Napoleon's Cavalry and their Tactics - Building la Grande Armée: Part II
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Led by such enigmatic characters as Murat, Lasalle, d’Hautpoul, and Kellerman, the French cavalry became the most potent in all of Europe during the first decade of the 19th century. However, neglect by previous regimes meant that they boasted a mediocre record during the Revolutionary Wars, and it wasn’t until the time of the Empire that they truly reached their peak. In the following video we track this development, discuss their tactics, and figure out how they became so dominant, rightly earning their spot as part of Napoleon’s most potent weapon, la Grande Armée.
Sources cited in order of appearance:
Battles of the Great Commanders - Anthony Livesey
The French Cavalry - David Johnson
The Art of War - Antoine-Henri Jomini
From Flintlock to Rifle - Steven T. Ross
The Bayonets of the Republic - John A. Lynn
La Grande Armee - Georges Blond
Napoleon’s Cuirassiers and Carabiniers - Emir Bukhari
With Musket, Cannon, and Sword - Brent Nosworthy (Also called Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemies)
Grouchy’s Waterloo - Andrew Field
Imperial Bayonets - George Nafziger
Weapons and Equipment of the Napoleonic Wars - Philip J. Haythornthwaite
Swords Around a Throne - John Elting
Letters From the Battle of Waterloo - Gareth Glover
Armies of the Napoleonic Era - Otto von Pivka
The Age of Battles - Russel F. Weigley
The Campaigns of Napoleon - David Chandler
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Another video, another banger. Your stuff continues to be some of the best on RUclips. Keep up the fantastic work!
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I adore these videos. I'd love to see a similar one about the Prussian reforms and recreation of their military after their disasters.
Long ways off, but it probably will come at some point
Really good stuff! Yeah, Napoleon's victories at Bautzen and Lutzen were hollow victories because he didn't have enough cavalry to chase and finish off the Allies.
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24:37 the problem seems to me that Dragoons were considered "cavalry" in the first place. Maybe if they were trained and equiped as infantry, and then trained just to ride, they would have been more efficient.
first - also banger video I love these
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may i asl why you took down the hot air balloons video?
also, its that the great voivode Bronibor at 1:42?👀
Remaking the hot air one. I felt the topic deserved a better quality video than I originally gave it.
Not sure who voivode Bronibor is I'm afraid, I just picked what I thought was a good picture. :)
@@ATimeOfEagles the voivode Bronibor is a character in the Witcher books and a commander in the Battle of Brenna. He appears in only two chapters of the entire series but it's enough to make him one of the greats.
The Battle of Brenna is, in my opinion, one of the best written battles. And if you have the time it's totally worth the read. Plus it's a self contained chapter. It's the eighth chapter of the fifth book and it was what convinced me to read all the others.
And it's makes a nice duet with the Witcher 3 soundtrack.
I think you'd like it. If you give it a chance, i would go with the fans translation.
And if it turns out it's not to your taste, maybe you could share some stories in a video. I've read and heard some astonishing quotes about the 1812 campaign but I haven't read any Napoleonic fiction.
I have read Blood of Elves a few years ago, but I have gotten around to reading any more yet. I enjoyed it, so I'll definitely get back to reading the rest of the series at some point. Problem is that a certain Napoleon character keeps distracting me lately and taking up much of my reading time.
1:30 I don't think that the polish hussars and the mamluks are considered as light cavalry. Polish cavalry maybe have their own light cavalry unit but both Polish winged hussars and Polish lancers in napoleonic war are considered as heavy cavalry. Same as the mamluks which considered as one of the best heavy cavalry unit by napoleon as he used them extensively thoroughout european battlefield
First, Napoleon never USED the Winged Hussars. The Polish Cavalry that served with Napoleon were standard Hussars, and later, Lancers. Indeed the Winged Hussars had been disbanded by the time of the French Revolution, so literally did not EXIST for Napoleon to use.
Second, the only Mamluks in the Grande Armee belonged to Napoleon's Bodyguard. At first they numbered a single Squadron, that being increased to two squadrons later. At no point did they ever number more than two Squadrons, so I fail to see how Napoleon made 'extensive' use of an entire two Squadrons of Mamluks....
maybe mamluks is an umbrella term use to describe a variety of cavalry unit configuration
I did question the Polish Winged Hussars myself if I'm honest, but I naturally think of the Poles when I think of light horsemen. You could be right that these hussars possibly aren't strictly light horse.
In terms of both the Polish and the Dutch Lancers of the Guard, they are usually counted as the Light Cavalry of the Guard, same with the mamluks who usually counted as a squadron as part of the Chasseur a Cheval.
As I sort of get into in this video, I think that the terms Heavy, Medium, and Light are a little vague anyway.
@@alganhar1 Why did he use them as their own distinct squadron? If it was just about recruitment and making his army bigger, why differentiate them?
The Mamluks had a reputation that wasn't unfounded, they are the culmination of a thousand years of Arab and Turkic war strategems, well versed in both styles, reflected by their complete frustration of the Crusades.