The Bravest Man in Napoleon's Army?

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  • General Antoine Lasalle, 'the Hussar General', is widely regarded as one of the most courageous commanders of the Napoleonic Wars. On multiple occasions, he led his brigade forward against seemingly impossible odds, only to return with crowds of prisoners.
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  • @LastHussar1812
    @LastHussar1812 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8573

    "My blood belongs to the Emperor.
    My heart belongs to you.
    My life belongs to honour"- Lasalle's last letter to his wife.

    • @dvdortiz9031
      @dvdortiz9031 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      BS!!!!

    • @jozzieokes3422
      @jozzieokes3422 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Interesting

    • @dgerdi
      @dgerdi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +269

      So he completely give himself away. A surrender of ego in pride and honor. A contradiction only possible in belief of a greater goal.

    • @kamilhoffmann2410
      @kamilhoffmann2410 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      His wife written back: "i though you've lover. what's with your pennis?"

    • @Truffle_Pup
      @Truffle_Pup 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +422

      ​@@kamilhoffmann2410 If you can't speak English at least write it in French.

  • @bismark7108
    @bismark7108 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5421

    One Time, that guy disrepected a prefet (it's like a governor or something). The prefet wrote a complain to Napoléon.
    Napoléon response was "It took me 20 years to make a Lassalle, but i need one signature to make a prefet".

    • @user-yu2pv5es4q
      @user-yu2pv5es4q 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +470

      Ice cold

    • @christopherevans2445
      @christopherevans2445 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +383

      A prefet is just french for the Prefect. Like the Roman title. Nice story

    • @shaunzaarrae3727
      @shaunzaarrae3727 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +315

      King Chad recognized his Giga Chad

    • @lahiri07
      @lahiri07 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@shaunzaarrae3727 🤣🤣

    •  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      so what happened after all?

  • @potato23116
    @potato23116 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3137

    Murat has been real quiet since he had been dropped, but then the devs thought he was too op and removed him.

    • @Freewill33
      @Freewill33 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      Moreau has entered the chat!

    • @pulp5084
      @pulp5084 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Quiet

    • @OSY_PB_ATHEIST
      @OSY_PB_ATHEIST 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

      Careful to criticize others. Murat was a coward compared to Lassalle. He always saved himself for power while pushing others to death. We all know what he did to Napoleon to remain the king of Naples. Lassalle knew that any cavalry man fighting in the front cannot survive long years and led by example.

    • @marechalney8019
      @marechalney8019 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/users/shorts2mz7bRWbw1w?si=Q3n_aCnQXZHPCZAy

    • @williamy3947
      @williamy3947 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Imagine if LaSalle somehow made it to Waterloo. I bet he'd have broken those British squares, somehow!

  • @agnezabarutanski1963
    @agnezabarutanski1963 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1070

    If you wanted to die young and in battle, being born French or Polish between 1600 and 1918 was always a good start.

    • @JABN97
      @JABN97 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Didn’t the Polish lose like 20% of their population in WW2. So, Make that 1945 I guess instead of 1918

    • @agnezabarutanski1963
      @agnezabarutanski1963 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      @@JABN97 Most Polish citizens that died in WW2 were actually Polish Jews, which didn't exactly die in battle. But since you mentioned this, I guess best end year would be 1920., since this was the year of Polish-Soviet war, first major conflict of newly independent Polish state.

    • @patfarget-nm3mt
      @patfarget-nm3mt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      This works for almost all Europeans of this period...
      and the percentage increases if we add the Great Black Death where 1 in 3 Europeans died just before...

    • @leaaronsanchez
      @leaaronsanchez 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Being a soldier between that was a good way to die early. Suicide charges, March into cannon fire, waiting until 30 feet or less to open fire, having to reload in the front row. Poorly trained field doctors chop off your leg because of a broken ankle.

    • @def6420
      @def6420 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Far more than 20% - most % in the world. And those that were murdered were the elite. This is why Poland struggles.@@JABN97

  • @PG-kt1hz
    @PG-kt1hz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2715

    Man, Napoelon sure lost some Great man in the 1809 war against Austria...both Lannes and Lassale...

    • @aimgod7193
      @aimgod7193 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +229

      And also Saint Hilaire

    • @jojobinx9667
      @jojobinx9667 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

      Ah Saint-Hillaire, the purest glory of France. The pride of the army. The hero of Austerlitz and Jena.

    • @aimgod7193
      @aimgod7193 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@jojobinx9667 LaFayette was better🗣🗣🗣💯💯(If You can tell already I'm being sarcastic)

    • @alvisekibe279
      @alvisekibe279 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      And d'Espagne as well

    • @cucunjameela
      @cucunjameela 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      1809 was not a good year for napoleon

  • @hulagu3068
    @hulagu3068 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1958

    Lasalle died at 34 so I guess he was a good for nothing in his own words.

    • @Hope-om1kc
      @Hope-om1kc 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      Seriously!?

    • @wh_kers
      @wh_kers 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +131

      well he said at 30 means 30-39

    • @DeanMurray08
      @DeanMurray08 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +416

      @@wh_kersliterally just watched this and the quote states ‘by’ 30.. so not nothing after 29. Cmon man

    • @JasonWeakley
      @JasonWeakley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

      I mean it's only fair. He said it. 😅

    • @user-xl3tz6fb4o
      @user-xl3tz6fb4o 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

      Damn! not literally bro, just made an encouraging speech to stir up his fellow and ignore fear of death

  • @cjthegood
    @cjthegood 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1723

    If Lasalle had lived longer, Napoleon would have made him a marshal.

    • @yourroyalchungusness
      @yourroyalchungusness 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +210

      Theoretically he might have been promoted to Marshal after Wagram since many officers did get promoted after this battle

    • @Comrade_Connie
      @Comrade_Connie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

      ​@@yourroyalchungusnessagreed but I feel like Marshall isn't fit for him he seems way better off commanding cavalry but definitely deserving of the title

    • @dvdortiz9031
      @dvdortiz9031 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Too many IF!!!! Silly!!!

    • @dvdortiz9031
      @dvdortiz9031 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​​@@yourroyalchungusnessspoilers

    • @Pikkabuu
      @Pikkabuu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@Comrade_Connie
      Nye was off Leeroy Jenkinsin a lot too and he was a Marshal...

  • @raffaelbaumkaenguruh2654
    @raffaelbaumkaenguruh2654 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +130

    With that quote of his he seems like a warhammer character

    • @Rusty_Gold85
      @Rusty_Gold85 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      except he was ,real not fiction

    • @raffaelbaumkaenguruh2654
      @raffaelbaumkaenguruh2654 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@Rusty_Gold85 correct :)
      *Insert quote about reality being more fascinating than fiction here*

    • @markaxworthy2508
      @markaxworthy2508 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Any hussar who isn't dead by 30 is a good for nothing". He died at 34, so by his own standards he was fit for nothing!

    • @darthparallax5207
      @darthparallax5207 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Where do ideas come from? People are not interesting, they are not creative, they are not original.
      It is necessary for it to happen truthfully in real history before anyone would be inspired to think of it in fantasy.
      And after it's been done in the real world, people don't forget lol.

    • @gortauth3260
      @gortauth3260 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm very sorry to do this but HE IS a warhammer character 😂

  • @Abdullatif-pj7wq
    @Abdullatif-pj7wq 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +836

    Legends always die legendary just like a this guy.

    • @Krog32
      @Krog32 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Legends never die, but humans do.

    • @user-yj6ul9kz3p
      @user-yj6ul9kz3p 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Napoleon had a stupid death instead of remaining a legend dying in combat

    • @thomashauer6804
      @thomashauer6804 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The monarchy never dies. Long live our supreme rulers and Royalty with their god like decision making

    • @markaxworthy2508
      @markaxworthy2508 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Any hussar who isn't dead by 30 is a good for nothing". He died at 34, so by his own standards he was fit for nothing!

    • @LarsonPetty
      @LarsonPetty 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thomashauer6804 Astonishing that never manage to dick that up, isn't it?

  • @NeverGoingToGiveYouUp000
    @NeverGoingToGiveYouUp000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +507

    Lasalle had a feeling he would die, he wrote to Napoleon to take care of his family if he died. During the battle of Wagram he gathered a group of hussars and was chasing the feeling enemy. However he was faster than his allies and at the front alone, was shot dead.

    • @hulk0hulk
      @hulk0hulk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Maybe more than a feeling if he indeed charged to the front alone

    • @arthurvg2217
      @arthurvg2217 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@hulk0hulkI wasn't there, but from what I have heard I think it wasn't the first time. Of course it doesn't make it safer.

    • @Berserker3624
      @Berserker3624 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Riding alone in the Forrest during the middle of a battle, brave and dashing first to the fight last to leave the battlefield!
      Y’know I’m sure he thought it was peaceful the way he died and I’m sure his last thoughts were towards his wife.

    • @FernandoPartridge
      @FernandoPartridge 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Always a mistake to chase a fleeing enemy.

    • @thepunisher2988
      @thepunisher2988 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Perhaps he wanted to die. I know it is a strange thing to say, but the more I read about him, the more I think he was suicidal and homicidal at the same time.

  • @choomah
    @choomah 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Man was really the embodiment of"f*ck it, we ball."
    Charging with impossible odds, over and over again.

  • @MrHnm92
    @MrHnm92 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +751

    The great Hussar, without fear of anything and without fear of the odds against him. He died as he lived, fighting on his horse and for France. If he had lived until 1814, he would have attempted to attack the enemy before living in peacetime. He died the way Napoleon would have liked in 1814, on the battlefield.

    • @iainbunn2591
      @iainbunn2591 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      amen great warrior

    • @christianifechukwu9865
      @christianifechukwu9865 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      That's why I respect Napoleon and Alexander so much. They were in as much danger as their men. Napoleon in the end was hoping to die on the battlefield but he didn't...

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@christianifechukwu9865 He even did a cavalry charge himself in 1814 with his men, him the Emperor where just one bullet could have ended it all

    • @alidali-rn4em
      @alidali-rn4em 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      ​@@christianifechukwu9865what about Hannibal Barca? What about Khaleed Ben Waleed? What about Salahuddin? What about Muhammad Al Fatih?

    • @christianifechukwu9865
      @christianifechukwu9865 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@alidali-rn4em I don't respect them

  • @-Justinus-
    @-Justinus- 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    A perfect death. He got to go out in glorious battle before Napoleon's empire began to fall apart.

  • @Vsko478
    @Vsko478 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    I saw that painting of him resting against his saber, along with THAT SAME saber and personal belongings at Les Invalides in Paris :))) I'll never forget it, what a legend...

  • @ebbu.planespotting1903
    @ebbu.planespotting1903 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +172

    At one point he saw enemy cavalry charging at them from a long distance and remarked how fatigued their horses would be when they hit him so he just waited until they were very close before charging and winning the engagement.

    • @Desmolas
      @Desmolas 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      Yes. A cavalryman who understands not only his warcraft but his animals is dangerous indeed.

    • @ebbu.planespotting1903
      @ebbu.planespotting1903 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thanks everyone, I believe this is the first time I've gotten over 100 likes! Thank you and Vive l'Empereur!

    • @PeachDragon_
      @PeachDragon_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Desmolashonestly the difference between a good and bad unit when it comes to animals is just how much knowledge about the animal the handler has, k9 units can go from barely an inconvenience to a nightmare depending entirely on how knowledgeable the handler is.

  • @jamesfrost7465
    @jamesfrost7465 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +433

    Ok, he was 34 when killed. There should be a statue of him on horseback with both front feet off the ground in his place of birth, Metz France. IN GENERAL; Both front feet of a horse off the ground with a rider means that person died in battle. One foot of the horse off the ground with rider means that person died of their wounds later.

    • @NLBusiness391
      @NLBusiness391 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

      I bet on his 30th birthday, he thought to himself “well I did my best to die before 30, but the enemy just couldn’t kill me.”

    • @deamonomic
      @deamonomic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope, he said if a hussar wasn't dead by 30 they were a good for nothing...

    • @cargaisontuba3361
      @cargaisontuba3361 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Wrong

    • @MajEMT
      @MajEMT 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      No, it doesn't. Look up photos of George Washington. Many a stature on horseback with a foot up. He died peacefully in bed. Statues are up to the artist or those who commissioned the piece.

    • @bodawei425
      @bodawei425 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      It's inaccurate. This 'rule' has been debugged already. PLenty of examples to show it doesn't apply.

  • @Theaxemandaily
    @Theaxemandaily 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    Live by the sword - die by the sword
    A real warrior

    • @nisrmasry2134
      @nisrmasry2134 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      killed by a coward bullet !

  • @michaelsouslin891
    @michaelsouslin891 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    And ppl say French are cowards, they clearly nvr heard of this guy he's a total badass. If I had to follow someone into battle on horseback he'd be at the top of my list of choices

    • @sddsds768
      @sddsds768 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let them say that. Those people are cockroaches keyboard warriors. Let see if they go to a real battlefield who the cowards are

    • @TomasFunes-rt8rd
      @TomasFunes-rt8rd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      AND Murat of course !!!!

    • @kmm-212
      @kmm-212 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The fact is France is the most victorius military power in history. They've won the most battles they fought in the world. Only fall-back they had in that ranking was ww2. It's quite something for so-called "cowards"

    • @davidrossi5096
      @davidrossi5096 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      France has more victories and truly great generals/military minds than any other nation in all of history.

  • @Xsifilad
    @Xsifilad 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The proof that big talk does not make your immune to bullets.

    • @kentrosaurusboi3909
      @kentrosaurusboi3909 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yes, and he never said anything about him even wanting to survive. Did you watch this short?

    • @deepflake5851
      @deepflake5851 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      How can one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived can be "big talk" boy ?

  • @jackstoltz1379
    @jackstoltz1379 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    There was also this dude that was a great father and raised his children right provided for his family as an excellent farmer and loved and was loved by his wife. His best friend was his dog. Let's remember that hero. He is way more important then that other guy

    • @kentrosaurusboi3909
      @kentrosaurusboi3909 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      So, literally everyone that died? I hate simpletons.

    • @ingwarostapenko6874
      @ingwarostapenko6874 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You spoke to my heart. I like this one

  • @enriquejhc01
    @enriquejhc01 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The combination of the voiceover and the tense music is incredible!! Love this channel.

  • @marcnawezi1877
    @marcnawezi1877 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    He created a club named « The one who are thirsty » which was composed of the most heavy drinkers of the Grand Army.
    He also wrote songs on a whim that became very popular.
    At night, during war, he would cross over the ennemy battlefield to see his mistress, the emperor forgave his behavior because he came back with info about the ennemy.
    What a man

    • @BlackHawk2b
      @BlackHawk2b 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL nice. Which song was it ?

    • @BlackHawk2b
      @BlackHawk2b 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL nice. Which song was it ?

  • @tigerwoods373
    @tigerwoods373 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    It's hard to even comprehend the size of armies back then. I try to imagine what would a 10 thousand strong cavalry charge look like? What would 200k men fighting at borodino look like? They say napoleons army took five days to cross the Niemen for his Russian invasion in 1812 which almost sounds absurd.

    • @helo98736Hah
      @helo98736Hah 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If you are shocked wonder about Roman campaigns 😂

    • @HauntingSpectre
      @HauntingSpectre 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@helo98736Hahand then he can look up Han Dynasty Chinese conflicts with 400,000 strong on each side. 😂
      Shits wild.

    • @eugenefrolov1396
      @eugenefrolov1396 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Actually, you wouldn't notice it. People overlook the real size of things. The land is big, and even millions at Stalingrad could go unnoticed.

    • @konstantinosfilippou526
      @konstantinosfilippou526 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      not really crazy though....i mean check the numbers lost in battles in ww1...these are crazy numbers we are talking 250.000 losses on each side in numerous battles across the western front and the eastern front where there were no trenches the numbers were even larger...the full documentary epic history has on ww1 really had me stunned with the numbers and we are talking just about losses not the total amount of people who fought in these battles

    • @multiversetraveller3118
      @multiversetraveller3118 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@HauntingSpectre Almost all those huge numbers thrown around for different old empires are pure exaggerations. And these huge numbers thrown around are made up of smaller armies spread throughout the empire. Armies need supplies and foods. And armies of those size would be walking plagues of destruction destroying villages everywhere they go.

  • @Darkhorse1291
    @Darkhorse1291 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    He died doing what he loved, everyone should have that honor

    • @shaunzaarrae3727
      @shaunzaarrae3727 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ya slaughtering noobs 😂

    • @markaxworthy2508
      @markaxworthy2508 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Any hussar who isn't dead by 30 is a good for nothing". He died at 34, so by his own standards he was fit for nothing!

  • @ToonStory-fh4gn
    @ToonStory-fh4gn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    I belong to the Antoine Community (yup that's a thing in France), and I certify this man is one of our absolute Gigachads 🥰

    • @fathanthoriq2413
      @fathanthoriq2413 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Is Griezmann also part of the community as well?

    • @ToonStory-fh4gn
      @ToonStory-fh4gn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@fathanthoriq2413 Yes but he has been on probation since the last World Cup final!

    • @markaxworthy2508
      @markaxworthy2508 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Any hussar who isn't dead by 30 is a good for nothing". He died at 34, so by his own standards he was fit for nothing!

    • @rickrandom6734
      @rickrandom6734 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gigachad? Wasnt he Napoleons cuck. Willing to submit and die for another man.

    • @1errep141
      @1errep141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quel âge as tu ?

  • @Abraxium
    @Abraxium 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Died aged 34, famous last words..

    • @bobkoroua
      @bobkoroua 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Lazy good for nothing !

  • @MrAragorn1996
    @MrAragorn1996 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    sorry for some but the quote "is a good for nothing" in French "c'est un bon a rien" from lasalle is half false. Actually the quote he said "Any hussar who isn't dead at 30 is a scumbag" in french "Tout hussard qui n'est pas mort à 30ans est un jean-foutre"

    • @phreak761
      @phreak761 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They toned it down.

  • @mnemonija
    @mnemonija 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Shocking ending. Never would have guessed.

  • @FusionCoreHoarder
    @FusionCoreHoarder 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Iirc, Lasalle's last charge was rather unecessary. His division caught an isolated Austrian infantry battalion, which he could have easily surrounded and captured. But Lasalle being Lasalle, he charged them instead

    • @darthparallax5207
      @darthparallax5207 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Sounds like it was very necessary 😎

    • @yawnskidsberry3209
      @yawnskidsberry3209 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Super necessary

    • @Eleftherios323
      @Eleftherios323 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Austrians you say?.I think for him(and for all the french in the napoleonic era)it was super-plus ultra necessary.

  • @jessiewasson584
    @jessiewasson584 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    These are the men we need in modern times as role models

    • @markaxworthy2508
      @markaxworthy2508 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      What? more hypocrites? "Any hussar who isn't dead by 30 is a good for nothing". He died at 34, so by his own standards he was fit for nothing!

    • @Orbowitz
      @Orbowitz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@markaxworthy2508 the real quote was "any hussar who is 30 is lazy"

    • @oscaralegre3683
      @oscaralegre3683 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Orbowitzwhat does that means?

    • @kspfan001
      @kspfan001 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I really hope not.

    • @johngaelnox5447
      @johngaelnox5447 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @jessiewasson584 Please, shut up, you dont know what you are even talking about

  • @arman_1024
    @arman_1024 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I hope you guys can make a series of videos about some of the army’s famous generals, officers, and captains (similar to your series on the Marshals).

  • @drugilbert2447
    @drugilbert2447 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    How proud he would be to walk through Paris in 2023.

    • @priley817
      @priley817 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gosh imagine if he saw what it is today. The man would lead the revolution
      himself.

    • @robmiah4501
      @robmiah4501 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      He wouldn't be proud of what France has become Paris another African city

    • @kryzzan7039
      @kryzzan7039 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So? What's wrong with that?@@robmiah4501

    • @bdleo300
      @bdleo300 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      Comparing France back then with France today is like comparing Napoleon with Macron....

    • @MrLanternland
      @MrLanternland 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      He couldn't even conceive of it, like any of our early American heroes seeing the USA today. They would have joined with the Indians to destroy it in its infancy!

  • @SuperSnoopxxx
    @SuperSnoopxxx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Its totally right...I was in French Army ''2eme Regiment de Hussards'' so I was a Houzards during 15 years...now I'm back in Civil Life...I'm 36 yrs Old and I feel useless...😅

  • @despinoza6205
    @despinoza6205 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This man was the real one. Respect

    • @davidovics92
      @davidovics92 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      nah, he was good for nothing... he died at the age of 34

    • @justanotherepicrider3974
      @justanotherepicrider3974 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@davidovics92he was just too good

  • @fossenews9653
    @fossenews9653 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    One day Lasalle rode into a prefect's party and since he wasn't invited he overturned the buffet. And the prefect sent a letter to Napoleon so that he could be punished for his behavior Napoleon would have written to him: it takes me 20 years to make a Lasalle And a signature to make a prefect

  • @texanman1998
    @texanman1998 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Imagine having this man at battle of waterloo😊

  • @guillgdr2405
    @guillgdr2405 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Bro capture an entire city (Stettin) with 800 cavalry against an enitre garrison of more than 5000 men. Talking about some balls

  • @TacticalModel
    @TacticalModel 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Every Calvary General’s have been quite since he had been dropped full of swagger

  • @michaelcabrera787
    @michaelcabrera787 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    the only Hussar who's jacket actually fit him lol

  • @ambravirlebreton
    @ambravirlebreton 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Glory to Lasalle !

  • @mistersandwich0034
    @mistersandwich0034 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Antoine lassal is the epitome of YOLO

    • @markaxworthy2508
      @markaxworthy2508 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Any hussar who isn't dead by 30 is a good for nothing". He died at 34, so by his own standards he was fit for nothing!

    • @christopherfleming7505
      @christopherfleming7505 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sad he followed an evil maniac like Napoleon.

    • @markaxworthy2508
      @markaxworthy2508 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@christopherfleming7505 I always use the name "Bonaparte". The use of "Napoleon" tends to legitimise his self crowning.

    • @darthparallax5207
      @darthparallax5207 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He could not be an evil maniac. You would not care who he was because he would not have achieved what he did if he was both evil and a maniac.
      Evil? Perhaps. Or maniacal? One or the other. But not both.
      If he was evil for conquest, he must have been quite sane to be victorious in battle, which brooks no fools.
      If he was maniacal for control, why did so many love to serve him so dearly? People do not generally love to work for insane people unless that insane person is touched with something a little noble. Even if it's because "the pay is really good", that would at least be the virtue of rewarding loyalty fairly. Which many insane leaders do not appreciate the hired help quite so much.
      He was either Mad Saint or an Evil Genius, but he was not an Evil Maniac.
      To compare him to, for example, Hitler, to name another conqueror:
      Assassination plots against Napoleon weren't a thing. They couldn't even find a Frenchman willing to arrest him when he decided to not be exiled anymore and seriously broke curfew.
      One can observe the French loved their Emperor more than the Germans loved their Führer.
      I'm inclined to think Evil Genius. Napoleon has been called many monstrosities fairly. Tolstoy named him That Antichrist!
      But Napoleon has never rightly or fairly been called stupid or insane. He was too competent.
      Bonaparte and Napoleon are both his names and both legitimize him.

    • @HNCS2006
      @HNCS2006 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@christopherfleming7505what an uneducated and simplicitic opinion

  • @beats4hobner
    @beats4hobner 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Napoleon was a character like no other- he brought forth people like LaSalle to the forefront, who'd have otherwise gone unnoticed.

  • @lesterscates774
    @lesterscates774 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Any marine lieutenant that isn't dead before age thirty isn't trying !

  • @pomni.s_insanity
    @pomni.s_insanity 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    honestly, I'd love to meet Marshal Oudinot because of his timid behavior like mine and because of his continuation to fight on in the end and be called The 'Indestructible' Marshal. 🇫🇷

  • @C.Bastien
    @C.Bastien 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    « Tout hussard qui n'est pas mort à trente ans est un jean-foutre. ».
    -Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle dit
    « Le général hussard »
    Je ne sais pas ce qui animé vraiment les hommes de cette époque mais lorsque que l'on passe au crible toutes les figures , de toutes les armées de ce temps ils étaient vraiment incroyable.

    • @1errep141
      @1errep141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ce qui les motivait c'était qu'on fasse des statues a leur effigie.

  • @sanelamarinkovic8876
    @sanelamarinkovic8876 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That one Hussar who has 200 confirmed kills and participated in 25 Battles be like: Does my life mean nothing to you?

  • @peenplays4219
    @peenplays4219 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Now that’s badass

  • @user-op1qt3ku5h
    @user-op1qt3ku5h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Imagine becoming the best cavalry man and then guns get invented

    • @JeanFoutre-yi5us
      @JeanFoutre-yi5us 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      guns and artillery already existed at that time and way before
      cavalry isn't something you throw around without any thought, it's a tool used at precise moments in a battle, and you can't throw them around any enemy formation.
      That's why the mameluks got destroyed in Egypt but french cavalry got legends like Murat and Lasalle.

    • @darthparallax5207
      @darthparallax5207 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The "Pike and Shotte" era of matchlocks and arquebusses had been known at least some 200 years prior or more;
      But although they called what they had in the 1600s "guns" already, they were not very good at all before the rifled bore was invented. Due to rifling, there is a line, parting two sides of history,
      On one side, you used to say "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes".
      Yeah. That's not a thing anymore.
      The gun that beats a horse, handily, in offense and defense, *was* invented with Napoleonic War. The bullets fly faster than a horse's charge to attack with, which was true before.
      To defend with, simply putting your infantry on horses is no longer sufficient to make them hard to hit accurately with fast movement. It's not even the greater size of target. The range is so good on new guns that they can hit the cavalry when they are small and far off.
      When the Ottomans sacked Constantinople, "guns" meant the large super cannons used to break walls and gates. No longer.
      With Napoleon, the handheld guns were getting very properly dangerous. The French and Indian War is in part a thing because the Indians had some few small chances against Redcoats and 1700s guns.
      The later 1800s Indians vs guns conflicts, you can find references to calling them Wars, but in school you learn about it more as a massacre. The Indians had plenty of horses, and this simply was in no way at all enough.
      The Gun as we imagine it, "pull trigger get dead man", came maturely into being with the 1800s innovation of Rifling.
      Rifles vs Horses the Best Cavalry Man in history can't win.
      The British were not too shabby on a horse either. The Light Brigade got gunned down rather offhandedly. The 1800s is when guns actually become what we always assume they can do.
      Pancho Villa was not using too many cavalry in the Mexican Revolution. Not as much as when he was an Outlaw for sure.
      There's a number of reasons the American Revolution never looked like the US Civil War on the battlefield. Chief among them is probably that the smooth bore muskets didn't incentivize the behavior rifled bores did.

  • @Thegorillafromflyinggorilla
    @Thegorillafromflyinggorilla 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    People tend to forget that without the bravery of his men a general is nothing doesn't matter how good your tactics are if you're men are even better than you are nothing will go right

  • @gamerdon3329
    @gamerdon3329 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a Brit I know Britain and France have had there differences but we brought out the best in each other and eventually became great allies. viva la France 🇬🇧🇫🇷

  • @TheZebra66
    @TheZebra66 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Respect and honor. Vive l'empereur Vive la France 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵 🇨🇵

    • @nicolasolton
      @nicolasolton 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vive la republique.

  • @thesuplexguy7789
    @thesuplexguy7789 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is why Antoine Lasalle had the most aesthetic physique in Napoleonic Era

    • @Shankar-Bhaskar
      @Shankar-Bhaskar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why? What's the reason for his physique? His courage?

    • @thesuplexguy7789
      @thesuplexguy7789 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Shankar-Bhaskar Yes (+ it's a meme)

    • @Shankar-Bhaskar
      @Shankar-Bhaskar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thesuplexguy7789
      Leon Edwards, yeah I figured it out

    • @thesuplexguy7789
      @thesuplexguy7789 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Shankar-Bhaskar 🗿

  • @aRed1tz
    @aRed1tz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact: When he was shot in the chest, he still was charging towards the enemy. But then, a hungarian grenadier shot him between his eyes and he died.

  • @maximjanssens9320
    @maximjanssens9320 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So many people died in the past its a miracle oure precessors survived to give us life

  • @mixererunio1757
    @mixererunio1757 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    He died aged 34, soo I guess that...

  • @gernico13
    @gernico13 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    And he lived to 34 lmao

  • @UlfhedinnNorsk
    @UlfhedinnNorsk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When courage crosses into suicidal stupidity 😂👍🏻

  • @JediNiyte
    @JediNiyte 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks like all that bravado got him shot.

  • @bustanuttington
    @bustanuttington 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    First I though they was going to talk about Murat but learning about LaSalle and the internal brigade was refreshing

  • @gauntlettcf5669
    @gauntlettcf5669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Any Hussar how isn't dead by 30 is a good-for-nothing."
    -Antoine Lasalle, who died at 34 years of age.
    Oh, the irony. Jokes just write themselves with fanatics.

  • @Emerych135
    @Emerych135 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    he died at the age of 34, he was no good for anything

  • @sanavkids4790
    @sanavkids4790 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Because of Antoinette lasalle I always check the corners of my room if any toy armoured horse peeks at me with Antoinette Lasalle😂

  • @Dogmanofthewest
    @Dogmanofthewest 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    This guys life must’ve sucked so much that he really said “screw it, I’m not losing much anyway”

    • @BestMods168
      @BestMods168 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      simply no. he lived a good life. he lived a life worth living. died a hero instead of a nobody. remember that warriors still exist during this time.

    • @Skilliton9384
      @Skilliton9384 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@BestMods168simply yes. He died a government drone killing humanity as opposed to living for himself.

    • @brodieshawn63
      @brodieshawn63 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      He was born into minor nobility, he had a much better life than most at the time. Plus he had been serving in the military since he was eleven years old. I believe he simply loved military life because even after losing his rank as a cavalry officer in 1792, he was still willing to enlist as a private and climb the ranks. The man was raised to be a soldier and clearly yearned to remain one his whole life, and with that he understood very clearly the price he would have to pay for that desire. It's better to go out in a blaze of glory than a wimper for such a man. He sought reverence, not longevity, and because of that he is remembered to this day.

    • @yc2673
      @yc2673 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      In those times, men didn't fight only for money but mostly for glory, to enhance their name to leave them to their children hoping to improve their position.
      In those times, Europe produced great warriors...

    • @Dogmanofthewest
      @Dogmanofthewest 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Of course he probably had a great life. It was just a joke. Sorry if I offended anyone.

  • @abiku2923
    @abiku2923 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Yes, but how old did he live till?

    • @XScorpionXful
      @XScorpionXful 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      33. Technically he was dead by his thirties...

    • @thantzweaung9080
      @thantzweaung9080 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      34

    • @BestMods168
      @BestMods168 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      even if he made it pass his 30s, his feats alone justifies him living. "God wont let him die yet."

    • @davidovics92
      @davidovics92 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@XScorpionXful he said "any hussar who isn't dead BY 30 is a good-for-nothing" I'll let you process that information, take all the time you need

    • @XScorpionXful
      @XScorpionXful 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@davidovics92 I am well aware, but calling Lasalle a good for nothing is kinda reaching.

  • @djquinn11
    @djquinn11 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The best Battlefield Generals are all sociopaths.

  • @qyihamba7034
    @qyihamba7034 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    At the good-for-nothing age of 34

  • @marct138
    @marct138 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Michel Ney: hold my bayonette

  • @Dingbat-tb5wz
    @Dingbat-tb5wz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    He died at the age of 34 btw, leaving his wife without a husband and his daughter without a father.; so I guess he must have been a good-for-nothing. There's more to a man than fearlessness. Quite a lot more.

    • @1errep141
      @1errep141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He spoke about hussard .

    • @georgemorley1029
      @georgemorley1029 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@1errep141Of which he was one.

  • @skychia5777
    @skychia5777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can really see why the war with Austria in 1809 was the turning point for Napoleon’s decline. During that war, he lost St-Hilaire, Lasalle, and Lannes. Three very capable generals😢

  • @cmdrgarbage1895
    @cmdrgarbage1895 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Man really said swagger

  • @Goofy_Prussian
    @Goofy_Prussian 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Napoleon had so much loyal soldiers, yet they were either KIA or just too wounded to fight. Bro had the best soldiers in history, change my mind

  • @erikjrn4080
    @erikjrn4080 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On a side note, apart from being the bravest man in Napoleon's army, he was also a good-for-nothing. His 30th birthday came and went, with Antoine de Lasalle still alive and well. He went more than four years over the deadline, before dying at the ripe, old age of 34.

  • @cainmathewson1857
    @cainmathewson1857 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well, who couldve seen that coming?! Nah, seriously, that dude was a badasssssssssss

  • @darthattenborough1145
    @darthattenborough1145 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lasalle a great man of honour and unearthly courage. Men just dont have that sense of honour anymore for fair reasons i suppose. But by gods did Europe produce some of the finest and honourable men back then.

  • @bryanmartinez9334
    @bryanmartinez9334 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My man drank the whole pitcher of the Kool aid.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What about the Frenchmen that acted as an early version of a Medic. Whom Napoleon called "A Man braver than myself."

    • @stephane.namaskar
      @stephane.namaskar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You could be talking about this gentleman: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Jean_Larrey

    • @brokenbridge6316
      @brokenbridge6316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stephane.namaskar---thank you

  • @MB-rh9nh
    @MB-rh9nh หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your coverage of napoleon is so well done. Truly. I wish this was out 15 years ago instead of me reading a 800 page book by Alan Schom.

  • @andresamaya6187
    @andresamaya6187 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In the mobile game European War 4: Napoleon (of which I have a certain fondness) in the Imperial French campaign mission dedicated to Wagram you have Lassalle as one of the predeployed generals, the thing is that he (on a heavy cavalry unit iirc) is already at extremely low health and confused (unable to move) alongside a small army and they are at the frontline with an Austrian army over them and the area they are in is engulfed in flames. I like that they made it that way to reenact Lassalle death and true to his name the Austrian units surrounding him are also at low health.
    Also no matter what generals you have or how fast you try to reach him you can't save Lassalle like you can with Ney on the Battle of Jena mission. But if you attack aggressively you can overwhelm the Austrians quickly and kill one of their general before they can build up defenses around Vienna

  • @cjthegood
    @cjthegood 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On another note, who would be the appropriate Hollywood actor to portray Lasalle in a movie or series?
    Personally, I think Pedro Pascal would be the perfect choice.

  • @PintuMahakul
    @PintuMahakul 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👍 Wonderful historic Information

  • @tonyharris7953
    @tonyharris7953 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I couldn't buy a St. George Cross flag anywhere so I got a French one and painted a red cross on it. 😉❤️✌️

    • @herralexugo
      @herralexugo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      buy a ST .George Cross flag for a toilet paper it's expensive , and a red cross on blue , white and red it looks like nothing next time buy a brain it's better

  • @fatshaddy-rz2wn
    @fatshaddy-rz2wn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    that brave but here in india we also have a similar saying , it goes like '12 varsh kukar jeeve , 14 varsh jiye siyar , 18 varsh kashtriya jive uske aage jeevan ko dhikar '
    meaning
    a dog lives for 12 years , 14 years a jackel and if a kashtiya(people who fight for nation) live for more than 18 then its a disgrace for them if they couldnt come useful in any battle

  • @waltonsmith7210
    @waltonsmith7210 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its such a simplistic statement to say "they all dont like each other."

  • @user-vf6nn6hx9x
    @user-vf6nn6hx9x 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    General Thomas Alexandre Dumas was another badass....a superb horseman and swordsman, he once single handedly defended a bridge against the enemy, taking them on despite being wounded several times, until reinforcement arrived. On another occasion he led his troops up and over a cliff that everyone thought was impossible to scale and successfully assaulted and conquered a heavily defended position.
    He even went up against Napoleon, criticizing the abysmal treatment of troops during the Egyptian Campaign and as a result was abandoned by Napoleon after being captured and imprisoned by the enemy. Napoleon even refused to pay him and his family his military pension. Dumas' son was French author Alexandre Dumas, whose novels The Three Musketeers and The Count Of Monte Cristo were partly based on his father's life and exploits.
    A monument to him was erected inPatis but was ordered destroyed by Hitler when the Nazis entered Paris.

  • @jodofe4879
    @jodofe4879 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He died at the age of 34... What a good-for-nothing.

  • @herdeefrancisco9161
    @herdeefrancisco9161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Let's all get drunk to Honor Lassalle, at least before October ends. 🍻

  • @soilaverdad8446
    @soilaverdad8446 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Napoleon was the first Antichrist he committed a lot of atrocities 😭

  • @vijaysuryaaditya9860
    @vijaysuryaaditya9860 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A man who would make Mars Himself proud!

  • @nicod686
    @nicod686 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This man had breakfast with the Grim Reaper every day, then went off to battle like it was nothing. What an absolute unit, legendary….

  • @rashidasamuels7034
    @rashidasamuels7034 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The man was true to his word.

  • @elijahkelly5937
    @elijahkelly5937 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At Waterloo, he left some of his best men in Paris

  • @atlas4536
    @atlas4536 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Never tell me the odds 😂

  • @laserguidedtrollmasterfromHell
    @laserguidedtrollmasterfromHell 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He had all of the symptoms of psychopathy.

  • @muphynman221
    @muphynman221 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Born 1775, died 1809 age 34.
    What a good-for-nothing.

  • @lelouche25
    @lelouche25 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They don't make them like they used to damn, what a madlad.

  • @dickdastardly5534
    @dickdastardly5534 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sounded like a right pain in the arse to have as your commanding officer - the type who’d get you killed for his personal glory - I’ve seen officers like this and they are not heroes just reckless idiots who mostly get out alive until the day comes he gets shot accidentally by his own side.

  • @martinalarcon3108
    @martinalarcon3108 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That’s the way it should be 😮my honor is my loyalty 😮

  • @FilthyHeathens
    @FilthyHeathens 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    By his own definition, he was a good-for-nothing.

  • @chiguy0312
    @chiguy0312 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    La Salle is an honored name in the streets of Chicago

  • @michael506
    @michael506 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Died at the age of 34. I guess he was “good for nothing” 😂