Texan Reacts to Sabaton History-Rorke's Drift
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Reaction to Sabaton History's Rorke's Drift, over the battle that took place between British forces and Zulu forces in the Anglo-Zulu War in which the British, heavily outnumbered but with overall better firepower, hold off Zulu warriors to hold onto Rorke's Drift.
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11 Victoria Crosses Britain's highest military honour awarded to the defenders of Rorkes Drift.
Before this 1,500 British troops were destroyed by by a Zulu force of 20,000 warriors.
If you watch The Final Battle at Rorkes Drift from the film Zulu it will certainly keep you on the edge of your seat, also the war chant by the Zulus & the British response with Men of Harlech. The volley firing certainly was impressive.
Lord Chelmsford's arrogance by splitting the main battle columns decided the fate of the 1,500 troops defending against 20,000 Zulu warriors, so one of Britain's worst defeats ever, but bizarrely hours later one of the greatest victories ever was 150 troops managed to see off 5,000 Zulus. Lord Chelmsford refused to take the blame, however he was never again to lead a field army.
I love how you learn a lot of info, and see the things in another point of view. I never thought that one of the reason for the british join the WWI is to avoid Germany take a big part of Africa. I always thought the reason its to avoid the Germans have the ports near England and compite with France and England with the Navy.
Thanks for the reaction! I keep waiting for the Midway reactions.
One great and different song from Sabaton its "The ballad of Bull" and have 2 episodes about that in the sabaton history channel.
Great work with this reactions... :)
I appreciate it. One of my favorite things since starting the channel is when I come across something I’ve studied a decent amount of but get a totally different perspective on that I’d never considered. It’s one of the great things about looking at so many videos and having people who know different topics well comment on them. I’ve learned a ton since starting the channel.
The first midway one should be out today, that’s the plan. And ballad of bull is on my Sabaton list, I’m not sure how close to the top it is, I haven’t looked in a few days but it’s on there.
I remember when I was a kid living in Africa, British Tobacco was producing the cigarettes brand CTOC, reflecting the idea of British Africa from Cape to Cairo. The Germans were rather aiming at a East-West territory: Tanzania, Ruanda-Urundi, Belgian Congo. There is very little discussed in Europe about the colonial wars of WW1.
@@jean-francoispirenne6518 it’s not discussed really at all here. Only broad general “Germany wanted more of a colonial influence” type stuff.
The movie 'Zulu' covers the battle, starring Michael Caine. The subject has become highly controversial today.
I have never seen it, I’ll have to add it to my list of movies to watch. I’ve got a whole handful of history movies I’m trying to get through that have been brought up on the channel.
Which is weird cause we in south Africa think it's a fine movie
I disagree Britain would have still gone to war even if Belgium was the only reason.
the paper they talk about was made after the Napoleonic wars because Belgium was not only a strategic point in Europe but it was also a very young and small country and Britain was worried the larger countries would just roll over if another war like that happened again, so Britain went around all the powers of Europe and forced them all to sign a treaty to keep Belgium's neutrality if a European war boke out again.
which in terms of Europe wasn't anything new the reason nobody invaded Switzerland is because they had a similar treaty in effect already by then.
so when Germany invaded Belgium and ignored Britain's orders to withdraw Britain was forced to take action because Britain was the creator and main signatory of the treaty so was the one who had to enforce it, but also if Britain didn't enforce it not only would it drastically reduce Britain's power in world politics but nobody would take Britain seriously again and would feel they could just violate old or new treaties/deals and Britain would just accept it.
and one of the reasons you can tell Britain was invested in Belgium's freedom as one of the sabaton histories points out is that Germany capitulated to a lot of demands but wanted to keep its taken territory in Belgium and every country at the table was ok with it except for Britain who fought them on it.