The Prussians were armed with breechloading Dreyse needle rifles capable of firing six rounds per minute. The Dreyse could be reloaded lying down. The Danes still had muzzle loading rifles that would fire two or three rounds per minute, reloading standing. A huge advantage for the Prussians.
Don't forget goose step, quality ideas, offensive and defensive ideas maxed and modern firearms techniques policy for 50% infantry combat ability. Let's also have strict ruler trait, commandant for military advisor, Prussian monarchy, weapon quality standards policy and F**K it, throw in a random event that gives a temporary discipline boost like "Grand Army" while we're at it...
@@rickglorie ...is no more in that form but you know quite well that it lives on in the form of Germany. And: We love Danmark these days, I think that's a huge improvement to those days, no?
The small Kingdom of Prussia only numbered around 5 million souls. But under Frederick the Great, they mustered a million-man army. A feat never equaled before or since.
"They're running away! Should we continue the charge and take their trench in case they counterattack?" "No, let's just stand out in the open, completely exposed, and look confused."
Historically Prussia wasn’t strong because they had insane aim or Bruce Lee’s martial arts imprinted on them. It was the fact that they’re so discipline they almost never falter and break formation which was so important when fighting in line formations
yes, but only until the age of napoleon which taught them the lesson of flexibility and speed is key to warfare (especially after all the technology improvements in gunpowder weaponries). therefore they learned from napoleon and reformed the army according to their experience facing napoleon. thus making their gigantic professional army much more flexible, well organized, and fast to mobilize. resulting in humiliation of napoleon's descendant with napoleon's own trick and many others.
@@davidbock6276 Yes the good discipline in that time can be traced back to the good organisation. It is one of the reasons they won the Franco-Prussian war. They didn‘t break against the French which had more accurate rifles with better range because the generals were smart and deployed their men in small squadrons. That way the men wouldn‘t realize when another squad breaks and morale was kept high. The better artillery and like you said the high mobility, that they had because of the Prussians perfect train infrastructure, then did the rest
They had hopes for Scandinavism in their conflicts with Prussia to but Sweden pussied out. Honestly, the second conflict on wiki, started by the Prussians and Austrians.
@@Marcusianery The second conflict very much started, like the first one, by denmark breaking the status of slesvig holstein. The second war was only the correction of Denmark breaking the treaty and illegally annexing slesvig and holstein into Denmark proper. The issue was finally settled after WW1 (ironically considering Denmark was neutral during it) and lead to the current danish-german border with 3/4 of slesvig and holstein in Germany and half of slesvig in Denmark. And even if all of scandinavia joined Denmark, there was no way they could win that. They were fighting the entirety of the german union (follow up to the HRE) and they had several times the ressources, armies and menpower of all of scandinavia. The only reason why Denmark even won the first war was because the german aristrocrats let them win it to discredit the then ruling revolutionaries as failures (which was successful). After Germanies revolution of 1848 ended and everything was back in order (sadly for democracy) Denmark got what was coming after their betrayel before.
@@noobster4779 What does Germany have to do with what Denmark does to a Danish vassal? Hungry Germans I say. There would be hope for interventional war from France, UK or Russia it seems.
@@noobster4779 I think you need to take a good close look at history , before you start preaching on the Schleswig Holstein question . The Duchy of Schleswig Holstein had been an integral part of the Danish crown , but not a part of the Danish Realm . Up until the early nineteenth century Schleswig was a predominantly Danish and Frisian speaking community. German settlement started to slowly change the demographic from mid century on wards . The man who wrote the screenplay for the film actually found out , during his researches ; that the Danish King secretly offered the Kingdom of Denmark as a fief of the German Confederation if he could retain the title of Duke of Schleswig Holstein.Bismark refused. The issue of the border was settled in 1919 with a plebiscite , a referendum if you like , of the residents of SH resulting in the present border. nothing ironic about that . As for Danish neutrality in ww1 , 30,000 Danes were conscripted into the imperial German army , of which 5700 died in combat , quite a high mortality rate.
This is from Episode 7 of “1864”, a 2014 Danish television historical war drama series written and directed by Ole Bornedal and based on two books by Tom Buk-Swienty about the Second Schleswig War of 1864 between Denmark and an alliance of Prussia and Austria which ended in defeat for Denmark and the loss of a quarter of its territory to Prussia.
"its territory" ? they lost their influence in our duchy which was a fiefdom of the danish crown, but never an integral part of the kingdom during all of the Nordic Wars we fought on the side of the Swedes against Denmark just as we did in the uprising from 1848-51 and don't get me started with the middle ages ! last danish king who died in battle did so just a few miles away from where I live
@@EmilReiko exactly ! trying to f with the Frisians was a mortal mistake and should've learned his lessons from the previous campaign or the unsucessful attempt of his predecessor, the greedy Plogpenning was either slain at the Husembro or somewhere on the Mildter Damm, which runs from Oldenswort to an area with a very good overview that's called Lurup since times of old and is located just a small distance from the Husembro (lurup means auflauern or waylaying in engl. ...dansk it's kinda "lurer pa (noget)" ) all places just a short hike away in the other direction I have the Heath of Hünning, where a few hundred danish knigths were annihilated by holsteinean knights in 1410
@@feldgeist2637 Danish kings in the early medieval (post-viking age) era was rather compromised in terms of might because they dared not mobilize the leding/leidang of Jutland after the Vendelboere killed Canute IV..
@@internetkurator9256 germanys time will come again my friend i am sure of it we will return to our roots and abandon these modern values Edit: im not a nazi i just prefer the old values and traditions the stuff that got us through thousands of years of evolution
@@heccsclips3319 na i dont think so. Culture is an ever evolving element in society and only becomes newer and different. I mean look at the past. Was there ever a new rome besides the fact the everry one wanted to be rome ? No. cause while trying there were stil new cultures that were apearing and new powers push away the old ones. thats why spain didnt become the topdog again after the 30 years war, thats why france didnt become topdog after the napoleonic wars and thats why germany didnt become topdog again after ww2. The next rise of a new global Topdog will happen after the dicline of USA and its hard to beleave that it will be one thiny european nation. In the reality we come in to an age of gaint superpowers. Russia, China, India(is rising and becomming more stronger and economically powerful and will rank up in the top 10) and usa. These are all huge states with a shit ton of ressources and population. so the only chance to surive for Europe ist to unite in to one nation but this is to date not possibly cause of the huge differences in cultures.
No, they did not. The total Danish military force in 1864 was about 38.000 troops. The combined Prussian/Austrian invasion force numbered over 61.000 troops. Mind you, this was not the entire Prussian military. Only what they deemed fit for an invasion force. In other words, the Danes were hopelessly outnumbered
@@MasterFatness huh I seemed ro remember that the danish had a larger army but the prussians leveled rhe playing field with more and more powerful artillery But I might be wrong
@@zaerdna The Prussians had 61,000 soldiers 158 guns at the outbreak. Later they were augmented by Austria with 21,000 soldiers and over 60 more field guns. The Danish had 38,000 troops and 146 guns. You would be correct.
You mean having Dreyse needle rifles capable of firing six rounds per minute while your enemy only has loading rifles that fire two per minute which can only be reloaded standing while you can just lay down and shoot? That is not tactics it is just technology.
@@jonasmollghin9719my preferred method was sitting on an elevated and defensible position with my infantry sitting in powerful positions. While, my artillery rained chemical shells upon my enemies who were armed with sticks.
@@jonasmollghin9719Empire Total War is set in the 18th century. From 1700 to 1800. The weapons used were muskets in this time apart from some unique rifles generally for skirmishers like the Baker or Windbuchse rifle. The battle shown here took place in 1864 long after the 18th century warfare and Napoleonic warfare and such so did technology.
@@jonasmollghin9719 I dunno why it takes ages to get fire by rank tho when it was being used by the Spanish, Ottomans and the Japanese in the 17th century 🤷🏽♂️
This Danish movie is pretty + good honest What people dont realize the Danish Army was actually slightly bigger than Prussia's at the time and on top of this Denmark had a real Navy, which Prussia mostly lacked. At the time Denmark was considered one of the preeminent military powers of Northern Europe. And they (thought) they had England as an ally and so that it would all be a cakewalk. So they recklessly provoked a war with Pussia by breaking the Schleswig treaty ( which stipulated they could not abuse the german population of that province and forced them to not speak german etc) and sent provocative missives to the Prussia King. But the Prussians had made quite a few improvements to the firepower of thier Army and the effectiveness of theirs leadership, so they were quite confident and did not mind a Danish attack at all since they ere eager to use their expensive military to improve their standing in Europe and among the german states. Also, as the Prussians expected, England abandoned the Danes, since they were the ones who broke the treaty and on top of that the Austrians sent generous help to the Prussians. The Danish movie is quite honest about all these things. Ultimately the war was decided by Prussian artillery which was quite superior and so more than made up that Denmark's military was slightly larger. Prussian and Austrian "Special Forces" (for the time) the Deaths head Hussars also contributed out of proportion to their numbers. On top of that the Prussians had the better generalship and staffs and so in the end it was a crushing defeat for the Danes.
The movie isn’t good it’s so inaccurate to what actually happened the guy who made fired the three historians he had to help him, and the danish army wasn’t bigger it was way smaller it was around 30.000 and the Prussian army had “infinite” numbers while the Danes only had those they had. Going back to the movie they completely erased Austria who was in the war as well. The director got lots of hate because he said it’s directorial freedom and you can’t have as much as he had in a historical movie(series) have a nice day
don't forgot that Prussia had a strict training course which would take 5 to 6 months for basic trainer and the dead head hussars was a year and a half for basics.
A well-deserved defeat, too. People are too consumed with hating everything Prussian and German across all history thanks to post-WW1 and post-WW2 propaganda, ordering the entire planet to wish all Germans were killed off. Thankfully not that many follow this stupidity anymore, but it was fairly strong after the world wars. Most people have gotten a bit more sensible in their heads nowadays.... I say most. Not all. Some people are just... evil today.
Wdym Denmark had a larger army? Denmark had a larger and much better navy than the Prussians and won at sea, but the Prussians had 61.000 troops at the onset of the war and Denmark only had 38.000. Denmark wasn't a warmongering nation like Prussia who later got their teeth kicked in during ww1 and ww2 and Denmark regained lost territory.
@@kirgan1000 recoil is only felt after the bullet has left the barrel, i suspect aiming low has more to do with firing in close ranges with rifles zeroed out to 300+ yards
@@nipplecream3099 I'm not sure about the weapons they had back in the day, but today, the shots are aimed low because the velocity of the round is pushed higher due to the atmospheric friction and pressure when it comes out of the barrel, resulting in a higher round than your sight picture that arcs up and peaks around the 150 yard mark and comes back to center at 300 yards. (learned this in the Army, according to my DS)
@@nipplecream3099 Those older rifles shoot high so if you aim center mass you get a lot of head shots. You can argue all day if you like, it won't change facts. I love my Mosin (a later model rifle) but the thing shoots high. The MV and recoil is insane and the round itself will blow your head clean off. This is a common trait in rifles of that time. I use it hunting with soft lead. I took a shot at a deer once center mass, forgetting about the aim low req and the round grazed its back. When we shoot targets a center mass shot always hits the head or neck.
I live in Old Prussia, in Marienburg and it always saddens me when I realize how much Prussia have been wiped from the history books. After 1945 the Germans who had been living here for centuries were "politely" asked to leave by the Polish, and left everything behind...or ended up in the mass grave the Polish found in 2008. (Oddly with all the modern CSI technology, they couldn`t decide how they died) Now the Polish are showing the Marienburg castle built by the German Teutonic knights to German tourists. I often think how European history would have turned out if the Prussians hadn`t come to the aid of Wellington at Waterloo. We`d be living in a very different world now, and probably I would be writing this in French. Prussians built a remarkable military centered society, and with all their mistakes, they should not be forgotten.
From India 🇮🇳, I Understand your feelings, bro Same thing is happening with us in India, literally they are teaching us all wrong history in our schools and are wiping out the names of true kings and emperors of India 😔😔, you are not alone, this is a global problem, basically the One who wins gets all the credits and is forever remembered in the History of the world, and the loser is crushed by the winner, and no one cares about the loser. Btw I love the Deutsche Kaiserreich 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 Für das Kaiser !!! (Ignore upside down flag)
This society centered on the military would certainly not have existed without the permanent, centuries-long threat from France, which constantly made the German lands a battlefield, and Napoleon at the latest showed all Germans that one could only defend oneself against it as a united force. Waterloo: If Wellington, after being informed by the Prussians about Napoleon's arrival in the area, had not let a whole day pass before he set his troops on the march, there would have been no Waterloo, but Napoleon would have fought against him and Blücher in Ligny two days earlier and would have lost. If the Prussians hadn't shown up at Waterloo, the Allies would have lost there, but Napoleon never had a chance to win anything else. Armies from Russia, Austria, Spain and Italy were already advancing against him, and there was also a 2nd Prussian army of the same size as Blücher's, which could be send there.
Even if the prussians weren't at Waterloo nothing would change. In case of a 100% annihilation of Wellingtons army by Napoleon with 0 french losses he'd still have to win 10-15 more Waterloos to get an even number of troops. The 100 days campaign was doomed from the start as the allies had mobilized over a million men whilst France was heavily exhausted from the previous wars. By pulling everything that was available Napoleon couldn't get a field army of 150k+ soldiers. The french people also realized that they would loose the year prior (Surrender of Paris) and the allies (led by Britains hardcore anti-Napoleon policies) wouldn't accept any treat that would have the Bonaparts remain in power.
I,m Polish and Finnish ( My descendant was a Finnish Cavalry Trooper that got captured during the Swedish Polish Wars 1654-1656 and decided not to go back to Finland, the Swedish Army during that period used mostly Finns as Cavalry)and I know the story and facts. I know how it is to have your country disappear🙂 I know that land is German, well as you say Prussian, us Poles call Prussians Austrians """GERMANS""" Whats ironic is that since the last, say 500 years, from about 1575, beginning of the rise of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, us Poles and you Germans have had only """TWO WARS""" one of course was the Second World War but the facts and the reasons why have been twisted and hidden because the real facts covered would of been a embarrassment , Hint if Pilsudski didn,t die that early, a Non Aggression Pact and possibly Military assistance to Poland if attacked by the Soviet Union """WOULD OF BEEN SIGNED""" , that was being offered by """"GERMANY""" . They were just trying to iron out the Danzig Corridor problem. One , Germany main enemy and threat was the Soviet Union, """NOT POLAND""" Two, Pilsudski was more friendly to the Germans than he was to the Soviets/Communist and did not trust the French and British to help him in case of a war ( they did not help much during the Polish Soviet War 1919-1921). If Poland would of been an ally to Germany during Operation Barbarossa they would of helped win the war against the Soviet Union contributing more manpower than Hungary or Romania and their experience fighting Russians for over 500 years and beating them often, also Poland began to industrialize quickly and had started putting out good Tanks and Planes and their soldiers were better disciplined than Romanians and Hungarians and equal to German Units ) the other had to do with an election to the King of Poland, the Polish Swedish faction won and decided on Sigismund Vasa but the other Polish faction/ Senate wanted the German ruler Holy Roman Empire House of Habsburg after the death of King Stephan Bathory, Battle happened in 1588, Poles Lithuanians won by Heavy Hussar Cavalry Charge the best Cavalry in Europe for over 100 years. Was going to say Poles have been fighting Russians more than any other country for along time, from 1575 to 1675 we went to war with them at least a Dozen times, like every 10-15 years.Than later the Great Northern War with Peter the Great and the Civil Wars in the 1770s and 1790s n Napoleonic Wars and Civil War in 1831 and another 1864 and than 1919-1921. The Poles that asked you to leave were """COMMUNIST""" I personally would of hanged them and thrown them into the Baltic. I Hate Communist period!The massacres you speak of were done by the Soviet NKVD, Remember Katyn 15,000 Polish Officers murdered.The bigger picture change in History, """ WHAT IF SIGISMUND VASA ( He was by the way Uncle to the great Military Genius of the 17 th century, Swedish Gustavus Adolphus) King of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1610 had let his son """PRINCE WLADYSLAW """ convert to Orthodox ,marry a Russian Boyars daughter and than become Czar of all Russia, thats what Russian Boyars and Patriarch of Moscow wanted after their defeat and Surrender at Klushino in 1610, Poland and Lithuania was by defacto Rulers of Russia from 1610-1613.They were for a moment the biggest empire that ever existed in Europe , from almost the Oder River to Vladivostok from the Baltic to the Black sea, accomplished something that needer Charles XII,Napoleon or Hitler could do, defeat a Military Super Power which Russia was at that time. The Polish Szlachta never treated the peasants like dirt the way the Russian Czars and Boyars did so Communism would never had been! My Russian Slavic Brothers don,t like to talk about the period from Ivan the Terribles death ( I call him Ivan The Ugly🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If you look at his portrait you will see why! from 1592 to 1612, called TIME OF TROUBLE, very embarrassing time in Russian History 🙂 Now that would be a question to ask yourself if Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth did placed one of their family as Czar of Russia, what would o f been Prussias Future, remember this would of been the early 17th century, the Teutonic Knights were defeated in 1410 and slowly the Order just died out like all Knights of the Order the rest of Europe, England France etc , basically advancement of new military technology and tactics and , well Crusade against the Muslims was not worth the cost anymore going to the Holy Land, specially when you had the Ottoman Empire banging on the doors of Vienna, Central Europe was endanger of being conquered by the Ottoman Empire . At that time the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was living on good terms in the 17th century, than you took parts of ours in 1772 and 1792 and 95🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, by that time we have lost our good Kings our good Hetmans and our Heavy Hussars! In the 18th century Poland Got stuck with some cake eating palace partying Saxon Kings and Palace Toy Soldiers not good for Battle!
The Prussians were not only technologically superior but they had superior maneuvering as well, they really obliterated their enemies by consistently flanking their opponents and exploiting terrain advantages whenever possible. The officers were also very well trained and able. Its no surprise many are convinced the Prussians were the best armies during their era. The famed General Sherman of the US Union Army of the Potomac, who observed the Prussians, consider them to be much better than his own.
I swear did Napoleon III even sent his general to obverse this battle they literally have tactics of maneuver mobility and best a new artillery that can outclass the France. Saying nothing of their rifle.
Superior maneuvering due to their more decent firearms technology. With newly invented Dreyse Needle gun that allows you to shoot faster, the need for line formation lessened.
Don't know how Germany thought it could go toe to toe by opening 3 Fronts against two superpowers in two different world wars. It forgot A history lesson they once taught.
They actually won the First Schleswig War of 1848-51. Of course in that case, they were supported by Britain and Russia, while German states were a mess (the war even began with a revolt in Schleswig-Holstein). Afterwards, Danes got high on the fumes of their past glories, neglected their defenses and thought they could succeed without Great Power backing. Meanwhile Prussia, while hardly invincible, never failed without taking a hard look on what had gone wrong and making serious improvements.
Aren't they the Mordian Guard? I mean Tactics aside yes but always had a Prussia WW1 vibe, now that I'm typing this your comment does make more sense, cuz Prussia's PRUSSIA.
Common misconception, they are mostly based on french troops during WW1 although they do have an amalgam of french and German gear. They key part is the war of attrition doctrine used by Krieg, that wasn't a Prussian thing
@@Alridx The Deathcorps of Krieg is actually very clearly WW1 German inspired. While the name and gear alone already give a huge hint the whole waste of reckless life’s doctrine is a classical WW1 western front theme. As Juan Gabriel correctly said it’s the Mordian Guard that is heavily Prussian inspired due to their uniform style and the background of military drill put to an extreme.
@@Alridx if the obviously German names weren’t already a dead giveaway, the heavy focus on artillery definitely is evidence of Prussian influence (there obviously is French influence, especially for the uniforms minus the helmets, but let’s not ignore the Prussian/German one)
The soldiers are begging the officer to sound the charge as their mates are getting slaughtered in the trenches. The officers are hesitant to charge as their commanding officer is mia either dead or fled the battlefield. The initial charge pushed back the prussians, at which point they should have reinforced the trenches. They mistakenly thought they were winning and decided to pursue the enemy. At which point the 2nd prussian wave came crashing down on them. Actually this battle werent that deadly. The battle of Als a few months later were far more deadly and had way more cassualties.
It's nice to see the us fascists be nostalgic about prussia, we germans feel a little bit less proud. prussia is pure militarism and oppression, but have fun with your fantasies i guess
@@elonmuskel9461 have you ever heard of a fucking joke. He actually doesn’t want Prussia back today like it was then. Not to mention all nations were built on oppression at this time in history. The past was a different time and you cannot people from a few hundred years ago to today’s standards. So go crawl back into the the trash you came out of. You generally have no joy in your life to not be able to take a joke you fun nazi.
Why traitor he was and is a true hero of the German empire... After the first ww he planned alliances with England becouse he knew a one sided front is winnable but when you knew the nazis would have won the war when they act with a brain and not a shitty heil Hitler we will... Like the dumb fight for Stalingrad when all his generals wanted to go for Moscow when the panzer divisions where 30-40km away from the target but no no we fight for ego and lose and lose all the momentum like the same mistake with kursk biggest panzer Schlacht in the history.. When again all his generals wanted to retreat and form a defensive line and wait for the latest weapons who would come in 1944 1945 When we would had bissmark 1000years could be accomplished
The Battle of Dybbøl (Danish: Slaget ved Dybbøl; German: Erstürmung der Düppeler Schanzen) was the key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia. The battle was fought on the morning of 18 April 1864, following a siege that began on 2 April. Denmark suffered a severe defeat which - with the Prussian capture of the island of Als - ultimately decided the outcome of the war, forcing Danish cession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. - from Wikipedia
Just flee to Germany. They take everyone. Just say you are a refugee and they build you a house, give you women, and Mercedes. Your welcome in Wokecountry!
@@Sven73524 We were never under the impression that the war was winnable, the plan was to fight a defensive war until the british or the russians would intervene on our behalf. Also last time i checked it was you guys that decleared war first, we were just minding our own buisness intergrating the duchies, and you decieded medle in our domestic policies.
I speak Danish, and honestly, if I spoke Danish to an English speaker, they would definitely not understand me. Fordi Dansk er ikke såden meget det samme som Englesk. Der er en ret stor forskel. Vikinger var et par tusind år siden, og man kan ikke glemme "The great vowel shift". Som skedt efter vikinge tiden. Now that I've said that, I would request for you to try your best to understand what I have said, and then use Google translate. Good luck!
Most languages started out from similar or the same base ones. But accents form, the dialects, then it becomes another language eventually. Say some old middle english with certain accents, and you suddenly begin to understand large amounts. Its really cool if you can find those situations.
Black powder burn slow, hence the recoil have more time to force the gun up, before the bullet leave the muzzle, so shoots in general go high, so headshoot is "normal"
The Dreyse is the only rifle that ever played a decisive factor in a european war. In the danish war of 1864 it caused 84% of the danish casualties, in 1866 90% of the austrian&allied casualties, in 1871 70% of the french casualties; these numbers are mostly extrapolated from field hospital reports
In 1870-71 the Krupp artillery was the main advantage, as the French had a superior rifle. By then the Dreyse was rather outdated and was being phased out quickly after the war.
I hate it when Prussia is your enemy...Doing so well then they storm over the hill and you think to yourself "Oh fuck no, not again" That face you pull when Prussia appears with their guns and start doing the headshot thingy and you're like "ffs Prussia is my enemy"
Yes, but the chasseurpot (or whatever it is called idk) has a better gas seal and is faster but the french lost the franco prussian war due to Deutsch Artillery and tactics that favored independent regiments? Or platoons? (idk) but yea uh dreyse it is somewhat good but the gas deal wasnt
No its a historic detail, the gunpowder burn so slowly, so the recoil have time to press the rifle up, before the bullet have left the barrel. If the soldier do not intentionally aim low, the bullet will go high.
You know, given human history, and human character, there can be a near inexhaustible supply of films named "Battle Of.....". Especcially on European continent.
My first guess was the initial retreat was to lure the charging enemy into an artillery kill zone, I expected that quiet bit (Where have they all gone?) to be ended by hundreds of incoming shrapnel shells (...as the answer).
They obviously retreated over the trench because they didn’t wanna get shredded to pieces, and then met up with the second wave. instead of just sitting there and die, and then the second wave comes
still love the fact that they literally stood in a line in open field and tried to shoot their enemys doing the same, and then just stood still for 5 min trying to reload and then do it all over again xD, like imagine one guy somehow has a machine gun
Kinda need to do that to get serious firepower out of muzzle-loaders, and even then, to actually break the enemy you usually needed artillery fire or a bayonet charge. This war is actually when things start to gradually move away from that paradigm, as Prussian infantry with breech-loaders and lots of training in marksmanship could smash the formations at range. The first machine gun (sort of) comes in at Franco-Prussian war, but mitrailleuse was such a super secret weapon that French officers weren't even told of its existence before the war, and nobody had put in any thought on how to effectively use it.
Ah that was after the napoleonic wars. The army was officially cut down to lesser numbers. The navy was never restored to former glory but was build in a smaller scale. However the iron clads gave us a huge advantage..
Remember, this movie was made by the DANES. Takes another kind of respect to show your country in filmmaking getting absolutely obliterated. I know that’s what they’re supposed to do for the movie, but still.
@@thecouncilofthirteen2943neither danish nor german soldiers wanted this. Some of them may have been fighting their childhood friends or even distant family.
Schleswig-Holstein: Hey Prussia we want to be independent from Denmark can you help us? Prussia: Hey. Yeah of course. I'll make you "independent"..... 😏 Schleswig-Holstein: Immediately becomes Prussian territory.
I think the Germans/Prussians started using helmets after this war, at least by the Franco-Prussian war a few decades later. But you’re right, with the invention of faster and more accurate rifles/artillery. It should have been common for all countries by mid 1800s
I remember sending my breech loaders in Fall of the Samurai against the Muzzle Loaders. Felt horrified by the Slaughter, knowing this insanity happened in history
Everytime when something new arrives on the battlefield it takes time to adapt for tactics, officers and generals. And that 'adaption' just means, a lot of people who want to be literally anywhere else and frankly don't even hate the other folks that much, have to die. And in movies it looks always so clean - headshots and instant death. But there are quite a lot of war diaries from WW1 where people remember how they heard their comrades dying in no mans land for hours or days afterwards. De-sensitized to the point where they wrote stuff: "Would this guy not already fucking die! It has been nearly two days and I want to sleep."
Thats a common myth but Preußens Gloria is just the natural sound that happens when Prussia charges into battle. No one knows why it happens. If at least two prussians are together and running in the same direction the horns will come in from nowhere Piefke was just the first person to put this unique phenomenon down on paper
That to my eyes, tears brought! The small but valiant Iron Kingdom lives on in all who love her. She beat every one of the 800 lb gorillas around her: France, Sweden and Austria. And fought the Russian giant to a standstill. And of course defeated the Danes. Human by birth, Prussian by choice!
Prussia had actually a huge advantage over denmark since prussian soldiers had the needle gun. You shot once, put another bullet in the chamber and shoot again. The danish had to refill the barrel with gunpowder, put a bullet in and push it down just to shoot again. So the needle gun made the reloading much quicker.
Something like this happened to me in Elder Scrolls Online once. We were pushing, opponents retreates, we were wondering where they are and then we see 50+ characters charging down the hill in front of us. And all of us went like "hell nah" aand started running back from where we came from
This same tactic of "Run away from enemy. If enemy takes the hill, surround and start harassing them from the mists" was used by Napoleon Bonarparte in the Battle of Austelitz. He won. This proves that just because the enemy retreated, doesn't mean you've won.
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The Prussians were armed with breechloading Dreyse needle rifles capable of firing six rounds per minute. The Dreyse could be reloaded lying down. The Danes still had muzzle loading rifles that would fire two or three rounds per minute, reloading standing. A huge advantage for the Prussians.
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Muskets can be loaded while kneeling or lying down, it's more difficult but not anywhere near impossible.
@@TheThingInMySink I’ve tried it. It’s even slower.
Muzzle loader was still the standard in this time period. Everyone including even the British were still using them. Prussia was just that far ahead.
That's what 140% discipline, 100 army tradition and a 6/6/6/6 general looks like
+100000000 social eu4 rating
Ah, you knew the key.
I came here for this comment. I was not disappointed.
Don't forget goose step, quality ideas, offensive and defensive ideas maxed and modern firearms techniques policy for 50% infantry combat ability.
Let's also have strict ruler trait, commandant for military advisor, Prussian monarchy, weapon quality standards policy and F**K it, throw in a random event that gives a temporary discipline boost like "Grand Army" while we're at it...
Charging as a scattered mob is not very disciplined.
The officer with the spiked helmet leading the charge is my dad lol. This is from tv show "1864" and was filmed in Czechia (thats where we are from).
what a chad
That is awesome.
Gigachad
Ultimate Legend
Legend
Kaisers rule: no mistakes and headshots only.
YES
Deadly head shots and coool tooo
correct
@@datnguyen21040 only headshots 😀
No Kaiser was in charge here (unless Austrian troops were involved, too, I dont know. But they arent shown in this scene)
in danish history this war is seen as a decisive moment where we honestly had to say: well fuck... we'er not the shit anymore...
and later even applied for membership of the North German Confederation
you did not do that in 1658 already?
Danmark still exists, Prussia how ever..
@@rickglorie ...is no more in that form but you know quite well that it lives on in the form of Germany. And: We love Danmark these days, I think that's a huge improvement to those days, no?
Yea, we've been cucks ever since sucking up to the superpower of the day.
Heeeeeello China btw. Looking good there big teddy
"Whilst most states have an army the Prussian army has a state"
- Voltaire
The small Kingdom of Prussia only numbered around 5 million souls. But under Frederick the Great, they mustered a million-man army. A feat never equaled before or since.
@@antonmoric1469 Frederick the Great never assembled a 1,000,000 strong army.
@@antonmoric1469i thought bluchër did all thr jobs
@@antonmoric1469 In 1740 Frederick inherited a standing army of 83,000 men; when he died, this figure had risen to 190,000
"They're running away! Should we continue the charge and take their trench in case they counterattack?" "No, let's just stand out in the open, completely exposed, and look confused."
They were lucky that the prussian artillery didn't fuck them up at the same time though.
If they did they would be fucked tho. This way they could at least retreat without being completely overrun.
Hahaha, true. Logic in the movies.
@@damircalic1491 this movie is based on a true story
@@muhammadmahd6429 I know, so it should be even more realistic, not unlogical.
Historically Prussia wasn’t strong because they had insane aim or Bruce Lee’s martial arts imprinted on them. It was the fact that they’re so discipline they almost never falter and break formation which was so important when fighting in line formations
Nope. That was prussias strengh during the age of line tactics. Here Prussians strength is the organization and mobility.
yes, but only until the age of napoleon which taught them the lesson of flexibility and speed is key to warfare (especially after all the technology improvements in gunpowder weaponries). therefore they learned from napoleon and reformed the army according to their experience facing napoleon. thus making their gigantic professional army much more flexible, well organized, and fast to mobilize. resulting in humiliation of napoleon's descendant with napoleon's own trick and many others.
Nobody's mentioning the important thing, their steel, breech-loading rifled Krupp cannons...
@@SStupendous _Haubitzens!_
@@davidbock6276 Yes the good discipline in that time can be traced back to the good organisation. It is one of the reasons they won the Franco-Prussian war. They didn‘t break against the French which had more accurate rifles with better range because the generals were smart and deployed their men in small squadrons. That way the men wouldn‘t realize when another squad breaks and morale was kept high. The better artillery and like you said the high mobility, that they had because of the Prussians perfect train infrastructure, then did the rest
Not a cellphone in sight, just people enjoying the moment.
😂😂
ROFL
Well, probably only the prussians
Lmfao
Just boys, being boys.
The definition of insanity. When your a Danish politician and war against the Austrian Empire and the kingdom of Prussia seems winnable.
They had hopes for Scandinavism in their conflicts with Prussia to but Sweden pussied out. Honestly, the second conflict on wiki, started by the Prussians and Austrians.
@@Marcusianery The second conflict very much started, like the first one, by denmark breaking the status of slesvig holstein. The second war was only the correction of Denmark breaking the treaty and illegally annexing slesvig and holstein into Denmark proper.
The issue was finally settled after WW1 (ironically considering Denmark was neutral during it) and lead to the current danish-german border with 3/4 of slesvig and holstein in Germany and half of slesvig in Denmark.
And even if all of scandinavia joined Denmark, there was no way they could win that. They were fighting the entirety of the german union (follow up to the HRE) and they had several times the ressources, armies and menpower of all of scandinavia. The only reason why Denmark even won the first war was because the german aristrocrats let them win it to discredit the then ruling revolutionaries as failures (which was successful). After Germanies revolution of 1848 ended and everything was back in order (sadly for democracy) Denmark got what was coming after their betrayel before.
@@noobster4779 What does Germany have to do with what Denmark does to a Danish vassal? Hungry Germans I say.
There would be hope for interventional war from France, UK or Russia it seems.
@Marcusianery What does Marcusianery mean?
@@noobster4779 I think you need to take a good close look at history , before you start preaching on the Schleswig Holstein question . The Duchy of Schleswig Holstein had been an integral part of the Danish crown , but not a part of the Danish Realm . Up until the early nineteenth century Schleswig was a predominantly Danish and Frisian speaking community. German settlement started to slowly change the demographic from mid century on wards .
The man who wrote the screenplay for the film actually found out , during his researches ; that the Danish King secretly offered the Kingdom of Denmark as a fief of the German Confederation if he could retain the title of Duke of Schleswig Holstein.Bismark refused.
The issue of the border was settled in 1919 with a plebiscite , a referendum if you like , of the residents of SH resulting in the present border. nothing ironic about that . As for Danish neutrality in ww1 , 30,000 Danes were conscripted into the imperial German army , of which 5700 died in combat , quite a high mortality rate.
0:59 the officer leading the prussians is just badass
YES! He sure as hell is hahaaa
Look at that shiny pickelhaube and his sword raised
that same dude commands most tanks in Warhammer 40k
All officers led their men this way from Revolutionary, 1812, Civil War, Napoleonic, thru WW1.
@@AdmiralCecil yes
This is from Episode 7 of “1864”, a 2014 Danish television historical war drama series written and directed by Ole Bornedal and based on two books by Tom Buk-Swienty about the Second Schleswig War of 1864 between Denmark and an alliance of Prussia and Austria which ended in defeat for Denmark and the loss of a quarter of its territory to Prussia.
"its territory" ?
they lost their influence in our duchy which was a fiefdom of the danish crown, but never an integral part of the kingdom
during all of the Nordic Wars we fought on the side of the Swedes against Denmark just as we did in the uprising from 1848-51
and don't get me started with the middle ages ! last danish king who died in battle did so just a few miles away from where I live
King Abel?
@@EmilReiko exactly ! trying to f with the Frisians was a mortal mistake and should've learned his lessons from the previous campaign or the unsucessful attempt of his predecessor, the greedy Plogpenning
was either slain at the Husembro or somewhere on the Mildter Damm, which runs from Oldenswort to an area with a very good overview that's called Lurup since times of old and is located just a small distance from the Husembro (lurup means auflauern or waylaying in engl. ...dansk it's kinda "lurer pa (noget)" )
all places just a short hike away
in the other direction I have the Heath of Hünning, where a few hundred danish knigths were annihilated by holsteinean knights in 1410
@@feldgeist2637 Danish kings in the early medieval (post-viking age) era was rather compromised in terms of might because they dared not mobilize the leding/leidang of Jutland after the Vendelboere killed Canute IV..
this was just one of the moments where we realised just how horribly outmatched we were.
Dont worry, happens :) denmark was super badass in the middle ages. We Germans were badass in 1900. Today other people are.
@@internetkurator9256 germanys time will come again my friend i am sure of it we will return to our roots and abandon these modern values
Edit: im not a nazi i just prefer the old values and traditions the stuff that got us through thousands of years of evolution
@@heccsclips3319 na i dont think so. Culture is an ever evolving element in society and only becomes newer and different. I mean look at the past. Was there ever a new rome besides the fact the everry one wanted to be rome ? No. cause while trying there were stil new cultures that were apearing and new powers push away the old ones. thats why spain didnt become the topdog again after the 30 years war, thats why france didnt become topdog after the napoleonic wars and thats why germany didnt become topdog again after ww2. The next rise of a new global Topdog will happen after the dicline of USA and its hard to beleave that it will be one thiny european nation. In the reality we come in to an age of gaint superpowers. Russia, China, India(is rising and becomming more stronger and economically powerful and will rank up in the top 10) and usa. These are all huge states with a shit ton of ressources and population. so the only chance to surive for Europe ist to unite in to one nation but this is to date not possibly cause of the huge differences in cultures.
@@heccsclips3319 Putin is getting pretty uppity. Maybe Germany will have to face Russia again. :(
We? American semi-historian here. We? Please answer
Prussian advantages:
-Number superiority
-Modern breech loading Dreyse rifles
-Headshot autoaim
Danish had the number advantage in this war
No, they did not. The total Danish military force in 1864 was about 38.000 troops. The combined Prussian/Austrian invasion force numbered over 61.000 troops. Mind you, this was not the entire Prussian military. Only what they deemed fit for an invasion force. In other words, the Danes were hopelessly outnumbered
@@lennarthumpf8031 No we didn't, not at all
@@MasterFatness huh I seemed ro remember that the danish had a larger army but the prussians leveled rhe playing field with more and more powerful artillery
But I might be wrong
@@zaerdna The Prussians had 61,000 soldiers 158 guns at the outbreak. Later they were augmented by Austria with 21,000 soldiers and over 60 more field guns.
The Danish had 38,000 troops and 146 guns. You would be correct.
I'm currently playing as Prussia in Total War and these are my literal tactics 😂.
You mean having Dreyse needle rifles capable of firing six rounds per minute while your enemy only has loading rifles that fire two per minute which can only be reloaded standing while you can just lay down and shoot?
That is not tactics it is just technology.
@@jonasmollghin9719my preferred method was sitting on an elevated and defensible position with my infantry sitting in powerful positions. While, my artillery rained chemical shells upon my enemies who were armed with sticks.
@@jonasmollghin9719Empire Total War is set in the 18th century. From 1700 to 1800. The weapons used were muskets in this time apart from some unique rifles generally for skirmishers like the Baker or Windbuchse rifle. The battle shown here took place in 1864 long after the 18th century warfare and Napoleonic warfare and such so did technology.
@@JosephBaker-d9y I know, i was joking, cause you can't use those tactics in Empire total war.
@@jonasmollghin9719 I dunno why it takes ages to get fire by rank tho when it was being used by the Spanish, Ottomans and the Japanese in the 17th century 🤷🏽♂️
This Danish movie is pretty + good honest
What people dont realize the Danish Army was actually slightly bigger than Prussia's at the time and on top of this Denmark had a real Navy, which Prussia mostly lacked.
At the time Denmark was considered one of the preeminent military powers of Northern Europe.
And they (thought) they had England as an ally and so that it would all be a cakewalk.
So they recklessly provoked a war with Pussia by breaking the Schleswig treaty ( which stipulated they could not abuse the german population of that province and forced them to not speak german etc) and sent provocative missives to the Prussia King.
But the Prussians had made quite a few improvements to the firepower of thier Army and the effectiveness of theirs leadership, so they were quite confident and did not mind a Danish attack at all since they ere eager to use their expensive military to improve their standing in Europe and among the german states.
Also, as the Prussians expected, England abandoned the Danes, since they were the ones who broke the treaty and on top of that the Austrians sent generous help to the Prussians.
The Danish movie is quite honest about all these things.
Ultimately the war was decided by Prussian artillery which was quite superior and so more than made up that Denmark's military was slightly larger. Prussian and Austrian "Special Forces" (for the time) the Deaths head Hussars also contributed out of proportion to their numbers. On top of that the Prussians had the better generalship and staffs and so in the end it was a crushing defeat for the Danes.
The movie isn’t good it’s so inaccurate to what actually happened the guy who made fired the three historians he had to help him, and the danish army wasn’t bigger it was way smaller it was around 30.000 and the Prussian army had “infinite” numbers while the Danes only had those they had. Going back to the movie they completely erased Austria who was in the war as well. The director got lots of hate because he said it’s directorial freedom and you can’t have as much as he had in a historical movie(series) have a nice day
don't forgot that Prussia had a strict training course which would take 5 to 6 months for basic trainer and the dead head hussars was a year and a half for basics.
A well-deserved defeat, too. People are too consumed with hating everything Prussian and German across all history thanks to post-WW1 and post-WW2 propaganda, ordering the entire planet to wish all Germans were killed off. Thankfully not that many follow this stupidity anymore, but it was fairly strong after the world wars. Most people have gotten a bit more sensible in their heads nowadays.... I say most. Not all. Some people are just... evil today.
Wdym Denmark had a larger army? Denmark had a larger and much better navy than the Prussians and won at sea, but the Prussians had 61.000 troops at the onset of the war and Denmark only had 38.000. Denmark wasn't a warmongering nation like Prussia who later got their teeth kicked in during ww1 and ww2 and Denmark regained lost territory.
Oh, thx for history info lady!
I didn't know they were doing 80% head shots back in the day.
@@kirgan1000 recoil is only felt after the bullet has left the barrel, i suspect aiming low has more to do with firing in close ranges with rifles zeroed out to 300+ yards
@@nipplecream3099 I'm not sure about the weapons they had back in the day, but today, the shots are aimed low because the velocity of the round is pushed higher due to the atmospheric friction and pressure when it comes out of the barrel, resulting in a higher round than your sight picture that arcs up and peaks around the 150 yard mark and comes back to center at 300 yards. (learned this in the Army, according to my DS)
@@nipplecream3099 Those older rifles shoot high so if you aim center mass you get a lot of head shots. You can argue all day if you like, it won't change facts. I love my Mosin (a later model rifle) but the thing shoots high. The MV and recoil is insane and the round itself will blow your head clean off. This is a common trait in rifles of that time. I use it hunting with soft lead. I took a shot at a deer once center mass, forgetting about the aim low req and the round grazed its back. When we shoot targets a center mass shot always hits the head or neck.
I have a musket, it shoots pretty high. Thing is awesome
they had to save ammunition.
I live in Old Prussia, in Marienburg and it always saddens me when I realize how much Prussia have been wiped from the history books. After 1945 the Germans who had been living here for centuries were "politely" asked to leave by the Polish, and left everything behind...or ended up in the mass grave the Polish found in 2008. (Oddly with all the modern CSI technology, they couldn`t decide how they died) Now the Polish are showing the Marienburg castle built by the German Teutonic knights to German tourists. I often think how European history would have turned out if the Prussians hadn`t come to the aid of Wellington at Waterloo. We`d be living in a very different world now, and probably I would be writing this in French. Prussians built a remarkable military centered society, and with all their mistakes, they should not be forgotten.
From India 🇮🇳, I Understand your feelings, bro Same thing is happening with us in India, literally they are teaching us all wrong history in our schools and are wiping out the names of true kings and emperors of India 😔😔, you are not alone, this is a global problem, basically the One who wins gets all the credits and is forever remembered in the History of the world, and the loser is crushed by the winner, and no one cares about the loser.
Btw I love the Deutsche Kaiserreich 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪
Für das Kaiser !!!
(Ignore upside down flag)
This society centered on the military would certainly not have existed without the permanent, centuries-long threat from France, which constantly made the German lands a battlefield, and Napoleon at the latest showed all Germans that one could only defend oneself against it as a united force.
Waterloo:
If Wellington, after being informed by the Prussians about Napoleon's arrival in the area, had not let a whole day pass before he set his troops on the march, there would have been no Waterloo, but Napoleon would have fought against him and Blücher in Ligny two days earlier and would have lost.
If the Prussians hadn't shown up at Waterloo, the Allies would have lost there, but Napoleon never had a chance to win anything else. Armies from Russia, Austria, Spain and Italy were already advancing against him, and there was also a 2nd Prussian army of the same size as Blücher's, which could be send there.
Even if the prussians weren't at Waterloo nothing would change. In case of a 100% annihilation of Wellingtons army by Napoleon with 0 french losses he'd still have to win 10-15 more Waterloos to get an even number of troops.
The 100 days campaign was doomed from the start as the allies had mobilized over a million men whilst France was heavily exhausted from the previous wars. By pulling everything that was available Napoleon couldn't get a field army of 150k+ soldiers.
The french people also realized that they would loose the year prior (Surrender of Paris) and the allies (led by Britains hardcore anti-Napoleon policies) wouldn't accept any treat that would have the Bonaparts remain in power.
I agree mr baker
I,m Polish and Finnish ( My descendant was a Finnish Cavalry Trooper that got captured during the Swedish Polish Wars 1654-1656 and decided not to go back to Finland, the Swedish Army during that period used mostly Finns as Cavalry)and I know the story and facts. I know how it is to have your country disappear🙂 I know that land is German, well as you say Prussian, us Poles call Prussians Austrians """GERMANS""" Whats ironic is that since the last, say 500 years, from about 1575, beginning of the rise of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, us Poles and you Germans have had only """TWO WARS""" one of course was the Second World War but the facts and the reasons why have been twisted and hidden because the real facts covered would of been a embarrassment , Hint if Pilsudski didn,t die that early, a Non Aggression Pact and possibly Military assistance to Poland if attacked by the Soviet Union """WOULD OF BEEN SIGNED""" , that was being offered by """"GERMANY""" . They were just trying to iron out the Danzig Corridor problem. One , Germany main enemy and threat was the Soviet Union, """NOT POLAND""" Two, Pilsudski was more friendly to the Germans than he was to the Soviets/Communist and did not trust the French and British to help him in case of a war ( they did not help much during the Polish Soviet War 1919-1921). If Poland would of been an ally to Germany during Operation Barbarossa they would of helped win the war against the Soviet Union contributing more manpower than Hungary or Romania and their experience fighting Russians for over 500 years and beating them often, also Poland began to industrialize quickly and had started putting out good Tanks and Planes and their soldiers were better disciplined than Romanians and Hungarians and equal to German Units ) the other had to do with an election to the King of Poland, the Polish Swedish faction won and decided on Sigismund Vasa but the other Polish faction/ Senate wanted the German ruler Holy Roman Empire House of Habsburg after the death of King Stephan Bathory, Battle happened in 1588, Poles Lithuanians won by Heavy Hussar Cavalry Charge the best Cavalry in Europe for over 100 years. Was going to say Poles have been fighting Russians more than any other country for along time, from 1575 to 1675 we went to war with them at least a Dozen times, like every 10-15 years.Than later the Great Northern War with Peter the Great and the Civil Wars in the 1770s and 1790s n Napoleonic Wars and Civil War in 1831 and another 1864 and than 1919-1921. The Poles that asked you to leave were """COMMUNIST""" I personally would of hanged them and thrown them into the Baltic. I Hate Communist period!The massacres you speak of were done by the Soviet NKVD, Remember Katyn 15,000 Polish Officers murdered.The bigger picture change in History, """ WHAT IF SIGISMUND VASA ( He was by the way Uncle to the great Military Genius of the 17 th century, Swedish Gustavus Adolphus) King of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1610 had let his son """PRINCE WLADYSLAW """ convert to Orthodox ,marry a Russian Boyars daughter and than become Czar of all Russia, thats what Russian Boyars and Patriarch of Moscow wanted after their defeat and Surrender at Klushino in 1610, Poland and Lithuania was by defacto Rulers of Russia from 1610-1613.They were for a moment the biggest empire that ever existed in Europe , from almost the Oder River to Vladivostok from the Baltic to the Black sea, accomplished something that needer Charles XII,Napoleon or Hitler could do, defeat a Military Super Power which Russia was at that time. The Polish Szlachta never treated the peasants like dirt the way the Russian Czars and Boyars did so Communism would never had been! My Russian Slavic Brothers don,t like to talk about the period from Ivan the Terribles death ( I call him Ivan The Ugly🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If you look at his portrait you will see why! from 1592 to 1612, called TIME OF TROUBLE, very embarrassing time in Russian History 🙂 Now that would be a question to ask yourself if Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth did placed one of their family as Czar of Russia, what would o f been Prussias Future, remember this would of been the early 17th century, the Teutonic Knights were defeated in 1410 and slowly the Order just died out like all Knights of the Order the rest of Europe, England France etc , basically advancement of new military technology and tactics and , well Crusade against the Muslims was not worth the cost anymore going to the Holy Land, specially when you had the Ottoman Empire banging on the doors of Vienna, Central Europe was endanger of being conquered by the Ottoman Empire . At that time the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was living on good terms in the 17th century, than you took parts of ours in 1772 and 1792 and 95🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, by that time we have lost our good Kings our good Hetmans and our Heavy Hussars! In the 18th century Poland Got stuck with some cake eating palace partying Saxon Kings and Palace Toy Soldiers not good for Battle!
I Claim this Victory for me
nein
1918 funny, 1918 funny, 1918 funny, 1918 best year ever
Could you just have withstood building ships? We wouldn't have had a whole lot of wars...
This is for the fuhrer.
As do i
The Prussians were not only technologically superior but they had superior maneuvering as well, they really obliterated their enemies by consistently flanking their opponents and exploiting terrain advantages whenever possible. The officers were also very well trained and able.
Its no surprise many are convinced the Prussians were the best armies during their era. The famed General Sherman of the US Union Army of the Potomac, who observed the Prussians, consider them to be much better than his own.
I swear did Napoleon III even sent his general to obverse this battle they literally have tactics of maneuver mobility and best a new artillery that can outclass the France.
Saying nothing of their rifle.
Weapons and tactics goes both ways
@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 French actually had superior rifles by the time the Franco-Prussian war happened
Like they outnumbered the Danes many times so they sort of should win this fight.
Superior maneuvering due to their more decent firearms technology. With newly invented Dreyse Needle gun that allows you to shoot faster, the need for line formation lessened.
Everybody gangster till Prussia's Glory starts playing and the Germans are taking nothing but headshots.
Fun fact: in an earlier episode the Prussians started using music to annoy and demoralize the Danes and it was working
I imagine hans running around the danish in circles playing prussians gloria all night on his flute
@@homesteadlegion4419 the war was 1864, but Gloria was written 1871, so was not possible 😂
Yes, Prussian Music was enough to make Denmark sue for peace.
Brahms, probably.
Tbf can u believe how scary it is seeing 100k soldiers (dont know the number) walking gladly singing into their death?
Dunno how Denmark thought it could go toe to toe with 2 European superpowers but hey, fortune favours the bold.
As a dane, i respect your comment
@@valdemarhammer5981 you fought honorably
Don't know how Germany thought it could go toe to toe by opening 3 Fronts against two superpowers in two different world wars. It forgot A history lesson they once taught.
They actually won the First Schleswig War of 1848-51. Of course in that case, they were supported by Britain and Russia, while German states were a mess (the war even began with a revolt in Schleswig-Holstein). Afterwards, Danes got high on the fumes of their past glories, neglected their defenses and thought they could succeed without Great Power backing. Meanwhile Prussia, while hardly invincible, never failed without taking a hard look on what had gone wrong and making serious improvements.
Eeeh.... Viking spirit perhaps?
0:54 that scream with the music is hilarious.
Everyone gangsta until prussias glory starts playing.
Prussians are gangsta until they hear Katyusha.
@@Ali-7676 Katyusha is gangsta until she hears march orders for gulag
@@Blei1986 Double, triple entendre silly. Katyusha in this case wasnt the girl, nor the song, but the MRL.
@@Ali-7676 IKR...
fool
@@Blei1986 Jokes should make sense dummy. Just how and why do you send an MRL to the gulag?
The Prussian, one of the inspiration of the Krieger of the 40k universe.
Aren't they the Mordian Guard?
I mean Tactics aside yes but always had a Prussia WW1 vibe, now that I'm typing this your comment does make more sense, cuz Prussia's PRUSSIA.
Common misconception, they are mostly based on french troops during WW1 although they do have an amalgam of french and German gear. They key part is the war of attrition doctrine used by Krieg, that wasn't a Prussian thing
@@Alridx The Deathcorps of Krieg is actually very clearly WW1 German inspired. While the name and gear alone already give a huge hint the whole waste of reckless life’s doctrine is a classical WW1 western front theme. As Juan Gabriel correctly said it’s the Mordian Guard that is heavily Prussian inspired due to their uniform style and the background of military drill put to an extreme.
The world would have been very different if they hadn't stopped playing it full blast on the battlefield...
@@Alridx if the obviously German names weren’t already a dead giveaway, the heavy focus on artillery definitely is evidence of Prussian influence (there obviously is French influence, especially for the uniforms minus the helmets, but let’s not ignore the Prussian/German one)
it's crazy to think how recently we were still running at each other with spears on the battle field.
There was a bayonet charge in 2004 in Iraq. Real war isn't like the video games.
@@dawnfire82 Another in 2011 in Afghanistan.
and let's not forget the banzai charges the Japanese did in WWII.
@@dawnfire82no shit sherlock
@@kilroy2517Or the human wave attacks used by the North Koreans and Chinese in Korea in the 1950s.
Dane 1: Idk should we charge?
Dane 2: Did someone say charge?
Every Dane: CHAAAARRGE!!!
**Danish officer left the chat**
The soldiers are begging the officer to sound the charge as their mates are getting slaughtered in the trenches. The officers are hesitant to charge as their commanding officer is mia either dead or fled the battlefield.
The initial charge pushed back the prussians, at which point they should have reinforced the trenches. They mistakenly thought they were winning and decided to pursue the enemy. At which point the 2nd prussian wave came crashing down on them.
Actually this battle werent that deadly. The battle of Als a few months later were far more deadly and had way more cassualties.
That charge did cost Denmark the battle, because that was the last intact force that was not engaged or worn-out.
Prussians never retreat, just regroup. They shall return and in greater numbers.
Grande armée has entered the chat
Prussian army has entered Paris
@@Quinonez15 French grande armée marching through Berlin*
@@bebased1785 France surrendering*
I am told Parisians keep spare white flags on hand just in case.
i love how calm everyone is while their mates are getting noscope headshoted
0:34 the moment you learned that you're f"ck3d up
You died in 2 2021
Nah it's the moment where you are confused.
More like 0:51
Prussia may be gone, but it lives on in all our hearts
It's nice to see the us fascists be nostalgic about prussia, we germans feel a little bit less proud. prussia is pure militarism and oppression, but have fun with your fantasies i guess
@@elonmuskel9461 🤦🏻♂️
@@elonmuskel9461 have you ever heard of a fucking joke. He actually doesn’t want Prussia back today like it was then. Not to mention all nations were built on oppression at this time in history. The past was a different time and you cannot people from a few hundred years ago to today’s standards. So go crawl back into the the trash you came out of. You generally have no joy in your life to not be able to take a joke you fun nazi.
@@elonmuskel9461 You can't just do them like that, look how upset you made them LMAOO
@@localrocker666: woah butthurt much? 👀 why ALL germans bro, who hurt you?
Bismarck always had a plan….
This traitor betrayed Prussia
@@thorstenmarquardt7274 He helped prussia to form the german empire so I dont think he is a traitor. If he is pls explain
Why traitor he was and is a true hero of the German empire... After the first ww he planned alliances with England becouse he knew a one sided front is winnable but when you knew the nazis would have won the war when they act with a brain and not a shitty heil Hitler we will... Like the dumb fight for Stalingrad when all his generals wanted to go for Moscow when the panzer divisions where 30-40km away from the target but no no we fight for ego and lose and lose all the momentum like the same mistake with kursk biggest panzer Schlacht in the history.. When again all his generals wanted to retreat and form a defensive line and wait for the latest weapons who would come in 1944 1945
When we would had bissmark 1000years could be accomplished
@@Kursun28 traitor for Prussia
Prussia is not Germany
@@hans_getz_ze_panzerfaust_6921 Prussia is not Germany
Denmark: "Lag! Crappy team! Stupid map!"
Prussia: "OWNED."
Best comment! Lol!
Prussia: Cope harder
@@therussianimperialarmy542Prussia : Cope in hagen, noob
Total war: When you finished off the last man, but then you realized there is another wave
The Battle of Dybbøl (Danish: Slaget ved Dybbøl; German: Erstürmung der Düppeler Schanzen) was the key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia. The battle was fought on the morning of 18 April 1864, following a siege that began on 2 April. Denmark suffered a severe defeat which - with the Prussian capture of the island of Als - ultimately decided the outcome of the war, forcing Danish cession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
- from Wikipedia
Haha nice. I'm german and I live in Schleswig-Holstein
Danish be :- Why do I hear Boss music 🤔?
I get chills when the music comes up and you see the old man leading the charge with the sword
Dont call my dad old :d
@@simonnovak6832 I’m sorry 😞
as a dane, i feel a deep chest paine every time i watch clips like this...
Just flee to Germany. They take everyone. Just say you are a refugee and they build you a house, give you women, and Mercedes.
Your welcome in Wokecountry!
As a prussian, i feel like you guys were drunk while thinking you could win
@@Sven73524 We were never under the impression that the war was winnable, the plan was to fight a defensive war until the british or the russians would intervene on our behalf. Also last time i checked it was you guys that decleared war first, we were just minding our own buisness intergrating the duchies, and you decieded medle in our domestic policies.
@@calvinneess5570 big mistake, do not rely on slavs or imigrated germans to save you in such a war
@@Sven73524 And never rely on a prussian not to start an unjustified war.
0:03 "FOR DENMARK!" these danes are almost speaking english, I can almost understand what they're saying
As if some Danish people had an influence on the English language...
Like... Saxons and later Vikings...
I speak Danish, and honestly, if I spoke Danish to an English speaker, they would definitely not understand me.
Fordi Dansk er ikke såden meget det samme som Englesk. Der er en ret stor forskel. Vikinger var et par tusind år siden, og man kan ikke glemme "The great vowel shift". Som skedt efter vikinge tiden.
Now that I've said that, I would request for you to try your best to understand what I have said, and then use Google translate. Good luck!
Most languages started out from similar or the same base ones. But accents form, the dialects, then it becomes another language eventually. Say some old middle english with certain accents, and you suddenly begin to understand large amounts. Its really cool if you can find those situations.
@mar n ok that's unfair ur germanic and so are the danes
@mar n there is something as going to far by calling dutch a german dialect :P
Officer runing with a sword is so fcking kino
With all that Headshots, prussians clearly were using aimbot
Nah. They had aim assist. You can clearly see that by hitting the hats instead of heads at times.
Black powder burn slow, hence the recoil have more time to force the gun up, before the bullet leave the muzzle, so shoots in general go high, so headshoot is "normal"
And this is why scouts are really important before, during and even after a battle
One person friends out you have McDonald’s 0:57
The Dreyse is the only rifle that ever played a decisive factor in a european war. In the danish war of 1864 it caused 84% of the danish casualties, in 1866 90% of the austrian&allied casualties, in 1871 70% of the french casualties; these numbers are mostly extrapolated from field hospital reports
@Vantage And?
@Vantage Ok! Just go somewhere else now.
@Vantage Yeah it was. It doesn't change anything tho. All the statistics he wrote are still true and absolutely don't change.
In 1870-71 the Krupp artillery was the main advantage, as the French had a superior rifle. By then the Dreyse was rather outdated and was being phased out quickly after the war.
Where was the Winchester
rife? Load once shoot all day!
I hate it when Prussia is your enemy...Doing so well then they storm over the hill and you think to yourself "Oh fuck no, not again"
That face you pull when Prussia appears with their guns and start doing the headshot thingy and you're like "ffs Prussia is my enemy"
1:16 the guy was checking to see if his head was still there or not, lol, the Prussian soldier helped him made a conclusive decision.
Yeah....its like a classic. Similar scene in saving private ryan.
I like how they stop in the middle of the field to look and go "Guess I'll die \o/ " .
The reason why I feel nostalgic hearing the Prussian BGM is that they taught us how the military lieds are composed.
Everyone else: stay together and fire on enemy's general direction
Prussian: aim above enemy's head and bullet will land on your opponent's head
It’s over Prussians, we have the high ground!
Prussians “The fat lady has not sung”
Yes, but the chasseurpot (or whatever it is called idk) has a better gas seal and is faster but the french lost the franco prussian war due to Deutsch Artillery and tactics that favored independent regiments? Or platoons? (idk) but yea uh dreyse it is somewhat good but the gas deal wasnt
1:05 When that cold brew hits.
I love how the men where literally Standing there knowing there demise
Rule number 1 when defeating the Prussian Army, never/don't always ASSUME u won(especially right away)
Dane looking his comrades falling by headshots only: “Damn modders”
Looks like ragequitting
No its a historic detail, the gunpowder burn so slowly, so the recoil have time to press the rifle up, before the bullet have left the barrel. If the soldier do not intentionally aim low, the bullet will go high.
That original screaming goes insanely hard. FORMAL! FOR DANMARK
You know, given human history, and human character, there can be a near inexhaustible supply of films named "Battle Of.....". Especcially on European continent.
My first guess was the initial retreat was to lure the charging enemy into an artillery kill zone, I expected that quiet bit (Where have they all gone?) to be ended by hundreds of incoming shrapnel shells (...as the answer).
They obviously retreated over the trench because they didn’t wanna get shredded to pieces, and then met up with the second wave. instead of just sitting there and die, and then the second wave comes
HAUBITZEN!
I like to imagine the Prussian side's BGM was actually blaring across the battlefield as they counter attacked
still love the fact that they literally stood in a line in open field and tried to shoot their enemys doing the same, and then just stood still for 5 min trying to reload and then do it all over again xD, like imagine one guy somehow has a machine gun
Kinda need to do that to get serious firepower out of muzzle-loaders, and even then, to actually break the enemy you usually needed artillery fire or a bayonet charge. This war is actually when things start to gradually move away from that paradigm, as Prussian infantry with breech-loaders and lots of training in marksmanship could smash the formations at range. The first machine gun (sort of) comes in at Franco-Prussian war, but mitrailleuse was such a super secret weapon that French officers weren't even told of its existence before the war, and nobody had put in any thought on how to effectively use it.
The famous Gatling machine gun was invented in 1861, 3 years before this war. A machine gun could very well have appeared on this battlefield.
@@stillwatersrundeep001 Invented in America, right in the middle of the civil war, doubt they had any spare for export at the time.
@@BNOBLE981 There's always the black market or simple copying.
Fun fact: In danish history this was the point were they realized that they are officially fucked.
Ah that was after the napoleonic wars. The army was officially cut down to lesser numbers. The navy was never restored to former glory but was build in a smaller scale. However the iron clads gave us a huge advantage..
Sehr schön!! VORWÄRTS und ANGRIFFE!! Gott mit uns.
I am a half-dane, but Prussia is cool af.
whats your other half ?
Pinoy.
Danes also germanic
Remember, this movie was made by the DANES. Takes another kind of respect to show your country in filmmaking getting absolutely obliterated.
I know that’s what they’re supposed to do for the movie, but still.
well, they allready made them look the best way they could and acted like the Germans paid a huge price. Surprised theydidnt act like they won tbh
@@thecouncilofthirteen2943neither danish nor german soldiers wanted this. Some of them may have been fighting their childhood friends or even distant family.
This is a superb series. The terror of industrial warfare...
This is why prussia is number 1 to me
This is the same to me. Long live prussia!!
When the prussian officer and main chorus kicks in is just glorious
When you think you are leading 1:0, but you lose 2:0
My great grandad was born 1864 in Schleswig-Holstein. Depending on what month, he was either born Danish or Prussian.
Schleswig-Holstein: Hey Prussia we want to be independent from Denmark can you help us?
Prussia: Hey. Yeah of course. I'll make you "independent"..... 😏
Schleswig-Holstein: Immediately becomes Prussian territory.
we had no problem with that
@@thecouncilofthirteen2943 heck Denmark actually wanted to become a part of Germany.
And yet it took another 60 years before people finally realised; "Yeah... Y'know we probably need helmets for this sort of thing..."
I think the Germans/Prussians started using helmets after this war, at least by the Franco-Prussian war a few decades later. But you’re right, with the invention of faster and more accurate rifles/artillery. It should have been common for all countries by mid 1800s
Helmets don't help you from bullets. Adopting them was done to prevent casualties from shrapnel, not direct gunfire.
Helmets are rather to protect against artillery shrapnel
The dreyse was a monster on the battlefield. Way ahead of its time.
Yep a total game changer made a fierce fighting force even more formidable
I remember sending my breech loaders in Fall of the Samurai against the Muzzle Loaders. Felt horrified by the Slaughter, knowing this insanity happened in history
Everytime when something new arrives on the battlefield it takes time to adapt for tactics, officers and generals. And that 'adaption' just means, a lot of people who want to be literally anywhere else and frankly don't even hate the other folks that much, have to die.
And in movies it looks always so clean - headshots and instant death. But there are quite a lot of war diaries from WW1 where people remember how they heard their comrades dying in no mans land for hours or days afterwards. De-sensitized to the point where they wrote stuff: "Would this guy not already fucking die! It has been nearly two days and I want to sleep."
1864 the march "Preußens Gloria" was unknown, because Piefke composed this march 7 years later, 1871!
Thats a common myth but Preußens Gloria is just the natural sound that happens when Prussia charges into battle. No one knows why it happens. If at least two prussians are together and running in the same direction the horns will come in from nowhere
Piefke was just the first person to put this unique phenomenon down on paper
@@TheBacknblack92 Some say Piefke did this during the apres-ski in Ischgl, Austria.
That to my eyes, tears brought! The small but valiant Iron Kingdom lives on in all who love her. She beat every one of the 800 lb gorillas around her: France, Sweden and Austria. And fought the Russian giant to a standstill. And of course defeated the Danes. Human by birth, Prussian by choice!
And they had better marches!
😂😂😂🤣 Prussia was a loser country which luckily doesn't exist anymore
As a swedish person, ive never been so proud of another nation
The rivalry was so bad between Sweden and Denmark?
@@XDerNetteMannX Indeed
@@XDerNetteMannX the only thing i give the danes are cheese danishes
and even then they're austrian
Everything about your country is just bootleg Denmark. Nice flag, wonder where you got that
When you use bolt action rifles. The Danes are insane.
Prussia had actually a huge advantage over denmark since prussian soldiers had the needle gun. You shot once, put another bullet in the chamber and shoot again. The danish had to refill the barrel with gunpowder, put a bullet in and push it down just to shoot again. So the needle gun made the reloading much quicker.
Something like this happened to me in Elder Scrolls Online once. We were pushing, opponents retreates, we were wondering where they are and then we see 50+ characters charging down the hill in front of us.
And all of us went like "hell nah" aand started running back from where we came from
When you thought you just defeat Prussians but they just showed up with their big guns:
And the music....awesome 😂😂😂😂
Love the German Marching tune my favourite first heard on World at War with Laurence Olivier
Danish soldiers: Why do we hear boss music?
[in the voice of a historian] "Prussia was long renowned for their ability to pwn n00bs with a 360 no-scope musket headshot from 300 yards."
If ur mom says wear a helmet u know why
1:35 When Danish Soldiers were had enough of Prussia
Danish Soldiers: Prussians are weak
Prussian Army Flanking: Are you sure about that?
Als die Dänen frech geworden…
Love the PFP
"So schnell schießen die Preussen nicht..."
The Preussen:
50% Weapons
50% Uniforms
*1864% DISCIPLINE.*
New acheivment unlocked: heads shots only
great a prussian fan boy
0:47 JAAPAAAAN!!
This same tactic of "Run away from enemy. If enemy takes the hill, surround and start harassing them from the mists" was used by Napoleon Bonarparte in the Battle of Austelitz. He won.
This proves that just because the enemy retreated, doesn't mean you've won.
The Prussians never participated in the Battle of Austerlitz. Only Austria-Hungary and Russia fought against Napoleon.
@@RealRotkohl Nevermind, I mistook for Waterloo
I wish there was a word for this... Feined retreat
Napoleon: Lets shut some Beer - love with french- made baguette Boys!
when the enemy side has more players and are counter charging be like:
Denmark, your free trial of winning has ended, you will now return to reality, have a nice day
Prussia is already dead. Poland and russia owns most of the lands of Prussia
@@rjcarillo1414 but Denmark lost the war
@@vermas4654 I'm talking the modern day since I thought you're talking about the modern day
@@rjcarillo1414 why would I be talking about modern day? This video is not about 2022
Cuando empieza la guerra:
Dinamarca: soy poderoso y tengo a Inglaterra de mi lado.
Prussia:Está guerra es pan comido.
Prussia say don't mess with us
In polish since 1945...
@@zenonlopezwallace568 in germany since 1600 and lost 1945