While Austerlitz is famous because of it's scale, some of Napoleons victories in Italy are no less incredible. He was able to turn the tables on opponents that had him flanked, out numbered and surrounded by making pivotal decision at exactly the right time. By comparison, what made Austerlitz work was all the little things Napoleon did leading UP to the battle to cast the illusion of disorder, weakness, confusion, lack of supplies, ragged, demoralized and ill prepared. Surrendering the high ground, the Pratzen heights, was the cherry on the illusion cake that caused the Russian's to swell with confidence and take the bait.
But with napoleon you never know, when losing he will give a story about his generals losing the battle., surrendering the high ground was maybe just that.
Hear me out, Suvorov's siege of Ismail is a masterpiece. You could say that this man was single-handedly responsible for the Russian Tzardom surviving Napoleon.
Incredible! This low cost network documentary can present combat scenes (using the ubiquitous napoleonic reenactors) more dramatic and genuine than a Hollywood production of several million dollars!
There is a reenactment every year at Austerlitz, so even Napoleonic soldiers fighting at the location in the proper season, that's something anyone can film on a smartphone these days.
I don´t know much hosts presenting history like Dan Snow does. I watched many documentaries presented by him and he still has that passion that makes me to watch him so eagerly.
I know a bit about Napoleons journey across europe, fun fact he was actually first a officer of the Artillary battalion (dont know exact which one) and he became commander of a small army after stopping the French Revolution, when he got his army france went to war with Europe and he had to fight the Swiz and the austrians. This battle was a massive victory since his army was made of low trained troops and people who were really hungry. He's military skill saved this battle and he was only 20 - 28 years old! And this was the beginning of he's power...
Timeline and events leading to the battle are confused. Ulm was won on 16th Oct 1805; Trafalgar on 21st Oct., by which time Napoleon was already on the Rhine. Neither Trafalgar nor the British Naval blockade had anything to do with Napoleon's decision to abandon the invasion of England and go East. There is a pleasant little legend that the news of Trafalgar was delivered to him on the field of Austerlitz.
Bonaparte did not PRETEND to be weak - he was weak INDEED. In manpower, 20%, in artillery, twice less. The situation with gunpowder was poor, and with food and forage, catastrophic. Old fox Kutuzov outmaneuvered the great adventurer and cut him off supply lines, with army exhausted. However, Bonaparte had two reserve corps in the persons of two emperors: one broken coward, the other ambitious diletant. And they solved the fate of the battle.
Thank you Tristane Tate (G🔝) for sharing this video🙏🏻. No matter whether we disagree or agree with Napoleon, but truth be told, Napoleon Bonaparte was a heroic man like no other, possessing unparalleled intelligence, sophistication, and wisdom. Known for his fearless courage, he occupied the throne of France and became its greatest man, the hero Bonaparte
The Tzar first took over command from his Generals but then against his own judgment, attacked, because they pressed him? That sounds like shifting blame...
seems like Napoleon correctly estimated that the Allies weren't thinking rationally, and are going to overcommit on his right flank, weakening their center,
16:32 Dang. Just... Dang. I know from experience that war truly is Hell at times. But... Dang! Imagine this: You are already defeated; and you and your soldiers are in a (somehow organized) retreat; You're trying just to escape with your life from the battle, in the freezing cold, exhausted from combat. And then some jack-hole goes and tries to bring the ammo cart onto the only exit pathway, an extremely narrow pathway, at that, which is the only way that you and your soldiers can possibly get to safety (if only temporarily), forcing you to take the riskier route across some ice that you can only hope is thick enough to support your weight, and it does, just barely...sigh! And then you hear the incoming cannon fire, see and then feel its impacts, and then the ice all around you cracks loudly and quickly... And then comes, immediately, the shock of the freezing cold water, the now wet weight of all of your heavy wool clothes and your boots, your weapon and its powder, your other supplies and equipment, all of them soaked right along with you and however many others of your soldiers had been able to get that far, at least; all of whom (including yourself) were given no other options once that one jack-hole decided that his ammo cart was more important than all of your lives combined... Dang.
And only about 200 Russians and Austrians ended up drowning when Napoleon fired his artillery into their retreat across the frozen Sachsen Ponds. Although I'm sure many of the ones who crossed the pond suffered from frostbite and hypothermia.
No, it'a just a myth, a story, testimony to the power of Napoleonic propaganda even after more than two centuries. I know a bit about the battle. I live here, was born on a hill near the battlefield, this battle was an important part of our history education, our apartment building was built on an old military graveyard of Napoleonic soldiers from Austerlitz, some of the bones ended up in our school and when we were learning about bone structure, the teacher let them circulate through the classroom, so we could look at how real human bones are structures. I even found some French military equipment few hundred meters from Napoleon's command post in the ploughed field. People are still recovering stuff from the battle. We learned a lot about the battle, not just from important international historical accounts, but even from local sources The fact is Napoleon declared that hundreds of Russians drowned in those ponds. Than he ordered the ponds to be drained so the artillery pieces could be recovered. It was reported by those draining the ponds that only bodies of two (some sources mention three) men in Russian uniforms were found. Not a single Austrian soldier and only 2-3 Russians. And no, the bodies didn't just sink to the depth, the ponds were no more than 2 meters deep.
Why is it a shame? We're getting fantastic history lessons from enthusiastic, passionate people with actual expertise in actual history for free. This is arguably better. Plus, good old school History Channel content is still available on RUclips. The History Channel is dead, long live History Hit.
There is a channel called History that has a lot of their old content such as Dogfights on RUclips. However, I agree that there are several channels that have far more suprior content than the History Channel ever did. That is why I do not have a TV.
Thanks to Tristan Tate who shared this video to me and now i see Napoleon"s battle was much more interesting than the movie which i didn't and wouldn't see
You are the only channel to say that Riddley Scott's film is a good film, probably because it is an Englishman. But after seeing it, this film is completely fantasized rubbish. The battles resemble those of the Viking series, masses of fighters rushing against each other without any tactics. Another point, after excavations it seems that very few soldiers sank in the marshes, less than 200. It is also amusing that you talk about ONE captured eagle and forget the 45 flags taken from the Russians and Austrians, not to mention the 200 cannons which were melted down and adorn Place Vendome in this famous column built with these 200 melted cannons.
@@murkysebit’s a tiny scene in the film and the most inaccurate depiction humanly possible. Literally the worst recreation of any battle on film I’ve ever seen.
@@murkyseb as an actual, working, real historian, I can tell you you’re full of shit. No “historian” would ever make such a claim. I’ve been twice to pratzen heights and Telnice in the last 5 years and the geography is comedically bad in the film, the movie portrays the battle in a tiny valley when the line was 12km long, when the Satchan ponds were emptied after the battle, they found only 3 bodies and 150 horses (the “drowning” was an inconsequential part of the real battle), there was no snow and the day was sunny and bright after the morning fog, etc etc etc etc The whole battle scene was so bizarrely bad, myself and several peers (also historians) who were reviewing it nearly gave up…. I had the displeasure of working on a Randall Wallace film as a researcher and never thought anyone would direct battles so badly, but scott is the master of screwing up every possible fact in a historical battle.
@@murkyseb It's about as accurate as the battle of sterling bridge scene in braveheart and had the strategic grace of a multiplayer round. Sure a number of allied troops died from some ponds, but misses the whole heights portion of the fight.
I wonder what Dan Snow was thinking during his interview with Ridley Scott, whilst Scott proudly boasted about belittling his historical advisers on the set of ‘Napoleon’, by asking them, “How do you know? We’re YOU there?” It seems that movie directors are now our historians?
Scott is an arrogant twat. I'm disappointed that Snow had originally posted a rather negative critique of the film (and Napoleon) pre-release, but for some reason, he changed his tune after that interview. Scott has always played roughshod over historical facts
Apparently Scott took his ‘history’ from the self serving and greatly embellished dispatches Napoleon would send back to Paris in order impress Josephine. God help a generation that gets its history from movies.
The use of terrain is top notch. The setup at the meeting highlighting the “best possible approach” for the opposition is brilliant. There’s definitely something to be said about Napoleon’s tactical thinking. Too bad bravado encroached upon that a little too much… or maybe lucky it did.
It was really masterful, giving up the heights as bait and luring the enemy off the Pratzen heights with the thinly held village of Solkonitz. Timed it with the mist/smoke perfectly. Total genius stuff. I would *never* have even considered that, given the risk...
Thanks to Tristan Tate I was able to get such an education about "The Battle of Austerlitz"! This was so much more entertaining to watch & engaging imagery compared to school history education! Thank you for the video!
@@tomhirons7475 The invasion itself was a good move. The Russian Empire was Napoleon's last great Continental enemy and defeating it would have made him master of Europe. The interesting conundrum is whether he should have pushed on to Moscow after Borodino or Wintered around Smolensk. Militarily this would have made for a sound strategy but politically it might have made him appear weak and indecisive. The alliance with Prussia was shaky and the peace with Austria was uneasy at best. Imho it was the invasion of Spain that doomed Napoleon. It sapped French strength and confidence whilst giving the British public, particularly the urban middle-classes, the impression that their taxes were achieving something other than subsidising foreign armies that Napoleon kept defeating. No Peninsular War, Britain makes peace after the defeat of the Austrians at Wagram and the 5th Coalition collapses, Napoleon has no need for his 'Continental System', and a Polish 'buffer state' is established as Russia turns its attention towards The Ottoman Empire. As a bonus Wellesley commands the British forces during the war of 1812 and the United States of America is returned to The Empire as he is granted the title of 'Duke of New York'. * *I may have gotten a little carried away there. 🤣🤣
This is great! Can I make a suggestion? In films like this, when shots of maps are used, can you leave them on a bit longer and enlarge the relevant bits a bit more? Some of us are a bit aged, I fear. Nice one Dan and team. ⭐👍
If you enjoyed this I wouldn't bother with the movie. It's not so much about historic battles as a salacious skimming of his personal life as if recalled by a hostile British tabloid, played out in dull greyscale and sepia.
There is an intelligent Historical documentary to be made in English about Napoleon Bonaparte I, and the French culture, and this isn't it. Never let the British cover French history. [ Never ]!! Same with Greece. Never let Hollywood Movies or American and British Historical documentaries cover Greek History, indeed.
Ive really enjoy Ridley Scott’s films in the past but Napoleon is bloody awful. If he had just stuck to Napoleon and Josephine or part of his military campaign he could have given us a fantastic film. But he didn’t and we ended up with so much missing eg hardly anything about his marshalls, no real context for his battles or campaigns etc. I would recommend people watch the 1970 film Waterloo with Rod Steiger or the 2002 TV series rather than Ridley Scott’s film. Both are available on RUclips
Better then the movie,in the movie there was more about his love life then the battles,and the movie made him look week ,and could not make his wife happy in bed , very very disappointed,Terry,PS when I heard R.V was doing napoleon,I said no ,Mabey the older napoleon, but someone younger ,for the start
Ha ha, guess someone had to say it, congrats (I did want to thank him for sparing us Joséphine's spread (btw, her name like mine, José but it was him who extended it, a few queens were named Josephine,,,,
That only happened in propaganda stories and in that atrocity of a movie. Although I guess 2-3 Russians drowning in a small pond 2 meters deep wouldn't look so epic on the big screen.
The central strategic masterstroke can be more clearly explained than here. The occupation of the Pratzen Heights was the key to commanding the battlefield. Napoleon abandoned them, inviting the allies to occupy the high ground, which they did. He left his right (southern) flank conspicuously weak, inviting the allies to leave the plateau and attack his right. But unbeknownst to the allies, Davout's III Corps had arrived overnight in a spectacular 110 km forced march from Vienna to the south. Shrouded in fog, his disciplined corps had arrived just in time to shore up Napoleon's southern flank. When the allies abandoned the heights to attack what they thought was the weak spot in the French line, they ran into Davout's disciplined and battle-hardened Corps. Exactly at that point, Soult led his IV Corps through the mist to occupy the now abandoned heights, trapping the Russians from above and cutting off their retreat. It became like shooting Russian fish in a barrel. Omitting the action to the north, this was the battle's strategic masterstroke.
Davout's III Corps (nicknamed Napoleon's 'X Legion') forced marched for two days to the battlefield, which is a fantastic feat in itself. Considering going straight into action on the right flank, afterwards, holding the flank in a stalemate until Marshal Soult's attack on the centre. Marshal Davout Napoleon's finest Corps commander by far.
It's a shame you can't even spell cannon... And you're still wrong anyway. Cannon and cannons are both acceptable as the plural form of cannon. You're trying to look smart but it's not working very well when you can't even spell correctly. And you're wrong on top of that.
@@murkyseb There were several but other commentators have explained them better. 1) Napoleon's army did not shoot the tops of the pyramids off. 2) Josephine died an entire year before Napoleon wanted to return to France for the 100 days. 3) Napoleon was not present at Marie Antionette's execution as he was already in the south of France fighting the British. 4) Napoleon did not lead a cavalry charge at Borodino as he was unwell that day, possibly with a urinary infection. 5) Brunswickers, Nassau, King's German Legion, and Belgian troops are absent from Ripley's depiction of Waterloo, even though they compromised a large chunk of Wellington's army.
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While Austerlitz is famous because of it's scale, some of Napoleons victories in Italy are no less incredible. He was able to turn the tables on opponents that had him flanked, out numbered and surrounded by making pivotal decision at exactly the right time. By comparison, what made Austerlitz work was all the little things Napoleon did leading UP to the battle to cast the illusion of disorder, weakness, confusion, lack of supplies, ragged, demoralized and ill prepared. Surrendering the high ground, the Pratzen heights, was the cherry on the illusion cake that caused the Russian's to swell with confidence and take the bait.
But with napoleon you never know, when losing he will give a story about his generals losing the battle., surrendering the high ground was maybe just that.
Agreed on all counts.
Hear me out, Suvorov's siege of Ismail is a masterpiece. You could say that this man was single-handedly responsible for the Russian Tzardom surviving Napoleon.
But the film said it was all about the allied army fallen down a frozen lake, what is this Dan Snow??
The film is just a fictional part. It was Napoleon's strategy but they depicted him as a simp and loser.@@lotennaokeke3414
So badly depicted in the movie
They literally only show the end of the battle as if that was the whole battle.
I don't know why this channel is shilling this movie so hard. It's bad.
Did enjoy it but it was soooo so clueless....
@taylorarnold5311
So how long would it be if they showed all of it? 😅
A tad bit more than 5 minutes me thinks!
@@cleverusername9369 Practicality
Incredible! This low cost network documentary can present combat scenes (using the ubiquitous napoleonic reenactors) more dramatic and genuine than a Hollywood production of several million dollars!
There is a reenactment every year at Austerlitz, so even Napoleonic soldiers fighting at the location in the proper season, that's something anyone can film on a smartphone these days.
I don´t know much hosts presenting history like Dan Snow does. I watched many documentaries presented by him and he still has that passion that makes me to watch him so eagerly.
This is insane thank you for sharing this history
Thank you tristan tate for giving me this link
I know a bit about Napoleons journey across europe, fun fact he was actually first a officer of the Artillary battalion (dont know exact which one) and he became commander of a small army after stopping the French Revolution, when he got his army france went to war with Europe and he had to fight the Swiz and the austrians. This battle was a massive victory since his army was made of low trained troops and people who were really hungry. He's military skill saved this battle and he was only 20 - 28 years old! And this was the beginning of he's power...
Wow just imagine if this battle was portrayed in a blockbuster *angry french noises*
Waterloo was even more of a joke in that movie.
Wait you're saying this isn't in the movie?
@@bine35It is but it just consists of people charging into each other and firing artillery into ice
@@JayvH Ah yes with the legendary charge of Napoleon at the head of its cavalry under the threat of a british sniper
@@ToonStory-fh4gnIt surely went down in history
Thanks for the link, Tristan!
Tristan Tate sent me here, great video!
The thick accented French and Russian narrating voices were a nice touch lol.
Austerlitz is a German city name used during the reign of Habsburgs, the currently used Czech name is Slavkov.
Tristan told me to come here
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I watched it Tristian thx
Basically, it was the biggest mic drop moment of the 19th century. 👊🎤
Timeline and events leading to the battle are confused. Ulm was won on 16th Oct 1805; Trafalgar on 21st Oct., by which time Napoleon was already on the Rhine. Neither Trafalgar nor the British Naval blockade had anything to do with Napoleon's decision to abandon the invasion of England and go East. There is a pleasant little legend that the news of Trafalgar was delivered to him on the field of Austerlitz.
Dan is the man!
awsome as always Mr Snow
Bonaparte did not PRETEND to be weak - he was weak INDEED. In manpower, 20%, in artillery, twice less. The situation with gunpowder was poor, and with food and forage, catastrophic. Old fox Kutuzov outmaneuvered the great adventurer and cut him off supply lines, with army exhausted. However, Bonaparte had two reserve corps in the persons of two emperors: one broken coward, the other ambitious diletant. And they solved the fate of the battle.
To think that such beautiful terrain could the scene of so much slaughter.
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Thank you Tristane Tate (G🔝) for sharing this video🙏🏻.
No matter whether we disagree or agree with Napoleon, but truth be told, Napoleon Bonaparte was a heroic man like no other, possessing unparalleled intelligence, sophistication, and wisdom.
Known for his fearless courage, he occupied the throne of France and became its greatest man, the hero Bonaparte
Fantastic work. Thank you. Bless 👊
Can we stop showing Joaquin phoenix as napoleon? Just because he played him doesn’t mean he now is him
Hey HH. Love your work 👍
Excellent Episode of History as always!!! 😁
I came here because of Tristan but I already knew this.
Excellent
The Tzar first took over command from his Generals but then against his own judgment, attacked, because they pressed him? That sounds like shifting blame...
The 2002 version have more simple with last badass scene after battle
Tristan Tate definitely a seeker of truth in history
seems like Napoleon correctly estimated that the Allies weren't thinking rationally, and are going to overcommit on his right flank, weakening their center,
Sooo yeah, you want to comment on the movie Napoleon? Maybe on how bad it was? What did you think about it? No comment on that?
No comments because it's a load of crap?
16:32 Dang. Just...
Dang.
I know from experience that war truly is Hell at times.
But...
Dang!
Imagine this:
You are already defeated; and you and your soldiers are in a (somehow organized) retreat; You're trying just to escape with your life from the battle, in the freezing cold, exhausted from combat. And then some jack-hole goes and tries to bring the ammo cart onto the only exit pathway, an extremely narrow pathway, at that, which is the only way that you and your soldiers can possibly get to safety (if only temporarily), forcing you to take the riskier route across some ice that you can only hope is thick enough to support your weight, and it does, just barely...sigh!
And then you hear the incoming cannon fire, see and then feel its impacts, and then the ice all around you cracks loudly and quickly...
And then comes, immediately, the shock of the freezing cold water, the now wet weight of all of your heavy wool clothes and your boots, your weapon and its powder, your other supplies and equipment, all of them soaked right along with you and however many others of your soldiers had been able to get that far, at least; all of whom (including yourself) were given no other options once that one jack-hole decided that his ammo cart was more important than all of your lives combined...
Dang.
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Who else thought that the Napoleon film sucked
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And only about 200 Russians and Austrians ended up drowning when Napoleon fired his artillery into their retreat across the frozen Sachsen Ponds. Although I'm sure many of the ones who crossed the pond suffered from frostbite and hypothermia.
No, it'a just a myth, a story, testimony to the power of Napoleonic propaganda even after more than two centuries. I know a bit about the battle. I live here, was born on a hill near the battlefield, this battle was an important part of our history education, our apartment building was built on an old military graveyard of Napoleonic soldiers from Austerlitz, some of the bones ended up in our school and when we were learning about bone structure, the teacher let them circulate through the classroom, so we could look at how real human bones are structures. I even found some French military equipment few hundred meters from Napoleon's command post in the ploughed field. People are still recovering stuff from the battle. We learned a lot about the battle, not just from important international historical accounts, but even from local sources
The fact is Napoleon declared that hundreds of Russians drowned in those ponds. Than he ordered the ponds to be drained so the artillery pieces could be recovered. It was reported by those draining the ponds that only bodies of two (some sources mention three) men in Russian uniforms were found. Not a single Austrian soldier and only 2-3 Russians. And no, the bodies didn't just sink to the depth, the ponds were no more than 2 meters deep.
Yah the Battle of Austerlitz is the Masterpiece of Napoleon beating and humbling two Emperor of Austria and Russia k!
18:51 ”These ten years”. Sorry this is an obvious post construction. He could not possibly predict that the Napoleonic wars would end in 1815.
Tristan Tate recommended watching this so here I am.
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Tristan The Talisman told me to be here
So what would've most likely happened if the allies broke through Napoleon's right (southern) flank before the arrival of Davout?
How can it be freezing cold when its above 0 C°?
Czechia gave Nappleon fame
i was here because of Tristan
Tristan Tate sent me here
Very bad Napoleon movie by scott, I regret watching it.
It’s a shame we’re getting more history lesson on RUclips than the actual History Channel.
Well, except for "Ancient Aliens", of course! 😅
Why is it a shame? We're getting fantastic history lessons from enthusiastic, passionate people with actual expertise in actual history for free. This is arguably better. Plus, good old school History Channel content is still available on RUclips. The History Channel is dead, long live History Hit.
I think they moved all that to Military Channel, I agree HC has no more content matching its name.
History Channel used to be great at military shows ..now sadly it caved in to "reality" t.v. trash.
There is a channel called History that has a lot of their old content such as Dogfights on RUclips. However, I agree that there are several channels that have far more suprior content than the History Channel ever did. That is why I do not have a TV.
Thanks to Tristan Tate who shared this video to me and now i see Napoleon"s battle was much more interesting than the movie which i didn't and wouldn't see
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That’s why I’m here too.
Absolutly, thank you
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Aw my brothers….. Get of YT and get to F’ing work!!! 2024 is OUR YEAR!! TODAY IS OUR DAY!!
Ridley Scott has made a much better Napoleanic movie "the duellist". This new movie was a disappointment.
You are the only channel to say that Riddley Scott's film is a good film, probably because it is an Englishman.
But after seeing it, this film is completely fantasized rubbish.
The battles resemble those of the Viking series, masses of fighters rushing against each other without any tactics.
Another point, after excavations it seems that very few soldiers sank in the marshes, less than 200.
It is also amusing that you talk about ONE captured eagle and forget the 45 flags taken from the Russians and Austrians, not to mention the 200 cannons which were melted down and adorn Place Vendome in this famous column built with these 200 melted cannons.
I wish the Napoleon movie had centered around Austerlitz instead of whatever it was Scott released.
It takes up 25% of the movie, pretty accurately too
@@murkysebit’s a tiny scene in the film and the most inaccurate depiction humanly possible. Literally the worst recreation of any battle on film I’ve ever seen.
@@pauls064 as a historian I can say it's an accurate depiction of the battle
@@murkyseb as an actual, working, real historian, I can tell you you’re full of shit. No “historian” would ever make such a claim. I’ve been twice to pratzen heights and Telnice in the last 5 years and the geography is comedically bad in the film, the movie portrays the battle in a tiny valley when the line was 12km long, when the Satchan ponds were emptied after the battle, they found only 3 bodies and 150 horses (the “drowning” was an inconsequential part of the real battle), there was no snow and the day was sunny and bright after the morning fog, etc etc etc etc The whole battle scene was so bizarrely bad, myself and several peers (also historians) who were reviewing it nearly gave up…. I had the displeasure of working on a Randall Wallace film as a researcher and never thought anyone would direct battles so badly, but scott is the master of screwing up every possible fact in a historical battle.
@@murkyseb It's about as accurate as the battle of sterling bridge scene in braveheart and had the strategic grace of a multiplayer round. Sure a number of allied troops died from some ponds, but misses the whole heights portion of the fight.
I wonder what Dan Snow was thinking during his interview with Ridley Scott, whilst Scott proudly boasted about belittling his historical advisers on the set of ‘Napoleon’, by asking them, “How do you know? We’re YOU there?” It seems that movie directors are now our historians?
Scott is an ass. Tired of his wannabe un-historical movies.
Scott is an arrogant twat. I'm disappointed that Snow had originally posted a rather negative critique of the film (and Napoleon) pre-release, but for some reason, he changed his tune after that interview. Scott has always played roughshod over historical facts
Did he really do and say that? What a fool.
Apparently Scott took his ‘history’ from the self serving and greatly embellished dispatches Napoleon would send back to Paris in order impress Josephine.
God help a generation that gets its history from movies.
That “interview” was pathetic. Quite disappointed in Dan Snow.
Napoleonic videos will never get old
The use of terrain is top notch. The setup at the meeting highlighting the “best possible approach” for the opposition is brilliant. There’s definitely something to be said about Napoleon’s tactical thinking. Too bad bravado encroached upon that a little too much… or maybe lucky it did.
Oh, I really appreciate that this video came out on a snowy winters day. 😊
It was really masterful, giving up the heights as bait and luring the enemy off the Pratzen heights with the thinly held village of Solkonitz. Timed it with the mist/smoke perfectly. Total genius stuff. I would *never* have even considered that, given the risk...
I wouldn't wanna sit across Napoleon at a poker table.
California, dreaming.
@@kkidcruz6118Baccarat, more likely.
Thanks to Tristan Tate I was able to get such an education about "The Battle of Austerlitz"! This was so much more entertaining to watch & engaging imagery compared to school history education! Thank you for the video!
Like if you are here after tritan tate tweet
who else is watching this because of Tristan Tate?
Andrew Tates brother?
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is defeating himself.”
--------- ― Napoleon Bonaparte
he should have have thought of that when invading Russia.
@@tomhirons7475 "One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant"
-Napoleon Bonaparte
@@tomhirons7475 The invasion itself was a good move. The Russian Empire was Napoleon's last great Continental enemy and defeating it would have made him master of Europe. The interesting conundrum is whether he should have pushed on to Moscow after Borodino or Wintered around Smolensk. Militarily this would have made for a sound strategy but politically it might have made him appear weak and indecisive. The alliance with Prussia was shaky and the peace with Austria was uneasy at best. Imho it was the invasion of Spain that doomed Napoleon. It sapped French strength and confidence whilst giving the British public, particularly the urban middle-classes, the impression that their taxes were achieving something other than subsidising foreign armies that Napoleon kept defeating. No Peninsular War, Britain makes peace after the defeat of the Austrians at Wagram and the 5th Coalition collapses, Napoleon has no need for his 'Continental System', and a Polish 'buffer state' is established as Russia turns its attention towards The Ottoman Empire. As a bonus Wellesley commands the British forces during the war of 1812 and the United States of America is returned to The Empire as he is granted the title of 'Duke of New York'. *
*I may have gotten a little carried away there. 🤣🤣
Personally I like it because I find it funny:
“You can do anything with a bayonet, except sit on it”.
When he’s making a mistake*
This is great! Can I make a suggestion? In films like this, when shots of maps are used, can you leave them on a bit longer and enlarge the relevant bits a bit more? Some of us are a bit aged, I fear. Nice one Dan and team. ⭐👍
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Ridley Scott made a mockery of this battle in his silly movie
Well said Marc!
Ridley Scott yet again shows his lack of history knowledge.
As Tristan Tate said
Came from the Talisman Tate
I saw the film - I do not recomend it - Absolute mess and boring
If you enjoyed this I wouldn't bother with the movie. It's not so much about historic battles as a salacious skimming of his personal life as if recalled by a hostile British tabloid, played out in dull greyscale and sepia.
There is an intelligent Historical documentary to be made in English about Napoleon Bonaparte I, and the French culture, and this isn't it.
Never let the British cover French history. [ Never ]!! Same with Greece. Never let Hollywood Movies or American and British Historical documentaries cover Greek History, indeed.
Anglos rules the world in entertainment, do it yourself Frogs if you are that mad.😂😂
@@ChrisCrossClash Coming from an Anglo Murder Capital of America…Go tell that to the millions of homeless Anglos in the US and
the poor Brexiteer's.😂😂
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Tristan Tate a G for bringing this to everyone’s attention 💪🏽
Ive really enjoy Ridley Scott’s films in the past but Napoleon is bloody awful.
If he had just stuck to Napoleon and Josephine or part of his military campaign he could have given us a fantastic film.
But he didn’t and we ended up with so much missing eg hardly anything about his marshalls, no real context for his battles or campaigns etc.
I would recommend people watch the 1970 film Waterloo with Rod Steiger or the 2002 TV series rather than Ridley Scott’s film.
Both are available on RUclips
I think Scott focused on Battle in the Bed.
Please stop promoting this horrific excuse for a historical epic
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This is insane thank you for sharing this history. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is defeating himself.” --------- ― Napoleon Bonaparte.
That would be rude😃
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Better then the movie,in the movie there was more about his love life then the battles,and the movie made him look week ,and could not make his wife happy in bed , very very disappointed,Terry,PS when I heard R.V was doing napoleon,I said no ,Mabey the older napoleon, but someone younger ,for the start
There is nothing like a Napoleonic video it never gets old
Heh heh. Thanks for the chuckle. =)
Great video on this battle, as it's a huge part of the early chapters of War and Peace.
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Up next - his retreat from Moscow...
Probably the most savage exodus of any army, hounded and hunted by merciless Cossacks.
The poor farmer who had to go back the next day
I’d still rather be him than one of the soldiers 😉 it’s better to have to bury the dead than be one of them!
Tristan Tate is a G for making us come here :) ❤
This is better than the new movie.
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You missed the bit where they fought on an ice lake! 🤪😉
Ha ha, guess someone had to say it, congrats (I did want to thank him for sparing us Joséphine's spread (btw, her name like mine, José but it was him who extended it, a few queens were named Josephine,,,,
That was alluded to.
That only happened in propaganda stories and in that atrocity of a movie. Although I guess 2-3 Russians drowning in a small pond 2 meters deep wouldn't look so epic on the big screen.
Shame we didn’t see how the battle was really fought in the Napoleon film . Wasted opportunity
Great video and also very nice to see you visit the actual battlefield! Loved it! Thank you
The central strategic masterstroke can be more clearly explained than here.
The occupation of the Pratzen Heights was the key to commanding the battlefield. Napoleon abandoned them, inviting the allies to occupy the high ground, which they did. He left his right (southern) flank conspicuously weak, inviting the allies to leave the plateau and attack his right. But unbeknownst to the allies, Davout's III Corps had arrived overnight in a spectacular 110 km forced march from Vienna to the south. Shrouded in fog, his disciplined corps had arrived just in time to shore up Napoleon's southern flank. When the allies abandoned the heights to attack what they thought was the weak spot in the French line, they ran into Davout's disciplined and battle-hardened Corps. Exactly at that point, Soult led his IV Corps through the mist to occupy the now abandoned heights, trapping the Russians from above and cutting off their retreat. It became like shooting Russian fish in a barrel.
Omitting the action to the north, this was the battle's strategic masterstroke.
Davout's III Corps (nicknamed Napoleon's 'X Legion') forced marched for two days to the battlefield, which is a fantastic feat in itself. Considering going straight into action on the right flank, afterwards, holding the flank in a stalemate until Marshal Soult's attack on the centre. Marshal Davout Napoleon's finest Corps commander by far.
Tristan tweeted this video
Finally someone who knows the plural of canon is canon. Respect Mr Snow
It's a shame you can't even spell cannon...
And you're still wrong anyway. Cannon and cannons are both acceptable as the plural form of cannon. You're trying to look smart but it's not working very well when you can't even spell correctly. And you're wrong on top of that.
Shame Ridley Scott didnt watch this before the movie.....you should have sent it too him Dan 😂
wonder what Dan's actual thoughts are on the historical inaccuracies within Ridley's film
There were very few inaccuracies
@@murkyseb There were several but other commentators have explained them better.
1) Napoleon's army did not shoot the tops of the pyramids off.
2) Josephine died an entire year before Napoleon wanted to return to France for the 100 days.
3) Napoleon was not present at Marie Antionette's execution as he was already in the south of France fighting the British.
4) Napoleon did not lead a cavalry charge at Borodino as he was unwell that day, possibly with a urinary infection.
5) Brunswickers, Nassau, King's German Legion, and Belgian troops are absent from Ripley's depiction of Waterloo, even though they compromised a large chunk of Wellington's army.
@@celston516. Napoleon did nothing in Waterloo due to hemorrhoid, let alone leading a final charge
@@murkyseb you sure bro? lol
Shoutout to the talisman for recommending this, fascinating stuff.
Very badly depicted in the movie, Tristan was right, G!
Who is also here because of the talismantate?