Did France Really Only Surrender? (History Review)
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Saying France always surrenders is like saying Japan was created just for hentai
Ayy
You're not wrong
Which is true
How are you in like every comment section
Go away
US : "Joking about France"
France : What a way to thank me for giving u life
UK: *triggered*
yeah france you did and thats why the world is fucked up full of war and terrrorism.
@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 Incredible, every words you just said is false
Of I forgot 2019 was a record since 1970 with 41 massive killings and 211 dead. Since the president is Donald Trump there is more massive shootings in ur country and more conflict between country like Iran, Russia, China...
@@woulaiverine8417 Incredible, every word YOU said is false.
Greetings to French from Poland 🇫🇷❤🇵🇱
Bonjour 🤗
Greetings to Polish from France!
Greetings my brother, even though there are tensions between our government we french love the polish people
GREETINGS POLISH BROTHER!! Let's have a toast to our glorious and historic friendship !! NA ZDROWIE !! SANTÉ !!!
@Polo That's true, Poland has lost independence to Soviet Union and France has lost few centuries of territorial expansion. Basically all of Europe was on a loser side as the second world war was a suicide of Europe. That is why the eu does not have an army today, because it is in American sphere of influence. Russians think they are strong but they have no economy what so ever. country 16x bigger than Poland, with 4 times greater population and with the economy which is just 3 times greater. Basically with their military spendings they just can dry their coffins to sustain their huge army, which probably in time will become obsolete.
Being a Brit, it might actually surprise you to hear me say: I agree. This actually annoys me a bit when people say that, because it seems to be entirely based on one single war (and would we have done any better if we'd been the target of Germany's Blitzkrieg which took everybody by surprise?). Even so, the government might have surrendered but the people didn't. Before that, France actually won quite a lot of wars, so even though we do have a traditional rivalry going back hundreds of years, I have to give credit where it's due: the French were badasses.
I agree
French resistance was actually useless almost the entire war until they were actually organised my the British to help with the Normandy landings.
@@jdawg7374 that's not true
@@jdawg7374 english influenced by french language so much people are questioning *if* english is even a germanic language.
I even call that a win.
Yeah Ik as an American I thank the French
What people don't understand is that the maginot line and France's overall plan to defend against Germany was bullet proof. The fact that Germany sent tanks through the Ardennes was a massive gamble and if they were spotted, they'd be easy prey for artillery and possibly have all their tanks divisions annihilated. What we should be making fun of was the French general who was told that tanks were spotted in the ardennes by scouts but didn't believe the reports.
Yes, thank you, someone finally said it.
The french plan to defend against the axis was good but nowhere near bulletproof. Saying that the assault through the Ardennes forest was a gamble does not disqualify it from being a successful military operation of great strategic value. The main thing that led to France's downfall even before the war began is that it failed to modernize and to adapt. Yes, they had better tanks than Germany, more men than them but as the first year of Barbarossa taught us, it's not about the numbers, but how you use them. France failed to make their tanks useful. They still used tanks as infantry support behind trenches and thus they were very unreliable in close combat and very slow. Germany didn't win in France because they walked into an empty forest, they won because they brought innovations, decisive tactics not seen before, totally new to the allied command so the allies found themselves in a situation where no solution in was sight.
Yea was it not meant to be a great natural defence?
@@JesusChrist-bx8ge No, it was a forest, a fucking forest. It wasn't like it was an insurmountable mountain or shit like that, it was a forest which even if small and fast tanks wouldn't magically be able to penetrate, you still have motorized infantry which would be even deadlier or even plain infantry would give the french guarding the forest a run for their money. Having a minimal defence on your flanks is inexcusable. They knew what type of warfare the germans were using as they watched very carefully how Poland got destroyed and yet they did little to no effort to prepare for such a war. They were convinced that the germans would fight as they did decades ago in the First World War which was downright stupid.
Not to mention that the germans successfully entered France through the Ardennes in the early stages of the WW1.
It was a huge misplay by the french fighting like in the past. Wars are not won by repeating the strategies you once used, but by creating new ones.
@@thiccpazuzu2573 The French command was very convinced that Germany would never again be strong enough to threaten France, and that trenches and forts would be enough to stop the German army if it invaded France. Even after the invasion of Poland (which they had promised to protect, invading Germany) they did not change their plans. If the French had heard de Gaulle, the situation would be quite different.
Well, glad they did not hear it, otherwise we would not have memes.
Surrender your bum to me Drew
Alex The Rambler! No
Weird flex but ok
Flex tape
We all know it's not the first bum ever that ever surrendered to you
Welp, to Cali!
*Pont Saint Louis Battle*
France : Hmmm I've got 9 soldiers
Italy : Ah ! I've 3000
*4 days later*
France : GG EZ
Talent confirmed
France : qui est le suivant ?
Do you know how Italy was bad with Mussolini ? x)
A Staler
Do you know that is fake? Lmao
Is ONLY in the french wikipedia lol
Grand BaleK
Is fake lmao and why is it only in the french wikipedia? Lol
Another point is that when the French do win fights in WW2...those battles are usually ignored. Fights like the Battle for Bir Hakeim, where a Free French brigade, outnumbered 10:1 and abandoned by everyone but the DAF, held up the Afrika Corps for more than two weeks while the British army retreated...giving the British army time to prepare the positions at El Alamein. The French did retreat, with permission, after they ran out of ammunition, and had only one day's worth of water.
they mainly do that because this is during el alamein where the german troops were practically running on fumes at this point. the only reason they kept getting away with this shit was the fact the british/allies kept fucking shit up. which ironically wouldnt stop any time soon, and only got away with this shit by the skin of their teeth.
@@Thekilleroftanks 3723 French against 37 000 Germans & Italians, French were on foot Germans had tanks and air support. Even on fumes they had the advantage...
So as Montecassino + France invasion from the south
And please don't forget the heroic résistance at Dunkerque, when 30 000 french exhausted soldiers held on around 150 000 germans forces (tanks and stuka) during several days, while british troops where moving up to England
@@louiscasteran6298 Yea, even professional historians tend to forget that if the French 1st Army wasn't holding the Germans at bay, there would have been no evacuation.
Abridged story of francoland(spain), but everytime there's a civil war drew takes a shot
Every time they go bankrupt drew takes 2 shots
every american colony they lose drew takes 2 shots
Basically drews body will be irrecognizable
And everytime they discover something then name it a catholic name drew drink a glass full of red wine in one shot
Are you promoting coma drinking?
France: *Builds the Maginot Line*
Germany: *Teleports behind it* Nothing personal, kid.
Germany: omi wau shinderu
France: NANI!?
Belgium:*exists
Germany:it’s free real estate
I mean, after WW1 it was VERY personal if you think about it.
@@SimoLInk1698 You're right. But I thought about it and realized that France was the one that did it personal in the first place. At the beginning of WW1 they were still mad for the Franco-Prussian war, and that was one of the reasons for the extreme demands on the Treaty of Versailles at France's side.
Hate leads to more hate, I guess.
Germany: *You're gonna have a bad time*
France: *Surrenders*
GAME OVER
You forget to talk about the Québécois that survive trough the British influences in Canada and kept French culture
Oh criss que oui! Anglo speaker dont like us because we speak french
Je me souviens
@@alexandreguyot8507 moi aussi
Yes, despite the fact that people in Quebec speak a different French and all that they totally preserved French culture by making every product ever have instructions or words written in both French and English and help ruin the economy of Canada for no reason whatsoever.
Canadian Entity they quite speak the same language of the north of France...
They speak French with another accent than the Parisian one as the rest of France ^^
France have the biggest win/lose battle ratio of all nations.
and with that amazing score it was occupied several times...
luis marques but occupied the world twice time !
@@JFIN-fk7hu what world? Not the portuguese empire nor the spanish...
@@luismarques9280 Ummmm you forget glory puts u in history as great but great victories dont the french soldiers fought bravely in ww2 but no one looks at that
@@ritaDas-xl4kz They did
In fact, the Maginot Line wasn't that ineffective. It wasn't passed. The french government made a deal with Belgium, saying that, at the start of the war, they would enter Belgium before Germany attacked them and would occupy natural fortifications along the river Meuse. But the Belgians withdrew in 1936, thinking neutrality was quite good (lol).
If you're interested in this topic, you should and watch the video of Eastory on the french plan to win ww2.
Well, yes and no. The French just didn't think motorised vehicles would be able to get through the Ardennes fast enough. Even if they had put their troops in position in time, they still wouldn't have covered the ardennes more than the already present inexperienced and outnumbered troops. They should have extended the maginot line up to the Meuse, but figured the ardennes was good enough to slow the Germans down untill reinforcements arrive.
Don't get me wrong the Belgians becoming neutral messed the plans somewhat up, but in the end it wasn't the main reason why the Maginot line was "useless" in WW2
yeah, the main Reason was the Gamelin's incompetence@@MDP1702
The French planned to continue the Maginot line to the coast, however, the Belgian government was uncomfortable with this and due to pressure from the Belgian And British governments the French were forced to stop at the Ardennes. Prior to the war, there have been reports about the vulnerablility of the forest which was discovered during exercises that were conducted by the French. However, these discoveries were tossed out by the higher ups.
The French did actually occupy belgium in 1939. And that's why they lost. In early may, when the German Army reach the city of Sedan, lightly defended (mostly with some reserve units, and disarmed bunker) all the elite french division were already in the north, near liege, to support belgian lines. The first engagement in French territory is a tank battle, opposing about 50 french tanks to an entire German division, and the tanks won. But the Maurice Gamelin (in charge of the french high comand) didn't think it was the main german attack. So he ordered the northern motorized, armored, and elite divisions to keep their position, and defend the belgian border. The next day, the german start their attack on Sedan and Gamelin realized he was wrong, so he asked his main forces near liege to withdraw and join Sedan as fast as possible to support the defense. Meanwhile, he asked the defenders of Sedan to hold the line for two days, so that reinforcements can arrive. Unfortunately, the german army launch their assault, and bombard the bunkers of the french defense line. Everybody panics, and they fall back.
Funny thing : everybody panicked because they were using phones to communicate, and no radios. And when the luftwaffe launch their bombardment, they didn't kill that many french soldiers, but some lucky hits cut the underground phones lines which permited communications between french units. So the unexperienced and unwilling French Soldiers (everybody had in mind the carnage of WW I in France), cut from their high comand, panicked, withdraw, and Sedan fall. After that, it is the military genius of Rommel and Guderian, some drugs and a lot of coffee that allowed the german to reach Dunkirk in a few weeks.
Actually, the Maginot Line did work ! Italy tried to invade France during WWII, but never got past the Line. However, Germany managed to get through the Ardennes, wich was considered as a natural barrier, since during WWI Germany never could get motorized vehicles through it.
France: *Surrenders in a couple of months.*
The Internet: haha baguette surrendered lol
Denmark: *sitting quietly in the corner knowing damn well they surrendered in 6 hours.*
MeatusBeatus Eh, you guys were fucked anyway. France had a big army that matched Germany’s in terms of tank size and quality. It just that they sucked at using them and were isolated and destroyed easily by German combined arms.
are you comparing a literal superpower to denmark
Genghis Khan damn you right
V4 Enthusiast the French army in 39 was under equipped and not that big since France started to demilitarised itself after WW1
The only place where the French could compete with the Germans were the tanks but some stupid French generals didn’t listen to De Gaulle and said that « tank are useless » basically and not a lot were produced .
Can't say i blame the memes. Even Norway survived longer than France.
The whole surrendering thing was actually a reaction from US against the French veto in the UN Security Council. France voted against the US intervention in Iraq, knowing it would be a disaster for the Middle-East balance. Some US fan boys took it as cowardice and started making memes and jokes about the French surrendering. But until 2003, there wasn't such a backlashing against French military, they were respected as one of the 5 biggest powers in the world
I thought of the same thing, I don't any see any jokes about France surrendering before the whole Iraq thing
I'm french and none of my friends nor myself do that... that's kinda fucked up dude were do you live?
@@gastonjaillet9512
Moscow. Lol
Last time I check it started during the Vietnam war when the U.S. was pissed when the French quit and left Indochina to the communists.
@Riff Raff Yeah the Frenchbashing in US definitely comes from several French decisions to not back the US on certain diplomatic matters, and we can't say they were wrong (Vietnam, Iraq, Syria...). I feel bad for the French, it's unfair. They've the best victory/defeat ratio in the world, and their military history is glorious. Charlemagne, Philip Augustus, Louis XIV, Napoleon etc are among the best leaders of their time
England : I'm invicible
France : Are u sure about that?
Eltaris
India: England you just ripped your own language
@@user-IL1EL??dude tf u talking about begger
I think you have that backwards.
England nowadays would destroy France
Lol France is the world's 5 military and one of U.S best friend
When you bankrupt your entire country to give the US independence and then they act like they did it on their own and rename French fries to freedom fries
Zakk Davies to be completely fair, we mostly did it to spit the Brit.
Totally worth it :P
Ahah
To be fair, France being bankrupt has many causes. The American revolution is only a minor factor. But Americano-centrists like to believe that the French revolution is a direct consequence of the American revolution, while the French revolution has many causes, and some of them much more obvious than the American revolution.
True except those fries! They're ours! We Belgians claim the fries!!!
the best thing is that the "french fries" aren't french at all, they are from Belgium XD
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In France we actually say '' Fuir à l'anglaise'' which means flee like like an english" we do have a lot of expression like yours but reversed like french horn is english horn. So yeah just a question of perception.
French are famous for their bravery of the battlefield. Second only to perhaps Sparta. Paris however is famous for producing the most incompetent, slimy deceitful rulers to lead the bravest souls. Perhaps you can explain that one to me. And yes, we english have ran away from fights for hundreds of years. We like to call it "tactical withdrawal" and the fighting on foreign soil excuse. It is impressive how much of french success was purely down to the common man. I think our countries' achievements speak for themselves though.
hahah shut up and surender germans fucked you in ww2
@@mihajloautist6328 Omg I never thought I would meet such an ignorant person.
@@mandowarrior123 America has entered the chat
Tawer Produckt 🖕🏼
Americans: France only surrender
French : btw we helped you a lot with your independence and we are the country with the most battle victory of the world
@@Ebilcake First of all this video is about history and not only about the 75 last year because i don't know if you heard anything about it but their were history before USA(i know it sounds crazy but it is just a fact)
Secondly the French plan during WW2 was based ressources (that Germany as non except coal)and on a long-term victory because we knew that they would come from Belgium so we made an alliance with them the Maginot line was only to force Germany to go through Belgium but this country got scared of Germany and broke the alliance so YES our all plan fell BUT it wasn't our fault that Belgium is scared too easily and as no long-term plan
the only thing that threw French strategy to the carbage is it willingness to not let Belgium alone against the German
Americans: France only surrenders
French : dude we almost conquered the whole World twice and made you manifest you freedom by literaly destroying our own economy and country....
@@darvasse Shocky is a troll. You should not waste time and good arguments on him, he might simply not get it.
"only surrender"
"most battle victory of the world"
Both are nonsense. It does not matter how many fights you have won, what counts are the wars and their results.
For example, Napolen has won countless battles but has lost two wars.
France has won one significant major war throughout history, the Hundred Years War, everything else has more or less balanced itself out.
The US Americans, however, were particularly successful, they could hold and incorporate their entire colonial empire.
The former great power Austria was particularly unsuccessful.
Shocky As a Brit, we could only evacuate our troops from Dunkirk due to the last stand of the French army (and some of the British army but that’s not the point)
La France mérite vraiment le respect de son histoire, de sa culture et bien sûr de op idée morale + 20%. Il est dommage que nos deux pays vivent ces tensions diplomatiques en ce moment. Salutations d'Italie !!
Salutations cousin et merci!
Tu parles vraiment bien français, je te tire mon chapeau :)
nos gouvernement ont des tension, mais quoi qu'il arrive, vous etes nos frère latin, de culture et de sang :)
Salutations.
J'espère que le revers italien au rugby n'entachera pas nos relations 😉
Ssd - 0 Revolutions per minute
Hdd - 1700 Revolutions per minute
France - 4000 Revolutions per minute
That not 4000...we only do 3756 revolution per minutes
Wrong 3756/min everybody know that!
Actually it's called a strike.
But yeah I get what you mean.
😂😂
No it's only 3756 revolutions per minutes
"Every Man has two countries: his own and France" Jefferson
Actually, it's Franklin who said that I'm pretty sure, but the quote still is the same.
Actually, this is a paraphrase of some sort because Jefferson wrote this in his autobiography 'ask the traveled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live?-certainly in my own. where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life.-Which would be your second choice? France!'. The quote you wrote is however present Henri de Bornier's play 'La Fille de Roland', from 1875.
France and France *bruh*
So when we're French, our countries are France and... *France ?*
@@kiyomi_kamimoto Yes
france has been a powerhouse throughout military history, the france is quick to surreder meme is just that,
a meme.
like italy memes of switching side and everything is build out of pizzas and pasta.
But pizza and pasta are an important part of the italian culture
How many french surrender do you know ?
At least pizza and pasta memes are not offensive. I'm French, I can take bread, wine and snails (never eaten snails or frogs anyway) jokes everyday. But I just can't stand the disrespect for the soldiers in the surrender memes. I guess it's the same for switching sides shitty military jokes for Italy.
Very good video. Before 7:37 you could have talk of how france turn back into a republic with the revolution of 1848
And then was turned into another empire before becoming a republic again in 1870. They sure do love their revolutions in France.
@@adamklaits6379 vive la France mon ami. Nous serons toujours insoumis ✊✊
On aime bien les révolutions en France. Petite proposition de loi qui pourrait être cool: Pour que les présidents ne fassent pas de la merde, il faudrait qu'à chaque fin de mandat on fasse un référendum pour décider si le président a été bon et si - de 50% le trouve bien alors on le guillotine.
@@Elta305 Alors. Dans beaucoup de pays, même si c'est extrême pourquoi pas.
Mais en France, on connaît déjà le résultat en fait, plus personne ne se présentera..
@@maloflory
Pas plus mal. Ca écartera les banquiers et les profiteurs pour laisser la place à ceux qui veulent vraiment améliorer la France
Damn your cosplay production value is higher than Prozd
You're stepping up to the game I see
👏🌍 *HISTORY* 👏🗼 *REVIEW*
Frères et sœurs français, n'oubliez pas ; « Tu dois aimer la France, parce que la Nature l'a faite belle, et parce que l'Histoire l'a faite grande. »
"You must love France, because Nature has made her beautiful, and because history has made her great. " Ernest Lavisse.
Dieu a créé la France, et il a vu que c'était le plus beau pays du monde. Alors pour pas que les autres soient jaloux, il a créé les français. - blague belge
lazyshoggy Et je suis tout à fait d’accord ahah
@@lazyshoggy en tant que français j'approuve... hélas lol
"In Britain, we are free to form our own opinions" -me
@@lazyshoggy heuuuu
What about the battle of Pont-Saint-Louis ? One of the best french exploit during ww2
Stonne battle
True, 9 French against 3000 Italians.
=> French Victory
it's the battle of Al Haleim
Any country : I WANT TO CONTROL THE WORLD
russia : aint happening cheif
Mongols : OH! Hello there
Except against the germans in WWI. russia really fricked up there.
also Mongolia
@@themark2medic216 Germany lost to Russia in ww2 and Poland inevitably did too
Coughs in Mongols
@@themark2medic216 That is wrong. WW2-Germany could have never won the war they started.
Why learn history at school when you can watch Drew Durnil aka Napoleon Bonaparte.
He is jeff
@@gauthierlechevalier1379 yeya
Jeff bonaparte
@@ari3903 emperor Jeff, leader of kingdom of Jeffia, Hirohito was my desk m8, Mussolini was my jail m8...
DIS IS GENIUS
I have a little theory about the meme of french surrender, most of the world speak English and who is the biggest rival of France? That's right the UK...
French is 2nd, not so far from English. They're both the official languages for the J.O.'s and French is the official language of the U.N.
But your theory's still valid :p
It's from the french bashing
Britain found France
French was regarded as the most cultured nation by many other countries, including Prussia. Frederick the Great allowed only French to be spoken at his court. Which explains why the highest Prussian military medal was called the "Pour le mérite." And his private little palace was named "Sans Soucis."
Even at the height of the British empire, British wealthy families gave their kids a French education. Compare the 'most beautiful English palaces' with the French palaces like Versailles. French wines were and are renowned the world over. The British drank gin and tonic (or port, which tastes like wine with sugar added).
Well nice theory, the truth is just that France refused to come with the US to Iraq in 2003 and they got triggered too much
Surrendering jokes started by americans after our president Jacques Chirac (1995-2007) refuses to go to Irak with the coalition in 2003.
"What a french soldier can do in three seconds? Surrender three times" amercians politicians and americans newspaper April 2003
"The french army fought like a lion" General von Reichenau June 1940
When your enemies respect you while your allies spit on you.
Also just some historical facts Drew, there were the french resistance (very famous resistance that helped so much the allies to have some information) but there were the free french army too directed by De Gaulle, the FFA fought on Bir Hakeim in 1942, Corsica in 1943, Monte Cassino in 1944, Marseille 1944, Normandy 1944, and of course, the french second armoured division directed by the general Leclerc that liberated Paris in 1944. Only Pétain surrender to germans AND OF COURSE I don't talk about Dunkirk, the english forces flee while the french fought the germans to keep the english safe. Thanks for this video Drew, de la part d'un français très patriotique (from a very patriotic french). :P
J'me permet de faire un copié collé de ce pertinent message :)
@@Un_mur_porteur Mais je t'en prie aucun soucis mon ami. ;)
Merci enfin quelqu'un qui n'est pas inculte ;)
@@modern_historiesonig9071 C'est rare de nos jours n'est ce pas? XD
@@LOeuffy en effet, j'ai l'impression que le monde régresse, nous aussi d'ailleurs pendant un moment ont était intelligents et cultivées et maintenant cela va dans l'autre sens c'est triste, heureusement comme dirait René Goscinny il reste, heureusement d'ailleurs ces irréductibles gaulois 😂😂😂
Petition to make Drew clap twice and say history review every time he does one of these.
Now here's another question:
DID FRANCE USE BAGUETTE WEAPONS?
as balas eram feitas de croassaint, sei lá como se fala isso
Yes they used stale baguettes as bayonets during WW1 and WW2
I am french and i can confirm
did france make the tgv
@@JoMiMi_h no that was Japan
I had count:-)
All frenxh-english battle from Hastings to Waterloo: 538 battles, 301 french victories (=55,94%), 214 English victories (39,96%), 23 draws (4,27%).
If French had won this battle, the French Empire during more ...
@@nono5114 oui.
Börk that include naval battles? Britain won most of those
@@Tom-2142 yes it count navals battles.
Börk well Britain won most naval battles against France.
french kingdom : fight for the american to give them freedom
America ; thanks I swear we're gonna be great ally
France get into revolution and start being invade be everybody
France : Help bro .
America : nah I'm good
France : Am I a jock to you ?
I got the joke. Realistically, the US did the right thing. In the condition they are in (poor, crazy revolts, and everyone a bit pensive after the ratification of the Constitution) they have no chance against the British after merely a decade after the Revolution. It hurts America to abandon them though...
Then US helped us in return during ww1 and ww2 so I forgive them :3
@@niko68680 of course they did no state ever od things because they have a good heart and they like to help peaple I am not that naïve but they kinda helped us
the suite, during the second independance war in America, the USA were saved by an french pirat name lafit
@@godhelix6667 annnnnd now we are surrenders for americans..... Frenchmen are kings of auto-derision
America: You did it?
France: Yes.
America: What did it cost?
France: *looks back at revolution* Everything…
French Revolution was the best thing that happened to the world so boi you R wrong
@@godhelix6667 As a proud frenchman I can asssure you it was the worst thing that happened to this country
We just bartered a just kingdom for a tyrannical republic
@@lovegood300 If you were that proud you shoud see how with the revolution which made the french people richer have more liberty, more equality and more fraternity and how the 1st republic was "tyrannical" and how the last kingdom was just ? There were 3 groups of people with differents rights and the "Noble" group had what we call "privilèges" which gave them more rights. So it is not "Just" as you say.
@@godhelix6667 You don't know what you're talking about, since the revolution my country didn't stop to decline.
Going crisis after crisis, losing any feel of national pride and faith ( the republic did everything to kick out catholicism out of France ).
The truth is that since the very beginning of the republics the people became more and more unhappy and you see it today with the yellow jackets.
Those protests are a sign that our government became more and more distant to us and do not care at all for the french.
And do not dare to talk about any "freedom of speech and thinking" in this country nowadays you're allowed to think freely since your opinion does not diverge too much from the actual ideology in place at the government.
I will repeat it again, in times of kings France was a prosperous and proud nation, until the beginning of the so called "enlightnement".
@@godhelix6667 Frenchman here. What he's trying to say is according to history, French did better as a monarchy than as a democracy. You must also have in mind than France is surrounded by representative monarchies like the UK, Spain, Belgium... Basically democracies which saved their king. French killed their monarch. So there's some kind of fantasy thinking going on here, like "what if"
America:Our war was the worst vietnam war ever
France: Are we a joke to you?
In fact, we (the Frenchs) are one of the causes that lead to the US Vietnam war.... 😅
@@alexandrevidal5203
Yes, you Frenchmen failed to defeat the Vietcong, and then left for the Americans. The post-occupation French Army is not an example of success.
americans tend to forget the world consists of more than america :P
Kaiser Wilhelm II you Americans failed to defeat the Vietcong and North Vietnamese army
The American invasion of Vietnam was not an example of success
avtomat kalashnikova Commie swine did you call the Kaiser an A M E R I C A N ?
Finally a decent video about France. Thanks a lot to rehabilitate our History to foreigners
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka only for ignorant people like you
@@MrEviLow Leave this kiddo, he don't even know which country has won the most battles in history and has the best ratio in it.. 😏
@@Mitaka.Kotsuka Nah bro we're not going to declare war to any country cuz we're already busy with our revolution, but you know, not all peoples can be badass enough to declare war to it's own governement ;)
@@yes571 Welll, actually is pretty rare to see a country to need two revolutions... but i cede on you for that.... its needed some guts to declare the war on your own gov. contrary on what you may think, declaring this war and wining may possible vanish all that fame actually, you can say at the end "we defeated the entire europe union"
@@MrEviLow you are right, but... it can be a decent assambley of countries whom defeated france in wars and you wonder... im from one of these countries, lets start counting... Brits, Germans (two times) Italians, Spanish, Mexicans....
France: *screws up like 3 or 2 times*
Everyone else: huehuehuhehuheue memes
Ikr xd.
it was quite a large screw up though
@@raf4933 No, because of the Résistance 🤦♂️ 🤦♀️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♀️
Watch the video first, you..
I mean the way the screwed up was massive in just six weeks.
Germany on the hand fought four years in WW1 before surrendering because they exhausted themselvea, while fought to the death in WW2.
Germany lost bad, but nowhere near embarrassing as the French.
@@solarfreak1107 German lover.
If you do Germany, dress up like Otto von Bismarck
Why not Merkel?
Why not Zoidberg?
Why not the famous painter and moustache man, Mr. H?
Nha... dress like August von Mackensen with that rad hat!
Dress up like Ted Bundy.
*clap clap* HISTORY REVIEW
Please do history of Best Korea
So you want him to do one on South Korea
Awesome Grant
*West Korea
North Korea Best Korea!
Space Korea is the best!
Japan = best Korea
during the Dunkirk retreat the French army saved the British. Without them, England should have surrendered
Exactly. Yet in the movie made by Nolan, they are represented either as assholes who didn’t hesitate to fire on British as they were, apparently, bad skilled soldiers, or as cowards trying to fly away from their country.
That movie is the perfect example of what « rewriting history » means (thanks to the tactical genius of Churchill). Dunkirk was a retreat, a defeat, the British army who was running away, while the French army was still fighting to help them going back to England, knowing they had already lost. So basically, fact is French soldiers fought when everything was already lost, yet THEY are the cowards. While the British were doing everything to sail away from the fight, yet THEY are the brave. Truth is, none were cowards, this was just an ugly defeat that resulted from a poor strategy (the Maginot Line).
Cyrus Finally someone mention this..
British have the art of making a defeat ....a glorious victory ! @@cyrus7805
actually the only allied infantry fighting dunkrik battle was french, everyone else had fully surrendered or went "insert monthy pyton run away joke" mode
the polish fighted in France @@Martel_Clips
As a German who is very interested at the time of no no Germany I can say with all my pride that the French were and are up to date one of the most powerful and beautiful nations on earth
Do an abridged history of Ulm
ULM OR RIOT
ULM OR RIOT
ULM OR RIOT
Ulm or Roit!
Ulm or Roit!
Ulm or Roit!
ULM OR RIOT
ULM OR RIOT
Man I just love your way of explaining history. I hope you will also do my pretty little Czechia once.
Wait, the French resistance is something that's not talked about? Since when? The Polish and Yugoslav partisans are not talked about, despite the former fighting on their own in Warsaw for months until it was destroyed, and the latter being a massive thorn in the Axis' side and eventually becoming the legitimate government of Yugoslavia (which, in the end, allowed Yugoslavia to stay independent in the Cold War).
He was ironic
all country occupied create a form of resistance. the french one is probably more known because of girls
you've had your Sabaton song bud' ;^)
@@scarletcrusade8729 Poland had the largest resistance and the first resistance. They also had many women fighting
@@alalawenska1642 Of course! Polish people are brave and courageous there's no debate on this.
It's more related to american's propaganda : everything they touched has been mystify in order to serve their agenda of world domination. And since France was "liberated" by the American there's a tendency to exagarate the reality.
I believe if there's so little insentive to promote the Polish resistance is because in the mind of the endocrinated Americans they're still seen as communists due to the Cold War. It's only my opinion tho i can be wrong.
Huge fan of the historical stuff you've been doing - as a fellow map staring addict I believe the visibility of history and meaning behind each nation's stories are a huge part of why the world is so fascinating. Keep it up man
Please make a video about Austria's History in the Future.
Why? to see if Kurz Ears will carry him off in the Storm he is seeding? I always new its not good to marry your cousin, but every country got his traditions...
@@vincentbentele2146 I am Austrian myself just wanted him to talk about my Home country
Verdun , the French are formidable.
Loving the abridged history videos. Great stuff man.
In France we always had it hard and we still have it hard even today but we never give up, we keep on struggling such is our nature to struggle against fate
Fun Fact: france is most battle winner nation in the world more than 1000
False, France fought in total approximately 1200 battles,raids and sieges, 700 being victories, 400 being defeats and 100 being 'inconclusive'.
Source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_involving_France
But they were the nation that won most wars, so ...
TheSaltyEdy source : Wikipedia . Ok you can stop there
that was the kingdom not the repulic of france
@@florian6816 Meh, Wikipedia is not the most trustable source however it's better than nothing. I don't see him providing a source whatsoever which makes his entire statement invalid. Mine on the other hand, although suspicious, has somewhat of a foundation on which it stands.
Correction we learned to scream “THEY’RE IN THE TREES” from the French. Thank you Dien Bien Phu very cool.
"ILS SONT DANS LES ARBRES"
I love these history review videos. With the music, the costumes and everything. Pls do some more in the future.
Ohhh this is it... Please do more of this drew!
When the American Kids and German kids keep making fun of you, *so you show them this video*
They are still going to make jokes, because the humiliation was so great that it obscured any success predecessor to her.
At the end France win ww1 and ww2 and germany loose both
@@legendvalki3531 ik that
@@legendvalki3531 i mean did france rly win? does a destroyed country counts as winning? ^^ i dont think so
@@legendvalki3531 Uhm no lol
Charlemagne didn't split his empire because it was to big but his kids needed to share it at his death.
His grandchildren
Napoleon: Sets up a massive empire that has a large sphere of influence, Takes Moscow, only fails that to the Deadly winters, and defeats a few coalitions on the way.
Everyone: France surrendered xD
Napoleon: Am i a joke to you?
That is why it is so frustrating france surrendered so easily. We expected great things. Weak french government is what it is.
tfw you gradually keep beating up the french through your invention of irregular warfare and almost made the french drain and waste around 300,000 soldiers within your region, made the emperor himself coin the prolonged war an ulcer and completely made him regret his decisions but everyone just keeps pointing at the russian campaign as napoleon's decline of power
*sad guerrilla noises*
@@manperson5315 I know peninsular war is firgotten
@@manperson5315 and that is why you don't fight major fronts thousands of kilometers apart
@@steamstrategy7670 «All the circumstances of my disasters are linked to this fatal knot; the war in Spain destroyed my reputation in Europe, entangled my difficulties, and opened a school for English soldiers. It was I who trained the British Army on the Peninsula »
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Every time I hear Habsburg, THAT same image pops up in my head.
History of Russia, but every time there's a dictator or tyrant in charge Drew takes a shot of vodka
Spoiler: Drew will be dead by the beginning of the 20th century, actually he will be dead even if he would capture only 20th and 21th century
That's Tsaricide!
I don't wanna die within their first year of existense
During the battle of Dunkirk, some french soldiers were alone in front of 20 germans soldiers, and they kept fighting as possible as they can
Some British soldiers also held the line tho- it wasnt just the French.
@@somedude272 Some ok some
Napoleon is the greatest general in history, only regarding the number of battles won (52)
And France is the country with the highest number of battle victory, 1115 I think, british 1105 (400 years age gap) and united states is already at 800 something only in 243years (some people just really love the taste of blood)
Ahh, hate to be pedantic, but strictly napoleon operated as a field marshal. Plus, ghengis khan would supposedly ride in his sleep so he could be everywhere. He certainly led more than 52 battles. And sun tsu would say a great general wouldn't fight on multiple fronts xD.
Americans don’t like the taste of blood... they like the taste and smell of O I L. They did a lot of wars for it (Iraq, Afghanistan)... and they criticize colonial empires, but they put dictators to power in certains countries behind the people’s back, so...
@@mandowarrior123 A lot of Ghengis Khan' battles was in fact victories of his sons. Ghengis gave them many commands to his army especially in the West.
Wait so England is born in 881 ?
@@plumebrisee6206 No 1066
I love these thanks for posting!
France in a nutshell (:BADASS🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Want to see drew in a greek costume(with mustsache) eating gyro
surprisingly very good. Would love to see more.
Dude amazing video!!
5:09 the most ambitious kamikaze mission ever.
For the next History of a Country video, you should do:
Germany
Russia
Canada
India
Mexico
or
The Behemoth:
Switzerland
Actually the medieval age for switzerland would be basically really along the line of burn everything.
The 1800 would be burn Napoléon
1856 would be a loud piss off statement torwards prussia.
And ww1-2 would be the Paranoia.
@@nietname2468 I know, but I just though it'd be cool idea, that's all
@@tctlunar3488 it is.
As a swiss i also want to see him fail at the names.
@@nietname2468
Pronounce Zürich:
*Zoo-rich*
If he does, I expect him to say exactly that 😂
I know this is just one voice on the INTERNET, but I love these new types of videos you are making.
Love it. Continue drew
Im surprised you didnt talk about Louis XIV he is practically the Napoleon of the 1600s and he made the Habsburgs weaker and dethroned Spain as in military power.
4:00 That one random monk randomly shooting into a crowd of peasants xD
Thank you for this
All memes aside, this is probably one of my new favourite series on youtube, can't wait for more! (pssst do Germany or the UK next!)
History of Afghanistan. What does not being in a civil war mean?
a stable nation
it actually has a quite old history dating back to 5000 years plus
Well, there is a reason it's called the "Graveyard of Empires"
@@perplexingkelp No thats Afghanistan
@@primuspilusfellatus6501
This is a discussion about Afghanistan.
Who needs an education when you have Drew?
True
@@habermanmusic dew.
Exactly why you need an education if you're gonna end up like Drew who sucks at HOI4. So go to school if you don't wanna suck at HOI4.
I love these, Drew.
at 3:40: the music is "Quand je bois du vin clairet"
A french Renaissance song
The history of France is Game of throne.
7:12 they never got ethiopia
7:15 they never got thailand
Please make these kinds of videos more.
Thanks a lot for the clarification man really appreciate it ! Salutations from france
Honestly who would have thought that memes and history would go so well together?
England: invadedes france
Jone of arc: hello *wins and dies* *becomes a saint at the same church that cald her a witch*
Excellent video
I love the history vids!
Merci pour cette vidéo 🇨🇵
Yo Daddy Durnil could you make a history video about the non existing country known as Denmark?
Could you do more french videos as being french it made me very happy XD
MORE HISTORY REVIEW
Britain: *makes tax*
America: France help
France:
**Insert guess I’ll die meme here**
Spain: It's show time!
We need the history of Germany and Japan
Germany:HSE,Beer, Deustche Qualited, Erika,EU.
Japan:Nani, Battle Royale of dudes, Meiji, Shiroyama, Hirohito, a couple of weird american brothers, Manga.
👏👏 history review
I love world history and i learn more from you than my actual history teacher
Nothing like having your entire country’s long history summed up with “lol, they surrendered.”
Abridged history of the Netherlands. It's not only weed, trust me.
From Dust To A Lifeform You guys and your sneaky bomb boats vs the Spanish
also bikes and tulips...
"Hey England. Nice navy you got there. Be a real shame if something happened to it." -- Admiral de Ruyter
Sneaky Dutch rearmament schemes, claiming they were just building giant clogs with windmills on top "for the tourists, you know?" But then, ah ha! they were hundred-gun ships of the line all along.
harbl99 >Gets 14 of it’s warships captured... by cavalry
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_Den_Helder
@@v4enthusiast541 yeah we don't talk about the part of our history where we are obliterated by world powers, only about stealing a piece of a UK ship.
LoL, I really like how you combine your humor with facts:)
please make a video about finland because you have only done major countries so far i think finland would be interesting + it has some memes in it winter war/ and htere are some finnish memes that might be worth looking into even though they are stale asf