1864 ~Battle of Dybbøl (Second Charge)
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- 1864 series
Second Schleswig War
Battle of Dybbøl
7 April - 18 April 1864
Dybbøl, Denmark
Prussian Victory
Prussia Vs Denmark
Prussia: 11,000 and 26,000 in reserve,
126 guns
Denmark:5,000 at the defences, 6,000 in reserve,
66 guns, 11 mortars,
1 Ironclad Warship
Prussian losses:1,201 dead, wounded, or captured
Danish losses: 4,834 (700 dead, 554 wounded, 3,534 captured) - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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I know this show isn't the most historically accurate in the world, but man, when that guy yells "Forward! For Denmark!" And then the chants of "Ra! Ra! Ra!" begin, that is just awesome.
And terribly difficult thing to actually film :-D I am the guy holding the Danish flag and I heard nothing from the actor...
@@Tyrhor you mean you are the person carrying the Danish flag in the film??:)
@@sebastianmorell2012 Yes :-D
@@Tyrhor were there actually hundreds of actors? great job on the acting though.
@@manchiststechnicolourarchi5606 Thank you.
That day there were 300 extras, 60 stunts, 20 actors and a crew of about 50 people. The weather was horrible, it was filmed in June and July, 30°C in shade...
I will never forget wearing that uniform for nearly half a year. To be honest, we didn't act most of the scenes. The explosions were mostly real,one of the shots hit me so hard it moved my skull and gave me two years of headaches...
Still, I'm really glad I was part of it all
Must have sucked having similar uniform colours.
I guess all you could really do there is see who is wearing Feldmutze and who wears kepis.
You will see that the Prussians are wearing white armbands to distinguish them from the Danes.
Bumper Morgan haha good luck getting your whites whiter in a wash after a mud fight.
Herr Richtig Or make peace, just saying.
King of Pizza These kind of people live upon blood and hate brother.
Saving Private Rhine.
😂😂😂Lmao
Saving Private Laust*
Saving Private Schneider
Saving Private Denmark
Saving private reinhard.
This was like a serious preview of WW1. Long range howitzers, bolt-action rifles, trench warfare.
Thats right. But the danish dont have it
And the human waves
Chemical warfare...
The end of the American Civil War was also disturbingly close to the horrors that would become WW1.
Even earlier with American civil War? Fortifications and siege like warfare emerging, use of balloons even machine guns (primitive) and the use of trains to move troops when mobilisation began, rifled breech loading weapons also to the fore, the rifled musket had had its day.
I just love the marching chants, it gives me chills every time
Its like an echo of their viking ancestors
@@iraqlobster7678 If they doing without guns and only with swords, those RA!! would be very terrifying, it is battlecry for death and suffering, superior numbers would fear those warcry.
That's the attention
Give credit to the Danes but it was a lost cause. The Prussians far outnumbered them. More importantly, the Prussian army used the Dreyse needle-gun, a breech-loading, bolt action rifle that could be loaded while the user was prone and could also be fired more rapidly than the muzzle loader. By contrast, the Danes were equipped with their older muzzle-loading rifles which placed them at a distinct disadvantage. Finally, Prussian artillery was far superior to anything possessed by the Danes, and was used more effectively.
Correction: Bolt Action rifle
Breech loading
@@robzonefire breech loading they had to load a round in the breech after one shot
@@robzonefire Today, we called it "Bolt Action Rifle" but in the past, it was called "Dreyse Needle-Gun"
Actually I think the Danish used the Lorenz which is slightly newer then the Dreyse which was introduced in the 1840s. It was still a muzzle loader though
When two schools see each other during a fieldtrip
Me and boys 2:08
Lame.
@@oilersridersbluejays Like your userNAME. Rhyme, I love it
Nah me and the boys is 0:31 @ThePresidentOfTheUnitedStates1
A meeting of House Republicans. 😊
This is why Paradox NEEDS to make Victoria III, Fear the Prussian War machine.
Agreed
not really throw a lot of quick lime rounds on them and that will stop them cold.
HOI4 was severely dumbed down, what are you talking about
They are plenty scary in EUIV, if you form Prussia
Of course HOI4 is dumbed down.
Auto manage divisions thanks to horrible frontline mechanics WHICH YOU CAN TOGGLE AI MANAGEMENT ON OR OFF! So if I dont use horrible frontline battleplans, and give AI control of my troops, i cant take advantage of planning bonus. Mkay
Stupid mana system imported from EU4 where you need army xp TO MODIFY A DIVISION TEMPLATE?!
And Focus trees. Because managing the political sliders in your country is difficult to understand.
A perfect scene: That brief quiet at 1:35, when the Danes were smiling, followed by the growing rumble of the Prussian counterattack beginning at 1:38. The Danes at elevation shouting to their comrades to fall back, because they can see what's coming.
😢😢😢😢
"RAA!" "RAA!" "RAA!" "RAA!" *Blood spatters all over and heads get blown off* "UHMBAFHASDHAHDAS"
Dodgeball in a nutshell.
Aww man
First mumble rap ever written lol
This battle was contemporaneous with the American Civil War, and the wounds would have been similar to what Confederates and Union soldiers suffered in that conflict. The Germans used the Dreyse needle gun, a bolt action rifle (yes, in the mid-nineteenth century) that fired a paper cartridge with the percussion cap behind the bullet but ahead of the powder. Pulling the trigger pushed a firing pin through the paper and powder to set off the percussion cap. It fired a .61 caliber bullet through a rifled barrel with a muzzle velocity of 1000 ft/sec. I would expect it to inflict wounds at least as horrendous as the Springfield, Enfield, and Sharps rifles used in the American Civil War, and if hit by one of those .577 caliber (.54 for the Sharps) heavy lead bullets you would not have seen a small hole in the head with a small splatter of blood. The Danish Tapriffel muzzle loader appears to have used a .66 caliber bullet, which would also have inflicted terrible wounds.
They weren't similar, they were basically the same - given the acorn-like lead bullet of a Dreyse is basically a minie ball. being a larger caliber, wounds would be even worse than the Civil War happening beore, during and after this war.
@@SStupendous Actually most Civil War rifled muskets were .58 caliber, so essentially the same size. I don't know if there was a lot of variation in how heavy they standardized their bullets at. As a boy my father took my late brother and I to Gettysburg and Manassas, and I believe it was at the Gettysburg battlefield they had this display of minie balls that had mushroomed. One recovered was bigger than an Eisenhower dollar coin. The North also had the advantage of repeating rifles
@@shawncarroll5255 I'm aware that most were .58 caliber... which ironically proves my point, the Dreyse shot an even larger bullet. In the Wars of Unification most European rifles were .66-69 caliber, and the Dreyse in specific shot the .66 acorn-shaped bullet. That creates an even more horrific wound, just as I said...
global war
My favorite part of this is it just showing how terrifying it would have been to come under fire in large, linear formations like this. The only thing keeping you from getting hit is pure luck. You can just feel how the air is filled with lead.
If this battle happened today the danish soldiers would have build a Lego fort
A PRUSSIAN ARMY HAS CROSSED THE RIVER IN SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN...... RA!
BUILD THE DEFENSES, HOLD THE POSITION, AND MAKE THE VICTORY. THE ALL NEW SCHLEISWIG WAR SET
@@dopellamaz2216 lmao
Nah, they would have spread them all over the battlefield between themselves and the Prussians then coax the Prussians to charge.
@@thepsychicspoon5984 The secret weapon of the danes besides vikings!
@@thepsychicspoon5984man isn't stepping on legos kinda harsh, almost war crime type harsh?
Probably one of the most least talked about battles of the American Civil War.
Kevin :Wrong continent. Demark vs 'Germany'
Psst. That's the joke.
Kyle J Dahl correction Prussia
Kevin What do you? This isn't the American Civil war. Since when was the U.S. 's battle cry "Ragh"
Kevin are you dumb ? This is part of the Sudanese civil war geez
Being a Danish American and realizing the reason why some of my earlier danish ancestors settled here in America (Western Wisconsin) was because of this conflict Is quite thought provoking .
@@ponianyoutube8071 but wait... i thought there was a civil war going on
@@unknownuser8228 Deadass?
You danish are so stupid you have the minds of children you stupid danish pepole of 7 million
@@ponianyoutube8071 yeah that's why it's called the “Civil” war, because it was very civil and most people got along just fine back then, especially those educated Southerners. Yeah in reality my family came after both wars as Lincoln opened up the upper midwest for settlement with the homestead act and a lot of Danes like my own family came over. I guess they also invited their friends and family over the years because they kept letters and later on more of my family came over in the 1890s-1900s
If you are in Wisconsin or ever go there, the Danish Lt. who leads the charge in this scene (Dinesen), came to America and lived in Wisconsin for a short period of time and then returned to Denmark. The house he lived in (the Dinesen-Motzfeldt-Hettinger Log House) still exists. His daughter wrote "Out of Africa", which the 80s movie is based on.
Danish army: we won
*sound of charge on horizon*
danish army:?
prussian army: YOU CAN'T STOP PRUSSIA!!!!!!
[PRUSSIAN GLORY PLAYES]
Danish soldier: aaaaaaaaaaaa Denmark stronk!!!!!
danish soldier: wait....
sound of charge on horizon
danish soldier: oh no.....
prussians soldiers: PREUBENS GLORIA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The prussian soldiers only needed 13 Minutes to storm the first line of the danish fortifications.
oh bro, there was a meme about this part but the channel was eliminated by his creator (idk why)
cringe
I speak german and i first wondered why the german of them Sounds so unnormal, then i saw that these where the danish soldiers🤣🤦♂️
Cause it was a danish Actor
Lol
There are alot of words changing iver teh years like panzer i think and things
That's terrifying as shit to watch a mass of infantry advancing toward you chanting "RAAAA!"
Only headshots. Hax!
noticed too lol
Yes the Prussians must have been firing at their heads all the time! (I dont think so)
Lautriche one of the chief problems of volley fire, and the reason napoleonic era uniforms had such high hats, was because soldiers invariably aimed high. Bullet wounds below the waist were unusual until the Boer war.
Frank Mueller Didn't know that, thanks!
Aimbotters.
Darn it, that was such a good chant.
RA RA RA
Just finished this series. 2:06 shows the Dreyse Needle Gun absolutely tearing up the Danes who were still armed with M1822 muzzle-loaders, and thus had a much slower ROF
the man behind the gun makes the most difference
Not if your gun takes over thrice as long to reload while not being much more accurate. Mass of volume is a class of itself.
i think both counts in this battle. The prussians had the technological advantage (which wasnt really relevant until that battle, all important battles before were fought between austrians and danes) and were also better trained (danes enlisted a lot of older men from the reserve due to lack of manpower and danish military service time was 2 years while prussia had 3 years). Another important disadvantage: the danes had not enough officers and many of the ones they lacked also training.
With all that disadvantages on their side (not to mention 4 weeks of heavy bombardment), its quite impressive that they were able and willing to carry out this massive counterattack.
More hitting power, though.
THIS IS THE BEST BATTLE I'VE EVER SEEN!
This is like that Spongebob meme
1:39 "we just beat the Prussian Army!"
1:50 "that's not the Prussian Army"
2:00 zoom out, the Prussian Army
0:04 first found appearance of the Techno Viking in history
chad
There are a lot of things to like about this scene, but what I like most is the moment officers realise they lost control over their men and the only thing they can do is join them.
I was born and raised in Kappeln (Kappel) near Schleswig (Slesvig), which is pretty close to the scenery. This war resulted in the occupation of the southernmost part of Denmark (Nordslesvig) by the Prussians (later Deutsches Reich). After WW1 (precisly in 1920) a voting was made in Nord- and Sydslesvig, the people had the choice between Denmark and Germany and the result was, that the new border was drawn north of Flensburg, where it still is. Up till this day there is a danish minority in Sydslesvig and a german minority in Nordslesvig. I was born as a german citizen but went to a danish school and college (so to say, I was raised bi-lingual and bi-cultural), watching this makes me sad, when I think, that my ancestors may have fought each other. If Ametricans commenting on this point out similarities to the civil war, yes, you are right, relatives and brothers fighting each other is akward.
That is sad. It is similar to our Civil War. Famous Generals in the U.S Civil war were friends of Generals on the enemy side. Ulysses S. Grant who fought for the Union, was best friends with General James Longstreet who fought for the Confederacy before the war. And even made Longstreet his best man at Grant's wedding.
Wow ich lebe praktisch direkt an Kappeln
You forgot to say that Danes in Sydslesvig were brutally germanised by the Prussians so that they voted for Germany in 1920. But historically it's danish territory!
When you dont want you Infantry to charge but they do...
Many have fail to control when the infantry want a war.
The star that lasts half as long burns twice as bright. The small but mighty Kingdom of Prussia lives on in her sons and daughters, and in the many great minds and advances that came from the Prussian Academy of Science.
I mean they did unify Germany, not sure if the "Prussian spirit" was such a good thing when it got them entangled into wars they had no hope of winning...
"small"? Why of all the insolence! Graf von Sponneck will hear of this, I assure you.
Ahhh how to forget the times between modern warfare and medieval warfare, the perfect mixture between technological advances and raw brutality
Lol because modern warfare is so much more humane, none of that 'raw brutality' of old in blowing people up with high explosives I guess
No one seems to be talking about the officer (idk ranks) with sword leading his men at the 2:00 mark. Shit must have pumped up that guy being in the front with hundreds behind him
Yeah, the captain, he was badass
How intimidating would that be to see and hear that advance? A bunch of Danish soldiers marching toward you and shouting "ra" like that.
That's what the machine gun was invented for
@@handlesarecringe957 Gatling gun go brrrrrr
@@brucewillixaspirinix9652 I though the same. Nu Nu Nu.
the big Problem with machine guns before ww1 was other than entrenched defense they are useless sure you can mow down a couple of people you aint gonna move that thing fast. thats why before ww1 nobody actually used it that much not even colonial troops used machine guns that much. only when in ww1 the entrenchment start they got more and more use and were improved constantly like keeping that thing cooled
The enduring problem for trench and open field warfare is that the offensive waves will be easily taken down by a well-coordinated defensive position. That's why tanks were invented to shield attacking infantries from enemy fire.
Girls during dodgeball: ugh I don't wanna play I might get hurt
Boys:
Dodge "ball" alright...minie ball...😏
the boy be like: I'll catch the ball with my hand and we'll form a line to be more effective
What do they scream "Ra Ra Ra" - is it some sort of Danish war cry? Sounds cool, what does it mean?
harraism i guess it is same with huraaaaaaaah?
Ra! Ra! Rasputin!
Ra RA RArra RAa aaaa Rommaa romma ma maaAAaa I want ur romance
you guys are corny
harraism The Danes like their Lady Gaga song.
very professional made video - *liked* and *subscribed*
FORWARD, FOR DENMARK!!!
RAAAH RAAAH RAAAAH RAAAH
0:56
When neither side is your own country so you watch as an unbiased spectator
Pick Denmark, we are way cooler
Very stirring scene. The "Forward, for Denmark!", guttural chant and lone Danish flag, the only colour in the midst of carnage, for me makes this a powerful dramatisation of the charge by the 8th Brigade. Which, in reality, effectively saved two more brigades from being massacred by the Prussians. Despite their inferiority in firepower the Danes gave as good as they got; unfortunately it wasn't enough.
Hmn why unfortunately ? The Danes where the aggressor in this war and even insisted on prolonging the war after a peace offer that would put the new border at the language border (same as todays) was provided by the Germans.
Fortunately* it wasnt enough and never would have been. The Prussians and my ancestors defeated the danes and proposed a Generous peace of wich (like the previous commenter already said) would have Led to a language based border. But the danish King was so sad, he just gave all of Schleswig to Prussia and even thought of letting all of Denmark be annexed.
As sad as the loss of live may be, this War is responsible for the good (not perfect) border of today and could have even earlier.
So no, that the charge failed is very fortunate, since further Conflict was averted due to it
why unfortunately? they were the agressors
@@keinkein510 I meant unfortunately in this battle, not the geo-politics of the war, my bad!
1:57 *At this moment everyone knew.. they fucked up*
on that exact moment
PREUßENS GLORIA EARRAPE
RAAAHHH!!!!!!
⚔🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
Why am I getting WW1 vibes from this...
Nice question because its so fucking different
It's actually a true precursor to the WW1, Trench warfare happened in Dybbøl Banke (Badass Museum there you should check it out) not unlike WW1 French observers in the war at the war commented ln thr horrid circumstamces the danes and Prussians suffered, if they only knew they saw the future. And goddamn it was only the beginning
barbed wire in 1860s WTF, why Prussians are reloading while standing, their rifles are breech loaded.
@@maleficusvictor9887 Prussians were still tought to reload while standing at Dybbol. Partly due to the tradition.
It is also possible to load the Danish rifle when you are on your belly, it is just way harder
@@Tyrhor they fight against the austrian with these same Breech loaded rifle, and shoot against Them in Prone position.
So were the Prussians that far ahead in tech already? I mean those breech loading rifles against muzzle loaders that seem to be left overs from Napoleonic wars.
Fuzzy Peach those muzzle loaded guns were rifles as well, you know...
The Danes had muzzleloading rifles. You also might call them rifled muskets. But in any case, they fired Minie balls. They were pretty state of the art. In US Civil War terms, the Union army wasn't armed any better, and the Confederates were even worse for the first few years of war, still employing smoothbores in some units. It's just that the Prussians were the first (I believe) to arm their line infantry with breechloaders.
Julius Coyle actually in the very Deep South there were reserve units that ended up being called to fight and a lot of these reserve units used the cap that was standard during the Mexican American war twenty years earlier and also used muskets from the revolutionary war
J C Some Union units used smoothbores too, btw.
But anyways OP, hopefully this makes sense: the Danes weren't really behind so much as the Prussians pulled out ahead. From what I understand they only implemented the new technology shortly before fighting Denmark, too! Luckily for them they put their faith in the new tech and it seemed to pay off.
They are cap locks which are faster than flintlocks so i guess its a improvment
RAAAH ! RAAAH ! RAAAH !
Man it sounds so good !
Wish this was on Netflix.
Am I correct in that the Danes, were actually the aggressor in this war? Didn't the Danes annex some area of land or a Dutchery or something? And the Germans were like, "hey, that's ours?" So Germany attacked the Danes?
It is more complicated than this.
Schleswig, the region this was about, was ruled by the Danish Kings, but by tradition and affirmed by an earlier (1852) treaty, not legally part of the Danish state as such.
Holstein, which was also ruled by the Danish Kings, was explicitly part of Germany (i.e. the German Confederation at this point) and had been so since the middle ages. That was not really in dispute.
With rising nationalism in the 1860s, Denmark tried to incorporate Schleswig (but not Holstein) as a proper part of the Danish state. Prussia and Austria, representing the German Confederation, alleged (correctly) that this violated the earlier treaties and went to war over it. Prussia and Austria won and forced Denmark (and the Danish Crown) to relinquish all rights to Schleswig and Holstein (and a smaller, less important territory called Lauenburg.)
That is the dynastic/legal background. The other factor is of course that basically, there were competing nationalisms. Schleswig (again, not Holstein, which was ~99% German-speaking) was split between Danish and German speakers, but nationalists on both sides wanted the entire territory for their respective nations. This problem thus lingered on until after WW1, when Schleswig was partitioned between Germany and Denmark based on a plebiscite. The last aspects of the question were only solved in the 1950s, when Germany and Denmark signed treaties protecting minorities on the 'other' side of the border.
So, in 1864:
a.) Denmark was legally in the wrong, but
b.) the deeper cause was the rise of nationalism, which conflicted both with nationalism in other countries and with the old principle of dynastic inheritance and rule (consider that the Danish royal house was originally German).
P.S.: Believe it or not this is actually just the very basic gist. The legal aspects are in reality far more complex than that.
Koshiro2k3 and the only three people who understood it are dead
@@Koshiro2k3 Thank you! That was a great explanation.
@@Koshiro2k3 Very well explained
@@emw1994 Three people understand the war. A danish man, who is dead, a german Professor, who had gone insane, and me, who forgot it all
2:20 I couldn’t stop laughing at how unfortunate he was.
0:04 nineteenth century chad, colorized.
2:07 Chad got 360 no scoped later on lol.
Its interesting to note a situation wherein the soldiers and lower ranking officers take the initiative. Its happened in several instances throughout history where, without orders, formations charged enemy lines and decided the outcome of battles (for better or for worse). It demonstrates that soldiers can only stand and endure situations like this (allies being killed within line of sight, enemies engaging them from a distance and rendering them impotent, other units engaging the enemy and thus mitigating their own chances at glory, etc.) for so long before either retreating or engaging the foe. Regardless of the intentions of the commanders.
Nobody
The entire class when the teacher is gone:
Front loaded vs. rear loaded rifle with rifled barrel + perfect drilled soldiers.
01:15 The tactic worked, one side life the trenched position and marshed into the open field to become a full size target.
Probably my favorite battle of the American Civil War.
your joking right?
RSOVIET The Civil War isn’t a joke...
* TheMADCowTrain * it's the Second Schleswig War
Read history books
@@TheMADCowTrain Still not sure if your joking or not. :l
But just in case your not this is Denmark vs Prussia.
Where can I find this show? Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, etc or ? Also is the show called 1864 in the US?
hello, can i use the video or the sound in a video i am making about French-Prussian war? i need it because of the bayonet charge
0:59
Ready!
Aim!
Fire!
Much prefer the prequel, 1848
They really said "Aww, cute march, watch this"
When the furious charge of the Danes just stops... I felt that.
War is fucked up. 😳
yup.
True. Legalized murder. Look at the intentional saturation bombing of German civilians during WWII. It's only an atrocity if you are on the losing side. Like today in Syria, where the US and Coalition have racked up over 3,500 confirmed deaths of non-combatants, including many hundreds of children. But we don't see pictures of their cute faces in the news, and in fact rarely hear them mentioned. "Fascist, Democratic or Communist, there was ever but one State."
Saudi Arabia cuts heads off as well. ;)
And whatever. Mass killing army or non-army for whatever reason (religious, political, eugenic), is all fucked up!
why though.He killed innocent people.
"Easy... gentlemen, easy... good to have your dander up, but it's discipline that wins the day." --- Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run
--- The man to be shot to Death by his own soldiers in a rush.
Pov you and your friends are cheering during a sports match. 0:33
Im having trouble seeing whos who. Which side is the danish and which side are the Prussians?
Imagine every soldier was a wizard.
it would be a draw.
@@AbrahamLincoln4 NO, the one cast spell with RA!!! and the other spells other thousand little spells, so RA!!! would won.
Even do this is not 100% realistic as it happened in the real battle. It is still very cool.
What does the shouting "RAH" means in Danish, it is only some charge shout, or it could mean "right, right" like every right footstep?
Michal Hala It was a Danish battle cry it meant "advance advance advance
The tunic buttons attached to the Prussian Second Lieutenants uniforms are incorrect. It should feature a crown inlay extending to the border. The badges presented were not used until after February 1875.
When you bring musket to fight a bolt action.
If I immediately regret this decision was a battle.
Suddenly, I'm a Danish patriot. At least for a few minutes. Great clip.
Well done scene.
Last time the Danes had any sort of national pride
In Fall of the Samurai I committed to using only Breech loaders for my infantry. The slaughter was terrifying.
I thought"wow i wonder how this was in history"
Well.... Here we are. The closest we'll get
Though not totally historically accurate, it's base on real event, Danish painter Vilhelm Jacob Rosenstand's "Charge of the 8th Brigade at the Battle of Dybbøl" was base on it.
Great charge i loved this escene
Prussia’s the best German state out of all of them
Prussia, the worlds best military power during the 18th and 19th century.
Prussian Eagle best military power barely beat France in 1871 almost got conquered in the early 1700s got rofl stomped by napoleon had Austrian assistance in a war the Danes pretty much couldn't have won sure little buddy sure
Well, during the Napoleonic wars they had probably the worst military out of all the superpowers. It is not all rainbows and stuff.
@Saint Brendan if not the French commune, France would have simply outmobilized Germany and win with numbers. Not beautiful, but it is result that matters.
Germans knew it, so their plans for WW1 were built around one and only deadly strike to force capitulation of France and avoid war of attrition.
Prussian army is overrated.Swedish army was much better, change my mind
Oke i agree but the austrian help was for the german bund as an eperiment
I wish dodgeball is as good as this sometimes
It seems like this might be the final showdown among the Germanic people, possibly the Norse, and after this war, the Nordic nations realized that they no longer competed with larger European countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. Seventy years later, during World War II, the Danish military couldn't even muster a single day of resistance against the Nazi German forces.
0:31 form up for denmark? is that what he said?
He said "forward! for denmark!"
Europeans were ruthless warriors. Wonder what happenned...
War World 1 & War World 2 happened
Black Mesa Engineer That whats happens with a society that doesnt fight in a long time. It develops, You have time to care for other things, social problems etc. Although some people are not good examples, like 3rd wave feminists and people that claim how poor and opressed they are. Such a society has its bad sides, but its imo still better to fight another pointless war against my Neighbour france because Napoleon got offended (no joke).
EU happend
Marxism.
-"we'll beat their ass"
/"but sir, it's the prussians"
-"what ?"
*GUTEN TAG*
What is the name of the movie? It's a cut from some film, right?
2:30 forget what I said about the First charge, this is the biggest one I've seen!!!
Germany in a nutshell
Try watchung waterloo, it was somethingnalong the lines of 1:1or atleast 3:1 in accuracy
A really great portrial of the Battle. It just looks a little to deadly, since you can see hundreds and hundreds of dead prussians liyng on the one trenches edge, but nearly no wounded, wich looks wierd since only about 260 Prussians died and 120 went missing (Probably blown to pieces by artillery)
0:35 is basically what bobcats sound like
Incredible that the Generals didn't know that it would take a 5 to 1 superiority to overcome a well entrenched defensive position.
Where is the 5-1 comes from? The only actual concrete research on force distribution by the Imperial German War Academy concluded that it only took an average 1.5 to 1 advantage for the attacker to conduct a successful offensive.
what war is this?
I've not studied this part of history before but I think that this is something to do with Austria and Denmark?
War of 1864
some random guy on the Internet prussia Denmark
BENNOBEAR _ ok
Second Schleswig war. It says in the description.
Never shall be war in Europe again.
Never let charismatic ESTP make strategic decisions on a battlefield. (Looking at you, Crassius)
The musket was a very scary weapon of war it put holes into you not wounds
0:31 *FORWARD!! FOR DENMARK!!!*
And Now i Feel much more relative to the danish then to the fucking Bavarian. I am living in Schleswig-Holstein. Skol
Skål*
What movie is this? So awesome!!!
1864 series
Just FYI - They were trained to fire high so as if they miss it might hit someone in the back instead of the dirt. This also affected morale as you were not safe behind the wall of bodies in front of you. This is akin to the Longbows of English armies who sent arrows behind the front ranks to disrupt formations.
austro-prussia using bolt action (not an anachronism) while the danish are using muzzle loading rifles.
rakki realm thats a big reason why prussia later defeated austria
I know that this is a TV production for Danish television, and although I have not seen every episode, I find the presentation of the Prussians in the series offensive.
The Prussians are portrayed as bloodthirsty conquerors, who overthrew themselves on the enemy like wild beasts. If that is not realistic. In general, much importance is laid on the "fact" that the Prussians were only able to defeat the clever, noble heroic Danes by virtue of their numerical superiority, and because they used every means.
Sorry, but historical truth doesn't looks like this.
The Prussians were quite honorable, but their soldiers put their country first before their own lives, they knew that they were fighting to unite the german people, this made them quite fanatical in their duty as a soldier, Prussia was known for their soldiers discipline and putting country first, I think this is why they portray them this way.
Drakon
Its an awfully typical anti-Germanic sentiment at this point. The Teutonic peoples of historic context are not to be viewed as human by modern culture should mainstream society have its way. Through propaganda and overwhelmingly warped historical bias, modern Germany has been shamed into emasculation by most of the globe.
***** So are the Danes. Did you know that Rome also started as barbarian tribes? They just adopted Greek organization after they started to trade with them, and the Greeks adopted the Egyptians, the most important empires are those that adopt the most from other culture, while still keeping in contact with there own. Its quite ironic considering that Rome was a quite the fan of genocide and landgrabbing, they did quite a bit of it, the Romans also progressed culture of course, and almost every other field in a time that was extremely needed and important, this is why they were the most important empire in history, but most Europeans have Roman blood and ancestry, most Romans left Italia after the barbarian invasions, not to mention the marriages, Italy has mostly Lombard blood now which were the barbarians who took Italia after Rome fell. Its ignorant to say an entire culture bases itself on just war, if it did, it wouldn't exist today.
***** This worlds bedrock was founded by Rome, but it was built by the ex-barbarian tribes, the British were the most successful empire in history, but they based there entire ethic of dividing and conquering off of Rome, the Germans progressed society's musical, scientific, traditional, engineering, innovational culture to such an extent that Germanic culture is almost in everything, but Germanic culture, like all European culture, is based off of Rome. The British invent 55% of all inventions that are useful today, but it was based on Rome. Because an empire progresses society in the very distant past doesn't mean it can again, it means it was for that time, Egypt is responsible for almost everything below that, they made everything before the Greeks, they just failed to ever finish it were as the Greeks did finish it.
The Romans considered every culture that was too alien to them, and which they did not understand, as barbaric. This does not mean that there was no culture, only that this culture was very different to theirs. In general, there is always an exchange between cultures.
Amongst the Germanic peoples there were always strong cultural characteristics which were maintained for centuries. The East Germanic tribes, in contrast to the Western tribes, refused to adopt the Latin language. Nor did they adopt the Roman law and the system of rule.
It would be new to me, that a European nation of importance has not had very warlike times during their history. When the kingdom of the Germans was founded, it was never a uncivilized wasteland, it was always part of a thriving European culture. Certainly, Germany has been culturally influenced by other countries, but in return, it has also produced its own cultural impulses, that have influenced others.
Asserting that the aggressive military expansion, and the genocide of the Second World War are the true essence of the Germans, is utter nonsense. The relationship of the Germans to this part of their history is complicated, and even 70 years later there are still debates in german society about various points.
Germany has co-founded the EU, it was an important step to come out of the political isolation after the war. Many Germans still consider it as a political heritage and a promise for a peaceful future of Europe.
0:38 This scene is directly inspired by Vilhelm Rosenstand’s painting ‘Eighth Brigade’s Attack at Dybbøl’
Those guns are cruelly precise
when Denmark had delusions of being a great power
Stop me if I am wrong, but I get the feeling that this show (1864) is trying to be make this battle seem much larger and grander than it actually was. In reality there was about 3000 causalities. This series does this to capture a certain cinematic effect, which it does. Though this battle scene is visually great, the battle itself was not as epic in proportion.
In my opinion there are many dramatizations in the whole TV series. In the battle shown, 37,000 Prussians fought against 11,000 Danes, at the end of the battle, the total number of killed soldiers on both sides was 963 (wounded not included).
I see why they did this, though. They are making a show that has to appeal to a wide range of audiences.
Thats for sure. But I watched a few episodes of the series (recently on TV), and must say that I had the impression that they not only try to convey history. There is a lot of national pathos, and they use a simple black-and-white image of the good danes and the bad prussians. Additionally it seems, that some background information about the reasons which had lead to this conflict are not mentioned in the series.
Otto D'Andreano If anything, they aren't showing nearly as many troops as there really would have been. If there were 3k casualties, then how many troops were there All told?? 15k? 50k? Do you have any idea how huge a battle with that many soldiers would look?
In the American civil war which was contemporaneous with this battle. battles would have lines that stretched many miles long. Not that there soldiers standing ass to nuts for 5 miles, but they would be broken up by terrain features & topography, yet when the army of the Potomac had over 100k men, and lee's army of Virginia had around 65k, you would tend to have huge battles.... so big that it could takes half a day simply to setup your division(s).
This battle shows maybe around 500 soldiers on one side and 800 on the other... in reality it would have been bigger.
The Battle of Dybol was an attack on a fortification, not a battle in open terrain. The Danish army entrenched in the fortifications of Dybol, the most importent strategic fortifications of Denmark.
37,000 Prussians and 11,000 Danes were involved in this battle. These were the main armies of this two war parties. The strategically importence of Dybol, and that both Prussians and Danes deploy the bulk of their armed forces, made this battle so decisive.
Considering how many soldiers were deployed, the losses are comparatively low. In the film, this fact is very distorted. Apart from that, one has the impression, that with each shot of a danish soldier at least 5 Prussians fall.
The losses of the battle in detail:
Prussia 202 killed, 909 wounded, 29 missing
Denmark: 700 killed, 554 wounded, 3534 captured
In the battles of the American Civil War far more soldiers died.
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The Prussian Army was indeed the best trained, disciplined & led in the World, while they employed the finest tactics & were equipped with some of the most effective weapons. On an open battlefield the Prussians were perhaps the most formidable overall. Though one area where others, namely the British Army, certain American units & the Russians, had an edge was in using fearsome, savage, face shanking shock tactics, where killing up close & face to face while smelling the blood of your combat opponent became unavoidable. Even the French had elite regiments of badass shock troopers. It wasn't until 1916 that the Germans began to pull out & train certain selected men for such tactics. Then again by the mid 19th Century the advancement in weapons & increase in firepower made moments of hand to hand combat very rare. For by that point it was the speed of mobilization, organizational prowess, strategy, tactics, long range weaponry & well educated officers that determined a battle's outcome far more than the point of bayonets ever did.
That's where the Prussians excelled (fight smart, not like a vicious animal)!