The Franco-Prussian War using Google Earth

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  • čas přidán 2. 09. 2023
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    The Franco-Prussian War from start to finish.
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  • @mapsinanutshell
    @mapsinanutshell  Před 8 měsíci +289

    ℹ: *1 flag = ~10,000 soldiers*
    If you'd like to turn your ideas into future videos and get early access to video teasers, join the Discord server here: discord.gg/4dNDQMsF5f

    • @MH-jg6vk
      @MH-jg6vk Před 8 měsíci +5

      Russo-Turkish war 1877-78?

    • @TheSlazzer
      @TheSlazzer Před 8 měsíci +2

      Hey mapsinanutshell, great video! Can you share your sources for these movements? Or are they just approximations? :)

    • @oajajaj
      @oajajaj Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@TheSlazzerHe traced the whole of Here mapping video on the Franco Prussian War

    • @TheSlazzer
      @TheSlazzer Před 8 měsíci +2

      @oajajaj haha OK. But where did he get the information about where? How many soldiers? Were moving at any given time of the video. These day by day videos make it seem like there's a "perfect" historical record when reality must be more blurry. Unless you read literally every divisions' or army corps' history. Which would be a task that would take a historian, perhaps a decade.
      So I'm just asking what approximations were made and what was used as a source, to get an idea how authentic it is.
      That doesn't take away from my appreciation for this video BTW :)

    • @oajajaj
      @oajajaj Před 8 měsíci

      @@TheSlazzer Yeah it's okay because here mappings video on the subject is the most accurate video on the war

  • @joasmares5836
    @joasmares5836 Před 8 měsíci +2602

    As a Belgian, it's weird seeing Germany picking the short way to France for once.
    Edit: why is everybody explaining my country's history to me i know about de damn Maginot Line guys it was a joke

    • @stephanobarbosa5805
      @stephanobarbosa5805 Před 8 měsíci +94

      Não existia linha Maginot ainda

    • @bastykino5357
      @bastykino5357 Před 8 měsíci +29

      lmao

    • @phase0400
      @phase0400 Před 8 měsíci +145

      The shortest route isn't always the easiest one, although tbf this was the easiest route in this war. By the time WW1 started, the French had learned their lesson. Massive defences were built along the Franc-German border, which would later become the Maginot line for WW2. Trying an invasion through there would result in massive casualties.

    • @redzard2015
      @redzard2015 Před 8 měsíci +20

      Well maybe that tells us something, but either way Belgium should always be the obvious choice

    • @TexasViking_INFP-t_5w4
      @TexasViking_INFP-t_5w4 Před 8 měsíci

      Northern French and the Dutch are just swamp Germans

  • @TheGreatOne-gw7xh
    @TheGreatOne-gw7xh Před 9 měsíci +2224

    Prussians we’re on the offensive and still managed to suffer minimal losses. Wow.

    • @saldjkalskdjasldkja
      @saldjkalskdjasldkja Před 9 měsíci +83

      A bit silly of the French to give it a go considering they, the British and the rest of the coalition learned against and beat their best tactician in years.

    • @genkupoke7064
      @genkupoke7064 Před 9 měsíci +247

      ​@@saldjkalskdjasldkjaFrance didn't expect German state to be part of the war. It's all due to Bismarck who managed to totally brained French état major

    • @q3eq3eq65
      @q3eq3eq65 Před 9 měsíci +133

      In these times going on offensive wasnt equal to suffering more losses

    • @imreallynoob8311
      @imreallynoob8311 Před 9 měsíci +114

      Normally in a pitch battle germans were the ones to suffer more loses from their tactics, but it enable them to outmenuvers the french force
      I assume the french casualties are because of the captured troops, and prussian superior artillery

    • @IAmTheStig32
      @IAmTheStig32 Před 9 měsíci +51

      Prussians were practically super soldiers. One of them could do the work of four soldiers from any other country.

  • @eduardovictorfurlaneto805
    @eduardovictorfurlaneto805 Před 9 měsíci +1031

    it is very interesting to see that in 1870 the armies hardly reached 1 million, but less than 50 years later, in the first world war, there were several million soldiers and millions died every year

    • @scezich6126
      @scezich6126 Před 9 měsíci +88

      I mean the German leadership during the Franco Prussian war was much more bold compared to the causious aged generals of ww1

    • @blackpaint9093
      @blackpaint9093 Před 8 měsíci +104

      ​@@scezich6126Yeah you gotta keep in mind that in WWI germany was also facing UK in the western front and Russia in the east, the 2 wars are not comparable

    • @bart3030
      @bart3030 Před 8 měsíci +24

      ​@@blackpaint9093yeah and adding to that, there is a huge difference in weaponry in those fifty years

    • @commiethebeastie
      @commiethebeastie Před 8 měsíci +21

      In WW1 industry was producing greatly more arms. The Russian industry that still was using steam power sources instead of electricity power sources has collapsed the first one.

    • @commanderstorm8874
      @commanderstorm8874 Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@scezich6126the Prussians were also first to the battlefield due to making the trains run on time and so the French were mostly disorganized

  • @usersays8599
    @usersays8599 Před 9 měsíci +625

    It was the Prussian victory over France and their leadership uniting Germany into an Empire that made Meji Japan choose them as a role model to modernize their military; often choosing to hire Prussian officers as consultants to help build a modernize army that would later defeat the Qing & Russian Empire

    • @glous6320
      @glous6320 Před 9 měsíci +106

      Same thing with Chile. They were going to bring in French marshals to train their military officers but opted for Prussians instead after this war. Those officers then advised the Chileans go to war with Bolivia and Peru in which Chile won. They still have annual Prussian military parades that are straight out of 1914.

    • @yumk4308
      @yumk4308 Před 8 měsíci +26

      Very knowledgeable! amazing!
      Japan's Meiji constitution was based on that of the German Empire.

    • @cpj93070
      @cpj93070 Před 8 měsíci +20

      Army yes, for there Navy they used the best consultants at sea (Britain)

    • @AngelOfTheLastHope
      @AngelOfTheLastHope Před 8 měsíci +4

      That's absurd, French officers were very good. I mean, when they were taking over parts of Africa, and when working with actual maps of the region instead of gallivanting aimlessly in the Belgian countryside without knowing where to go to find Prussians to fight.

    • @Soviet00000
      @Soviet00000 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Yea ok buddy sure

  • @The_whales
    @The_whales Před 9 měsíci +83

    Finally, an offensive war that doesn’t involve going into Belgium

    • @perfolkesson7333
      @perfolkesson7333 Před měsícem +1

      Such a shame for the invading armies missing out on the wonderful beer, waffles, and fries

  • @damelonleboom
    @damelonleboom Před 9 měsíci +336

    Finally someone did this! such a forgotten part of history.

    • @mertm.995
      @mertm.995 Před 9 měsíci +6

      @@fabianvoigtlander1042means I forgot it

    • @legobullymaguire1375
      @legobullymaguire1375 Před 9 měsíci +7

      @@fabianvoigtlander1042not talked about a lot
      (nvm its not actully forgoten )

    • @linclokatz
      @linclokatz Před 9 měsíci +2

      Pretty well known war ngl

    • @CoolEdo
      @CoolEdo Před 9 měsíci +7

      Trust me if you think this war is forgotten, you'd be surprised.

    • @Adamm17004
      @Adamm17004 Před 9 měsíci +9

      Literally the birth of Germany, how is this at all forgotten?

  • @duckfero7362
    @duckfero7362 Před 9 měsíci +610

    Damn, as a french myself, I didn't even know such a big part of France was occupied, I thought only Alsace and Mozelle was occupied at most

    • @PhthaloType
      @PhthaloType Před 9 měsíci +97

      In WW1, Germany (prematurely) produced thousands of medals that showed the Arc de triomphe and Eiffel tower and said "1871-1914," since that was the previous time German troops were in Paris.

    • @PrestoPresteinn
      @PrestoPresteinn Před 9 měsíci +16

      У вас очень плохо преподают историю в школе.

    • @Hazzelnot94
      @Hazzelnot94 Před 9 měsíci +74

      @@ttthias About 60% of those 600 000 casualties were captured troops, actual deaths was around 150 000.

    • @Mr_d42069
      @Mr_d42069 Před 9 měsíci +23

      @@PrestoPresteinn he is french, not american

    • @PrestoPresteinn
      @PrestoPresteinn Před 9 měsíci

      @@Mr_d42069 у них образование такое же плохое как в США. Образованные люди никому не нужны

  • @rhyqatrophonlety
    @rhyqatrophonlety Před 9 měsíci +219

    I think you can make the flags that represent the troops translucent, otherwise it's hard to see the front lines.

    • @austria-hungary7680
      @austria-hungary7680 Před 9 měsíci +7

      Not too opaque however

    • @user-bb5pt3wc4r
      @user-bb5pt3wc4r Před 4 měsíci +2

      It's not accurate anyway, it's more representational that a true record of where they were.

  • @precariousworlds3029
    @precariousworlds3029 Před 9 měsíci +312

    After watching so many WW1 and 2 mapping videos it feels weird to see Germany invading France through the Maginot line

  • @dangerousnoodle8779
    @dangerousnoodle8779 Před 8 měsíci +19

    The prussians were smart enough to snake France's victory points to force a capitulation with minimal losses. Must be very experienced hoi4 players

    • @wilhelmu
      @wilhelmu Před 6 měsíci +1

      looking at the causality ratio they were not playing hoi there, they were playing dynasty warriors

    • @Beowulf1222
      @Beowulf1222 Před 17 dny

      "Trucking into paris"

  • @creepyhourreddit
    @creepyhourreddit Před 9 měsíci +68

    This is really impressive! i look forward to watching every video that you make

  • @stalhandske9649
    @stalhandske9649 Před 6 měsíci +40

    It's wild to think the war was practically decided in battle of Sedan 1-2 Sep. 1870, which takes place at 01:45-01:50 in this video. Yet timewise it was in the war's beginning phases.
    I found it strange, though, that the result said battle, liquidation of ~1/7 of the total French forces at the moment, is not reflected on the unit icons at all.

    • @propagandalf123
      @propagandalf123 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah, it was basically the french refusing to accept that they have lost after they started the war for a petty reason for half a year, costing them half a million lifes and afterwards being still salty about it, why the French were so keen on imposing such harsh conditions in the treaty of versailles. And that is why everyone hates the french

  • @Plutotheaxolotl
    @Plutotheaxolotl Před 9 měsíci +4

    Congrats on 100k subscribers 🎉you deserved it

  • @B1lly_
    @B1lly_ Před 9 měsíci +25

    Napoleon III at Sedan on his horse with a hit mark: *plz kill me already*
    His horse: 🗿

  • @MrRexta
    @MrRexta Před 9 měsíci +11

    100,000 subscribers, all deserved.

  • @Charlie-backrooms
    @Charlie-backrooms Před 9 měsíci +6

    Nice job love all your videos

  • @acgmc6669
    @acgmc6669 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Extraordinario trabajo, enhorabuena desde España

  • @dolphindoesroblox969
    @dolphindoesroblox969 Před 9 měsíci +2

    congrats on 100k man ive been here sense 9k 👍

  • @chris6ix.
    @chris6ix. Před 9 měsíci +9

    Can you make a tutorial with DaVinci Resolve, please? I really like these videos and would love to make some myself, but Adobe Software is way too expensive.

  • @santossteven97
    @santossteven97 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Nice work thanks ❤

  • @Jacob07111
    @Jacob07111 Před 9 měsíci +19

    If I am not wrong the french were the ones who started the war and attacked first, why are the german states colored as red and France as blue?

    • @stellargravitywell1828
      @stellargravitywell1828 Před 9 měsíci +2

      It's a reflex I guess

    • @heremapping4484
      @heremapping4484 Před 9 měsíci

      The French provoked the war hoping to march on Berlin

    • @RKNGL
      @RKNGL Před 9 měsíci +14

      France’s colour is traditionally associated with blue, while Germany’s is usually Black/Grey or Red.

    • @nahouledeb5949
      @nahouledeb5949 Před 8 měsíci +1

      France is always blue

    • @lahire4943
      @lahire4943 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@heremapping4484Bismarck provoked the war.

  • @brodielanders3932
    @brodielanders3932 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Congratulations on hitting 100,000 subscribers

  • @Almagesto25
    @Almagesto25 Před 9 měsíci +56

    I admire you for your sacrifice, I bet it was a big jorney of search and editing to make this video. You deserve this amazing video to become a reference for those who study the Franco-Prussian War, because your graphic quality is simply wonderful.

    • @schatzkammerein
      @schatzkammerein Před 9 měsíci +9

      sacrifice sounds like a dramatic word

    • @noyes4968
      @noyes4968 Před 9 měsíci +6

      "Sacrifice" as if he was a veteran in that war.

    • @schatzkammerein
      @schatzkammerein Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@noyes4968 yeah it is cringe

    • @heremapping4484
      @heremapping4484 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I'm pretty sure he traced my video on the Franco-Prussian war, not that i'm against that. But it does seem to be what happened

    • @Almagesto25
      @Almagesto25 Před 9 měsíci

      @@schatzkammerein, I'm a mapper too, I'm currently editing a 2 minutes video since March which covers 500 years, and I still have a long time ahead editing 2 or 3 frames daily in order to keep my schedule. Damn yeah, that's a quite sacrificial, definitely not easy to do.

  • @anderskorsback4104
    @anderskorsback4104 Před 8 měsíci +19

    Those big blue blobs of encircled French troops within German lines. Damn. That's like slow-motion blitzkrieg with infantry.

    • @matheusexpedito4577
      @matheusexpedito4577 Před 8 měsíci +2

      The germans always had a need for speed

    • @guyname8760
      @guyname8760 Před 2 měsíci +3

      well yeah, maneuver warfare has always been a part of German military history

  • @Youravrageguy
    @Youravrageguy Před 8 měsíci +5

    That’s why you always remember to pack modern artillery

  • @schnelma605
    @schnelma605 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Congrats on 100000!

  • @mapshistorical
    @mapshistorical Před 9 měsíci +2

    awesome man

  • @sx1ky438
    @sx1ky438 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Wow bro! Amazing video. Can you do one about the pig war?

  • @molybdaen11
    @molybdaen11 Před 8 měsíci +20

    It's wild that the casualty's grow but the army's became even larger the longer the war lasted.

  • @germancat429
    @germancat429 Před měsícem +2

    look no phones, just people enjoying the moment 😁

  • @user-xn9vk5gl1b
    @user-xn9vk5gl1b Před 9 měsíci

    congrats on 100k

  • @rrqfan1523
    @rrqfan1523 Před 8 měsíci +27

    France always looses in a 1 vs 1 against Germany 😂😅

  • @LudosErgoSum
    @LudosErgoSum Před 3 měsíci +3

    It's still mindboggling that the battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BCE) and battle of thr Red Cliffs (208-209CE) are possibly some of the largest naval engagaments in history with some 300.000 combined combatans and over a thousand of ships. Only in modern times are they ecplised by modern technology and wastly larger populations. It just goes to show how sophisticated and well-organized people were back in the day despite their lack of modern technology and engineering to accomplish such feats.

    • @karaltar7914
      @karaltar7914 Před 3 měsíci

      The battle of cape ecnomus is still to this day the largest naval battle of all time.

  • @Only-TSG13
    @Only-TSG13 Před 7 měsíci +1

    How long does it take to make your animations? Because mine take really long.

  • @kingstickman5278
    @kingstickman5278 Před 9 měsíci

    Amazing video!

  • @gmunro5443
    @gmunro5443 Před 8 měsíci +8

    5:23
    There is a large encirclement comparable to Metz, but I never heard of it before.
    Are these movements accurate or estimation?

    • @ColeInside-ij2yt
      @ColeInside-ij2yt Před měsícem

      Most likely a rough estimate because it is hard to confirm battles and how they played out in those years.

    • @gmunro5443
      @gmunro5443 Před měsícem

      This was not ancient times, there are specific numbers for the losses of each battle.

    • @gmunro5443
      @gmunro5443 Před měsícem

      Hello, this is me from the future. Every single troop placement in the video is extraordinarily inaccurate. This war was not even fought with front lines, it was fought with armies, like napoleonic times.

  • @Samgar0359
    @Samgar0359 Před 9 měsíci +8

    Great battle nice video good job bro love Germany from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿❤🇩🇪

  • @qwertyui_uwu
    @qwertyui_uwu Před 9 měsíci +1

    oh congrats on 100k

  • @heremapping4484
    @heremapping4484 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Nice work

  • @Averagemomrespecter
    @Averagemomrespecter Před 8 měsíci +17

    Props to the google employees for keeping google earth up in the late 1800s.

  • @AwoudeX
    @AwoudeX Před 8 měsíci +41

    If i'm not mistaken, the denser cannon formations and flexible tactics and high maneuvrability is what made France suffer such a humiliation

    • @certaindeath7776
      @certaindeath7776 Před 8 měsíci +16

      yeah, despite tanks and automobiles not existing yet, this was an example of manouver warfare, prussians acted fast, circumvented pockets of resitance, and sourrounded them, cutting them off from communications and supplies, making them teethless

    • @hs2546
      @hs2546 Před 8 měsíci +11

      Tbh this view on warfare seems more appropriate to explain Napoleon's success. I think what gave such an edge to the Germans was their highly organized mobilization system and their successful usage of a militarised railroad network, all of which enabled them to bring men and sufficent material much more quickly on the front, whereas the French army was in a poor state and highly disorganized because of decades of an unprecedent level of corruption in the military ranks (since Napoelon III's regime).

    • @vistagreat9994
      @vistagreat9994 Před 8 měsíci

      @@hs2546 True

    • @byonce3254
      @byonce3254 Před 8 měsíci

      And also the Germans powderless needle rifle

    • @hs2546
      @hs2546 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@byonce3254 powderless... or smokeless? Smokeless powder came in use at the end of the century. During the Franco-German war, both side were using blackpowder cartridges, and French troops even had an edge with their Chassepot rifle since it used smaller ammunitions, which enabled them to be more precise at a greater range and to deal much more damage on their target compared to the Dreyse rifle used by the Germans.

  • @PhilippeCoutinho2210
    @PhilippeCoutinho2210 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I like your videos very much ❤❤👍👍

  • @TheboyInPurple915
    @TheboyInPurple915 Před 7 měsíci

    Thank you needle gun, very cool

  • @larsgrotjohann
    @larsgrotjohann Před 8 měsíci +36

    I would be happy if ARTE would make a German-French documentary series about this conflict. Objectively and without nationalistic-patriotic inventions.
    I am glad that we are friends with the French and that the warsbetween our nations are a thing of the past.

    • @charlesl3847
      @charlesl3847 Před 8 měsíci

      Hope Germany burns in hell, and all of the Germans with it.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Sadly the warmongers are awake again.
      The eubhad to be stabilized with more cooperation, there has to be a standard refugee protocol and the leaders should send politicians and dilopmats instead of tanks and planes to stop a war.

    • @siegfried7951
      @siegfried7951 Před 8 měsíci +5

      @@molybdaen11Today, the only warmonger is Russia, not the EU, the USA, or Ukraine.

    • @rohne83
      @rohne83 Před 7 měsíci +7

      @@siegfried7951 the war in Ukraine was started by ukrainian Poroschenko regime in 2014 - trying to exterminate the huge Russion minority in Ukraine. Everything after that was just a futher escalation. And in March 2022, Ukraine and Russia were short before a freedom treaty - it was London and Washington who forced Ukraine to stop these negotiations and continue senseless fighting.

    • @X3RUBIM
      @X3RUBIM Před 7 měsíci +2

      ARTE has always been biased towards France, so that is not going to happen.

  • @MXB2001
    @MXB2001 Před 8 měsíci +23

    Amazing the number of encirclements the Prussians did without having armour. I guess Cavalry could have done it. The lopsided casualty figures are due to the Prussian artillery if I remember correctly. Also interesting how long the encircled forces could last in those days. They obviously didn't need as much supply as they would today.

    • @lythd
      @lythd Před 7 měsíci +1

      casualties would include captured troops from encirclements, which would give quite a lot of that. (not that artillery or other factors wouldn't have also mattered, but just this was the most extreme one in the video).
      and yeah i was interested in that too, i guess they don't really need fuel like tanks and vehicles and none of those are craazy big like its realistic they could be fed on the land.

    • @adsiz67983
      @adsiz67983 Před 5 měsíci +1

      no it's actually because Moltke cheated and chose both mobile warfare and superior firepower

    • @NYG5
      @NYG5 Před 5 měsíci

      @@lythd french troops would also be able to more effectively endure encirclement on their own territory in the summer months

  • @bryce2179
    @bryce2179 Před měsícem +1

    Insane how in the video the number of french casualties excelerates towards the end, if that is somewhat similar to how things really went, its no wonder France gave up.

  • @antoniocarrascosa6060
    @antoniocarrascosa6060 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Extraordinario trabajo

  • @Nylon_riot
    @Nylon_riot Před 9 měsíci +10

    I watch these for the music selection more than anything.

  • @frankbarron1907
    @frankbarron1907 Před 2 měsíci +4

    The French were toast.

  • @sinanroyal5359
    @sinanroyal5359 Před 3 měsíci

    A question regarding shown casualties. Are these only military casualties or also including civilian ones? There are not German civilian casualties, since the war took place on French soil, but civilian casualties would explain the higher death ratio on the French side. During the times the Franco-Prussian war took place, people still saw the war not as a purely military conflict, but a "peoples war". The entire population was the enemy. Or is it that the French army got just completly outperformed by the Germans. Or both?

  • @Luis_.-
    @Luis_.- Před 3 měsíci

    Very nice!

  • @EightBit72
    @EightBit72 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Map inaccuracy: In those days Belgium did not include the eastern cantons with Eupen-Malmedy.

  • @JOELMG918
    @JOELMG918 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Sería buenísimo si haces un video sobre la guerra del Pacífico. Peru - bolivia vs chile

  • @Skaris27
    @Skaris27 Před 9 měsíci

    awesome!

  • @carteradams43
    @carteradams43 Před 7 měsíci +3

    seeing the German lines course through the French countryside like a snake was certainly something

    • @Divran22
      @Divran22 Před 6 měsíci +1

      The First Tour de France ^^

  • @Tadry
    @Tadry Před 9 měsíci +17

    I get the flags represent where the armies were but it really blocks the map where gains and losses are made, sometimes I can’t even tell at all what’s happening in some areas of the map.

    • @oicmapper
      @oicmapper Před 8 měsíci +2

      Maybe he should make the flags more differenciable

  • @Jordan77831
    @Jordan77831 Před 9 měsíci +12

    This channel shows meps of wars that no one else covered yet. Thank you for preserving forgotten parts of history 👍

    • @Freddy_Fazbear_and_Witherred
      @Freddy_Fazbear_and_Witherred Před 9 měsíci +1

      No one? Not really

    • @Egg_8
      @Egg_8 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Stolen comment + L ratio + grammar mistake “map” and also a lot of people made vids about this war.

    • @goji3908
      @goji3908 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@Freddy_Fazbear_and_Witherred And forgotten? Not really

    • @hansdampf640
      @hansdampf640 Před 9 měsíci +1

      this was covered by many channel,with narration and background knowledge...
      this war was an answer,not a question

    • @Egg_8
      @Egg_8 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@hansdampf640 TRUE

  • @johngrey5806
    @johngrey5806 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Wow, what a slaughter! How did it end? Wish the video would continue or at least provide some info screen at the end.

    • @G.A.C_Preserve
      @G.A.C_Preserve Před 8 měsíci +3

      It ends with the German victory and the formation of the German empire leaded by Prussia

  • @user-ov7ty1wd3c
    @user-ov7ty1wd3c Před 9 měsíci +2

    Great video, I feel like it would be better if you moved the flags away, there in the way of the Frontline

  • @DaoAncestor
    @DaoAncestor Před 6 měsíci +5

    This is one of my favorite wars. the way the Prussians responded to the arrogant French and their remarkable victory, humiliating the French as a newly formed country afterward, was absolutely amusing.

    • @anthonyluccini1015
      @anthonyluccini1015 Před 5 měsíci

      You don't have much in your head. In the video it is not the Prussians but indeed all the German states who participated resulting in its unification. A Spaniard who comes to make fun of France we will have seen everything. With the number of spankings you've been given, you should make yourself very small

    • @Behind.Heaven
      @Behind.Heaven Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​​​@@anthonyluccini1015Oh man what a stupid answer from you, read his comment again😂😂

  • @Baathist_Brawler_1565
    @Baathist_Brawler_1565 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Wow, what a trouncing, and just 50 years before Napoleon's France had casually swept aside the germans, conquering the Prussians in a mere 3 weeks. I think the French left behind the best of their race in Russia in 1812, they were never again the mighty force that had dominated Europe throughout the middle ages. This war was the nail in the coffin, and with the following instability and plummeting birthrates they sunk to become a mere spectator in history and have never again risen.

    • @ThePalaeontologist
      @ThePalaeontologist Před 3 měsíci +1

      It is rather more complicated than that. You say the best of their race died in Russia, but that is not correct. Half the French Imperial Grande Armee wasn't even French, and it was always held together through punitive threats and fear. It was not this monolithic, 750,000 strong army of Frenchmen. Nope. A huge number of other, enthralled nationalities, were in league with the French but largely, not by choice.
      And do not forget, that in 1813, as merely 35,000 bedraggled Frenchmen limped back into Western Europe, with about 58,000 others whom had been in that once mighty army to enter Russia in 1812, that Napoleon Bonaparte achieved a great feat of logistics, recruiting literally over 400,000 new troops in that year. Were they as experienced as the ones he'd lost in droves in the Russian Winter of 1812? No, not a chance. But they would fight with some ferocious elan and determination in the years 1813-1815. Literally hundreds of thousands of them would die, but still.
      Also, lest we forget, the French sacrificed 1.75 million soldiers in the First World War (most of which, French, some of which, French Colonial; aka with nationalities as varied as what we'd now call Vietnamese, and many others, such as soldiers from Cameroon) I'd say that it was after the First World War, in which France was truly spent. Her feeble efforts in 1940, were no match for the Germans. Cue crying Frenchmen drumming up the sacrifice of 30,000 French troops in rearguard (also with about 10,000 British soldiers helping them, which is often forgotten/omitted on purpose; and ffs it was happening in France of course the French should have had the biggest defensive forces in the region out of the allies at that time) for Dunkirk.
      Well, as much as some Anglophobes would like to blame Britain for all of France collapsing in 6-7 weeks flat, the truth was, France was pretty cocky in the interwar years acting like the mightiest nation in the world, thanks to it's immense army which was 2nd only in size, then, to the Red Army in Soviet Russia. However, in the grand scheme of things, that was about 1 corps of French troops being chewed up against an entire German field army, to help Britain evacuate 123,000 Frenchmen and about twice as many British, off the beaches of Dunkirk. Yet also, do remember, that approximately 93% of the French whom the British rescued (leaving behind many of their own men to fit more Frenchmen on British ships instead; also losing a lot of British ships under constant Luftwaffe Stuka dive bomber attack) from Dunkirk, _went home to France_ after they were given the choice of repatriation, by the British government. Some may have joined the French Resistance, but quite frankly, the scale of how many French returned to France, made what the British had done seem pointless.
      Britain was only ever meant to be a reinforcing faction in the Northern sector, just like they were in WWI. It makes me laugh when French dudes get pissy about the Battle for France, as though the British just betrayed France and left it to the German wolves. Not true. It didn't happen that way at all. France was puffing up it's chest for over 20 years at that point. It had bullied Germany at the Treaty of Versailles (France, not Britain, was the most aggressive in pursuing reparations from Germany, to the tune of 100 Billion Deutschmarks; which it simply, could not afford, especially due to hyperinflation; as in, the value of 100 Billion Deutschmarks _prior to_ the hyper-inflation, not during or after it; aka at 1918/1919 rates there or thereabouts)
      Why French dudes cope and seethe about Britain being not as numerous militarily, is hilarious. It's as if the French think they have this god given right to sacrificing British lives on the altar of saving France. France doesn't even respect Britain and is a very poor ally in terms of how it behaves and how it goes about things. e.g. France sold EXOCET missiles to Argentina which Argentina used against British ships in the Falklands War in 1982. French nationalists still laugh about that to this day. It's a total disgrace. British servicemen _died_ on those ships. Fvck France.

  • @user-ol7zc8lj5k
    @user-ol7zc8lj5k Před 8 měsíci +1

    Can you please do it for Napoleon's wars?

  • @thatsleepybirb
    @thatsleepybirb Před 3 měsíci

    really cool video! from other videos i’ve seen that red and blue either mean
    red: attacker/country that would end up losing the war
    blue: defender/country that would end up winning the war
    why did you make germany red in this case? obviously minor nitpick, this is incredible

  • @thecouncilofthirteen2943
    @thecouncilofthirteen2943 Před 8 měsíci +4

    No offense to you but if you make a casultie counter, dont just make it fit in a way its only accurate at the end of the war
    Either you actually try and make the counter realistic and accurate with corresponding battles, or you just leave it out

  • @DL-kf9wu
    @DL-kf9wu Před 9 měsíci +119

    Imagine someone from our timeline goes back to the past and tells Bismarck how badly Germany/Prussia will be punished in the 20./21. century, I wonder how Bismarck would have felt.
    Kinda sad to see how much of Prussia and Prussian history got erased from the minds of the todays Germans when talking about modern history of Germany, which is of course caused (i am myself a german) because our own greed and by the harsh treaties of the both world wars. The world only remembers of Hitler when talking about German history but not of Otto von Bismarck:(

    • @neezduts_
      @neezduts_ Před 9 měsíci +29

      Sad indeed. Both are for propaganda reasons. Hitler was represented (and is) one of the most if not the most evil man ever. The Kaiser was also represented as evil and causing WW1 despite both of those being mostly untrue. The German empire should be remembered as more a lesson, not an evil force, as the only difference between it and the entente was that they were rival factions. The German empire was probably not be remembered in a good light for the foreseeable future, mostly because the Prussian militarism that eventually led to Versailles and Hitler was taken out of German culture as much as possible

    • @tricksor6589
      @tricksor6589 Před 9 měsíci +11

      The treaty from WW2 was probably the best outcome for Germany, ever. Germany is now an economic powerhouse, 4th largest in the world and the main driving force of the EU and the European Bank. If anything, Imperial Germany's plans for Mitteleuropa and an economic bloc centred on Germany have been achieved.

    • @vanaik
      @vanaik Před 9 měsíci +16

      Germany was even more of an economic powerhouse prior to the first/second world war and has risen time and again despite losing major industrial areas and paying tribute. On the other hand it's naive populism to equate EU institutions in which Germany has little voting rights to German dominance. Southern economies like Italy and Greece like to blame Germany for their misery but they have their own elites/politicians to thank for it. These countries are not even important markets for German goods but the idea that they are pawns in an imaginary game of German dominance via the EU seems to be more acceptable than just admitting reality. The word 'German centered economy' alone is strange as the EU is a free market without discrimination. No American would complain that the US economy was 'California centered' as it's clear how the US benefits from having free markets and successful member states that fund the budget.

    • @saebre.
      @saebre. Před 9 měsíci +3

      I understand 20th but how are Germans harshly punished in the 21st century?

    • @russianfishich113
      @russianfishich113 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@neezduts_Nazi Germany killed 17 millions of USSR civilians. What is untrue? How do you think? I can't understand how people can be so disgusting.

  • @geokid317
    @geokid317 Před 9 měsíci

    nice job

  • @BoilingHotCoffee
    @BoilingHotCoffee Před 8 měsíci +1

    imagine chilling in the southern part of france throughout all of this

  • @pyotrcapaldi451
    @pyotrcapaldi451 Před 9 měsíci +5

    This War has 100% death rate
    Everyone dies in the end

  • @RichardSchiffman-jn1ds
    @RichardSchiffman-jn1ds Před 9 měsíci +21

    I hope they make a movie about the Franco-Prussian war soon. I think it's high time they made one

    • @aka99
      @aka99 Před 8 měsíci +1

      There is a video about the danish Prussian war. Maybe watch as long as there is no movie about Franco Prussian war

    • @RichardSchiffman-jn1ds
      @RichardSchiffman-jn1ds Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@aka99 I know I've seen it. 1864. It was a Danish production but it had English subtitles. Very well made miniseries

    • @Social_Communism
      @Social_Communism Před 8 měsíci +3

      Forget it there will be very less movies in which Germans win

  • @MWcrazyhorse
    @MWcrazyhorse Před 3 měsíci

    Very impressive.

  • @youtube-comment-account
    @youtube-comment-account Před 3 měsíci

    where are the casualty figures from? this seems nuts.

  • @italiangarbageposting
    @italiangarbageposting Před 8 měsíci +7

    It would be so cool to have a FPS game set during the indipendence wars fought between 1848-71

  • @laurentquero3207
    @laurentquero3207 Před 9 měsíci +32

    The encircled French imperial armies capitulated by decision of the emperor and were included in the losses, they were the only professional armies in the country
    the French republic was proclaimed and organized the defense of France with armies of volunteers not always well armed and extended the war by 6 months to the surprise of the Germans

    • @aksmex2576
      @aksmex2576 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Yes this is time they learnt that a smaller professional army is not as good as massive conscript army.
      Same reason why Soviets repelled a surprise German invasion - their conscription system.

    • @lester_the_molester
      @lester_the_molester Před 8 měsíci +14

      @@aksmex2576The Wehrmacht was a conscript army too…

    • @rbxless
      @rbxless Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@lester_the_molesterMaking an army of conscripts only amplifies the population differences of countries. The Soviets had a lot more manpower to throw at the Germans.

    • @lythd
      @lythd Před 7 měsíci

      @@aksmex2576 i mean i certainly wouldnt ever boil something down to one factor, but in that case i feel like ur just wrong. the soviets were outnumbered for a huge portion of the war. i would say the biggest reason is just enough production to hold on and keep the oil, and the germans would run out and without fuel there wasnt much they could do anymore. supply would be another big reason too.

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 Před 4 měsíci

      I suspect their lack of training is why French casualties were so much higher, once the professional French army was mostly used up.

  • @qwertyui_uwu
    @qwertyui_uwu Před 9 měsíci +1

    very good

  • @Noxitpies
    @Noxitpies Před 9 měsíci

    Good job man, i hope you can do the Sand War in the future

  • @alansewell7810
    @alansewell7810 Před 9 měsíci +20

    I didn't know much about this war. The Germans really drove deep. No wonder they tried it twice more.

  • @JacobFraps
    @JacobFraps Před 9 měsíci +6

    Had no idea so many people died in this war

    • @cotefabrice1801
      @cotefabrice1801 Před 9 měsíci +4

      french loses are like 60% captured. dead are similar to prussian

    • @Leprofdesinnoh
      @Leprofdesinnoh Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@cotefabrice1801 No actually France lost three times as many men as Germany. About 150k for France and 50k for Germany.

    • @cotefabrice1801
      @cotefabrice1801 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Leprofdesinnoh you’re right

  • @HistoricallyAccurate247
    @HistoricallyAccurate247 Před 13 hodinami

    Power of the dreyse needle rifle. Good luck reloading a musket when someone has a breach loading rifle

  • @Qwerka
    @Qwerka Před 7 měsíci

    Can you please do 1922 Battle of Sakarya?
    Please man it has been months

  • @bod-7268
    @bod-7268 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Atleast they didn't have to invade Belgium this time.

    • @neried
      @neried Před 9 měsíci +12

      Cuz there were no maginot line back then

    • @staymadlilbroski
      @staymadlilbroski Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@neriedthey’re basicly was tbh

    • @jeetsamajdar3844
      @jeetsamajdar3844 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@neriedlets assume the french were the maginot line

    • @lahire4943
      @lahire4943 Před 8 měsíci

      @@neriedThere was no Maginot line in 1914 either

  • @therraxz
    @therraxz Před měsícem +3

    so is this WW 0.5 then?

  • @user-kc8bo4il6k
    @user-kc8bo4il6k Před 8 měsíci +1

    I used to think its a small campaign·····impressive

  • @afaegawegahaserhserhsreh-hf2hr

    How do you make these videos?

  • @nahojnosslrak8807
    @nahojnosslrak8807 Před 8 měsíci +5

    germans sure know their war. im pretty sure they were the actual protagonists of this story

    • @borisbrosowski6630
      @borisbrosowski6630 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Well it was France that declared the war....

    • @DaoAncestor
      @DaoAncestor Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@borisbrosowski6630 the reason why they started made this to a big humilation after they lost 😂

    • @borisbrosowski6630
      @borisbrosowski6630 Před 6 měsíci

      Don't believe the BS that politicians tell you through state-financed schoolbooks and teachers (esp in history). Prussia had founded the North-German Confederation which threatened to be a predecessor to a united Germany, something that France could not accept as a united Germany would be superior (as proven in the war). Thus N3 looked for an incident to break up the NGFederation and maintain an influence over the smaller german states in the south. This general french policy led later to WW1 and even was continued up until 1923 when France tried to establish a Rhine Republic. @@DaoAncestor

  • @openlyracist8055
    @openlyracist8055 Před 8 měsíci +13

    Both armies reached over 1 million by the end, but French losses just were wild. The Germans cleave through the French like a hot knife in margarine.

    • @bunkerkorpf1440
      @bunkerkorpf1440 Před 8 měsíci +5

      Most of these losses were captured troops. Bad tactic and strategy lead to that...

    • @openlyracist8055
      @openlyracist8055 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@bunkerkorpf1440 so the French

    • @bunkerkorpf1440
      @bunkerkorpf1440 Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@openlyracist8055 in 1870 and 1940, yes, huge French fails.
      Although it was also true for USSR in 1941, with millions of captured troops in less than 5 months, still USSR won.
      Bad tactic and strategy don't always mean defeat if you have time to adapt and if you are able to replace losses (France in 1914, USSR in 1941).
      France couldn't win in 1870 once it lost it professionnal army, especially since "Germany" had far more people...

    • @xoxoxoxo570
      @xoxoxoxo570 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@bunkerkorpf1440in 1870 both countries had around the same population around 40 million

    • @bunkerkorpf1440
      @bunkerkorpf1440 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@xoxoxoxo570 Wrong, in 1870 France had around 37 millions people, and a far less younger population than Germany. So, far less soldiers indeed (soldiers are always mostly young guys), while "Germany" (ie german states forming later german empire) had around 41 millions people, and a far younger population (indeed second half of 19th century was a demographic boom for german states).
      You should learn more about history

  • @fadehistoria75
    @fadehistoria75 Před 9 měsíci

    Can you do the Paris commune?

  • @Russiaball878
    @Russiaball878 Před 9 měsíci

    How do you make these animated map

  • @gungnir3926
    @gungnir3926 Před 6 měsíci +3

    germany truly is superior

  • @austria-hungary7680
    @austria-hungary7680 Před 9 měsíci +16

    Imagine getting Napoleon to see this. The look on his face😂

  • @jacksmith7726
    @jacksmith7726 Před 2 měsíci

    Was the war about which way the colors on your flag should go vertical or horizontal

  • @staymadlilbroski
    @staymadlilbroski Před 9 měsíci

    100k this is for all your work.

  • @nick24488
    @nick24488 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Germany not going through belgium feels odd

  • @TRWFacty
    @TRWFacty Před 9 měsíci +9

    It's absloutely cursed seeing Germany push through Elsaß Lorraine even though I know the maginot didn't exist back then

  • @patrickp.1001
    @patrickp.1001 Před 5 měsíci +2

    What a humiliation for the French back then and and the last of the 3 German wars of unification that gave rise to the German Empire lead by Prussia. That war truly changed the course of European history

  • @TheeBritishGuy
    @TheeBritishGuy Před 8 měsíci

    What's the music that starts at 6:17

  • @geokid317
    @geokid317 Před 9 měsíci +12

    also, mistake, i believe that france was the attacker in this war

  • @fritoss3437
    @fritoss3437 Před 9 měsíci +120

    Reminder that Napoléon III was against this war, he should not be blamed for it

    • @genkupoke7064
      @genkupoke7064 Před 9 měsíci +33

      True, nevertheless we can congrats Bismarck for this war. Such a great mastermind.
      Also there was some important figure in French society (such as Emile Zola) who was also against the war and protested about

    • @istandwithisraeI
      @istandwithisraeI Před 9 měsíci +23

      He started the war

    • @fritoss3437
      @fritoss3437 Před 9 měsíci +9

      @@istandwithisraeI against his will

    • @istandwithisraeI
      @istandwithisraeI Před 9 měsíci +22

      @@fritoss3437 still started it over an insult

    • @fritoss3437
      @fritoss3437 Před 9 měsíci +10

      @@istandwithisraeI he was forced bro this is not his choice

  • @Communist_Doggo_Mapping
    @Communist_Doggo_Mapping Před 8 měsíci +1

    Can u do a tutorial bc i need to impress my friends oh wait i don't have any friends but still can u do it?

  • @shmabadu
    @shmabadu Před 4 měsíci

    Casualties mounting before offensive campaign begins, “Dysentery’s a hell of a thing.”