Same. Dedicated, (although there is some inaccurate stuff about the medieval warfare) better research than most others, and I really like his ability to quickly switch from subjective to objective views
Sieges often make for the most memorable battles, especially in videogames. Everyone loves holding fortifications or assaulting them and sending thousands of troops to their probably certain death to try to break through or hold tough defenses!
My grandfather helped lift the siege during the Berlin Airlift... Russian aggression broken across the knee of American air superiority! Sadly my grandpa did not survive, he gave his life to see it done, as did several others. But their lives were not lost in vain. the siege fell. :) Berlin was saved.
@@zurielsssthere were numerous transport crashes. The circumstances were difficult to say the least. Lots of short takeoffs and landings in the *very* cramped confines of a modern city.
A very interesting and intriguing type of Warfare!!! Siege of Syracuse, where Marcus Claudius Marcellus took the City and most of Sicily, The Siege of Numantia and Carthage took by Scipio Aemilianus, Siege of Cyzicus by Lucullus, Siege of Belgrade where John Hunyadi successfully defended the City! Just a few of my favorite and beloved Sieges!! 🛡️🗡️
Fortifications shouldn't be seen as purely defensive. They are military bases that can be used to attack throughout their area of operation. Troops might then retreat to safety in the fortress. That's one thing that makes a siege worth doing.
From ancient times until the coming of the Geneva conventions siege warfare had a whispered at rule that if the defenders surrendered without a fight they and their city or fortification would be spared. However if there was a refusal that led to a hard assault the attackers would be unofficially allowed to raise the blood red flag of no quarter and subsequently subject the defenders to massacre and other atrocities. 'The ram has touched the wall'. This 'rule' was infamously the M.O of the Mongols and then Mexican general Santa Anna followed it ruthlessly as well in the age of the musket.
My entire former unit was captured at Mariupol and all but 2 are still in captivity but i have talked to those two and they said they surrendered because they were out of food and water and a breakout was extremely unlikely to achieve anything worth dying for let alone succeeding they did not surrender cause of the bombs they would have kept fighting if they had enough medical supplies water and food and ammo but ran out of all of that great video just thought id share the slightest critic i have
The best historical siege defense I've heard about was in China where the defending force heavily outnumbered left the gate open and just one man to greet the invading army and invite them to enter. The invaders were so freaked out they decided that the defenders must have been far stronger than they'd thought and decided to leave the city alone... 😅
no Siege of Constantinople? the Ottoman capture of Constantinople not only ended the last gasps of the Roman Empire, it closed the Silk road to the West, and incentivized the "discovery" of the New World. I'd argue it had far more impact than the Siege of Vienna.
Nobody talking about almost all, in video captions, misspell "Siege" only the more recent examples are spelled correctly. Fun fact: It's exactly this mistake that shows up if you Google "To misspell"
There was tunnels that would sneak in things from the surrounding area. Even at times these small spaces were dugout and provisioned with all kinds of things for the city or castle usually.
I don't mean to sound rude and I doubt anybody from the team will see this. But have you thought about trying attending speaking classes? You have really sharp S sounds (I have no idea what they're called in English xd) and while it's ok when watching your videos on just my phone or with some better speakers with EQ, where I can dull it, it is really uncomfortable to listen to using my earphones. Again, I don't want this to sound rude or anything of that nature, you are an incredible story teller and the videos are amazing both informatively and on the entertainment side!
It was the Jin Chinese that taught the Mongols siege warfare after their conquest. Their knowledge would be refined further after the defeat of Song Dynasty China.
The Masada ramp was built with bull dozers in the 1970s I heard... they then put pig bones on there, claiming that it was the suicidal Jewish people's bones until they were dobbed in by a whistle blower.
👋SIMON!! SIMON!! SIMON!!👋 I've just heard about the 1940 Katyn Massacre. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do your thing with this. I NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH!! And you're SIMON 'THE TRUTH' WHISTLER 😇😆😁 And of course, Thank-you for all youre amazing content, I love all your channels and you're my 1st stop when I need to know things! 😊
How come Julius Caesar's double siege of Alesia and Mehmed II's siege of Constantinople are not mentioned? Both spurred innovative tactics and both changed the course of history. Caesar walled the Gaul armies up inside the town. Then he walled his own army inside a second wall to defend against the expected arrival of Celtic reinforcements. And in 1453 the fall of Constantinople allowed the Ottomans to incur further into Europe and to remain there ffor almost 600 years. To me those are both watershed sieges.
I'm surprised the siege of Alesia, arguably the most famous siege in ancient history and Julius Caesar's crowning military achievement, didn't get a mention.
The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi Afganistan 2001, was a siege of a 19th century fort that was used to house pow enemy jihadists. There was an uprising inside the fort and it took a week for the Americans to take back the fort. Theere were coalition air strikes on the fort and the walls were still standing. Don't underestimate a fort even in today's age.
Great video, as always! But one thing makes me wander... Living in the Czech Republic, how could you butcher the name of 'Przemyśl' so badly? 😅 All You had to do was to ask any person on the street outside of your building for prenouciation 😅🤣🤣😎
please do a video on these (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels) units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches) the tank doctrine of countries evaluation of tank veiw ports evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2 ww1 estern front tactics Russian Civil war tactics and strategies navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works) evaluation of types of ships or evaluation of navil warfare air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries) ancient persan ships, ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser) tactics used so far in the Ukraine war, better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3, and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks, ancient urban warfare ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war) tactics in the ruso jap war cold war navil tactics, Korean war tactics, strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil war how were 17th centry sailing ships build types of bombs lunched by drones comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say) why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations) why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this
There are so many great sieges throughout history, from Megiddo right up to Sarajevo during the Balkan wars in the 1990's, but interesting isn't it that the first recorded siege was Megiddo in 1457 BC, Megiddo of course being the site of the Biblical Armageddon, and with what's currently going on in the Middle East makes you wonder?? 🤔
Haha citizels love this video but citizel 3 times makes me laugh because of the rule of 3 in comedy. Citizel of the city of citizelotry citizeliation 😂 got to love siege warfair reminds me of age of empires 2 what a game. Also jerusalem was besieged afew times. Thank you Simon. Have a wonderful week. All the best ❤
A small correction for who writing this script. The myth that stairs are built for right hand weapon user is fall. When the enemy already rushing the stairs, the battle already lost.
Very interesting history, but how do we talk about sieges with no mention of Carthage or the Mongol siege of Babylon? The latter should get it's own video too.
13:21 Dang, Brain Boy; That is some brutal, sinister sh*t right there...lol Using their birds to burn down their own homes...That's f'n medieval (pun wholly, fully, and unapologetically intended).
Has warographics done or considered doing a video on the war of 1812 from the Canadian point. I ask because Canadian forces are the only forces to invade the USA and not lose. The Canadian forces were turned around by the British giving up and ordering them home. I'm fairly certain that it's the only account of another nation attacking the US and not having their butts absolutely handed to them.
They held off the offending army long enough for a counter force to be assembled and paved the way to winning the war, the city fell before the guard did.
Heya Simon I absolutely LOVE all the channels from biographies to geographics but there is actually no actual evidence for stairways being built in a way for people to have weapons in their dominant hands. 💜
Not gonna lie, was hoping to see Mariupol on this list. It is THE most recent Siege of a major city. Edit: I stand corrected, i got to Serajevo and he said “Lastly” so I thought that was it
This man’s work ethic is something else big fan of yours Simon
Same. Dedicated, (although there is some inaccurate stuff about the medieval warfare) better research than most others, and I really like his ability to quickly switch from subjective to objective views
Why else do you think all of his hair fell out!?
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Beyond stupid regarding ukraine and russia though. Bro has claimed Russia is about to collapse every week for 2 years
You really gotta hate a whole group of people to stay that mad for that many days
1:00 - Chapter 1 - The method
9:35 - Chapter 2 - The history
22:20 - Chapter 3 - The present day
Sieges often make for the most memorable battles, especially in videogames. Everyone loves holding fortifications or assaulting them and sending thousands of troops to their probably certain death to try to break through or hold tough defenses!
One siege I am really interested in is Stalingrad. I know it is mostly warfare in a city, but it also is quite a study of Siege Warfare.
I think there is/was sth about Stalingrad in the Whistler Cinematic Universe.
But I watch some other history stuff too, so not sure.
If you like podcasts and don't mind a little bit of politics Lions led by Donkeys just did a multipart coverage of stalingrad.
Simon should have talked about the siege of Leningrad which was lasted two years
@rudynorvelle2870 - ruclips.net/p/PLNSNgGzaledi9jQeOzCUtBP2pxYdCYiXX
@@theawesomeman9821he did talk about Leningrad did you not watch the video?
My grandfather helped lift the siege during the Berlin Airlift... Russian aggression broken across the knee of American air superiority! Sadly my grandpa did not survive, he gave his life to see it done, as did several others.
But their lives were not lost in vain. the siege fell. :) Berlin was saved.
How did it happened? The Soviet’s attacked supply aircrafts?
@zurielsss i believe a number of aircraft crashed. Not due to Russians but just difficult conditions.
Bro these scams are crazy 😂😂😂
@@zurielsssthere were numerous transport crashes. The circumstances were difficult to say the least. Lots of short takeoffs and landings in the *very* cramped confines of a modern city.
@@zurielsssthe Soviets didn't dare attack the supply aircraft for fear of escalation. But many transports crashed.
Can we appreciate the fact simon yet released a banger on the art of siege
oi u like sum bangers n mash chap?
How does a video about siege tactics get censored? Just silly. Great job as always. I really enjoy your videos.
More medieval and antiquity please!
The classics never die. Sieges, artillery, human wave tactics... These are still the keys to victory, even today, in modern times.
A very interesting and intriguing type of Warfare!!! Siege of Syracuse, where Marcus Claudius Marcellus took the City and most of Sicily, The Siege of Numantia and Carthage took by Scipio Aemilianus, Siege of Cyzicus by Lucullus, Siege of Belgrade where John Hunyadi successfully defended the City! Just a few of my favorite and beloved Sieges!! 🛡️🗡️
I was waiting for a mention of Alesia really :P Quite the important siege of history that didnt get mentioned
@@AstralSeer I know right!!! 😅
Lot's of missed opportunities for the video, but still pretty good!
Fortifications shouldn't be seen as purely defensive. They are military bases that can be used to attack throughout their area of operation. Troops might then retreat to safety in the fortress. That's one thing that makes a siege worth doing.
Great video as always Simon. Palatable to all education levels!
From ancient times until the coming of the Geneva conventions siege warfare had a whispered at rule that if the defenders surrendered without a fight they and their city or fortification would be spared. However if there was a refusal that led to a hard assault the attackers would be unofficially allowed to raise the blood red flag of no quarter and subsequently subject the defenders to massacre and other atrocities. 'The ram has touched the wall'. This 'rule' was infamously the M.O of the Mongols and then Mexican general Santa Anna followed it ruthlessly as well in the age of the musket.
2 minutes from release, getting closer to the start
Always love Simon's legendary videos.
I love to wake up and see you guys have uploaded yet another banger of a video !
Finally the perfect video to listen too while painting Iron Warriors
About time back to good stuff
My entire former unit was captured at Mariupol and all but 2 are still in captivity but i have talked to those two and they said they surrendered because they were out of food and water and a breakout was extremely unlikely to achieve anything worth dying for let alone succeeding they did not surrender cause of the bombs they would have kept fighting if they had enough medical supplies water and food and ammo but ran out of all of that great video just thought id share the slightest critic i have
Learnt a lot from this video, and now have a hankering for licorice allsorts thanks to your lighting. Thanks Simon 😁
this series is so good
The best historical siege defense I've heard about was in China where the defending force heavily outnumbered left the gate open and just one man to greet the invading army and invite them to enter. The invaders were so freaked out they decided that the defenders must have been far stronger than they'd thought and decided to leave the city alone... 😅
A nicely knitted narrative....
Well done, say that three times quickly.
Wait too long and then the Winged Hussars arrive!!
COMMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE...
@@DokDo1995Coming down they turned the tide, as the days are passing by and as the dead are piling high
A 26 year siege is insane! Kids could be born abd live their whole lives, never having known freedom.
Surprised Dien Bien Phu wasn't mentioned. Sure, it was a fortress rather than a population center and it didn't last particularly long, but still ...
Oil was too expensive for any widespread defense. Generally, sand or water would be used instead.
no Siege of Constantinople? the Ottoman capture of Constantinople not only ended the last gasps of the Roman Empire, it closed the Silk road to the West, and incentivized the "discovery" of the New World. I'd argue it had far more impact than the Siege of Vienna.
Love these videos! Thanks😊😊😊
16:50 And don't you forget it, Brain Boy! 😂
Still waiting for the day Simon looks up a pronunciation of Polish words 😭
You will wait and you will you wait…
Thank you!
winged hussars
made my day
Takes commitment to write ”siege” as ”seige” in all those titles.
Really interesting thanks Factboi
WW1 siege of Kut… Pretty interesting one you hop-skipped right over there
Nobody talking about almost all, in video captions, misspell "Siege" only the more recent examples are spelled correctly. Fun fact: It's exactly this mistake that shows up if you Google "To misspell"
"My lord, the enemy is besieging our settlement, your settlement! My lord, the enemy besieges YOUR settlement!"
Hey Simon! Have you seen the arising conflict between Venezuela and Guyana? Venezuela is threatening to invade Guyana.
1st! Last time I was this early siege warfare was being used
Wait, it still is
Also the most notable is the Siege of GAZA
That will teach them not to support terrorists😂
There was tunnels that would sneak in things from the surrounding area. Even at times these small spaces were dugout and provisioned with all kinds of things for the city or castle usually.
I don't mean to sound rude and I doubt anybody from the team will see this. But have you thought about trying attending speaking classes? You have really sharp S sounds (I have no idea what they're called in English xd) and while it's ok when watching your videos on just my phone or with some better speakers with EQ, where I can dull it, it is really uncomfortable to listen to using my earphones. Again, I don't want this to sound rude or anything of that nature, you are an incredible story teller and the videos are amazing both informatively and on the entertainment side!
Kindly share more + more + video messages like this!!! Thank you for sharing! All Thank's To God!!!
The Mongols didn't originally have siege weapons. They learned siege warfare from one of their early conquests.
It was the Jin Chinese that taught the Mongols siege warfare after their conquest. Their knowledge would be refined further after the defeat of Song Dynasty China.
The Masada ramp was built with bull dozers in the 1970s I heard... they then put pig bones on there, claiming that it was the suicidal Jewish people's bones until they were dobbed in by a whistle blower.
👋SIMON!! SIMON!! SIMON!!👋
I've just heard about the 1940 Katyn Massacre. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do your thing with this. I NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH!! And you're SIMON 'THE TRUTH' WHISTLER 😇😆😁
And of course, Thank-you for all youre amazing content, I love all your channels and you're my 1st stop when I need to know things! 😊
How come Julius Caesar's double siege of Alesia and Mehmed II's siege of Constantinople are not mentioned? Both spurred innovative tactics and both changed the course of history. Caesar walled the Gaul armies up inside the town. Then he walled his own army inside a second wall to defend against the expected arrival of Celtic reinforcements. And in 1453 the fall of Constantinople allowed the Ottomans to incur further into Europe and to remain there ffor almost 600 years. To me those are both watershed sieges.
I think you should have spent some minutes on the 1453 Siege of Constantinople. It featured the use of gigantic cannon by the Ottomans.
I'm surprised the siege of Alesia, arguably the most famous siege in ancient history and Julius Caesar's crowning military achievement, didn't get a mention.
I would love a video on the world War 2 French resistance especially the ones who got children out and the group that forged documents.
The famous Battle of Helm's Deep...
The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi Afganistan 2001, was a siege of a 19th century fort that was used to house pow enemy jihadists. There was an uprising inside the fort and it took a week for the Americans to take back the fort. Theere were coalition air strikes on the fort and the walls were still standing. Don't underestimate a fort even in today's age.
Please do a Warriors/legendary individuals of War (mixture of biographics/art of war) series.
How did you make a video about sieges without the most insane siege in history, the Siege of Alesia? 2 Walls!
15:05 and then the winged hussars arrived
Great video, as always! But one thing makes me wander... Living in the Czech Republic, how could you butcher the name of 'Przemyśl' so badly? 😅 All You had to do was to ask any person on the street outside of your building for prenouciation 😅🤣🤣😎
please do a video on these
(this is a copy and paste list for a few channels)
units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches)
the tank doctrine of countries
evaluation of tank veiw ports
evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries
logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2
ww1 estern front tactics
Russian Civil war tactics and strategies
navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works)
evaluation of types of ships
or evaluation of navil warfare
air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries)
ancient persan ships,
ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser)
tactics used so far in the Ukraine war,
better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3,
and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal
how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks,
ancient urban warfare
ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war)
tactics in the ruso jap war
cold war navil tactics,
Korean war tactics,
strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil war
how were 17th centry sailing ships build
types of bombs lunched by drones
comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say)
why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations)
why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot
alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this
They used rainbow six sieges name for a war tactic? That’s wild
I'm surprised he didn't mention the siege of Constantinople or the siege of fishing fortress in China
There are so many great sieges throughout history, from Megiddo right up to Sarajevo during the Balkan wars in the 1990's, but interesting isn't it that the first recorded siege was Megiddo in 1457 BC, Megiddo of course being the site of the Biblical Armageddon, and with what's currently going on in the Middle East makes you wonder?? 🤔
In the military we have a saying " hurry up and wait "
Haha citizels love this video but citizel 3 times makes me laugh because of the rule of 3 in comedy.
Citizel of the city of citizelotry citizeliation 😂 got to love siege warfair reminds me of age of empires 2 what a game.
Also jerusalem was besieged afew times.
Thank you Simon.
Have a wonderful week.
All the best ❤
A small correction for who writing this script. The myth that stairs are built for right hand weapon user is fall. When the enemy already rushing the stairs, the battle already lost.
Hasn't the spiral staircase thing where attackers have to use their offhand been debunked?
How did Simon ever get away with showing more graphic stuff on other videos without the age-restriction from RUclips?
War never changes
-Sun-Tzu
Remember,no Russian
-Mahatma Gandi
I thought the first recorded siege was in Jericho as in the walls of Jericho
Very interesting history, but how do we talk about sieges with no mention of Carthage or the Mongol siege of Babylon? The latter should get it's own video too.
Masada.
13:21 Dang, Brain Boy; That is some brutal, sinister sh*t right there...lol
Using their birds to burn down their own homes...That's f'n medieval (pun wholly, fully, and unapologetically intended).
suprised grozny wasnt mentioned
I'm surprised Ceaser wasn't mentioned. Siege of Alesia?
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What about the attack of the deadmen siege?
Didn't Sun Tzu say that siege warfare is the worst choice?
I came here to hear simon say "wohrfehr".
This is a condensed version of an older TIFO video
Has warographics done or considered doing a video on the war of 1812 from the Canadian point. I ask because Canadian forces are the only forces to invade the USA and not lose. The Canadian forces were turned around by the British giving up and ordering them home. I'm fairly certain that it's the only account of another nation attacking the US and not having their butts absolutely handed to them.
The Siege of Changchun during the China civil war was also very tragic, with hundreds of thousand people died of starvation.
They held off the offending army long enough for a counter force to be assembled and paved the way to winning the war, the city fell before the guard did.
Heya Simon I absolutely LOVE all the channels from biographies to geographics but there is actually no actual evidence for stairways being built in a way for people to have weapons in their dominant hands. 💜
Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. G Patton
Guys the audio mix is not there, the t and s are way too distracting. Could be my device but I don't think that's it.. look into it.
Mariupol was a big siege battle so is Avdiivka now
forgot the siege of vraks
nice
What city is that at the six minute mark??
An all around great video, love this art of warfare series!
4:42 though i think this specific fact should be specified that it was a side effect of the architecture, not the cause of why it was built that way
The solution to attacking a tower seems obvious..use left handed troops.
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Fortify…
Too much Simon lately lol 100 channels and I watch them all 😂
Great Video, one question what is the name/where did you find the painting shown at timestamp 14:50?
Not gonna lie, was hoping to see Mariupol on this list.
It is THE most recent Siege of a major city.
Edit: I stand corrected, i got to Serajevo and he said “Lastly” so I thought that was it
10:21 Isn’t it pronounced “CAY-nan”?
I'm disappointed and sad that the Romans Siege against the Jewish rebel-held Fort of Masada wasnt included
Was that the siege where the Romans built a GIANT earthen siege ramp that's still visible today?
Then the winged hussars arrived.
Then the winged hussars arrived
Dig many ditches to disrupt the sieging forces