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  • He was the man who would define the start of the 19th century. He has more documented victories than any other battlefield commanders in history. From a relatively humble background, he rose to become master of Europe. This is the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Featuring historians Dr Michael Rowe, Professor Pamela Pilbeam and Professor David Andress.
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  • @TimelineChannel
    @TimelineChannel  2 года назад +160

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    • @christophermichaelclarence6003
      @christophermichaelclarence6003 2 года назад +7

      Vive nôtre Empereur Napoleon Bonaparte et sa Grande Armée.
      Best Conquerer of Europe and Greatest Strategic Military Genius in History with 56 battles won (rumors say 70 battles won)
      Yet, still remain the Best General in the World after his death which was 200 years ago
      He made our country France a Superpower.
      🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
      🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜🦅🦅⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
      🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜🦅🦅⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
      🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
      Tremblez enemis de la France !
      Sachant vaincre ou sachant périr !
      Un Français doit vivre pour elle !
      Pour elle un Français doit mourir !
      Vive la France ! 💪🇫🇷🇫🇷🐎👊Victory is ours !

    • @АлександарПерић-м1ш
      @АлександарПерић-м1ш 2 года назад +3

      What is the background tune around 07:50-8:20

    • @maggyzwiegelaar4646
      @maggyzwiegelaar4646 2 года назад

      Y⁷Your ⁷

    • @maggyzwiegelaar4646
      @maggyzwiegelaar4646 2 года назад +2

      7

    • @genevievevanbeek677
      @genevievevanbeek677 2 года назад +2

      Please delete my order

  • @tomjordan7606
    @tomjordan7606 Год назад +218

    The entire subject of napoleon is complicated. He is controversial but also hypnotically charismatic. He did some stuff wrong but also did a lot right. He has changed the world and cemented himself in the same vain as Alexander and Ceaser. In general, i see him as a truly incredible man. Someone whose legend is legitimately intimidating.

    • @spartakos3178
      @spartakos3178 Год назад +5

      Like all tyrants, he lost and got his comeuppance.
      There are ultimately two types of revolutions... The American, respecting God and His sovereignity.... And the French godless, and leading unto a worse tyranny than before.

    • @brucewaynebanner482
      @brucewaynebanner482 Год назад

      @@spartakos3178lol have u seen the USA
      We have trans everywhere. What’s down is up what up is down. We have no morals in this country rn. U say our revolution was behind god etc. where is that now?
      I bet they used god as they did in Britain. A tool for control. They killed they raped etc. the same Europeans came over here. Then what? Ya we all know the history.
      Also, French godless? Lol
      Please enlighten me

    • @Paddrique
      @Paddrique Год назад

      @@spartakos3178 god has literally been used to start war and ignite hate more than once. We see that in America how a mad man like Trump was able to get elected by conservatives on the basis of Christian values. The bootlicking of the church needs to stop.

    • @porkerpete7722
      @porkerpete7722 Год назад +2

      Don't forget Genghis Khan

    • @drrockkso8882
      @drrockkso8882 Год назад

      Yeah he is a really complex figure. In some ways he was remarkably progressive and forward-thinking for his era, in terms of his legal reforms and advances in civil rights, but he was also a tyrant who imposed his will on France and all of Europe by force.

  • @SuperNeuchatel
    @SuperNeuchatel 2 года назад +991

    Napoleon is often portrayed as a tyrant that just kept on warring to satisfy his ego but he did try to find settlements with the Austrians and Russians several times and was then betrayed by them.
    As a self made person his path is far more impressive than any regent born into riches and power.

    • @caniblmolstr4503
      @caniblmolstr4503 2 года назад +61

      The British didn't like anyone else to have a parliamentary monarchy

    • @joshua6207
      @joshua6207 2 года назад

      @@caniblmolstr4503 they're hero Wellington probably grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth.

    • @arthurdewith7608
      @arthurdewith7608 2 года назад +8

      Winston Churchill was the greatest of them sll

    • @benno291980
      @benno291980 2 года назад +92

      No that's British propaganda nonsense. Napoleon was fighting for France's right to self-determination. They decided they wanted to be a republic, and the boys' club.of European monarchs decided they didn't want that

    • @susanmenegus5543
      @susanmenegus5543 2 года назад +1

      @@arthurdewith7608 I agree 💯

  • @codenamecatatonic8894
    @codenamecatatonic8894 Год назад +4

    “The generals of Napoleon” episode is really good too.
    Very well done.
    This beats TV any day.

  • @a_bar8579
    @a_bar8579 2 года назад +531

    "A true man hates no one." -Napoleon Bonaparte

    • @goldman77700
      @goldman77700 2 года назад +10

      Good ol' Napoleon entrusted money on his death to the failed assassin of the Duke of Wellington. I love Napoleon but that man definitely knew how to hold a grudge.

    • @ernestoA.1999
      @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +1

      @@goldman77700 bulkshit , he was a man of excessive mercy , he forgive many men who bretrayed him , or attempted against his life , he should’ve executed them all , instead he let them go .

    • @goldman77700
      @goldman77700 2 года назад +8

      @@ernestoA.1999 Except Napoleon really did leave money in his last will specifically to one of Wellington's failed assassins-Officer Cantillon. It's even on NapoleonDotORG. "Napoleon's Last Will and Testament". Look it up yourself I dare you.

    • @maybe5918
      @maybe5918 Год назад +4

      "I have no enemies" -Napoleon Bonaparte

    • @estheranglade4122
      @estheranglade4122 Год назад +1

      Did he say that to Toussaint?

  • @gwenstacydeathclub5536
    @gwenstacydeathclub5536 Год назад +1675

    Who’s here after the Napoleon trailer?

    • @Rudy7179
      @Rudy7179 Год назад +95

      Need to be able to pretend I know what's going on when I go see it in theaters 😂

    • @skylitemedia862
      @skylitemedia862 Год назад +17

      Yup lol

    • @Godines16
      @Godines16 Год назад +10

      Me too.

    • @TheYoli182
      @TheYoli182 Год назад +10

      Me!

    • @rammsteinfan1984
      @rammsteinfan1984 Год назад +12

      The trailer looked really good. Didn’t think I’d get excited to watched a Napoleon movie.

  • @ernestoA.1999
    @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +701

    Among the greatest men to ever lived and history’s greatest General , imagine admiring Alexander the Great, Hannibal , Caesar in your childhood , reading about them and then when you’re an adult beign able to say I was better than them. From admiring your heros to surpassing them .

    • @adamsnow4979
      @adamsnow4979 2 года назад +16

      How can the greatest man ever die as a loser

    • @ernestoA.1999
      @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +67

      @@adamsnow4979 The same way Lucifer , the greatest of the Angels fell from Heaven, because they forgot that their unique greatness was a gift and responsalibity given only by God , During his lifetime Napoleon was the most powerful man in the world , never before or never again has so much power in one man been seen in history , a SelfMade man from rags to riches purely because of merit and talent . At the end the human nature got the best of him and God grew tired of him and thus his downfall , He achieved in one life what others wouldn’t in 10 lives

    • @adamsnow4979
      @adamsnow4979 2 года назад +14

      @@ernestoA.1999 as great as he was he made many tactical errors like the invasion of Spain and Russia also his legacy wasn’t everlasting. For me the greatest man to ever live was Muhammad a man who started as persecuted street preacher would conquer the entire Arabian peninsula and his disciples would defeat the Sassanid and Byzantine empires and within 100 years after his death the caliphate would stretch from south france to borders of China. If you want to talk about the greatest general then napoleon can have that but not the greatest man

    • @teddymcfail4359
      @teddymcfail4359 2 года назад +16

      @@ernestoA.1999 Napoleon didn’t come from rags. He was born into Corsica nobility.

    • @ernestoA.1999
      @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +23

      Impoverished Corsican Nobility , he made himself a General due to Merit and personal ability

  • @andrewjg_
    @andrewjg_ 2 года назад +119

    It's crazy that queen Victoria was only 2 years old when he was still around

  • @brandonhallam51
    @brandonhallam51 2 года назад +644

    Went to Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. If you go inside you can see the actual standards flown by Napoleon that were captured by scottish units of the British army at Waterloo. The actual Flag.

  • @Glenys-y9l
    @Glenys-y9l 10 месяцев назад +5

    An absolutely fascinating analysis of an historic figure

  • @huntertony56
    @huntertony56 Год назад +40

    I'm so happy napoleon is getting the recognition he deserves. Truly a great of man of human history

    • @davids4313
      @davids4313 Год назад +7

      To be ranked amongst many other mass murdering narcissists. Over half a million died in his Russian campaign alone to absolutely no end. The Spanish campaign was similar. His establisment of the french education system and builing of infrastructure was indeed impressive (to me), but his love of war you can keep.

    • @miguelpadeiro762
      @miguelpadeiro762 Год назад +5

      ​@@davids4313He brought forward radical reforms in law, which to this day remain the cornerstone of legislative systems across the world, built up the foundations of modern human rights and spat on needless archaic tradition
      He still lived in savage times and behaved savagely, waging war from the Atlantic to Moscow, but so is history. His feats remain remarkable and his realm would have produced a Pax Francorum if it wasn't for the emperors of Europe who absolutely despised Napoleon, because at the end of the day he wasnt just an enemy warlord: he was an enemy warlord who brought the ancient regimes to its knees and just by breathing, he represented a threat to each and every one of them.

    • @jamescoplen9309
      @jamescoplen9309 Год назад

      @@davids4313life has a balance to it. The men who do the greatest good usually have an evil just as great

    • @ZacharyKaniewski
      @ZacharyKaniewski 10 месяцев назад

      ya…. not a great legacy

    • @jordanreeves6008
      @jordanreeves6008 8 месяцев назад

      gods disciple

  • @chadseraphfernendes3253
    @chadseraphfernendes3253 2 года назад +372

    Absolutely crazy to think Napoleon and George Washington both rose to power at the same time. Savage days.

    • @rickycalais3356
      @rickycalais3356 2 года назад +28

      I would not in any way use Napoleon and George Washington in the same sentence. Napoleon was always pursuing his own personal glory and power.

    • @aureliendaviet5290
      @aureliendaviet5290 2 года назад +65

      @@rickycalais3356 Sure but he was also defending France against half of the Europe, he was not a saint for sure but you can't compare him to washington. USA was nothing during this time compared to what it is now, they had no great power compared to Europe. USA made a lot of small colonial wars after that to conquier what was basically forests and deserts (with peoples slaughtered). Europe had centuries of history and was at a time were you had a lot of ideological changes. France was considered has a threat because of the killing of Louis XVI and the arrival of the Republic. France was threatened way before Napoleon was a Consul or an Emperor.

    • @MJAce85
      @MJAce85 2 года назад +8

      @@rickycalais3356 I don't really see how that's a completely horrible thing for a commander.

    • @visca5821
      @visca5821 2 года назад +44

      @@rickycalais3356 Napoleon was much greater than George Washington ever was - in every single way.

    • @rathertiredofthemess2841
      @rathertiredofthemess2841 Год назад +11

      And one refuse to be made king and the other crowned himself emperor…who was the better man.

  • @cdogggyd
    @cdogggyd 2 года назад +5

    Thanks!

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 2 года назад +17

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @imdbandrew
    @imdbandrew 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @joshua6207
    @joshua6207 2 года назад +129

    For people who want to read about Bonaparte there is a couple books by David Chandler in English that are out of print but if you can find them they are the best books on Napoleonic ere 👍

    • @junesilvermanb2979
      @junesilvermanb2979 2 года назад +8

      David G. Chandler
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._Chandler

    • @Hammerli280
      @Hammerli280 2 года назад +1

      The Campaigns of Napoleon is still in print…and available on Kindle.

    • @briggsdidnotstrapem7699
      @briggsdidnotstrapem7699 2 года назад +3

      and whats wrong with reading Napoleon's and his very own diary? i would start there first.

    • @joshua6207
      @joshua6207 2 года назад +1

      @@Hammerli280 my copy of campaigns is from the 1980s or 90s

    • @The_Space_Born
      @The_Space_Born Год назад +1

      I beat everyone at chess!

  • @Gdgaiennie
    @Gdgaiennie 2 года назад +90

    Timeline is the gift that keeps on giving. First all the incredible WW2 documentaries and now a Napoleon documentary! Keep up the fantastic work!!! ❤

    • @David-lr4kc
      @David-lr4kc 2 года назад +3

      If you want an epic Napoleon documentary watch ‘epic history Napoleon March of the eagles’ then part two ‘downfall’. You will not be disappointed

    • @Gdgaiennie
      @Gdgaiennie 2 года назад +2

      @@David-lr4kc Dude, that is a GREAT documentary! If you like the battles look up “Epic History Napoleon” and click any of the battles. That channel made me fall in love with anything Napoleon. Appreciate the suggestion buddy! Going to go watch that again tonight. ✌️

    • @ValerieMartin923
      @ValerieMartin923 2 года назад +1

      Martin wasn't talking about no damn nepolian Bornapart of the great lie fam

    • @ValerieMartin923
      @ValerieMartin923 2 года назад +1

      Were they buried at over there wit Nate turner,, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Tubman and the make believe plots cemetery these all sound like drunk people stories to me now.

    • @ValerieMartin923
      @ValerieMartin923 2 года назад +1

      Karen knock it off

  • @antonvernooy6186
    @antonvernooy6186 2 года назад +89

    Napoleon Bonaparte is a legand

    • @driveincanada9713
      @driveincanada9713 2 года назад +1

      👍

    • @FazeParticles
      @FazeParticles 2 года назад +3

      Based

    • @zoezoe3301
      @zoezoe3301 2 года назад +1

      Racist also

    • @rd9793
      @rd9793 2 года назад +14

      @@zoezoe3301
      Racist racist racist...... everyone's racist. So annoying already.

    • @gamingandgunpla
      @gamingandgunpla 2 года назад +2

      @@zoezoe3301 Yeah seriously. enough already.

  • @luandemattos1939
    @luandemattos1939 Год назад +1

    Superb documentary, well done TimelineChannel and History Hit.

  • @krystlekatherine
    @krystlekatherine 2 года назад +125

    People either love him or hate him.
    I see a man who was a great opportunist and understood how the world works. Tell me how he is worst than the institutions run today by men but hide from their bunkers?
    He fought with his men, gave epic speeches and rewarded his staff and troops greatly. He gave men a reason to live, even if self motivated. When I listen to people (British) who hate him, they sound envious. Yes, he plunder the Church but didn’t kill any clergyman- which is uncommon in war.
    Historians hide behind the “but the crown was corrupt so the revolution followed.” No bro. Power, wealth will always be corrupt. These people wanted violence for free healthcare, take a hike. Napoleon was no saint. But I rather my country be an empire lead by a patriot than some international court!

    • @murasakinomorado7210
      @murasakinomorado7210 2 года назад +14

      👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼I AM A FAN OF NAPOLEON! I cannot read any history about Napoleon that is written by an English person or from a British perspective. They always vilify him… and wrongfully so. I guess the saying is true, the victor gets to write history… The churches were being plundered long before Napoleon came along, it was all part of the revolution that was sweeping through France.

    • @grandcrowdadforde6127
      @grandcrowdadforde6127 2 года назад

      but in the end--- he was a loser. A Corsican thug who was lucky the Brits didn t stretch his neck...think of the hundreds even millions of deaths he caused; the millions of $$$ and loss of property... to what end ? who is next to have his crimes white wash ed? should we re-Hab the Mad Hatter Adolf ?? poor mis understood failed artist> with a stupid imitation Chaplin moustache?

    • @aceofspadesattorney
      @aceofspadesattorney 2 года назад +5

      This is beautifully said-it comes to the quote, “History is written by the victors.” I am of the opinion that a more authoritative system is often more effective, and Napoleon effecting countless new laws and raising an army larger than any ever seen before only proves that. Corruption always comes about in any system, but it definitely says a lot that Napoleon’s men refused to arrest him when sent against him upon his return from exile. Patriotism gives people an identity and a rally point, what would be a welcome difference from the division down the aisle we see today (here in the U.S. it’s pretty bad at least, but definitely at least somewhat in other countries under republics or parliaments as well).

    • @FazeParticles
      @FazeParticles 2 года назад +1

      Facts. Based comment sir!

    • @utomotjipto5294
      @utomotjipto5294 2 года назад

      I wonder whether Bernard Cornwell “Sharpe” will write any novel on Napoleon from France perspective.

  • @Mysteries_ofthe_Ages
    @Mysteries_ofthe_Ages 3 месяца назад

    This video masterfully captures Napoleon's incredible journey and his influence on modern history

  • @NathanB12923
    @NathanB12923 Год назад +5

    Why is this video so good- there’s nothing we can do

  • @felipefauvel
    @felipefauvel Год назад

    Valeu!

  • @ddc2957
    @ddc2957 2 года назад +101

    What’s utterly baffling to me in discussions about Napoleon & whether he’s good or bad is only Napoleon is discussed. There is essentially no insight on his enemies, who they were, & what they were fighting for.
    How is anyone to determine a reasonable view on the man with only half the story always told?

    • @Lina-lq7jm
      @Lina-lq7jm 2 года назад +7

      I totally agree!

    • @stevodagoat
      @stevodagoat 2 года назад

      Napoleon changed the world by erasing the history of so called black ppl globally....that's y u don't hear of his real enemies!!!

    • @joggyjames
      @joggyjames 2 года назад +22

      as the old saying goes history is written by the victors.

    • @CodyMapping
      @CodyMapping 2 года назад +3

      I don’t think this is the case at all, what about the two Russian Tsars Paul and Alexander, what about Austrian Emperor Francis and his daughter, the wife of Napoleon.
      Never heard about Metternich?
      What about his former general Bernadotte who became the King of Sweden.
      What about King Frederick William III of Prussia or Bavarian King Maximilian I.
      There are many well known British leaders of that time as well: Admiral Nelson, George III and IV, Wellington, Castlereagh, …

    • @reyesmercado340
      @reyesmercado340 2 года назад

      @@CodyMapping NADA QUE VER CON LA VIDA Y LA ÉPOCA DE NAPOLEÓN.
      !! YA EMPEZAMOS A SACAR LAS COSAS DE SU SITIO !!

  • @davida1810
    @davida1810 Год назад +2

    This documentary is 10000 times than the Napoleon movie that came out recently. 👏

  • @ramymajd6654
    @ramymajd6654 Год назад +10

    Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is the greatest commander in history. His biography and battles are truly brilliant. He was a strategic planner and I am one of his biggest fans. I advise everyone to watch this video and read his story.

    • @marcorioti6932
      @marcorioti6932 11 месяцев назад +1

      He started the Russian campaign with 600.000 soldiers and come back with 40.000, you think he was always great?

  • @bwizzle4194
    @bwizzle4194 2 месяца назад +1

    When I hear this...All I can say is. I miss the ol'days.

  • @anyaa22
    @anyaa22 Год назад +1

    A wonderful video that tells the story of a famous French ruler who achieved many accomplishments during his reign, but many were also killed during his reign

  • @kariannecrysler640
    @kariannecrysler640 2 года назад +70

    To everyone involved with History Hit’s (including Timeline), THANK YOU!🥰🌻
    I can not tell you how wonderful it is to have all these incredible videos. I chose to care for my loved ones over finishing my greater education and find myself living a meager lifestyle. I wouldn’t change a thing, it was the right choice. That is why I am so grateful for the content you create. In the vast sea of useless shows that disintegrate sense, you are my life raft. 💗

    • @Gdgaiennie
      @Gdgaiennie 2 года назад +6

      So well put. The life raft part was hilarious. 😂 But God if it isn't the absolute truth.

    • @treyyoungley6171
      @treyyoungley6171 2 года назад

      Oh yeah I'm sure that's why Kari. Definitely not so you can be a stay at home mom

    • @kariannecrysler640
      @kariannecrysler640 2 года назад +8

      @@treyyoungley6171 it was actually care for my grandma. Then back to school and my father needed me then back once more and my other grandmother died. After 3 death’s I am not going back to school for the few credits that print a piece of paper with a stamp. And my stepson’s are grown. I really am just a nerd at heart. I also watch many lectures on archaeology of the first century and earlier, geology, DNA studies and most museums around the world have RUclips channels too. I am also old. LOL😊But I am sure the stay at home mom thing would have been great

    • @driveincanada9713
      @driveincanada9713 2 года назад +1

      ♥️

    • @krystlekatherine
      @krystlekatherine 2 года назад +5

      Your education on earth continues day by day as we are all students in life. The best comes from your mind within books, human relations, documentaries, museums, etc no amount of classroom can replace this!

  • @NBAballToWalls
    @NBAballToWalls Год назад +12

    I hope the new Napoleon movie coming out stays true to genuine history

    • @Bonapartiste
      @Bonapartiste Год назад +6

      no, you can already see delirium and bastardism. there was in the trailer how Napoleon's troops fired at Egypt, this is complete nonsense. Napoleon was the one who started such a deep research work in Egypt. Also, the cast is incompetent. The roles are wrong. In short, a film for the layman

  • @m.51373
    @m.51373 2 года назад +2

    I’m enjoying the magnificent artwork accompanying this wonderful documentary.

  • @PaulRamone356
    @PaulRamone356 2 года назад +6

    shouldn't have lost Europe. Imagine him taking over the world. Unimaginable reforms he could've done.

  • @Jordan-te8cs
    @Jordan-te8cs 8 месяцев назад

    Crazy video. Ending was unexpected - congratulations

  • @albertarce1135
    @albertarce1135 Год назад +62

    " If someday someone makes a movie about my life, I want Joaquin Phoenix to play me"
    Napoleon Bonaparte.

    • @mirandabroxson7891
      @mirandabroxson7891 Год назад +1

      Please. A combo I didn't know I needed

    • @tonywilliams7152
      @tonywilliams7152 Год назад +2

      "87.33% supposed facts on the Internet are untrue." Napoleon 1828.

    • @MellowCosmos
      @MellowCosmos Год назад +3

      his most famous quote Lol

    • @SirSaladAss
      @SirSaladAss Год назад +1

      ​@@tonywilliams7152Rose from the grave just to say that, truly inspiring.

    • @tonywilliams7152
      @tonywilliams7152 Год назад

      @@SirSaladAss he was an amazing man

  • @vaga_bong2800
    @vaga_bong2800 2 года назад +71

    For those who have seen and remembered Napoleon as a military man,a generale,an emperor,a historical figure,my sympathies are with them.But whoever has read and remembered Napoleon as a Philosopher........... 👍. 🙏.

    • @foolapprentice3321
      @foolapprentice3321 2 года назад +7

      Titles?

    • @Bonapartiste
      @Bonapartiste Год назад +1

      And he was a mathematician

    • @gwkodiak
      @gwkodiak Год назад +1

      You can also see the Napoleonic standards in St. Petersburg Russia, at the church our Lady of Kassan. In the church, is a sarcophagus of the Russian general who defeated Napoleon, and took his military standards.

  • @generalsandnapoleon
    @generalsandnapoleon 7 месяцев назад

    Very interesting! Thanks for this video.

  • @fightingcarrot
    @fightingcarrot Год назад +7

    Who’s here after the Napoleon movie?

    • @wisebj2002
      @wisebj2002 11 месяцев назад

      I should have viewed this video first.

  • @witcher-86
    @witcher-86 Год назад +2

    nice doc to prepare for Napoleon film 🤓

  • @RedShipsofSpainAgain
    @RedShipsofSpainAgain Год назад +4

    5:40 - 6:30. Please don't interrupt a documentary with a "check out our other documentaries". It seriously disrupts the flow for viewers. There is a time and a place for that. The place is in the video description.

  • @kontayemoutakha3063
    @kontayemoutakha3063 3 месяца назад

    Napoleon Bonaparte was a fascinating figure whose life was filled with ambition, strategy, and profound impact on world history. From his rise through the ranks to become Emperor of France, his innovative military tactics, and the sweeping reforms he introduced, Napoleon left an indelible mark that shaped Europe and beyond. A well-made history documentary on him would not only capture the intense battles and alliances but also delve into his vision, leadership style, and even his eventual downfall. A must-watch for anyone interested in understanding the complex layers of one of history’s most influential leaders

  • @homer88100
    @homer88100 2 года назад +56

    Napoleon was an absolute lad!

  • @67nairb
    @67nairb 2 месяца назад

    Very good documentary. Is there a part 2 of this?

  • @Tormund_Giantsbrain
    @Tormund_Giantsbrain 2 года назад +38

    Greatest general of all time.

    • @GIBBO4182
      @GIBBO4182 2 года назад +9

      Alexander the Great?

    • @tttgaming8762
      @tttgaming8762 2 года назад +1

      @@GIBBO4182 wins vs loses Alexander is behind him

    • @Tormund_Giantsbrain
      @Tormund_Giantsbrain 2 года назад +8

      @DC "Alexnader will prove you wrong". Why? Because he rode a horse over the huts of a buncha primitive tribesmen? LOL Napoleon outmaneuvered the British armies during the peak of the imperial period in increasingly complex but non mechanized warfare from canada to india. Caesar couldn't even conquer the anglo saxons lol.

    • @Tormund_Giantsbrain
      @Tormund_Giantsbrain 2 года назад +5

      @DC "ATG never lost" is like a child's metric of measuring a general's greatness while making choo choo noises with action figures. He never lost cause he tucked tail and ran back the moment he saw the first Indian kingdom. You know, the same sub-continent that the British and the French used as their play thing during Napoleon's time.

    • @Tormund_Giantsbrain
      @Tormund_Giantsbrain 2 года назад +3

      Calling Alexander GOAT is almost a right of passage for rookies getting into warfare. Napoleon was the pinnacle of strategy at a time of modern warfare with increasingly complex maneuvers (but without benefit of mechanized warfare, so the human element still reigned supreme). Against the might of the Coalition Armies during the peak of European imperialism with the entire modern world as their tabletop. Alexander rode his horse over the huts of a buncha primitive nomadic tribesmen and tucked tail the moment he saw elephants lol. It's like comparing Michael Jordan to your office rec league champ.

  • @chikami6014
    @chikami6014 Год назад +2

    I always marvel at how matter-of-fact some of the speakers are in some documentaries, sounding as if they were in fact, present during those periods of history, witnessing things first hand lol

    • @justbank5007
      @justbank5007 4 месяца назад +1

      "...and there stood Napoleon, making a peanut butter sandwich with his sword, as his wife yelled from the laundry room, 'You have to stop getting blood on your uniforms, Nappy!!!'"

  • @howwwwwyyyyy
    @howwwwwyyyyy 2 года назад +18

    Not long enough,there's far more to tell about this genius.

  • @ChadMcChopper9b7cy123
    @ChadMcChopper9b7cy123 8 месяцев назад +2

    Napoleon is one of the greatest men to ever exist

  • @davyroger3773
    @davyroger3773 2 года назад +25

    Nothing beats the 4 part mini series by PBS on Napoleon!

  • @calebshuler1789
    @calebshuler1789 Год назад +1

    I love learning more n more about these great men

  • @dabereogbuishi7533
    @dabereogbuishi7533 2 года назад +20

    Please do one on Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and his love-hate relationship with Bonaparte

  • @ITsHistoryX
    @ITsHistoryX Год назад

    Awesome content man 👍🏾

  • @markisaac3550
    @markisaac3550 2 года назад +4

    Great man

  • @MaxZarubov
    @MaxZarubov Год назад +1

    Super Video!

  • @stevenlarter4116
    @stevenlarter4116 2 года назад +10

    Could you guys do a comprehensive documentary of the French Revolution. I haven't found a really good one yet.

    • @murasakinomorado7210
      @murasakinomorado7210 2 года назад +4

      Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan

    • @davyroger3773
      @davyroger3773 2 года назад

      Check out John Merriman Yale Lectures on Robespierre, the Philosophe ,and Napoleon

    • @gazzacs
      @gazzacs 2 года назад

      @@murasakinomorado7210 the best

    • @Kegs2689
      @Kegs2689 2 года назад +1

      Check out Ashe logos channel. He has a great one

  • @on__off2923
    @on__off2923 5 месяцев назад +1

    i love Napoleon Bonaparte and his legacy

  • @carlosoliveiraoalfacinha
    @carlosoliveiraoalfacinha 2 года назад +31

    From victory to victory till the final defeat but out of the ordinary.

    • @joshua6207
      @joshua6207 2 года назад +5

      His decline started in Spain and Portugal and then his decision to overstay his welcome in Russia. He took 600,000 men to russia and only came back with 90,000.

    • @brucewaynebanner482
      @brucewaynebanner482 Год назад

      @@joshua6207that damn cold weather lol

  • @Synster73
    @Synster73 Год назад

    Definitely here brushing up on the facts before the movie comes out! So excited 🎉

    • @Retro77691
      @Retro77691 Год назад

      Napoleon Was American 🇺🇸

  • @baliyae
    @baliyae 2 года назад +18

    He was definitely ambitious, I’ll give him that.

    • @christophermichaelclarence6003
      @christophermichaelclarence6003 2 года назад +5

      He gave it all for our Motherland France even though he was Corsican.
      Vive l'Empereur 🟦⬜🟥🇫🇷

    • @ernestoA.1999
      @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +1

      @@christophermichaelclarence6003 “he was Corsican by blood , French by education, and Italian in everything else “ Will Durant.

    • @christophermichaelclarence6003
      @christophermichaelclarence6003 2 года назад +3

      @@ernestoA.1999 Yep I know all of that

    • @ernestoA.1999
      @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +1

      @@christophermichaelclarence6003 Italy > France?

    • @driveincanada9713
      @driveincanada9713 2 года назад

      ♥️

  • @brianolson8293
    @brianolson8293 Год назад +2

    Nobody talks about this but Napoleon was very good at math at a time when cannons were fewer as just big guns he instead would figure out the angles and distance and take out the key strengths of his enemy with artillery

  • @truthteller4442
    @truthteller4442 11 месяцев назад +6

    Napoleon was a great and brilliant Italian leader. French by nationality, Italian by blood. He was a student of the Roman Empire and modeled many of his tactics after Julius Caesar.

    • @lvl1_feral_druid
      @lvl1_feral_druid 10 месяцев назад +2

      More like 18th century French military theorists as de Bourcet, du Teil and de Guilbert since Caesar tactics are kinda outdated obviously. He got a fully french military education at the military school at Brienne and then at Paris.

    • @freshprince69
      @freshprince69 10 месяцев назад +1

      You could say he made his Roman ancestors proud.

    • @Renaud-z5f
      @Renaud-z5f 6 месяцев назад

      Ridiculous. Don't be jaleous. He loved the French, not the Italians.

  • @GIBunz
    @GIBunz 2 года назад +15

    37:40 mistress were common and weren't some sort of shock for the upper class, this woman is reaching

  • @alex.vanderkley
    @alex.vanderkley Год назад +1

    Thanks for waking me up with your ad..

  • @BOWS3R
    @BOWS3R Год назад +7

    This is a very British take on Napoleon.

  • @PaisleeDaniels-m9y
    @PaisleeDaniels-m9y Год назад +1

    Napoleon was an absolute lad!. Not long enough,there's far more to tell about this genius..

  • @cowboy68
    @cowboy68 Год назад +1

    2am I’m sick in bed .this is perfect

  • @mabboyz4lyf
    @mabboyz4lyf 2 года назад +12

    Great video, even if Professor David Andress' anti-Bonaparte bias is on display.

    • @ddc2957
      @ddc2957 2 года назад +2

      Can’t help himself, can he?

    • @ljnv
      @ljnv 7 месяцев назад +1

      He's insufferable

  • @BillKing8888
    @BillKing8888 8 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting video - don't know why they needed string quartet distracting us in the background through the whole broadcast.

  • @paulclalchungnunga2052
    @paulclalchungnunga2052 Год назад +3

    I fell into a deep slumber an Autoplay brought me here tbh

  • @Baczkowa78
    @Baczkowa78 Месяц назад +1

    Interesting quote of the day: “Knowing things is very lower-class as far as the aristocracy is concerned.”
    Revealing. Nothing has changed today for the people in charge.

  • @christophermichaelclarence6003
    @christophermichaelclarence6003 2 года назад +16

    Vive nôtre Empereur Napoleon Bonaparte et sa Grande Armée.
    Best Conquerer of Europe and Greatest Strategic Military Genius in History with 56 battles won (rumors say 70 battles won)
    Yet, still remain the Best General in the World after his death which was 200 years ago
    He made our country France a Superpower.
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜🦅🦅⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜🦅🦅⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥
    Tremblez enemis de la France !
    Sachant vaincre ou sachant périr !
    Un Français doit vivre pour elle !
    Pour elle un Français doit mourir !
    Vive la France ! 💪🇫🇷🇫🇷🐎👊Victory is ours !

    • @pendragonlover
      @pendragonlover 2 года назад

      Napoleon c 'est aussi des centaines de milliers de gens envoyés a la mort pour rien , des erreurs incroyables , une fin misérable sur un cailloux au milieu de l 'atlantique et au final ,une France completement laminée .

    • @driveincanada9713
      @driveincanada9713 2 года назад +1

      ♥️👍

    • @frank_zapping
      @frank_zapping 2 года назад +1

      Yes the greatest french was italian, cool! 😆😆😆

    • @lvl1_feral_druid
      @lvl1_feral_druid 2 года назад +1

      @@frank_zapping Corsica is French since 1768 and he is born in 1769 so no, he is french.

    • @lvl1_feral_druid
      @lvl1_feral_druid 2 года назад

      @erwann Hervé Ouais ça fait un peu beauf c'est vrai mais au moins il follow pas Usul 😂

  • @bryanshort4422
    @bryanshort4422 Год назад +3

    I gotta watch this before the movie comes out

  • @jaiminshah6416
    @jaiminshah6416 4 дня назад

    Thanks💎

  • @macadelic2492
    @macadelic2492 2 года назад +12

    Thanks to Oversimplified I can now keep up w these documentaries 🤣

  • @raphaelbouchara
    @raphaelbouchara 2 года назад +1

    Great documentary of Bonaparte, pre Emperor, really well put together.
    Vive l'Empereur !!

  • @animeyahallo3887
    @animeyahallo3887 2 года назад +62

    Remember guys Napoleon is definitely average height on his time

    • @adarmus4768
      @adarmus4768 2 года назад +23

      @Thoth Al Khem We are absolutely getting taller as a species . Plenty of scientific evidence to support this.

    • @JamaluddinAlMuqdishaawi
      @JamaluddinAlMuqdishaawi 2 года назад

      @@adarmus4768 yeah no.
      We've got no evidence to make such absolute statements.

    • @adarmus4768
      @adarmus4768 2 года назад +8

      @@JamaluddinAlMuqdishaawi There is plenty of data to support this claim. One example is that the average height in the UK increased by 10cm in the 20th century.

    • @christophermichaelclarence6003
      @christophermichaelclarence6003 2 года назад +14

      He was the average height. Calling him short was those damn British Propaganda

    • @TheIsemgrim
      @TheIsemgrim 2 года назад +5

      @@JamaluddinAlMuqdishaawi yes there is lol, the avarage height of a dutch guy in `1810 was 165 cm, the avarage height of the avarage dutch guy now is 185 cm. thats 20 cm in about 200 years.

  • @virginiawells1
    @virginiawells1 Год назад

    Thank you all for your support!! Love this channel

  • @reid_dreamcatcher6017
    @reid_dreamcatcher6017 Год назад +7

    Imagine Hannibal , Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and Attila the Hun going at it all at once with equal levels of weaponry. Just intense !

  • @desertweasel6965
    @desertweasel6965 Год назад +4

    Who's here after Napoleon passed away?

  • @LeePenn2492
    @LeePenn2492 Год назад

    Interesting and informative.
    A man of his times
    MARCH TO THE SOUND OF THE GUN'S.

  • @solomonrobert298
    @solomonrobert298 2 года назад +26

    I can't get enough of the man.

    • @lunaticlunatic6108
      @lunaticlunatic6108 2 года назад +2

      @@Endgame707 lol no he wasn't, italy didn't even exist at this time. he was a french from corsica.

    • @Tranquill129
      @Tranquill129 Год назад

      There’s nothing you can do

  • @blessedjosh4805
    @blessedjosh4805 11 месяцев назад

    “In a world of 1780s in France, which is highly aristocratic. Napoleon is the kind of person who is stewing his own ambition in a society which is deeply hierarchical and isn’t ever gonna let someone like him ascend to greatness.”

  • @Lina-lq7jm
    @Lina-lq7jm 2 года назад +14

    This video assumes a lot. For example, that Napoleon wished for revolution to start because it was the only way he saw how to satisfy his ambition. That's just suppositions. In what way was it possible to predict that revolution would come, or that it wouldn't be crushed, or that it would grow in such a way???
    Another thing, it was stated that Napoleon was smitten with Josephine, and yet... almost in the same sentence it was said that because she had connections, it was advantageous for him to marry her; thus almost negating the smitten portion. (By the way, were her connections really that great? Considering that she spent time in prison because she was who she was and had been married to who she'd been married to.)
    You claim that Napoleon feels entitled to bein treated as an emperor in Italy and even resides in a mention, but because he goes back in a normal uniform he is playing games. And maybe there are evidence to suggest this. But without that evidence this seems only like an opinion. Why not say that he needed to show strength while in foreign lands, and in those days strength was also shown in all the pomp and circumstance; around him there were monarchies everywhere after all. But after he was done, he went back as he really was??? Why assume this ambitious, megalomaniac personality???
    I could g on and on, but let's just say, to sum it all up - you assume a lot of his motivations without showing real proof that he was actually this nefarious figure who did nothing but plot his own rise to power.
    p.s. ANd especially you need to provide proof that Napoleon's brother manipulated the election.
    Maybe it's just me, but this documentary seems very biased against Napoleon

    • @jdlamb4212
      @jdlamb4212 2 года назад +1

      It's just a documentary video it's not a presentation of all historical proof and research done to come up with it. If you want to go deeper into it you can, but it isn't a college lecture.

  • @EpironiTulele
    @EpironiTulele Год назад +1

    A True Man Hate's No One love that Napoleon quote

  • @ra9im308
    @ra9im308 2 года назад +14

    historians say that Napoleon avoided touching or even confronting plague patients to avoid infection, and that his visits to the sick were an invention of later Napoleonic propaganda. An example of Napoleon's propaganda in this regard, after a period of the campaign, was the propaganda painting "Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims in Jaffa in 1804" by Antoine-Jean Gros. The painting showed Napoleon touching the body of a sick man, as he was depicted as one of the "royal healers". This was no accident, as 1804 was the year Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor.

    • @christophermichaelclarence6003
      @christophermichaelclarence6003 2 года назад +3

      Correct. He was crowned himself Emperor at Notre Dame in 1804.

    • @Anton-kp3mi
      @Anton-kp3mi 2 года назад +5

      An other version is that he did approched and touched plague patients but because he thought he was unvulnerable. The only thing sure is that historians are unsure about what Napoleon truly did and what were his intention at Jaffa and we will probably never know.

    • @ernestoA.1999
      @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +6

      @@Anton-kp3mi He did touched them , As a man of genius he knew that the Plague did not expand so to physical touch . The plague was not countagious due to touch .

    • @ernestoA.1999
      @ernestoA.1999 2 года назад +6

      Actually it’s not propaganda , Napoleon did visit the sick and even raised one of them , but he knew that the plague wasn’t countagious due to physical touch

    • @joshua6207
      @joshua6207 2 года назад

      @@Tako-6474w all the privileged aristocrats were just mad a man who came from nothing had destroyed there fantasy bourbon world. He rose based on ability not his blood like many of the snobs who ruled back then. Remember the french revolution kick started democracy !!

  • @lucagamer_1583
    @lucagamer_1583 2 года назад +1

    Good video👍🏼

  • @cornpopwasabaddude4188
    @cornpopwasabaddude4188 2 года назад +24

    We need a movement like that in the continental US.

    • @electronicsworkshawp
      @electronicsworkshawp 2 года назад +7

      lmao someone voted for trump

    • @azurebadger
      @azurebadger 2 года назад +10

      @@electronicsworkshawp me too. Enjoy your tds.

    • @trey9971
      @trey9971 2 года назад

      @@electronicsworkshawp 🤡 sure did how is Biden doing in that last CNN poll? 1% approval look it up

    • @cornpopwasabaddude4188
      @cornpopwasabaddude4188 2 года назад +12

      @@electronicsworkshawp vote for whoever you like. The system is corrupt.

    • @TheEvilmooseofdoom
      @TheEvilmooseofdoom 2 года назад

      @@cornpopwasabaddude4188 THAT is the truth. Democracy is a failed experiment in it's current form.

  • @EleonoireLaRenard-wj9pq
    @EleonoireLaRenard-wj9pq 4 месяца назад

    Oh yes here I am to be questioned as a fan of this lesson and historical part 😂❤

  • @j.granger1120
    @j.granger1120 Год назад +7

    If you're Polish or American, Napoleon was a great guy. Poland emerged after many years of being divided. Jefferson bought a third of the US from France, the Louisiana purchase. France sold the USA indian land, which the USA paid for with a loan from the UK. So France paid for future wars against the UK, with UK money in exchange for land they didn't really own and couldn't afford to garrison. Nappy always had a plan, I think Nay cost him that victory at Waterloo.

  • @edwardsricardo6429
    @edwardsricardo6429 Год назад +1

    Yes without a doubt he napoleon is amazing and one of kind

  • @WilhelmFreidrich
    @WilhelmFreidrich Год назад +3

    19:16 What are the odds that Napoleonic warfare would start the same time as Napoleon's first time in command?

  • @Jp19981
    @Jp19981 Год назад +4

    The greatest general that has ever lived.

    • @Retro77691
      @Retro77691 Год назад

      Napoleon Was Portuguese 🇵🇹

    • @Jp19981
      @Jp19981 Год назад +1

      @@Retro77691 Is that true? Cause I am portuguese lmao

    • @Retro77691
      @Retro77691 Год назад +1

      @@Jp19981 alright i admit i was joking 😆 he was French 🇫🇷

  • @mikeaguero2875
    @mikeaguero2875 Год назад

    Can't wait for the movie night 😤🥊

  • @paulwary
    @paulwary 2 года назад +22

    "Knowing things is very lower class". Wow, not a good prescription for keeping you place in the aristocracy.

  • @banerjeesiddharth05
    @banerjeesiddharth05 2 года назад +1

    Nice documentary 👌

  • @brianhill3837
    @brianhill3837 2 года назад +8

    Bounaparte was his real name. Changed it to sound more French.

    • @SyrinxArcadianNymph
      @SyrinxArcadianNymph Год назад

      Sush...
      Propaganda has slowly rewritten over the decades Napoleon's history and life trying to hide his connection to Italy (as a geographic and cultural territory, not as a political entity that did not yet exist) which, however, remains in old nineteenth-century books that can be consulted in French-language libraries.
      He had an Italian accent and in the last century it became "Corsican accent" (he spoke in Tuscan dialect with his parents which was the most cultured Italian language in Napoleon's time)
      He never learned to write well in French but in the last century in every book about Napoleon: "he was fluent in French"
      His last words before he died were "head of the Army" heard by 4 witnesses but 20 years after his death one of the witnesses added: "France and Josephine" to make it more dramatic and start making him a national myth.
      Any criticism against Napoleon today is deemed "English propaganda" but the same French historian and intellectual
      Hippolyte Taine, one of the most representative figures of the European cultural world of the 1800s, wrote:
      "Napoleon, far more Italian than French, Italian by race, by instinct, imagination, and souvenir, considers in his plan the future of Italy, and, on casting up the final accounts of his reign, we find that the net profit is for Italy and the net loss is for France.“
      Taine wrote this in his work "Les Origines de la France Contemporaine," published in 1875-1890. Taine was critical of Napoleon's rule and saw him as more interested in advancing his own personal ambitions and promoting the interests of Italy than in serving the interests of France. This quote reflects Taine's belief that Napoleon had a strong affinity for Italy and that his policies were often motivated by his desire to promote Italian nationalism and culture. (This is why the acculturated French don't love Napoleone Buonaparte...)
      I personally don’t believe that Napoleon had Italy's interests at heart, ditto France. He was interested in achieving personal glory. Napoleon was a pragmatist, rational, not sentimental about peoples, his main goal was power and his rise to it and France was only the right place for him at the right time.
      Napoleon was only interested in Napoleon's greatness.

  • @thedunkingdutchman2101
    @thedunkingdutchman2101 Год назад

    very informative

  • @torichan9872
    @torichan9872 2 года назад +41

    My 5th Great Grandfather Phillip was lucky enough to be talked to by Napoleon when he was a young boy.
    His father was in the Commissariat Division of the British Army and they followed Wellington through Spain and Portugal from 1812-14. He got to see the aftermath of the battle at Badajoz, which he described as; "a dreadful sight, men all torn and trampled on, and horses wandering lame and mutilated among the wounded".
    The encounter happened in Bayonne, when troops were leaving the city and Phillip went to go watch with a German baker. He wrote that a man had pulled up next to them before a wine shop in a "bottle-green frock coat and a cocked hat" and "riding an iron grey horse". Phillip was admiring the trappings of the horse when Napoleon came out and patted him on the head, calling him "Bon Garcon", before he continued onwards.

  • @johnnydangerous29
    @johnnydangerous29 3 месяца назад

    I wish you would learn to equalize the audio in the different segments

  • @Down_the_Wind
    @Down_the_Wind 2 года назад +16

    Im a big fan of Linoleum Blownapart.

  • @curtiszyr
    @curtiszyr 3 месяца назад

    “Napoleon drinking a glass of water is a quintessential napoleonic move”- every historian

  • @manojpk5276
    @manojpk5276 2 года назад +16

    Napoleon is a great legend