@@michaelsinger4638 as the great man himself once noted: “Your Majesty, so long as you have this present officer corps, you can do as you please. But when this is no longer the case, it will be very different for you” December 1897 - The same Kaiser Wilhelm II he said this to would abdicate the German throne 20 years and 11 months later. Also, in 1888 Bimarck also famously said: “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”
I feel his other mistake was a consequence of making the German empire. After beating the French and forcing them too pay a in land and lots of money led to a big time grudge and resentment of Germany to where France was waiting for a opportunity to fight Germany again but prepared. This came on the form of world war 1. Had Bismarck improved French relations the balkin crisis maybe would’ve been avoided but instead because Germany forced France to pay a heavy fine in the Franco Prussian war led to France wanting revenge in the treaty of versailles leading to more tragic consequences
@@5552-d8b I disagree. Without British intervention, Germany would have beaten France in WWI and British intervention cannot be blamed on Bismarck's lack of foresight.
@@5552-d8b France was spared after almost 20 years of war under Napoleon. over the centuries several times french armies marched through german lands pillaging and murdering. after the defeat of the Austrians in the battle of Königgrätz (or Sadova) against Prussia the French demanded revanche!!! They werent even fighting in that war! They started the war of 1870 over an "insult" in a letter. After the peace deal they could pay the money within 3 or 4 years! very harsh... they were an utterly arrogant and imperialistic people these days and had their chance of getting peaceful relations and threw it away. thats the basis of the world wars. not Bismark demanding too much. ironically it was kinda the same mistake like treaty of Versailles after WW1. Shoulda beat them back to stone age
Simon tells this perfectly and is so easy to listen to, thats why I spend as much time each day watching his videos, that he spends making them. Thanks Simon and team. 👍
Excellent work! Might I just suggest to use more maps with a focus on rivers and mountains. For people who don't know Jicin or Hradec Kralove this is very vague.
Another mini-masterpiece: you have a great talent for putting over historical events in a memorable and entertaing way. I'd barely heard of this war before, but now I can see that it is an essential component for understanding the development of modern-day Europe.
Bismarck managed to orchestrate three wars. And yet make it seem like TECHNICALLY, Prussia was acting in response to others. The man was a strategic genius.
Prussian Crown Prince Frederick though was furious about the war with Austria. He felt it was absolutely immoral to fight other German peoples and compared it to killing one's own family. Bismarck ignored him though.
@@MirageGSM - Mind you that he was a staunch conservative, but saw the writing on the wall. He didn't really want a united Germany, but if one was going to happen, let it be under Prussian terms. And as pragmatist, he setup national healthcare, as a compromise, in exchange. Something both the extreme right, and extreme left, could learn today. Plus he deliberately left Austria out of a united Germany, something some fool with a Charlie Chaplain mustache did not heed, several decades later.
You should have mentioned the Austrians beat the Italians so bad in the south that they felt they were undeserving of Venetia and so ceded it to France instead who then promptly gave it to Italy
Like the Greeks in WW2 who'd lost to the Axis, but - since they'd beaten the Italians earlier - refused to surrender to Italy, insisting on only surrendering to Germany.
Get this: My family has a Prussian ancestor who came to America (with his wife IIRC) as an immigrant in 1866, and we've suspected he did it partially to avoid being conscripted to fight in this war. Pretty crafty move on his part if true.
@@thunderbird1921 huh, neat. Ours was an Austrian Officer who came over with his family later in 1866 while changing his name. Allegedly some of our family went over there and found out he was presumed to have died after one of the battles
Good work. But it would help to have a map graphic highlighting the various regions, cities, etc as you rattle them off. Many of them aren't even noted on current maps.
I've barely watched much of Red Dwarf - Would you be able to explain that reference? As in, what is 'The Culture' in a Red Dwarf context? I'm aware of the crew.
I know a guy in Vienna called Benedek, a distant offspring of General Benedek. He still has problems of being mocked because of his ancestor. If Austria had won that battle, or at least achieved a stalemate, the Prussian dominated Imperial Germany would not have formed or looked much different. By that all the rest would have been different: WWI and WWII. That battle at Königgrätz just had huge impacts.
Hey can you please do a video about the Sri Lankan Civil War? I'm someone young from Sri Lanka but knows very little about it cause it's mostly treated as kinda taboo and the views I heard are largely tainted with nationalism on both sides. So I would love to hear a balanced and non objective take on it
@@scottnunnemaker5209 there's no new one. All the people are united against a corrupt political elite. In fact, the various ethnicities have never been more united as they are now
@@bakthihapuarachchi3447 I hope it stays that way but history is full of examples of things starting United and then devolving into bloodshed later as one or more groups feel slighted by the division of power.
One could argue it shaped the world for more than just decades, that it is still shaping shaping world today as it led to the following wars that made modern Europe and changed so much for so many people, and ended so many lives.
When you mentioned Red Dwarf, reminded me of this quote Lister "We're a real Mickey Mouse Operation aren't we? Cat "Mickey Mouse, we ain't even Betty Boop"
Hey Simon, I love your work. Please have a look into Brian Ború (pronounced "Bore-oo") and the Battle of Clontarf. I think it'd make for a good fit for this channel.
significance of Dreyse rifle is overestimated. Yes, they could fire faster, but Austrian Lorentz percussion rifle had greater range and accuracy and it definitely could be loaded, while soldier was kneeling ory lying on ground (many of them were shipped to USA and were used in civil war) But Austrian tactics was outdated and was basically napoleonic linear tactics, based on massed bayonet charge. For austrian officers soldier lying on ground was something unimaginable. Also austrian artillery commended and caused lots of prussian casaulties and basically cover infantry retreat.
An interesting side-note is that Hannover, even though they were the first to be out of the war were the only ones to actually win a major battle against Prussia in the battle of Langensalza (Austria later won one minor engagement).
I've barely watched much of Red Dwarf - Would you be able to explain that reference? As in, what is 'The Culture' in a Red Dwarf context? I'm aware of the crew.
@@CellarDoorAU The Culture, among Geeks, means Iain M Banks novels that are set in a galaxy spanning super civilization with powers close to God like but oddly relatable as well. It is a masterpiece both of Sci Fi and social imagination. The Culture can control stars, can create massive fleets manned by extreme computer minds well beyond us but still, it is managing the fate of millions of species. It is essentially the highest level civilization humans can still comprehend without reverting to religion in my opinion. And Red Dwarf crew is the Red Dwarf crew.
I have an interesting question was Bismarck reluctance to take Austria is because whilst he did not want the multi culture state as it would be difficult to hold on. Austria-Hungary was always at risk of splitting up and Franz Josef was very skilled at keeping everyone together.
1:13 "You wouldn't have found a single Germanic state" Well no... I wouldn't find one, I would find MANY... Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Austrian Empire, Prussia, the Netherlands, and all those little ones too. That's loads of Germanic states. The way you said it made it sound like there weren't any whatsoever. The way you said it also seemed to imply "Germanic" means "German" which is certainly not the case.
Hajo Holborn Said that Bismarck in 1870, did not want an Anschluss bc 1. He wanted Austria to continue to control the subordinate nationalized of the empire. 2. Bismarck’s political base was mostly Protestant and Austria was full of Catholics.
1:33 - That coat of arms does not represent the HRE, but rather one monarch who happened to be, among other things, Holy Roman Emperor. Most of the things represented there were not part of the HRE (particularly the realms of the King of Spain including those in Italy and the Americas).
Simon you are not entirely right on Schleswig the notohern part (north of the current dansh/german border) had a danish majority and the minorities in Schleswig danish in the north and german in the south weren't reconized before the Bonn treaty of 1955 and a video on the Schleswig wars could be great now there's videos on the Seven weeks war and the Franko-Preussian war
Prussia could have taken Vienna. Provided Prussia didn’t touch anything outside of the borders of the German confederation without consulting Russia first, no one was in a position to intervene due to lack of will, diplomatic isolation of Austria, and the prevailing opinion that the conflict was an internal German conflict and therefore had no effect upon the balance of power. The one “active” power was France and they supported Italy, believed Austria was going to win, and had double dealt with Prussia and Austria in return for French Neutrality. The Great Powers were additionally stunned by the incredible performance of Prussian forces, especially their rapid firing small arms and artillery.
My first real cartography project was making a map of the birthplaces of major Europe composers from the late 1200s through the early 1900s. I spent a week deciding how to display Europe.
How is it semi forgotten? Every person in Germany learns about it extensively in school. Ok, many may not pay attention, but if you go by them, basically every war is almost forgotten. Studying Bismarck, good and bad, is studying one of the most important figures in modern history and you can't leave that one out. The question of why austria didn't become the dominant power in Germany as many had hoped is part of the education of every child here and essential in understanding your own country. It's also the build up to why the nazis happened (please, nobody claim I gave a reason, Bismarck had nothing to do with them, it's just some things you need to know first to understand some dynamics in the state). Guess brits don't learn about it like Germans don't learn about Cromwell or the war of the roses or how they don't bother with the crimean war as much. Doesn't make it forgotten, just not taught in school elsewhere - you can't teach everything. The most important war involving the same actors and more that's barely a footnote in today's education is the 7 years war, not this one.
I wouldn't say Bismarck had nothing to do with the path prussian Germany took, he directed german nationalism towards a monarchistic, authoritarian Empire that upset the balance of power in Europe. He suppressed the liberal, democratic nationalism that would have seen Britain as its natural ally - not Austria-Hungary. Speaking of which, his diplomatic goal was to keep Russia and Italy happy as well, both of whom had serious beefs with A-H. Isolating France that way, it was never going to work for very long. His neglect of restoring close British-Prussian relations after unificiation became the ultimate downfall of his creation. That relationship made Prussia a great power in the first place and ingoring Britain's thumb on the scales in european power struggles proved fatal only 40 years later. Kaiser Wilhelm II gets all the blame, most of it deservedly, but people don't understand in what a precarious diplomatic situation he was in from Day 1 and that he continued the majority of Bismarck's ultra-conservative policies. A liberal Monarch, like his father, could have salvaged things but unfortunately he died soon after coming into power. Bismarck didn't trust Britain but had faith in an alliance system that included A-U and Russia together lol. He was competent but far from a genius, that was von Moltke. Without him, things would have gone quite differently - especially against France.
To think at a similar time to the United States Confederacy a German Confederacy was fighting a war as well. It's neat seeing how other countries were at war as the same time as my own!
Britain & Denmark are Germanic nations.. as is Swedend, Netherlands, Norway, arguably France as well as Belgium, Luxembourg & Switzerland. All having Germanic origins. There's other regions as well but they aren't independent nations.
English and welsh people in fact have mostly ancient Briton genetic background, and the scottish have moved back and forth from northern ireland over about 2000 years. The viking and Saxon genetic input at least was less than previously thought, even if it was culturally very important in england and scotland especially.
Prussia is a homogeneous militaristic state, that's the noticable advantage she has. The Austrian Empire is a multiracial political entity, its soldiers aren't expected to fight as seriously and gallantly as the Prussians. They are more motivated by money and glory. The Prussians have this ferocious love of the homeland and will fight tooth and nail for it
Not to worry, friend. The American Civil War has at least half a dozen different names, such as The War of Northern Aggression, Lincoln's War and The Second American Revolution, just to name a few. It depends on ones point of view.
I actually informally call it the "German Civil War" because essentially that's what it was (the German Confederation splitting and fighting over its future). America and Germany have some historically remarkable similarities, and our nearly simultaneous internal conflicts is one of them.
Very interesting, informative video. One small linguistic gripe that I probably wouldn't have mentioned if not for the fact that it's used several times: German =/= Germanic. There were Germanic unified states, Denmark and Britain among them (I suppose you can argue the point on Britain, but you can't claim DK isn't Germanic), but not a German one.
But I thought Europe didn't have any more wars after the Treaty of Westphalia... Are you saying Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie did not give us an accurate representation of history? That seems absurd!
' with the current officer core you have in your service, one day things will be very different for you' - Bismarck to Wilhelm I see parallels to brexit
To paraphrase one historian: "Bismarck's biggest failure in life and politics was not imagining a world without Bismarck."
He created a system that required a genius like himself to keep working properly.
@@michaelsinger4638 as the great man himself once noted: “Your Majesty, so long as you have this present officer corps, you can do as you please. But when this is no longer the case, it will be very different for you” December 1897 - The same Kaiser Wilhelm II he said this to would abdicate the German throne 20 years and 11 months later.
Also, in 1888 Bimarck also famously said: “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”
I feel his other mistake was a consequence of making the German empire. After beating the French and forcing them too pay a in land and lots of money led to a big time grudge and resentment of Germany to where France was waiting for a opportunity to fight Germany again but prepared. This came on the form of world war 1. Had Bismarck improved French relations the balkin crisis maybe would’ve been avoided but instead because Germany forced France to pay a heavy fine in the Franco Prussian war led to France wanting revenge in the treaty of versailles leading to more tragic consequences
@@5552-d8b I disagree. Without British intervention, Germany would have beaten France in WWI and British intervention cannot be blamed on Bismarck's lack of foresight.
@@5552-d8b France was spared after almost 20 years of war under Napoleon. over the centuries several times french armies marched through german lands pillaging and murdering.
after the defeat of the Austrians in the battle of Königgrätz (or Sadova) against Prussia the French demanded revanche!!! They werent even fighting in that war!
They started the war of 1870 over an "insult" in a letter. After the peace deal they could pay the money within 3 or 4 years! very harsh...
they were an utterly arrogant and imperialistic people these days and had their chance of getting peaceful relations and threw it away. thats the basis of the world wars. not Bismark demanding too much. ironically it was kinda the same mistake like treaty of Versailles after WW1.
Shoulda beat them back to stone age
3:00 “With the Hungarians already revolting”
I’ve always found the Hungarians rather nice but each to his own.
Lmao clever one
Hahahahahaha brilliant comment Generalfeldmarschall
Just add more salt. Or garlic. Or chocolate sauce.
Their toad-like leader is plenty revolting.
Simon tells this perfectly and is so easy to listen to, thats why I spend as much time each day watching his videos, that he spends making them. Thanks Simon and team. 👍
Omg so much time. Apparently enough time that work has limited when I can have my phone cuz I'm always listening this and casual criminalist lol
Excellent work! Might I just suggest to use more maps with a focus on rivers and mountains. For people who don't know Jicin or Hradec Kralove this is very vague.
Another mini-masterpiece: you have a great talent for putting over historical events in a memorable and entertaing way. I'd barely heard of this war before, but now I can see that it is an essential component for understanding the development of modern-day Europe.
Thank you.
And the editor and writer
Much appreciated Simon. It’s become a RUclips hobby to listen to these in free time.
I'm on vacation so that mammoth of an episode yesterday on gacy took forever to watch but was well worth it. Thanks Simon and co.
That episode got me through half of my work day. I remodel homes, so I keep my earbuds in most of the day and long episodes like that keep me going.
@@SkunkApe407 hell yeah, I use to do the same when I was a sub contractor painter. Makes working so much better
Bismarck managed to orchestrate three wars. And yet make it seem like TECHNICALLY, Prussia was acting in response to others.
The man was a strategic genius.
And not just a strategic one. He also basically invented the German healthcare system and insurance against accidents and invalidity.
@@MirageGSM not invented, more like stole socialist's ideas. To beat them with their own weapon.
Prussian Crown Prince Frederick though was furious about the war with Austria. He felt it was absolutely immoral to fight other German peoples and compared it to killing one's own family. Bismarck ignored him though.
Otto Von Bismarck was the epitome of pragmatism.
@@MirageGSM - Mind you that he was a staunch conservative, but saw the writing on the wall. He didn't really want a united Germany, but if one was going to happen, let it be under Prussian terms. And as pragmatist, he setup national healthcare, as a compromise, in exchange. Something both the extreme right, and extreme left, could learn today.
Plus he deliberately left Austria out of a united Germany, something some fool with a Charlie Chaplain mustache did not heed, several decades later.
"Comparing Prussia to Austria was like comparing the Culture to the crew of the Red Dwarf" might be the most British thing anyone has ever said
I’m American, and I swear i sat there for a solid 30 seconds trying to understand what that meant and I just gave up 😂
1:05 - Chapter 1 - Big beasts
5:00 - Chapter 2 - Bleeding the giant
9:25 - Chapter 3 - Diplomatic isolation
13:20 - Chapter 4 - The volcano erupts
16:45 - Chapter 5 - A catastrophe is inevitable
20:35 - Chapter 6 - The titan, defeated
Omg been looking for the jump scare list for ages Ty
Simon should pay you for your work.
I misread first one as Big breasts:D
I must be tired I read chapter one as big breast not big beast😂
You should have mentioned the Austrians beat the Italians so bad in the south that they felt they were undeserving of Venetia and so ceded it to France instead who then promptly gave it to Italy
Lmaooo💀💀💀 getting ruined so bad you just say "alright fuck this shit i don't even want it"
Like the Greeks in WW2 who'd lost to the Axis, but - since they'd beaten the Italians earlier - refused to surrender to Italy, insisting on only surrendering to Germany.
I watch these immediately every time I love this channel. Thank you. Do the meme wars next!
Oh this is great. I actually had a relative who fought in this war, changed his name, and fled the country owing to his performance
Get this: My family has a Prussian ancestor who came to America (with his wife IIRC) as an immigrant in 1866, and we've suspected he did it partially to avoid being conscripted to fight in this war. Pretty crafty move on his part if true.
@@thunderbird1921 huh, neat. Ours was an Austrian Officer who came over with his family later in 1866 while changing his name. Allegedly some of our family went over there and found out he was presumed to have died after one of the battles
Good work. But it would help to have a map graphic highlighting the various regions, cities, etc as you rattle them off. Many of them aren't even noted on current maps.
I'm new to the Simon Whistler constellation of channels but glad that I found them.
"Like the Culture vs the crew of Red Dwarf"
10/10 for high end sci fi reference.
Damn Special Circumstances interfering again.
I've barely watched much of Red Dwarf - Would you be able to explain that reference? As in, what is 'The Culture' in a Red Dwarf context? I'm aware of the crew.
I know a guy in Vienna called Benedek, a distant offspring of General Benedek. He still has problems of being mocked because of his ancestor. If Austria had won that battle, or at least achieved a stalemate, the Prussian dominated Imperial Germany would not have formed or looked much different. By that all the rest would have been different: WWI and WWII. That battle at Königgrätz just had huge impacts.
It is probably the single most world changing battle in human history.
Damn, feel sorry for him.
There is no....posssible....way to know that for sure
Hey Simon, can you make a video dedicated to Austrian field marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz?
And ban Josip Jelačić Von Bužim while you're at it :)
See if they done an episode on his other channel Biographics
Don't forget Prince Eugene.
Love this episode! Compliments the Franco-Prussian war episode.
Great video as always! Great information! I love the “Red Dwarf” reference! Hilarious!
Hey can you please do a video about the Sri Lankan Civil War? I'm someone young from Sri Lanka but knows very little about it cause it's mostly treated as kinda taboo and the views I heard are largely tainted with nationalism on both sides. So I would love to hear a balanced and non objective take on it
The old one or the new one forming?
@@scottnunnemaker5209 there's no new one. All the people are united against a corrupt political elite. In fact, the various ethnicities have never been more united as they are now
I second that!
@@bakthihapuarachchi3447 I hope it stays that way but history is full of examples of things starting United and then devolving into bloodshed later as one or more groups feel slighted by the division of power.
Nobody gives a fuck about Sri Lanka
This is a WONDERFUL video. Loved every minute of it.
14:52 nice paraphrasing of that master of tactics and war, Zapp Brannigan
The constant changes in the speed and volume of your speaking make it really hard to follow. But man, the content is so, so good!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
It would be very helpful if you showed maps and arrows when describing army/navy movements and battlefield scenes
Please do the Crimean war at some point.
Love this!! thanks for sharing I always love learning something new about this topic :)
Loving this Chanel well all of them thank you Simon how about a civilisations and empires graphics chanel incised your not busy enough
One could argue it shaped the world for more than just decades, that it is still shaping shaping world today as it led to the following wars that made modern Europe and changed so much for so many people, and ended so many lives.
It makes Germany The greatest power in europe
Defeated in world war ONE and Second World War cannot change it
Man, the 1860s sucked for a lot of continents didn't it?
All across the board…
The last Kaiser made a mistake when he fired Bismark from being prime minister.
Love your videos
Nice Futurama wink
"The rest of the Dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!"
When you mentioned Red Dwarf, reminded me of this quote
Lister "We're a real Mickey Mouse Operation aren't we?
Cat "Mickey Mouse, we ain't even Betty Boop"
Please do a video on the Iran-Iraq war
Hey Simon, I love your work.
Please have a look into Brian Ború (pronounced "Bore-oo") and the Battle of Clontarf. I think it'd make for a good fit for this channel.
Do the Battle for Lake Tanganyika World War I's most bizarre battle.
significance of Dreyse rifle is overestimated. Yes, they could fire faster, but Austrian Lorentz percussion rifle had greater range and accuracy and it definitely could be loaded, while soldier was kneeling ory lying on ground (many of them were shipped to USA and were used in civil war) But Austrian tactics was outdated and was basically napoleonic linear tactics, based on massed bayonet charge. For austrian officers soldier lying on ground was something unimaginable. Also austrian artillery commended and caused lots of prussian casaulties and basically cover infantry retreat.
Most hilarious war video I've ever seen from Simon
An interesting side-note is that Hannover, even though they were the first to be out of the war were the only ones to actually win a major battle against Prussia in the battle of Langensalza (Austria later won one minor engagement).
"Comparing Prussia to Austria was like comparing the Culture to the crew of Red Dwarf" I almost spit up my drink when I head that. Brilliant!
Geeks of the world, slowly we are winning!
I've barely watched much of Red Dwarf - Would you be able to explain that reference? As in, what is 'The Culture' in a Red Dwarf context? I'm aware of the crew.
@@CellarDoorAU The Culture, among Geeks, means Iain M Banks novels that are set in a galaxy spanning super civilization with powers close to God like but oddly relatable as well. It is a masterpiece both of Sci Fi and social imagination. The Culture can control stars, can create massive fleets manned by extreme computer minds well beyond us but still, it is managing the fate of millions of species. It is essentially the highest level civilization humans can still comprehend without reverting to religion in my opinion. And Red Dwarf crew is the Red Dwarf crew.
Please do Nigeria civil war
I have an interesting question was Bismarck reluctance to take Austria is because whilst he did not want the multi culture state as it would be difficult to hold on. Austria-Hungary was always at risk of splitting up and Franz Josef was very skilled at keeping everyone together.
Can you do a video on the 1919 German revolution by rosa Luxembourg? Loved the Irish revolution series from an Irishman🇮🇪💚
1:13 "You wouldn't have found a single Germanic state"
Well no... I wouldn't find one, I would find MANY... Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Austrian Empire, Prussia, the Netherlands, and all those little ones too. That's loads of Germanic states. The way you said it made it sound like there weren't any whatsoever. The way you said it also seemed to imply "Germanic" means "German" which is certainly not the case.
Hajo Holborn Said that Bismarck in 1870, did not want an Anschluss bc 1. He wanted Austria to continue to control the subordinate nationalized of the empire.
2. Bismarck’s political base was mostly Protestant and Austria was full of Catholics.
Red dwarf is a great show sir .
im fm Puerto Rico and my London Jets shirt is only for special occasions. Thanks Simon, ISNT THAT RIGHT PETER?
14:50 A Zap Brannigan reference. Nice.
Does Simon Whistler have a Discord?
Can you talk more about the history of the Pomeria region?
1:33 - That coat of arms does not represent the HRE, but rather one monarch who happened to be, among other things, Holy Roman Emperor. Most of the things represented there were not part of the HRE (particularly the realms of the King of Spain including those in Italy and the Americas).
Here for the Futurama references, delivered with a straight face, no less.
Your thumbnails on this channel always make me do a double-take for if this is a movie or a ~20-something minute video or not. Love it
Simon you are not entirely right on Schleswig the notohern part (north of the current dansh/german border) had a danish majority and the minorities in Schleswig danish in the north and german in the south weren't reconized before the Bonn treaty of 1955
and a video on the Schleswig wars could be great now there's videos on the Seven weeks war and the Franko-Preussian war
6:46 “Tis but a flesh wound!” - Franz Joseph
Can you guys do a crimean war video pretty please?
15:02 That is not Prince Charles of Bavaria. That is Prince Charles of Hesse, the elected-but-uncrowned King of Finland.
"Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state." - Voltaire. "Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball" - Napoleon Bonaparte.
21:37 we might have 3 defenestrations of Prague, but have we had a self-defenestration of Prague
YES! FINALLY!
A piece of history I knew far too little about
11:13 What's an enemo? Enemoh? I wish this guy would make up more words.
I'm not sure many people heard the capital letters in "comparing The Culture to the crew of the Red Dwarf".
I always thought it was funny that most of Prussian history is just Bismarck throwing a hissy fit until he gets his way
Except the whole massive frederick the great and napoleonic prussian eras..
Prussia could have taken Vienna. Provided Prussia didn’t touch anything outside of the borders of the German confederation without consulting Russia first, no one was in a position to intervene due to lack of will, diplomatic isolation of Austria, and the prevailing opinion that the conflict was an internal German conflict and therefore had no effect upon the balance of power. The one “active” power was France and they supported Italy, believed Austria was going to win, and had double dealt with Prussia and Austria in return for French Neutrality. The Great Powers were additionally stunned by the incredible performance of Prussian forces, especially their rapid firing small arms and artillery.
My first real cartography project was making a map of the birthplaces of major Europe composers from the late 1200s through the early 1900s. I spent a week deciding how to display Europe.
The Needle gun wasn't new but actually about 25 years old!
15:09 is Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse.
Wasn't expecting a Culture reference in a historical war minidoc.
just an appetizer
Bismarck was another Richelieu!
Or was Richelieu a Pre-Bismarck?
Bismarck to Danes: "Want war?"
Bismarck to Austrians: "How about war?"
Bismarck to French: "War?"
Bismarck to Germans: " You know it!"
How is it semi forgotten? Every person in Germany learns about it extensively in school. Ok, many may not pay attention, but if you go by them, basically every war is almost forgotten. Studying Bismarck, good and bad, is studying one of the most important figures in modern history and you can't leave that one out. The question of why austria didn't become the dominant power in Germany as many had hoped is part of the education of every child here and essential in understanding your own country. It's also the build up to why the nazis happened (please, nobody claim I gave a reason, Bismarck had nothing to do with them, it's just some things you need to know first to understand some dynamics in the state). Guess brits don't learn about it like Germans don't learn about Cromwell or the war of the roses or how they don't bother with the crimean war as much. Doesn't make it forgotten, just not taught in school elsewhere - you can't teach everything.
The most important war involving the same actors and more that's barely a footnote in today's education is the 7 years war, not this one.
I wouldn't say Bismarck had nothing to do with the path prussian Germany took, he directed german nationalism towards a monarchistic, authoritarian Empire that upset the balance of power in Europe. He suppressed the liberal, democratic nationalism that would have seen Britain as its natural ally - not Austria-Hungary. Speaking of which, his diplomatic goal was to keep Russia and Italy happy as well, both of whom had serious beefs with A-H. Isolating France that way, it was never going to work for very long. His neglect of restoring close British-Prussian relations after unificiation became the ultimate downfall of his creation. That relationship made Prussia a great power in the first place and ingoring Britain's thumb on the scales in european power struggles proved fatal only 40 years later.
Kaiser Wilhelm II gets all the blame, most of it deservedly, but people don't understand in what a precarious diplomatic situation he was in from Day 1 and that he continued the majority of Bismarck's ultra-conservative policies. A liberal Monarch, like his father, could have salvaged things but unfortunately he died soon after coming into power.
Bismarck didn't trust Britain but had faith in an alliance system that included A-U and Russia together lol. He was competent but far from a genius, that was von Moltke. Without him, things would have gone quite differently - especially against France.
Next do one on the war that made Austria thirsty!
The Risorgimento by Garibaldi, inventor of the squashed raisin biscuit 😋 by the way needs its own chapter.
The Seven Grains Bread: The diet that made Austria hungry.
To think at a similar time to the United States Confederacy a German Confederacy was fighting a war as well. It's neat seeing how other countries were at war as the same time as my own!
war makes us all a bit hungry
Don’t forget about Roon’s reforms
Britain & Denmark are Germanic nations.. as is Swedend, Netherlands, Norway, arguably France as well as Belgium, Luxembourg & Switzerland. All having Germanic origins. There's other regions as well but they aren't independent nations.
English and welsh people in fact have mostly ancient Briton genetic background, and the scottish have moved back and forth from northern ireland over about 2000 years. The viking and Saxon genetic input at least was less than previously thought, even if it was culturally very important in england and scotland especially.
TRAINING MATTERS anywhere in history.
This guy speaks so quickly that a newbie to the story can’t digest it. History should be told as a story!! Take a breath!
Prussia is a homogeneous militaristic state, that's the noticable advantage she has. The Austrian Empire is a multiracial political entity, its soldiers aren't expected to fight as seriously and gallantly as the Prussians. They are more motivated by money and glory. The Prussians have this ferocious love of the homeland and will fight tooth and nail for it
Prussia actually had a large Polish minority in their Silesian and East Prussian territories. Not exactly homgeneous.
Is this the “Brothers War” in Victoria 2?
Really "Seven weeks war?" In Europe you call it "Germans Brother War" or just "German War or even Austro-Prusian War."
Not to worry, friend. The American Civil War has at least half a dozen different names, such as The War of Northern Aggression, Lincoln's War and The Second American Revolution, just to name a few. It depends on ones point of view.
@@paulceglinski3087 thanks now i feel better about it
I actually informally call it the "German Civil War" because essentially that's what it was (the German Confederation splitting and fighting over its future). America and Germany have some historically remarkable similarities, and our nearly simultaneous internal conflicts is one of them.
@@thunderbird1921 There is that. Agreeing in Tennessee.
@@Einheit091 There is another name for this war: The German Civil War.
Very interesting, informative video. One small linguistic gripe that I probably wouldn't have mentioned if not for the fact that it's used several times: German =/= Germanic. There were Germanic unified states, Denmark and Britain among them (I suppose you can argue the point on Britain, but you can't claim DK isn't Germanic), but not a German one.
In 1815, The British monarch was also the elector of Hanover. That didn't change until Victoria ascended, but someone forgot to file the paperwork.
But I thought Europe didn't have any more wars after the Treaty of Westphalia...
Are you saying Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie did not give us an accurate representation of history? That seems absurd!
I too would be quite famished after a bout like that.
I’m sorry did you just reference another RUclips channel😂
Interesting subject. THEN I saw who is hosting it. Never mind.
the war that made austria hungry
nice pun
And we know Bismarck always has a plan.
Bismarck always have A plan.
I just want to point out that Elba doesnt flow throught Jičín nor is it even close in fact the closet point of the Elba to it is around 25/30 km
Love the show… but please sort out your pronunciation of ‘Schleswig’ and ‘Holstein’…. ‘Holstein’ is not even consistent between takes.
' with the current officer core you have in your service, one day things will be very different for you' - Bismarck to Wilhelm
I see parallels to brexit
Benedict Cumberbatch as Prince Charles at 15:07
Where else can you hear a side in a war compared to the crew of Red Dwarf? :)
Bismarck is the Man who is in Fakt the guy who is in charge for coming WW1
22:45 actually not Beeing german is very positive for Austria