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It should be noted that Admiral Rozhestvensky was vehemently opposed to this entire plan. In fact he proposed a plan in 1902 to strengthen the Far East fleet. And as far as training goes, this was pre-WWI, standardized training practices weren't really a thing in many militaries, and in addition they didn't consider the Japanese a real adversary, because they weren't European.
The Japanese fleet performed a precision maneuver to cross the Russian's T. Western Navies were far better trained than the Russian navy. Japan modeled their navy after Great Britain.
@@nedames3328 many Japanese officers studied in western universities
@@artembentsionov : Britain was allied with Japan at the time. Much of Japan's naval training and their ships were based on British designs.
Rozhestvensky is the only competent person in this whole voyage and his rage was understandable.
@@thedarknessnetwork137 Chief Enginer of this fleet was also very competent as he and his men did their darnest to keep this disaster afloat.
This will probably get buried, but if you want a bit more info on this there is a longer, documentary style video on this event by the Channel Drachinifel.
I cannot recommend that channel enough. His videos are very well put together.
Every one should learn of the kamchatka and her hijinks
Yes and DRACHENFEL of HMS Splendid has a hilarious Dose of Dry British Wit making fun of everyone along the way, even a bit dark at times in his cheekyness. Especially in his description of salvaging the damaged Battleships of Pearl Harbor.
Also, be sure to watch Drachinifel's video on the repair ship Kamchatka, the most effective Russian ship that helped deliver victory to the Japanese.
Came here to say just this. Drach is the MAN when it comes to naval history on YT.
12:14 you're forgetting this is *pre*-soviet russia, and therefore a monarchist army. AKA really decentralized and training in them was usually the responsibility of the units commanding officer rather than a standardized thing like modern militaries, cause of course the nobles were chosen by god and know what's best for their men to learn. i mean look at pictures of the british in the american revolution and you'll see pretty much every regiment has a completely different uniform.
granted, by ww1 most militaries had ditched this but yknow, tzarist russia.
To be fair for the longest of time, Nobles are the only ones with military educations, its even worst for a navy since naval traditions takes more time to grow than any other
I wanted to try to say what you wrote wrong, but after thinking about it, everything you just wrote is wrong. "Ordained" by god was a thing that was used to justify the rule of kings etc. Not military commander. That's one point I wanted to correct you on, but after thinking, there is nothing to correct. It is just entirely wrong. In the ancient and medieval era, the right to rule was gained by strength. Monetary strength, strength of intellect, of your arms etc. That is why nobles were ones who led armies, why they were knights. Because their whole life was about training their body and their martial arts, so they would be able to defend their subjects. Later, when the "nations" were more or less formed and stable and muskets were widespread, there was not that much of a need for knights etc. and rulers had to justify their right to rule somehow, to ensure the stability of their nations (that is for example, why when French king dies, all the butlers in the palace loudly shout "King is dead, long live the king!" Because the interregnum, when there was no king, ment a time of chaos and instability. That was why they tried everything they could, to shorten the interregnum as much as they could.) So they were ordained "by God", through its priests. And also about the uniform standardization. I'm not sure how it matters in the topic of "monarchist army" and I don't know what pictures you've seen, but British army uniforms were red coloured by the end of 17th Century. But even the US army regiments wore very different uniforms. Just look at some regiments from US civil war almost 100 years after the war of independence. They don't just wore totally different colours, they wore even totally different uniform cuts etc.
I am holding my head while I read the utter nonsense you wrote. "Training was responsibility of the units commanding officer, rather than a standardized thing". Please, read a bit about military history, at least or Wikipedia, or somewhere.
Zinovy Rozhestvensky wasn't that bad a naval leader, particularly if you look at his previous postings and the accomplishments he had. For the Imperial Russian navy at the time, he was one of the competent ones who would discipline his crews. The main problem was the 2nd Pacific Squadron was built in haste and held together with duct tape. He did not have enough time to whip things into order. His previous postings were rather uneventful, he was recommended to the job due to his outstanding discipline he could instill in his crews and the lack of any monkey-business corrupt naval officers would get up to.
He kinda got the short end of the stick in this video due to the need for pacing and brevity. Most of the egregious actions of the fleet during the voyage like friendly fire, Rozhestvensky was actively trying to stop from the beginning. There just wasn't enough time for him to get things under control before undertaking a voyage to the other side of the planet. It's why he was so angry all the time, yelling + throwing binoculars at boats in the distance who did not respond to his signals. I think after the first leg of the journey, he's just get the offending battleships to pull over next to his flagship, just so he can yell at the officers in charge. He'd given up admonishing people in private, and just went ham probably realizing that they were are sailing to their doom if they didn't take things seriously.
About the lack of training, it really shouldn't be up to a vice admiral to run gunnery practice. Granted he is responsible for the person under him who probably IS responsible for the gunnery, but by and large, crews of military vessels should have ample training already. At the very least, they should have some skill with naval gunnery to hit unmoving civilian targets, not to run into friendly ships, and have some training in naval vessel reconnaissance and recognition. It's just that the squadron was cobbled together on the fly, and Russian discipline being what it is in the early 20th century, some of those ships had immense disciplinary problems amongst the officer staff.
Fun note: He survived the battle of Tsushima (albeit heavily wounded), and during the court martial in Russia afterwards, tried to take all responsibility for the failures of the voyage and subsequent battle to spare the rest of the survivors from punishment (which worked).
On top of everything he wasn't even given a full load of ammunition for his fleets and not issued the extra ammunition he would have needed to do any actual gunnery training until he was almost to Japan.
Firing off most of their ammunition at ghost torpedo boats and fishermen did not help with that.
In reality the admiral was probably the only competent member of the entire expedition. His ship was the only one that was well behaved (comparatively) and well drilled.
But literally everything around him was the definition of incompetence put onto sea. From Russian peasants that often had never seen water up to this point, corrupt and lacking admirals that he could not smack down due to their connections to the Russian court, Inadequate ships at the best of time, some being nothing more than aristocratic pleasure vessels with guns bolted on them. He even had to go into radio silence to try and shake up his "re-enforcement" of truly geriatric vessels that were barely sea-worthy.
That last part may have actually doomed the expedition because the wave of new vessels were slower and delayed the fleet by several months. If they weren't slowed down they could have actually caught the Japanese fleet mostly in port and spread out where they could have achieved their objective or at least be capable of diverting to friendly ports.
With the Japanese navy at sea and fully aware of their presence there was nothing they could do but fight an absolutely one sided battle.
On the flipside this battle is likely the reason why Japan became so confident about their naval capabilities and likely caused them to vastly overstretch their abilities, leading ultimately to their defeat in the next world war.
Japan was already overstretching their abilities in this war. They were upset with the Treaty of Portsmouth because they thought they should get more after their string of victories, completely disregarding that they had exhausted their reserves and supplies. Meanwhile, Russia had more men just sitting in Poland preventing rebellions than had fought the Japanese.
So yes, this war made them dangerously overconfident.
I think he was one of the few higher ranking officers left, all of those with experience and rank were already dead or in Pacific.
@@patbrackenTrue, had they truly brought the Russian army to bear at the Japanese things may have had a difference outcome. Though how different is hard to say.
And don't forget the thorn in the Admiral's side, The Kamchatcka.
Do you see torpedo boats?
Argh! Toss....splash.
On the other hand, the reinforcements also brought a resupply of ammunition, which has been mostly shot off during Dogger Bank.
Amazingly this video only covers the very tip of this iceberg of lunacy
Drachinifel has a brilliant video detailing the whole voyage
And tbh as bad as the video makes him look, Admiral Rozhestvensky is probably the only reason they even made it as far as Japan
Rozhestvensky was probably the last competent guy in the navy... and they hooked him up with... THAT.
@@Wanys123 I like to believe that his heart attack 3 years later was a combination of all the pent up anger he swallowed in order to take responsibility for the failure with a straight face and hearing the word Kamchatka over the radio.
The crazy part is that Rozhestvensky actually managed to make the most incompetent naval force of all time a bit less incompetent by the time he got to Tsushima. Of course, that wasn’t near enough.
En route to Japan the various crews started no fewer than FOUR competing cults, at least one of which worshipped the admiral as a god, and two of them believed he was satan incarnate and the antichrist. So the Orthodox priests who hadn't been shot at this point were trying to quell heresy on the high seas like it was the Middle Ages.
@@andrewshaw1571 I'm suddenly imagining this whole story but in the style of a sitcom like Hogan's Heroes or Police Academy.
*boom*
Rozhestvensky: "KAMCHAT*KAAAAAAA!"* (said in the same style as "MAHONEYYYYYY!")
He would have been able to discern civilians from enemies, but he kept throwing his binoculars into the ocean.
Great reaction, had a good laugh too.
As a note, they didn't give him enough ammunition to actually be able do gunnery training. To make matters worse, they fired off most of their ammunition in the Dogger Bank incident. It wasn't until after the 3rd squadron finally linked up that they actually received the extra ammo they needed to actually do any gunnery practice.
Admiral Rozzy just could not get any breaks and he was the only guy who seemed to know what he was doing.
Yeah, and I'd correct her, they did hit ONE trawler at Dogger Bank, but I feel like I would not correct the commander by trying to make that sound like a good thing after the event.
@@WaywardVet PS: and two of their own cruisers.
@@Isolder74 "Actually, I managed to hit..."
"DUDE. Not helping. He's already throwing binoculars overboard. Do you want to be the next pair?!"
@@WaywardVet *Aurora:* Will everyone stop SHOOTING AT ME! Thanks.
Admiral Rozhestvensky was a man so prone to anger hebwas known for beating underlings who disappointed him with his fists. However he was still well respected among the rank and file because they knew that they only thing stopping him from laying an equal smackdown on OFFICERS who disappointed him was the Tsar himself, and even then it was only barely.
Also, the Navy did not give them enough ammunition for gunnery practice along the way, while at the same time staffing these ships with peasant conscripts from central Russia, where they had probably never seen a body of water larger than a puddle.
I feel like BlueJay saw Drachinifel's 1+ hour long video on this and kinda... shrunk it down+ added Bill Wurtz-style comedy to it. And I love it.
More like Sam O'Nella-style comedy.
6:54 that ship was of course the glorious Kamchatka
"I hope somebody got fired for that, geez!"
Oh Kira, do I have some good news for you!
Admiral Rozhestvensky wasnt really that bad of an admiral. However, given the situation there was litthe he could do. A lot of sailors were sent to far east squadron, and places in baltic sea fleet were filled with conscripts. For many russian sailors, that was first time they saw sea. Admiral was opposed to this plan, as he predicted supply issues and difficulty in linking up with far east squadron, however he was overruled and told to go ahead. A lot of officers ignored admiral's orders, and there was little he could do because they were aristocrats, something he already got in trouble before when he tried disciplining other officers. Finally, admiral was forced to his fleet a large amount of obosolete cruisers, which were pretty useless in modern combat and constituted unnecessary drain on supplies and forced fleet to lower speed as they could not keep up, but again admiral was overruled.
So, to conclude although this voyage was a disaster i would exonerate Admiral Rozhestvensky, as he was given flawed plan he was opposed to, and was prevented by superiors from doing anything to improve situation.
I would argue the obsolete cruisers were nothing compared to the yachts with guns put on them that were forced on him from the black sea.
By the time they got round africa, the british reopened the suez canal, causing the good admiral to attempt to outrun his own reinforcements because they would be absolutely useless.
Also, anyone would be "prone to anger" for having to deal with this absolute clown show. That the man didn't have a stroke from sheer rage at all the utter incompetence if at all proves that he was exceptionally patient, I'd say.
@@magni5648
He did have a stroke from dealing with this insanity.
The reason they weren't trained is because they were conscripts. You wanted to be a badass marine so you joined up, but they were drafted at the point of a gun.
Here's a suggestion
Watch Drachinifel's video about the Kamchatka.
The biggest dum dum of the Russian fleet.
I second that.
"Do you see torpedo boats?"
I have to be fair to the admiral.
1. He is thrown into this mission with the majority not being trained navy sailors many of them only being at best fish fleet sailors and at worst regular peasants.
2. The mission goes around the most circuitous route it possibly could.
3. These men were supposed to be urgent backups in the war with Japan. If they had to get there as soon as possible, when was the Admiral supposed to find time to train them?
A bit of info missing from this account is the question of Did the other ships have to go through the admiral for permission to open fire on other ships? If not, then he was plagued by imbiciles captaining the other ships and it is no wonder he is described as having anger issues. The only incident we have a time on is 20 minutes against the British fishermen. If these Captains and their men were this idiotic, then I can see it taking 20 minutes for him to get them to stop.
Two awesome things about Theodore Roosevelt
1- he once was boating out west on a river and some guys stole his boat. So he got an axe, cut down some trees, built a new boat, and chased the theives down without hardly any sleep to drag them off to be arrested.
2- he did try to run for a third term after Tafts first term- he had previously stepped down due to a promise he made not to continue his presidency since he had served the majority of two terms after president McKinley was assassinated. During a campaign speech he was talking about his new party when he was shot- and then proceeded to take an hour to finish the speech before going to the hospital.
Unfortunately he and Taft split the republican base vote letting Woodrow Wilson of all people become president.
They didnt mention it, but the sailors also got addicted to opium when docked in China because they got cigars laced with opium.
Thought that was in Madagascar.
@@scott_hunts : Indeed it was.
If you haven't already, I'd also recommend Drachinifel's video on this same voyage. He goes into more detail, and it is terrifying that this actually happened. Also the admiral selected for this mission was the most competent admiral Russia had at the time. His crews and underlings were dangerous combinations of incompetent and insubordinate.
9:34, speaking of sending mail, Chicago Reacts: around Madagascar, the sailors of the fleet sent mail home via another Russian vessel acting as a supply ship: the only problem was that said supply boat did not make it back to Russia… because it got LOST and ended up stumbling upon the fleet a SECOND TIME somewhere around Indonesia!
This is one of those historical events where, if someone made a semi-accurate movie or series about it, absolutely nobody would believe what happened.
I DO think the commanding Admiral (who did NOT want this job) did amazingly well getting this mobile disaster as far as it got. I wouldn't even blame Czar Nikolas II, who was not a brilliant leader, but did inherit a horrendously ####ed -up system.
0:50
Wait what? I exist?!?
The Admiral was aware of the lack of training. But Gunnery Practice requires life ammunition. Which the Squadron did not have enough of to bring the gun crews at a sufficient level while eventually engaging in decisive battles with the Japanese still having enough ammunition.
4:00: Fun fact, one of the russian ships that got friendly-fired at Doggerbank was also the one who got friendly-fired again during the botched funeral salute off Madagascar. That ship *survived* Tsushima.
And that ship was the cruiser Aurora. The ship that would 11 years later fire the first shots of the October Revolution. And, I mean, can you really blame her after all of this circus?
As for Doggerbank: After that the British actually sortied the entire Home Fleet and had them shadow the Russians for like a week, just to get across the message of "You fucked up, and your continued existence now depends on us being merciful."
19:34 Spoilers.....any letters sent home were put on a cargo ship that got lost and so if there was such a letter it never got home, in fact when the cargo ship finally got unlost well it was to find the fleet again returning everyone's letters back to themselves.
Most of the thrown binoculars had one ship's name on them. The Kamchatka.
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I think they already did
@@gunther7276 they didn't react to "I DESTROYED the Just Cause 3 100% World Record" by martincitopants
@@spaceguy8503 They did, they had glasses girl do it.
@@acrab6527 She reacted to "i did it again"
Teddy Roosevelt actually did run for a 3rd term in 1912 and almost won
Oh God. I’m watching. I got to 3:34. “No! No, they didn’t do that!”
You’re correct! They didn’t do that! THEY DID EVEN WORSE THAN THAT!😂🤣😂🤣 Oh this is going to be a TREAT!
Also, I’m glad you guys are learning about this fleet, because I would have recommended the “Voyage of the Damned” video by Drachnifel…but it is very lacking in visuals and his explanation is more thorough, with VERY dry, British sarcasm. Wouldn’t make for a good “reaction”. I’ve never seen this video myself, so it’s a first time all around, lol.
EDIT 1: No no NO, Don't diss Rozhestvensky! That man was the best they had for the task at hand! He was prone to getting pissed off, but his sailors RESPECTED him for that, because he was disciplined, and they KNEW the only reason he didn't beat the absolute dog-snot out of his corrupt, inbred, snobby, blue-blooded noble "Peers" is because he'd get shit-canned in a nano-second by the Russian court! He was the only competent person in this entire shitshow! (and on that note, F--K the Kamchatka!)
EDIT 2 at about 9 minutes: Yeah, that was pretty much the attitude of Rozhestvensky, my dude. He wasn't herding CATS, he was trying to control coked up, vodka soaked howler-monkeys, which HAD to have included revolutionaries and saboteurs who were trying to make things worse in the fleet. (Just because the communists overthrew the Czar later, doesn't mean there weren't revolutionaries working towards those goals before then, you know?
EDIT 2 at 10 minutes: 😑The Vice-Admiral didn't give the crew *permission* to go grab animals while they were in Madagascar. He was bedridden sick, and his second-in-command had a STROKE from the stress and was half-paralyzed. The idiotic crew of the fleet took advantage of that to grab animals, drugs, and every STD known to mankind while they had the chance...
EDIT 3 at 11:34 Finally the Kamchatka is brought up. That "repair ship" was THE very epitome of dead weight throughout the entire journey. *IT* was pretty much solely responsible for every single "DO YOU SEE THE JAPANESE!?!!?" panic that happened throughout the entire journey, from beginning to end, with the crew constantly lying about stupid crap. It disappeared for 3 days at one point and came back claiming it fought off an ambush of 3 Japanese destroyers by itself. Rather than got lost and shot at a bunch of fishing boats AGAIN. (which were all unharmed because the Kamchatka's aim was so freaking bad).
I'm sorry for the ranting. College Graduate with a BA in history and sometimes when historical tales get simplified in a way that blame is spread where NONE was deserved (the admiral) it gets me fired up.😅
End of the Video: Final notes just to clear things up and point out that Vice-Admiral Rozhestvensky was the ONLY non-clown in this entire circus. And that includes the captains of the other ships in his fleet, and the nobility “supporting them” back home.
The Baltic fleet, AKA Second Pacific Squadron wasn’t just bad sailors. There were 2-3 ships that were NOT “old” in that fleet. All the rest were old, or ancient, or out classed, or Russian Nobleman’s yachts that had been donated, with some guns tacked on. (donated because those nobles probably had bigger and more modern luxury yachts by that point)
The reason for no training for the crew; the fleet was supposed to be in a hurry, and thus needed a light load. So Russian command DIDN’T SEND ENOUGH AMMO TO TRAIN WITH. The fleet had “enough bullets for ONE major engagement” and that was IT. So it was Rozhestvensky taking a risk to TRY and make his fleet of screw-ups not embarrass themselves when the real fighting started by getting some training in.
Also, Kira, you’re kind of right about people trying to get rid of Rozhestvensky. Because he was one of the ONLY people in upper-command who wasn’t a corrupt, incompetent screw-up. It was dirty cops getting rid of the only squeaky clean policeman in the entire precinct. On that same note, since there were plenty of a-holes commanding the other ships, Rozhestvensky took an opportunity at one point to get rid of the worst and send their asses home. One of those guys responded by going, “Oh yeah? Well how about I send you a “””helpful””” 3rd fleet of ships so old and useless that we didn’t even consider them to be sent with YOUR fleet?😈” Rozhestvensky didn’t want to drag the warboat equivalent of an Alzheimer’s ward with him, so he wasn’t even sending messages of his position back to Russian high command. Unfortunately, that 3rd “fleet” caught up to them in Madagascar, which is why he probably called for that last chance training exercise.
Something which stuck out to me is that Rozhestvensky was one of the prisoners captured by the Japanese. (took shrapnel to the leg while running around his ship, helping load and fire the cannons while his ship was being shot to hell) and the Japanese leader gave him props because the Japanese KNEW how badly the Russian fleet was behaving, and he gave kudos to Rozhestvensky for trying to fulfill his duty despite that.
I found the quote, from Admiral Tōgō to Rozhestvensky: "Defeat is a common fate of a soldier. There is nothing to be ashamed of in it. The great point is whether we have performed our duty."
It can't really be understated just how close Admiral Beresford came to blowing the 2nd Pacific Squadron out of the water.
12:36 - not in slav lands. We just give you weapon, ammo, vodka and ppint at enemy. Surprisingly it worked pretty well for a long time.
The vodka snake was one of the war trophies taken and apparently took a liking to drinking sake as well.
Part of me wonders if the crews of this fleet were doing all of this because they knew they would be doomed when they reached the Japanese, and instead were hoping to cause enough trouble that the Tsar would learn about all of it and say "forget it, it's too much trouble" and order them back to the Baltic before they got themselves blown up.
Lol honestly that makes sense I think most of them knew how fucked they were (their first fleet was actively getting demolished). And fucked they were…they got completely destroyed
"It can always get worse." -Ancient Russian proverb
I’ve read that Russians and Japanese used different explosive compounds for their ammo. The one used by Russians was more stable in use but very difficult to store, so by the time they arrived to Japan, a huge chunk of their ammo were duds from the moisture. Meanwhile, the compound used by Japanese was easy to store but wasn’t very reliable in combat, and there were reports of their ammo exploding in barrels during the battle.
This was before TNT came around which was both easy to store and was stable in use
when i thought wow they managed to not only hit 3 enemy boats but actually sink them you come around and tell me they probably sunk themself.
watch "Mickey Never Came Back" and "Mickey's Descent Into Madness" (in that order) by Ethereal Snake. its an animated series about vietnam, well made and really heavy stuff.
Teddy created the Nation Park Program. For all his awesomeness, if there's anything that makes him deserving of immortality, it's that.
It wasn't until the bit where the admiral forgot to train the crew getting close to the Japan where I remembered the fact that BlueJay called them all peasants. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time... XDDDDDD
This kinda takes me back to late 2020, early 2021, where I first discovered your channel's reactions to Sam O'nella Academy. Animated history videos with a hint of mockery and humor, mostly subjects we never hear about...
Incompetent Tzar got fired, yes. Got fired very good.
The Kamchatka - possibly the only ship in history the sinking of which was celebrated by the fleet that lost it.
3:43 "I hope somebody got fired over that."
Well the Tsar ordered the mission. And he ended up getting gunned down by the Red Army. So yeah, I'd say he got fired both figuratively and VERY literally.
🤣😂😅👌"Hey don't sneak up on me bro!"-Teddy Roosevelt
Dude these guys have great charisma, super enjoyable! Not to mention they actually watch the video too!
russian fleet frenzy
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That absolutely Sounds Like something Nicholas II would do
They skimmed over it, but add in syphilis outbreaks and crippling opium addiction to what those sailors picked up while in Madagascar.
It's not just syphilis. They picked up every STD known to mankind.
The admiral was actually the second most competent man in the Navy. The MOST competent had been killed in battle weeks before they left.
As for the training issue:
1) the sailors were conscripts from the interior, where the only body of water they had seen before that was maybe a river.
2) as they said at the very beginning, the Baltic freezes most of the year, so they never HAD the chance to train for most of the year.
there are only two things the video didn't bring up which was the Admiral coming up with names for ships that really annoyed him (and I am not gonna post them as they were extremely foul names XD ) to which when he got extremly enraged he would go to the outer most parts of the bridge and shout insults at the offending ship across the 5 mile distance. The other thing was one of the officers brought the crew of his cruiser a crate of cigarettes from Madagascar only for them to find out they were laced heavily with opium and they had to fight the crew to get rid of the offending cigarettes
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I like blue jay but this video makes the admiral seem incompetent. He was not. He was in fact one of the very few officers who was actually good at his job and wasnt corrupt. He was handed a bunch of outdated scrapheaps with untrained crews and nowhere near enough ammunition to properly train them.
More BlueJay pls
One thing to note. THe idea of a Japanese fleet in the north sea or atlantic wasnt THAT far fetched. Japan did not have the industrial capacity at the time to mass produce warships, so like many navies, the Japanese bought their ships from England (who was happy to sell older designs to far off countries to fund their brand new ships). So there really could have been Japanese flagged ships in that part of the world. The hysteria, comes from the idea that England would have allowed Japan to sail an entire crew and full load of ammunition over to load the ships coming out of the shipyards and just start harassing european powers.
I should point out that, while all the yukks are real, this story isn't just a comedy but a tragicomedy. The 2nd Pacific Squadron, which was, in fact, the worst fleet on the high seas, was doomed to meet one of the best. "Curb-stomping" hardly begins to describe what jappened to our poor Russkies.
Maybe experiences like this are the reason why they made training mandatory for militaries.
oh yea he made a new video about the strangest duels you do not have to react but its still good so you should at least see it
No wonder Britain was the strongest naval power when other nations were like this 😂
The fact that our Channel Fleet alone was bigger than the entire Russian Navy also helped lol. In the event of a war, Admiral Beresford said he wanted to be chivalrous, and would only engage the _entire_ 2nd Pacific Squadron with *four* of his battleships.
Yes tsar got Fired Upon with Guns
The admiral was angry because he was forced to lead this fleet.
Also Roosevelt LITERALLY DID RUN FOR A THIRD TERM he ran for the progressive party and lost.
I hope you guys can react to more of Bluejay's stuff
Pls make kira and kit react to 10 easter eggs that were never found part 4 by oddheader
Please do more bluejay!
Y’all are as hilarious as the video itself lol good job
You guys need to watch the video about the Emu war, done by oversimplified. It's a hoot.
Since you liked this one, you should check out Sam O'Nella's video on the Willie D. Porter (US Navy)
Vice admiral is a demotion...not a promotion guys...
and ppl wonder why the first to revolt were teh sailors
Cash money? The hell???
The Japanese torpedo boats near Britain is not too far-fetched, a lot of Japanese warships at that time were built in Britain.
No
@@DavisJ-ln6fw Yes, the first 8 battleships in Japans fleet were all built in Britain, 4 of them took part in the battle of Tsushima.
that guy is so drunk in all of these videos
You guys should check out "Ordinary things" he's one of the guys that does videos with The internet historian and makes some great videos
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It gets dumber with the details no in this video. Few military muck ups can compare to the First Crusade (Extra Credits did a delightful series on it, one of their earliest), but the Second Pacific Squadron of the Russo-Japanese war comes closer than most.
Though the Admiral was probably one of the strongest links left the Russian Navy that wasn't already at Port Arthur or tied up in the Black Sea. Yes he had rage issues, but he was fair, known for well drilled and disciplined crews, and he had very low tolerance for corruption. That he didn't just lash out more at the trash he had to work with is honestly impressive. He did have some new anger management quirks by the end of the voyage though. The video honestly does his efforts to reign in this sailing shit show a disservice. He tried to call off the sense shooting on the many occasions it happened.
Also, the Kamchatka alone accounts for like... 10% of the annecdotes about this debacle.
Trust me, it all gets crazier and more depressing.
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Chicago reacts I have a request for you to react to The Bradley/Gloves story by MikeBurnFire. It's really good.
This is 100% the fault of the admiral for not Training his fleet of peasants turned sailors any drills or procedures.
No it is not. Not enough ammunition. I get pretty sick of the slander against roshezvensky as none of this was his fault. In fact his flagship the aurora was literally the only competent crew in the entire fleet.
The real story seems to be worst than this
Nothing Has changed in russia.
Russians are not only one who can mess the easy job! I quess Finns are only one Who messed Royal Navy's operation 7 th June in 1854! British prisons 3 officer and 31 sailors. But Russians helped us to defend Kokkola sending troops and cannons! Still today in Kokkola they have one boat as memory don't mess with us! Surprise it was again Crime war when this happened and Finish war prisons that British got made song about Oollanin sota!
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A "please" would be nice.
So would a night with Kate Upton, but it ain't gonna happen!
How high are these 2?
Can you react to some WorstPremadeEver videos they are great.
Guy just paused at the best part of the beginning of the video.
12:36 - not in slav lands. We just give you weapon, ammo, vodka and ppint at enemy. Surprisingly it worked pretty well for a long time.