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hello. I am from hawai'i and was really favored by your kamehameha video as many kanaka maoli including myself went to the comment section explaiming our geneologies...as well as people finding out they relatives. I use familysearch which works with MyHeratige. I am glad to say i come from the lines of kekaulike, through kahekili's brother, kamehamehanui ai'lu'au. kahekili was probably the true father if you align the chants and mana of certain people between the 1650s-late 1700s. specifically that of kaumuali'i, kahekili, king kekaulike's dynasty and descendants along with cousins. they all had high mana, and all can connect to the kings of mauinui. mahalo for your history doses and what amazing art.
These illustrations and your descriptions are amazing. I wish the guy who directed the recent Napolean film used your videos and these illustrations, as a storyboard, for the movie with Juaquin Phoenix
8:07 I'm a little surprised you didn't mention the name of the ship that came to Victory's aid: HMS Temeraire. For this action of keeping Nelson's flagship from being boarded, the ship became legendary among the British public and the mythos of Trafalgar, gaining the nickname "The Fighting Temeraire". Arguably though, her greatest immortality would come in her final moments; in 1838, she was towed off to be scrapped, which became the subject of the famous watercolour painting by J.M.W. Turner that currently resides in the National Gallery in London.
How we have shrunk since then is almost unfathomable. If anyone showed themselves even 5% as patriotic as Nelson today they would be called racists or fascist.
Nothing new. In the third anglo dutch war it was us against the combined navies of England France. Outnumbered 75 vs 92 we won all 4 naval battles. Saving our country from invasion
@@drpepper3838 The Britons merely saved invasions, but they couldn't land anywhere. And its not as if the Normans weren't 'French'. For the rest 200 years, France remained the mainland European land power. At least the French, Germans and Spanish conquered others.
@@emiliospowerballer1441what a load of bollocks they didn’t just just save themselves, this battle was extremely important allowing Great Britain to establish Naval supremacy for over 100 years. “At least the French, Germans and Spanish conquered others”, Ever heard of the British Empire? It’s only the biggest empire in human history, how the hell do you think they achieved this without conquering others?
if you're gonna die, as an admiral, you can't have a better death than knowing that your last strategy was so perfect you lost literally 0 ships and obliterated an entire country's navy.
@@Antares2F In fact, there are a good amount of lies around the battle, i guess, because the most epic version would sell better or who knows. Nelson's fleet was composed of 67 ships around 40 ships of the line and 27 support ships mostly frigates and corvettes, which was one of the main points why the Spanish admirals told Villeneuve that the battle shouldn't be fight under that conditions, worst even taking into account the total loss of coordination between Spanish and French ships. There are tons of documents from Cadiz, with a list of the names they could get of all the Spanish, French and British sailors who ended up at the coast after the battle. Even the reports of the British ships sunk during the battle and the ones that ended up at Gibraltar heavily damaged. There is a story too, from Britain, when some of the ships returned after the battle and a lot of ppl noticed they are a lot less than the expected, upon the celebration for the victory, the government paid 2 or 3 times more than usual to all the families who lost people serving on the fleet, not only for the victory itself, but to buy some silence about the cassualties, supposedly way higher than the official ones.
@@dathit7315jesus ive never seen such bullsh*t on the internet Same IQ like flatearthers who believe all australians are paid Nasa Actors. Where do you think the thousands of memoires, logbooks, diaries, paintings etc come from? All 45.000 men involved were paid by who exactly, the british? so you tell me 10.000 allied sailors who escaped, lied about numbers and the course of the battle, for what reason? jesus some people just must be left behind
Apparently, Hollywood hasn't been up to the task. There was one TV movie in 2005 called Nelson's Trafalgar, but no others. Maybe because of the difficulty and expense of constructing a warship from Nelson's era. Master and Commander, for instance, built a replica of the HMS Surprise, but that was only a 24-gun frigate. Nelson's HMS Victory was four times that size. But CGI technology is getting better every day. Perhaps only the HMS Victory needs to be built of oak, tar and canvas, and the rest can be filled in digitally.
This is very violent. Holy shit. I cant imagine what it’s like to be a 16 year old soldier and seeing your partner get his head blown off and your higher-up get blown in half by a cannon ball. It feels similar to US Civil War and WWI-WWII stories.
Yeah, this might secretly be our most violent one yet--not in scale (that's Mongols) but perhaps detail. There were much younger kids (11-12) serving on board, as well.
@MuhsinShah-se9fc The powder magazine was as well protected as they could make it at the time, using copper lining to reduce the possibility of sparks, copper tools, and a (I believe) silk curtain in the door to prevent static from getting in and accidentally igniting the powder. Stuff still happened, though.
I think this type of battle is far more terrifying than anything a battlefield has to offer. Artillery and long range weapons aside, at least on land you can move around. You're stuck on that boat with nowhere to hide or run to. The amount of concentrated fire in such an isolated place just wreaks of terror, its crazy people can survive it.
@MuhsinShah-se9fc A bit of a fun but pointless fact, but in modern artillery units the person who handles the powder is still called a powder monkey. Of course conditions have improved somewhat since the Napoleonic era.
@@matman7691 Yes, before jumping into the research for this, I don't think I fully appreciated the unique terror of being on stuck on a ship with only a few planks of wood separating you and 100+ cannons pointed at you. Nowhere to run.
I think he would be flattered, but if I remember my history right, I think it was Nelson himself that said, "I cannot be the greatest admiral in history, for I am not Admiral Yi." Something tells me they would have gotten along great. Edit: Ah, correction, that was Admiral Togo when being compare to both. My apologies.
I would love if you guys covered any of the major battles of the napoleonic era, Borodino especially given the immense loss of life, but Friedland or (obviously) Austerlitz could be brilliantly brought to life with your guys dramatic style, you guys could really do these epic and historic battles justice and lend them a vividness most yt history channels would not be able to achieve
Napoleon wasn’t just a conqueror, he was also a good statesman. Around his sarcophagus in Les Invalides is a list of all of his deeds concerning industry and commerce, not to mention a lot of public works projects.
@@dorivaldojunior2254 Yeah, he created a modern French state. He created a national bank, etc. He created the Napoleonic code, which modern laws are still based on
@@dorivaldojunior2254 not really. it's not like if it was on him. War had been going on for 7 years when he came to power. Neither the british nor the other european monarchs wanted peace. So considering it would have been paid in blood anyway....
This is true. Code Napoleon was an attempt to remake France into a modern state. Nobles and wealthy could no longer purchase a rank or a command. They had to earn it through talent and skill, something other nations didn't encourage until much later. The justice system was modernized and fair etc. etc.
@@dr.tamasypeter8597 Lol, not here in the States, they aren’t. They’re based on our own Founders. Lot of good it’s fine y’all, sure globalist psychopaths are trying to take us over here, too- but they’re MUCH further along with y’all in Europe. He was a globalist too, lol. As long as we have 2A, they will still try to take it away, but good luck with that.
British naval tactics were balls to the wall. Sail straight at the enemy, get alongside the enemy ship, and pump as much shot in their hull in as little time as possible. Sounds simple but it’s a winning strategy when you are good at all the little things.
British Admirals knew that they had extremely capable crews at their disposal. No Navy could match British rate of fire. That’s why Nelson knew if he could get his fleet directly amongst his enemy all the British Captains had to do was let their men’s training and experience finish the job
@@charliereader3462 hence “England expects every man will do his duty” not being a challenge to live up to, but rather showing Nelson’s confidence in his men. Just looking at how scared Villieneuve was, the battle was won before it had even started. Nelson was in his head and all Nelson had to do was break the French and Spanish battle line and Villieneuve would be powerless to put it back together. In the United States we call that bully ball.
In Trafalgar Spain loses 11 ships. France 13 ships. The British speak of that battle as the great naval battle in history and the only one against combined fleets. But that battle almost does not enter the top-10 of Spanish naval victories. 1 Lepanto 1571: 200 Turkish ships sunk. Spanish Admiral Juan de Austria 2 Miracle of Empel, Holland 1585. 100 Dutch ships sunk in a single night 3 Drake's Invincible Fleet 1589: 80 English ships sunk 4 Battle of Cádiz 1625: 62 ships of the combined fleet of England and Holland sunk 5 Spanish blockade of England: 1780. 55 British ships captured 6 Battle of Cartagena de Indias: 50 Royal Navy ships sunk 7 Battle of La Rochelle 1372. 48 English ships sunk. 0 Spaniards sunk 8 Battle of La Rochelle 1419. 40 Hanseatic League ships captured 9 Spanish blockade of England: 1782. 24 British ships captured 10 Battle of Muros Bay 1543. 24 French ships captured or sunk
@@charliereader3462 But you have to get off the ships to win the war, and so Nelson is captured at Tenerife in 1797, and the British lose in Argentina and Uruguay in 1806-07, capturing the British redcoats and generals. Furthermore, Trafalgar does not enter the top-10 of Spanish naval victories. 1 Lepanto 1571: 200 Turkish ships sunk. Spanish Admiral Juan of Austria 2 Miracle of Empel, Holland 1585. 100 Dutch ships sunk in a single night 3 Drake's Invincible Fleet 1589: 80 English ships sunk 4 Battle of Cádiz 1625: 62 ships of the combined fleet of England and Holland sunk 5 Spanish blockade of England: 1780. 55 British ships captured 6 Battle of Cartagena de Indias: 50 Royal Navy ships sunk 7 Battle of La Rochelle 1372. 48 English ships sunk. 0 Spaniards sunk 8 Battle of La Rochelle 1419. 40 Hanseatic League ships captured 9 Spanish blockade of England: 1782. 24 British ships captured 10 Battle of Muros Bay 1543. 24 French ships captured or sunk
@@Gloriaimperial1 why are you Spaniards so salty when it comes to Britain talking about past success. Trafalgar isn’t important because of number of ships captured or destroyed, which was a very impressive amount for that era (these were ships of the line, not armed merchantmen like those at Cartagena). It’s important because it led to a century of unchallenged British naval control, which was crucial to British success. If you want to blame British propaganda then go ahead, but perhaps if Spain hadn’t lost its power and influence whilst Britains was on the rise, then it would be me moaning about ‘Spanish Propaganda’ instead
Really puts into perspective how powerful music is. Even in the midst of men being ripped apart by wood and metal. They keep playing. They keep up the moral. Hell, even in this video, just having that background music really sets the time and place. Even today, combat athletes will walk out to a song that gets them ready to fight. Music really is powerful
That image at 6:57 goes so hard. the image of basically that one scene from pirates of the Caribbean of the guy walking down the stairs but instead it's Nelson standing at the deck, unmoving and unwavering. The wheel being blown off as the splinters fly in his face and yet he still does not move. So epic. What a fantastic video
8:07 For those that may not know it, the ship that came to Victory's aid against Redoutable has a name: HMS Temeraire. For this action of keeping Nelson's flagship from being boarded, the ship became legendary among the British public and the mythos of Trafalgar, gaining the nickname "The Fighting Temeraire". Arguably though, her greatest immortality would come in her final moments; in 1838, she was towed off to be scrapped, which became the subject of the famous watercolour painting by J.M.W. Turner that currently resides in the National Gallery in London.
Excellent recounting, the portraiture really aids in the visualization of these naval battles that no one alive has ever witnessed. Trafalger has always been a fascinating battle to me and I hope one day we get a historically accurate film or miniseries depicting it.
Great work thank you! . I’m lucky I can say I’ve been aboard HMS Victory , I’ve been to see Nelson’s blood stained uniform from the battle , I’ve been to see the musket ball that killed him , I’ve touched HMS Victory’s main sail from the battle , I’ve been to see Nelson’s coffin in St Paul’s Cathedral and I’ve been to Cadiz . Great history and you did it justice with your video here. Be great if you did more Napoleonic Wars videos.
@@13JAMLAND Cadiz is fabulous. I have been many times. Trafalgar is, as the Spanish say, “El Quinto Pino,” meaning the middle of nowhere, but it’s a nice couple of beaches to visit and a great place to gaze out over the sea and imagine those events of so long ago. Fair warning- don’t get in the water there. Vicious rip tides. I need to get back to the UK and catch more military history museums!
This video had serious Master and Commander/RotJ energy… I would have much preferred a late 90s/mid 00s style movie about Trafalgar than what we got from _Napoleon._
A great presentation. I think it's worth mentioning the HMS Temeraire commanded by Captain Harvey. She fought alongside the Victory and played a major role in securing the destruction of the enemy fleet. The doubleshotted broadside that Temeraire discharged into the Redoutable may have saved HMS Victory from being boarded.
I have seen this countless times and shown it to numerous people who have watched it once again themselves. From start to finish, it’s like glue to the eyes and ears. The artwork is enchanting, the narration is brilliantly paced and structured, and the sound design puts you amidst the action. This is a complete masterpiece.
I think History Dose should do an episode on the Cimbri War. The artwork with these tall Danes decimating the Roman legions at Arausio would be highly cool. It's also one of the most understated conflicts of all time.
I am completely blind but I really enjoy listening your videos, it gives me a complete imagination with the help of sound effects. Keep up the good work
“It is with great sadness that Admiral Villeneuve took his own life to preserve his honor. By stabbing himself five times in the lung and once in the heart.” The French State Bureau probably.
@@weaver1507UK still has one of the best navies & one of the highest trained military crazy what a tiny island can do. US & UK are allies no one’s soning the other.
Talking about the battle of trafalgar and my heritage apparently I’m related to the second in command for the British (cuthbert collingwood) and that took over once Nelson died in battle
Really well done on noting on just how long these gruesome sea battles were in this era. The battle of the Nile and Trafalgar were just several days of organised cruises to Hades. Fantastic detail 🙏 love history dose.
This is brilliant. Thanks so much! Finally we've got a decent explanation of why Napoleon threw a fit about the English having boats in the latest Ridley Scott take on it :D
Chills run across every part of me and tears well into my eyes eyes as I am transported to those oaken decks awash with blood and bodies of boys and men who fought and died on that long ago October Day. May they and all the other souls claimed by the sea and in the violence that has occurred on those deep waters rest in peace, where in life there was none, in death there is nothing else. Fair winds and following seas….
Magnificent, simply magnificent. This video superbly illustrated the crushing defeat of the inferior French and Spanish fleet. It was thrilling yet I still felt a tear come to my eye as Admiral Lord Nelson slipped away. A more brilliant and dedicated subject of the Crown could not have been hoped for. Three cheers for him and his men.
When you say "inferior," do you mean in fighting capabilities?. Because the Combined French/Spanish fleet outnumbered the Royal Navy, 33 ships of the line, to 27 ships of the line for the Royal Navy.
@daneelolivaw602 Yes, didn't it say that the French were under no illusion that they couldn't match the British in cannon fire so they had way more infrantry
I don’t usually comment but I just have to say @HistoryDose is such a blessing on the RUclips landscape. Gorgeous artwork, fantastic storytelling. These combined with the history provide some of the best infotainment on RUclips, hell maybe any platform. You and your brother rock!
Brilliantly narrated, great artwork and some superb attention to pivtoal moments in the battle. Perhaps none more so than when HMS Temeraire saved HMS Victory from boarding and capture by the French ship Redoubtable; possibly the greatest and most important broadside ever fired by the Royal Navy. Bravo sir, a great video and am now subscribed!
Okay, this is definitely one of your best videos. The specific details of how the battle strategically played out, including when ships struck each other and from which side, when those 2 ships were close enough for musket fire to actually hit people on the other ship, the super gorey accounts, etc etc... I wish most battles had enough documented stories from survivors to paint this clear of a picture. I think this was a bigger tragedy than the Titanic even though it's not civilians dying. Now I don't even care that I'm about to spend 5 hours waiting at the car service shop, because that's nothing compared to war. Videos like this help people realize that war is very rarely worth it.
Something I’ve considered while watching your brilliant videos, while not relevant to me personally, would be the addition of the original writing in the background. Such as the passage at 8:50, having the original French transcription written in the background for those who do speak it, and not just the English translation, I think would be a nice addition. It’s been something that consistently crossed me mind watching your videos. It may be a bit difficult as I assume it would be done by someone working on the art, or add a deal more work elsewhere depending on how it’s done, especially if you are writing in non-roman characters such as Russian, or Arabic, but I feel like it would add a lot more if possible.
I also *tentatively* suggest the idea of AI to add the text to a drawn a letter or something in the background because I feel like that kind of thing would be doable but that requires using AI :/
Nelson was something else. It's written he often was one of the first into the fray. He loved a good scrap did Lord Nelson. Often funny to imagine the society they moved in were unaware for the most part of the absolute savagery that war entails. Humans are peculiar.
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hello. I am from hawai'i and was really favored by your kamehameha video as many kanaka maoli including myself went to the comment section explaiming our geneologies...as well as people finding out they relatives. I use familysearch which works with MyHeratige. I am glad to say i come from the lines of kekaulike, through kahekili's brother, kamehamehanui ai'lu'au. kahekili was probably the true father if you align the chants and mana of certain people between the 1650s-late 1700s. specifically that of kaumuali'i, kahekili, king kekaulike's dynasty and descendants along with cousins. they all had high mana, and all can connect to the kings of mauinui. mahalo for your history doses and what amazing art.
You did the most magnificent job 👏
I did not get notification for this video. I did for the shinobi video but not this one. YT at it again.
These illustrations and your descriptions are amazing.
I wish the guy who directed the recent Napolean film used your videos and these illustrations, as a storyboard, for the movie with Juaquin Phoenix
8:07 I'm a little surprised you didn't mention the name of the ship that came to Victory's aid: HMS Temeraire. For this action of keeping Nelson's flagship from being boarded, the ship became legendary among the British public and the mythos of Trafalgar, gaining the nickname "The Fighting Temeraire". Arguably though, her greatest immortality would come in her final moments; in 1838, she was towed off to be scrapped, which became the subject of the famous watercolour painting by J.M.W. Turner that currently resides in the National Gallery in London.
“That is good, but I bargained for twenty” these guy were tough as hell.
Truly worthy of the salty spitoon
How we have shrunk since then is almost unfathomable. If anyone showed themselves even 5% as patriotic as Nelson today they would be called racists or fascist.
The British navy and Nelson’s vision was so impressive. Outmanned and outgunned, and still battered two navy’s in to submission
As the saying goes, Britannia rules the waves.
Nothing new. In the third anglo dutch war it was us against the combined navies of England France. Outnumbered 75 vs 92 we won all 4 naval battles. Saving our country from invasion
@@drpepper3838 The Britons merely saved invasions, but they couldn't land anywhere. And its not as if the Normans weren't 'French'. For the rest 200 years, France remained the mainland European land power. At least the French, Germans and Spanish conquered others.
@@emiliospowerballer1441what a load of bollocks they didn’t just just save themselves, this battle was extremely important allowing Great Britain to establish Naval supremacy for over 100 years. “At least the French, Germans and Spanish conquered others”, Ever heard of the British Empire? It’s only the biggest empire in human history, how the hell do you think they achieved this without conquering others?
@@PhileasFrogg conquering natives😂
Horatio Nelson was an absolute dog till death.
‘Thank God I have done my duty.’
he fought a polar bear as a teenager, and lived.
Wow Nelson was a absolute savage for going out like that, i give him my upmost respect
"we've captured 15 enemy ships!" absolutely no one:
Nelson: "I bargained for twenty"
if you're gonna die, as an admiral, you can't have a better death than knowing that your last strategy was so perfect you lost literally 0 ships and obliterated an entire country's navy.
The Navy's of two countries.
Yeah 2 countries lol, talk about going out with a bang
@@Antares2F In fact, there are a good amount of lies around the battle, i guess, because the most epic version would sell better or who knows. Nelson's fleet was composed of 67 ships around 40 ships of the line and 27 support ships mostly frigates and corvettes, which was one of the main points why the Spanish admirals told Villeneuve that the battle shouldn't be fight under that conditions, worst even taking into account the total loss of coordination between Spanish and French ships.
There are tons of documents from Cadiz, with a list of the names they could get of all the Spanish, French and British sailors who ended up at the coast after the battle. Even the reports of the British ships sunk during the battle and the ones that ended up at Gibraltar heavily damaged.
There is a story too, from Britain, when some of the ships returned after the battle and a lot of ppl noticed they are a lot less than the expected, upon the celebration for the victory, the government paid 2 or 3 times more than usual to all the families who lost people serving on the fleet, not only for the victory itself, but to buy some silence about the cassualties, supposedly way higher than the official ones.
@@dathit7315jesus ive never seen such bullsh*t on the internet
Same IQ like flatearthers who believe all australians are paid Nasa Actors. Where do you think the thousands of memoires, logbooks, diaries, paintings etc come from? All 45.000 men involved were paid by who exactly, the british? so you tell me 10.000 allied sailors who escaped, lied about numbers and the course of the battle, for what reason?
jesus some people just must be left behind
And another century of dominating the seas setting up the biggest empire the world has ever seen!
We really need a movie about this event, in the caliber of master and commander. Experiencing this must have been absolute madness.
Apparently, Hollywood hasn't been up to the task. There was one TV movie in 2005 called Nelson's Trafalgar, but no others. Maybe because of the difficulty and expense of constructing a warship from Nelson's era. Master and Commander, for instance, built a replica of the HMS Surprise, but that was only a 24-gun frigate. Nelson's HMS Victory was four times that size. But CGI technology is getting better every day. Perhaps only the HMS Victory needs to be built of oak, tar and canvas, and the rest can be filled in digitally.
@@RobCummings Was the one in 2005 any good
Master and commander is such a good movie
Master and commander did such a wonderful job in cinema. This time period was a bloodbath.
Great job on this!!!
The greatest and most underrated film, and book series, of our time!
I've watched that movie many many times.
About to watch it again ... ahh bliss
You should Watch the "Hornblower" TV series as well if you haven’t, really good stuff!
It was supposed to be the first movie of a trilogy, but the other movies were never made. Would've loved to have seen them.
This is very violent. Holy shit. I cant imagine what it’s like to be a 16 year old soldier and seeing your partner get his head blown off and your higher-up get blown in half by a cannon ball. It feels similar to US Civil War and WWI-WWII stories.
Yeah, this might secretly be our most violent one yet--not in scale (that's Mongols) but perhaps detail. There were much younger kids (11-12) serving on board, as well.
@MuhsinShah-se9fc
The powder magazine was as well protected as they could make it at the time, using copper lining to reduce the possibility of sparks, copper tools, and a (I believe) silk curtain in the door to prevent static from getting in and accidentally igniting the powder.
Stuff still happened, though.
I think this type of battle is far more terrifying than anything a battlefield has to offer. Artillery and long range weapons aside, at least on land you can move around. You're stuck on that boat with nowhere to hide or run to. The amount of concentrated fire in such an isolated place just wreaks of terror, its crazy people can survive it.
@MuhsinShah-se9fc A bit of a fun but pointless fact, but in modern artillery units the person who handles the powder is still called a powder monkey. Of course conditions have improved somewhat since the Napoleonic era.
@@matman7691 Yes, before jumping into the research for this, I don't think I fully appreciated the unique terror of being on stuck on a ship with only a few planks of wood separating you and 100+ cannons pointed at you. Nowhere to run.
As a Brit I'll look at Nelson's column differently next time I see it in Trafalgar Square, thank you for making such a detailed video!!!
Nelson, by far, is the best admiral the world has ever seen, ready to go one step further for total victory. Thank God for Horatio Nelson!
I think he would be flattered, but if I remember my history right, I think it was Nelson himself that said, "I cannot be the greatest admiral in history, for I am not Admiral Yi."
Something tells me they would have gotten along great.
Edit: Ah, correction, that was Admiral Togo when being compare to both. My apologies.
Its worth mentioning Horatio lord Nelson also was prone to being sea sick one of the greatest captians in history...often got sea sick 🤯🤯
History dose is massively underrated
Right ! ! ! Between him and Mark Felton, I am like, WOW ! ! !
@@alexanderkeeley9359 👍
I would love if you guys covered any of the major battles of the napoleonic era, Borodino especially given the immense loss of life, but Friedland or (obviously) Austerlitz could be brilliantly brought to life with your guys dramatic style, you guys could really do these epic and historic battles justice and lend them a vividness most yt history channels would not be able to achieve
don’t get me wrong this was absolutely excellent, it just left me wanting even more and the napoleonic era is my favorite era of european history
If you haven’t found yet, Epic History TV is the single greatest channel on Napoleon and has incredible vids on all major napoleonic battles.
@@Esork1 oh trust me I have binged all of them lol
I Second Borodino. Can Imagine the art for the fleche and redoubt will be just as gore some.
It’s always a good day when History Dose uploads! Nobody else does it like you do, bravo!
Thanks!!
Napoleon wasn’t just a conqueror, he was also a good statesman. Around his sarcophagus in Les Invalides is a list of all of his deeds concerning industry and commerce, not to mention a lot of public works projects.
Paid in blood. Was it worth it?
@@dorivaldojunior2254 Yeah, he created a modern French state. He created a national bank, etc. He created the Napoleonic code, which modern laws are still based on
@@dorivaldojunior2254 not really. it's not like if it was on him. War had been going on for 7 years when he came to power. Neither the british nor the other european monarchs wanted peace. So considering it would have been paid in blood anyway....
This is true. Code Napoleon was an attempt to remake France into a modern state.
Nobles and wealthy could no longer purchase a rank or a command. They had to earn it through talent and skill, something other nations didn't encourage until much later.
The justice system was modernized and fair etc. etc.
@@dr.tamasypeter8597 Lol, not here in the States, they aren’t. They’re based on our own Founders. Lot of good it’s fine y’all, sure globalist psychopaths are trying to take us over here, too- but they’re MUCH further along with y’all in Europe. He was a globalist too, lol. As long as we have 2A, they will still try to take it away, but good luck with that.
One of the biggest ass kickings in history.
British naval tactics were balls to the wall. Sail straight at the enemy, get alongside the enemy ship, and pump as much shot in their hull in as little time as possible. Sounds simple but it’s a winning strategy when you are good at all the little things.
British Admirals knew that they had extremely capable crews at their disposal. No Navy could match British rate of fire. That’s why Nelson knew if he could get his fleet directly amongst his enemy all the British Captains had to do was let their men’s training and experience finish the job
@@charliereader3462 hence “England expects every man will do his duty” not being a challenge to live up to, but rather showing Nelson’s confidence in his men. Just looking at how scared Villieneuve was, the battle was won before it had even started. Nelson was in his head and all Nelson had to do was break the French and Spanish battle line and Villieneuve would be powerless to put it back together. In the United States we call that bully ball.
In Trafalgar Spain loses 11 ships. France 13 ships. The British speak of that battle as the great naval battle in history and the only one against combined fleets.
But that battle almost does not enter the top-10 of Spanish naval victories.
1 Lepanto 1571: 200 Turkish ships sunk. Spanish Admiral Juan de Austria
2 Miracle of Empel, Holland 1585. 100 Dutch ships sunk in a single night
3 Drake's Invincible Fleet 1589: 80 English ships sunk
4 Battle of Cádiz 1625: 62 ships of the combined fleet of England and Holland sunk
5 Spanish blockade of England: 1780. 55 British ships captured
6 Battle of Cartagena de Indias: 50 Royal Navy ships sunk
7 Battle of La Rochelle 1372. 48 English ships sunk. 0 Spaniards sunk
8 Battle of La Rochelle 1419. 40 Hanseatic League ships captured
9 Spanish blockade of England: 1782. 24 British ships captured
10 Battle of Muros Bay 1543. 24 French ships captured or sunk
@@charliereader3462 But you have to get off the ships to win the war, and so Nelson is captured at Tenerife in 1797, and the British lose in Argentina and Uruguay in 1806-07, capturing the British redcoats and generals.
Furthermore, Trafalgar does not enter the top-10 of Spanish naval victories.
1 Lepanto 1571: 200 Turkish ships sunk. Spanish Admiral Juan of Austria
2 Miracle of Empel, Holland 1585. 100 Dutch ships sunk in a single night
3 Drake's Invincible Fleet 1589: 80 English ships sunk
4 Battle of Cádiz 1625: 62 ships of the combined fleet of England and Holland sunk
5 Spanish blockade of England: 1780. 55 British ships captured
6 Battle of Cartagena de Indias: 50 Royal Navy ships sunk
7 Battle of La Rochelle 1372. 48 English ships sunk. 0 Spaniards sunk
8 Battle of La Rochelle 1419. 40 Hanseatic League ships captured
9 Spanish blockade of England: 1782. 24 British ships captured
10 Battle of Muros Bay 1543. 24 French ships captured or sunk
@@Gloriaimperial1 why are you Spaniards so salty when it comes to Britain talking about past success. Trafalgar isn’t important because of number of ships captured or destroyed, which was a very impressive amount for that era (these were ships of the line, not armed merchantmen like those at Cartagena). It’s important because it led to a century of unchallenged British naval control, which was crucial to British success. If you want to blame British propaganda then go ahead, but perhaps if Spain hadn’t lost its power and influence whilst Britains was on the rise, then it would be me moaning about ‘Spanish Propaganda’ instead
Lord Nelson is the kind of commander I would follow to hell and back!
Excellent educational!
Thanks for sharing!
Really puts into perspective how powerful music is. Even in the midst of men being ripped apart by wood and metal. They keep playing. They keep up the moral. Hell, even in this video, just having that background music really sets the time and place. Even today, combat athletes will walk out to a song that gets them ready to fight. Music really is powerful
That image at 6:57 goes so hard. the image of basically that one scene from pirates of the Caribbean of the guy walking down the stairs but instead it's Nelson standing at the deck, unmoving and unwavering. The wheel being blown off as the splinters fly in his face and yet he still does not move. So epic. What a fantastic video
8:07 For those that may not know it, the ship that came to Victory's aid against Redoutable has a name: HMS Temeraire. For this action of keeping Nelson's flagship from being boarded, the ship became legendary among the British public and the mythos of Trafalgar, gaining the nickname "The Fighting Temeraire". Arguably though, her greatest immortality would come in her final moments; in 1838, she was towed off to be scrapped, which became the subject of the famous watercolour painting by J.M.W. Turner that currently resides in the National Gallery in London.
Thank you for this comment, I didn't know that was the very same ship as the Turner painting. Excellent fact!
one of my favorite history channels. The imagery, sound effects and dialogue are perfect. Youll have over 1 mil subscribers in no timer
Fantastic video. As an Englishman, I’ve always idolised Nelson. Our hero and saviour
Damn right mate, LONG LIVE NELSON AND THE VICTORY!!!
Excellent recounting, the portraiture really aids in the visualization of these naval battles that no one alive has ever witnessed. Trafalger has always been a fascinating battle to me and I hope one day we get a historically accurate film or miniseries depicting it.
Great work thank you! . I’m lucky I can say I’ve been aboard HMS Victory , I’ve been to see Nelson’s blood stained uniform from the battle , I’ve been to see the musket ball that killed him , I’ve touched HMS Victory’s main sail from the battle , I’ve been to see Nelson’s coffin in St Paul’s Cathedral and I’ve been to Cadiz . Great history and you did it justice with your video here. Be great if you did more Napoleonic Wars videos.
Thanks!! It’s a bucket list item for me to go on the Victory when I get around to visiting England!
@HistoryDose It's great and next to HMS Victory is Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose
@@13JAMLAND Cadiz is fabulous. I have been many times. Trafalgar is, as the Spanish say, “El Quinto Pino,” meaning the middle of nowhere, but it’s a nice couple of beaches to visit and a great place to gaze out over the sea and imagine those events of so long ago. Fair warning- don’t get in the water there. Vicious rip tides.
I need to get back to the UK and catch more military history museums!
Amazing that just you two outdid Ridley Scott and his whole crew
The art work on this one was just amazing 🤯
Thanks! We’ll go through some of the art process for this one in an upcoming live stream!!
This video had serious Master and Commander/RotJ energy… I would have much preferred a late 90s/mid 00s style movie about Trafalgar than what we got from _Napoleon._
Joe and I actually rewatched Master and Commander before we started editing the video, just for inspiration with ambience and sound design
@@HistoryDose fantastic choice. Good book and movie. Thank you for all of your hard work on this. Loved it!
You guys are getting better and better at these videos, the music and the artwork is second to none. Also Horatio Nelson is a G
A great presentation. I think it's worth mentioning the HMS Temeraire commanded by Captain Harvey. She fought alongside the Victory and played a major role in securing the destruction of the enemy fleet. The doubleshotted broadside that Temeraire discharged into the Redoutable may have saved HMS Victory from being boarded.
I have seen this countless times and shown it to numerous people who have watched it once again themselves. From start to finish, it’s like glue to the eyes and ears. The artwork is enchanting, the narration is brilliantly paced and structured, and the sound design puts you amidst the action. This is a complete masterpiece.
Thank you so much! Joe and I were really happy with the way this turned out. We’d like to do more naval content in the future!
I think History Dose should do an episode on the Cimbri War. The artwork with these tall Danes decimating the Roman legions at Arausio would be highly cool. It's also one of the most understated conflicts of all time.
This was your best yet. Awesome. I could really picture the scenes. Great artwork. Allegiance to Lord Admiral Nelson always
Nineteenth-century naval warfare was insane
"You think you're so great because you have boats!" Ridley Scott's Napoleon, 2023
That film was so bad😂
I haven't seen the movie, but I'm not surprised that was included...
Haven't seen the movie, but in clips it looks like Boney is portrayed as a bit of a clown.
Can we just take a moment to look at thé work this Guy Puts in his videos it's one of the few history channels who put real work into it i fkn love it
The sound design, editing, art, and clear, direct narration really make the videos from this channel stand out in a great way. I subbed right away.
2:13 has to be one of the most epic paintings ever
This was epic! Another amazing story and production of history. I had no idea about this insane sea battle during the Napoleonic wars
Villeneuve was a pioneer of the "suicide by 3 shots to the head" trope
I stood in front of Nelson's tomb once. People like him aren't around anymore.
I am completely blind but I really enjoy listening your videos, it gives me a complete imagination with the help of sound effects. Keep up the good work
Thanks for being so wholesome.
An instant History Dose classic. Yet another outstanding video.
“It is with great sadness that Admiral Villeneuve took his own life to preserve his honor. By stabbing himself five times in the lung and once in the heart.” The French State Bureau probably.
These kind of videos rocks. The sounds and the imagery both accompany each other and amazing narration.
wow you guys really know how to get people fully engrossed in a story amazing
Is there anybody more badass than Horatio Nelson? Not too many…
@@adamseidel9780 The guy who shot and killed him
To think this was some years before the war of 1812 imagine US Admirals dealing with Nelson
America would be intergrated back to the British Empire.
Or American generals dealing with Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington!
@@kosmas173 maybe.....but look at reality today, the UK is practically America's son now lol.
@@weaver1507 more like US taking care of his old dad
@@weaver1507UK still has one of the best navies & one of the highest trained military crazy what a tiny island can do. US & UK are allies no one’s soning the other.
These videos keep being so unreal, the quality and story telling is goated bro keep going en and more on napoleon please
Thank you for this. This is the amazing story telling of history I’ve always sought.
Talking about the battle of trafalgar and my heritage apparently I’m related to the second in command for the British (cuthbert collingwood) and that took over once Nelson died in battle
this 14 minute video was better than Ridley Scott’s entire film
Amazing content as always! Would love to see some more content around Napoleon and his battles on land.
Really well done on noting on just how long these gruesome sea battles were in this era. The battle of the Nile and Trafalgar were just several days of organised cruises to Hades. Fantastic detail 🙏 love history dose.
indubitably thee best narration sans an english accent. well done, ol chap.
This is brilliant. Thanks so much! Finally we've got a decent explanation of why Napoleon threw a fit about the English having boats in the latest Ridley Scott take on it :D
Wow guys! You really out did yourselves with this one! The music, sound effects, and art are simply gripping!
What a great birthday gift! A video on one of my fav. historic topics! Just in time before the party starts :D
Can’t guarantee you’ll have your appetite after this, but happy birthday!
Chills run across every part of me and tears well into my eyes eyes as I am transported to those oaken decks awash with blood and bodies of boys and men who fought and died on that long ago October Day. May they and all the other souls claimed by the sea and in the violence that has occurred on those deep waters rest in peace, where in life there was none, in death there is nothing else. Fair winds and following seas….
Magnificent, simply magnificent. This video superbly illustrated the crushing defeat of the inferior French and Spanish fleet. It was thrilling yet I still felt a tear come to my eye as Admiral Lord Nelson slipped away. A more brilliant and dedicated subject of the Crown could not have been hoped for. Three cheers for him and his men.
When you say "inferior," do you mean in fighting capabilities?.
Because the Combined French/Spanish fleet outnumbered the Royal Navy, 33 ships of the line, to 27 ships of the line for the Royal Navy.
@daneelolivaw602 Yes, didn't it say that the French were under no illusion that they couldn't match the British in cannon fire so they had way more infrantry
Its very sad that there are those who have taken great people such as Nelson and are trying be diminish their place in history.
Beautiful story telling, thank you for bringing history to life.
Your narrating/writing skills are golden! I love this channel so much!!
Loved it! More Napoleon content please!
I don’t usually comment but I just have to say @HistoryDose is such a blessing on the RUclips landscape. Gorgeous artwork, fantastic storytelling. These combined with the history provide some of the best infotainment on RUclips, hell maybe any platform. You and your brother rock!
Thank you so much!!!
You have an awesome voice for storytelling. Keep up the good work.
Bruh as far I’m concerned the best educational RUclips video creators goes: horses, lemmino and then history dose this guys freaking awesome
It’s not easy to unpack, but this history documentary does a great job of shedding light on it
The quality of these videos are unparalleled. Thanks guys!
History Dose releasing more bangers than a HMS Victory Broadside
Didn’t this battle ensure British naval supremacy for the next 100 years? Because it was such a complete and crushing victory
right up until 1914 when the German East Asia Squadron defeated Cradock and his fleet off the coast of Chile
This is my new favourite channel. Great production and captivating storytelling!
Brilliantly narrated, great artwork and some superb attention to pivtoal moments in the battle. Perhaps none more so than when HMS Temeraire saved HMS Victory from boarding and capture by the French ship Redoubtable; possibly the greatest and most important broadside ever fired by the Royal Navy.
Bravo sir, a great video and am now subscribed!
Okay, this is definitely one of your best videos. The specific details of how the battle strategically played out, including when ships struck each other and from which side, when those 2 ships were close enough for musket fire to actually hit people on the other ship, the super gorey accounts, etc etc... I wish most battles had enough documented stories from survivors to paint this clear of a picture. I think this was a bigger tragedy than the Titanic even though it's not civilians dying.
Now I don't even care that I'm about to spend 5 hours waiting at the car service shop, because that's nothing compared to war. Videos like this help people realize that war is very rarely worth it.
For any fans of Naomi Novik who don't already know, the ship that saved Victory from the Redoutable was HMS Temeraire.
That gave me chills😢
Another great video. Always get excited when there’s a new History Dose!
Your videos seriously just get better and better dude. My favorite channel on RUclips.
Thanks! New video very soon!
This is my favorite channel. Great job, as always!
Thanks!!!
Great narration. The flat tone works wonderfully. No over doing it. Nice
Love hearing about ship warfare. I feel like it's so rare to hear about it. Such a great video
I love art and history, HOW WOULD I NOT LOVE THIS CHANNEL
Fantastic to see you back! And with a great subject as well
This was a REALLY well done video. Excellent. One of the better ones.
You have done an excellent job at bringing this battle to life!
Yes sir welcome back gents 🤙🏾 As always thanks for the great content ✊🏾
Brutal,detail and good description of the horror of 19 century naval warfare
The sound design is sooooooo good man holy shit.😩
one of the best history videos ive ever seen. thank you
This one was incredible👏🏻 more battle stories to come?
Nelson like inconvenienced by losing his spine "i believe it's the L6, maybe 7. Ugh so annoying take me to my room"
I spent way to long replaying this. Great storytelling technique.
Something I’ve considered while watching your brilliant videos, while not relevant to me personally, would be the addition of the original writing in the background.
Such as the passage at 8:50, having the original French transcription written in the background for those who do speak it, and not just the English translation, I think would be a nice addition.
It’s been something that consistently crossed me mind watching your videos. It may be a bit difficult as I assume it would be done by someone working on the art, or add a deal more work elsewhere depending on how it’s done, especially if you are writing in non-roman characters such as Russian, or Arabic, but I feel like it would add a lot more if possible.
I also *tentatively* suggest the idea of AI to add the text to a drawn a letter or something in the background because I feel like that kind of thing would be doable but that requires using AI :/
Nelson was something else.
It's written he often was one of the first into the fray.
He loved a good scrap did Lord Nelson.
Often funny to imagine the society they moved in were unaware for the most part of the absolute savagery that war entails.
Humans are peculiar.
I think heritage is such a interesting thing and i would love a video where you and your brother, i think it is your borther that you run the cannel with, go over your ancestry and were you come from
Best history channel out there keep up the amazing work
You two never fail to impress. Please don't stop making such great quality content.
I get transported every time I watch this channel, great work
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Incredible video, been looking forward to this greatly. Makes me want to finish my HMS Victory model now