When was Britain's last war with France? How did it start?
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When was Britain's last war with France? This video takes you through the long lead up to it, and then has a detailed account of the very start of it.
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Love your 2 hour history lesson Lindy, i get to learn and relearn history that make good sense cornologically. (which if those youtubers who make "short/simple history" videos where to cover the same topic, it will certainly be 9 hours longer filled with useless nonsence for entertainment)
I just want to mention something to the troops that were shipped back to france 1:13:05 , although i wouldn't know much about those soldiers being demilitarized and sent home, i have been told by many old people that to those who where evacuated at dunkirk, they were given a few days in britain to recover before being shipped to the port of brest to then be sent by train across anywhere in france where they can stop the german advance south, to which by the time of the Armistise in June22, those french troops had already stopped the german offensive before they could ever reach the regions that became Vichy-France.
One queston! Do you take all iformation from head or do you have some data sheet?
I reckon Kitchner said what is claimed about the ''Tricolour flag'' but he likely knew they what the goal was by command but just played off that he didn't under official orders for a multitude of reasons by those in the know!
@@joik2ww269 This was a LONG video with lots of names in it, so I had a few of the key names noted down on a piece of paper near the camera. I still made mistakes, though.
feels like most of the video is going on tangents, haha
Luved it Lloyd.
👍
"You didn't need to know that detail; I just threw it in there."
That's pretty much what defines this channel.
That and an intense anglo bias, which here is blinding as the subject is the frrrench.
2 hours… Lloyd has blessed us on this day
Amen
He is risen indeed
Praise be!🙌
I just started. I pray for an abundance of tangents.
All hail history jesus!
Correction. That was the last war with France, so far.
😂😂 we just can't be trusted
Pretty sure the French are loading boats with invaders at Calais right now.
As Al Murray, the Pub Landlord keeps arguing the Income Tax was instituted to fight the French. The tax remains, but there is peace with France, he feels either income tax should be abolished or war declared on France, he's happy with either.
I know that the Normands were hard and unjust but I think it is time to get over it.
Focus on your new occupiers: The Muslims.
@ The Muslims in France?
What i love about this channel is it makes me feel like I'm listening to a guy i just stumbled into and started a conversation.
I know, the best possible person you could sit next to at a pub. I am pouring a pint for myself now
A few pints with Lloyd would be an amazing privilege @t.c.bramblett617
Now I want to see him in a real conversation I'm imagining it starts something like 'this conversation has been brought to you by our sponsor, the beer you are buying. But more on that later....'
I'm thinking this is what you would get if you had a history professor with ADD... :(
This only reinforced my opinion that WWI and WWII were just British and French being annoyed that somebody interrupted them fighting each other.
Lol
“No one kills the hated enemy but me!”
Je suis tout à fait d'accord!
Like when the British did attack and sink a significant portion of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir on July 3, 1940?
@ Like that.
2 hours of Lindy being British at the camera is why I subscribed
What else would he be?
@@rhinehardt1 There may be an alternate reality where he would be French to the camera *shutters*
@@sethja8 Or worse, Parisian.
It is also why I'm not subscribed - he is far from impartial in his selection biases. I do listen to some of his videos but he is far too Rule Britania for me to consider him a balanced narrator of history.
@@user-aero68 he's more of a fantastic story teller. I'm Irish, i take it with a pinch of english salt and enjoy the ride. Our day will come.
There are channels out there which put out excellently edited, super high quality, 30 minute video essays on interesting topics, and I will fall asleep 10 mins in.
Lloyd can just speak to a camera for 2 hours about some random event or thing a couple lifetimes ago, with some reference pictures and notes popping up every now and then, and keep me awake after a long day of work, what an amazing speaker.
Most of those channels suck, especially the science crap out now like " RealLifeLore " etc which is all garbage rubbish ripped from Wikipedia and turned into a 10 minute video which eventually requires an apology for the multiple ' mistakes ' which comes with pulling information from wikipedia.
you really have no idea what you are talking about, do you? his videos are generally much longer than 10 minutes and actually quite well researched and nuanced
@ Alright fanboy 😃Get past the 1000 words per minute speech that is clearly rushed so he can throw-out as many of his low-quality Wikipedia videos as possible first then we can start talking 😹
You'll find a lot of the scripts these videos use are literally direct 1:1 readings of Wikipedia articles.
Watch some better TH-cam videos instead of that garbage please.
Lloyd reminds me of Old TH-cam, when people made videos because they were real enthusiasts, not "content creators."
@@lotsofLlamas I've seen one of those recently, don't recall the channel, but it was about some subject (obviously, the video and channel are forgettable) and when I googled about it, low and behold, the script for that video was ripped directly from a website on the same subject, word for word written about 5 years prior.
In 2002 I was working as a nurse in Burnley. In the summer I took a trip to Verdun. On the second or third shift following my return I met a patient whose first name was Verdun. I told him about my trip and asked about his name. He told me his father was deployed to France during WW1. Following the end of the war his father stayed in France. He worked in the Verdun area until his return to England in the 1920s His job was collecting French dead from temporary graves, ditches and holes in the ground and moving them to the main graveyard.
On his return he met a girl, got married, had a son. Verdun told me his fathered named him in commemoration of the war. He also told Verdun that he should never go there because it was too terrible. Verdun asked me if it was true and if he should have visited. My response was that his father was correct. Although it is a beautiful area there is an eerie, haunting, quality to it. There is an ossiery there that holds, I believe 1,000,000 bones. On the day I visited two coach loads of French troops arrived. One of the site guardians told me that recruits are taken there to teach them what is expected of them.
considering Belgian bodies contain 500,000 bones, thats probably 2 people😂
@richardhoare9963= The British army does the same with its recruits, taking them on a tour of the Normandy grounds. But the death toll in Normandy does not compare with that of Verdun.
There are 130 000 soldiers in the Ossuary, if they collected all the bones thats 130 000 x 206 = 26 780 000 bones.
@@christianfournier6862bollocks absolute bollocks …your talking crap
@@christianfournier6862 True, that said, Day for Day, the British Casualties in Normandy were roughly 6k a day which is more than the daily average for WW1, Horrific numbers!
Lindy,
every time you post is a treat.
thank you
I work with a French company. I can confirm that the last war was, in fact, yesterday.
nice
At least you get paid by them for it…
Aa was The
Napoleon8c War.
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The greatest crime is that in his description of the Officer named Boullion he didn't take the opportunity to say he sounded stocky
A gravy mistake
Saw the title and thought ah a nice short video with some good information. Then saw the runtime and realized my folly
After watching of course he spent half the time on tangents and the other half belittling the French. Never change Lindy
Assumed it was going to be “ww2 done”
Only 5 mins in may get to it
France usually wins its wars. He is just jealous !
He doesn't really belittle the French - did you watch the same video?
@@JohnyG29 Yeah, I'm also confused by his comment.
@@NihonNiv There is the tiniest possibility he is making a joke, in a very British way
"Surrounded by nature's moat" is a beautiful line
It's a Shakespeare reference! Specifically to John of Gaunt's famous death-bed speech in "Richard II". Part of it runs thus:
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
Keeps the world safe from British “cooking”
I love your approach to giving information, the fact you don't use a script, and get slightly sidetracked and occasionally loss your thread makes your videos far more approachable. Much more like a conversation with a friend rather than a lecture. So don't worry about it and please don't change.
I thought you were initially referring to the The British sinking of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria on July 3, 1940 as the last war fought between France and Britian.
I wonder I that's the next episode it was over the net few days well the 3rd was the same day
My thought exactly.
I always get the impression that Lloyd has real trouble keeping his videos short, I'm not complaining, I could easily enjoy them all for 2 hours.
During World War II, British and Commonwealth forces fought the Vichy French in Syria. A young Australian artillery officer, Roden Cutler, serving as a forward observer, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions there. He lost one leg from the knee down. After a diplomatic career, he later served as Governor of New South Wales.
@@donaldgraham6414 Actually, the Australians took over the campaign when the Brits gave up due to incompetence and dysentery, they were paying for the stunt anyway, so fair enough that they should be in command.
@@seanlander9321And the other bit of confusion was the Australian’s used Italian tanks to defeat the French… (The first occasion that the Australian’s had ever actually driven tanks in combat (they borrowed a few tanks from the British in the Battle of Hamel)).
@ Australia sent its own armour to the North African campaign. Just as well really, since the British had proved that they were useless and cowardly at Bardia, and afterwards couldn’t be trusted as reliable until well into 1942.
Lindy at a pub quiz, gets asked when the last war with france was.
A note on Disraeli - he was certainly considered ethnically Jewish, but firmly considered himself Anglican (as his father had); of course attitudes being what they were at the time, his alleged Jewishness was frequently used as a slur against him and was almost certainly at least part of why it did take so long for him to become PM, despite having such a long career in politics. Had a rather fascinating life overall.
Been watching you for 10 years bro keep up the good work 🫡
Was that before the _In Search of Hannibal_ campaign or after?
As the years go by, I am beginning to suspect the In Search of Hannibal Kickstarter campaign might have predated Hannibal himself
We are all decade older now, but Lindy seems to be the exact same age
@@LukeSumIpsePatremTeI've been watching for a while.
This incident may not be much of a war in itself, but in the morning there would be a sea battle involving 6 battleships, 3 cruisers, and 17 destroyers ending with 1299 people killed.
I always enjoy your subject matters, Lindy.
You can never speak on them for long enough. I really have no issue listening to you gab for most of my day.
Long life and good health to you and yours, Lindy. Thank you for years of entertainment.
History channels have become so huge on youtube, but you still have a way of telling the story that is so unique
Hi! A little comment for the topic at 1:01:00, according to Indy Neidell in his ww2 series, the troops sent were never meant to go help the Finns. They were meant to secure the iron mines at Gällivare in Sweden through Norway, but there were no orders nor plans to go any further than that
This is EXACTLY why I subscribed. Enough with the interviews. I want to hear ridiculous historical stories, see you weave baskets, or learn about armor; preferably in 2 to 5 hour sessions. Fantastic work as usual. I look forward to what you have to say next!
Also, to be fair, the French rolling their eyes at the Charge of the Light Brigade is just something all countries do; it's not like they don't romanticise the bravery displayed during their retreat from Russia.
It's just how it is.
Or the bone headless off the French cavalry throwing themselves at the British squares at Waterloo
English attacked a French Castle, in 1975. The French farted in their general direction.
That’s because they already had a Grail 😂
Y'all notice how when Loyd makes a banger point while on a rant and pauses to recover his train of thought....... It works to add gravity to the situation that he's speaking on and draws one into the story even further??
I think Lloyd's overly excited way of explaining history suits history very well, because many big events en decisions can only be onderstood when you take into consideration the excitement and convictions of people at the time
I missed these long form videos, I greatly appreciate them 🙂
Oooh a treat!! Thanks Lindy!!! 👍👍
Time to go to bed... Nevermind, time to watch Lloyd tell us about the French for two hours.
Exactly
1:38 "Fwench"
You can always hear him on the bed, with headphones, of course, not to disturb the baby.
I fall sleep with podcast most nights knackered from chasing the baby all evening after work
I'm a Frenchman. I lived in England until the Brexit vote. I still cannot understand the English trauma about France.
Meanwhile on the South side of the Channel, I couldn't sustain a engaging conversation while mentioning England. Except maybe a comment about the food and not in a flattering way.
Because of the Norman conquest, or the Angevin dynasty, the population kept some unconscious ancestral resentments about everything French-speaking.
@@tibsky1396Il y cinquante ans j'ai passé du très bon temps à Londres où mon entreprise m'avait envoyé pour développer les ventes. Toujours bien accueilli partout et jamais un seul commentaire désagréable sur les Français. La politesse britannique, ce n'est pas un mythe. La seule anecdote amusante, c'est un week-end sur la côte à Westgate, on déjeunait, j'étais le seul Français de la bande. Arrive le dessert, bon. Puis après on sert le fromage. Surpris je demande à mon copain de Charlton une explication sur ce que je pensais être une erreur. Et là, superbement, une dame anglaise me rétorque, mi figue mi raisin, "dans tous les pays civilisés on sert le fromage après le dessert". J'étais jeune, je suis resté coi. Plus tard j'ai appris que naguère en France on faisait de même, d'où l'expression "entre la poire et le fromage". J'ai toujours gardé un bon souvenir des Anglais en général, mes amis de Charlton sont venus à mon mariage en France et nous avons été aux sports d'hiver en Italie avec eux dans un groupe 100% anglais. Soit dit en passant, d'avoir appris la langue sur place a été un atout précieux pour ma carrière professionnelle. Je suis retourné à Londres il y a quelques années, ma fille passait quelques mois à la City. Cela a énormément changé par rapport à ma jeunesse.
I wouldn't call it "trauma", I'd call it friendly contempt
Having a rough time of it Uncle Lindy. Thank you for always being here ❤
I've been waiting so long for another long binge video from Lloyd
Thanks!
Our favorite eccentric-internet-uncle-historian
Excellent video. Was hooked for the whole two hours!
It doesn't match the description in the intro, but what I would have answered would have been WW2, involving Mers al-Kabir and some resistance to Operation Torch landings by Vichy France.
I had an uncle in the Cheshire Yeomanry fought against the French in Lebanon/Syria in 1940/1941
Same
Also the campaign in Syria/Lebanon in 1941, with the multi-national force defending led by the French under Henri-Dentz.
I understand that. I would almost have thought you were right but Mers-el-Kebir was only an action within the war.
Now we know how it could have been avoided.
Had the RN expected such treachery they might have considered making leaks in the bottom of the surcoof.
Syria, Lebanon too. We also invaded Iran.
Good to see you again, Lindy
The best thing about these long videos is realising how little *detail* I know about these events.
Evergything is like that.
@@Kikilang60 Yeah, the fractal nature of knowledge. You could do a full 2 hours just on that wacky French submarine alone.
1:59:00 "the last war with france started with the sercouf, the 2nd half described the taking of the sercouf" the summary is very appreciated.
Enchanting performance, thank you my good sir! ❤
For the record: I have to say that for a moment, I swear, just for a moment, I thought Lindy was about to talk even of the Baptism of Clovis on 496 (or 508) AD, .. luckily I was wrong!😅
You can always tell when Lindybeige has a video in his release schedule because the algorithm starts showing you Lindybeige videos from 4 years ago out of nowhere, then a week later, here's the video!
This is my first upload since finding your channels glad to see it.
300 thumbs up for a 2 hour video released only one hour ago. That's youtube cred for you!
"... A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire..." The journey through history as guided by our hero and teacher.
2 hours! Thank you kind sir.
Being shot, and being able to act in anyway is amazing. The main failing in movies is characters shaking off being wounded. People do fight after being severely wounded, but the effort it takes is hard to imagine.
There are very few 2 hour youtube videos that I would happily watch in one sitting, but Lindy's is the exception! Fascinating video!
Not counting movies and symphonies or concerts, I can count on one hand the amount of channels where I would watch two hour videos in one go - but this is one of them.
Return to form Lindy! Three hearty cheers!
👏 👏 👏
I always love these historical little bits of yours about relatively obscure but interesting topics.
Without starting the video, my guess is WW2 where Brits have attacked Syria and Lebanon, which were under French rule back then, and the French enlisted the help of the Germans to fight back.
That would have been my guess as well. You might want to include the Torch landings in there as well. Two Aussies won VCs in Syria in 1941.
Yes, and the total bombardment of the French fleet in their harbor, killing hundreds of French sailors, after the Vichy France made a peace deal with the Germans, since the British high command was afraid that the Germans would later break that treaty and confiscate the French Battleships for themselves.
That was an Australian campaign where Britain and Indian troops joined in.
@@inisipisTV We did ask them to intern their fleet at Gibraltar: they refused.
Britain fought against the Vichy French in north African and southern France (though I'm not 100%0 sure if Brit units were attached to the Americans for the invasion of southern France).
I’ve missed this long format extended cut history vids ❤
It’s 25/01/25 05:27 I’m knackered but see Lindybeige has posted so another late night for me!!!
Rule Brittania !!vive les roast beef!!!!!
By half 5, I'm pretty sure it's an early morning not a late night 😂
Fun fact: the largest number of any Nation's troops on the field at Waterloo were various sorts of German or Prussian.
By God a 2 hour video... good stuff
This was a pleasure to listen to, thanks. Loved how deep you went on the Dreyfus Affair!
They say that, roughly during the first half 19th century, about half the 'British' Army was English; then one third Irish (which was part of the United Kingdom at the time, so you really should count them as British troops; they were not treated any differently to other British troops) and then one sixth Scots. Of the Welsh there is little record kept, but they had a very small population at the time, such that many 'Welsh' regiments were actually filled up with Englishmen. The army was usually very small, and the reason for this of course is that, uniquely, we didn't conscript; as Lindy says there was just no need to, so we had a very small army in comparison to others like France. They were normally very highly trained and disciplined however; but this wasn't considered as important as size to other states.
Wales was legally indistinguishable from England, since the time of and by command of King Henry VII (a Welshman, oddly enough).
Having on the 3rd of September 1939 declared war on Germany, along side France; One of the early British actions was to track down the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir and sink it. Old habits die hard I guess.
Mers-el-kabir wasn't really an early action. It was nearly a year into the war. Which is quite a long time to most people.
This is a great birthday gift thanks Lloyd
Last time I was this early Admiral Nelson wasn't a brand of cheap rum.
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@@muradm7748 Enlightened genius comment
@@bookmanjeb7238 thank you
Brilliant, Lloyd. Two hours which flew by.
Thank you.
I love these kind of videos from Lloyd.
Ahhh, at last, Lindy. Put it on as lay down to sleep.......still awake 2 hours in. Miss these......a lot. Thank you, sir.
Two hours? Oh my! Was going to go to bed, but oh well!
These long form vids are awesome! Thx!
The submarine was named after Surcouf, a French privateer who preyed on British shipping.
After successfully boarding a Royal Navy ship, Surcouf had her captain brought to him. The British officer belittled him for being a privateer, telling him that while he, as an RN officer, fought for honor, Surcouf, as a privateer, only fought for money.
Surcouf famously replied, 'Men always fight for what they do not have.'
And this treachery from the english told in the video is just another proof of it.
Please do regular podcasts, this was soo good.
Brilliant, missed your videos mate.
Digging the classic style video Lindy :)
Just when I was wondering what happened to Lloyd, he drops this banger
Lindibeige, a great presentation. Thank you. I've missed these sort of lectures from you recently. Really learned something. Again thanks! I've been a fan a while
Hey lindy, could you do a video on the welds that were performed on WW1 and WW2 tanks?
That would be interesting but an engineering based channel would likely be better suited to covering it. Welding is an incredibly complex subject. There are thousands of types of steel for a kick off.
A wonderful 2 hour video from Lindybeige in his classic sweater. What a delight!
When Lindy does a “Short” it is still 25 mins long…. .
Lovely. Needed this. Very much appreciate you.
To be fair, the French had good reasons to be smug after the Crimean War. Not only were they on the winning side, but they were arguably the only major power involved in this conflict that didn't screw the pooch in one way or another.
Thank you for this Lloyd
Never stop Lindy. Just keep talking. I would love to hear your take on the vast topic of globalisation/industrialisation, how the spice trade compelled the circumnavigation of Africa by the Portuguese, how the Dutch pioneered the stocks system, how Britain had the social conditions to avoid the social revolutions leading to British superiority of the seas, allowing for the conditions to industrialise through unlimited trade and the positive feedback loop of factories and interconnected industries
Wonderful piece of work! One of your finest efforts! Thank you!
You're my favorite YT channel. Thanks for being hilarious & awesome. From Nashville Tennessee, USA!
Everyone knows Nashvill is in the USA. I promise, they know.
@@Kikilang60 LMFAO! I am sure there is a Nashville Egypt or Ethiopia or something. Hell, we have a Memphis as well.
@@shannoncole7051Do you have a Thebes, as well?
Lindy, your videos are always a Godsend.
There is a city in Ontario Canada called Kitchener. It was called Berlin until it needed to be renamed, kinda like the Saxe Cobourg Gothas' needed a new name.
Welcome back brother x
Geez, that was a long-winded way to just say Vichy France dude
Wow, didn't expect a Sir Henry At Rawlinson End quote in the middle of all this incredible historical information - fair play!
I started watching this guy two weeks ago, blessed with a new upload already
9:56 Yes, i did need that detail. I come here for those details.
I’m going to make a guess for Mers El Kébir… (I’ve been writing a paper on this) 2 hours Lindy, very much looking forward to this.
I guess we were right with Operation Catapult, but the Surcouf thing happened a few hours later.
9:54 Lindy this is exactly why I enjoy watching your videos :)
Lloyd combed his hair. Everyone gather round!
Wow, extremely interesting!! Well done, Sir!
Loyd, you're my favorite english person excellent video
These kind of videos are why I subscribe.
2 hours, brilliant!
🐵
Great video man, hope all is well.
Cape Town to Cairo, one of my favorite missions from Railroad Tycoon II :)
2028. England starts letting anybody making bubbly wine call it "champagne" and France invades the Falklands.
A 2 hour lindybeige video at 3am? Sure, why not.