@@fredbarker9201 i had watched a video in which was showing that btitish were best in taking care of POW especially in europe. Followed by french and then austrians denmark-norway. Sweden was also good but, prussians and russians had bad record in hanfling POWs.
Oh alright, I was wondering how they were gonna fit the rest of the 5th coalition war and Napoleon's defeat in Russia and at Waterloo in just 14 minutes.
No surprise your channel sub count has exploded. When compared to other history reacting channels, you give crucial context to understand the subject better, plus you expand and explain in further detail about the subject in question. As Frenchman it's refreshing seeing someone have an impartial view when dealing with French history
9:40 I think that's a really salient point, and it might be that the ability to move quickly and unexpectedly is a general's most valuable trait. When you were describing Napoleon, it brought to mind Henry II who was always spoken of the same way by his contemporaries; they'd launch some military engagement against him, sure that he was tied up miles away, and then he would just appear a day or two later as if he had wings, and just scare the piss out of whoever was trying to fight him before he even started a battle.
The video your watching is a compilation of their first 6 napoleonic wars videos they ah e about 15 in total so the entire series is covered by them as individual videos plus a series ranking Napoleons marshals
After the Battle of Wagram 1809 you should continue the series from Spain 1809-1811, Salamanaca 1812, Russia Campaign (3 parts), Road to Leipzig, Battle of Vitoria 1813, Battle of the Nations, Napoleon's Endgame: France 1814 and finally conclude with Waterloo 1815. Then I highly recommend continuing with the Napoleon's Marshals series.
@@LightxHeaven those videos especially eyleau are of low quality but starting from ekhmulh kings and generals had started presenting his videos in much better mapping style and deep expression of events in 5th coalition. Eyleau and also ekhmulh because epic history channel had not make videos on eyleau and ekhmulh. And also not presenting dresden broadly during 6th coalition. Well vittorio is coming.
Greetings from Kaiser-Ebersdorf, today a part of Vienna. The house where Marshal Lannes died is only a 5 minutes walk from where I live. Many street names remind on the two battles Aspern-Essling and Wagram. Both battlefields lie today almost entierly within the Vienna City limits.
When Napoleon crossed the Danube, it reminded me of a certain section in The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, where it says, when you cross a river, put it far behind you. The first time I watched this video, I knew it was a bad idea to attack the Austrians there, because if he lost the battle he only has one avenue of retreat. Brings back memories of Freidland.
I recently found this channel. Loving it so far. There's a bunch if historian react channels but you actually know what you're talking about and react during the video unlike many of them.
Congratulations on the 100k. As an aside you mentioned you loved Time Team. If you are not aware there will be 2 new digs this year. Tim Taylor (the original producer) has put together a You Tube/Patreon project. Details are on the Time Team official channel.
The Original video only contains the first 6 parts of the series. There is 9 more after. Here is the right order - The Napoleonic Wars (PARTS 1-6) - Napoleon's Vietnam: Spain 1809 - 1811 - Wellington Strikes: Salamanca 1812 - Napoleon's Invasion of Russia 1812 - Napoleon's Bloodiest Day: Borodino 1812 - Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow 1812 - Napoleon 1813: The Road to Leipzig - Napoleon 1813: Battle of the Nations - Napoleon Endgame: France 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo 1815
So excited for 100 K. When I first saw i immediately became interested in English History which motivated me to seek other information on the internet and the library. Good for you on almost 100 K
It is important to notice that Davout stopped the bulk of the Austrian Army in Teugn-Hausen giving Napoleon the needed time to assemble his offensive and even when Napoleon finished the job with the southern Austrian force he still had time to move north because of 3rd Corps holding Charles and his 3 corps.
With the death toll you have to factor in the younger population and the state of medical science of the day. A lot of the died from diseases and wounds which would be less of an issue in WW2. Also one has to question how they counted. Is a casualty a dead soldier or just one taken out of action. Troops also overestimate their own effectiveness and it took those doing the numbers quite some work to address this bias when counting in later wars (best example air victories. If you just count by the pilots own accounts the airfleet of both sides was shot down multiple times in both WW1&WW2). It stands to reason that if people had to learn to address this bias later on it might have been still an issue before.
About Napoleon leaving behind German Troops too deal with Uprisings and Garrison Austrian Terretory. While i agree with the statement that he could use his best, and mostly French troops which he knew, for the big Battles against Charles. I also think that the Language Barrier made a huge Impact in his decision. Since most of the occupied Stats spoke German and as shown in Spain, Garrison Troops who dont even speak the Native Language cause even more Problems that could be avoided or at least dimmed with local Troops. PS. Love your work and would support more Videos on the Napoleonic Wars and maybe the Mexican American Border Series by Kraut. Greetings go out from South Tyrol in Italy.
Imaging sending so many mens has a death on, in front of you looking at them with binocular and sending more and more without thinking about losing or that this word exist
14:30 also, he maybe did that because the german troops spoke the actual language of the rebels for example. So if someone from your own country tells you something, u maybe listen to it more seriously, than when its a foreigner in my opinion.
that is true, although tyrol had just been taken from austria 1 or 2 years before and had been given to bavaria the tyrolean and bavarian dialects are pretty much the same
Just to point out, in Essling-Aspern there was a spot on which the Austrians failed to attack and this was between Essling and the Danube.... That way Charles could ve cut off the French from a possible retreat and could ve overwhelmed them. Instead they wasted their clear numerical advantage in futil assaults to the towns (which were easier to defend). Charles was a good tactitian, but lacked the brilliance of a good strategist. After Napoleon's half defeat at Essling, Charles stayed were he was, conceding all iniciative to Napoleon during a whole month. He also could ve left Napoleon bottled in the island of Lobau, and advanced to Vienna, dealing and possibly destroying the 2 French corps which were at the rear and cutting Napoleon's retreat.
Personally I feel that Archduke Charles does not get enough credit, as he arguably had the most impressive job as far as generals who fought napoleon goes. In that he was the only one who nearly brought the experienced French army to its knees in a fair fight against napoleon directly. Whereas someone like wellington had a two to one advantage against a Diminished French Army.
Wellington was outnumbered at Waterloo till the Prussians arrived. But Archduke Charles is underrated. He is probably not given enough credit because he was not commanding any army during 6th and 7th Coilation, we generally ignore Coilation generals before that other some like Suvorov
Archduke Charles was a very good General. However, he was not better than Wellington. And, his writings on military strategy are frankly outdated. He advocated holding territory, and never deviating from that principle. Though in practice, he was more adaptable in reality than his writings, he nevertheless was not quite on the tier of Wellington. Had it been Wellington at Aspen he would not have failed to press the attack.
I'm not sure if you mispoke but there's no way the War of the Fifth Coalition produced 300 000 dead, but rather 300 000 casualties which includes wounded and captured soldiers.
It’s still at least 125K dead in just 6 months. Plus you can die shortly after wounds and it will be listed as wounded, and prisoners of war are always the first to starve if they are not bought back
@@fredbarker9201 True and you make a fair point. I'm not entirely sure myself because the Battle of Wagram, Aspern-Essling and the Walcheren campaign probably did not produce 125k dead in the immediate aftermath at the very least. I would have to consult my historical sources eg. Chandler etc. to get a better estimate. But it certainly was not 300 000 dead we're talking about here. Most of the 2-4 million people (military and civilian) that died during the Napoleonic Wars came from the Peninsular War, Russian and German campaigns.
@@LightxHeaven at least 125 K dead If not more. Half of those from Wagram alone. Largest battle in history when it happened. Roberts is probably a more thorough source than chandler though both are great But even just take a little look at wiki 5th coalition numbers
i think it would be really cool if at the end of the series you did a comment review. i love hearing all the cool stuff the other members of the community have to add to the discussion.
Some comment on why Austrians didn`t use their opportunities in the beginning and than during Asper battle; You must remember, that Charles started to make his reform around 1807 earliest, in large part against more conservative elite of the army and strongly restricted by poor economics of the Empire. Moreover, this was only forst time, when in austrian army appeared elements already standard for french - permanent birgades, divisions and corps; previously all thise elements were created ad hoc, for the campaign or even during the campaign. in effect, while Austrians could be equal or sometimes even better than French on battalion-regiment level, they were always weaker on any higher, even brigade level. So, what they gained on low tactical level, were loosing because of better coordination, speed and practice of their french enemies. Austrians didn`t have well experienced commanders of higer level, and concerning commanders for Corps level? Only one, von Hiller was very independent (but not very good overall), all others were brave but passive, while almost all french higher command was extremely brave, aggresive and energetic if sometimes lacked tactical skills. All of those played into Napoleon`s hands, ad explains why Austrians didn`t manage to use their surprise or later their higher numbers didn`t win them 1st day of Aspern - although soldiers fought ferrouciously, their leaders didn`t know, how to use them properly in large masses. There is absloutely basic and great book (in fact - three tomes of it :)) called "Thunder Over Danube" by John H. Gill, retired US Army colonel describing whole campaign. So if You`d like to learn in detail about whole campaign - strongly recommend it. You won`t find anything better. Also one note - yes, Napoleon prefered to use his French troops, but used Bavarians in Tyrol as Tyrol was given to Bavaria after 1805 and gave the opportunity to deal affairs in their own country. Apart fro that, he had great deal of respect for his German troops, especially Wurtemberg Light Brigade (4 bns of light inf.), which was total elite.
An intresting fact was who the majority of the soldiers who served on the "Grand Armee", did by 4 years, so the core of Napoleon's army recruited in 1804-1805, was replaced by new ones, actually in 1809, there was not even a name of "Grand Armee", but just "Armee de Espagne" and "Armee de Allemagne". it was at the next generation who the title "Grand Armee", was resurrected, in 1812. Where other people where recruited to replace the Veterans of 1809. Thus known as "La Deuxeme Grand Armee", so at the end of the day, Napoleon fought the 5th coalition with other soldiers, who where not the same of Austerlitz, or Friedland. It wouldn't be until the "Hundred Days" who the veteran regulars will be called on arms again.
So glad this covered Aspern in detail, which is often glossed over since Napoleon basically screwed up and got his butt kicked. Wagram makes up for it, however.
Hi. In the next video can you talk about how battlefield commanders were using old battlefield strategies using newer weapons? I think this is part of the reason so many people died in so short of a timespan.
In those 1700 to 1800s era battles the troops had to group together for mass firepower. Which meant they suffered the same from the enemy and made easy targets for artillery. And these videos don't mention how many of troops were lost to disease - which I am sure upped the death toll.
"Austria was always one army and one idea behind the rest of Europe. But they always had an army and they always had an idea," (sorry, couldn't find who said that). The ability just to stay in the war is sometimes worth more than a victory - particularly when you outnumber the enemy. The same was true of the Peninsular campaign - it may not have been the greatest theatre of the war, but it gradually cost more and more of Napoleon's troops that he ultimately couldn't afford to lose.
great videos. love your and oversimplify's content. im actually from landshut. the house napoleon spent the night in is marked as such. as they shot the city, a cannon ball hit the tallest church in the city and was left there. you can still see it today. other "fun" fact: himmler went to school in landshut.
During this campaign my home-city was besieged by the French and the castle burned down because of an ammunition explosion. I actually go to school near where Napoleon was sleeping some days before the battle.
Thanks for the quality videos, Im excited for you to hit 100k on this channel, Im positive you will have 1 million by the end of the year, good luck. If you want a really good historical Tv show on Netflix there is one about Roman empire which was very interesting, its called "Roman Empire".
Great reaction. About what you said at 11:59 , you might already be aware of that but until the industrial revolution France actually had a big demographic advantage over the other nations (except Russia). Which might explain why they could lose a lot of soldiers. Before the Revolution, France had 28 million people, for the time and considering the moderate size of France it was huge. As a comparison Russia had 30 million and Britain (without the colonies) had 13 million. Because of Napoleon's conquests, in 1812, proper France will have 40 million people, without counting the puppet states. Funny that in one century, the table will completely flip and not only Germany had a looot more population than France, but even Britain itself became more populated. Not to mention Russia who's population literally exploded. It's still hard to understand why France's birthrate wasn't as high as in other countries.
I think Napoleon's foot injury must have caused significant alarm with those around him. Such an injury in those times could be fatal or have costed Napoleon his foot, which clearly would have radically changed the situation.
About the Napoleonic wars, just wanted to say, who there is a still unfinished series from Kings and Generals, who cover, the 2nd until the 5th coalition wars, with a more in deepth analysis on the battles, and more accuracy on the numbers. Of course the "deepth", of the series, is much more superficial. But when it comes to the battles, it is much more focused in the movements, numbers, and how it happened. The videos are even shorter than those from EHTV. But again i say, is not as deepth on the personal stories as this series.
Hey man, do you have a schedule for your videos? It would be nice if you make a schedule like: Monday: American history Tuesday: African history Wednesday: Latin America history Thursday: Europe History Etc... Sorry for any writing mistake, I'm not american.
Archduke Charles is easily the best Napoleonic commander that was neither English or French. Blucher gets a lot of press because of Waterloo, but Charles was far more important.
Correction: The War of the Fifth Coalition produced 300,000 CASUALTIES, not dead. Thanks LightxHeaven for pointing that out.
Considering that there were no antibiotics back then casualties often turned into "dead" a few days later anyway.
You must had watched ekhmulh video of kings and generals. That had helped you a lot.
@@stanleyrogouski precisely and POW always first to starve
Please react to British empire
@@fredbarker9201 i had watched a video in which was showing that btitish were best in taking care of POW especially in europe. Followed by french and then austrians denmark-norway. Sweden was also good but, prussians and russians had bad record in hanfling POWs.
There aren't just 6 parts by the way. This video just combines the first 6. There are 9 more after the first 6.
Oh alright, I was wondering how they were gonna fit the rest of the 5th coalition war and Napoleon's defeat in Russia and at Waterloo in just 14 minutes.
No surprise your channel sub count has exploded.
When compared to other history reacting channels, you give crucial context to understand the subject better, plus you expand and explain in further detail about the subject in question.
As Frenchman it's refreshing seeing someone have an impartial view when dealing with French history
9:40 I think that's a really salient point, and it might be that the ability to move quickly and unexpectedly is a general's most valuable trait. When you were describing Napoleon, it brought to mind Henry II who was always spoken of the same way by his contemporaries; they'd launch some military engagement against him, sure that he was tied up miles away, and then he would just appear a day or two later as if he had wings, and just scare the piss out of whoever was trying to fight him before he even started a battle.
Archduke Charles coming back with Napoleon’s Corp system is a “you dare use my own spells against me potter” moment
Guess how Napoleon ends up getting his ass kicked
You'll see in the 1813 video Napoleon acknowledging this but about the allied army in general
Its been actually insane to see the growth of your channel over the course of a few months, super happy to see you hitting 100k very very soon!
“He’s outnumbered? He don’t care. He’s getting hit? He don’t care.” - Napoleon: the Honey badger of Europe. Honey badger don’t give a shit.
The video your watching is a compilation of their first 6 napoleonic wars videos they ah e about 15 in total so the entire series is covered by them as individual videos plus a series ranking Napoleons marshals
After the Battle of Wagram 1809 you should continue the series from Spain 1809-1811, Salamanaca 1812, Russia Campaign (3 parts), Road to Leipzig, Battle of Vitoria 1813, Battle of the Nations, Napoleon's Endgame: France 1814 and finally conclude with Waterloo 1815. Then I highly recommend continuing with the Napoleon's Marshals series.
Must watch videos on eyleau before friedland and ekhmulh before aspern-essling of kings and generals.
@@AdityaSingh-iz5zs Honestly those videos are of such a low quality it’s not worth the bother.
@@LightxHeaven those videos especially eyleau are of low quality but starting from ekhmulh kings and generals had started presenting his videos in much better mapping style and deep expression of events in 5th coalition. Eyleau and also ekhmulh because epic history channel had not make videos on eyleau and ekhmulh. And also not presenting dresden broadly during 6th coalition. Well vittorio is coming.
Greetings from Kaiser-Ebersdorf, today a part of Vienna. The house where Marshal Lannes died is only a 5 minutes walk from where I live. Many street names remind on the two battles Aspern-Essling and Wagram. Both battlefields lie today almost entierly within the Vienna City limits.
I watched EPTV videos like a 1000 times but you still amaze and teach me something new in every single video. Thank you so much!!
When Napoleon crossed the Danube, it reminded me of a certain section in The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, where it says, when you cross a river, put it far behind you. The first time I watched this video, I knew it was a bad idea to attack the Austrians there, because if he lost the battle he only has one avenue of retreat. Brings back memories of Freidland.
I recently found this channel. Loving it so far. There's a bunch if historian react channels but you actually know what you're talking about and react during the video unlike many of them.
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I have since 10 to 20 thousand
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Congratulations on finally getting to this point! Can’t wait to continue watching this channel for a long while
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Congratulations on the 100k. As an aside you mentioned you loved Time Team. If you are not aware there will be 2 new digs this year. Tim Taylor (the original producer) has put together a You Tube/Patreon project. Details are on the Time Team official channel.
Awesome I’ll check it out.
If you like this maybe you'll like History Marche's series on the second Punic war, its in the same style just in ancient times
That war has so much crazy insanity going on, and they cover it really well.
Still get a laugh thinking of those ships in Spain. :D
@@Yora21 Hannibal roaming around Italy for 16 years but not managing to defeat Rome. Those crazy bastards.
Wow you are so close to 100k. You really deserved it after your hard work to teach us about history
Awesome video, living in Europe so can't watch the stream, but hope the channel reaches 100k tonight, you deserve it!
Congrats on the 100K !!!
The Original video only contains the first 6 parts of the series. There is 9 more after. Here is the right order
- The Napoleonic Wars (PARTS 1-6)
- Napoleon's Vietnam: Spain 1809 - 1811
- Wellington Strikes: Salamanca 1812
- Napoleon's Invasion of Russia 1812
- Napoleon's Bloodiest Day: Borodino 1812
- Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow 1812
- Napoleon 1813: The Road to Leipzig
- Napoleon 1813: Battle of the Nations
- Napoleon Endgame: France 1814
- Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo 1815
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congrats on 100k subs!!!
So excited for 100 K. When I first saw i immediately became interested in English History which motivated me to seek other information on the internet and the library. Good for you on almost 100 K
Congrats on 100k!
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6:23 You could almost say the will to fight is still there, the sour taste a long war leaves wasn't strong enough to make a second round off putting.
Early congrats on 100k!!! I think I joined the community around 10k which is awesome how fast this group is growing.
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It is important to notice that Davout stopped the bulk of the Austrian Army in Teugn-Hausen giving Napoleon the needed time to assemble his offensive and even when Napoleon finished the job with the southern Austrian force he still had time to move north because of 3rd Corps holding Charles and his 3 corps.
Congratulations on 100k found the channel when it was around 20k-30k
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With the death toll you have to factor in the younger population and the state of medical science of the day. A lot of the died from diseases and wounds which would be less of an issue in WW2.
Also one has to question how they counted. Is a casualty a dead soldier or just one taken out of action. Troops also overestimate their own effectiveness and it took those doing the numbers quite some work to address this bias when counting in later wars (best example air victories. If you just count by the pilots own accounts the airfleet of both sides was shot down multiple times in both WW1&WW2). It stands to reason that if people had to learn to address this bias later on it might have been still an issue before.
About Napoleon leaving behind German Troops too deal with Uprisings and Garrison Austrian Terretory. While i agree with the statement that he could use his best, and mostly French troops which he knew, for the big Battles against Charles. I also think that the Language Barrier made a huge Impact in his decision. Since most of the occupied Stats spoke German and as shown in Spain, Garrison Troops who dont even speak the Native Language cause even more Problems that could be avoided or at least dimmed with local Troops.
PS. Love your work and would support more Videos on the Napoleonic Wars and maybe the Mexican American Border Series by Kraut.
Greetings go out from South Tyrol in Italy.
Imaging sending so many mens has a death on, in front of you looking at them with binocular and sending more and more without thinking about losing or that this word exist
100k congrats
14:30 also, he maybe did that because the german troops spoke the actual language of the rebels for example. So if someone from your own country tells you something, u maybe listen to it more seriously, than when its a foreigner in my opinion.
that is true, although tyrol had just been taken from austria 1 or 2 years before and had been given to bavaria the tyrolean and bavarian dialects are pretty much the same
Happy on your success mate, hope a lot more of subs for you and a lot great content for us
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I highly recommend reacting to the Napoleon’s Marshalls series as well. Very good stuff
Just to point out, in Essling-Aspern there was a spot on which the Austrians failed to attack and this was between Essling and the Danube.... That way Charles could ve cut off the French from a possible retreat and could ve overwhelmed them. Instead they wasted their clear numerical advantage in futil assaults to the towns (which were easier to defend). Charles was a good tactitian, but lacked the brilliance of a good strategist. After Napoleon's half defeat at Essling, Charles stayed were he was, conceding all iniciative to Napoleon during a whole month. He also could ve left Napoleon bottled in the island of Lobau, and advanced to Vienna, dealing and possibly destroying the 2 French corps which were at the rear and cutting Napoleon's retreat.
Personally I feel that Archduke Charles does not get enough credit, as he arguably had the most impressive job as far as generals who fought napoleon goes. In that he was the only one who nearly brought the experienced French army to its knees in a fair fight against napoleon directly. Whereas someone like wellington had a two to one advantage against a Diminished French Army.
Wellington was outnumbered at Waterloo till the Prussians arrived.
But Archduke Charles is underrated. He is probably not given enough credit because he was not commanding any army during 6th and 7th Coilation, we generally ignore Coilation generals before that other some like Suvorov
Archduke Charles was a very good General. However, he was not better than Wellington. And, his writings on military strategy are frankly outdated. He advocated holding territory, and never deviating from that principle. Though in practice, he was more adaptable in reality than his writings, he nevertheless was not quite on the tier of Wellington. Had it been Wellington at Aspen he would not have failed to press the attack.
I'm not sure if you mispoke but there's no way the War of the Fifth Coalition produced 300 000 dead, but rather 300 000 casualties which includes wounded and captured soldiers.
You’re right. I misread the casualty figure.
It’s still at least 125K dead in just 6 months. Plus you can die shortly after wounds and it will be listed as wounded, and prisoners of war are always the first to starve if they are not bought back
@@fredbarker9201 True and you make a fair point. I'm not entirely sure myself because the Battle of Wagram, Aspern-Essling and the Walcheren campaign probably did not produce 125k dead in the immediate aftermath at the very least. I would have to consult my historical sources eg. Chandler etc. to get a better estimate. But it certainly was not 300 000 dead we're talking about here. Most of the 2-4 million people (military and civilian) that died during the Napoleonic Wars came from the Peninsular War, Russian and German campaigns.
@@VloggingThroughHistory That's what I assumed. Just wanted to make sure to let you know :)
@@LightxHeaven at least 125 K dead If not more. Half of those from Wagram alone. Largest battle in history when it happened. Roberts is probably a more thorough source than chandler though both are great
But even just take a little look at wiki 5th coalition numbers
i think it would be really cool if at the end of the series you did a comment review. i love hearing all the cool stuff the other members of the community have to add to the discussion.
Some comment on why Austrians didn`t use their opportunities in the beginning and than during Asper battle;
You must remember, that Charles started to make his reform around 1807 earliest, in large part against more conservative elite of the army and strongly restricted by poor economics of the Empire. Moreover, this was only forst time, when in austrian army appeared elements already standard for french - permanent birgades, divisions and corps; previously all thise elements were created ad hoc, for the campaign or even during the campaign. in effect, while Austrians could be equal or sometimes even better than French on battalion-regiment level, they were always weaker on any higher, even brigade level. So, what they gained on low tactical level, were loosing because of better coordination, speed and practice of their french enemies.
Austrians didn`t have well experienced commanders of higer level, and concerning commanders for Corps level? Only one, von Hiller was very independent (but not very good overall), all others were brave but passive, while almost all french higher command was extremely brave, aggresive and energetic if sometimes lacked tactical skills.
All of those played into Napoleon`s hands, ad explains why Austrians didn`t manage to use their surprise or later their higher numbers didn`t win them 1st day of Aspern - although soldiers fought ferrouciously, their leaders didn`t know, how to use them properly in large masses.
There is absloutely basic and great book (in fact - three tomes of it :)) called "Thunder Over Danube" by John H. Gill, retired US Army colonel describing whole campaign. So if You`d like to learn in detail about whole campaign - strongly recommend it. You won`t find anything better.
Also one note - yes, Napoleon prefered to use his French troops, but used Bavarians in Tyrol as Tyrol was given to Bavaria after 1805 and gave the opportunity to deal affairs in their own country. Apart fro that, he had great deal of respect for his German troops, especially Wurtemberg Light Brigade (4 bns of light inf.), which was total elite.
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An intresting fact was who the majority of the soldiers who served on the "Grand Armee", did by 4 years, so the core of Napoleon's army recruited in 1804-1805, was replaced by new ones, actually in 1809, there was not even a name of "Grand Armee", but just "Armee de Espagne" and "Armee de Allemagne". it was at the next generation who the title "Grand Armee", was resurrected, in 1812. Where other people where recruited to replace the Veterans of 1809. Thus known as "La Deuxeme Grand Armee", so at the end of the day, Napoleon fought the 5th coalition with other soldiers, who where not the same of Austerlitz, or Friedland. It wouldn't be until the "Hundred Days" who the veteran regulars will be called on arms again.
So glad this covered Aspern in detail, which is often glossed over since Napoleon basically screwed up and got his butt kicked. Wagram makes up for it, however.
"Slowed by the baggage train". Common saying in Army these days is that your first fight is always with your own equipment.
Hi. In the next video can you talk about how battlefield commanders were using old battlefield strategies using newer weapons? I think this is part of the reason so many people died in so short of a timespan.
Man Napoleon really said “fuck it” and went without his third core 😂
please tell me ur gonna watch the other parts after the 6
Holy crap you've been growing slot last time I saw you're in 75k like last week
Congrats on 100K subs, new sub to the channel glad i found this. Also Epic History TV also hit 1 million subs today
In those 1700 to 1800s era battles the troops had to group together for mass firepower. Which meant they suffered the same from the enemy and made easy targets for artillery. And these videos don't mention how many of troops were lost to disease - which I am sure upped the death toll.
Thumbs up for the haircut!
"Austria was always one army and one idea behind the rest of Europe. But they always had an army and they always had an idea," (sorry, couldn't find who said that). The ability just to stay in the war is sometimes worth more than a victory - particularly when you outnumber the enemy. The same was true of the Peninsular campaign - it may not have been the greatest theatre of the war, but it gradually cost more and more of Napoleon's troops that he ultimately couldn't afford to lose.
great videos. love your and oversimplify's content. im actually from landshut. the house napoleon spent the night in is marked as such. as they shot the city, a cannon ball hit the tallest church in the city and was left there. you can still see it today.
other "fun" fact: himmler went to school in landshut.
I actually heard that after Lannes died (not 100% if its accurate) That Napoleon broke down crying and to one source would'nt eat for 3 days
During this campaign my home-city was besieged by the French and the castle burned down because of an ammunition explosion. I actually go to school near where Napoleon was sleeping some days before the battle.
Thanks for the quality videos, Im excited for you to hit 100k on this channel, Im positive you will have 1 million by the end of the year, good luck. If you want a really good historical Tv show on Netflix there is one about Roman empire which was very interesting, its called "Roman Empire".
Losing Marshal Lannes was huge. Along side Davout, he was probably the most able commander Napoleon had.
Maybe you should plan for rainy weather when marching on a city called raincastle (Regensburg) xD
These battles happened only an hour by car away from where I live.
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Does the remaining 14 minute segment include the Russian campaign and the retreat + waterloo?
Great reaction. About what you said at 11:59 , you might already be aware of that but until the industrial revolution France actually had a big demographic advantage over the other nations (except Russia). Which might explain why they could lose a lot of soldiers.
Before the Revolution, France had 28 million people, for the time and considering the moderate size of France it was huge. As a comparison Russia had 30 million and Britain (without the colonies) had 13 million. Because of Napoleon's conquests, in 1812, proper France will have 40 million people, without counting the puppet states.
Funny that in one century, the table will completely flip and not only Germany had a looot more population than France, but even Britain itself became more populated. Not to mention Russia who's population literally exploded. It's still hard to understand why France's birthrate wasn't as high as in other countries.
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What’s a good thing to learn in history as we can pick what we want any suggestions would be appreciated thanks
I think Napoleon's foot injury must have caused significant alarm with those around him. Such an injury in those times could be fatal or have costed Napoleon his foot, which clearly would have radically changed the situation.
Is part 6 coming soon?
Would be interesting to know equian (horses) casualties
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About the Napoleonic wars, just wanted to say, who there is a still unfinished series from Kings and Generals, who cover, the 2nd until the 5th coalition wars, with a more in deepth analysis on the battles, and more accuracy on the numbers. Of course the "deepth", of the series, is much more superficial. But when it comes to the battles, it is much more focused in the movements, numbers, and how it happened. The videos are even shorter than those from EHTV. But again i say, is not as deepth on the personal stories as this series.
I hope you will watch Napoleon's Marshal series after watching the whole Napoleonic war series
You're sticking with the Welcome back everybody, as i said its rolls of the tongue easier
The Austrians attacked too piecemeal to break through. Each attack, save the last against Aspern, were done by one column at a time.
Hey man, do you have a schedule for your videos? It would be nice if you make a schedule like:
Monday: American history
Tuesday: African history
Wednesday: Latin America history
Thursday: Europe History
Etc...
Sorry for any writing mistake, I'm not american.
In a former live, Napoleon was a honey badger: 'cause honey badgers don't care!
Well... Oversimplified just released their version of the Napoleonic War
Jean Lannes.. The best of all..
Archduke Charles is easily the best Napoleonic commander that was neither English or French. Blucher gets a lot of press because of Waterloo, but Charles was far more important.
Theres more videos on EpicHistoryTV on Napoleon after this series.
Could you maybe to an Episode on Carl von Clausewitz and his "On War"?
Noooooo i have to go to school tommorow wont be able to see the stream
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