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Where do you find your history resources? To be precise I'm interested in prehistory of Ethiopia. There is a lake tana and dek island that seems historically interesting. This is to niche to find a youtube on, would like to read up on it if there anything.
A small note. At 1:32, Horatio Nelson is shown holding a spyglass with two hands. He actually lost his right arm in July 1797 (He was hit with a musket ball while attacking a Spanish island), about a year before the invasion of Egypt.
@@nm7358 Very good point. I was aware of that injury as well but didn't double check the date. This graphic would be perfect for when he's looking at Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's signals at the Battle of Copenhagen, but that's two strikes for it fitting in here.
We can find it surprising that Bonaparte chose to launch his expedition at the beginning of summer, when the temperature is the highest. In fact, he followed the recommendations of the country's experts who, like Consul Magellon, had recommended disembarking from the month of May, that is to say after the harvest was completed and before the flooding of the Nil which intervenes from the end of July. In addition, in this period, the winds blow from north to south and facilitate the arrival of ships. An expedition launched in June is therefore guaranteed to find supplies on the spot and to be quickly sheltered from an attack by sea, Egypt being inaccessible at the time of the flooding of the Nile.
Because everyone knows marching into Russia on foot at the height of summer is a terrible idea, it's the driest time of the year and extremely hot, such that even a century later there are records of soldiers dying from heat exhaustion at the side of the road while the army rushes past them. Napoleon lost half of his army by the autumn, and understandably so
@@greg_mca Everyone also knows that Eastern Europe turns into a thick mud in the spring and fall (known as rasputitsa), which makes the seasons where armies can march the best on the poor roads to be summer and winter. And of those two seasons, summer offered the best chances to forage. If Napoleon was to invade, his decision to invade in summer was the right one. The disaster of the Russia campaign is less how Napoleon did it than that he did it at all. And that is more of a discussion of how France was locked into an unwinnable war. France could not defeat Britain conventionally, so economic warfare seemed like the only option. Yet France could not wage an economic war if other countries continued to trade with Britain, so this strategy embroiled France into war with offenders. Worse, the strategy itself was dubious, since Britain could make up for its trade with the continent thanks to their navy while the continent could only isolate itself. And yet, with France unable to challenge Britain on land, it seemed like the only way to strike Britain in _any_ way. Napoleon at least seemed to have realized the logical conclusion of this strategy eventually, as he is quoted in private discussions as saying that he wanted to create an unified European bloc, with a single legal system, with free movement of peoples, and coalesced into one great United States of Europe. This is some heady stuff for his time, even if he had come to it by the realization that he could not beat Britain by simply taking France against coalitions over and over. That said, he only mentions it in the months before his invasion of Russia, so he realized it too late for it to matter.
Seeing Nelson with two arms was weird! He'd be a good subject for a series, he survived disease, a polar bear (allegedly), losing sight in one eye, losing an arm, fighting in Naples, Denmark, Egypt, and all coastlines of France. In his last few years he had an almost suicidal obsession with dying a hero in battle and finally got his wish at Trafalgar
i have tried to do some research on this, and what i found was that in the redecanse all paintings of watermelons were different from the from today, but it seem so that the 1800s watermellon was a like as todays. you may know more then me on this subject. idont know to be honest.
Watermelons are pretty much just sweet cucumbers. That's why I think it's so weird that people call cucumbers vegetables when they are clearly fruit. All gourds are fruit.
Nelson with TWO hands! For all the talk in Lies episodes about how much time it takes to draw these videos, you’d think they would have appreciated the chance to save a bit of time by drawing Nelson with only one hand.
"Soldiers! Four thousand years look down upon you!" - Napoleon Bonaparte to his soldiers right before the battle, pointing at the Pyramids of Gizeh. July 20, 1798.
LoL, in Egypt, the crusaders were called 'franks', so when the French came, it was like a new crusades has begun. No Egyptian thought it was a 'liberation movement'
Weather was part of a strategy at Boulogne when directly invading England by sea but call out at the last moment when Austria declared war on France and also at Austerlitz, both consisted to conceal the army behind the mist, it worked perfectly at Austerlitz.
Fun fact: French officers, when ordering their troops to open fire, would use the word "tirez" meaning "pull" (the trigger) instead of the word "feu" for "fire".
Ohhh they’re referring to the pulling of the trigger rather than the ‘fire’ from the barrel - Interesting! I wonder what other languages use as their “fire” commands, maybe their words for “smoke” or “spark” or something like that.
"tirer" means "to shoot" in that context, not "to pull". A word in a language can have several meaning in another one, but I'm wondering if it doesn't originally come from what you pointed out as there is coincidence. It would be interesting to know why "tirer" has this second meaning.
@@shakya00 maybe it goes back to bows & arrows? You need to draw the arrow back before you can fire, so it might’ve been referring to that literal “pulling”. It would make sense that the word for “shoot” would come to be the same as “pull” since bows can’t be kept drawn for any real length of time. It’s more useful to know when to prepare your bow than it is to be told when to shoot, so you don’t get tired out waiting to fire. Then that term gets carried over into later weapons, like crossbows, & eventually firearms. I might be wrong though.
One bit for the lies, episode. Mireur didn't kill himself. He had bought an Arabian stallion from locals and was riding it when he was ambushed by three Mamlukes while in the desert by himself.
@@AxleEnterprisesLLC Mireur's career was not in jeopardy for him speaking out against Napoleon. He had powerful allies in the French government and is famous for creating the French national anthem, he was extremely popular in all circles of French society. He would not have had a reason to kill himself if he was one of the most popular men in France.
@@jeanlannes1368 He was probably eliminated by Napoleon or conveniently disappeared from his sight because he had spoken out against him. One less challenge to your eventual rule.
Ha! wrong British flag - 2 years too early for the Act of Union of 1800... Seriously though, great series and a great video. Napoleon's Egyptian expedition is so often overlooked in the popular histories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
0:49 Don't know where they got that pice of info, because from what I know, Mireur was indeed demoted after badmouthing Napoleon and the expedition but died in a Mamluk ambush.
Well, I expect you to talk about how the French blasted the great mosque of Al-Azhar and killed scholars, which was a very big factor for Egyptian uprisings, which was a big factor for the failure of the French expedition
the historical rigor of extra history has gone out the window for some time now, there's an obivous tint to these videos that are not very honest and push a certain storytelling narrative.
@@cseijifja I think they kinda just pull a "GameTheory" sort of thing and skim over stuff. I mean we all do the same thing so no judgment. But yea I think that's what it is.
It is nice to see the Western point of view on the matter, by the way my village is almost the last place the French reached before they suffered from Upper Egypt and withdrew
You should mention more details about the Mamluks, not just how they were been around for and how they fought the last major battle against the Mongols, they also endured Mansa Musa, Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the French and then finally died
What a surface level view. The mamluks weren't a dynasty, they were a class. These mamluks aren't related to the ones of Ain Jalut... also what does mansa musa have to do with this? Are you just namedropping historical figures you have seen on "fun fact" trivia channels?
So you keep referring to the Mamluk as "Sultans", but at this time the Mamluk Sultanate had ended and were now under the Ottoman Empire, they retained the Mamluks as an Egyptian ruling class but as vassals of the Ottomans, they didn't have the titles of sultans but that of "Bey" which was a Turkic title for a chieftain, for example they Mamluks rulers that you mentioned, Murad Bey and Ibrahim Bey, were Mamluk chieftains not Sultans
Again, as an Egyptian, i would have loved more emphasis on Egyptian and mamluks resistance since the series so far has taken a one-sided approach in my opinion, but everything else is alright
6:53 so this sceneof generals meeting over watermelon made me remember the similar scene in anime movie Martian Successor Nadesico where generals had a meeting discussing their discontent while eating watermelon. I thought it silly. Little did I knew they were actually referncing this historical event.
As someone who majored linguistics 10 years ago, I have a problem with the usage of the term "linguist" at around 4:00. Linguistics as the science we know today was finishing forming at around mid to late 19th century. Previously the work done comparing languages is mostly related to the dead science of philology (from which corpse rose linguistics). All in all I just can't understand why Americans confuse linguist with translator. Often you see online a job offer for "linguist" that doesn't require a major, but translation experience. During uni my course had literally the specializations literature, linguistics, and translation.
Can you make a video about the era of chaos at the end of Joseon? King Yeongjo and King Jeongjo died, the royal authority weakened, the status system was ruined, and a party began to dictatorship for two or three generations. At the same time, the leaders' corruption + peasant rebellion + usury + bad harvest In some cases, the royal authority became very, very weak, and later, it was necessary to bring a distant relative and make him a king, of which Cheoljong lived almost as a common people and became a king.
I'm wondering how that Arabic printing press worked, considering Arabic typsetting must be a nightmare. Arabic characters change shape depending on which character came before or after
I've watched some documentary on printing presses and they were known by Ottomans but gradually phased out apart from a few in the capital because it didn't work with local culture and traditions of writing at the time. There's a lot of myths from claiming lack of printing press either shown Ottoman empire as technologically backwards and it didn't allow for enlightment to spread, but it's kinda bogus since real history is more complex than the Civ3 tree where things like stirrups send you to next age. Oh and Arabic printing presses, of course, exist to this day... Probably more in museums though since modern printing phased them out decades ago.
Asking just for the lies episode: how do putting your men in squares combat cavalry, and what did the Mamaluks do in response? Is there a specific way to combat the squares?
The idea is that you have soldiers facing in all four directions so the cavalry can't get behind the formation. I believe the men were also packed tight enough to brace each other. Then, the soldiers would volley fire to the charge. The weakness is that the men must hold firm against an oncoming cavalry charge and hold their fire until the right moment. So, a cavalry unit would use feints to bait wasted fire, try to unnerve the men, and go for the corners. Alternately, you'd bring in your own infantry or better yet, artillery with cannister (think "shotgun shells") to take advantage of the tight formation and three quarters of the men facing the other way.
The sqaures mean there's no flank to quickly get behind while riding around the square still leaves you in the overlap of fire. It's like Rock, Paper Scissors: Infantry Square bests Cavalry, Artillery beats Infantry Square, Cavalry beats Artillery
Squares create schiltron walls of bayonets and musket fire in face of horses, which they will absolute refuse to charge into. Since man has been able to domesticate horses we know that the latter will never charge full-face into a wall of pointy spears, let alone a wall of musket fire, and no amount of training will break that instinct; instead they will instinctively curve to avoid the obstacle and run between the squares. However, because in squares men are standing divided toward four hollow directions they will get absolutely destroyed by support infantry assaults, due to sheer frontal concentration of fire. See, for example, what happened to Jacobite schiltron formations at the battle of Culloden. Look at the 1970s movie Waterloo to see cavalry attacks on squares recreated. It's as real as you are going to get because the horses react just like Ney's cavalry reacted at the real Waterloo - they run in-between the squares like currents of water around poles in the ground. This is also why Napoleon was furious that no infantry support orders were given by his generals when Ney foolishly decided to charge - because close infantry support is what hinders your opponent to just square uncontested against cavalry.
Wait, I dont think it was Napoleon that organized the fleet in the bay of Aboukir, he had even ordered it to depart a couple times, even the day before it was caught if memory serves
"[W]orship of Muhammad," huh? I'm guessing there were plenty of even cringier proclamations you could have chosen from to show just how ignorant Napoleon was of the local culture and faith.
I'm wondering how "worship" is defined. I feel like Muslism won't identify as worshiping Mohammad, but they are very, very respectful of him (more so than christians are of Jesus imo), to the point where most won't draw images of him and they will say "peace be upon him" after they say his name. Maybe worship means "praying to", in which case, they don't worship Mohammad. It's an interesting question anyways.
5:14 now they realize why the Alexzandrians wore ‘rags’ Their cloths need to be light, and they need to allow for airflow for the human cooling system to work Wearing wool of other such uniforms is like having a thick layer of fur for for Siberia in the middle of summer in texas
French Marshall: Sir the climate is not suitable for this kind of invasion! Egypt in summer is hot as the pits of hell! Napoleon: Mother nature can go to hell!
I find it fascinating how Napoleon seems simultaneously loved and hated by his soldiers and officers in equal measure. On one hand, he was so popular with them that during his return from exile he was able to just turn armies sent to arrest him into recruits. On the other hand, during the Russian campaign, insubordination got so bad that Marshal Ney was (arguably correctly) refusing orders from him and ended up strong arming him into abdicating following the fall of Paris.
5:06 Why did the army cross the desert instead of staying on the boat? i would say it seems like the easy solution but that usually just means i missed something.
Nope your 100 percent right it seems to me like the naval flotilla just didn't have enough space for the entire French forces so decided to have the whole army more together
Nicely presented, but I can't help but wonder if the scriptwriter knows that "gave no quarter" means "took no prisoners", and whether that was the intent.
Napoleon once supposedly boasted that he was unstoppable because he could spend 30,000 lives a month on his campaigns. Napoleon was undoubtedly a skillful general, but he also benefited tremendously from really having the first modern national army in the west able to draw on huge reserves. Once the rest of Europe was able to arm their masses as well, he was toast. And to be frank, he absolutely deserves a butcher reputation.
1:40: Ummm... too many hands on deck with Admiral Nelson there? He lost his arm at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1797, and his eye at Calvi early in his career.
Probably mentioned next episode in the preamble, it was discovered a week before the battle of the Pyramids in mid July and presented scientifically a week after the battle a couple of weeks before the battle of the Nile in early August, Napoleon views it just before he flees Egypt abandoning his men.
@@watcherzero5256 France was invaded in two fronts, then he decided to return to France and give the lead to Kleber. The directory even send order for Napoleon to return to France in urgence.
@@watcherzero5256 He was called back from France, also, the anhilation of the Army of Italy at Novi mean who France was in an existencial crisis, and Barras and other wanted to "speed up" the transition to the monarchy, But Napoleon allies in the Algiers Regency informed him about it and his need in italy, he went back ousted Barras won the damn war, concluded peace with the Ottomans, and with The British, Russians and Austrians, and Egypt was to be demilitarized, (funny enough 30,000 Frenchmen went back to France in British ships as guests) but Britain decided to stay in Egypt, but were thrown out during the fourth coalition by the local Egyprian ruler Mohamed Ali Pasa,
@@omarbradley6807 Napoleon didn't know the Directory ordered him back - he sailed off before their order arrived. He did, however, guess from the reports of French disasters (not Novi, though, that would be too recent) disseminated by Sidney Smith's squadron that the Directory probably wanted him to come back, and that they would need him even if they didn't, which was a correct prediction. The British stayed in Egypt in violation of the Treaty of Amiens, but they withdrew in March 1803, expecting war with Napoleon. They invaded Egypt in 1807 (Fraser expedition), when the Ottoman allied with Napoleon, which is the event you're thinking of. The Fraser expedition was an embarrassing failure for Britain, but it was not the British having stayed in Egypt and happening to get thrown out - it was Britain invading Egypt and losing within six months.
Never say never. But its a damn shame we'll never get an Assassins Creed game set during this event. With all the different factions the friction with the native population, it is ripe historical ground for all sorts of Assassin shenanigans.
Lots of inaccuracies in this video General Mireur didn’t kill himself 😡, he was ambushed in the dessert by a band of mammlucks and killed before he could call for help
1.there was no disease that had anyone blinded 2. The commander of Cairo wasn’t General Dumas , but General Dupuy And that’s just in this part of the video .
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Where do you find your history resources? To be precise I'm interested in prehistory of Ethiopia. There is a lake tana and dek island that seems historically interesting. This is to niche to find a youtube on, would like to read up on it if there anything.
The way Admiral Nelson almost never stars in history videos, but is frequently mentioned: makes him feel like a force of nature.
Not wrong tbh. Beast of a man.
You can barely even see the dude on his own column.
Just like Walpole?
I believe he was also already missing his arm by the battle of the Nile, so minor drawing error there.
Makes me want rum every time
A small note. At 1:32, Horatio Nelson is shown holding a spyglass with two hands. He actually lost his right arm in July 1797 (He was hit with a musket ball while attacking a Spanish island), about a year before the invasion of Egypt.
He also lost is right eye way earlier than that in his career, as well. Seeing Nelson with two eyes open is so unfunny, it's like WTF.
@@nm7358 Very good point. I was aware of that injury as well but didn't double check the date. This graphic would be perfect for when he's looking at Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's signals at the Battle of Copenhagen, but that's two strikes for it fitting in here.
@@nm7358 I also had to check which eye got blinded, because the animation has him looking into the telescope with the right eye at 1:40 :D
@@nm7358 it's said that the idiom "turning a blind eye" originated from an incident involving Admiral Nelson.
I wondered if they had missed that detail.
We can find it surprising that Bonaparte chose to launch his expedition at the beginning of summer, when the temperature is the highest. In fact, he followed the recommendations of the country's experts who, like Consul Magellon, had recommended disembarking from the month of May, that is to say after the harvest was completed and before the flooding of the Nil which intervenes from the end of July. In addition, in this period, the winds blow from north to south and facilitate the arrival of ships. An expedition launched in June is therefore guaranteed to find supplies on the spot and to be quickly sheltered from an attack by sea, Egypt being inaccessible at the time of the flooding of the Nile.
You really believe the Directoire sent Napoleon to Egypt with the expectaction that he would succeed? They wanted to get rid of him.
@@nm7358 What does that have to do with what he says ? And the Directory did not sent such a large fleet and 50.000 men in Egypt just for him to fail.
@@lvl1_feral_druid he's saying it's not surprising because they sent him at a bad time on purpose to get rid of Napoleon
@@history7501 He talks about the directory, is Magellon from the directory ?
@@lvl1_feral_druid oh i read it wrong sorry
"I hate sand."
- every French soldier at this point.
Course, irritating, and gets EVERYWHERE
@@OfficialTexan maintenant c'est du podracing
I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE! YOU LOVE TOMMYKAY TOO!
And every US military member (& probably other countries, too) since 2003 lol I can't stand it
6:14 Egypt before the High Dam, (built in the 1970s) Crocodiles were very common, now they are all trapped in lake Nasser behind the Dam
I hope it doesn't get worse with recent interventions by Ethiopia...
Napoleon seemed to have a bad habit of not taking the climate of his invasion targets into account
Yeah with him it was "Oh, it's only a little heat" and later it would be "Oh, it's only a little snow".
that's what people that never opened a book about Napoleon say
Because everyone knows marching into Russia on foot at the height of summer is a terrible idea, it's the driest time of the year and extremely hot, such that even a century later there are records of soldiers dying from heat exhaustion at the side of the road while the army rushes past them. Napoleon lost half of his army by the autumn, and understandably so
@@greg_mca Everyone also knows that Eastern Europe turns into a thick mud in the spring and fall (known as rasputitsa), which makes the seasons where armies can march the best on the poor roads to be summer and winter. And of those two seasons, summer offered the best chances to forage. If Napoleon was to invade, his decision to invade in summer was the right one. The disaster of the Russia campaign is less how Napoleon did it than that he did it at all. And that is more of a discussion of how France was locked into an unwinnable war.
France could not defeat Britain conventionally, so economic warfare seemed like the only option. Yet France could not wage an economic war if other countries continued to trade with Britain, so this strategy embroiled France into war with offenders. Worse, the strategy itself was dubious, since Britain could make up for its trade with the continent thanks to their navy while the continent could only isolate itself. And yet, with France unable to challenge Britain on land, it seemed like the only way to strike Britain in _any_ way. Napoleon at least seemed to have realized the logical conclusion of this strategy eventually, as he is quoted in private discussions as saying that he wanted to create an unified European bloc, with a single legal system, with free movement of peoples, and coalesced into one great United States of Europe. This is some heady stuff for his time, even if he had come to it by the realization that he could not beat Britain by simply taking France against coalitions over and over. That said, he only mentions it in the months before his invasion of Russia, so he realized it too late for it to matter.
I bet if you were a general you would not care one bit of the climate
Seeing Nelson with two arms was weird! He'd be a good subject for a series, he survived disease, a polar bear (allegedly), losing sight in one eye, losing an arm, fighting in Naples, Denmark, Egypt, and all coastlines of France. In his last few years he had an almost suicidal obsession with dying a hero in battle and finally got his wish at Trafalgar
That’s why he’s a thane in Valhalla.
Another one for the lies episode: Those are modern watermelons because the Napoleonic era ones look like they are mostly rind.
Good catch
i have tried to do some research on this, and what i found was that in the redecanse all paintings of watermelons were different from the from today, but it seem so that the 1800s watermellon was a like as todays. you may know more then me on this subject. idont know to be honest.
I'd say touche, but I'd need a doll to show where.
Who are you? Charles Fredric Andrus?
Watermelons are pretty much just sweet cucumbers. That's why I think it's so weird that people call cucumbers vegetables when they are clearly fruit. All gourds are fruit.
Nelson with TWO hands!
For all the talk in Lies episodes about how much time it takes to draw these videos, you’d think they would have appreciated the chance to save a bit of time by drawing Nelson with only one hand.
Also has the telescope up to his blind right eye, he had lost the sight in a battle in 1794
@@hotmechanic222 Nelson was just half a head at this point. Limbs are for the weak.
@@ASpaceOstrich Arms and legs are for cowards!
@@ASpaceOstrich "Tis but a scratch"
@@ASpaceOstrichlmao he had a blind right eye and he also lost his right leg
I guess he ain’t “all” right 💀💀💀
Edit: I meant right arm 👍
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -- Napoleon Bonaparte.
YES! More of Nappy's adventures in Egypt! You guys are the best! Keep them coming!
I've never heard anyone refer to Napoleon as "Nappy" but I'm all for it
This nickname runs into problems for stories about his childhood.
Nappy? That sir is Ol' Boney
Nappy is my new favourite nickname for him
The Corsican ogre
When they have made a series on Marius and Sulla, Caesar and then Augustus, my life will be complete
That'd be an amzing series. In the meantime, I really enjoy historia civilis's videos on ancient Rome, if you haven't checked them out!
@@seanicus100 BEST TH-cam channel ever, his video on Ceasar death still haunt me
You mean Marius and Sulla?
@@KaiHung-wv3ul Yeah just edited it thank you
Publius Quinctilius Varus give me back my Legions !!!!!!😂
I swear. Napoleon. Somehow managed to win almost every battle with an astounding victory, yet still lose the war.
Which war are you referring to? The Egyptian campaign in particular?
"Soldiers! Four thousand years look down upon you!" - Napoleon Bonaparte to his soldiers right before the battle, pointing at the Pyramids of Gizeh. July 20, 1798.
"F#&% OFF IM THIRSTY!"
- Random French Soldier probably.
@@spiffygonzales5160 They had plenty of water at that point lol the march through the desert was a unforgettable lesson to pack tons
@@spiffygonzales5160😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@TheRealLaking30 soldiers died from drowning when they reach the river , jumping mad from thirst
Egyptians: "Napoleon has freed us!
Napoleon: "Oh, I wouldn't say 'freed.' More like 'under new management.'"
No Egyptian thought Napoleon freed us, We knew his true colonial imperialistic intents and resisted him
LoL, in Egypt, the crusaders were called 'franks', so when the French came, it was like a new crusades has begun. No Egyptian thought it was a 'liberation movement'
@@manetho5134 Yeah, but him proclaiming a new age is what the next wannabe tyrant usually says.
@@Omer1996E.C Egyptians we’re like oh look, more crusaders, can we kick these ones out too
@@nathanseper8738 Yeah so many villain speeches mention declare the 'start of a glorious new age' 😆
It looks like the artists have really upped their game in the last few series, they look so good, especially the backgrounds. Nice job!
And yet they forgot the most basic factual element that Nelson was missing both an arm and an eye by 1798.
Napoleon in Egypt: The weirdest thing that ever happened in that country, until the third season of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
I was not expecting a Jojo reference, but maybe I should have.......
. . .what?
@@dominicguye8058 A Japanese teenager fighting a Bɨseχʊal British Vampire...and they both have the ability to stop time......
And snow in the Sahara in what? 2006?
After this Napoleon definitely learned his lesson and never again invaded a place without checking the weather forecast...
Weather was part of a strategy at Boulogne when directly invading England by sea but call out at the last moment when Austria declared war on France and also at Austerlitz, both consisted to conceal the army behind the mist, it worked perfectly at Austerlitz.
about that....
Fun fact: French officers, when ordering their troops to open fire, would use the word "tirez" meaning "pull" (the trigger) instead of the word "feu" for "fire".
That's cool got a source as well?
Ohhh they’re referring to the pulling of the trigger rather than the ‘fire’ from the barrel - Interesting! I wonder what other languages use as their “fire” commands, maybe their words for “smoke” or “spark” or something like that.
"tirer" means "to shoot" in that context, not "to pull". A word in a language can have several meaning in another one, but I'm wondering if it doesn't originally come from what you pointed out as there is coincidence. It would be interesting to know why "tirer" has this second meaning.
@@shakya00 maybe it goes back to bows & arrows? You need to draw the arrow back before you can fire, so it might’ve been referring to that literal “pulling”. It would make sense that the word for “shoot” would come to be the same as “pull” since bows can’t be kept drawn for any real length of time. It’s more useful to know when to prepare your bow than it is to be told when to shoot, so you don’t get tired out waiting to fire. Then that term gets carried over into later weapons, like crossbows, & eventually firearms.
I might be wrong though.
I love the Foreshadowing about the French Fleet and the Battle of the Nile.
Napoleon just couldn’t be convinced that he was crossing a big river in Egypt. He was completely in DE NILE.
Napoleon is here to judge
@pluh363I am very much alive.
@@NapoleonBonaparte4721 you wouldn’t be able to conquer if my grandfather Fredrick the great was alive
@@wornoutanktop the grande army could beat his.
One bit for the lies, episode. Mireur didn't kill himself. He had bought an Arabian stallion from locals and was riding it when he was ambushed by three Mamlukes while in the desert by himself.
yeah that's not the only mistake, this channel is not very serious
@@lvl1_feral_druid When someone favors dramatic intros to the actual history, its whitewashing.
@@AxleEnterprisesLLC Mireur's career was not in jeopardy for him speaking out against Napoleon. He had powerful allies in the French government and is famous for creating the French national anthem, he was extremely popular in all circles of French society. He would not have had a reason to kill himself if he was one of the most popular men in France.
@@AxleEnterprisesLLC Not to mention who Napoleon had a pretty great relationship with his mother.
@@jeanlannes1368 He was probably eliminated by Napoleon or conveniently disappeared from his sight because he had spoken out against him. One less challenge to your eventual rule.
The battle of the pyramids was basically the definition of bringing a knife to a gunfight
Can't wait for more Egyptian history on this channel, hope one day you will make a series about Muhammad Ali pasha
"My enemies are many, my equals are none..." - Napoleon Bonaparte
Nice cavalry skill you got there mamelukes but I am affraid you just brought a cavalry charge to a straight up valley of fire arms.
As a Sudanese person I like seeing this video...I hope one day sudan will have ir own video man'
Ha! wrong British flag - 2 years too early for the Act of Union of 1800... Seriously though, great series and a great video. Napoleon's Egyptian expedition is so often overlooked in the popular histories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
When I caught the video the first half hour of dropping. I feel like a god amongst men, the grand poobah. You are all great, thanks for making these
Napoleon was simply built different
Reportedly, when they did an autopsy on him, they found he had no brain. Just a little cockpit with a dead squirrel in it.
@@garcalejIt was actually a chipmunk, do your research right
0:49 Don't know where they got that pice of info, because from what I know, Mireur was indeed demoted after badmouthing Napoleon and the expedition but died in a Mamluk ambush.
Well, I expect you to talk about how the French blasted the great mosque of Al-Azhar and killed scholars, which was a very big factor for Egyptian uprisings, which was a big factor for the failure of the French expedition
sod*mising french prisoners isn't the best idea either for a cordial entente
That was the other way around, the clergy revolted and took refugee in Al-Azhar that is why it was blasted.
Wait, from what I’ve skimmed over, Mireur had been killed by a Mamluk ambush, not by committing die. So what’s going on?
the historical rigor of extra history has gone out the window for some time now, there's an obivous tint to these videos that are not very honest and push a certain storytelling narrative.
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I think they kinda just pull a "GameTheory" sort of thing and skim over stuff. I mean we all do the same thing so no judgment. But yea I think that's what it is.
It would not have made much sense for him to kill himself at this point in any case.
Rolls a nat 1 and gets soliders eaten by crocodiles
It is nice to see the Western point of view on the matter,
by the way
my village is almost the last place the French reached before they suffered from Upper Egypt and withdrew
You should mention more details about the Mamluks, not just how they were been around for and how they fought the last major battle against the Mongols, they also endured Mansa Musa, Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the French and then finally died
Wait Mansa Musa.What did he do destroy the economy?😂
@@slimyday2738 yes, actually
What a surface level view. The mamluks weren't a dynasty, they were a class. These mamluks aren't related to the ones of Ain Jalut... also what does mansa musa have to do with this? Are you just namedropping historical figures you have seen on "fun fact" trivia channels?
I am wondering what happened to that egyptian woman who stabbed the soldier while holding her baby, was she killed? Or punished?
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So you keep referring to the Mamluk as "Sultans", but at this time the Mamluk Sultanate had ended and were now under the Ottoman Empire, they retained the Mamluks as an Egyptian ruling class but as vassals of the Ottomans, they didn't have the titles of sultans but that of "Bey" which was a Turkic title for a chieftain, for example they Mamluks rulers that you mentioned, Murad Bey and Ibrahim Bey, were Mamluk chieftains not Sultans
especially since their name literally mean "Sir" rather than any higher rank like "Pasa", and who only there was a Sultan.
Again, as an Egyptian, i would have loved more emphasis on Egyptian and mamluks resistance since the series so far has taken a one-sided approach in my opinion, but everything else is alright
It seems one sided probably because he had a hard time finding Egptian sources on the events.
Napoleon was amazing
i can’t get over how you said General Mierur is so funny to me 😂
Nice video, excited for part3.
I cannot espresso how much I appreciate the coffee puns. Sure, the haters may roast you, but they're just bitter.
Yay, love your videos!
Been excited for this!!
1:39 Horatio Nelson was missing his left arm and use of left eye by this point....
6:53 so this sceneof generals meeting over watermelon made me remember the similar scene in anime movie Martian Successor Nadesico where generals had a meeting discussing their discontent while eating watermelon. I thought it silly. Little did I knew they were actually referncing this historical event.
As someone who majored linguistics 10 years ago, I have a problem with the usage of the term "linguist" at around 4:00. Linguistics as the science we know today was finishing forming at around mid to late 19th century. Previously the work done comparing languages is mostly related to the dead science of philology (from which corpse rose linguistics). All in all I just can't understand why Americans confuse linguist with translator. Often you see online a job offer for "linguist" that doesn't require a major, but translation experience. During uni my course had literally the specializations literature, linguistics, and translation.
Can you make a video about the era of chaos at the end of Joseon? King Yeongjo and King Jeongjo died, the royal authority weakened, the status system was ruined, and a party began to dictatorship for two or three generations. At the same time, the leaders' corruption + peasant rebellion + usury + bad harvest
In some cases, the royal authority became very, very weak, and later, it was necessary to bring a distant relative and make him a king, of which Cheoljong lived almost as a common people and became a king.
"I invaded Egypt, I got some watermelon"
I'm wondering how that Arabic printing press worked, considering Arabic typsetting must be a nightmare. Arabic characters change shape depending on which character came before or after
Indeed, really nice to see non Arabs knowing sort of obscure things about our language.
@Ziyad Al-Atherah I'm not an example of normal western knowledge of Arabic, though, I specifically picked up Middle Eastern Studies as a hobby.
I've watched some documentary on printing presses and they were known by Ottomans but gradually phased out apart from a few in the capital because it didn't work with local culture and traditions of writing at the time. There's a lot of myths from claiming lack of printing press either shown Ottoman empire as technologically backwards and it didn't allow for enlightment to spread, but it's kinda bogus since real history is more complex than the Civ3 tree where things like stirrups send you to next age.
Oh and Arabic printing presses, of course, exist to this day... Probably more in museums though since modern printing phased them out decades ago.
I wondered the same thing. Each letter has at least 3 forms
ي، في، يمكن for example, the letter yah
I guess Napoleon was in de-Nile about this campaign being a bust.
Booo.......
I am soooo looking forward to the new Napoleon movie!!!
Mireur didnt kill himself, he was ambushed and killed by saber strikes
A small miss-step in what would be an incredible military career.
also great video!
3:49 Hmmmm "Well Poll"... "Wellpoll"... "Walpole"
IT WAS WALPOLE WHO STITCHED THAT TOGETHER!!
One week in the desert and man just up and offs himself. Is the heat just like that sometimes
Asking just for the lies episode: how do putting your men in squares combat cavalry, and what did the Mamaluks do in response? Is there a specific way to combat the squares?
The idea is that you have soldiers facing in all four directions so the cavalry can't get behind the formation. I believe the men were also packed tight enough to brace each other. Then, the soldiers would volley fire to the charge. The weakness is that the men must hold firm against an oncoming cavalry charge and hold their fire until the right moment. So, a cavalry unit would use feints to bait wasted fire, try to unnerve the men, and go for the corners. Alternately, you'd bring in your own infantry or better yet, artillery with cannister (think "shotgun shells") to take advantage of the tight formation and three quarters of the men facing the other way.
The sqaures mean there's no flank to quickly get behind while riding around the square still leaves you in the overlap of fire. It's like Rock, Paper Scissors: Infantry Square bests Cavalry, Artillery beats Infantry Square, Cavalry beats Artillery
Squares create schiltron walls of bayonets and musket fire in face of horses, which they will absolute refuse to charge into. Since man has been able to domesticate horses we know that the latter will never charge full-face into a wall of pointy spears, let alone a wall of musket fire, and no amount of training will break that instinct; instead they will instinctively curve to avoid the obstacle and run between the squares. However, because in squares men are standing divided toward four hollow directions they will get absolutely destroyed by support infantry assaults, due to sheer frontal concentration of fire. See, for example, what happened to Jacobite schiltron formations at the battle of Culloden.
Look at the 1970s movie Waterloo to see cavalry attacks on squares recreated. It's as real as you are going to get because the horses react just like Ney's cavalry reacted at the real Waterloo - they run in-between the squares like currents of water around poles in the ground. This is also why Napoleon was furious that no infantry support orders were given by his generals when Ney foolishly decided to charge - because close infantry support is what hinders your opponent to just square uncontested against cavalry.
You put them into square hole...
Wait, I dont think it was Napoleon that organized the fleet in the bay of Aboukir, he had even ordered it to depart a couple times, even the day before it was caught if memory serves
0:22 bit of a development oversight. That's the flag of the United Kingdom and Ireland which didn't come into use until 1801.
Napoleon marching through the Egyptian desert in July seems a preview of the retreat from Moscow in winter.
"[W]orship of Muhammad," huh? I'm guessing there were plenty of even cringier proclamations you could have chosen from to show just how ignorant Napoleon was of the local culture and faith.
Lol, that's the first thing I thought of too as soon as I had heard this sentence 😂
he probably thought muhammad in islam is like jesus in christianity :/
they do worship Muhammad though.
I'm wondering how "worship" is defined. I feel like Muslism won't identify as worshiping Mohammad, but they are very, very respectful of him (more so than christians are of Jesus imo), to the point where most won't draw images of him and they will say "peace be upon him" after they say his name. Maybe worship means "praying to", in which case, they don't worship Mohammad. It's an interesting question anyways.
@@porphyry17 no, he is important, but not worshipped. He's the final messenger
Actually Mamluks have witnessed artillery and modern weaponry when Caliph/Sultan Selim I entered Egypt
I am terrified by this series' inaccuracies, it's sad.
5:14 now they realize why the Alexzandrians wore ‘rags’
Their cloths need to be light, and they need to allow for airflow for the human cooling system to work
Wearing wool of other such uniforms is like having a thick layer of fur for for Siberia in the middle of summer in texas
For the lies episode I guess; Admiral Nelson lost his arm in 1797, but here he's shown with 2 in 1798. A minor detail perhaps, but still.
Soldiers: How can we win this battle?
Napoleon: 🔲
Watermelons around 1800 didn't look like that, the rind basically took up 1/2 the fruit and the seeds were enormous.
1:18 that Egypt map looks odd, is there any reason I’m not aware of historically as to why it’s depicted like that?
It feels odd that Egypt has most of cyrenaica, part of modern Libya. It looks like something from WWII during the seesaw campaigns
Ha, es-press-o that's the best pun l ever heard😂 I'm a big fan of your puns. This pun has lend a pun-ch. 9:33
French Marshall: Sir the climate is not suitable for this kind of invasion! Egypt in summer is hot as the pits of hell!
Napoleon: Mother nature can go to hell!
I find it fascinating how Napoleon seems simultaneously loved and hated by his soldiers and officers in equal measure. On one hand, he was so popular with them that during his return from exile he was able to just turn armies sent to arrest him into recruits. On the other hand, during the Russian campaign, insubordination got so bad that Marshal Ney was (arguably correctly) refusing orders from him and ended up strong arming him into abdicating following the fall of Paris.
5:06 Why did the army cross the desert instead of staying on the boat? i would say it seems like the easy solution but that usually just means i missed something.
Nope your 100 percent right it seems to me like the naval flotilla just didn't have enough space for the entire French forces so decided to have the whole army more together
I love how cute you drew the maneating crocodile
Please tell me you are going to talk about the battle for Acre? I heard it was one of the interesting moments in this story
Yeah I'm pretty sure you heard, they don't teach you Acre's history because it isn't your land you Israeli occupier
Yeah, part of the french expedition in Egypt, but it was in Palestine, and under the direct ottoman rule, not mamluk
It would be pretty cool to make a extra history napoleon after this eh?
At least they did something to do with Napoleon. His life is so interesting and the wars so wast that they won’t fit into one series anyway.
Nicely presented, but I can't help but wonder if the scriptwriter knows that "gave no quarter" means "took no prisoners", and whether that was the intent.
Dunno how well Nelson could have spotted them, being blind in the eye he is using the telescope with. :p
Napoleon once supposedly boasted that he was unstoppable because he could spend 30,000 lives a month on his campaigns.
Napoleon was undoubtedly a skillful general, but he also benefited tremendously from really having the first modern national army in the west able to draw on huge reserves. Once the rest of Europe was able to arm their masses as well, he was toast.
And to be frank, he absolutely deserves a butcher reputation.
Wasn’t Mireur killed by the Mamluks? Like, it’s even on his Wikipedia….
Question: Why didn't General Mireur just go home, or live in exile?
6:52 well well well.....
1:40: Ummm... too many hands on deck with Admiral Nelson there? He lost his arm at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1797, and his eye at Calvi early in his career.
Love your videos
I love this
6:30 a warm foreshadowing on what will happen in Moscow.
didn't one of napoleons soldiers discover the Rosetta stone or was that later?
Probably mentioned next episode in the preamble, it was discovered a week before the battle of the Pyramids in mid July and presented scientifically a week after the battle a couple of weeks before the battle of the Nile in early August, Napoleon views it just before he flees Egypt abandoning his men.
@@watcherzero5256 France was invaded in two fronts, then he decided to return to France and give the lead to Kleber. The directory even send order for Napoleon to return to France in urgence.
@@watcherzero5256 He was called back from France, also, the anhilation of the Army of Italy at Novi mean who France was in an existencial crisis, and Barras and other wanted to "speed up" the transition to the monarchy, But Napoleon allies in the Algiers Regency informed him about it and his need in italy, he went back ousted Barras won the damn war, concluded peace with the Ottomans, and with The British, Russians and Austrians, and Egypt was to be demilitarized, (funny enough 30,000 Frenchmen went back to France in British ships as guests) but Britain decided to stay in Egypt, but were thrown out during the fourth coalition by the local Egyprian ruler Mohamed Ali Pasa,
@@omarbradley6807 Napoleon didn't know the Directory ordered him back - he sailed off before their order arrived. He did, however, guess from the reports of French disasters (not Novi, though, that would be too recent) disseminated by Sidney Smith's squadron that the Directory probably wanted him to come back, and that they would need him even if they didn't, which was a correct prediction.
The British stayed in Egypt in violation of the Treaty of Amiens, but they withdrew in March 1803, expecting war with Napoleon. They invaded Egypt in 1807 (Fraser expedition), when the Ottoman allied with Napoleon, which is the event you're thinking of. The Fraser expedition was an embarrassing failure for Britain, but it was not the British having stayed in Egypt and happening to get thrown out - it was Britain invading Egypt and losing within six months.
“Well” “pole”. Walpole is at it again, I see.
Never say never. But its a damn shame we'll never get an Assassins Creed game set during this event. With all the different factions the friction with the native population, it is ripe historical ground for all sorts of Assassin shenanigans.
great content
25k France vs 60k Ottomens losses 289 killed and wounded france and 10k ottomens killed and wounded.
But in the end OTTOMAN WON so 😝
@@islammehmeov2334 They can thanks the Englishmen for that
@@lvl1_feral_druid whay the englishmen did not only destroy the french fled
@@islammehmeov2334 They were forced to capitulate because they did not have any reinforcement, it ain't the same 😅
@@lvl1_feral_druid that is there problem not many 🆗 if they can't reinforce there army's that mine that napoleon is not great commander
Another crusade nearly ruined by lack of water.
Wikipedia says Mireur died in a Mameluk ambush... Which is correct?
Lots of inaccuracies in this video General Mireur didn’t kill himself 😡, he was ambushed in the dessert by a band of mammlucks and killed before he could call for help
Yea...very very big mistake and wonder what else he got wrong
1.there was no disease that had anyone blinded
2. The commander of Cairo wasn’t General Dumas , but General Dupuy
And that’s just in this part of the video .
Could yall please do a series about Lord Byron
5:54 was that an ELO refrence?
Napoleon may have been a military genius, but he didn't understand how dehydration worked!