Hello again! Today we take a dive into an often forgotten and overlooked king of Britain, who enjoyed one of the longer reigns in British history. I chose to focus more on the international aspect of George's reign rather than the domestic ministerial events in Britain, as foreign policy seems to be where George had the most influence, and in my opinion, these events are probably more interesting from a video perspective. As always, if I catch any errors, or if any are pointed out, I will add them to the "errors and corrections" section of the video description. I hope you are all doing well, and thank you for your interest in the video/ channel. The next one I suspect will be quite substantial and so may take a bit longer to put together, but that remains to be seen. Thanks again, and Cheers.
Thank you so much for this content. Its well thought out and informative while also being entertaining!!! Its been a great supplemental as listen between revolutions podcasts
Yay new video! I found you channel when trying to learn more about Richard the lionheart, and I fell in love with your style of making videos. Please keep this going and don't stop after all the British monarchs, your videos are so good!
These brief histories are great. I find myself choosing a monarch every now and then and you really get a good overview of the important issues of the time. I learnt more through these videos than when I studied history for years at school ! Thanks for producing them.
7:51 Official Act of Union to form Great Britain 🇬🇧 10:34 The Grand Alliance vs Louis XIV The Sun King 14:27 George I, King of Great Britain 🇬🇧 16:46 George I vs George II 19:25 Wars • War of Quadruple Alliance • Great Northern War 20:42 Spanish-Austrian Alliance 21:20 George II as King 👑 24:33 Stately Quadriale. 30:14 The War of Austrian Succession 1740-1748. 33:06 Pragmatic Allies & Pragmatic Army 40:00 Brutal Butcher Battle of Culloden
Ah, the Hannovarians, the dynasty where each father (when living long enough to know them, princess charlotte maybe aside) intensely disliked their successors and all (aside from maybe George IV) either justly forgotten or unfairly maligned.
Princess Charlotte’s father was intensely jealous of her popularity with the general public and she represented his connection with her mother, so I’d say there was no love lost there either.
Another excellent video, thank you for the work and research put into producing it. Just wish you had elaborated a bit more on the role Caroline played in the success of her husband's reign in Great Britain.
@@BriefHistoryOfficialhank you for your awesome series! I wish I could contribute more. You have provided me with hours of priceless content. It’s inspired me to read further on the subject and it has become a passion of mine. As far as I know my ancestors were English gentry so this topic has a weird patriotic/Anglophile pull. I’m an American myself, but my immediate paternal and maternal lines are English surnames. The paternal line is the one I know the most about. Anglian brewers perhaps? Anyways, apparently my ancestors were involved in the later Stuart Anglican clergy. John Barwick was a priest and his brother was a physician. John actually had correspondence with both King Charles I and II during the English Civil wars, and was thrown into prison by the roundheads for being a royalist spy.
Just wanted to say your channel keeps getting better and better. Could you maybe cover Queen Lady Jane Gray the 8 day Queen.? Her story is so interesting but tragic.
Poor Frederick had to take up his "duties" as Prince of Wales! As Prince of Wales, Frederick didn't have much in the way of official duties. He was granted an income and was expected to support his father's government, but he instead became associated with the opposition, partly as a way to assert his independence. He used his London residence, Leicester House, as a sort of alternative court where opposition politicians and artists gathered. This brought him a certain amount of popularity with the public, as did his patronage of cricket and the arts. Nothin' but work, work, work.
Interesting to note, a little known fact, that, if bonnie Prince Charlie and the glan leaders, being at Derby less than 100 miles from London, that, George 2nd was planning to flee London if the jacobite army, had forced ahead and the Duke of Cumberland would not have got there in time to stop them taking London. Maybe just maybe if they had, it might of been the end of the hanoverian rule in Great Britain, with a whole different history having the Stuart dynasty on the British thrown to this day. As we know the Scottish Glan leaders argued wasted time, and the young pretender did not have enough to keep them together and focused.
Surely the trans-Atlantic slave trade was historically significant enough to deserve some mention here? It was, for example, the cause of the War of Jenkins' Ear, which was stoked by the South Sea Company to retain exclusive rights to sell Africans into slavery in the Spanish Americas. Upwards of 60,000 men lost their lives in the 9 years of fighting which followed. The American state of Georgia bears the name of George II, after the state's founder, James Oglethorpe, successfully petitioned the king to sanction the creation of a slave free state. The experiment in abolitionism was ultimately made to fail, and Georgia's role in the American Civil War, and consequent role in defence of the vicious politics of racial caste needs no rehearsal here. Just two fragments of one of the most historically influential phenomenons in history, and layers of the foundation of modernity. Surely even a "brief" narrative of any Georgian monarch is incomplete without even a passing reference.
It seems like the Hanovers were the least appealing of England's royal families. Reminds me that line from "The Two Popes" where Pope Benedict made a deadpan joke to an unamused future Pope Francis and followed it by saying, "It's a German joke, it doesn't have to be funny."
Now that youre getting close to King George III, I strongly recommend you read the book "The Last King of America" by Andrew Roberts. The book uses thousands of George's own personal correspondences from his youth, up till his final years and paints a completely different image of the man than the typical rhetoric we read about him. Unfortunately, King George is very much a victim of revolutionary propaganda - much like King Louis and Tsar Nicholas. Not only does this book cut through the lies with first hand accounts, it irrefutably proves he was not a tyrant - and I would even argue it demonstrates King George to be a far greater, kinder and more virtuous man than any of the founding fathers; and frankly, its not even close.
Glad you haven't resorted to AI voice overs, with monotone repe-rep-re-tition, misprin-pron-nin-si-ciashin-tion, and the like. A little hurried sometimes, but let's hear it for the real human voice in this time of ever diminishing real documentaries.
By the time I watch the "Brief history" "the people profile" and a couple other channels biographies on the same person I get them and their time-line down pretty good lol..
Hello again! Today we take a dive into an often forgotten and overlooked king of Britain, who enjoyed one of the longer reigns in British history. I chose to focus more on the international aspect of George's reign rather than the domestic ministerial events in Britain, as foreign policy seems to be where George had the most influence, and in my opinion, these events are probably more interesting from a video perspective. As always, if I catch any errors, or if any are pointed out, I will add them to the "errors and corrections" section of the video description. I hope you are all doing well, and thank you for your interest in the video/ channel. The next one I suspect will be quite substantial and so may take a bit longer to put together, but that remains to be seen. Thanks again, and Cheers.
Thanks to You For making these amazing documentaries! The House of hanover is truly interesting and i cannot wait to See Victoria!😊😊😊😊
I absolutely love your content. The level of detail, videography and quality is outstanding.
I can’t wait for the next instalment.
Thank you so much for this content. Its well thought out and informative while also being entertaining!!! Its been a great supplemental as listen between revolutions podcasts
This channel is so unpretentious in its narration. Gets me hugely exited every time an upload is done. Workplace can wait!
Yay new video! I found you channel when trying to learn more about Richard the lionheart, and I fell in love with your style of making videos. Please keep this going and don't stop after all the British monarchs, your videos are so good!
Seconded! It’s laid out the history really well for me.
I found his channel thanks to the James I of England and VI of Scotland video
These brief histories are great. I find myself choosing a monarch every now and then and you really get a good overview of the important issues of the time. I learnt more through these videos than when I studied history for years at school ! Thanks for producing them.
7:51 Official Act of Union to form Great Britain 🇬🇧
10:34 The Grand Alliance vs Louis XIV The Sun King
14:27 George I, King of Great Britain 🇬🇧
16:46 George I vs George II
19:25 Wars
• War of Quadruple Alliance
• Great Northern War
20:42 Spanish-Austrian Alliance
21:20 George II as King 👑
24:33 Stately Quadriale.
30:14 The War of Austrian Succession 1740-1748.
33:06 Pragmatic Allies & Pragmatic Army
40:00 Brutal Butcher Battle of Culloden
This is, by far, my absolute favorite history youtube channel ❤
It’s always a good day when brief history posts a new video
Ah, the Hannovarians, the dynasty where each father (when living long enough to know them, princess charlotte maybe aside) intensely disliked their successors and all (aside from maybe George IV) either justly forgotten or unfairly maligned.
Princess Charlotte’s father was intensely jealous of her popularity with the general public and she represented his connection with her mother, so I’d say there was no love lost there either.
Anyone who loves historical documentaries, will certainly enjoy watching Brief History. A very big thanks to the team from Brief History.
1 min in: your opening sentence is spot on. I know next to nothing about George II, really excited for this one.
I love these bios they are my favorite because they are the only ones that give me tons of detailed info I have not heard.
Another excellent video, thank you for the work and research put into producing it. Just wish you had elaborated a bit more on the role Caroline played in the success of her husband's reign in Great Britain.
Maybe the next series he can do a series on the consorts of British monarchs?
Amazing video mate, George II he is a very interesting King.
Thanks!
Thanks Ashton! Much appreciated!
@@BriefHistoryOfficialhank you for your awesome series! I wish I could contribute more. You have provided me with hours of priceless content. It’s inspired me to read further on the subject and it has become a passion of mine. As far as I know my ancestors were English gentry so this topic has a weird patriotic/Anglophile pull. I’m an American myself, but my immediate paternal and maternal lines are English surnames. The paternal line is the one I know the most about. Anglian brewers perhaps? Anyways, apparently my ancestors were involved in the later Stuart Anglican clergy. John Barwick was a priest and his brother was a physician. John actually had correspondence with both King Charles I and II during the English Civil wars, and was thrown into prison by the roundheads for being a royalist spy.
Love your videos man! They always make my day!😊😊😊😊😊
I'm continuously learning so much History in this one channel, and for that I say Thank you so much 🙏
A good and underrated King.
Can’t wait for George III now
Wow, I am all caught up. These are great videos to watch. I have gone all the way through. Thanks
Just wanted to say your channel keeps getting better and better.
Could you maybe cover Queen Lady Jane Gray the 8 day Queen.?
Her story is so interesting but tragic.
Last king to fight in battle should be remembered more imo
Not used to waiting for the next one, can't wait.
Fantastic channel and series. This is my second run though. Excellent work!
Learned a lot in this one. 👍
Another great upload
so so helpful for my british royal court internship!! also, unrelated, you sound a little like zak bagans!
The Jacobites failes for the last time under him and he was the last english king to lead his armies in battle!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Poor Frederick had to take up his "duties" as Prince of Wales!
As Prince of Wales, Frederick didn't have much in the way of official duties. He was granted an income and was expected to support his father's government, but he instead became associated with the opposition, partly as a way to assert his independence. He used his London residence, Leicester House, as a sort of alternative court where opposition politicians and artists gathered. This brought him a certain amount of popularity with the public, as did his patronage of cricket and the arts.
Nothin' but work, work, work.
Interesting to note, a little known fact, that, if bonnie Prince Charlie and the glan leaders, being at Derby less than 100 miles from London, that, George 2nd was planning to flee London if the jacobite army, had forced ahead and the Duke of Cumberland would not have got there in time to stop them taking London. Maybe just maybe if they had, it might of been the end of the hanoverian rule in Great Britain, with a whole different history having the Stuart dynasty on the British thrown to this day. As we know the Scottish Glan leaders argued wasted time, and the young pretender did not have enough to keep them together and focused.
Surely the trans-Atlantic slave trade was historically significant enough to deserve some mention here?
It was, for example, the cause of the War of Jenkins' Ear, which was stoked by the South Sea Company to retain exclusive rights to sell Africans into slavery in the Spanish Americas.
Upwards of 60,000 men lost their lives in the 9 years of fighting which followed.
The American state of Georgia bears the name of George II, after the state's founder, James Oglethorpe, successfully petitioned the king to sanction the creation of a slave free state.
The experiment in abolitionism was ultimately made to fail, and Georgia's role in the American Civil War, and consequent role in defence of the vicious politics of racial caste needs no rehearsal here.
Just two fragments of one of the most historically influential phenomenons in history, and layers of the foundation of modernity.
Surely even a "brief" narrative of any Georgian monarch is incomplete without even a passing reference.
How many times can you say as we've already touched on or we will get to shortly
6 hundred and 18 million times.
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It seems like the Hanovers were the least appealing of England's royal families. Reminds me that line from "The Two Popes" where Pope Benedict made a deadpan joke to an unamused future Pope Francis and followed it by saying, "It's a German joke, it doesn't have to be funny."
I thought British Royalty had no power after the civil war
The 13 colonies were in that time period and would completely give an on earth explained of the king George sir..
Gibberish.
I could be wrong but the old woman who live in A shoe is based off of King George II.
yes that is true
your bio is pretty concerning 😅😅
@@vinnyrap9037 I see you somewhere.🧐
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@@vinnyrap9037 You replied to A comment of mine on A another video.
Is it weird that a Lutheran became head of the Church of England?
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Now that youre getting close to King George III, I strongly recommend you read the book "The Last King of America" by Andrew Roberts.
The book uses thousands of George's own personal correspondences from his youth, up till his final years and paints a completely different image of the man than the typical rhetoric we read about him. Unfortunately, King George is very much a victim of revolutionary propaganda - much like King Louis and Tsar Nicholas. Not only does this book cut through the lies with first hand accounts, it irrefutably proves he was not a tyrant - and I would even argue it demonstrates King George to be a far greater, kinder and more virtuous man than any of the founding fathers; and frankly, its not even close.
Ancient Egypt: where everyone’s outfit was linen, and the only thing higher than the pyramids were their standards.
The truth is he was protestant and not scottish ...but his wife was of the Stuart line and legitimate to the the Scottish Irish and English
His parents were 1st cousins who hated each other...
I had a poo once that was so big that it ripped my arse and made it bleed. I thought I was dying like George II.
Everyone was a George…
…you wouldn’t have a Willie or a Sam.
Or a Keith.
Glad you haven't resorted to AI voice overs, with monotone repe-rep-re-tition, misprin-pron-nin-si-ciashin-tion, and the like. A little hurried sometimes, but let's hear it for the real human voice in this time of ever diminishing real documentaries.
sff
Ar-miss-tiss
give me the stuarts anyday !! stuarts for the glory of scotland ,hanovairns dull and boring yawn..........
By the time I watch the "Brief history" "the people profile" and a couple other channels biographies on the same person I get them and their time-line down pretty good lol..
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