@@Soldier4USA2005I'm reminded of the fact that the Titanic had two sister ships. The Britannic also struck something (namely a mine) and sank, but the Olympic (the first of the class), despite also being struck by the HMS Hawke, stayed in service until the 1930s and acquired the nickname "Old Reliable."
@@thomaseriksen6885that’s such a sad and truly human thought “I’d rather die hurting others than at home in my bed of old age”, you should really think more before talking.
@@josephhogan4594 war was once a constant fact of life, and you participated for the good of your people or you became a slave or deceased. We are blessed enough to live in peaceful times although I'm sure you know by now that nothing is forever in this world.
He insisted on using Napoleon's saddle. The horse only bolted after the antique girth strap broke as he rushed to mount when zulus surprised his bivouak.
And Cetshwayo sent a message to Lord Chelmsford (the overall commander). "He (the Prince) fought well, and many of my men say he fought like a lion. Had we known who he was, we would not have come within a mile of him." This was because it was the Prince's first expedition; it was Zulu custom that the first time in battle was more of a "This is how it's done," trip, and first-timers weren't actually combatants until their second battle. Source - Ronald Morris, "The Washing of the Spears"
@@McBrannon1000 good book. It is difficult to determine how truthful Cetshwayo’s comment was, as he was trying to placate the British in the end. But I don’t know how the Zulus in that kraal could possibly have known who the Prince Imperial was.
Source, ungasdakelwi wena we never compliment no one before a warrior a lion was shaka zulu himself and there never saw no white or a person who carried a gun a warrior as there couldn't go face to face with their opponent and fight, so know what u talk about.
@@kidleroy5424😆 Stop fantasising, you sick animal. Just making up crap to appeal to your bestial ego. You never a read a source on anything. There wasn't a Zulu alive who wouldn't call the British warriors 🤦🏻♂️ They got beaten by them enough... Anyway, the vast majority of kills in Rorke's Drift for instance, were inflicted by bayonet, so you've no idea what you're talking about. And the Zulus used guns too. Also you've never even been in any army, so maybe shut up about better men.
You left out all his wounds were forward facing, so the British concluded he didn't try to run. British intelligence gathered that the Zulu warriors who faced him called him a lion because he fought ferociously, despite his injuries
@truthmatters758 ... yes they did. You need to read about the ambush. And maybe you'd understand a thing about different cultures. If you are cultured enough to read I've posted beneath a number of zulu rituals they carried out after the ambush: According to later testimonies from several of the Zulu men who had participated in the ambush of the prince's patrol, only 8 of the stab wounds were inflicted upon the prince while he was still alive - the remaining 10 stab wounds were done to the prince's corpse. This was due to the ambushers observing the customary Zulu hlomula ritual, which entailing stabbing the body of an already fallen adversary. The practice was related to the hunt, when all the participants of the hunt were expected to stab the carcass of a particularly formidable kill, like a lion or buffalo. To do the same to a human foe was to acknowledge that he had fought with the ferocity of a dangerous wild animal. Langalibalele confirmed that hlomula was performed on the prince's corpse because he had "fought like a lion".[16] It also transpired from the testimonies of the prince's Zulu assailants that the prince's corpse was found naked because Klabawathunga had ritually stripped the prince's body of all his apparel, except for a few medals and the locket around the prince's neck which contained a picture of his mother. After giving the prince's clothes to another Zulu man named Dabayane to hold onto, Klabawathunga explained that he personally performed a slight incision on the prince's naked abdomen in order to observe the customary Zulu qaqa ritual, which was customarily performed on the corpses of slain foes for the purposes of removing a perceived contagious ritual pollution that followed homicide, called umnyama in isiZulu (meaning 'dark contagion').[17] It was believed that the swelling that occurred in corpses was due to the homicide victim's soul trying but failing to escape the decaying body, and therefore the killer had a duty to make a hole in their victim to allow the soul to escape lest the killer's own body swell like a corpse.[18][19] This was the traditional Zulu explanation for the observable swelling of the body which occurs in corpses due to the fermentation of butyric acid in the gut.[20] The prince's bloodstained clothes had meanwhile been removed in order for Klabawathunga to observe the customary Zulu ritual of zila, where a killer was required to wear their victim's clothes (polluted by the harmful influences of his blood) while observing customary ritual abstentions in order to cleanse themself of the crime of homicide.[21] The Zulus had not looted the prince's jewellery because it was seen as a dishonourable thing to do to a warrior, and because it was believed the prince's spirit would haunt them if they stole the jewellery,[22] which was misconstrued for a magical talisman.[23]
Fun fact: the Footscray (Australian Rules) Football Club, founded in 1877, was formally known as the ‘Prince Imperial Football Club’ out of respect for the bravery of this man. And to this day still proudly sports the ‘red white and blue’ of the French Tricolour.
No one has been really badass if the Europeans would have went to Africa in peace and traded in peace .. oh my bad they had nothing to trade butt tools of War
@Random_UserName4269 Duke Charles Edward of Saxe Coburg. He became head of Nazi Germany's Red Cross. His 3 sons had fought in for the Wehrmacht. 'Karl Edvard' was a convinced high ranking NAZI, His sister Princess Alice, remained loyal to him. This former British royal, lived literally got away with his affiliations post WW2.
@@Hand-to-handWombatCombat any Greek city state would wipe the floor with the Zulu's, they are given far too much credit. At the battle of Ulundi (the largest battle) 20,000 Zulu's fought 5,000 Brits. The Brits won and only lost 10 men with 87 wounded while the Zulu's lost 6,000.
@skeetterfinklage445 the Zulu's in the battle of Ulundi were at most 15,000 not 20,000 and the brits had gattling guns and lost 10 men and eighty something more wounded, and 1000 - 1,500 Zulus were killed not 6000 stop inflating numbers and lying. This was a war fought in the era of firearms. The Zulus by all intents and purposes would defile and tear "any Greek city state" a new hole. Picking out the battle they lost to make your point is weak. The Battle of Isandlwana, a battle fought with British firearms vs Zulu spears = 1,300 British soldiers killed including 52 British officers. Making this battle one of the worst defeats for the British army against a native force in their imperial history. In an age of firearms mind you, without firearms the Zulus would make women out of those "the Greek city states". Give credit where credit is due and swallow your shitty racial pride
Well to be fair he probably was in a situation where he knew he was going to die anyway. Might as well die taking a couple of the enemy with him is a pretty common mentality
@ronintiger You'd think so but people react differently to death. Some become paralyzed with fear and they shut down. Some people beg for their life until the very end. Some people just accept their death. Some people try to run away until the very end. Not everyone fights until the very end.
@@thomaseriksen6885 Some of Napoleon's Marshals occasionally did great job while fighting battles separately, once Grande Armee was lined up with big battle, Napoleon would control it by himself, like chess game on the board. And grand strategy for beating Napoleon was to catch his smaller units separated and beat them before he could react. Of course, modern warfare is not any more about whole army concentrated on one place under single leader so commanders must know how to use subordinates well.
@@Shadowkey392 You don’t know any of Napoleons field marshals by name I’m guessing? Devout, Calvert and 17 others I can’t recall atm. All tacticians and planing genius’s in their own right (minus 3 I know of that were idiots)
@ Way too late to have a regime change without major turmoil by this point, I think. The nationalist movement had strong momentum right before the war, it is believed they would have come to power in 1940. Maybe his presence could have accelerated things, but it’s hard to see the socialists and communists accepting a Bonaparte in power without starting unrest (strikes etc)
An interesting fact is that his mother, Empress Eugenie travelled to South Africa by the generous offer of Queen Victoria. While searching for the battle site in the veld, the Empress suddenly smelt a strong scent of violets which led her unfailingly to her son's memorial cairn. "They were his favourite flower", she explained afterwards. As a Spirit, her son guided her to the site of his last stand as a final act of love, comfort and closure for his mother.
@@johnking6252 an idiot failson with cannons and guns fighting against people with spears insisted on using his grandfather's old saddle and led his troops into an ambush. He charged spearmen on his horse and his saddle then broke apart which caused him to be dismounted in melee combat where he was now at a disadvantage. Stop romanticising this racist imperialist idiot who was there to wipe out the Zulu people in order to create more diamond mines for the British empire. He died a fool's death against brave warriors defending their lands from a foreign occupier.
@@truthmatters758mate, it’s old history by this point, and irrelevant to the modern world. No one besides those looking for a problem to care about actually care what he took part in.
@@truthmatters758Judging the past by today's standards is a fools game. And seeing as you've posted this same crap on nearly every comment about him, you're a fool. And clearly a fraction of a man this man was.
@@Hal-k8phe was the literal lineage of Napoleon, that could've possibly brought the dynasty back, but died like an animal trying to conquer people who weren't even technologically up to date. That isn't honour if it was someone of any other race you'd call it stupidity
@@joshuatony.5353 A couple things - there is no way the dynasty would have ever come back. Europe had seen enough of the Bonapartes that they were not going to allow it again. And high technology or not, a stick can kill you just as dead as anything else. And, you know nothing about me, so you have NO idea what I would call it if it were a different race. You are merely projecting your ideas on to me. So you get three strikes overall.
I never knew this. If he lived & ended up in France at some point, a lot could have happened. Sad. He was definitely worthy of dining in the halls of his fathers.
My great, great grandfather was there when it happened. He was in the British army. They warned the prince not to go out by himself, but he didn't listen and went ahead. They tried to help, but it was too late. My great, great grandfather was going to keep a corn cob with the princes blood as a souvenir, but his officer told him to throw it down. My great, great grandfather's name was William Henry Morrissey. When it was time for him to go back to Britain, he deserted the army, because he was Irish and didn't want to go back.
@@danidejaneiro8378the Bantus also displaced native San people in the past. Earth is valuable and fought over since time eternal. There are almost no true natives anywhere on earth.
@danidejaneiro8378 Literally 99% of human history was just this. When did men become such pu55ys that they cry about that 🤣. Also I imagine you don’t criticise the biggest mass murderer in history ghengis khan who invaded land that wasn’t his, what about the Turkic invasions of Central Asia? Are you aware Central Asia used to be predominantly white before the genocide and expansion of Turkic tribes? This is just human history. You think like an estrogenic woman
His father surrendered to the Prussians and was taken prisoner in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Paris was besieged and eventually also surrendered. The bitterness of this loss led France to develop a much more aggressive and militaristic stance during WWI, led Germany to underestimate France in the opening stages of the war, and ultimately resulted in horrendous casualties until the war devolved into a stalemate for the exhausted sides until the Americans entered the war to break the stalemate.
The Prussians were paid by the Rothschilds. What's with all these cowards being proud of getting banksters money to defeat enemies they otherwise wouldn't have been able to defeat? It's an epidemy ffs 😂
It's such a grave dishonor for the blood of a monarch to perish in a battlefield so far away from home. It's either a grave miscalculation of the British or a purposeful placement of deploying him in Africa. It's such a loss.
If memory serves, Louis volunteered to go as a gesture of gratitude for Britain taking him and his family in. Either way, it's still tragic. Then again, that's war, eh.
Weeks later after the ambush when the Zulus found out who they actually killed they apologised and said they wouldn't have killed him if they knew who he actually was.
As posted above they didn't say that due to who he was, but due to "how" he was. The zulu custom was that during your first battle you only watch, not participate, so if they knew it was his first battle they would not have attacked him.
And I believe a Brit officer escort with him that rode away was later cashiered for "abandoning him." Apparently, it was quite the scandal that he died a possibly preventable death and they scapegoated Lt. Carey to cover it up.
Until William and Harry, he was also the last royal to be put on the field of battle. His death led to more caution in that regard. Which makes their service all the more remarkable.
Kinda reminds me of the scene in _The Last Samurai;_ the Tom Cruise character is wounded in the thigh and shoulder yet keeps fighting even though surrounded.
Ain’t it amazing even an excelled prince can continue on in life eventually finding hisself a place in history. And to think we could be so lost without what our family’s have built in place for yourself
The assegai would of made huge gsping wounds . He would of been in really close uo fighting as the assegai is not a throwing spesr but a stabbing one .
You know, with the Yugoslavian prince also going into the British army as a captain, I think there seems to be a fair few exiled sons of royalty who flip British
All the fault of one man's ego. Britain did not want, nor could it afford, a war in Africa. Sir Henry Bartle Frere the High Commissioner for Southern Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony, disobeyed orders from Britain and issued the Zulu chief Cetshwayo with 'The Ultimatum' which led to the war.
The British smoked the Zulus because they were allied with the Boers and were killing their settlers. In this war they were the first non-Americans to use Gatling guns, revolvers, repeating rifles and a precursor to hollow point ammunition en masse.
What this didn't highlight was how it was entirely Boney 3's own fault. He pushed for frontline combat, he insisted on his grandfather's saddle, and he insisted on camping near the "abandoned Zulu village".
Incorrect….although he attended the British Officer Academy at Woolwich as a cadet/student ( specifically for Royal Engineers/Artillery) he was never actually commissioned into the British Army as it wasn’t considered politically expedient as he was French royalty albeit in exile…..during the Zulu war he was given reluctant permission by the British government to go along as a “Special Observer “ and wore the uniform of a Royal Artillery subaltern as he was purely venturing into a military campaign…..he was not and never was a member of the British Army
Why anyone was fighting a war against people in their homeland while half across the world from the warmongers’ country or origin is beyond me. It wasn’t a war. It was a conquest. And that’s deplorable.
*He certainly got what was coming to him. A wealthy aristocrat born with a silver spoon in his mouth who was brutally killed while trying to enslave other people. I simply can’t find any tears.*
@ *So do Americans. With the same skin tone as mine and possibly yours (which is White.) People’s are entirely reflective of the environment their in and when they are being hardcore subjugated and oppressed (such as what this wealthy aristocrat was doing to those people), it’s going to be reflected in their actions. Especially when these types of aristocratic colonizers employ the agenda of divide and conquer. This will happen to any race, wealthy or poor folk, educated or uneducated. So the real issue here is about why this aristocrat and his people have to do this to these folks, and why you are apparently seeing the victims as animals.*
@@chrisulmer694 you do realize the zulu migrated here aswell and killed, Inslaved stole land too the original people were the Khoi San not the Zulu's I agree with what the British did was wrong but acting like the Zulu's were Angel's that did no wrong is stupid
@ *Where did I ever say the Zulu’s were angels? I won’t ever say that about any demographic of people, nor will I ever say that any demographic of people are monsters. Even though their behavior may as well be. But my entire point is what social science says, due to its ability to make extremely accurate predictions. Which is that there’s no such thing as human nature, that is actually very malleable (depending on social factors and the environment people are in), and when a demographic of people cause great harm to another demographic of people and cause great disruption to their environment, there is certainly a cause and effect relationship to it.*
Czar Nicholas was the first cousin to George V. People mistook them for twins. The English had the opportunity to rescue the imprisoned and exiled Romanovs but didn't want to offend the Bolsheviks!! Most Russians, quite rightly, believe they abandoned them to murder.
Something a bit odd about this story. The British enjoyed total military supremacy over the Zulu... I wonder why they allowed this prince to find himself in such a situation?
He was supposed to be kept away from combat, but he essentially invited himself along on a mapping expedition that was presumed to be safe. The troops at Isandlwana might disagree with the “total military supremacy” claim.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel For the Zulus to actually take a victory, they had to engage the British with a more than 10-to-1 numerical advantage, and even then suffered roughly double KIAs and triple the casualties. Compare that to the other end of the scale, with British victories involving Zulu casualty ratios of more than 10 to 1. It's about as close to total military supremacy as history ever gets.
@@EmpiricalPragmatist respectfully, I don’t think that “total military supremacy” is an objective term. Certainly the British did not see the conflict as easy, and the first invasion went terribly. Isandlwana was a humiliating defeat, and the number of British casualties against a pre-industrial enemy was a scandal. Wolseley ended up abandoning plans for a conquest of Zululand. Neither the British public nor the military saw the war as demonstrating “military supremacy.” In fact, it was generally seen as a poor showing militarily. The basic premise that the British were so in control that there wouldn’t be danger to the Prince is not a fair appraisal of the conflict.
So the Zulu tribe of Africa ended the French Imperial family’s chance to return to power. That is something history text books definitely don’t mention in school.
Not the only foreign Prince fighting for Britain in South Africa. Christian Victor, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein has a memorial on the same stone in Plymouth
The only Bonaparte to die in battle. A fitting end in some ways and a tragedy in others.
The irony of some points in history, as seen through hindsight.
Most noble, it's fortunate to die in the field, moreso than old and decrepit in a stinky bed.
@@Soldier4USA2005I'm reminded of the fact that the Titanic had two sister ships. The Britannic also struck something (namely a mine) and sank, but the Olympic (the first of the class), despite also being struck by the HMS Hawke, stayed in service until the 1930s and acquired the nickname "Old Reliable."
@@thomaseriksen6885that’s such a sad and truly human thought “I’d rather die hurting others than at home in my bed of old age”, you should really think more before talking.
@@josephhogan4594 war was once a constant fact of life, and you participated for the good of your people or you became a slave or deceased.
We are blessed enough to live in peaceful times although I'm sure you know by now that nothing is forever in this world.
He insisted on using Napoleon's saddle. The horse only bolted after the antique girth strap broke as he rushed to mount when zulus surprised his bivouak.
So pride in Napoleon's saddle was a contributor to his own demise?
Reality really is better than fiction and poetry lmao
Yes, it was exactly like this. I still remember it like it was yesterday.
It was his fathe's saddle, not Napoléon's one.
He must've been one girthy mofo. 🍆
And Cetshwayo sent a message to Lord Chelmsford (the overall commander). "He (the Prince) fought well, and many of my men say he fought like a lion. Had we known who he was, we would not have come within a mile of him." This was because it was the Prince's first expedition; it was Zulu custom that the first time in battle was more of a "This is how it's done," trip, and first-timers weren't actually combatants until their second battle. Source - Ronald Morris, "The Washing of the Spears"
@@McBrannon1000 good book. It is difficult to determine how truthful Cetshwayo’s comment was, as he was trying to placate the British in the end. But I don’t know how the Zulus in that kraal could possibly have known who the Prince Imperial was.
Source, ungasdakelwi wena we never compliment no one before a warrior a lion was shaka zulu himself and there never saw no white or a person who carried a gun a warrior as there couldn't go face to face with their opponent and fight, so know what u talk about.
He was literally fighting with a spear that was thrown at him@@kidleroy5424
@@kidleroy5424😆 Stop fantasising, you sick animal. Just making up crap to appeal to your bestial ego.
You never a read a source on anything.
There wasn't a Zulu alive who wouldn't call the British warriors 🤦🏻♂️
They got beaten by them enough...
Anyway, the vast majority of kills in Rorke's Drift for instance, were inflicted by bayonet, so you've no idea what you're talking about. And the Zulus used guns too.
Also you've never even been in any army, so maybe shut up about better men.
@@kidleroy5424 I think was made him worthy of compliment is that his gun didn't had many bullets and he fought with a spear he ripped from his thigh.
You left out all his wounds were forward facing, so the British concluded he didn't try to run. British intelligence gathered that the Zulu warriors who faced him called him a lion because he fought ferociously, despite his injuries
the zulu warriors never said that😂
lion with a gun?
@truthmatters758 ... yes they did. You need to read about the ambush. And maybe you'd understand a thing about different cultures. If you are cultured enough to read I've posted beneath a number of zulu rituals they carried out after the ambush:
According to later testimonies from several of the Zulu men who had participated in the ambush of the prince's patrol, only 8 of the stab wounds were inflicted upon the prince while he was still alive - the remaining 10 stab wounds were done to the prince's corpse. This was due to the ambushers observing the customary Zulu hlomula ritual, which entailing stabbing the body of an already fallen adversary. The practice was related to the hunt, when all the participants of the hunt were expected to stab the carcass of a particularly formidable kill, like a lion or buffalo. To do the same to a human foe was to acknowledge that he had fought with the ferocity of a dangerous wild animal. Langalibalele confirmed that hlomula was performed on the prince's corpse because he had "fought like a lion".[16] It also transpired from the testimonies of the prince's Zulu assailants that the prince's corpse was found naked because Klabawathunga had ritually stripped the prince's body of all his apparel, except for a few medals and the locket around the prince's neck which contained a picture of his mother. After giving the prince's clothes to another Zulu man named Dabayane to hold onto, Klabawathunga explained that he personally performed a slight incision on the prince's naked abdomen in order to observe the customary Zulu qaqa ritual, which was customarily performed on the corpses of slain foes for the purposes of removing a perceived contagious ritual pollution that followed homicide, called umnyama in isiZulu (meaning 'dark contagion').[17] It was believed that the swelling that occurred in corpses was due to the homicide victim's soul trying but failing to escape the decaying body, and therefore the killer had a duty to make a hole in their victim to allow the soul to escape lest the killer's own body swell like a corpse.[18][19] This was the traditional Zulu explanation for the observable swelling of the body which occurs in corpses due to the fermentation of butyric acid in the gut.[20] The prince's bloodstained clothes had meanwhile been removed in order for Klabawathunga to observe the customary Zulu ritual of zila, where a killer was required to wear their victim's clothes (polluted by the harmful influences of his blood) while observing customary ritual abstentions in order to cleanse themself of the crime of homicide.[21] The Zulus had not looted the prince's jewellery because it was seen as a dishonourable thing to do to a warrior, and because it was believed the prince's spirit would haunt them if they stole the jewellery,[22] which was misconstrued for a magical talisman.[23]
@@truthmatters758 they did, apparently. The Zulu commander's correspondence with the British commander is a matter of public record, after all.
@@torg2126 written by who?
By golly he went out with his boots on.
“Don’t let me die with my boots on”
Much like Custer just threw years before. Both fighting where they both didn't belong.
@@robertsullivan4773 Custer brought his own death onto himself. It was his men who died with their boots on in a place they shouldn’t have been.
Since it was a British uniform he must have been wearing Doc Martins.
@@robertsullivan4773 What did Custer "throw" ? At least George wore the uniform of his country.
Fun fact: the Footscray (Australian Rules) Football Club, founded in 1877, was formally known as the ‘Prince Imperial Football Club’ out of respect for the bravery of this man. And to this day still proudly sports the ‘red white and blue’ of the French Tricolour.
I live in a few km away in the next suburb and never knew that!
@@gctzx well now you know..
Well, I'll be buggered! You learn something new every day, very interesting.
GO THE MIGHTY MAGPIES!😁 Well, hopefully next year, anyway!🙄
That is kinda fitting, Frenchmen are kinda the Poofters of the warrior world, and AR is kinda the Poofter of the Rugby world.
:)
Pulled out the spear and fought with it? Certified badass
No one has been really badass if the Europeans would have went to Africa in peace and traded in peace .. oh my bad they had nothing to trade butt tools of War
@@DrewDaGod-vt6zr butt
except the fact that he invaded a country and wanted to massacate them
@@truthmatters758 still a badass move
@@JoshuaC923 but he had a gun , the warriors didn’t and he still lost
A cousin of his fought in WW2 against the Germans!
And an English prince who became a German Prince supported the Nazis. Even tho being born in England and growing up there until his teens.
King Edward VIII was a known Nazi sympathyser too.
@Random_UserName4269
Duke Charles Edward of Saxe Coburg.
He became head of Nazi Germany's Red Cross. His 3 sons had fought in for the Wehrmacht. 'Karl Edvard' was a convinced high ranking NAZI, His sister Princess Alice, remained loyal to him. This former British royal, lived literally got away with his affiliations post WW2.
Same for the descendant of Joachim Murat who was in the french resistance who got killed by the hands of the Germans.
@@Unpseudopascommelesautres Murat never should have betrayed Napoleon! I guess his descendent made up for it for France.
To his credit, Zulu warriors were some of the most fierce hand-to-hand combat men in history
Plus they were fighting in their territory on home turf
Zulu were basically Spartans with less Armour and guns
@@Hand-to-handWombatCombat any Greek city state would wipe the floor with the Zulu's, they are given far too much credit. At the battle of Ulundi (the largest battle) 20,000 Zulu's fought 5,000 Brits.
The Brits won and only lost 10 men with 87 wounded while the Zulu's lost 6,000.
@skeetterfinklage445 the Zulu's in the battle of Ulundi were at most 15,000 not 20,000 and the brits had gattling guns and lost 10 men and eighty something more wounded, and 1000 - 1,500 Zulus were killed not 6000 stop inflating numbers and lying.
This was a war fought in the era of firearms. The Zulus by all intents and purposes would defile and tear "any Greek city state" a new hole.
Picking out the battle they lost to make your point is weak.
The Battle of Isandlwana, a battle fought with British firearms vs Zulu spears = 1,300 British soldiers killed including 52 British officers.
Making this battle one of the worst defeats for the British army against a native force in their imperial history.
In an age of firearms mind you, without firearms the Zulus would make women out of those "the Greek city states".
Give credit where credit is due and swallow your shitty racial pride
@@skeeterfinklage445 I'll take your word for it I guess
Okay but let's admit it, most of us wouldn't have gone down as valiantly as he did. The dude was a true warrior.
yeah we wouldn't because our lives and stories are actually real
@@Wolffanghurricane except it was real because the zulus who killed him testified to doing it
Well to be fair he probably was in a situation where he knew he was going to die anyway. Might as well die taking a couple of the enemy with him is a pretty common mentality
@ronintiger You'd think so but people react differently to death. Some become paralyzed with fear and they shut down. Some people beg for their life until the very end. Some people just accept their death. Some people try to run away until the very end.
Not everyone fights until the very end.
@@ronintigerdid he end up killing any anyway?
The masculine urge to die in a last stand
the masculine urge to subjugate and steal
Darwin Award
More like the village idiot, dying for an evil cause.
@evill01... that urge is not gender specific as female warriors fight with this same ferocity and no fear of death.
@@bama40nhc Women have the most reason to fight to the end... if you know what i mean :/
While military genious was unique to single member of his family, impetuous and stubborn character was lot more widespread.
Often the great generals draw on the collective experience of their officers as well, taking a slice of all the credit.
@@thomaseriksen6885not Napoleon, I think.
@@thomaseriksen6885 Some of Napoleon's Marshals occasionally did great job while fighting battles separately, once Grande Armee was lined up with big battle, Napoleon would control it by himself, like chess game on the board. And grand strategy for beating Napoleon was to catch his smaller units separated and beat them before he could react. Of course, modern warfare is not any more about whole army concentrated on one place under single leader so commanders must know how to use subordinates well.
*genius
@@Shadowkey392 You don’t know any of Napoleons field marshals by name I’m guessing? Devout, Calvert and 17 others I can’t recall atm. All tacticians and planing genius’s in their own right (minus 3 I know of that were idiots)
1879 and being 23 years old.. It's very possible he could had led France through both World Wars.
What COULD have been, deserves to be remembered.
Maybe. He would have been 89 in 1945
@@theris2747 WW1 works then because that would have been his peak years
@@BlazingFlame69 I’d rather not have him take Pétain’s place and shaming the family name forever x)
@@trlacr1781Maybe have him lead France during the Interwar period?
@ Way too late to have a regime change without major turmoil by this point, I think. The nationalist movement had strong momentum right before the war, it is believed they would have come to power in 1940. Maybe his presence could have accelerated things, but it’s hard to see the socialists and communists accepting a Bonaparte in power without starting unrest (strikes etc)
Great little piece of history. Thank you so much for posting. 🙂
Old school version of dying with your mag pouches empty and casing on the floor with as many dead with you
What an idiotic, backwards, and evil thing.
His body lay in state in the Catholic Cathedral of my home town, Pietermaritzburg.
Are you proud or something ?
Is this in France?
Interesting... thank you for sharing that. 😊
FREE SOUTH AFRICA!!!!
@@jdee8407-- No, in South Africa where he died.
An interesting fact is that his mother, Empress Eugenie travelled to South Africa by the generous offer of Queen Victoria. While searching for the battle site in the veld, the Empress suddenly smelt a strong scent of violets which led her unfailingly to her son's memorial cairn. "They were his favourite flower", she explained afterwards. As a Spirit, her son guided her to the site of his last stand as a final act of love, comfort and closure for his mother.
The Prince Imperial's mother was the very beautiful Empress Eugenie who lived on to the great age of 90 in exile in England.
Who would have guessed? A fitting end to a warrior name 👍
how ? dying while trying to invade a country by force ?
A Frenchman (Napoleons heir) fighting for Britain invading an African nation . A true warriors death. Politics aside ✌️
@@johnking6252 an idiot failson with cannons and guns fighting against people with spears insisted on using his grandfather's old saddle and led his troops into an ambush. He charged spearmen on his horse and his saddle then broke apart which caused him to be dismounted in melee combat where he was now at a disadvantage. Stop romanticising this racist imperialist idiot who was there to wipe out the Zulu people in order to create more diamond mines for the British empire. He died a fool's death against brave warriors defending their lands from a foreign occupier.
@@truthmatters758mate, it’s old history by this point, and irrelevant to the modern world. No one besides those looking for a problem to care about actually care what he took part in.
@@truthmatters758Judging the past by today's standards is a fools game. And seeing as you've posted this same crap on nearly every comment about him, you're a fool. And clearly a fraction of a man this man was.
Far too young, but a glorious death.
Men should have children before they go to war.
Some may.. Now with DNA, it's easier to figure that out definitively!
So they can leave orphans behind?
Or they should not go to war to help imperial ambitions of other countries?
@@mightypigeon836 That is a sad possibility but worse is that lineage ends because they had no children
Glorious death ?
He died well.
yeah, to die fighting is no dishonor.
Died fighting for his enemies conquering African land
@@NekiLik2351 so?
@@Hal-k8phe was the literal lineage of Napoleon, that could've possibly brought the dynasty back, but died like an animal trying to conquer people who weren't even technologically up to date.
That isn't honour if it was someone of any other race you'd call it stupidity
@@joshuatony.5353 A couple things - there is no way the dynasty would have ever come back. Europe had seen enough of the Bonapartes that they were not going to allow it again. And high technology or not, a stick can kill you just as dead as anything else. And, you know nothing about me, so you have NO idea what I would call it if it were a different race. You are merely projecting your ideas on to me. So you get three strikes overall.
Imagine what may have transpired in the 40’s had this guy still been around during the turmoil in France
He'd be in his mid to late 80s.
the Nazis might have tried to restore him to the throne for Vichy France LOL
Sounds like he would have a great leader
if getting stabbed a bunch of times is all it takes for being a great leader, then France must have low standards.
I never knew this. If he lived & ended up in France at some point, a lot could have happened. Sad. He was definitely worthy of dining in the halls of his fathers.
You mean his colonialist and imperialist fathers…
#Kwasia
What's that Valhalla?
@@globalcetzen5271cringe
My great, great grandfather was there when it happened. He was in the British army. They warned the prince not to go out by himself, but he didn't listen and went ahead. They tried to help, but it was too late. My great, great grandfather was going to keep a corn cob with the princes blood as a souvenir, but his officer told him to throw it down. My great, great grandfather's name was William Henry Morrissey. When it was time for him to go back to Britain, he deserted the army, because he was Irish and didn't want to go back.
Really were you there???🤔🤔
@@mico5263 Wowww, maybe his Grandfather wrote it or told it through generations you know???? Let's use some critical thinking skills next time
@@mico5263 what kind of a stupid question is that. My grandfather's grandfather told him smart ass
@@mico5263holy hell learn to READ
@mico5263 Are you mentally retarded
He was such a footnote of history, they didn't even bother to mention his name in this video. Poor bastard.
Meh… he was invading the ancestral lands of an ancient people, hardly a hero worth remembering.
@danidejaneiro8378 no doubt about that. Cheers!
@@danidejaneiro8378the Bantus also displaced native San people in the past. Earth is valuable and fought over since time eternal. There are almost no true natives anywhere on earth.
@danidejaneiro8378 Literally 99% of human history was just this. When did men become such pu55ys that they cry about that 🤣. Also I imagine you don’t criticise the biggest mass murderer in history ghengis khan who invaded land that wasn’t his, what about the Turkic invasions of Central Asia? Are you aware Central Asia used to be predominantly white before the genocide and expansion of Turkic tribes? This is just human history. You think like an estrogenic woman
@@danidejaneiro8378Ancestral land? The Zulus conquered the territory from other tribes 😂.
The irony of the last napoleon known descendant fighting for the british...... bonaparte must be rolling in his graves shouting "Sacre blue".😂😂😂
*sacre bleu
Or "Wellington's people lost the best soldier they could've ever had"
I live in Bordentown, NJ where his uncle had a huge estate on the outskirts of town.
His uncle drank so much they called him joey bottles
Who cares?
See you in Valhalla my warrior brother.
Yeah he's definitely going to Valhalla, he went out like a warrior
His father was caught and surrounded by prussian warriors just 9 years earlier. Military talent faded in the Bonaparte family.
Wow!!
You mean tactical talent
tbf to his father, that guy was dying of long term illness before the FrancoPrussian War even started.
His father surrendered to the Prussians and was taken prisoner in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Paris was besieged and eventually also surrendered. The bitterness of this loss led France to develop a much more aggressive and militaristic stance during WWI, led Germany to underestimate France in the opening stages of the war, and ultimately resulted in horrendous casualties until the war devolved into a stalemate for the exhausted sides until the Americans entered the war to break the stalemate.
The Prussians were paid by the Rothschilds.
What's with all these cowards being proud of getting banksters money to defeat enemies they otherwise wouldn't have been able to defeat? It's an epidemy ffs 😂
What I am hearing is that the British managed to take out Imperial France 3x.
Absolutely. Given who he was, he'd not be able to refuse a high risk assignment.
@donquixote3927 A high risk assignment that was granted at his mother's urging.
Brits had nothing to do with the fall of the Second Empire.
@@horatiuscocles8052 Guessing that you don't realize what happened to the 2nd empire
@@thalastianjorus They lost to the Germans not British
Hi! I'am French i didn't know that? Thank you for your video!!
Somewhat prophetic about the destiny of France as well
The History Chap did an episode on this. I cheat and watch you both daily.
As the old song said Boney was a warrior a terrier! Brave man!
This man died like a badass.
Long love the Zulu!!!
Wow! Thanks Africa. Really.
It's such a grave dishonor for the blood of a monarch to perish in a battlefield so far away from home. It's either a grave miscalculation of the British or a purposeful placement of deploying him in Africa. It's such a loss.
If memory serves, Louis volunteered to go as a gesture of gratitude for Britain taking him and his family in. Either way, it's still tragic. Then again, that's war, eh.
Maybe he shouldn’t have been invading other people’s land and he might have avoided such a dishonour
Exactly what I was thinking @@danidejaneiro8378
@@danidejaneiro8378
Hey, the British did it first. He just volunteered
@ - an accomplice to the crime is still guilty of the crime 🤷♂️
Oh my! And this is yet another reason why I watch you channel!
Had he survived I can see France welcoming him back after tales of his bravery.
I love your videos! They’re very informative.
Weeks later after the ambush when the Zulus found out who they actually killed they apologised and said they wouldn't have killed him if they knew who he actually was.
As posted above they didn't say that due to who he was, but due to "how" he was.
The zulu custom was that during your first battle you only watch, not participate, so if they knew it was his first battle they would not have attacked him.
Wayenzani ezosukela obaba mkhulu kwela Mthaniya.
He died fighting. Respect. Rest in peace.
@@DavidBenner-cy4zl He died invading a foreign land and butchering helpless women and children!
@frankrice9520 Oh, please. Grow up.
@@DavidBenner-cy4zl Explain. What is juvenile about my statement that requires maturing?
@@frankrice9520cringe
@@frankrice9520touche grass
He was already exhausted and injured, he was 23, his first time in war too, yet he went out like a true warrior.
Well, by golly, I did not know that!
From Italian to French to British this family never gets old
You corsican/genoa to french to british
Not italian, corsican
Spear in the thigh? Probably doomed as soon as he pulled out the spear. A severed or nicked femoral artery bleeds out fast
He was doomed anyways, better to go out like that than to try and flee while surrounded
Yeah but he had nothing to lose
Rip legend.
Not a legend, a coward.
@@imÏÏÅŢØX̌you are the coward
And I believe a Brit officer escort with him that rode away was later cashiered for "abandoning him." Apparently, it was quite the scandal that he died a possibly preventable death and they scapegoated Lt. Carey to cover it up.
Well done, again‼️
Until William and Harry, he was also the last royal to be put on the field of battle. His death led to more caution in that regard. Which makes their service all the more remarkable.
Not really, Albert 1st fought with his men in WW1, kept Belgium free because of it
Harry only went out on patrol when the cameras were there. Bunker Harry spent most of his time playing video games, well out of danger
The british ran away, and the french fighting was overwhelmed. Sound like dunkirk.
Brave man. ❤
They always concoct a brave ending for their soldiers 😂
Kinda reminds me of the scene in _The Last Samurai;_ the Tom Cruise character is wounded in the thigh and shoulder yet keeps fighting even though surrounded.
The Zulu missed big chance there, if they captured him alive they might have been able to force Britain into a peace agreement.
@@johndoeman9187 I doubt they had any idea who he was.
He fought to the bitter last the man definitely was a Bonaparte
He wasn't....
@@joviemaco1888cringe
@@ronanchristiana.belleza9270 you too
@@joviemaco1888 cry
I like the arrow animation to the full video. High five your editor and more people should do that.
His ghost is said to have visited his mother not long after his demise.
He looks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Notice to everyone who calls themself an “gangsta”…thats a real gangsta!
That's a good story and somewhat appropriate.
Respect to the Zulu Ancestors, some of the most powerful black men to ever live. I gotta say he went out fighting like a true warrior.
😂😂😂 thanks for the laugh
@@Latvijas_Amēlija and your woman loves BBC.
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@@KLMT01 could you clarify? Or are you being racist in your typical passive-aggressive, cowardly way? Yes, I think it's option #2. How boring. 🥱
Ain’t it amazing even an excelled prince can continue on in life eventually finding hisself a place in history. And to think we could be so lost without what our family’s have built in place for yourself
The assegai would of made huge gsping wounds . He would of been in really close uo fighting as the assegai is not a throwing spesr but a stabbing one .
This was really interesting to learn!
As a British guy I think he’s pretty cool tbh
Holy cow, that was an ending that nobody could have anticipated Wow..
You know, with the Yugoslavian prince also going into the British army as a captain, I think there seems to be a fair few exiled sons of royalty who flip British
Glad they got him ❤
Good. How dare those ppl fight for their land?
Sounds like he was a badass
Sweet man thanks for making!
What a fascinating end to a fascinating dynasty
I'm ignorant on this but what were they doing in Africa messing with the zulu kingdom?
Same as they were doing in N Africa, Asia, the Americas etc etc. White Euro invaders.
All the fault of one man's ego. Britain did not want, nor could it afford, a war in Africa.
Sir Henry Bartle Frere the High Commissioner for Southern Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony, disobeyed orders from Britain and issued the Zulu chief Cetshwayo with 'The Ultimatum' which led to the war.
The British were doing to the Zulu Empire what the Zulu Empire had done to a whole series of smaller Kingdoms and tribes.
The British smoked the Zulus because they were allied with the Boers and were killing their settlers. In this war they were the first non-Americans to use Gatling guns, revolvers, repeating rifles and a precursor to hollow point ammunition en masse.
Sounds like a man I would follow
What this didn't highlight was how it was entirely Boney 3's own fault. He pushed for frontline combat, he insisted on his grandfather's saddle, and he insisted on camping near the "abandoned Zulu village".
Do you see anyone saying it was anyone else's fault?
@@muammarbinsharif6425 He's probably trying to win an argument had in the past on the subject.
And actually napoleon the third was his father who was also the last French emperor so he would have been the fourth had he survived
A story of what might have been, unburdened by what it was....😢😢😢
Incorrect….although he attended the British Officer Academy at Woolwich as a cadet/student ( specifically for Royal Engineers/Artillery) he was never actually commissioned into the British Army as it wasn’t considered politically expedient as he was French royalty albeit in exile…..during the Zulu war he was given reluctant permission by the British government to go along as a “Special Observer “ and wore the uniform of a Royal Artillery subaltern as he was purely venturing into a military campaign…..he was not and never was a member of the British Army
Certainly upheld the family name. War in the blood.
Why anyone was fighting a war against people in their homeland while half across the world from the warmongers’ country or origin is beyond me. It wasn’t a war. It was a conquest. And that’s deplorable.
They fragged his a55!😂
Should have made him marry and produce an heir before letting him go off to earn his spurs.
Knew the ONLY WAY to HANDLE M 💯
And guess what he died like an animal that he was
*He certainly got what was coming to him. A wealthy aristocrat born with a silver spoon in his mouth who was brutally killed while trying to enslave other people. I simply can’t find any tears.*
And the zulis got what they had coming to them aswell.
The world runs full circle👍🏻👍🏻
The zulu killed and Inslave each other aswell but okay
@ *So do Americans. With the same skin tone as mine and possibly yours (which is White.) People’s are entirely reflective of the environment their in and when they are being hardcore subjugated and oppressed (such as what this wealthy aristocrat was doing to those people), it’s going to be reflected in their actions. Especially when these types of aristocratic colonizers employ the agenda of divide and conquer. This will happen to any race, wealthy or poor folk, educated or uneducated. So the real issue here is about why this aristocrat and his people have to do this to these folks, and why you are apparently seeing the victims as animals.*
@@chrisulmer694 you do realize the zulu migrated here aswell and killed, Inslaved stole land too the original people were the Khoi San not the Zulu's I agree with what the British did was wrong but acting like the Zulu's were Angel's that did no wrong is stupid
@ *Where did I ever say the Zulu’s were angels? I won’t ever say that about any demographic of people, nor will I ever say that any demographic of people are monsters. Even though their behavior may as well be. But my entire point is what social science says, due to its ability to make extremely accurate predictions. Which is that there’s no such thing as human nature, that is actually very malleable (depending on social factors and the environment people are in), and when a demographic of people cause great harm to another demographic of people and cause great disruption to their environment, there is certainly a cause and effect relationship to it.*
As an individual life, it was a tragedy. That there was no longer a possibility of a Nepoleonic monarchy, it was a good thing.
Yes good. Down with all aristocracy!
So the Romanovs weren’t the first royal line to be exterminated by the poor judgement of a British monarch… 🤨🤨🤨
It's not the responsibility of the British to save every royal house in Europe from their own self inflicted demise.
The romanovs kinda exterminated themselves
We know WHO exterminated them
Czar Nicholas was the first cousin to George V. People mistook them for twins. The English had the opportunity to rescue the imprisoned and exiled Romanovs but didn't want to offend the Bolsheviks!! Most Russians, quite rightly, believe they abandoned them to murder.
@@BrianMcCarthy-z9l So the Russians blame the British for not rescuing Russians shooting other Russians inside of of Russia?
What a coincidence, that's not suspicious at all.
Something a bit odd about this story.
The British enjoyed total military supremacy over the Zulu... I wonder why they allowed this prince to find himself in such a situation?
He was supposed to be kept away from combat, but he essentially invited himself along on a mapping expedition that was presumed to be safe.
The troops at Isandlwana might disagree with the “total military supremacy” claim.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel For the Zulus to actually take a victory, they had to engage the British with a more than 10-to-1 numerical advantage, and even then suffered roughly double KIAs and triple the casualties. Compare that to the other end of the scale, with British victories involving Zulu casualty ratios of more than 10 to 1. It's about as close to total military supremacy as history ever gets.
Rourkes Drift entered the chat..
@@EmpiricalPragmatist respectfully, I don’t think that “total military supremacy” is an objective term. Certainly the British did not see the conflict as easy, and the first invasion went terribly. Isandlwana was a humiliating defeat, and the number of British casualties against a pre-industrial enemy was a scandal. Wolseley ended up abandoning plans for a conquest of Zululand. Neither the British public nor the military saw the war as demonstrating “military supremacy.” In fact, it was generally seen as a poor showing militarily.
The basic premise that the British were so in control that there wouldn’t be danger to the Prince is not a fair appraisal of the conflict.
the most badass emperors fight on the frontlines
Wow, a Frenchman who didn't surrender. I very rare specimen indeed.
Zulus didn't take prisoners, and he would have known that. His only option was to go out fighting.
Wow an stupid man ? Not an rare specimen
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Such a win to the British to think that the last Bonaparte died fighting for them. Napoleon would be screaming his tiny head off
So the Zulu tribe of Africa ended the French Imperial family’s chance to return to power. That is something history text books definitely don’t mention in school.
He died as an Emperor aught to have. Heck of a way for the dynasty to end.
Not the only foreign Prince fighting for Britain in South Africa. Christian Victor, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein has a memorial on the same stone in Plymouth
The Napoleon blood memory remembers.
How sad and I wonder how many African kingdoms also lost any chance of surviving. Equally sad.
Kingdoms rose and fell all over the world.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel and brave kings and nobles perished bravely everywhere
Wow a worthy Bonaparte,godspeed🙏🏽💙🫡