French officers are - sometimes - good too : "Messieurs les Anglais, tirez les premiers." "English Gentlemen, shoot first." Comte d’ANTERROCHES (1710-1785), to Lord Charles Hay, Battle of Fontenoy, may 11, 1745 . 😜
Lafayette along with Von Steuben became two of Washington's closest officers, as well as becoming lifelong friends. Lafayette becoming a staff officer for Washington and Von Steuben Inspector General (as well as writing a book simplified in manual of arms for the Continentals). I think I read somewhere that nearly every US state has a county named 'Lafayette' in honor of the Marquis.
The real life story of Lafayette is amazing enough. Numerous places in my city St. Louis are named Lafayette. I read many years later after the Revolution he toured the United States visiting all the states and was given the reception of a rock star.
@@markdavis7397 quite the opposite actually, I'm pretty sure he was celebrated and given grand arrivals wherever he went, towns and such being named after him on the spot. I think he was wined and dined by just about every city as well. I'm not 100%, but I'm actually pretty sure he was appreciated just about everywhere and for all times, mainly because Washington was his adopted father
@@markdavis7397 sadly your comment stands now, it's today that people have no idea, or top idiotic revisionist history, I'd say most people they know about in these days are somehow tried to be convinced he was bad just because he was friends with Washington. State of American education is not only ignorance, but it's actually taught in such a way that the last thing one would ever develop is pride.
@@markdavis7397 sorry, you miss my meaning. That wasn't directed in any way at you, I was actually ranting over the fact that it's more likely that today's generation wouldn't appreciate the man versus his visit to the country 200 plus years ago based on what I feel is lacking in the education system. None of that was supposed to be targeting you or insulting in any way shape or form, and if it came across that way I apologize.
I was looking for this comment. You can see him look down and step around the "shot" then literally be confused before he remembers he supposed to go down! 😆
@@LionKing-ew9rm The British soldiers were dressed as Napoleonic Highlanders. It was not the Napoleonic era nor were the Highlanders (Scottish) fighting in this battle.
This movie really looks interesting. as a History junkie im surprised that I've never seen this before. One thing that might be wrong is that the highlanders look Napoleonic.
The great actor Jack Hawkins playing the British General. What a good actor, so good he made zulu a brill film too when he played the missionary at Rorkes Drift 'you're all going to die!', in his croaky voice.
There was no bridge at this battle. That's why they were using Chadd's Ford to attack. It was where the water level was lowest in the Brandywine River. General Knyphausen was trying to get Washington to cross the river and attack him so Cornwallis could then outflank them. It was when Washington realized he was being outflanked he sent Lafayette and troops to stop them at the Birmingham Meeting House. That is where Lafayette was wounded.
I’m just gonna sit here as a Hessian Reenactor and laugh my ass off at the amount of uniform inaccuracies. Not only that I’ve lived near Philly and I haven’t seen mountains like that whatsoever.
No, no, no....that was the battle of Brandywine California.😆 I lived in Lancaster, PA for 14 years and noticed the same thing. (Visited Brandywine as well, terrain is way off).
The British crossed the Brandywine in the dead of night after a night march with all equipment muffled to prevent any noise. The Hessian brigade then attacked across the original lower ford whilst Cornwallis and (I think) General Howe forded the Brandywine further up and attacked with the majority of the Infantry and Grenadiers taking Washington in the flank. Washington was convinced he was facing the entire British force at the lower ford and refused to believe reports of the larger force approaching from up river - result: Washington ran away leaving his army to be slaughtered in a pincer movement. In other words we did NOT come marching in with pipes and drums blaring out in the middle of the day! And this time it wasn't even Hollywood!
Surprised to see a lot of shit going on here to be honest. Entirely different British flag, Napoleonic tunics, bridges made of Tiger tank frontal armour. Extraordinary really, clearly my History degree was entirely inaccurate, the bastards.
Oops, I'm not even an expert and I caught that. Saw this movie years and years ago ( a lot of afternoon TV). Kinda loose on the history stuff, but corny fun.
People always find something against props of this and that details being used, but one thing is quite sure: real actors are more natural than CGI even if they had wrong weapons.
What I never got to see when I was in Mr. Mork's, Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary School 5th grade class was 'Lafayette Young Patriot.' This is definitely part of classic American history. No British Army soldier has ever said this, "I wish I was just like an extraterrestrial alien who bleeds green blood," to the electronic Jeanie named Zolt. You know very well that, the poem called Yankee doodle fought the bloody British, is an insult to the people that wear red jackets as of nowadays.
Couldn't they have at least tried to make it look like Southeastern Pennsylvania? We don't have mountains like that in this area. And what was that cavalry charge all about?
"Couldn't they have at least tried to make it look like...." Well, now you know how the rest of the world feels when americans are making movies about other countries....
LOL - Davey Crocket-like dude at 3:15 walks right over top "explosion", looks back and thinks "crap, I guess I better look like I'm dying". Quick thinking on his part.
The film is nonsense. The actual uniform worn highland regiments in North America at the time was brown trousers not kilts as worn other British regiments, due to the climate in North America and the risk of mosquito bites. Most regiments also wore slouch hats or derby hats in North America. The Highlanders on campaign wore cut down derby hats not feather bonnets which were impractical
@@mojo199 No. Not all ARW Highland Regiments wore brown (Iberian) trousers to the Americas, others wore white breeches + gaiters, regimental tartan trousers, and kilts. Unfeathered and or Single-Feathered bonnets were more common than folded slouch hats. Take a look at Don Troiani's uniform gallery on ARW Highlanders.
@@thekingshussar1808 No by the late 1770s, all regiments were wearing trousers in the field due to practicality. Yes Kilts would still have been used for festivities and parades. Yes I meant to add cut down bonnets were also an option and used by English and loyalist regiments as well
Those Highlanders are wearing regimental coatees (with very FARBY regimental lace) from the Napoleonic era, and Highlander feather bonnets from the Crimean War era
Being Australian, it's hard not to barrack for the British, what these films don't show is that heaps & heaps of Americans were Loyalists too, it was scary just exactly what sort of Government, an American nation would forge, luckily they had good men at helm, & worked out in the end.
4:57 wasted. There was no bridge; the Americans never attacked on Sullivan's front, but received the British advance and then mixed it up; the climax of the battle was in late afternoon, running to twilight -- not broad daylight as here. Darkness actually ended the British pursuit. And so on.
What - you mean a cavalry charge against its natural prey, open formation infantry, instead of dramatically galloping to a photogenic skirmish with the other chap’s horses? Where would veracity be, I ask you!
Since this is a french movie, it seems that they couldn't move on from waterloo they placed highlanders in here just to defeat them unlike the last time
Sorry bro but Lafayette is played in fact by Michel Le Royer, not Pascale Audret (a woman). She's in the cast yup, but you forgot to mention the first role so ...
So far as I know the first british guards achived the bearhat for beating the French guard in Waterloo battle. By the way - the black watch really does fighting in the colonies?
The funny thing is you watch the begging of this and you think how did we lose?! Which is probably egzactly how the Americans felt during Vietnam! Love Tom
Let’s see. I am making a surprise flanking maneuver on my enemy so I can cross the river on their flank without them knowing. Maybe while I am doing this, I will have my band play their bag pipes and drums. No way the enemy will know I am coming.
Washington had received Mercenary Swiss and German Officers to train US troops, La Fayette wasn't actually a military man, his strenghts was using a fork and knife at the dinner table, his second in command a Swiss mercenary geenral was the true leader.
@@Aranubis usually the names would be from the same families such as d'Arlac or von Erlach, also de Meuron, de Watteville and many others, Swiss used to work on both sides, for who ever paid best the Swiss Sir Frederic Haldimand was military Governor General of Canada and Swiss origin Sir George Prevost was Commander in Chief of British North America, also later Swiss regiments such as the de Meuron regiment kicked American ass in defense of British Canada. As once a British office said to a Swiss officer, You have no honour working for money, the Swiss replied;" We work for what we don't have". With Swiss orign Eddie Rickenbacker and general Eisenhower USA had 2 military men everybody knows. Also the name Custer the English claim is Anglo-Saxon without any proof of precise origin could be also a Swiss name Kuster which is quite common. Many Swiss changed their names such as Huber-Hoover, Brunner-Brynner, Hirschi-Herschey, but the Pfeiffer, Zelllweger, Caviezel, Schreiber, Giger, Sullenberger, Röthlisberger, Cesar Ritz, Kübler-Ross, Guggeheim, Chevrolet, Nestlé, kept their Swiss names.
@@Aranubis With no combat experience and not yet 20 years old, Lafayette was nonetheless appointed a major general in the Continental Army, and he quickly struck up a lasting friendship with the American commander in chief, George Washington. The childless general and the orphaned aristocrat seemed an unlikely pair, but they soon developed a surrogate father-son relationship. It was as thus that Lafayette distinguished himself among a large colourful group of European soldiers of fortune and idealists-among them Frederick William, Freiherr von Steuben, of Prussia and Tadeusz Kościuszko and Kazimierz Pułaski of Poland-who had joined the Continental Army to fight for American independence. so the name of the Swiss adjutant of Lafayette who actually commaneded the US troops is missing same case as for the British general Amherst who's troops were in fact commanded by Swiss Colonel Bouquet, most incompetent leaders never admitted that somebody else commanded.
"La Fayette" a French-Italian film released in 1962 with Michel de Royer, Jack Hawkins and Orson Welles. I live about an hour away from Brandywine and the terrain is not mountainous, but undulating. But, it is a movie after all.
Percussion muskets? Long before they came into use in the 1830s? Somebody didn't do their research or couldn't they find flintlocks? ( firelocks in the British military parlance of the time)
bad mistake on the British muskets - cap and ball - should have been standard flintlock. Cap and ball (percussion) didn't come along for another 50 years or so.
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I had no "idea" that the British Army had already Percussion Locks instead of Flintlocks. I'm impressed.....
A time traveler brought a stash back from the Civil War.
I saw it too. 3:26
They went back to the flintlock after the battle because it was unfair.
you also have a napoleonian husard with helmet in it. At 3:33 ... sneaky Napoleon. Probably some legit things about the stuntman i guess ...
@@kékédesplages-d6d - Those are Dragoons, and the Helmet is right for them. Check out American Light Dragoons , American Revolution.
Artillery round explodes next to him. "This punch is cold!" Love the stiff British officers!
Like Wellington yelling at a bugler in 'Waterloo' (1970), "STOP THAT USELESS NOISE! You'll hurt yourself."
@@charlessaint7926 The British persona in these movies really make me smile.
@@AbrahamLincoln4 Same lol
French officers are - sometimes - good too :
"Messieurs les Anglais, tirez les premiers." "English Gentlemen, shoot first."
Comte d’ANTERROCHES (1710-1785), to Lord Charles Hay, Battle of Fontenoy, may 11, 1745 . 😜
@@LaurentCOMMELARD lol, I've heard of that. Yes, they were gentlemen like the British.
Lafayette along with Von Steuben became two of Washington's closest officers, as well as becoming lifelong friends. Lafayette becoming a staff officer for Washington and Von Steuben Inspector General (as well as writing a book simplified in manual of arms for the Continentals). I think I read somewhere that nearly every US state has a county named 'Lafayette' in honor of the Marquis.
"Surrender!
-JAMAIS!"
*Throws his sword in the heart if the enemy soldier*
BULLSEYE
The real life story of Lafayette is amazing enough. Numerous places in my city St. Louis are named Lafayette. I read many years later after the Revolution he toured the United States visiting all the states and was given the reception of a rock star.
I think it was around 50 years later ... just before the 50th anniversary of independence.
@@markdavis7397 quite the opposite actually, I'm pretty sure he was celebrated and given grand arrivals wherever he went, towns and such being named after him on the spot. I think he was wined and dined by just about every city as well. I'm not 100%, but I'm actually pretty sure he was appreciated just about everywhere and for all times, mainly because Washington was his adopted father
@@markdavis7397 sadly your comment stands now, it's today that people have no idea, or top idiotic revisionist history, I'd say most people they know about in these days are somehow tried to be convinced he was bad just because he was friends with Washington. State of American education is not only ignorance, but it's actually taught in such a way that the last thing one would ever develop is pride.
@@markdavis7397 sorry, you miss my meaning. That wasn't directed in any way at you, I was actually ranting over the fact that it's more likely that today's generation wouldn't appreciate the man versus his visit to the country 200 plus years ago based on what I feel is lacking in the education system. None of that was supposed to be targeting you or insulting in any way shape or form, and if it came across that way I apologize.
@@lonewulf44 he didn’t miss your meaning dumbass he made a joke
3:14 the American officer forgot for a second that he got hit by shrapnel.
I was looking for this comment. You can see him look down and step around the "shot" then literally be confused before he remembers he supposed to go down! 😆
Thought he forgot where the charge was and had a "oh crap" moment realizing.
It's not shrapnel.. it's explosive shot.
Shrapnels of the period were flying rounds and explode upon mid-air with tiny percussive pieces of it, like bullets, striking the soldiers below.
Funny though, isnt it,...sneaking up behind the enemies position with a company of pipers loud enough to wake the dead.
Well disciplined troops, but they do make one hell of a racket.
stealth mode
I was thinking the same thing. Hardly a stealthy flanking maneuver.
Honestly over the sounds of battle its not as likely to hear it as you might think.
@@generalamsel437 Granted, but do you really think it happened like that ?
Nothing like having a platoon of drums and bagpipes playing when trying to conceal your movement.
This how Scottish regiments marched into battle watch the film Waterloo.
@@chrisholland7367 My point was the aid tells the general it's obvious Washington doesn't know their position while bagpipes and drums are playing.
The uniforms.. so many inaccuracies, but fun!
The British Union flag is wrong. The red cross of Ireland didn't appear on the flag until 30 years later.
The King's Hussar,
Could you explain more?
@@LionKing-ew9rm The British soldiers were dressed as Napoleonic Highlanders. It was not the Napoleonic era nor were the Highlanders (Scottish) fighting in this battle.
@@LionKing-ew9rm & I want to add to this : at 1:25 they are using uniforms from the 7 Years War for the 35th Regiment of Foot
@@LionKing-ew9rm and the British artillerymen should be dressed in blue
This movie really looks interesting. as a History junkie im surprised that I've never seen this before. One thing that might be wrong is that the highlanders look Napoleonic.
Not very often do you see the French angle on the story.
Not to mention the US troops in the shot had more uniforms then the entire army of that time lol
And they are using percussion cap rifles which are a minimum of 50 years in the future.
No, they look Early-Mid Victorian.
As I understand the bearskin was adopted after they defeated Napoleon’s Old Guard but still looks a interesting movie to track down.
The great actor Jack Hawkins playing the British General. What a good actor, so good he made zulu a brill film too when he played the missionary at Rorkes Drift 'you're all going to die!', in his croaky voice.
He also played as General Picton Hill in Waterloo (1970)
I saw this segment in high school American history, in the spring of '78. Such memories ...
There was no bridge at this battle. That's why they were using Chadd's Ford to attack. It was where the water level was lowest in the Brandywine River. General Knyphausen was trying to get Washington to cross the river and attack him so Cornwallis could then outflank them. It was when Washington realized he was being outflanked he sent Lafayette and troops to stop them at the Birmingham Meeting House. That is where Lafayette was wounded.
I’m just gonna sit here as a Hessian Reenactor and laugh my ass off at the amount of uniform inaccuracies. Not only that I’ve lived near Philly and I haven’t seen mountains like that whatsoever.
@786シドニー HOLD UP YOURE JOKING
The film is from 1961 what did you expect?
No, no, no....that was the battle of Brandywine California.😆
I lived in Lancaster, PA for 14 years and noticed the same thing. (Visited Brandywine as well, terrain is way off).
I was going to comment about the mountains also not what the greater Philly area looks like!
filmed in yugoslavia and for some parts in France'( versailles, chenonceau)
I like how they used percussion muskets instead of flintlocks
I saw it too. 3:26
@@416loren I as well. I just commented on it. Darn, I thought I was only one.
Did anyone else notice how the tiny wooden bridge survived a direct British cannon shot 😂
High explosive artillery shells had not been invented yet.
@@abc64pan Yeh but there was literally no effect haha, a massive ball of metal would have at least made a hole...
Love how at 3:16 the officer hit by artillery has a delayed death
The British crossed the Brandywine in the dead of night after a night march with all equipment muffled to prevent any noise. The Hessian brigade then attacked across the original lower ford whilst Cornwallis and (I think) General Howe forded the Brandywine further up and attacked with the majority of the Infantry and Grenadiers taking Washington in the flank. Washington was convinced he was facing the entire British force at the lower ford and refused to believe reports of the larger force approaching from up river - result: Washington ran away leaving his army to be slaughtered in a pincer movement.
In other words we did NOT come marching in with pipes and drums blaring out in the middle of the day! And this time it wasn't even Hollywood!
Highlander: Surrender!
Lafayette: Never!
Highlander: Surrender!
Lafayette: Never! *Throws sword*
Highlander: *Sword in chest* Gah!
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Highlanders look like they're literally about to march on Quatre bras in Belgium.
No, more like Alma, Crimea.
Are you suggesting blatant and obvious historical inaccuracy in a film about the American Revolutionary War? Surely not!
@@macdansav1546 lol sarcasm
Who's bra again? lol
has Wellington nothing to offer me but these amazons?
0:49 Those are some awfully tall hills for eastern Pennsylvania
Thank you. Excellent clip
A bit surprised to see the highlanders using percussion caps 45 years before they were invented...
Good eye there.
Surprised to see a lot of shit going on here to be honest. Entirely different British flag, Napoleonic tunics, bridges made of Tiger tank frontal armour. Extraordinary really, clearly my History degree was entirely inaccurate, the bastards.
my thought exaclty
Haha, noticed that too. Came to the comments to see if ya’ll noticed and boom, 1st comment I see
We never know? American Civil War the Feds were using repeating rifles while the South were using caps?
Pause it at 3:27, the Scots are using percussion capped muskets and not flintlocks.
that's like Civil War era muskets.
They had some reinforcements deployed fresh from the Crimea.
Oops, I'm not even an expert and I caught that.
Saw this movie years and years ago ( a lot of afternoon TV). Kinda loose on the history stuff, but corny fun.
No idea where they filmed this, but the geography looks nothing like the area where this battle actually occurred.
2 American tragedies on the same day 200 years apart. 1777 and 2001
I had no idea that the British had percussion cap Brown Bess muskets in the late 18th century. It’s still a good movie!
Yea thats too early for its time
0:43: I've lived in Pennsylvania my whole life but didn't know we had the Rocky Mountains here.
British : lol only 1 young French
commander
British 3 years after : Bruh I surrender
When France was military power.. ⬜ ⚜ now it's all Republic surrender 🇫🇷
je t'aime mon fanatique
@@hudstone4732 Fanatique ? 😂
Historically inaccurate. If that's the Brandywine, where's the Brandywine Bridge? And where the Buckleberry Ferry?
Brandywine Bridge is at the shire, close to the minor town Bree. 🤣🤣🤣
I can't stand to watch anymore because this is very inaccurate. I could point out a lot from memory.
And the black riders?
"Ready!"
"Aim!"
*muskets fire*
"Fire!"
Makes me want to go do a video about what the real Brandywine battlefield looked(and looks) like. Damn, this was stomach-turning-ly bad.
People always find something against props of this and that details being used, but one thing is quite sure: real actors are more natural than CGI even if they had wrong weapons.
1:42 left side of the screen a horse and rider go down lol
4:46 nice approach!
What I never got to see when I was in Mr. Mork's, Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary School 5th grade class was 'Lafayette Young Patriot.' This is definitely part of classic American history. No British Army soldier has ever said this, "I wish I was just like an extraterrestrial alien who bleeds green blood," to the electronic Jeanie named Zolt. You know very well that, the poem called Yankee doodle fought the bloody British, is an insult to the people that wear red jackets as of nowadays.
The bridge reminds of The Good The Bad and The Ugly Civil war scene .
Super to see things I've never seen . . . or don't remember. lol
Good stuff; thanks~
More gruel, please, sir.
Gotta love the Highlanders !
Couldn't they have at least tried to make it look like Southeastern Pennsylvania? We don't have mountains like that in this area. And what was that cavalry charge all about?
I was about to say the same thing too. I went to college near Philly and I’m a Hessian Reenactor. There’s so many issues wrong here.
It was filmed in Italy. This was entirely an Italian-French production IIRC.
"Couldn't they have at least tried to make it look like...."
Well, now you know how the rest of the world feels when americans are making movies about other countries....
filmes in yugoslavia and for some parts in france
I saw a british soldier with a percussion rifle....At that time they used brown Bess flintlock
LOL - Davey Crocket-like dude at 3:15 walks right over top "explosion", looks back and thinks "crap, I guess I better look like I'm dying". Quick thinking on his part.
This punch is cold...
3:27 ... are those...percussion cap musket/rifles? XD I thought the revolution millitary tech at the time used flintlocks mostly?
Not mostly. Completely. Percussion lock technology wasn't even a cleam it's father's eyes yet.
@@packjim56 Okay, that's what I thought xD
highlanders look like there from 1850s
Agreed! More like Crimean War period
The film is nonsense. The actual uniform worn highland regiments in North America at the time was brown trousers not kilts as worn other British regiments, due to the climate in North America and the risk of mosquito bites. Most regiments also wore slouch hats or derby hats in North America. The Highlanders on campaign wore cut down derby hats not feather bonnets which were impractical
@@mojo199 No. Not all ARW Highland Regiments wore brown (Iberian) trousers to the Americas, others wore white breeches + gaiters, regimental tartan trousers, and kilts. Unfeathered and or Single-Feathered bonnets were more common than folded slouch hats. Take a look at Don Troiani's uniform gallery on ARW Highlanders.
@@thekingshussar1808 No by the late 1770s, all regiments were wearing trousers in the field due to practicality. Yes Kilts would still have been used for festivities and parades. Yes I meant to add cut down bonnets were also an option and used by English and loyalist regiments as well
@@mojo199 It was by 1780s they started wearing trousers.
4:44
Scot :Surrender
Him : never
Scot : SURRENDER
HIM : NEVER * THROW SWORD *
SCOT : AAAAAAA
1:42
Anybody notice the horse? Lols
What is the name of the entire movie?
Where can i watch this movie
"They're launching counter attack on our right flank" he says as very specifically looking to the left :S
Came here to see my ancestor carry Lafayette off the battlefield, and dude just got on his horse and kept riding.
Those Highlanders are wearing regimental coatees (with very FARBY regimental lace) from the Napoleonic era, and Highlander feather bonnets from the Crimean War era
Being Australian, it's hard not to barrack for the British, what these films don't show is that heaps & heaps of Americans were Loyalists too, it was scary just exactly what sort of Government, an American nation would forge, luckily they had good men at helm, & worked out in the end.
I'm an Aussie and it's very easy not to barrack for the Poms!
Amongst the horrendous uniform inaccuracies not already mentioned, the Royal Artillery wore blue coats!
The Union Jack is not correct. It show St. Patrick's Cross which was added 1802.
"Washington doesn't know where we are..." Like he couldn't hear the horrendous sound of the bagpipes
American war of Independence (1775-1783)
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Dont forget the spanish and polish
4:57 wasted. There was no bridge; the Americans never attacked on Sullivan's front, but received the British advance and then mixed it up; the climax of the battle was in late afternoon, running to twilight -- not broad daylight as here. Darkness actually ended the British pursuit. And so on.
Spain too!!! Bernardo Gálvez
Dat artillery shot tho. 3:14
i know the way he just fell down that had to be improvised :)
Since when does solid shot explode?
bon film, en Bluray et en DVD en France
shoulda let em have it. That doesn't look anything like Brandywine, Brandywine is flat as a pancake.
the second i saw 0:48 i laughed out loud. not even close to what brandywine looks like
nice caplock ya got there
3:15 Actual footage of a man hesitating to die after he received a cannonball
He prob got shell-shocked, not really hit by the cannonball.
That was some apalingly bad acting fitted into less the 5 minutes
Don't forget the background music...
oh why am i hearing about this film now
They really need to make a modern accurate portrayal of the war, this is complete nonsense
What - you mean a cavalry charge against its natural prey, open formation infantry, instead of dramatically galloping to a photogenic skirmish with the other chap’s horses? Where would veracity be, I ask you!
Jack Hawkins add alot to the scene
Should have hired Lindybeige for the technical accuracy.
I want this movie
Since this is a french movie, it seems that they couldn't move on from waterloo
they placed highlanders in here just to defeat them unlike the last time
Cap and Ball muskets in about 40 more years
1:42 one guy fell off his horse lel
What is the music of the bagpipes? I like it.
Sorry bro but Lafayette is played in fact by Michel Le Royer, not Pascale Audret (a woman). She's in the cast yup, but you forgot to mention the first role so ...
Ive been to Philedelphia...why on earth would anyone fight a battle over it?
So far as I know the first british guards achived the bearhat for beating the French guard in Waterloo battle. By the way - the black watch really does fighting in the colonies?
The Black Watch fought at Bushy Run during Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763. The 42nd. Also known as Edge Hill.
The funny thing is you watch the begging of this and you think how did we lose?! Which is probably egzactly how the Americans felt during Vietnam!
Love
Tom
3:28 British troops firing a volley. Their muskets have percussion locks. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with that picture? Hmmm ??
They have attacked on our right flank.. yet here I am looking at the left flank..
3.13 British artillery manned by redcoats. Presumably the actual artillerymen were on a lunch break?
It has an odd old western film feeling to it
3:24 These muskets were not in use at that time - more around the 1860s....
Let’s see. I am making a surprise flanking maneuver on my enemy so I can cross the river on their flank without them knowing. Maybe while I am doing this, I will have my band play their bag pipes and drums. No way the enemy will know I am coming.
Well, at least I like the pipes. Anyone know what tune it is?
black bear
At the time of this battle Lafayette was 20 year old.
Brandy wine! Was it before or after drinking to much?
As bad as Sharpe. Jack Hawkens and Orson Welles really musy have needed a paycheck to stoop this low.
Cap and Ball in 1777 ?
Washington had received Mercenary Swiss and German Officers to train US troops, La Fayette wasn't actually a military man, his strenghts was using a fork and knife at the dinner table, his second in command a Swiss mercenary geenral was the true leader.
Name plz
@@Aranubis usually the names would be from the same families such as d'Arlac or von Erlach, also de Meuron, de Watteville and many others, Swiss used to work on both sides, for who ever paid best the Swiss Sir Frederic Haldimand was military Governor General of Canada and Swiss origin Sir George Prevost was Commander in Chief of British North America, also later Swiss regiments such as the de Meuron regiment kicked American ass in defense of British Canada. As once a British office said to a Swiss officer, You have no honour working for money, the Swiss replied;" We work for what we don't have". With Swiss orign Eddie Rickenbacker and general Eisenhower USA had 2 military men everybody knows. Also the name Custer the English claim is Anglo-Saxon without any proof of precise origin could be also a Swiss name Kuster which is quite common. Many Swiss changed their names such as Huber-Hoover, Brunner-Brynner, Hirschi-Herschey, but the Pfeiffer, Zelllweger, Caviezel, Schreiber, Giger, Sullenberger, Röthlisberger, Cesar Ritz, Kübler-Ross, Guggeheim, Chevrolet, Nestlé, kept their Swiss names.
@@jurgbangerter1023 who was lafayette's second in command?
@@Aranubis With no combat experience and not yet 20 years old, Lafayette was nonetheless appointed a major general in the Continental Army, and he quickly struck up a lasting friendship with the American commander in chief, George Washington. The childless general and the orphaned aristocrat seemed an unlikely pair, but they soon developed a surrogate father-son relationship. It was as thus that Lafayette distinguished himself among a large colourful group of European soldiers of fortune and idealists-among them Frederick William, Freiherr von Steuben, of Prussia and Tadeusz Kościuszko and Kazimierz Pułaski of Poland-who had joined the Continental Army to fight for American independence. so the name of the Swiss adjutant of Lafayette who actually commaneded the US troops is missing same case as for the British general Amherst who's troops were in fact commanded by Swiss Colonel Bouquet, most incompetent leaders never admitted that somebody else commanded.
Vive la France!!!
03:15 one who almost forgot to die
WOAH I DIDNT KNOW BRANDYWINE WAS REAL I THOUGHT THE SHIRE WAS FAKE
What movie is this?
I don’t know what’s the name of the movie
"La Fayette" a French-Italian film released in 1962 with Michel de Royer, Jack Hawkins and Orson Welles.
I live about an hour away from Brandywine and the terrain is not mountainous, but undulating.
But, it is a movie after all.
AWESOME
Percussion muskets? Long before they came into use in the 1830s? Somebody didn't do their research or couldn't they find flintlocks? ( firelocks in the British military parlance of the time)
bad mistake on the British muskets - cap and ball - should have been standard flintlock. Cap and ball (percussion) didn't come along for another 50 years or so.
Layfette I be here! cuzZ.
That sure ain't Brandywine, Penn.!