When the Crimean War Went Full FUBAR - European History - Extra History

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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  Год назад +126

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  • @francoisdebellefroid2268
    @francoisdebellefroid2268 Год назад +271

    "This is magnificent but this is nothing what war is about..." said French general Bosquet while witnessing the scene (but still sending some cavalrymen to relief his allies)

  • @mortified776
    @mortified776 Год назад +1535

    One of the reasons the Royal Navy has historically been esteemed over the British Army (other than the obvious priorities of an island nation with a far flung empire) is that the RN's officer cadre was (and even more so now) a meritocracy. You couldn't buy your way in or up the ranks. Prince or pauper everyone starts as a midshipman and proceeds from there skipping no rung on the ladder to whatever rank they hold on retiring from their final commission.

    • @catdenvonwein2723
      @catdenvonwein2723 Год назад +276

      I’m glad you brought this up! It’s a yes and no to the meritocracy of the RN because in the early 1800s and before there definitely was the same nepotism and corruption found in the Army. While all officers would start as a midshipman, those with connections and wrath would often have their sons put on the lists of a ship without them actually going out to sea, thus fulfilling the required time before being able to take the lieutenants exam, which was often rigged heavily (I believe that Nelson’s Uncle was one of his examiners). Following lieutenant promotion was almost strictly based on your connections, Nelson became a captain so quickly because his uncle was the comptroller of the Navy who worked closely with the First Lord of the Admiralty. This being said there certainly was much meritocracy in the lower ranks as many middle class people would join the Navy as the army was typically seen as the more prestigious and would be filled up by more traditional aristocrats. Additionally it wasn’t unheard of for lower ranking enlisted to rise quite high up the ranks in the Navy, some becoming midshipmen or lieutenants (in rare occasions) or more typically becoming petty and warrant officers such as the sailing master or master at arms.
      Anyways, long story short the Royal Navy was much more of a mix of meritocracy and nepotism, while not strictly being one or the other! Thanks for reading of you have! Have a good day!
      -sincerely,
      Some poor student writing a thesis on the RN in the age of sail

    • @bielefeldd
      @bielefeldd Год назад +13

      ​@@catdenvonwein2723this is awesome, can u elaborate more?

    • @gonvillebromhead2865
      @gonvillebromhead2865 Год назад +53

      I think that one thing that bears emphasising is that "buying promotion" wasn't bribery or a corrupt practice, but the legitimate legal way one gained a commission and got promoted in the British Army. Whilst it was possible to gain a commission without purchase through merit, and be promoted for free, this was very uncommon outside of war time.

    • @lars573
      @lars573 Год назад +20

      @@bielefeldd Basically when a Navy man had a son he'd ask a friend or someone who owed him a solid to put his sons name on a ships manifest as a member of the crew, probably as a servant. As a man needed time in grade as a midshipman (3 years), plus 3 years as a volunteer, officers servant, or able seaman to learn his craft as a naval officer before you could take the Lieutenants exam. So men who had connections could jump the line and only do 3 years of sea duty before taking the exam.

    • @Greebo-ne1sc
      @Greebo-ne1sc Год назад +10

      Actually for the navy it wasn’t dissimilar to the army, as to purchase a commission you had to do exams, serve a certain amount of years and be the most senior of your rank of you wished to purchase a commission to the next rank (in their own regiment). The main reason the navy was favoured was mostly due to Victorian ideas coming out of the napoleonic wars and looking at events like Peterloo where a land army was seen as a tool of oppression, whilst the navy was seen as a tool of freedom, which can be seen as the British never had a particularly strong standing army in the UK

  • @paulsillanpaa8268
    @paulsillanpaa8268 Год назад +461

    It's especially grim to note that one of the guys who caught the worst blame afterwards, Capt Nolan, was not only the lowest-ranking person in the Chain of Command that day, but was the only one to die for his mistake.
    Literally killed trying to wave off the charge & save the commanders who despised him.

    • @frog6581
      @frog6581 Год назад +20

      He couldve had the orders clarified

    • @paulsillanpaa8268
      @paulsillanpaa8268 Год назад +49

      @@frog6581 Absolutely. Capt Nolan definitely bears some responsibility for not swallowing his contempt for Lucan & Cardigan and making the order clearer. But as the lowest ranking man there, his was lowest level of responsibility.
      And he answered with his life.

    • @MateusVIII
      @MateusVIII Год назад +21

      I mean, as I see it he was one of the worst offenders. Not only he didn't clarify the order but his prideful demeanour and arrogance when answering the two requests by two different higher ranking officers made sure that no further attempts to clarify the orders were made and utimatelly led to the charge. Lucan and Cardigan received the order, asked to have it cleared when it seemed absurd, were treated with contempt by a lower officer who not only did not clarify them but reinforced the mistake by gesturing to the only target in sight, which was the wrong one, and followed their command. I see no scenarion in which Nolan isn't the absolute worst offender in this situation, followed by Raglan and only then the two officers who could not have guessed about an enemy position they were never aware of.

    • @huntclanhunt9697
      @huntclanhunt9697 Год назад +10

      I mean, it was his refusal to clarify that caused this.

    • @Khornecussion
      @Khornecussion Год назад +5

      Thaaaat's the Brits for you. If you saved them from their own mistakes? How dare you make them look stupid by stepping in? Now you've just made the blame fall on your shoulders instead of theirs because they can use roundabout logic to go " WELL IF THEY DIDN'T INTERVENE I COULD HA- "

  • @ZechsMerquise195
    @ZechsMerquise195 Год назад +611

    And almost a century later the British infantry would perfectly describe a situation like this "Lions led by donkeys".

    • @ajohnymous5699
      @ajohnymous5699 Год назад +33

      So apparently this war was the modern origin/inspiration to the original quote. It was mentioned in a book in 1854 about how the "Scots Greys" and the British army were lions led by donkeys. It's even used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who said that of the forces at Sevestopol (referring to the forces that failed to take the city so most likely the Coalition forces.)

    • @ZechsMerquise195
      @ZechsMerquise195 Год назад +3

      @@ajohnymous5699 I always thought the quote had its origin in WW1.

    • @herecomesthatboy1961
      @herecomesthatboy1961 Год назад

      Lions led by donkeys is a myth that started in the 60s with the anti-war anti-natiknal service movement. A great deal of work is being done currently to reassess ww1 and the biggest takeaway is that 'lions led by donkeys' just isn't true.

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 Год назад

      Lions led by donkeys is a myth, British officer casualties were higher

    • @Redralphred
      @Redralphred Год назад +4

      The podcast of that name is really good. It’s all about these situations.

  • @basstedson
    @basstedson Год назад +57

    The lesson from Kipling is still valid today. Politicians are only too happy to reap the rewards of loudly shouting 'support the troops' but nowhere to be found when it comes to actually supporting them.

  • @gamedude412
    @gamedude412 Год назад +103

    One thing to note The Horses were the worst Losses of the Charge the Light section was effectively turned in to foot soldier for a long time

  • @cathyharrop3348
    @cathyharrop3348 Год назад +79

    I'm thrilled that you noted the charge of the Chasseurs de Afrique and the charge of the Heavy brigade.

  • @josephholland524
    @josephholland524 Год назад +184

    I'm surprised you didn't also mention Iron Maiden's 'The Trooper' which is very much told from the point of view from one of the Light Brigade in that fateful charge.... which in turn presents this whole event to yet another generation.

    • @coyote4237
      @coyote4237 Год назад +5

      Agreed.

    • @berdduck
      @berdduck Год назад +1

      god that reminds me of my childhood.

  • @dimitrijejovanovic5939
    @dimitrijejovanovic5939 Год назад +82

    You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too
    You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through
    So when you're waiting for the next attack
    You'd better stand, there's no turning back!

    • @bencetary6094
      @bencetary6094 Год назад +20

      The bugle sounds, the charge begins
      But on this battlefield, no one wins
      The smell of acrid smoke and horse's breath
      As I plunge on into certain death

    • @StevenFox80
      @StevenFox80 Год назад +3

      a man of culture!

    • @anderskorsback4104
      @anderskorsback4104 Год назад +4

      Yup. The one disappointment about the video was still no Eddie :(

    • @pepsteprep
      @pepsteprep 7 месяцев назад

      I love Iron Maiden.

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 Год назад +402

    The worst sort of enemy. Not scared to die. Terrifying.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA Год назад +6

      Yeah, comparing to current NATO shaking in fear and not even shooting down russian missiles flying into Poland or over Romania. Ukraine is the only country with balls.

    • @IsakSko
      @IsakSko Год назад +37

      ​@@KasumiRINAits not fear, it's strategically beneficial to not risk war by shooting missiles. Not like Ukraine had any choice

    • @openthinker6562
      @openthinker6562 Год назад +26

      @@KasumiRINAWell, the reason why it’s much more risky to do that nowadays is cuz of something called the Nuclear bomb. The possible risk of escalation literally could result in Europe and the world being wiped out in nuclear hellfire, so it’s going to be a lot more difficult to convince the military and governments to take risky moves like that.
      Such is the complex nature of 21st century politics and warfare…

    • @prfwrx2497
      @prfwrx2497 Год назад +5

      @@openthinker6562 if you think Russia has the budget to recharge their nuclear warheads with a pre-war defense budget equivalent to what France spent to maintain their 300 nuclear warheads (much less maintain the entire nuclear triad, launch vehicles, and launch platforms)...
      Then I got the eiffel tower to sell you.

    • @notNajimi
      @notNajimi Год назад +13

      @@prfwrx2497is that a gamble you’re personally willing to make? would you win that game of nuclear chicken?

  • @jeremy1860
    @jeremy1860 Год назад +149

    The poem about the light brigade will always be the first thing that pops to mind for me with this war 😟

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA Год назад +5

      Not the Trooper? How many people even read the poem when Iron Maiden exist.

    • @NanoLT
      @NanoLT Год назад +9

      @@KasumiRINA Anyone who went to school in the UK at least

    • @beesonbandit6639
      @beesonbandit6639 Год назад

      @@KasumiRINAI actually knew about the poem before I even listened to Iron Maiden

    • @feintfaint7213
      @feintfaint7213 Год назад

      I learned about the poem in primary school. A citizen in a commonwealth nation.

  • @the_flaming_tree_troll9380
    @the_flaming_tree_troll9380 Год назад +230

    What a goddamn disgrace. Those men charged into hell, on bad orders, came out alive and scarred, and then got left in the dirt to rot. Those men deserved so much more for their dedication. The vanity of Victorian England knows no bounds, it seems, so long as something makes them look good, damned be the consequences.

    • @mygills3050
      @mygills3050 Год назад +13

      and at the end of their triumph, the romans discard all that separates them from the enemy
      in their defeat, they are no better

    • @garymckeon5410
      @garymckeon5410 Год назад +18

      still happening today in the uk and usa

    • @ZecaPinto1
      @ZecaPinto1 Год назад

      And what should society do? Keep pampering them? They were soldiers they fought and lost limbs for us, and in peace what use is to be a soldier? Is it that hard to find a job for those who did not suffer too much? Isn't there any support association, or shelters that can take care of them? Fame only serves those who continue to strive to maintain it, not those who stopped when they gained it.

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher Год назад +5

      ​@DogseatDogs
      The officers, yes. The rank and file, no.

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher Год назад +15

      ​@@ZecaPinto1
      It's expected for veterans to have some safety net for their service these days, yes. I have friends that receive pensions from service related issues, as well as care and counseling. Their lives were fucked by situations that they never would have been in had they not been in the service, so it's an obligation for the government (and by extension society) to provide aid, not just three feet by six feet of space and a "thank you for your service."

  • @AviRox1154
    @AviRox1154 Год назад +105

    This incident, along with the debacle of the Siege of Cartagena during the War of Jenkin's Ear (yes, that's its real name), stand out to me as prime examples of personal feuds between commanders leading to the suffering and death of the soldiers under their leadership.

    • @dominicguye8058
      @dominicguye8058 Год назад

      How was that battle the result of personal feuds?

    • @AviRox1154
      @AviRox1154 Год назад +2

      @@dominicguye8058 The battle itself was not, but the personal dislike and strategic disagreements between the army and naval commanders had a lot to do with how ineptly the siege was handled. Both men spent the rest of their lives blaming each other for the disaster, much like here.

    • @TheTrueAdept
      @TheTrueAdept Месяц назад +1

      During the Battle of Tannenburg in WWI, two Russian armies had generals who absolutely hated each other. The First Army's general, Paul von Rennenkampf, was more than willing to let the Second Army dry just so he could get back at its general, Alexander Samsonov.

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 Год назад +126

    I personally prefer the account of the Crimean War by Sir Harry Flashman. The fictional story is a fascinating look at British politics and society of that era. Worth the read!

    • @tessat338
      @tessat338 Год назад +5

      "Wellington never lost a gun!"

    • @paulsillanpaa8268
      @paulsillanpaa8268 Год назад +2

      @@tessat338 Well subtle trolling goes too far...

  • @invisibleman4827
    @invisibleman4827 Год назад +20

    Another unsung hero of the Light Brigade was Major George Mayow, who led the Brigade after Cardigan abandoned them. His leadership was a big reason any got out alive at all.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Год назад +59

    Talk about taking initiative when confronted by one's ally's folly charge to eternity.
    Without the French deciding to support the Light Brigade, losses would have been even greater.
    There's also a great movie about this, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) which is rather faithful to the history of the charge.

    • @witoldtadeusz
      @witoldtadeusz Год назад +2

      You tell me that... I was tasked with watching it for the history subject in school, but found a wrong one, from the interwar period... Completely made up, and the charge alone obly took, like, last ten minutes of the movie

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher Год назад

      ​@@witoldtadeusz
      Oh, the Erroll Flynn one? The one that led to the adoption of some safety measures because of the horses and stuntmen who were killed in the filming of the charge?

    • @loyalpiper
      @loyalpiper Год назад +3

      ​@@witoldtadeuszthats the 1930 one, it also resulted in over 25 horses being put down because the director used trip wires on the horses which resulted in errol flyn assulting him on set due to the animal cruelty.

  • @trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155
    @trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155 Год назад +16

    1. I LOVE how commanders used Napoleonic Wars tactics with RIFLES.
    2. My 6yo daughter, Maddie, loves your views & says your horses are "cute".

    • @alessiodecarolis
      @alessiodecarolis Год назад +1

      Sadly this happened in every war btw 1845 and 1870, think about the frightening losses in ACW

  • @danielmcgillis270
    @danielmcgillis270 Год назад +11

    Riding to death immortality and one of the best songs Iron Maden ever made.

  • @quinb6837
    @quinb6837 Год назад +36

    This series is so interesting. I love this show so much

  • @Kevinlikescountrys
    @Kevinlikescountrys Год назад +32

    I adore this channel you and your team always entertain me with how you explain the event/war and the animation is great keep up the good work :)

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Год назад +91

    To say that the Charge of the Light Brigade was FUBAR would be like saying magma is a little too hot.
    That was the mother of all massacres that isn't Pickett's Charge.

    • @alpharius4434
      @alpharius4434 Год назад +7

      WWI. English at the Battle of the Somme and the Italian and Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 12 Battle of Izonso : just hold my beer.

    • @connorbranscombe6819
      @connorbranscombe6819 Год назад +5

      @@alpharius4434I was gonna say, I was kinda shocked by how few casualties they took for how hard they hyped it up, 110 dead out of 600 light cavalry just charging directly into 50 cannons through a narrow valley? I would have expected like 3-400 at least.

    • @sean668
      @sean668 Год назад +4

      @@connorbranscombe6819 That's still a 50% casualty rate. 25% casualties is usually enough to render a unit unserviceable

    • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
      @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Год назад +3

      @@alpharius4434 Verdun and Gallipoli: (hold my beer, as well)
      Also we're talking mother of all massacres, as far as the 19th century is concerned.

    • @connorbranscombe6819
      @connorbranscombe6819 Год назад

      @@sean668 Yeah okay? Units suffer 25-50% casualties in warfare all the time, a US unit landing on DDay took 93% losses and remained combat effective.

  • @seranonable
    @seranonable Год назад +9

    YOU'LL FIRE YOUR MUSKET BUT I'LL RUN YOU THROUGH 🎶

  • @davidblair9877
    @davidblair9877 Год назад +2

    8:43 is the reason Veteran’s Affairs is so important. That it is poorly managed is not a reason to disband or shrink it, but to reform it.

  • @DanielD-no1gp
    @DanielD-no1gp Год назад +13

    Keep up the good work. I have been watching for years and I hope this channel never falls into obsurity.

  • @philtkaswahl2124
    @philtkaswahl2124 Год назад +3

    Miscommunication in the conveyance and execution of orders can still be dire today, even with near-instantaneous means of telecommunications. This instance was a famous example of the potential for miscommunication-induced utter chaos during times where people had to resort to couriers.

  • @mackijs1
    @mackijs1 10 месяцев назад +3

    2:01 This has been the end of many european cavalrymen throughout history. Glory seeking and saving face, instead of patience and strategy

  • @Ryu_D
    @Ryu_D Год назад +3

    Thank you for the video.

  • @mikegrossberg8624
    @mikegrossberg8624 Год назад +25

    Let's see
    Raglan was an incompetent, who's only recommendation was that he served under Wellington at Waterloo
    Cardigan was a certifiable lunatic, who was saved from being locked up somewhere because he was a peer of the realm, and RICH. This made him "eccentric", rather than a mental case
    Lucan was not a lot better
    Nolan was a cavalry FANATIC, who REALLY WANTED to be in a "hell-for-leather" charge against an enemy. He even wrote a book about it
    Read "The Reason Why", by Cecil Woodham-Smith

  • @OzzieTheHead
    @OzzieTheHead Год назад +9

    You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too
    You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through

  • @666johnco
    @666johnco Год назад +18

    Yay a mention for the very successful against the odds charge of the Heavy Brigade, Yay. An interesting point about the British army's choice of commanders. From 1845-46 and from 1845-49 the British had fought major wars in the Punjab against the Sikhs. Some parts of these had been mismanaged, by Sir Hugh Gough for example, but other had been very well led. This created jealousy within the home army. As a result almost no Sikh war veteran generals were given commands in the army being sent to Crimea. The only exception I know pf being Sir Colin Campbell. He was given command of the Highland Brigade and we met him at 'The Thin Red Line.'
    So recent veterans ignored and commands of the army plus its divisions given to green officers and ancient dug outs.

  • @AdrianMartinez-gq7ne
    @AdrianMartinez-gq7ne 10 месяцев назад +1

    As a US Army officer, my captain's course used the Light Brigade as a case study of how to NOT communicate orders.

  • @brukains
    @brukains Год назад +1

    Bruv this show made me gain so much brain cells throughout the years so thank you but rlly prob one of the best channels

  • @bilgetonyukuk5530
    @bilgetonyukuk5530 Год назад +1

    0:47 "... riding to death and immortality."
    Epic.

  • @julonkrutor4649
    @julonkrutor4649 Год назад +12

    Most vets are forgotten or only cared for by other vets. Its a sad truth.

  • @mgradiant
    @mgradiant Год назад +9

    Anyone else hearing the opening riff to Iron Maiden’s The Trooper in their head as they watch this or is it just me?

  • @alisaurus4224
    @alisaurus4224 Год назад +8

    When i learned this in school it was the poem only without context beyond “Crimean War, 1854”, so i didn’t even know what a “Light Brigade” was. I thought maybe they carried lanterns 😅

  • @alexanderboulton2123
    @alexanderboulton2123 Год назад +2

    This is like an argument I have with my dad.
    "Dad, I need to find a boxcutter!"
    "Look over there!" *gestures vaguely in the direction of the kitchen *
    "Where?"
    "Right- there, look with your eyes!"
    *points in general direction of fridge*
    "I don't know what you're pointing at!"
    "I-" *sighs *
    These people should not be running wars.

  • @d.s.archer5903
    @d.s.archer5903 Год назад +8

    An excellent book on this subject is “Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade Hardcover” (2004) by Terry Brighton. The book is divided into four sections: 1) The Invasion of the Crimea, 2) The Charge of the Light Brigade, 3) The Last of the Light Brigade, and 4) Investigating the Charge. Sections 3 and 4 are the most interesting. Definitely worth a read!

  • @madmaddiesmadhouse4062
    @madmaddiesmadhouse4062 Год назад +3

    Rudyard Kipling, master of the literary diss track.

  • @Foxaris
    @Foxaris Год назад +3

    Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    'Forward, the Light Brigade!
    Charge for the guns!' he said:
    Into the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.

  • @hhale
    @hhale Год назад +4

    Interesting that so many survived, given that I had always assumed that the casualties were even worse.
    FYI: The 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment on the Second Day of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 suffered 215 dead out of 262 men or a 82% casualty rate. The famous US 7th Cavalry Regiment of George A. Custer suffered 268 dead and 59 wounded out of approximately 700 men at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, a 45% casualty rate.

  • @Scientist118
    @Scientist118 Год назад +4

    The neat thing is that you have a similar moment during the Second World War in an event called the Battle Off Samar.
    A small group of destroyers and destroyer escorts charge a Japanese fleet, outnumbered and outmatched, in order to let the escort carriers escape. All of this happened on the anniversary of the Light Brigade's Charge while someone was on the radio trying to call for the brave few who threw themselves against all odds.
    "Where is, repeat, where is Task Force Thirty Four? The world wonders."

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher Год назад +3

      Difference of situation there, as I'm sure you know, is that the destroyers had to do their change in order to achieve the objective of protecting the carriers; the Light Brigade was thrown into the fire in error.

    • @Scientist118
      @Scientist118 Год назад +3

      @@eldorados_lost_searcher
      The Battle Off Samar was also a blunder as well.
      Admiral Hallsey decided to leave this meager force behind so he could go carrier hunting. As it turns out, the Japanese pulled him out of position so that they could slip their fleet past Hallsey to interrupt the naval landings of the Phillipines. Those destroyers were practically the only obstacle standing in front of them.

  • @ArthronOfFir3
    @ArthronOfFir3 Год назад +7

    I see no reference to Iron Maiden here, especially since they also did the song "The Trooper".

  • @neyaralbator1834
    @neyaralbator1834 Год назад +2

    6:31 Chasseurs d'Afrique. There is a painting by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux

  • @maxfieldjoyner5244
    @maxfieldjoyner5244 Год назад +44

    As we know, the Charge of the Light Brigade was actually caused by Harry Flashman.

  • @damabaith
    @damabaith Год назад +5

    This channel better live forever

  • @azraieruslim
    @azraieruslim Год назад +3

    If you want to see how this looks like? Watch the charge of Commander Erwin towards the Beast Titan.

  • @couch2558
    @couch2558 Год назад +2

    Soldiers coming home to live in disability and poverty has always been how it works, and still is. Its an incredibly messed up system. These vets also are supposed to receive care for their injuries as a result of the war, but often don't even get the basics they need because its not all covered. Not even mentioning the other atrocities involved, but the military needs some serious restructuring

  • @elilachappa3330
    @elilachappa3330 Год назад +2

    You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too
    You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through
    So when you're waiting for the next attack
    You'd better stand, there's no turning back
    The bugle sounds, the charge begins
    But on this battlefield, no one wins
    The smell of acrid smoke and horses' breath
    As I plunge on into certain death

  • @Blairington
    @Blairington Год назад +19

    This has been an interesting watch, given Earl Cardigan is supposed to be an ancestor of mine. I know the story, but cheers for covering this in greater detail!

  • @TheKeeperOfKnowledge
    @TheKeeperOfKnowledge 10 месяцев назад +2

    In strategy games, it is always awful when you mis-click and move a valuable unit into terrible danger. It's weird to see it happening in real life. It would be funny, if it wasn't so grim.

  • @AtlasNovack
    @AtlasNovack Год назад +12

    When you try to defend your reputation then die from getting the shits 💀

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 Год назад +9

    Forward, the Light Brigade!”
    Was there a man dismayed?
    Not though the soldier knew
    Someone had blundered.
    Theirs not to make reply,
    Theirs not to reason why,
    Theirs but to do and die.
    Into the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    III
    Cannon to right of them,
    Cannon to left of them,
    Cannon in front of them
    Volleyed and thundered;
    Stormed at with shot and shell,
    Boldly they rode and well,
    Into the jaws of Death,
    Into the mouth of hell
    Rode the six hundred.
    There are more verses.

  • @XJHenryX
    @XJHenryX Год назад +1

    My favourite historical events are the ones that send the top 3 cards of my Deck to my Graveyard in order to add 1 Level 4 or lower "Lightsworn" monster from my Deck to my hand.

  • @katherinec2759
    @katherinec2759 Год назад +3

    I wonder if the charge of the Rohirrim at Pelennor Fields in "Return of the King" was at least partially inspired by this charge. Seems like exactly the sort of thing Tolkien would have drawn from.

  • @ScabiousGarde
    @ScabiousGarde Год назад +1

    Oh, at the end "charge" is used like "left in thr charge of" very clever Kipling

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +3

    You guys always make my day with these videos!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

  • @chrisstrider
    @chrisstrider Год назад +3

    There was a basket maker in my town in Dorset Thomas Warr
    It turned out he was one one of the light brigade who had reached the Russian guns
    He was buried in an unmarked grave.
    Twenty years ago a plaque was placed on his grave and the ceremony was attended by 11th Hussars and Kiplings poem was read

  • @Kaiyanwang82
    @Kaiyanwang82 Год назад +4

    "Lord Look-on" is quite savage

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Год назад +1

    Now that's some 300 Spartanic courage.

  • @MartinCHorowitz
    @MartinCHorowitz Год назад +2

    I always liked to the contrast between the Light Brigade and Taffy3 at Leyte Gulf.

  • @MsZeeZed
    @MsZeeZed Год назад +13

    And this story was just a painful rerun of the Napoleonic Wars that had seen the same process of bought commissions, bungled brigade level actions and a lack of natural justice for those who made it home, for the generation of British soldiers who went to war before them.

  • @Emperor_Oshron
    @Emperor_Oshron Год назад +4

    You'll take my life, but I'll take yours, too!
    You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through!
    So when you're waiting for the next attack,
    You'd better stand--there's no turning back!
    The bugle sounds, the charge begins,
    But on this battlefield, no one wins.
    The smell of acrid smoke and horses' breath
    As I plunge on into certain death.

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 Год назад +3

    I imagine modern military commanders are very thankful for the instantaneous communication devices of the modern day. It's such a shame what happened to those poor men in the light brigade, both during the battle and after the war. While I'm not much a fan of the title of this one, thank you for another informative episode.
    God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @Emperor481
    @Emperor481 Год назад +2

    Als König würde ich sagen, dass dieses Video exquisit ist

  • @qudavid1128
    @qudavid1128 Год назад +4

    I have to thank the Flashman letters for my introduction to the Charge of the Light Brigade...tho fictional, it's largely accurate in the portrayal of the characters involvet

  • @mr.tobacco1708
    @mr.tobacco1708 Год назад +4

    I hope you will make a video about the Ottoman soldiers in Balaclava where European historians tarnished their efforts to boost up Light Brigade charge.
    Ottomans hold their ground until their last bullets and even in hand to hand combat against 10 to 1 numerical inferiority but then had to abandon their posts in few numbers, holding the Russians back enough time for Allies to assemble.

    • @mr.tobacco1708
      @mr.tobacco1708 Год назад +2

      Note: I don't disrespect the soldiers of Light Brigade, they were brave men who did this charge because of the mistakes of idiots.

    • @sjonnieplayfull5859
      @sjonnieplayfull5859 Год назад +3

      ​@@mr.tobacco1708watch episode 4 of this series, he described it, and also the way they were treated afterwards

  • @Gonzalouchikari
    @Gonzalouchikari Год назад +1

    *"MY SOLDIERS, RAGE!*
    *MY SOLDIERS, SCREAM!*
    *MY SOLDIERS, FIGHT!"*

  • @edsimons628
    @edsimons628 Год назад +2

    That's the best possible interpretation of Nolan's actions. He lined up to join the Charge even though they were pointed the wrong way. We don't know why Nolan rode ahead, but that was the wrong thing to do if he wanted to redirect the Charge - he should have rode immediately to Cardigan.

  • @scott3017
    @scott3017 Год назад +2

    To this day the US Army uses this incident as an example to officers how NOT to issue orders

  • @mariohall8357
    @mariohall8357 Год назад +1

    The Little Rascals was my first introduction to the charge. Thanks Alfalfa 😅

  • @wingedhussar6410
    @wingedhussar6410 Год назад +2

    I am very dissapointed that there isn't a reference to Iron Maiden's the trooper.

  • @SPIOoner
    @SPIOoner Год назад +5

    iron maiden's the trooper starts to blair

  • @paulc6471
    @paulc6471 10 месяцев назад

    4:56 perfect summation

  • @drstevej2527
    @drstevej2527 Год назад +3

    This charge did more in terms of British morale in the next century than the cost in losses.
    Many great British victories have been relegated to anonymity but the entire world knows of the Charge of the Light Brigade. It’s motivated military forces ever since. There are many who wish they were as remembered for military successes.

  • @VladTevez
    @VladTevez Год назад +3

    Up the Irons!

  • @shorgoth
    @shorgoth Год назад +2

    We all know that the true culprit for the charge is actually private Leeroy Jenkins.

  • @dizent2885
    @dizent2885 Год назад +2

    I know this has a serious note to it, but whenever I think about this charge, I immediately picture a snarling zombie man in a redcoat carrying a tattered British flag.😂

  • @bertbaker7067
    @bertbaker7067 Год назад +1

    @~6:55, not exactly the same, but Cardigan withdrawing to his yacht for dinner really reminds me of the Duke of Wellington calling his soldiers "the scum of the Earth."

  • @Leman.Russ.6thLegion
    @Leman.Russ.6thLegion Год назад +2

    I have a British cavalry Saber from this exact battle.

  • @Ofiotaurus
    @Ofiotaurus Год назад +2

    You tell me I watched this whole episode without getting a single Iron Maiden refrence?

  • @isaacbruner65
    @isaacbruner65 Год назад +2

    This was considered a horrendous massacre at the time but compared to some of the bloody battles in the decades to come (American Civil War and WWI), the Light Brigade got off pretty easy.

  • @HardCodedGaming
    @HardCodedGaming Год назад +4

    Anyone else not learn until this video that the title "Light Brigade" was opposed to "heavy" and not "dark"?

    • @jjbarajas5341
      @jjbarajas5341 Год назад +2

      Probably part of the reason it's so storied. It really does call forth images of the soldiers bathed in light, as they charge into their doom.

  • @Emperor_Oshron
    @Emperor_Oshron Год назад +2

    now i want to see an allohistory what-if scenario on if the order that led to the Charge was interpreted correctly

  • @DeltaDemon1
    @DeltaDemon1 Год назад

    "Death and Immortality"...I like that.

  • @Eslzr88
    @Eslzr88 Год назад +4

    Is that what the trooper by iron maiden is about?

  • @solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad
    @solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad Год назад +1

    My biggest takeaway is the Balaclavas are named after a city

  • @13SScorpio
    @13SScorpio Год назад

    Since it wasn't mentioned in the Video, The Trooper by Iron Maiden is about the charge of the light brigade

  • @AzzyReal
    @AzzyReal Год назад +1

    Ah yes, my favorite historical moment when 3 cards were milled from the top of the deck to add a level 4 or lower lightsworn monster from deck to hand.

    • @ShinyGG
      @ShinyGG Год назад

      Hello fellow duelist

  • @addicted2monster88
    @addicted2monster88 Год назад

    This has "brother avenge me, avenge me, brother!" Vibes. If you know you know!

  • @DjackTheDjurst
    @DjackTheDjurst Год назад +2

    Some British dudes in the Bahamas: Man, we should write a song about this

  • @mrguy9118
    @mrguy9118 Год назад +1

    The Trooper by Iron Maiden is all about the Crimean War

  • @postapocalypticnewsradio
    @postapocalypticnewsradio Год назад +1

    PANR has tuned in.

  • @owen5026
    @owen5026 Год назад

    The poem perfectly describes this 'riding into deaths jaws'

  • @dragonpon727
    @dragonpon727 Год назад

    aye, new episode!

  • @adamethridge7824
    @adamethridge7824 Год назад +1

    It was so weird to hear Tim McGraw recite the charge of the light brigade in the blindside while watch football

  • @samrevlej9331
    @samrevlej9331 Год назад +2

    6:30 It's pronounced "Shassuhr d'Afreek" (written Chasseurs d'Afrique). Sorry, French moment.

  • @ndemers
    @ndemers Год назад +2

    "He withdrew to his private yacht and ate a champagne dinner" omg what

  • @AmericaIsACountry
    @AmericaIsACountry Год назад +1

    The british accents in this video is beautiful