Napoleon's greatest foe

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  • @petrdv.6185
    @petrdv.6185 6 лет назад +5955

    If youtube did not exist, Lindybeige would be that kind of person who talks to the complete strangers at the bus stop because he just needs to talk.

    • @ahmadmomenai1154
      @ahmadmomenai1154 5 лет назад +500

      I would sit next to him, he seems like a sensible chap

    • @yes1sir1no1sir
      @yes1sir1no1sir 5 лет назад +38

      @Christopher Mikler not for me... I just watch LindyBiege

    • @flacons2110
      @flacons2110 5 лет назад +92

      more like the pub

    • @Pangloss6413
      @Pangloss6413 5 лет назад +168

      what makes you think he doesn't?

    • @Powd3r81
      @Powd3r81 5 лет назад +26

      I love those people that talk with British accents online when they're not British lol

  • @1xoACEox1
    @1xoACEox1 4 года назад +735

    I like the idea Napoleon acknowledged he was his nemesis. Like cartoon show. Every time he foils his plans, *throws hat on floor* "DAMN IT SIDNEYYYYYY!"

    • @ComradeCommissarYuri
      @ComradeCommissarYuri 4 года назад +57

      Napoleon: “DAMN IT SIDNEY!!!!”
      French general: “Your Grace Sydney Smith isn’t even here?!?!?”
      Napoleon: “well it’s still his fault!!”

    • @JohnMiller-zr8pl
      @JohnMiller-zr8pl 3 года назад +16

      😁 the Marvelous adventures of Sir. Sidney Smith against the git

    • @pissiole5654
      @pissiole5654 3 года назад +21

      I'LL GET YOU SIDDDNEYYYY *shakes fist at the sky*

    • @_KaiTheGamer_
      @_KaiTheGamer_ 3 года назад +20

      "CURSE YOU SIDNEY THE SWEDISH KNIIIIIGHTTT!!"

    • @sterlingbither5866
      @sterlingbither5866 3 года назад +7

      I imagine it like jeremy Clarkson yelling "HAMMOOOOOND."

  • @charlesparadise4999
    @charlesparadise4999 5 лет назад +1339

    "SMITH. DID YOU SET FIRE TO THE FRENCH FLEET?" "a bit."

  • @lhaviland8602
    @lhaviland8602 4 года назад +1304

    "War broke out with France... again"
    European history in six words everybody.

    • @globul3410
      @globul3410 4 года назад +47

      Well, also “war broke out with Germany... again”

    • @meferswift
      @meferswift 4 года назад +45

      @@globul3410 germany as united is pretty new tho.

    • @Phello123
      @Phello123 4 года назад +14

      @@globul3410 "the French are surrendering... again"

    • @globul3410
      @globul3410 4 года назад +71

      General Hux, actually, no. France has been one of the most successful nations in wartime throughout history. I suggest you enlighten yourself by reading a book about the matter and put aside your oversimplified and simple history videos.

    • @Phello123
      @Phello123 4 года назад +18

      Benoît Pothier u take things way to seriously, u realise every comment here is a joke right? I know France have the MOST successful military record, about a few dozen victories more than Britain thank you very much, I suggest U go learn some common sense Frenchman. Like Johnny English said “ the only thing the French should host is an invasion” how true, not gonna lie, most people who studied history enjoys shitting on the French as much as the brits

  • @deplorabledegenerate2630
    @deplorabledegenerate2630 5 лет назад +2215

    Starting to think this Lindybeige fellow doesn't like Napoleon.

    • @cliffjones8809
      @cliffjones8809 4 года назад +13

      hurray for Horry!

    • @jamesmerrick8198
      @jamesmerrick8198 4 года назад +95

      I don't think anyone does like Napoleon other than the French.

    • @jamesuk5784
      @jamesuk5784 4 года назад +172

      I’m English and I’m pro Napoleon.

    • @jamesmerrick8198
      @jamesmerrick8198 4 года назад +37

      Because he made history more interesting?

    • @deplorabledegenerate2630
      @deplorabledegenerate2630 4 года назад +146

      @@jamesmerrick8198 feel the same way I do about him as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Muhammed, Charlemange, Ghenghis Khan, Timur the Lame, Hernan Cortez, Shaka Zulu, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and other conquerors or would be dictators.
      I can look at a man and admire his tactical abilities, strategic acumen, and political manuevering without endorsing his morals. Albeit some of those men were more moral than others...

  • @wulfherecyning1282
    @wulfherecyning1282 4 года назад +1737

    The most British sentence ever contender:
    "He sallied out...to set fire to the French fleet. A bit."

    • @sigmanil
      @sigmanil 4 года назад +38

      "The metric system, what's it good for?" seems a strong contender too.

    • @JBGARINGAN
      @JBGARINGAN 3 года назад +14

      @@sigmanil could qualify for the most American sentence too, but I believe: "AMERICA FUCK YEAH!" is number one

    • @dechezhaast
      @dechezhaast 3 года назад +3

      Heyy this dude, I remember your pfp, I said I was going to take it

    • @georgewhitworth9742
      @georgewhitworth9742 3 года назад +2

      @@JBGARINGAN Incorrect, "FREEDOM!!" is the top spot, lol

    • @hughgrection7246
      @hughgrection7246 3 года назад +7

      @@JBGARINGAN Correction , the MOST AMERICAN sentence possible is "I eat deep fried butter with a handgun" .

  • @nickst0ne
    @nickst0ne 7 лет назад +4125

    I'm French and I find it incredibly Machiavellian of you, Lindybeige, to create an hour long video about Napoleon as a decoy to attack the metric system! Maybe you thought we wouldn't notice, didn't you?

    • @Rubysh88
      @Rubysh88 7 лет назад +280

      Gawain Sillyness Studio
      AH! your puny foot long beige ruler is nothing compared to my glorious meter long aluminium ruler.

    • @nellyboy86.02
      @nellyboy86.02 7 лет назад +62

      "Nick Stone"....not the most French sounding name in the world 😊 (I'm not denying you your frenchness, merely observing)

    • @nickst0ne
      @nickst0ne 7 лет назад +98

      Proper observation, NellyBoy! I truly am French though, but I've been an avid reader of Andy McNab's spy novels known as the "Nick Stone missions". Hence the English sounding nickname.

    • @lindybeige
      @lindybeige  7 лет назад +816

      One of these days, I will get round to explaining the imperial system in a video.

    • @isakalv
      @isakalv 7 лет назад +127

      The metrik system is the best

  • @sirsidneysmith2158
    @sirsidneysmith2158 4 года назад +2939

    I must say, I rather enjoyed this video.

    • @ericbluerose9381
      @ericbluerose9381 4 года назад +87

      Good show

    • @kaiserfranz9011
      @kaiserfranz9011 4 года назад +28

      Me to.Sir Sidney Smith

    • @todzulu6
      @todzulu6 4 года назад +13

      Oh, Rather...

    • @coaboa5339
      @coaboa5339 4 года назад +5

      Lemeow

    • @darrenspresney3121
      @darrenspresney3121 4 года назад +6

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  • @ThatGuyFromFlanders
    @ThatGuyFromFlanders 7 лет назад +795

    I'm starting to think he doesn't like this Napoleon guy...

    • @mistahsusan2650
      @mistahsusan2650 7 лет назад +14

      Brent what makes you think that?

    • @johnshorten6877
      @johnshorten6877 5 лет назад +56

      In Ireland there are 40+ ballads about Napoleon (some in Irish, some in English), mostly praising him as a hero, "a friend to all, both young and old", a religious liberator (sic!!!!), the "Green Linnet", "Sweet Boney" ('shall I ne'er see you more?'), lamenting his death 'on St. Helena's bleak shore', and castigating those who "persecuted that hero bold" ('You parliament of England and you Holy Alliance'), and betrayed him (Marshal Ney - 'but he was bribed with gold'...) ...etc. Any comparable treasury of songs in France? Do you ever hear in a French pub (do they have them?): 'Bon, bon! Napoleon va rentrer dans sa maison!'??? It is wonderful what fantasies emerge from the alchemy of folk memory.

    • @johnshorten6877
      @johnshorten6877 5 лет назад +11

      @@Marry Christmas. Oops! I was just making the point that a ****** can morph into a hero when filtered through the fantasies of ballad makers! Personally I'd prefer Pitt and Castlereagh to the Corsican - not to mention "Our Attie!" (Wellington)

    • @afrog2666
      @afrog2666 5 лет назад +12

      @@johnshorten6877
      Doesn`t change the fact that he was a murderous treacherous hateful sadistic villain who killed (caused the death of) millions of civilians.
      He was a disgusting bastard, and a ruthless selfish shit.

    • @Floral_Green
      @Floral_Green 5 лет назад +27

      A Frog You seem quite low-IQ, my dude

  • @hassetjifrebro8222
    @hassetjifrebro8222 4 года назад +486

    “Gustav III was ousted” That’s one way to call gunned down at the masquerade ball.

    • @wardenstone6021
      @wardenstone6021 4 года назад +22

      Tomato tomato.

    • @martonk
      @martonk 3 года назад +12

      That sounds nasty, I never knew.

    • @arielnir2679
      @arielnir2679 3 года назад +5

      @@martonk he was shoot by loads of little nails and rubbish aswell, so that he lived in agony for a few days before he died......
      Pretty nasty indeed.

    • @hassetjifrebro8222
      @hassetjifrebro8222 3 года назад +37

      @@martonk To make a long story at least somewhat shorter. Before Gustav III there was what was known as the age of liberty. With the kings power moved heavily towards parliament, great right? Weeeeeelll this was still the late 1700s. Parliament was just the nobility, who kept increasing their power. Some would argue they were quite incompetent, but more than anything they were corrupt. To the core.
      So when he was made king, he staged a bloodless coup against the system, taking back plenty of power from the nobility and moving Sweden back towards a absolute monarchy.
      As you can imagine this built plenty of resentment among the nobility, and as Gustav III increased his power and went to war with Russia (as mentioned in here) it ended in a stalemate. With 113 officers attempting to make peace with the Russians against the kings wishes.
      1 out of these 113 was executed while the rest were pardoned. But present at the execution was one Jacob Ankarström, a member of the lower nobility, and he would become a pawn in the plot by the nobles, believed to have been led by one General Pechlin.
      The investigation following the shooting led by one brilliant policeman Lijan Sparre (not my words but literally every book describes him as extremely competent) uncovered a larger and larger conspiracy against the king. To the point where the kings successor asked not to know who was responsible, as all he knew was that it was people very close to him.
      Jacob Ankarström cracked almost instantly when it was pointed out how nervous he was. He was executed and gutted. General Pechlin was arrested and put in House arrest on an island for the remaining of his life.
      Pechlin is an interesting character himself and of the great corruption he was responsible for, standing with whoever was in power during the age of liberty. But now I’m just rambling like Lindybeige lol haha.

    • @martonk
      @martonk 3 года назад +6

      @@hassetjifrebro8222 I'd love to listen to such ramblings with pleasure :DD you are very good at this sort of historical storytelling. Pity that people generally don't care about these national historical episodes, they are, I think, much more interesting than the usual topics like Napoleon, the romans, etc.
      Thanks for this!!

  • @henningeiken5849
    @henningeiken5849 4 года назад +44

    My poor cold german heart broke when he didn't mention Frederic the great in the beginning.

    • @fearlessmash8717
      @fearlessmash8717 3 года назад +12

      Frederic the great had died just a little before the Napoleonic wars started

    • @Gh0stily111
      @Gh0stily111 Год назад +8

      Napoleon greatly admired Frederic and actually took his men to his tomb, there he said that if he was alive they would have been defeated.

  • @Markot991
    @Markot991 5 лет назад +658

    If Lindybeige would tell me a bedtime story, I would stay awake all night

    • @magicbuns4868
      @magicbuns4868 5 лет назад +3

      Literally what I've done tonight xD

    • @phreak761
      @phreak761 5 лет назад +3

      He would bugger you senseless.

    • @user45291
      @user45291 5 лет назад +2

      I actually do...

    • @sdporres
      @sdporres 5 лет назад +1

      Spot on

    • @monashsq4001
      @monashsq4001 5 лет назад

      Lindy I think was brought up being told Big Bad Bonaparte is hiding under the bed.

  • @void870
    @void870 6 лет назад +1186

    Say what you want, Lindybeige, but we all know that Napoleon's greatest foe was Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe of the 95th Rifles!

    • @grumpyhermit8657
      @grumpyhermit8657 6 лет назад +52

      @Lightifer you savage!

    • @josefschmeau4682
      @josefschmeau4682 6 лет назад +4

      Bwaaaa. HAAAAAAA haaaaaaa

    • @sailingoiesauvage5484
      @sailingoiesauvage5484 6 лет назад +44

      @Lightifer The top comment is a reference to a historical fiction novel.

    • @sailingoiesauvage5484
      @sailingoiesauvage5484 6 лет назад +7

      @Lightifer your welcome, have a good day.

    • @sailingoiesauvage5484
      @sailingoiesauvage5484 5 лет назад +35

      @Lightifer No you cannot, I think it's silly to clammer to support a multi millionaire just because he's facing competition.

  • @uptonsavoie
    @uptonsavoie 5 лет назад +522

    But tell us how you really feel about Napoleon.

    • @ethanclouse2280
      @ethanclouse2280 4 года назад +21

      He’s such a GIT!

    • @Nikolapoleon
      @Nikolapoleon 4 года назад +36

      He's obviously in love with Napoleon, and stuck in denial about it.

  • @skyskynomnom4674
    @skyskynomnom4674 3 года назад +180

    Love that this whole time Sidney was almost never in a military position but was still able to round up some chaps and go off to battle every time.
    Like imagine the charisma on this man that he can just go “OI, you lot! I hear guns. Who wants to go maybe die today?”

    • @bow-tiedengineer4453
      @bow-tiedengineer4453 2 года назад +17

      "I hear guns! Must be Napoleon. Let's go show 'im what for again, lads!"

    • @connorfanning2956
      @connorfanning2956 2 года назад +1

      The wealth and power needed to form your own army in those days. Amazing. Ancient history is even more incredible. IE Crassus

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 Год назад +4

      To be fair, it's a battle against Napoleon, and most men were pretty excited to go fight. It's a bit of a trapping of modern war where men dread to fight, and even then, it's HEAVILY dependent. When men hear the call of the colors, they very often rally. To the point that it basically split the entirety of socialism during WWI since almost all of the socialist parties of Europe, once in international contact (whose mantra was "Workers of the WORLD Unite!"), sided with their governments and went to fight.
      Not that uncommon, bit more strange today, but sometimes you have some gumption and some friends and when things go down, you go fight because that's what you do.

  • @kpbarrow
    @kpbarrow 7 лет назад +56

    Watching a Lindybeige video describing French military defeat with a character assassination of Napoleon, whilst eating a fish finger sandwich washed down with a good, strong, cup of tea.
    Gentlemen, I have reached utmost Britishness.

    • @SyoaranBarker
      @SyoaranBarker 7 лет назад +9

      I had to go check my wallet and make sure my various ID's were still American after watching this video. All's well, I'm still a Texan.

    • @jrd33
      @jrd33 7 лет назад +3

      Well done, old chap!

    • @zaftra
      @zaftra 3 года назад

      What did he say factually wrong about Napoleon.

    • @fearlessmash8717
      @fearlessmash8717 3 года назад +6

      @@zaftra he’s just a little too critical and blame happy with Napoleon such as when he places all of the deaths of the Napoleonic wars on him despite Napoleon only starting the 6th coalition war

    • @zaftra
      @zaftra 3 года назад +2

      @@fearlessmash8717 They are not called the Napoleonic wars for nothing.

  • @enoughofyourkoicarp
    @enoughofyourkoicarp 5 лет назад +832

    I would argue that Napoleon's greatest foe was Napoleon.

    • @jacktattis143
      @jacktattis143 5 лет назад +21

      enough: Yes he could not stop

    • @enoughofyourkoicarp
      @enoughofyourkoicarp 5 лет назад +16

      @Pneumonocolvocanomicroscopicsilicolvocano-coniosis So is a Frenchman who lives next to a brothel but that didn't stop Napoleon.

    • @wrybreadspread
      @wrybreadspread 5 лет назад +4

      If one were to quote CS Lewis on pride, would that be too pompous (read "proud) ?

    • @brianpreval5602
      @brianpreval5602 4 года назад +2

      that's one way of looking at it.

    • @opperturk124
      @opperturk124 4 года назад +18

      His greatest foe is lindybeige

  • @VCC1316
    @VCC1316 4 года назад +861

    " Napoleon was worst than Stalin " is the most British thing to say xD

    • @christiank1251
      @christiank1251 4 года назад +33

      Because the Brits were brothers in arms with Uncle Joe.

    • @fredbarker9201
      @fredbarker9201 3 года назад +191

      I’m English, LB is a very smart bloke, but that statement is awful.Napoleon is one of the most successful legislators in European history

    • @getass3290
      @getass3290 3 года назад +48

      @@fredbarker9201 ya that statement was just ridiculous

    • @theannoyedlink5153
      @theannoyedlink5153 3 года назад +61

      @@fredbarker9201 did he really said he was worst than Stalin? He just said that he killed a lot of people when there were less in the world, and with less effective means to do it, making his killing as awful in context as that of Stalin, I don't know if that's accurate, but there's some logic to that statement

    • @fredbarker9201
      @fredbarker9201 3 года назад +105

      @@theannoyedlink5153 Stalin’s policies killed millions even outside of war. Napoelon didn’t do purges his deaths come from only wars and a lot of the wars were more coalition driven than his own fault. So it is an awful comparison

  • @nickrangel139
    @nickrangel139 4 года назад +193

    How Napoleon felt about this man proves the effectiveness of trolling.

  • @ArgueWithTheMajority
    @ArgueWithTheMajority 6 лет назад +229

    It really speaks volumes about your knowledge that you do these scriptless and in one take, including a bunch of informative sidetracking. Hats off!

    • @boulderbash19700209
      @boulderbash19700209 5 лет назад

      He may have teleprompter or blackboard behind the camera.

    • @dogefort8410
      @dogefort8410 5 лет назад +9

      His performance could possibly be more structured if he had some help, but then again it could be less spirited.
      Trial and error maybe? Run a few tests.

    • @mikelit7613
      @mikelit7613 5 лет назад +4

      It's good when he knows what he's talking about but makes the video significantly worse when he doesn't.

    • @manuelredgrave8348
      @manuelredgrave8348 5 лет назад

      I would like the comment but it has 69 likes

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum 5 лет назад +3

      He was lecturing about advantages/disadvantages between being male and female in a random video in the woods. He’s not teleprompting, he’s that good.

  • @archaeologistify
    @archaeologistify 7 лет назад +234

    I like what the video name and author in the recommended column say:
    Napoleon's greatest foe
    Lindybeige.

    • @janedunster5156
      @janedunster5156 6 лет назад +2

      Udrakan Morturim Get the feeling he doesn't like Napoleon much

    • @VRichardsn
      @VRichardsn 4 года назад +1

      You know, Flaubert once said
      "Napoleon is like the great pyramid, he stands alone in a desert and jackals piss at his feet and writers climb up on him."

  • @alittlebitofhistory
    @alittlebitofhistory 7 лет назад +307

    Everyone knows Napoleon's greatest foe was Richard Sharpe.

    • @nellyboy86.02
      @nellyboy86.02 7 лет назад +1

      Norfolk lad ❤💯

    • @nellyboy86.02
      @nellyboy86.02 7 лет назад +9

      (When is either Lindybeige or Matt Easton gonna make a vid on Sharpe....*sighs*.....either one or both together would be soooo cool!!)

    • @johnmcmanus7809
      @johnmcmanus7809 7 лет назад +1

      He's a Londoner in the books.

    • @TheSteelEcho666
      @TheSteelEcho666 7 лет назад +12

      Between Sharpe and Hornblower, Boney was well buggered.

    • @Aramis419
      @Aramis419 7 лет назад +6

      "Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly?
      Want to call that raggedy-ass Napoleon your king?
      You want your children to sing the "La Marseillaise?"

  • @fearlessmash8717
    @fearlessmash8717 2 года назад +45

    Lindy:”Napoleon brought the most death proportional to population”
    Gengis Khan and Timur the lame:”Rookie numbers”

    • @Jaxck77
      @Jaxck77 Год назад

      There could be an entire museum called “Fuck These Guys” which has entire halls devoted to why Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and many others were such cunts.

  • @doopydoopz1737
    @doopydoopz1737 5 лет назад +251

    "Clever Telephones" Good lord that is an extremely british way of saying "SmartPhones"

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 5 лет назад +14

      It's an extremely lindybeige way of saying it ,
      Bc Nobody in England calls smartphones
      ' clever phones" ..

    • @doopydoopz1737
      @doopydoopz1737 5 лет назад +5

      @@kevwhufc8640 Never claimed british people say that, heh

    • @warfan1302
      @warfan1302 4 года назад +11

      @Colin Cleveland what impeccable luxury and surprise, I've just acquired something into my possession that can electronically open spectral portals which originally could only transfer audio but now has the exquisite possibility of transferring luminescence but not any larger form. Is there a small possibility ladies of the fairer sex that have a seductive exqusiteness to them can be nearby my general location? Procurement of this information is of course not for myself but rather people I have a good acquaintance by.

    • @georgewhitworth9742
      @georgewhitworth9742 3 года назад

      @@kevwhufc8640 Don't look up, may miss the point going over your head

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 3 года назад

      @@georgewhitworth9742 oh such a clever point too!
      Must be an American thing or what passes as humour
      Because I haven't a clue what your on about m8

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 6 лет назад +94

    I think a revolt against a revolution is called a counter-revolution.

    • @panduwidagdo7051
      @panduwidagdo7051 5 лет назад +4

      He also said about the thing that detects detector and call it detector detector.

    • @tomcahill3617
      @tomcahill3617 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, but also it's a person who's generally counter to revolutions, revolutionary or what might be called progressiveness or something in today's terms.
      Of course in the Russia we call the staunch Communists right wing, so it's a lot down to perspective.
      Lindybeige's very a-political, which I like as he keeps people onside, opposite to my way of doing things, but history's important and a-political, military history, whilst limited is still important to know about, even though he's a lot pedestrian with the deeper side to it, so it's like something you'd learn in school, like "England wanted to attack France to gain territory." rather than some scum decided to start a war to sell both sides weapons, get both sides in debt, lend money to them and have them kill each other to maintain both countries in a less than optimal state to exploit the various classes in various ways, to maintain the parasitism.

    • @WalterLiddy
      @WalterLiddy 5 лет назад +2

      But a revolt is not a revolution. It implies localized skirmishing, not a nation-wide movement with real hopes of taking power.

    • @martind349
      @martind349 5 лет назад

      Don't think too hard.

  • @nazamroth8427
    @nazamroth8427 7 лет назад +224

    I am not entirely certain, but i seem to get the feeling that lindy dislikes Napoleon...

    • @lednybeeg3474
      @lednybeeg3474 7 лет назад +16

      bcause napolin woz a git

    • @GoranXII
      @GoranXII 6 лет назад +27

      You may be right in that respect, there is a certain amount of dislike there. Of course I'd say it was probably wrong to say Napoleon was the worst butcher in history. I happen to feel that the title ought to actually go to one J. Caesar, who butchered (by his count) a million people in Gaul, at a time when the total population of Gaul was only about 5 million.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 6 лет назад +44

      It's not only that Lindy was wrong, but his statement is just plain ridiculous/funny. Lindy becomes kind of stupid when he begins the british-patriot act.

    • @GoranXII
      @GoranXII 6 лет назад +3

      _Which_ statement?

    • @slamblamboozled1245
      @slamblamboozled1245 6 лет назад +14

      Napoleon=French. Lindy=British. It'd be weirder if he liked him.

  • @oldgymrat71
    @oldgymrat71 4 года назад +19

    I discovered Lindybeige a couple of weeks ago and have enjoyed his talks immensely. I am 75 and think his talks superior to most historical productions using fil or literature. He is terrific!

  • @martinborgen
    @martinborgen 7 лет назад +73

    For all his character flaws, of which there were many, he did implement his Code Napoleon, which is the closest most of europe had to the Bill of Rights, in that it solidified the rights of the common people - across large parts of Europe (Many Europen countrie's still base many of their laws on the Code Napoleon). It could therefore be argued that through this one act he did an awful lot of good, in addition to all the death he caused.
    Also it's interesting how Sidney Smith is such a hybrid warfare specialist - his victory at Svensksund is very much a littoral waters victory in archipelago waters, and a large part of the victory is integrating the Swedish navy (Örlogsflottan, the regular open water navy), the swedish coastal navy (galleys and small gun boats) as well as coastal artillery and land forces. If I recall correctly he commanded a gunboat of some sort during the engagement, where they disembarked the gun, and started shooting from the shore.

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 7 лет назад +3

      It's not like he was solely responsible for the code, he didn't even write it.

    • @MrKonfekta
      @MrKonfekta 7 лет назад +2

      Yeah ! Napoleon implementet a shitty code and hitler created jobs, great guys these dictators.

    • @littlejack2233
      @littlejack2233 7 лет назад +10

      You misunderstand. It's *historical significance* is understated even - it's one of the most important legacies of Napoleon. France's ancien legal system was archaic and still heavily based in roman law, and this was true in most of Europe. The Code Napoleon was the only significant legal reform for centuries and was implemented in most of the countries he absorbed - and still forms the basis of their law today.

    • @MrLittlelawyer
      @MrLittlelawyer 7 лет назад +5

      +MrKonfekta Napoleon wasn't much of a dictator though, and unlike Hitler he didn't start most of his wars/most of his wars were defensive in nature. He didn't really commit any genocides, and any crimes he did/his government committed were less or were far restrained compared to the revolutionary government (he put a stop to a lot of revolutionary shenanigans).

    • @Kamfrenchie
      @Kamfrenchie 7 лет назад +4

      what ? hitler kept the war going even when he was clearly defeated with no hope of winning, getting berlin and most of germany burned in the process, while hitler committed suicide to avoid being judged.
      Napoleon also didn't persecute polish people, in fact he create the duchy of varsaw, and is still mentionned in polish anthem.

  • @Gerbs1913
    @Gerbs1913 5 лет назад +340

    How to get blackout drunk in one hour: Drink every time he goes on a tangent.
    Feels a bit like a Monty Python member giving historical lectures which is why I find these so enjoyable.

    • @77thTrombone
      @77thTrombone 4 года назад +3

      Just Your Friendly Neighborhood Chaplain - my sense exactly as well!

    • @mdh6977
      @mdh6977 4 года назад +2

      Yep, n not the first time either

    • @kieranh2005
      @kieranh2005 4 года назад +4

      The tangents are what makes him so entertaining

    • @lukeskywalker3329
      @lukeskywalker3329 3 года назад +1

      These tangents seemed to be more opinion than fact .
      Quite mediocre opinions at that .
      Needs to stick to facts Jack.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 7 лет назад +1620

    Wot?

    • @joachimmacdonald2702
      @joachimmacdonald2702 7 лет назад +204

      back off mate

    • @lifeisgood12341
      @lifeisgood12341 7 лет назад +66

      >whispers< Smith....

    • @BakaGaijin66
      @BakaGaijin66 7 лет назад +74

      git

    • @chrisrus1965
      @chrisrus1965 7 лет назад +57

      This thread is very amusing, but if I might just interrupt to I'd ask why the French don:t look back on Napoleon like I donno say for example the Germans look back at Hitler.

    • @Calsopify
      @Calsopify 7 лет назад +14

      Because their french

  • @slothstradamus89
    @slothstradamus89 4 года назад +51

    I have to echo many of the other commenter's sentiments when they say, "I wish I had had a history teacher like this guy when I was in school" lol. He's amazing.
    However, I'd also like to take this moment to acknowledge how great some of my history teachers really were themselves. Always made history entertaining.

  • @BobHerzog1962
    @BobHerzog1962 6 лет назад +381

    So Sir Sidney Smith was basically trolling Napoleon.

    • @TheRobdarling
      @TheRobdarling 6 лет назад +6

      Yep

    • @jamespfp
      @jamespfp 5 лет назад +2

      *YES,* and not one of those lame sock puppet trolls either!

    • @martind349
      @martind349 5 лет назад +1

      @@jamespfp Quite right shoe.

  • @sabberi
    @sabberi 7 лет назад +20

    I'm going to re-watch this.
    With the mindset that Napoleon is Lindy's nasty ex-girlfriend, Sid Smith his new honeymoon-phase wife - and all the stories are just analogies and metaphors of their lives.

  • @techpriest8965
    @techpriest8965 7 лет назад +54

    Look at this beige non-biased man non-biasedly teaching us about a career of a officer in a totally non-biased way.

    • @asneakychicken322
      @asneakychicken322 7 лет назад +23

      Isn't that part of the appeal, he's unapologetically British, and that implicitly means hating the French

    • @UnbeltedSundew
      @UnbeltedSundew 7 лет назад +8

      Techpriest You mean being honest? Yeah truth and honesty are terrible things.

    • @perperson199
      @perperson199 5 лет назад +7

      @@asneakychicken322 All decent nations dislike the French

    • @Mitaka.Kotsuka
      @Mitaka.Kotsuka 4 года назад +1

      @@perperson199 i agree

  • @BenjaminEmm
    @BenjaminEmm 4 года назад +44

    I have probably watched this video 7 times over the past year. It’s such a fantastic story and Lloyd retells it so well that I find myself rewatching again and again.

    • @perperson199
      @perperson199 Год назад +1

      I've just seen it some five times. It's a great story, told by a great storyteller

    • @oisin3495
      @oisin3495 Год назад +1

      Yeah same I can’t tell you exactly why I love this video so much but I’ve regularly came back to it.

    • @BenjaminEmm
      @BenjaminEmm Год назад

      @@oisin3495 I was thinking about it just the other day with the new Napoleon film being advertised!

    • @jolonghthong
      @jolonghthong Год назад +1

      ive watched it countless times its just my comfort video and i love it

  • @niamh_20
    @niamh_20 5 лет назад +162

    Sir Sidney Smith certainly lived his life to the full.

    • @jacktattis143
      @jacktattis143 5 лет назад +4

      Niamh: And was bitterly disappointed when he was not given a perrage

    • @drogerflav6350
      @drogerflav6350 4 года назад +5

      Never forget he lost to the terrifying andrew Jackson, america will always have great britans number

    • @lukewilliams1666
      @lukewilliams1666 4 года назад +1

      @@drogerflav6350 Remember 1812 😂

  • @Ant1815
    @Ant1815 7 лет назад +83

    Whatever your views on Napoleon claiming that he was responsible for all those deaths is a bit of a stretch. 1805 Austrians declare war on France. 1806 Prussians declare war on France. 1809 The Austrians decide to declare war again. 1812 The Russians renague on a peace treaty and force Napoleon in to war. I suppose Napoleon should have just capitulated in 1805 to save all those lives.

    • @thecashier930
      @thecashier930 7 лет назад +17

      eh... He shouldn't have started conquering and killing shit in the first place. You don't really get away with telling people, that they are at fault, when they break a truce, that you forced onto them. That's a bit like saying the gauls are at fault for the deaths of Caesars conquests, because they broke the peacetreaties he forced them into.
      There is a reason why forced contracts are not legal.

    • @English_Thespian
      @English_Thespian 7 лет назад +7

      Anthony Martin Well to be fair to the Coalition, in 1792 France started it by declaring war on both Austria and Prussia. Now Napoleon had nothing to do with that of course, but it was definitely the French's fault that (what would become) the Napoleonic wars started.

    • @2adamast
      @2adamast 7 лет назад +12

      Same with Hitler. Attacked by the French and English he had to defend himself from Russia. Life is so unfair.

    • @thecashier930
      @thecashier930 7 лет назад +7

      +Adamast
      Well, what should he have done? Accept a jewish conspiracy to form in his country and destroy it from the inside? Nobody can afford that, while defensively conquering Europe. The solution was forced onto him!

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 7 лет назад +4

      Napoleon didn't have to go to war in 1812 just because Russia wanted to trade with the UK.

  • @mustafayldrm3449
    @mustafayldrm3449 7 лет назад +27

    The Pasha mentioned here got the nickname"slasher" (though more accurately "Butcher") because when he was a young officer, he tracked and killed around 70 revolting Beduins as a revenge of his murdered commanding officer.

  • @sehrguterkommentator3619
    @sehrguterkommentator3619 4 года назад +100

    "One thing you can do to improve yourself, is to get a little Tolstoi in you"
    - Lev Tolstoi, Tinder-Bio, ca. 1850

    • @dabtican4953
      @dabtican4953 4 года назад +1

      Lol

    • @martonk
      @martonk 3 года назад +2

      Interestingly in his years as a young army officer he was a pretty extravagant womaniser.

    • @6noelita
      @6noelita 3 года назад

      would leave a like but you have 69 and I don't want to ruin it.

  • @raylast3873
    @raylast3873 5 лет назад +130

    Napoleon‘s greatest enemy: obviously Horatio Hornblower. D‘uh

    • @chrisoddy8744
      @chrisoddy8744 4 года назад +21

      Richard Sharpe was his major opponent on land, Hornblower on the sea.

    • @CortxVortx
      @CortxVortx 3 года назад +2

      Jack Aubrey gave him a bit of trouble, too.

    • @stefanfilipovits21
      @stefanfilipovits21 3 года назад +1

      @@chrisoddy8744 Richard sharpe beat him at Waterloo. That’s soldiering...

  • @PaulPaulPaulson
    @PaulPaulPaulson 7 лет назад +773

    I'm not ready for this yet! Need a coffee, my couch and my cuddly blanket first!

    • @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin
      @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin 7 лет назад +13

      gay

    • @arildedvardbasmo490
      @arildedvardbasmo490 7 лет назад +16

      Saw this -> put on coffee -> went to the shop and bought chocolate -> got home and started watching

    • @kilppa
      @kilppa 7 лет назад +9

      Oh yeah, just had my first and only cup for the day to accompany this. Coffee and Lloyd go hand in hand.

    • @richtheunstable3359
      @richtheunstable3359 7 лет назад +1

      MrZapparin teddy bear hot water bottle combo

    • @inlikeflynn7238
      @inlikeflynn7238 7 лет назад +14

      I disagree with Lindybeige on one point and that is the idea that Napoleon was a coward (implied at various points during this video); cruel (certainly), dishonorable (he surely had his moments), vindictive and petty (absolutely), but a coward would not fight all of Europe and cause such an upheaval if he were merely a craven man entirely removed from that temper of character that gives men the courage to venture their life for what they may perceive as glory.

  • @tomstafford7510
    @tomstafford7510 7 лет назад +513

    One hour of lindybeige on Napoleon. Heaven.

    • @armag3ddon
      @armag3ddon 7 лет назад +4

      This is madness!

    • @tomstafford7510
      @tomstafford7510 7 лет назад +4

      It is getting out of hand....

    • @thecashier930
      @thecashier930 7 лет назад +3

      Didn't he say in a 45 minute-ish video, that there won't be a longer one? He's mad.

    • @tomstafford7510
      @tomstafford7510 7 лет назад +10

      Mad, but gold

    • @laughingachilles
      @laughingachilles 7 лет назад +3

      Here I fixed this for you .
      One hour of lindybeige. Heaven!

  • @hitomisalazar4073
    @hitomisalazar4073 3 года назад +256

    Sometimes History is stranger than fiction? Well I'm always reminded of the wisdom of Mark Twain: "History has the advantage on fiction. Fiction has to be believable."

    • @samditto
      @samditto 3 года назад +4

      History is never stranger than anime

    • @DYLANJJK94
      @DYLANJJK94 3 года назад +7

      Sam Ditto Why do you think Japan was so screwed up to make anime lol those kids In WWII saw some terrible shit.

  • @strictlyunreal
    @strictlyunreal 4 года назад +63

    2:03 Actually, at that time it was still called Constantinople. The name was changed to Istanbul in the 20th century.

    • @Whurlpuul
      @Whurlpuul 3 года назад

      Doesn't it mean the same thing anyway?

    • @strictlyunreal
      @strictlyunreal 3 года назад +10

      @@Whurlpuul Well, if you want to go down that road...
      Constantinople means "the city of Constantine", while Istanbul, according to Wikipedia, is derived from a Greek phrase meaning "to the city".

    • @alexh2947
      @alexh2947 3 года назад +5

      @@strictlyunreal the turks would actually call it konstantinyye I believe which meant as you mightve guessed "the city of Constantine"

    • @OkachaWasTaken
      @OkachaWasTaken 3 года назад +1

      No it was istanbul and i am a turk

    • @hannibalburgers477
      @hannibalburgers477 3 года назад +1

      Actually it was called Constantinniyye. Literally means Constantinia.

  • @Hulaabeo
    @Hulaabeo 7 лет назад +72

    To answer your question on whether orn not anybody saw Napoleon as a good guy, I dhould mention that from the perspective of the Polish, Napoleon was a hero.
    Mind, we were partioned at this point in history between various European powers, so when the French Revolution came into full swing, many Poles saw this as a spark of hope. I don't have exact dates or anything, but at one point Napoleon reinstated the Duchy of Warsaw, so we were sort of a thing for the first time in a century or so.
    I should probably mention he still gets a shout out in the Polish anthem?

    • @vatonage1599
      @vatonage1599 7 лет назад

      To most people, Poland only exists as some dumb country that gets invaded by the Nazi

    • @Blade57331
      @Blade57331 7 лет назад +21

      Yeah, well... fuck those people.

    • @PobortzaPl
      @PobortzaPl 7 лет назад +4

      Polish word for emperor is "cesarz". Whenever Polish person uses word "cesarz" without any name to follow it, it means said Polish person speaks about Napoleon Bonaparte.

    • @josephteller9715
      @josephteller9715 7 лет назад +6

      Also, despite modern memory, America was all for supporting Napoleon's wars against the English etc.... since they profited from it until that pesky adventure to take over Canada in 1812 turned into an invasion of America and the burning of Washington DC.
      Without Napoleon America would not have gotten the Louisiana Purchase.

    • @TranscendentLion
      @TranscendentLion 7 лет назад +7

      'Most people' should also remember that when Poland was invaded by Hitler, the Poles put up a damn good fight and took down hundreds of Nazi tanks. They then flew alongside British planes and provided much of the codebreaking expertise that was estimated to shorten the war by a number of years.

  • @decoryder
    @decoryder 6 лет назад +55

    Wonderful commentary and analysis, a worthy tribute to the much under-appreciated Sir Sidney Smith.

  • @papaburger
    @papaburger 6 лет назад +356

    Is that a giant pencil in the background ?

    • @collerdgreens
      @collerdgreens 5 лет назад +11

      MY PENCIL

    • @Trevor_Hill
      @Trevor_Hill 5 лет назад +20

      Mehoy menoy

    • @vladdrakul7851
      @vladdrakul7851 5 лет назад +34

      Yes but Lindy uses it as a stake for impaling French people and those English foolish enough to like them!

    • @azh698
      @azh698 5 лет назад

      Yes and it's a giant metaphor.

    • @ajorsomething4935
      @ajorsomething4935 5 лет назад

      I know a guy who has a giant spoon.

  • @capnstewy55
    @capnstewy55 Год назад +18

    We can only hope that Sir Sidney Smith makes an appearance in the upcoming Napoleon movie.

    • @jolonghthong
      @jolonghthong Год назад +3

      exactly what made me come to this video he needs some recognition

    • @tomasdawe9379
      @tomasdawe9379 Год назад +7

      Well hopefully he doesn't get a film like Napoleon...

  • @FGDireito
    @FGDireito 4 года назад +63

    48:55 "you can't trade with the British", Portugal was like "you can't tell me what to do lol"
    Portugal openly refused to join the Continental System. In 1793, Portugal signed a treaty of mutual assistance with Britain

    • @Mitaka.Kotsuka
      @Mitaka.Kotsuka 4 года назад +9

      The treaty is still on today (probably the longest alliance ever)

    • @admiralsquatbar127
      @admiralsquatbar127 4 года назад +7

      @@Mitaka.Kotsuka it is the oldest treaty in the world that still stands today.

    • @Double0Anims
      @Double0Anims 4 года назад +13

      @@Mitaka.Kotsuka Fitting for the two nations with the oldest alliance in the world. Us Portuguese and the Brits have been allied since 1373. This even caused Portugal to help the Allies despite the neutrality in World War II. This was during a Portuguese Extreme Right-Wing Dictatorship as well.
      The funny thing is that this alliance is based on "Fuck the Spanish."

    • @elias_xp95
      @elias_xp95 3 года назад +4

      You could say the Spanish are the Portuguese's Frenchman

    • @mickey4125
      @mickey4125 3 года назад +1

      @@Double0Anims The Brits (of which I am one) can be... unreliable as allies though. See the British Ultimatum to Portugal of 1890, demanding that Portugal withdraw from parts of Africa so GB could take an even bigger slice. Sorry guys! :(

  • @Hebdomad7
    @Hebdomad7 7 лет назад +115

    An hour long video of Lindybeige? Better put the kettle on....

    • @pp-wo1sd
      @pp-wo1sd 7 лет назад +5

      Phill
      Along with a matching kettle hat

  • @VexChoccyMilk
    @VexChoccyMilk 6 лет назад +35

    Lloyd, have you ever considered doing a podcast? The format is strikingly similar to yours, you could ramble on for an hour and you wouldn't even need to record video!

  • @somebloke4027
    @somebloke4027 2 года назад +11

    I’m impressed by how many times you said ‘git’ in this video instead of the word you were thinking of. Brilliantly entertaining story. Btw If anyone wants a good book about the Barbary pirates, White Gold by Giles Milton is the utterly fascinating, almost unbelievable story of Cornish fisherman and white slave Thomas Pellow.

  • @Dbobcol
    @Dbobcol 6 лет назад +696

    I admire how truly British that Lindybeige is, in that he still hates the French just because they're French

    • @liamdoyle5363
      @liamdoyle5363 6 лет назад +78

      bearjew speaking french

    • @HarryFlashmanVC
      @HarryFlashmanVC 6 лет назад +3

      Hahahaha!

    • @seangotts6470
      @seangotts6470 6 лет назад +28

      even though he was praising Kleber and saying he was a good general .. and he was saying napoleon cause the deaths of 2 million french .. yeah sounds like he hates them .. you sir are a dipshit

    • @ellingsindre2485
      @ellingsindre2485 6 лет назад +42

      He didn't say anything bad about the french. Just Nappy Boney, who for the record, was a fucking lunatic.

    • @stansmith2771
      @stansmith2771 6 лет назад +8

      The frenchness of The French is enough reason to hate them. Not sure why Hitler invaded.

  • @rockyh8795
    @rockyh8795 6 лет назад +266

    I'm an American and I've honestly never heard Napoleon's character so vehemently denounced as in this video. I suspect that Americans, at the time, were still in pissing contests with the English and so downplayed the English low opinion of Napoleon as propaganda. That and Napoleon's attitude towards the New World meant that we doubled the land area of our nation for a ridiculously low price. It's difficult to hate someone who made you fabulously wealthy.
    I've always thought of Napoleon as conniving, sneaky, shrewd, megalomaniacal, even petty at times, but I've never heard him accused of being spiteful, duplicitous, dishonorable or a git. I'll have to do some more research into the man's life.
    And I'd definitely never heard the name Sir Sydney Smith. Thanks for the video.

    • @6272355463637
      @6272355463637 6 лет назад +15

      Since the young USA profited both from the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, it's reasonable to assume that Napoleon has a fairly good image over there.
      For me as a German, he's actually something of an ambivalent (though more negative than positive, certainly) figure. On the one hand, he was the enemy and set the stage for a bunch of major wars long after his death. On the other hand (and this is, of course, part of the reason for those later wars and probably not seen as positive by, say, the French...), he cut down a good part of the crippling regionalism in what would later become Germany, breaking down the Holy Roman Empire and what weak grasp the Habsburg dynasty had over it and creating the conditions a Prussian-led unification after the Prussians emerged as one of the major continental European powers after the Wars of Liberation.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 6 лет назад +54

      I think the bias isn't exactly where you think it is. Lindy isn't really known for his objectivity to anything related to the french. I highly recommend you do some more research yourself indeed.

    • @arudegesture
      @arudegesture 6 лет назад +63

      @rocky H
      The Brits have a special relationship with history that might be unknown to most Americans; They indulge in historical revisionism where they try to paint themselves as "good guys".

    • @europeanbourgeois8223
      @europeanbourgeois8223 6 лет назад +15

      A Rude Gesture The French are the ones that have the tricolour-tinted glasses clues on. We just wear shades and be better than them.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 6 лет назад +35

      Lindibeige is so fanatically English-nationalist that we should have not expected otherwise, however even I was surprised and it's truly a pity that he destroyed such a good story about Smith with so much bigotry.

  • @TheMattork
    @TheMattork 7 лет назад +146

    Regarding the siege of Jaffa and Napoleon's execution of the prisoners: Many of the prisoners he executed had been released by him previously, swore oaths to never take arms against him again and they went back on it. He used the local customs and laws to justify his execution since these men had broken their oaths. Doesn't make what he did any less abhorrent by our standards today but back then it was just part of the war.

    • @Elador1000
      @Elador1000 7 лет назад +34

      Plus aleast according to wiki, the commander of the Jaffa executed the Turk Napoleon sent to negotiate and then tortured and killed other french messengers.

    • @kanedakrsa
      @kanedakrsa 7 лет назад +1

      I'm sure that's an easy thing to prove ever happened. Right?

    • @greatlordbalder788
      @greatlordbalder788 7 лет назад +7

      +kanedakrsa No one is denying that Napoleon killed those men.

    • @davidhalabi664
      @davidhalabi664 6 лет назад +14

      Shows how much British Bias Lindy is presenting here.

    • @Nimmermaer
      @Nimmermaer 5 лет назад +13

      While Napoleon was busy conquering Europe the British traders were busy making a quarter of the Chinese population addicted to opium to satisfy their greed, with the sanction of the British crown.

  • @Face2theScr33n
    @Face2theScr33n 4 года назад +17

    25:00 "One of Napoleon's Maxims was never to abandon your guns."
    If Nappy had Maxim guns, he may have fared better! 😎

  • @techpriest8965
    @techpriest8965 7 лет назад +180

    A general's greatest enemy? His most hated and respected adversary? His Achilles heel? His kryptonite? Well...
    It's logistics.

    • @tiaandeswardt7741
      @tiaandeswardt7741 7 лет назад +2

      Techpriest An army does,in the end, march on its stomach.

    • @christianschwalbach7561
      @christianschwalbach7561 7 лет назад +2

      Mountains n rivers n swamps n such

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 7 лет назад +1

      That tends to be the issue with large empires. They’re just too big to handle most times.

    • @Riceball01
      @Riceball01 7 лет назад +1

      Tiaan De Swardt Now a days I'd argue that they march on paperwork, lots and lots of paperwork.

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar 7 лет назад +1

      Tiaan De Swardt he wouldn't understand that quote as the Cult Mechanicum armies has dispensed with pathetic organic flaws like digestive systems as they are far too inefficient.
      Also: #KelborHaldidnothingwrong

  • @noahwick3217
    @noahwick3217 5 лет назад +93

    lindybeige has convinced me; git is the perfect insult.

    • @olliephelan
      @olliephelan 5 лет назад +1

      What did he convict you of ?

    • @ishashka
      @ishashka 4 года назад

      It's also the perfect version control system

  • @napoleonbonaparte3492
    @napoleonbonaparte3492 7 лет назад +55

    Heat the oil and butter in a skillet, then brown the roast beef for 3 to 4 minutes per side. Preheat the oven th. 6/7 (200 ° C).
    Arrange the roast beef in a baking dish with the peeled and chopped shallots. Bake 20 minutes.
    Wrap the roast beef with 2 sheets of aluminum foil and set aside for 10 minutes at room temperature. Serve sliced, sprinkled with fleur de selt and crushed pepper, with fries or homemade mashed potatoes.

    • @VRichardsn
      @VRichardsn 6 лет назад +5

      J'aime l'oignon frit à l'huile,
      J'aime l'oignon quand il est bon.
      J'aime l'oignon frit à l'huile,
      J'aime l'oignon, j'aime l'oignon.
      [REFRAIN]
      Au pas camarades,
      au pas camarades,
      Au pas , au pas , au pas,
      Au pas camarades,
      au pas camarades,
      Au pas , au pas , au pas.
      [REFRAIN]
      Un seul oignon frit à l'huile,
      Un seul oignon nous change en Lion,
      Un seul oignon frit à l'huile,
      Un seul oignon nous change en Lion.
      [REFRAIN]
      Mais pas d'oignons aux Autrichiens,
      Non pas d'oignons à tous ces chiens,
      Mais pas d'oignons aux Autrichiens,
      Non pas d'oignons, non pas d'oignons
      [REFRAIN]
      Aimons l'oignon frit à l'huile,
      Aimons l'oignon car il est bon,
      Aimons l'oignon frit à l'huile,
      Aimons l'oignon, aimons l'oignon
      [REFRAIN]

    • @winstonchurchill624
      @winstonchurchill624 6 лет назад +1

      NapoleonBonaparte Doesn't sound half bad, but it's really off topic.

    • @arudegesture
      @arudegesture 6 лет назад +2

      @NapoleonBonaparte
      Maybe that's why you got stomach-cancer; Eating British "food"?

    • @europeanbourgeois8223
      @europeanbourgeois8223 6 лет назад +4

      +A Rude Gesture The British cook better French food than the French do.

    • @arudegesture
      @arudegesture 6 лет назад +8

      @Henry
      *"The British cook better French food than the French do."*
      HAHAHAHAHA!!

  • @dasflieger3103
    @dasflieger3103 3 года назад +18

    46:34 well, unlike in other countries, when he came into the territory of today's Slovenia, he made slovene one of the formal languages and also had a university built. So, if looking from a Slovenian patriot's perspective, he wasn't so bad (at least in this area). Otherwise I truly agree he's done more harm than good.

    • @gerald216
      @gerald216 2 года назад

      It might have been that he finally realized that not killing everyone who isn't French works better than, well killing everyone who isn't French.

  • @MaiussX
    @MaiussX 7 лет назад +94

    5:37 cant help but think there might be slight british bias involved ; )

    • @Wanderer628
      @Wanderer628 7 лет назад +4

      Sarrus You watch any French or American video and there is clear bias and no one seems to mind. Shock, horror and outrage when a British guy, who is clearly doing it to take the mickey.

    • @stephenwoods4118
      @stephenwoods4118 7 лет назад +1

      Quel surprise

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 7 лет назад +1

      Wanderer628 People threw a fit because [ INSERT COUNTRY HERE] wasn't in the latest Battlefield game.

  • @ziomudru
    @ziomudru 5 лет назад +76

    Kutuzov! the russian general was Kutuzov. Ironic that you missed this in the same video where you advertise (appropriately) "War and Peace" :-)

  • @ddjay1363
    @ddjay1363 6 лет назад +49

    "Think any man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and treat every Frenchman like he was the devil himself" - Lord Horatio Nelson

  • @jameswilliams3241
    @jameswilliams3241 4 года назад +17

    I've always wondered if the fact that Hitler wasn't German, Stalin wasn't Russian and Napoleone Buonoparte wasn't French had any influence on the course they took in their lives?

    • @НастасМилошевић
      @НастасМилошевић 4 года назад

      Hitler was German doe Austrians are a kind of germanic people very closely related to South germans(bavarians)

    • @jameswilliams3241
      @jameswilliams3241 4 года назад +4

      @@НастасМилошевић Hitler became a German citizen around the time he became chancellor of Germany before that he was an Austrian citizen, so while he was Deutschervolk he was born in Austria so strictly speaking not German just as Stalin was a Georgian and Napoleon a Corsican was the point I was making

    • @1ena585
      @1ena585 3 года назад +1

      Wasn't Corsica part of France in 1769 ?

    • @jameswilliams3241
      @jameswilliams3241 3 года назад +2

      @@1ena585 yes it was, and a very unhappy part then and for a long time after. They always felt put upon by the French effort to create Frenchmen of them with such arbitrary laws as making it mandatory to give your children French given names as opposed to Corsican ones. The Corsican French relationship was always very troublesome and disruptive.

    • @neinno8172
      @neinno8172 2 года назад

      ​@@jameswilliams3241 The big outlier in those comparisons is Hitler. Austrians were/considered themselves German to the extent Bavarians did until the end of WW2 It's also why a majority of Austrians approved the Anschluss. They were German but had their own state, the same way if Bavaria was its on state. Hitler wanted to(and did) join the German army in WW1 and had always believed Austria needed to unite with Germany from a young age. Neither Napoleon or Stalin held such nationalistic views about their places of origin.
      Unlike Hitler, Stalin and Napoleon both initially believed their nationhood lied solely in their birthplace. Napoleon was a Corscian nationalist and pretty anti-French up until the fiasco with Paoli which irreversibly changed his identity. Stalin also wanted Georgia to be independent of czarist Russia. However, through the party he joined and marxist literature he favoured sovietisation. He personally worked to eliminate Georgian nationalism during the civil war. Both spoke with accents of their places of origin, which Stalin was embarrassed about and Napoleon made fun of while growing up in continental France.

  • @comradegeneralvladimirpoot1313
    @comradegeneralvladimirpoot1313 5 лет назад +31

    *"Kléber was it seems, honourable."*
    Kléber: "wElL It'S aLl RiGhT fOr yOU, bUt iT ONlY CoMEs uP tO mY WaiSt."

  • @babacloanza
    @babacloanza 5 лет назад +7

    You are right: "Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, GCB, GCTE, KmstkSO, FRS was a British naval officer. Serving in the American and French revolutionary wars, he later rose to the rank of admiral. Napoleon Bonaparte, reminiscing later in his life, said of him: "That man made me miss my destiny"
    Indeed, very-very strange! Thank you. Great video! History is fascinating.

  • @state_song_xprt
    @state_song_xprt 5 лет назад +39

    This is incorrect - Napoleon's greatest foe is of course a swarm of hungry domestic rabbits.
    Look it up.

  • @paulmurphy216
    @paulmurphy216 Год назад +2

    Fascinating. You have a real gift for telling a long, detailed story and keeping the viewer interested throughout. I usually get impatient after 15-20 minutes - whether I sit through a 40+ minute history video after then depends on how interested I am in the subject. I was sorry when this one finished.
    Jolly good show, what?

  • @knightshousegames
    @knightshousegames 6 лет назад +55

    Damn. That letter from the prison to Napoleon was so badass.

  • @apostate855
    @apostate855 6 лет назад +374

    We get it Lloyd, you're English.

    • @onogrirwin
      @onogrirwin 6 лет назад +30

      The best summary of this video

    • @afrog2666
      @afrog2666 6 лет назад +32

      Brits are more nationalistic than the nazis and the arabs put together

    • @onogrirwin
      @onogrirwin 6 лет назад +20

      I wish they were more so tbh. Nationalism does not necessitate insane ideologies like nazism. They are often conflated, but taking pride in your nation and heritage is a very good thing. I can't think of many nations that can't lay claim to some valuable contributions to humanity. Nationalism also does not necessitate having a colored and inaccurate understanding of history, a crime Lindybeige is occasionally guilty of. I mean no offense to Lindy, I am after all watching these videos of my own volition, and while I'm sure we disagree on some thing, they're still entertaining and informative. Plus, I'm american, so we're bound to disagree on some things :P

    • @jacobhayes5245
      @jacobhayes5245 6 лет назад +1

      @@redbaron4908 Yes because as we all know the truth is whatever the highest amount of people agree on.

    • @jacobhayes5245
      @jacobhayes5245 6 лет назад

      @@redbaron4908 No that is like sklavenmediocritatrm. Your thinking aligns against Lloyd who aptly put it "democracy is 5 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch.". Read hoppe brah

  • @samotten9874
    @samotten9874 7 лет назад +40

    Napoleon's greatest crime was the popularising of boring flags; I consider him to be to blame for the number of unimaginative tricolors found in Europe and, as a result of colonialism, the rest of the world.

    • @Tetemovies4
      @Tetemovies4 7 лет назад +4

      Tbh at that time it was pretty damned creative.

    • @davidhalabi664
      @davidhalabi664 6 лет назад +3

      Better than some of the messed up flags in europe during the time.

  • @bobbythebobtail
    @bobbythebobtail 3 года назад +47

    The enthusiasm Lloyd conveys in his storytelling is both joyous and infectious. More of the same please.

  • @druisteen
    @druisteen 5 лет назад +682

    "They are only french when we beat them, and not french when they beat us." - British national ideology.

    • @michajurczuk6265
      @michajurczuk6265 5 лет назад +139

      This comment reeks of cheese and wine

    • @anothercynicalbrit6451
      @anothercynicalbrit6451 5 лет назад +116

      "The enemy are here, wave the white flag" - French national ideology

    • @druisteen
      @druisteen 5 лет назад +11

      @@anothercynicalbrit6451 Charles de Gaulle ?

    • @anothercynicalbrit6451
      @anothercynicalbrit6451 5 лет назад +11

      @@druisteen Charles Huntziger?

    • @druisteen
      @druisteen 5 лет назад +15

      @@anothercynicalbrit6451 Charge of the Light Brigade

  • @maldoran9150
    @maldoran9150 7 лет назад +66

    I get the sneaking suspicion this bloke might not like His Imperial and Royal Majesty The Emperor of the French, King of Italy very much.

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 7 лет назад

      And I hoped he would love the Cannibal of Corsica.

  • @bluelobster56
    @bluelobster56 6 лет назад +75

    OMG, you have developed a new metric : "atrocities per capita",,, perfect for that historical perspective 👍😁

  • @TheJoshuaLavenderShow
    @TheJoshuaLavenderShow 4 года назад +47

    I always love hearing an Englishman talk about Napoleon.

    • @josephyates9936
      @josephyates9936 Год назад

      Yeah it's funny to see Napoleon living in their head rent free....

  • @nicholasrowe6322
    @nicholasrowe6322 7 лет назад +114

    "Napoleon at Acre pointing the way to his soldiers' deaths"
    "Sir Sidney defending Acre"
    ...
    Goddamn cheeky Brits.

    • @trippbloodworth4217
      @trippbloodworth4217 5 лет назад +2

      Kaiser Nikolaus
      Napoleon's spitefulness and stupid pettiness sounds a lot like president Orange Orangutang. Hmmmmm..Let's go invade somebody. Anybody..

    • @willspencer8694
      @willspencer8694 5 лет назад

      Tripp Bloodworth who's orange oranutang

    • @huntermcdonald7411
      @huntermcdonald7411 5 лет назад +9

      @@trippbloodworth4217 when has the president invaded a country during his presidency

    • @fudgeslicer9264
      @fudgeslicer9264 5 лет назад +4

      Tripp Bloodworth When you talk about Trump but refer to him as things like ‘Orange Orangutang’ it really just makes you sound like a cringy child

  • @Allocated_Brain
    @Allocated_Brain 7 лет назад +53

    Only an hour of Lindy? Good enough I guess.

  • @nicolasbuhler8285
    @nicolasbuhler8285 7 лет назад +17

    What a glorious British victory on the evil Frenchman ! Surely, an individual with such low regard for human life deserved defeat and exile. The British, strong of their humanist principles, were the uncontested natural rulers of 19th century. The Irish potato famine and various Indian famines which killed millions of British subjects ? Not spite, no, that was merely business as usual, laissez-faire, the efficient economic policy of the glorious British empire ! Trouble yee not, the invisible hand will rescue the starving in time and hour. For now, let's continue feeding on Irish beef and Indian wheat ! God save the King !

    • @lillyann2818
      @lillyann2818 6 лет назад

      Not to mention massacring Australian Aborigines to make room for dumping British convicts on their land. What fine Kingdom runs it's home shores so well that its starving citizens who stole a loaf of bread end up overflowing the jails? And solves the problem by changing it's home policies in the UK. Oh no wait, they solved their social problems by ignoring them, and just finding someone else's land to dump their problems onto.

    • @baptistebrigand5882
      @baptistebrigand5882 4 года назад

      yes

    • @josephyates9936
      @josephyates9936 Год назад

      Yeah the Brits those superb soldiers armed with rifles, artillery, and rocket batteries who lost to the Zulus who were armed with ..... leather shields and spears. I guess the loss was for humanitarian reasons.

  • @SimonDudley
    @SimonDudley 4 года назад +2

    Lindy, I just wanted to say thank you for this video, and many many others. Fascinating, and wonderful delivery.

  • @zoesdada8923
    @zoesdada8923 5 лет назад +18

    "Clever telephones" I'm calling it that from now on.

  • @leathery420
    @leathery420 6 лет назад +79

    What`s the old saying? History is written by the victors? Kinda like the myth about Napoleon being extremely short when in reality he was about average height?

    • @kenkastlekausmo701
      @kenkastlekausmo701 6 лет назад

      History isn't written by victors. If I'm mistaken by this comment, then best tell me. Otherwise, I'm leaving this: ruclips.net/video/FSyCn93CgM8/видео.html

    • @aprioriaposteriori3676
      @aprioriaposteriori3676 6 лет назад +22

      That's a dumb vid... What the phrase means is that the victors will be the dominant force from where facts spring - not the same as that all facts spring from it.

    • @turinturambar864
      @turinturambar864 6 лет назад +7

      He was actually an inch above average.

    • @98765zach
      @98765zach 6 лет назад

      leathery420 well he also unfortunately surrounded himself with tall soldiering types and men in tall hats. Not great and easily twisted one might say.

    • @Alucard-gt1zf
      @Alucard-gt1zf 6 лет назад

      leathery420 the height thing wasn’t written after victory.....
      It was used as propaganda against the French during the war when no one could know who would win so maybe you should look up facts first

  • @patrickstewart3446
    @patrickstewart3446 7 лет назад +107

    Sir Sidney's sword broke? Big deal... he still had his pommel. :)

  • @kwanchan6745
    @kwanchan6745 2 года назад +2

    youtube keeps presenting this to me to watch time and time again
    but this is so good, I've actually listened to it 3 times now

  • @CENTURION-xs6ky
    @CENTURION-xs6ky 5 лет назад +16

    Love your enthusiasm, reminds me of my History teacher, the only teacher (I've ever met) who loved his job and the subject he taught. He gave me a deep and abiding love for the subject too, every pupil no matter the age needs a teacher like you and him. Thank you so very much, these videos are absolutely brilliant.

  • @dudel39
    @dudel39 5 лет назад +63

    i cant believe ive just watched the whole video. This hour felt like 20 minutes. Brilliant :D

  • @NotMarkKnopfler
    @NotMarkKnopfler 6 лет назад +129

    We've paid in hell since Moscow burned, as Cossacks tear us piece-by-piece.
    Our dead are strewn a hundred leagues, though death would be a sweet release.
    And our grande army is dressed in rags, a frozen starving beggar band.
    Like rats we steal each other's scraps, and fall to fighting hand-to-hand.
    Save my soul from evil, Lord and heal this soldier's heart.
    I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord, I'm done with Bonaparte.

    • @JanHgh
      @JanHgh 6 лет назад +3

      Are you SURE you're not Mark Knopfler?

    • @vespadavidson2315
      @vespadavidson2315 5 лет назад +1

      Jan Høgh He's not.

  • @geordiejones5618
    @geordiejones5618 3 года назад +6

    Napoleon and his Marshalls would make for a hilarious tv show if you make it into like an over the top Arrested Development style soap opera. They were so outlandish but also truly terrifying to the entire continent.

  • @insight9372
    @insight9372 7 лет назад +69

    Lindybeige? The french? War?... Oh no...

  • @markstuber4731
    @markstuber4731 5 лет назад +88

    Thank for telling Sidney Smith's story. It deserved to be told.

  • @GeorgePennellMartin
    @GeorgePennellMartin 6 лет назад +26

    I think we all know Napoleon's greatest foe is really Lindybeige

    • @alcofribasnasier1838
      @alcofribasnasier1838 5 лет назад

      He wish he was for sure, he screams at us the fact he feels insulted by his historical existence.

  • @7Cherubim
    @7Cherubim Год назад +1

    Your videos are amazing! I love history and you have such a unique way of telling the story of various notable people, events and items used in the past. I'm going to feast on the rest of your library!

  • @GruSzabolcs
    @GruSzabolcs 7 лет назад +8

    The metric system is the best system. Well, I know imperial, I learned it, I'm just happy we use the metric in our country, it is better. Imho.
    ----
    About Sir Sidney Smith all I can say he seems like an almost mythical superhero. He was almost everywhere to clash against Napoleon again and again to defeat him. And almost no one knows his name.
    How could this happened? Seriously. How?

  • @The_Lump
    @The_Lump 7 лет назад +22

    Whoa, more like LONGdybeige. Really looking forward to sitting down and watch the whole thing this evening. Great stuff.

  • @waahaah861
    @waahaah861 7 лет назад +33

    I mean as a man with Wellington as my profile picture i'm going to actually be defending napoleon real quick. The prisoners he executed were executed because they all had already fought and lost against the french and vowed to not fight again but they did and so Napoleon and his commanders deliberated for a week and finally decided to set an example so that this promise would never be broken again. Napoleons complex mind makes him quite a decisive figure, he has his goods and his bads I'm neither against him nor with him.

    • @davidhalabi664
      @davidhalabi664 6 лет назад +1

      Thank you Sir Arthur

    • @VRichardsn
      @VRichardsn 6 лет назад +1

      Quite on character for Wellington to say that. When asked who he thought was the greatest general that ever lived, Wellington answered “In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon.”

    • @europeanbourgeois8223
      @europeanbourgeois8223 6 лет назад

      Richardsen Because of the manners of the period (watch Barry Lyndon to get an idea) it was natural for enemies to over-flatter each other. I can guarantee you however, the Duke of Wellington took a piss in a chamber pot with a picture of Napoleon in it.

    • @VRichardsn
      @VRichardsn 6 лет назад +1

      Maybe. But if he truly were the genocidal maniac Lindy puts him to be, Wellington wouldn´t have said those words. I mean, polite flattery was a thing, but there are limits. Maniacs do not get that treatment.

    • @europeanbourgeois8223
      @europeanbourgeois8223 6 лет назад +1

      +Richardsen Winston Churchill said Josef Stalin was such a nice man that he’d call him uncle joe....perhaps then, over flattery, even with monsters, is just a British thing.

  • @nukni4225
    @nukni4225 3 года назад +72

    "Napoleon had the prisoners of Jaffa bayonetted after their surrender". Yes, but I think you left out that they were defeated at the battle of the Pyramids before and had been released by their word of honor never to fight the French again. So Napoleon found himself betrayed and somewhat in a rather tricky situation. What was he to do? Release them again in full knowledge of their infamy and fight the same enemy again and again? Take all the prisoners with him? To Konstantinopel? To India? Impossible. And how would he be seen by his own soldiers? As weak and stupid? They did not receive any pity, once they were captured by the Mamelukes. It seems somewhat easy to judge 200 year later sitting by a cosy fire on a cold and rainy day. Nonetheless your work and presentation are highly appreciated not despite but especially as they are thoroughly British.

    • @DaRk5612Fromlv
      @DaRk5612Fromlv 2 года назад +6

      very biased video, also apperently the general critisised french empire before it existed

  • @everpiek1163
    @everpiek1163 5 лет назад +25

    lindy: the russian guy was General KUTUSOV...just thought i'd mention that. lol

    • @jonoxes8662
      @jonoxes8662 3 года назад +4

      Mikhail Kutuzov AND Levin August Von Bennigsen. Atleast those are the two major commanders, Kutuzov being the one most credited for Napoleons defeat in Russia 1812.
      However Bennigsen did hold command for a long time, notably being crushed at the battle of Friedland, retiring only to come back for the battle of Borodino, though Kutuzov held command at Borodino, Bennigsen defeated Murat's Corps at Tarutino but the Russians still lost again at Borodino.
      He yet again retires, but after Mikhail Kutuzov dies in 1813 Bennigsen resumes command and is defeated at Bautzen and Lützen. But then finally, along with the rest of Europe defeats the French forces at Leipzig. He later oversaw the surrender of The Iron Marshal, Nichola Davout at Hamburg.
      As far as i can tell Bennigsen never commanded a battle again. But he held command through 1815-1818 when he finally retired for good, went blind, then died years later in 1826.

    • @jonoxes8662
      @jonoxes8662 3 года назад +1

      @Weebo DX Well it was. A phyric victory. Most people would say a victory in name only. A tactical victory for the French but strategic victory for the Russians. The entire Russian Campaign was a DISASTER for the French, doesn't matter if Napoleon had won 10 battles like Austerlitz or just 1 like Borodino, in the end it would be a victory only in name due to attrition losses and the will of the Russians never to give up their lands. Rather burning them to the ground.
      It's like the battle that Ulysses S Grant faught towards the end of the US civil war where he knew he had infinitly more man power so he could lose more men and eventually the Confederates couldn't sustain their losses. Same as the Soviets did during ww2, the Germans won battle after battle but the Russians could sustain their losses whilst Germany couldn't. Same thing the Russians did to the Swedes when we invaded.
      Point is, the battlefield was left in French hands, so by technicality the French won the battle. But they couldn't sustain the losses up untill that point, and the retreat back across the border was even worse.

    • @jonoxes8662
      @jonoxes8662 3 года назад +1

      @Weebo DX to be fair to Kutuzov, he was one of the most experienced and best commanders of the era (and so was Bennigsen). In some battles Kutuzov lost i belive it's cause other commanders undermined his advice to be careful.

  • @InfiniteHorizons2
    @InfiniteHorizons2 5 лет назад +8

    Of all the nicknames 'Boney' had, Napoleon 'Git' Bonaparte now takes top spot.

  • @AikanaroAnarion
    @AikanaroAnarion 6 лет назад +368

    The hate to the French is STROOOONG in this one.

    • @rolandscales9380
      @rolandscales9380 6 лет назад +18

      At least Lloyd can pronounce French names correctly, unlike a good many other broadcasters.

    • @Oxley016
      @Oxley016 6 лет назад +55

      Hate to Napoleon*

    • @EEYore-py1bf
      @EEYore-py1bf 6 лет назад +19

      As it should be.
      - An Anglo-Canadian

    • @PaulMab9
      @PaulMab9 6 лет назад +26

      Not the French, Napoleon. Of course, since this video is about Napoleon and Sir Sidney, he speaks negatively about Napoleon, who just happens to have been French AND a ginormous horror.

    • @ToWatchMusic
      @ToWatchMusic 6 лет назад +23

      Idk about horror lol. British propaganda at its finest

  • @Coooooops
    @Coooooops 3 года назад +15

    I love Lindy so much, it's like a constant uninterrupted stream of knowledge, I love how just British it is