Very nice stuff, Tigerstar. You have truly improved since the last time you covered this war. Quick question: Would you ever be open to the possibility of making mapping videos according to the lore of Kaiserreich (before 1936, obviously)? I just think it would be really cool to see those conflicts play out in your style. Anyways, have a great day, and I'll see you in the New Year.
@@Elpapu_darth777 What? That would never happen, the only thing crazier than that would be if, I do not know, the reason for this conflict being a Serbian guy who shot an Austro-Hungarian dude? 😂
“Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the “dog tag” in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier bearing his name, regiment, and place of residence.” ― Geoffrey Wawro,
@@cloudyfromtpotreal no it’s double quotation marks mark out the name not sag they didn’t invent it and to make clear it was a specific thing they were talking about not just tags worn by dogs
I love how much more detailed your work has become over the years, and it's really cool to me that the Paris Commune was mentioned since that had really broad ranging political implications at the time. Great stuff, and great video!
I love that you can see the Italian conquest of the Papal States during the chaos! This war both ended the German Wars of Unification and Italian Wars of Unification.
Yeah France was famously one of the biggest supporter/protectors of Papal independence, so when they suddenly get defeated and their emperor surrounded and deposed, the Papacy lost their greatest protector.
@@nmpolo A lot of places that Italy and Germany have laid claim to in the past, do not really want to "unify" with them, even if they are Italian or German people living there, especially if it means fighting a big bloody war over them. Most of them are fine living in the country they are in. Now with the EU, where they can easily move if they so wished, the fact that most don't and still live there shows they are pretty fine with their lives there.
Probably with the French Invasion of Mexico, since well, this main front is after the Civil War (1865)? No, I only know basic stuff about that, since I'm not American
@@Seft2_ there were still french troops in mexico after their defeat in the intervention. so they stood there and could do nothing as prussia defeated france at home
France invaded my country before the war whit Prussia, but if france had no entered the war it would probably have invade us again. So thanks Germany ❤️
I understand it would complicate things especially on a map at such a large scale, but there were also other (quickly crushed) Communes throughout the country in March and April, especially in cities with large industries. Among others, those include Le Creusot, Saint-Etienne, Narbonne, Toulouse, and the one in Marseille even holds for twelve days. Of course, none of them have had a cultural impact similar to the Paris Commune.
I couldn’t find much information on all of them and the ones I could find were ones that either never got to the level of seizing a city like Besancon or were crushed in one day so they wouldn’t show up anyway, like in Lyons.
by standard of a single-day occupation by leftist collective, there was also a St Louis Commune in 1877. But recording that on a day-by-day map would look quite boring
@@EmperorTigerstar Can you do me a favor, can you please remove the "(v.2)" part in the video’s title please since it’s the latest version of this war video as of right now please?
Yayyy you remastered it! Wasn't this war like the first map video you did in your current style? Also I'd love to see you do more 20th and 21st century wars :)
this makes sense, yeah. pretty sure they just took it to make france salty, i don’t believe it was of much economical importance or anything, except for having Straßbourg i believe, but i could be wrong
Otto von Bismarck was truly an incredible leader in terms of his impact on the course of Europe at the turn of the 19th century. If Kaiser Wilhelm II had actually followed Bismarck’s lead and his foreign policy of realpolitik, WWI could have been avoided, because Bismarck had no intention of provoking the British, unlike Wilhelm II, who expanded Germany’s navy to rival Britain’s navy in the 1890s.
Right? Nobody could have foreseen that it would become most powerful economy in Europe. Even the "Made in Germany" label backfired :( Welp, time to somehow find a way to colonize them. It'll take decades, maybe even half a century but we're gonna try!
Great video as always! I do have a lot of criticism for your Napoleon the Third video, but not gonna lie your maps are always well-made and informative
Respect to those Frenchmen who held the forts. Their country was in turmoil and revolution, their loved ones were likely living under German occupation, and they probably had little access to reliable outside information, but they were given the task of holding their position and they held long after almost all others had given up.
When I recall correctly I think the Germans simply went around them in order not to waste time and efforts and simply tried to make them surrender over time by making them exhaust themselves.
Alsace was actually always Germans Kingdom of Germany controlled it Holy Roman Empire controlled it and German Empire controlled it so it is German land
If you're going to include the Paris commune, you need to include the others. They were also really important back then, played an important role overall, even if they each had a different level of success and weren't as seen from the outside for not being Paris. Some lived longer than Paris, for example.
Do you think you could do a map video on the Rampjaar 1672? It's one of the most important events in Dutch history, but overlooked in non-Dutch circles
Fun fact: In Germany this war its not named 'The Franco-Prussian war', but is 'The Franco-German war'. Makes sense considering that all the german states that are part of Germany (nowadays) participated in the war. Happy christmas!
Robert W. Chambers' "The King in Yellow" collection includes a story ("The Street of the First Shell") set in Paris during this war. It's a very unusual setting for any story, but there's at least one for you.
Technically the Soviet Union, arguably, in 1923, when Germany and Austria lost WW1. Turkey won a war of independence in 2023 too against the Ottomans and the Greeks and a bunch of others. France in 1945 won as part of the Allied powers, having the Third Republic destroyed in the process. France in the 100 Years War. France won a bunch of wars against several coalitions in the 1790s.
England/the uk during the war of Spanish succession. We started the war as the kingdom of England under king William III of the house of orange (married to the house of stuart) and ended the war as the uk of great britain under king George the first of the house of hannover.
No, it was by far not more than what Germany was forced to pay. Not even close. And keep in mind that France did have her colonies and there has been a long history of France invading German lands before. Also the French marched through Berlin after the end of ww1 AND during Napoleon’s times(the Germans then returned that favor again both times and 3 times total). I also don’t recall millions of French civilians starving to death due to a blockade(even still after the Versailles treaty was signed), or having to give up all colonies, having ALL foreign assets frozen and confiscated, having to give up several majority and historically French territories, having to give up most of their mines and industrial output while at the same time. Ring forced to pay reparations, having to give up control over their own military force, having to face invasions of their industrial heartland when payment didn’t occur right at time(joint French and Belgian invasion of the Rhineland in the 1920s with massacres and rapes happening), or having give up her entire naval and commercial fleet. But all of this and even more happened to Germany right after the end of ww1 as a result of Versailles Treaty. Not to mention that the right of self-determination for German speaking people had been violated continuously post-ww1. All important factors for why the Treaty of Versailles is so controversial and disliked, so many things that you‘ve simply glossed over. What you have said there is a modern myth that is based on old propaganda.
@@Ultima-SignaSome things were unnaceptable, however German invasion of France led to 300.000 French civilians deaths, turned most of North-East France to a no man's land and by the way greatly weakened French industrial capacity. The treaty was poorly made, but strong sanctions had to be taken, in the end Germany kept most of its territories and population and its great industrial capacity, guess what happened later. We can also mention Germans slaughters during the invasion of Belgium, far away from being a poor victim
@@Ultima-Signa The irony of you talking about propaganda while repeating 1930s German propaganda about the soft slap on the wrist that was Versailles. WWI was a bourgeois imperialist conflict but Germany started the war. Everything you are listing was their damn fault. Imagine if the terms had actually been harsh and the Nazis prevented from power, as after 1945. That would have been a downright utopian world to live in compared to what happened.
Thank you for the video, but one detail confuses me, how come the text says that Bavaria and other states joined the North German Confederation in 1870, but they are colored blue throughout the video?
@@EmperorTigerstar, I'm still a bit surprised that the Southern German states joined the North German Confederation at all. Or that it was briefly renamed to the German Confederation. That's kind of funny.
Not much different as Germany taking Alsace-Lorraine was more of an excuse for the saltiness. The true saltiness came from having lost at all, and the majority German parts of Alsace and parts of Lorraine not being under the control of the french state anymore was a reminder of that.
@@Ultima-Signa And the majority French parts of Lorraine, such as Metz? The Alsatian-speaking regions themselves sent protest delegations to the Reichstag for decades after, it's clear that the annexation was a major factor. Bismarck said so himself.
Not really correct, as the French indemnities started a financial bubble in Germany, caused a financial crisis and almost crashed the whole German economy 💀
France Prussia Napoleon: France wins in 2 weeks France Germany 1870: German victory France Germany 1914: France wins France Nazi Germany: Nazi Germany wins in 6 weeks They win and lose in turn
Its crazy to see a war which lasted a short period of time, kick start alot of impoetant stuff in the last century. The German Empire would be formed, the Bonapartes would never rule France again and neither will there be another French Empire, the French would be salty for losing and this would be the one of the reasons for France humiliating Germany in the Treaty of Versailles after WW1 (right after France contributes most to the Entente during WW1) and getting back Alsace-Lorraine. Treaty of Versailles will cause the German people to be enraged, and one of those people would be the funny mustache man. And then... Well you know what happens next. (Treaty of Versailles was one of the factors which contributed in the Nazis getting power)
It‘s also ironic that this whole story was kicked off/started by French arrogance (1870) and then it all ended with German arrogance (1945). But your comment really doesn’t make much sense. Why start at 1870? Could also go further back in time and look into what started the war of 1870/71 in the first place and then there’s no end to that for some while.
Versailles wasn't the main factor in the rise of the Nazis, that has more to do with the Great Depression, bourgeois anticommunism, and seeds planted by German militarism in the prior decades, as well as most importantly the nature of European colonial violence, which inevitably turned inwards.
You can make a video about the ergentinian civil war of 1828-1831 or second argentinian civil war between unitarians and federalists in the interior? (In spanish wikipedia tye name is "segunda guerra entre unitarios y federales en el interior"
Imagine if the conflict escalated, and WW1 started right there and then. I don't know a lot about the other countries, but in 1870, my country (The Kingdom of the Netherlands) was scared shitless and thought the Prussians would eventually come for them. (Our government backed the French cause). What followed was a disastrous attempt at mobilising the armed forces, and by the time somewhat of a skeleton of a mobile field-army was arranged, the war was essentially over. :')
Have you thought what the life of, let's say, for the sake of argument, a woman (bc they live longer and are not active participants in wars) who had been a small girl during the Prussian war, she would have been an old woman by WW2 and she would have seen THREE wars between her France and the Germans, including two occupations. Wow... Imagine that.
Accept or not, if WW1 was actually 1v1 between these two countries similar to 1870, this is exactly what would've happened.And to think, in 1870 they were roughly equal in terms of manpower and industrial capacity.
В ином случае во Франции могли бы зародиться ещё большие реваншистские силы, да и не забывай что почти вся северная Франция была оккупированной до тех пор пока Франция не выплатит репарации. Тот же Бисмарк настаивал на том что бы не трогать даже Эльзас, что бы не пробудить французскую нацию на реванш как это в своё время сделал Наполеон, что собственно и привело к итогам Франко Прусской. Думаю напоминать к чему привёл уже французский реванш не стоит, а теперь представь если бы немцы отжали ещё больше территорий (в которых кстати процент немцев был бы ещё меньше) вплоть до условного Седана, ты представляешь себе условия Версаля в этой временной шкале?
Imagine if this peace treaty had been as harsh as versailles. France would'e had to give all land east of the Rhone to Italy, created a free city of Marseilles, let go if Gascony to turn ut into a basque ethnostate, and all of France east of the Seine would've been occupied until 1877. They wouldn't have been allowed an air force, a navy, or more that 50k soldiers. No anti-tank guns, no tanks, and if they didn't pay their reparations in time, a joint German-British force, mostly made up of very rapey colonial askari soldiers occupied the Bourgogne. And suddenly, for no reason at all, the French people vote a guy named Adolphe Itleur into power
The french were treated with honour. Compare that to how germans were treated after 1918. Dear french people, history should only serve as a reminder to why this must not happen again. The Alsace should be ours, then peace forever. In Love Your german neighbour.
"Treated with honour" Mass executions of non-combatants and soldiers who already surrendered, towns and villages were burned for no reason, stealing food and housing, thousands were beaten and raped, attacking civilians with artillery and almost completely destroyed industry. Alsace has been a part of France since 1680 which is longer then Gdansk was German for
@@vihanuyyuru6 Your fake stories you can tell to other people. Our borders will be the same as those in 1914. Any attempt to resist will lead to another episode of french surrender and marching through Paris.
Bro Can u do history of algeria 🇩🇿 We have great history first Algerian state was founded in 300 bc (massyli) and then numidia 202bc and there's many other like : zirids, rustamid, fatimid ،deylik of algiers, kingdom of atlava, emirate of abdl-kader, kingdom of aures , kingdom of tlemcen etc ..
One of the Reasons France was angry at Prussia (and Russia) was the American Civil War since it was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War just years prior as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire. London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London and France was to intervene. Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it. There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.
@@guard6069 The Russian fleet also threatened to Shell Australian ports along with other British Pacific Colonies if Britain aided the Confederates. A confederate war ship spent a lot of time in Australian waters and was supported by the Australian public, some even signing on as crew members. This Confederate war ship laid waist to the US Pacific whaling fleet and is reported to have fired the last shot in the war. The name of the ship was called the CSS Shenandoah. Russia also helped Thailand (Kingdom of Siam) maintain its sovereignty from being completely Partitioned/Annexed from the British and French around the same time. The very word Thai (ไทย) means 'free man' in the Thai language which is partially to thank to the Russians as they might have ended up being a colony or part of another country/colony if not for their intervention.
@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou For a little more Context: The British (City of London) are the ones who created our divide in the first place to put brother against brother. After the war Lincoln wanted to rebuild the South and had plans to do so. He and half his Cabinet were assassinated by London. Many of the others that survived had multiple assassination attempts on them especially William Seward who had around a dozen or so, a few almost killing him. Most of the Confederate Operations for the Civil War and post war plans and assassinations were made in London and then sent to Montreal a hub for spies and intel in the Americas for the British Empire then passed through to Confederate President Jefferson Davis to follow the orders. Many of the South's own leaders were selling out the South to British interest even General Lee. Unfortunately London had many of their Tentacles and Webs on both sides. Lincoln stated that the Department Of State is completely controlled by British Interest that he had to constantly fight against. It was in the 1870s that a Paradigm Shift happened were the British took control within the Reunited States through subversion (which was easier to do now as their agents were brought back into the Union and many of their opponents assassinated) and have had it all the way up to this day. Some presidents fought against it like Garfield, McKinley, Harding, Roosevelt, and Kennedy and all were killed.
@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou kremlin pour billions into making up all this so expect even more wild stuff. Basically they are trying to turn every humanities faculty here into z propaganda machine
While the kingdom of Italy wouldn't have been much help. I'm always surprised they didn't help Prussia again during this war. The aims of Italy would be to get back Nice and Savoy back from the French.
@@KaiserFranzJosefINever heard of it. Also wouldn’t make much sense as Prussia and Italy were very close at the time, as Prussia had helped Italy a lot during its unification and independence war + Italy despised Austria-Hungary. Not to forget that Italy seized the Papacy of which France was a protector + Italy couldn’t even have done much to stall Prussian efforts anyways. Sounds like a myth.
@@Ultima-Signa You never hearing of it ain't my problem buddy. Prussia and Italy were never close, Prussia hadn't lifted a finger to aid Italian unification while only agreeing to an alliance with Italy against Austria to gain French promises of neutrality. Otherwise, the Italian Government was deeply Francophilic. There is ample evidence that discussions for the creation of an anti-Prussian coalition was underway in 1868 before falling apart primarily over Hungarian veto and the Roman Question. At no point did Italy consider siding against France. From the Last Days of Papal Rome: "The alliance, proposed two years before 1870, between France, Italy, and Austria, was never concluded because Napoleon III [...] would never consent to the occupation of Rome by Italy. [...] He wished Austria to avenge Sadowa, either by taking part in a military action, or by preventing South Germany from making common cause with Prussia. [...] If he could insure, through Austrian aid, the neutrality of the South German States in a war against Prussia, he considered himself sure of defeating the Prussian army, and thus would remain arbiter of the European situation. But when the war suddenly broke out, before anything was concluded, the first unexpected French defeats overthrew all previsions, and raised difficulties for Austria and Italy which prevented them from making common cause with France. Wörth and Sedan followed each other too closely. The Roman question was the stone tied to Napoleon's feet - that dragged him into the abyss. He never forgot, even in August 1870, a month before Sedan, that he was a sovereign of a Catholic country, that he had been made Emperor, and was supported by the votes of the conservatives and the influence of the clergy; and that it was his supreme duty not to abandon the Pontiff. [...] For twenty years Napoleon III had been the true sovereign of Rome, where he had many friends and relations [...] Without him the temporal power would never have been reconstituted, nor, being reconstituted, would have endured.[22]"
@@KaiserFranzJosefI Do you also have an unbiased source that couldn’t be brushed off as late-stage propaganda in order to irritate enemies? I mean in your quite it even says that Napoleon III actually would have been the true ruler of Papal Rome. I wonder why Italy attacked him then when Italy actually wanted to align with him against Prussia. Btw: the ´deeply francophile Italy‘ invaded France in 39 and annexed French territory… who do you think did Italy from a geopolitical point of view disliked more mad wished to see weakened: Prussia or Austria? There can have been discussions for everything - that’s politics. Especially when you do have 2 very strong neighbors that you fear because they used to invade your country quite a lot. Doesn’t mean high-profile gentlemen were the ones leading such discussions or that there would have been any real possibility. Could have just been Italian bargaining and politicking yet again and the way events played out that’s also very likely what it has been. And that’s also something that Italy is famous for.
It’s been a great 2023. Here’s this year’s final video. Enjoy!
See you in the New Year.
When comes the north america timeline? You must work hard for it!
Love your videos!💚
Very nice stuff, Tigerstar. You have truly improved since the last time you covered this war. Quick question: Would you ever be open to the possibility of making mapping videos according to the lore of Kaiserreich (before 1936, obviously)? I just think it would be really cool to see those conflicts play out in your style. Anyways, have a great day, and I'll see you in the New Year.
Bro, that's look a regular Hoi4 player making speedrun to Paris. 😂
Iamgine if this makes France salty against Germany and potentially contributes to one of the largest conflicts in history
Bro it would never happen
@@davimoneylender4112 Imagine if Germany atack From Belgum and the United Kingdom joins in France Side,LOL
Bro don't worry france got a sick _defensive line_ this time.
And plus, They say the Ardennes is impassible 😉
@@Elpapu_darth777 What? That would never happen, the only thing crazier than that would be if, I do not know, the reason for this conflict being a Serbian guy who shot an Austro-Hungarian dude? 😂
imagine after that war another war started a few years later, because of borders 😂 😂 😂 @@Daniboy0826
Fun fact : the indemnity payments were paid very fast. The prussians thought it would take a decade to repay, not 2 years.
Because Germans were in Justice....With an actual logic , not like France and his unbridled payments that Germany must pay for WW1.
It's easier when you have an empire and can milk the colonies and natives for taxes.
Well, the french had their colonies (since centuries, even in Europe) 🙃 makes it a lot easier to pay fast and regain full sovereignty
The Germans with the Versailles reparations vs France with the indemnity
@@gaborangecloud Doesn’t make in the slightest sense to compare the two.
“Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the “dog tag” in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier bearing his name, regiment, and place of residence.”
― Geoffrey Wawro,
They didn’t the history of identification tags goes back the the Romans
@@asnekboi7232they invented today's type of dog tags
@@bong_destroyer_420 That's like saying "USA invented clothes, oh today clothes of course close enough"
@@asnekboi7232technically the words "dog tag" are out of the quotes, so the text doesn't say they invented it
@@cloudyfromtpotreal no it’s double quotation marks mark out the name not sag they didn’t invent it and to make clear it was a specific thing they were talking about not just tags worn by dogs
I love how much more detailed your work has become over the years, and it's really cool to me that the Paris Commune was mentioned since that had really broad ranging political implications at the time. Great stuff, and great video!
I love that you can see the Italian conquest of the Papal States during the chaos! This war both ended the German Wars of Unification and Italian Wars of Unification.
Yeah France was famously one of the biggest supporter/protectors of Papal independence, so when they suddenly get defeated and their emperor surrounded and deposed, the Papacy lost their greatest protector.
The details, very nice
And both Germany and Italy are not completely united until today.
@Panzerschokolade9 So much for self determination.
@@nmpolo A lot of places that Italy and Germany have laid claim to in the past, do not really want to "unify" with them, even if they are Italian or German people living there, especially if it means fighting a big bloody war over them. Most of them are fine living in the country they are in. Now with the EU, where they can easily move if they so wished, the fact that most don't and still live there shows they are pretty fine with their lives there.
*Prussia:* * Beats France *
*Mexico:* Thank you very much!
*Prussia:* What?
What does this have to do with Mexico? The mexican intervention ended before the Franco-Prussian conflict
Probably with the French Invasion of Mexico, since well, this main front is after the Civil War (1865)?
No, I only know basic stuff about that, since I'm not American
@@ZirconKZX being american would mean you have a higher chance to know even less, as an american who knows less I can confirm this statement.
@@Seft2_ there were still french troops in mexico after their defeat in the intervention. so they stood there and could do nothing as prussia defeated france at home
France invaded my country before the war whit Prussia, but if france had no entered the war it would probably have invade us again.
So thanks Germany ❤️
I understand it would complicate things especially on a map at such a large scale, but there were also other (quickly crushed) Communes throughout the country in March and April, especially in cities with large industries. Among others, those include Le Creusot, Saint-Etienne, Narbonne, Toulouse, and the one in Marseille even holds for twelve days. Of course, none of them have had a cultural impact similar to the Paris Commune.
I couldn’t find much information on all of them and the ones I could find were ones that either never got to the level of seizing a city like Besancon or were crushed in one day so they wouldn’t show up anyway, like in Lyons.
@@EmperorTigerstar 👍
by standard of a single-day occupation by leftist collective, there was also a St Louis Commune in 1877. But recording that on a day-by-day map would look quite boring
@@EmperorTigerstar Can you do me a favor, can you please remove the "(v.2)" part in the video’s title please since it’s the latest version of this war video as of right now please?
@@EmperorTigerstarThanks!
cant believe the final city to surrender was a city called "bitche". France be a savage LMAO
The reason why was:
‘Yo commander, send reinforcements to Bitche’
Yayyy you remastered it! Wasn't this war like the first map video you did in your current style?
Also I'd love to see you do more 20th and 21st century wars :)
I think it was.
It was my first every-day video but my style was a bit different then. No cities, no name labels, usually thinner borders. Smaller sized maps too.
@@EmperorTigerstar So it was kinda sorta your current style, but not as detailed.
I remember the old version of this video. Nice to see it's getting remade.
Fun fact:
Bismarck protested against the annexation of Alsaice-Lorraine because he knew that it would turn France into a permanent enemy
So many of Germany's problems could have been solved just by listening to Bismarck.
this makes sense, yeah. pretty sure they just took it to make france salty, i don’t believe it was of much economical importance or anything, except for having Straßbourg i believe, but i could be wrong
@@thatsleepybirb somehow alcase was actually important to germany, it massively increased their textile industry which was of huge help
@TheDarkCeratosaurus where's waldo?
@andrzej8144 WTF?!?!
Otto von Bismarck was truly an incredible leader in terms of his impact on the course of Europe at the turn of the 19th century. If Kaiser Wilhelm II had actually followed Bismarck’s lead and his foreign policy of realpolitik, WWI could have been avoided, because Bismarck had no intention of provoking the British, unlike Wilhelm II, who expanded Germany’s navy to rival Britain’s navy in the 1890s.
What a great way to end a year off watching a war that definitely won’t lead to a more brutal one.
"It's newborn country, what could possibly go wrong?"
Right?
Nobody could have foreseen that it would become most powerful economy in Europe. Even the "Made in Germany" label backfired :(
Welp, time to somehow find a way to colonize them. It'll take decades, maybe even half a century but we're gonna try!
Great video as always! I do have a lot of criticism for your Napoleon the Third video, but not gonna lie your maps are always well-made and informative
Respect to those Frenchmen who held the forts. Their country was in turmoil and revolution, their loved ones were likely living under German occupation, and they probably had little access to reliable outside information, but they were given the task of holding their position and they held long after almost all others had given up.
When I recall correctly I think the Germans simply went around them in order not to waste time and efforts and simply tried to make them surrender over time by making them exhaust themselves.
Alsace was actually always Germans Kingdom of Germany controlled it Holy Roman Empire controlled it and German Empire controlled it so it is German land
Rare footage of Germany attacking France through the border instead of going through Belgium
I like this improvement of your first video
East Francia really be bullying West Francia 😂
True
Napoleon I : Noting We Can Do
Napoleon III : Same Nothing We Can Do
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One of the best miniseries documentaries I’ve ever watched is here on RUclips about this conflict
If you're going to include the Paris commune, you need to include the others. They were also really important back then, played an important role overall, even if they each had a different level of success and weren't as seen from the outside for not being Paris. Some lived longer than Paris, for example.
Do you think you could do a map video on the Rampjaar 1672? It's one of the most important events in Dutch history, but overlooked in non-Dutch circles
nice video as always
Happy new year emperor!
can you do Portuguese colonial war or the fall of the Portuguese empire
I second this
Fun fact: In Germany this war its not named 'The Franco-Prussian war', but is 'The Franco-German war'. Makes sense considering that all the german states that
are part of Germany (nowadays) participated in the war.
Happy christmas!
In Germany, it's actually, to be precise, the other way around: "Germano-French war".
Deutsch-Französischer Krieg.
It was needed, thank you
Rare footage of Germany ignoring Belgium
This invasion was the reason the germans had to go through belgium
luv ur vids keep up
Robert W. Chambers' "The King in Yellow" collection includes a story ("The Street of the First Shell") set in Paris during this war. It's a very unusual setting for any story, but there's at least one for you.
Wars like this around the turn of the century played a large part in the formation of the French surrender joke
Started here, ended when they got kicked out of indochina (Algeria maybe)
Has there ever been an example of a country at war completely changing governments and still winning 😅
maybe the partitioning of the ottoman empire ?
Technically the Soviet Union, arguably, in 1923, when Germany and Austria lost WW1. Turkey won a war of independence in 2023 too against the Ottomans and the Greeks and a bunch of others. France in 1945 won as part of the Allied powers, having the Third Republic destroyed in the process. France in the 100 Years War. France won a bunch of wars against several coalitions in the 1790s.
England/the uk during the war of Spanish succession. We started the war as the kingdom of England under king William III of the house of orange (married to the house of stuart) and ended the war as the uk of great britain under king George the first of the house of hannover.
@@robertjarman3703You making absolutely zero sense.
@@robertjarman3703 This has to be a troll right?
I love how the final french fortress to surrender happened to be named "bitche" 💀
Nietzsche was a medical orderly in a cavalry regiment.
dayum good channel. very informative
1:46 wild city name
Shut up
The reperation payments France had to pay was more than Germany after WW1. Also, the Germans marched through the Triumph de Arc in Paris.
Shouldn't have built the Arc after Austerlitz if they didn't want an army to walk through it
No, it was by far not more than what Germany was forced to pay. Not even close. And keep in mind that France did have her colonies and there has been a long history of France invading German lands before. Also the French marched through Berlin after the end of ww1 AND during Napoleon’s times(the Germans then returned that favor again both times and 3 times total). I also don’t recall millions of French civilians starving to death due to a blockade(even still after the Versailles treaty was signed), or having to give up all colonies, having ALL foreign assets frozen and confiscated, having to give up several majority and historically French territories, having to give up most of their mines and industrial output while at the same time. Ring forced to pay reparations, having to give up control over their own military force, having to face invasions of their industrial heartland when payment didn’t occur right at time(joint French and Belgian invasion of the Rhineland in the 1920s with massacres and rapes happening), or having give up her entire naval and commercial fleet. But all of this and even more happened to Germany right after the end of ww1 as a result of Versailles Treaty. Not to mention that the right of self-determination for German speaking people had been violated continuously post-ww1. All important factors for why the Treaty of Versailles is so controversial and disliked, so many things that you‘ve simply glossed over. What you have said there is a modern myth that is based on old propaganda.
No Germany had to pay a lot more, the numbers aren’t even close
@@Ultima-SignaSome things were unnaceptable, however German invasion of France led to 300.000 French civilians deaths, turned most of North-East France to a no man's land and by the way greatly weakened French industrial capacity. The treaty was poorly made, but strong sanctions had to be taken, in the end Germany kept most of its territories and population and its great industrial capacity, guess what happened later.
We can also mention Germans slaughters during the invasion of Belgium, far away from being a poor victim
@@Ultima-Signa The irony of you talking about propaganda while repeating 1930s German propaganda about the soft slap on the wrist that was Versailles. WWI was a bourgeois imperialist conflict but Germany started the war. Everything you are listing was their damn fault.
Imagine if the terms had actually been harsh and the Nazis prevented from power, as after 1945. That would have been a downright utopian world to live in compared to what happened.
Thank you for the video, but one detail confuses me, how come the text says that Bavaria and other states joined the North German Confederation in 1870, but they are colored blue throughout the video?
Because they were all in an alliance against France and at war with them.
@@EmperorTigerstar, I'm still a bit surprised that the Southern German states joined the North German Confederation at all. Or that it was briefly renamed to the German Confederation. That's kind of funny.
I wonder how things would've gone if Germany hadn't taken Alsace-Lorraine?
Not much different as Germany taking Alsace-Lorraine was more of an excuse for the saltiness. The true saltiness came from having lost at all, and the majority German parts of Alsace and parts of Lorraine not being under the control of the french state anymore was a reminder of that.
@@Ultima-Signa And the majority French parts of Lorraine, such as Metz? The Alsatian-speaking regions themselves sent protest delegations to the Reichstag for decades after, it's clear that the annexation was a major factor. Bismarck said so himself.
France would had more territory during WW1.
It makes the history of San Marino, the oldest country in the world.
Please do a redo of the Spanish civil war next! Greta video!
3 renames during this war.
Also the french indemnities really helped german industrialisation kick off.
Not really correct, as the French indemnities started a financial bubble in Germany, caused a financial crisis and almost crashed the whole German economy 💀
@@Ultima-Signa if that is true, my school textbook was wrong.
@@Ultima-Signatruly suffering from success
@@Krasipolyou Look Up the 1873 Depression
France Prussia Napoleon: France wins in 2 weeks
France Germany 1870: German victory
France Germany 1914: France wins
France Nazi Germany: Nazi Germany wins in 6 weeks
They win and lose in turn
Damn imagine your capital being taken just a couple of months after your country goes to war
Why do you write "Kön" and "Munich"?
Either Cologne and Munich or Köln and München, no?
It is important to note that communard revolts occurred in multiple cities (though lasting shorter times), some before the second Paris commune
Can you please make a video on the mokrani revolt in algeria in 1871?
Prussia: Alright, we defeated France. So Now what?
Germany: Now... It's time to leave.
Prussia: WHAT!?!
We need a vid about Egyptian mongol wars
Hello! Is there a way to somehow download your maps? They are so detailed. Thanks!
Are you going to cover the new unrecognised state in Myanmar?
usually france is always blue on maps
Attacker is red.
And that’s incorrect as France usually has been the attacker/aggressor throughout history, thus France should be red more often than not.
Its crazy to see a war which lasted a short period of time, kick start alot of impoetant stuff in the last century. The German Empire would be formed, the Bonapartes would never rule France again and neither will there be another French Empire, the French would be salty for losing and this would be the one of the reasons for France humiliating Germany in the Treaty of Versailles after WW1 (right after France contributes most to the Entente during WW1) and getting back Alsace-Lorraine.
Treaty of Versailles will cause the German people to be enraged, and one of those people would be the funny mustache man. And then... Well you know what happens next.
(Treaty of Versailles was one of the factors which contributed in the Nazis getting power)
It‘s also ironic that this whole story was kicked off/started by French arrogance (1870) and then it all ended with German arrogance (1945). But your comment really doesn’t make much sense. Why start at 1870? Could also go further back in time and look into what started the war of 1870/71 in the first place and then there’s no end to that for some while.
Versailles wasn't the main factor in the rise of the Nazis, that has more to do with the Great Depression, bourgeois anticommunism, and seeds planted by German militarism in the prior decades, as well as most importantly the nature of European colonial violence, which inevitably turned inwards.
@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou true, but when I wrote that I meant it as it was one of the factors which led to the Nazis taking power.
Are there any good movies about this event?
Communards (federals) were active in other French cities as well,in fact, several other communes were established.
You can make a video about the ergentinian civil war of 1828-1831 or second argentinian civil war between unitarians and federalists in the interior? (In spanish wikipedia tye name is "segunda guerra entre unitarios y federales en el interior"
Well, that was a quick one
i see a treaty in versailles will always make either france or germany salty.
In Germany it‘s not called Franco Prussian war, we call it German Franco war. (Deutsch Französischer Krieg)
That was the last war fought by an old Giuseppe Garibaldi, who managed to defeat the prussians in Dijon.
Where’s that Mr beast vid of the alt hist of the civil war
Awesome
Imagine if the conflict escalated, and WW1 started right there and then.
I don't know a lot about the other countries, but in 1870, my country (The Kingdom of the Netherlands) was scared shitless and thought the Prussians would eventually come for them.
(Our government backed the French cause).
What followed was a disastrous attempt at mobilising the armed forces, and by the time somewhat of a skeleton of a mobile field-army was arranged, the war was essentially over. :')
Why would you even side with France, they were the agressor
Have you thought what the life of, let's say, for the sake of argument, a woman (bc they live longer and are not active participants in wars) who had been a small girl during the Prussian war, she would have been an old woman by WW2 and she would have seen THREE wars between her France and the Germans, including two occupations. Wow... Imagine that.
This woman comes close, although she was born a few years after the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
Europe: it's impossible any longer to be defeated in several months.
France: hold my wine.
Defendons, la cite. Marcher, marcher, sans souverain, les peuples a du pain! - What Paris is like by the end of this.
"Rare Footage Of Germany Not Punching Through Belgium"
Accept or not, if WW1 was actually 1v1 between these two countries similar to 1870, this is exactly what would've happened.And to think, in 1870 they were roughly equal in terms of manpower and industrial capacity.
As a self proclaimed Francophile thanks for reminding me of my least favorite war in history
Lol
"sir, we should enci-"
"yes."
Chassepot vs Dreyse...Chassepot wins but the Prussian soldier is more powerful.
Imagine if the world war 1 treaty of Versailles was reveng for this one
You know shits serious when Germany occupies Paris
Feb 2nd 1871 - Sept 16th 1873
Those of you who will say the war ended in 1871, you are right, but Germany continued to occupy French lands until 1873.
Я удивлен что Германия при такой сокрушительной победе взяла только Эльзас и Лотарингию.
В ином случае во Франции могли бы зародиться ещё большие реваншистские силы, да и не забывай что почти вся северная Франция была оккупированной до тех пор пока Франция не выплатит репарации. Тот же Бисмарк настаивал на том что бы не трогать даже Эльзас, что бы не пробудить французскую нацию на реванш как это в своё время сделал Наполеон, что собственно и привело к итогам Франко Прусской. Думаю напоминать к чему привёл уже французский реванш не стоит, а теперь представь если бы немцы отжали ещё больше территорий (в которых кстати процент немцев был бы ещё меньше) вплоть до условного Седана, ты представляешь себе условия Версаля в этой временной шкале?
@@petrovich_228 Спасибо что объяснили, долго не мог понять почему был именно такой мирный договор.
very important conflict
''There is nothing we can do.''
Not the same Napoleon.
@@jeangrondin921 I know but same name and same situation. It is a joke. It is not serious.
Ofc
@@ObaroPawnsit's not joke, Joke was meant to be funny it's sarcastic
Although it's not same Napoleon
@@jeangrondin921it's still there's nothing we can do
Remakes the history of empires in Persia
Make alternative wars
Imagine if this peace treaty had been as harsh as versailles. France would'e had to give all land east of the Rhone to Italy, created a free city of Marseilles, let go if Gascony to turn ut into a basque ethnostate, and all of France east of the Seine would've been occupied until 1877. They wouldn't have been allowed an air force, a navy, or more that 50k soldiers. No anti-tank guns, no tanks, and if they didn't pay their reparations in time, a joint German-British force, mostly made up of very rapey colonial askari soldiers occupied the Bourgogne. And suddenly, for no reason at all, the French people vote a guy named Adolphe Itleur into power
A war that created an empire and ended an empire
Back at the those times when Germany used to invade France without invading Belgium
blud lost against germany in less than two Months
(I only count until Napoleon III is captured)
The french were treated with honour.
Compare that to how germans were treated after 1918.
Dear french people,
history should only serve as a reminder to why this must not happen again.
The Alsace should be ours, then peace forever.
In Love
Your german neighbour.
Yep and French people to this day claim "1871 was worse then Versailles treaty" LOL like what are the people smoking ?
Message de la France
Non
@@barnabe1922 then you will have to be defeated again.😉
"Treated with honour"
Mass executions of non-combatants and soldiers who already surrendered, towns and villages were burned for no reason,
stealing food and housing, thousands were beaten and raped, attacking civilians with artillery and almost completely destroyed industry.
Alsace has been a part of France since 1680 which is longer then Gdansk was German for
@@vihanuyyuru6
Your fake stories you can tell to other people.
Our borders will be the same as those in 1914.
Any attempt to resist will lead to another episode of french surrender and marching through Paris.
Great!
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Bro Can u do history of algeria 🇩🇿
We have great history first Algerian state was founded in 300 bc (massyli) and then numidia 202bc and there's many other like : zirids, rustamid, fatimid ،deylik of algiers, kingdom of atlava, emirate of abdl-kader, kingdom of aures , kingdom of tlemcen etc ..
One of the Reasons France was angry at Prussia (and Russia) was the American Civil War since it was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War just years prior as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire.
London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London and France was to intervene.
Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it.
There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the
hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.
had to research about this just to confirm you weren't inhaling too much copium.
@@guard6069 The Russian fleet also threatened to Shell Australian ports along with other British Pacific Colonies if Britain aided the Confederates. A confederate war ship spent a lot of time in Australian waters and was supported by the Australian public, some even signing on as crew members. This Confederate war ship laid waist to the US Pacific whaling fleet and is reported to have fired the last shot in the war. The name of the ship was called the CSS Shenandoah.
Russia also helped Thailand (Kingdom of Siam) maintain its sovereignty from being completely Partitioned/Annexed from the British and French around the same time. The very word Thai (ไทย) means 'free man' in the Thai language which is partially to thank to the Russians as they might have ended up being a colony or part of another country/colony if not for their intervention.
Jeez, who told you that load of nonsense? It's just one whopper after another.
@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou For a little more Context: The British (City of London) are the ones who created our divide in the first place to put brother against brother. After the war Lincoln wanted to rebuild the South and had plans to do so. He and half his Cabinet were assassinated by London. Many of the others that survived had multiple assassination attempts on them especially William Seward who had around a dozen or so, a few almost killing him. Most of the Confederate Operations for the Civil War and post war plans and assassinations were made in London and then sent to Montreal a hub for spies and intel in the Americas for the British Empire then passed through to Confederate President Jefferson Davis to follow the orders. Many of the South's own leaders were selling out the South to British interest even General Lee. Unfortunately London had many of their Tentacles and Webs on both sides. Lincoln stated that the Department Of State is completely controlled by British Interest that he had to constantly fight against. It was in the 1870s that a Paradigm Shift happened were the British took control within the Reunited States through subversion (which was easier to do now as their agents were brought back into the Union and many of their opponents assassinated) and have had it all the way up to this day. Some presidents fought against it like Garfield, McKinley, Harding, Roosevelt, and Kennedy and all were killed.
@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou kremlin pour billions into making up all this so expect even more wild stuff. Basically they are trying to turn every humanities faculty here into z propaganda machine
While the kingdom of Italy wouldn't have been much help. I'm always surprised they didn't help Prussia again during this war. The aims of Italy would be to get back Nice and Savoy back from the French.
Italy had in fact considered joining in an anti-Prussian coalition of France, Austria-Hungary and itself earlier in the year.
@@KaiserFranzJosefINever heard of it. Also wouldn’t make much sense as Prussia and Italy were very close at the time, as Prussia had helped Italy a lot during its unification and independence war + Italy despised Austria-Hungary. Not to forget that Italy seized the Papacy of which France was a protector + Italy couldn’t even have done much to stall Prussian efforts anyways. Sounds like a myth.
@@KaiserFranzJosefIAlso there wasn’t even any ´anti-Prussian coalition‘… where do you have that from?
@@Ultima-Signa You never hearing of it ain't my problem buddy. Prussia and Italy were never close, Prussia hadn't lifted a finger to aid Italian unification while only agreeing to an alliance with Italy against Austria to gain French promises of neutrality. Otherwise, the Italian Government was deeply Francophilic. There is ample evidence that discussions for the creation of an anti-Prussian coalition was underway in 1868 before falling apart primarily over Hungarian veto and the Roman Question. At no point did Italy consider siding against France.
From the Last Days of Papal Rome:
"The alliance, proposed two years before 1870, between France, Italy, and Austria, was never concluded because Napoleon III [...] would never consent to the occupation of Rome by Italy. [...] He wished Austria to avenge Sadowa, either by taking part in a military action, or by preventing South Germany from making common cause with Prussia. [...] If he could insure, through Austrian aid, the neutrality of the South German States in a war against Prussia, he considered himself sure of defeating the Prussian army, and thus would remain arbiter of the European situation. But when the war suddenly broke out, before anything was concluded, the first unexpected French defeats overthrew all previsions, and raised difficulties for Austria and Italy which prevented them from making common cause with France. Wörth and Sedan followed each other too closely. The Roman question was the stone tied to Napoleon's feet - that dragged him into the abyss. He never forgot, even in August 1870, a month before Sedan, that he was a sovereign of a Catholic country, that he had been made Emperor, and was supported by the votes of the conservatives and the influence of the clergy; and that it was his supreme duty not to abandon the Pontiff. [...] For twenty years Napoleon III had been the true sovereign of Rome, where he had many friends and relations [...] Without him the temporal power would never have been reconstituted, nor, being reconstituted, would have endured.[22]"
@@KaiserFranzJosefI Do you also have an unbiased source that couldn’t be brushed off as late-stage propaganda in order to irritate enemies? I mean in your quite it even says that Napoleon III actually would have been the true ruler of Papal Rome. I wonder why Italy attacked him then when Italy actually wanted to align with him against Prussia. Btw: the ´deeply francophile Italy‘ invaded France in 39 and annexed French territory… who do you think did Italy from a geopolitical point of view disliked more mad wished to see weakened: Prussia or Austria? There can have been discussions for everything - that’s politics. Especially when you do have 2 very strong neighbors that you fear because they used to invade your country quite a lot. Doesn’t mean high-profile gentlemen were the ones leading such discussions or that there would have been any real possibility. Could have just been Italian bargaining and politicking yet again and the way events played out that’s also very likely what it has been. And that’s also something that Italy is famous for.
We getting WW2 vibes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
We aren't
Bro,Prussia is really coool👊
0:29 STOP STOP HES ALREADY DEAD
Woah I didn't know Germany occupied that much.
Napoleon 3 the grandson of Napoleon💀👍
L France
New changein the map (kind of): Artsakh is gone
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Exactly 1300 views lol