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Vernon wrote to Lezo: " we are retreating to Jamaica to reinforce, and we will come back soon to Cartagena." Lezo's response: " to come back to Cartagena, the king of England needs to build another fleet, this one is only able to carry coal from Ireland to London."
@@REX-kb5cg eh im guessing most of the losses were to disease not actual combat, so still incompetent planning but let's not pretend arrows won over cannons
How much shame do you feel for Diego Maradona? The drug cheat, hand-ball cheat, worst Argentinian (since your rulers provided a haven for fugitive Nazis). And blood flows through VEINS, Vain means conceited, narcissistic or useless.
Brief summary: a campaign caused by British piracy, smuggling and ambition, which had to search for a ridiculous casus belli and which ended when a landing fleet larger than the famous 1588 Armada had to retreat before forces much less in number. The best symbol of Vernon's arrogance was that he sent out that warning of having conquered Cartagena before accomplish it. As we say in Spain: he sold the bear's skin before hunting it.
I think sickness and disease made them retreat more than anything the Spanish did....I mean all they did before that point was run away and scittle their ships
@@nathansellars3757 that's not entirely fair. Disease affected english and spanish people in the same way. Vernon counted on these by taking more men with them.
@Jedem Das Seine Actually, it was erased by George II of Great Britain, he promulgated a edict of law were nobody could write upon the Battle of Cartagena de Indias under threat of death pen; obviously, at the end, it was not possible to erased it totally. You must know that, in England, they were already celebrating "their victory" and they even minted money with Blas de Lezo knelt before Vernon... Imagine the King of England's reaction to it... All the coins made for the occasion were retired (you can find some in Military Museums and in private collections) and the news were censored. "It's not taught in British schools" you said... hahaha In the Spanish ones neither... "The Spaniards in these comments are evidencing a very severe inferiority complex, which is quite unbefitting of them" Well the British comments are usually too prideful, same as how they generally teach and learn their past... "there are plenty of books you can read about it" Give me bibliography and references; documentaries or films too... upon the most humiliating military defeat of Great Britain.
Oh, no, they do that a lot, this is not *THE* battle they erased from history. And then Americans, who make movies, buy into that cause they only speak English.
The Royal Navy was defeated multiple times by the Spanish Navy, but History omits it. Francis Drake, was defeated in Veracruz in the battle of San Juan de Ulua in 1568. The Invincible English, invasion fleet sent by Elizabeth I to defeat to the Spanish navy, was defeated by Spain and its navy in 1589. Edward Vernon was defeated in Cartagenas De Indias by Blas de Lezo in 1741. Horacio Nelson, the great victor of Trafalgar, was defeated in Tenerife, Spain, 25 of July of 1797. Before the Royal Navy was the owner of the seas, its predecessor was the Spanish Navy, who dominated the seas and made Spain the first global empire in world history, and also has the merit of discovering the American continent. (America is a Continent not a country). PLUS ULTRA
The Vikings had discovered North American continent WAYY before the Spanish were even a mention, not to mention responsible for most Expansionist morale by the English which also made them have superior war ship capability..yes the Spanish did exceptionally well at looting south american indigenous peoples coffers and claiming territories in the new world (while not having colonies) and naming coming back with tales of the fountain of youth and such...soo just because you wont accept the new found information as the new doctrine doesnt mean the rest of the world doesnt have to. The spanish owed much of its naval warfare to Moorish invaders and prior to that the Romans and Carthaginians who were completely erased from the earth by the Romans (first genocide in history?!)
I am disappointed with how the battle is treated: The whole event is described from the English point of view and with a strong emphasis on good progress and advances from English troops and an emphasis on miseries from Spaniards: defeat, panic, retreat... After watching this video you would just think it's a normal battle where the English were close to the victory and they performed ok, the Spaniards performed poorly or "ok-ish" (no mention to their good performance in the whole thing) and that's it, no further mention to how huge the fleet was or how victory coins were minted by the British. I think it's a pity how the whole video looks like a justification of the British defeat and an attempt to remove as much merit as possible from Spanish military genius De Lezo. If this battle would be Nelson defending a port against Napoleon invading fleet, then we would see a totally different treatment. So, disappointing.
Si ha visto usted el reportaje de este canal sobre la batalla de Lepanto, el narrador se pone en varias ocasiones de parte del turco, enemigo de Europa entera!! La conclusión es clara: este personaje es un anti-español.
interesting detail: the nights before the british tried to take the fort with ladders, de Lezo send soldiers to dig a pit around the wall and to camouflage it, so the day when they attacked, they set the ladders and they realized they were a bit short xD
The end of the siege is imprecise. The attack to Saint Lazaro's Castle failed because Admiral Blas de Lezo ordered to dig a trench around the wall. This caused the British siege ladders to not reach the top of the walls, but the Britons realised it when they had already ordered the attack. The following morning, the Spaniards charged against the English troops motivated by the recent victory. The retreat to the boats was ordered then. Vernon stayed one more month firing to both the City and the Castle, causing almost no damage and wasting all the munition. It is also curious the messages Vernon and Blas de Lezo exchanged during that month. The Spanish troops rebuilt all the siege defences through the jungle and another disembarking was impossible. He had to retreat to rebuild his navy, sinking a lot of his own ships to prevent them from falling into Spanish hands, as his heavy losses made impossible its manoeuvre.
AlvarezCrack, but the viceroy was not in the castle but in the city, I think so at least. But building trenches was actually the most common strategy. Nothing special...
@@fernandogarcia3957 potraying pirates as some kind of excentric friendly adventurers when in fact they were scum, that used to pillage sack and rape. Like vikings
The english counter armada (1589) was even a way more brutal disaster - 11,000-15,000 casualties and 40 ships sunk Another chapter that anglocentric historians have usually dismissed...
Not really, 1 ship is not equal to any other ship. the English in 1589 lost relatively few Galleons (ships of the line equivalent) due in part to only having 6 to start with (The Spanish had 22 in 1588) - at the battle in the video the British lost 6 Ships of the line and 17 heavily damaged while with the Armada the bulk of the ship losses where replaceable. This was therefore materialistically a much bigger disaster and about the same in loss of life... It's an arguable point is all I'm sayin :)
@@larrymccoy5394 Whether I agree with that or not is immaterial to the point that's being argued here, the size of the disaster is not based on how material and manpower is lost in the slightest :S
Delogros You do realize after the counter armada of 1589 england entered into a huge crisis (from which they could have never recovered from). There was a huge investment on the campaign that failed. Some historians have argued that had the english invested just a bit more money there would have been no british empire in the future.
The most Underated Historic Person for Hollywood movie. I thinking in Javier Bardem for Lezo . The name of the movie Damned Lezo. Admiral Vernon Liam Neeson
Most pf the great Spanish commanders are criminally underrated. A running theory is that it’s due to “Black Legend” against Spain, but I think the explanation is very simple. The Culture right now is dominated by the US, the US is an anglo country and therefore they tend to represent the anglo view of history. So everybody knows Drake, Nelson and the Duke of Wellington but nobody knows the Duke of Alba, Juan de Austria, Gonzalo Fernandez de Córdoba or Blas de Lezo, despite their military exploits being just as impressive.
@@alvaro4867 honestly, i was gonna try to disguise my feelings as critical historiography but i think that would be disingenuous, so I'm just gonna go right ahead and say that drake was a disgusting human being whose most important achievements were crimes of war. He does not deserve to be remembered.
@@TheColombiano89 Wait wait... " yes the ships that would be in a literal line firing at other ships" A ship of the line is a larger warship normally carrying between 64-90 guns, so just with that your own numbers show the British didn't have 188 ships of the line, 2,000 guns/188 ships is like 11 guns per ship... Actual British fleet consisted of 29 Ships of the line, 22 Frigates, 71 Sloops, 2 hospital ships, 80 troops transport ships and 50 merchant ships... Add to all of this even in the Napoleonic wars when the Royal navy was at the height of it's power she didn't have 188 ships of the line but topped out at 152.
As a colombian, I encourage you to visit the fortress of San Felipe in Cartagena as well as the still standing sections of the city wall. From the top of the fortress you can really imagine how this siege played out.
@meder ja,ja, poor idiot , many hundred thousands of Europeans, yankees, Canadians, Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabs, Iranian , Jews tourists visited this Colombian city per year, many of them , very rich and important people, also many celebrities and gossip stars like Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro, Franco Nero, bud Spencer, Terrence hill, Susan sarandon, Eva longoria, Marissa tomei, vin diesel, will smith, tom cruise, Mel Gibson , Charlie sheen, chuck Norris and many other visited this Colombian city , heritage cultural site of the UNESCO , one of the most important and first European on the continent of America, it was also prior to the European arrival, one of the site of the important and rich gold native american culture and chieftains and agricultural high levelled of the zenus, people who created vast irrigation canal zones across the Caribbean region of Colombian from thousand years of the arrival of the Spaniards conquerors and settlers and colonizers , Cartagena of indies also is a touristic important place for millions of Colombian and Latin-American tourists, in fact also important people like Charles Lindbergh flew on his famous plane spirit of saint Louis to this Colombian city and others in his tour to south America and also the president of united states , Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited this magical city when he meet the president of colombia olaya herrera, also George Busch father, George Busch junior, bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, barak obama, Michael j pence, and the ex-former British prime minister , john major, visited and liked this colourful ,diverse, pretty, beautiful and magical Colombian, Latin-American and global cultural heritage city, if you are a red neck who never exit or went outside of your little town or city or county in the us, maybe if you are today young and poor , living in a camp or mobile house , you can enrol by yourself on the marines corps or in the army or in the navy or air force and go to travel and learn about the world that is outside of the borders, you can improve your factual culture and social intelligence,, grown your experience about the richnesses, wonders of this world call earth , destroy your prejudices and ignorance and mature a little more, of course if you are not a moron, trumpist moron or folk with bigotry and lack of perspective of the complexities, contradictions and different ways and manners on life, historically Cartagena of west indies was an important geostrategical cultural, commercial and urban centre that it was attacked and sacked by European pirates and European corsairs enemies of Spain and Catholicism like French Huguenots, Dutch, English , for example Francis drake captured this city and also Morgan attacked this city, those raids were made by European colonial antagonists of Spain on the 16, 17 centuries ......
@meder LOL, poor idiot, i m also a people from European ancestry, my mother visited and studied in London in 1972-1974, she was scientist, my sister studied English in London in 1988, my father lived abroad , on new york from 1951 to 1958, me, i visited and lived on USA on 1980, 1984 and i studied and lived in australia and new Zealand on 2008-2010, i have English relatives and friends, one cousin of mine is English, their daughters and son are English, stupid count, i studied on a French school on 1970s and 1980s, i have family with European and north american citizenship, my aunts travelled, many, many times to Europe , Canada, USA, japan,. australia , south Africa, you don t know nothing colombia or Latin-American world , my father travelled many times to Canada , relatives of my people had studied in English universities, i have friends who studied and graduated from English and continental universities, my mother worked for united nations, Merck on 1970s and dea and CIA on 1980s, stupid scumbag if you want talk about prejudice think yourself first, i don t argue about the safety or high standard of life of the countries of the first world or industrialized word, of course is not the same to talking about the issues and big challenges and inequalities, injustices and political, socio-economical, racial, cultural , juridical, criminal, violent divergences, troubles , issues of the countries of the third world or underdeveloped states and nations , formerly ex-colonized counties ravaged by the colonialism and imperialism of big Europeans powers who attacked, conquered, exploited, enslaved and destroyed many societies, countries, cultures, people , civilizations across the globe, first all all ignorant dude, you must understand that not all things and peoples and societies across the nations of Latin-American civilization are the same, Latin America is very rich in material and resources and that was the reason of the military and pirate expeditions of the Europeans and also all them , with their strategies of division, manipulation and neocolonialism, second , Europe only was rich after this conquest of the world from the 1500 DC, before it was a poorest land of ignorant people like you, third , you must to know that many colombi9ans are people from European Caucasian ancestry like many others Latin-Americans because after the conquest of this lands by the Europeans and the slavery and slaughter of the native Americans, many thousands , hundred of thousands of settlers, peasantry, militaries, clergy, tradesmen leaved Spain and Portugal and settled here, also Italians, catholic Germans, Turkish,Syrians, Lebanese, Hebrews, Arabs and also millions of African slaves, after the independence of these countries on 19 century, millions of poorest Europeans from England, France, Poland , Russia,Italy, Germany, Croatia , japan, china,Turkish empire, India, Ceilan travelled and settled in Latin America on 19 and 20 centuries in argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Cuba, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico , stupid scumbag i don t care about you and is my only reply to a stupid British ordinary subject , i am not a subject of a kingdom , i am a citizen of a divided and of course underdeveloped country but not poor because my country and my people are so rich and needed but the capitalist and economical rulers of the world, the British, European, global elites of yesterday, today and tomorrow but not the ordinary folks like that the created wars , empires and global agendas of domination and exploitation and mass killing because they needed the lands, natural resources and markets and material economical sources for the economies and societies of poorest people from their nations and cultures on Europe,m people who mass murder between themselves on many wars and people who migrated to other lands on the world in search of prosperity, freedom and economical advantages that they do n t haver on they native homelands, me i m here on my beautiful and cruel and yes, violent, predatory and contradictory land, nation, homeland of many different and opposite cultures, races, socioeconomic classes , and guilds , and collective groups, races, ethnicities, regional and local cultures , because is my land and of course i do not compare London, Beijing, new york, la Mecca , Istanbul, Athens, the Cairo , Tokyo, Kyoto, Seoul, new Delhi with my country and the capital of my country, is absurd, is not the same to be born in a civilized, sovereign and developed country , nation, culture that to be born in a country who conquered, enslaved, colonized and reborn after all those things, but to be born in a country developed or to be born like British of race or ethnicity is only a matter of luck, not of qualities of you or someone else, nobody take a decision about where he will be born of from Wath race , culture, historical, political, social background, cultural heritage, biological race , ethnicity, culture he will take when he will be born, is only a matter of good or bad luck, i do not to think that all English ordinary people , individuals, groups are the same and take the same answers to same questions because that is absurd, all people and individuals on world and earth and countries like yours or mine are diverse,rich, different, with their own interest, ideals, agendas, duties, tragedies, fights and ignorance and wisdom and hopes, all them are humans......
Forgot to mention the Spanish spies misinformed the British attackers on the ground. The significance of the size, just how huge this British invasion force was, it was the biggest until up til the modern era. Also didn't mention the medals the British had minted in advance of Vernon's campaign victory. lol. All in all it was a complete disaster for England, no wonder they don't mention it which is a pity this isn't mentioned much or hardly outside of Colombia. Argh Spain, such epic history needs to be told! Blaz De Lesso's legendary life would make for an epic Hollywood movie. This war would make for an awesome movie as well !
I have an anecdote when i was in cartagena years ago, all the people that you ask said that they belong one of this coins /medals obviously wasn't posible because all was sent to England.
@@martinguerra5152was not only a win from Spain it was a win from whole Hispanidad, I don't know where you are but for you name you must be song of the Hispanidad which make as brothers and sisters.
WTF?! I've never heard of this before hahaha. That's pretty major. So the English do not just pretend to suffer from amnesia when it comes to their defeats against the French. That's the case with defeats against Spain as well 😂
Why are the British going to remember a Spanish victory, surely that's Spain's job, it's also worth pointing out the English had 62 battles just against Scotland... Expecting every British person to know about every victory and defeat throughout the entirety of the Islands history is a bit silly don't you think?
@@Delogros I said absolutely nothing about remembering everything. That's a strawman. Everyone in Europe remembers major defeats they have had at the hands of their historic rivals, not just victories...... everyone but the English haha. Example: The English spend their time talking about Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt and the superiority of longbowmen in the Hundred Years' War.... a war they have lost and one of the most important wars in both english and french history... but be honest.... were you taught about the battles of Patay, Formigny and Castillon in history class? I doubt that's the case with the circle-jerk I see about chivalry dying at Agincourt. The superiority of longbows over heavy cavalry wouldn't even be a thing if you knew what french knights did to your longbowmen. To illustrate what I mean. If the French were taught history the way you are, we would remember Austerlitz, Jena-Auerstedt and Friedland in the Napoleonic Wars but somehow not Trafalgar, Leipzig and Waterloo. Hilarious, right?
@@Itachi951000 Yeah you did :S " So the English do not just pretend to suffer from amnesia when it comes to their defeats against the French. That's the case with defeats against Spain as well" heavily suggests for some reason the English should remember all this stuff. You obviously know very little about the English in general, less then 4% know about Poitiers and 9% about Crecy only Agincourt is well known and that's because of SHAKESPEARE. Are you under some strange impression English people don't know we lost the 100 years war? :S "were you taught about the battles of Patay, Formigny and Castillon in history class?" of course not, but I also wasn't taught about Crecy, Agincourt, Poiters or Waterloo either, your point is nonsensical :S "the circle-jerk I see about chivalry dying at Agincourt." Again, Shakespeare, you've chosen like the worst possible example you possible could... We weren't taught about Trafalagar either, We learned about WW1 and WW2 mainly which in case you've forgotten include defeats at Singapore, Gallipoli and Norway... The only battles the British won I remember spending any time on is the battle of Britain, battle of the Atlantic and El Alemein... You need to seriously rethink how the history education system works in the UK because it's not even close to what you think it is.
@@MiguelLopez-yc2rh Eso me ha parecido a mi también, solo hablan de bajas al final. Hubo varios intentos creo en la toma de San Lazaro etc.. Un saludo desde Madrid
What I learned from this battle: - Numbers don't win battles, MEN do - De Lezo missing one eye, one hand and one leg was too much for Vernon and his arrogance - English until this day try to avoid admitting defeats like this - Not a single school in spanish speaking countries teach this amazing victory full of epic and heroism
Tbf, many schools don't have the time to dwell on the belic history of the colony. In latin american, often history subject in school spans from the Inca/Aztec empires to the recent history (think 2010) in like 3-4 years, and many have to compete with civic education in the same subject. So, while important, warfare losses terrain vs stuff like political history, social structure, origin of stuff like the law and government development, and economic history.
en cartagena de indias, la ciudad actualmente tiene estatuas de su heroe local por todos lados entonces podemos asumir que en las escuelas se enseña su historia, aunque quizá no, no vivio ahí
Esta batalla de Cartagena de Indias, 1741, va para la colección de victorias navales de España. -1372. Batalla de La Rochelle. Castilla destruye 48 barcos ingleses, sin perder ningún barco. -1380. La flota de Castilla ataca todo el sur de Inglaterra, destruyendo 13 ciudades. -1381. La flota de Castilla derrota a una flota de Inglaterra y Portugal, capturando 22 barcos. -1419. La flota de Castilla derrota a los holandeses y alemanes, capturando 40 barcos. -1535. La flota española destruye 70 barcos turcos en la batalla de Túnez. -1543. La flota española captura 23 barcos franceses en la Batalla de Muros. -1571. La "OTAN" española en Italia, dirigida por España, destruye 200 barcos turcos en la Batalla de Lepanto. -1573. España captura una flota de guerra holandesa de 23 barcos. -1582. La flota española, con 25 barcos, derrota a una flota portuguesa y francesa de 60 barcos y conquista las islas Azores. -1585. Los españoles destruyen 100 barcos holandeses en los Países Bajos. -1589. La armada española destruye la invencible flota inglesa, Drake, que pierde 40 barcos en batalla (sin tormentas, como en 1588, donde los ingleses solo destruyeron 6 barcos españoles en combate) -1591. Batalla de Almería. España captura 23 barcos holandeses e ingleses. -1592. Batalla de Vizcaya. 5 barcos españoles derrotan a 40 barcos ingleses. -1595. Desembarco español en Inglaterra, destruyendo 4 barcos ingleses. -1596. Las 5 derrotas de Drake en el Caribe. El muere alli -1597. España derrota en el Atlántico a la gran flota inglesa y holandesa, de 180 barcos ingleses y holandeses. -1625. La flota española derrota a los holandeses en Brasil. España destruye 62 barcos ingleses y holandeses en la batalla de Cádiz. -1625. La flota española invade Génova, derrotando a los franceses. -1625. España derrota a una flota inglesa y holandesa de 62 barcos en Cádiz. -1629. España derrota a Inglaterra y Francia en la batalla de San Cristóbal, Caribe, destruyendo o capturando 14 barcos. -1641. La flota española derrota duramente a la flota francesa en Tarragona -1717. Conquista española de Cerdeña, contra Austria. -1726. España captura cientos de buques de guerra ingleses y barcos comerciales en el Caribe. -1741. BATALLA DE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS. España destruye 50 barcos ingleses. -1734. La flota española invade Italia, y derrota al imperio de Austria. -1779. La flota española bloquea Inglaterra y captura una flota británica de 55 buques de guerra. -1780. La flota española captura una flota de 24 buques de guerra británicos. -1782. La flota española invade Menorca, derrotando a Inglaterra. -1782. La flota española invade las Bahamas, derrotando a Inglaterra. -1797. España derrota a la flota inglesa en Puerto Rico. -1797. España derrota a la flota inglesa de Nelson en Cádiz. -1797. España vuelve a vencer a Nelson en Cádiz. -1797. Tenerife. La flota de invasión de Nelson es derrotada. -La flota española de Indias realizó 1200 viajes entre América y España, en 300 años. Los ingleses solo capturaron 2 flotas, en puerto y sin declaración de guerra. Los holandeses capturaron 2 flotas. 0,5%. Esa flota hizo la hispanización de América y Filipinas, la revolución del mercado en Asia y sacó a Europa de la era feudal. La globalización. -1848. Expedición Balanguingui, Filipinas. España destruye 150 barcos piratas. -1862. La flota española invade la República Dominicana, en el Caribe. -1862. La flota española y francesa (70% española) invade Vietnam. -1898. Cuba. 3 barcos españoles capturan un barco de Estados Unidos. -1898. Batalla de Cárdenas. España derrota a Estados Unidos. -1925. Desembarco de Al Hoceima. España y Francia invaden Marruecos.
Ahora entiendo como los ingleses se hicieron tan buenos marineros, ganaron tanta experiencia perdiendo que finalmente no habia mas formas en las que podian ser derrotados que ya no sabian. Basicamente, los españoles ganaron demasiado.
al final el imperio fue destruido pero recordemos que un imperio tan grande y por tanto tiempo solo pudo crearse y sostenerse a base de victorias militares
what? Britain was still far more powerful? even with losing ships our navy was still far superior? the spanish won because of disease? not because of themselves.
@johnnie anon yeah, let's pretend that an army as big as that one can lose against such an small force only because of disease. You are like little kids: when you win, it's because of your own merits. When you lose, it's because of some external event and not because of the enemies' merits. Stop this nationalist pride self-defense operation,please.
This is one of history's underrated decisive battles. Spain's crushing win at Cartagena took Britain out of the Silesia negotiations, in which they had been on Austria's side. This was a key factor in Austria losing Silesia, a major step on Prussia's road to German dominance which eventually had serious consequences for Britain and the world. Also, at 20:20 "The failure of the siege can be attributed to... ...lack of information on the French Navy's whereabouts" we see foreshadowing of Virginia, September 1781.
No, that would be the Raid on the Medway, followed by the massive Four Days' Battle 1666 and of course the entire 3th Anglo-Dutch war being failure after failure. Getting beaten is one thing, but getting beaten while possessing more, heavier and nominally more powerful ships, time after time again, yea that is one big oof.
Drake died in the 1597 Battle of San Juan. He was reported as died "Of a tropical disease" by the british. Yeah, cannonfire from tropical San Juan, Puerto Rico. Admiral Hemmings died on that battle too and was buried at sea in front of San Juan. When Drake died from the wounds 10 days after the battle, they lied instead of admitting 2 of their greatest navy admirals died and Brittish lost on an invasion of a Spanish City.
This episode really need a remade, it just felt flat. I like that it explains the backstory that lead to the battle, but the absolute lack of details in the actual battle, especialy on the spanish side and the fact that Blas de Lezo, wich is a legend of an admiral is only mention twice in short sentences. Heck no! its like talking of Horatio Nelson and only telling his name, rank and death Plus other detail like that the british have to burn their own ships on the shore because of the sheer ammount of losses they coudn't crew all the ship they had
I wish there were more videos on Spanish-related events on your channel. It is so comforting and amusing to listen to your narratives and watch your visual content. There are so many interesting battles and events throughout Spanish history that I would love to listen to and watch in your format. That being said, you have an amazing channel :) Congratulations!
Vernon and Blas de Lezo were rivals. They already knew each other and wrote letters. They were quite polite to each other. A famous quote is when Vernon told him his retreat was temporary and that he would come back with reinforcements. Lezo answered: To come to Cartagena it is necessary for the King of England to build another larger squad, because this has only been left to drive coal from Ireland to London, which would have been better than undertaking a conquest that you cannot achieve. I'd like to see the siege of the fort Mose or the battle of Cagayan. Also the invasion of Japan by the mongol empire.
I feel glad that I got to visit Cartagena and see the old city and intact fortress Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas and learn about its history. It's a very beautiful city and I recommend visiting it if the opportunity is there.
As a commonwealth citizen, What Disaster and completly humilliation for Anglosaxon World... Many of us learnt bad History and fake UK news. Spain won many battles.
@@larrymccoy5394 I am glad to see someone from the Commonwealth who simply accepts that the Anglo-Saxon world has lost many battles against the Hispanic world, Cartagena de Indias is one of the most famous, but there have been many other equally disastrous battles for the Anglo-Saxon world, of course the The Hispanic world has also suffered great defeats, but we accept them as part of our history and we do not hide them, anyway thanks for your sincerity friend, greetings from Spain.
@@sausagejockyGaming dude, you are simply delusional. The attackers had ten times the men, and almost ten times the warships, a massive advantage in firepower and material. Disease was as bad for the defenders as for the attackers, the only thing that defeated the british was the insurmountable arrogance of Vernon and the fighting retreat implemented by Lezo all across the bay
I think it was Lezo that said: "Every good Spaniard pisses in the direction of England" (Don`t quote me on that I need to check but I am fairly certain)
@@happygilmore1844 to be jelous of britain is a joke. Im peruvian I have a world wonder in my country, the arquitectonical and enginering masterpiece called Machu Picchu and many beatiful cities made or remade by Spain here which are by the way world heritage monuments. Jealous of Britain? LOL
The funniest thing is that people here in Spain don't know who Blas de Lezo is. Neither they paid too much attention to him when he was alive, we don't even know where he was buried. I think it would be cool if you explore the full career of Lezo in a video, he is one of the most regarded Spanish admirals.
I am from Spain and I have been in Cartagena de Indias, so Blas de Lezo has been rediscobered in recent years. Is very tipicall spain to forget his heroes. And I must say that Blas is a remembered hero by Cartagenians and Colombians as well!
@@thelifesampler Yeah, I totally agree with you. I'm Spaniard and I have kinda the same feeling, I think its mainly because we have partly believed what was told about us (all covered in the Spanish Black Legend) and because the general public here thinks that after the defeat of the Armada Invencible we stopped having relevance in International affairs
And it is truly a shame. Love them or hate them, the Brits do it right by honouring their heroes. Nelson is known by everybody, and has prominent monuments and places of honor dedicated to him. Spain, on the other hand...
Yeah. It surprised me how they basically didn't mention anything about the Spanish strategy for the defense, but mentioned all kind of details of the English strategy.
@@DarthPlato Or perhaps it was due to the people who made the Wikipedia entry not being able to translate Spanish sources, and understand their strategy? I mean we don't even know if the people who made the page were English, they could be Americans for all we know. Oh BTW that history is written by the English is bullshit, I mean how many times do you hear about the Battle of Yorktown, in the American Revolutionary War, than the South Carolinan front of the War, or Gandhi's peaceful independence movement, compared to the actual conquest of India, which isn't taught in the English curriculum, at all.
Fun fact: a few years ago, the Royal Navy published a survey to decide the name of one of its new ships. The users of a forum called Forocoches conspired for the name to be "Blas de Lezo". Evidently, the Royal Navy was forced to suspend the survey.
@@user-hj1dc2wp7v But that wasn't technically a Royal navy poll, that was the NERC which is why the actual ship the PRS, though you could make the argument it was the merchant marine but the two organizations are still not the same and that's where the bulk of my confusion with your comment came from, seemed to me you where suggesting this was for a warship or a proper fleet auxiliary :) all cleared up now though and yes for the David Attenbourgh you are entirely demonstrably correct as I just checked :)
According to the video, the causes of the English disaster in Cartegena de Indias were: • Diseases that apparently only affected the English. • The lack of appropriate information, which delayed the attack. • And the poor coordination between the British commanders. According to the video, the defense of the Spanish garrison had very little to do with it. Not just because they were outnumbered 8 to 1. But they also panicked in front of tall, strong, blond, handsome, well-organized, smart and brave British soldiers. So they spent the entire attack fleeing from one fort to another. I understand that this video is made for the British public, but it is tremendously biased and does not do the story justice at all.
1) The Garrison was a garrison it had been there for a while so most of it had become resilient to the local diseases, in the time of Coronavirus I would have hoped you would know that :S. 2) In any victory or defeat there are always large numbers of contributing factors, not sure why some of them being pointed out is making you so made :S. 25% of the English fleet was already sick when it arrived so technically it's already 6 to 1 which when you have fortifications (if they are half decent) is normally perfectly defensible, ask the knights of St John on Malta, of the British in the great siege of Gibraltar if fortifications still confuse you. Time stamp the video please for the the panicked part, also when you have multiple forts you tend to shift your forces where you think they are needed this is nothing new in siege warfare. In the same way the SPanish invasion of Portugal in 1762 where the Spanish lost 25,000 men compared to the Anglo-Portuguese 1,600 men (few forts involved) had little to do with combat... If you want to pretend the garrison inflicted most of the casualties or some version like that when it is demonstrably untrue then we should also revise the 1762 invasion as well. Large armies tend to become diseased, again this is nothing new.
@@Delogros wich is something the spanish knew, and they played for it, the siegue was lost due to the spanish saliiying out and sendind the british back to their ships, and inmediatly refortifiying the entire place, the british had nothing to do but just scutttle what they coudlnt take and run.
@@cseijifja When the bulk of your forces have died of desiese to the point there is no chance you can realistically take a fortified position then sure, there is then little point in hanging around, The Spanish themselves learned this many times of there own history but it's still not an impressive siege in any way at all, holding a defensive position is not an impressive military feat in and of itself unless something miraculous occurs.
@@Delogros Many of the things you say do not hold up. The English fleet, before going to Cartagena, attacked Portobelo, in this city there are apparently no diseases, it must have been that they were there for a short time. It must be taken into account that the English, before starting hostilities, went to replenish themselves and part of the fleet comes from Jamaica, an island where they have been settled since 1670, the battle was in 1741. In 70 years they have not acclimatized to the diseases ? There are no mosquitoes in Jamaica? And I would like to know what type of mosquito is capable of sinking 50 ships.
A historic battle. You could make one hell of a movie from this. A peg legged one-eyed Spanish Admiral facing off against the largest fleet the Royal Navy had set sail since D-day against a small detachment of Spanish and indigenous tribes with a handful of ships. Had the British won Latin America would speak English today and be called Anglo-America....
Not particularly likely, the British had no such military force large enough to send to Latin America that was heavily garrisoned, though they might have taken a territory here and there.
Internet y TH-cam es un progreso, respecto a la educación histórica que nos daban en el colegio, sobre batallas ganadas: "Ganamos la batalla de Las navas de Tolosa 1212, Lepanto 1571 y la guerra contra Napoleón 1814, y perdimos la Invencible 1588 y Trafalgar" 1805". Ahora sabemos que después de 1588, ganamos en 1589, por paliza a los ingleses, hundiendo 80 barcos. Y que después de 1805, ganamos a los británicos en Argentina y Uruguay 1806-07, capturando a los generales británicos, además de derrotar a Nelson 3 veces en 1797, y Cartagena de Indias 1741, hundiendo 50 barcos, más el bloqueo naval de Inglaterra 1779-80, capturando 80 barcos británicos, o la victoria en Cádiz 1625, hundiendo 62 barcos ingleses y holandeses, o la la batalla de La Rochelle 1372, hundiendo 48 barcos ingleses. ¡Pero no quiero abusar, que me vengo arriba!
Francesc del Arca Why though? Navarre(Euskalerria),Galicia,etc still kept their fueron intact. So maybe it’s only the Catalans,Aragonese,Valencians,and majorcans who weren’t waiting this moment.
@@delarkaBCN I don't think so, Blas de Lezo was vasque like a lot of sailors of the Spanish Armada and catalonian industry sold threir products in America
I´m colombian (where Cartagena currently is), and I´m ashamed I didn´t know about this; When I visited the city, they told us some stories, but never with this depth. Thanks you for the amazing work.
Resumiendo, los Españoles solo sabían huir y retirarse, y los ingleses eran todos muy valientes e inteligentes, pero enfermaron y tuvieron que retirarse, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Me meo , 🤣🤣 Posdata: ahora resulta, que los que saqueaban y pirateaban eran los Españoles , los ingleses nunca han pirateado ni robado barcos , que buen trabajo has hecho chaval, 😘
Más aún los españoles saqueaban en mares y tierras españolas xD que huevones estos que dicen eso, y peor los que se lo creen, los españoles tenían los huevos más grandes de todas las dimensiones, para un español era mejor la muerte a la deshonra.
Two fun facts: The well known song "Rule, Brittania!" was written during this war after the victory at Porto Bello. Quite ironic considering how the war ended. George Washington's older half-brother served during this war. He then named his home after the British admiral which is why it's called Mount Vernon.
Blaz De Lezo argued with the Spanish viceroy regarding the defense of the city, just like the British army argued with admiral Vernon regarding the attack.
I am glad the siege of 2 months of Cartagena was covered, as a Spanish I love to see historical battles in relation with Spain which are not even known by the great majority of the Spanish citizens, it also would be great to see a video or a brief biography of admiral Blas de Lezo, being one day of the few generals at the time in Spain without belonging to the aristocracy, achieving it through loosing one leg at 16, one arm at 20 and one eye at 23, showing courage and military prouwess in the process
The video is focusing too much on british sources. A lot of elements of the spanish defense are missing. Like the defensive battles on every fort and batteries. The combats of the spanish ships. And at San Lazaro there were trenches, Lezo ordered to dig a ditch to avoid the use of ladders by the english. When they were in, their ladders were too short and they were massacred. After that the spanish open the gates and a bayonet charge routed the english losing hundreds of men. The charge continued until the british boats.
This is a common problem for K&G; they often rely on Western sources in English, and so whatever bias those sources had follow them into the video. Meanwhile whatever perspective other sources may have had are ignored.
@@Jayako12 Yeah normally they're fine, but they tend to get the occasional video pretty wrong due to lack of in depth research, sometimes they've been caught repeating something that was on Wikipedia but was never confirmed. As far as I know, only the story of Darius I had actual different arguments and interpretations, as well as the Battle of Taras. Everything else is just a presentation of the sources they've read.
Lo único que tengo que decir es ¡VIVA ESPAÑA!🇪🇸 Saludos desde el virreinato del Río de la Plata, y parafraseando a Blas de leso, todo hispano de bien debe siempre mear en dirección a Inglaterra
It was a good video, though I missed some of the most important details and actions that really happened there. For instance, it is not mentioned that Vernon ordered some coins be forged in commemoration of the battle (before the eventual result obviously). In them, Blas de Lezo kneels down before Vernon, in a sign of humiliation, and gives him the keys of Cartagena. This of course became a humiliation, not for Blas or the Spaniards, but for the English. Another detail that was not included was the way the Spanish militia defended the city. They put up tramps, holes and trenches in every forest, road or pathway that the British were to pass; they digged down the perimeter in front of the fortresses so that the ladders of the assaulting troops could not reach the top; locals misguided the British troops into tramps; there was a final charge of the Spanish garrison that routed the marines and made the ground army and the fleet flee from the battle and retreat to Jamaica; there was a constant barrage from the canons at Cartagena and other coastal castles that decimated most of the English fleet. Lastly, while retreating, Vernon sent a message to Blas de Lezo, telling him that they were retreating back to Jamaica and would come again and stronger the next time, to which Blas replied: "if you are to come again, the English king will have to build a fleet even bigger than this one, because now yours is only able to transport coal from England to Ireland." Again, it was a nice video, but the lack of details and the supposed responsibility of the defeat laying on misinformation on the whereabouts of the French fleet and the spread of diseases, rather than on the total lack of competence from Vernon, does not reflect an accurate version of the battle.
@Jedem Das Seine it is indeed since it was ordered directly by Blas de Lezo. Not using the advantage the terrains and the locals gives you would be a real nonsense, wouldn't it? And of course, diseases decimated a big part of the British army, but not most of it. Neglecting the rest of casualties, where they from fighting or accidents, is not honest in my opinion
Jedem Das Seine Disease affected both sides,Lezo himself died of it. And yeah,Lezo’s plan was literally try to survive until it was April(the raining season) and to let the disease do the joh
This video is awfully omitting the best of this battle. You mentioned the ladders but you did not mention how the Spanish infiltrated the British pretending to surrender but misinformed the British and how blas de lezo dig holes in front of the walls because he realized they measured the walls to create ladders. Those ladders proved short later to the surprise of the British, that were massacred with that simple wit. They also created intricated zig zag holes that made advancement really hard for the British
This is correct. And the video does not mention the coin made by the british in advance with Lezo kneeling to the british. Haaa, that is selling the bear skin before you hunt it.
Interesting fact, one of the colonial officers along on the expedition was so impressed with Admiral Vernon that when he went home to Virginia, he named his plantation after him. When the officer died childless, he left the plantation to his younger brother, George Washington. Mt. Vernon, the Washington family estate, was named after Old Grog.
@@berjastkjuklingur1914 Laurence Washington was a minor figure in the history of both nations, and he's notable only because of his famous Admiral and his much more famous little brother. He was only one of many Infantry Captains at the battle of Cartagena de Indias, and I'm not surprised that @Kings and Generals didn't mention him.
@@KingsandGenerals make a video on the VOC (Dutch East-India Company). That could certainly be interesting. Especially looking at their skirmishes with the Portuguese over supremacy in Indonesia, or perhaps their monopoly on Japanese trade or the genocide committed by Jan Pieterszoon Coen in order to acquire a monopoly on a certain type of spice.
The amounts of British coping in this video is astonishing. The Spanish won beacuse they had better tactics, better leaders and braver soldiers. Period.
They did have better leaders, the rest is nonsense. They primarily won because they where defending large established fortifications and the British only outnumbered them 3-1. For comparision here it was a 3-1 advantage the seige lasted just 2 months, at Gibralter the French/Spanish outnumbered the british 10-1 and the seige lasted 44 months. Fortifications are force multiplyers which is why armies use them to defend strategic locations, it's fairly unusual situation to say one side is "braver" then the other and be correct, most of the time such a comment is made from ignorance or stupidity and you shouldn't insult the war dead of other countries.
It'll be great if you make a video about the defenses strategy. The video makes looks like the victory was due to the climate, deceases and failures of command from the English.
Bueno señores tampoco desquiciarse jajajaja. El hombre ha dicho que se ha equivocado pero lo que dice es bastante cierto. Es muy habitual que se exagere en algunas historias, incluso a día de hoy ciertos momentos de guerras ,incluso más cercanas a nuestro tiempo, permanecen con cierto velo de duda referido a sus características por las fuentes. Las cuales pueden diferir enormemente entre unas u otras o que solamente existe una fuente. Incluso en este video, no se explica que a pesar de la grandeza de Lezo, es cierto que el Virrey (o eso está en disputa por historiadores) también participó activamente y tuvo buenas ideas durante la defensa de Cartagena de Indias. Aún así, y aunque este algo exagerado, porque siempre es una posibilidad, la carrera de El Glorioso, me parece una magnífica historia con la que hacer un muy buen video de Kings And Generals. Un saludo.
Hay gran parte de la Historia del Imperio Español que no saben y nunca creo lo sabrán por la forma que cuanta la historia distorsionada La historia Negra es lo que se cuenta en Hispanoamérica, no la verdad de la historia del Imperio Español, primer imperio Global Occidental y del mundo,lo bueno de internet es que hoy en día ,las personas que quieren saber la historia como fue busca y se informa sin esperar de los libros del gobierno.
Very pleased with you coverng such an important and relevant event in the colonial theatre. And i'll add a quote from the Admiral Blas de Lezo himself that reflects his character towards the englishmen: "Every good spaniard has to pee looking towards England".
Jedem Das Seine was it particularly relevant? Well yes certainly it would’ve changed the results of thewar of the Austrian succession if Spain lost since she would be bankrupted. Also Vernon would’ve certainly not stopped at Cartagena. He would’ve raided the whole Spanish Main if he won so yeah it’s a bit important
@Jedem Das Seine As said in the video it delayed the fall of the spanish colonies from the grasp of the mainland for another century, and prevent the switch of hegemony in the American Theatre fron Spain to Britain. Cartagena de Indias was one of the most important if not the most important node in the central/south american region for Spain.
@Just Getting By "so nice try" I mean you did agree to my poiny and you never mebtioned about britain being more relevant than spain on your first reply, so nice try
It is full of colour (and horrible diseases and such). Medals minted depicting de Lezo kneeling to Vernon, Washington's brother fighting there, witty letters being exchanged... it has it all.
Fun fact: Based on the report from Vernon the british minted some coins celebrating the victory in Cartagena, only to receive later the news of the actual defeat. Also, in 2016 the Royal Navy held an online poll to choose the name for its new Royal Research Ship, but they had to remove the winner name because spanish trolls from the website Forocoches managed to win with the name "Blas de Lezo"
I am happy to see a healthy animosity towards the British, to see real history come up, to see the Spanish Empire history making a come back and marking that although an Empire it had nothing to do with other empires prior and contemporary, to see its "black legend" (a tale, something that never occurred, a product of British and Dutch mainly) being erased slowly from the world's history. Santiago y Cierra, España!
If the British knew the truth of their story ... they would make fewer films In the battle of Toulon 14 Spanish ships defeated 31 English In Cartagena, a bayonet attack by the Spanish infantry destroyed the English infantry.
@@JJaqn05 Yes, at this time. The new armada built by Ferdinand VI was the biggest and greatest in the world during the XVIII century. It wouldn't be until Trafalgar that that fleet would collapse.
Sorry, but the explanation of the battles around Cartagena is too short and inaccurate. Having much fewer soldiers than the British De Lezo put in place an endless inventory of strategies, tactics, measures and even tricks that in the end defeated the British invading troops. It was a so unexpected Spanish victory that the English were already minting commemorative medals and coins to celebrate their victory when they received the news of their humiliating defeat in hands of the great Blas De Lezo Admiral. The English King ordered the destruction of all the coins and medals, but to his misfortune, several of them were preserved. He also forbade historians to talk about this and that is the reason why this humiliating English defeat is so unknown to the English-speaking world.
Decirle a este tipo narrador del video q España Nunca tuvo Colonias eran territorios de Ultra Mar pero claro q vá a decir un inglés cuando fueron ellos los creadores d la Leyenda Negra Contra mí País "Todo Buen Español Debería Mear Siempre Mirando Hacia Inglaterra" Frase Mítica de Don Blas Dr Lezo y Olabarrieta. 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 PD: Gibraltar Español.
Thank you for making this video, the early 18th Century have many wars that I find confusing to understand, so I appreciate you making these comprehensive videos on it, and for responding to my comment on the Silesian War videos to make more videos on the early 1700s and the coming war of Austrian Succession!
27000 british and 190 ships vs 2600 spaniards and 6 boats. Even so, the british suffered a shameful and complete defeat, so much so even today the final result for the british is still hidden or sugarcoated
It's not hidden at all, your also forgetting the Spanish had multiple forts and like 1/4 of the British where sick when they arrived, Forts are force multipliers, it's the exact same way a much larger French and Spanish force where never able to take Gibralter and they didn't even have the sickness problem and tried for like 4 years straight. Being able to defend a defensive position of a fortress is not all that surprising, yet the Spanish are constantly surprised by it... Perhaps it's a national thing which is why the Spanish lost Valdiva with it's 7 forts, 1,600 man garrisons and 118 cannon to a 350 man strong shore party lead by Tomas Cochrane.
@@lesdodoclips3915 to clarify this, i would like to stress two points: It's quite easier to fit out one big armada and a big army and to focus all this power in just one selected point, striking with all your might in a tiny location, using surprise as your ally . It is beyond imagination how spain was able to defend for almost 350 years such an incredible , huge territory scattered across four continents with such tiny amount of people. Just think the thousands and thousands and thousands of kilómeters from Alaska down to cape horn and up again till Florida plus all the hundreds of islands in the caribe and the atlantic plus hundreds of islands in the pacific plus the philippines plus many african territories plus the european territories of the spanish monarchy. Such incredible task know no parallel in human history. Most of the times fighting at a time against the dutch, the germans, english, french, danish, even turks and russians , with these nations concentrating all its strenght in one small place , unlike spain, that needed to defend everything. And all that these world powers were able to take away from spain was just a handful of i nsignificant and undefended islands and ultimately jamaica, which by the way, was defended by one ridiculously small garrison. And, on the other hand, it is not that easy to keep one fort. Just one well known example. The dutch built a big fleet in 1621 and attacked salvador de bahía, a well fortified town in Brasil, at that moment in charge of the portuguese. The city was captured, because the portuguese did not fight properly. And so, the dutch took possession of the place and neighbouring lands. But , since portugal at that moment was unified with spain, the King of spain sent one navy with spanish infantry in 1625, and the forts were recaptured by the spaniards in no time, because the dutch were simply no match for los tercios in hand to hand combat, despite being the dutch in this case the defenders of the fort.
@@Gloriaimperial1 ROFL a minor skirmish, 350 men (mostly British) take 7 forts and 120 cannon off a Spanish Garrison of 1,600 men for like 27 casualties in less then 24 hours... I mean I don't blame you for wanting to downplay the absolute pasting the SPanish took but that is ridiculous :) ah you do make me chuckle. Cartagena de Indias was indeed a total victory, no one was saying it wasn't what was being said was that the reasons for that victory (apart from numerous forts) was more down to disease then anything De Lesbian did, which is not to say he didn't do a good job of course he did but it wasn't even a smidge as impressive as Valdivia is, so much easier to defend fortifications they are literally a force multiplier, Much like when Spain totally failed to invade Portugal and lost 25,000 men to Portugal and Britain's 1,600 or so, had very little to do with the Portuguese and British and Cartagena de Indias is entirely the same situation, but you can keep pretending the Franco era propaganda if it makes you feel better,
3:35, I didn't realize that the Arawaks inhabited the Amazon jungle as well as the Carribean coast of South America. I was about to complain that this was inaccurate, but I did a quick search and found out that Arawak languages are spoken all over the Amazon basin and as far south as Bolivia. Very interesting footnote here.
The Caribs, Arawak, and Taino all migrated from mainland South America and island hopped all the way thru The east Caribbean up to the Greater Antilles. They're all related linguistically.
@@Delogros nah, the Spanish alone ended up with 400,000 Frenchies, that literally destroyed the French organization and the English took advantage of it, without this massacre England could not do anything, much less Portugal. Besides, it's not like the English did it for free, they destroyed one of the most efficient textile factories in Spain, which left them with no way to recover, remember, it may seem like we were allies, but we weren't, we've been enemies like 400 years.
@@isabelcapellan2470 Oh please, the Spanish army was the most incompetent in the whole war, the rate it was going it would have run out of people long before the French ran out of soldiers even as it was about 5% of the population died, Without the British to supply the Spanish government in Cadiz it to would have fallen easily. Again British not English this isn't pre 1707, Wellington was Irish and Moore was Scottish. If the Spanish had made Wellington supreme commander Spain would have been liberated several years earlier, Spanish efforts where largely a problem to the allied effort (For example Cadiz which stripped Wellington of 2 veteran Divisions and 1 regular Divisions not to mention the Royal navy needing to feed the place rather then the army to add to it's defence) not a help which not for nothing is why Hitler didn't want Spain's help in WW2, extra frontage and a poor military. I've yet to see a single piece of evidence to suggest the British destroyed any textile factory, all the evidence we have was that Wellington was unusually harsh on looters in Spain summarily executing at least 12 without a trail, you for a change have evidence for the claim? I don't even know if it's meant to have been destroyed in a battle lol. 1 textile factory represented 90% of the economy of Spain did it... LOL OK :) no the british where Allies trying to drive the French out of the peninsular while the Spanish kept on trying to trip them up, Talavera 80% British casualties despite making up just over 1/3 of the army or how about Barrosa where first of all 3,000 Spanish and 4 guns abandoned the high ground because of a single regiment of french Dragoons fired once at them and then 10,000 Spanish just watched while 5,000 British and Portuguese fought 10,000 French including having to retake that hill... Graham sent 536 men against 4,000 French and 4 guns to delay the French while he desperately reinforced with a Brigade, meanwhile the Spanish who had run away where 600 yards away refusing to get up from their siesta.
@@isabelcapellan2470 Totalmente de acuerdo contigo. Este Delogros ya lo conocemos. No quiere acordarse ni de Bailén ni de la ofensiva española que echó del trono al hermano de Napoleón, lo que fue un hito en toda Europa. Está obsesionado con que nos salvó el ridículo ejército británico de 35000 soldados, escondidos todos en Portugal, mientras morían aquí luchando medio millón de personas, muchos civiles, más que británicos en toda la SGM2. Muertos británicos al final de la guerra en la península, unos 30000. Ni en sueños, iban a ganar 35000 británicos al ejército francés, el mejor de la época, con una proporción de 9 franceses contra 1 británicos. Muertos franceses: 270000. Está claro entre quien eran la mayoría de las batallas: España y Francia. Si Gran Bretaña no fuera una isla no se pondrían tan gallitos, porque se habrían paseado por Londres 300000 soldados de Napoleón, como llegaron a Viena, Roma, Moscú, Berlín. Pero en fin, ¡ya conocemos a los británicos!
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Love your video Pls Make a video over Recapture Tunis 1574 and Ottoman - Safvid war 1578-1590 pls
K&G make a video about the baideng war between the xiongnus and chinese its an interesting war which includes a wolf trap 🐺😎
Pls Make a video over recapure Tunis 1574 and Ottoman - Safavid war 1578-1590
Great vid pls do one on the old less well known wars etc greek sand romans less known
Vernon wrote to Lezo: " we are retreating to Jamaica to reinforce, and we will come back soon to Cartagena."
Lezo's response: " to come back to Cartagena, the king of England needs to build another fleet, this one is only able to carry coal from Ireland to London."
Now, THAT must have stung XD
dra1212 I don’t get it
Alvin Lin, it is what actually happened
Jayako Warszajan Hertz yeah but I don’t get the humor
Why do Britons hate Blas de Lezo so much? He was one of the most important contributors to the UK underwater research!
Why do Britons hate Blas de Lezo so much? He was one of the most important contributors to the UK underwater research!
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Amazing!
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@Just Getting By he died in Spain right?
Love spanish catholic brothers from Croatia ❤
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Cheers from Spain, I was 3 years ago in Croatia, Very nice land and cool people.
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Croatian light cavalry, one of the best in Europe for decades!
@@scintillam_dei catholicism is the true way, from first leader Peter, that's why so many people hate Catholics. Because we are true Church.
The English minted coins commemorating their "victory" at Cartagena. We can see some of this coins in museums in Spain.
dra1212 they were medals not coins. And yeah there’s lots of them
@Yotecai Luz The English do that all the time with their history. Many countries tend to lie about their past, but never to the level of the British.
@@JohnnyElRed because winners get to write their own history and losers celebrate some poxy medals in madrid
@@nathansellars3757 Hahahahahahaha
@@REX-kb5cg eh im guessing most of the losses were to disease not actual combat, so still incompetent planning but let's not pretend arrows won over cannons
Im mestizo from argentina and im proud to the bone to have spanish blood running Through my vains viva la madre patria y don Blas de lezo
La Hispanidad es fusion de razas. Somos UNO
Same here
@@guillermodelavega34 La hispanidad es blanquitos. Siempre sido y siempre sera.
How much shame do you feel for Diego Maradona?
The drug cheat, hand-ball cheat, worst Argentinian (since your rulers provided a haven for fugitive Nazis).
And blood flows through VEINS, Vain means conceited, narcissistic or useless.
Un dia somos junto, una grande y libre. Viva la patria, viva los países latinos. Viva la tierra española
Brief summary: a campaign caused by British piracy, smuggling and ambition, which had to search for a ridiculous casus belli and which ended when a landing fleet larger than the famous 1588 Armada had to retreat before forces much less in number.
The best symbol of Vernon's arrogance was that he sent out that warning of having conquered Cartagena before accomplish it. As we say in Spain: he sold the bear's skin before hunting it.
To be fair, most British campaigns in the 17th and 18th century were started by that. As were most of Portugal's in the Indian Ocean in the 16th
I think sickness and disease made them retreat more than anything the Spanish did....I mean all they did before that point was run away and scittle their ships
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It was their plan all along, to delay the english long enough for diseases to cripple their army and force a retreat.
@@nathansellars3757 that's not entirely fair. Disease affected english and spanish people in the same way. Vernon counted on these by taking more men with them.
What were the British smuggling?
You start the documentary with "The South Sea Company" and I already know that this will end badly for the British.
It was Walpole!
LeSethX *I understood that reference*
Walpole is involved too, remember what the guys in ExtraCredits say BLAME WALPOLE
All because of the sharp minded John Blunt
Love large scale ponzi scheme
FINALLY THE BATTLE ERASED FROM HISTORY BY THE BRITISH!!
Jedem Das Seine the Spaniards? Most of the people commenting down here are Colombians,lol,specially from Cartagena.
@Jedem Das Seine Actually, it was erased by George II of Great Britain, he promulgated a edict of law were nobody could write upon the Battle of Cartagena de Indias under threat of death pen; obviously, at the end, it was not possible to erased it totally.
You must know that, in England, they were already celebrating "their victory" and they even minted money with Blas de Lezo knelt before Vernon...
Imagine the King of England's reaction to it...
All the coins made for the occasion were retired (you can find some in Military Museums and in private collections) and the news were censored.
"It's not taught in British schools" you said... hahaha In the Spanish ones neither...
"The Spaniards in these comments are evidencing a very severe inferiority complex, which is quite unbefitting of them"
Well the British comments are usually too prideful, same as how they generally teach and learn their past...
"there are plenty of books you can read about it"
Give me bibliography and references; documentaries or films too... upon the most humiliating military defeat of Great Britain.
@@su_morenito_1948 Colombia didn't even exist at that time my friend...
It was the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
Oh, no, they do that a lot, this is not *THE* battle they erased from history. And then Americans, who make movies, buy into that cause they only speak English.
Honestly, the British tend to erase many things from history. They are very good at that.
The Royal Navy was defeated multiple times by the Spanish Navy, but History omits it.
Francis Drake, was defeated in Veracruz in the battle of San Juan de Ulua in 1568.
The Invincible English, invasion fleet sent by Elizabeth I to defeat to the Spanish navy, was defeated by Spain and its navy in 1589.
Edward Vernon was defeated in Cartagenas De Indias by Blas de Lezo in 1741.
Horacio Nelson, the great victor of Trafalgar, was defeated in Tenerife, Spain, 25 of July of 1797.
Before the Royal Navy was the owner of the seas, its predecessor was the Spanish Navy, who dominated the seas and made Spain the first global empire in world history, and also has the merit of discovering the American continent.
(America is a Continent not a country).
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...second global empire in history...
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*the Americas
The Vikings had discovered North American continent WAYY before the Spanish were even a mention, not to mention responsible for most Expansionist morale by the English which also made them have superior war ship capability..yes the Spanish did exceptionally well at looting south american indigenous peoples coffers and claiming territories in the new world (while not having colonies) and naming coming back with tales of the fountain of youth and such...soo just because you wont accept the new found information as the new doctrine doesnt mean the rest of the world doesnt have to. The spanish owed much of its naval warfare to Moorish invaders and prior to that the Romans and Carthaginians who were completely erased from the earth by the Romans (first genocide in history?!)
I am disappointed with how the battle is treated:
The whole event is described from the English point of view and with a strong emphasis on good progress and advances from English troops and an emphasis on miseries from Spaniards: defeat, panic, retreat...
After watching this video you would just think it's a normal battle where the English were close to the victory and they performed ok, the Spaniards performed poorly or "ok-ish" (no mention to their good performance in the whole thing) and that's it, no further mention to how huge the fleet was or how victory coins were minted by the British.
I think it's a pity how the whole video looks like a justification of the British defeat and an attempt to remove as much merit as possible from Spanish military genius De Lezo.
If this battle would be Nelson defending a port against Napoleon invading fleet, then we would see a totally different treatment.
So, disappointing.
@@scintillam_dei I mean Spain did bring deseases
Yes that video is trying too hard to entertain a primarily English influenced audience, that I am comfortable with it.
Ahhh yes the well know and respected Spanish navy
@@xeopi It does though
Si ha visto usted el reportaje de este canal sobre la batalla de Lepanto, el narrador se pone en varias ocasiones de parte del turco, enemigo de Europa entera!! La conclusión es clara: este personaje es un anti-español.
interesting detail: the nights before the british tried to take the fort with ladders, de Lezo send soldiers to dig a pit around the wall and to camouflage it, so the day when they attacked, they set the ladders and they realized they were a bit short xD
The end of the siege is imprecise. The attack to Saint Lazaro's Castle failed because Admiral Blas de Lezo ordered to dig a trench around the wall. This caused the British siege ladders to not reach the top of the walls, but the Britons realised it when they had already ordered the attack. The following morning, the Spaniards charged against the English troops motivated by the recent victory. The retreat to the boats was ordered then. Vernon stayed one more month firing to both the City and the Castle, causing almost no damage and wasting all the munition. It is also curious the messages Vernon and Blas de Lezo exchanged during that month. The Spanish troops rebuilt all the siege defences through the jungle and another disembarking was impossible. He had to retreat to rebuild his navy, sinking a lot of his own ships to prevent them from falling into Spanish hands, as his heavy losses made impossible its manoeuvre.
The ladder thing sounds why they failed at the Battle of New Orleans.
Jack bharucha, building trenches is always worth it ;)
This is the comment I was looking for. Thanks!
AlvarezCrack, but the viceroy was not in the castle but in the city, I think so at least. But building trenches was actually the most common strategy. Nothing special...
This might be their worst video
Blas de Lezo: “This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow”
Those movies are the Pseudo-historical trash we´ve been fed. Reality was far different...
@@fernandogarcia3957 potraying pirates as some kind of excentric friendly adventurers when in fact they were scum, that used to pillage sack and rape.
Like vikings
@@deumevet exactly
@Sasuke Uchiha what a dumb response.
@@deumevet and all the big naval powers back then where happily selling slaves
The english counter armada (1589) was even a way more brutal disaster - 11,000-15,000 casualties and 40 ships sunk
Another chapter that anglocentric historians have usually dismissed...
Not really, 1 ship is not equal to any other ship. the English in 1589 lost relatively few Galleons (ships of the line equivalent) due in part to only having 6 to start with (The Spanish had 22 in 1588) - at the battle in the video the British lost 6 Ships of the line and 17 heavily damaged while with the Armada the bulk of the ship losses where replaceable. This was therefore materialistically a much bigger disaster and about the same in loss of life...
It's an arguable point is all I'm sayin :)
@@Delogros Only bad weather destroyed Spanish Armada, in case of English Counter Armada was different they lost battle
Losers
@@larrymccoy5394 Whether I agree with that or not is immaterial to the point that's being argued here, the size of the disaster is not based on how material and manpower is lost in the slightest :S
Delogros You do realize after the counter armada of 1589 england entered into a huge crisis (from which they could have never recovered from). There was a huge investment on the campaign that failed. Some historians have argued that had the english invested just a bit more money there would have been no british empire in the future.
Blas de Lezo is criminally underrated
The most Underated Historic Person for Hollywood movie. I thinking in Javier Bardem for Lezo . The name of the movie Damned Lezo. Admiral Vernon Liam Neeson
Álvaro de Bazán too
Most pf the great Spanish commanders are criminally underrated. A running theory is that it’s due to “Black Legend” against Spain, but I think the explanation is very simple. The Culture right now is dominated by the US, the US is an anglo country and therefore they tend to represent the anglo view of history. So everybody knows Drake, Nelson and the Duke of Wellington but nobody knows the Duke of Alba, Juan de Austria, Gonzalo Fernandez de Córdoba or Blas de Lezo, despite their military exploits being just as impressive.
In all pirates movies, the pirate capitain is always desguised as Blas de Lezo.
@@alvaro4867 honestly, i was gonna try to disguise my feelings as critical historiography but i think that would be disingenuous, so I'm just gonna go right ahead and say that drake was a disgusting human being whose most important achievements were crimes of war. He does not deserve to be remembered.
Another one of those relatively unknown British defeats, and a sounding loss it was.
@@TheColombiano89 that's not exact. The english fleet was massive but not the biggest toll D day
Gallipoli
@@TheColombiano89 Wait wait... " yes the ships that would be in a literal line firing at other ships" A ship of the line is a larger warship normally carrying between 64-90 guns, so just with that your own numbers show the British didn't have 188 ships of the line, 2,000 guns/188 ships is like 11 guns per ship... Actual British fleet consisted of 29 Ships of the line, 22 Frigates, 71 Sloops, 2 hospital ships, 80 troops transport ships and 50 merchant ships...
Add to all of this even in the Napoleonic wars when the Royal navy was at the height of it's power she didn't have 188 ships of the line but topped out at 152.
@@TheColombiano89 remember the counterarmada in 1589. Another crushing defeat for the english at the hands of the spaniards
As a colombian, I encourage you to visit the fortress of San Felipe in Cartagena as well as the still standing sections of the city wall. From the top of the fortress you can really imagine how this siege played out.
Steven Gómez great city!
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Can I get some colombian hookers and cocaine while there?
@meder ja,ja, poor idiot , many hundred thousands of Europeans, yankees, Canadians, Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabs, Iranian , Jews tourists visited this Colombian city per year, many of them , very rich and important people, also many celebrities and gossip stars like Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro, Franco Nero, bud Spencer, Terrence hill, Susan sarandon, Eva longoria, Marissa tomei, vin diesel, will smith, tom cruise, Mel Gibson , Charlie sheen, chuck Norris and many other visited this Colombian city , heritage cultural site of the UNESCO , one of the most important and first European on the continent of America, it was also prior to the European arrival, one of the site of the important and rich gold native american culture and chieftains and agricultural high levelled of the zenus, people who created vast irrigation canal zones across the Caribbean region of Colombian from thousand years of the arrival of the Spaniards conquerors and settlers and colonizers , Cartagena of indies also is a touristic important place for millions of Colombian and Latin-American tourists, in fact also important people like Charles Lindbergh flew on his famous plane spirit of saint Louis to this Colombian city and others in his tour to south America and also the president of united states , Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited this magical city when he meet the president of colombia olaya herrera, also George Busch father, George Busch junior, bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, barak obama, Michael j pence, and the ex-former British prime minister , john major, visited and liked this colourful ,diverse, pretty, beautiful and magical Colombian, Latin-American and global cultural heritage city, if you are a red neck who never exit or went outside of your little town or city or county in the us, maybe if you are today young and poor , living in a camp or mobile house , you can enrol by yourself on the marines corps or in the army or in the navy or air force and go to travel and learn about the world that is outside of the borders, you can improve your factual culture and social intelligence,, grown your experience about the richnesses, wonders of this world call earth , destroy your prejudices and ignorance and mature a little more, of course if you are not a moron, trumpist moron or folk with bigotry and lack of perspective of the complexities, contradictions and different ways and manners on life, historically Cartagena of west indies was an important geostrategical cultural, commercial and urban centre that it was attacked and sacked by European pirates and European corsairs enemies of Spain and Catholicism like French Huguenots, Dutch, English , for example Francis drake captured this city and also Morgan attacked this city, those raids were made by European colonial antagonists of Spain on the 16, 17 centuries ......
@meder LOL, poor idiot, i m also a people from European ancestry, my mother visited and studied in London in 1972-1974, she was scientist, my sister studied English in London in 1988, my father lived abroad , on new york from 1951 to 1958, me, i visited and lived on USA on 1980, 1984 and i studied and lived in australia and new Zealand on 2008-2010, i have English relatives and friends, one cousin of mine is English, their daughters and son are English, stupid count, i studied on a French school on 1970s and 1980s, i have family with European and north american citizenship, my aunts travelled, many, many times to Europe , Canada, USA, japan,. australia , south Africa, you don t know nothing colombia or Latin-American world , my father travelled many times to Canada , relatives of my people had studied in English universities, i have friends who studied and graduated from English and continental universities, my mother worked for united nations, Merck on 1970s and dea and CIA on 1980s, stupid scumbag if you want talk about prejudice think yourself first, i don t argue about the safety or high standard of life of the countries of the first world or industrialized word, of course is not the same to talking about the issues and big challenges and inequalities, injustices and political, socio-economical, racial, cultural , juridical, criminal, violent divergences, troubles , issues of the countries of the third world or underdeveloped states and nations , formerly ex-colonized counties ravaged by the colonialism and imperialism of big Europeans powers who attacked, conquered, exploited, enslaved and destroyed many societies, countries, cultures, people , civilizations across the globe, first all all ignorant dude, you must understand that not all things and peoples and societies across the nations of Latin-American civilization are the same, Latin America is very rich in material and resources and that was the reason of the military and pirate expeditions of the Europeans and also all them , with their strategies of division, manipulation and neocolonialism, second , Europe only was rich after this conquest of the world from the 1500 DC, before it was a poorest land of ignorant people like you, third , you must to know that many colombi9ans are people from European Caucasian ancestry like many others Latin-Americans because after the conquest of this lands by the Europeans and the slavery and slaughter of the native Americans, many thousands , hundred of thousands of settlers, peasantry, militaries, clergy, tradesmen leaved Spain and Portugal and settled here, also Italians, catholic Germans, Turkish,Syrians, Lebanese, Hebrews, Arabs and also millions of African slaves, after the independence of these countries on 19 century, millions of poorest Europeans from England, France, Poland , Russia,Italy, Germany, Croatia , japan, china,Turkish empire, India, Ceilan travelled and settled in Latin America on 19 and 20 centuries in argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Cuba, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico , stupid scumbag i don t care about you and is my only reply to a stupid British ordinary subject , i am not a subject of a kingdom , i am a citizen of a divided and of course underdeveloped country but not poor because my country and my people are so rich and needed but the capitalist and economical rulers of the world, the British, European, global elites of yesterday, today and tomorrow but not the ordinary folks like that the created wars , empires and global agendas of domination and exploitation and mass killing because they needed the lands, natural resources and markets and material economical sources for the economies and societies of poorest people from their nations and cultures on Europe,m people who mass murder between themselves on many wars and people who migrated to other lands on the world in search of prosperity, freedom and economical advantages that they do n t haver on they native homelands, me i m here on my beautiful and cruel and yes, violent, predatory and contradictory land, nation, homeland of many different and opposite cultures, races, socioeconomic classes , and guilds , and collective groups, races, ethnicities, regional and local cultures , because is my land and of course i do not compare London, Beijing, new york, la Mecca , Istanbul, Athens, the Cairo , Tokyo, Kyoto, Seoul, new Delhi with my country and the capital of my country, is absurd, is not the same to be born in a civilized, sovereign and developed country , nation, culture that to be born in a country who conquered, enslaved, colonized and reborn after all those things, but to be born in a country developed or to be born like British of race or ethnicity is only a matter of luck, not of qualities of you or someone else, nobody take a decision about where he will be born of from Wath race , culture, historical, political, social background, cultural heritage, biological race , ethnicity, culture he will take when he will be born, is only a matter of good or bad luck, i do not to think that all English ordinary people , individuals, groups are the same and take the same answers to same questions because that is absurd, all people and individuals on world and earth and countries like yours or mine are diverse,rich, different, with their own interest, ideals, agendas, duties, tragedies, fights and ignorance and wisdom and hopes, all them are humans......
Forgot to mention the Spanish spies misinformed the British attackers on the ground. The significance of the size, just how huge this British invasion force was, it was the biggest until up til the modern era. Also didn't mention the medals the British had minted in advance of Vernon's campaign victory. lol. All in all it was a complete disaster for England, no wonder they don't mention it which is a pity this isn't mentioned much or hardly outside of Colombia. Argh Spain, such epic history needs to be told!
Blaz De Lesso's legendary life would make for an epic Hollywood movie. This war would make for an awesome movie as well !
They forgot to mention many things... A very anglocentrist view.
I'm not even Spanish and it bothers me
I have an anecdote when i was in cartagena years ago, all the people that you ask said that they belong one of this coins /medals obviously wasn't posible because all was sent to England.
there are ba few of this forbident medallions in de Museo de la Armada de Madrid
@@martinguerra5152was not only a win from Spain it was a win from whole Hispanidad, I don't know where you are but for you name you must be song of the Hispanidad which make as brothers and sisters.
@@TheColombiano89 viva Colombia, viva España y viva la hispanidad.
WTF?! I've never heard of this before hahaha. That's pretty major. So the English do not just pretend to suffer from amnesia when it comes to their defeats against the French. That's the case with defeats against Spain as well 😂
Why are the British going to remember a Spanish victory, surely that's Spain's job, it's also worth pointing out the English had 62 battles just against Scotland... Expecting every British person to know about every victory and defeat throughout the entirety of the Islands history is a bit silly don't you think?
@@Delogros I said absolutely nothing about remembering everything. That's a strawman. Everyone in Europe remembers major defeats they have had at the hands of their historic rivals, not just victories...... everyone but the English haha. Example: The English spend their time talking about Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt and the superiority of longbowmen in the Hundred Years' War.... a war they have lost and one of the most important wars in both english and french history... but be honest.... were you taught about the battles of Patay, Formigny and Castillon in history class? I doubt that's the case with the circle-jerk I see about chivalry dying at Agincourt. The superiority of longbows over heavy cavalry wouldn't even be a thing if you knew what french knights did to your longbowmen. To illustrate what I mean. If the French were taught history the way you are, we would remember Austerlitz, Jena-Auerstedt and Friedland in the Napoleonic Wars but somehow not Trafalgar, Leipzig and Waterloo. Hilarious, right?
@@Itachi951000 Yeah you did :S " So the English do not just pretend to suffer from amnesia when it comes to their defeats against the French. That's the case with defeats
against Spain as well" heavily suggests for some reason the English should remember all this stuff.
You obviously know very little about the English in general, less then 4% know about Poitiers and 9% about Crecy only Agincourt is well known and that's because of SHAKESPEARE.
Are you under some strange impression English people don't know we lost the 100 years war? :S
"were you taught about the battles of Patay, Formigny and Castillon in history class?" of course not, but I also wasn't taught about Crecy, Agincourt, Poiters or Waterloo either, your point is nonsensical :S
"the circle-jerk I see about chivalry dying at Agincourt." Again, Shakespeare, you've chosen like the worst possible example you possible could...
We weren't taught about Trafalagar either, We learned about WW1 and WW2 mainly which in case you've forgotten include defeats at Singapore, Gallipoli and Norway... The only battles the British won I remember spending any time on is the battle of Britain, battle of the Atlantic and El Alemein...
You need to seriously rethink how the history education system works in the UK because it's not even close to what you think it is.
@@Itachi951000 Oh, D-day as well, obviously :) the Somme I don't really count as a victory.
Contra España han tenido muchas mas derrotas....que alegrias,y generalmente con menos fuerzas.
Españoles e Hispanoamericanos,hoy nos toca disfrutar del episodio.
Saludos desde la Ciudad de México en la Nueva España!!!
Llevo años esperando esta batalla.
Al igual que los americanos. Saludos desde Santa Fe de Bogota en la Nueva Granada.
El episodio estuvo bastante bien pero se nota que esta algo `britanizado´. Se olvidaron de decir muchas cosas.
@@MiguelLopez-yc2rh Eso me ha parecido a mi también, solo hablan de bajas al final. Hubo varios intentos creo en la toma de San Lazaro etc..
Un saludo desde Madrid
What I learned from this battle:
- Numbers don't win battles, MEN do
- De Lezo missing one eye, one hand and one leg was too much for Vernon and his arrogance
- English until this day try to avoid admitting defeats like this
- Not a single school in spanish speaking countries teach this amazing victory full of epic and heroism
British not English, and I am aware of defeats like this or the battle of the Somme.
Tbf, many schools don't have the time to dwell on the belic history of the colony. In latin american, often history subject in school spans from the Inca/Aztec empires to the recent history (think 2010) in like 3-4 years, and many have to compete with civic education in the same subject. So, while important, warfare losses terrain vs stuff like political history, social structure, origin of stuff like the law and government development, and economic history.
en cartagena de indias, la ciudad actualmente tiene estatuas de su heroe local por todos lados entonces podemos asumir que en las escuelas se enseña su historia, aunque quizá no, no vivio ahí
Esta batalla de Cartagena de Indias, 1741, va para la colección de victorias navales de España.
-1372. Batalla de La Rochelle. Castilla destruye 48 barcos ingleses, sin perder ningún barco.
-1380. La flota de Castilla ataca todo el sur de Inglaterra, destruyendo 13 ciudades.
-1381. La flota de Castilla derrota a una flota de Inglaterra y Portugal, capturando 22 barcos.
-1419. La flota de Castilla derrota a los holandeses y alemanes, capturando 40 barcos.
-1535. La flota española destruye 70 barcos turcos en la batalla de Túnez.
-1543. La flota española captura 23 barcos franceses en la Batalla de Muros.
-1571. La "OTAN" española en Italia, dirigida por España, destruye 200 barcos turcos en la Batalla de Lepanto.
-1573. España captura una flota de guerra holandesa de 23 barcos.
-1582. La flota española, con 25 barcos, derrota a una flota portuguesa y francesa de 60 barcos y conquista las islas Azores.
-1585. Los españoles destruyen 100 barcos holandeses en los Países Bajos.
-1589. La armada española destruye la invencible flota inglesa, Drake, que pierde 40 barcos en batalla (sin tormentas, como en 1588, donde los ingleses solo destruyeron 6 barcos españoles en combate)
-1591. Batalla de Almería. España captura 23 barcos holandeses e ingleses.
-1592. Batalla de Vizcaya. 5 barcos españoles derrotan a 40 barcos ingleses.
-1595. Desembarco español en Inglaterra, destruyendo 4 barcos ingleses.
-1596. Las 5 derrotas de Drake en el Caribe. El muere alli
-1597. España derrota en el Atlántico a la gran flota inglesa y holandesa, de 180 barcos ingleses y holandeses.
-1625. La flota española derrota a los holandeses en Brasil. España destruye 62 barcos ingleses y holandeses en la batalla de Cádiz.
-1625. La flota española invade Génova, derrotando a los franceses.
-1625. España derrota a una flota inglesa y holandesa de 62 barcos en Cádiz.
-1629. España derrota a Inglaterra y Francia en la batalla de San Cristóbal, Caribe, destruyendo o capturando 14 barcos.
-1641. La flota española derrota duramente a la flota francesa en Tarragona
-1717. Conquista española de Cerdeña, contra Austria.
-1726. España captura cientos de buques de guerra ingleses y barcos comerciales en el Caribe.
-1741. BATALLA DE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS. España destruye 50 barcos ingleses.
-1734. La flota española invade Italia, y derrota al imperio de Austria.
-1779. La flota española bloquea Inglaterra y captura una flota británica de 55 buques de guerra.
-1780. La flota española captura una flota de 24 buques de guerra británicos.
-1782. La flota española invade Menorca, derrotando a Inglaterra.
-1782. La flota española invade las Bahamas, derrotando a Inglaterra.
-1797. España derrota a la flota inglesa en Puerto Rico.
-1797. España derrota a la flota inglesa de Nelson en Cádiz.
-1797. España vuelve a vencer a Nelson en Cádiz.
-1797. Tenerife. La flota de invasión de Nelson es derrotada.
-La flota española de Indias realizó 1200 viajes entre América y España, en 300 años. Los ingleses solo capturaron 2 flotas, en puerto y sin declaración de guerra. Los holandeses capturaron 2 flotas. 0,5%. Esa flota hizo la hispanización de América y Filipinas, la revolución del mercado en Asia y sacó a Europa de la era feudal. La globalización.
-1848. Expedición Balanguingui, Filipinas. España destruye 150 barcos piratas.
-1862. La flota española invade la República Dominicana, en el Caribe.
-1862. La flota española y francesa (70% española) invade Vietnam.
-1898. Cuba. 3 barcos españoles capturan un barco de Estados Unidos.
-1898. Batalla de Cárdenas. España derrota a Estados Unidos.
-1925. Desembarco de Al Hoceima. España y Francia invaden Marruecos.
Ahora entiendo como los ingleses se hicieron tan buenos marineros, ganaron tanta experiencia perdiendo que finalmente no habia mas formas en las que podian ser derrotados que ya no sabian.
Basicamente, los españoles ganaron demasiado.
@@david-mw8ovLa calidad de sus mujeres, el sabor de sus comidas y la bondad de su clima hicieron de los ingleses los mejores marineros del mundo
@@jereferreira5086 🤣🤣🤣 Y faltó su gran sentido del humor...
al final el imperio fue destruido pero recordemos que un imperio tan grande y por tanto tiempo solo pudo crearse y sostenerse a base de victorias militares
@@elsantigamer4334 Todos los imperios son destruidos, y si no se deshacen ellos solos, como el británico, y se destruyen igualmente.
Britain: WE RULE THE WA-
Spain: I AM FOUR PARALLEL UNIVERSES AHEAD OF YOU
what? Britain was still far more powerful? even with losing ships our navy was still far superior? the spanish won because of disease? not because of themselves.
Still several times as powerful
@@sausagejockyGaming that's some serious bullcrap you have there
@johnnie anon dude, if you don't know about the history of a nation, the rational and intelligent thing would be not to talk about it.
@johnnie anon yeah, let's pretend that an army as big as that one can lose against such an small force only because of disease. You are like little kids: when you win, it's because of your own merits. When you lose, it's because of some external event and not because of the enemies' merits. Stop this nationalist pride self-defense operation,please.
This is one of history's underrated decisive battles. Spain's crushing win at Cartagena took Britain out of the Silesia negotiations, in which they had been on Austria's side. This was a key factor in Austria losing Silesia, a major step on Prussia's road to German dominance which eventually had serious consequences for Britain and the world. Also, at 20:20 "The failure of the siege can be attributed to... ...lack of information on the French Navy's whereabouts" we see foreshadowing of Virginia, September 1781.
¡¡¡Viva Don Blas de Blezo y Olavarrieta!!! Y larga vida a todas las Españas.
Honor and Glory Blas de Lezo
Long live Spain✊👊🇪🇸🇪🇺
EU 🇪🇺🤮🤮🤮
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The Biggest *Oof* the Royal Navy has Ever Had.
No, that would be the Raid on the Medway, followed by the massive Four Days' Battle 1666 and of course the entire 3th Anglo-Dutch war being failure after failure. Getting beaten is one thing, but getting beaten while possessing more, heavier and nominally more powerful ships, time after time again, yea that is one big oof.
@@TheColombiano89 Right.
The dutch want to know your location
@@michaelcarney6280 ?
It was also the biggest nava invasion in history after WWII D-Day. Hoo! What a victory for Spain and Blas de Lezo!
Drake died in the 1597 Battle of San Juan. He was reported as died "Of a tropical disease" by the british. Yeah, cannonfire from tropical San Juan, Puerto Rico. Admiral Hemmings died on that battle too and was buried at sea in front of San Juan.
When Drake died from the wounds 10 days after the battle, they lied instead of admitting 2 of their greatest navy admirals died and Brittish lost on an invasion of a Spanish City.
Doctor 1: He died of disease.
Doctor 2: name of disease
Doctor1: cannon to the abdomen
@@alejandroojeda1572 Lead Poisoning by the 70 cannons of El Morro Fortress. Even at night, they got decimated.
800 vs 22000 casualties
Yep, just like Total War's automatic battles
800+ 1200 if you count wounded, but still GG UK XD
This episode really need a remade, it just felt flat.
I like that it explains the backstory that lead to the battle, but the absolute lack of details in the actual battle, especialy on the spanish side and the fact that Blas de Lezo, wich is a legend of an admiral is only mention twice in short sentences. Heck no! its like talking of Horatio Nelson and only telling his name, rank and death
Plus other detail like that the british have to burn their own ships on the shore because of the sheer ammount of losses they coudn't crew all the ship they had
I wish there were more videos on Spanish-related events on your channel. It is so comforting and amusing to listen to your narratives and watch your visual content. There are so many interesting battles and events throughout Spanish history that I would love to listen to and watch in your format. That being said, you have an amazing channel :) Congratulations!
Bro you didn't mention the fact that the british already had coins minted with the surrender of cartagena hahah
Vernon and Blas de Lezo were rivals. They already knew each other and wrote letters. They were quite polite to each other. A famous quote is when Vernon told him his retreat was temporary and that he would come back with reinforcements. Lezo answered: To come to Cartagena it is necessary for the King of England to build another larger squad, because this has only been left to drive coal from Ireland to London, which would have been better than undertaking a conquest that you cannot achieve.
I'd like to see the siege of the fort Mose or the battle of Cagayan. Also the invasion of Japan by the mongol empire.
Im certain they do have a video on the mongol invasion of japan
@@poinocomer4588 really?, great.
I feel glad that I got to visit Cartagena and see the old city and intact fortress Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas and learn about its history. It's a very beautiful city and I recommend visiting it if the opportunity is there.
I hope to visit it soon, as well as La Habana. Greetings from Spain.
Let’s not forget to mention the British minted coins commemorating the “British Victory” at Cartagena :)
As a commonwealth citizen, What Disaster and completly humilliation for Anglosaxon World... Many of us learnt bad History and fake UK news. Spain won many battles.
@@larrymccoy5394
I am glad to see someone from the Commonwealth who simply accepts that the Anglo-Saxon world has lost many battles against the Hispanic world, Cartagena de Indias is one of the most famous, but there have been many other equally disastrous battles for the Anglo-Saxon world, of course the The Hispanic world has also suffered great defeats, but we accept them as part of our history and we do not hide them, anyway thanks for your sincerity friend, greetings from Spain.
cringe
"Todo buen español debería mear siempre mirando a Inglaterra" - Blas de Lezo
A Francia*
@@Johan_t Francia y España son naciones hermanas que te guste o no.
@@PF777 how
Amén
@@PF777 Más primas que otra cosa. Portugal es más hermana.
Royal Navy: RULE BRITANNIA, BRI-
Spanish Navy: *NO.*
also Spain: *GLORIA LA PATRIA*
*Santiago y cierra España*
have you not watched the video? the spanish navy was destroyed? disease won the battle for spain not the spanish.
@@sausagejockyGaming dude, you are simply delusional. The attackers had ten times the men, and almost ten times the warships, a massive advantage in firepower and material. Disease was as bad for the defenders as for the attackers, the only thing that defeated the british was the insurmountable arrogance of Vernon and the fighting retreat implemented by Lezo all across the bay
@@MiguelGarcia-si8qi lol
somebody clearly cant do math.
The life of Blas de Lezo (the Half Man) needs a video
5:37 "British sent a fleet commanded by Admiral Haddock." I can only imagine the amount of cussing and variety of swearwords said admiral had.
Glad Tintin wasn't on the ship.
Lol
I think it was Lezo that said: "Every good Spaniard pisses in the direction of England"
(Don`t quote me on that I need to check but I am fairly certain)
Ahhh the pesty jealousy
@@happygilmore1844 sorry?
i tot bon català té un retrat de felip V capgirat a la comuna
@@happygilmore1844 to be jelous of britain is a joke. Im peruvian I have a world wonder in my country, the arquitectonical and enginering masterpiece called Machu Picchu and many beatiful cities made or remade by Spain here which are by the way world heritage monuments. Jealous of Britain? LOL
And yet here you are smacking talking the British in their own language the irony is not lost.
The funniest thing is that people here in Spain don't know who Blas de Lezo is. Neither they paid too much attention to him when he was alive, we don't even know where he was buried.
I think it would be cool if you explore the full career of Lezo in a video, he is one of the most regarded Spanish admirals.
People in Spain dont care about their country , history and their heroes which is sad because they were great and Im not even spaniard.
I am from Spain and I have been in Cartagena de Indias, so Blas de Lezo has been rediscobered in recent years. Is very tipicall spain to forget his heroes. And I must say that Blas is a remembered hero by Cartagenians and Colombians as well!
@@thelifesampler Yeah, I totally agree with you. I'm Spaniard and I have kinda the same feeling, I think its mainly because we have partly believed what was told about us (all covered in the Spanish Black Legend) and because the general public here thinks that after the defeat of the Armada Invencible we stopped having relevance in International affairs
And it is truly a shame. Love them or hate them, the Brits do it right by honouring their heroes. Nelson is known by everybody, and has prominent monuments and places of honor dedicated to him. Spain, on the other hand...
They don't even teach anything about this battle in schools in Colombia, most people don't even know this battle ever occurred.
I felt this video was too short and unfocused on the ground defense. Missed a lot of things compared to the wiki page in Spanish. And English.
Yeah. It surprised me how they basically didn't mention anything about the Spanish strategy for the defense, but mentioned all kind of details of the English strategy.
Yeah, tons of English POV in here, almost none from the Spanish.
As I like to say -- History is written by the English.
Yeah... To anglo centrist.
No mention either of the Spaniards harassing the brits guided by natives
@@DarthPlato Or perhaps it was due to the people who made the Wikipedia entry not being able to translate Spanish sources, and understand their strategy? I mean we don't even know if the people who made the page were English, they could be Americans for all we know.
Oh BTW that history is written by the English is bullshit, I mean how many times do you hear about the Battle of Yorktown, in the American Revolutionary War, than the South Carolinan front of the War, or Gandhi's peaceful independence movement, compared to the actual conquest of India, which isn't taught in the English curriculum, at all.
"One eye, one hand and one leg" would be a sick nickname for a pirate.
The surname of Lezo was "half man". It was not for the size...
one ball
aceous99 maybe one ball, but made of brass
This guy ate the pirates for breakfast.
"one eye, one hand , one leg and 3 balls" was the spanish version for lezo
Fun fact: a few years ago, the Royal Navy published a survey to decide the name of one of its new ships. The users of a forum called Forocoches conspired for the name to be "Blas de Lezo". Evidently, the Royal Navy was forced to suspend the survey.
Unlikely a thing suspect someone april fooled you but if it where true then people should have really learnt from "boaty Mcboatface" by now
@@Delogros It was that same survey, but they didn't suspend it, they just removed the option to vote for Blas de Lezo.
@@user-hj1dc2wp7v But that wasn't technically a Royal navy poll, that was the NERC which is why the actual ship the PRS, though you could make the argument it was the merchant marine but the two organizations are still not the same and that's where the bulk of my confusion with your comment came from, seemed to me you where suggesting this was for a warship or a proper fleet auxiliary :) all cleared up now though and yes for the David Attenbourgh you are entirely demonstrably correct as I just checked :)
Recuerda españa que tú registe el Imperio de los mares 🌊 🇪🇸
TWO WORDS: «EL GLORIOSO»
According to the video, the causes of the English disaster in Cartegena de Indias were:
• Diseases that apparently only affected the English.
• The lack of appropriate information, which delayed the attack.
• And the poor coordination between the British commanders.
According to the video, the defense of the Spanish garrison had very little to do with it. Not just because they were outnumbered 8 to 1. But they also panicked in front of tall, strong, blond, handsome, well-organized, smart and brave British soldiers. So they spent the entire attack fleeing from one fort to another.
I understand that this video is made for the British public, but it is tremendously biased and does not do the story justice at all.
1) The Garrison was a garrison it had been there for a while so most of it had become resilient to the local diseases, in the time of Coronavirus I would have hoped you would know that :S.
2) In any victory or defeat there are always large numbers of contributing factors, not sure why some of them being pointed out is making you so made :S.
25% of the English fleet was already sick when it arrived so technically it's already 6 to 1 which when you have fortifications (if they are half decent) is normally perfectly defensible, ask the knights of St John on Malta, of the British in the great siege of Gibraltar if fortifications still confuse you.
Time stamp the video please for the the panicked part, also when you have multiple forts you tend to shift your forces where you think they are needed this is nothing new in siege warfare.
In the same way the SPanish invasion of Portugal in 1762 where the Spanish lost 25,000 men compared to the Anglo-Portuguese 1,600 men (few forts involved) had little to do with combat... If you want to pretend the garrison inflicted most of the casualties or some version like that when it is demonstrably untrue then we should also revise the 1762 invasion as well. Large armies tend to become diseased, again this is nothing new.
@@Delogros wich is something the spanish knew, and they played for it, the siegue was lost due to the spanish saliiying out and sendind the british back to their ships, and inmediatly refortifiying the entire place, the british had nothing to do but just scutttle what they coudlnt take and run.
@@cseijifja When the bulk of your forces have died of desiese to the point there is no chance you can realistically take a fortified position then sure, there is then little point in hanging around, The Spanish themselves learned this many times of there own history but it's still not an impressive siege in any way at all, holding a defensive position is not an impressive military feat in and of itself unless something miraculous occurs.
Ha dado en el clavo. You hit the nail on the head. This video is mere English propaganda. It's pathetic and highly biased. Sheer manipulation.
@@Delogros Many of the things you say do not hold up. The English fleet, before going to Cartagena, attacked Portobelo, in this city there are apparently no diseases, it must have been that they were there for a short time. It must be taken into account that the English, before starting hostilities, went to replenish themselves and part of the fleet comes from Jamaica, an island where they have been settled since 1670, the battle was in 1741. In 70 years they have not acclimatized to the diseases ? There are no mosquitoes in Jamaica? And I would like to know what type of mosquito is capable of sinking 50 ships.
A historic battle. You could make one hell of a movie from this. A peg legged one-eyed Spanish Admiral facing off against the largest fleet the Royal Navy had set sail since D-day against a small detachment of Spanish and indigenous tribes with a handful of ships. Had the British won Latin America would speak English today and be called Anglo-America....
Not particularly likely, the British had no such military force large enough to send to Latin America that was heavily garrisoned, though they might have taken a territory here and there.
There is already anglo america , the us and canada mostly.
Internet y TH-cam es un progreso, respecto a la educación histórica que nos daban en el colegio, sobre batallas ganadas: "Ganamos la batalla de Las navas de Tolosa 1212, Lepanto 1571 y la guerra contra Napoleón 1814, y perdimos la Invencible 1588 y Trafalgar" 1805". Ahora sabemos que después de 1588, ganamos en 1589, por paliza a los ingleses, hundiendo 80 barcos. Y que después de 1805, ganamos a los británicos en Argentina y Uruguay 1806-07, capturando a los generales británicos, además de derrotar a Nelson 3 veces en 1797, y Cartagena de Indias 1741, hundiendo 50 barcos, más el bloqueo naval de Inglaterra 1779-80, capturando 80 barcos británicos, o la victoria en Cádiz 1625, hundiendo 62 barcos ingleses y holandeses, o la la batalla de La Rochelle 1372, hundiendo 48 barcos ingleses. ¡Pero no quiero abusar, que me vengo arriba!
YEEEEEES, all Spaniards were waiting this moment
not really xD just the castilians
@@delarkaBCN Que pena que das, pobre amargado. ¿Es muy chungo eso de ser sodomizado y al mismo tiempo creerte superior?
Francesc del Arca Why though? Navarre(Euskalerria),Galicia,etc still kept their fueron intact. So maybe it’s only the Catalans,Aragonese,Valencians,and majorcans who weren’t waiting this moment.
@@delarkaBCN I'm from Valencia and I'm very proud of our victory in Cartagena, so deal with it
@@delarkaBCN I don't think so, Blas de Lezo was vasque like a lot of sailors of the Spanish Armada and catalonian industry sold threir products in America
a detail: the british colony militia was comanded by the Brother of Washington, Lawrance
If he was in the service of the British Admiral Edward Vernon, and in his honor decided to call Mount Vernon the plantation he had in Virginia.
I´m colombian (where Cartagena currently is), and I´m ashamed I didn´t know about this; When I visited the city, they told us some stories, but never with this depth. Thanks you for the amazing work.
Y aun así omiten y tergiversan unas cuantas cosas. Pero la vdd el video está bien
Resumiendo, los Españoles solo sabían huir y retirarse, y los ingleses eran todos muy valientes e inteligentes, pero enfermaron y tuvieron que retirarse, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me meo , 🤣🤣
Posdata: ahora resulta, que los que saqueaban y pirateaban eran los Españoles , los ingleses nunca han pirateado ni robado barcos , que buen trabajo has hecho chaval, 😘
Más aún los españoles saqueaban en mares y tierras españolas xD que huevones estos que dicen eso, y peor los que se lo creen, los españoles tenían los huevos más grandes de todas las dimensiones, para un español era mejor la muerte a la deshonra.
Al parecer los 50 barcos ingleses que se hundieron lo hicieron también por las enfermedades :O)
Son super mentirosos, arrogantes e incapaces de contar la verdad.
Two fun facts:
The well known song "Rule, Brittania!" was written during this war after the victory at Porto Bello. Quite ironic considering how the war ended.
George Washington's older half-brother served during this war. He then named his home after the British admiral which is why it's called Mount Vernon.
It’s called mount vernon, not mount Vermont, I think you made a spelling mistake.
Blas de Lezo was the real MVP
19:03 - "You Say Run" starts to play.
Spanish soldiers: "Hey, Brits, do you hear that? Going beyond! Plus Ultra!"
As a Spaniard I am enjoying this video.
Blaz De Lezo argued with the Spanish viceroy regarding the defense of the city, just like the British army argued with admiral Vernon regarding the attack.
I am glad the siege of 2 months of Cartagena was covered, as a Spanish I love to see historical battles in relation with Spain which are not even known by the great majority of the Spanish citizens, it also would be great to see a video or a brief biography of admiral Blas de Lezo, being one day of the few generals at the time in Spain without belonging to the aristocracy, achieving it through loosing one leg at 16, one arm at 20 and one eye at 23, showing courage and military prouwess in the process
* to be more exact he didn’t loose the arm but it’s mobility by a bullet in the battlefield
As a Spaniard*
The video is focusing too much on british sources. A lot of elements of the spanish defense are missing. Like the defensive battles on every fort and batteries. The combats of the spanish ships.
And at San Lazaro there were trenches, Lezo ordered to dig a ditch to avoid the use of ladders by the english. When they were in, their ladders were too short and they were massacred. After that the spanish open the gates and a bayonet charge routed the english losing hundreds of men. The charge continued until the british boats.
dra1212, the castle is actually called "San Felipe de Baraja" and not "San Lázaro".
@@Jayako12 yeah I know it s San Felipe de Barajas. But i wrote Lazaro as in the video to be more understandable.
This is a common problem for K&G; they often rely on Western sources in English, and so whatever bias those sources had follow them into the video. Meanwhile whatever perspective other sources may have had are ignored.
AnOriginalName, nah man... They are usually pretty good videos. But this one is deceptively bad. I'm surprised they have uploaded this...
@@Jayako12 Yeah normally they're fine, but they tend to get the occasional video pretty wrong due to lack of in depth research, sometimes they've been caught repeating something that was on Wikipedia but was never confirmed. As far as I know, only the story of Darius I had actual different arguments and interpretations, as well as the Battle of Taras. Everything else is just a presentation of the sources they've read.
Lo único que tengo que decir es ¡VIVA ESPAÑA!🇪🇸
Saludos desde el virreinato del Río de la Plata, y parafraseando a Blas de leso, todo hispano de bien debe siempre mear en dirección a Inglaterra
More like piss yourself when facing Britain.
un buen español tiene que mear en dirección de Inglaterra mientras se imagina meando a un francés
It was a good video, though I missed some of the most important details and actions that really happened there. For instance, it is not mentioned that Vernon ordered some coins be forged in commemoration of the battle (before the eventual result obviously). In them, Blas de Lezo kneels down before Vernon, in a sign of humiliation, and gives him the keys of Cartagena. This of course became a humiliation, not for Blas or the Spaniards, but for the English.
Another detail that was not included was the way the Spanish militia defended the city. They put up tramps, holes and trenches in every forest, road or pathway that the British were to pass; they digged down the perimeter in front of the fortresses so that the ladders of the assaulting troops could not reach the top; locals misguided the British troops into tramps; there was a final charge of the Spanish garrison that routed the marines and made the ground army and the fleet flee from the battle and retreat to Jamaica; there was a constant barrage from the canons at Cartagena and other coastal castles that decimated most of the English fleet.
Lastly, while retreating, Vernon sent a message to Blas de Lezo, telling him that they were retreating back to Jamaica and would come again and stronger the next time, to which Blas replied: "if you are to come again, the English king will have to build a fleet even bigger than this one, because now yours is only able to transport coal from England to Ireland."
Again, it was a nice video, but the lack of details and the supposed responsibility of the defeat laying on misinformation on the whereabouts of the French fleet and the spread of diseases, rather than on the total lack of competence from Vernon, does not reflect an accurate version of the battle.
@Jedem Das Seine it is indeed since it was ordered directly by Blas de Lezo. Not using the advantage the terrains and the locals gives you would be a real nonsense, wouldn't it? And of course, diseases decimated a big part of the British army, but not most of it. Neglecting the rest of casualties, where they from fighting or accidents, is not honest in my opinion
Jedem Das Seine Disease affected both sides,Lezo himself died of it. And yeah,Lezo’s plan was literally try to survive until it was April(the raining season) and to let the disease do the joh
He also don't mention that both casualities were because yellow fever epidemia that happened during the battle.
@Jedem Das Seine it was a good tactic for Vernon, it seems he wasn t ready for that.
@Jedem Das Seine and majority napoleon soldier die because of winter
you guys are seriously one of the best history channels out there, thank you!
Shitty report wrote as a glorious propaganda.
This video is awfully omitting the best of this battle. You mentioned the ladders but you did not mention how the Spanish infiltrated the British pretending to surrender but misinformed the British and how blas de lezo dig holes in front of the walls because he realized they measured the walls to create ladders. Those ladders proved short later to the surprise of the British, that were massacred with that simple wit. They also created intricated zig zag holes that made advancement really hard for the British
This is correct. And the video does not mention the coin made by the british in advance with Lezo kneeling to the british. Haaa, that is selling the bear skin before you hunt it.
Interesting fact, one of the colonial officers along on the expedition was so impressed with Admiral Vernon that when he went home to Virginia, he named his plantation after him. When the officer died childless, he left the plantation to his younger brother, George Washington. Mt. Vernon, the Washington family estate, was named after Old Grog.
Seems he was too easy to impress...
Thanks for that, I had no idea.
@@berjastkjuklingur1914 Laurence Washington was a minor figure in the history of both nations, and he's notable only because of his famous Admiral and his much more famous little brother.
He was only one of many Infantry Captains at the battle of Cartagena de Indias, and I'm not surprised that @Kings and Generals didn't mention him.
Wow, never thought this battle would be covered. One of my favorite to read about.
I bet
5:50 Robert Walpole
So uh, will the South Sea Company be a subject of a future video? 😁
We have this idea to make a few on various "companies", but that is just an idea at this point.
@@KingsandGenerals I'm sure it will be of high quality like all of your vids if you decide to do so. Thanks for replying K&G!
@@KingsandGenerals make a video on the VOC (Dutch East-India Company). That could certainly be interesting. Especially looking at their skirmishes with the Portuguese over supremacy in Indonesia, or perhaps their monopoly on Japanese trade or the genocide committed by Jan Pieterszoon Coen in order to acquire a monopoly on a certain type of spice.
@Klaidi Rubiku it was Walpole
@@KingsandGenerals You should do both the English and Dutch East Indies Companies. All Extra History fans know about Robert Walpole of course.
Fun fact:
George Washingtons older brother Lawrence Washington fought in this battle.
Fun fact: first city in USA to free salvery is in spanish florida
@@hitsugayatoshiro9517 cause in Spain the slavery was banned in 1512 by the law of free men( hombres libres)
The amounts of British coping in this video is astonishing. The Spanish won beacuse they had better tactics, better leaders and braver soldiers. Period.
They did have better leaders, the rest is nonsense. They primarily won because they where defending large established fortifications and the British only outnumbered them 3-1.
For comparision here it was a 3-1 advantage the seige lasted just 2 months, at Gibralter the French/Spanish outnumbered the british 10-1 and the seige lasted 44 months. Fortifications are force multiplyers which is why armies use them to defend strategic locations, it's fairly unusual situation to say one side is "braver" then the other and be correct, most of the time such a comment is made from ignorance or stupidity and you shouldn't insult the war dead of other countries.
It'll be great if you make a video about the defenses strategy. The video makes looks like the victory was due to the climate, deceases and failures of command from the English.
Siempre buscando excusas estos británicos, les enncanta mentir y piratear.
Orgulloso de mis origenes españoles!
Love Spain from America!
The race of ''El glorioso'' would be a great video too...
@@Jayako12 jajaja probably, but, what victory around 300 years ago could be considered no exagerated... you know what i mean?
@@Jayako12 What sources?
Por los datos de sus santos cojones
I got confused with the capture of the "Stanhope", sorry
Bueno señores tampoco desquiciarse jajajaja. El hombre ha dicho que se ha equivocado pero lo que dice es bastante cierto. Es muy habitual que se exagere en algunas historias, incluso a día de hoy ciertos momentos de guerras ,incluso más cercanas a nuestro tiempo, permanecen con cierto velo de duda referido a sus características por las fuentes. Las cuales pueden diferir enormemente entre unas u otras o que solamente existe una fuente.
Incluso en este video, no se explica que a pesar de la grandeza de Lezo, es cierto que el Virrey (o eso está en disputa por historiadores) también participó activamente y tuvo buenas ideas durante la defensa de Cartagena de Indias. Aún así, y aunque este algo exagerado, porque siempre es una posibilidad, la carrera de El Glorioso, me parece una magnífica historia con la que hacer un muy buen video de Kings And Generals. Un saludo.
Excellent vid! for any music lovers, the pirate metal band, Alestorm did a song about this battle called 1741 (The Battle of Cartagena)
This Empire Total War music is so nostalgic and perfect for this, thank you
Y esta parte de la historia no la conocemos bien en los paises hispanos.
Hay gran parte de la Historia del Imperio Español que no saben y nunca creo lo sabrán por la forma que cuanta la historia distorsionada La historia Negra es lo que se cuenta en Hispanoamérica, no la verdad de la historia del Imperio Español, primer imperio Global Occidental y del mundo,lo bueno de internet es que hoy en día ,las personas que quieren saber la historia como fue busca y se informa sin esperar de los libros del gobierno.
Very pleased with you coverng such an important and relevant event in the colonial theatre. And i'll add a quote from the Admiral Blas de Lezo himself that reflects his character towards the englishmen:
"Every good spaniard has to pee looking towards England".
Jedem Das Seine was it particularly relevant? Well yes certainly it would’ve changed the results of thewar of the Austrian succession if Spain lost since she would be bankrupted. Also Vernon would’ve certainly not stopped at Cartagena. He would’ve raided the whole Spanish Main if he won so yeah it’s a bit important
@Jedem Das Seine As said in the video it delayed the fall of the spanish colonies from the grasp of the mainland for another century, and prevent the switch of hegemony in the American Theatre fron Spain to Britain. Cartagena de Indias was one of the most important if not the most important node in the central/south american region for Spain.
So sad...even in 2020 the Spaniards still pee in outhouses
Hows the drama in spain going ? You know between north and south?
Rule Hispania, Hispania Rule the Waves
What’s hispania?
@Just Getting By nor is Britain after ww2
@Just Getting By "so nice try" I mean you did agree to my poiny and you never mebtioned about britain being more relevant than spain on your first reply, so nice try
@Just Getting By then why did you correct him as "Britannia" you make no sense
@Just Getting By "dig in about the british" Lived in Britain for like 6 years
THE SKIES ARE BURNIG WITH TUNDER, THE SEAS ARE RAZED WITH FLAMES, SET A COURSE TO CARTAGENA, THE SING OF POWER WILL REMEMBER OUR NAME
I know little about this battle. This video is informative! Thanks guys!
It is full of colour (and horrible diseases and such). Medals minted depicting de Lezo kneeling to Vernon, Washington's brother fighting there, witty letters being exchanged... it has it all.
Your face when you are Spaniard and you know how this is going to end.
Thanks for keeping us entertained and informed in this difficult time!
Finally, some naval history. Thanks Kings and Admirals!
Wow noticed K & G are producing more content over the last few weeks, kudos to you guys and thanks!
Fun fact: Based on the report from Vernon the british minted some coins celebrating the victory in Cartagena, only to receive later the news of the actual defeat.
Also, in 2016 the Royal Navy held an online poll to choose the name for its new Royal Research Ship, but they had to remove the winner name because spanish trolls from the website Forocoches managed to win with the name "Blas de Lezo"
La estatua del General Blas de Lezo en Cartagena de Indias, es la estatua más importante de Colombia
Deus abençoe os colombianos
@@dlp2432 OBRIGADO MEU AMIGO PORTUGUÊS
I am happy to see a healthy animosity towards the British, to see real history come up, to see the Spanish Empire history making a come back and marking that although an Empire it had nothing to do with other empires prior and contemporary, to see its "black legend" (a tale, something that never occurred, a product of British and Dutch mainly) being erased slowly from the world's history. Santiago y Cierra, España!
If the British knew the truth of their story ... they would make fewer films
In the battle of Toulon 14 Spanish ships defeated 31 English
In Cartagena, a bayonet attack by the Spanish infantry destroyed the English infantry.
This was very interesting, well done. Hope you guys are safe from this season of sickness.
What's funny is that the British wrote the famous song "Rule Britannia" the previous year in 1740 XD
Spain was the actual ruler of the ocean
@@bliecoug1029 Not at this time
@@JJaqn05 Yes, at this time. The new armada built by Ferdinand VI was the biggest and greatest in the world during the XVIII century. It wouldn't be until Trafalgar that that fleet would collapse.
Great video !! We need more content about the 18th and 17th century 😁🔥
Sorry, but the explanation of the battles around Cartagena is too short and inaccurate. Having much fewer soldiers than the British De Lezo put in place an endless inventory of strategies, tactics, measures and even tricks that in the end defeated the British invading troops. It was a so unexpected Spanish victory that the English were already minting commemorative medals and coins to celebrate their victory when they received the news of their humiliating defeat in hands of the great Blas De Lezo Admiral. The English King ordered the destruction of all the coins and medals, but to his misfortune, several of them were preserved. He also forbade historians to talk about this and that is the reason why this humiliating English defeat is so unknown to the English-speaking world.
Decirle a este tipo narrador del video q España Nunca tuvo Colonias eran territorios de Ultra Mar pero claro q vá a decir un inglés cuando fueron ellos los creadores d la Leyenda Negra Contra mí País
"Todo Buen Español Debería Mear Siempre Mirando Hacia Inglaterra"
Frase Mítica de Don Blas Dr Lezo y Olabarrieta.
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PD: Gibraltar Español.
Blas de Lezo is criminally underrated historical figure.
Thank you for making this video, the early 18th Century have many wars that I find confusing to understand, so I appreciate you making these comprehensive videos on it, and for responding to my comment on the Silesian War videos to make more videos on the early 1700s and the coming war of Austrian Succession!
27000 british and 190 ships vs 2600 spaniards and 6 boats. Even so, the british suffered a shameful and complete defeat, so much so even today the final result for the british is still hidden or sugarcoated
It's not hidden at all, your also forgetting the Spanish had multiple forts and like 1/4 of the British where sick when they arrived, Forts are force multipliers, it's the exact same way a much larger French and Spanish force where never able to take Gibralter and they didn't even have the sickness problem and tried for like 4 years straight. Being able to defend a defensive position of a fortress is not all that surprising, yet the Spanish are constantly surprised by it... Perhaps it's a national thing which is why the Spanish lost Valdiva with it's 7 forts, 1,600 man garrisons and 118 cannon to a 350 man strong shore party lead by Tomas Cochrane.
I’ll never understand how Spanish nationalists forget that forts are designed to allow a small force to beat a big one
@@lesdodoclips3915 to clarify this, i would like to stress two points:
It's quite easier to fit out one big armada and a big army and to focus all this power in just one selected point, striking with all your might in a tiny location, using surprise as your ally . It is beyond imagination how spain was able to defend for almost 350 years such an incredible , huge territory scattered across four continents with such tiny amount of people. Just think the thousands and thousands and thousands of kilómeters from Alaska down to cape horn and up again till Florida plus all the hundreds of islands in the caribe and the atlantic plus hundreds of islands in the pacific plus the philippines plus many african territories plus the european territories of the spanish monarchy. Such incredible task know no parallel in human history. Most of the times fighting at a time against the dutch, the germans, english, french, danish, even turks and russians , with these nations concentrating all its strenght in one small place , unlike spain, that needed to defend everything. And all that these world powers were able to take away from spain was just a handful of i
nsignificant and undefended islands and ultimately jamaica, which by the way, was defended by one ridiculously small garrison.
And, on the other hand, it is not that easy to keep one fort. Just one well known example. The dutch built a big fleet in 1621 and attacked salvador de bahía, a well fortified town in Brasil, at that moment in charge of the portuguese. The city was captured, because the portuguese did not fight properly. And so, the dutch took possession of the place and neighbouring lands. But , since portugal at that moment was unified with spain, the King of spain sent one navy with spanish infantry in 1625, and the forts were recaptured by the spaniards in no time, because the dutch were simply no match for los tercios in hand to hand combat, despite being the dutch in this case the defenders of the fort.
Valdivia fue una escaramuza sin importancia en una guerra de cientos de miles de soldados. Cartagena de Indias fue una victoria total, claro que sí.
@@Gloriaimperial1 ROFL a minor skirmish, 350 men (mostly British) take 7 forts and 120 cannon off a Spanish Garrison of 1,600 men for like 27 casualties in less then 24 hours... I mean I don't blame you for wanting to downplay the absolute pasting the SPanish took but that is ridiculous :) ah you do make me chuckle.
Cartagena de Indias was indeed a total victory, no one was saying it wasn't what was being said was that the reasons for that victory (apart from numerous forts) was more down to disease then anything De Lesbian did, which is not to say he didn't do a good job of course he did but it wasn't even a smidge as impressive as Valdivia is, so much easier to defend fortifications they are literally a force multiplier, Much like when Spain totally failed to invade Portugal and lost 25,000 men to Portugal and Britain's 1,600 or so, had very little to do with the Portuguese and British and Cartagena de Indias is entirely the same situation, but you can keep pretending the Franco era propaganda if it makes you feel better,
3:35, I didn't realize that the Arawaks inhabited the Amazon jungle as well as the Carribean coast of South America. I was about to complain that this was inaccurate, but I did a quick search and found out that Arawak languages are spoken all over the Amazon basin and as far south as Bolivia. Very interesting footnote here.
The Caribs, Arawak, and Taino all migrated from mainland South America and island hopped all the way thru The east Caribbean up to the Greater Antilles. They're all related linguistically.
@@benzshotta4267 Thanks. I definitely have to learn more about them.
The only reason the UK speaks English and not Spanish is because the English channel is one of the most turbulent parts of the world.
And the only reason Spain speak Spanish as opposed to the French is because of the Anglo-Portugese army
@@Delogros nah, the Spanish alone ended up with 400,000 Frenchies, that literally destroyed the French organization and the English took advantage of it, without this massacre England could not do anything, much less Portugal. Besides, it's not like the English did it for free, they destroyed one of the most efficient textile factories in Spain, which left them with no way to recover, remember, it may seem like we were allies, but we weren't, we've been enemies like 400 years.
@@isabelcapellan2470 Oh please, the Spanish army was the most incompetent in the whole war, the rate it was going it would have run out of people long before the French ran out of soldiers even as it was about 5% of the population died, Without the British to supply the Spanish government in Cadiz it to would have fallen easily.
Again British not English this isn't pre 1707, Wellington was Irish and Moore was Scottish.
If the Spanish had made Wellington supreme commander Spain would have been liberated several years earlier, Spanish efforts where largely a problem to the allied effort (For example Cadiz which stripped Wellington of 2 veteran Divisions and 1 regular Divisions not to mention the Royal navy needing to feed the place rather then the army to add to it's defence) not a help which not for nothing is why Hitler didn't want Spain's help in WW2, extra frontage and a poor military.
I've yet to see a single piece of evidence to suggest the British destroyed any textile factory, all the evidence we have was that Wellington was unusually harsh on looters in Spain summarily executing at least 12 without a trail, you for a change have evidence for the claim? I don't even know if it's meant to have been destroyed in a battle lol.
1 textile factory represented 90% of the economy of Spain did it... LOL OK :)
no the british where Allies trying to drive the French out of the peninsular while the Spanish kept on trying to trip them up, Talavera 80% British casualties despite making up just over 1/3 of the army or how about Barrosa where first of all 3,000 Spanish and 4 guns abandoned the high ground because of a single regiment of french Dragoons fired once at them and then 10,000 Spanish just watched while 5,000 British and Portuguese fought 10,000 French including having to retake that hill... Graham sent 536 men against 4,000 French and 4 guns to delay the French while he desperately reinforced with a Brigade, meanwhile the Spanish who had run away where 600 yards away refusing to get up from their siesta.
@@isabelcapellan2470 Totalmente de acuerdo contigo. Este Delogros ya lo conocemos. No quiere acordarse ni de Bailén ni de la ofensiva española que echó del trono al hermano de Napoleón, lo que fue un hito en toda Europa. Está obsesionado con que nos salvó el ridículo ejército británico de 35000 soldados, escondidos todos en Portugal, mientras morían aquí luchando medio millón de personas, muchos civiles, más que británicos en toda la SGM2. Muertos británicos al final de la guerra en la península, unos 30000. Ni en sueños, iban a ganar 35000 británicos al ejército francés, el mejor de la época, con una proporción de 9 franceses contra 1 británicos. Muertos franceses: 270000. Está claro entre quien eran la mayoría de las batallas: España y Francia. Si Gran Bretaña no fuera una isla no se pondrían tan gallitos, porque se habrían paseado por Londres 300000 soldados de Napoleón, como llegaron a Viena, Roma, Moscú, Berlín. Pero en fin, ¡ya conocemos a los británicos!
I cant believe you finally made a video about Cartagena de Indias