I'm an american born and raised but my ancestors are from England. I've always loved American history and the history of Great Britain. Having said that, the Crimean war is one conflict I didn't know too much about. I had read bits and pieces from time to time about the conflict but this video has enlightened me. Thank you for posting this important piece of history😎
Everyone in a American our from a different part of the world that why I never understand your problem with Mexican and other people who try and go to the usa
I am Canadian, one of my long dead uncles went to Korea I think, I love watching history documentaries and I hate wars but this war is also one I knew nothing about until recently probably because Canada didn't fight in it, I don't know. So, we can come from very different worlds, some of the things we don'tb know are exactly the same!!!
@@tobiasgriffin4263 Americans don't have a problem with legal immigration. I don't know of any country where you can just walk in without a passport and make yourself at home.
@@tobiasgriffin4263 I have close friends from all over the world. Nigeria, Kenya, Central America, Mexico, Ecuador, Cambodia, ect. That's just to a few. They all immigrated to this country legally. It took most of them up to 10 years to get through the process. All but one came here with less than $500. We're not talking about people with money. Some were penniless, but they were determined to make a life for themselves and their families.
I have read accounts of that and other wars. During that time cannon fire was many times directed so as to bounce a cannon ball along the ground and into troops in formation. It was considered cowardice, if a soldier saw that a cannon ball was going to hit him and he stepped out of the way. In another conflict, Napoleon would brag that he could make men risk their lives for mere colored strip of cloth (a medal). The decks of British ships were painted red to help hide the blood during a skirmish. I can go on and on, but having served in the U.S Army, I can tell you that no one really wins a war. God help us all.
The photographers in the Civil war changed many peoples opinion of war. The film they had was much slower than modern film. You had to remain completely still for awhile to get your picture taken. They could not take pictures of soldiers doing anything. It was easy to photograph all the dead soldiers. So they would photograph the thousands of dead soldiers laying on the battle fields. These pictures appeared in newspapers to show America what war was really like.
This was a decade before the civil war...photography had made big forward steps by the time of lee and grant. This was extreme news reporting,photos used then would not be used nowadays, the weakened modern psyché should not be exposed to such barbarity.
@@howler6490 Wrong. In order to take a photograph during the Civil War, a person had to remain perfectly still for about 20 seconds. Matthew Brady was arguably the most famous war photographer of that war. They didn't have the technology at the time to print photos in a newspaper, any pictures in papers would be a engraved rendering. However, Matthew Brady had a public exposition of the photos he took. A review said that if Brady had not taken the dead and dropped them on people's doorstep, he did the next closest thing with his photos. War correspondents are literally showing us dead bodies as we speak, or have you paid zero attention to the reporting from Ukraine?
@@tommeakin1732 Oh Just be quiet, they are Americans talking to other Americans. So they know what each other meant. The vast majority of people on TH-cam are American. Quit being so nitpicky. In fact, I'm looking at an add for a video put up by TH-cam Titled Antietam: The Bloodiest Day of the Civil War not Antietam: The Bloodiest Day of the American Civil War.
Another excellent production. The Crimean War is fascinating. How strange that people of the age thought war was a magnificent and noble enterprise. A soldier though differently when seriously injured or sick with dysentery ect.
@@michaelmcginn7260 lucky that's all in the olden days when people fell for obvious propaganda! Not like today, right? We're all so much smarter now...
Thank you for uploading such great video!My grandgrandgrandfather from Siberian Cossacks was drafted to serve as a sailor en Sevastopol .Once again my big thanks for this video
The best doc on this long-forgotten war I've ever watched. It actually made chills go up and down my entire body - probably because I've the blood of the entirety of the British Isles coursing through me veins, matey...
The Brits invaded CHINA and LOOTED CHINA at this time, too. While screaming to Russia that they better not do the same to Istanbul. This was pathetic, this entire 'history' video is pathetic. Also, as the US Marine Corps song about 'from the hills of Montezuma to the SHORES OF TRIPOLI'...we were fighting Muslim pirates in the Mediterranean Sea and the Brits didn't like us doing this and gave us endless troubles while US ships were raided and sailors and women kidnapped by pirates or impressed by Brits...We Americans who have been Americans for several hundred years remember all this, my family fled England during the religious wars of the 17th century...
Mexican-American War was the first photographed war. In1847, an unknown American photographer produced a series of fifty daguerreotypes depicting scenes from the Mexican-American war in Saltillo, Mexico. The most famous being American General John E. Wool and his staff riding along the Calle Real in the town, possibly just before the February 1847 Battle of Buena Vista.
Correct Patrick. I was going to reply with the same. You beat me to it by 3 days. Looks like you know your history. I just returned from a 4 month stay in Mexico and taking in all the historic and archaeological sites. Teotihuacan is frequently called the Aztec Pyramids but pre-dates the Aztecs by about 800 years. First built took about a century. Then a new architect and astronomer shows up and informs them they are 19 degrees off true north. So they spent another century tearing it all down and yet another century rebuilding. I sure would not want to be the original architect. Or at least long dead before anyone discovered my mistake.. Thumbs up for you of course. Ever in Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador or Peru look me up.
@@riskyron1416 And you both beat me by a couple more days. Around 1980 a box of about 100 dags exposed during the Mexican-American War were uncovered in a house in Pennsylvania. Most were cased and had descriptive notes or catalogue numbers pasted to the backs. Some were in great condition, others not so much. A handful had been out and known for many years. I knew the dealer who brokered their sale to a museum in Dallas, Texas. The staff is still working on discovering the identity of the photographer, who beat these others by a decade in becoming the first "war photographer."
Where can you find these said 50 photos of the 1847 Mexican war???? They don't seem to be in the Google picture catalog. LOL Not just pictures of people who were in the war, but of the war-front itself.
There was no genocide. There are 11 million Armanians in the world and the population of Armania is 3 million. This 8 million Armanian diaspoara are mostly the descendants of the Armenians who were expelled from the Eastern Anatolia in 1915.
@@manuelmantualopes5549 Turkey offered Armenia to set up a commission made up of historians and specialist to look into this matter. Turkey isn't afraid of the turth but as expected Armenia rejected the offer.
It's really weird when you think about it. "lets destroy everything and kill each other, but you better follow the rules or you can't play." So strange. And I'm a veteran lol. It's so weird that we would just start wholesale killing each other (many times for reasons those doing the killing don't understand) and then justify doing it. Particularly disturbing is using religion to justify your killing.
@@Itsjustelectrons Well just because its a "Righteous" war (and keep in mind Japan just wanted an empire like frekin HOLLAND had, but thats the yellow man gettin uppity) that doesnt make war any less of a racket. Lot of people made their fortunes in WW2
The other day I bought a book: "The first VCs by John Grehan. All about this campaign, and that which invoked the creation of the Victoria Cross. The book is filled with very vivid and incredible descriptions/recollections of the battles and actions meriting VC awards. War in those days was up close and personal: true, bloody, carnage where thousands fought each other toe to toe in the open - unlike, small formation actions, or, pressing a button today.
War today is even more inglorious than it was then. Today innocent men, women and children are killed by armies but mostly by bombs and rockets of their homes, schools, libraries, energy centers, shopping malls, bus stops . . . a truly glorious exercise in killing for the purpose of changing minds and conquest.
@@tuforu4 he joined during the famine 1846 while his father and mother left with rest of their children to England never to return….Patrick joined them after medical discharge he married a Sligo woman in England their son James married a Co Derry girl, they moved to Scotland and we’re been here every sin 1890 since…I had to goggle the ragg hope to pop in one day cheers
@@stephenfinn3937 jimmy finn was a legendry tipperary hurler and use to live ina little village called the RAGG near THURLES co TIPPERARY. My aunt use tell me about our family went on famine ship to USA and 2 kids died. My father was born in 1905 was not dwelling on the past too much guess he wanted to see us all move forward. I worked in SYRIA iraq in the 1980s i seen bit of the HORROR of WARS take care..
Further to that, it's reported in the annals (those regarding the Siege of Clonmel Town) that the Irish Garrison held out so long and with such great determination that Oliver Cromwell guaranteed their exit-march to a Southern Port, without hindrance, in order for they to sale anon to France, wherein they settled as soldiers of the armies of France and as outstanding Wine Makers. Fair-Play to Cromwell for keeping his word in this case. However, in my local town, Galway, his penniless Trooper -Paupers looted the ancient church of St. Nicholas and broke all its Stained Glass Windows. We are very grateful to the Galway Church of Ireland for their valiants and successful efforts to restore as much as 80% of St. Nicholas' Grandure. Sláinte na Gaillimhe.
I live in a city that was at least partially burned down by the British during the Crimean war, although it wasn't much of a city back then, more of a small town, blew up a lot of the forts round here too, shame, they'd have been nicer spots had they remained intact.
This is an abridged version that was a 3-part series when I first saw it uploaded to You Tube in about 2012 or thereabouts. Still a good historical documentary.
Lord Raglan didn't refer to the French as "the enemy": he referred to the enemy in the Crimea, the Russians, as "the French". He had been on Wellington's staff during the Peninsula War against Napoleonic France, but by the time of the Crimean War 40+ years later, he was rather 'gaga'.
@Willie M The Russian Army, then and later, was overwhelmingly composed of uneducated peasants and unemployed city poor. They didn't speak French, fluent or otherwise. And I doubt Raglan referred to them as "the French" simply because a very small percentage of Russians - the rich and the nobility - spoke that language.
PSA this is a first episode; stops just at the Charge of the Light Brigade. 2nd EP is "The Crimean War-Episode 2 - the Valley of Death." And then "The Crimean War Episode 3 War and Peace" Thought I'd save some bother, as it's not on Timeline, and was a bit tricky to find. Does anybody else actually feel real anger at the senseless loss of life from the British stuff ups?* A Chief Strategist who at 71 had never been in a battle field? War as tourism? Hey, bring the wife, she'll love it. Tbh, though, Fanny's hubby sending the note to tell her to get a move on or she'd miss it, was a refreshing example of a Victorian era man respecting his wife's courage and abilities *Yes I do realise the Russians lost men senselessly as well, possibly because they simply had more men to be literal cannon fodder. But as an Aussie, I really feel this war was a dress rehearsal for the Great War, as far as British Command incompetence at least. It is more accurate to say it was a Death Rehearsal, and I keep wanting to howl,"*Why* didn't you learn from your mistakes?" This is the first time I've learnt about the Crimean War from a military angle, although I did know quite a bit about Miss Nightingale's achievements. I'm embarassed to say I didn't even know Britain and France were allied with the Turks in a Jihad. However, from what I've learnt here it wasn't so much fighting a Muslim war, holy or not, as it was about preventing Russia gaining valuable territory. The frequent mentions of "stalemate", the No Man's Land ceasefires for Death Patrols, (all in episode Two), the critiques of the British Command, poorly equipped soldiers losing more limbs to frost bite than to cannon balls,....*why* was it all repeated within living memory of the Crimea? Sorry for the essay. I am just so enraged I had to vent.
They used war as a form of population control. Look at the scots at the beginning. They did not want to be there at all and in fact the english had promised not to use the scots in foreign wars but they lied. They also stole all their land and turned it into estates for the queen and other worthless royals. There are still crumbling scottish villages all over their estates they never bothered to even knock down they were so uncaring in their theft.
It's amazing how war was fought back in medieval times, hand to hand combat and closed encounter. However, humanity hasn't learned yet to get along. Technology and science has given men the power to destroy the planet. God have mercy 🙏
Agreed, you can see if from 200meters away on a cold windy viewing platform and in the visitor center the usual distortions of history to match the current narrative. Aussies built a new one th-cam.com/video/sLsA-jq4eAA/w-d-xo.html
@@jenrutherford6690 Crimean war was Uk trying to constrain Russian ambition. However, the Russians wanted to free persecuted Christians in Balkan countries, eventually liberate Bulgaria, Romania and Greece from the Ottomans. UK should have let the Russians clear out the Turks, who used to rule the entire Black sea. Beats me why we are taking about stone henge, but there you go.
There's a slight inaccuracy in the final moments. The order for the attack was not just to the Light Brigade, it was to the whole Cavalry Division, both the Light and Heavy Brigades. Partly due to the poor directions transmitted in the order, misidentifying the actual guns to attack, the charge wasn't directed to the captured Turkish guns on the ridge but towards Russian guns farther up the valley. Part way, the Heavy Brigade was halted and the Light Brigade continued alone. If the whole Cavalry Division had continued, despite the misdirection, the attack would have likely been relatively successful and even overall casualties lower.
it is a fine example of military blunder with no excuse and turning the attack into a example of bravery i simply dishonouring the soldiers taken part in favour of rule britannia by some cowards. remember the homicidal earl!
If the whole division had advanced then it wouldve been even more carnage and death, that valley was a killzone and more horses and men charging through it, wouldn't have changed much but made my ancestor lt col Rudolphe de Salis and his valiant horse drummer boy have to make even more trips to pick up wounded men and he might have not returned from one of them, I'm glad it was just the light brigade
@jackee-is-silent2938 Thanks for your clarification, though it seems to be somewhat disputed elsewhere herein. This was the war to start and instigate at least 2 subsequent Great Wars. It pondered especially to 1 Class, 2 Money.
The guy at the beginning of almost every Timeline video is the reason I subscribed to this channel. Now I know a lot about history around the world. I would like to thank him but I don’t know his name.
Such is war... But those Officers, not so senile, fought theirs too, and survived. It is called experience. War is a natural occurrence, sometimes unnecessary... sometimes needed to stave off oppressive government and invaders. It makes those that fight them appreciate life... those who never experience it, only talk about their opinions of it.
Yes,the first photographed war was the Mexican-American one.but since it was made with a daguerreotype and the artist was unknown, most historians recognize Szathmari as being the first known war photographer(also he used calotype).
This still doesn't excuse the exaggeration that the 'first' were first. This is infuriating. One of my frontier ancestors was a painter who came West in 1848 to the California Gold Rush and made money making pictures of that event. He then went into photography.
@Buttery Lannister I hardly play games anymore. What are you on about? It's just an opinion that's factual. I taught myself more than what school has done. I ain't no millennial too.
93rd Highlanders-The Thin Red Line-as well as the Charge of the Heavy Brigade and the Battle of the Alma are mostly overshadowed by the Charge Of The Light Brigade
I honestly have no idea how Netflix became as big as it is now. When it first started it was endless buffering and terrible resolution. Now it’s those terrible original tv series and movies they try and push down our throats
@@DaniD540 Some people are not proficient enough with the internet to use free streaming or torrents. Same thing as using Facebook and Instagram instead of the real internet.
Im ngl I always just thought this channel was 1 dude pirating documentaries. Was waiting for the day that something happened, and Im honestly proud you've been able to do this for years.
"First" war photographs? What about the daguerreotypes from the Mexican-American War 1846-1848? And also remember that some weaponry used 1,000 years plus prior to The Crimean War were worse than anyone even today could have ever imagined. EGAD!
These series are great because they are very educational. I always thought that trench warfare started in the American Civil War but apparently it started in the Crimean War.
A great documentary. Its was interesting to learn what the great russian naval victory at Sinop entailed, admiral Nachimov being one of the heroic figureheads of Russian navy. All this period was mainly skipped over during our history lessons at school, straight to the eve of First World War.
@Finnian MacCool Not in this case against the Otoman empire. But yes in the case of the Usa and México or France or England in Africa or Asia. The Otoman empire was a rapacious empire. A vulture in itself. Not the case of French, English and Americans in his imperialistic adventures
@Finnian MacCool I hate all who thinks that have some kind of "blue blood" and thinks that thats renders superiority to him. Is such an idiotic thing!!! But i love Europe and European culture. It's only that i don't believe in "master races" and such heinous idiologies. Have a nice day guy
@@lokumftw2621 in about 50 years, Brits will speak in Pakistani Urdu and the rest of the half-civilized world will speak Han Chinese, so yeah, the sun kinda set for Britain
I wonder how the future would have gone if England and France had just let Russia take Istanbul. The Turks were not their friends. WWI would have gone better and just maybe the Russian Red revolution would been avoided. BTW It’s a bit of a tease as the episode ends just as the Light brigade is about to charge. However it is well done, I would recommend watching it.
Or better yet england mind its own business entirely and not go into massive debt over crimean war and ww 1 which is what caused it to implode and cease existing during ww ii.
This is why I support Russia on this one, thier policy regarding Constantinople is consistent. When the Brits finally agreed to liberate Constantinople its already too late
@@TheSuperDerp no i think the photographer actually spent most of his time in the rear taking pictures of higher ups, i looked up photos of the crimean war and there are like 1 or 2 that pictures taken of the common soldiery
So proud to fight and die. The love and fear of misery. Men marching off to war to die for reasons that wouldn’t affect a poor man. The poor are miserable no matter who over lords him.
@ 6:48: "The city (Istanbul) commanded the strategic gateway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. If Russia seized control, her warships would have access to the open seas all year round." ~ Oh, no, we can't have that! sez the British & French Empires whose warships just happen to have access to the open seas all year round.
Very interesting bit of footage. But my silly question is: was that Dominic West narrating part of that? I know he did other narrative work, but can't find this on Imdb.
@I am that's dumb for those who didn't understand and not living in the culture of the time. Those who think it's dumb are actually the real dumbs themselves.
Prior to rifling on military firearms, it was a necessity to fire, en masse, to achieve anything approaching a moderately successful hit rate. As the age was progressing rapidly with tech advancements, most armies reached a tactical impasse, where the tactics didn't match the technology on the field. The US Civil War and WWI are great examples of this.
@@lancervi1762 Yup, not only were smoothbores not very accurate but all the smoke created by black powder made any attempt at aiming pointless. so mass fire by formations of soldiers was the way to go.
We have an area in Melbourne Australia called Caulfield and its main roads are Inkerman Road, Alma Road and Balaclava Street but also, Redan Street, Crimea Street, Sebastopol Street, Odessa Street, Malakoff Street. All named after battles or forts in the Crimea. People here really freaked out and thought if the Russian won they would come here. Forts and artillery batteries were built along the bay and out on islands and at it's head. Of course they would never have come but still folks here really freaked out. Many streets were also named after personalities in the war like Cardigan and Raglan. It was the modern technologies like telegraph and photography that allowed people in British colonies so far away as here to freak out so much. The first modern media war I guess.
I believe I read somewhere that when the Japanese were thought to invade Australia that people sold and fled thaler houses in that area of OZ for practically nothing .I bet the ones who bought and stayed after buying were well happy.
I can't help but imagine the guy wearing that tall Cossack hat walking around in the trench with the top of it sticking up. Every so often someone gets a hit and he turns around and walks the other way. Like the target shooting at a carnival.
"To avoid Russia year-round access to the Oceans" is just as predatory an excuse for invasion as "They have weapons of Mass Destruction." Nothing new under the sun. Every country has "weapons of mass destruction", and blocking in a nation is an attack, not a "defence." "teach the tsar a lesson" "show their naval superiority" More than a documentary his is jingoist propaganda of the 'best' sort, triumphant music and all.
But sometimes, it's true and Russia was indeed an irresponsible country with too many weapons of mass destruction for the time. So was Germany of the time. It was a question of trying to keep a balance in Europe and nearby. It succeeded for a while longer.
You forgot the Russian excuse for invading Turkey - the root of all evil! Religion- we will protect Christians! I highly doubt the Russian army asked people their religion before shooting them. Religious differences have been the excuse for making war for millennia!
Hopefully we can get over ourselves soon enough to save ourselves. Though we have far less wars these days, our capacity for obliterating ourselves has increased exponentially since crimea. Perhaps we can learn from the very costly mistakes of the past and not repeat them.
LOL. Try being manly in today's Western Woke societies 😅😂🤣. PRIDE never goes away; it just changes its appearance. AS for honour & integrity; keep looking!
It’s just struck me, how sad these photos are. Interesting, fascinating, giving humanity to every soldier. Yet, there are photos of the exact same fields of war, that are completely at peace, with no need to remember a crashing, booming, blood drenched time so long ago. We’re just passing through, don’t mind us.
I know, right? What on earth is a child doing at the front lines of a war playing cymbals??! Generals, war mongers - showing you no regard for people or children for that matter.
James McMahon, born 1835, died June 8th, 1921 at Chatham, Ontario, Canada (Crimean War) - said to be the last survivor, other sources say Edwin Hughes (born Dec 12th, 1830, died May 27th, 1927 age 96 at Blackpool, England), (charge of the light brigade) ("where" are they now and what uniform did they "wear"(?)). Looks like about 86(?) and 96 yrs, pretty good longevity after all that life of soldiering and who knows what else.
You know that war is going to be a long and painful one when you hear generals say "It's going to be easy". You had the same cocky generals doing the same mistakes in WW1 with everyone thinking that they will win in less than 6 months. Some people just never learn.
At the historical recreation village in Wexford, Ireland, there is a small tower dedicated to the regiment of Wexford troops that were slaughtered in Crimea. So far from home, and what did they lose their lives for....
It is a Cossack song. Judging by the accent it is performed by singers from Donetsk or Lugansk. This is the accent of Michael Gorbochev. Nikita Krustchev spoke this sort of Russian as well (the former CCCP leaders). Also, these songs were popularised in 1950-60s by a Nobel Prize winner, M.Sholokhov, the author of "Quitely the Don Flows". To my ear, it sounds too much "paysan" and rural... Something like that is at: th-cam.com/video/zthy_ObrJ-k/w-d-xo.html (By the way, the Cossack singers wear the same uniform, which was in the Russian Army during the Crimean War. Large red stripes on the Cossack trousers had been introduced shortly after the Napoleonic War by the winner, the Russian tzar Nikolus I.) Enjoy!
@@johngideon6540 Good point, John! The Cossacks are all Orthodox to the extent that all their folk songs bear strong similarity in the form and spirit to the Orthodox daily prayer hymns, which are still popular in the Ukrain, Don Region and Syberia.
Anyone want a good book?Trevor Royales "The Great Crimean War".I read it then went to the Crimea about 12hrs from our family's house in Ukraine.Really cool Battlefield and a fantastic book.
@@kushanshah8040 yes,I have that one too Great Book also. Unlike many Battlefields the valley of death still looks the same as in the sketches and paintings. It full of grape Vinyards though.
Like, how many wars have imperialists started because of embargos for instance - countless. Same is done today, and most often by the same old imperialistic countries and so it's provoking for future war. Interesting how people vote the same corrupt and thoughtless groups into power, even after lies that have led to deaths of millions have been uncovered. "Weapons of mass destruction", maybe "democracy","the rule of the people" is the worst after all, since the majorities become responsible for the tyranny instead of just the few.
This is billed as part of a series on the Crimean War. Can you make a playlist of them on the channel so we can actually find them, please? They're lost in a list of over 300 programmes.
The cover is my favorite iron maiden album cover with Eddie in a British Army uniform running through no man's land clutching the union jack " these colors don't run"
Charge of the light brigade the finest light cavalry in the world back then and arguably of all time, were decimated thx to comms breaking down but being the disciplined troopers they were they followed the insane tactical nightmare of an order to attack straight into the Russian guns (artillery) with no flanking maneuver nor base of fire supporting them!!
You take my life but I'll take yours too! You fire your musket but I'll run you through! And while you're waiting for the next attack, you better stand there's no turning back...
True story?! ...that's what I mean by learning something new by way of history meeting with the current times. I would have probably not heard or been made privy of this had it not been for you sir and by way of proxy the historical documentary society on TH-cam as this is where I mostly hang out on here ...thank you good citizen for that tidbit !
alot of wars have a ooint to them , but obviously people cant see that cause they like to make it all romantic and dramatic , thi happened because nobody wanted the up and coming empire of russia to control such a vital shipping lane , better to leave the relatively weak turks to control it since they couldtn do much anymore anyway
A very well done, brilliant documentary of yet more, bloody history. That is what history is, just one bloody thing after another thanks to politicians and the puppet masters.
What a truly mesmerising and horrifying doc - you just can not get nearer than to being there than hearing first hand accounts of those whom were there. Unless you were there. Thanks for the share and may these people ... Rip. ⚘️⚘️⚘️
@@mrvn000 Not in every respect. Modern day soldiers hardly ever die of dysentery, but in the mid 19th Century it killed far more soldiers than guns ever did.
I remember reading many years ago that the first war to be photographed was actually the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852-53. It's a pretty obscure affair even by small colonial campaign standards though, which is why this particular 'first' gets ignored in favour of something everybody knows.
The Mexican American War was the very first war to be photographed not just in American history but world history the Mexican American War was from 1846 to 1848 there’s at least 50 photographs of that war.
I do think they mean the worst proper, large-scale war with large scale photography. I'm sure somewhere there's an exposure of a battle back whenever but it wouldn't be the first
And not too many of English speaking people would say that most of the so called "russian" army where Ukrainian man . Just because Ukraine at the time was a part of Russian Empire, they make no distinction by nation included in it. If you look at a monument to soldiers who defended Sevastopol there are mostly Ukrainian surnames. I am hoping that Ukraine never ever have anything to do with Russia. They are enemy of all Ukrainians.
@Dmitri Kulkavičius They can lie all they want. I know and lots of others do too. There are lots of the historical evidence to prove that Ukraine did exist long before Russia .
@@falimojk There were different governments over the centuries ... but throughout all of that time people from Moscovia were trying to kill us, our culture, steel our history and I for one never will regard them as a brother or sister. Sorry.
hahahahaha of course, everyone who has ever achieved anything in Russia was ukrainian. Youre pathetic, ukrainians were a small part of the Russian military, Russian officers were sent to the ukraine as a punishment. This is why to this day ukraine is the poorest country in Europe.
Most deaths in battle served little but to change or attempt to change lines on maps slightly for a brief period. Giving your life for State is ALWAYS a travesty because there is NO HONOR is dying for a Govt. Only sadness and loss. Nor is there honor in taking lives for a govt
The loud background music makes it difficult to understand the narration at times. Many productions use this technique, though I don't know why. The words and ideas should be more important than setting the mood.
Thanks Timeline! The roar of the Crimean War echoes today. Some historians call it "World War 0."
"Death loves a crowd" they were very poetic back then...
I'm an american born and raised but my ancestors are from England. I've always loved American history and the history of Great Britain. Having said that, the Crimean war is one conflict I didn't know too much about. I had read bits and pieces from time to time about the conflict but this video has enlightened me. Thank you for posting this important piece of history😎
Everyone in a American our from a different part of the world that why I never understand your problem with Mexican and other people who try and go to the usa
I am Canadian, one of my long dead uncles went to Korea I think, I love watching history documentaries and I hate wars but this war is also one I knew nothing about until recently probably because Canada didn't fight in it, I don't know.
So, we can come from very different worlds, some of the things we don'tb know are exactly the same!!!
@@tobiasgriffin4263
Americans don't have a problem with legal immigration.
I don't know of any country where you can just walk in without a passport and make yourself at home.
@@tobiasgriffin4263 I have close friends from all over the world. Nigeria, Kenya, Central America, Mexico, Ecuador, Cambodia, ect. That's just to a few. They all immigrated to this country legally. It took most of them up to 10 years to get through the process. All but one came here with less than $500. We're not talking about people with money. Some were penniless, but they were determined to make a life for themselves and their families.
@@tobiasgriffin4263 People don’t. You have been manipulated.
I have read accounts of that and other wars. During that time cannon fire was many times directed so as to bounce a cannon ball along the ground and into troops in formation. It was considered cowardice, if a soldier saw that a cannon ball was going to hit him and he stepped out of the way. In another conflict, Napoleon would brag that he could make men risk their lives for mere colored strip of cloth (a medal). The decks of British ships were painted red to help hide the blood during a skirmish. I can go on and on, but having served in the U.S Army, I can tell you that no one really wins a war. God help us all.
War, like fighting, are just different levels of losing.
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Glory, Honor...the sales pitch works every time
War is just old men getting young men to die for them
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The photographers in the Civil war changed many peoples opinion of war. The film they had was much slower than modern film. You had to remain completely still for awhile to get your picture taken. They could not take pictures of soldiers doing anything. It was easy to photograph all the dead soldiers. So they would photograph the thousands of dead soldiers laying on the battle fields. These pictures appeared in newspapers to show America what war was really like.
This was a decade before the civil war...photography had made big forward steps by the time of lee and grant.
This was extreme news reporting,photos used then would not be used nowadays, the weakened modern psyché should not be exposed to such barbarity.
@@howler6490 Wrong. In order to take a photograph during the Civil War, a person had to remain perfectly still for about 20 seconds. Matthew Brady was arguably the most famous war photographer of that war. They didn't have the technology at the time to print photos in a newspaper, any pictures in papers would be a engraved rendering. However, Matthew Brady had a public exposition of the photos he took. A review said that if Brady had not taken the dead and dropped them on people's doorstep, he did the next closest thing with his photos. War correspondents are literally showing us dead bodies as we speak, or have you paid zero attention to the reporting from Ukraine?
"The Civil war"? Is there some kind of global civil war that I'm unaware of, or has there only been one civil war in one country in the world?
@@tommeakin1732 Oh Just be quiet, they are Americans talking to other Americans. So they know what each other meant. The vast majority of people on TH-cam are American. Quit being so nitpicky. In fact, I'm looking at an add for a video put up by TH-cam Titled Antietam: The Bloodiest Day of the Civil War not Antietam: The Bloodiest Day of the American Civil War.
Luckily, they never fought another war after that.
Another excellent production. The Crimean War is fascinating. How strange that people of the age thought war was a magnificent and noble enterprise. A soldier though differently when seriously injured or sick with dysentery ect.
It's all fun and games until you get dysentery lol
Not strange really, a different time and ideology. People believed the narrative.
@@michaelmcginn7260 lucky that's all in the olden days when people fell for obvious propaganda! Not like today, right? We're all so much smarter now...
You mean 'etc.'
@@michaelmcginn7260 just like today, isn´t it ...?
Thank you for uploading such great video!My grandgrandgrandfather from Siberian Cossacks was drafted to serve as a sailor en Sevastopol .Once again my big thanks for this video
Wow. That's some serious naval history right there
The best doc on this long-forgotten war I've ever watched. It actually made chills go up and down my entire body - probably because I've the blood of the entirety of the British Isles coursing through me veins, matey...
"...the blood of the entirety of the British isles..." your eloquent phrasing reflects my own ancestry and sentiments. Well met, Dude!:-)
helping Turks lol.
The Brits invaded CHINA and LOOTED CHINA at this time, too. While screaming to Russia that they better not do the same to Istanbul. This was pathetic, this entire 'history' video is pathetic. Also, as the US Marine Corps song about 'from the hills of Montezuma to the SHORES OF TRIPOLI'...we were fighting Muslim pirates in the Mediterranean Sea and the Brits didn't like us doing this and gave us endless troubles while US ships were raided and sailors and women kidnapped by pirates or impressed by Brits...We Americans who have been Americans for several hundred years remember all this, my family fled England during the religious wars of the 17th century...
@@emsnewssupkis6453 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz What a trumpet, an American Englander, FFS!!! What a fckn breed indeed.
@@WalintHUN all roads lead to the chosen people . That's why Christians betrayed Christians . They were owned by the banks by that time
Mexican-American War was the first photographed war. In1847, an unknown American photographer produced a series of fifty daguerreotypes depicting scenes from the Mexican-American war in Saltillo, Mexico. The most famous being American General John E. Wool and his staff riding along the Calle Real in the town, possibly just before the February 1847 Battle of Buena Vista.
Correct Patrick. I was going to reply with the same. You beat me to it by 3 days. Looks like you know your history. I just returned from a 4 month stay in Mexico and taking in all the historic and archaeological sites. Teotihuacan is frequently called the Aztec Pyramids but pre-dates the Aztecs by about 800 years. First built took about a century. Then a new architect and astronomer shows up and informs them they are 19 degrees off true north. So they spent another century tearing it all down and yet another century rebuilding. I sure would not want to be the original architect. Or at least long dead before anyone discovered my mistake.. Thumbs up for you of course.
Ever in Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador or Peru look me up.
And now I know what a Daguerreotype is - thank you both
@@riskyron1416 And you both beat me by a couple more days. Around 1980 a box of about 100 dags exposed during the Mexican-American War were uncovered in a house in Pennsylvania. Most were cased and had descriptive notes or catalogue numbers pasted to the backs. Some were in great condition, others not so much. A handful had been out and known for many years. I knew the dealer who brokered their sale to a museum in Dallas, Texas. The staff is still working on discovering the identity of the photographer, who beat these others by a decade in becoming the first "war photographer."
Where can you find these said 50 photos of the 1847 Mexican war???? They don't seem to be in the Google picture catalog. LOL
Not just pictures of people who were in the war, but of the war-front itself.
@@davus4242 I believe the images are in the collection of the Dallas Art Museum
This action kept Ottoman empire alive in another 70 years, and there would not be any Armenian genocide if Ottoman would have fallen earliear
No there would of been a turk gonocide.
There was no genocide. There are 11 million Armanians in the world and the population of Armania is 3 million. This 8 million Armanian diaspoara are mostly the descendants of the Armenians who were expelled from the Eastern Anatolia in 1915.
Didn't happen. Cenk Uygur said so.
@@derinden15 May Jesus Christ help you. You have issues. Seriously.
@@manuelmantualopes5549 Turkey offered Armenia to set up a commission made up of historians and specialist to look into this matter. Turkey isn't afraid of the turth but as expected Armenia rejected the offer.
Meanwhile history channel
Ancient aliens
Pawn Shop
Straight garbage these days
I like pawn stars, but history channel has really lost its way for sure.
This is history channel now! There is not another
Disney owns 50% of the history channel. Hence the disney like production. Full of fables.
"Where the truth, is history!"
Imagine the ptsd these guys would come home with. Horrible how man treats one and other even today
And no one on the home front, esp the politicians, would have any sympathy for these men
Cheer boys cheer then get your limbs thrown or blown over here.
How sad.
@Duke of Paducah Jeremiah 17:9
Iraq and Afghanistan experience d estimated fifty thousand rapes each in the last three decades. Is this to advance human genetics?
" war is a racket. always has been always will be. " gen. smedley butler
Nice! Smedley was spot on... Always will be.
It's really weird when you think about it. "lets destroy everything and kill each other, but you better follow the rules or you can't play." So strange. And I'm a veteran lol. It's so weird that we would just start wholesale killing each other (many times for reasons those doing the killing don't understand) and then justify doing it. Particularly disturbing is using religion to justify your killing.
If Butler had been around for Pearl Harbor, he would have changed his tune
@@Itsjustelectrons Well just because its a "Righteous" war (and keep in mind Japan just wanted an empire like frekin HOLLAND had, but thats the yellow man gettin uppity) that doesnt make war any less of a racket. Lot of people made their fortunes in WW2
Semper Fi
oh my god there was a chance for the russians to retake constantinople and the british stopped them? come on guys
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Rule Britannia.
RE-take?
@@theoutlook55 for christianity i mean. Moscow became the third Rome when constantinople fell after all
@@MajesticSkywhale ah. Um, alright then.
The other day I bought a book: "The first VCs by John Grehan. All about this campaign, and that which invoked the creation of the Victoria Cross. The book is filled with very vivid and incredible descriptions/recollections of the battles and actions meriting VC awards. War in those days was up close and personal: true, bloody, carnage where thousands fought each other toe to toe in the open - unlike, small formation actions, or, pressing a button today.
Iraq and Afghanistan vets, wounded in war, might disagree.
IEDS aren’t exactly in the open, and you do push a button for those.
it's all still death
All vc's are made from a Russian bronze cannon, captured in the crimea war.
War today is even more inglorious than it was then. Today innocent men, women and children are killed by armies but mostly by bombs and rockets of their homes, schools, libraries, energy centers, shopping malls, bus stops . . . a truly glorious exercise in killing for the purpose of changing minds and conquest.
Amazing how history repeats itself
The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I have an MA it the subject, thus the house painting gig.
indeed, we are now in the middle of the second Crimean war
@@Danny_Boel And what do you think of it?
@@Danny_Boel the twelfth one I'd rather say .
History never repeats itself, only man repeats his failures to learn.
My great great grandfather Patrick Finn from Thurles Tipperary fought and was wounded in the head at the battle of Alma…33rd regiment of foot…
Did he go back to TIPPERARY and the RAGG....
@@tuforu4 he joined during the famine 1846 while his father and mother left with rest of their children to England never to return….Patrick joined them after medical discharge he married a Sligo woman in England their son James married a Co Derry girl, they moved to Scotland and we’re been here every sin 1890 since…I had to goggle the ragg hope to pop in one day cheers
@@stephenfinn3937 jimmy finn was a legendry tipperary hurler and use to live ina little village called the RAGG near THURLES co TIPPERARY.
My aunt use tell me about our family went on famine ship to USA and 2 kids died.
My father was born in 1905 was not dwelling on the past too much guess he wanted to see us all move forward.
I worked in SYRIA iraq in the 1980s i seen bit of the HORROR of WARS take care..
@@stephenfinn3937 Thank you for posting this account of your family's history.
The Irish fought all over Europe before WWI.
I'm from East Galway.
Further to that, it's reported in the annals
(those regarding the Siege of Clonmel Town) that the Irish Garrison held out so long and with such great determination that Oliver Cromwell guaranteed their exit-march to a Southern Port, without hindrance, in order for they to sale anon to France, wherein they settled as soldiers of the armies of France and as outstanding Wine Makers. Fair-Play to Cromwell for keeping his word in this case. However, in my local town, Galway, his penniless Trooper -Paupers looted the ancient church of St. Nicholas and broke all its Stained Glass Windows. We are very grateful to the Galway Church of Ireland for their valiants and successful efforts to restore as much as 80% of St. Nicholas' Grandure. Sláinte na Gaillimhe.
I live in a city that was at least partially burned down by the British during the Crimean war, although it wasn't much of a city back then, more of a small town, blew up a lot of the forts round here too, shame, they'd have been nicer spots had they remained intact.
Sadly it did not receive the Iraq treatment
Colonists do that...
People really do get mad at you for mentioning historical facts huh?
@@geoffbell166 British weren't colonizing anywhere involved in the Crimean War.
But what’s in your sink?
This is an abridged version that was a 3-part series when I first saw it uploaded to You Tube in about 2012 or thereabouts. Still a good historical documentary.
Lord Raglan didn't refer to the French as "the enemy": he referred to the enemy in the Crimea, the Russians, as "the French". He had been on Wellington's staff during the Peninsula War against Napoleonic France, but by the time of the Crimean War 40+ years later, he was rather 'gaga'.
Your revisionism. Haha. So detached.
@Willie M The Russian Army, then and later, was overwhelmingly composed of uneducated peasants and unemployed city
poor. They didn't speak French, fluent or otherwise. And I doubt Raglan referred to them as "the French" simply because a very small percentage of Russians - the rich and the nobility - spoke that language.
@williem1710
proof?
@williem1710
I litteraly just asked for proof
Mind you Saint-Arnaud was almost as gaga and the same can be said about a few of the french commanders.
PSA this is a first episode; stops just at the Charge of the Light Brigade. 2nd EP is "The Crimean War-Episode 2 - the Valley of Death."
And then "The Crimean War Episode 3 War and Peace"
Thought I'd save some bother, as it's not on Timeline, and was a bit tricky to find.
Does anybody else actually feel real anger at the senseless loss of life from the British stuff ups?*
A Chief Strategist who at 71 had never been in a battle field?
War as tourism? Hey, bring the wife, she'll love it.
Tbh, though, Fanny's hubby sending the note to tell her to get a move on or she'd miss it, was a refreshing example of a Victorian era man respecting his wife's courage and abilities
*Yes I do realise the Russians lost men senselessly as well, possibly because they simply had more men to be literal cannon fodder.
But as an Aussie, I really feel this war was a dress rehearsal for the Great War, as far as British Command incompetence at least. It is more accurate to say it was a Death Rehearsal, and I keep wanting to howl,"*Why* didn't you learn from your mistakes?"
This is the first time I've learnt about the Crimean War from a military angle, although I did know quite a bit about Miss Nightingale's achievements. I'm embarassed to say I didn't even know Britain and France were allied with the Turks in a Jihad.
However, from what I've learnt here it wasn't so much fighting a Muslim war, holy or not, as it was about preventing Russia gaining valuable territory.
The frequent mentions of "stalemate", the No Man's Land ceasefires for Death Patrols, (all in episode Two), the critiques of the British Command, poorly equipped soldiers losing more limbs to frost bite than to cannon balls,....*why* was it all repeated within living memory of the Crimea?
Sorry for the essay. I am just so enraged I had to vent.
Yeah, I honestly can't believe how such an awful inexperienced man got to lead the entire campaign. It's just so horrible on so many levels.
Dustin At least Lord Raglan eventually felt shamed. He himself said if he returned to London he’d be horse-whipped or stoned
Britannia rules the Wars...lol
They used war as a form of population control. Look at the scots at the beginning. They did not want to be there at all and in fact the english had promised not to use the scots in foreign wars but they lied. They also stole all their land and turned it into estates for the queen and other worthless royals. There are still crumbling scottish villages all over their estates they never bothered to even knock down they were so uncaring in their theft.
Thank you. I was wondering why it ended the way it did.
It's amazing how war was fought back in medieval times, hand to hand combat and closed encounter. However, humanity hasn't learned yet to get along. Technology and science has given men the power to destroy the planet. God have mercy 🙏
What a mistake not letting Russia run through turkey and taking back Constantinople. The Armenians would have appreciated this also
TAKING BACK ?
@@MrShaneVicious Yes?
Yes, it was a mistaken alliance. History would have been better served by a complete Russian victory.
Armenoids are still appreciating it.
@@scottpreston5074 That would have been worse.
Like the best thing I ever saw on a youtube video. Thanks photography. We can witness all the wars back then.
Too bad motion video wasn't there.
Stonehenge was a huge let down when I visited a few year ago. Couldn't get anywhere near the thing. I recommend people just skip it now.
Agreed, you can see if from 200meters away on a cold windy viewing platform and in the visitor center the usual distortions of history to match the current narrative. Aussies built a new one th-cam.com/video/sLsA-jq4eAA/w-d-xo.html
I'm not sure the war was about tourism
@@jenrutherford6690 Crimean war was Uk trying to constrain Russian ambition. However, the Russians wanted to free persecuted Christians in Balkan countries, eventually liberate Bulgaria, Romania and Greece from the Ottomans. UK should have let the Russians clear out the Turks, who used to rule the entire Black sea. Beats me why we are taking about stone henge, but there you go.
@@nampam3945 Russian ambition: "I think I'll open that other bottle of vodka."
@@nampam3945 It's TH-cam, half the morons here don't even know what their watching or why they clicked on it.
There's a slight inaccuracy in the final moments. The order for the attack was not just to the Light Brigade, it was to the whole Cavalry Division, both the Light and Heavy Brigades. Partly due to the poor directions transmitted in the order, misidentifying the actual guns to attack, the charge wasn't directed to the captured Turkish guns on the ridge but towards Russian guns farther up the valley. Part way, the Heavy Brigade was halted and the Light Brigade continued alone. If the whole Cavalry Division had continued, despite the misdirection, the attack would have likely been relatively successful and even overall casualties lower.
it is a fine example of military blunder with no excuse and turning the attack into a example of bravery i simply dishonouring the soldiers taken part in favour of rule britannia by some cowards. remember the homicidal earl!
If the whole division had advanced then it wouldve been even more carnage and death, that valley was a killzone and more horses and men charging through it, wouldn't have changed much but made my ancestor lt col Rudolphe de Salis and his valiant horse drummer boy have to make even more trips to pick up wounded men and he might have not returned from one of them, I'm glad it was just the light brigade
@jackee-is-silent2938 Thanks for your clarification, though it seems to be somewhat disputed elsewhere herein. This was the war to start and instigate at least 2 subsequent Great Wars. It pondered especially to 1 Class, 2 Money.
The guy at the beginning of almost every Timeline video is the reason I subscribed to this channel. Now I know a lot about history around the world. I would like to thank him but I don’t know his name.
You mean Dan Snow?
Dan snow
@@garybates5505 woooosh
Jeffrey Epstein.
LOL I fast forward thru his intros
I love how this is edited with the paintings and showing the present day representation
incredible story telling accompanied by fantastic illustrations but i just wish there were more dates for major events included.
Tens of thousands of young men die so old, senile officers can take credit for their soldier's victories and get their names in the history books.
Such is war... But those Officers, not so senile, fought theirs too, and survived. It is called experience. War is a natural occurrence, sometimes unnecessary... sometimes needed to stave off oppressive government and invaders. It makes those that fight them appreciate life... those who never
experience it, only talk about their opinions of it.
What you just said is true of every war that has been fought for the last 1000 years.
A lot of officers come from rich families. They get to send the soldiers to the deaths, but the officers get the medals and the honor.
@@clawhammer704 the snowflakes cries on internet, the strongmen goes to fight
@@teneremuseu Hurra!
my great-great-great grandfather fought in that war as part of the Royal Irish Regiment on Foot...
Very enjoyable and informative !! Professionally well done !!
Yes, have been waiting for this... Its the remastered/clean up version of the UKTV history I presumed
Not the whole series though unfortunately. Im sure theyll add the other 2 parts later.
Well you know... here at timeline where they make documentaries...
Yes,the first photographed war was the Mexican-American one.but since it was made with a daguerreotype and the artist was unknown, most historians recognize Szathmari as being the first known war photographer(also he used calotype).
Thank god I'm not the only who knew this when watching this video.
This still doesn't excuse the exaggeration that the 'first' were first. This is infuriating. One of my frontier ancestors was a painter who came West in 1848 to the California Gold Rush and made money making pictures of that event. He then went into photography.
So the Mexican-American War was the first photographed war
@@DonBean-ej4ou We had Wrexham away that day Don.
@@DonBean-ej4ou Boring no-score draw.
Hey cool Mr Snow good to see you again! I enjoyed the heck out of your work with your father doing Britain and 20th Century Battlefields!
Genius channel. I ❤️ history.
For me personal it is like Netflix
I wrote a paper on this for school. Some of my best copy and paste. Got an A+
@Buttery Lannister so smart. You literally wasted your time. Lol
@j g we should consider the effort that he took to copy and paste..that counts for something, right?:)
@Buttery Lannister I hardly play games anymore. What are you on about? It's just an opinion that's factual. I taught myself more than what school has done. I ain't no millennial too.
Cheating = trash
Do it properly and you might learn some thing
This is what history channel use to be like...
Been a looooong time, but yeah.
93rd Highlanders-The Thin Red Line-as well as the Charge of the Heavy Brigade and the Battle of the Alma are mostly overshadowed by the Charge Of The Light Brigade
"It's like Netflix for History..." That's little recommendation if you've watched Netflix lately.
I honestly have no idea how Netflix became as big as it is now. When it first started it was endless buffering and terrible resolution. Now it’s those terrible original tv series and movies they try and push down our throats
I had Netflix for about a month, decided it should have been renamed "CHICKFLIX" and stopped subscribing!!!
@@DaniD540 Some people are not proficient enough with the internet to use free streaming or torrents. Same thing as using Facebook and Instagram instead of the real internet.
@@Humanophage it’s so easy to stream for free but people are so afraid/lazy to actually try it
Im ngl I always just thought this channel was 1 dude pirating documentaries. Was waiting for the day that something happened, and Im honestly proud you've been able to do this for years.
The "The Netflix Of History" slogan is annoying
My great great grandfather was there at all four major battles. Even met Florence Nightingale after being hospitalised for frost bite.
I was there at all four major battles. Even met Florence Nightingale after being hospitalised for frost bite.
this is outstanding! Small details are very nicely done. thanks
"First" war photographs? What about the daguerreotypes from the Mexican-American War 1846-1848? And also remember that some weaponry used 1,000 years plus prior to The Crimean War were worse than anyone even today could have ever imagined. EGAD!
This woman's voice is incredible.
These series are great because they are very educational. I always thought that trench warfare started in the American Civil War but apparently it started in the Crimean War.
Thought that, also.
What a fantastic video. 👏👏👏 Absolutely fascinating 🤔 This channel is amazing!
A great documentary. Its was interesting to learn what the great russian naval victory at Sinop entailed, admiral Nachimov being one of the heroic figureheads of Russian navy. All this period was mainly skipped over during our history lessons at school, straight to the eve of First World War.
@20:40 a young pic of "Leo Tolstoy" nice picture.
"To the north, waited Russia like a vulture..."
C'mon.
@Finnian MacCool Black lives. matter.
Yes. Vultures don't 'eye their prey', as they do not prey.
@Finnian MacCool - GFY
@Finnian MacCool Not in this case against the Otoman empire. But yes in the case of the Usa and México or France or England in Africa or Asia. The Otoman empire was a rapacious empire. A vulture in itself. Not the case of French, English and Americans in his imperialistic adventures
@Finnian MacCool I hate all who thinks that have some kind of "blue blood" and thinks that thats renders superiority to him. Is such an idiotic thing!!! But i love Europe and European culture. It's only that i don't believe in "master races" and such heinous idiologies. Have a nice day guy
The first war to be photographed...
A documentary with very few photographs of said war.
Nonetheless, i learned something.
One sided Anglo-Saxon version of history.
No more does the sun never sets over British Empire. Russia still spans 12 time zones.
And still you are here speaking to us in English while your oligarchs and the wealth of your lands spanning 12 time zones are all in British banks. ☺️
@@lokumftw2621 in about 50 years, Brits will speak in Pakistani Urdu and the rest of the half-civilized world will speak Han Chinese, so yeah, the sun kinda set for Britain
@@LudwigVaanArthans it sure is ludwig.
@@lokumftw2621 Well said.
@@lokumftw2621 Ha!
What a great documentary thank you so much
I wonder how the future would have gone if England and France had just let Russia take Istanbul. The Turks were not their friends. WWI would have gone better and just maybe the Russian Red revolution would been avoided. BTW It’s a bit of a tease as the episode ends just as the Light brigade is about to charge. However it is well done, I would recommend watching it.
Or better yet england mind its own business entirely and not go into massive debt over crimean war and ww 1 which is what caused it to implode and cease existing during ww ii.
Turks are British brothers in blood (R1b haplo group)
@@VendPrekmurec tell about it in leeds
Alexandria *
This is why I support Russia on this one, thier policy regarding Constantinople is consistent. When the Brits finally agreed to liberate Constantinople its already too late
*sees Sebastapol practically undefended*
British Commander: "Sorry boys, the book says we have to attack the walls with cannons. Time to go around."
The Brits still didn't learn. Remember Montgomery and operation Market Garden or Churchill and Gallipoli.
@@salbarnaby6556 Even the Russians stated the British were "Lions led by donkeys". The arrogance of Aristocracy.
@@T0mat0S0up I thought the germans said that about the french
Its Sevastopol not seba,...... Sebastian? Lol
They look older than you would expect, usually war is a young man’s nightmare
Perhaps professional soldiers rather than conscripts
@@natashanicole7408 no i think those photos are of senior NCOs
@Buttery Lannister no those are photos of senior NCOs
The facial hair makes them look older. Under British army regulations at the time, all soldiers were required to grow a mustache.
@@TheSuperDerp no i think the photographer actually spent most of his time in the rear taking pictures of higher ups, i looked up photos of the crimean war and there are like 1 or 2 that pictures taken of the common soldiery
So proud to fight and die. The love and fear of misery. Men marching off to war to die for reasons that wouldn’t affect a poor man. The poor are miserable no matter who over lords him.
@ 6:48: "The city (Istanbul) commanded the strategic gateway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. If Russia seized control, her warships would have access to the open seas all year round." ~ Oh, no, we can't have that! sez the British & French Empires whose warships just happen to have access to the open seas all year round.
Last night I watched the 1968 movie about the Charge of the Light Brigade. It's interesting that Europe has been warring with Russia for a long time.
Famous charge Famous military blunder, its a wonder we ever won anything, ..given our leadership 😆 🇬🇧 England 🇬🇧 🏴
When an armed conflict is called a battle it means that your side won. If it is called a massacre it means that your side lost.
OR '...annihilated...' LOL
SEE two previous comments on the War of 1812; obviously one American & one British.
THAT war's over too boys.
John McCosh photographed the 2nd Anglo-Sikh War 1848-1849 and the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War of 1852
But this was the first really big war and the first war in Europe to be photographed.
Very interesting bit of footage. But my silly question is: was that Dominic West narrating part of that? I know he did other narrative work, but can't find this on Imdb.
When you look at the glorious architecture in the photos and then see muddy rough streets with people using horse and cart something seems off.
5:30 - Oops thought you said "Imperial Britain waited waited like a vulture eyeing its prey." That's the video about the Boer War I guess.
Russian “pretext”. Seems like a very valid reason to me. World would have been much better off had they won.
@I am that's dumb for those who didn't understand and not living in the culture of the time. Those who think it's dumb are actually the real dumbs themselves.
Yes really stupid statement!
i agree
Turns out, standing in a line and shooting at each other was a bad idea.
One common with muzzle loaders. it certainly prevailed in the American Civil War.
Prior to rifling on military firearms, it was a necessity to fire, en masse, to achieve anything approaching a moderately successful hit rate. As the age was progressing rapidly with tech advancements, most armies reached a tactical impasse, where the tactics didn't match the technology on the field. The US Civil War and WWI are great examples of this.
@@lancervi1762 Yup, not only were smoothbores not very accurate but all the smoke created by black powder made any attempt at aiming pointless. so mass fire by formations of soldiers was the way to go.
I mean shooting at each other has never really been great for people in any formation
@@alexanderhgardiner6731 Indeed. Though that is like saying water is wet.
We have an area in Melbourne Australia called Caulfield and its main roads are Inkerman Road, Alma Road and Balaclava Street but also, Redan Street, Crimea Street, Sebastopol Street, Odessa Street, Malakoff Street. All named after battles or forts in the Crimea. People here really freaked out and thought if the Russian won they would come here. Forts and artillery batteries were built along the bay and out on islands and at it's head. Of course they would never have come but still folks here really freaked out. Many streets were also named after personalities in the war like Cardigan and Raglan. It was the modern technologies like telegraph and photography that allowed people in British colonies so far away as here to freak out so much. The first modern media war I guess.
And don’t forget the suburb of Sebastopol in nearby Ballarat or just ‘Zabas’ as locals say.
and the same in the suburb of Onehunga in Auckland NZ
Most of Australia's cities, roads and suburbs are named after British soldiers,cities, and wars.
Same in Cambridge, U.K. there is an area with all the pubs and a few roads named these names from the Crimean qar
I believe I read somewhere that when the Japanese were thought to invade Australia that people sold and fled thaler houses in that area of OZ for practically nothing .I bet the ones who bought and stayed after buying were well happy.
I can't help but imagine the guy wearing that tall Cossack hat walking around
in the trench with the top of it sticking up. Every so often someone gets a hit and
he turns around and walks the other way. Like the target shooting at a carnival.
"To avoid Russia year-round access to the Oceans"
is just as predatory an excuse for invasion as
"They have weapons of Mass Destruction."
Nothing new under the sun.
Every country has "weapons of mass destruction",
and blocking in a nation is an attack, not a "defence."
"teach the tsar a lesson"
"show their naval superiority"
More than a documentary his is jingoist propaganda of the 'best' sort, triumphant music and all.
Look at England now. They will be a minority in their own country
I mean, you can't let the Russians just have it. Take it as a sign of respect.
But sometimes, it's true and Russia was indeed an irresponsible country with too many weapons of mass destruction for the time. So was Germany of the time. It was a question of trying to keep a balance in Europe and nearby. It succeeded for a while longer.
@@jaymesguy239 Wait, what country has actually used WMDs on civilian cities? was it Russia?
You forgot the Russian excuse for invading Turkey - the root of all evil! Religion- we will protect Christians! I highly doubt the Russian army asked people their religion before shooting them. Religious differences have been the excuse for making war for millennia!
Hopefully we can get over ourselves soon enough to save ourselves. Though we have far less wars these days, our capacity for obliterating ourselves has increased exponentially since crimea. Perhaps we can learn from the very costly mistakes of the past and not repeat them.
War is part of what we are...embrace the suck! A great storm is gathering...be prepared or be a victim!
But we can't and we don't and we do.
See even folks in the comment section go to war. There will always be war
We are in war right now.
@@CowboyCarCrushing No it’s the gov. We need good people not bad
It was all about,..pride, honor and glory...about being tough and manly.
LOL.
Try being manly in today's Western Woke societies
😅😂🤣.
PRIDE never goes away; it just changes its appearance.
AS for honour & integrity; keep looking!
It’s just struck me, how sad these photos are. Interesting, fascinating, giving humanity to every soldier. Yet, there are photos of the exact same fields of war, that are completely at peace, with no need to remember a crashing, booming, blood drenched time so long ago.
We’re just passing through, don’t mind us.
Love the loud music over the talking spot on👌
I can just imagine the horror from my comfy bed.
Yea, quite true!
I'm on a chair
yes, I keep a gun within reach though..just in case.
hahahah
And the poor child who played the cymbals has lost a leg……..incredible
I know, right? What on earth is a child doing at the front lines of a war playing cymbals??! Generals, war mongers - showing you no regard for people or children for that matter.
Do a "where are they now" for the veteran survivors.
They're dead
@@trajanfidelis I was wondering if someone would mention that. My Dad Jokes just pour out of me at will. Can you believe it?
@@trajanfidelis That's the joke.
They would be 175+ years old now
James McMahon, born 1835, died June 8th, 1921 at Chatham, Ontario, Canada (Crimean War) - said to be the last survivor, other sources say Edwin Hughes (born Dec 12th, 1830, died May 27th, 1927 age 96 at Blackpool, England), (charge of the light brigade) ("where" are they now and what uniform did they "wear"(?)). Looks like about 86(?) and 96 yrs, pretty good longevity after all that life of soldiering and who knows what else.
You know that war is going to be a long and painful one when you hear generals say "It's going to be easy". You had the same cocky generals doing the same mistakes in WW1 with everyone thinking that they will win in less than 6 months. Some people just never learn.
Tsar's troops are tough sir...What do we do? Nevermind that soldier! We have plenty of Irish to spare!!
Jesus christ 😂
At the historical recreation village in Wexford, Ireland, there is a small tower dedicated to the regiment of Wexford troops that were slaughtered in Crimea. So far from home, and what did they lose their lives for....
@@deirdretessmann8935 They died for the Turks.Not the best people to die for...
5:55 what's the song in the back ground??? Does any one have an idea about it please....
It is a Cossack song. Judging by the accent it is performed by singers from Donetsk or Lugansk. This is the accent of Michael Gorbochev. Nikita Krustchev spoke this sort of Russian as well (the former CCCP leaders). Also, these songs were popularised in 1950-60s by a Nobel Prize winner, M.Sholokhov, the author of "Quitely the Don Flows". To my ear, it sounds too much "paysan" and rural...
Something like that is at: th-cam.com/video/zthy_ObrJ-k/w-d-xo.html (By the way, the Cossack singers wear the same uniform, which was in the Russian Army during the Crimean War. Large red stripes on the Cossack trousers had been introduced shortly after the Napoleonic War by the winner, the Russian tzar Nikolus I.)
Enjoy!
@@OlleyAney Thanks buddy.I thought it was some Russian Orthodox Song or some Mennonites song.Thanks a lot.
@@johngideon6540 Good point, John! The Cossacks are all Orthodox to the extent that all their folk songs bear strong similarity in the form and spirit to the Orthodox daily prayer hymns, which are still popular in the Ukrain, Don Region and Syberia.
Anyone want a good book?Trevor Royales "The Great Crimean War".I read it then went to the Crimea about 12hrs from our family's house in Ukraine.Really cool Battlefield and a fantastic book.
What about the book by Orlando Figgs?
@@kushanshah8040 yes,I have that one too Great Book also.
Unlike many Battlefields the valley of death still looks the same as in the sketches and paintings. It full of grape Vinyards though.
War is ridiculous.
and never fought by the people who caused it.
War is the culmination of someone or some people being unreasonable.
Thus, war can also be a necessity.
Like, how many wars have imperialists started because of embargos for instance - countless. Same is done today, and most often by the same old imperialistic countries and so it's provoking for future war. Interesting how people vote the same corrupt and thoughtless groups into power, even after lies that have led to deaths of millions have been uncovered. "Weapons of mass destruction", maybe "democracy","the rule of the people" is the worst after all, since the majorities become responsible for the tyranny instead of just the few.
This is billed as part of a series on the Crimean War. Can you make a playlist of them on the channel so we can actually find them, please? They're lost in a list of over 300 programmes.
Iron Maiden's - The Trooper is thus inspired in this war. Cannons to the right of them, cannons to the left of them..
The cover is my favorite iron maiden album cover with Eddie in a British Army uniform running through no man's land clutching the union jack " these colors don't run"
Up Irons
Charge of the light brigade the finest light cavalry in the world back then and arguably of all time, were decimated thx to comms breaking down but being the disciplined troopers they were they followed the insane tactical nightmare of an order to attack straight into the Russian guns (artillery) with no flanking maneuver nor base of fire supporting them!!
You take my life but I'll take yours too! You fire your musket but I'll run you through! And while you're waiting for the next attack, you better stand there's no turning back...
True story?! ...that's what I mean by learning something new by way of history meeting with the current times. I would have probably not heard or been made privy of this had it not been for you sir and by way of proxy the historical documentary society on TH-cam as this is where I mostly hang out on here ...thank you good citizen for that tidbit !
This war is so pointless.
The Brits and French only prolonged the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans for 20 years.
and destroyed christianity and pagan peoples of Armenia.
What war is charmingly WONDERFUL?
alot of wars have a ooint to them , but obviously people cant see that cause they like to make it all romantic and dramatic , thi happened because nobody wanted the up and coming empire of russia to control such a vital shipping lane , better to leave the relatively weak turks to control it since they couldtn do much anymore anyway
A very well done, brilliant documentary of yet more, bloody history. That is what history is, just one bloody thing after another thanks to politicians and the puppet masters.
Well ... you almost got there. Human beings as a species suck. Thankfully our run is about over.
What happened to the second half
What a truly mesmerising and horrifying doc - you just can not get nearer than to being there than hearing first hand accounts of those whom were there.
Unless you were there.
Thanks for the share and may these people ...
Rip.
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This was when duty and honor were the most important thing.
Very good record of the times and tribulations and the amount of suffering experienced by soldiers, shame nothing has changed in the past 150 years.
I disagree. It has changed for worse.
@@mrvn000 Not in every respect. Modern day soldiers hardly ever die of dysentery, but in the mid 19th Century it killed far more soldiers than guns ever did.
I remember reading many years ago that the first war to be photographed was actually the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852-53. It's a pretty obscure affair even by small colonial campaign standards though, which is why this particular 'first' gets ignored in favour of something everybody knows.
The Mexican American War was the very first war to be photographed not just in American history but world history the Mexican American War was from 1846 to 1848 there’s at least 50 photographs of that war.
@@corygriffiths4394 Interesting. Thanks.
@@corygriffiths4394 seems like it was only battles photographed, not the whole war like this one
I do think they mean the worst proper, large-scale war with large scale photography. I'm sure somewhere there's an exposure of a battle back whenever but it wouldn't be the first
Very well done. Factual. Thanks to recent events I now longer feel that we are any wiser. superior to
Is there an episode 2? Me is really aching for episode 2. PLEASE! Can some link me out of my misery?
And not too many of English speaking people would say that most of the so called "russian" army where Ukrainian man . Just because Ukraine at the time was a part of Russian Empire, they make no distinction by nation included in it. If you look at a monument to soldiers who defended Sevastopol there are mostly Ukrainian surnames. I am hoping that Ukraine never ever have anything to do with Russia. They are enemy of all Ukrainians.
@Dmitri Kulkavičius They can lie all they want. I know and lots of others do too. There are lots of the historical evidence to prove that Ukraine did exist long before Russia .
no. we are your brothers and sisters, other slavic people. what you hate is the russian government, not the people.
@@falimojk There were different governments over the centuries ... but throughout all of that time people from Moscovia were trying to kill us, our culture, steel our history and I for one never will regard them as a brother or sister. Sorry.
@Dmitri Kulkavičius no. i was strictly against those actions.
hahahahaha of course, everyone who has ever achieved anything in Russia was ukrainian. Youre pathetic, ukrainians were a small part of the Russian military, Russian officers were sent to the ukraine as a punishment. This is why to this day ukraine is the poorest country in Europe.
The Mexican-American War was the first to be photographed.
@Lats Niebling On your keyboard if you know how to type.
@Lats Niebling www.google.com/search?q=american+mexican+war+photos&rlz=1C1GCEA_enTH916TH916&sxsrf=ALeKk00ArieRIQqZwn_QL9Rv0DVE2-rh4g:1607016794640&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=wywzbLnY_Xe17M%252CRn1YPbVkwAxqKM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kR5B-O6dEj8i1Cb1B7nrMzijWDMdQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik38SJrLLtAhWBT30KHYuqDsIQ9QF6BAgFEAE&biw=1366&bih=657#imgrc=wywzbLnY_Xe17M
@@nickhanlon9331 hahhahahaha
Most deaths in battle served little but to change or attempt to change lines on maps slightly for a brief period. Giving your life for State is ALWAYS a travesty because there is NO HONOR is dying for a Govt. Only sadness and loss. Nor is there honor in taking lives for a govt
Especially when you're on the wrong side.
Nor dying for a God. A sadistic invisibile sky daddy. An infantile no honor there too.
I think that ww2 was more than that .
this was the war that sat the stage for ww1 mate , i wouldn't call that "slightly for a brief period"
I was never in a hurry to sign up for anything like that...
Fantastic video!
The loud background music makes it difficult to understand the narration at times. Many productions use this technique, though I don't know why. The words and ideas should be more important than setting the mood.
For a documentary about photographs they sure do have a lot of illustrations.
"death loves a crowd..."
"death loves a coward"