Dr Andrew Roberts on Churchill and Napoleon

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  • Dr Robert addresses the 32nd Annual Churchill Conference in Oxfordshire England. May 2015.

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  • @cdub531
    @cdub531 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This man is a true gentleman. Met him at a luncheon and he sit afterwards and signed three books for me and was very cordial. Men are born gentleman are made.

    • @RichardMunro1963
      @RichardMunro1963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      agree 100% Andrew Roberts is a towering intellect, a great artist and a true English gentleman!

    • @RasmusDyhrFrederiksen
      @RasmusDyhrFrederiksen 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, agree. Weirdly - he is a brexiteer???

  • @JeanSweeny
    @JeanSweeny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Napoleon is the greatest man who I have ever learned about. The more I read of him and his influence (even Balzac and other offshoots of his influence on the French at the time) the more I know him as Napoleon--The Great.

    • @Brumairevideo
      @Brumairevideo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Balzac is my favourite french author!

    • @MarlboroughBlenheim1
      @MarlboroughBlenheim1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Out of interest please could you define “greatest”. ?

    • @historyrepeat402
      @historyrepeat402 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MarlboroughBlenheim1 The entire Age of Enlightenment as a period of major global change can be summarized in the life of one individual, Napoleon. That is greatness.

    • @MarlboroughBlenheim1
      @MarlboroughBlenheim1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@historyrepeat402 what was Napoleon’s input into intellectual and literary thought and what works did he write?

    • @MarlboroughBlenheim1
      @MarlboroughBlenheim1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@historyrepeat402 more than Voltaire, Kant, Adam Smith, Franklin, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Locke and Rousseau…. ?
      You’ll have to enlighten me, pardon the pun, on how you see Napoleon having contributed what these people did, and why a man who was anti democratic, pro empire, pro slavery, pro religion, and who fought a series of wars including aggressive wars of conquest killing hundreds and hundreds of thousands …. is the key man of the enlightenment?

  • @whiterider1414
    @whiterider1414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have recently and I must admit quite easily come to recognize Dr. Andrew Roberts as one of the great author/historians of our time. Though I do so not for his intelligence and knowledge per say, though these traits are most certainly present in him with an incredible degree of depth and vastness, but what makes him so unique is his passion for his subjects that spreads to those that listen to his understanding of history that produces within others a zeal to want to know and understand more of the subjects that he teaches about!
    Thank you Dr.Roberts,
    - JOHNNY!

    • @RichardMunro1963
      @RichardMunro1963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree Dr. Roberts is one of the great historians of our time. I think he is creating permanent books.

  • @Brumairevideo
    @Brumairevideo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It was brilliant! This also explains why Churchill had backed early de Gaulle while he was politically nothing in 1940. Roosevelt had refused.
    As a french man I admire Napoleon of course but I I admire Churchill too, they have many traits in common. Courage, tenacity, the hability of imagining the future, high self confidence and the right words to convince the people when everything seems to be lost.
    I don't know George but Diesel Washington, the guy who discovered the diesel washing machine that can wash a ton of dirty clothes in one time ;-)

  • @jackoates6418
    @jackoates6418 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fantastic Mr Roberts.

  • @LeeRenthlei
    @LeeRenthlei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The more I read about Napoleon the more I admire him.

    • @MarlboroughBlenheim1
      @MarlboroughBlenheim1 ปีที่แล้ว

      He caused the deaths of millions. Discuss.

    • @jochenderuyck8238
      @jochenderuyck8238 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes but to defend the benefits of the revolution for the people ( and off course himself and his people along the way). He set the masses free by giving everyone rights. Not equal rights yet but at least everyone was a citizen and fell under the same code of law. Without Napoleon Europe would still have been left at the mercy of nobility and the church for ages. Th e Church and nobility did not pay taxes before the revolution. They were also mostly related, brothers of counts became bishops or cardinals etc. @@MarlboroughBlenheim1

  • @anuradhainamdar8967
    @anuradhainamdar8967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Dr.Andrew Roberts is surely soft spoken and a gentleman.And his observation that Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was never a narcissistic,megalamonic or demagogue as Hitler, Stalin,Mussolini and Mao Zedong is correct.

    • @MarlboroughBlenheim1
      @MarlboroughBlenheim1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn’t Napoleon also seek European domination and didn’t he cause wars as a tyrant - as Churchill said - and cause the deaths of millions?

  • @teriyakichicken1848
    @teriyakichicken1848 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Mr Roberts is a perfect image for the "proper, educated and witty Brit"

  • @charlybear98
    @charlybear98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Vive L'Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte!!!

  • @napoleonemperorofeurope7585
    @napoleonemperorofeurope7585 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Vive L'Empereur

  • @henkburg826
    @henkburg826 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    06:07

  • @S.P.A.R.K.Y.
    @S.P.A.R.K.Y. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow 299 likes vs. 22K veiws, one more like and Sparta!

  • @bbegins10
    @bbegins10 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Strategy…Dardanelles, hello

  • @ben4566
    @ben4566 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Strange to consider the start of tje gruesome british empire as a "happy final note"

  • @richardgietzen4591
    @richardgietzen4591 ปีที่แล้ว

    I is quite obvious that Winston Churchill was a reflection of his Class / he had completely and undieing loya to the ( British empire ) not to the English Working Class .
    Only a casual study of his record / information that unfortunate was kept secret from the public until recently that this man was an ( imperialist)

  • @richardgietzen4591
    @richardgietzen4591 ปีที่แล้ว

    My father was born in London 1915 the ( East End )
    Yes the ( working class ) did hate Churchill

  • @amyhess7029
    @amyhess7029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    British empire met its sunset,since war monger Churchill dug a tomb for the Nation step by step:Boer war, Gallipoli disaster ww1, Norway fiasco ww2 etc. He promoted a war, didn't have muscle to show in Poland & Dunkirk theaters. He dragged the world (Canada,Australia,New Zealand,South Africa,India,and USA) into flames to preserve the Empire; and germinated Soviet communism to pollute the world . Britain is the one deserved most blames for sacrificing millions of lives during WW2.
    Yalta conference (Feb 4-11 1945), among many issues discussed, Polish territory was outstanding and thorny between Churchill and Stalin. Poland was possessed by Soviet Communism ; the original objective of WW2 was lost.
    Ill results of victorious Soviet Union : 1) again Churchill battle cried “Iron Curtain 1945”, 2) Chinese civil war: Nationalist (USA-aided) vs Communist (Russian-backed) 11.1945, 3)Truman Doctrine 1947, 4) Marshall Plan & Berlin airlift in 1948, 5) East/West German nations and Communist China were established in 1949, 6) Korea war 1950, 7) The French defeat at Dien Bien Phu to Communist Vietnam 1954……… Today Communist China is spreading coronavirus and displaying hegemony globally
    Britain & Churchill could never admit the gigantic disaster on their part; therefore a conjugate scheme had to kick in to justify the War and to benefit both Allied and Zionists through non-stop demonizing the Third Reich as an entertainer money making business.
    The greatest tragedy was that Churchill started a world war over Poland and then gave it away to Stalin whom he knew was a worse dictator than Hitler. Thus sacrificing millions of lives for nothing

    • @peterhopkins142
      @peterhopkins142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Any relation to Rudolph? You certainly appear to have inherited his dementia. Seek help, if for no other reason than your grammar is abysmal.

  • @michaelnixson9099
    @michaelnixson9099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Churchill was in the pay of two foreign agencies prior to WW2. Why wasn’t he ever investigated properly? It is true that most of the workers didn’t like him, especially after he deployed troops and armoured vehicles onto the streets of London during the general strike of 1926. He only came to power again because he had no further chance to stop the welfare state.
    More evidence will come to light with time, but the facts already available mark him well enough.
    I’m sick of Britain being constantly put down and criticised, always the but of some derision. I’m more sickened however by the veneration of this man. He directed the U.K. headlong into the abyss, leaving the doors wide open for anyone from former colonies to barge in. He knew Britain couldn’t beat the third Reich militarily, but as Hitler said “ if that accursed man gains power he will turn the whole world against us.”
    Hitler was the right and look at the outcome.
    It’s a disgraceful situation and this man is worshipped?

    • @Roskim64
      @Roskim64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Moronic comments in my opinion