We started noticing in the comments that viewers were writing “stop using AI” For our map we don't use AI, everything you see on the map is the handiwork of our motion designers. Indeed, sometimes we use AI-based inserts. like 5:33 or 16:05, but only to add an immersive effect. Let us know in the comments what you think about these inserts, we want to improve our content with your help
First off, how annoying to get those comments when your people put quite some effort into it. Secondly, I agree with @michaelwu7678. There are multiple reasons why, but I'll mention one of my biggest gripes in detail. Generative AI is bad with historical stuff. Due to the nature of machine learning, unconformable accuracy of assets, biases in labeling, and them being designed to output a sort of average of known opinions the following emergecned with current large scale generative AI: Generative AI, unless explicitly and in detail being prompted otherwise (and even then) perpetuates stereotypes. An easy example would be ancient greek, the output would most often be of white buildings and statues, while we know that they applied pigments. Because, since the Renaissance, and today in popculture and pop-history, these are most often depicted as white, colourless facaded and statues. This disconnect becomes more so when dealing with subjects where there is less western documentation on, as these generally appear less and more often mislabelled in the datasets of the large generative AI providers. Like, imagine of it were the other way around and being prompted on WWI Germany, it returns content with Nazi imagery. This might become an issue when using AI art for educational purposes, as I would argue you present in the video. I have many more reasons, a whole (as of yet unpublished) essay by my colleague/friend in fact, on why to not (yet) use generative AI art as is, but I won't post it without being explicitly asked to.
This war wasn't the main factor; one of the main factors leading to the French Revolution was that when the Americans revolted against the British, France decided to finance and heavily aid the Americans in their revolutionary war as revenge (by the French) against the British winning the Seven Years' War earlier. While the Seven Years' War did economic damage to France, it was ultimately aiding the Americans that dealt the main and final economic devastation to France's treasury.
@@spacecraftcarrier4135 it was devastating for Britain financially and is the main reason Britain wanted to tax the hell out of the colonists to make back the money
It is amazing seeing all these events, and how they rippled into others. Napoleon made a lot of ripples, perhaps even allowing ww1 to occur. Things just chain throughout time.
@@spacecraftcarrier4135, plus indirectly the Enlightenment, encouraged its people to embrace the success & ideas of the American Revolution and seek to replace the old monarchy. Ben Franklin was one of those founding fathers (among a few others) who approved of the reform movements in France because the US, given that it wanted to separate from King George III's kingdom, had the same reservations about France's current monarchy. Most of the people of France saw how their power was struggling to maintain its vast empire amid their usual rivalries, which included the Holy Roman and Austro-Hungarian Empires. France wanted to continue the multiple succession wars since the reign of Charles V of Habsburg and restore the glory of King Louis XIV-the Sun King's military prowess underneath another stage of the Protestant Reformation. which the Enlightenment wanted. Frederick the Great approved this because the movement reduced the Habsburgs' ability to restore & stabilize the Holy Roman Empire under the Pope. At the same time, Prussia gathered up the territories to change them culturally & religiously for the benefit of the Enlightenment.
Small correction, when the video says that Prussia reaffirmed ownership over Silesia the map was shown to annex Saxony. This didn’t happen as on the map with the borders staying the same but in exchange the Austrian claims on Silesia were no longer taken seriously. Other than that the video was very detailed, informative and enjoyable.
the scriptwriter switched a bit too often between the names of countries and their ruling dynasties but apart from some minor inaccuracies this clip was remarkable well done for an American considering the topic
I think the first conflict on a global scale was the "Portuguese-Dutch war", which, despite not having a large number of nations, took place in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia
I would agree that it may deserve the label of first conflict on a global scale, but i am hesitant to call it the first "war" on a global scale. Not that there wasn't direct and bloody confrontation between the two. There was many of such. It is just the way the two parties did it. As if it was not a war but more like a violent discussion. Though i am sure that someone fighting for his life at those battles did not care for any label i would choose to call it.
It started while the Iberian Union was going, so it was basically for most of it's time, part of the 40 years war, it only became portuguese-dutch war when Portugal kicked spain ass out of their country, and proclaimed a king, when news reached their former brazilian colony, settlers united with natives and expelled the dutch, the portuguese with Brazil, restores a bit of it's power so they start fighting back, mainly in Africa but also recaptures Goa.
Even if Russia stayed in the war and helped defeat Prussia it’s super impressive the Prussian military accomplished what it did. Imagine had Prussia later Germany maintained its alliance with the British how the map would look.
It’s what Hitler hoped Churchill would do. The latter famously toiled over this question, which is recorded in his diary. Luckily for all of us, Churchill eventually declared war on Nazi Germany. This cost many British soldiers’ lives, but likely saved the world from utter doom.
@@gloverfox9135 yeah, maybe that’s what he meant. But it was Germany who attacked and took over Poland, France, etc.. and may have been impossible to beat at some point. Plus they had a non-aggression pact with the Soviets. Germany was still tough to beat.
Portugal just casually getting wrecked by one of the most severe earthquakes ever in 1755, only to be invaded by Spain while trying to stay neutral, turning around and winning against Spain and France. Classic Spanish L
@@Unpseudopascommelesautres If anything, the English played a bigger part than Portugal itself. Nuno Álvares Pereira still a genius general for his tactics though, he was in charge of the English army in Portugal for the duration of that war/battle. Reminder that, according to Wikipedia, the Portuguese/English were outnumbered about 5:1 (6600 vs 31000).
@@filipexavier8771Portuguese specialty is winning battles outnumbered, the more they're outnumbered, the better they fight. Esse legado passou pro Brasil quando espancamos os paraguaios em Riachuelo.
The first global war for dominance occurred when the British declared the UK off limits for foreign ships. At that time, five out of six ships on the world's oceans had been Dutch. The Dutch benefited from open seas and open ports. For about 50 years, they were all over the place, all over the world. By closing off the British ports, the Brits were capable of playing a power game that the UK would ultimately win, not on the battlefields, but in economic sense. Four wars were not won by the Dutch, and so instead of Dutch global dominance, the result led to three centuries of Britannia ruling the waves and leading the world. Nationalism had its global birth when the UK closed off its harbors to foreign ships.
Frederick the Great was like an 18th century Terminator. He could be decisively defeated battle and lose 10,000 men, but a few months go by and he's charging right back into the fight.
Love the video and the details you provided. Really good knowledge. One critique I have is that you say the word “however” a lot. I counted almost 20 times which gets a little repetitive
Thank you for this video! The 7 years war definitely doesn't get talked about enough. Something that gets discussed even less is the war of Austrian Succession. Do you think you could do a video on that in the future? Thanks again!
The 7 years war happened because of discontent with the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle (Aachen) which ended the War of the Austrian Succession and the subsequent giant shift in diplomacy which saw France and Austria becoming allies. That's why Austrian princess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) ended up marrying the French dauphin (later Louis XVI) and the rest as they say is history. A bit like how discontent with the Treaty Of Versailles ending World War One and discontent with that eventually led to World Wat Two,
In the United States, I was referred to as the French Indian war, and in Europe it was the seven years war. The thing is that Great Britain racked up so much debt from seven years war & Then we’re taxing the heck out of the American colonies and saying that they were protecting us, but the war in Europe cost them more money and they didn’t protect us from the The French and Indians here because they didn’t even know what they were doing. The colonial malicious, took care of that problem, because the British didn’t know anything about the territory environment, or even anything about fighting Indians. I just thought that the seven years war involved Great Britain and France
What ultra smartness strategies are embodied by the British through its financial aids to exhausted and semi bankrupted Prussians against French and Austrians. Britain 🇬🇧 utilized Prussians as its mercenaries against French and Austrians. Britain imposed Austrians remained inside Europe facing several threats within Europecontent, exhausted French efforts nearby its borders, and its far away colonials through those 7 years wars...political smartness is completely different from military smartness.... it was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode... Thanks for sharing
The exact same thing happened in the Napoleonic Wars where Britain would finance Prussia and Austria to attack France, they would get beaten and surrender, and then Britain would send them more money, rinse and repeat. It's kind of nutty how much financial power London had in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Exactly,… I find it laughable that people commonly dismiss the consistent victories of what is the most impressive and incredible "strategic" rather than tactical nation in history, because they didn't win purely with military tactics, which always requires a large army (LOL! What's impressive about having a greater population and large army to defeat an enemy?) For hundreds of years the Brits ancestors always saying the right thing in diplomacy an negotiation to come out on top (cunning) and the 1st to use sophisticated banking techniques e.g. fractional reserve and coordinated investment and borrowing to bankroll not only this war, but the Napoleonic wars also.In the Napoleonic wars they literally reinvented coalitions through funding to such devastating cumulative effect on Napoleon, that they absolutely were the MAIN reason for his downfall, not the Russian winter. *This was all achieved with a population 1/3 of the size of France.Then England became the 1st nation for citizens other than the aristocrats closest to the King to force royalty to give protected rights in law to those other than the most anointed aristocrats, through the English Bill of Rights and the act of Parliament (1707), this in turn leads to them exercising the Industrial Revolution which absolutely created the modern world we live in now with all its tech, and without this we would still be back using horses and sailing ships.Even the USA today was invented by the Brits, as all of the founding fathers were following English traditions and had entirely English ancestry, Develop their system of the 2 houses through adaptation from the English one as well as the American constitution and Bill of Rights.USA techniques are pretty much copying the British ones before them and their most vaunted and respected centres of learning inception and development began with Englishmen establishing English traditions from 50 years (Princeton) to 150 years (Harvard and Yale) before the USA was even created
@@Rowlph8888 british empire was strong because they got india now look at them and usa copying before them? Lol without French the colonist would lose it and also look at eu who is controlling eu we all know
@@johanlibert2481 Well, every civilisation becomes wealthy, then complacent and then hungrier populations catch up and then move beyond.We could see that with the intense trade union disputes between the workers and elites in Britain post-war, until 1980, prevented using the Marshall plan to reinvent infrastructure and industrial The Techniques.The Germans and the Japanese having had their elites killed and demolished infrastructure, but hungry populations were in the perfect position to take advantage and update and now we can see these 2 countries have done the same thing In the 21st-century by over regulating that the Brits did post-war and other nations have gone past them now Ultimately, the Brits ancestors (1689-1950) had the biggest impact on the world than any civilisation before, for the simple fact that from 1815-1970, the standard of living of citizens in Western Europe, USA, the rest of the Anglosphere and Japan rose about 500%, due mainly to British tech, other nations of which had perfected to a greater qualityIn the 2nd half of the 20th century, but it was the brits ancesttors that pioneered and invented the vast majority of it. Studies have been done on this and a citizen in Western Europe in 1780 standard of living wasn't much greater than it had been 3000 years before - this highlights not only what fuel deployed and mechanised tech achieved once it had been developed for decades and organisational structures and flourished to accommodate it(E.g.better sewers, better sanitation), but also the pioneering at the Brits ancestors made with the English Bill of Rights (1869) and the act of Parliament (1707) which was so influential in enfranchising and Emancipating new groups other than just the Nobles closest to the King (which was the way things were throughout history before those dates)the American constitution and Bill of Rights and the French political and legal structure in turn.credit should be given when due!
Its crazy to think how slow the 7 years war was. The scale of the battles and the speed between them is so slow compared to 50 years later in the napoleonic wars. I mean most of the scale of the battles you see here would have happened in 1805-1807 alone 😂
Yeah apart from winning a few minor battles earlier in the war while the British were mobilising they got wrecked. Britain ended the French empire and France spiralled into revolution
@@SirZanZa yes and it's not commonly mentioned that a British MP in Parliament made the terrible strategic error of giving the French back the Caribbean islands officially FOR A GESTURE, to prevent the French feeling vengeful in the future( as if that would make a difference).This was literally the only Way that the French could catch up before another 2 centuries or so, because it was the most lucrative part of the French Empire and enabled them to keep pace with British updating (especially militarily, in the Navy) just before they transitioned from their canal based 1st Industrial Revolution, to the steam-based 2nd Industrial Revolution *Predictably, the French were Seethingly vengeful anyway and having that colony handed back to them was the only way that they were able to be the decisive factor in the victory in the war of independence which established the USA. Because this happened only decades before the Brits develop steamships, railways and a mechanised army, it's understandable why it's taught of as manifest destiny because the USA absolutely had no chance of independence for hundreds of years, if they lost this war as the Brits would have been covert with the information for industrialisation for national security reasons, instead of selling the ideas for capital investment, like they did and our timeline
While in some ways yes and in others no.Even at the inception of World War I, even though USA had overtaken UK in industrial output, in terms of real wealth the UK had 25% of International stock market, with the USA only 15% and Germany 10%
@@guyman1570 I'm extremely skeptical of that. those were pretexts from the group that writes the history because they lie about the real reasons. they were the deep state of the day
Very impressive scale and detail, but if I'm not mistaken I didn't see any reference to the Royal Navy attacking the North of France coastline 3 times and the West of France coastline once during this war, which drew significant numbers of the French army away from the Prussians, at crucial points.
Hadik's corps consisted of 5,100 men in October 1757. 1 Hungarian hussar regiment with 1,100 men, 1 Austrian cuirassier regiment with 1,000 men, 1 line infantry regiment with 900 men from Saxony, and 2 border guard light infantry regiments from Croatia and Serbia with 2100 men and some siege guns. Hadik left 1,500 men as a rear guard on the Brandenburg border. The defenders of Berlin numbered 5,500, but were not well equipped. The siege guns breached the gates and then a cavalry charge routed the guards. The defenders fled or surrendered. The booty was 215,000 gold thalers, 6 Prussian flags and 12 pairs of ladies' gloves for the empress. All gloves were left-handed. Hadik's loss was 88 men and 57 horses. He brought 425 Prussian prisoners of war with him from Berlin. Hadik was the first who received the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. th-cam.com/video/1wxWilP8RvM/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/K331Ugm75NY/w-d-xo.html
Great video just have a small gripe 5:54 You cannot be "7 times smaller" but you can be "1/7th the size" of something. You can also be "7 times larger" than something. It may be a new thing that allows that I am kinda old 😂
@@aaronbaron3155 You are allowed to use the inverse operation to describe the difference from that perspective. 7 times smaller, meaning the other number would be divided by 7 to equal the smaller number. I'm sure you know this, but I mean to say it does make grammatical sense to say __ times smaller.
Makes you wonder what if the balance of power ended up as Germany, UK, and Russia vs France, Italy, Austria-H, and Ottomans or Spain in WW1. Almost seems plausible
@@reiudfgq3vrh34ur It would be something like USA-China alliance today, it makes no sense. British geostrategy in Europe was never to allow one power to dominate.
@@JDDC-tq7qmI’m not so sure. The sea would be under British and German control. As well as Americans would definitely be in the German and British side. A blockade of France and Spain would possibly starve them out of the war and Portugal could even end up joining. The Russians ottomans and Austrians weren’t strong enough to start an offensive against Germany. It would just be a waiting game for the uk and Germany while the other side either just throw men at their lines or slowly starve
the long term strategic consequences of the seven years war were still felt all the way up to ww1. I've always felt that Prussia's performance is what dictated the "don't let the Germans get too powerful" mindset of the rest of Europe. Frederick the great was possibly the best strategic and tactical leader of all time. Some of the losses you showed here had to been intentional, to force pitched battles under his terms. when you start looking at the battles of Prussia in this way you have to say to yourself... holy crap. i honestly dont know how anybody could have such strategic vision. Austria had them beat in every single way... EVERY SINGLE WAY, and yet Frederick still achieved great success in his long term goals (in at least pro vs cons type of way) in alot of ways with the bankrolling of prussia the ascendancy of great britain was all but assured. man oh man i could go on and on about how the seven years war dictated the European theatre for the next hundred to hundred and fifty years, hell Bismarck was determined to avoid anything of its like again, it was a complete change in the power structures of europe, and Napoleon himself even declared on taking berlin that if fredrick the great lived in his time he would have been screwed. the seven years war was... and i cannot overstate this, the single most important event in european history.
The Brits ancestors were the post-Enlightenment strategic geniuses (Maverick diplomacy, ttechnological,political ,legal and economic invention deployed into Military hegemony and the Germans the tactical and craftsmanship geniuses (Engineering prowess,Frederick, World War I and World War II generals) Not so much any more though
Nice informative video, but please check how often you say "however...". At some point it becomes distracting. That being said, the video does give a nice overview of the situation worldwide leading to all kinds of events most people are more familiar with. It could have gone very different.
Yup, noticed that too, like the 100k prussian casualties and then showing 400k for Austria but that was the army size they said, so on one side they had 100k casualties for Prussia and 400k army for Austria, confusing, but if you follow the video these mistakes can be noticed and you can understand the real thing I guess.
Except that the river Elbe in Germany doesn't split off in two and doesn't empty into the Baltic sea near Lübeck. The short river that does empty there, goes riverupwards, first south, then west then north. (I used to moderate a forum for mapgore, but please don't take this as hard criticism, it devalues the video content in no meaningful way)
Funny to see the Netherlands in green and the Habsburg's in orange. As a Dutchie, I must mention that the coastline isn't quite accurate, but it is a lot to ask for accurate coastlines in historic videos due to how much these have evolved here. However, if you were to map Roman on early medival times, I would suggest redrawing that part of the map. The Wikipedia Commons page titled "The Atlas of the Netherlands" has excelent maps for this purpose under the header "Palaeogeographic maps" made by the Dutch _Nationale Onderzoeksagenda Archeologie_ (National Research-agenda of Archeology)
@@ChrisCrossClash Yet, French diplomats felt like the treaty of Paris was an overall sign of victory. Why? Because in exchange for recognizing the loss of North America, France was able to reclaim the Antilles/West Indies, possessions that were far more important to Paris in terms of sugar and coffee production in particular. New France, on the other hand, was mostly empty and unoccupied, and its only economic interest was a rather uninteresting trade in hides. Voltaire wrote that all that was lost was “a few acres of snow”. What's more, France was able to keep Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a small archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland, which gave it a foothold in the region and enabled it to continue fishing in these fish-rich waters; the fish of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic were for France the real attraction of North America. In fact, Paris did little to save French Canada, which led to resentment among Quebecers who felt abandoned by France, a fact that still marks the relationship of some Quebec nationalists with France. On the battlefield, France won important victories in Africa, in France itself and in Germany, but its failure was to lose the main confrontations. Yes, the war was in fact a defeat, and yes, the French aristocracy of the time did try to save face by claiming to have won the war, but no, it wasn't the humiliating and terrible defeat we sometimes read about on the Internet these days.
King George II did not exercise taxes against the 13 colonies, British Parliament did.UK in 1776 already had a constitutional representative Parliament (the 1st in history) and King George had no power over domestic policy.His only powers were being able to appoint personnel to the military, but ultimately even the war against the colonists was exercised by Parliament, not King George, that was just propaganda from colonial demagogues trying to raise passion for the war effort, which was non-existent until years after the taxes were 1st implemented.If those colonial representatives truly believe King was in charge they wouldn't have even mentioned "no taxation with out representation", which if the average colonist had brains they would have realised that the saying contradicts the very notion of a tyrannical despot exercising power because representation only comes through Parliament e.g.: constituencies within UK each having an MP to represent local needs
Yet, French diplomats felt like the treaty of Paris was an overall sign of victory. Why? Because in exchange for recognizing the loss of North America, France was able to reclaim the Antilles/West Indies, possessions that were far more important to Paris in terms of sugar and coffee production in particular. New France, on the other hand, was mostly empty and unoccupied, and its only economic interest was a rather uninteresting trade in hides. Voltaire wrote that all that was lost was “a few acres of snow”. What's more, France was able to keep Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a small archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland, which gave it a foothold in the region and enabled it to continue fishing in these fish-rich waters; the fish of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic were for France the real attraction of North America. In fact, Paris did little to save French Canada, which led to resentment among Quebecers who felt abandoned by France, a fact that still marks the relationship of some Quebec nationalists with France. On the battlefield, France won important victories in Africa, in France itself and in Germany, but its failure was to lose the main confrontations. Yes, the war was in fact a defeat, and yes, the French aristocracy of the time did try to save face by claiming to have won the war, but no, it wasn't the humiliating and terrible defeat we sometimes read about on the Internet these days.
Andrej Hadik, who captured Berlin, was Slovak lord. What he did with the Hussars to capture Berlin, became an idiom in our language “Husársky kúsok” (hussars piece /act) equivalent to English “derring-do”
@@dantetre bro even your own source says this: According to another source, he was of Hungarian ethnic origin, but the name "Hadik" is a diminutive from the Slovak appellative had ("snake"), the family was thus of Slovak origin. Everyone who is Slovak knows when he sees someone named “Hadík” 😌
I can say as a Frenchman that this video is very honest and tells the truth. However, my country has had almost nothing but defeats in this period (lol) but the author of this video never hesitates to give these small realistic details (like the very low number of French fighters in Europe but also the victories in numerical inferiority of Frédéric) which make that we FINALLY escape from these boring eternal videos only wanting to flatter the omnipresent nationalism of the men! So many thanks to the author!
Meanwhile, in 1762-1763 the Spanish invaded the south of Brazil up to the island of Santa Catarina, only for the Portuguese to reconquer it 14 years after. Could have spared a 10 second mention and throw South America to the mix of the first true global conflict.
good detail; you should show name of battle when you mention it with date written, especially given the unusual names. don't distract with the moving number toll, just give the casualty figure; and diction instead of baddle of this and baddle of that
This plays out like Prussia are in a ‘save your disaster campaign’ Empire Total War video where it looks like Prussia should be doomed but through outmanoeuvring an opponent who keeps illogically pausing, you win
Ok, so it's inaccurate, for example to say that at the Battle of Zorndorf the Russians lost 16,000 men. They seem to forget that although men killed, severely wounded and out of action due to it, taken prisoner and outrightly missing in all likelihood makes a good fraction, most of that 16,000 men will be available to fight again. You have many wounded soldiers that are capable of fighting. Also you have alot of "missing" soldiers that aren't accounted for immediately after a battle due to all the battles activity and chaos and ensuing disorganization that is caused. Especially in those days, it could take weeks before everyone is answering role call like they're supposed to with their unit. Nit-picky I know but there's a few other statements given that aren't entirely factual.
We started noticing in the comments that viewers were writing “stop using AI”
For our map we don't use AI, everything you see on the map is the handiwork of our motion designers.
Indeed, sometimes we use AI-based inserts.
like 5:33 or 16:05, but only to add an immersive effect.
Let us know in the comments what you think about these inserts, we want to improve our content with your help
Thank you for all your work.
Perhaps it would be better to use paintings or photos instead of AI inserts
First off, how annoying to get those comments when your people put quite some effort into it.
Secondly, I agree with @michaelwu7678. There are multiple reasons why, but I'll mention one of my biggest gripes in detail. Generative AI is bad with historical stuff. Due to the nature of machine learning, unconformable accuracy of assets, biases in labeling, and them being designed to output a sort of average of known opinions the following emergecned with current large scale generative AI:
Generative AI, unless explicitly and in detail being prompted otherwise (and even then) perpetuates stereotypes.
An easy example would be ancient greek, the output would most often be of white buildings and statues, while we know that they applied pigments. Because, since the Renaissance, and today in popculture and pop-history, these are most often depicted as white, colourless facaded and statues.
This disconnect becomes more so when dealing with subjects where there is less western documentation on, as these generally appear less and more often mislabelled in the datasets of the large generative AI providers. Like, imagine of it were the other way around and being prompted on WWI Germany, it returns content with Nazi imagery.
This might become an issue when using AI art for educational purposes, as I would argue you present in the video.
I have many more reasons, a whole (as of yet unpublished) essay by my colleague/friend in fact, on why to not (yet) use generative AI art as is, but I won't post it without being explicitly asked to.
There are many Paintings from that time that can be used, which could be thought of as more fitting, than some random soldiers standing around.
The maps and everything will keep me coming back, using paintings instead of ai will get me to stay.
Want no AI. Want disclaimer at the beginning saying no AI was used in any stage of production or research
“Hats off gentlemen, if he were alive we wouldn't be here today.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte while visitng the tomb of Fredrick The Great.
Ihe was alive there would be no tomb
@@nejzk2026Lol broooo
Napoléon is still better
And yet he still had the nerve to burn his hat and sache.
@@loyalpiper Napoleon didn't. On Marshall Sérurier orders in Paris, hat and sache were burned.
The funniest part of The Seven Years War is Empress Elisabeth’s successor being a giant Prussia simp.
It's insane how that one dude just decided the entire fate of Prussia
First confirmed Wehraboo :D
He just like me
Just like all of us
It saved Prussia for sure.
The war also economically devastated France, so much so that the situation became a factor in the French Revolution decades later.
This war wasn't the main factor; one of the main factors leading to the French Revolution was that when the Americans revolted against the British, France decided to finance and heavily aid the Americans in their revolutionary war as revenge (by the French) against the British winning the Seven Years' War earlier. While the Seven Years' War did economic damage to France, it was ultimately aiding the Americans that dealt the main and final economic devastation to France's treasury.
@@spacecraftcarrier4135 it was devastating for Britain financially and is the main reason Britain wanted to tax the hell out of the colonists to make back the money
It is amazing seeing all these events, and how they rippled into others. Napoleon made a lot of ripples, perhaps even allowing ww1 to occur. Things just chain throughout time.
Nope, backing the US war of Independence is what devastated France
@@spacecraftcarrier4135, plus indirectly the Enlightenment, encouraged its people to embrace the success & ideas of the American Revolution and seek to replace the old monarchy. Ben Franklin was one of those founding fathers (among a few others) who approved of the reform movements in France because the US, given that it wanted to separate from King George III's kingdom, had the same reservations about France's current monarchy. Most of the people of France saw how their power was struggling to maintain its vast empire amid their usual rivalries, which included the Holy Roman and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
France wanted to continue the multiple succession wars since the reign of Charles V of Habsburg and restore the glory of King Louis XIV-the Sun King's military prowess underneath another stage of the Protestant Reformation. which the Enlightenment wanted. Frederick the Great approved this because the movement reduced the Habsburgs' ability to restore & stabilize the Holy Roman Empire under the Pope. At the same time, Prussia gathered up the territories to change them culturally & religiously for the benefit of the Enlightenment.
“HOWEVER!”
this word does a lot of heavy lifting in this clip. 😂
Was looking for this comment 🤣
Is the voiceover an AI reading a chatGPT script or what? There are some clear and obvious mistakes here and there.
I came here to write this comment, nice to see the work was already done.
"Very good, Austria and France, Very good - However!" Dumbledore said calmly.
Prussia was insane. Beat so many times, and yet still survives to fight another battle.
Agreed, Prussia was Rocky baboa 😂
yea only reason they survived is because of russia becoming a prussia simp
Well they no longer exist so...
@@vericulum6810Prussia united Germany
@@MajorSheepish and was dissolved after ww2 with most of it's former land going to Poland.
Small correction, when the video says that Prussia reaffirmed ownership over Silesia the map was shown to annex Saxony. This didn’t happen as on the map with the borders staying the same but in exchange the Austrian claims on Silesia were no longer taken seriously.
Other than that the video was very detailed, informative and enjoyable.
I agree. Quite enjoyable. Regardless of little mistakes, the mapper obviously put a lot of love and effort into creating this
the scriptwriter switched a bit too often between the names of countries and their ruling dynasties but apart from some minor inaccuracies this clip was remarkable well done for an American considering the topic
Yep. Prussia wouldn't get it until 1815 after Napoleon was kicked out.
Nerrrrrd
@@embreis2257 i think a lot of the images are AI generated
Fredrick got some balls of steel
I took a drink every time the word "however" was used. 😆
Rip kidneys.
or any time he said "... thousand strong".
Did you die of alcohol poisoning
However, you survived. At least long enough to type your post.
I think the first conflict on a global scale was the "Portuguese-Dutch war", which, despite not having a large number of nations, took place in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia
Yeah, there isn't any metric by which the Seven Years' War is the first global war
I would agree that it may deserve the label of first conflict on a global scale, but i am hesitant to call it the first "war" on a global scale. Not that there wasn't direct and bloody confrontation between the two. There was many of such. It is just the way the two parties did it. As if it was not a war but more like a violent discussion. Though i am sure that someone fighting for his life at those battles did not care for any label i would choose to call it.
It started while the Iberian Union was going, so it was basically for most of it's time, part of the 40 years war, it only became portuguese-dutch war when Portugal kicked spain ass out of their country, and proclaimed a king, when news reached their former brazilian colony, settlers united with natives and expelled the dutch, the portuguese with Brazil, restores a bit of it's power so they start fighting back, mainly in Africa but also recaptures Goa.
"However ".......
Even if Russia stayed in the war and helped defeat Prussia it’s super impressive the Prussian military accomplished what it did. Imagine had Prussia later Germany maintained its alliance with the British how the map would look.
It’s what Hitler hoped Churchill would do. The latter famously toiled over this question, which is recorded in his diary.
Luckily for all of us, Churchill eventually declared war on Nazi Germany.
This cost many British soldiers’ lives, but likely saved the world from utter doom.
@al_wombat I'd side with Patton and say no, we fought the wrong guys.
@@crazychase98 England wasn't right to fight fascist Germany and Italy? Please explain.
@@al_wombatI think his reasoning is that the Soviets ended up being the bigger threat.
@@gloverfox9135 yeah, maybe that’s what he meant. But it was Germany who attacked and took over Poland, France, etc.. and may have been impossible to beat at some point. Plus they had a non-aggression pact with the Soviets.
Germany was still tough to beat.
Portugal just casually getting wrecked by one of the most severe earthquakes ever in 1755, only to be invaded by Spain while trying to stay neutral, turning around and winning against Spain and France.
Classic Spanish L
Battle of Aljubarrota left a permanent curse in Spain and France whenever they tried invading Portugal. Napoleon knows.
They didn't win alone, which could have been impossible. They won against the Spanish because of the mighty British army.
@@Unpseudopascommelesautres If anything, the English played a bigger part than Portugal itself. Nuno Álvares Pereira still a genius general for his tactics though, he was in charge of the English army in Portugal for the duration of that war/battle. Reminder that, according to Wikipedia, the Portuguese/English were outnumbered about 5:1 (6600 vs 31000).
@@filipexavier8771Portuguese specialty is winning battles outnumbered, the more they're outnumbered, the better they fight.
Esse legado passou pro Brasil quando espancamos os paraguaios em Riachuelo.
@@oole0111 E quando enxotamos os holandeses e mercenários suíços e alemães do Nordeste
The first global war for dominance occurred when the British declared the UK off limits for foreign ships. At that time, five out of six ships on the world's oceans had been Dutch. The Dutch benefited from open seas and open ports. For about 50 years, they were all over the place, all over the world.
By closing off the British ports, the Brits were capable of playing a power game that the UK would ultimately win, not on the battlefields, but in economic sense. Four wars were not won by the Dutch, and so instead of Dutch global dominance, the result led to three centuries of Britannia ruling the waves and leading the world.
Nationalism had its global birth when the UK closed off its harbors to foreign ships.
Frederick be playing Victoria 2 bruh and keep on going back till he got his luck😂
Frederick kept alt-F4ing until the empress of Russia died
Bruh that's me
Nice video on a war that really deserves more attention. Had such a huge long-term impact on North America, Germany and India.
Was going to like and subscribe, HOWEWER
25:48
Portugal: “What’d he say f*ck me for?”
Yup, this unknown channel got one of the best map in youtube.
Subscribed
Frederick the Great was like an 18th century Terminator. He could be decisively defeated battle and lose 10,000 men, but a few months go by and he's charging right back into the fight.
You could say he didn't know when to quit, except that he actually won! Lol
The map animation is as sexy as always. Good video
Fr fr
New video when?
Love the video and the details you provided. Really good knowledge. One critique I have is that you say the word “however” a lot. I counted almost 20 times which gets a little repetitive
"Say it again, I dare you! Say 'however' one more mother f*$%ing time!" - Samuel Jackson probably
What?
Thank you for this video! The 7 years war definitely doesn't get talked about enough. Something that gets discussed even less is the war of Austrian Succession. Do you think you could do a video on that in the future? Thanks again!
No. They’re personally offended by your comments and have vowed never to do it.
The 7 years war happened because of discontent with the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle (Aachen) which ended the War of the Austrian Succession and the subsequent giant shift in diplomacy which saw France and Austria becoming allies. That's why Austrian princess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) ended up marrying the French dauphin (later Louis XVI) and the rest as they say is history. A bit like how discontent with the Treaty Of Versailles ending World War One and discontent with that eventually led to World Wat Two,
@@mr.afrikaans1747I’ll kiss you on the lips
Check House of History
In the United States, I was referred to as the French Indian war, and in Europe it was the seven years war. The thing is that Great Britain racked up so much debt from seven years war & Then we’re taxing the heck out of the American colonies and saying that they were protecting us, but the war in Europe cost them more money and they didn’t protect us from the The French and Indians here because they didn’t even know what they were doing. The colonial malicious, took care of that problem, because the British didn’t know anything about the territory environment, or even anything about fighting Indians. I just thought that the seven years war involved Great Britain and France
Verdaderamente una guerra global, 3 continentes, 7 frentes, y múltiples polos y cambios de bandos. Excelente video, ahora a ver los demás 👌🏼
You mean 4/5 continents.North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia
Frederick the great went from "it's over" to "we're so back" many times
What ultra smartness strategies are embodied by the British through its financial aids to exhausted and semi bankrupted Prussians against French and Austrians. Britain 🇬🇧 utilized Prussians as its mercenaries against French and Austrians. Britain imposed Austrians remained inside Europe facing several threats within Europecontent, exhausted French efforts nearby its borders, and its far away colonials through those 7 years wars...political smartness is completely different from military smartness.... it was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode... Thanks for sharing
The exact same thing happened in the Napoleonic Wars where Britain would finance Prussia and Austria to attack France, they would get beaten and surrender, and then Britain would send them more money, rinse and repeat. It's kind of nutty how much financial power London had in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Exactly,… I find it laughable that people commonly dismiss the consistent victories of what is the most impressive and incredible "strategic" rather than tactical nation in history, because they didn't win purely with military tactics, which always requires a large army (LOL! What's impressive about having a greater population and large army to defeat an enemy?) For hundreds of years the Brits ancestors always saying the right thing in diplomacy an negotiation to come out on top (cunning) and the 1st to use sophisticated banking techniques e.g. fractional reserve and coordinated investment and borrowing to bankroll not only this war, but the Napoleonic wars also.In the Napoleonic wars they literally reinvented coalitions through funding to such devastating cumulative effect on Napoleon, that they absolutely were the MAIN reason for his downfall, not the Russian winter.
*This was all achieved with a population 1/3 of the size of France.Then England became the 1st nation for citizens other than the aristocrats closest to the King to force royalty to give protected rights in law to those other than the most anointed aristocrats, through the English Bill of Rights and the act of Parliament (1707), this in turn leads to them exercising the Industrial Revolution which absolutely created the modern world we live in now with all its tech, and without this we would still be back using horses and sailing ships.Even the USA today was invented by the Brits, as all of the founding fathers were following English traditions and had entirely English ancestry, Develop their system of the 2 houses through adaptation from the English one as well as the American constitution and Bill of Rights.USA techniques are pretty much copying the British ones before them and their most vaunted and respected centres of learning inception and development began with Englishmen establishing English traditions from 50 years (Princeton) to 150 years (Harvard and Yale) before the USA was even created
@@Rowlph8888still can't do shit in Afghanistan even for soviets
@@Rowlph8888 british empire was strong because they got india now look at them and usa copying before them? Lol without French the colonist would lose it and also look at eu who is controlling eu we all know
@@johanlibert2481
Well, every civilisation becomes wealthy, then complacent and then hungrier populations catch up and then move beyond.We could see that with the intense trade union disputes between the workers and elites in Britain post-war, until 1980, prevented using the Marshall plan to reinvent infrastructure and industrial The Techniques.The Germans and the Japanese having had their elites killed and demolished infrastructure, but hungry populations were in the perfect position to take advantage and update and now we can see these 2 countries have done the same thing In the 21st-century by over regulating that the Brits did post-war and other nations have gone past them now
Ultimately, the Brits ancestors (1689-1950) had the biggest impact on the world than any civilisation before, for the simple fact that from 1815-1970, the standard of living of citizens in Western Europe, USA, the rest of the Anglosphere and Japan rose about 500%, due mainly to British tech, other nations of which had perfected to a greater qualityIn the 2nd half of the 20th century, but it was the brits ancesttors that pioneered and invented the vast majority of it. Studies have been done on this and a citizen in Western Europe in 1780 standard of living wasn't much greater than it had been 3000 years before - this highlights not only what fuel deployed and mechanised tech achieved once it had been developed for decades and organisational structures and flourished to accommodate it(E.g.better sewers, better sanitation), but also the pioneering at the Brits ancestors made with the English Bill of Rights (1869) and the act of Parliament (1707) which was so influential in enfranchising and Emancipating new groups other than just the Nobles closest to the King (which was the way things were throughout history before those dates)the American constitution and Bill of Rights and the French political and legal structure in turn.credit should be given when due!
Mannn your map is freaking GOLDEN, too bad your channel didnt have the support it deserved
Its crazy to think how slow the 7 years war was. The scale of the battles and the speed between them is so slow compared to 50 years later in the napoleonic wars. I mean most of the scale of the battles you see here would have happened in 1805-1807 alone 😂
Well made my guy! Keep up the great content.
what a very good video. Prussia was definitely using aimbot frfr
Great video! Many thanks
Thank you for making this! There are way to few entertaining videos on the 7 years war on TH-cam.
Thanks! Keep up the good work, you now have gained a new subscriber
Many thanks for your support of our channel
One of the best overviews of 7 years war
French just spent the entire war getting their asses kicked by the British hahaha
Yeah apart from winning a few minor battles earlier in the war while the British were mobilising they got wrecked. Britain ended the French empire and France spiralled into revolution
@@SirZanZa until napoleon arrived
@@SirZanZa yes and it's not commonly mentioned that a British MP in Parliament made the terrible strategic error of giving the French back the Caribbean islands officially FOR A GESTURE, to prevent the French feeling vengeful in the future( as if that would make a difference).This was literally the only Way that the French could catch up before another 2 centuries or so, because it was the most lucrative part of the French Empire and enabled them to keep pace with British updating (especially militarily, in the Navy) just before they transitioned from their canal based 1st Industrial Revolution, to the steam-based 2nd Industrial Revolution
*Predictably, the French were Seethingly vengeful anyway and having that colony handed back to them was the only way that they were able to be the decisive factor in the victory in the war of independence which established the USA. Because this happened only decades before the Brits develop steamships, railways and a mechanised army, it's understandable why it's taught of as manifest destiny because the USA absolutely had no chance of independence for hundreds of years, if they lost this war as the Brits would have been covert with the information for industrialisation for national security reasons, instead of selling the ideas for capital investment, like they did and our timeline
That's because they were incredibly outnumbered in the colonies 😭
@@des_AT Same eventual result with British cleverly funded coalitions making sure a gap that eventually Napoleon got his ass kicked
That Friedrich was insane, Napoleon used to learn from all his battles and tactics before developing his own.
How do you create these videos man? I love the graphics, the animations, the transitions, everything!!!
Got chills waiting for that "However"
This was cool! Subscribed.
Finally a good map vid summarizing this war
Its crazy how much things changed by the time of WWI. Strange to see the UK and Germany vs France Russia and Austria.
While in some ways yes and in others no.Even at the inception of World War I, even though USA had overtaken UK in industrial output, in terms of real wealth the UK had 25% of International stock market, with the USA only 15% and Germany 10%
First video I have seen of this channel. Immediately suscribed.
so the prussians went to war with france because they didn't like how the french king treated his girlfriend? are you 12?
Well yes, that's how nobles behaved 😂
@@guyman1570 I'm extremely skeptical of that. those were pretexts from the group that writes the history because they lie about the real reasons. they were the deep state of the day
This channel is awesome!
Very impressive scale and detail, but if I'm not mistaken I didn't see any reference to the Royal Navy attacking the North of France coastline 3 times and the West of France coastline once during this war, which drew significant numbers of the French army away from the Prussians, at crucial points.
Top tier video. Well done, keep it up.
Nicely done.
Can you make a video about 30 years war
Thank you for an informative and entertaining presentation.
Honestly such a good video. Excellent work.
🔊🔊🔊🔊HOWEVER
However
@@Fallout3131 however
HowEVER
However
In other news...
MEANWHILE 🎧
Fredrick II be playing endsieg mod.
Hadik's corps consisted of 5,100 men in October 1757. 1 Hungarian hussar regiment with 1,100 men, 1 Austrian cuirassier regiment with 1,000 men, 1 line infantry regiment with 900 men from Saxony, and 2 border guard light infantry regiments from Croatia and Serbia with 2100 men and some siege guns. Hadik left 1,500 men as a rear guard on the Brandenburg border. The defenders of Berlin numbered 5,500, but were not well equipped. The siege guns breached the gates and then a cavalry charge routed the guards. The defenders fled or surrendered. The booty was 215,000 gold thalers, 6 Prussian flags and 12 pairs of ladies' gloves for the empress. All gloves were left-handed. Hadik's loss was 88 men and 57 horses. He brought 425 Prussian prisoners of war with him from Berlin. Hadik was the first who received the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. th-cam.com/video/1wxWilP8RvM/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/K331Ugm75NY/w-d-xo.html
Great video just have a small gripe 5:54
You cannot be "7 times smaller" but you can be "1/7th the size" of something. You can also be "7 times larger" than something.
It may be a new thing that allows that I am kinda old 😂
Yes, you actually can. It just takes some basic mathematical understanding.
@Player1776. well that comment is gold I'd love to hear your explanation
@@aaronbaron3155 You are allowed to use the inverse operation to describe the difference from that perspective. 7 times smaller, meaning the other number would be divided by 7 to equal the smaller number. I'm sure you know this, but I mean to say it does make grammatical sense to say __ times smaller.
@Player1776. I know what you're saying
Frederick II. What a stud! He was like the Chuck Norris of his day!!
Absolutely love this channel im hooked
Love your content! Thanks For this ❤❤❤
Thanks for watching!
Makes you wonder what if the balance of power ended up as Germany, UK, and Russia vs France, Italy, Austria-H, and Ottomans or Spain in WW1. Almost seems plausible
a german British Aliance in WW1 would mean war ends in less than 2 years one dominates the seas the other land
@@reiudfgq3vrh34ur It would be something like USA-China alliance today, it makes no sense. British geostrategy in Europe was never to allow one power to dominate.
@@reiudfgq3vrh34urThe French,Austrians, Italy, Ottomans, Spanish and Russians would certainly oppose that alliance and beat the Germans and British
@@JDDC-tq7qmI’m not so sure. The sea would be under British and German control. As well as Americans would definitely be in the German and British side. A blockade of France and Spain would possibly starve them out of the war and Portugal could even end up joining. The Russians ottomans and Austrians weren’t strong enough to start an offensive against Germany. It would just be a waiting game for the uk and Germany while the other side either just throw men at their lines or slowly starve
Nice maps & visuals ! BUT in your voiceover when you say this or that happened -How about A DATE ONCE IN A WHILE !
I realy admire Fredrick the great of Prussia for his bravery to face three most powerfull and numerical superior powers at the same time.
Why doesn't this channel have 10x more subscribers?
Excellent video.
the long term strategic consequences of the seven years war were still felt all the way up to ww1. I've always felt that Prussia's performance is what dictated the "don't let the Germans get too powerful" mindset of the rest of Europe. Frederick the great was possibly the best strategic and tactical leader of all time. Some of the losses you showed here had to been intentional, to force pitched battles under his terms. when you start looking at the battles of Prussia in this way you have to say to yourself... holy crap. i honestly dont know how anybody could have such strategic vision. Austria had them beat in every single way... EVERY SINGLE WAY, and yet Frederick still achieved great success in his long term goals (in at least pro vs cons type of way)
in alot of ways with the bankrolling of prussia the ascendancy of great britain was all but assured. man oh man i could go on and on about how the seven years war dictated the European theatre for the next hundred to hundred and fifty years, hell Bismarck was determined to avoid anything of its like again, it was a complete change in the power structures of europe, and Napoleon himself even declared on taking berlin that if fredrick the great lived in his time he would have been screwed. the seven years war was... and i cannot overstate this, the single most important event in european history.
Britain became the official top power from that war.
The Brits ancestors were the post-Enlightenment strategic geniuses (Maverick diplomacy, ttechnological,political ,legal and economic invention deployed into Military hegemony and the Germans the tactical and craftsmanship geniuses (Engineering prowess,Frederick, World War I and World War II generals)
Not so much any more though
Nice informative video, but please check how often you say "however...". At some point it becomes distracting. That being said, the video does give a nice overview of the situation worldwide leading to all kinds of events most people are more familiar with. It could have gone very different.
Thank you for your feedback, we will fix this in the next videos
@@History_Mapped_Out Yeah it was a well constructed and concise video of the war....however...
The map and script did not match up a few times.
Yup, noticed that too, like the 100k prussian casualties and then showing 400k for Austria but that was the army size they said, so on one side they had 100k casualties for Prussia and 400k army for Austria, confusing, but if you follow the video these mistakes can be noticed and you can understand the real thing I guess.
Oo nice maps; subscribed!
Except that the river Elbe in Germany doesn't split off in two and doesn't empty into the Baltic sea near Lübeck. The short river that does empty there, goes riverupwards, first south, then west then north.
(I used to moderate a forum for mapgore, but please don't take this as hard criticism, it devalues the video content in no meaningful way)
Funny to see the Netherlands in green and the Habsburg's in orange.
As a Dutchie, I must mention that the coastline isn't quite accurate, but it is a lot to ask for accurate coastlines in historic videos due to how much these have evolved here. However, if you were to map Roman on early medival times, I would suggest redrawing that part of the map. The Wikipedia Commons page titled "The Atlas of the Netherlands" has excelent maps for this purpose under the header "Palaeogeographic maps" made by the Dutch _Nationale Onderzoeksagenda Archeologie_ (National Research-agenda of Archeology)
Those battle maps are really nicely done, easthetically speaking
“Die Füchse im Weinberg” by Lion Feuchtwanger is amazing.
New geopolitical creator who helps me sleep unlocked
Fire🔥🔥🔥🔥 but you always have some small mistakes in your videos
France got owned the whole war. Oof
Not quite some good victories
@@Swift-mr5zi look at all the concessions and losses they had to swallow at the end of the war. They got smoked overall
@teststestes6507 No overall this was France worst defeat territorially in their history, Britain really did kick the French down in this war.
@@ChrisCrossClash Yet, French diplomats felt like the treaty of Paris was an overall sign of victory.
Why? Because in exchange for recognizing the loss of North America, France was able to reclaim the Antilles/West Indies, possessions that were far more important to Paris in terms of sugar and coffee production in particular. New France, on the other hand, was mostly empty and unoccupied, and its only economic interest was a rather uninteresting trade in hides. Voltaire wrote that all that was lost was “a few acres of snow”. What's more, France was able to keep Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a small archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland, which gave it a foothold in the region and enabled it to continue fishing in these fish-rich waters; the fish of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic were for France the real attraction of North America. In fact, Paris did little to save French Canada, which led to resentment among Quebecers who felt abandoned by France, a fact that still marks the relationship of some Quebec nationalists with France.
On the battlefield, France won important victories in Africa, in France itself and in Germany, but its failure was to lose the main confrontations. Yes, the war was in fact a defeat, and yes, the French aristocracy of the time did try to save face by claiming to have won the war, but no, it wasn't the humiliating and terrible defeat we sometimes read about on the Internet these days.
However.
However
However.
However.
However
However …
Excellent ❤❤
Take a shot everytime the narrator says "However".
8:07 blockaded and attacked from 4 sides at the same time! it is a MIRACLE that Prussia under Friedrich II survived that!
I couldn’t help but laugh maniacally at the end
King George II did not exercise taxes against the 13 colonies, British Parliament did.UK in 1776 already had a constitutional representative Parliament (the 1st in history) and King George had no power over domestic policy.His only powers were being able to appoint personnel to the military, but ultimately even the war against the colonists was exercised by Parliament, not King George, that was just propaganda from colonial demagogues trying to raise passion for the war effort, which was non-existent until years after the taxes were 1st implemented.If those colonial representatives truly believe King was in charge they wouldn't have even mentioned "no taxation with out representation", which if the average colonist had brains they would have realised that the saying contradicts the very notion of a tyrannical despot exercising power because representation only comes through Parliament e.g.: constituencies within UK each having an MP to represent local needs
I took a shot every time he said however. I just woke up today.
Very interesting
9:41 He is not Fredric. He is Freedric!
Yet, French diplomats felt like the treaty of Paris was an overall sign of victory.
Why? Because in exchange for recognizing the loss of North America, France was able to reclaim the Antilles/West Indies, possessions that were far more important to Paris in terms of sugar and coffee production in particular. New France, on the other hand, was mostly empty and unoccupied, and its only economic interest was a rather uninteresting trade in hides. Voltaire wrote that all that was lost was “a few acres of snow”. What's more, France was able to keep Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a small archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland, which gave it a foothold in the region and enabled it to continue fishing in these fish-rich waters; the fish of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic were for France the real attraction of North America. In fact, Paris did little to save French Canada, which led to resentment among Quebecers who felt abandoned by France, a fact that still marks the relationship of some Quebec nationalists with France.
On the battlefield, France won important victories in Africa, in France itself and in Germany, but its failure was to lose the main confrontations. Yes, the war was in fact a defeat, and yes, the French aristocracy of the time did try to save face by claiming to have won the war, but no, it wasn't the humiliating and terrible defeat we sometimes read about on the Internet these days.
8:31 Riders of the Rohan!
Andrej Hadik, who captured Berlin, was Slovak lord. What he did with the Hussars to capture Berlin, became an idiom in our language “Husársky kúsok” (hussars piece /act) equivalent to English “derring-do”
Hadik András was Hungarian, and he led Hungarian hussars in the raid of Berlin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/András_Hadik
@@dantetre bro even your own source says this: According to another source, he was of Hungarian ethnic origin, but the name "Hadik" is a diminutive from the Slovak appellative had ("snake"), the family was thus of Slovak origin.
Everyone who is Slovak knows when he sees someone named “Hadík” 😌
Hungarian, just like his father, and grandfather before him.
@@tamaszlavnope
I can say as a Frenchman that this video is very honest and tells the truth. However, my country has had almost nothing but defeats in this period (lol) but the author of this video never hesitates to give these small realistic details (like the very low number of French fighters in Europe but also the victories in numerical inferiority of Frédéric) which make that we FINALLY escape from these boring eternal videos only wanting to flatter the omnipresent nationalism of the men! So many thanks to the author!
A really gruesome war everytime ignored here in germany even though it was one of the main battlefields
bro. you gotta come up with a conjunctive adverb other than “however”.
if this were a drinking game, i’d be dead.
Kicked off by ya boi GW
Meanwhile, in 1762-1763 the Spanish invaded the south of Brazil up to the island of Santa Catarina, only for the Portuguese to reconquer it 14 years after. Could have spared a 10 second mention and throw South America to the mix of the first true global conflict.
A cosmeticly attractive high-school book report.
I'd say the 30yrs war was the first global war since extended all the way from Europe to Formosa (Taiwan) and The Philippines.
Do one about the Thirty Years war
I want a video solely consisting of the "However"s in this video.
the seven year itch seems to be resurfacing again
So, those folksongs about "the wars of High Germany" go back to this time. Cool!
good detail; you should show name of battle when you mention it with date written, especially given the unusual names. don't distract with the moving number toll, just give the casualty figure; and diction instead of baddle of this and baddle of that
This plays out like Prussia are in a ‘save your disaster campaign’ Empire Total War video where it looks like Prussia should be doomed but through outmanoeuvring an opponent who keeps illogically pausing, you win
Make video about Balkan wars 1912-1913
Ok, so it's inaccurate, for example to say that at the Battle of Zorndorf the Russians lost 16,000 men. They seem to forget that although men killed, severely wounded and out of action due to it, taken prisoner and outrightly missing in all likelihood makes a good fraction, most of that 16,000 men will be available to fight again. You have many wounded soldiers that are capable of fighting. Also you have alot of "missing" soldiers that aren't accounted for immediately after a battle due to all the battles activity and chaos and ensuing disorganization that is caused. Especially in those days, it could take weeks before everyone is answering role call like they're supposed to with their unit. Nit-picky I know but there's a few other statements given that aren't entirely factual.
I would like this channel a lot more and subscribe if it had a British narrator (male or female) like Epic History, Kings & Generals, etc.
England and Scotland built the Biggest Empire 🇬🇧
That's such a load bs in history. At their height they weren't they never claimed so much land at once ever.
@@danboyisdopex9864 The height of the British Empire was after WW1 when they controlled the largest empire by land area in history
@@orangutangoo I'm talking to their most extent meaning at once. You can throw in some countries here and there but that's in different times
@@danboyisdopex9864 How was it not at once? In 1922 the British Empire controlled over a quarter of the land area on Earth