History's Biggest Letdowns
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- From the tragic optimism of World War I's Gallipoli Campaign, orchestrated by figures like Winston Churchill, to the desperate Warsaw Uprising against Nazi oppression in 1944, we dive deep into the stories that shaped our world. Experience the intense battle scenes of the Spanish Armada in 1588 as it faced England's formidable naval forces, and relive the infamous sinking of the Titanic, where luxury met catastrophe.
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“And let’s face it, you’re not all that great! You tossed away lives in Gallipoli like they were scraps off your plate! You should be ashamed of your military honor!” Theodore Roosevelt
“Your whole miserable country is the size of one state” -also Teddy
Everyone knows you're like thank God for Pearl Harbor
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Ok mr Epic rap battle
People in wheel chairs shouldn’t be talking arrogantly about man-to-man fighting. That’s called a false authority.
To remind you this war also known as gentelmans war
here is a Mustafa Kemal Ataturks words for ANZAC soldiers mothers
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
I'm from New Zealand many of us recognise the pointlessness of the Gallipoli campaign but we still respect our men who went and fought with honour and our relationship with the Turkish people is very friendly we respect them for the reverence they give our dead
ANZAC
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was genius,kind,the leader of Türks,his statues are all over in the world.
He was one of a kind type a man.
As a Türk i am and our nation really lucky for have such a founder/ancestor/leader in that harsh times.
Rest in peace😢❤
Peace at home peace in the world
-Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
It’s always fascinating when the commanders are eager to fight when they’re not the ones that will do the actual fighting.
Edging rn
When Yuri Bezmenov explained the power structure of the USSR he said that the triangle was made of the KGB, the Red Army and the Communist Party. The KGB would declare war if it was convenient, and only after thorough campaign of sabotage, espionage and subversion, to stack the game in the USSRs favor. The army? They were the least likely to declare war, because they know what war is.
The party was the most warmonger of all, because it was full of dull, spineless and worthless bureucrats or senile megalomaniacs who fancied themselves as revolutionaries, who were even more cowardly than the bureucrats when it came to actual confrontations.
It’s basic. Most men are cowards who seek validation. Duh.
@@IsmaelSantos-xv9qf lot of words to edge to
Sometimes they are sometimes they aren’t. Increasingly not
The ship incident with most dead people was in 1945 , when a russian U- boat sunk german cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff, overloaded with german civilians fleeing from Eastern Prussia. About 10000 persons died.
Didius Julianus’ fall from grace was the most poetic. Money can’t buy you happiness, and it certainly can’t buy you power and respect.
Cool but I'm coming from the back
Fun Fact, HMHS Britannic, Titanic's sister ship sank because of a mine, as she was tasked to evacuate soldiers from the Gallipoli Campaign.
Huh….
Fun fun fact Olympic Titanics older sister is the only passenger liner to ever sink an enemy u-boat
The RMS Aquitania was supposed to go to evacuate soldiers at Gallipoli, but was held back for maintenance. So the Britannia was sent in her place.
@@jessejamespeterman9071I find that a little funny because she essentially avenged her youngest sister and the Lusitania.
An honourable mention should go to the last speech of Romanian Communist Dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu. After the arrest of an ethnic Hungarian Pastor, László Tokés, by the Romanian Secret Police, protests started erupting in the city of Timisoara. These protests grew and grew, but Ceausescu was on a state visit to Iran at the time. Upon his return, he organised a rally in Bucharest, the Romanian Capital, in his support. Addressing a crowd of over 100,000 people, Ceausescu promoted the achievements of the "Socialist Revolution." But less than 10 minutes into his speech, the crowd chanted the name "Timisoara". The dictator raised his right hand, to silence the crowd, something that had worked for his entire regime, but not that time. This time, the crowd kept chanting. Because it was supposed to be broadcast live, the cameras couldn't hide from the public what was unfolding. Ceausescu looked visibly stunned, not getting the response he expected.
He and his wife eventually escaped from the roof of their palace by helicopter, but because the army believed that the Defence Minister had been murdered, they quickly captured the dictator and his wife, put them both on trial, sentencing them to death, the sentence being carried out on December 25th 1989. The Romanian Revolution was by far the bloodiest of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, with over 1000 people killed.
12:56 heartbreaking
only 1000?
@@Afton_Robotics_1987 based on the sources I've seen, his death sentence was based on the number of people killed in the fighting between his Secret Police and the protesters trying to overthrow the regime. I don't know if it included those who had been killed earlier in his regime as well or not
@@SiVlog1989 That makes sense
As an Australian and ANZAC Day was a few days ago felt fitting to see the first story of this vid being about about Gallipoli
Sorry for dragging you chaps into that.
The Soviet threw the poles to the wolves twice
Basically...
Also, and I'm speaking it as a Pole, the idea of capturing Warsaw to greet russkies as a host, while relying on eventual soviet support from the eastern bank, was doomed from the start
@@XYZ-eo8umlol
@@XYZ-eo8umPoland was betrayed by europe alot ngl.
@@jessejamespeterman9071 bro the first sentence he wrote literally states that he is polish
@@adamrozpedowski4831 don't trust what I read on the Internet. Thanks for pointing it out though. I will redact my statement thank you. And no I am not being sarcastic.
Ottoman uniforms are depicted incorrectly. They should have worn khaki green uniforms, not beige. Private jackets have 5 buttons, officer jackets have 6 buttons. They put a bag on their back, a coat on top of that, and a white tent cloth folded on top of that. The coats are lead grey. Private pockets are straight, officer pockets are curved. I obtained this informations by reading the regulations.
Battlefield 1 effect i say
Dude you need to work on your prioritization of knowledge. This is the most useless knowledge
Not one person here cares how many buttons are on their jackets.
@@Fallout3131If they don't care, let the characters use Metin2 items.
Oouch, metin2.
Do people remember 9Dragons
Captain Smith did not ignore the warnings of the icebergs. They were noted and the course was adjusted. Every action was part of the protocol they had back then.
The lookouts spotted the iceberg at 11:40pm and William Murdoch didn't ignore the phone as he wasn't even the one to answer it, it was James Moody. Murdoch was the one who ordered hard a starboard and was sending orders to the crew below to initiate the reverse.
Also, the passagers didn't even feel anything from the collision.
Seriously who was in charge of the script for this video?
I agree. The impression I've always got about the sinking of Titanic was that Captain Smith's attitude to ice was the norm for the day. He was doing what other captains would have done, believing that the ship was only in danger in the icefields, therefore the ship needed to get out of there as quickly as possible, relying on their experience and the ship itself to navigate their way through the fields of drifting ice. The only caveat I guess, was SS Californian, which had stopped due to the amount of ice, leading to their wireless operator using the incorrect code (one without the prefix "MSG", which preceded wireless messages to ship captains) while trying to warn all ships in the area to the danger. The latter explains the misconception of an ice warning being ignored (Titanic's Wireless operator, due to there being no MSG prefix in the warning message, and the rules of wireless communication circa 1912, was under no obligation to relay the warning message to the Captain) and due to the human eye being unable to see that well in low light conditions, why the lookouts, Reginald Lee and Fred Fleet, didn't see the iceberg until it was already too late.
Ironically, if the ship had hit head on with the iceberg, although there would still have been fatalities, the ship would have stayed afloat
@@SiVlog1989 Who ever was in charge of the writing for this video is responsible for some outrageous inaccuracies.
I'm not at all an expert on the Titanic but I had a strange fascination about the subject which led me to hours of documentaries by people that have studied for years and decades by sorting through log books, eyewitness testimonies of the crew and passengers.
the whole thing is in accurate in one way or another, it was the media that said the ship was unsinkable, not having enough life boats was common practice in those days. Also although reports of Murdoch's death very, what is clear is he died trying to launch another lifeboat. seems like the writer based the whole script off of US media, which has been proven to be bias. Much to the detriment of Murdoch, Smith, and Bruce Ismay.
Honestly thanks for pointing this out
@@lukedanielgalon1596 You are welcome. It was REALLY bugging me what they said.
The Maji Maji rebellion in short: A witch doctor leader, thinking he's possessed sends a few thousand to die in a charge, thinking they are bulletproof before they realize that they've been lied to by him.
I think I understand why countries went around colonizing, now. It was too easy with that kind of logic in a resistance.
War is murder if its not necessary.
-Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
As a Türk, british died in Çanakkale/Gallipoli because they arent in their homeland.
And for anzacs u should mention to brilliant Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
He didnt obey his commanders order and he expect the attack will be on beach.
Thing went as he expect,he was war tactician,genius.
Anzacs and Turks who died in that battle rest in peace.
The last gentleman's war🫡🇹🇷
Peace at home peace in the world
-Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
What about that time england sent thousands and thousands of troops and more than a than hundred ships vs a small spanish garrison, only to be utterly defeated ? One of the biggest humiliations in royal navy history.
When was it? sounds interesting.
@@theghostofsabertache9049 battle of cartagena de indias
Cartagena de Indias is not one of the biggest humilliations of England, is the biggest one. Arround 4000 Spanish soldiers (most of them militias) and 6 ships against 30000 British profesional soldiers and 180 ships and after 2 months the British had to flee with a fleet which would only serve to carry coal from Ireland to London. And don't forget about the coins made to conmemorate what they assumed was going to be a great victory and now they only serve as a mockery and to remind us not to sell the bear's skin before hunting it.
But don't wait that he knows anything about it because it looks like he only reads British historiography because he said that the Spanish Armada lose half of the ships when only 30 of 150 ships where lost (only 2 in combat) and the king of England prohibited writing about the battle of Cartagena de Indias.
What about the capture of Gibraltar, or the Spanish Amanda which was destroyed by storms,
And for humiliation, it would have to be Japan winning the war against Russia.
-or how 10,000 Romans defeated 120,000 to 230,000 Britons.
-or the emu war, were birds defeated humans.
-or Indian and Pakistan war,
Where they trapped tanks by flooding the land
-or how Americans lost to Vietnam, Afghanistan and more...
@@Paparajote95 Why do you sound bitter about it? Reminds me of my Greek coworker who hates French and Italians because their Crusaders sacked Constantinople.
We all have the the believes that we will make such a success. But in reality there is a such different story. Cause we sometimes didn't predict things cause they simply nobody counted on that.
My professor from college once told this thing as well: It's easy being a general after a battle. Let's see you as generals during the battle, and you make some important an crucial decisions that will show the outcome of the battle.
Speaking of Titanic, I can say that my ancestors was suppose to travel by that ship to US. He was one the guys from Balkan peninsula who had a ship ticket. What happened is that he had to sold the ticket, cause one of the passengers wanted to enter that ship as well. And the mentioned situation happened. A year later he went to US. He was couple of years ago there, and after that he returned to Balkan peninsula (Yugoslavia, to be precise).
They said it'd end by Christmas. They didn't say which Christmas
It didn't even end on Christmas, the war ended in November
Nerd Glasses Maximum
@@CMGThePerson so it ended by Christmas 🤓
It amazes me how sometimes people have high expectations of something only to get hit extremely hard by reality and all these examples really explain a lot, thank you Simple History.
The Ending to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was the biggest letdown in my life
It wasn’t unsinkable, like one newspaper said it was “practically unsinkable” and the captain said he could not think of a way for it to sink but didn’t say it was out of the picture
Also they did not ignore them, the captain and crew received several but the one which would have told the location of the ice near the titanic just never made it to the bridge.
Further more, when she hit the iceberg She did not have a violent collision. It was more of a small bump
Also she did not reach that high of a angle during the break up, she most likely reached a 20 to 25 degree tilt towards her bow when she broke
She also didn’t break behind her 3rd funnel. She broke her back around the front of the 3rd funnel.
The white star line never claimed it was unsinkable. The newspapers said it was. It wasnt a bump though but she scraped along her side. Idk if thats the correct way of putting it though im not english.
@@bpdbhp1632 it was one single news paper that said it was “practically unsinkable” but the white star line never actually claimed it was unsinkable, it’s just a myth.
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"But the thing about betrayal is that in never comes from your enemies"-Lawkeeper Equity Mlp Ace Attorney EOJ
that thumbnail is kinda wild though 💀
Our friend Mike Brady is going to be fuming while watching this video
So many incorrect parts of the titanic….
A couple corrections regarding your Titanic chapter:
Firstly, Captain Smith didn't "ignore" iceberg warnings. In fact, upon hearing the warnings, he altered the Titanic's course slightly south where it was believed there were fewer icebergs. Also, he kept the Titanic's speed because that was just the standard maritime practice at the time
Secondly, Titanic wasn't ever called "unsinkable" by the White Star Line. The company merely said it was as safe as a ship could get. Nobody seriously had a divine faith in the ship's "invincibility"
Never let Commanders get to Enthusiastic 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
You make me too enthusiastic
Can't go in any comment section without seeing a skull emoji now.
@@logangillespie7675 I'm gonna probe deeper into you
Watching this video (especially the Gallipoli part) after playing Battlefield 1 Operations ... It hits different
as always, very informative, I loved it!
How you deal with let downs will always set you apart from everyone else
I'll let it down on your face so oil up homie
I think in the case of war the let down Ie your command failing you anger or great sadness would be a reasonable reaction especially when death is looming/ imminent. But I get where you're coming from. Victor over victim mentality
4:27 man on the right opens his eyes and then closes it again
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Thank you for heart and my comment
Hahaha 9 weeks as emperor. He was literally emperor for half a semester of highschool.
Put a hand up if you did not come from TikTok✋
Sorry pal my doesn't have tik tok😂😂😂
Sorry i don't have tiktok
No TikTok here either.
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"History can say what it want but rarely does it remember anything correctly"-Lawkeeper Equity Mlp Ace Attorney EOJ
Oil up lil bro
Ukrainian 2023 counteroffensive also counts here.. as an example ro EVERYONE to respect the old military wisdom of keeping your war plan SECRET ie. NOT TELLING THE WHOLE WORLD your strategies in advance for your enemy to anticipate..😔
11:08 It was also a moonless night. And the binoculars were locked in their box because the previous look out took the keys with him when he left the ship.
Imagine being that guy.
I love how spit-y they made Henry VIII lmao
Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army. Please
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Didius Julianus' mistake was relying on the Praetorians, knowing what they already did with the previous emperor
The allies, winning both world wars despite making the worst decisions in 20th century.
Both world wars fought by a coalition of many nations against two nations.
If anything I have learned in military, politics, business and life in general, it's this:
Expectations are overrated. :(
Wow you guys actually included the hidden boiler fire on the Titanic. Well done 👍
11:35 There's also the fact that most weren't even lowered with a max number of people in them.
I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series, especially the Vom Kriege one, on the topic
great video👍
Imagine losing while teaming against one person
Perfect video for watching while in the bathroom
Well, technically, Didius Julianus WAS emperor for the rest of his life.......
Titanic's maximum speed was around 23-24 knots and its service speed was 21 knots. So Captain Smith certainly did not increase the ship's speed to 25 knots. It was probably traveling at about 20.5 knots. But he didn't DECREASE speed which probably would have been prudent.
In my personal opinion, the biggest letdown in history was the star wars sequel trilogy.
The famous 300 Spartans in the battle of Thermopylae were joined by about 7000 Greek soldiers. They still were massively outnumbered but that's a huge amount of allies that you never really hear about making the battle seem that much more less impressive
The 300 spartans were the rearguard for the 7000 allies to pull back to central Greece after the Persians found a way to flank the Greek defences
Didius Julianus: lasting 66 days in power
British Prime minister Liz Truss:
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That cannonball transition tho 😍
POLAND MENTIONED!!!1!😊😊❤❤
Genuinely never heard anyone mispronounce Tanzania before. How did you manage that?
Some of these were honest mistakes, others were just plain stupidity.
Plan as nations will, War has its own its own plans.
Rumor has it effingham was originally called fuckingham but they had to keep it PG so they changed it to effingham
The micro cheeseburger has fine dining dead to rights
9:58 no one ever said that Titanic is unsinkable before her voyage.
Americans "journalist" twisted the accounts of the engineers after the sinking...
You forgot the greatest disappointment in the history of Warfare- Goliath.
didus julianus: bro was like ill buy the emperor gamepass for a bunch of robux 💀
Food For Thought: To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.
"Sir! the spani-"
"Sh, let me finish my game"
- drake, probably
You should make a remake Gallipoli campaign very please
i like this animated narrator!
Honestly besides the other Stories on this video, The titanic Incident was definitely a hundred percent prevailable That's the problem with arrogance And being over confident It leads to Unexcusable mistakes, which costs a lot of lives that day.
You forgot about the English Armada. Right after the Spanish Armada was defeated, the English, realizing that Spain can easily rebuild its naval power given time, counter-attacked and tried to invade them through Portugal. The English Armada was even bigger than the Spanish, but the reason English historians gloss over it was due to it having been totally annihilated in a humiliating farce. They tried to stir up dissent against the Spanish King in Portugal, only for it to fail, and their armada was soundly crushed by the defending Spaniards. This allowed Spain to rebuild its armada and continue being a naval and global superpower until Napoleon invaded them in the 1800s.
Your pronunceation of Tanzania is hilarious
I suppose there are others like Operation Market Garden, the Fall of Singapore, the Ukranian summer counteroffensive of 2023, Afghanistan 2001-21, the Bay of Pigs invasion, India’s peacekeeping mission in Sri Lanka
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was in 1943. The Warsaw Home Army Uprising was in 1944.
The Detroit lions loosing the Super Bowl last year:
4:28, Somehow, someway, Hans and Fritz returned. :)
11:45 sorry to correct you there but that is not true, its the German Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 taking the lives of 9400 people the most deadliest maritime disaster ever
Could you do a new version of the "WWI Christmas truce"?
Titanic could have been avoided if they spent their money on competency like they spent money on the ship
First thing i tought was Gallipoli, and was right
I got News for you could you put down battlefield Britain I think it’s got the warrior queen Battle of Hastings Spanish Armada Battle of Naseby Battle of Culloden and Battle of Britain 🇬🇧❤ I can’t wait
Your information about the titanic is incorrect.
At 11:40 p.m., lookout Frederick Fleet saw the outlines of a large dark object looming in the mist, and he rang the 16-inch brass bell in the crow’s nest three times to signal “object directly ahead.” He rang the telephone connecting the crow’s nest to the bridge, and when Sixth Officer James Moody answered, he shouted into the phone, “Iceberg right ahead.”
Moody relayed the order to First Officer Murdoch in the wheelhouse, who tried to prepare the Titanic for impact.
They never called the Titanic unsinkable who even write the script for this video
Witch doctor: Sorry. No refunds.
Good video.
Listen "waltzing Matilda" by pogues... it explains that emotionnally
Expectations vs Reality…
See the Bay of Pigs incident.
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HATE the new format of guy talking to camera thanks guys
WW1 the war that everyone in 1914 was hoping to be over by Christmas. They never realized that it would be over by Christmas of 1918
The second one hits hard ngl
I am hard
When you expect a payday but go bust
The flying pig in the picture got me dying💀
1. Hitler also had high expectations that his army would reach Moscow and completely destroy the Soviet government but he failed in consideration of the Russian environment and sheer size not mention the freezing climate of Russia as Hitler thought that his troops didn’t need winter gear nor did he think his troops needed enough food to take down the Soviet Union. It lead Hitler’s army to suffer a humiliating retreat that cost him the war greatly.
2. Japan underestimating the United States as they attacked Pearl Harbour nor did take the US’s warning when they threatened Japan with two nuclear bombs.
3. France failed invasion of Russia, like Hitler. Napoleon’s army also suffered from the same fate as did the Nazis in WW2.
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Titanic 2, Stockton Rush edition
you shouldn’t have said God couldn’t this ship
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No *Halifax Explosion?*
No *Dieppe Raid?*
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I reckon all the idol kissing and praying to ancestors didn't help phil one bit.
Hahaha
Massive coal bunker fire for the entire voyage? Really? I have never heard of any such thing.
There are a few photos of the Titanic that show a dark smudge on it's hull, just above the water line, indicating where the coal fire allegedly was burning.
I agree
Bayrakları as.
And to think that the Titanic could have avoided colliding with the iceberg if it wasn't for the crew not listening to the warning, and of course their hubris.