Emin Pasha was a rogue with a shady background including practicing medicine without a licence in many places. He changed his name and moved on quite a few time, but with his natural charm and charisma he always seemed to land on his feet. See my book "Tippoo Tib" for detailed chapters on Stanley and Emin. Great video, keep up the quality watchable work.
Emin Pascha had studied medicine from 1858 to 1864, but didn't get the admission to take the state examination. I did a little research about what the state examination in Prussian meant. If understand it correct, until the 1869 reform, the state examination was only required to work as a doctor in public service, but not for practising medicine at all. However, the problem was that all hospitals were public service, and only the hospital doctors were allowed to offer additional private services in the town where the hospital was located. So practising medicine without examination, was economical hard. And by the way, the education / training of doctors in Prussia was based on principles of military training. So do not get the admission could simply mean he was a little bit too free minded, and asked too many questions or had a problem with authority.
Almost as big as their egos and hubris. Stanley was already known to be more glory-hound than explorer. His poor expedition planning and notoriously hostile acts against local tribes had also been well documented. And his route-choice for this ‘humanitarian’ expedition is extremely questionable, given that the geography of East Africa was well known. Ergo, his plan to exit via East Africa.
I highly recommend Peter Forbath’s novel ‘The Last Hero’ which is about these events. If you love old school adventure novels then you’ll certainly adore this book.
Another interesting European figure working with Gordon was Rudolf Slatin, an Austrian soldier who became governor of Dara in Darfur. After several battles, he finally surrendered and spent eleven years or more in Mahdist captivity. Eventually, he was able to escape with the help of then Major Reginald Wingate.
Yes Indeed : a good future Subject for you : Sir Rudolf von Slatin Pasha, the only man ennobled by 3 sovereigns. His book Feuer und Schwert Im Sudan is required reading for all interested in the Mahdi.
@@TheHistoryChapSerious question: For how much longer, and what would it take for Europeans to finally stop peddling this tired, worn-out, racist and white supremacist garbage about "Africa's heart of darkness"? Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history - which I am certain you possess - would know that on the contrary, Europe and European have arguably been the most violent place, with the most blood thirsty people on the face of the earth, over the last two millennia. If ever a continent and its people truly deserved the ignoble label of possessing a "heart of darkness", it is undoubtedly Europe and Europeans. So again, when will people like you stop regurgitating this tired, worn-out, racist and white supremacist garbage that Africa - and by extension, black Africans - possessed a "heart of darkness"?
Nice job as usual. No denying it one of the darkest stories in the history of Africa. It was also indeed one of the greatest physical and traveling feats ever pulled off.
Between 1884 and 1885, two Portuguese explorers, Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens, lead an expedition that took them from Angola to Mozambique. They traveled some 8000km. In the end they put all in their book "De Angola à contra-costa".
Forgotten by history, FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY, THIS?!!! I'm in TOTAL disbelief at that, Chris old bean, though I myself had NEVER heard of this ever myself until of course, and as I've always tended to say when commenting on your incredible videos since discovering your wonderous self last year, you posted said update for today and I saw the topic's subject title. But now that you've given the history lesson on it, MY GOD, WHAT A STORY, what an INCREDIBLE feat of endeavor into the very heart of uncharted Africa, literally too, by the man who found David Livingstone (THAT I've known about thanks to a US cartoon series I used to LOVE so so much as a kid, but EVERYTHING about the FULL history about it I've absolutely NO clue of whatsoever, so I would certainly recommend it as a possible future video by ya's, our TH-cam history superstar figure, as well as one about Belgian King Leopold's disgusting treatment of his Congolese subjects, something which the 2015 movie 'The Legend of Tarzan' features in its plot) Henry Morton Stanley: 6 months and 500 miles of total hell, two thirds of the force dying of starvation, having to deal with forest living pygmies who mistook Stanley's marching force for Arab slave traders, and the controversy by the guys in charge of the left behind rear force, porters beaten to death and one of the leaders accused of selling a slave girl to cannibals so he could draw the grisly spectacle... HOW THE HELL could THIS absolutely UNBELIEVABLE and incredible historical happening have been forgotten by history? This could damn well make SUCH a movie or better a TV series. Seriously, YOU, Chris old bean, are JUST what this site could ever have needed to be gifted with, until I found YOU I'd NEVER known even half the things your incredible one in a million videos have revealed to me ever since I began doing 'em. And I've STILL to get such a damn move on with LOADS of your older ones, INCLUDING the ones to do with Charles Gordon and the fate of Khartoum and the failed Nile Expedition attempt to rescue him. If I can just GIVE MYSELF THE DAMN TIME AND CHANCE TO WATCH 'EM, FGS, haha...
Well this is a treat. Never seen a History Chap video within the first half hour of release. Not done yet, but the expedition tale is exciting! Thanks for telling the story!
Definitely interested in Leopold and the Congo. Living in the US thus never having a Colony in Africa, we never really learned about Africa in school and heard how horrible the Congoese were treated but all in Vague terms. I loved the Colony map in this video
Love your videos. One thing I'd like to learn more about is factories around the world used by the British empire to equip their armies. I'm from limerick in Ireland. And have heard of factories in the city that were used to make buttons for the redcoats army! But can't be sure. Would love to learn more
wow Sir Hiram Maxim...... I teach people how to operate "Sir Hiram Maxim's captive flying machines" at Blackpool pleasure beach,still going strong since 1904. What a small world. thanks Chris
I know there are some wild things happening in the UK. I hope you are staying safe. We need our favorite British historian! Thanks for another great video!!
@@TheHistoryChap Should've thought to ask that very thing myself too. Such a relief to know that it seems things are all good and quiet for now where you live, dear Chris, considering the sickening violence and riots that've sprung up all over the country all cos of last Monday's heartbreak with those three poor young girls being murdered. That said, do PLEASE make damn sure you stay safe and take care, we CAN'T afford to lose YOU at all. And to respond to your own reply to my own comment, it's always a pleasure to be giving ya all the massive support and love as ya could ever need, like I say your history giving videos are one in a million when it comes to British military history lessons I never learned at all in school, am SO happy indeed I found you last year
Whilst I specialise in British history it would be good to cover some other stories…not least to show that other Europeans were no saints when it came to colonialism.
@@TheHistoryChap Stanley was definitely British (although claiming to be American) in the employ of King Leopold. There were also significant UK players on both sides of the slavery issue and the rubber trade so I see some onramps.
many years ago read a fictional account of the expedition it was a good read but have forgotten the title and the authors name. however to hear an account of the real expedition brought it all back very enjoyable presentation !
Nice map! I've never seen it all in one place before. There are good books on Emin Pasha, Leopold, Tippu Tip, and Chinese Gordon. A friend who was getting his Master's in Turkish history back in the 1960s turned me on to a pile of books on the ME and Africa including Egypt and the Congo. Unfortunately, I don't have them out on the shelves right now to give you names and authors but ones about the relief expedition are relatively cheap and easy to find.
Pedro Páez Jaramillo, S.J. (Portuguese: Pero Pais; 1564 - 20 May 1622) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be the most effective Catholic missionary in Ethiopia. He is believed to be the first European to see and describe the source of the Blue Nile, which he reached on 21 April 1618.[1] Páez' two-volume História da Etiópia (History of Ethiopia) is regarded by scholars of Ethiopian history as one of the most valuable and accurate works on the contemporary Solomonic Empire and its history (as understood by local sources) up to his own time, particularly as the works of local writers, despite the Ethiopian Orthodox Church's long tradition of literate monastic scholarship and the regular compilation of imperial chronicles, have in large part been lost in the centuries of intermittent conflict that followed or otherwise remained unknown to contemporary scholarship.
I think this could be be classified as unhumanitarian mission, Chris. This sounds like some bad asd bush to hump, old military axiom. A well done presentation 👏 and keep up the good work, I never knew that Heart of Darkness was based on this event, what a fustercluck!
As others have recommended, a video on Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton would be great. Linguist, soldier, traveller, explorer, fencer, translator, spy, diplomat, ethnologist, Hajji. India, Arabia, Africa, Brazil, Syria, etc. He would be a series in itself. Easily one of the most interesting and well-travelled men of the 19th Century.
Does anyone else think that this was nuts? I'm actually shocked that they would even think about doing this, let alone setting out on such a stupid mission. All of this for one man. It's just unbelievable
The great irony is that Africa never paid off for the Europeans the way they had dreamed. Thomas Sowell has written greatly of how the continent's geography, then and now, thwarted the great potential always seen for it.
Thomas Sowells video mentioned by the OP is worth watching, although I found points of disagreement about his conclusions. Geography IS NOT an excuse for Africa's under performance, it is a factor.
One of my mates did a similar thing when we were on exercise in California. Whilst upstairs in our accommodation he was chatting up a US female soldier and went to lean on the window sill, he missed the sill and fell out the window, breaking his arm in the process… Oh how we laughed!
A story previously unknown to me and well told. Whilst an remarkable feat one has to remember the terrible loss of native lives these things required and how they were so casually dismissed.
I recommend that our host look into an area of Sudan that was called the Lado enclave. Originally gifted to King Leopold of Belgium, it later became a lawless area and a playground for early ivory hunters.
HolySHIT!! THIS IS TRUE!!!!?? You couldn't even make all this shit up!! It sounds like some Werner Herzog movie!!! Amazing!! Thank you very much for your presentation!!!!!
@@TheHistoryChap I have found the book "In Limbo: The story of Stanley's rear column" by Tony Gould. There is also a play en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rear_Column
Honestly, with the mention of the Congo Free State, I'd be interested in a video regarding the participation of the Congo Free State/Force Publique under Louis Napoleon Chaltin in the Mahdist War.
My favourite adventure book is a fictionalised account of Stanley's attempt to relieve Emin Pasha, called The Last Hero by Peter Forbath. I think it only came out as a hardback, so not easily found, but it is a fantastic account. About 500 pages but you cannot put it down. If you spot it for sale, buy it as you won't regret it.
Local populations use to the climate and conditions. The Europeans deserve credit for their impressive achievements. I know it's popular to dismiss all things European however I for one will give them credit where credit is due.
What a fiasco! What an accomplishment! Leopold the second is one of history‘s greatest butchers of humanity. Definitely do a special on him. The more people know the less likely it would ever happen again.
Emin Pasha was a rogue with a shady background including practicing medicine without a licence in many places. He changed his name and moved on quite a few time, but with his natural charm and charisma he always seemed to land on his feet. See my book "Tippoo Tib" for detailed chapters on Stanley and Emin. Great video, keep up the quality watchable work.
paul sounds very good. i lived in africa for many years its not for amateurs .one has to know when ones numbers up or become mr pasha .
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Emin Pascha had studied medicine from 1858 to 1864, but didn't get the admission to take the state examination.
I did a little research about what the state examination in Prussian meant. If understand it correct, until the 1869 reform, the state examination was only required to work as a doctor in public service, but not for practising medicine at all.
However, the problem was that all hospitals were public service, and only the hospital doctors were allowed to offer additional private services in the town where the hospital was located. So practising medicine without examination, was economical hard.
And by the way, the education / training of doctors in Prussia was based on principles of military training. So do not get the admission could simply mean he was a little bit too free minded, and asked too many questions or had a problem with authority.
stanley's endurance was incredible. He survived these terrible expeditions time and time again.
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Yes think of it....1,500 miles though the Ituri Rainforest in total, there, back, then back again, on foot.
He survived but I'm sure he didn't make sure his servants had as much food as he did and many people died so he could do these things for fame.
Those old school Victorian's certainly had big balls of steel.
Any different to the Greeks and Romans? Genghis khan? Han dynasty? Maia?
And always correctly dressed with it 😂
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Almost as big as their egos and hubris. Stanley was already known to be more glory-hound than explorer. His poor expedition planning and notoriously hostile acts against local tribes had also been well documented. And his route-choice for this ‘humanitarian’ expedition is extremely questionable, given that the geography of East Africa was well known. Ergo, his plan to exit via East Africa.
That's who AC/DC wrote their sing about!!😂😂
I highly recommend Peter Forbath’s novel ‘The Last Hero’ which is about these events. If you love old school adventure novels then you’ll certainly adore this book.
Thanks for taking the time to share
Another interesting European figure working with Gordon was Rudolf Slatin, an Austrian soldier who became governor of Dara in Darfur. After several battles, he finally surrendered and spent eleven years or more in Mahdist captivity. Eventually, he was able to escape with the help of then Major Reginald Wingate.
Yes Indeed : a good future Subject for you : Sir Rudolf von Slatin Pasha, the only man ennobled by 3 sovereigns. His book Feuer und Schwert Im Sudan is required reading for all interested in the Mahdi.
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I read about this expedition in The Last Expedition by Liebowitz and Pearson when I was in university. Such an adventure!
I have the book its very very good.
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@olliefoxx7165 it's a Amazing book worth your time. Definitely eye opening.
@berteisenbraun7415 Thanks! I've put it on my "To Read" list.
I was just about to take my dog for a walk thinking damn I have to find something to listen to, and then this popped up! Brilliant timing thank you!!
Dalton, I always aim to please! I hope you enjoy it
@@TheHistoryChap yes it was a great story! And yes to a future video about the Congo free state in some way please
@@TheHistoryChapSerious question: For how much longer, and what would it take for Europeans to finally stop peddling this tired, worn-out, racist and white supremacist garbage about "Africa's heart of darkness"?
Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history - which I am certain you possess - would know that on the contrary, Europe and European have arguably been the most violent place, with the most blood thirsty people on the face of the earth, over the last two millennia.
If ever a continent and its people truly deserved the ignoble label of possessing a "heart of darkness", it is undoubtedly Europe and Europeans.
So again, when will people like you stop regurgitating this tired, worn-out, racist and white supremacist garbage that Africa - and by extension, black Africans - possessed a "heart of darkness"?
I often listen to Chris while walking the dogs!
You're weird
Nice job as usual. No denying it one of the darkest stories in the history of Africa. It was also indeed one of the greatest physical and traveling feats ever pulled off.
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Gripping narrative👏. Beautiful presentation.
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Between 1884 and 1885, two Portuguese explorers, Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens, lead an expedition that took them from Angola to Mozambique. They traveled some 8000km. In the end they put all in their book "De Angola à contra-costa".
Did they fail to get enough boats and nearly all starve too?
@@malkomalkavian nope. 🙂
@@pippohispano Spooky :)
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Is the book in Portuguese only?
A Fascinating Tale, Leading Us into the Heart of an Immense Darkness!!!!
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And remains so@😮
Excellent video 📹
Greatest journey
Stanley; Gordon: Emin Pasha: Khedive; Mahdi; King Leopold: Kaiser; Tipu Tip and Jameson Whiskey.
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Good morning Chris , how are you ? . Whot a true adventure , with everything thrown at them ... Thank you for your hard work Chris cheers
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Forgotten by history, FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY, THIS?!!! I'm in TOTAL disbelief at that, Chris old bean, though I myself had NEVER heard of this ever myself until of course, and as I've always tended to say when commenting on your incredible videos since discovering your wonderous self last year, you posted said update for today and I saw the topic's subject title.
But now that you've given the history lesson on it, MY GOD, WHAT A STORY, what an INCREDIBLE feat of endeavor into the very heart of uncharted Africa, literally too, by the man who found David Livingstone (THAT I've known about thanks to a US cartoon series I used to LOVE so so much as a kid, but EVERYTHING about the FULL history about it I've absolutely NO clue of whatsoever, so I would certainly recommend it as a possible future video by ya's, our TH-cam history superstar figure, as well as one about Belgian King Leopold's disgusting treatment of his Congolese subjects, something which the 2015 movie 'The Legend of Tarzan' features in its plot) Henry Morton Stanley: 6 months and 500 miles of total hell, two thirds of the force dying of starvation, having to deal with forest living pygmies who mistook Stanley's marching force for Arab slave traders, and the controversy by the guys in charge of the left behind rear force, porters beaten to death and one of the leaders accused of selling a slave girl to cannibals so he could draw the grisly spectacle... HOW THE HELL could THIS absolutely UNBELIEVABLE and incredible historical happening have been forgotten by history? This could damn well make SUCH a movie or better a TV series.
Seriously, YOU, Chris old bean, are JUST what this site could ever have needed to be gifted with, until I found YOU I'd NEVER known even half the things your incredible one in a million videos have revealed to me ever since I began doing 'em. And I've STILL to get such a damn move on with LOADS of your older ones, INCLUDING the ones to do with Charles Gordon and the fate of Khartoum and the failed Nile Expedition attempt to rescue him. If I can just GIVE MYSELF THE DAMN TIME AND CHANCE TO WATCH 'EM, FGS, haha...
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Well this is a treat. Never seen a History Chap video within the first half hour of release. Not done yet, but the expedition tale is exciting!
Thanks for telling the story!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Definitely interested in Leopold and the Congo. Living in the US thus never having a Colony in Africa, we never really learned about Africa in school and heard how horrible the Congoese were treated but all in
Vague terms. I loved the Colony map in this video
yes usa had african colony
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Never
@@annehersey9895 typical if your educated in usa. can not think. yes they did
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@@janviljoen-rm8zsjust say you hate white people. USA never had an African colony
Love your videos. One thing I'd like to learn more about is factories around the world used by the British empire to equip their armies. I'm from limerick in Ireland. And have heard of factories in the city that were used to make buttons for the redcoats army! But can't be sure. Would love to learn more
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Stanley made that trek 3 times! It's hard to imagine making it once.
wow Sir Hiram Maxim...... I teach people how to operate "Sir Hiram Maxim's captive flying machines" at Blackpool pleasure beach,still going strong since 1904. What a small world. thanks Chris
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I know there are some wild things happening in the UK. I hope you are staying safe. We need our favorite British historian! Thanks for another great video!!
All good here. Thanks for your concern.
@@TheHistoryChap Should've thought to ask that very thing myself too. Such a relief to know that it seems things are all good and quiet for now where you live, dear Chris, considering the sickening violence and riots that've sprung up all over the country all cos of last Monday's heartbreak with those three poor young girls being murdered. That said, do PLEASE make damn sure you stay safe and take care, we CAN'T afford to lose YOU at all.
And to respond to your own reply to my own comment, it's always a pleasure to be giving ya all the massive support and love as ya could ever need, like I say your history giving videos are one in a million when it comes to British military history lessons I never learned at all in school, am SO happy indeed I found you last year
@@TheHistoryChapglad to know you are safe and do keep those videos flowing.
Now London is "The Heart of Darkness."
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul Just about every european city, and all blue cities in the USA.
I would love a video of King Leopols 2 and Congo Free State. King Leopold's Ghost is one of my favorite books.
Whilst I specialise in British history it would be good to cover some other stories…not least to show that other Europeans were no saints when it came to colonialism.
That video will probably be instantly demonetized! 😮 But I still want to see it!
@@TheHistoryChap Stanley was definitely British (although claiming to be American) in the employ of King Leopold. There were also significant UK players on both sides of the slavery issue and the rubber trade so I see some onramps.
There is an excellent 80 minute video on Leopold II on the channel The People Profiles.
That book is pure garbage.
Thats a great tale of derring do,wonderful Boys Own goings on at its finest!
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Wow! Thank you for this incredible piece!
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many years ago read a fictional account of the expedition it was a good read but have forgotten the title and the authors name. however to hear an account of the real expedition brought it all back very enjoyable presentation !
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This is by far your best and most interesting video to date , job well done
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Another fascinating story. I didn’t know much about Emin Pasha myself
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Hello History Chap. It is good to have time to watch your videos again. They are so interesting. Thanks
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Great video.
Brutal times weren't they..
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your presentations are outstanding, a show on the scramble for Africa would be great !!
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Thank you for this post.
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Delightful video! Well done from writing to narrating to editing. Interesting comment section full of history enthusiasts. Subscribed
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That was fascinating, Chris. Great story!
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Nice map! I've never seen it all in one place before.
There are good books on Emin Pasha, Leopold, Tippu Tip, and Chinese Gordon. A friend who was getting his Master's in Turkish history back in the 1960s turned me on to a pile of books on the ME and Africa including Egypt and the Congo. Unfortunately, I don't have them out on the shelves right now to give you names and authors but ones about the relief expedition are relatively cheap and easy to find.
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Super subject! Thanks!
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Outstanding work, if a little grisly.
Putting the book on my watch list.
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An impressive achievement for Stanley!
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Once again Thankyou.
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Excellent as usual.
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YES!!! An episode on King Leopold & the Congo 'Free' State.
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This was really interesting, thanks!
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I really appreciate this narrative. Very entertaining. Member of Explorers Club NYC
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Thanks HC. Please do the story about Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) and his expeditions. Thanks
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Very well done. Looking forward to see one about Sir Richard Burton (not the film actor). Thanks again.
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Outstanding story and narration.
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That was fantastic!
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Pedro Páez Jaramillo, S.J. (Portuguese: Pero Pais; 1564 - 20 May 1622) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be the most effective Catholic missionary in Ethiopia. He is believed to be the first European to see and describe the source of the Blue Nile, which he reached on 21 April 1618.[1]
Páez' two-volume História da Etiópia (History of Ethiopia) is regarded by scholars of Ethiopian history as one of the most valuable and accurate works on the contemporary Solomonic Empire and its history (as understood by local sources) up to his own time, particularly as the works of local writers, despite the Ethiopian Orthodox Church's long tradition of literate monastic scholarship and the regular compilation of imperial chronicles, have in large part been lost in the centuries of intermittent conflict that followed or otherwise remained unknown to contemporary scholarship.
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I think this could be be classified as unhumanitarian mission, Chris. This sounds like some bad asd bush to hump, old military axiom. A well done presentation 👏 and keep up the good work, I never knew that Heart of Darkness was based on this event, what a fustercluck!
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Thought it was soley based on Conrad's Congo diary. Glad I found this channel.
I like how these men didn't shy away from the possibility of death in the name of adventure.
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I had a book heart of darkness, but always found it hard to finish reading i dont know why but this is really helpful
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Amazing all without aircraft
And automobiles
The human spirit conquers all!
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That's for fish not humans
God gave us feet to walk with
Not gills!
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David Livingstone found Stanley rather presumptive.....
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I am enjoying it immensely
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As others have recommended, a video on Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton would be great. Linguist, soldier, traveller, explorer, fencer, translator, spy, diplomat, ethnologist, Hajji.
India, Arabia, Africa, Brazil, Syria, etc. He would be a series in itself.
Easily one of the most interesting and well-travelled men of the 19th Century.
Remind me never to set foot in Africa! ( Or at least: "Never get out of the boat!") 😱😱
This story is all there in the chapter "The Waters of Babylon" in Alan Moorehead's classic book "The White Nile".
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A wonderful book!
I’d be interested in watching a History Chap video on the Congo Free State
Will add that to my ever growing list.
Fascinating.
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Enjoyed that, thank you
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Thanks for another absolutely outstanding historical account.
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Very interesting not known story, & well done THX+
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Does anyone else think that this was nuts? I'm actually shocked that they would even think about doing this, let alone setting out on such a stupid mission. All of this for one man. It's just unbelievable
They were a different breed back then. Men of iron will.
Stanley's book was great. He took a wee dog with him.
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One of your best ! Thank You !
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@@TheHistoryChap I had to watch it again, and will aa third time a bit later.
It IS that good ! Thank You !
The great irony is that Africa never paid off for the Europeans the way they had dreamed. Thomas Sowell has written greatly of how the continent's geography, then and now, thwarted the great potential always seen for it.
It paid off even less for those pesky Africans
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@@ozzyphil74What do you mean by "pesky Africans"?
Thomas Sowells video mentioned by the OP is worth watching, although I found points of disagreement about his conclusions. Geography IS NOT an excuse for Africa's under performance, it is a factor.
Tell that to Elons family 😂😂😂
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I like this dude. He defenestrated himself. That musta been an awesome night.
One of my mates did a similar thing when we were on exercise in California. Whilst upstairs in our accommodation he was chatting up a US female soldier and went to lean on the window sill, he missed the sill and fell out the window, breaking his arm in the process… Oh how we laughed!
@@malcolmyoung7866 awwww. I was hoping you were gonna say he was aiming for the pool hahaja
I'm sorry to say that you're wrong to say he was inebriated. Emin Pasha was extremely short sighted to the point of being virtually blind!
Must have been some party!
@@TheHistoryChap do you need a carpet? Don’t have to. Just for personal reasons… hahaha
A story previously unknown to me and well told. Whilst an remarkable feat one has to remember the terrible loss of native lives these things required and how they were so casually dismissed.
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Phew! What a relief! 😉
Excellent
When Emin couldn't decide whether to stay or go he was not 'prevaricating" as you state. He was vacillating perhaps, waffling but not lying.
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Another great video. I love the Victorian Age. So many amazing stories of derring-do.
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I never realized just how much resemblance Charlton Heston had to Gordon until I saw that picture. I had never seen it before.
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What a story!
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I recommend that our host look into an area of Sudan that was called the Lado enclave. Originally gifted to King Leopold of Belgium, it later became a lawless area and a playground for early ivory hunters.
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Yes, please, a video on Leopold!
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thx again, Chris (billy barker, eh? 😃)
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HolySHIT!! THIS IS TRUE!!!!??
You couldn't even make all this shit up!! It sounds like some Werner Herzog movie!!!
Amazing!!
Thank you very much for your presentation!!!!!
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I can remember reading a book about this years ago.
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@@TheHistoryChap I have found the book "In Limbo: The story of Stanley's rear column" by Tony Gould. There is also a play en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rear_Column
I have enjoyed this emencly . Would like more of the same
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Honestly, with the mention of the Congo Free State, I'd be interested in a video regarding the participation of the Congo Free State/Force Publique under Louis Napoleon Chaltin in the Mahdist War.
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This has a similar taste as the Lewis and Clark mission in human efforts, but 180 deg in leadership, moral, and preparedness, or sucsess.
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Very Good story! Keep up the good work!
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My favourite adventure book is a fictionalised account of Stanley's attempt to relieve Emin Pasha, called The Last Hero by Peter Forbath. I think it only came out as a hardback, so not easily found, but it is a fantastic account. About 500 pages but you cannot put it down. If you spot it for sale, buy it as you won't regret it.
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Interesting appreciated
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Stanley, Livingstone, Scot, Shackleton....incredible mental stamina.
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What an incredible story beyond the Livingston one! And the closing on Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now... fascinating
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Remembering of course that the feat of physical stamina was mainly on the backs of the local porters.
Local populations use to the climate and conditions. The Europeans deserve credit for their impressive achievements. I know it's popular to dismiss all things European however I for one will give them credit where credit is due.
This anti white racism is so tiresome.
And stupid. Be better. Your ancestors are ashamed of you .
.... So Dennis Hopper is... ah, makes so much more sense now.
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I'm interested in more on Leopold II of Belgium
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What brave, unprincipled men were they who worked to build the 'Great' British Empire .
Nothing to do with the British empire per se. British expedition rescued Emin, they didn't take over the area that he controlled.
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That expedition.... British dithering...at a colossal scale...with no result.
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What a fiasco! What an accomplishment! Leopold the second is one of history‘s greatest butchers of humanity. Definitely do a special on him. The more people know the less likely it would ever happen again.
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Alas, I'm bereft of pertinent commentary.
11:17 the moment people run out of food, ideas like “Humanitarianism” jump right out of the window
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Wow