It is interesting seeing Austria and Prussia fighting together in a war (not really standard for that time) and then Austria getting a chunk of Denmark.
Admittedly, they were both in the German confederation. Of course this did not prevent them from going to war against each other a couple of years later.
And here we have the arguebly most important war in danish history, if nothing else The Second Schleswig War, has shaped modern danish culture and history more then arguebly any other war. I know for the Germans this is a little side thing in their story of unifying, but this for us danes was crushing, scary, and changed how we saw/see ourselves, we lost some of our most populated areas, and some of the most economical important parts of the country, this war was so all destroying for us that it is hard to describe the general dispair that danes felt, as a dane reading letters from danes after the war, both the danes that ended up in germany and the remaning danes in denmark is sad, and you can just feel how shocking and hard it was for them and the country, this is Denmarks national trauma.
id argue that the 2 karl gustav wars are more important as the country lost 40% of its population and about 25-30% of its territory to sweden, had those wars had different outcomes denmark likely would have remained a medium power even if it lost norway.
For Denmark, (Schleswig War) it was the fight for their lives, for Germany just another Tuesday For Germany, (World Wars) it was the fight for their lives, for the USA, it's just another thing to fix. For the USA, (American Revolution) it was the fight for their lives, for the UK, a failed attempt to crush a revolution. For England, (Viking Raids) it was the fight for their lives, for Denmark, it's just another attempt to conquer some lands
@@jonasneeto modern day danish culture i would argue that the lose of Skåne was not as drastic to how we see ourselfs, at the point we still had Norway, and while less important then Skåne it was not as bad for the danes pride, also i assume you are ignoring Norway in the ''25-30% of its territory'' part? also in the same war we did get land back from Sweden, both some land that belonged to Norway at one point, and the Danish island of Bornholm.
I was reading a comment on a different video about this. Apparently after the first Schleswig war the Danes were instilled with an extreme national pride to the point of hubris, the first war was only "won" because the danes needed a great powers help to close the baltic but Prussia could do that on it's own so the power were afraid they would take all denmark and prussia had no allies. This meant prussia was forced to back down and the danes forgot about the help internationally so when they violated the treaty they were high on pride and told germany to shove it but then reality crashed on them like a brick and they got hammered
The historical precedent from both Schleswig wars was a large part of the reason why Denmark put up very little resistance to the Nazis in WWII - would've just gotten steamrolled over like Prussia did to Denmark before.
Realistically Denmark couldn't defend itself more against Prussia than say Belize would be able to resist the US. On second thought Belize would probably do better, at least for a short while. Denmark is almost flat as a pancake with almost no forest.
@@ebinshumate3132 but our king didn't flee. He still rode through the streets of Copenhagen every day giving a stable impression to the people during the German occupation
I don't understand. Were Austria and Prussia mad that the Danish Constitution included Schleswig, or that it didn't also include Holstein and Lauenburg?
@@EmperorTigerstar The true answer is both. The problem was the dividing of Schleswig and Holstein. The treaty you are referring guarantied that Schleswig and Holstein should forever be ruled together and Lauenburg was not a part of this treaty its only turned into a Danish possession after the Napoleonic wars
It was mostly just an excuse. But Denmark had a democracy at the time, and it was public knowledge the ruling party of Denmark wanted to use this constitution as a step towards annexing Slesvig which would violate the previous treaty, while updating the law did not.
Anyway the result of this is that Southern Slesvig in Schleswig-Holstein has the oldest law still in effect. The Law of Jutland. Because the Danish constitution was meant to update this Viking Age law. So the law no longer has effect in Danish Slesvig, but it does in German Schleswig, it was the lasting result of the war of 1864... Old Danish Viking Law being in effect in Germany..
Another interesting thing is that Denmark’s king did this fully knowing it would provoke the German Confederation, which is precisely why; unlike the first war: the United Kingdom refused to intervene because, from their point of view, Denmark’s king had brought the war upon themselves by knowingly violating the treaty
So the question is, knowing it would anger a Prussia and Austria and irritate England, why did the King of Denmark still do this constitution? What was the goal?
@@tommy-er6hhit wasn’t. The idea was to compromise by having the constitution only impact 1/2 of the consted land. But Prussia and Austria knew they were stronger and UK didn’t have an appetite for war-so they went to war. Had the constitutiona affected both, the new reason for war would be “the king is taking all the land and no antonomy for them!!”
The decline of Denmark, I will forever argue, is one of the saddest declines in history. With some, it happened so fast. But, Denmark’s was just a slow one with strings of wars that saw defeat after defeat after defeat after more defeats. The loss of territory to Sweden, losing its entire navy to the British, surrendering Norway to Sweden, having to sell off territory that they couldn’t govern without a navy, and finally, the Second Schleswig War. The last territory that Denmark could claim to somewhat be theirs (only through personal unions of the duchies), stripped away without remorse. Though, getting Northern Schleswig was a very generous gesture to Denmark after centuries of losses.
They also lost Iceland after WW2. Though you also have to consider that they took Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes from Norway in the first place. Still sad, though
@@trentonking764 In terms of the slave trade, Denmark is one of the least guilty, as Denmark-Norway was the first country in Europe to outlaw slavery in the 1790s.
huh, i remember is as one of the main reasons for war was the Danish king wanting for both Schleswig and Holstein to unite with Denmark proper, rather than just Schleswig, but i'm probably just missremembering
You are. The Danes never wanted Holstein. They wanted to split off Schleswig and annex it because it arguably had a Danish majority. A lot of the inhabitants were bilingual and their national identity was murky, as with all border areas.
Dawg I swear my teacher asked a question about this war in this mornings midterms, I ended up giving a random answer and I just saw this video right now fml
@@EmperorTigerstar Yep. Austria and Prussia were ostensibly fighting against German nationalism and to uphold The Congress of Vienna (the rules - based international order we'd say now). That's how Bismarck was able to "capture" Austria for his war.
As a Dane, I need to say this. Your map is inaccurate, the borders of Holstein in your videos are the readjusted borders applied to the Holstein incorporated into the German Empire. Holstein split the Oldenburg enclave in half. That's it, I'm not one of those nationalistic idiots.
@@Fnidner Jeg laver konstant kort når jeg keder mig. Og for at få de bedste resultater leder jeg efter gode kilde-kort. Jeg har tegnet alle Danmarks grænse-ændringer fra 1780-1940, og kortet over Dansk Holstein er rimelig anderledes fra Tysk-emperium Holstein. Da vi mistede Holstein til Østrig valgte de at give en smal korridor der splittede Oldenburg enclaverne I to, til Oldenburg.
I'm curious why you mentioned Lauenberg in the opening text but didn't designate it on the map. To my knowledge, it's basically the southeastern portion of Holstein on the map, is that correct? The area that is coloured as Prussian at the end of the video.
The part that was actually Danish, but yes. Funny enough Denmark didn’t want to take even that, the French and British wanted them to take all the land down to the Kiel canal, but Denmark refused because they KNEW that taking ANY of that land would fuel German Revanchism towards them, but France and Britain were INSISTENT that Denmark take land, and so they compromised with Denmark taking the very northern part of Schleswig that was actually ethnically Danish
@@ebinshumate3132the current border between Denmark and Germany is a result of votes (plebiscite) an has be stable since I'm 14 blud and even I know this
It took the combined forces of all the german confederation, prussia, and the austrian empire to defeat the danes. Truly harrowing to think what europe would've looked like if this alliance didn't exist to stop them!
@@danishcommander4dk Schleswig-Holstein ist immernoch ungeteilt. Die Doppeleichen stehen! Aber Spaß beiseite, altem Nationalismus sollte man nicht nachhängen. Die dänischen Nachbarn sind mir sehr sympathisch.
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Be sure to also see the video on the First Schleswig War that I uploaded earlier this week in case you missed it!
what if i dont want to, please let me go please
what does "Purhcased" mean?
spelling error of "purchased"@@wyattburke1837
Did my reply get automatically removed? All I did was mention it being the war of all time
@@wyattburke1837, it means Prussia effectively annexed Lauenberg.
Its so weird. For the past few days, Ive been thinking about the two Schleswig wars and reading up on it and then you upload both of them.
Q: *"How often do you think about the Roman Empire?"*
A: *"Not nearly as often as I think about the Schleswig wars."*
I no, because in some cases, when i think or Research about something, it appears somethi g about that
Yeah same!
yeah, me too.
That happens to me a lot
It is interesting seeing Austria and Prussia fighting together in a war (not really standard for that time) and then Austria getting a chunk of Denmark.
Admittedly, they were both in the German confederation. Of course this did not prevent them from going to war against each other a couple of years later.
@@OstravanP I wish.
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I don't think Austria particularly wanted "a chunk of Denmark" but it was hard to know what to do at the end of the war.
@@Firmus777 love your profile pic
@@Fnidner thanks
And here we have the arguebly most important war in danish history, if nothing else The Second Schleswig War, has shaped modern danish culture and history more then arguebly any other war.
I know for the Germans this is a little side thing in their story of unifying, but this for us danes was crushing, scary, and changed how we saw/see ourselves, we lost some of our most populated areas, and some of the most economical important parts of the country, this war was so all destroying for us that it is hard to describe the general dispair that danes felt, as a dane reading letters from danes after the war, both the danes that ended up in germany and the remaning danes in denmark is sad, and you can just feel how shocking and hard it was for them and the country, this is Denmarks national trauma.
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it's interesting how the same event appears minor to some participants and huge for others
id argue that the 2 karl gustav wars are more important as the country lost 40% of its population and about 25-30% of its territory to sweden, had those wars had different outcomes denmark likely would have remained a medium power even if it lost norway.
For Denmark, (Schleswig War) it was the fight for their lives, for Germany just another Tuesday
For Germany, (World Wars) it was the fight for their lives, for the USA, it's just another thing to fix.
For the USA, (American Revolution) it was the fight for their lives, for the UK, a failed attempt to crush a revolution.
For England, (Viking Raids) it was the fight for their lives, for Denmark, it's just another attempt to conquer some lands
@@jonasneeto modern day danish culture i would argue that the lose of Skåne was not as drastic to how we see ourselfs, at the point we still had Norway, and while less important then Skåne it was not as bad for the danes pride, also i assume you are ignoring Norway in the ''25-30% of its territory'' part? also in the same war we did get land back from Sweden, both some land that belonged to Norway at one point, and the Danish island of Bornholm.
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I was reading a comment on a different video about this. Apparently after the first Schleswig war the Danes were instilled with an extreme national pride to the point of hubris, the first war was only "won" because the danes needed a great powers help to close the baltic but Prussia could do that on it's own so the power were afraid they would take all denmark and prussia had no allies. This meant prussia was forced to back down and the danes forgot about the help internationally so when they violated the treaty they were high on pride and told germany to shove it but then reality crashed on them like a brick and they got hammered
Thanks for making it!
Saw just a tiny typo:
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" Purhcased by Prussia "
Take care
Friendly reminder that meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean: the Battle of Petersburg is going on
Not until 1:02 or so. The Overland Campaign (and the Battle of the Wilderness) starts at 0:57. The Atlanta Campaign starts at 0:58.
The sequel everyone was waiting for
A very interesting war that isn't spoken of much in much of the world.
It’s scary how fast Prussia marches north
The historical precedent from both Schleswig wars was a large part of the reason why Denmark put up very little resistance to the Nazis in WWII - would've just gotten steamrolled over like Prussia did to Denmark before.
Realistically Denmark couldn't defend itself more against Prussia than say Belize would be able to resist the US.
On second thought Belize would probably do better, at least for a short while. Denmark is almost flat as a pancake with almost no forest.
@@francisdec1615 Are you from America cause I can literally feel your ignorance
@@danishcommander4dk Jag är från Sverige. I STORT SETT har Danmark inga skogar.
@@francisdec1615 We might not have that much forest as Sweden has but overall we still got some bigger forests
You can see why when germany went for round 3 they surrendered after 6 hours.
Another reason is that the German’s had paradropped troops into Copenhagen and were assaulting the very palace of the King itself
@@ebinshumate3132 but our king didn't flee. He still rode through the streets of Copenhagen every day giving a stable impression to the people during the German occupation
I love the 1864 series.
I don't understand. Were Austria and Prussia mad that the Danish Constitution included Schleswig, or that it didn't also include Holstein and Lauenburg?
The second one. It violated the previous treaty that made them all one realm.
@@EmperorTigerstar The true answer is both. The problem was the dividing of Schleswig and Holstein. The treaty you are referring guarantied that Schleswig and Holstein should forever be ruled together and Lauenburg was not a part of this treaty its only turned into a Danish possession after the Napoleonic wars
It was mostly just an excuse. But Denmark had a democracy at the time, and it was public knowledge the ruling party of Denmark wanted to use this constitution as a step towards annexing Slesvig which would violate the previous treaty, while updating the law did not.
Anyway the result of this is that Southern Slesvig in Schleswig-Holstein has the oldest law still in effect. The Law of Jutland. Because the Danish constitution was meant to update this Viking Age law. So the law no longer has effect in Danish Slesvig, but it does in German Schleswig, it was the lasting result of the war of 1864... Old Danish Viking Law being in effect in Germany..
Another interesting thing is that Denmark’s king did this fully knowing it would provoke the German Confederation, which is precisely why; unlike the first war: the United Kingdom refused to intervene because, from their point of view, Denmark’s king had brought the war upon themselves by knowingly violating the treaty
So the question is, knowing it would anger a Prussia and Austria and irritate England, why did the King of Denmark still do this constitution? What was the goal?
Least biased prussiaboo
@@tommy-er6hhit wasn’t. The idea was to compromise by having the constitution only impact 1/2 of the consted land. But Prussia and Austria knew they were stronger and UK didn’t have an appetite for war-so they went to war. Had the constitutiona affected both, the new reason for war would be “the king is taking all the land and no antonomy for them!!”
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@@tommy-er6hhgood question
22 minutes and 1000 views, my friend, I hope you become a bigger channel than I thought in the future.
The decline of Denmark, I will forever argue, is one of the saddest declines in history. With some, it happened so fast. But, Denmark’s was just a slow one with strings of wars that saw defeat after defeat after defeat after more defeats. The loss of territory to Sweden, losing its entire navy to the British, surrendering Norway to Sweden, having to sell off territory that they couldn’t govern without a navy, and finally, the Second Schleswig War. The last territory that Denmark could claim to somewhat be theirs (only through personal unions of the duchies), stripped away without remorse. Though, getting Northern Schleswig was a very generous gesture to Denmark after centuries of losses.
the jutes are yet to be liberated
They also lost Iceland after WW2. Though you also have to consider that they took Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes from Norway in the first place. Still sad, though
Let's not talk about the greenlandic children case also the eugenics they did all the way until the 1960s even the witch trials also the slave trade
@@trentonking764 In terms of the slave trade, Denmark is one of the least guilty, as Denmark-Norway was the first country in Europe to outlaw slavery in the 1790s.
@@MyUsersDark The first in Europe, yes. However, Vermont as a brief Republic abolished slavery, too.
huh, i remember is as one of the main reasons for war was the Danish king wanting for both Schleswig and Holstein to unite with Denmark proper, rather than just Schleswig, but i'm probably just missremembering
You are.
The Danes never wanted Holstein.
They wanted to split off Schleswig and annex it because it arguably had a Danish majority.
A lot of the inhabitants were bilingual and their national identity was murky, as with all border areas.
Dawg I swear my teacher asked a question about this war in this mornings midterms, I ended up giving a random answer and I just saw this video right now fml
Why does Hanover and Saxony fight separately in this war?
They acted within the wishes of the German Confederation while Austria and Prussia went beyond that against their wishes.
@@EmperorTigerstar
Yep.
Austria and Prussia were ostensibly fighting against German nationalism and to uphold The Congress of Vienna (the rules - based international order we'd say now).
That's how Bismarck was able to "capture" Austria for his war.
As a Dane, I need to say this. Your map is inaccurate, the borders of Holstein in your videos are the readjusted borders applied to the Holstein incorporated into the German Empire. Holstein split the Oldenburg enclave in half. That's it, I'm not one of those nationalistic idiots.
being nationalist isn't bad. pointing out inaccuracies isn't bad either
Imponerende. Hvordan vidste du det?
@@Fnidner Jeg laver konstant kort når jeg keder mig. Og for at få de bedste resultater leder jeg efter gode kilde-kort. Jeg har tegnet alle Danmarks grænse-ændringer fra 1780-1940, og kortet over Dansk Holstein er rimelig anderledes fra Tysk-emperium Holstein. Da vi mistede Holstein til Østrig valgte de at give en smal korridor der splittede Oldenburg enclaverne I to, til Oldenburg.
This was very sad time for the Kingdom of Denmark
Fun fact. After WWII we could have got most of the lost land back under Danish flag. But the Danish goverment refuse to take it back from the Germans.
This is the war that brought one of my folks to America
I'm curious why you mentioned Lauenberg in the opening text but didn't designate it on the map.
To my knowledge, it's basically the southeastern portion of Holstein on the map, is that correct? The area that is coloured as Prussian at the end of the video.
Yep
Poor Lauenberg gets very little love.
Mistake:18 July* 1864 not June
Are you going to make a new change in the map about the new island?
Why there are stripes?
This is really impressive, how do you know the exact troop movements by the day?
real question, how do you make these videos? ive always wanted to make these kind of videos
plz do Mexican Independence War: Every Other Day or Every Week
Did the Prussians really enter Aarhus? as far as i recall they didn't go that far.
Germany should absolutely hand back that one area that votes for a local Danish party to Denmark.
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Pls make a Tutorial
Whats the game name
Nice
I though there was only 1 part
Luckily they got part of their land back after WW1.
The part that was actually Danish, but yes. Funny enough Denmark didn’t want to take even that, the French and British wanted them to take all the land down to the Kiel canal, but Denmark refused because they KNEW that taking ANY of that land would fuel German Revanchism towards them, but France and Britain were INSISTENT that Denmark take land, and so they compromised with Denmark taking the very northern part of Schleswig that was actually ethnically Danish
then when ww2 swung around north schelswig was the only post ww1 border that wasn’t reverted back to germany
History Matters has a video about it.
@@ebinshumate3132the current border between Denmark and Germany is a result of votes (plebiscite) an has be stable since I'm 14 blud and even I know this
@@ebinshumate3132also it was based on self - determination of people's as proposed by us president Woodrow Wilson
at least the land denmark got back in that trashbag treaty was ethnically danish, saved them until 41 anyway.
It took the combined forces of all the german confederation, prussia, and the austrian empire to defeat the danes.
Truly harrowing to think what europe would've looked like if this alliance didn't exist to stop them!
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I hate how Denmark is still allowed to be a country
Why’s that?
Found the Swede
@@snickers5056 makes sense yeah
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Oh they've been buddies since 1815, or 1848 at latest.
Go cry about it, German
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Landgrab.
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Danmark til Ejderen 💙
Up ewig ungedeelt!
@@Megingiard Das war einmal! Danmark til Ejderen!
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@@danishcommander4dk Schleswig-Holstein ist immernoch ungeteilt. Die Doppeleichen stehen! Aber Spaß beiseite, altem Nationalismus sollte man nicht nachhängen. Die dänischen Nachbarn sind mir sehr sympathisch.