🚩 Go to bit.ly/thld_cs_historymarche and use code HISTORYMARCHE to save 25% off today. Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring today’s video. 🚩I've wanted to cover Battle of Delium for some time, and I finally got the time to do it. On the surface it is a minor battle in the Peloponnesian war, but in fact it was quite significant. It, arguably, turned the tide of the war and marked the first time that a written record was made of a deliberate use of a cavalry reserve in the heat of the battle.
I wouldn't mind seeing more content form this channel regardless of what war it is. But yeah know some more on the Persian invasions of Greece would be quite interesting.
Socrates was in the Athenian Army at Delium and remarked himself during the retreat, when he abstained from running. Instead, he stood back to back with Laches ( an Athenian general) and retreated in a composed manner, making the Spartans hunt down those fleeing in disarray while avoiding to engage them. Alcibiades recollected the moment as follows: "Furthermore, men, it was worthwhile to behold Socrates when the army retreated in flight from Delium; for I happened to be there on horseback and he was a hoplite. The soldiers were then in rout, and while he and Laches were retreating together, I came upon them by chance. And as soon as I saw them, I at once urged the two of them to take heart, and I said I would not leave them behind. I had an even finer opportunity to observe Socrates there than I had had at Potidaea, for I was less in fear because I was on horseback. First of all, how much more sensible he was than Laches; and secondly, it was my opinion, Aristophanes (and this point is yours); that walking there just as he does here in Athens, 'stalking like a pelican, his eyes darting from side to side,' quietly on the lookout for friends and foes, he made it plain to everyone even at a great distance that if one touches this real man, he will defend himself vigorously. Consequently, he went away safely, both he and his comrade; for when you behave in war as he did, then they just about do not even touch you; instead they pursue those who turn in headlong flight"
I couldn't believe what I saw. The enemy is voluntarily abandoning the high ground and instead of exploiting this blunder Hippocrates charges in, making it an uphill battle again.
Tbf the battle line of the Athenians felt to me like they were running on auto-pilot the whole time, so it might even be possible that Hippocrates was dead even before the charge, and the infantries were just looking for vengeance for their fallen commander.
It's difficult to overestimate just how devastating the capture of 120 Spartiates alive at Sphacteria was to Sparta. Sparta's full citizens were by far her most valuable and costly resource, and therefore the ultimate bargaining chip for Athens. Sparta essentially tried to stop everything and go on hands and knees to get them back.
Tbf it was only thanks to that ONE guy super talented which brought Thebes to its best, but cinsidering that after he died Thebes started to get rekt over and over
Excellent episode as always - I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I hope you do more videos on the Peloponnesian War - please do Syracuse 415-412, Arginusae 406, Pylos and Sphakteria 425 and Mantineia 418! As a university lecturer on ancient history and a keen scholar of the Peloponnesian War, I do however have some nitpicking to do. Please take this as constructive criticism: - The map at 1:18: The location of classical Pylos is actually to the north of the island of Sphakteria, not to the south - the southern spot on your map is the location of the modern village of Pylos. - Regarding the battle at Pylos and Sphakteria: the Athenians did not capture 420 Spartan warriors; 420 was the number sent to the island, but by the time they surrendered, less than 300 of those remained, the rest having been slain in battle. You got the number of captured Spartiates right, though. - 4:30: The attack on Plataea was not led by Pagondas, and it took place right at the beginning of the war, not in 425. The siege of Plataea was led by the Spartan king Archidamos (at least initially), and ended with the surrender of the city in 429. Pagondas only really emerges as a character just before the battle of Delion. - 4:58: You mention that the plague killed Pericles. That is correct, however you never mentioned him previously in the video, nor do you mention him afterward. The casual viewer likely has no idea who Pericles is; in future, make sure you introduce all the characters properly. Also, we have several original busts of Pericles, which you could have used for the little pic on the flag. - 6:16: Delium [Gr. Delion] is not a border city; it is a sanctuary of Apollo, and should be referred to as "the Delium". It may have had a small sattelite settlement, but certainly not a city. - 8:52: Typo in the speech bubble: Sykion (correct: Sikyon). - 15:23: You missed a great opportunity to mention the Boiotian use of flamethrowers to burn the Athenians out of the Delium - which is a pity! (Though you did at least mention it in the footnotes) - 16:04: Lysander did not lead the Spartan army - he was elected nauarch (admiral) and commanded the fleet. The land army at the end was under the command of the two Spartan kings.
@@HistoryMarche Thanks for the kind words! And please know that I thoroughly enjoy almost all your videos! My personal favourites so far are Yarmouk, Ain Jalut, Hemmingstedt and Hattin. Those were simply amazing!
I have to say, History Marche is my favorite. Of all the great documentary channels coming up, I really love how well and detailed your animations are regarding the battles, just impressive stuff. Please keep doing what you do, and continue to unwrap the beautiful tapestry of antiquity for us all! For we are all truly in your debt.
Can you please if its possible finish your punic wars series. What happeneed between Cannae and Zama. Zama itself and 3rd punic siege. Thank you for awesome content keep it up!
I had already started my second reading of Thucydides when I saw this on your channel. I just got through his account of Delion last night. This was the perfect complement.
I've just signed up as a patron (just the £1tier but at least it's something) after watching so many of your videos after the past few months. I really appreciate your incredible work and your collaborators. Please keep the cool content coming! (The hannibal series was amazing!!)
I love the maps and all the cities .. It really makes it clear that this was not just some dust ball backwater but a land teeming with humanity. The Hellene culture really did cover a lot of ground.
Amo tanto este canal. Comencé viendo Bazzbattle pero ustedes siempre procuran tener subtítulos en español, además que siempre crean vídeos con campañas y batallas que siempre hemos querido ver ya que solo tenemos los libros de historia para ello. Son un gran canal y espero algún día poder patrocinarlos.
04:04: Hmm, I'm fairly sure that Thessalonike hadn't been founded yet, not for at least 70 more years. Therma or Thermae was the name of the town back in 424 BC (not to be confused with Therme, the town that appears to the south), hence Thermaic Gulf.
A very well-made video, HistoryMarches' Documentaries on Greek and Roman History is really helping me out in my academic studies, thank you for the hard work!!
What i like more about this channel apart from the awesome detailed videos is the fact that they read the comments and reply...they care about their followers not like some who only do it for the money
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Here's a cool feature another channel used. In your battle overview, only show your own forces, to simulate the 'fog of war'. The enemy doesn't suddenly pop up on a radar. Example: 1:16:35 ruclips.net/video/Ji7MZYB4dho/видео.html The advantage: • Tension. • Immersion. • The narrative technique synergies with ancient battle descriptions.
These little castles and flags are so cute. I am a fan of Alcibiades and the fact that Alcibiades and his lover Socrates both served in this battle backing up each other made this video more exciting to me.
I recently read the newest book Thebes, forget who its by. I read this probably 3 months ago but i didnt remember the battle of delium at all and this video didnt trigger my memory. The human memory sucks
A couple of interesting things you may like: 1. The stacked flank that Pagondas used is cited as the possible inspiration for the famed Theban general Epaminondas who used it to crush the Spartans in a shock victory post the Peloponnesian War. Not only that but it is thought that Phillip II of Macedon (who was the hostage of Epaminondas as a young man at the time) learned it from him and this is what gave rise to the famed Macedonian phalanx that would enable his son Alexander the Great to conquer one of the largest empires in history. 2. The Athenian victory at Pilos was notable because it was the first time the Spartans elite were known to have surrendered and been captured. Allegedly this was down to the Athenians landing peltasts and other light troops on the island who then conducted hit and run attacks on the heavily armoured but slow Spartan formation for days until they were worn down to the point of exhaustion then being outmanoevred and forced to capitulate. Their capture was considered a great propoganda victory for Athens at the time.
Most people think of Socrates (470-399 BC) as a balding, pot bellied, old philosopher, with a beard. People are often surprised to learn that Socrates was, in fact, also a decorated military hero, renowned among other army veterans for his courage on the battlefield, and for his extraordinary endurance and self-discipline. Some scholars believe that it was actually Socrates’ heroism at the Battle of Delium that catapulted him to fame in Athens.
The deciding factor of the battle was basically the armored forces. While the numbers were almost identical the more heavily armored Boetians clearly had the upper hand. Would like to see more of the events that led to this battle because there were a lot of things that led to it and a lot of events that were going on at the time of the battle in other regions.
Hello, I am always absolutely astonished by the level of the content you have published, I'm a loyal subscriber of yours since you were only a small channel. I'd love to start a history channel like yours but in my native language which is Italian because there aren't any unfortunately, but don't know how to make the maps or animate the stuff, would you give me a couple of tips on what I can do please? Thank you in advance, you are my legend.
They were united under Alexander and conquered all the way to India. Then they split up in warring kingdoms again sadly. If only Alexander could have lived and turned West and conquered Italy and then Europe and left proper heirs and structure for the Empire.
@@crunche1 there was a lot of Greeks in the ancient world. Including all the colonies there was probably 10 million "Greeks", at a time when Persia and China had 50 million people each and world population was like 150 tops. There's many reasons Greeks discovered almost everything and had high culture developed. But population isn't usually considered as much as it should. The more people you got, the more smart people you got too.
actually it would been very dificult for the greeks to conquer italy or even europe, the main reason is that rome's legions had already broke down the mistery of figthing a phalanx or hoplites formations wich gives you a resolute battle line but they are not very mobile, rome's legions were very very flexible, so they would easily flank the hoplites formations wich in turn gave them a huge advantage, and there were nothing the greeks could do, besides completely changing battle tactics and constantly evolving those tatics and adding auxiliary troops to their regular armies (by that i meant that the roman auxiliary troops holster was huge in comparision to the greek's), that's why the greeks in general were subjugated by rome's military and economic power. it's very intresting the ideia of a united greece under one banner, and to think about how it would have been different, but even than, i think they would not conquer rome. The thing is that rome was indisputably the greatest power of their time, and it was a long time hahahahahhaha, that happened because of their abillity to constantly evolve their military power, tactics and engineering capacity, they were losing the war against hannibal ( and they would lose if the Cartagenian senate had sent the troops hannibal requested) , but scipio turned the tide but adapting to the cartagenian use of elephants, wich was a big problem for the roman legionarie that had to deal with a beast he has never saw before, by doing that he put rome on the ofensive again and the rest is history!
@@arielsantana9258 sorry, but your wall of text is full of errors about tactics and strategy. Romans mostly faced the long spear type phalanx armies after it had gone through some changes. Even so they still lost to Pyrrhus several times.The later armies had elongated the spear too much and didn't train well, had no good horse and hypaspists to complement the long-spear phalanx like in the past. Even the Hoplite armies (short-spear and big shield) could beat the Romans in earlier times. But the main thing is that Rome was a very small power in Alexander's time. It would easily be conquered by Alexander or one of his generals. Italy was populated by Greeks and Samnites mostly so these would easily join or be subjugated first. Romans had Greek blood too, one of the major tribes was Arcadian Greeks, the Pallantium was their city. The Palatine Hill was what it became. So they probably would join the Greek Empire willingly and help subjugate the Samnites and then also the Gauls and Carthage.
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🚩I've wanted to cover Battle of Delium for some time, and I finally got the time to do it. On the surface it is a minor battle in the Peloponnesian war, but in fact it was quite significant. It, arguably, turned the tide of the war and marked the first time that a written record was made of a deliberate use of a cavalry reserve in the heat of the battle.
Nice video and very informative and very entertaining and very satisfaction more videos.
Hey I have a big request..can you do a series on khalid bin Waleed like you are doing on Hannibal ?
If i had enough Money i will definitely take a subscription !!! A great video as always
@@اسماعيلضياء-ظ1ب well here come the islamophobes !🤣😔
I wouldn't mind seeing more content form this channel regardless of what war it is. But yeah know some more on the Persian invasions of Greece would be quite interesting.
Socrates was in the Athenian Army at Delium and remarked himself during the retreat, when he abstained from running. Instead, he stood back to back with Laches ( an Athenian general) and retreated in a composed manner, making the Spartans hunt down those fleeing in disarray while avoiding to engage them.
Alcibiades recollected the moment as follows:
"Furthermore, men, it was worthwhile to behold Socrates when the army retreated in flight from Delium; for I happened to be there on horseback and he was a hoplite. The soldiers were then in rout, and while he and Laches were retreating together, I came upon them by chance. And as soon as I saw them, I at once urged the two of them to take heart, and I said I would not leave them behind. I had an even finer opportunity to observe Socrates there than I had had at Potidaea, for I was less in fear because I was on horseback. First of all, how much more sensible he was than Laches; and secondly, it was my opinion, Aristophanes (and this point is yours); that walking there just as he does here in Athens, 'stalking like a pelican, his eyes darting from side to side,' quietly on the lookout for friends and foes, he made it plain to everyone even at a great distance that if one touches this real man, he will defend himself vigorously. Consequently, he went away safely, both he and his comrade; for when you behave in war as he did, then they just about do not even touch you; instead they pursue those who turn in headlong flight"
Alcibiades was writing to aristophanes?
@@austinlittke5580 I think it's discussion related by Plato.
@@austinlittke5580 I think it is a jab at Aristophanes for making Socrates appear as a cowardly con artist in his play, 'Clouds'.
Socrates was quite the guy. One way & another!
Well Athens lost that one. I like the bubble captions
These vids are always really good.
Thanks for making em.
Those Thespians again. Talk about underrated.
I, too, like lesbians.
They certainly go under the radar that's for sure
people are really fr sleeping on the Thespians.
They fought to the death in at least three different battles. Tough bastards!
Thespians, that's illegal in 7 states!
*No Reinforcements
*No Intelligence
*Attacking uphill
Sun Tzu says: Hippocrates, you just struck out!
I couldn't believe what I saw. The enemy is voluntarily abandoning the high ground and instead of exploiting this blunder Hippocrates charges in, making it an uphill battle again.
@@Thraim. Didn't even use his cavalry, which played no part in the battle, to exploit the gap on the left flank. Pathetic.
@@brainflash1 in His defence, he was already dead by then
Tbf the battle line of the Athenians felt to me like they were running on auto-pilot the whole time, so it might even be possible that Hippocrates was dead even before the charge, and the infantries were just looking for vengeance for their fallen commander.
@@Thraim. petition to change his name to Ironickes
"Who Dat" last thing you ever want to hear on a battlefield
"Who Dere" last thing you ever want to hear on the march.
Its probably NOT your allies arriving...
😂😂😂
It's difficult to overestimate just how devastating the capture of 120 Spartiates alive at Sphacteria was to Sparta. Sparta's full citizens were by far her most valuable and costly resource, and therefore the ultimate bargaining chip for Athens. Sparta essentially tried to stop everything and go on hands and knees to get them back.
Thebes: Defeat Athens at is peek, and change the course of the war.
Sparta: what could be wrong if we go against Thebes in a few decades?
Well, Sparta army was still legendary in reputation, so they wouldn't know better
Tbf it was only thanks to that ONE guy super talented which brought Thebes to its best, but cinsidering that after he died Thebes started to get rekt over and over
Excellent episode as always - I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I hope you do more videos on the Peloponnesian War - please do Syracuse 415-412, Arginusae 406, Pylos and Sphakteria 425 and Mantineia 418!
As a university lecturer on ancient history and a keen scholar of the Peloponnesian War, I do however have some nitpicking to do. Please take this as constructive criticism:
- The map at 1:18: The location of classical Pylos is actually to the north of the island of Sphakteria, not to the south - the southern spot on your map is the location of the modern village of Pylos.
- Regarding the battle at Pylos and Sphakteria: the Athenians did not capture 420 Spartan warriors; 420 was the number sent to the island, but by the time they surrendered, less than 300 of those remained, the rest having been slain in battle. You got the number of captured Spartiates right, though.
- 4:30: The attack on Plataea was not led by Pagondas, and it took place right at the beginning of the war, not in 425. The siege of Plataea was led by the Spartan king Archidamos (at least initially), and ended with the surrender of the city in 429. Pagondas only really emerges as a character just before the battle of Delion.
- 4:58: You mention that the plague killed Pericles. That is correct, however you never mentioned him previously in the video, nor do you mention him afterward. The casual viewer likely has no idea who Pericles is; in future, make sure you introduce all the characters properly. Also, we have several original busts of Pericles, which you could have used for the little pic on the flag.
- 6:16: Delium [Gr. Delion] is not a border city; it is a sanctuary of Apollo, and should be referred to as "the Delium". It may have had a small sattelite settlement, but certainly not a city.
- 8:52: Typo in the speech bubble: Sykion (correct: Sikyon).
- 15:23: You missed a great opportunity to mention the Boiotian use of flamethrowers to burn the Athenians out of the Delium - which is a pity! (Though you did at least mention it in the footnotes)
- 16:04: Lysander did not lead the Spartan army - he was elected nauarch (admiral) and commanded the fleet. The land army at the end was under the command of the two Spartan kings.
Very good feedback, thank you!
@@HistoryMarche Thanks for the kind words!
And please know that I thoroughly enjoy almost all your videos! My personal favourites so far are Yarmouk, Ain Jalut, Hemmingstedt and Hattin. Those were simply amazing!
These are not jus nitpicks, but legitimate criticisms, this is history not star wars.
Beautifully imagined, gripping graphics with clear exposition of a complex chronology of battle . Absolutely fascinating. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Each time Athens fights Sparta it reminds me of Pokémon rivals
Red Socks vs Yankees
England vs France
Doctor Who vs Daleks
Peter Griffin vs Yellow Chicken
Wow, ancient greeks, i always loved this subject. Thanks HistoryMarche.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Masterpiece, but I consider it only a warm-up for the Hannibal series. When next part will appear?
Hannibal will come in...
@@HistoryMarche the hannibal series will continue, right..?
@@natalialivshits9439 Yes
Such a relief
We need more Hannibal!!
I love this Chanel. This is how i learn history's greates battles and grenerals. Thank you Historymarch!
The last time i was this early, Sparta already defeated the Persians in the battle of Plataea
I didn't get it?
I have to say, History Marche is my favorite. Of all the great documentary channels coming up, I really love how well and detailed your animations are regarding the battles, just impressive stuff. Please keep doing what you do, and continue to unwrap the beautiful tapestry of antiquity for us all! For we are all truly in your debt.
Coz of this channel, 'history is my favourite subject'.
Peloponnesian war is one of the most underrated wars in history.
Can you please if its possible finish your punic wars series. What happeneed between Cannae and Zama. Zama itself and 3rd punic siege. Thank you for awesome content keep it up!
I can't wait for the punic wars series too! I agree, great content!
I will watch this when I get snacks tomorrow, HistoryMarche videos + snacks is better than watching a movie with popcorn
What snacks you bought?
I had already started my second reading of Thucydides when I saw this on your channel. I just got through his account of Delion last night. This was the perfect complement.
Outstanding as always. Ancient history has no match. Close quarters battles with swords and spears has no equal.
I've just signed up as a patron (just the £1tier but at least it's something) after watching so many of your videos after the past few months. I really appreciate your incredible work and your collaborators. Please keep the cool content coming! (The hannibal series was amazing!!)
Much appreciated! Welcome aboard!
Thank you people for your work on this project. I'd like to also thank all historians, thank you all!
School made me hate history, this channel made me love it.
I love the maps and all the cities ..
It really makes it clear that this was not just some dust ball backwater but a land teeming with humanity.
The Hellene culture really did cover a lot of ground.
Excellent video. Please do more Peloponnesian War videos.
Thanks for the video, great work
Glad you liked it!
Been looking for Athens vs Sparta videos, but when I saw the notification of this, I dropped whatever I’m doing to watch this
I love your animations SOO MUCH! and the whole concept of telling how battles were going is super interesting.
Amo tanto este canal. Comencé viendo Bazzbattle pero ustedes siempre procuran tener subtítulos en español, además que siempre crean vídeos con campañas y batallas que siempre hemos querido ver ya que solo tenemos los libros de historia para ello. Son un gran canal y espero algún día poder patrocinarlos.
No hay canales así en español cierto ?
I like the sound effects. It's subtle, jet effective. +1
The Last Time I was this early, Hannibal had both eyes.
04:04: Hmm, I'm fairly sure that Thessalonike hadn't been founded yet, not for at least 70 more years. Therma or Thermae was the name of the town back in 424 BC (not to be confused with Therme, the town that appears to the south), hence Thermaic Gulf.
Wasn’t Aigiai still the capital of Macedon at the time too? I thought Philip II changed it to Pella,
What about Skopje?
@@dragooll2023 LMAO Monkeydonian
Love classical Greece, thanks guys
Thanks Dennis, cheers man!
I'm doing my A-levels at the moment and this helped me with the Peloponnesian war a lot and was really good. Love your videos keep up the good work.
The Birds effect at around 9:43 is a beautiful touch.
Another great video! Thank you for your making my day History Marche. Keep up the good work!
Great video as always HM. Ancient Greece is a fantastic and very interesting period in History.
Yes! Thank you. Please cover more battles from this era.
You should make a video about that Spartan general, Brasidas.
The man was an absolute madlad.
Jeep up with the exceptional work. The astounding animations are to challenge the most modern and highest quality anima
*animations
Wow, thank you!
No need to thank what is a duty
The quality of this documentaries is absolutely incredible, beautiful research, beautiful narrative, what a gift for history enthusiasts
Some noticeable audio cuts overlapping in this one. Still 9/10 video great job
I can't still believe how is it possible to have such detailed accounts of events all those centuries ago!!!!
When you open the youtube and find a new History marche video,,, WAW💓💓💓💓💓
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A very well-made video, HistoryMarches' Documentaries on Greek and Roman History is really helping me out in my academic studies, thank you for the hard work!!
Awesome video guys! Love Greek history! Please keep it up!
Thank you!
Too nice historic video with clear explaining of events and severe struggle between Athens sparta and presence of Persian influence at that time
Yet ANOTHER masterpiece. Amazing job to you and your associates!
These alot of videos for somebody that still keeps us waiting for the Battle of Zama.
Ayoo lets go bro another vids about the Greeks
God I loved Gerard Butler's acting in the 300 movie, this freaking awsome "video movie" reminds me of it xD
Yeah, the whole movie was super hype!
@YouveBeenGreeked X) you didn't see NOTHIN.
@@HistoryMarche make a series on ww2 alone from the invasion of Poland to the fall of berlin.It'll be amazing
@@schutzstaffel8396 Well the Great War team already made 16 days in Berlin, if you dont mind subscriptions (or just using a free trial)
@@HistoryMarche As long as you don't want it to be historically accurate, it's great. And it wasn't meant to be
Today is the perfect day: it's friday and a new HistoryMarche video came out!
What i like more about this channel apart from the awesome detailed videos is the fact that they read the comments and reply...they care about their followers not like some who only do it for the money
Thucydides would be proud! Excellent as always
Thank you kindly!
As it stands, there are 1.7k likes and 8 dislikes. What a testement to how good your videos are. I really enjoy and appreciate your videos
Thank you for posting this. I'm trying to learn more about history, so really glad I came across your channel!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I would love a documentary (or series) on the full war in detail of all the battles
YES HAVENT BEEN THIS EARLY IN AGES AND ITS A BATTLE I DONT KNOW ABOUT GET IN!!!
You re videos are getting better and better
Keep up the videos I have learned so much :) love your content
thank you:) these history channels never do anything about the Peleponnesian war
just when i was about to sleep and i get youtube notification about history marche
My mind: fk sleep take some history classes
"The Athenians were concerned about the..."
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Peloponnesian war best next serie after hannibal great work
What are the odds i was just checking if there is new video you posted.
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Great video! Please more videos on Hannibal's progress after the battle of Cannae. 👊
That's the plan!
Do more of these please!!! I’m so interested in the time period
Love the new map look.
Thank you
Ah yes, The Peloponnesian war! not many channels cover it, thank you HM!
Cheers KHK! I wanted to cover this topic for the longest time. Finally got the chance!
@@HistoryMarche keep it up. You have many more battles to cover 😊
nice video, the end of the battle is very nice. The Athenians think they win the battle and then the winged hussars... I mean the theben cav arrived.
wow awesome really nice! I'd really like a pelopponese war series, some day :D
I bet someone mentioned it already, but the voice-over has some weird cuts. Other than that, great video! Keep em up :)
Here's a cool feature another channel used.
In your battle overview, only show your own forces, to simulate the 'fog of war'. The enemy doesn't suddenly pop up on a radar.
Example: 1:16:35
ruclips.net/video/Ji7MZYB4dho/видео.html
The advantage:
• Tension.
• Immersion.
• The narrative technique synergies with ancient battle descriptions.
I joined you on conquerors blade & curiosity!!!! keep up the good work!
Thanks History Marche as always .
Your fan.
Will you do a vedio on daily life in ancient Greece and whole timeline of Hellenistic period !
Magnificent as ever! bros, It was a spectacular investigation, edition and video. A big hug from Mexico! The aztec land ✨✨😌
Great video as always. Just a general question: Whats your favorite time period in history?
Ancient and Medieval period
Awesome video!!! Thanks History Marche!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
These little castles and flags are so cute. I am a fan of Alcibiades and the fact that Alcibiades and his lover Socrates both served in this battle backing up each other made this video more exciting to me.
What a coincidence. I'm reading Thucydides recently
I recently read the newest book Thebes, forget who its by. I read this probably 3 months ago but i didnt remember the battle of delium at all and this video didnt trigger my memory. The human memory sucks
Me : I want to see a new history video
HistoryMarche : hello there
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I just have to say your maps are just great
A couple of interesting things you may like:
1. The stacked flank that Pagondas used is cited as the possible inspiration for the famed Theban general Epaminondas who used it to crush the Spartans in a shock victory post the Peloponnesian War. Not only that but it is thought that Phillip II of Macedon (who was the hostage of Epaminondas as a young man at the time) learned it from him and this is what gave rise to the famed Macedonian phalanx that would enable his son Alexander the Great to conquer one of the largest empires in history.
2. The Athenian victory at Pilos was notable because it was the first time the Spartans elite were known to have surrendered and been captured. Allegedly this was down to the Athenians landing peltasts and other light troops on the island who then conducted hit and run attacks on the heavily armoured but slow Spartan formation for days until they were worn down to the point of exhaustion then being outmanoevred and forced to capitulate. Their capture was considered a great propoganda victory for Athens at the time.
Most people think of Socrates (470-399 BC) as a balding, pot bellied, old philosopher, with a beard. People are often surprised to learn that Socrates was, in fact, also a decorated military hero, renowned among other army veterans for his courage on the battlefield, and for his extraordinary endurance and self-discipline. Some scholars believe that it was actually Socrates’ heroism at the Battle of Delium that catapulted him to fame in Athens.
The deciding factor of the battle was basically the armored forces. While the numbers were almost identical the more heavily armored Boetians clearly had the upper hand.
Would like to see more of the events that led to this battle because there were a lot of things that led to it and a lot of events that were going on at the time of the battle in other regions.
The most interesting part in this stage of the war, are the adventures of Brasidas in Northern Greece.
@@tylerdurden3722 there's major political turmoil in Athens due to recent bad campaigns at the same time
Great work everyone here who put this together .
The music at the end us just amazing
Love the content. keep up the great work.
I always like listening to this particular narrator
When in doubt attack!
Plan was good. Maybe too good, lol.
@@HistoryMarche In the immortal words of Cronk " Ahh yeah It's all coming together. Can you feel the power? Oh yes - I can feel it!"
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Many thanks!
Simply excellent. You guys do it best.
Hello, I am always absolutely astonished by the level of the content you have published, I'm a loyal subscriber of yours since you were only a small channel.
I'd love to start a history channel like yours but in my native language which is Italian because there aren't any unfortunately, but don't know how to make the maps or animate the stuff, would you give me a couple of tips on what I can do please? Thank you in advance, you are my legend.
At least this channel dosent lie and isn’t biased depending upon the battle they’re covering, especially modern conflicts unlike Kings and Generals
Well done. Keep up the good work.
These ancient conflicts are so intricate and fascinating, thanks. Keep up the great work!
Imagine if the Greeks were united from the start instead of fighting each other, what a formidable force this would've been against Rome.
They were united under Alexander and conquered all the way to India. Then they split up in warring kingdoms again sadly. If only Alexander could have lived and turned West and conquered Italy and then Europe and left proper heirs and structure for the Empire.
Or someone else like they could’ve gone for anyone they were so small
@@crunche1 there was a lot of Greeks in the ancient world. Including all the colonies there was probably 10 million "Greeks", at a time when Persia and China had 50 million people each and world population was like 150 tops.
There's many reasons Greeks discovered almost everything and had high culture developed. But population isn't usually considered as much as it should.
The more people you got, the more smart people you got too.
actually it would been very dificult for the greeks to conquer italy or even europe, the main reason is that rome's legions had already broke down the mistery of figthing a phalanx or hoplites formations wich gives you a resolute battle line but they are not very mobile, rome's legions were very very flexible, so they would easily flank the hoplites formations wich in turn gave them a huge advantage, and there were nothing the greeks could do, besides completely changing battle tactics and constantly evolving those tatics and adding auxiliary troops to their regular armies (by that i meant that the roman auxiliary troops holster was huge in comparision to the greek's), that's why the greeks in general were subjugated by rome's military and economic power. it's very intresting the ideia of a united greece under one banner, and to think about how it would have been different, but even than, i think they would not conquer rome. The thing is that rome was indisputably the greatest power of their time, and it was a long time hahahahahhaha, that happened because of their abillity to constantly evolve their military power, tactics and engineering capacity, they were losing the war against hannibal ( and they would lose if the Cartagenian senate had sent the troops hannibal requested) , but scipio turned the tide but adapting to the cartagenian use of elephants, wich was a big problem for the roman legionarie that had to deal with a beast he has never saw before, by doing that he put rome on the ofensive again and the rest is history!
@@arielsantana9258 sorry, but your wall of text is full of errors about tactics and strategy.
Romans mostly faced the long spear type phalanx armies after it had gone through some changes. Even so they still lost to Pyrrhus several times.The later armies had elongated the spear too much and didn't train well, had no good horse and hypaspists to complement the long-spear phalanx like in the past.
Even the Hoplite armies (short-spear and big shield) could beat the Romans in earlier times.
But the main thing is that Rome was a very small power in Alexander's time. It would easily be conquered by Alexander or one of his generals. Italy was populated by Greeks and Samnites mostly so these would easily join or be subjugated first.
Romans had Greek blood too, one of the major tribes was Arcadian Greeks, the Pallantium was their city. The Palatine Hill was what it became.
So they probably would join the Greek Empire willingly and help subjugate the Samnites and then also the Gauls and Carthage.