So many men, millions of them have died over thousands of years and what difference has it really made for them and their families? Kept the rulers in power, and in wealth, but as usual, the little guy dies.
@@TomasFunes-rt8rd I never said he didn’t have elephants… Hannibal took his elephants over the alps so I doubt a little brush on the battlefield would be too much of a hindrance to them… The chariots, however!
The battle of Beersheba in 1917, lead to defeat of Ottomans in WW1. Forget Gettysburg, 1st battle of Bullrun/Manassas Junction was epic and the Confederacy nearly destroyed the Union army. So many epic battles need to do a part 2 and 3.
The Battle of Cajamarca was in 1532. Spanish forces: 106 infantry men, 62 cavalry men, 4 old cannons, 12 harquebuses ( only noise, one shot, no precision). Inca troops: 18.000 men, 8000 of the elite guard of Atahualpa. The Battle of Isandlwana was in 1879. British forces: 1837 soldiers, armed with the modern Martini-Henry breechloading rifles, 2 seven pounder montain gun and a Hale rocket battery. Zulú forces: between 10000 to 15000 warriors equipped with iron spears and cow-hide shields. Results: Spanish victory, British defeat. DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE SPANISH VICTORY IN CAJAMARCA.
@@philipbruno93 Without Cortés and his 1000 Spanish soldiers, Aztecs would not stop to sacrifice their neighbours and eat their hearts. The cruelty of the Aztecs was the main reason the Spanish had so many allies between the natives of Mesoamérica.
14:19 You overlooked the Hungarian 2nd Army's role in holding the line. During Operation Little Saturn (part of the larger Operation Uranus), the Soviets applied main force against the Hungarian 2nd Army around the vicinity of Voronezh, where they had been tasked with filling in the gaps left by the destroyed Italian and Roman divisions. The Hungarians held out as long as they could, giving the redeploying German divisions a better fighting chance later - albeit with much of the Hungarians' artillery already taken by the German Army to strengthen their fighting power. The Hungarian 2nd Army (and its support units) was utterly destroyed; the better part of 200,000 men. Just a side note in history, I'm sure.
The battle at Guilford Court House is very little known. But it was the gorilla tactics of Nathaniel Greene that kept Cornwallis in place in North Carolina. Out maned, out matched, and lost, Nathaniel Greene kept Cornwallis from moving further
@15:00 Lui Bang was consistently losing battles and many withdraws positions against Xiang Yu force. Lui Bang kept asking his Great general Han Xin assistances but refused many times as Han Xin's objectives was to conquer the North and Northeast portion of the China. Han Xin is like Alexander the Great in military tactics by winning every encounters. At the end, Han Xin has came to assist Lui Bang aid. Lui Bang on the West side of Xiang Yu and Han Xin from the North and possibly a rear end of Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu is surrounded by both sides. Note. Han Xin was a foot soldier and guard to Xiang Yu. He proposes tactic to Xiang Yu and rejected many times. With these many rejections, Han Xin left the camp to Lui Bang camp to seek opportunities. There are tensions between Xiang Yu and Han Xin. A general and a guardman foot soldier ideas of military strategy. Even Xiang Yu's high politician (uncle) tell Xiang Yu of how stupid and naive to let Han Xin leave. A miss opportunity and how arrogant and prideful Xiang Yu is. There is also tension between Lui Bang and Han Xin. Lui Bang has often not trust his own general ability, easily jealouse, and quick temper. When he ask consistently for help from Han Xin, he is rejected many times. Lui Bang couldn't get rid of Han Xin because of how many times Han Xin accomplish the goals. When Xiang Yu was no more and Lui Bang took over and started the Han Dynasty, Han Xin was the 1st to go. Lui Bang's wife in colleague with many Lui Bang advisors/politician device a plan and false accuse Han Xin of being disloyal. They got rid of Han Xin. Although Han Xin wins all accomplished battles, he could not win the King's court.
Xiang Yu has a bad reputation of killing civilians and soldiers surrendering to him. His uncle advice him not to do that. So in every encounter Xiang Yu met, the city, townsfolks and village fight to the bitter end. Even old grandpa, little kids and women fight because Xiang Yu would not spare them. Even Xiang Yu said it himself that he faces tough positions everywhere he goes. With this, most of the civilians sided with Lui Bang as he respect everyone he conquered and have strict codes not to pillage the townsfolk.
Once again: Please remove the pictures that don't match the narrative? Also: Constantinople was NOT conquered until the city was betrayed, and its gates opened from the inside (!) No 'fair play'!
All the people that wrote comments are smarter than I. I learned a bunch of stuff in this video, that I presume is true. That's all I came here for -- thanks!
The Japanese were doomed after the decision not to finish the facilities at Pearl Harbor. It would have cost a lot of dead but the weakness of the Japanese manufacturing and pilot training program doomed them.
Great video, but there is 1 small issue with this. You didn't include the epic battle I had with the toilet yesterday after eating McDonald's for lunch and pizza for dinner
I would not call the defeat of the Inca's an 'epic battle' (nr. 5). It may have caused the fall of the Inca Kingdom, but it was hardly a war. The Inca had no chance and the Spanish were behaving subhuman, mean and immoral. That 's far from epic. Perhaps 'epic' should be reserved for a battle characterized by outstanding strategy or bravery like the one at Cannae, Thermopilae or Yarmuk.
Whereas I'm sure the Incas acted very morally and had never hurt a fly. Get outta here with that dumbassery. The Spanish being mean had nothing to do with anything. The Spanish beat the Incas thanks to small pox.
Battle of Carhea was one of the most decisive battles of antiquity, The emperor of Rome also the richest man of Rome at the time prepared such big army to conquere all of Asia according to the historians, the army faced a much smaller Parthian army in Syria and was anihilated, with the Roman emperor being killed in the battle, also stoped Romans at Syria and forced them to bring up a totally different strategy to deal with their eastern neighbours. but i don't see that battle in the list.
I thought that the Imperial Guard was Routed at Waterloo you said Retreated. In the literature ive read it says that they were Routed and Broken Decisively. It was supposedly unheard of up until then as they were Bonapartes best troops?.
In the battle of marathon the big strength of the persians where the bowmen and cav. Against the traditional greek stratgie using phalankx the athenian commander of the moment decided to storm the persian lines, so the persian arrows would have less impact on the Athenian hoplites. While the battle still was going on the persians begon to move there horses back on the tranportships and sail to athens. Afther the Athenian forces marched to marathon and a big battle they had to hurry back to athens to defend there homecity. Afther the second attempt by xerses persians decided the small greek citystates where not that easy prey as they thought bcause of the manny wars between the greek citystates . And the greek hoplites where to heavely armed instead of there own warriors....
It is VERY difficult for ANY scholar to agree that several hundred thousands of armed forces could be deployes over 2,00 years ago , not only regariding population but also logistics as well as command structures, it is absurd to think this was accurate and it is also unwieldy to think Alexanders' army numbered about 50,000. Where do they get these numbers from? Nowehere you can check!
Cornwallis DID surrender at Yorktown but NOT because of superior "Amercian" forces but because there was a temporary LAG in British control of the sea, as Cownwallis had retreated to this area to evacuate his men by sea, The French Navy was close inshore for this engagment and thus the British Navy could NOT evacuate the men, it had NOTHING to do with Washington or the troops in ANY way and was more logistically driven and this is a load of drievel presented t o you as truth! Ohh I can more into detail if you want? DO YOU?
What Hannibal Barca did was gargantuan with barely any reinforcements and not able to field almost unlimited amounts of legions like the Roman’s did and still inflict So many losses on the Roman’s and March through Italy at relative ease. He was one of the best generals ever Always fighting with his men and luring Roman’s into traps ontop of having hanno stab him in the back and have most of his reinforcements not sent to him or sent somewhere else still what a feat amazing
Stalingrad but not the battle of Britain ...what stupidity!!!! How about the battle of Midway and Guadalcanal??? The Korean and Vietnam wars and the Cold war stopping communism???? All of these are far more epic for the modern western democratic world than the 15 mentioned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am all for history RUclipss especially as ex Maths, Science and IT Teacher where I made a point of finding suitable software and assisting History Teachers to use with pupils and the narration of this was quite good. BUT what absolute 'pillock' and incredibly thick person at Top Fives supposedly knowing their history chose Roman soldiers as video footage for King Harold's Anglo-Saxon soldiers. Did not bother watching any more !!
Muahaha. You still believe in an Islamic golden age, and especially under the Abbassibs, who were pretty much the ISIS of the day. Anything that could be interpreted against Islam was burned and anyone even voicing a dissident voice would be punishable to death by heresy, blasphemy or apostacy. It was no loss at all. The destruction of the library of Alexandria is another thing, and the Umayyads in Spain were slightly more tolerant, but Islam barely preserved and certainly didn't contribute to human learning. It's a myth that you have been brainwashed in.
@@user-tc4pc9uz5cfor your information it's the only successful recorded slave rebellion. Meaning this was the only time slaves fought back and actually got their freedom. When you're the only or first to do something in history it's usually kinda of a big deal.
People relax, the title says 15 epic battles. Not THEE 15 most epic battles.
History may need to be served with chill pills. Your comment is the most relevent comment so far.😂
I agree but sieges are not battles.
Seriously people get worked up over feelings and not understanding anything whatsoever
LOUD NOISES! I'm so angry I can't breathe. No Battle of Thermopylae. Reee @@user-ly3tc8qm4b
So many men, millions of them have died over thousands of years and what difference has it really made for them and their families? Kept the rulers in power, and in wealth, but as usual, the little guy dies.
Darius chose Gaugamela for its flat terrain because of his chariots not his elephants.
Exactly! Scythed Chariots 🤔😡
For his chariots and also a small unit of elephant
Yes, although he DID have 15 war elephants there - the first that Greeks ever attested to sighting.
@@TomasFunes-rt8rd I never said he didn’t have elephants… Hannibal took his elephants over the alps so I doubt a little brush on the battlefield would be too much of a hindrance to them… The chariots, however!
All great! No Thermopylae? Still a very good recap of battles of strategic value.
I'm always amazed at the quality of video they produced 1000 ot 2000 years ago!
Nice. Thanks. Double check your editing.
I haven't heard much or anything about some of these battles. I would live more of this. So many battles you can cover. Lots of fantastic videos
The battle of Beersheba in 1917, lead to defeat of Ottomans in WW1. Forget Gettysburg, 1st battle of Bullrun/Manassas Junction was epic and the Confederacy nearly destroyed the Union army. So many epic battles need to do a part 2 and 3.
please more of this historical topics :)
The Battle of Cajamarca was in 1532. Spanish forces: 106 infantry men, 62 cavalry men, 4 old cannons, 12 harquebuses ( only noise, one shot, no precision). Inca troops: 18.000 men, 8000 of the elite guard of Atahualpa.
The Battle of Isandlwana was in 1879. British forces: 1837 soldiers, armed with the modern Martini-Henry breechloading rifles, 2 seven pounder montain gun and a Hale rocket battery. Zulú forces: between 10000 to 15000 warriors equipped with iron spears and cow-hide shields.
Results: Spanish victory, British defeat.
DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE SPANISH VICTORY IN CAJAMARCA.
The Spanish and the British did much to advance Western civilization. Remember CORTEZ!
@@philipbruno93 Without Cortés and his 1000 Spanish soldiers, Aztecs would not stop to sacrifice their neighbours and eat their hearts. The cruelty of the Aztecs was the main reason the Spanish had so many allies between the natives of Mesoamérica.
What are Zulis, might help if you spell it right possibly.
Zuma was won by the Numidian cavalry that switched to Romes side during the war
They had the best horsemen and fast horses
14:19 You overlooked the Hungarian 2nd Army's role in holding the line. During Operation Little Saturn (part of the larger Operation Uranus), the Soviets applied main force against the Hungarian 2nd Army around the vicinity of Voronezh, where they had been tasked with filling in the gaps left by the destroyed Italian and Roman divisions. The Hungarians held out as long as they could, giving the redeploying German divisions a better fighting chance later - albeit with much of the Hungarians' artillery already taken by the German Army to strengthen their fighting power. The Hungarian 2nd Army (and its support units) was utterly destroyed; the better part of 200,000 men.
Just a side note in history, I'm sure.
He forgot the battle of Helm's Deep, too
Lol
those battle recreations look hella real 😵
The battle at Guilford Court House is very little known. But it was the gorilla tactics of Nathaniel Greene that kept Cornwallis in place in North Carolina. Out maned, out matched, and lost, Nathaniel Greene kept Cornwallis from moving further
All great! Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed the video despite maybe some of my favorite battles not being on it. 😉
why not added in as #1 at least Battle of Akaad
It is still Contantinople or Byzantion
@15:00 Lui Bang was consistently losing battles and many withdraws positions against Xiang Yu force. Lui Bang kept asking his Great general Han Xin assistances but refused many times as Han Xin's objectives was to conquer the North and Northeast portion of the China. Han Xin is like Alexander the Great in military tactics by winning every encounters. At the end, Han Xin has came to assist Lui Bang aid. Lui Bang on the West side of Xiang Yu and Han Xin from the North and possibly a rear end of Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu is surrounded by both sides.
Note. Han Xin was a foot soldier and guard to Xiang Yu. He proposes tactic to Xiang Yu and rejected many times. With these many rejections, Han Xin left the camp to Lui Bang camp to seek opportunities. There are tensions between Xiang Yu and Han Xin. A general and a guardman foot soldier ideas of military strategy. Even Xiang Yu's high politician (uncle) tell Xiang Yu of how stupid and naive to let Han Xin leave. A miss opportunity and how arrogant and prideful Xiang Yu is.
There is also tension between Lui Bang and Han Xin. Lui Bang has often not trust his own general ability, easily jealouse, and quick temper. When he ask consistently for help from Han Xin, he is rejected many times. Lui Bang couldn't get rid of Han Xin because of how many times Han Xin accomplish the goals.
When Xiang Yu was no more and Lui Bang took over and started the Han Dynasty, Han Xin was the 1st to go. Lui Bang's wife in colleague with many Lui Bang advisors/politician device a plan and false accuse Han Xin of being disloyal. They got rid of Han Xin. Although Han Xin wins all accomplished battles, he could not win the King's court.
Xiang Yu has a bad reputation of killing civilians and soldiers surrendering to him. His uncle advice him not to do that. So in every encounter Xiang Yu met, the city, townsfolks and village fight to the bitter end. Even old grandpa, little kids and women fight because Xiang Yu would not spare them. Even Xiang Yu said it himself that he faces tough positions everywhere he goes. With this, most of the civilians sided with Lui Bang as he respect everyone he conquered and have strict codes not to pillage the townsfolk.
Once again: Please remove the pictures that don't match the narrative? Also: Constantinople was NOT conquered until the city was betrayed, and its gates opened from the inside (!) No 'fair play'!
Get over yourself.
It's not byzantine it's the eastern roman empire😢
Love all the armchair experts here lol. I think it's a great bit of information! Nicely made thanks!
i cant believe the battle of Rourke drift wasn't included on this list
All the people that wrote comments are smarter than I. I learned a bunch of stuff in this video, that I presume is true. That's all I came here for -- thanks!
Why do you show a picture of the flag raising over Berlin for the intro to the Siege of Stalingrad (13:08)?
Come on, where is the Battle of Midway. That turned the tide of WWII in the Pacific.
Pacific was like a resort compared to the Eastern Front. With out the nuclear bomb you would never beat the Japanese
The Japanese were doomed after the decision not to finish the facilities at Pearl Harbor. It would have cost a lot of dead but the weakness of the Japanese manufacturing and pilot training program doomed them.
@@kriskris998It shortened the war with Japan, they would have still lost without the bomb. Anyway, the Allies needed to know how effective it was.
Great video, but there is 1 small issue with this. You didn't include the epic battle I had with the toilet yesterday after eating McDonald's for lunch and pizza for dinner
No Kursk, battle of Vienna or austerlitz?
Epic stuff!!!
Sloppy. Showing medieval armored knights and Viking reenactors during the narrative of Marathon is ridiculous.
Show us how you do better 🙄
this is youtube, if there was no visual representation, why would anyone watch the video???
@@brucealmighty9877ah there it is, the classic “you can’t say something sucks unless you can do it better yourself” idiot
@@brucealmighty9877having a chronology, maybe? It‘s not hard you know🙄
You must work at medieval times 😂
I didn't know Hannibal was a time traveling Dr. Julian Bashir from DS9.
Silly reconstruction fragments. Show something interesting like maps.
13:30 Paulus inherited the battle of stalingrad
And you're AI British soldier has 3 legs😅😅
The Battle of Watling Street secured Britannica for the Roman Empire for 350 yrs & should be listed⚔
The editing is so bad in this video, it’s quite ridiculous. One would expect better from such a huge channel.
Darius chose Gaugamela for his terrance howards not his chariots or elephants.
Sipio Africanus? I always thought it was scipio
Yeah it's Scipio don't know why he is saying it weird
He thinks it's a silent letter
He was sipping
The I in Salisbury is silent. It's pronounced Salsbury. Like the town in Wiltshire.
History 😀
I would not call the defeat of the Inca's an 'epic battle' (nr. 5). It may have caused the fall of the Inca Kingdom, but it was hardly a war. The Inca had no chance and the Spanish were behaving subhuman, mean and immoral. That 's far from epic. Perhaps 'epic' should be reserved for a battle characterized by outstanding strategy or bravery like the one at Cannae, Thermopilae or Yarmuk.
Whereas I'm sure the Incas acted very morally and had never hurt a fly. Get outta here with that dumbassery. The Spanish being mean had nothing to do with anything. The Spanish beat the Incas thanks to small pox.
You missed the N at the end of Yorktow?.
Battle of Carhea was one of the most decisive battles of antiquity, The emperor of Rome also the richest man of Rome at the time prepared such big army to conquere all of Asia according to the historians, the army faced a much smaller Parthian army in Syria and was anihilated, with the Roman emperor being killed in the battle, also stoped Romans at Syria and forced them to bring up a totally different strategy to deal with their eastern neighbours. but i don't see that battle in the list.
You forgot the batter of the 300 Spartan
Nan you sould not get you history information from moives the hole move was fake history almost not of it was accurate at all.
They didn't have baseball yet!
The most epic battle in history which change the history is the battle yarmuk.imagin 40000 against 400000.
I thought that the Imperial Guard was Routed at Waterloo you said Retreated. In the literature ive read it says that they were Routed and Broken Decisively. It was supposedly unheard of up until then as they were Bonapartes best troops?.
Wheres the battle of the French Losing New France to the English, Montcalm Vs Wolf!??
In the battle of marathon the big strength of the persians where the bowmen and cav. Against the traditional greek stratgie using phalankx the athenian commander of the moment decided to storm the persian lines, so the persian arrows would have less impact on the Athenian hoplites. While the battle still was going on the persians begon to move there horses back on the tranportships and sail to athens. Afther the Athenian forces marched to marathon and a big battle they had to hurry back to athens to defend there homecity. Afther the second attempt by xerses persians decided the small greek citystates where not that easy prey as they thought bcause of the manny wars between the greek citystates . And the greek hoplites where to heavely armed instead of there own warriors....
Stalingrad should have been number one. and where the hell is kursk?
14:56 carbine mosin
Cornwallis caused havoc in Nova Svotia as well..
It is VERY difficult for ANY scholar to agree that several hundred thousands of armed forces could be deployes over 2,00 years ago , not only regariding population but also logistics as well as command structures, it is absurd to think this was accurate and it is also unwieldy to think Alexanders' army numbered about 50,000. Where do they get these numbers from? Nowehere you can check!
Need to advance into wine making areas
No Henry 5th
Cornwallis DID surrender at Yorktown but NOT because of superior "Amercian" forces but because there was a temporary LAG in British control of the sea, as Cownwallis had retreated to this area to evacuate his men by sea, The French Navy was close inshore for this engagment and thus the British Navy could NOT evacuate the men, it had NOTHING to do with Washington or the troops in ANY way and was more logistically driven and this is a load of drievel presented t o you as truth! Ohh I can more into detail if you want? DO YOU?
Man's best friend animal should be a Horse!
Is this the simple history homie? Lmao
Maker could have spent just a Little More Time on adding time correct soldiers for this video
No. 4 is ridiculous, as the battlej was a foregone conclusion, and the Fall of the Incas inevitable. This should not appear anywhere on the list!
Some had rocks
What Hannibal Barca did was gargantuan with barely any reinforcements and not able to field almost unlimited amounts of legions like the Roman’s did and still inflict
So many losses on the Roman’s and March through Italy at relative ease. He was one of the best generals ever
Always fighting with his men and luring Roman’s into traps ontop of having hanno stab him in the back and have most of his reinforcements not sent to him or sent somewhere else still what a feat amazing
He still lost in the end and caused the destruction of Carthage.
What was up with the editing? Looks like it took a little effort.
I thought number 1 would be hannibal @ cannae.
0:38 '... not Constantinople. ' LOL!!! Who paid you to say that?
Siege of Yorktow?😮
Sieges are not battles.
What are they?
Few storms slowed Rome some
0:56 You mean they were colonizers.
The Greeks won at Marathon cos they enlisted European knights and late Roman legionnaires against the Persians 🙂
What about the Jewish wars against Rone?
The one where they genocided over 100k Greeks - men, women and children on the island of Crete? Those 'wars'?
japan vs mongolian ????
Stalingrad but not the battle of Britain ...what stupidity!!!! How about the battle of Midway and Guadalcanal??? The Korean and Vietnam wars and the Cold war stopping communism???? All of these are far more epic for the modern western democratic world than the 15 mentioned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am all for history RUclipss especially as ex Maths, Science and IT Teacher where I made a point of finding suitable software and assisting History Teachers to use with pupils and the narration of this was quite good. BUT what absolute 'pillock' and incredibly thick person at Top Fives supposedly knowing their history chose Roman soldiers as video footage for King Harold's Anglo-Saxon soldiers. Did not bother watching any more !!
Outnumbereing the enemy by 4 or 6 to one means you dont have to over extend your line to cover their approach, oblique or blunt or obtuse!
Yorktown
Used bad music to slowly wear enemy down
That AI garbage thumbnail is some wild nonsensical shit
Good quick info. But the video cuts of reenactors were comical. The director and wardrobe dude need to quit.
White man is greatest soldier....
Alamo?
No kursk?
Rome
Haiti isn't a major power!
How are American wars on here lol, there’s been far more bigger battles that deserve mentions 🤣
Muahaha. You still believe in an Islamic golden age, and especially under the Abbassibs, who were pretty much the ISIS of the day. Anything that could be interpreted against Islam was burned and anyone even voicing a dissident voice would be punishable to death by heresy, blasphemy or apostacy. It was no loss at all.
The destruction of the library of Alexandria is another thing, and the Umayyads in Spain were slightly more tolerant, but Islam barely preserved and certainly didn't contribute to human learning. It's a myth that you have been brainwashed in.
You people wine too much
How is the Haitian Revolution not on here?
It's his choice not yours😂 make your own video or cry more
It's not a battle. It's a revolution
Because it’s not a battle
How did the island of Haiti’s revolution influence the world, culture or anything forthat matter.
@@user-tc4pc9uz5cfor your information it's the only successful recorded slave rebellion. Meaning this was the only time slaves fought back and actually got their freedom. When you're the only or first to do something in history it's usually kinda of a big deal.
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