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Wayne's Military History Compendium
Добавлен 8 янв 2020
I use this channel as a venue for my online teaching. Non-students may find the video lectures a little confusing, since I don't provide all the context, but you are welcome to watch!
I also curate some videos related to military history posted by others that can be found in my Playlists.
I also curate some videos related to military history posted by others that can be found in my Playlists.
Front fuse firelance!
I think I may have cracked the code. The first part of the video show another problem with the "powder dumping," but when I changed the fuse position, I got quite a long burn. Future experiments will return to a wider bamboo tube, and will leave the front 1/3 empty to use the tube to focus the flame.
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First Crossbow fire
Просмотров 23210 месяцев назад
This is first test of my Han Chinese crossbow build. I'll be putting together a longer video showing various construction stages, but I wanted to show this now.
Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck formation; animated with Legos
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A brief look at the weapons and formation shifts as outlined in Qi Jiguang's military writings, here focusing on the formations used against the Japanese pirates in South China in the mid-16th century. (The legos are Qin period armor, with modified weapons in some cases to reflect the Ming period).
Qi Jiguang's "Mandarin Duck" infantry formation
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Devised by Qi Jiguang in the mid-sixteenth century, this formation relies on discipline and training to make a mixed-arms infantry unit effective. There are deep roots in Chinese military history for this kind of thing, but this is one of the clearest to be described in detail. At the 2022 Chinese Archery Program we did an impromptu enactment. The "impromptu" part meant that I didn't have a cha...
Explaining Clausewitz and Mao: Theories of Strategy
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This was originally prepared for a class, and starts and ends seemingly abruptly, but it IS complete. The rest was instructions for the students.
Firelance compilation (4 different formulas)
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This video shows a bit more about the process and design of how an early Chinese "firelance" might have worked. I'm using homemade gunpowder with a modified formula. This shows how a firelance might have looked, designed either as a weapon for use in the battle line, or as a way to set enemy siege engines on fire. There's debate. Bamboo sections like the one in this video were likely used initi...
Han and Qin animated formation shifts
Просмотров 2723 года назад
I made this little Lego animation as a first attempt to explain early Chinese infantry tactics, that emphasized multiple weapons systems down to the lowest level, altering the configuration of their formations depending on threat and proximity. Details are scarce, so some of this is conjectural. And I need to get better at managing the animation software!
Asian hornbow demo
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This was made for use in my class, so it refers to lectures!
Atlatl Demo
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I made this clip to integrate into my live or recorded Zoom classes, so it only has a part of the explanation. It's not intended to fully stand alone.
Lesson 23 Revolution in Military Affairs: Offsets and Overmatch
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Lesson 23 Revolution in Military Affairs: Offsets and Overmatch
Russia uses Clausewitz's war philosophy now as it fights US backed UKRAINIAN NAZIS who provoked this war.
I did some research and it seems fire spears were also capable of expelling shrapnels or poisonous gas. Do you know how that was made? Especially the poisonous gas, was it again mixed in with gunpowder or? Otherwise glad to see such an interesting experiment, keep it up
I haven't looked in detail at the "poison gas" in part because I suspect it was likely merely noxious, rather than lethally poison. Also, I don't want to experiment with that stuff!
Does a spark ignite these early gunpowder? That’s awesome can I use this in some of my videos? This is the kind of stuff they can use during night raids with groups of infantry attached to spears during the song dynasty. But by the 13th century they are using these as guns with bullets with wadding. Id imagine the spear shaft needs clay coating so it doesn’t burn
firelance powder (best not to call it gunpowder) is indeed hard to ignite. In my early experiments I used gunpowder as a primer. I have been focusing on the length of burn and length of flame. Will think now on what sort of fuse they might hav eused.
18:45 to defeat a superior enemy
21:30 1st phase mobile warfare
The increasingly empty tube seems to focus and project the flame. In future I will leave front one-third of a longer tube empty.
Another question I have is if you just use a medieval torch instead, what are the pros of using the Chinese fire lance? I was thinking the torch cannot be attached to a spear
@@HistoricalWeapons do you mean just a plain old torch? the firelance projects the fire horizontally a good distance, and is MUCH more intense heat than a simple burning stick or reed.
Nice long burn! Gotta be five times longer than with the three-barreled we did. What accounts for the increasing intensity as it went on do you think?
Omg the second formula is just a mini flamethrower Lmao
well yeah!! exactly!
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Congrats! Looks like a really fun project.
Not much recoil it looks like! Good job. Which bow did you use?
Jaap made it special
I'm using formulas from Chinese records as found in Science and Civilization in China. I am varying them seeking results similar to those described. The fineness of each ingredient matters, and many other variables. It's not just the percentages (I do mix them myself)
Good stuff 👌🏽
This video is really good!!!Please do this with better quality 🫡👌👌👌👌
Nice channel 🫡
Since it was an incendiary rather than propellant weapon, was the purpose of this kind of firelance psychological rather than directly lethal?
Probably. Texts on its use are not very specific. Some scholars thought it was used against siege towers, and such. I don't think so. I think it would have been especially effective against cavalry
Night raids and cavalry used by groups. This is prior to their discovery of fast burning gunpowder which created guns in 13th century
One thing: the infantry spears used during the ming dynasty would have been very long, comparable to the european pike.
This is true. Thus "long lance" men. I recently found some long Lance drill video, and I'll keep playing with this
Very useful! I will share this with my students, thanks!
Can you put some rocks in it and let’s see it project stuff
At the moment, I don't think any of the formulas I'm using would do that. I'm trying to achieve a longer burn. But I need to do a lit more variations.
@@waynesmilitaryhistorycompe3305 are you following early chinese gunpowder formulations? or are you mixing everything yourself
I'm using formulas from Chinese records as found in Needham's Science and Civilization in China. I am varying them seeking results similar to those described. The fineness of each ingredient matters, and many other variables. It's not just the percentages (I do mix them myself)@@fezzes428
Hi I’m making the history of the firelance I was hoping to know if I could use some of the footages in this video? Thank you
Sure as long as you credit me!
@@waynesmilitaryhistorycompe3305 thanks
@@waynesmilitaryhistorycompe3305 will do
This was so cool!! To actually see this explained was so interesting. (And I'm chuffed that I got to donate some spears, sabres, and a shield to the cause).
Do you mind sharing your presentation?
it's public now. Did you mean to share in some other way?
@@waynesmilitaryhistorycompe3305 I meant if you can share a link to the actual presentation. Thank you for sharing your lectures by the way.
@@realrobo360 do you mean the powerpoint slides?
@@waynesmilitaryhistorycompe3305 Ooh yes, the slides!
@@realrobo360 If you send me an email I can send you the slides (wlee@unc.edu)
Im glad you made sure to pick an area with the least amount of flammable items possible
😂😂
Im glad we didn't see this on the news
Thank you for this , I had to write a discussion post but my professor didn’t properly explain the end-ways-mean This video explained more than what he’s done , Again Thank You so much
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Hello
As an entirely non-military person, I've been trying to get to grips, conceptually/analytically, with the ancient Chinese military texts (Sawyer). They're starting to make sense thanks to your lecture. Nothing really changes, it seems, except technology. Many thanks.
Thanks very much!
what do you think what is the cause of US strategic failure in Afghanistan and Iraq
Arrogance. Believing that truly complex problems were going to be simple.
COVID-19 😷😜
Which books were you referring to in this lecture? (Craine?)
- Conrad C. Crane, “Off to See the Wizard: Planning for Iraq,” in Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2016), 23-40.
@@waynesmilitaryhistorycompe3305 thank you!
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Because deep down, you want a Chinese fire Lance
nice
Very good breakdown of how the bow’s belly and back compress and flex. Great video!
Thanks for the video to hopefully get new people interested in flintlocks. A couple safety concerns I observed. Many you tube flintlock channels don’t recommend priming before loading. In fact they recommend hammer forward, pan open so no possible spark can happen. Some flintlocks spark so well that they don’t need priming to sometime ignite. I noticed you used the phrase ,lock stock and barrel. Please look up the phrase “ going off half cocked”. Lastly, please replace your powder horn stopper before shooting. It’s a good habit. One spark would turn that horn into a bomb. Stay safe and keep the videos coming
you're right that a flintlock *RIFLE* was usually loaded in powder, ball, primer sequence. But military flintlock muskets (and matchlock for that matter) were primed first, because the powder came from a cartridge, and you had to prime first with a bit of it, and then pour the rest down the barrel. I don't have a flintlock musket, so I'm sort of sending mixed messages about sequence here. I should probably be more explicit about the differences between rifle and musket loading. (I DID forget to cap my powder horn after the misfire! Good catch).