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@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
9 ай бұрын
How long does it take you to make one of these video's??
@orangejjay
8 ай бұрын
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13I love when channels would rather post comments from sponsored vendors than to answer legitimate questions from their fans. 😂😂
@lastblueride5
6 ай бұрын
rather than advertise hoverpens, make a disclaimer that you got your info and pics wrong. 3:25 Caesar was long dead, you confused Augustus with Caesar.
@kaarlimakela3413
9 ай бұрын
"Mistakes were made." is one of my favorite historical phrases of all time. Perfect for all occasions.
@spaccy6349
9 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@17-MASY
9 ай бұрын
A huge understatement
@mississippichris
8 ай бұрын
Haigspeak
@candlestyx8517
3 ай бұрын
Sometimes mistakes were made despite numerous warnings not to do the thing. Human pride is a helluva drug
@ericweiss719
3 ай бұрын
Rught up there with: "the damnable hands of the damned"
@redeye4516
9 ай бұрын
Hearing the soldier at Gallipoli compare himself and his comrades to the Romans and Crusaders of old, after hearing the tales from those two already, felt like a grim foreshadowing.
@mattkon7675
9 ай бұрын
Yes; particularly because they, like many before them, came abruptly and brutally to learn that the primary experience of war is death, horror and waste. Being soldiers they suddenly found thenselves trapped in the hellish nightmare. Whoopsies!
@nothere57
9 ай бұрын
This is A.I , it's put the story together , it's from outside the knowing
@gracequach6769
9 ай бұрын
@@nothere57 As an avid user of ChatGPT, I can safely say this isn't AI.
@joelewis1776
9 ай бұрын
@@nothere57I definitely trust your perfectly written comment over this established and large KZitem channel
@nothere57
9 ай бұрын
@joelewis6021 you trust anybody hey , except truth , it's too well written to be a australian soldier who landed at on those shores
@chrishamilton7516
9 ай бұрын
Varus - the lesson every nation needs to learn. Don’t send bureaucrats to handle your wars.
@FrostyGerardo-kr7xs
9 ай бұрын
The problem is court culture or thinking a class/ work/person is superior to another
@JohnLee-jk5ew
9 ай бұрын
Amen
@aspenrebel
8 ай бұрын
The politicians start the wars but the military has to fight them.
@TheWhiskyDelta
8 ай бұрын
Military education was central to the roman upper class and most famous generals were more bureaucrat then general. Based on what little records exist of his prior career, Varus was an incompetent who owed his position in government solely to his friendship with Tiberius. it's thought that anti-roman sentiment in Judea largely originated from his vast mistreatment and poor rule in the area. for example. Similarly his defeat was easily avoidable
@Batdude36
8 ай бұрын
Julius Caeser is the best example I can think of for a career politician who was extremely competent in warfare. He was arrogant and made many mistakes, but he was also adaptive and had a firm grasp of logistics. Both skills happen to be very useful in bureaucracy.
@SamGray
9 ай бұрын
Every military disaster is also a triumph for the other side. In a sense, nearly every battle is a disaster for half those involved.
@tedwarden1608
8 ай бұрын
The only thing worse than a battle won,is a battle lost. ‘Wellington’
@BasedR0nin
7 ай бұрын
I see what you’re trying to say.. but no. Most defeats are not “disasters” for the losing side, and many “defeats” are not even straightforward defeats, more like concessions. Not to mention stalemates
@Veldtian1
7 ай бұрын
u win some and you experience an apocalypse sometimes.
@GanymedeXD
5 ай бұрын
Thats nonsense … it can easily become s total disaster for both sides! Winning does not mean it wad not a disastrous battle!
@Radishindependent
5 ай бұрын
what if they are in a 1:4 ratio?
@aaron6178
9 ай бұрын
Great doco. Just a point of order; you had a statue of Gaius Julius Caesar pop up when he mentioned "Caesar" discussing the account of the Teutoburg Forest. It was of course Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, aka Octavian, Gaius' grand nephew, being referred to in the account. Old mate Julius had been dead for 49 years at the time of the battle.
@aspenrebel
8 ай бұрын
I was wondering about that.
@apexnext
7 ай бұрын
*Give me back my Legions!*
@Veldtian1
7 ай бұрын
I too was acutely aware of that glaring oversight, and was just about to point it out, never mind.
@fenris042
6 ай бұрын
He sure took the news horribly too, weeping it's said, where are my Legions Varus! He never got over that, no matter how well Germanicus came back with a vengeance.
@aspenrebel
6 ай бұрын
Picky picky picky!!
@Alex-cw3rz
3 ай бұрын
My Great Grandfather was in the Lancashire Fusiliers and landed on W beach, where 6 Victoria Cross's were won before breakfast. They were able to take the top of the hill, There were 533 casualties more than half the Regiment my Great Grandfather luckily not one of them. Unfortunately it was only a few days later when he was hit by shrapnel from an Artillery shell, k illing his best friend, he was injured a further 3 times at Gallipoli including losing a finger. He went on to fight at the Somme and at Passchendaele where he won the military medal for taking out a German machine gun nest. After the war he broke the medal in two, as the war had deeply effected him. We still have the broken medal today.
@asdf9890
2 ай бұрын
Wow, great family story! He definitely went through it sounds like.
@JoseLopez-fh8tp
2 ай бұрын
It mean it would make sense to break it. You go through hell and worse, to get a piece of metal with words on it. But would’ve been cool if it wasn’t broken.
@TCook-d3s
Ай бұрын
My grandfather fought in France in WW1. Although he wasn’t wounded it messed with his head and just never was the same upon return.
@samsheridan472
9 ай бұрын
“Varus, Varus, give me back my legions!” -Augustus Caesar
@heyitsbookie
9 ай бұрын
Ok but tell me the the Country Native Horse, sitting, and sliding down frozen hills with both luggage and a mounted rider isn’t the coolest little thing. Lovely creature.
@oLevLovesLove
9 ай бұрын
Amazing how few people who entrusted their lives to wooden ships in the past knew how to swim.
@RogueReplicant
9 ай бұрын
Swimming is useless in the open sea.
@Reignor99
9 ай бұрын
@@RogueReplicant is that why so many sailors didn't know how to swim? because it was pointless?
@shaneomahony5469
9 ай бұрын
@@user-fg3lt6mo7j Being able to swim is very important for a sailor. If you are on your own in the middle of the sea its pointless but if you are near a coast or friendly ships its very beneficial. It was one of the advantages that Athens had over Sparta on the sea. Athenian sailors whose ship sank where able to stay alive and be reenlisted in another ship while the Spartan manpower died. Sure certain times it was useless but it gave the chance of not having to replace an experienced sailor on a later date.
@Batdude36
8 ай бұрын
@shaneomahony5469 Not to mention falling overboard from your ship outside of sinkings or battles was common, especially during storms. So knowing how to swim to keep you alive long enough for your crewmates to rescue you is pretty important.
@ximkai8794
16 күн бұрын
I'm betting that it wasn't so much that they didn't know how to swim, but rather they were not strong enough swimmers. Clothes, leather boots, any weapons they had on them. All of that stuff becomes impossibly heavy very quickly in the water.
@mixkid3362
9 ай бұрын
The Gallipoli Landing will never fail to infuriate me. Especially when I learned of the arse-backward motivation for it. Thinking there was a "backdoor" to Germany. What a waste of life.
@jrgingerninja
9 ай бұрын
Blame the British for that mistake and Australians died for it.
@sinanermis5541
9 ай бұрын
Plan was made for knock the ottomans out of to war and link with russians through straits and the black sea.
@MrMaxLions
8 ай бұрын
İf you're on that track, get hold of the writings of Winston Churchill's father. He didn't have much good to say about his son. He was the reason behind Gallipoli
@terranaxiomuk
7 ай бұрын
@jrgingerninja I'm guessing you demand reparations 😂. You mean blame politicians.
@joecurran2811
6 ай бұрын
I have read it landed in slightly the wrong place
@usefulusinguser
9 ай бұрын
22:00 is such an interesting thing to learn about domestic Russian military horses. The visual I got in my head was so comical despite the rest of the horrid situation being described.
@marlino_metab
2 ай бұрын
Horses are very intelligent. I never had a clue about horses until a girl took me out for a date on horseback and it completely changed my perspective. I agree, I’m sure the soldier was incredibly grateful his horse knew what to do.
@Macroprosopus
9 ай бұрын
This channel is a historical gem.
@Beery1962
2 ай бұрын
It's AI-produced garbage.
@scaryonyx
Ай бұрын
@@Beery1962anything to back that up or you just saying shit to say shit
@Beery1962
Ай бұрын
@@scaryonyx If you can't tell that it's AI, I can't help you.
@scaryonyx
Ай бұрын
@@Beery1962 ok you can just tell that’s it alright
@TemmieContingenC
Ай бұрын
@@Beery1962> art credited in description > links provided in description > asked to prove why its AI > “if you can’t see it I can’t help you” 10/10 deflect
@elvastan
4 ай бұрын
"He went to this rich province a poor man, and left that poor province a rich man"
@theCommentDevil
9 ай бұрын
Where is the testimony of Leroy Jenkins?
@OrcinusDrake
2 ай бұрын
Memoirs are written by survivors
@The_Mimewar
9 ай бұрын
Did I hear that correctly? Varus marched into Germania and setup COURT!?
@omahanprabla3058
Ай бұрын
His little slow mind thought...
@Becca.91
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for mentioning the tragedy that was Gallipoli. That mission makes me cry as an Australian
@robert.257
29 күн бұрын
You can blame Winston Churchill for the disaster.
@The_Honcho
9 ай бұрын
Fantastic work as usual, these memoirs bring history to life. All the things forgotten to time; comrades’ personality, their small talk, and thoughts are revived through these stories. The closest a human could possibly come to actually going back in time
@gglen2141
9 ай бұрын
Spanish Armada: I am from Scotland, the west coast, my ancestors hail from Arran. We did a gene swab a few years back and, lo and behold, Spanish blood. This possibly confirms the old family tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard settling down on the island a sireing a few children with local women.
@EmisoraRadioPatio
4 ай бұрын
Very possible. The Spaniards who washed ashore in Scotland were luckier than the ones who washed ashore in Ireland. There, the English executed all the POWs, and the local Irish robbed and killed most of those remaining.
@juanm8582
4 ай бұрын
Welcome, hermano.
@tomfabozzi5353
4 ай бұрын
Not all the Spanish fared badly in Ireland. There’s a higher than normal incidence of curly black hair and brown eyes in Counties Kerry, Clare and Galway, particularly. Some of the shipwrecked sailors clearly survived.
@homuraakemi493
9 ай бұрын
Undead zombie Caesar must have been pretty angry in 9AD
@VoicesofthePast
9 ай бұрын
Wrong Caesar - woops
@bethmarriott9292
9 ай бұрын
Doesn't Caeser as a blanket term generally refer to Julius and Augustus because the younger adopted the name of the elder anyway? Like technically his final name was Augustus but he retained the Caesar part and it can be used as a term for Roman ruler as they were codifying the whole Emperor thing, I've found
@NamanSharma-rq6bm
9 ай бұрын
@@bethmarriott9292Yes, but in the video, Julius Caesar's statue was shown, implying that Caesar had awoken from the dead.
@darthplagueis13
3 ай бұрын
The off-hand remark about how Varus had entered the rich province of Syria as a poor man and left the poor province of Syria as a rich man gave me a good chuckle.
@seronymus
9 ай бұрын
Opening with Teutoberg Forest is wild. No matter the day or subject, its a balat when VotP uploads.
@nickthomas9945
8 ай бұрын
Well done. There is an error at 3:20 however. “Caesar” is referring to Augustus Caesar (Octavian). It is he who Suetonius attributes the famous words: “Varus, give me back my legions!" The bust shown in the video is of Julius Caesar, however, who of course was long dead.
@mcgeebag1
9 ай бұрын
Can you do more first hand accounts of the napoleonic wars? Thanks 👍
@NealBones
8 ай бұрын
"There's a short, angry man on a horse wearing a goofy hat. The end"
@ivory231
9 ай бұрын
I'm Canadian and my family derives from Ireland, I have a LOT of Spanish in me because of the Spanish Armada which surprised me so much when I found out
@Uthandol
9 ай бұрын
Thats not why you have spanish. Hiberno celts hail from spain.
@ivory231
9 ай бұрын
@@Uthandol well still cool!
@aspenrebel
8 ай бұрын
A lot of boinking going on. I know two women who have no idea who their fathers are.
@dannygiles2442
6 ай бұрын
You are what's referred to as black irish
@ivory231
6 ай бұрын
@@dannygiles2442yes ive heard that term:)
@delskioffskinov
9 ай бұрын
Fabulous narration style! gold tier content right there
@Barukh
9 ай бұрын
This channel is so underrated. I really appreciate what you're doing. I love discovering the perspectives of peoples from so long ago
@QueenChristine826
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great narration. The French account was the saddest of all, but the Spanish/Portuguese account was the most instructive. Well-laid plans and all. All their might was nothing compared to the power of nature. Their mistake wasn't in the planning and execution. It was hubris and pride. In the end, it was as though God himself was chastising them for their arrogance.
@scavenger4704
9 ай бұрын
Still believe in God after hearing all this? Ok. He didn't stop any other invasion, where was he when the Nazis were around.
@angelcamachodelsolar
8 ай бұрын
That's nonsense, you have no idea about the historical causes.
@ManuelMartinez-gv8dt
5 ай бұрын
And the English Armada of 1589 did not end well. All in all, there will be another Spanish Armada in the 1590s which failed again because of the “elements” and a third one was in the plans but then Philip II died and the new king Philip III decided that that was enough. Peace will be negotiated after Elizabeth I’s death.
@QueenChristine826
5 ай бұрын
@@ManuelMartinez-gv8dt lol that was a wise decision
@Blalack77
9 ай бұрын
Jeez man.. I don't know if I'm just in a weird mood or if this is just a compelling video or what but I've read and watched about the Battle of Teutoburg Forest dozens of times and I'd say I have a decent grasp on it - Roman history is one of my absolute favorite topics. But for whatever reason - maybe since it was so long ago and seems almost mythical or whatever - I never really thought about the firsthand human experience on a close, personal level. I guess a lot of people do that with ancient stories and war stories - focusing on the highlights and great deeds/feats, courage, valor, etc. and not the gritty, gratuitous details, gore, fear, panic, etc. from the mud and the trenches.. But what I'm getting at is, listening to this, I'm just thinking how messed up that would be - to be an already superstitious Roman soldier in an army in a foreign land, far from home and familiar sights, environs, culture, etc., deep in the woods surrounded by a massive hostile army of strong, brutal, lifelong, elite warriors with strange gods and forest spirits and mystical, almost magical beliefs and rituals who are perfectly at home in the hostile, unfavorable terrain you find yourself in - and to watch all of your allies being slaughtered, tortured to death or abandoning their honor and loyalty and attempting to flee and seeing your officers abandoning you - and knowing you're very shortly going to die in battle if you're lucky and if not, you're going to be mercilessly tortured with unimaginable and very creative tactics until you beg for death... I'm just really deeply and empathetically thinking about what that would feel like in that moment... I know the Romans brutalized the hell out of the Germanic people - and I have ancestry from those parts - but I'm fascinated with Roman history and I always find myself looking through their eyes when hearing their stories.
@shaneomahony5469
9 ай бұрын
I think the same way. When you read that 20,000 men were killed nearly 2000 years ago its easy to just read the numbers and never give it the thought of all the individual men that died, all of whom had families and lives at home and see it from their eyes.
@aspenrebel
8 ай бұрын
Innocent women and children too.
@aspenrebel
8 ай бұрын
Also, they couldn't get a decent pizza or any good spaghetti anywhere.
@lavaughnrannow879
8 ай бұрын
I know I am "tardy to the party," but don't you see the parallels playing out today? I am referring to one aspect of the Israel / Gaza conflict. I mean, many of the people targeted on October 7th were in favor of better relations with Palestinians, and actively helped Gazans cross the border to work in the envelope communities. These same Gazans (think about Arminius) returned home with Intel for Hamas. I'm not saying that we shouldn't help people. I'm saying that we shouldn't expect those who are helped to have our ideals, or be grateful.
@Blalack77
8 ай бұрын
@@lavaughnrannow879 Damn.. Yeah. That's messed up.. It does seem like it's always the ones trying to help and make peace who get stabbed in the back the most..
@TheIrishvolunteer
9 ай бұрын
It's tragic to hear such tales of horror and devastation. It is horrible to imagine how many people befell such horrible fates throughout the annals of history. We are lucky, truly lucky, to be born in one of the most peaceful periods in all of our existence.
@pricenaseen
9 ай бұрын
Today we are closer to this than you might think, you know where I am talking about
@Harib_Al-Saq
9 ай бұрын
@@pricenaseenChicago?
@sean5558
9 ай бұрын
There have been wars all over the world the last 100 years . You may be lucky there isn’t a war going on wherever you are but the last 20 plus years alone we had Bosnia Kosovo , war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan , Ukraine and Israel /Palestine . Not very peaceful times if you ask me
@Murdo2112
9 ай бұрын
@@sean5558 And yet, his comment still holds up. With 24-hour news and the Internet bringing awareness of wars and conflicts in every corner of the world, it's easy to feel that there's more of it than ever before. But the fact remains: the past 50 years has seen fewer people dying to war than at any point in human history. This includes both military and civilian victims, and also both death in action and due to the disease and famine that routinely accompanied war, historically. According to official figures, the death toll of US service personnel in the conflicts following 9/11, in Iraq and Afghanistan, is 7,057. A little over a hundred years ago, in northern France, those sort of figures would have been seen following "a rough morning". We hear it more, these days, but the scale is incomparable.
@TheIrishvolunteer
9 ай бұрын
@@sean5558 Between the years 1000 and 1050 there were around 31 wars. Between 1973 and 2023 there have been about 20
@davidd6171
9 ай бұрын
Very well done video as always! These stories make me think there is a lot to recover through archeology!
@peytondagenais479
4 ай бұрын
21:33 I love this bit about the horse.
@RandyOmski
24 күн бұрын
Worst military disaster is giving the population “phones”
@_ata_3
9 ай бұрын
The illustrations are amazing.
@littleguy6753
3 ай бұрын
You can add in mistakes made in the US v Afghanistan (OEF). Many times our troops were deployed to FOBs that were at the bottom of mountains. The movie "The Outpost" illustrates how bad it is to have the low ground.
@joeb2955
9 ай бұрын
Such a good horse that guy had it sounds like
@youvebeengreeked
9 ай бұрын
River Allia 390 BC, The Caudine Forks 321 BC, Asculum 279 BC, Trebia 218 BC, Trasimeme 217 BC, Cannae 216 BC, Arausio 105 BC, Carrhae 53 BC, Teutoburg Forest 9, Abritus 251, Adrianople 378... Ancient Rome took some seriously heavy blows.
@EM-tx3ly
9 ай бұрын
Romans were like phoenixes well till they fell first in west then in east
@WarHammer1989
9 ай бұрын
Not gonna lie. That meteor pen sounds cool as s***
@isocrates0001
9 ай бұрын
@5:08 supplant Battle of Hattin (1187 CE) for Manzikert (1071 CE) as THAT failure under Romanos IV Diogenes precipitated a greater change in the strategic situation of the Eurasian world.
@ApollonDriver
12 күн бұрын
Turks consider the battle of Manzikert to be "the battle that opened the door to Anatolia for Turks"
@brianmarshall1762
9 ай бұрын
What an interesting topic for a video. I look forward to listening to this all now. Thank you.
@NPCdeathMachine
5 ай бұрын
“Slow in mind as he was in body” 🤣🤣
@FirsteMann1929
9 ай бұрын
1st hand accounts of how war is really not so glorious
@bo7341
9 ай бұрын
26:15 "one felt somehow as if one were grasping hands across the centuries with the great adventures of ancient times". Well, yes, but specifically the Romans in Teutoberg Forest, Christians at Hattin, Spanish Armada and Napoleonic French in Russia. All far from home, incredibly brave and doomed.
@brandonwalker5011
9 ай бұрын
Interesting to note that although we now almost exclusively refer to him as Octavian or Augustus contemporaries would have just called him Julius Ceasar after the adoption.
@DesertAres
9 ай бұрын
I'm surprised that instead of the Spanish armada, which the Spanish never said was invincible, you didn't cover the counter armada from England the next year which was a total disaster, costing possibly 15-20,000 English lives at least and over 50 ships. A much bigger disaster that was covered up and still is not taught in British schools and rates only a passing comment in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
@follacaravanas69
9 ай бұрын
Black legend
@DuoMythic
5 ай бұрын
Wow, i studied history in school and never knew of the british disaster at sea
@lucidrians2641
5 ай бұрын
He covered a British disaster in the video, gallipoli. Spaniards are so sensitive.
@BarnabyBaltimoron
9 ай бұрын
*D A M N !* this channel is so good. I can’t watch them fast enough and then watch some more old ones.
@GustavoSilva-ny8jc
3 ай бұрын
1:40 Some Ned Stark move
@mattx229
9 ай бұрын
Beautifuly written. Enjoy these very much.
@matthewbarry376
9 ай бұрын
Please do a long form reading of Francis DeCuellars time in Ireland
@jammyscouser2583
9 ай бұрын
My Great Grandmas Brothers were at Gallipoli with the NZers, one was shot in the jaw and the other was killed
@darknation6174
9 ай бұрын
So one brother survived the injury with his jaw?
@jammyscouser2583
9 ай бұрын
@@darknation6174 yeah, he spent a year and a half recovering in England, not sure why he didn't come home, and then rejoined the Division in Belgium where a third brother was fighting
@ApollonDriver
12 күн бұрын
Ataturk's letter to anzac mothers says, "“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 in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away 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.” A disaster that forged a friendly connection between three nations.
@Maperator
9 ай бұрын
great content as usual, keep it up
@LaPaginadiLeonardo
4 ай бұрын
"Vare, redde mihi legiones meas!"
@elblack25
4 ай бұрын
10:40 always gets me, so much sadness
@CuriosityPilled
3 ай бұрын
This guy made me discover my own fascination with animated storytelling - so I took up the challenge of producing my own channel, and after 90h of strenuous work, the first unhinged, bizzare animated installment is up online! If you're dying to quench your thirst for odd, intriguing topics told in 2D, perhaps stop by and share a laugh with me? :)
@chilibeer3912
4 ай бұрын
“The damnable hands of the damned” goes hard.
@Sheepdog1314
9 ай бұрын
“... what’s that noise, Varus?”
@DanWinterborn
7 ай бұрын
That time when the trees spoke german. 😂
@fatherofhistory
9 ай бұрын
Very interesting video about 5 of the worst military disasters in history. I've always been fascinated by these events and it's great to hear first-hand accounts of what happened. Thanks for sharing!
@vadimpm1290
8 ай бұрын
Very strange description of Varus personality. He's known by providing some cruel acts of supression and exproptiations against Germanic tribes.
@EddieRicks-i8v
6 ай бұрын
These are good stories to show a great power can lose and hopefully people can learn from them. 😊
@sloppypapi8886
9 ай бұрын
I had absolutely ZERO doubt that the Battle of Hattin would be on this list 😂 fuck Gerard of Ridefort, all my homies hate Gerard of Ridefort.
@sloppypapi8886
9 ай бұрын
Shoutout to Marcus Crassus, he's an honorable mention at least.
@mdshohid5358
24 күн бұрын
Trying to figure out how ancient civilizations built wonders without GPS, Google, or a single group chat.
@JamesJohnson-l6y
24 күн бұрын
The Russian 🇷🇺 Winter ❄️ which stopped Napoleon's invasion of Russia 🇷🇺 (1812). Also stopped Hitler's invasion in 1941-43.
@Commonsense_91
9 ай бұрын
I been waiting for a new one to drop, this channel is awesome!!!!!!
@MrKaiyooo
4 ай бұрын
Honorable mentions include the battle of Nicosia. Hopefully someone knows some more.
@thomaswalsh4552
25 күн бұрын
The battle of the teutoburg forest was fought during the reign of Augustus (also called Caesar) rather than under the ascendancy of Julius Caesar.
9 ай бұрын
Even when the Ottoman Empire was at its weakest, it managed to protect Gallipoli. May the souls of all our soldiers who were martyred for the homeland rest in peace.🇹🇷
@wrongtracksuit
9 ай бұрын
That Turks had nothing to do with it; it was the utter incompetence of the British that saved Gallipoli….but the Turks still lost the war and should have been pushed out of Constantinople (which is a Christian city and will be freed in the near future).
9 ай бұрын
@@wrongtracksuit You are either hallucinating or you are just ignorant. Those who defeated the British at Gallipoli were heroic Ottoman soldiers. Ignoring our success is nothing but stupidity. The Ottoman Empire may have lost the war, but it rose from its ashes as the Republic of Türkiye. We gained our independence with our own hands, no one gave it to us. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his comrades saved our country from the invaders and sent them back to where they came from. Also, Constantinepolis has not been a Christian city for 570 years, it is a Muslim city, and above all, it is a Turkish city. and its name is Istanbul.
@kadudeduder5103
9 ай бұрын
@@wrongtracksuit great to hear that our enemies have not learned of their mistakes, better for us lmao
@MSS-nt9ko
8 ай бұрын
@@wrongtracksuitall kinds of wrong & immoral things are happening in Istanbul i heard. In a way its still a Christian city. Good, moral, God fearing elements of a city are what make it a Muslim city
@emrealn3786
7 ай бұрын
@@wrongtracksuit🇹🇷>☦️🏳️🌈
@aspenrebel
8 ай бұрын
What about Queen Boudica's defeat by Roman Suetonious, "somewhere", around 60 A.D.?
@jvharbin8337
9 ай бұрын
Easily my favorite channel on KZitem.
@jarrodb4867
9 ай бұрын
My favorite is Fall of civilizations. This is my second favorite.
@danilostanco1709
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful video and also I love your channel! I have to correct only in a part of the video, when "Caesar" has been nominated it referred to "Caesar Augustus", not Iulius Caesar, in a lot of Latin writings they used to call "Caesar" all the Princeps and Impereor that came after Iulius, in fact I remember from school that also Trajan sometimes would be called Caesar
@TaranAlvein
3 ай бұрын
10:15 - The soldiers are all horrified, but the horses think this is hilarious.
@martijnvanderzee5215
9 ай бұрын
At 3:28 the narrator mentions Caesar, but he doesn't mean the Gaius Julius Caesar that you show, he means Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. Octavianus was of course Posthumously adopted after the death of the original Caesar and also took over his name. While we still call him Octavianus or later Augustus, his contemporaries called him Caesar, just like his uncle. So you actually show the wrong Caesar. Edit: forgot to add last sentence of comment.
@d0nKsTaH
4 ай бұрын
Left out some appalling mistakes in the Prussian-French War of 1870-1871. French attacked ONE tiny little town... pulled back and decided to play a defensive war. They kept getting surrounded in spite of having better rifles. They lost control of all three major cities that had been surrounded and sieged; Metz and Paris were the last two taken. Lots of stupid logistic problems like... forgetting to stockpile enough food in the cities. There is a full 6 hour documentary about it here on youtube. I never knew about this war or how violent it got. 6 months later France (with a different Government (after their King, Napolean III was captured in the first siege just up the road from Metz). Also, France had access to a wheeled Machine gun. First of its kind in a European war. They used it ONCE! Then never touched it again
@rhxdi9257
8 ай бұрын
I really think Harold Godwinson in 1066 deserves a mention. So many mistakes. He could’ve waited 2 days for 30,000 reinforcements but didn’t, he fought on foot which prevented him from giving clear orders, he used an extremely old and not very effective defence system (Anglo Saxon shield wall) and so many more. No wonder the Normans won
@Maxwellmcawesome
Ай бұрын
damn thats the coolest youtube sponsor I've ever seen
@sanjaypindoria4561
8 ай бұрын
Hi, I am an Indian that was born and brought up in Kenya, East Africa, I have been such a fan of your videos. They quench my curiosity about how people thought and what they deemed of most important in their time and place. Can I do Swahili subtitles for your videos?
@enderslayer99og
24 күн бұрын
War never changes.
@gangsterHOTLINE
7 ай бұрын
For some reason I can't quite understand historical accounts of events and battles that took place so long ago when things like "they sent word" or "messengers left/arrived" with simple messages like "continue moving" or "we cannot continue moving". The time it must take for messages and responses to form complete communications has to be sometimes weeks or months. I just can't grasp how armies could be stuck without water, and in these communication loops be able to respond with "we won't go on because we are thirsty".
@anarchistangler
7 ай бұрын
There are some hectic adventures described here. Though wont do do so, I don't think we could underestimate the gravity of the situations in which the survivors found themselves.
@gavinvick3592
5 ай бұрын
What I want to know is what kind of sailor doesn’t know how to swim. Or anyone that decides “yeah, I wanna go on a ship that will sail on the seas for months but idk how to swim, oh well”
@mqdboy9278
9 ай бұрын
The "battle" of the Spanish Armada wasn't that disastrous as the counter attack by England with their own Armada.
@bruhbruh-us6gl
9 ай бұрын
Yeah. It wasn’t even really a military disaster, the Spanish fleet turned back because the Spanish were aiming to catch the English off-guard. Unfortunately this ended up being a mistake, since they ran into a typhoon.
@Locksley108
9 ай бұрын
Cope The english landed on the iberian penninsula The spanish didn't even land on english soil
@gvd72
9 ай бұрын
@@bruhbruh-us6glIt being a mistake and then running into a typhoon is what makes it a disaster.
@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
9 ай бұрын
@@Locksley108 lol nobody is coping but you..... A simple fact that the English armada had way more casualties.............
@bruhbruh-us6gl
9 ай бұрын
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo The English like pretending they were anything but a second-rate power until the chaos and instability of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars crippled all their competitors
@MrFreddyFartface
9 ай бұрын
So you're telling me there was French guy essentially using a Russian horse as a toboggan in the early nineteenth century - now I have heard everything 😂
@henrycroft-wz8wo
3 ай бұрын
In this case Ceasar, does not refer do G J Ceasar, but to the honorific title of Augustus
@ApollonDriver
12 күн бұрын
Not to get confused by the witness account about Gallipoli, there was still a lot of soldiers who made it to land and fought the Turks. Both sides suffered huge casualties
@unleashangercat7346
3 ай бұрын
"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." Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
@Samreyna1
8 ай бұрын
Such good content it’s insane
@Moobeus
2 ай бұрын
I guess maybe there’s not accounts of it but certainly I would have expected Cannae on here and surely there are first hand accounts of market garden.
@DanielMatthews-ql3wf
8 ай бұрын
The greatest losses of one side are always the greatest victories of the other.
@imakalien
6 ай бұрын
listening to this as i boot up Helldivers 2 at 4am, can relate
@FrJohnBrownSJ
9 ай бұрын
How about the Battle of New Orleans in early 1815? Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to help us!
@colinmccarthy7921
5 ай бұрын
It’s not what you do,it’s how you do it.That’s how Wars are won.
@brushrunner
7 ай бұрын
need this in spotify
@OvelNick
9 ай бұрын
....and that....ia how the cookie crumbles.
@kevinbergin9971
Ай бұрын
Didn't Napoleon get to a river they thought would be frozen over and it wasn't? I recall they had to wait an additional week to continue their retreat.
@patrick-hill-3000
3 ай бұрын
Caesar was not Julius, but Octavian
@design834
2 ай бұрын
No Cannae? I'm insulted!
@mitchellwarren5998
5 ай бұрын
Nice shout out to Minard's graphic.
@juanjuri6127
9 ай бұрын
i would simply not make it to the wikipedia page of worst military blunders in history
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