleon, (Thus the Jacobins) and he mow down the royalists. Then he continue helping the revolutionary cause, all the way including Fructidor, and remember, Who Napoleon was promoted as an Emperor by the survivors of Robespierre regime and other left radicals, and his title of Emperor was more in name only, to overshadow any claim by the Bourbons.
Napoleon was the continuation of Robespierre, in the constitutional way, as Robespierre had say, there is a revolutionary state (HIM) and the state who he wanted, the constitutional state who protect the revolution, (Eventually Napoleon).
@@omarbradley6807 *Ordered the execution of 10s of thousands of men women and children*
*Not a bad guy*
Pick one
@@omarbradley6807Saying murdering thousands of innocent people because of his paranoia and ego is "what he had to do" is fucking WILD.
Guarantee you're one of those people who never think about the aftermath and only of the revolution. He's not somebody you should worship bro. He was a nutcase. And killed slews of innocent people without valid reason
Frederick William III was such an embarrassment to his ancestors, same with his successor Frederick William IV. Napoleon actually visited Frederick II aka Frederick the Great's grave in Germany and remarked to his men: "Gentlemen, if this man were still alive, I would not be here." Yes, the most powerful man in Europe, emperor of France, and one of the greatest military minds in history said flat-out that Frederick the Great would have wrecked him.
He did not earn that sobriquet for nothing, after all... Anyone who can wage a war on (at least) three fronts, one of them being Russia, and the other Austria, come out intact, and still have time to be a patron for the arts, deserves respect.
@Deep Claymore I can tell you're German, so you've been conditioned since birth to hate any German throughout history related to war and nationalism and to love any German throughout history related to weak democracies and cowering to communists. That's quite sad, I love Germany and the Germans and I hate to think that they have no understanding of their history in the worst cases and no appreciation of their history in the best cases. Fredrich II's goods outweighed his bads: he was the first Prussian leader to assert Prussian strength in Germany which inspired the likes of Bismarck and Wilhem I to establish Prussian dominance in Germany, he made Prussia a great power, he greatly expanded Prussia's borders and finally connected it to Brandenburg, he reformed all aspects of society from education to the military, he's called "the Great" for a good reason. Saying "oh well he killed people" is such a soft outlook on history, the Mongols killed 11% of the world's population but their military genius, religious tolerance, revolutionary reforms, and encouragement of the arts and education can't be denied.
@Deep Claymore I feel like I have to say this considering the mindset in Germany: you can appreciate German war heros WITHOUT being a Nazi. Despite what German schools will tell you.
@@kidfox3971 I’m German and I went to school in Germany and I never felt that I was conditioned to hate Friedrich den Großen. He was an emperor who fought wars ok sure but that’s something a lot of them did. I remember learning about his interest in the arts and the enlightenment but not that he was a cruel dictator who we should hate. But I would love to know your reasoning behind this because I’m honestly interested why you think so. And yes you can like strong leaders without being a Nazi, but that’s something a lot of people can’t understand. Totally agree with you there.
@@ohnopleasestop483 Technically he was a king and not an emperor, as the Holy Roman emperor was also the emperor of the Germans and he resided in Austria. What's great about Frederich is that not only did he wage war successfully against the Austrians who were considered the dominant power in Germany 3 times, he also connected the two provinces of Brandenburg-Prussia together by taking East Prussia from Poland. Essentially, Prussia started off as an electorate of the HRE and a duchy of Poland-Lithuania, and Frederich turned them into a unified Kingdom of Prussia which had ripped territory from both of its overlords becoming a great power in the process. I have a lot of German friends and most of them told me all they ever did in school history classes was learn about WW1 and 2, watch Downfall, watch Schindler's List, and told to feel guilty for being German. A similar thing is happening in America right now, a bunch of anti-American snowflake teachers trying to make students feel responsible for slavery and shit.
I'm a simple man. I see Mr. Terry and OverSimplified, I click.
9:41 Napoleon actually witnessed the attack on the Royal Residence of the Tuileries and saw the king’s Swiss guard getting curb-stomped by the revolutionaries, in fact it traumatized him.
He even complemented the bravery of the swiss guard, and complained about the royal forces not doing much and even said how the sans cullotes ran away after being destroyed by the swiss..
Wow
@@deepyamandas1192 He made an analysis blaming king Louis XVI, recognizing the doom stand of the swiss, and blaming the hughe amount of loot, but he was happy, and he exclaimed. We are Free again!,
i wouldn't say "witnessed", he was there already waiting for blood, as in June, the desertion of the national guard and the refusal of the swiss impresed him, but he was part of the mob who stormed the Tulleries. Of course he believed who the people was wrong by being driven by the "post stress berzerker style", but he was not against, not even neutral, Napoleon was already since 1791 a member of the Jacobin Party, that is a reason of why he was not employed in the army.
Fluff being not Random! I wanna make a random Comment,
in the hope it 'may randomly' help someone maybe.
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When he said "Take notes. Quiz after the video" my reflex's immediately had me sit up straight and look for a pen. I'm 23. I left highschool years ago.
Woah
natural instinct
The British didn't exactly lie about his height, just gave his height in French inches which where longer than British inches and failed to mention this small detail.
British being British.
We Didn’t lie about his height ? There’s literally a cartoon where George III has to use a telescope to see Napoleon held in his hand
@@fredbarker9201 that's simply implying he is short not saying it.
No lies told there.
@@FoxDren no lies told there, so is Napoleon three inches tall and can fit on the palm of your hand
i believe he was 5'2 in french system which was 5'6-5'7 in english system
Oversimplified is the only person who can reuse jokes and have them be even _funnier_ than before.
"Its even funnier the second time," Chen Kung Fu Panda
Now the Epic History TV’s Napoleonic Wars has to come next
Yes pls
And Armchair Historian.
@@HaroldTheBad Why not?
@@legendarymarston9174 this is only my understanding but I think he was kinda biased and a very Prussian lover.
@@saywhatnow2173 I don't know about the bias and Prussia part, however I do know that their videos have some fairly large inaccuracies.
“Hey I’m actually average height for the time 😭😭😭”
BAHUUHUUHUU
Well he actually was
As soon as Oversimplified's video came out, I was waiting for Mr Terry's reaction. And as usual he delivers a comment more in depth than even other historian's reactions don't match. Thanks for another great reaction!
Vlogging Through History is also great.
@@memecliparchives2254 agree
@@memecliparchives2254 also agreed
@@memecliparchives2254 Indeed
Mr. Terry's students: "okay, we have an exam tomorrow and we didnt study, we need a plan..."
Student A: "we could... oh no... that would be silly... unless..."
Student B: "what? What's the plan?"
Student A: "we could run away?"
Student B: "........you're a........ GENIUS!"
NIGERUNDAYOOOOO SMOKEYYYYYYY
@@archbishopgodfery1369 Is that a Jojo reference?
@@Zero00wolfkiller YES YES YES YES
Y E S !
Fitting perfectly to the theme of Napoleon is "The Age of Napoleon Podcast". It goes in depth about how he grew up, how he fought and goes over some more general knowledge of the era, but also about the reasons, pre revolution france and all phases of the revolution in france are also really well explored. It is really a high quality podcast and i can only recommend you, if the time around napoleon interests you.
You had me at podcast.
well you sold me
I haven’t listened to that in a while but I remember it being really good
That man is a legend, and let’s keep in mind he was declared war on him WAY MORE than he did declare war on others
That's right. Everybody keeps saying he was just an agressive power-hungered invader, but in reality, he was mostly defending himself, his nation, and therefore his people, against agressive power-hungered monarchies of Europe...just saying. And again, making him the one responsible for the hundred of thounsands (pretty much millions at full scale) of dead on battlegrounds is a total biaised perspective and opinion about it, as all the other european powers in that time were obviously just as much responsible as he was about this, especially considering they were the ones that started these wars almost every single time, actually ! He tried to make peace after defeating them but all they did was just backstabbing him all over again...and they only stopped the wars after they were sure the Revolution ideas that Napoleon was still expanding in Europe (even though he wasn't just making it for people and other than himself) were put to an end, by allowing Louis the 18th to come to power eventually. To me, the "allies" in these wars were just the bad guys all along.
@@798jeremy
Not to mention that Napoleon was far more enabling of social progress & mobility than his contemporaries.
A thing to note about Hippolyte Charles is that he did not look like handsome Squidward (more like Tom Hiddleston, but I'm not one to judge)
Strange first name, though... Hippolyte..
49:56
The flags actually are accurate for the time period though.
Overssimplified usually gets that part right.
I think the minor error might be that that version of the tricolour at that time was the Imperial Russian Merchant flag. When used by the military, it would've had the Double-Headed Eagle symbol
@@Number1Irishlad
There weren't really flags at that time, France/the US were kind of the exceptions at the time. Spain and the Netherlands' flags were also merchant flags for instance.
The army flags were really more like regimental flags, where as the merchant flags were usually what would become national flags, since they were used and perceived in a similar manner.
@@marvelfannumber1 but what he thought migut be the error, like i said, was using the merchant flag rather than a military flag, for the russian forces
Napoleon didn’t seem like the most skilled diplomat-it seems inevitable that ensuring loyalty was his foremost concern and he wasn’t persuading anyone to do it-so family and friends it is!
I think the comparison between napoleon and caeser is particularly apt here.
Napoleon was not the most skilled diplomat? Napoleon was awful for France! Napoleon made France the enemy of all. Napoleon left France militarily occupied, totally defeated, bankrupt, loss of territory, and stripped of a generation of young men. There is probably no one who is more responsible for French deaths and suffering than Napoleon himself. Napoleon, who through incompetence and reckless military campaigns left France worse off than she was, forced to change back to the Bourbon Monarchy because the rest of Europe said so. Napoleon even let a young United States take advantage of France in the Louisiana Purchase, allowing the US to acquire vast, valuable territory at a huge discount. The land was so valuable, that the US should have payed France installment payments for 100 years, but instead it changed the course of both countries for the next two centuries. Napoleon has deprived present-day France of trillions of dollars (with today's inflation), repeating the same mistake of Louis XVI by allowing the young United States to take advantage of France. Napoleon's "conquests" were short-term, mere occupation of territory, as he never broke the will of the people, and his enemies kept fighting him until they ultimately defeated him. He could never conquer the people he wished to subjugate, in the end, they conquered him. Napoleon made laws to reintroduce slavery in the French Caribbean, undoing another of the Revolutionary achievements. He also made laws that deprived women of fundamental rights. Napoleon's government was a failure, he set back the French military forever, he lost France territory gained in the Revolution, lost France money, lost France longtime allies, he negatively skewed the French population that would never recover and would the see the likes of Germany and the UK grow at a faster rate, and he set back France's revolutionary reforms for decades. Napoleon even married an Austrian, which did not sit well with many French not too fond of the Marie Antionette experience, but it really seems Napoleon did not care for what the French wanted, only what Napoleon wanted. Makes sense, Napoleon had been lying to France for years. He lied about how successful the Egyptian campaign was (when it was a terrible disaster that destroyed the best of the French Navy), and how many times did he drastically underestimate French casualties in battle to manipulate the French public that his victories were not as costly and were overwhelming victories. Lying to advance his own deranged personal agenda. It is only through revisionist history that people wish to change the narrative to a false narrative of triumph, patriotism, and glory when in fact, the true story was that of defeat, self-interest, disgrace, defeat and tragedy.
Davout has been supporting Napoleon since day 1 and supported him until his death.
@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators Vive l’Empereur, punkass ! 🇫🇷 🦅 🇫🇷
@@basedkaiser5352 Napoleon was a delusional, inept, reckless, wasteful disastrous loser who failed France terribly. Stop pretending France won with Napoleon. When foreign armies march down your capital, occupy your country, levy massive war reparations, take territory, restore the hated Monarchy as a generation of Frenchmen lay dead in unmarked graves, that is not a victory. Napoleon a "military genius" is a complete lie. From 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815 Napoleon had four of the worst military campaigns in history, all complete disasters when he ran the most powerful army straight to the ground, his own in total defeat. The powerful French army that won Napoleon his victories, NOT the other way around. Genius?! No, quite the opposite. Obviously people want to lie about this story, it is disgraceful, it is Hitleresque but with a substantially more powerful military.
One of these days when oversimplified uploads you should just ignore it for like a year. The chaos would be entertaining.
Or react to part 2, but not part 1.
@@alexanderrobins7497 Ultimate power move
I love to see the chaos.
I will go FUCKEN crazy!!! I’ll literally spam everyone of mr Terry’s videos and I’ll hack his TH-cam channel and upload a video of me reacting to the video so it will still count
@@alexanderrobins7497 what have you done
Actually the people of France did vote for Napoléon to be emperor and the result was 70% for yes and 30% for no something like that and Napoléon changed the result to 80% and 20%
Napoleon was elected indeed, and the result was 99% yes, (the votes still existing) but he exagerated the numbers of voters, instead of 3M he said who where 5M, but remember who many could not vote because their pertenence to the army, who Napoleon claimed their votes, and because they where not loyal to the republic (Chouans, Vendees, etc). It was actually a referendum with Girondin, Jacobin, Montgard, and Exagerated revolutionaries.
Fun fact Napoleon’s nephew who would go on to become Napoleon III actually spoke French with an accent as well, due to all the Bonaparte’s being exiled for a time he grew up in Switzerland and attended school in both Switzerland and Germany at various points and so spoke French with a Swiss/Swiss-German accent (also you mentioning wanting to learn about Murat makes me think you’d enjoy Epic History’s series on Napoleon’s Marshals)
I believe Napoleon III was the one who commissioned Louis Pasteur to help find a way to make sure wine wouldn't spoil so quickly, thus Pasteur would discover the process of pasteurization. Also he had Pasteur develop a vaccine for rabies.
I think it's worth mentioning for his fathers defense, that he wanted only the best for Napoleon. His father in fact got him that expensive Scholarship to the French Military Academy.
His father was also the personal secretary of Pauli. He wasn’t a traitor just a conformist and realist
“That dude was pretty hardcore... he saw some stuff” well hey now he sees half that stuff
Damm
4:05 Philip got that scar after losing his eye during the siege of Methone 👍
He introduced merit based promotion to all citizens. You’re of course right hypocritically the Bonapartes got let off but it’s not a return to ancien regime France. Meritocracy was introduced in all positions besides the Thrones he stuck brothers on
that's correct.
_"That dude was pretty hardcore"_
-A historian teacher on Philip II of Macedon
Look at our boy Mr. Terry with his Audible sponsorships. GJ!
Sorry for the low audio on the original video. Part 2 will sound better.
I was about to comment on this! I find some of your videos have the same issue where it's hard to hear the original video even more so for a non native speaker :P Love your videos tho keep up the great work
Hey Mr Terry, just wanted to say thank you. I was an engineering student in University. But because of your passion for history I changed my degree to a double major in archaeology and history. Thank you for letting me find my own passion.
That’s awesome!! Hope you‘re having a great time!
I remember when this man sat in his at home office with a crappy webcam to do reaction videos.
And it all started with Oversimplified, it has been a long time.
Fun fact: Napoleon's great nephew, Charles J Bonaparte, was the US attorney general that created the FBI
44:34 I think Mr. Terry missed the "definitely not rigged" line that Oversimplified said earlier.
Fun fact: Ludwig Van Beethoven praised Napoleon for his revolutionary ideals, and even made a song dedicated to Napoleon, named "Sinfonica intitolata Bonaparte". But the day Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France before Beethoven could even add finishing touches to the song, Beethoven sprung into a rage, calling Napoleon a tyrant, and even ripping Napoleon's name out of the song's manuscript he composed for Napoleon, renaming it "Sinfonica Eroica"
Wait for reals?
@@johnleed6774 yes. It was real.
@@blinthepannkek6173 DaYuM. 😎
I love watching your reactions. It was my high school history teacher who spotted and encouraged my love of all things history. He's the reason I majored in history. I love watching history teacher's reacting to these because of all the information given besides what Oversimplified gives out. Just when I think I know a lot I wind up learning more. Love your videos.
When Austria is yelling at France ( 11:23 ) you can hear him say “your queen is Austrian”
YOUR QUEEN Is Au…..
50:03 this is where Napoleon made the bait and bash technique famous. Where he would name himself appear vulnerable and even withdraw from advantageous ground to draw the enemy to the positions he wanted them in, then he'd attack by surprise.
Mr terry should coop with oversimplified
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
coup*
Reddit would explode if that ever happened
I’ve been looking forward to this 😂
An interesting thing, you had mentioned that it seems generals really have strong mother figures in their lives. I saw an interview that field marshall Montogmery had some time after WWII and the interviewer brought that up and Monty said that in his case it was not a trend he would consider himself a part of. It was more his teachers in his youth that had that influence.
From the get go, I love the arcade machines in the background you have. I hope one day they make a Simpsons cabinet, or some lightgun games like Lost World JP and Time Crisis. You'd make for an awesome teacher to have.
The Simpsons arcade will be a must-get if they make one! Just need that and the original xmen arcade and I’m all set for beat em ups.
By the way Devon, I’m not sure if you’ve heard it on one of my older videos/live streams, but I’ve stated multiple times that you were a major influence on me doing react videos. Specifically, I think it was on your “history of the world” video that you said you’d like to hear from a history teacher about it. That more than anything led to me making videos. I thought “hey, I’m a history teacher, I could totally do that!”. Thanks again for the inspiration!
@@MrTerry No problem, I'm glad to have a reactor that can react to a history video and add context. I usually watch all of your videos that I have done reactions to so I can learn extra information. Thanks for creating the channel.
@@DevonDaVinci this is so heckin‘ wholesome
Bros being bros
49:55 i double checked. they actually are accurate. all three of them.
21:35 I am a little late, I know, but I would like to make one small addition, if I may. Egypt did not have quite the same strategic importance to the British at this time, as I think you realise. The Suez canal was not built until the 1860s and at this time the British were still conquering India and their control over the subcontinent was still growing. Egypt did not come under British control until the end of the 19th century and the Suez Canal was actually built by the French; the plans for which were laid out in this very invasion, as a way to undermine British trade and the Cape route. Regardless, my understanding was that the main focus, from the French perspective, was to capture Egypt and use it more as a base to drive into India on land and drive out the British. It wasn't so much that Egypt was important to the British as the French wanted to use it to undermine the British. It only later became a focus for the British for this very reason.
44:38 Yep, it actually happened. Believe me, I've checked. Though, keep in mind it was rigged.
AFAIK, the two second story in the video refers to the fact that Josephine would often complain about Napoleon finishing prematurely.
He was average height for the time though, the French were still using a system which was 13 inches to a foot so he was actually 5'6".
Hey that’s my height. Unfortunately I’m a guy in the west. So I guess I got to be General than emperor to be regarded, and not get shot down at clubs. Not gonna deal with any Josephines though
I was expecting this so much! Thank you for upload it.
Napoleon is a sure supporter of the revolution with all the reforms in economy and government structure, true , he was ambitious, but at the same time Europe was constantly at war with France with the only solution been continuing to fight until they can no longer wage war.
Also I always found the whole "balance of power" very bais like everyone constantly challenged the Austrians or the French yet didn't faced england with the protestent reformation or Russia.
Yet, I feel like Napoleon did much against revolutionary ideals in retrospect.
Among other things, he gave Europe a common ennemy and allowed them to stomp hard on republics, since they could always invoke his specter. It's like if they said : "Democracy? Are you kidding!? do you want to end up with a tyrant like Napoleon ruling your nation?"
I've never been more excited to show up for History class!! Walking in like "sorry im late Mr Terry "
He was one of the greatest military geniuses in history. If it wasn't for the British he would've probably conquered the whole continent.
And Russia and Spain.
8:47 That's just a Corsican thing in general. There's an old patrician, clan-like mentality in impoverished southern European regions that's based on centuries of being rather isolated and having to rely on local bosses, similar to what you can find in some areas of southern Italy, Greece or Spain.
Where is part 2?
Im very happy that your channel is growing ;)
The one think i like about mr terry is jow calm he is, everyone could be sleeping in my house and i could stiil watch him
32:10 Didn't all of Hannibal's elephants die during his crossing of the Alps though? He definitely didn't have any by the time he fought the Romans at Trebia.
from what I remember, some did survive. not all.
please react to epic history's videos on the Napoleonic wars
Epic history tv is my favorite history channel. But I don't think there's a lot of audience for Napoleonic in-depth history. People prefer ww1 and ww2. Their videos are still unmatched in detail,narration and more though
The thing made him an emperor was that he seperated his imperial regime from absolute monarchy. First French Empire was an upgrade of Revoluntionary republic, in which the econo-political aspects of French Revolution combined with spiritual support from the folks to create the first "constitution-absolute monarchy" in history. Thus, that nouvelle régime made Napoléon an enemy of all other European monarchies, as it was very uniquely new and advanced!
How to win a war:
Don’t invade russia
Unless you're the Mongols
Kinda sad they didn’t mentioned more about Queen Louise of Prussia. She was an amazing queen and diplomat and even Napoleon considered her great, even proclaiming that King Frederik William III had lost his best minister when she died
I liked the context you provided about Napoleon wanting to emulate idols like Alexander the Great and Caesar. I recall my History of Warfare professor noting dozens or more Medieval Kings, Princes and other noble Knights died in battle trying to replicate Alexander's Cavalry chargers
There’s a legend (unsure if true or not but it doesn’t really matter) where Napoleon said to a cardinal, “Don’t you know I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” and the cardinal said “Your Majesty, we clergy have been trying our best to destroy the Church for over 1800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.” It’s funny and I do think it speaks volumes.
To your question on how he became in power. My conclusion from this episode on the french people's thoughts, is they probably saw him as a great leader. This guy fought in the revolution, deposed the evil monarchy, brought power to and glory to france, his marketing from Egypt mad him seem larger then life, revolutionized the laws and brought freedom of religion. I could totally see 99.9% because to then at this time, he is the only one that can lead them. His achievements to the french people probably seemed godly to them.
Haven’t stopped by class in a while, love the new setup!
21:04 people do believe it. My eighth grade US history told everyone he was 5’2
I love that Napoleon with Edward Elric complex
He absolutely only carried for personal ambition. but man did he do some good things for the french people during some extreme political/social/economic termoil and that what makes me respect him so
Oversimplified:(Uploads a Video)
Every single human: (Watches Oversimplified)
Me Terry: made us wait
Us: Dude uncool
For a moment I thought that was US like USA
So uncool😐
Please react to "How Medieval Kings Would See Today" by Fire of Learning.
Napoleon is probably one of the most badass people to ever exist.
when is the part II reaction???
I love this video, I genuinely can't wait for you to review part two! 😃
Soon!
@@MrTerry that's what's up 😎 can't wait!
The Directory (the government overthrown by Bonaparte) was what followed the National Convention ruled by the Montagnards (Robespierre's faction, which emerged as a result of the splintering of the Jacobin Club in 1791-1792) overthrown in July 1794 (or Thermidor Year II according to the revolutionary calendar) by the Thermidorian Reaction, an new constitution was written in 1795. The Directory was mostly centered around five Directors which would essentially act as joint heads of state and de facto heads of the executive, a Council of Five Hundred (lower legislative house) and a Council of Ancients (upper, more conservative house with a higher age requirement). It was basically a regime made by the more conservative members of the Convention that wanted to avoid a repeat of the Terror despite being mostly complicit in it. For example, universal male suffrage was replaced by householder franchise/census suffrage, meaning only householders/upper-class people could vote.
It was a failure, mostly because it was guided by classical liberals who applied laissez-faire economics to end the dirigisme or regulated economy put in place by the Convention (such as a maximum price on grain, flour and bread), which led to further inflation and food shortages, and went back or stagnated on progressive reforms made by the early Revolution, for instance on public education. Furthermore, it was also plagued by factionalism, as the pro-Directory faction kept losing elections to royalists and later neo-Jacobins, and so the executive kept organizing military or legislative coups d'État (1795, 1797, 1798) before the legislative finally imposed the resignation of 3 conservative Directors in June 1799 and then Bonaparte overthrew the Directory (with the help of Sieyès, a Director), in November 1799 (AKA the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII).
Add with that military failures during the War of the Second Coalition, and you can understand why they were so disliked.
The War of the First Coalition was also the war where Tarare was a soldier.
Thank you Sam O´Nella Academy!
Old winter was still problematic for Russia. They got spanked by the winter for trying to attack for it. Yeah they almost took out Napoleon but they suffered for the attempt.
Ur a great reactor ur not just reacting your also teaching us.
43:52 - The people aren't against monarchs, communism, or democracy. People are against corrupt governments. The French Revolution happened cause the people (rightfully) didn't feel that the monarchy had their best interests at heart. Maybe Napoleon didn't have their best interests either, but at least he did more for them than Louis XVI and then Louis XVIII.
An emperor is a monarchy if he has reign for his life.
The cannon firing at 3:10 gets me every single time. Funniest part of both episode imo
Hopefully Mr Terry reacts to Epic History's Napoleon series.
I love how much OS's Voice Acting has improved since the Prohibition video
Teach hope you don't mind me saying this but at
25:38 that is where we learned the phrase "the one pump chump"
Nelson wasn’t the first to employ such naval tactics. Ushakov did that earlier against the Ottomans
I wanna dislike this guy, but he makes it impossible, STOP BEING WHOLESOME
Why do you wanna dislike him in the first place?
@@MrGameonthis he is a history teacher with a TH-cam channel
@@me____me01 that literally makes 0 sense.
@@me____me01 my (Chinese)history teacher also has a channel, idk what’s wrong with teachers having a channel
30:48 he did it! He has restored roman Republic! Assasins of Julius Caesar would be proud of him, i guess.
The long awaited Reaction has finally arrived..
I was looking for your reaction for this video earlier! Love your vids! 🔥
He went from watching others sponsors to making his own.
44:18 the ideas that most of the revolution at the time were trying to press was... alot- as told in other videos, they kind of.. went overboard- changing the time and date systems to be different then everyone else. Marching for basically every new ideal they could- and after the time of terror and chaos. Could be pretty understandable why some were happy to jump at stable leadership. But I think it mainly had to do with the fact that that the eyes of every other monarch and government alike was more or less was against them. And as the totally not short man was able to get himself more and more in the position as a hero to many. Getting the people to fall behind him probably wasn't that unbelievable. Better the devil you know wants what's best, even if it's for selfish reasons.
Napoleons tomb was one of favorite sites when I visited Paris.
Les Invalides ? Yes, very majestic indeed.
A dome with roof openings, as to allow the rays of the sun to fall on the giant tomb of Napoleon.
Oversimplefied is the rarest channel to make history fun. Simple history isn’t even that simple
do part 2
46:29 For those who don't know, Hanover was a German Electorate that at the time was under a personal union with the United Kingdom, meaning the two countries shared the same monarch. The House of Hanover ruled the UK, but for the vast majority of the union, they never visited Hanover itself as London was where all the power was.