This is amazing! I especially love the smoke: I always read in descriptions of Napoleonic battles how much of an effect the smoke has, but it's thanks to reenactors like you I can truly see for myself what it was like!
This is the reason why the soldiers had colorful uniforms & flags : it was imperative to recognize the friends and foes in the battle. On this reenactment day, there was not wind at all and the effect of smoke was indeed tremendous !
In this video, they propably use gunpowder, which produses FAR less smoke than blackpowder that was used in the napoleonic era. So this is not even lose to the amount of smoke there was
It’s the one thing that kills this kind of reenacting. I feel like they should actually fight a bit. Have paintballs in the muskets that hurt, have rubber bayonets or something and have a scrap. Otherwise they get to each other and sort of go “ok what now”
@@jasontownsend9460 bro paintballs out of a musket dont "hurt" you dont know what youre talking about xD they either explode completly and burn or seriously injure someone depending on the paintball xD its a nice idea but a musket is a real weapon you cant shoot projectiles at the others for realism unfortunatly ^^
@@jasontownsend9460unfortunately Shootings projectile even if it’s only a paintball will injure someone if it comes from a musket, paintballs already can tear skin from an air powered paintball gun
5:40 French soldier:aaaaahg aaaaha AAAAAh, what's your name ? other soldier: aaaaaaaaahgh jhon, you ? french soldier: my name's berdard, ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh aaaa Other soldier: what are ya doing ? aaaaaaaagh french soldier: AAAAAAAAAA, fighting other soldier: that sound's cool Thanks a lot for the likes!
Ne vous laissez pas faire par ces Américains obèses fanatiques de tuerie. Ils n’ont que peu d’histoire militaire et aucune culture. J’étais dans les tribunes, et le spectacle, malgré le présentateur saoul et les gradins éloignés, était parfait. Merci à vous et à tous les figurants d’avoir rejoué le point final de l’Epopee napoléonienne. C’était absolument délicieux, quel régal ! Mille fois merci
@@Hadegel It was 4 years ago so unfortunately I don't recall at all. I think I was referring to the fact there are a lot of muskets being shot and almost no reaction to it on the other side. That being said, all of this looks glorious !
@@nellyprice it is done for several reasons.. I know that it’s prohibited in some countries, but not in Belgium. The barrel gets quite hot after firing some shots, so maybe thats a reason.. Sometimes you are just in a hurry and quit the ramming step…the powder is still going to ignite anyway
The hand to hand combat is a bit cringe... but it's that way at every reenactment. If reenactments had all young to middle aged men that were in shape, "fighting" with rubber bayonets/knives I'd totally be down for reenactment
DDR Stasi Revolution During this reenactment, you would be watching from a fair distance away. You can't tell what's happening during a charge. It's also good to remember that they want to make this entire thing as safe as possible, and put the least stress on the reenactors. Several people were hospitalized during the reenactment due to accidents and the heat.
Well... that is reenactement. Everybody in there has to go back to work after the event lol. And people in there would rather use real bayonets and not hit each other rather than use fake rubber ones.
That was fantastic . I felt I was right there ,not just July 2016 but July 1815 .one thing I felt was the confusion of what you were into if there was real ammo and death and mayhem
Oui c'est aussi ma partie préférée : probablement la plus proche - son et image - de la réalité ! Jamais vu cela ailleurs dans un autre film ou documentaire ... Toute la séquence (dans son entièreté) est visible sur la version longue ici à 15 sec et 1h38 sec et en Full HD 1080 ips : th-cam.com/video/lv_o2s5LRYk/w-d-xo.html
It's Awsome seeing these men smile and having fun, that's what reenactment is really about, I mean reenactment is preserving history and red doing it again, but you don't wanna take it too Seriously, you wanna have fun aswell.
I was wondering that as well. I'm guessing its meant to represent a cemetery that was present in 1815 ... or that patch of ground is doubling as another location which includes a cemetery (which wouldn't be correct/allowed to have a reenactment upon really).
I heard some actually use foam bayonets and swords so they can actually hit someone without doing real harm to them. I’m not sure if this is true though.
question; do cavalry reenactors take hits in the same way as infantry reenactors do? i'd imagine it'd be difficult to get a horse to lie on the spot, and i assume letting it run around is dangerous. haven't finished the video yet but from the cavalry defense early in i don't see any of them taking hits.
I have the information that Steven Spielberg is working now to produce a HBO serie about the life of Napoleon. This will be fantastic if and only if he will be able to put the realism of "Band of Brothers" on the screen. Therefore he should have a look to the big napoleonic reenactment world : maby that this small video (184K views - but without blood in it of course) could be an example in order to approach the realism of some battle scenes. If anybody of you have any contacts with HBO or Steven himself, please send them/him the link !
It must be so surreal to run up to someone, stop and then scream at them while they scream at you all the while with a huge grin on both of your faces.
Most aren’t allowed to use ramrods during a reenactment due to the danger of accidentally shooting your ramrod if you were to forget to take it out. That can injure someone quite badly.
Those are Russian musketeer company single flame grenades on the shakos , I also saw white coated Austrians in one or two scenes. I'm thinking all Napolenic groups are welcome, most people don't' know the differences in the uniforms.
....who owns the reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo? I'm not sure if you're trolling or actually don't know who takes part in these events. Rented 'costumes'? You mean uniforms... made by hand.. by the people who want to be there ;)
Those smooth bore muskets were pretty inaccurate. That's why Napoleonic tactics were to bring a line of infantry to within 75-100 yards and fire broadsides until one side had been attrited enough to force it to withdraw.
12:20 - 12:34
I think this is precisely what a XIX century battle would look like
labefana91 Yes, that view is amazing!
labefana91 ikr
I agree
labefana91 why the fuck did you say xix just say 19th
or you know, 19th.
That sight at 12:22 was absolutely mesmerizing.
To think that the world will never see a war fought out in that manner ever again.
That ridge of the opposition at 12:30 in the fading light: massive et magnifique! (BTW: You can write off that year's grain crop.)
My favorite view indeed , very realistic :)
This is amazing! I especially love the smoke: I always read in descriptions of Napoleonic battles how much of an effect the smoke has, but it's thanks to reenactors like you I can truly see for myself what it was like!
This is the reason why the soldiers had colorful uniforms & flags : it was imperative to recognize the friends and foes in the battle. On this reenactment day, there was not wind at all and the effect of smoke was indeed tremendous !
In this video, they propably use gunpowder, which produses FAR less smoke than blackpowder that was used in the napoleonic era. So this is not even lose to the amount of smoke there was
And do remember that it's only 6000 soldiers, so imagine 10 000 or 20 000!
reenactors use blackpowder with their muskets because modern powder is dangerous with muskets@@iisai9109
Imagine somebody who was too immersed into the reenactment actually forgot to "pretend stab" with the bayonet
It’s the one thing that kills this kind of reenacting. I feel like they should actually fight a bit. Have paintballs in the muskets that hurt, have rubber bayonets or something and have a scrap. Otherwise they get to each other and sort of go “ok what now”
@@jasontownsend9460 bro paintballs out of a musket dont "hurt" you dont know what youre talking about xD
they either explode completly and burn or seriously injure someone depending on the paintball xD
its a nice idea but a musket is a real weapon
you cant shoot projectiles at the others for realism unfortunatly ^^
@@jasontownsend9460unfortunately Shootings projectile even if it’s only a paintball will injure someone if it comes from a musket, paintballs already can tear skin from an air powered paintball gun
@@atune2682can’t really go wrong with the bayonet though right?
And plus pain all when you get into your eyes would hurt a lot and wearing masks would just be odd for the reenactment.
5:06 When u are playing Mount & Blade and need to build something against cavalry
10/10
You, sir, are a genius.
Bleh!
totally what I thought too!
If you're actually good at the game you only need a bayonet tho.
Wow! never knew they had camera's back then! Huge respect for the soldier who managed to capture this historic battle. Now we all get to see it..
5:40
French soldier:aaaaahg aaaaha AAAAAh, what's your name ?
other soldier: aaaaaaaaahgh jhon, you ?
french soldier: my name's berdard, ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh aaaa
Other soldier: what are ya doing ? aaaaaaaagh
french soldier: AAAAAAAAAA, fighting
other soldier: that sound's cool
Thanks a lot for the likes!
If only that was how war is XD
5:06 Love that they have a sapper
Actually that's a pioneer - sappers had their own units
Attention to detail
mount and blade irl
Lol IKR have u tried L'Aigle???
Now you got me wondering about L´Aigle... does it sport the wave coop mode that Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword had?
Unfortunately no but hopefully in the future
SlaySnow
Looking forward to it. Also, the release of Mount and Blade II will create a surge in content.
Yeah
Bravo !! one of me favourites videos from Waterloo 200 . Vive L' Empereur !!!
Merci,-
Ne vous laissez pas faire par ces Américains obèses fanatiques de tuerie. Ils n’ont que peu d’histoire militaire et aucune culture.
J’étais dans les tribunes, et le spectacle, malgré le présentateur saoul et les gradins éloignés, était parfait.
Merci à vous et à tous les figurants d’avoir rejoué le point final de l’Epopee napoléonienne. C’était absolument délicieux, quel régal ! Mille fois merci
C'était avec grand plaisir, merci pour le commentaire :)
12:20 - 12:34
A sight to be *_REMEMBERED!_*
2:39 High fives in the 19th century.
12:20 Both mesmerizing and a horrible sight at the same time.
👍
Exactly
best melle fight ever XD 8:39
Nice quality for being a gopro cam from the 1800...
First battle of history with only one death.
JSparo who died and how
See my other answer today on the same subject,-
Atleast he died doing what he loved...
@@Hadegel It was 4 years ago so unfortunately I don't recall at all. I think I was referring to the fact there are a lot of muskets being shot and almost no reaction to it on the other side.
That being said, all of this looks glorious !
god I do love watching this over and over again, puts a chill up my back!!
7:50 that reloading made me cry
[intense sobbing]
Does it avoid risk of someone forgetting to remove ramped during reenactment?
@@nellyprice it is done for several reasons.. I know that it’s prohibited in some countries, but not in Belgium.
The barrel gets quite hot after firing some shots, so maybe thats a reason..
Sometimes you are just in a hurry and quit the ramming step…the powder is still going to ignite anyway
Somebody has been watching ALOT of Sharpe before the reenactment I see.
Sir, our men are running!
shamefur dispray!
@@criztu they're not Japanese you imbecile!
Go Pro Hero 4 which was mounted with a clips on my uniform or the shako :)
Very nice...I support every reenactment both Waterloo, Borodino, Austerlitz...
I so badly wanna do reenactments like this.
Same man. This looks like stepping straight in 1815
magnifique, c'est une super idée d'avoir filmé, ça permet de se donner une idée de ce que c'était, bravo pour la vidéo :D
Came here to make an essay about the Waterloo battles and ended up staying up late watching series of this...
13:40 He used the emergency reloading method
These new Scourge of War Waterloo Sprites look good.
The hand to hand combat is a bit cringe... but it's that way at every reenactment.
If reenactments had all young to middle aged men that were in shape, "fighting" with rubber bayonets/knives I'd totally be down for reenactment
DDR Stasi Revolution During this reenactment, you would be watching from a fair distance away. You can't tell what's happening during a charge. It's also good to remember that they want to make this entire thing as safe as possible, and put the least stress on the reenactors. Several people were hospitalized during the reenactment due to accidents and the heat.
Public battles are always cringy shit shows. Private tacticals are where it's at.
Well... that is reenactement. Everybody in there has to go back to work after the event lol. And people in there would rather use real bayonets and not hit each other rather than use fake rubber ones.
In most cases I'd be sure bayonet on bayonet in open battles would be unrealistic, most cases the enemy broke before a charge
12:21 epic footage a lot better than many movies.
Thank you,-
A few guys from my NW regiment were there!
That was fantastic . I felt I was right there ,not just July 2016 but July 1815 .one thing I felt was the confusion of what you were into if there was real ammo and death and mayhem
Some weapons are loaded some are not they dont say the death tolls
8:42 You were supposed to destroy the Prussians, not join them!
Using the music from WaterLoo (the movie) so great!!!!
Thank you for this!!
Si tu as plus de segments comme celui de 12:17, je suis preneur, c'est sublime.
Je reviens tous les mois voir ce plan tellement c'est impressionant.
Oui c'est aussi ma partie préférée : probablement la plus proche - son et image - de la réalité ! Jamais vu cela ailleurs dans un autre film ou documentaire ... Toute la séquence (dans son entièreté) est visible sur la version longue ici à 15 sec et 1h38 sec et en Full HD 1080 ips : th-cam.com/video/lv_o2s5LRYk/w-d-xo.html
13:38 The bug that won the war
he went on to brussels
2:31 austrian ulans? wtf
lol
One of your stuka dive bombers arent bombing or they are just bombing the comments
11:20 LOL
It's Awsome seeing these men smile and having fun, that's what reenactment is really about, I mean reenactment is preserving history and red doing it again, but you don't wanna take it too Seriously, you wanna have fun aswell.
8:47 why you dident stab in he's torso baymont?
3:35 music name?
Some of that looks incredible.
Love this stuff!!!
amazing
Thank you,-
Super!
very impressive, thanks for sharing. What is the bit with the white crosses?
I was wondering that as well. I'm guessing its meant to represent a cemetery that was present in 1815 ... or that patch of ground is doubling as another location which includes a cemetery (which wouldn't be correct/allowed to have a reenactment upon really).
It’s obviously a fake cemetery that was probably there during the battle but isn’t there now, if it wasn’t they wouldn’t have knocked down the crosses
King Arthur Pendragon Perhaps.
I want to go there. :(
Do it :D
Blyat
Excuse me
Is that a shako-cam?
I don't get the melee in this game
Lol
Dang, I'd love to participate in one of these.
No horses were harmed in the making of this reenactment
No one is every harmed in these, not even the grass.
No worries, only soldiers were harmed.
Great Video!!! Thanks!!👍👍👍
Your are welcome,-
BEAUTIFUL UNIFORMS . . .
Where did you get the uniform man? I NEED TO KNOW!
Most of our uniforms are "home made" from the 8eme regiment de Ligne, a Belgium reenactment napoleonic association,-
PraiseTheGabe Or you can look at Napoleonic Sutlers on Google. Or Corps Sutler
3:24 lancer: duck duck duck, BAH
Bravo David👌👌😎😎😎😎😎😎
Sehr schönes Video wäre mit meinem Onkel auch gerne mal in Waterloo dabei gewesen
any info on how te be a part of the waterloo reenactment
are they die or not
I kinda recommend if you do this again that you do it without the music
I thought you couldn't pull your ram rod during reenactments
in Europe you can
Splendid Beastie I wish you could in the US be more realistic
What are rules for chivalry?
5:40 When you see your friend Was joining in Anti French Coalition Side.
I heard some actually use foam bayonets and swords so they can actually hit someone without doing real harm to them.
I’m not sure if this is true though.
12:20 think that real battle was quite bigger than this. Just imagine being in the middle of it. My bad...
Happy I was there that day!
godmode: on
did they forget to turn god mode off?
superbe vidéo collègue !
Merci Gaetan et il y aura du lourd à venir dès que j'aurai mon nouveau imac,-
Merci cher,-
question; do cavalry reenactors take hits in the same way as infantry reenactors do? i'd imagine it'd be difficult to get a horse to lie on the spot, and i assume letting it run around is dangerous. haven't finished the video yet but from the cavalry defense early in i don't see any of them taking hits.
Austrians Uhlans in Waterloo?
Are them muskets supposed to be bent?????
Brisbin Reiter lol really? Is that a question?
I saw that they were bent in the vidio and I was wondering if if they really bent in the Napoleonic era. I don't know much about muskets
no, it's because of the camera. muskets are in fact very much not bent.
Sorin thx
I have the information that Steven Spielberg is working now to produce a HBO serie about the life of Napoleon. This will be fantastic if and only if he will be able to put the realism of "Band of Brothers" on the screen. Therefore he should have a look to the big napoleonic reenactment world : maby that this small video (184K views - but without blood in it of course) could be an example in order to approach the realism of some battle scenes. If anybody of you have any contacts with HBO or Steven himself, please send them/him the link !
did u kill the horsies?
Yes, they needed to be purged, for they are weak
are those real bullets???? nvm its just a gunpowder btw 0:35 japanese sake? lol
Dr Pantsu I believe they're firing blanks.
Yea i think its just gunpowder
of course its just gunpowder! haha
its obvious it is a gun powder
And I confirmed what you said
That is scary Jon
music was a bit loud, i'd rather hear the battle then an music video
Can someone explain why there are austrian uhlans? WTF Or are they nassau?
Now there are bavarians and austrians? THIS isn't the bloody battle of waterloo, this is wagram XD
And it's a reenactment
It must be so surreal to run up to someone, stop and then scream at them while they scream at you all the while with a huge grin on both of your faces.
I like how they charge and Laugh xD
Do they tell you where on the field of battle you are going to die?
Aspect Ratios nope, soldiers can choose to die whenever they see fit, or not die at all
where did you get your uniform ?
It's made from the 8eme de Ligne Association couturier
Amazing video ! Can you allow me to post it on bilibili ? Wants to make more people saw this ! Thank you !
Yes sure, but don't forget to write my credits on your link please,-
@@vatanenwarbirds Of course ! Thanks very much !
What type camera did you use? How did you mount it on you?
I own a French NW Regiment on Discord for a NW Genre game. And it’s funny how mine is 84e Regiment de Ligne😂😂
I like the way they use the ram-rod amazing. All the others dont.
Most aren’t allowed to use ramrods during a reenactment due to the danger of accidentally shooting your ramrod if you were to forget to take it out. That can injure someone quite badly.
11:16 Russian forces оn Waterloo??
Чингачгук Большой змей No,Those Are Prussians
Those are Russian musketeer company single flame grenades on the shakos , I also saw white coated Austrians in one or two scenes. I'm thinking all Napolenic groups are welcome, most people don't' know the differences in the uniforms.
Imagine if one guy was actually loading his gun with rounds.
Imagine that’s what it looked like just except the guns were real and way more blood and cannon balls being fired and a lot more bayonet charges
Did people die ???
Lorena Arenal yes the death toll isnt counted i think this year it was 17 dead and 4 wounded
0:15 ... cleaning my nose with a rented costume, i can't believe it
Who's renting these? LoL
the owner of the reenactement is renting these costumes lmao.
....who owns the reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo? I'm not sure if you're trolling or actually don't know who takes part in these events. Rented 'costumes'? You mean uniforms... made by hand.. by the people who want to be there ;)
k
It's not rented.. It's history nerds all over the world that come to join these reenactements, and they got their own uniforms and stuff! :)
The bayonet charge is so anti climactic 8:22
So you're telling me there were thousands of men with bayonets and nobody got accidentally hurt? Amazing!
Someone needs to tell that soldier @ 0:17 that Gunpowder is made to shoot not eat..🤦🏻♂️
I was there bro.....
C'est mieux qu'une partie de foot.
Are you French or English?I know you play with the French.
Those smooth bore muskets were pretty inaccurate. That's why Napoleonic tactics were to bring a line of infantry to within 75-100 yards and fire broadsides until one side had been attrited enough to force it to withdraw.
These tactics didn't come with Napoleon; they existed way before.
dressed so well in such a difficult time to live