Legendary Historical Military Units Explained in 47 Minutes
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Exploring 24 of the most Iconic military units from history.
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00:00 Landsknechte
01:48 Companion Cavalry
04:07 Housecarls
05:49 Sacred Band of Thebes
07:43 Spanish Tercios
10:06 Mongolian Kheshig
12:45 Gallowglass
15:12 Silver Shields
17:35 Samurai
20:10 Longbowmen
22:36 Winged Hussars
24:55 Hoplites
27:05 Medjay
28:43 Janissaries
30:54 Shinobi
32:26 Carthage War Elephants
34:14 Persian Immortals
36:30 Varangian Guard
38:26 Mamluks
40:35 Praetorian Guard
42:07 Aztec Eagle Warriors
43:31 Aztec Jaguar Warriors
44:06 Viking Berserkers
45:40 Order Assasins
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Secret Band of Thebes be like: NOOOOO MY TWINKKKK
Apparently, their main tactic was a surprise attack from the rear....
Same. Who doesn't love a femboy in armor?
literally just saw bro hit 10k just now lmao. congrats dude!
Oh shit, you are right. Thanks!
Fr. Dude is based af
While I'm working on the next part of this series, here is a supercut of the previous videos for binge-watching purposes. Stay tuned!
I'm about to dig into this shi
Will you cover units from the most recent wars like the Iraq war and the Global War On Terror and the modern day military like special operations and special forces like british gurkhas, and french foreign legion or Private Military Companies like academi (formerly known as blackwater) etc
1:29 fifteen seventeen (1517) is not fifteen twenty seven (1527) as you say in the video
you should include sources of your research. it would help you stand out amongst the horde of historical youtubers.
Akicita from the Sioux and Dog Soldiers from the Cheyenne should be explained in the next video.
Both of them were responsible of defeating Lt. Col. Custer and both people allied themselves to defend the Black Hills
Loved the video, laughed my ass off when he got to samurai and didnt even attempt to pronounce anything 😂
Nice Video! keep it up man
Epic video, more of these!!!
Just to let you know Hannibal didn't have any war elephants left when he fought at cannae.. also your representation of how Carthage war elephants were used is way off, they were to small to add structures on top of their body's they would usually have 1 or 2 riders one to control and one to throw spears or shoot arrows. Your whole Carthage war elephant section is wrong.
Were Indian war elephants big enough for structures?
Yea they where the biggest and still the biggest to this day
Nah, African elephants are the biggest.
Yes the African bush elephant is the largest species but they wernt used by Carthage, they used the African forest elephant which was much smaller.
@@geoffreycollins2789how? The bush Elephant is found by the Atlas mountains the forest is found further south. Why wouldn't they use the ones found locally?
That armored Immortal soldier on horseback was actually a Parthian cataphract
The Achaemenid cataphracts looked different
The Immortal guard was re-established as a heavy cavalry unit with the rise of the Sassanids
28:50 there is a missing information, Not Just non-muslims but Turks also have been taken to be trained to be janissary as well
Hannibal did NOT deploy any elephants at all at Cannae in 216 BCE.
He allegedly deployed elephants at the Zama in 202 BCE but even that fact (about elephants at being at Zama) and that battle itself is conjecture and coming under increasing scrutiny.
About the Marathon runner, he didn't just run 43 km from Marathon to Athens, that is a fallacy, he ran first from Athens to Sparta around 200 -250 km, then back again 200 - 250 km, when he arrived in Athens they dispatched him to Marathon where he ran to and than back to tell them the result. Which would make 486 - 586 km in 2 days.
Supposedly
As an spaniard, I'm very happy to see the Tercios here.
you should include the Roman Lictors, The Papal Guard, the Swiss Guard, the Ghost Warriors of Germania, and the Cossacks
Silver shield or argiraspides pikemen were still present many years after as an elite unit in the Seleucid Empire. In fact, roman proconsul Publius Cornelius Scipion fought them after defeating Hannibal once for all. Hannibal was hired as general for the Seleucid Empire under the rule of Antioco III the great. Sorry if the names are wrong, some of them I couldn't find translation from spanish.
The sword and mace were not common for Keshigs. But the lance and/or spear was. It was either bow or lance.
Would love to see a tier list of these units
This format of video has consumed my feed
We are legion.
But honestly, I get you, I'm seeing more and more videos like this myself. I'm switching things up a bit with my latest vid and will be moving more towards that.
mentioning mamluks without mentioning there effort against the Mongols is a crime .
Epic
I'd take some Hussars(Heavy Cav), French Cuirassier(Light Cav) Tercios (Infantry), Janissaries(infantry & Artillery) and a few well-placed Shinobis over all the rest combined
Well, I think you have your cav mixed up. French Cuirassiers would be classified as heavy cav. Hussars would be typically classified as light cav. Unless of course you were meaning the Winged Hussars, but they are more like lancer cav/shock cavalry.
@@charlesowens4243 Definitely big Heavy Shock troop Winged Hussars, preceded by the later-type lightly armored fast moving gun wielding Cuirassiers coming through on "drive-bys" targeting enemy pikemen before the flanking Winged Hussars crash down on them. An added element of mounted infantry made up of Dragoons to bridge the gap between the Hussars and Tercios/Janissaries would really seal the deal. I'm basically just cheating in my made up hypothetical by combining early firearm wielding troops against the rest of these earlier "Elite Forces" in a way my militarily untrained mind thinks would work. It's basically like a Boxing TKO on a military scale.
Fast targeted harassment to weaken defenses, Hard crushing blindside blow, follow up stiff shots, with precise clean-up until the ref calls it.
@@charlesowens4243 Heavy Winged Hussar shock troops, preceded by Janissary cannon bombardment, later, lightly armored, fast-moving, gun-toting Cuirassiers to sweep through specifically targeting enemy pikemen before the Winged Hussars crash in from the flanks. An element of Dragoons would be nice to bridge the gap between the Cuirassier/Hussar assault and the Tercios/Janissaries mop-up.
Great video but it would have been nice to see the Swiss Pike Confederacy on this list.
This dude is the most based content creator. Great to see good historical information on RUclips, not just brain rot and shi. Keep it up
Can you include Cheyenne dog soldiers in the next part?
The way u described the immortals made look like regular weak infantry i thought they were like the ones in 300
They were elite infantry, more elite than the Spartans.
@@thebigenchilada678 say whaaaat? Also my edit and remove button isn’t working
@@user-un6wc1lw3s they were a standing well funded army who’d draw recruits from those who excelled in the normal army or were trained nobility.
Spartans were well organized and well disciplined but lacked for good spartan commanders, good leaders came from Athens, their equipment was nearly identical to normal greek warriors. Spartans were essentially just better trained greek infantry, and are often highly romanticized, much like the immortals themselves were.
Civilization (the game) feelings here... lol
peak content :)
Weren't Immortals also specific for being lepras (lepre sickness) because they didn't feel the pain also making them "immortal".
Not specifically
Why no spartan
Spartans used hoplites.
No Cravat regiment again...
Where are the Hussites?
I'll take immortals and order of assassins
No Waffen SS ???
The existence of Viking Berserkers remains unproven to this day. Archeology has provided no hard evidence of warriors specifically fitting this description. Contemporary historical texts from the Viking Age do not mention these warriors. The Norse sagas, written several centuries after the Viking period, are unreliable literary sources for establishing historical facts. Iconography is subject to interpretation and does not constitute solid evidence. No scientific study has been able to demonstrate the existence of such a warlike phenomenon. In the absence of concrete evidence, Berserkers remain in the realm of legend rather than proven history.
Depends on what definition of berserker you want to go by.
The Sagas where semi-historic tales of legendary deeds and warriors. "Berserker" is basically used as a catch-it-all term for warriors of exceptional skill and/or bravery. You could almost say it's just a word for someone being "badass".
We have some similar tales from roman texts about extreme acts of bravery (or insanity) from Celts/Germans, which are also the most likely origin for the believe they whore no armour (or clothes). Which are neither the same as norse nor in the same time period or have anything else connecting both exept the similarities in the descriptions.
Even with the time difference and lack of hard proof with the existence of stories and iconography there is a high probability of the term being used at some point in some way or another.
As a specific type of warriors, let alome military unit.. most certainly not.
Even the theory they where exceptional warriors named after the pelts of bears they wore and used... substances to get into a "battle rage" is just speculations of people that want it to be true.
@@Errtuabyss What I meant is that there's no berserker unit... like there would be archers, spearmen... or buccaneers for example.
But I agree with your interpretation. I think it's more of a qualifier, rather than a qualification :)
Sheesh, don't mind if I do
Swiss pikemen a thousand times over landsknecht.
The pikemen literally changed war and ended cavalry. Landsknecht came after didn’t change much. Only had muskets.
All they did was copy the Swiss and look who’s shivered in glory ? The copycats
Black Army, Stradiotes?
"military units" - ah yes the bErSeRkErs of vikingdom.
Assassines aren't military either the last time I checked ^,^
The bond between the sacred band duets had nothing to do with carnal relationships. That was detested in Greece of antiquity. Individuals with such inclinations were stripped of citizenship and if found to have taken advantage of peers or especially younger men for these purposes often put to the knife. The bond is that of a teacher / spiritual (god)father / master to pupil / godchild / padawan. The misconcetpion is mindboggling and frankly suspicious!
Well, these are Plutarch's claims and his work is the largest source for the info about sacred band. Was he right tho, I don't know.
@@TheBasedPlato Thank you for your answer. It is a misstranslation of the word "έρωτας" which is translated as "love" and " ερωμένος" translated as "lover". There is the lowest level of "έρωτας" called "ίμερος" but apart from that the word pertains to the way of communicating with the divine. Thus not a lover, but an apprentice and a guide.
Sacred Band of Thebes = Geh
ok so... what about " Parthian, and Sassanid Cataphracts" ?!
47 minutes not no African units 😂u do realise that there are over 1 billion Africans right? It’ll do well for your channel to increase your range in videos like this. Great video anyway 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
When you say African units what do you mean exactly? Because Medjay and the Carthage Elephants are both from the African continent
first
god damn
Landsknekt rizz
Jesus the mispronunciations
Skilled longbowmen were often professional soldiers, and it's a mistake to think they were only archers; many knights found themselves with crushed skulls and severed limbs, after making that assumption.
The longbow wasn't a hunter's weapon. There were several animals commoners were forbidden from hunting, most notably deer. Many places, much of the time, a commoner that was caught with a sharp arrow, and neither headed to or from the archery range, would be in serious trouble. However, even if they were allowed to hunt deer, they wouldn't have done so with a war bow. Killing the deer would be enough; there would be no need for nailing it to the tree behind it. Being overkill for deer, a war bow would completely obliterate the small game they were allowed to hunt. If a commoner hunted, it would be with a light bow and blunt arrows; enough to kill a rabbit, but useless on a battlefield. Not many of the skills would be transferable, between a hunting bow and a war bow; with a war bow, a lot of strength was needed, and aiming was mostly about the ability to hold steady under immense pressure. The release would be within a second or two of full draw, leaving no time for careful aim. A hunting bow was pretty much the opposite. Basically, the war bow was very specialized as a weapon, with no other uses.
For anyone interested in the life story of a berserk, I recommend _Egill's Saga,_ where the berserk Egill Skallagrímsson features prominently. He committed his first homicide when he was seven, killing a boy that had cheated him in a game, splitting his skull "down to the teeth", and his last well into his eighties, killing the servants that had helped him bury his treasure at a secret location. How many he killed between those, I doubt even he knew. When he lived to be an old man, that wasn't for lack of trying to get himself killed. His talents didn't stop at violence, though. He was also a famous poet, composing his first verse when he was three; a feared magician, allegedly having cast a curse that cost a king his kingdom (Eric Bloodaxe); and a skilled politician in his elder days. Finally, he's supposed to have been phenomenally ugly. So, you know, a well rounded man.
To my knowledge, no one has found Egill's treasure; it may still be where he buried it. However, if you go looking, and a phenomenally ugly ghost splits your skull, or you find yourself under a horrible curse, don't blame me.
no
yes
i like all of them except the gay one
Phillip of Macedon sorted them out at Chaeronea.
@@thekerr8728 Philip being based, as usual
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all fancy and dandy. but bro, you are butchering thous cities/regions/units names with your usa english
Cmon, it aint that bad
@@TheBasedPlato haha dont get me wrong, i love your content. and for sure i heard worst, since there is no juridic limits to the worst :)
@BettyDrum can you send us a link to your channel showing us the correct way to pronounce everything you have issue with?
@@ARumGremlin calm your tits, i didnt want to offend your boyfriend
I couldn't find your video with correct pronunciation? Maybe it's privated @@BettyDrum
Nothing about malis calvary smh y'all never mention African history this why we ourselves keep to ourselves,the mali empire had an amazing military
This is an ongoing series of mine. There are dozens of interesting historical military units and I cannot talk about them all in one go. Also I did talk about Medjay which were Nubian. In addition to them Nubian archers, Zulu infantry and the Mali cavalry you mentioned are some of the more well known African units on my to do list.
Typical blah blah black people this Africa that haha you guys are the most racist folks out there 😊
And your point? Perhaps make you're own content? No you'd rather try to co opt others content,so much in keeping to yourself huh?
Stop crying they can’t cover every military unit, obviously they’ll cover the most historically famous ones first