Muskets were able to cause horrendous wounds for 2 reasons. The calibre of a musket was twice than today's battle rifle and their round shape soft lead balls were less aerodynamic than the pointy shaped modern era bullets.The black powder that they used was less powerful than modern gunpowder and it produced low velocity projectiles. The combination of a large, heavy, almost flat object trying to penetrate a human body at low velocity caused huge amount of energy to be transferred upon impact. Even if the shot was not fatal, the ball could easily break bones,destroy tissues and create massive wound cavity. Being shot by a musket back then is almost as being shot by a 12 gauge slug today.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
That all makes sense. Thanks for sharing 👍
@johncartwright8154
Жыл бұрын
Add to that, the debris, dirt and probably filthy fragments of clothing that would be drawn into the wound resulting in infection, sepsis and the like!
@obi-wankenobi1750
9 ай бұрын
There’s an incredibly informative video on the effectiveness of muskets on the human body by a KZitem channel called “garand thumb”. They use ballistic dummies to test the damage of rifles and pistols and it is shocking how violent those weapons are.
@tim7052
7 ай бұрын
"Pointy shaped bullets" are correctly termed "Spitzer" - military ammunition being "FMJ" (Full Metal Jacketed). The idea here being to wound, not kill, enemy soldiers, as it takes more resources and people away from the front line to effect the recovery of a wounded soldier, than the smaller amount of resources to bury one. Sporting, target and law-enforcement ammunition is a larger, more complex issue, with the many types of projectiles being classed as Spire Point, Hollow Point, "Ballistic Tip", wad-cutter, semi-wad cutter, Round Nose Soft Point, Protected Point Soft Nose, FMJ, Monolithic, Hydrostatic, etc etc. Then, depending on the purpose, these can also be variated by being "Boat-tail, or Flat Base, or "gas checked". All projectiles today are designed for very specific purposes. 👍
@johanndork5364
5 ай бұрын
In the memoires of Napoleons Aide de Campe in the Russian campaign, a good read, he tells of the terrible damage the larger musket balls of Russian weapons were causing the French. A very brutal time to be a soldier.
@mikesheldon1957
Жыл бұрын
My 4 x Great Uncle Thomas Sheldon was in the Royal Horse Artillery as a Gunner/Driver and despite having four horses shot from under him during the battle he survived the battle without any injuries. He was discharged for medical reasons later and with a conduct of 'Exemplary' he was a Chelsea Pensioner, he lived to 80 years old and is buried in St Marys Church, Arnold, Nottingham
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
What a story! As a horse gunner myself I love this. What a legacy
@dickJohnsonpeter
Жыл бұрын
Uncle Buckerton was a horse in the plenetens. We do have the bucklery and boss though dented.
@RenoBeck-t6p
11 ай бұрын
My 50xgrandfather, served in the Mongol army under command of Subedei Bagatur, and took part in Mongol invasion of Europe
@jonnyreb789
10 ай бұрын
Amazing to see how soldiers survive these wounds in those times
@swaldron5558
10 ай бұрын
Amazing story!
@yeildo1492
Жыл бұрын
Wounds from cavalry were often inflicted from behind. Hard for infantry to outrun a horse. Excellent video about the human cost of war.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it. This is a new channel so I’m still learning
@yeildo1492
Жыл бұрын
@@thehistoryexplorer Well you are off to a great start!
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
@@yeildo1492 thank you very much. Really appreciate it
@matthewschreck6418
Жыл бұрын
The breastplate with the cannonball hole is that of a Carabiner, not a Cuirassier. The Carabiner breastplates were brass or copper plated, while the Cuirassier's was polished bright (silver). Both the Carabiners and Cuirassiers were ranked as Heavy Cavalry
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
You’re absolutely correct. My mistake
@matthewschreck6418
Жыл бұрын
@@thehistoryexplorer Most photos I have seen of it were in black and white. I always thought it was a Cuirassier- until I saw the color of it in your video!
@uwemetzinger9947
9 ай бұрын
@@thehistoryexplorer😊😊
@richardglady3009
10 ай бұрын
Thank you. Seeing the aftermath of combat is very rare. It really helps us understand what these people went through.
@DavidfromMichigan
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing and fascinating! I could never know enough about our history! Thank you big guy!
@paoloviti6156
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video depicting the terrible losses and wounds inflicted due to the massive gatherings of troops fighting each other. Many wounded would die of infection with bullet stuck in thier bones suffering for the rest of thier life. Sad reality of war... Good job 👏 👍
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much I really appreciate the feedback
@jackieeastom8758
Жыл бұрын
War is still pure hell on Earth! Man’s inhumanity to man knows no bounds!
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Very true
@Fat12219
3 ай бұрын
Knows no bounds 😮
@Phalanx11
9 ай бұрын
40 years ago a buddy showed me a book on 88mm wounds on WW2 bomber crews.
@obi-wankenobi1750
9 ай бұрын
Horrific stuff
@PamelaTitterington
8 ай бұрын
I admit to lack of knowledge on this topic,but I have read novels about history,and some authors do give as accurate account as they can,and I did enjoy your presentation on Waterloo,thankyou
@orjalk
10 ай бұрын
I never knew how gnarly the battle of waterloo was
@thehistoryexplorer
10 ай бұрын
100% buddy
@JB-tr6nu
8 ай бұрын
It's saddening to think how humanity has not learned from the atrocities of war & the weapons they had compared with the weapons of today...what one man can do to another man saddens me 😔😢
@Dragonbear13-k2r
Жыл бұрын
Horrific wounds, but it does demonstrate the brutality of the period. Without seeing these examples of injuries it’s hard to imagine what the battlefield must have been like. I’m trying to imagine the psychological impact of battle upon the survivors after seeing the wounds of the men. PTSD must have been rampant and utterly misunderstood and totally untreatable. All I can think of is the savagery of the period. It surely puts a different spin on the “Sharpe” tv series which was so pristine when dealing with the wounded and the dead! Had the battle scenes been more realistic the tv shows would have been totally unwatchable without inducing PTSD in the viewing audience!
@Captan40000
10 ай бұрын
I can't recall the name but an officer (British I think) said that the actual battle itself wasn't the horrifying part, it was the aftermath. Couldn't imagine trying to sleep while hearing the screams of someone's leg being cut off, and people begging for help when there's nothing that you can do.
@Horriblebastad
10 ай бұрын
The wounds of then are no more brutal than the wounds of today
@obi-wankenobi1750
9 ай бұрын
Well, I’d say that the average wound back then was worse than the average wound today. A .69 caliber musket ball does substantially more damage than a .223 caliber bullet. Also, bulletproof body armor is almost always used by most professional armies, and obviously it was nonexistent back then. Also, the extent, haste, and quality of modern battlefield medical care is light years ahead of Napoleonic times.
@GeorgiaBuckeye1
11 ай бұрын
Fascinating! Thank you!
@MySteaming
3 ай бұрын
Up until quiet recently, the MOD kept a Warehouse full of Horse Shoes in heated conditions to prevent rust, the British Army Artillery.
@Richnineteenseventyone
Жыл бұрын
Compared to a modern bullet, the musket ball must have been far more painful. Imagine a dull round ball bearing tearing into your body.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
I can’t even imagine it. War is hell
@andyleighton6969
10 ай бұрын
Either is going to spoil your day, but remember you are about 60% water. A 7.62x51 NATO at 1900 mph will literally make you "splash", causing huge tissue and organ damage, leaving an exit wound you could put your fist in.
@Ken-xm1rf
Жыл бұрын
Brutal. Thanks for the information, very interesting.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! I hope you subscribe and come back for more. This is a new channel and we have lots on the way
@Robo67-24
4 ай бұрын
Terrible suffering. Those soldiers were probably pressed into the army. I read that a lot of skeletons was used for blood and bone. Horrible time to be alive
@craigbrown5359
Жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! This is a new channel and I’m learning still
@WilliamJohnwon1522
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating especially seeing the drawings of the wounded. I'd know idea that the casualties were even worse then the first world war. That's not something you hear often.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you found the video interesting. You can see many more sketches and watercolours online if you’re interested 👍
@colmcc-ij3nn
5 ай бұрын
Very interesting .Poor souls .I remember hearing about barrels full of Waterloo teeth .😮They removed teeth from the dead to be used in dentistry.
@dbrinkm1
7 ай бұрын
Very interesting indeed ! ....another big difference in wound etiology today verses 1815 is that modern rifles shoot high velocity projectiles that cause a 'shock wave' through the wound channel that destroys all tissue about four inches above and below the path of the bullet.[ wound tract ] This dead tissue has to be debrided and the wound damage repaired as soon as possible to reduce sepsis. Fluid replacement for shock and antibiotics for infection are also administered as soon as is practicable. The surgical repair of tissue [ various types ] and organs can be quite complex. of course. depending upon the nature of the said wound. I saw many ugly cases during the Vietnam War. Dana First Army MEDDAC Dept. Surgery and CMS.. Combat Medic and Surgical Op Rm. Tech .Big Pharma Rep and Veteran Rep. [ Ret ] ....God Bless
@AidenCardle
8 ай бұрын
ok imagine you get hit in the head by a sword and then you see were your body ends up and it is sitting in a museum for people to look at. or imagine that you kill someone and then realize that the person you just killed will end up in a museum. like the bones in there were once on a living person just imagine what the last thing they saw was.
@thehistoryexplorer
8 ай бұрын
It’s terrifying really isn’t it
@vincentmcnabb939
9 ай бұрын
The disrespect shown to these men’s mortal remains is anathema.
@thehistoryexplorer
9 ай бұрын
They are in a museum!
@philschuler9674
9 ай бұрын
Very good content, thanks.
@Soul_Flow_
Жыл бұрын
Amazing, wish I could see real battle, injuries in real life. I want time machine
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Good luck!
@williampollock1274
7 ай бұрын
What a shame. War should be abolished but I don't see how. When you come across a bully sometimes there is no other way but to fight!🤷♂
@tim7052
5 ай бұрын
For every 25yrs during the history of mankind there has been a war. Today there are scores of "bush" wars everywhere. Mankind IS war. QED.
@edwardramirez8550
9 ай бұрын
War is Hell
@sputumtube
8 ай бұрын
6.53 - what weapon is the horseman on the right of the picture wielding?
@jeffblacky
4 ай бұрын
My great x4 uncle was a Italian that fought with napoleon as a canon commander Of course he lost at Waterloo Seems my family always on wrong side of war My German relations lost WW1 and WW2 ( all brothers and cousins served in different branches) My uncle Frank lost Vietnam and I lost Iraq War ( yeah we beat the military but lost the occupation ) Hooah
@leofranke814
4 ай бұрын
In 1815 was nog geen sprake van belgie. Pas in 1830.
@AlanHiron
Жыл бұрын
Great really sinks in threw this how deadly this was .
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@saraprva4172
Жыл бұрын
The effect of being hit by cannonball is terrible, maybe comparable with injuries suffered by crew of a tank penetrated by solid anti tank round ? Certainly true in ww2, I dont know about modern weapons but guess they still similar ?
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine either of them are survivable!
@Heneral1989
Жыл бұрын
they fought and died for the glory of one man
@goldeagle8051
10 ай бұрын
4:43 radius
@sandervanwallene672
9 ай бұрын
Waterloo was in the south-netherlands,Belgium didnt even exist then,it was later invented by the British and a German Prince .
@thehistoryexplorer
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for clarifying
@danadaniels2762
4 ай бұрын
Struck by a cannibal - interesting.
@thehistoryexplorer
4 ай бұрын
Huh?! 😂
@mrgreenelander4952
4 ай бұрын
The Greek Surgeons during the Ancient Roman wars, had a 70 percent recovery rating due to the medicines and herbs applied by the Doctors. By now, nearly all the education that was then known had been lost through time
@NigelBuckham
Жыл бұрын
Kind of takes the fun out of the Abba song doesn't it?
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
😂
@MrTwentycent90
Жыл бұрын
Some writings from French soldiers after the battle spoke of "a pink mist" which stagnated above the battlefield... Everyone will have understood that it was blood and human flesh vaporized by the cannons. .
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Horrible
@stevemccann4166
6 ай бұрын
Squaddies still use that expression today in relation to bombs and IEDs
@waterpongo6975
Жыл бұрын
These video s are so good but they are too short. Would love to see them be longer like a documentary. Who agrees?
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Id love to make more videos and I intend to make longer ones when I visit Normandy next month. I also have a series planned in the Philippines to visit Corregidor island and the Bataan death March route
@davidkennedy8929
Жыл бұрын
The only reason I clicked on this video is because it was so short, Too long and it gets tedious.
@phalera
Жыл бұрын
Don’t agree. This length makes them suitable for history classroom use
@tttgaming8762
Жыл бұрын
@@davidkennedy8929yeah short attention spans result in low grade content
@LuvBorderCollies
Жыл бұрын
That's why a PAUSE feature and SAVE feature are built in. Short little clips don't begin to flesh out a big event like Waterloo battle. Might as well say "People did something in 1815. Finis"
@pup9892
Жыл бұрын
Back then, every injury was potentially life threatening. No matter how minor it seemed.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
So true
@davec8730
9 ай бұрын
anything seriously breaking the skin and carrying dirty uniform with it, carried a high chance of blood poisoning.
@auzawandilaz6971
8 ай бұрын
literally the same could be said today. you, like many others over-exaggerate the frailty of our ancestors.
@haroldbell213
8 ай бұрын
The French had really good Doctors. At least in those days
@ashadowintime7305
6 ай бұрын
@@auzawandilaz6971 what are you on about.. today we can fight infections way better
@moobaz8675
Жыл бұрын
Great video highlighting the barbarity of war. What I find amazing is how many soldiers actually survived such horrific injuries.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it. I’d love to make a Napoleonic War series if there is interest?
@StuartRyan-yi5ok
Жыл бұрын
I am shocked the soldier with his bowels protruding made a full recovery. The surgeons of that era were good.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
@@StuartRyan-yi5ok I thought he would never survive that either. Resilient!
@DavidSmith-sf4rl
9 ай бұрын
And the stories of PTSD are horrific also. There are videos on KZitem of soldiers from WW-1 on up to the Iraqi conflict suffering.
@Strength-in-Union
4 ай бұрын
@StuartRyan-yi5ok he definitely showed some guts...
@robnewman6101
Жыл бұрын
By God Sir! I've lost my leg! By God Sir! So you have!
@wildandbarefoot
4 ай бұрын
Paget Lord Uxbridge, of Anglesey. Nice chap, unless you were french. His home is on display in Wales.
@ZZ09M4G18-ti8pg
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating - the Napoleonic wars were so raw and brutal, soldiers little more than cannon fodder. Quite heartbreaking when you think about it.
@dickJohnsonpeter
Жыл бұрын
I did get my bucklery there. I was a horse man and still have the dented stronsen and boss in the speakery.
@davec8730
9 ай бұрын
and the british were STILL doing it in WW1 and when the yanks landed they did the same. then the japs with their banzai charges of ww2, but by vietnam many young american officers just out of west point had an alarming death rate in comparison to their men. i saw a boer war memorial once and counted the officers and nco's killed in comparison to the privates and it was very high indeed, looks like the boers targeted the british offices and nco's to leave the men leaderless..
@MrIzzy11B
8 ай бұрын
All war is raw & brutal
@scottessery100
5 ай бұрын
whats changed...look at Ukraine atm
@CrackhamMcDickens
4 ай бұрын
Just the uniforms.. the armor
@Ro6entX
Жыл бұрын
I don’t remember exactly what battle it was but heard story of Calvary charge, one man had his head shot off from cannon round but kept upright and charging towards the line (horse probably didn’t realize what happened), supposedly his sword arm was swinging too. I couldn’t imagine what the infantry thought when they saw a headless man still attacking.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Jeez that sounds terrifying!
@Ro6entX
Жыл бұрын
@@thehistoryexplorerDefinitely. Wish I could remember what battle it was.
@paulwoodward6555
Жыл бұрын
I have a similar account from Marines on Pelelui in WW2 of facing a banzai charge offloading their weapons about sixty rounds and a report of half the soldiers head gone carrying on his charge for another 25 yards before falling down in front of their foxhole.
@trueblue3719
Жыл бұрын
Horrendous
@paulwoodward6555
Жыл бұрын
@@trueblue3719 Truly.
@alessiodecarolis
Жыл бұрын
The sad thing was that a LOT of wounded didn't survived, dying either from infection or also schock. I read, some times ago, a report from a RN surgeon after Trafalgar, on Gibraltar, where the wounded from either fleets had been carried, and from his letters you can see how frustrated he was from the slow, agonizing deaths of men, either french/spanish or british, and he couldn't do pratically nothing to save them, f.e. a young marines' LT took more than a week to die, and in those times there weren't any anestethics or pain killers, except for some opium.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Exactly, not many survived their wounds at all
@nicolasrose3064
Жыл бұрын
The Surgeon "couldn't do practically nothing to save them..". !? "Couldn't practically do nothing"... so...he did something impractical then...? "Couldn't do practically nothing" suggests that on a practical level he couldn't do nothing to help which would lead you to think that he did do something, to help. To say "The Surgeon COULD do practically nothing to help" would convey what you had probably intended to say, right...? Not trying to be patronising or otherwise disrespectful, you obviously felt genuinely affected by the plight of the wounded and moreover, the solemn anguish of the Surgeon, so I felt it would do your comment some justice if the grammatical context was given the proper meaning it deserves.
@alessiodecarolis
Жыл бұрын
@@nicolasrose3064 right, my fault
@steveeyre6975
Жыл бұрын
@@nicolasrose3064you got nothing better to do than pick up on someone's grammar (get a life)
@nicolasrose3064
Жыл бұрын
@@steveeyre6975 Pffft, listen to yourself, the comment I made was actually acknowledged by the person I politely directed my observation at, what I suggested actually gives more creedence and value to his comment because it unravels it, to reveal what he actually intended his comment to mean. Try reading comments with some semblance of cognitive function, but you would need to swap out that bitter, adversarial, nasty lens which you view the World through, for something that shows reality as it is. Lose some of that indignant blustering on behalf of others, have you considered that it's actually patronising to that person when you appoint yourself their "spokesperson", it's like presuming they can't speak for themselves. I'll give you a heads up, Google "The Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan, it oughta help you gain some insight into exactly how inconsequential and ineffective your self appointed "spokesperson" position truly is. Look at the original comment, seriously, are going to sit there and tell me that the way it was written, actually conveys the intended meaning.... because if you think it does, you are at a point in your life where you might have to take some kind of intellectual inventory, because grammatical continuity in a YT comments thread is by far the least of your problems.
@brycesolomon9933
Жыл бұрын
It’s crazy the progression of war. Going from hacking one another, to hacking one another with intermittent gunfire, to then automatic weapons decimating people to finally war being like a video game and just point and click. I spent 10 years in the Army, Afghanistan/Iraq, as an infantryman and I couldn’t imagine just marching en masse with today’s technology. (These guys had literal balls of steel)
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Well said mate
@DavidSmith-sf4rl
9 ай бұрын
I agree with you. And the PTSD afterwards would be horrific. Respect to all. Good men on all sides.
@finddeniro
9 ай бұрын
Woe...Switch Interests.. Stay Amazed.. Quite a. View..
@d3vilman69
5 ай бұрын
Now when we look back at wars fought hundreds of years ago we thought they were crazy to not take cover. But back then that was how field wars were fought and that was considered normal. Few hundred years from now, people will look at how we fought wars currently and probably think of them as stupid and inefficient. Wonder what kind of megadeath technology humans would have created by then, if we still haven't destroyed our own species.
@PattyAgree
9 ай бұрын
I am amazed at the cases where soldiers actually survived gut wounds and amputations, etc. without getting sepsis!
@thehistoryexplorer
9 ай бұрын
Yes me too!
@TheElfishGene
4 ай бұрын
Let's not forget the animals..."But perhaps the horses called forth even greater pity from those that witnessed their terrible suffering. The horses were often mutilated by cannonballs, tearing out their intestines, which they dragged around behind them until their strength failed them. Many more had legs torn away causing them to patiently sit or lay upon the ground, whilst chewing away at the grass within reach; their mournful eyes silently imploring someone to finish them off. The most awful of all according to eye witnesses, were those horses that had the lower portion of their heads ripped away, few could look at these horrors impassively."
@BigJohnson-g3j
4 ай бұрын
That is terrible. The animal suffering caused in war is unconscionable. I feel so bad for all the animal that suffer the depredations of humanity to this day.
@andrewchirgwin4136
5 ай бұрын
The Napoleonic war may have created many casualties over 23 years but WW1 was only 4 years and the first day of the Somme accounted for 60 thousand British casualties. All wars are brutal and all are awful.
@gromit3315
Жыл бұрын
It is known that during the night following the battle the wounded soldiers strangled each other. When one was seriously wounded, lost a limp or was pierced with a lance or sabre, the chance of survival was very small. So instead of facing a slow and very painful dead those who still had some strenght left were killing even their own men. It is also recorded that dead and wounded soldiers were thrown in a water well at one of the farms were the battle was extremely ferocious to prevent the enemy troops and horses from refreshing themselves. Pure horror.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
That’s terrible! I never heard that before. I’ll have to have a read about that. Thanks for sharing
@StevenBrown-w5b
Жыл бұрын
@@thehistoryexplorernah , l doubt that happened. The field was left in the allies control , why would they do that to themselves? And the French had better things to think about, like get the hell out of there .
@michaellicavoli3921
9 ай бұрын
Long ago, I read account of severally wounded troops would be mercifully killed by their comrades.
@BigJohnson-g3j
4 ай бұрын
@@StevenBrown-w5b This would be before the battle was over, genius. It was a 4 day affair.
@StevenBrown-w5b
4 ай бұрын
@@BigJohnson-g3j Waterloo was done and dusted in a day . Genius . Are you talking about the campaign including Ligny and Quatre Bras ?
@Dee4Dy
9 ай бұрын
my man, 2.5% of british population is kind of a joke compared to that 12% of spanish population lost during Peninsula War (not to mention those who died between 1793 and 1808)
@King_of_Railways
Жыл бұрын
All people died! I don't know anyone, who's alive today...
@DonnyHooterHoot
4 ай бұрын
War and fighting are a terrible waste of lives, time, money, resources and just stupid in general. However, no-one will ever stop. Oh well, suffer on humanity!
@thehistoryexplorer
4 ай бұрын
Well said
@TheFunkhouser
Жыл бұрын
Yes but the Napoleonic wars were 23 years long when the WW1 was only about 4 years! Though the First World war did blend into WW2 in truth, had it gone on 23 years straight it would've been catastrophic!! WW1 per time frame was way more deadlier!
@bobbythompson3544
Жыл бұрын
I saw a huge painting in the gallery at Dundee of a ward in a hospital, I couldn’t draw myself away! It captured the horror and sadness of war!
@VisualScout
7 ай бұрын
Very interesting Video. But in 1815 Belgium didn't exist. It was founded in 1830 after the independence from the Netherlands. So the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 took place at that time on the Territory of the Netherlands. This is some times forgotten.😉
@kohinarec6580
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to know whether the "wounded by musket" includes canister shot.
@garden2356
4 ай бұрын
💜 Les dernières pensées d'un soldat mourant. À la mémoire de nos proches. "Mon très cher bien-aimé, aujourd'hui, ni tous nos demains... Je ne rentrerai pas à la maison, mais mon amour rencontrera ton visage quand le soleil brillera, quand les gouttes de pluie tomberont à la rencontre de tes larmes et que la brise soufflera doucement sur ton dos. ... mon amour sera toujours avec le tien...'
@thehistoryexplorer
4 ай бұрын
Well said
@baz-wc4fi
Жыл бұрын
Talking about Bones You are aware that all the bodies in the Mass Graves at Waterloo were Dug up again 20-30 yrs later and the bones were ground down to make Fertilizer or Teeth removed for making "Falsers" they even named them "Waterloo Teeth" . Most of the Fetilizer was Exported to England to be spread on our Farmland!! ( Ironic) I think the little Factory for doing this was Built near Hugomount farm (A wooden Structure)
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Yes I had heard that but I’m not sure how true that is. Doesn’t seem to make sense to transport it back to the UK. I had heard it was used locally as fertiliser though. Sad either way isn’t it?
@clarivsmedia8697
Жыл бұрын
Horrible.
@kaylamarie8309
Жыл бұрын
Human beings really do some horribly inhumane things to each other. Great video.
@_--Reaper--_
5 ай бұрын
well they *_were_* trying to kill each other you know...
@patrickmacdara4246
Жыл бұрын
Tell me are you not allowed to say the words 'man' or 'men' on this site? Who does the fighting and dying in these battles?
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Sorry I don’t know what you mean
@clive3490
Жыл бұрын
François Fauveau was a Carabinier, not a Cuirassier. The brass cuirass is a dead give away
@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn
Жыл бұрын
Artemovsk
@MrVenice62
Жыл бұрын
An excellent video graphically describing the brutality of war even before it became fully industrialised. I believe the many horrific photographs taken of bodies on WW1 battlefields were deliberately suppressed and destroyed. I recall seeing one of a kneeling soldier whose body had been cleaved down the centreline by a large piece of shrapnel. Only one half of his body remained.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
My god that sounds terrible. I think you’re right, you hardly ever see deceased pictures from WW1 unless skeletal
@schurlbirkenbach1995
11 ай бұрын
Cameras in those days were difficult to handle and in the first trench you did not think to make pictures. But there are a lot of photos from skeletonized corpses, shot some times after the battles.
@BigJohnson-g3j
4 ай бұрын
I have seen some very unfortunate pictures like that. I saw picture of someone who had been drawn and quartered....that was pretty horrific. The look of incredible pain was permanently frozen on the face.
@andyleighton6969
10 ай бұрын
In the English Civil War, as with all wars of the time, more died - military and civilian - from disease and starvation than wounds, some 3.7% of the English population died, and in the more marginal land of Scotland and Ireland already ravaged by the Bishop's and Confederate Wars 6% and a staggering 41% of the population died. Lost among the Cavaliers and Roundheads myths.
@thehistoryexplorer
10 ай бұрын
Very true. In this video I’ve focussed on battle wounds but the numbers for disease and wounds must have been terrible
@kohinarec6580
Жыл бұрын
Very few skeletons have been found from Waterloo. Mostly because the soldiers' remnants were dug up from mass graves during the following decades and ground for field fertilizer.
@nortiusmaximus1789
Жыл бұрын
It's all frightening stuff. Poor Francois! That chest armor with the cannonball hole through and through - Sweet Lord! All the gruesomely shattered battle bones! Death came in a flash if merciful, or lingered to lick at the wounds and tease the empty sockets with a pestilential black tongue.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Yea I suppose we should be grateful the incident was instantaneous. Thanks for the comment!
@carmelopolizzi8079
Жыл бұрын
Things have not changed much men still slaughter each other in many different ways with the same end result
@iseeyou1312
Жыл бұрын
6:15 Cannon casualties were so low as the French cannon fire was extremely ineffective, due to the soft ground after heavy rain and positioning of the British army on a reverse slope.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant point 👍
@iseeyou1312
10 ай бұрын
@@thehistoryexplorer Actually I rewatched the video, I think you're correct but also misused the term casualties in the video. Casualties technically refers to killed, wounded or captured. But if you focus on just the wounded, it seems as though around 15-20% of survivable wounds of the time period were caused by cannon fire during battles. However, if you compare a battle like Waterloo, where French artillery was not effective, the fatality:casualty ratio for the British was ~1:7, whereas for a battle such as Eylau, where the French artillery was very effective, the fatality:casualty ratio for the Russians was 9:7. In essence, artillery seems to be doing the majority of the killing, but accounts for a much smaller portion of the wounding.
@edwardcarson81
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video! Sad to say I've only studied the Napoleonic wars in passing and that was mainly to get insight into my main interest of America's civil war. Of the many pictures and stories that came from it are unbelievable, the dead of Antietam, the Confederate infantryman with his abdomen torn open at Gettysburg, the pile of bones stacked on a stretcher at Cold harbor, where seven thousand Union soldiers were killed in less than seven minutes and since a large number knew they were going to die, wrote their names on scraps of paper. Robert E. Lee said "it is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow fond of it." And William T. Sherman said "war is hell."
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment. I think the Napoleonic War is an area I will look into more aswell
@davec8730
9 ай бұрын
after the utter carnage at waterloo the civil war armies still stood in line some yards apart and fired off into each others ranks. then having been schooled on waterloo at west point, and seen for himself the union slaughter at fredricksburg, lee attacks the union centre at gettysburg. care to enlighten me on why a general so highly rated does that?
@IllustriousCrocoduck
9 ай бұрын
@@davec8730I've wondered this, too. And seen plenty of more educated hypotheses than I can ever come up with. I wonder if our modern perspective, with the totality of info on the battle, shows us things that Lee did not account for. One would think that charge (and I've been to the fields and to cemetery ridge) was so obviously a horrible idea, it really is boggling for him to take that gamble against superior numbers, in enemy territory. Had it been successful, he had to have expected horrendous casualties. I can't help but feel that he would have had to abandon that campaign and return to the south, regardless.
@obi-wankenobi1750
9 ай бұрын
If I’m not mistaken, he was having a mental health episode at that time. He was also out of his element as well. This was an offensive action in Northern Territory when most of his victories were defensive actions in Virginia.
@BigJohnson-g3j
4 ай бұрын
Sherman was a real bastard.
@cme1713
5 ай бұрын
new film, Jean-Jacques Dessalines: The Man Who 2x Defeated Napoleon Bonaparte.
@christopherfritz3840
Жыл бұрын
How about the gruesome practice common at the time of.. 'dentists'.. RUSHING to the battlefields to extract the teeth of the dead in order to fashion dentures. As a matter of fact FORTUNES could be had through this macabre business ☠️
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Yes I did read about that and saw ‘sweet william’ from Sharp who also used to forage for teeth!
@dannycrockett9878
6 ай бұрын
Can't get enough. I was so disappointed in the new movie. I wonder how many commentors agree??????
@robnewman6101
Жыл бұрын
Now Maitland, Now’s your time! Fire!
@danielepedoussaut8860
9 ай бұрын
Not more horrible battle than the American Civil war, which historian call the 1st modern (=industrial) battle.
@chrisabraham8793
3 ай бұрын
I bet those slow moving musket ball smarted if hit by one, you knew you were hit than a high velocity hit of today.
@roulejj1342
5 ай бұрын
It took 2 weeks to clean up the battlefield. Holy crap imagine the smell! 🤮
@paulhandley3246
Ай бұрын
Favreau was a Carabinier not a Cuirassier. A very interesting video nonetheless - thank you.
@guillaumeroncin5870
Жыл бұрын
Antoine Favreau was not a Cuirassier but a Carabinier.
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
My mistake 👍
@dannyfubar3099
Жыл бұрын
I was checking to see if someone caught that before I posted, good catch.
@lindanorris2455
10 ай бұрын
historical battle wounds are completely different from today's war wounds.
@thehistoryexplorer
10 ай бұрын
Some things never change though
@gazza2933
Жыл бұрын
We usually think about the living and the dead during and after battles. The wounded, well they'll be okay. A fascinating and horrific video, very well narrated. Thank you. 👍
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the feedback. New channel and I’m still learning how to make videos
@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631
4 ай бұрын
Did these soldiers used drugs? In WW1 soldiers used cocaïne, otherwise they couldn't storm the trenches. German soldiers in WW2 also used, I think, pervetine. Vietnam soldier also used drugs, that's why later the Hippies (Vietnam soldiers) used drugs.
@thehistoryexplorer
4 ай бұрын
I’m really not sure on that but it’s an interesting subject
@robnewman6101
Жыл бұрын
Regin of His Majesty King George the 3rd in 1815. 🏰👑⚔️🛡️🇬🇧🛡️⚔️👑🏰
@davidpenney2334
5 ай бұрын
Septicemia...blood poisoning
@footrot17
3 ай бұрын
Emia meaning present in blood. Lol chubby emu
@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
Жыл бұрын
And I thought the injuries inflicted at the Battle of Towton were brutal....🤕
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Towton was savage. I’m going to do a deep dive into what happened to the bodies after the battle after the battle of Waterloo when I visit the site next autumn
@virginiasoskin9082
Ай бұрын
Geez, this was interesting -- those bullets lodged in bones were amazing. They must have been super painful. It doesn't seem that much changed between the Napoleonic War and the American Civil War in terms of musket shot, cannonballs, and so forth though I suppose those who are interested in this kind of thing know the exact differences. I am always interested in the medical care soldiers received. I was looking up Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond the other night, and they had a very low death rate because I think by that time the nursing was more aware of the causes of infection and to keep wounds clean was more than half the battle. I am embarassed to say I don't even know where Waterloo IS or WAS, so now I am going to google it. I do know about Napoleon's flight from Russia and how his army suffered terribly from the cold and disease. Never invade Russia if winter is on the way.
@thehistoryexplorer
Ай бұрын
Waterloo! You must have a search and check it out. I recommend Sharpe’s Waterloo, although not for the historical accuracy 😂
@chuckbouscaren3898
23 күн бұрын
These drawings and paintings are exceptional! What a gruesome subject matter though. I'm a new and instant subscriber and your video is very well presented.
@thehistoryexplorer
21 күн бұрын
Wow thank you!
@thebat1672
Жыл бұрын
What movie is the footage from near the end? I'm assuming the battle of Waterloo?
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
Correct!
@dogpaw775
8 ай бұрын
Sgt J.I. Nunnerly of the 17th Lancers would have been a cousin of a great aunt was one of The Six Hundred In The Charge of the Light Brigade, who survived. If you're a Nunnerly from around the Ormskirk area you may be related. You may also may be distantly related to me , which you may not necessarily want to shout about.
@sharonrigs7999
Жыл бұрын
2:40 - 2:50 The fact that both of these soldiers survived their horrendous wounds goes to show that some physicians and surgeons of the era were much more skilled than modern folk give them credit for
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
I completely agree
@Maguire-om9zd
6 ай бұрын
We need to understand war and how the money power funded both sides of the conflict. It is now as it was then.
@grahambamford9073
Жыл бұрын
Those musket balls flattening out on impact with people wow, and then others lodged in bone perfectly round, just shows the lead hardness varation and also the musket balls velocity at time of striking, the faster its velocity the more kenitic energy it possesses it distroys the target but also its self or not if it isnt going particularly fast. Nowadays muskets seem antique, but this just shows you how effective they really were. Interesting but horrific at the same time.
@davehoward22
10 ай бұрын
The wounds at Towton and visby are just as bad
@thehistoryexplorer
10 ай бұрын
I’m sure they are buddy. Unfortunately I only had access to skeletons from Waterloo
@frankmills3959
Жыл бұрын
I was very pleased to see some French casualties included in your publication. My great X 6 uncle was Chief of Staff to Napoleon at Waterloo. My grandfather X 6 an artillery officer
@thehistoryexplorer
Жыл бұрын
No way! As an artillery officer myself I love this!
@frankmills3959
Жыл бұрын
@@thehistoryexplorer If you search Claude Louis Petiet you will see a Wikipedia and other links. Claude, the father is shown with both sons around 1805-6. My grandfather X 6 was Pierre-Francois but known in the family as Alexandre. His brother (my 6 x uncle) is cited in Napoleon: the final verdict by Haythorntheaite et al. Example 'His stoutness, his dull white face, his heavy walk made him seem very different from the General Bonaparte I had seen seen at the beginning of my career of 1800 in Italy'
@teecee1567
Жыл бұрын
@@frankmills3959Absolutely fascinating!
@davec8730
9 ай бұрын
viva la France. a ww2 british junior officer described the men who held the line at dunkirk to allow the others to evacuate as 'fighting like the Spartans at Thermopile'
@DavidSmith-sf4rl
9 ай бұрын
I have read accounts of knights with severe PTSD being led to the battlefield where all they could do was fight and exchange weapon thrusts. Afterwards during peacetime of they survived some would having severe reactions to the clanging of a cows bell or chain.
@JeanGoalin
8 ай бұрын
There are virtually no bones at Waterloo, the corpses of French soldiers, hastily buried in mass graves at Waterloo, were deterred after the war, and were turned into fertilizer for the soil by an English society.
@thehistoryexplorer
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@donnadees1971
10 ай бұрын
It isn’t in any school book. At least we get info here.
@silviarosati-t9c
Ай бұрын
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sono tanti reggimenti
@totoarriba
Жыл бұрын
And from 1834 on they had plundered the Waterloo battlefield to use human bones for the Belgian sugar fabrics.
@johnrandall125
Жыл бұрын
Waterloo teeth were a thing in Britain. People had false dentures made up using teeth extracted from corpses after the battle.
@itsjustmeBen
Жыл бұрын
@@johnrandall125that's just crazy, but the odd bit of history that makes it so interesting! 👍
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