The reason the American Revolution was so much tamer than other revolutions is because it wasnt a revolution it was a secession. The King never lost his throne.
I’m a wedding photographer and I love listening to your videos while I edit photos. My sister is a History major and it gives me a foundation for things to talk about with her.
It's funny how people have exploited reaction videos for money with stupid reactions that add nothing of value, but Chris does something totally on his own with great context, questions and connections. VTH, Mr. Terry and Mr. Beat are so awesome, love listening to you guys while prepping my lesson materials
Different types of reactions, if you watch someone react to your favorite song or movie scene you're looking for emotion, not an education. It's a reason many of those channels have hundreds of thousands of subs, even though their reaction is nothing but facial expressions and short expressions of feelings. I guess it's one of those things people either get or don't get, like ASMR for instance.
I’m sure you’ve gotten many messages but the new lemmino video is ridiculously well made and such a cool way to demonstrate the story. Hope you will do a 2 part reaction in a week or so
@@panzerwafflez7228 yeah seriously especially since most of them were a few months after the fact. But with such a traumatic event happening right in front of you it’s understandable to not remember every little detail
@@ethanblan435 But the issue isn't little details. It's major issues such as whether you were with or saw someone. The biggest contradictions in my opinion being: 1. The bystanders who stared at the buildings back entrance and didn't see anyone leave yet several employees in the depository saying they left through there. 2. The employees who went to the first floor and claimed they didn't speak to anyone vs their coworkers who claimed they were in a minutes-long discussion with them. 3. All the witnesses just getting the floors of the depository mixed up.
@@panzerwafflez7228 yeah good points. I also think it’s weird with the one witness seeing him on the complete other side of the building with a gun in the window
Yeah. Same. I'm from Canada as well. I never heard of the term 'French and Indian War' until much later in my life. I mostly remember learning the 7 years war in school
In the NEAR future? WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE edit to add: frankly though, it's a pipe dream. We've been harassing him for over a year at this point to do it, and he's acknowledged it multiple times - I think it's pretty clear at this point he doesn't want to react to it. Although that's surprising (since Chris loves digging into family history and many of the marshals have interesting backgrounds or are related to the imperial family), I think we gotta accept it.
Thanks for this, not always a fan of “react” content on yt but you’re an exception due to the amount you add to the video with your commentary. Really great stuff
The word commonly translated as "cake" is "brioche," which is a type of bread. Marie Antoinette was basically saying the peasants could eat bread, as there wasn't a shortage of wheat in France at the time
These revolutions are so fascinating. I recently finished a history class called revolutions of the modern world where we discussed the progress of all of these revolutions what made them successful or not. The common theme throughout a successful revolution is the mobilization of the people. The American, French, and Russian revolutions were so successful (and inevitable) because they mobilized the people and inspired them to create the future they desired. In contrast, the Decemberists revolt in Russia is a perfectly amazing example of an unsuccessful revolution where military officers attempted to overthrow the tsar. Even though they had the support of the people, they failed to utilize their strength and the revolution fell apart as a whole while communication and leadership were undermined.
Everyone knows “no taxation without representation” but few realize how important that was to the American Revolution. Because if they just had a voice in Britain like they wanted America probably wouldn’t have revolted. I remember that the exact reason why the Taxing was such an issue was because America had no say in the matter. America didn’t have nearly as much money as the king thought they did and was making them pay out the nose with money they didn’t have. They wanted to have a voice in these discussions. It’s not so much they didn’t want to pay taxes but rather they couldn’t pay the taxes. Of course Britain being stubborn and not listening didn’t help things which just served to make Americans angrier
The custom of watching the couple get in bed together was largely made popular in Europe by the Visigoths. It largely served as a way for both the nobles and the king to ensure the new princess or queen was really a virgin. During the middle ages and the Renaissance, the nobles would actually see the bloody bedsheets before leaving the couple alone for the first night.
The thing with the American revolution and tax was a lot of the colonist saw how London heavily taxed Scotland and Ireland. They feared if they allowed Parliament to start with reasonable taxes it wouldn't stop there.
When it comes to history I appreciate honesty. It's often dishonest when it comes to wars and revolution. I'm glad I found your channel. You're unbiased.
I work from home and honest to God, I learned more in this video than I did in college while still getting paid to do my job. and before I knew it, work was over. you made my day much easier my dude. Thank you!
I always play your videos in the background to educate myself a little but i sometimes had to pause to find another video of yours. So this is the perfect thing to listen to while doing some work, i would appreciat more compilations like this one!
After the American Revolution, the French sent an expedition there to study the judicial system and general way of life in the new nation. A member of that expedition was a young Alexis de Toqueville, who later compiled his observations into a report. This report would later be published under the title "Democracy in America", and is to this day one of the most excellent books ever written about life in the early United States. If you ever find a chance, read it. Its credits and evaluations and criticisms are a great window to this era, made by perhaps the best political analyst of his day. A true masterpiece. He later also wrote an equally great book called "The ancient regime and the revolution" where he examined life in France before and after the revolution.
The visit was in 1831, the book was published in 1835. Just to clarify, as this comment makes it sound like it happened shortly after the revolution as opposed to several decades later.
HUGE props to John Glover & his Marblehead boatmen that saved Washington's bacon in New York & was critical to the success of Trenton/Princeton. Loved how he was portrayed in "The Crossing".
I love to see your growth. History isn't my thing, but because it's necessary to understand how our society operates, I really like to learn about it more, so I'm here from time to time. Gosh, I feel like you announced giveaway for 10k subs like month ago, and now you should count days to 500 000 subscribers. You deserve it and much more, so keep doing what you do.
Nathanael Greene needs props for what he pulled off in the Southern theater after Gates' humiliation. His version of "bend don't break", combined with tactics from Francis Marion & Daniel Morgan helped force Cornwallis out of the Carolinas and on that fateful road to Yorktown.
Fun fact there is a spiced rum you can get that is similar to Captain Morgan called Commander Jones that is an homage to John Paul Jones, it even has the flag the Duch mad for him in the background of the Logo.
Chris in case you haven’t seen/heard LEMMiNO just released a new video on the Kennedy assassination. It’s of course, a stellar video and it’d be awesome to see your reaction to it
I feel like I saw somewhere that it was Rousseau who wrote about an anecdote where 'one Austrian princess' said this when they were talking about the peasants having no bread to eat. And it resurfaced during the revolutionary period and everyone just assumed it was her. Even if she was the same Austrian princess, she was married off at like, 14 or something, so she would have been a child when she said it.
omg a full 3 hrs of you reviweing Oversimplified!? let me grab the popcorn!! also Chris: whenever you get to it bc I know you've got that presentation coming up and probably a few more Napoleon reviews leading up to the movie, but whenever you get to it, do you think you could do a video on El Cid the spanish knight?? you mentioned in a video, that Castilians (and i remember you said Castilians, not Spanish, so I take it you did refer to 10-11th c. Castile) had (and I'm kinda paraphrasing what you said here), "mastered medieval siege" or something around those lines, and I've been very curious as to how that came to be. I know the channel Kings and Generals has a very good 20 min video on El Cid, but you know, I wanted to experience your personal take and taste of knowledge on him and this time period. Keep the content coming!! and good luck at your presentation! (writing this at the 1:22:00 one hr 22 min mark just finished watching the American Revolution portion, loved it!)
cool note about Quebec city fight, Benedic and his troups tried to attack at night on celebration day by going threw the lower city which is only guarded by the civilians, the british troops were INSIDE the higher city of quebec and couldnt help on time but the canadian civilians by themself pushed back the armed forces out all while being drunk for some since it was the night of christmas or new year if I remember well.
Only reactor I can get behind. Constantly pausing adding insight and historical context and corrections. People who just mindlessly watch the content without bringing anything to the table are leeches to the RUclips community. Thanks for being such a Chad.
One of my favorite little Revolutionary War details in Fallout 4 (which takes place In Massachusetts), is that the automated narration in the "Museum of Freedom" has Paul Revere (or whoever it is) say something along the lines of "the King's regulars are coming out". While the Fallout games are no stranger to exaggerating American patriotism well past the point of absurdity (case and point: Liberty Prime), I like the historical details like that
Naming places for revolutionary generals is interesting and regional. In Kansas, where I was raised, many of the state's 105 counties are named for Union generals in the Civil War. Among them, Grant, Meade, Sherman, Thomas, Sumner and Sedgewick.
Another of Hugh Mercer's descendants was the lyricist and singer Johnny Mercer. Whose history touches the events recounted in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'. Because Johnny's grandfather (also named Hugh Mercer) was a Confederate general and built Mercer House in Savannah where most of the events take place. Although the Civil War interrupted construction and no member of the Mercer family ever lived there.
What an amazing video, this channel is one of the best on the platform. The amount of information you provide is fascinating and it's the main reason I watch your videos. Thank you for this informative content :)
My 5th great grandfather fought in the revolutionary war as a migrant from round about Germany. He was captured and forced to swear fealty to the crown. He was hung by the revolutionaries for this but he still named my 4th great grandfather after George Washington
I've have a good friend from England for the past 50 yrs. and last year on one of his visits, we went to New Hope, Pa for a few days. One afternoon, we took a short drive down to Washington Crossing, to see where Washington crossed the Delaware RIver on that historic Christmas Night in 1776. To my amazement, he knew nothing of the event, for as a boy, he was taught nothing about the American Revolution in school, which totally left me gob-smacked! We had such a great afternoon that day reliving Washingtons' amazing intrepid journey on that stormy, snowy night almost 248 yrs.ago. Also.....we were always taught in school that Paul Reveres' famous midnight ride on 4/18/1775 to warn the Minutemen was not "the British are coming" but " the Redcoats are Coming!"
I could be wrong. While George III most likely knew German, I thought I read somewhere that he was the first of his dynasty to learn and speak English.
He was. I didn’t say otherwise. George I spoke only German and George II spoke German as his first language but his grandson George III spoke English has his first language.
VTH leveled up his YT game. How did you know about the 3+ hour compilation genre and the hordes of insomniacs that fall asleep to nothing but!? You're getting savvier. Good on you!
Just wanted to wish you well and thank you for contributing to the videos you react to. I get why content creators resent many reactors, but you really add to the content.
Thank you for presenting history neutral and giving all the facts! It's so common to read about the "Boston massacre" without getting the facts on what really happened and what led to the shooting.
Hi, Chris, I can never have too much Oversimplified, hopefully not long before the new one arrives but this is very acceptable while we wait. I think we have another episode of the English Civil War series to come and the final Christian Denominations episode also. Will these be coming soon?
Yup I think there's one left which personally I felt very disappointed with, as the final battle of Worcester (where I went to uni) and the escape of King Charles II from the city are glossed over as an afterthought. They did mention they should be doing a version with them all edited into one and I'm hoping that would be included in there
There's a great podcast, called Revolutions. He covers Revolutions throughout history, started with the British Revolution. I first came across his podcast when he did the History of Rome. He did a really great job and very very in depth. He covered British, American, French, Haitian, South American, and more. I listened while I was truck driving, when I was driving long hours. That was 8+ years ago, but last I saw, he had done more and more. I don't agree with you politically, but it is great that we can watch and learn history and set aside politics. Your videos are some of my favorites I look forward to watching when new ones show up. Keep up the awesome work. And really, Oversimplified is about the most awesome channel out there.
Absolutely obsessed with your channel Chris, I love how you actually add the the content and I also love your original content. God bless from West Virginia!❤🇺🇸✝️
I was coming to say this, sometimes I'm not always around my phone so having a ear pod in while I'm working with this going and not having to queue a bunch I and just tap and leave it is great
This is incredible. I didnt watch but listened. I was hooked right away, and I'm not even a viewer of either channel until now. I get the easy to understand version and then lots of cool details behind the basic story. Also the Russian lady did the hawk-tua lol
What? They had a bigger population and better natural resources than France and technologically were on the same level militarily - Russia was consiidereed a basket case, just a few elites running an entire country full of peasants, with very basic technology, compared to the Western Europeans.Russia had its internal issues to deal with and they knew this. Then, politically, England and France were parliamentary democracies, The Team needed to provide services in peacetime and would be re-elected, if They started re-mobilising, with the hangover from World War I amongst the populations. Germany was a Military state & The German people have the same hangover, but the Nazis simply forced the situation on them, because They were in total control. The Nazis started re-mobilisiing in 1935, pumping their entire GDP into the military pickups for 4 years, whilst the Brits French, USA annd Russia did hardly anything. *Then there is the mindset of France Elites, who were not focused on a war effort , even up until Germany attacked. "Appeasement Remember"- They were so unprepared, that they didn't think the Ardennes was penetrable. The Nazis were so well-Prepared and had such conviction that they knew the technology could and would penetrate through. *That's the reason why they took France anyway, due to Blitzkrieg - if they had been focused on determined amongst their elites, the Nazis probably would not have taken France in the 1st place athings would have been completely different *Considering the situation, The Nazis should have done much better.Britain had a minuscule Air Force, because|Just like France, they were underprepared and it was miraculous that the Royal Air Force won the battle of Britain considering the numbers disparity.
Highly recommend giving a read to Thomas Fleming's "Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge". It gives excellent insight into the backbiting Washington endured from the Horatio Gates' driven "Conway Cabal" and its Congressional supporters, to von Steuben's lifesaving changes to the Continental Army, and the disastrous return of Charles Lee.
Your comments on the Boston Massacre reminds me of my Historian's Craft class. I'm a History major and love this sort of thing. My professor had us analyze the accounts from both sides of the event as well as the engraving.
Thank all your videos are awesome. Just wanted to say happy almost birthday to you cause I remember you telling us on one video that your birthday is August 5 and it’s almost August 5 so happy almost birthday. I hope you enjoy your birthday when it comes.👍🏻🙂
Little bit disappointing to see that this is just a repost of your videos that I have already seen. But non the less, I love your content and can't wait for more!
fun fact about Cornwallis: He goes to India after this and one of his reflections on the American revolution was that the British subjects were allowed to settle too far from their Homeland so he forbade British soldiers from any inter-mingling with any locals in India. Before this the EIC soldiers were openly wearing Indian clothes and fathering local children. Conwallis forbade mixed race children from the service of EIC and also bankrupted EIC to the end so that he could capture India and compensate for the humiliation he felt in America. He was bad for the company but good for the Empire. You can refer to William Dalrymple's White Mughals and The Anarchy for further reading.
The whole "let them eat cake" quote first appeared 50 years after Marie Antionette was executed, so it's highly unlikely she actually said that or anything related to that, the best guess is that she had a more apathetic attitude toward the plight of the people and was more concerned with her own safety as the large violent mob gathered outside.
What are your thoughts on commenting on historical drama movies and TV and adding greater context to the conflict they are portraying? - something like Band of Brothers, or Enemy at the gates, or Chernobyl, or Waco, etc... There are many channels that rate media based on historical accuracy but it could be interesting to see how each of these events relate to the broader context of the time period and/or conflict they occur in.
Most people seem unaware of the difficulty the colonists had when it came to paying taxes. Official British coins were in very short supply. Colonists got by locally using Spanish, French, and coins of other nations using a locally agreed upon exchange rate. To pay British taxes you would have to ship goods that would then be sold in England. You would also need to send enough to cover shipping costs. You would also need an agent to arrange the sale of the goods and to afterwards pay the taxes and any expenses incurred in the sale including the fee charged by the agent. The amount that goods sold for could vary alot. So you could send off your goods only to find out months later that the goods you sent didn't sell for enough to cover your taxes. Now you must repeat the process, and the entire time you are racking up more expense in the form of charges for not paying your taxes in a timely manner.
I think Washington was not a good tactician on the defensive. He was far better when on offense, but had few chances to show it. He did fall for the same tactic over and over when on defense.
3:24:30 this is what I love about the channel, for all the historical knowledge and accuracy added to this (amazing) series, even a historian can be wrong about something and laugh about it, so good xD Love these reaction videos, as they add so much so more context to an already awesome series, so keep it up, History Guy, and I will keep watching!
Just recently found you channel. Very interesting and good presentation. Really good with this filling in extra information. Love you WW1 series as well.
Speaking of Lafayette, his grave in France was guarded by the German army 24/7 when they took over France during WW2, to attempt to prevent American entry into the war, by desecrating his grave as Lafayette was still considered an American hero at that time.
55:00 but I’m super confused again. I know the explainer is oversimplified by design but it’s also far more than I ever learned in school, and when you said Washington should have been drilling etc I react with everything I’ve been told since moving to Salem. I join Essex Heritage and do tons of history events and tours and hear several versions of a story then read a bunch and end up more confused. I can’t give citations but here is what I’ve gathered: Col (?) Timothy Pickering of Salem did write a training manual for the militia men, and most who could participated. We celebrated the birth of the National Guard that preceded an army. They are running the Public Debate on whether the Navy was born in Marblehead or Beverly again soon. I had tickets for the one cancelled during lockdown. You can imagine Hamilton songs being triggered in pretty much any street. We still talk about the big party we through at Hamilton Hall for the farewell tour of Marquis de Lafayette. Tagney tells a wonderful story about Washington’s farewell tour where he swings through and tens of thousands of people in the street sing a song they write. That book is called “The World Turned Upside Down,” and yes that is why I bought it and start crying by page 4. If you come that is now known by the Noble name “where the Bewitched statue is.” Men were asked to come train weekly and many came every day. Also before Lexington/Concord, Salemites were able to rebuff Gen Alexander Leslie, the first time the British had backed down and quite a morale boost. Reverend Barnard of First Church soothed all the egos and managed to accomplish this without drawing blood. It’s no “shot heard ‘round tie world” but in the last 5 years books have come e out, one I think is about 50 top personalities that changed the course of the war or something, a guy who works at Monticello, included it. I was really shocked. I definitely never would have known about “Leslie’s Retreat” before moving here. It’s an annual re-enactment coming in March. The Ruffians assemble at Ham Hall and the Oatriots at First Church. Now it’s the name of a dog park. It was also a restaurant now called Salem’s Retreat. I’m not sure from what we retreated 🤔 (And Quincy, Mass is kind of pronounced Quinzy, lol) I want to know a lot about Pickering, his name is big here, he held a lot of big jobs, we were clearly big in Bostonian/Cantabridgian politics and he held a lot of jobs appointed by GW. His family runs tours of the home regularly, I saw Peter Hoffer on his book tour about LR. I made an unfortunate joke about “not holding a job” to an apparent descendant and got a big thing about how any time GW needed someone to show up and pinch hit he did. It seemed very much a sore spot and people still gossip about folks caught up in The Salem Crisis, as Emerson “Tad” Baker calls it. I can’t make a faux pas that big and live here 😂 So idk what’s up with Uncle Tim. Definitely part of the tour is an artists depiction of all the local Indigenous people outright cheering for him as the only dude to ever honor an agreement with them, and it’s all just a bit too good to be true but a public tour isn’t quite the time to ask it in their living room. Oh the house is inhabited. I never took a tour with fridge magnets before. They are lovely folks and so I just left it there. It’s a sore spot that after all this, we didn’t manage the 17 miles to Lexington/Concord to show up in time. I’m told we never missed another since Yorktown. I am not from A Family and cannot imagine how lore is received and passed down. 🤷♀️ But my takeaway is definitely draw blood and don’t name your town “Peace” because it’s not as sexy I guess. Let me read a decade and I’ll get back to you. The story will be completely different. 😅
I still can’t imagine why you’d sneak out of France in disguise. There’s no Twitter, there’s no CNN, news travels at a snails pace. You could just say there is a family emergency on the queens side back home.
@@asapmimic1289 That in context of propagation of revolutiannary Ideas and coalition of others monarchies to military stop it, just saying that you can't take a leave of absence for family reason and even though communication were less effective the king and queen could still be identified.
@@magicpaul24 I get that the post master recognized the king by the coin but the argument I’m trying to make is why disguise in the first place? I don’t see why they couldn’t skip town on the lie of a family emergency. The queen is Austrian, so it seems like a pretty valid excuse to me. By the time someone knows the truth they’d be out of the country. Also, it’s so weird how the king just lets a post master stop them. Where are the royal guards?
@@asapmimic1289 Again you are part of the family which who send threats to use force to stop the revolution. At the times, were mostly fear leads reason if you leave the country, that means that you can find ressources and influences to help militaries to exterminate the revolution (so treason). You may have your reasons that are not linked to the Revolution but it's not gonna be well interpreted and as such the revolutionaries will not have allowed it. So you need to disguise yourself. And the royal guards are not always loyal to the king. Some may have revealed the fleeing plan.
I believe what Oversimplified is referring to with the “The king sent an intimidating force” (in the first part of the American revolution) is a quote from one of George Washington’s soldiers (don’t know the name sadly, he is just known as the Amazed American). What he said was “All of London is afloat”
Good video like always, keep up the good work man, I love the way you tell history, and telling stuff i would never have known before you said it, you are loved from here.
Vikings : Tree landing in the woods without anyone around. Did it make a sound? Washington: "He was a terrible tactician." I tend to cut him a bit of slack. He was trying to fight with untrained, under equiped, militia. Once his troops were properly trained the outcome started to go the colonists way.
Lol @1:31:34 😂😂😂😂 ok I been tripping this whole video I watch all my videos on 2x speed and I heard you say Marquita Lafayette and I was like did he just say my name .. I was like no he said Marquis and then I heard it a couple more times and was like ok let me rewind and put it on normal an CC and yep you said my name lol my last name is not Lafayette tho😂😂😂
The reason the American Revolution was so much tamer than other revolutions is because it wasnt a revolution it was a secession. The King never lost his throne.
Tell that to the Kings Men.
Also the fact that the French helped Americans out to win the war, and what did the Americans do after that?
"SURRENDER JOKES" oof.
@@Sparrows1121I mean France did the whole Vichy thing
Yeah, calling it an independence war makes more sense than a revolution.
@@Sparrows1121well if they didn't surrender Twice the second Paris fell we'd cut them more slack. I appreciate the revolution though
I’m a wedding photographer and I love listening to your videos while I edit photos. My sister is a History major and it gives me a foundation for things to talk about with her.
It's funny how people have exploited reaction videos for money with stupid reactions that add nothing of value, but Chris does something totally on his own with great context, questions and connections. VTH, Mr. Terry and Mr. Beat are so awesome, love listening to you guys while prepping my lesson materials
nobody makes money from oversimplified reactions anyways because youtube monetizes it for oversimplified
The money goes to the original content creators anyway so I'm not sure what you mean
"Doesnt do it to exploit" Meanwhile hes over here reposting long form videos from a time when the Napoleonic wars werent posted yet.
No lie I mocked it when I read the title but my butt said nope you're listening to it instead of college football. This is really good stuff
Different types of reactions, if you watch someone react to your favorite song or movie scene you're looking for emotion, not an education.
It's a reason many of those channels have hundreds of thousands of subs, even though their reaction is nothing but facial expressions and short expressions of feelings. I guess it's one of those things people either get or don't get, like ASMR for instance.
A 3 and a half hour video!? This is starting out as a great Friday 😂👍🏼
Today is Monday.
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I’m sure you’ve gotten many messages but the new lemmino video is ridiculously well made and such a cool way to demonstrate the story. Hope you will do a 2 part reaction in a week or so
The #1 lesson I learned from that video is :"Eyewitness testimonies are EXTREMELY unreliable..."
@@panzerwafflez7228 yeah seriously especially since most of them were a few months after the fact. But with such a traumatic event happening right in front of you it’s understandable to not remember every little detail
@@ethanblan435 But the issue isn't little details. It's major issues such as whether you were with or saw someone.
The biggest contradictions in my opinion being:
1. The bystanders who stared at the buildings back entrance and didn't see anyone leave yet several employees in the depository saying they left through there.
2. The employees who went to the first floor and claimed they didn't speak to anyone vs their coworkers who claimed they were in a minutes-long discussion with them.
3. All the witnesses just getting the floors of the depository mixed up.
@@panzerwafflez7228 yeah good points. I also think it’s weird with the one witness seeing him on the complete other side of the building with a gun in the window
Guess I’m watching 3 movies today … Barbie, Oppenheimer, and now this masterpiece that will overshadow the both of them
My granddad was British, he would celebrate the 4th of July with us but he called it good riddance day 😂
Lmao, that's fantastic 😂
LOL, I love that so much. XD
That is that wonderful British wit that I truly appreciate. Now I am smiling. Thank you.
He's quiet salty for MAN THAT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SALT IS 😂
If I'm not mistaken it's only called the French Indian war in the USA, I'm from Canada and it was always taught as the 7 years war here
Yeah. Same. I'm from Canada as well. I never heard of the term 'French and Indian War' until much later in my life. I mostly remember learning the 7 years war in school
@@GabeDAPF yeah exactly. Whenever I heard french and Indian war I thought it was some conflict I never even heard of or studied
Same in Europe...only the US says "french and indian war". It was a minor front.
I’m from the Deep South in America and I remember being taught in school it was the French and Indian war.
@@sammiejopeters8848 yeah...That's in the USA (United States Of America)!
Nice to see all the revolutions in one video. Looking forward to the napoleon's marshals in the future.
In the NEAR future?
WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE
edit to add: frankly though, it's a pipe dream. We've been harassing him for over a year at this point to do it, and he's acknowledged it multiple times - I think it's pretty clear at this point he doesn't want to react to it. Although that's surprising (since Chris loves digging into family history and many of the marshals have interesting backgrounds or are related to the imperial family), I think we gotta accept it.
yea i wish he would a reaction to napoleons marshals itd be nice
Thanks for this, not always a fan of “react” content on yt but you’re an exception due to the amount you add to the video with your commentary. Really great stuff
Wow Chris, my craving for a new oversimplified has been solved with your videos ❤🙏
a long video about Oversimplified? THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY!
I just recently discovered your channel, but I truly appreciate the knowledge and expertise that you add to accompany these videos that you react to.
Yep "Let them eat cake" seems to have its origin in a book by Rousseau, written before Antoinette even arrived to France
The word commonly translated as "cake" is "brioche," which is a type of bread. Marie Antoinette was basically saying the peasants could eat bread, as there wasn't a shortage of wheat in France at the time
These revolutions are so fascinating. I recently finished a history class called revolutions of the modern world where we discussed the progress of all of these revolutions what made them successful or not. The common theme throughout a successful revolution is the mobilization of the people. The American, French, and Russian revolutions were so successful (and inevitable) because they mobilized the people and inspired them to create the future they desired. In contrast, the Decemberists revolt in Russia is a perfectly amazing example of an unsuccessful revolution where military officers attempted to overthrow the tsar. Even though they had the support of the people, they failed to utilize their strength and the revolution fell apart as a whole while communication and leadership were undermined.
Well the Tsar they were intending to overthrow dying unexpectedly didn’t exactly help.
Everyone knows “no taxation without representation” but few realize how important that was to the American Revolution. Because if they just had a voice in Britain like they wanted America probably wouldn’t have revolted. I remember that the exact reason why the Taxing was such an issue was because America had no say in the matter. America didn’t have nearly as much money as the king thought they did and was making them pay out the nose with money they didn’t have. They wanted to have a voice in these discussions. It’s not so much they didn’t want to pay taxes but rather they couldn’t pay the taxes. Of course Britain being stubborn and not listening didn’t help things which just served to make Americans angrier
The custom of watching the couple get in bed together was largely made popular in Europe by the Visigoths. It largely served as a way for both the nobles and the king to ensure the new princess or queen was really a virgin. During the middle ages and the Renaissance, the nobles would actually see the bloody bedsheets before leaving the couple alone for the first night.
The thing with the American revolution and tax was a lot of the colonist saw how London heavily taxed Scotland and Ireland. They feared if they allowed Parliament to start with reasonable taxes it wouldn't stop there.
Given what would happen to the Irish during the 1800s, I think that fear was well warranted.
All taxes and policies must be looked at with a slippery slope.
When it comes to history I appreciate honesty. It's often dishonest when it comes to wars and revolution. I'm glad I found your channel. You're unbiased.
I work from home and honest to God, I learned more in this video than I did in college while still getting paid to do my job. and before I knew it, work was over. you made my day much easier my dude. Thank you!
I always play your videos in the background to educate myself a little but i sometimes had to pause to find another video of yours. So this is the perfect thing to listen to while doing some work, i would appreciat more compilations like this one!
After the American Revolution, the French sent an expedition there to study the judicial system and general way of life in the new nation. A member of that expedition was a young Alexis de Toqueville, who later compiled his observations into a report. This report would later be published under the title "Democracy in America", and is to this day one of the most excellent books ever written about life in the early United States. If you ever find a chance, read it. Its credits and evaluations and criticisms are a great window to this era, made by perhaps the best political analyst of his day. A true masterpiece.
He later also wrote an equally great book called "The ancient regime and the revolution" where he examined life in France before and after the revolution.
The visit was in 1831, the book was published in 1835. Just to clarify, as this comment makes it sound like it happened shortly after the revolution as opposed to several decades later.
- I really like these videos...
- There's a TAX for that.
Hey lemmino posted a great video on the jfk assassination that I think would make a good reaction if you want to do that.
I’d be down to watch a 2-3 part vid over the new LEMMINO 👀👀
HUGE props to John Glover & his Marblehead boatmen that saved Washington's bacon in New York & was critical to the success of Trenton/Princeton. Loved how he was portrayed in "The Crossing".
De-simplify Oversimplified?
Young me would be so proud!
At 1:00:53 The subtle “you are an angel now” when taking at John Paul Jones made me cackle like a witch in public. Not sure why that got me so good
I love to see your growth. History isn't my thing, but because it's necessary to understand how our society operates, I really like to learn about it more, so I'm here from time to time. Gosh, I feel like you announced giveaway for 10k subs like month ago, and now you should count days to 500 000 subscribers. You deserve it and much more, so keep doing what you do.
Some of Devotion was shot in my hometown in GA. The aircraft carrier is our little airport
Nathanael Greene needs props for what he pulled off in the Southern theater after Gates' humiliation. His version of "bend don't break", combined with tactics from Francis Marion & Daniel Morgan helped force Cornwallis out of the Carolinas and on that fateful road to Yorktown.
Fun fact there is a spiced rum you can get that is similar to Captain Morgan called Commander Jones that is an homage to John Paul Jones, it even has the flag the Duch mad for him in the background of the Logo.
Chris in case you haven’t seen/heard LEMMiNO just released a new video on the Kennedy assassination. It’s of course, a stellar video and it’d be awesome to see your reaction to it
Marie Antoinette never said let them eat cake😂 she was the scapegoat for everything
I feel like I saw somewhere that it was Rousseau who wrote about an anecdote where 'one Austrian princess' said this when they were talking about the peasants having no bread to eat. And it resurfaced during the revolutionary period and everyone just assumed it was her. Even if she was the same Austrian princess, she was married off at like, 14 or something, so she would have been a child when she said it.
@@chrisj1319 thank you very much that’s what I read as well! Thank you for being so informative 😃
@@chrisj1319 As I understand it she would have only been 11 at the time it was written check out VTH's 50 Myths trilogy is in there :)
NOT entirely true.
Check this channel for some in-depth Frenchie stuff : "The Rest Is History". Their last video.
Love how you’re uploading old videos as we all patiently wait for a new OverSimplified video 😂
omg a full 3 hrs of you reviweing Oversimplified!? let me grab the popcorn!! also Chris: whenever you get to it bc I know you've got that presentation coming up and probably a few more Napoleon reviews leading up to the movie, but whenever you get to it, do you think you could do a video on El Cid the spanish knight?? you mentioned in a video, that Castilians (and i remember you said Castilians, not Spanish, so I take it you did refer to 10-11th c. Castile) had (and I'm kinda paraphrasing what you said here), "mastered medieval siege" or something around those lines, and I've been very curious as to how that came to be. I know the channel Kings and Generals has a very good 20 min video on El Cid, but you know, I wanted to experience your personal take and taste of knowledge on him and this time period. Keep the content coming!! and good luck at your presentation!
(writing this at the 1:22:00 one hr 22 min mark just finished watching the American Revolution portion, loved it!)
Awesome idea Chris! Really appreciate this. my favorite videos from you are your originals and oversimplified! keep up the good work, god bless.
cool note about Quebec city fight, Benedic and his troups tried to attack at night on celebration day by going threw the lower city which is only guarded by the civilians, the british troops were INSIDE the higher city of quebec and couldnt help on time but the canadian civilians by themself pushed back the armed forces out all while being drunk for some since it was the night of christmas or new year if I remember well.
Your reactions are the best. I wish when I was teen that I had you as a teacher. I had really bad ones but your explanations make so much sense.
LEMMINO came out with a new video!!!
Only reactor I can get behind. Constantly pausing adding insight and historical context and corrections. People who just mindlessly watch the content without bringing anything to the table are leeches to the RUclips community. Thanks for being such a Chad.
One of my favorite little Revolutionary War details in Fallout 4 (which takes place In Massachusetts), is that the automated narration in the "Museum of Freedom" has Paul Revere (or whoever it is) say something along the lines of "the King's regulars are coming out".
While the Fallout games are no stranger to exaggerating American patriotism well past the point of absurdity (case and point: Liberty Prime), I like the historical details like that
New lemmino vid Chris!
Next: The Kennedy Assassination by Lemmino
Naming places for revolutionary generals is interesting and regional. In Kansas, where I was raised, many of the state's 105 counties are named for Union generals in the Civil War. Among them, Grant, Meade, Sherman, Thomas, Sumner and Sedgewick.
I wouldnt mind another breakdown of these videos lol. some of you best content, you are perfect and make those amazing videos ever better!
Another of Hugh Mercer's descendants was the lyricist and singer Johnny Mercer. Whose history touches the events recounted in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'. Because Johnny's grandfather (also named Hugh Mercer) was a Confederate general and built Mercer House in Savannah where most of the events take place. Although the Civil War interrupted construction and no member of the Mercer family ever lived there.
what happened to the tsar's family was tragic.
What an amazing video, this channel is one of the best on the platform. The amount of information you provide is fascinating and it's the main reason I watch your videos. Thank you for this informative content :)
All of these fallout 4 locations give me nostalgia.
My 5th great grandfather fought in the revolutionary war as a migrant from round about Germany. He was captured and forced to swear fealty to the crown. He was hung by the revolutionaries for this but he still named my 4th great grandfather after George Washington
I play your videos, specially Oversimplified reactions while working in background. Great Stuff
A lot of people let me know that there’s a new lemmino video ;)
Rewatching old videos. Crazy to see how quickly you’ve reached 450k subs. Congratulations my favorite channel by far.
I've have a good friend from England for the past 50 yrs. and last year on one of his visits, we went to New Hope, Pa for a few days. One afternoon, we took a short drive down to Washington Crossing, to see where Washington crossed the Delaware RIver on that historic Christmas Night in 1776. To my amazement, he knew nothing of the event, for as a boy, he was taught nothing about the American Revolution in school, which totally left me gob-smacked!
We had such a great afternoon that day reliving Washingtons' amazing intrepid journey on that stormy, snowy night almost 248 yrs.ago.
Also.....we were always taught in school that Paul Reveres' famous midnight ride on 4/18/1775 to warn the Minutemen was not "the British are coming" but " the Redcoats are Coming!"
I could be wrong. While George III most likely knew German, I thought I read somewhere that he was the first of his dynasty to learn and speak English.
He was. I didn’t say otherwise. George I spoke only German and George II spoke German as his first language but his grandson George III spoke English has his first language.
VTH leveled up his YT game. How did you know about the 3+ hour compilation genre and the hordes of insomniacs that fall asleep to nothing but!? You're getting savvier. Good on you!
OH
MY
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A 3.5 HOUR LONG HISTORY VIDEO
count me tf in
Just wanted to wish you well and thank you for contributing to the videos you react to. I get why content creators resent many reactors, but you really add to the content.
Thank you for presenting history neutral and giving all the facts!
It's so common to read about the "Boston massacre" without getting the facts on what really happened and what led to the shooting.
While we await a new Oversimplified video, revisiting old videos you might've not made a video on or didn't make it that well is a fantastic idea.
Hi, Chris, I can never have too much Oversimplified, hopefully not long before the new one arrives but this is very acceptable while we wait.
I think we have another episode of the English Civil War series to come and the final Christian Denominations episode also. Will these be coming soon?
Yup I think there's one left which personally I felt very disappointed with, as the final battle of Worcester (where I went to uni) and the escape of King Charles II from the city are glossed over as an afterthought. They did mention they should be doing a version with them all edited into one and I'm hoping that would be included in there
There's a great podcast, called Revolutions. He covers Revolutions throughout history, started with the British Revolution. I first came across his podcast when he did the History of Rome. He did a really great job and very very in depth. He covered British, American, French, Haitian, South American, and more. I listened while I was truck driving, when I was driving long hours. That was 8+ years ago, but last I saw, he had done more and more.
I don't agree with you politically, but it is great that we can watch and learn history and set aside politics. Your videos are some of my favorites I look forward to watching when new ones show up. Keep up the awesome work. And really, Oversimplified is about the most awesome channel out there.
Absolutely obsessed with your channel Chris, I love how you actually add the the content and I also love your original content. God bless from West Virginia!❤🇺🇸✝️
Love that you compiled these together. Will help get me through work. 😂 ❤
I was coming to say this, sometimes I'm not always around my phone so having a ear pod in while I'm working with this going and not having to queue a bunch I and just tap and leave it is great
This is incredible. I didnt watch but listened. I was hooked right away, and I'm not even a viewer of either channel until now. I get the easy to understand version and then lots of cool details behind the basic story.
Also the Russian lady did the hawk-tua lol
I would love to see you put together a video on how Germany sustained WW2 for so long considering their size vs all the other powers at the time.
What? They had a bigger population and better natural resources than France and technologically were on the same level militarily - Russia was consiidereed a basket case, just a few elites running an entire country full of peasants, with very basic technology, compared to the Western Europeans.Russia had its internal issues to deal with and they knew this.
Then, politically, England and France were parliamentary democracies, The Team needed to provide services in peacetime and would be re-elected, if They started re-mobilising, with the hangover from World War I amongst the populations. Germany was a Military state & The German people have the same hangover, but the Nazis simply forced the situation on them, because They were in total control. The Nazis started re-mobilisiing in 1935, pumping their entire GDP into the military pickups for 4 years, whilst the Brits French, USA annd Russia did hardly anything.
*Then there is the mindset of France Elites, who were not focused on a war effort , even up until Germany attacked. "Appeasement Remember"- They were so unprepared, that they didn't think the Ardennes was penetrable. The Nazis were so well-Prepared and had such conviction that they knew the technology could and would penetrate through.
*That's the reason why they took France anyway, due to Blitzkrieg - if they had been focused on determined amongst their elites, the Nazis probably would not have taken France in the 1st place athings would have been completely different
*Considering the situation, The Nazis should have done much better.Britain had a minuscule Air Force, because|Just like France, they were underprepared and it was miraculous that the Royal Air Force won the battle of Britain considering the numbers disparity.
Will power
Highly recommend giving a read to Thomas Fleming's "Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge". It gives excellent insight into the backbiting Washington endured from the Horatio Gates' driven "Conway Cabal" and its Congressional supporters, to von Steuben's lifesaving changes to the Continental Army, and the disastrous return of Charles Lee.
This is crazy that in half a year, you've gone from 40k to 400k in subs holy crap
Your comments on the Boston Massacre reminds me of my Historian's Craft class. I'm a History major and love this sort of thing. My professor had us analyze the accounts from both sides of the event as well as the engraving.
There was another Dr that wanted to see if the head can hear… he called out his name and Everytime he would open his eyes and look at him.
My dad just took part in the reanactment of the battle of Monmouth! 2nd NJ regiment, Helms Company
bro i fell asleep n i wake up and now im watchin this video one hour deep
Came to the comments to see if I was the only one 😂
This is one of the best videos. The combo of Oversimplied and Vlogging Through History is a gift from God!
Thank all your videos are awesome. Just wanted to say happy almost birthday to you cause I remember you telling us on one video that your birthday is August 5 and it’s almost August 5 so happy almost birthday. I hope you enjoy your birthday when it comes.👍🏻🙂
I recently found out my 7th great grandfather was at the battle of Yorktown. Colonel George Stewart.
Little bit disappointing to see that this is just a repost of your videos that I have already seen. But non the less, I love your content and can't wait for more!
fun fact about Cornwallis: He goes to India after this and one of his reflections on the American revolution was that the British subjects were allowed to settle too far from their Homeland so he forbade British soldiers from any inter-mingling with any locals in India. Before this the EIC soldiers were openly wearing Indian clothes and fathering local children. Conwallis forbade mixed race children from the service of EIC and also bankrupted EIC to the end so that he could capture India and compensate for the humiliation he felt in America. He was bad for the company but good for the Empire.
You can refer to William Dalrymple's White Mughals and The Anarchy for further reading.
Ohhhhh baby! A 3 and a half hour breakdown?! This is awesome! Thanks Chris!
The whole "let them eat cake" quote first appeared 50 years after Marie Antionette was executed, so it's highly unlikely she actually said that or anything related to that, the best guess is that she had a more apathetic attitude toward the plight of the people and was more concerned with her own safety as the large violent mob gathered outside.
What are your thoughts on commenting on historical drama movies and TV and adding greater context to the conflict they are portraying? - something like Band of Brothers, or Enemy at the gates, or Chernobyl, or Waco, etc... There are many channels that rate media based on historical accuracy but it could be interesting to see how each of these events relate to the broader context of the time period and/or conflict they occur in.
Hey would you do a video on lemmino new video on the jfk assassination
Came here to say the same thing. As soon as i finished watching the video it thought it would be perfect for this channel to cover
Also came here for the same reason
3:15 Discover means to take the cover off and show everyone, the Vikings arrived first, but they didn't go back to tell everyone, Columbus did.
The redcoats are coming! Is what Paul Revere yelled
Been watching your channel non stop recently, loving it
Hey Chris! Quick question - are there any videos of your presentations you mentioned?
Most people seem unaware of the difficulty the colonists had when it came to paying taxes. Official British coins were in very short supply. Colonists got by locally using Spanish, French, and coins of other nations using a locally agreed upon exchange rate. To pay British taxes you would have to ship goods that would then be sold in England. You would also need to send enough to cover shipping costs. You would also need an agent to arrange the sale of the goods and to afterwards pay the taxes and any expenses incurred in the sale including the fee charged by the agent. The amount that goods sold for could vary alot. So you could send off your goods only to find out months later that the goods you sent didn't sell for enough to cover your taxes. Now you must repeat the process, and the entire time you are racking up more expense in the form of charges for not paying your taxes in a timely manner.
I think Washington was not a good tactician on the defensive. He was far better when on offense, but had few chances to show it. He did fall for the same tactic over and over when on defense.
3:24:30 this is what I love about the channel, for all the historical knowledge and accuracy added to this (amazing) series, even a historian can be wrong about something and laugh about it, so good xD
Love these reaction videos, as they add so much so more context to an already awesome series, so keep it up, History Guy, and I will keep watching!
Just recently found you channel. Very interesting and good presentation. Really good with this filling in extra information. Love you WW1 series as well.
Speaking of Lafayette, his grave in France was guarded by the German army 24/7 when they took over France during WW2, to attempt to prevent American entry into the war, by desecrating his grave as Lafayette was still considered an American hero at that time.
55:00 but I’m super confused again. I know the explainer is oversimplified by design but it’s also far more than I ever learned in school, and when you said Washington should have been drilling etc I react with everything I’ve been told since moving to Salem.
I join Essex Heritage and do tons of history events and tours and hear several versions of a story then read a bunch and end up more confused. I can’t give citations but here is what I’ve gathered:
Col (?) Timothy Pickering of Salem did write a training manual for the militia men, and most who could participated. We celebrated the birth of the National Guard that preceded an army. They are running the Public Debate on whether the Navy was born in Marblehead or Beverly again soon. I had tickets for the one cancelled during lockdown. You can imagine Hamilton songs being triggered in pretty much any street. We still talk about the big party we through at Hamilton Hall for the farewell tour of Marquis de Lafayette. Tagney tells a wonderful story about Washington’s farewell tour where he swings through and tens of thousands of people in the street sing a song they write. That book is called “The World Turned Upside Down,” and yes that is why I bought it and start crying by page 4. If you come that is now known by the Noble name “where the Bewitched statue is.”
Men were asked to come train weekly and many came every day. Also before Lexington/Concord, Salemites were able to rebuff Gen Alexander Leslie, the first time the British had backed down and quite a morale boost. Reverend Barnard of First Church soothed all the egos and managed to accomplish this without drawing blood.
It’s no “shot heard ‘round tie world” but in the last 5 years books have come e out, one I think is about 50 top personalities that changed the course of the war or something, a guy who works at Monticello, included it. I was really shocked. I definitely never would have known about “Leslie’s Retreat” before moving here. It’s an annual re-enactment coming in March. The Ruffians assemble at Ham Hall and the Oatriots at First Church. Now it’s the name of a dog park. It was also a restaurant now called Salem’s Retreat. I’m not sure from what we retreated 🤔
(And Quincy, Mass is kind of pronounced Quinzy, lol)
I want to know a lot about Pickering, his name is big here, he held a lot of big jobs, we were clearly big in Bostonian/Cantabridgian politics and he held a lot of jobs appointed by GW. His family runs tours of the home regularly, I saw Peter Hoffer on his book tour about LR. I made an unfortunate joke about “not holding a job” to an apparent descendant and got a big thing about how any time GW needed someone to show up and pinch hit he did. It seemed very much a sore spot and people still gossip about folks caught up in The Salem Crisis, as Emerson “Tad” Baker calls it. I can’t make a faux pas that big and live here 😂
So idk what’s up with Uncle Tim. Definitely part of the tour is an artists depiction of all the local Indigenous people outright cheering for him as the only dude to ever honor an agreement with them, and it’s all just a bit too good to be true but a public tour isn’t quite the time to ask it in their living room. Oh the house is inhabited. I never took a tour with fridge magnets before. They are lovely folks and so I just left it there. It’s a sore spot that after all this, we didn’t manage the 17 miles to Lexington/Concord to show up in time. I’m told we never missed another since Yorktown. I am not from A Family and cannot imagine how lore is received and passed down. 🤷♀️
But my takeaway is definitely draw blood and don’t name your town “Peace” because it’s not as sexy I guess.
Let me read a decade and I’ll get back to you. The story will be completely different. 😅
I still can’t imagine why you’d sneak out of France in disguise. There’s no Twitter, there’s no CNN, news travels at a snails pace. You could just say there is a family emergency on the queens side back home.
there is just your head on all the coins of the country...
@@magicpaul24 What does that have to do with what I said?
@@asapmimic1289 That in context of propagation of revolutiannary Ideas and coalition of others monarchies to military stop it, just saying that you can't take a leave of absence for family reason and even though communication were less effective the king and queen could still be identified.
@@magicpaul24 I get that the post master recognized the king by the coin but the argument I’m trying to make is why disguise in the first place? I don’t see why they couldn’t skip town on the lie of a family emergency. The queen is Austrian, so it seems like a pretty valid excuse to me. By the time someone knows the truth they’d be out of the country. Also, it’s so weird how the king just lets a post master stop them. Where are the royal guards?
@@asapmimic1289 Again you are part of the family which who send threats to use force to stop the revolution. At the times, were mostly fear leads reason if you leave the country, that means that you can find ressources and influences to help militaries to exterminate the revolution (so treason). You may have your reasons that are not linked to the Revolution but it's not gonna be well interpreted and as such the revolutionaries will not have allowed it. So you need to disguise yourself. And the royal guards are not always loyal to the king. Some may have revealed the fleeing plan.
I believe what Oversimplified is referring to with the “The king sent an intimidating force” (in the first part of the American revolution) is a quote from one of George Washington’s soldiers (don’t know the name sadly, he is just known as the Amazed American). What he said was “All of London is afloat”
Hi Chris, have you checked out the battle of Bamberbridge?
Good video like always, keep up the good work man, I love the way you tell history, and telling stuff i would never have known before you said it, you are loved from here.
VTH THE GOAT
love the content man
Decades made a fantastic video on Jack The Ripper.
No way! i’ve been wanting this. Let’s go!
Vikings : Tree landing in the woods without anyone around. Did it make a sound?
Washington: "He was a terrible tactician." I tend to cut him a bit of slack. He was trying to fight with untrained, under equiped, militia. Once his troops were properly trained the outcome started to go the colonists way.
Lol @1:31:34 😂😂😂😂 ok I been tripping this whole video I watch all my videos on 2x speed and I heard you say Marquita Lafayette and I was like did he just say my name .. I was like no he said Marquis and then I heard it a couple more times and was like ok let me rewind and put it on normal an CC and yep you said my name lol my last name is not Lafayette tho😂😂😂