The Franco-Prussian War using Google Earth
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The Franco-Prussian War from start to finish.
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Russo-Turkish war 1877-78?
Hey mapsinanutshell, great video! Can you share your sources for these movements? Or are they just approximations? :)
@@TheSlazzerHe traced the whole of Here mapping video on the Franco Prussian War
@oajajaj haha OK. But where did he get the information about where? How many soldiers? Were moving at any given time of the video. These day by day videos make it seem like there's a "perfect" historical record when reality must be more blurry. Unless you read literally every divisions' or army corps' history. Which would be a task that would take a historian, perhaps a decade.
So I'm just asking what approximations were made and what was used as a source, to get an idea how authentic it is.
That doesn't take away from my appreciation for this video BTW :)
@@TheSlazzer Yeah it's okay because here mappings video on the subject is the most accurate video on the war
As a Belgian, it's weird seeing Germany picking the short way to France for once.
Edit: why is everybody explaining my country's history to me i know about de damn Maginot Line guys it was a joke
Não existia linha Maginot ainda
lmao
The shortest route isn't always the easiest one, although tbf this was the easiest route in this war. By the time WW1 started, the French had learned their lesson. Massive defences were built along the Franc-German border, which would later become the Maginot line for WW2. Trying an invasion through there would result in massive casualties.
Well maybe that tells us something, but either way Belgium should always be the obvious choice
Northern French and the Dutch are just swamp Germans
Prussians we’re on the offensive and still managed to suffer minimal losses. Wow.
A bit silly of the French to give it a go considering they, the British and the rest of the coalition learned against and beat their best tactician in years.
@@saldjkalskdjasldkjaFrance didn't expect German state to be part of the war. It's all due to Bismarck who managed to totally brained French état major
In these times going on offensive wasnt equal to suffering more losses
Normally in a pitch battle germans were the ones to suffer more loses from their tactics, but it enable them to outmenuvers the french force
I assume the french casualties are because of the captured troops, and prussian superior artillery
Prussians were practically super soldiers. One of them could do the work of four soldiers from any other country.
it is very interesting to see that in 1870 the armies hardly reached 1 million, but less than 50 years later, in the first world war, there were several million soldiers and millions died every year
I mean the German leadership during the Franco Prussian war was much more bold compared to the causious aged generals of ww1
@@scezich6126Yeah you gotta keep in mind that in WWI germany was also facing UK in the western front and Russia in the east, the 2 wars are not comparable
@@blackpaint9093yeah and adding to that, there is a huge difference in weaponry in those fifty years
In WW1 industry was producing greatly more arms. The Russian industry that still was using steam power sources instead of electricity power sources has collapsed the first one.
@@scezich6126the Prussians were also first to the battlefield due to making the trains run on time and so the French were mostly disorganized
It was the Prussian victory over France and their leadership uniting Germany into an Empire that made Meji Japan choose them as a role model to modernize their military; often choosing to hire Prussian officers as consultants to help build a modernize army that would later defeat the Qing & Russian Empire
Same thing with Chile. They were going to bring in French marshals to train their military officers but opted for Prussians instead after this war. Those officers then advised the Chileans go to war with Bolivia and Peru in which Chile won. They still have annual Prussian military parades that are straight out of 1914.
Very knowledgeable! amazing!
Japan's Meiji constitution was based on that of the German Empire.
Army yes, for there Navy they used the best consultants at sea (Britain)
That's absurd, French officers were very good. I mean, when they were taking over parts of Africa, and when working with actual maps of the region instead of gallivanting aimlessly in the Belgian countryside without knowing where to go to find Prussians to fight.
Yea ok buddy sure
Finally, an offensive war that doesn’t involve going into Belgium
Such a shame for the invading armies missing out on the wonderful beer, waffles, and fries
Damn, as a french myself, I didn't even know such a big part of France was occupied, I thought only Alsace and Mozelle was occupied at most
In WW1, Germany (prematurely) produced thousands of medals that showed the Arc de triomphe and Eiffel tower and said "1871-1914," since that was the previous time German troops were in Paris.
У вас очень плохо преподают историю в школе.
@@ttthias About 60% of those 600 000 casualties were captured troops, actual deaths was around 150 000.
@@PrestoPresteinn he is french, not american
@@Mr_d42069 у них образование такое же плохое как в США. Образованные люди никому не нужны
Finally someone did this! such a forgotten part of history.
@@fabianvoigtlander1042means I forgot it
@@fabianvoigtlander1042not talked about a lot
(nvm its not actully forgoten )
Pretty well known war ngl
Trust me if you think this war is forgotten, you'd be surprised.
Literally the birth of Germany, how is this at all forgotten?
After watching so many WW1 and 2 mapping videos it feels weird to see Germany invading France through the Maginot line
cuz it didnt exist in that time
This is the reason Maginot line was created
Ik but still
Same man.
@@Arguingpit93It still failed
This is really impressive! i look forward to watching every video that you make
Props to the google employees for keeping google earth up in the late 1800s.
The prussians were smart enough to snake France's victory points to force a capitulation with minimal losses. Must be very experienced hoi4 players
looking at the causality ratio they were not playing hoi there, they were playing dynasty warriors
"Trucking into paris"
Congrats on 100k subscribers 🎉you deserved it
100,000 subscribers, all deserved.
I think you can make the flags that represent the troops translucent, otherwise it's hard to see the front lines.
Not too opaque however
It's not accurate anyway, it's more representational that a true record of where they were.
congrats on 100k man ive been here sense 9k 👍
Nice job love all your videos
It's wild to think the war was practically decided in battle of Sedan 1-2 Sep. 1870, which takes place at 01:45-01:50 in this video. Yet timewise it was in the war's beginning phases.
I found it strange, though, that the result said battle, liquidation of ~1/7 of the total French forces at the moment, is not reflected on the unit icons at all.
Yeah, it was basically the french refusing to accept that they have lost after they started the war for a petty reason for half a year, costing them half a million lifes and afterwards being still salty about it, why the French were so keen on imposing such harsh conditions in the treaty of versailles. And that is why everyone hates the french
Congrats on 100000!
Nice work thanks ❤
Can you make a tutorial with DaVinci Resolve, please? I really like these videos and would love to make some myself, but Adobe Software is way too expensive.
That’s why you always remember to pack modern artillery
Congratulations on hitting 100,000 subscribers
congrats on 100k
Napoleon III at Sedan on his horse with a hit mark: *plz kill me already*
His horse: 🗿
Extraordinario trabajo, enhorabuena desde España
oh congrats on 100k
Wow bro! Amazing video. Can you do one about the pig war?
I admire you for your sacrifice, I bet it was a big jorney of search and editing to make this video. You deserve this amazing video to become a reference for those who study the Franco-Prussian War, because your graphic quality is simply wonderful.
sacrifice sounds like a dramatic word
"Sacrifice" as if he was a veteran in that war.
@@noyes4968 yeah it is cringe
I'm pretty sure he traced my video on the Franco-Prussian war, not that i'm against that. But it does seem to be what happened
@@schatzkammerein, I'm a mapper too, I'm currently editing a 2 minutes video since March which covers 500 years, and I still have a long time ahead editing 2 or 3 frames daily in order to keep my schedule. Damn yeah, that's a quite sacrificial, definitely not easy to do.
Great battle nice video good job bro love Germany from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿❤🇩🇪
Amazing video!
awesome man
Those big blue blobs of encircled French troops within German lines. Damn. That's like slow-motion blitzkrieg with infantry.
The germans always had a need for speed
well yeah, maneuver warfare has always been a part of German military history
If I am not wrong the french were the ones who started the war and attacked first, why are the german states colored as red and France as blue?
It's a reflex I guess
The French provoked the war hoping to march on Berlin
France’s colour is traditionally associated with blue, while Germany’s is usually Black/Grey or Red.
France is always blue
@@heremapping4484Bismarck provoked the war.
Nice work
It's wild that the casualty's grow but the army's became even larger the longer the war lasted.
They mobilised soldiers.
Sería buenísimo si haces un video sobre la guerra del Pacífico. Peru - bolivia vs chile
I would be happy if ARTE would make a German-French documentary series about this conflict. Objectively and without nationalistic-patriotic inventions.
I am glad that we are friends with the French and that the warsbetween our nations are a thing of the past.
Hope Germany burns in hell, and all of the Germans with it.
Sadly the warmongers are awake again.
The eubhad to be stabilized with more cooperation, there has to be a standard refugee protocol and the leaders should send politicians and dilopmats instead of tanks and planes to stop a war.
@@molybdaen11Today, the only warmonger is Russia, not the EU, the USA, or Ukraine.
@@siegfried7951 the war in Ukraine was started by ukrainian Poroschenko regime in 2014 - trying to exterminate the huge Russion minority in Ukraine. Everything after that was just a futher escalation. And in March 2022, Ukraine and Russia were short before a freedom treaty - it was London and Washington who forced Ukraine to stop these negotiations and continue senseless fighting.
ARTE has always been biased towards France, so that is not going to happen.
Extraordinario trabajo
I like your videos very much ❤❤👍👍
If i'm not mistaken, the denser cannon formations and flexible tactics and high maneuvrability is what made France suffer such a humiliation
yeah, despite tanks and automobiles not existing yet, this was an example of manouver warfare, prussians acted fast, circumvented pockets of resitance, and sourrounded them, cutting them off from communications and supplies, making them teethless
Tbh this view on warfare seems more appropriate to explain Napoleon's success. I think what gave such an edge to the Germans was their highly organized mobilization system and their successful usage of a militarised railroad network, all of which enabled them to bring men and sufficent material much more quickly on the front, whereas the French army was in a poor state and highly disorganized because of decades of an unprecedent level of corruption in the military ranks (since Napoelon III's regime).
@@hs2546 True
And also the Germans powderless needle rifle
@@cyrilk3254 powderless... or smokeless? Smokeless powder came in use at the end of the century. During the Franco-German war, both side were using blackpowder cartridges, and French troops even had an edge with their Chassepot rifle since it used smaller ammunitions, which enabled them to be more precise at a greater range and to deal much more damage on their target compared to the Dreyse rifle used by the Germans.
France always looses in a 1 vs 1 against Germany 😂😅
Except that time napoleon solo'ed europe
@@matheusexpedito4577 there existed no "Germany" at the time of Napolean
@@Iamnotracistlmao yeah, but the german states existed
@@matheusexpedito4577 which were not united
Napoléon 😂
Great video, I feel like it would be better if you moved the flags away, there in the way of the Frontline
awesome!
This channel shows meps of wars that no one else covered yet. Thank you for preserving forgotten parts of history 👍
No one? Not really
Stolen comment + L ratio + grammar mistake “map” and also a lot of people made vids about this war.
@@Freddy_Fazbear_and_Witherred And forgotten? Not really
this was covered by many channel,with narration and background knowledge...
this war was an answer,not a question
@@hansdampf640 TRUE
Amazing the number of encirclements the Prussians did without having armour. I guess Cavalry could have done it. The lopsided casualty figures are due to the Prussian artillery if I remember correctly. Also interesting how long the encircled forces could last in those days. They obviously didn't need as much supply as they would today.
casualties would include captured troops from encirclements, which would give quite a lot of that. (not that artillery or other factors wouldn't have also mattered, but just this was the most extreme one in the video).
and yeah i was interested in that too, i guess they don't really need fuel like tanks and vehicles and none of those are craazy big like its realistic they could be fed on the land.
no it's actually because Moltke cheated and chose both mobile warfare and superior firepower
@@lythd french troops would also be able to more effectively endure encirclement on their own territory in the summer months
100k this is for all your work.
imagine chilling in the southern part of france throughout all of this
5:23
There is a large encirclement comparable to Metz, but I never heard of it before.
Are these movements accurate or estimation?
Most likely a rough estimate because it is hard to confirm battles and how they played out in those years.
This was not ancient times, there are specific numbers for the losses of each battle.
Hello, this is me from the future. Every single troop placement in the video is extraordinarily inaccurate. This war was not even fought with front lines, it was fought with armies, like napoleonic times.
I watch these for the music selection more than anything.
It's on the description to let you know
Wow, what a slaughter! How did it end? Wish the video would continue or at least provide some info screen at the end.
It ends with the German victory and the formation of the German empire leaded by Prussia
Can you please do it for Napoleon's wars?
Wow, what a trouncing, and just 50 years before Napoleon's France had casually swept aside the germans, conquering the Prussians in a mere 3 weeks. I think the French left behind the best of their race in Russia in 1812, they were never again the mighty force that had dominated Europe throughout the middle ages. This war was the nail in the coffin, and with the following instability and plummeting birthrates they sunk to become a mere spectator in history and have never again risen.
It is rather more complicated than that. You say the best of their race died in Russia, but that is not correct. Half the French Imperial Grande Armee wasn't even French, and it was always held together through punitive threats and fear. It was not this monolithic, 750,000 strong army of Frenchmen. Nope. A huge number of other, enthralled nationalities, were in league with the French but largely, not by choice.
And do not forget, that in 1813, as merely 35,000 bedraggled Frenchmen limped back into Western Europe, with about 58,000 others whom had been in that once mighty army to enter Russia in 1812, that Napoleon Bonaparte achieved a great feat of logistics, recruiting literally over 400,000 new troops in that year. Were they as experienced as the ones he'd lost in droves in the Russian Winter of 1812? No, not a chance. But they would fight with some ferocious elan and determination in the years 1813-1815. Literally hundreds of thousands of them would die, but still.
Also, lest we forget, the French sacrificed 1.75 million soldiers in the First World War (most of which, French, some of which, French Colonial; aka with nationalities as varied as what we'd now call Vietnamese, and many others, such as soldiers from Cameroon) I'd say that it was after the First World War, in which France was truly spent. Her feeble efforts in 1940, were no match for the Germans. Cue crying Frenchmen drumming up the sacrifice of 30,000 French troops in rearguard (also with about 10,000 British soldiers helping them, which is often forgotten/omitted on purpose; and ffs it was happening in France of course the French should have had the biggest defensive forces in the region out of the allies at that time) for Dunkirk.
Well, as much as some Anglophobes would like to blame Britain for all of France collapsing in 6-7 weeks flat, the truth was, France was pretty cocky in the interwar years acting like the mightiest nation in the world, thanks to it's immense army which was 2nd only in size, then, to the Red Army in Soviet Russia. However, in the grand scheme of things, that was about 1 corps of French troops being chewed up against an entire German field army, to help Britain evacuate 123,000 Frenchmen and about twice as many British, off the beaches of Dunkirk. Yet also, do remember, that approximately 93% of the French whom the British rescued (leaving behind many of their own men to fit more Frenchmen on British ships instead; also losing a lot of British ships under constant Luftwaffe Stuka dive bomber attack) from Dunkirk, _went home to France_ after they were given the choice of repatriation, by the British government. Some may have joined the French Resistance, but quite frankly, the scale of how many French returned to France, made what the British had done seem pointless.
Britain was only ever meant to be a reinforcing faction in the Northern sector, just like they were in WWI. It makes me laugh when French dudes get pissy about the Battle for France, as though the British just betrayed France and left it to the German wolves. Not true. It didn't happen that way at all. France was puffing up it's chest for over 20 years at that point. It had bullied Germany at the Treaty of Versailles (France, not Britain, was the most aggressive in pursuing reparations from Germany, to the tune of 100 Billion Deutschmarks; which it simply, could not afford, especially due to hyperinflation; as in, the value of 100 Billion Deutschmarks _prior to_ the hyper-inflation, not during or after it; aka at 1918/1919 rates there or thereabouts)
Why French dudes cope and seethe about Britain being not as numerous militarily, is hilarious. It's as if the French think they have this god given right to sacrificing British lives on the altar of saving France. France doesn't even respect Britain and is a very poor ally in terms of how it behaves and how it goes about things. e.g. France sold EXOCET missiles to Argentina which Argentina used against British ships in the Falklands War in 1982. French nationalists still laugh about that to this day. It's a total disgrace. British servicemen _died_ on those ships. Fvck France.
Map inaccuracy: In those days Belgium did not include the eastern cantons with Eupen-Malmedy.
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Can u do a tutorial bc i need to impress my friends oh wait i don't have any friends but still can u do it?
Good job man, i hope you can do the Sand War in the future
No offense to you but if you make a casultie counter, dont just make it fit in a way its only accurate at the end of the war
Either you actually try and make the counter realistic and accurate with corresponding battles, or you just leave it out
I hope they make a movie about the Franco-Prussian war soon. I think it's high time they made one
There is a video about the danish Prussian war. Maybe watch as long as there is no movie about Franco Prussian war
@@aka99 I know I've seen it. 1864. It was a Danish production but it had English subtitles. Very well made miniseries
Forget it there will be very less movies in which Germans win
Thank you needle gun, very cool
It's so accurate!
This War has 100% death rate
Everyone dies in the end
Had no idea so many people died in this war
french loses are like 60% captured. dead are similar to prussian
@@cotefabrice1801 No actually France lost three times as many men as Germany. About 150k for France and 50k for Germany.
@@Leprofdesinnoh you’re right
Insane how in the video the number of french casualties excelerates towards the end, if that is somewhat similar to how things really went, its no wonder France gave up.
really cool video! from other videos i’ve seen that red and blue either mean
red: attacker/country that would end up losing the war
blue: defender/country that would end up winning the war
why did you make germany red in this case? obviously minor nitpick, this is incredible
The encircled French imperial armies capitulated by decision of the emperor and were included in the losses, they were the only professional armies in the country
the French republic was proclaimed and organized the defense of France with armies of volunteers not always well armed and extended the war by 6 months to the surprise of the Germans
Yes this is time they learnt that a smaller professional army is not as good as massive conscript army.
Same reason why Soviets repelled a surprise German invasion - their conscription system.
@@aksmex2576The Wehrmacht was a conscript army too…
@@lester_the_molesterMaking an army of conscripts only amplifies the population differences of countries. The Soviets had a lot more manpower to throw at the Germans.
@@aksmex2576 i mean i certainly wouldnt ever boil something down to one factor, but in that case i feel like ur just wrong. the soviets were outnumbered for a huge portion of the war. i would say the biggest reason is just enough production to hold on and keep the oil, and the germans would run out and without fuel there wasnt much they could do anymore. supply would be another big reason too.
I suspect their lack of training is why French casualties were so much higher, once the professional French army was mostly used up.
Both armies reached over 1 million by the end, but French losses just were wild. The Germans cleave through the French like a hot knife in margarine.
Most of these losses were captured troops. Bad tactic and strategy lead to that...
@@bunkerkorpf1440 so the French
@@openlyracist8055 in 1870 and 1940, yes, huge French fails.
Although it was also true for USSR in 1941, with millions of captured troops in less than 5 months, still USSR won.
Bad tactic and strategy don't always mean defeat if you have time to adapt and if you are able to replace losses (France in 1914, USSR in 1941).
France couldn't win in 1870 once it lost it professionnal army, especially since "Germany" had far more people...
@@bunkerkorpf1440in 1870 both countries had around the same population around 40 million
@@xoxoxoxo570 Wrong, in 1870 France had around 37 millions people, and a far less younger population than Germany. So, far less soldiers indeed (soldiers are always mostly young guys), while "Germany" (ie german states forming later german empire) had around 41 millions people, and a far younger population (indeed second half of 19th century was a demographic boom for german states).
You should learn more about history
It's still mindboggling that the battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BCE) and battle of thr Red Cliffs (208-209CE) are possibly some of the largest naval engagaments in history with some 300.000 combined combatans and over a thousand of ships. Only in modern times are they ecplised by modern technology and wastly larger populations. It just goes to show how sophisticated and well-organized people were back in the day despite their lack of modern technology and engineering to accomplish such feats.
The battle of cape ecnomus is still to this day the largest naval battle of all time.
very good
Atleast they didn't have to invade Belgium this time.
Cuz there were no maginot line back then
@@neriedthey’re basicly was tbh
@@neriedlets assume the french were the maginot line
@@neriedThere was no Maginot line in 1914 either
I didn't know much about this war. The Germans really drove deep. No wonder they tried it twice more.
and succeded.
unnecessary to say this but, i learnt how to make these videos by you and the first map project i made used this music bruh.
How do you make these animated map
Imagine someone from our timeline goes back to the past and tells Bismarck how badly Germany/Prussia will be punished in the 20./21. century, I wonder how Bismarck would have felt.
Kinda sad to see how much of Prussia and Prussian history got erased from the minds of the todays Germans when talking about modern history of Germany, which is of course caused (i am myself a german) because our own greed and by the harsh treaties of the both world wars. The world only remembers of Hitler when talking about German history but not of Otto von Bismarck:(
Sad indeed. Both are for propaganda reasons. Hitler was represented (and is) one of the most if not the most evil man ever. The Kaiser was also represented as evil and causing WW1 despite both of those being mostly untrue. The German empire should be remembered as more a lesson, not an evil force, as the only difference between it and the entente was that they were rival factions. The German empire was probably not be remembered in a good light for the foreseeable future, mostly because the Prussian militarism that eventually led to Versailles and Hitler was taken out of German culture as much as possible
The treaty from WW2 was probably the best outcome for Germany, ever. Germany is now an economic powerhouse, 4th largest in the world and the main driving force of the EU and the European Bank. If anything, Imperial Germany's plans for Mitteleuropa and an economic bloc centred on Germany have been achieved.
Germany was even more of an economic powerhouse prior to the first/second world war and has risen time and again despite losing major industrial areas and paying tribute. On the other hand it's naive populism to equate EU institutions in which Germany has little voting rights to German dominance. Southern economies like Italy and Greece like to blame Germany for their misery but they have their own elites/politicians to thank for it. These countries are not even important markets for German goods but the idea that they are pawns in an imaginary game of German dominance via the EU seems to be more acceptable than just admitting reality. The word 'German centered economy' alone is strange as the EU is a free market without discrimination. No American would complain that the US economy was 'California centered' as it's clear how the US benefits from having free markets and successful member states that fund the budget.
I understand 20th but how are Germans harshly punished in the 21st century?
@@neezduts_Nazi Germany killed 17 millions of USSR civilians. What is untrue? How do you think? I can't understand how people can be so disgusting.
Germany not going through belgium feels odd
nice job
What's the music that starts at 6:17
seeing the German lines course through the French countryside like a snake was certainly something
The First Tour de France ^^
I get the flags represent where the armies were but it really blocks the map where gains and losses are made, sometimes I can’t even tell at all what’s happening in some areas of the map.
Maybe he should make the flags more differenciable
In Germany we don't hear much about this war, most of us don't even know it. It's just weird than Germany formed around 1850 and we went to war with France 3 times in 100 years lol
I'm glad the times have changed and our countries work together. Just sad that we didn't do it in times where we actually were strong af.
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germans sure know their war. im pretty sure they were the actual protagonists of this story
Well it was France that declared the war....
@@borisbrosowski6630 the reason why they started made this to a big humilation after they lost 😂
Don't believe the BS that politicians tell you through state-financed schoolbooks and teachers (esp in history). Prussia had founded the North-German Confederation which threatened to be a predecessor to a united Germany, something that France could not accept as a united Germany would be superior (as proven in the war). Thus N3 looked for an incident to break up the NGFederation and maintain an influence over the smaller german states in the south. This general french policy led later to WW1 and even was continued up until 1923 when France tried to establish a Rhine Republic. @@DaoAncestor
also, mistake, i believe that france was the attacker in this war
yes
But provoked by Germans
@@Sperenza2byet the french attacked
@@Sperenza2b provoked by what exactly?
What a humiliation for the French back then and and the last of the 3 German wars of unification that gave rise to the German Empire lead by Prussia. That war truly changed the course of European history
Can you please do 1922 Battle of Sakarya?
Please man it has been months
The Prussias of the time were a force to be reckoned with.
All German states fought in this war which is why Prussia became the Germanic Empire
Revolutionary state of the art, cutting edge weapons and that's combined with equally modern, cutting edge new tactics etc Is why the Prussians were so effective.
It's absloutely cursed seeing Germany push through Elsaß Lorraine even though I know the maginot didn't exist back then
How do you make these videos?
How long does it take to make your animations? Because mine take really long.
The French were toast.
French toast? 🤔
It would be so cool to have a FPS game set during the indipendence wars fought between 1848-71
Kingdom come deliverance: 1845 edition
Can u do the war of 1956 and war of 1948
Can you do the Paris commune?
Reminder that Napoléon III was against this war, he should not be blamed for it
True, nevertheless we can congrats Bismarck for this war. Such a great mastermind.
Also there was some important figure in French society (such as Emile Zola) who was also against the war and protested about
He started the war
@@istandwithisraeI against his will
@@fritoss3437 still started it over an insult
@@istandwithisraeI he was forced bro this is not his choice
Imagine getting Napoleon to see this. The look on his face😂
Very nice!
Paris Commune next video plz
I never realised how smashed the French were in this war, I knew it was bad but nothing to this degree
The video is caricatural. It was far from a cakewalk for the Germans. The month of August was the deadliest month of fighting in Prussian history. The battles of Gravelotte and Mars-la-Tour were respectively 2nd and 3rd deadliest battles in Prussian history.
Though they suffered horrendous casualties in the process, the Germans won because they were able to outmaneuver the French Imperial armies thanks to their large numerical superiority (550k vs 300k, I don't understand how the video claims that there were 700k French soldiers in late August, they had absolutely nowhere near that number, and the Germans had nowhere near 760k troops either). In August 1870, the French suffered about 61,000 casualties (including 37,000 killed or wounded) and the Germans close to 70,000 casualties (including 65,000 killed or wounded).
Once the Empire fell, the Republic sent armies of untrained conscripts to fight the German veterans, which explains the final disproportion of losses.
@@lahire4943 🤡🤡You French are so funny, you can never admit when you are defeated seriously, you got your arses handed to you on a plate fair and square, and to think Napoleon III wanted Britain to join on there side. 😂
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because the author of this video just took the values for the entire conflict and applied them more or less at a linear rate, which is terrible historiography. at the outset of the war the german states had managed to mobilize over a million whereas the french were sitting at under 300,000. nothing in this video makes any historical sense
You can do some research yourself, as I don't want to write paragraphs here. It wasn't a cakewalk for the Prussians, as shown with the slow progression at times. But the Prussians had superior logistics, superior guns, and superior discipline in their forces. I think the French just don't like admitting Germany kicked their asses several times in its short history, so they come up with weak excuses for it lol.
Modern historians call it Franco-German war as the term Prussian is very incomplete, all of the German states fought.
Well almost all of them. Austria was still licking their wounds
@@seanmacguire6898 Yeah but in any cases Austria at this point already diverged in terms on national destiny, everything was sealed after the Austro-Prussian war.
I would argue that even before, regarding infrastructure development and natural barriers Austria was already a land of its own.
Modern historians do alot of stupid retconing
A question regarding shown casualties. Are these only military casualties or also including civilian ones? There are not German civilian casualties, since the war took place on French soil, but civilian casualties would explain the higher death ratio on the French side. During the times the Franco-Prussian war took place, people still saw the war not as a purely military conflict, but a "peoples war". The entire population was the enemy. Or is it that the French army got just completly outperformed by the Germans. Or both?
I used to think its a small campaign·····impressive