How did it fail? ⚔️ Napoleon's Strategy in Russia, 1812 (Part 1) ⚔️ DOCUMENTARY
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🚩 On June 24th, 1812, the French Emperor Napoleon led 450 thousand men across the Niemen River into Russia, beginning one of the most notorious military disasters in history. Throughout this 6-month campaign, both French and Russian commanders would struggle with forces far greater than any army: politics, logistics and of course, nature.
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
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📚 Sources:
Chandler D. The Campaigns of Napoleon. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd 1966.
Griess T ed. Atlas for the Wars of Napoleon. Avery Publishing Group Inc 1986.
Hartley J, Keenan P, Lieven D eds. Russia and the Napoleonic Wars. Palgrave MacMillan 2015.
Lieven D. Russia Against Napoleon. Viking 2010.
Nafziger G. Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia. Presidio 1988.
Black J. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Rowman & Littlefield 2022.
Nester W. Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy. Savas Beatie 2012.
Voelcker T. Admiral Saumarez versus Napoleon. The Boydell Press 2008.
Lunde H. A Warrior Dynasty. Casemate 2014. [Charles XII]
Marvin Girelli
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🚩 On June 24th, 1812, the French Emperor Napoleon led 450 thousand men across the Niemen River into Russia, beginning one of the most notorious military disasters in history. Throughout this 6-month campaign, both French and Russian commanders would struggle with forces far greater than any army: politics, logistics and of course, nature.
Napoleon should've read the Campaign of Charles the 12th and his Invasion
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nice point about tactics. now napoleon's frontal assaults make some sense. I commented about wrong conclusions about economy and cause of war u made based on facts u presented. check it!
Bud.. Do Napoleon's early career & Egypt etv
@@rishi7629 and The Italian Campaign
I like how you concentrate on operational part of war. Many either talk about battles or grand strategy with little regard to maneuvering. You remedy this. Thanks!
Yes, as well as geo political context encompassing economy, church and state.
True. This is mind blowing.
Finally! Could it really be true, more Napoleon?! Your series with epic history tv about Napoleon is probably the best history show I have ever watched!
So nice to see too about my countrys history (Sweden) and our great power era, which, just like Napoleons and Hitlers, also ended in Russia.
Agreed!!
That's why I bought the 1809 map of Napoleonic Europe and French Marshals posters from the Epic History TV merch store!
Oh yes. The episode about the winter retreat is the best one they ever made, ever ever.
Agreed
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This might be one of the greatest videos to come from this channel.
You cover an influential event with excellent illustrations and fantastic discussion. Well done!
This is painful.
Win some, lose some.
@@HistoryMarche west Europe loser ahahahahaha
I think you should invade the bread basket Ukraine to took Russian grain then allowed the tartar to Rebel
@@HistoryMarche except he lost it all in this
No time to weep my emperor! Already your enemies plot in Paris, your allies gain confidence that your star is fading, if this is not brought to head, the resulting treaties could bear poisonous for generations from now! Onward! For peace!
I am very impressed the detail you went into on Napoleons Logistical set up. I have been a student of Napoleonic history for many years. I have never read/heard about the 26 transport battalions! Huzzah! Keep up the great work!
Feeling satisfied after seeing that napoleon poster on the map
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Man plz upload a Hannibal video. That series is close to my heart. It gives a satisfaction to me. Btw great work😊 love your channel
I will!
Thank you I hope you will. Btw how to animate maps I want to make my own history channel and I hope someday I will collaborate with you to make videos
Likewise! I must’ve rewatched it like 7 times now lol
Finally, another fantastic video by my favorite historical channel
The strategic goals, motivations. and military logistics highlighted by this video were great as always
NIce! a Napoleons video looking forward for part2!
Great job! I'm entirely looking forward for next episode
Such great content. Have been following you for awhile now and will of course continue to do so!
I swear man this guy is the next king and generals, never give up ur the best! Thanks for accepting my request on this series...🥰❤
I enjoyed the Waterloo video and this video was also very good! I hope to see more Napoleon and "war explanation" videos in the future even though I like the battle videos too!
Ooh...I'm going to love this series. Napoleon's Russian campaign and his eventual defeat has always been sort of a mystery to me. Thank you!
Great work, as always!!
One of my favourite channels. This is better than television programmes.
Excellent, as always. Thanks for the lesson my brother.
Great stuff! I always appreciate a good study of Napoleon.
Well done, very comprehensive coverage.
love your channel so much HistoryMarche! Keep up the great work and thank you so much for helping me learn!
Great video, cant wait for part 2
Oh man i can't believe it ! My reaction was that of a happy child when i saw more Napoleon on this channel 🇫🇷 vive l'empreur ♥️
Good to see Strategy Stuff still making content
Thank you, great video, keep it up! Waiting for the next one!
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Bloody unreal Doco' . A real treat .
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Post-Revolution tactics with Pre-Revolution logistics.
Brilliant. Never thought of it that way.
Esperando o próximo EP. Como sempre, sensacional.
This is fanatic! Never knew you were so big into Napoleon - he got father than Hitler and took Moscow - but then that whole Russian winter thing. . .
There were just too many moving parts in his invasion of Russia and lots of those parts needed not to fail for it to work.
The Russian winter thing is the biggest myth in history... his army was already decimated by the end of summer.
@@Skinnyjeboss Not a myth but a reality
That must be false. Isn't the Caucasus and Stalingrad deeper inside Russia?
Around 500000 died during summer from weather and illnesses, not really a winter's achievement. He started he's retreat from Moscow with 100000 troops
Yeah you can watch countless depictions of Napoleon's mistakes all over CZcams but you have to come HERE to understand the WHY'S 👍💪👏👏👏 thank you 🙏 again
As per usual, Absolutely superb!
Excellent. I look forward to learning more.
Looking forward for the next Napoléon vid
These logistics, troops pre-deployment videos are amazing. Neven seen this for older times.
Another amazing video.. Thank you 🙏
Wow great informative video!❤
I’ve seen this campaign by many other channels b4 like k&g or epic history 😢but none focus on the importance of strategy as u did 😮keep up the good work
Oh I love this one! At least somebody that provides a looking glass at how Napoleon would've seen the situation. To us nowadays, invading Russia overland seems like an impossibility, but back than many armies had ended up in Moscow. It was only after that that the misery truly started.
We often apply hindsightism to these events, thanks for not falling into the same trap!
Awesome as ever, ty!
Love the New edits 👍🙂
v good look forward to next part
I remember watching tht waterloo vid again and again who knows how many times. So excited getting new napoleonic vids. Thank you HM
Great stuff, thank you.
great content love these strategy episodes
Fabulous work!
Hundreds have already said this here but I just have to say it again. This take is so incredibly good. Thank you for doing these!!!
I gotta say, David's voice is silky smooth, and so full of gravitas. Long may he narrate these excellent videos!
Absolutely fascinating
Thanks for the video
Amazing content, it's unreal for me how complex the strategy required to win a war was. CZcams algorithm please recommend this :D
Very entertaining! Thank you!
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There can never be enough napoleon content, never
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Thank you sir.
An excellent video highlighting how warfare is very much an extension of politics in that politics determines the strategic objectives and the breadth of tactics. It is easy to armchair general and say X is the best method without regarding the political ripples that usually follow such a thing.
This was good! Thanks!
Great background info. You really know your history HM!
Great work!
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This is awesome i really love it you guys give strategy a whole new meaning please Continue am waiting for part 2
Part 2 coming this Friday
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Not only is this an excellent documentary, the soundtrack is on point. 10-10
Better than history class in france! love your content , and your voice is amazing! it's like im listening to a narrator who came from an ancient era
Hey absolutely loving your videos man. I've been binging a lot of your older ones as well and its awesome to see how much better you've gotten with the animations. One question though, could you name the specific song you used around 10:55 to 11:00? I've heard it a bunch of times on other videos and I'd love to have it but i cant find it.
Ben Hayden - Centurion, there are like a dozen different variants of depth and tempo so you may have to listen to a few of them to find the one you really like.
(But I think this one is High Momentum, Medium Depth, Low Power)
Excellent video
I heard the into music and was like Epic TV, rechecked, no I'm watching the right video.
Keep em coming History Mache
cool video!
I have watched countless documentaries on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. And I’m always happy to watch more! Congrats!
Part 2 coming this Friday
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I had always thought that the same General who stopped Hitler had stopped Napoleon: Major General RUSSIAN WINTER. Obviously, there was a lot more to Napoleon’s defeat than just weather. It’s always good to learn. Thanks. Keep up the great work.
Winter did not stop Napoleon. His army was already decimated by that point and was withdrawing. Winter just made a terrible situation even worse.
Around 500000 died during summer from weather and illnesses, not really a winter's achievement. He started he's retreat from Moscow with 100000 troops
@@alder2460 I don't think all 500,000 died. Many soldiers were killed by disease and fighting, for example at Borodino, but many soldiers deserted because there were soldiers of various nationalities from Poles to Spaniards, or Napoleon had to leave them as garrisons in captured cities, while the Australian and Prussian "allies" did not want to go deep into Russia and secretly negotiated with the Tsar. Napoleon hoped that even with 100,000 troops near Moscow he would defeat the Russians in a decisive battle and Russia would then capitulate, but the Tsar refused to negotiate with him and he had too few troops to occupy such a huge country as Russia, so he had to withdraw and the winter only completed his defeat.
@@alder2460 Far from it the casualties where mainly in battles or in the winter retreat, but many forces were left behind to garrison the cities, and supply lines,
Neither Napoleon or *Halder* were defeated because the winter alone, in fact the Germans were defeated while the French failed to win a decisive battle while at the offensive, The one who was mainly defeated because not wining a decisive victory, was destroyed until a few units remained because the winter (during the "great frost") lost the decisive battle and desintegrated until only a few remained where the Swedish, but some times the people mix up all the things
More Napoleon videos please!
Napoleon's campaign was actually better than on schedule, it was much quicker than what napoleon thought it would be. He achieved his objective in capturing Moscow but is in here the changing nature of warfare where nations don't surrender after a few defeats or losing important cities. Napoleon thought a peace treaty would come so he stayed till winter came.
he never set capturing Moscow as an objective, neither russian army had a plan to withdraw that much. It was more like planning for the next couple of weeks for both sides. Every side the war will happen and be decided relatively close the the border.
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yes please more Napoleonic wars videos!
Love love love this, puts a ton of perspective into the era I otherwise wouldn’t piece together like the drama with napoleons brother and the politics/public standing of the Russians. Great insight! Keep up the great work!
Decisive defeats, especially at the end of a career, can really mar someone's greatness and brilliance.
Great job! There is some confusion with the numbers for the army sizes, though.
great content
More vids on napoleon please!
please upload more napoleonic vids! I'm really into this era
Part 2 coming this Friday
I've heard that Napoleon was a great chess player as well as... well... _The General_ of his age.
But, Napoleon wasn't expecting Czar Alexander to bring an additional chessboard to the game.
Terrific
I have had a question for a long time: why did Napoleon aim for Moscow instead of St. Petersburg? St. Petersburg would be easier supplied from the Baltic Sea and it would cut off Russia maritime trade with Britain, the main reason for the Invasion. And SP was the de jure capital of Russia at the time.
Britain did rule the waves. But the Baltic, being an inland sea much smaller than the Mediterranean, was much harder for the royal navy to project their power. For the sake of supply from a Pomeranian Port to SP, all Napoleon needed are some small time window where a convoy can come through..
Napoleon didn't intend to go for a city, he wanted to destroy the Russian army, but it retreated towards Moscow not St Petersburg, that is why he went toward Moscow.
Napoleon at the outset didn't 'aim' for either Moscow or St Petersburg; given the difficulty of inter-army communications/coordination during the Napoleonic era, any strategy would have broken down long before the Grande Armee even approached those targets. Instead, it's better to think of Napoleon as planning 3 directions of attack: North (Riga), North-East (vs 1st Army c. Vilnius), East (vs 2nd Army > Minsk), and South-East (Austrians vs 3rd Army; not really an attack). Then he would improvise as the campaign developed.
That said, N always intended for the North-East and Eastern attacks (combined at Smolensk, later to drive vs Moscow) to be the main thrust, with the atk on Riga as a supporting move. Reasons:
A) That was what Charles XII did, which was helpful not just as historical example but also b/c all the roads were already mapped out;
B) The Vilnius-Minsk-Smolensk-Moscow road was the best in Russia (can still see it today on google map) while few roads existed btwn Vilnius/Minsk > Petersburg;
C) NE + E direction gave N options to later turn vs Petersburg or alternatively, Ukraine;
D) NE + E atk allowed N to push RUS back on a broad front and prevent RUS flank strike into Poland rear;
E) As you can/will see in video, Napoleon's chase of 1st and 2nd Army 'pulled' him in Moscow direction, with only weak-ish flanks attacking in Petersburg direction (RUS army also had similar logistical/strategic reasons to seek a campaign along Smolensk-Moscow road).
The roads were much better toward Moscow and Smolensk, and Napoleons aim was to destroy the Russian army, he didn’t intend to capture any city, he improvised the campaign and followed where the Russians drew him. He opportunistically seized Moscow when he saw if he threatened it the Russians would surly have to fight for it, then one he won he occupied it. Fun fact the only Russian standard captured in the war was in the northern front near Riga, the Prussians captured it, and it was returned to Russia in 1840 in exchange for a Prussian flag captured in the 7 years war
amazing
I barely wanted to get up shovel the driveway growing up in the Great Lakes region. I cant imagine trying to fight a military campaign in a blizzard.
This is a sacrifice to the algorithm.
Wasn't Napoleon a great fan of Hannibal? I bet he wanted to see the whole series finished too!
Good one :D
The background music reminds me of epic history🔥
Please make same analyze about british/french/austrian strategy during napoleonic wars, pre-napoeonic french wars, british strategy from 1500-1914, japan-russian war of 1904, why british strategy fail during/after world wars, american strategy 1800-1945, american strategy in modern era !
THX ! It was a very interesting video. I read much history and still this work has much new information with understandable good maps.
Don't stop working guys!
Nice video
There's always this myth that Napolean expected his army to live off the land, when it seems the exact opposite is true!
If I recall correctly, Kutuzov had not been appointed to a command at the time of the invasion. He had been a commander in the war with the Ottoman Empire that ended just a couple days before the invasion though.
It was a brilliant strategy by Detolley and the Tsar to deny Napoleon a decisive battle and simply lure him deeper and deeper into desolate land. I’m shocked Napoleon didn’t react to this much quicker. One has to imagine the political situation, the Russians couldn’t inform everyone of their plan, they couldn’t tell the poor peasants that the army was constantly falling back due to a grand strategy of exhausting Napoleons supplies, otherwise the French would soon find out and have confirmation of what they were facing.
Watching this kind of videos, I always hope that the Grande Armee will make it back alive.