Waterloo ( 1815 ) Animation
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2018
- Animated map of the Waterloo Campaign 1815
Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Wavre
Battle Of Ligny
Battle of Quatre Bras
Commanders Napoleon Bonaparte , Wellington and Blücher
#napoleonicwars #wellington #napoleon
Personally, I will have integrated the French in blue and the English in red
on the maps of that time, the French were always marked in red
@@melnikhomeboy131 insightful! 👍
@@melnikhomeboy131 how about the English? In what colour were they marked in the maps of the time?
This is probably the best Waterloo battlemap I have seen
Sounds like he's reading his suicide note.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
kind of what I thought, although I thought the narrator survived Waterloo and was recounting the battle on his deathbed, too bad the narration wasn't better, as the animation was good.
You sound depressed....
With every sentence the poor narrator sounded like he was about to fall asleep. Pathetic.
No he sounded like he was keeping his voice down so that his mum in the next room isnt disturbed ha ha. Interesting stuff but his verbal presentation needs a little improvement.
@@filipinorutherford7818 It definitely sounds like he’s trying to speak quietly.
Excellent pictorial disposition of troops at the four engagements at Quatre Bra, Ligny, Waterloo and Wavre. Very easy to understand this complex battle.
Interesting spelling on the map of Charleroi, Belgium
Yes, I really liked the way the whole of the campaigning area was shown. Made it easier to understand the higher level strategy.
Love the video. Easy to understand and clearly explained.
I also believe it shows the importance of the timely Prussian arrival on Wellington's left. Napoleon likely wins if von Bulow doesn't arrive at Plancenoit in time to stop the French attack on that flank. Wellington had put his remaining available reserves in the center, and his left would not have held all day. The Prussians were decisive - but much credit must be given to the British and Allied troops for holding firmly. Napoleon simply failed to keep the two armies apart.
ASMR meets military warfare 10/10
Well done! I am very grateful for your hard work. The battle is now much easier to understand. I have read many books about it over the years but this graphic display makes it simpler to understand.
Excellent. Thank you.
The reference to “Wellington’s right” seems to be what would have been on Wellington’s left / Napoleon’s right.
Good job, really clear: interesting for many aspects. My compliments!
Really weird seeing the French as red and the allied army as blue! Kept confusing me.
I have studied Waterloo for years . You describe it better than anyone . I finally understand the tactics and orbat . Fantastic production thank you.
Why are people bitching about the voice (yes, it's kinda lifeless & sound cracking... So what)?
This is a docu, which was informative & well researched. Watch the Waterloo movie if your want action & drama 😝
Great...now I am depressed.
Hi, I don't want to comment on the audio.
What would had benn nice is a timer with date and hours in one of the top corners of the screen to depict what happened when exactly between June 16th and 18th 1815.
Great work, but you sound like your recording this in your parents room while they sleep
Enjoyed that.
Made the battle more clearer to me and understand it a lot more.
Bad handwriting also cost Napoleon the battle of Ligny: he had ordered D'Erlon to march to Wagnelé, which was behind the Prussians and would have cut off their escape. Instead, they marched to Wagnée, which was behind the French positions and caused them to delay their final attack until they could be identified, which Allowed the Prussians to escape intact.
Good animation. It enabled me to visualise what happened at the battle.
Great video! One of the most illustrative I’ve seen on the overall movements of the armies.
Great job thank you for your upload.
nice video but your colours are counter-intuitive. Shouldn't it be French- Blue; British Red; Prussians Black?
An excellent post, thank you for sharing.
Well done. Seeing the graphics of the positions really helped with the details of what I've read.
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Thank you, great video, exactly what i was looking for !
Sir, the IV Corps under the command of von Bulow did not arrive in time to participate in the Battle of Ligny.
That's why it was fresh and able to attack first of the Prussians at le Belle Alliance.
Excellent post, thank you for sharing.
An excellent description of events! 👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍
Well done Sir! Excellent animation and overview.
Is it possible to have a clock face running in the background?
The time of day and the advance of dusk played a large part in drama.
Thank you.
Well done 😊
i know i know. its quite sad. XD
Incredible content!Keep it Up👍
Wow. How to make those animations?
Some Corrections: 5:26 La Haye Sainte and La Haye should not be confused. La Haye Sainte was the important strong point in the center, La Haye was another point close to Papelotte.
10:47 The 3 Prussian corps seem to be of the same strength in the video. It would have been better to depict the different sizes more correctly. Buelows corps IV for example was the biggest and attacked the right flank and rear of the French. Zieten's corps I was sent to support Wellington's left flank as promised, was considerably smaller.
9:45 Zieten's corps arrived at Wellington's left flank, not at his right as everybody can see in this video. And his corps arrived before the attack of the Guard, not after as shown in this vid. It was the arrival of the promised Prussian reinforcement on his left, that enabled Wellington to draw his troops from there to support his center in preparation of the French attack.
10:47 The battle of Wavre didn't end on the same day as the Waterloo battle. Grouchy's cavalry managed to cross the river but it was too late to attack Thielmann's corps. So they decided to continue the attack on the next day. When Thielemann started to retreat to the north at 10:00 a.m. he got news of the victory at Waterloo. Grouchy was informed of the outcome at 10:30 and had to change plans quickly from moving to Brusseles to evading an Allied encirclement.
A correction:
The original order of Ziethen's 1st Prussian Corps was not to support Wellington's left flank, but to attack from its march route towards Plancenoit and the French centre.
Only when the Prussian liaison officer at Wellingtons Headquarter spoke directly to Ziethen and asked him to support and occupy Wellington's left flank did Ziethen decide to implement this according to the situation.
Without Ziethen's change of plan, Wellington would not have been able to withdraw troops from his left flank to reinforce his centre, and therefore probably would not have been able to withstand the attack of the French Guards there...
@@raka522 Well, according to Wikipedia (the English version), Blücher had promised Wellington to reinforce him with at least one corps on his left. So, when the main body of the Prussian force moved towards Plancenoit, one corps had to be sent to Wellington's left. And Zieten's corps became the chosen one. Maybe this was also due to the fact that his corps had suffered heavily in the preceeding battle of Ligny, consisting now only 7000 to 8000 men.
But when Zieten came closer to his destination he noticed the chaos among the Allied troops. Fearing of a morale blow to his troops resulting in fear and desertion, he changed direction to reunite with the rest of the Prussians.
Müffling, the Prussian liason officer (the fat man disturbing the ball in the movie "Waterloo") saw this movement and immediately rode to Zieten to persuade him to fulfill his mission as agreed. Zieten accepted but didn't just stay at the Allied left flank. Instead, he moved from there towards the battle, picking up any stragglers who wanted to continue to fight.
@@varelion What Blücher Wellington promised for the day of the Battle of Waterloo was to appear on the battlefield with at least one prussian Corps, and NOT to reinforce the Allied left flank!
In the same message, Blücher also said that should it be necessary and Wellington would not fight Napoleon, he was determined to fight Napoleon alone with the entire prussian Army the following day!
(Unlike Wellington, Blücher kept his promise)
It is nonsense, of course, that Ziethen was afraid that if they saw chaos in the Allies that could lead to fear and desertion, it would cause some moral blow to his soldiers.
The unreliable troop units of the German lands, which were newly part of Prussia after 1814 and formerly under French rule, left the troops after Ligny and at least served the purpose of leading Grouchy on the wrong track by thinking that the entire Prussian army was moving in the same direction Rhine back.
All the Prussian soldiers who then marched against the French wanted to take revenge for years of French oppression and plundering.
They certainly wouldn't have deserted 😉
They had previously marched through to Ligny 2 days after Wavre, in heavy rain and muddy roads, had hardly slept, marched from there to the battlefield and fought, and then pursued the fleeing French until late at night.
Wellington was unable to do this because he felt his troops were no longer capable and discipline would collapse.
Yes, Müffling contacted Ziethen, but not to urge him to fulfill an alleged order as agreed, but to draw Ziethen's attention to the current catastrophic situation on Wellington's left wing and to ask for support.
It was Ziethen's own decision to change his mind according to the situation, and he personally took responsibility for it towards his supreme commander, Blücher.
This flexible reaction to unforeseeable changes in the situation was part of Prussian military doctrine, while many nations continued to strictly enforce orders given until after WWII.
@@raka522 Yes, I got it wrong with Wellington's left flank. When Wellington demanded at least one corps for support, Blucher promised to him that he would not come with one or two corps but with his whole army.
The account that Zieten was worried about the impact of stragglers and chaos on Wellington's left flank came from the English battle of Waterloo-version of Wikipedia which I found very reliable and thoroughly. If I had been in command and had to choose, I would also have considered to add my forces to the determined Prussian attack on Napoleon's flank rather than support a seemingly wavering situation. Also, and this is important, Zieten received orders from Blücher to support Bülow's corps IV.
Zieten found the best compromise: When he arrived on Wellington's left, he didn't stay there. He marched foreward and cleansed his way from French defenders. His arrival on the battlefield also shaked the morale of the French who had been told that Grouchy was about to come to their aid.
@@varelion Blücher first had his corps advance on a broad front, i.e. the 1st in the north and the 4th in the direction of Plancenoit, which then became the main battlefield.
In between, Prussian cavalry units also encountered the French.
Blücher quickly recognized Wellington's situation and therefore had the first of his cannons brought into position as soon as they were able to hit the French with their range.
It would have been more effective to get them closer to the enemy, of course, but he also wanted to draw the attention of the French and take some distraction from Wellington.
When Wellington wanted to advance to his center for a general counterattack after the middle guard had been retreatet, he had to send an adjutant to a Prussian artillery unit on his left wing to request them to stop firing, because they shoot at the French still in front of the Allied positions.
I can understand that Wellington, as a politician, wanted to emphasize his commitment in Waterloo and downplay the Prussian contribution as much as possible, but the reality was a little different.
What was the decisive reason for the French fleeing the battlefield is always a topic of discussion 😉
The devastating defensive fire of the British when the Guards stormed is often cited for this, but it was the Guards, and they consisted of soldiers who had often fought in battles before and shouldn't necessarily be upset by something like that.
The explanation seems a bit more plausible to me, after Napoleon had previously lied to his soldiers that the troops that appeared on the battlefield from the east were Grouchy's soldiers, it must have been a shock for every Frenchman that there suddenly Prussian hussars attacked them in the flanks and cut down everything that came in front of their sabers...
In such an almost stalemate situation as before against the Allies, suddenly being attacked by a 2nd Army must simply discourage you, I think to myself.
The French in particular must have been aware that they could not expect any mercy from the Prussians, as the years 1813/14 during the wars of liberation showed.
I once read an eyewitness report by a Prussian officer who attacked a French brigade with his Silesian/Prussian Landwehr in pouring rain.
It was raining so hard that the muskets didn't fire, and the Landwehr attacked the French with turned over weapons and ended up crushing the skulls of 400 French.
What shocked this officer so much afterwards was a conversation between his soldiers leaving after the battle and the indifference with which they talked about what had happened before.
These were mostly humble peasants for whom it was normal to club their livestock before slaughtering them, and that's how they talked about the French.
Hard to understand today, but the hatred was probably very deep...
I hope there aren't too many unintelligible words in the text, but with so many words I'll let Google translate them ;-)
this Voice is kinda ASMR :D
and great content, thx ^^
Looking at the vider picture of the full battlefield,it becomes quite easy to appreciate how high the joke actually went above the Grouchy's head,so to speak.
Great content!
Are u crying
LOL
Cool video. How did you animate this? I’d like to do similar but dont know how!
What's up with your voice man
Loved this
Excellent description
Very informative but you need to sound more excited to keep us viewers interested. I can’t watch this full video sorry
if you can't pay attention for ten minutes you might have bigger problems than the narrator......
@@eff-vl5uj Narrator is the main problem; sound like this short movie was his penalty for some severe crime. As seen under other YT video - I would enjoy this video more if the people in the video enjoyed the video more
This is great
Muy buena descripción de la batalla!
Hmm....so, basically the failure to reach Quatre Bras before the Prince of Orange was the furst domino to fall...
Nice !
I like the video, so I hope you will take this as constructive criticism, but you have left and right mixed up. 3:20 - "attack the left flank of the Prussian Army" - this should be "right flank". Flanks are described from the point of view of the army which has them, not from which way up the map happens to be. The Prussians were facing south, so an attack from the west is on their right flank. Same later at 9:38: Wellington got support on his left flank, not on his right.
Well done 👍
An unorganised retreat is called a "rout". Hence the English military terms, "Routing the enemy from the battlefield", and, "The enemy were/was completely routed".
Excellent video! Easy to follow. More - Please!!
Napoleon's last attack of the Old Guard was done in column, not files.
I thought it was forward advance in Square ?
@@Rusty_Gold85- It’s almost impossible to advance any distance in square. Nope, the letters make it clear the Guard both advanced, and an hour or two later retreated, in dense columns.
I refuse to engage with animated history unless it is narrated by you with your class, inimitable German accent. Great channel, rock on top lad.
Hadn’t appreciated the size and degree of structural leverage of the Prussian army in the battle before.
Thanks.
It was the Prussians victory at least as much as Wellington's. Blucher put in a forced march that foiled Napoleon's calculations.
@@graemesydney38 thanks - do you know of any account of things from the Prussian perspective including this march?
(In case you may be interested there is an account given in Bryant’s ‘The Turn of the Tide’ of an overnight march past a sleeping German army by the British Expeditionary Force in 1940 - which is not evaluated in general terms but may have been very significant - I am not fitted to make judgement.)
A damn close run thing
Thanks for the clarification.
Well it's missing that the british actually didn't have any cavalry left in the center making it a critical situation.
Also the british bayonet against the guard is not included
There were still the Dutch-Belgian cavalry under Merlen and Trip, plus several British light brigades under Vivian and Vandeleur (iirc). The Brunswick cavalry were also somewhere in the rear.
Why so sad?
Napoleon lost 😢
Try showing the French in blue and the Anglo-Allied army in red. Its always depicted like that.
Seconded. As the French uniform was blue and the Anglo-Allied army mostly wore red coats.
Just imagine what would have happened if Napoleon had retreated after the first engagement, and backed into a more friendly terrain within France.
He would have faced the full allied army and would have been crushed. Napoleon’s only chance was to defeat the allies in detail, which is what he attempted. He knew he couldn’t beat Wellington and Blucher if they linked up, retreating would just delay the inevitable.
At that time there was only little friendly terrain in France for Napoleon ;-)
There he was no longer as respected as it is often portrayed today, and after 20 years of war the French no longer had a great need for him.
When he entered French soil from Elba, he specifically chose a route to Paris, excluding larger towns on the way, from which he had to expect not to be greeted peacefully.
Napoleon could only rely on the military, not on the French citizens, because he always paid his soldiers well and, as a victorious general, always promised them good booty.
I’m not aware of a Dutch duke in this story, however a Prince of orange did a crucial part in this
I thought I was going to hear a ten minute mix of the Abba song.
Just be glad it was not a ten minute mix of "Bird Is The Word".
dude ! Do something at your voice !
3:49 if Ney scnd Corps just continued to Ligny or split up one half goming to Ligny and one half going to Quatre Bras.
Taking any action is better than taking no action at all.
Time was his most valuable asset and he wasted it.
Very nice way to show this battle.
I don't like the nitpicking in the comments on your audio or use of "wrong" colours.
Yet although a lot of work I would like to see such a presentation with all the different countries involved showing there reletive sizes.
As I understand the battle it was a Dutch officer who had fought for Napoleon and now the prince of Orange Bernhard van Lippe Biesterveld who spread his few troops in a line at Quatre Bras.
Ney couldn't of course take the risk to attack and deployed awaiting support.
That the French genera D'Erlon marched and counter marched between Ligny and Quatre Bras was bad luck. For if Ney was up against the main body of Wellington Ney needed support. I don't know what caused the hesitation.
Bagging part of Bluchers army was more important than getting Quatre Bras.
Only when support by Wellington came Quatres Bras became more difficult than expected. A tactical victory for Ney yet a strategic setback as a well excecuted delaying action that made a battle at Waterloo possible .
Ney speeded up a pre planed attack by Napoleon when Ney saw Wellington weaken the point of planed attack.
Ney was correct in charging and succeeded in getting the allied infantry in squares.
Ney was correct in expecting to be supported if need ne by the old guard. Napoleon as a narsisistic personality when having rested for feeling ill stated that he had no reserves. That cost him the battle Ney had won for him. Ney being excecuted made him an easy scapegoat for Naloleon.
If I take the large maquette in London of the battle and the attack of the old guard as a fact, your depiction of that part of the battle is incorrect.
They ataacked in square formation on a Britisch line formation.
It was another Dutch general Chasse who with light horse artillery flanked the old guard. That broke the guard.
Napoleon didnt have cavelry who were spent.
Had Ney been supported Napoleon would of routed Wellington and forced Blucher to leave the field.
The role of many nations are still left out of the naritive.
A pitty.
Sounds like someone was pointing a gun at his head...
how bout make the allies red and the french blue? like in real life ffs.
well explained TY although U mumble in a VERY low volume !
Pretty good - but 9:20 should have occurred before the French Middle Guard attack
Who commanded Wellington’s Calvary
Chase Murray black watch Dolan The Earl of Uxbridge (Wellington’s second-in-command)
@@jonathantitterton9455 Uxbridge uniform is nearly same Cavalry guard of Napoleon
Cris Mark Flores it’s not, Uxbridge was dressed in the uniform of the 6th Light Dragoons. Napoleon’s Guarde Cheval look more like the British Heavy Dragoon’s (later Life Guards and Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry) of the time.
@@jonathantitterton9455 Uxbridge was 7thLD. Hes referring to the chassuers a' cheval de la guard. They dressed like hussars , as did certain British light dragoon regiments, many of which would be covered to hussars in time. You may be thinking of the empresses dragoons who were a guards unit and yes dressed as the name suggests as dragoons. The Life Guards and The Blues were not heavy dragoons, they're regiments of horse within the royal household ergo Horse Guards. The Royals were standard line dragoons. Regiments of horse were converted in name to Dragoon guards such as the Kings dragoon guards, this was done because the old regiments of horse were expensive, they functioned the same as horse on the battlefield however, The charge with sword, I could accept the name "heavy dragoons" for these units.
I really tried. Sorry.
Dieter from Sprockets narrating.
But without any dancing
Britain: Blue
French: Red
WTF?
I know right
Allies, not British, because they were far outnumbered there
At least the PRUSSIANS BLACK WAS OK ! could of been worse ? Pink ? Brown ?( shirts ) verdammt ! you would of heared skulls and bones of my ancestors rattle ! HUSSARR ! some Prussians are still alive !
Велингтона спасли Прусаки и медлительность Груши. 3/4 Императорской Гвардии сдерживали превосходящие силы Прусаков. Хотя эти силы были предназначены для пробития центра
Why do I want to cry after hearing your voice ?
Ah grouchy
So its seems its grouchy fault. Because he did not follow napoleon to get back to waterloo.. if grouchy followed back in waterloo maybe Napoleon can still manage to win in Waterloo
Also, Ney's fault. Ney sent in the cavalry without infantry support and without knowledge of the ground beyond the hills. The French cavalry, an elite force, were wasted attacking the infantry squares.
@@genes.3285 Yeah its a mistake dude. He thought Wellington is Retreating. He cant really see the movement of British army becoz they have the highground. So i think its a Tragic human Mistake of Ney. Not so Worst mistake of Grouchy.
@@crismarkflores6485 Before the Ney's charge Napoléon left the field because of an stomach ache or whatever it is so he wasn't aware of Ney's charge in the case of if he was aware of that charge and if he sent his old guard towards English squares, British couldn't stand against French forces for a minute (yeah a good cavalry charge could help like the first one but i dont think so) or if he used the old guard to make an envelopment from left or to take hougomont.
Napoleon ordered Grouchy to distantly follow the Prussians knowing they’d eventually meet up with the British in which the entire army could face both allies together. The problem was that Blücher sacrificed his rearguard to hold off Grouchys men for just long enough allowing the bulk of Prussian forces to meet Wellington.
It was impossible for Grouchy to reach Waterloo on the day of battle.
His original orders were to follow behind the Prussian retreat - which he did, cautiously.
The Prussians could easily block Grouchy if he tried to cut across to Napoleon.. When Napoleon summoned him, the messenger had to travel far with those orders. Grouchy received those direct orders only in the evening - too late to get to Waterloo.
The Old Guard was sent against the prussians not the british, it was the middle guard who fought the british
Not true. It was the Middle Guard that were sent to Plancenoit.
@@matthewleonard598 no that was the old guard
@@matthewleonard598 the young guard fought at Plancenoit but couldnt stop the prussians, then the old guard came and stopped them
Part of the old guard was sent to the allied center but as reserve, not in first line
@@7macfly2 Exactly. Battle-hardened Grenadiers of the Old Guard stopped the Prussians for a while when Lobau's corps and the Young Guard had failed.
Against Wellington's position 3 prongs of Middle Guard were sent, followed by 3 bataillons of Old Guard as a kind of backbone.
No duke but prince off orangie
Yes, I was confused by that too. In English it would be more usual to pronounce his name as “orange” as in the fruit. He had been several years in British service, spoke excellent English and was well liked by the troops.
Ok marshal Ney with 2/3 off the French army is stopping general.Blucher with the Silesian army, where is the actions off the Austrian army Russian army and the Prussian army? Why is Wellington hiding again on a snooping hill again like in Spain with the battle of Vittoria .
What?
@@ucifer_c3036 Bewn is explaining that the history books show this battle as Brits vs Napoleon BUT in real life "the allies" are more numerous than the Brits.
And the Battle is more than just the centre actions of the infantry squares vs unsupported Cav.
Lots and lots of actions on both flanks.
@@SuperChuckRaney Yes but I was confused because I never heard Ney had 2/3 of the army and is stopping Blucher
@@ucifer_c3036 I think he got that wrong, Ney sent the Cav into the center without infantry, is what the story has always been.
@@SuperChuckRaney Yes but stopping Gen Blucher?
why these colors ??????
after all
English = red !!!
French = blue !!!
Why?
@@Bartoocuniform colours
great
i still cant understand why they did not just attack with all forces at once
best strategy is to have no strategy (just kidding)
You can’t send 120,000 men all down the same road. Much easier to advance along separate routes and concentrate forces only for the day of battle.
Grouchy blew it.
Maybe because he was so grumpy?
He did not. His best intelligence told him the Prussian army was at Wavre, and he believed he was keeping them from Waterloo. By the time Napoleon's order to join him at Waterloo came it was too late.
Nothing Grouchy could have done would have stopped von Bulow from arriving, although with better intel he may have been able to hit Zleiten in the flank and interfere with the other 2 corps.
@@braedenh6858 no, he kept needlessly following them instead of marching towards waterloo.
@@DjKaimov I think you’re overlooking some context and maybe buying into some French propaganda.
The fact is that Napoleon foolishly blew his only real chance for victory at Ligny and Quatre Bras.
On 16th June, Napoleon ordered Ney to crush a superior British/Dutch force, believing that Ney could do this quickly and then swing over to crush the Prussians. And Ney almost did it, except that Wellington eventually committed enough of his force to Quatre Bras to hold it and just when Ney needed d’Erlon’s corps to aid him…Napoleon ordered it away to help him defeat Blucher at Ligny, giving both Allied armies the time to make an orderly withdrawal.
On 17th June, because Blucher was allowed to survive and because Napoleon did not aggressively pursue him - but assumed he would withdraw east - Blucher instead withdrew north (as he and Wellington had planned and agreed) and was therefore far closer to Wellington’s left wing than Grouchy ever was.
On 18th June, even had Grouchy known where Blucher was and set off for Waterloo at 6am (long before the guns started sounding), he would have had twice as far to travel than Blucher and over worse roads to reach Waterloo, and never would have sniffed von Bulow’s corps. In the best circumstances, Grouchy arrives late in the evening, exhausted, and just in time to meet the remaining 3 Prussian Corps as they arrived on the battlefield.
Napoleon lost Waterloo on the 17th, not the 18th, because he let the Allies steal a march on him and do the one thing he knew they could not.
Good video, but ..... dude you sound like you are about to cry, get a narrator voice.
4:57 Von einem Hügel ist dort nichts zu sehen
Napoleon, for all his victories, did lose Four armies.
1) Egypt
2) Russia
3) Leipzig
4) Belle Alliance
One more army lost than Gallas who only lost three of his own armies.
Napoleon was an egotistical butcher, and actually a very bad general. He had many good generals that supported him and saved his arse upon more than one occasion.
@@khankrum1 now that is just an idiotic look on it
twisting Napoleon's command system to "his other generals always saved him" is just stupid
while him being an egotistical butcher I think is a valid way of looking at Napoleon (although not entirely correct) pinning his victories all on other generals (who only could work in the way they did via the way Napoleon structured and used his army to outmaneuver his enemies) is blatantly wrong. It was Napoleon's plan that carried his armies to victory in Italy, at Austerlitz and Jena, even defeating the Russians at Friedland. He was able to gain the respect of his soldiers and (relatively to other armies of the time period) meritocratically chose his officers.
His armies were able to efficiently maneuver around their enemies, as seen in 1805-1807, and even in his earliest campaign in Italy, where he defeated his enemies via using their division against them. His worst defeats were from overconfidence, and straining his national resources to the brink of destruction, in my opinion, not his tactical or strategic incompetence on the field.
Not to say the other generals of France weren't good, either. his corps commanders were really the best of the best in their period (ex: Davout).
Le Belle Alliance 👍 not Waterloo 👎
Thanks, enjoyed the small details in this that otherwise don't get a mention.
Why on earth are the French portrayed in Red, and the British in Blue? It should be the other way around!!! Most confusing....
Good animation but your voice is monotone and it sounds like you're half asleep.. It detracts a lot from the vid.
Thank you and you said the MANNS name perfect -BÜLOW IV KORPS .
(Bùlov ) HUSSARRR !
DIE PREUSSEN haben noch kinder !
Als Deutscher sollte er auch deutsche Namen fehlerfrei aussprechen können :-D
What is with the voice? you sound like you are narrating the battle in the middle of a funeral service under a blanket or hidden under the bed while robbers enter your room. You are narrating a battle! that demands: ENERGY, STAMINA, ACTION, LAUDNESS...
That is not his language, he is German, I hear that, I am one myself ;)
@@Wurst-Case That literally doesn't have anything to do with the way of speaking, regardless of your accent you can speak with energy and charisma in any language and not as if you had extreme tonsillitis.
I'm not trying to hate, that's just the way to keep the viewer/listener interested
@@niccolopaganini4268 youre not right 🤷♂️
@@niccolopaganini4268 try to speak a good german speech and show me that 🤷♂️
@@Wurst-Case Regarding what? I live in Germany myself and heard many Germans speak English with German accent and still articulating themselves with big charisma, the narrator lad just isn't gifted with that and it has nothing to do with him being native German
The clarity of the video presentation is completely undermined by the utterly awful audio portion. Monotone. Overly quiet.
Zzzzzzzzzz
Oh my, you sound rather sad & depressed.
Are you awake?
Vive napoleon !
I often wonder what Europe would look like today had Napoleon succeeded in unifying Europe.
Better
It would have been full of absolutist monarchies ruled by Napoleon's friends and families, highly militarized and industrialized with the people controlled by a robust police state and domestic spy network.
The narration is painful.
At the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington has always been given more importance and fame, concealing the action of the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, whose participation was decisive in achieving victory against the Napoleonic army and saving it from certain defeat . Historians have "conveniently" distorted and concealed the reality of the Battle of Waterloo, erasing Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher from memory.
*They will never be able to hide that the Prussian intervention in Waterloo was vital for the triumph over Napoleon, if Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher had not existed, Wellington and the British to this day would continue to cry.*
@@oskyperez4989 We all knew that for hundreds of years before you were born. Its big news to you but not to the rest of us.
@@WeMustResist OK
@@EvsEntps ... the ´participation´ of the Prussian army ... ;-)
The British Army was just 26,000 men + 5,000 German KGL men, so not even half of Wellington's troops.
At the end of the battle, German was the most widely spoken language among soldiers in Waterloo!
This information is just incidental to reconciling this British Army's triumph with facts.
Wellington did nothing more at Waterloo than to maintain a good defensive position with troops about the strength of the French until the Prussians emerged and achieved victory.
Wellington gave away a full 20 hours before Quatre Bras and Ligny after being briefed on Napoleon's position by the Prussians before he even responded.
The fact that Quatre Bras was occupied at all is thanks to the Dutch troop leader there, who recognized the situation and decided to hold the position there.
On the day of the Ligny battle, Wellington met Blücher and deliberately lied to him, claiming that he would be sending troops in support of the Prussians by 4 p.m.
Wellington knew he couldn't keep the promise, but he really wanted Blucher to take up the fight so that Napoleon wouldn't turn against him and his allied troops, who were still on the march.
This is exactly why Gneisenau was so angry with the British later, because he felt cheated.
Had Wellington been half as good as is always said, Napoleon would have been defeated two days earlier ...
Good man.
The Serbs have a saying "to lie like London."
Waterloo was a German victory!
If Napoleon had not been obsessed with the farm, and if he had heeded Ney's request, he would have won. But some characters cannot let go of their obsessions. It is their downfall. We see this with later dictators that are obsessed, like Hitler and Trump. These people defeat themselves. Napoleon defeated himself.
Imagine putting hitler and trump in the same sentence lmao
@@EvsEntps Sure, he attacks anyone who does not kowtow to him. I think you forgot January 6th, 2021, already. People seem not able to confront what actually happened and so make something else out of it. Trump was jumping from joy and exitement. His Secretary for Defense next to him, ordering him NOT to send in any troops and not even answer phone calls. Trump intimated to lynch Pence and Pelosi. Now, how would you describe that? It is the intention and the facts of four years of Trump. A despot put on top of a democratic society. If he would not have been a total narcissist, an absolute moron, someone obsessed, a bully, he would have pulled it off. Trump lost to Trump on November 3, 2020. The danger is now that someone like Trump who is less stupid will manage to turn the USA into a fascist capitalist state under his dictatorship. And most Americans can't believe that could happen, but it ALMOST happened, you see? Third time lucky? By the way, Trump won't run in 2024, he will only milk people like you to their marrow for money by pretending he will run. I think Trump has a lot of fun with this. I would.
@@EvsEntps I love these conversations. If Jan. 6 was not a conspiracy, then what is?
I had trouble trying to decide why but I think it was to draw troops from the middle which is the Good road to Brussels ( the ground mud was particularly gluey in that valley ) . They almost succeeded with entries inside 3 gates and collapse of the southern wall . The Nassau's and Guards were later reinforced by other guard Light Companies off the lines . History has spoken but if he did win it would not have gone much further as the French Frontier had the Russian and Austrian Armies further away
Can't understand the narrator. Depressed