Napoleons Final Defeat: 1815 Historical Battle of Waterloo | Total War Cinematic Battle
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- The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition. One of these was a British-led force with units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington (often referred to as the Anglo-allied army or Wellington's army). The other comprised three corps of the Prussian army under Field Marshal von Blücher (the fourth corps of this army fought at the Battle of Wavre on the same day). The battle was known contemporarily as the Battle of Mont Saint-Jean in France or La Belle Alliance ("the Beautiful Alliance") in Prussia.
Game - Total War: Napoleon
00:00 Introduction
00:22 The Coalition
00:49 Battle at Ligny
01:13 Coalition movements
02:08 The French army
02:32 The British position
03:07 Preliminary moves
04:01 Fighting begins
05:19 Battle on the British left
07:28 Prussians arrive
07:39 English form Quare Formation
09:07 Prussians engage
09:26 Battle at the Centre
10:05 Napoleons final push
11:24 The French retreat
11:45 Aftermath
The best movie about Napoleons return to France from exile on Elba and the battle of Waterloo is "Waterloo". With Rod Steiger playing Napoleon and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington. The battle scenes are phenomenal. No CGI! I believe it was filmed in Yugoslavia.
Yes I’ve seen it, incredible film
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Yes. In my opinion Steiger plays a much more credible Napoleon. The battle scenes are remarkable and passionate. I believe the production hired 10,000 Soviet soldiers to be Le Grand Army and The British army.
@@r.menzel8020 one of napoleon's best adaptations and probably the single best aristocrat performance ever by Plummer. Both performances are witty and exciting, great movie.
Waterloo (1970) is definitely the greatest epic movie ever. It was filmed in the Ukraine (the former part of USSR).
@@r.menzel8020 15000 Soviet army soldiers and 2000 horses.
This one was quite the intense bloodbath for Napoleon's final fall. The withering musket fire mowing down men and horses must been a nightmarish sight not forgotten by those who partook.
thanks for watching man
Yes and this wholesale slaughter of mankind continued right through America's civil war period and beyond.
PTSD was a very real thing back then also. People that had never witnessed battle were unfamiliar with the psychological trauma of war and how it left an indelible scar on the human mind. It was known then as "The Old Soldiers disease". I read a story once that was written by the wife of a Confederate veteran years after the American Civil war, she wrote her husband would sometimes go missing and she would find him out in the yard curled up in a blanket around a campfire he had built. Others wrote that you could always tell an old veteran when you were at a family get together. They were the ones who sit in a chair staring if in some sort of trance or state of coma totally unacknowledging of what was taking place around them.
The way British line would fire meant there was no break in the fire. They fired by company. 8 companies in a line with always one firing.
I can't imagine the cleanup after this battle.
Waterloo was one of the most iconic battles in history. The scale of casualties made in one day was astonishing. I believe 50.000 death or wounded.
A truly seminal presentation. I’m 75 and I am in awe of your work. Well done!
11:01 The French Imperial Guard actually attacked in their usual column formation, not as described here. This meant that only the front rank could fire at the British whilst the British in rank formation could all fire at the same time.
100% correct
Front and sides.
one man went to shit, went to shit on ewood
The wet ground played a LARGE role in the Coalition's victory. Napoleon wanted to attack but could not. And this gave the Prussians time to arrive ans swing the battle to the Coalition. This video gives an excellent view of standing 30 yards apart and firing volleys at the other side. I am certain that I am not brave enough to have done this!
The Duke of Wellington, speaking to a colleague about his victory at Waterloo in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic wars, described it as a "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life."
I just finished Simon Scarrow's quartet of books about Napoleon and Wellington. Very thorough, IMHO. I really enjoyed them.
So many dudes dying for nothing throughout history, it pisses me off. Just imagine: You go on about your day, looking forward to make love to the missis later, everything is fine then some noble wants to fight another noble, then you shoot at people you don't know, they shoot at you and then you die after two antagonizing painful days laying in the mud. Then it's darkness and absolute nothing and you are gone, and all of that for some noble, field-marshal, führer, general, whatever, screw that.
my greatest fear is dying in a war nobody remembers
I'm afraid that war is the profession of all mankind from the dawn of time
Big world history geek here🙋🏾♀️. Love the historical battle videos. This is great work. Keep em coming!
Good explanation and good content. Nice!
This was something. Well done.
Thanks glad you enjoyed
Brilliant Graphics, well presented..
Great historical presentation. Amazing story described in a very interesting and informative way. Thank you.
Thanks man glad you enjoyed
@@cinematicbattles559...a model of clarity and brevity...the Iron Duke would surely approve..😊😊
Mainly listening instead of watching, really terrifying. Well done.
AWESOME VIDEO, just subscribed!!!!
Cheers bro appreciate the support
Wow nicely done, I really enjoyed that.
Thanks man glad to hear it
Great video! Super well done!👏👏
Thank you! Cheers!
The most terrifying video I've ever seen !!
This video was incredible! You, my dear friend, has just won a subscriber😊
Thanks glad to hear it
I love the animated version! Good job!
Thanks😁
These videos are SO incredible you should make one JUST on The Battle of Quatre Bras- I saw you included a part in your Battle of Ligny video, but Quatre Bras is SO crazy it deserves it's own study! The DUKE OF BRUNSWICK was killed there, as well as Lord Hay, and Colonel John Cameron leading the 92nd Highlanders... Quatre Bras cost the Allied Coalition 4700 men that would have been highly appreciated at Waterloo!!
Thanks man! Yes this is definitely something I'd consider doing in the future
@@cinematicbattles559 THANK YOU, it would be amazing since SO many individual actions took place in that battle!!
Thank you Sir!
Great presentation.
My GGG grandfather, Donald Cattanach of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders, was there.
My other GGG grandfather, Capt Francis Millman of the Coldstream Guards would have been at Heugemont Farm, but for the fact that he had been wounded at Talevere.
Can i just say it is so good new sub i like how it teaches
Thanks for subbing!
We were very lucky to win the battle as it was the rain that came the night before held back Napoleon in the morning
A mod that would fit your intentions for educational battles is Field Command Napoleon. Greatly recommend it!
The best book I have read is A NEAR RUN THING VERY DETAILED.
and here i was thinking it couldnt get better
Excellent..will have to watch every episode of Sharpe...and have a cuppa...of Yorkshire tea..of course ,top notch sir, best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...and the site of the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD...😊😊😊...E
Sad that so many twins, triplets and quadruplets died……
😂
I am fascinated by the British square, reminds of the film Zulu.
Well Robert, there is a little more to it than that.
The Union Brigade counter attacked the French infantry at 2.45pm, and in the space of 20 minutes, they destroyed five French infantry brigades inflicting around 5,000 casualties .
They took at least 2,000 thusand prisoners and drove the rest of the French corps to the rear of the battlefield.
This was much to to the relief of the outnumbered British infantry who only a short time earlier, must have thought themselves well beaten.
Thousands of the French troops had been wounded and killed, two eagles were taken, and Napoleon’s masterstroke to secure victory at Waterloo had been defeated.
The British cavalry acted true to form and continued into the French artillery.
Their horses were blown, and they suffered at the hands of Polish lancers fighting for thr French, loding half of the 2,500 men they started the day with.
Well summarized. 👍
The best book on the Battle is, I remember called "Waterloo - A German Victory" by Peter Schreier. It details the retreat of the Prussian forces from Ligny and their march to Waterloo.
The Prussian reorganization and return to the battle are the only reason Wellington could stand and fight at Mont St Jean.
After the Normandy landings, Waterloo is the most overrated battle in history. Both events were heavily mythologized by the Anglo-Saxons, while the real victors of Napoleon and the Austrian painter, A. H., were the RUSSIANS (the Russians/Soviets in the second case). The first lost the war in Russia in 1812, the second in Russia in 1943 (Kursk).
“The Old guard dies but does not surrender!” -Pierre cambronne
They soon legged it back down the hill leaving their bearskins. British Guardsmen still wear them till this day🇬🇧💂🏼♀️💂🏼♀️💂🏼♀️💂🏼♀️
@@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67yet the grenadeers form the 1st regiment of the imperial guard stood undefeated, no one was willing to confront them, even when the french army was retreating.
@@romainfr2981 interesting,I never knew this. What happened to them after the battle?
@@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67 the unit was dissolved with the end of the empire
Sorry I meant what happened at the battle,you say nobody would confront them? Did they win the battle? Did the English surrender to them ?
Just Remember - St. Helena ain't that bad. A bit boring, not much night life, but you get to hangout with a 500 years old tortoise
Good shot! How can we get in touch with you to discuss projects propositions from our part? 🎭
Give me an email at cinemeticbattles@gmail.com
Can you make videos on Gallipoli campaign.
Imagine if these 2 superpowers actually faught together as an alliance instead of each other back in the day ! Would have been insane
Inconceivably!
English policy has always been to fight the strongest continental power.
Since Frederick the Great with Prussia against France and from 1815 with France against Prussia...
GB was only a superpower at sea, but rather below average on land.
They did,pretty much. Crimean war.
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I'll look into that!
@@raka522 Below average on land? 🤣 How did we conquer 25% of the earths land mass then?
@@SeanBennettGuitar After the Normandy landings, Waterloo is the most overrated battle in history. Both events were heavily mythologized by the Anglo-Saxons, while the real victors of Napoleon and the Austrian painter, A. H., were the RUSSIANS (the Russians/Soviets in the second case). The first lost the war in Russia in 1812, the second in Russia in 1943 (Kursk).
Hence the saying, "Cannon fodder. "
Finally a correct interpretation of the battlefield. Is this the Vanilla Napoleon Total War? I've messed with a few other mods that had different versions, less accurate than this one.
Thanks glad you enjoyed , I’m using an extra map mod which can just be searched on google to find it
Can you do the battle of the boyne.and aughrim
War is total madness
Wonderful video, but animated maps would help much. Thx!
Cheers bro and thanks for the feedback 👌👍
What is never explored is what would happen if Napoleon, realizing the weather and no response from Grouche decided to use his ridge line as a screen and move towards Grouche and take up defensive ground. He makes contact earlier with Prussians and may surprise them to think he has turned his forces on them into a vice with Grouche. The British were going to stand no matter what. They might have attacked but going into a defensive position.
The French infantry looks like model 1794 ca, when it comes to their headgear, wrong hats! And when depicting the charge of the French Imperial Guard, it looks like 'the Young Guard', when the final attack was made by the 'Old Guard' ('the immortals') with their 'bonnets à poil' (bearskin hats). Otherwise very impressed by this video! keep on the good work!
Thanks for the feedback😁
My, my
At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender
Oh, yeah
And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself
Waterloo
I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo
Promise to love you forevermore
Waterloo
Couldn't escape if I wanted to
Waterloo
Knowing my fate is to be with you
Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Waterloo
Finally facing my Waterloo
My, my
I tried to hold you back, but you were stronger
Oh, yeah
And now it seems my only chance is giving up the fight
And how could I ever refuse
I feel like I win when I lose
Waterloo
I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo
Promise to love you for ever more
Waterloo
Couldn't escape if I wanted to
Waterloo
Knowing my fate is to be with you
Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Waterloo
Finally facing my Waterloo
So how could I ever refuse
I feel like I win when I lose
Waterloo
Couldn't escape if I wanted to
Waterloo
Knowing my fate is to be with you
Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Waterloo
Finally facing my Waterloo
Ooh-ooh, Waterloo
Knowing my fate is to be with you
Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Waterloo
Finally facing my Waterloo
Ooh-ooh, Waterloo...
Ego sum pauper agricola...
How did you make both sides follow your commands? Is it custom battle, or other?
Yes it's a custom battle, I was playing with someone else as the AI never does what you want it to do :)
Ah, thank you
Wow
Habia arboles en el hougomount como un jardin y luego en el bosque de soignes a la espalda de la posicion de wellintong
Strange that the Americans, who had allied with France in the War of Independence and had just fought the British again in the War of 1812, didn't ally with France in this one.
Not too strange - the Americans had been helped to gain their independence by the French under the monarchy. Napoleon ruled supposedly as a representative of the Revolution that had executed that monarchy. Americans were disturbed by the unhinged violence of the revolution, and Napoleon was helping France to export it.
If America was going to get involved it would have been during the revolution on the monarchist side. But you can lead a successful revolution against Britain than support a king in another. That sort of stupid American thinking came later.
Did YOU KNOW, THAT Nelsons flag ship Victory on a broadside fired more iron than all of Napoleons cannon at Waterloo.
Very interesting thanks for the comment
Completely incorrect. Stupid troll comment
No British Square was breached by Napoleon's Calvary
French Imperial Guard: Nicely dressed target . I hated those tactics during and before the Civil War. Just a waste of life. Thise men had to know back then that marching into certain death was plain dumb.
The cinematography here is some of your best. My only suggestion is that you stop using the comical-looking white bullet streaks
Thanks for the feedback!
End of the day he made to many mistakes, he lost his nerve against wellington, just outclassed as a millitary leader.
@@Some.cases. Mistakes fighting the British to begin with. Battle of Trafalgar and Battle of Waterloo - both British victories and the most important battles of the Napoleonic wars. Not to mention Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign - of which could be seen as an indirect British victory too; for one the reasons Napoleon invaded Russia was to strangle British trade on the continent. Russia refused to comply.
@@SeanBennettGuitar wrong. Only Trafalgar was a British victory, Waterloo was a COALITION victory, you either dont know or forget that Wellington intentionally omitted the significance of the Prussians coming to promote his selfish gains. “DONT MENTION THE PRUSSIANS” -- Wellington
@@SeanBennettGuitar another fact you forgot to mention is that the Russian campaign was a disaster because the Army contracted typhus one month into the campaign killing more than 80 thousand. That has already been proven. They continued to have the disease even after the retreat. I guess its Napoleon’s fault too for not discovering typhus vaccine?
Where are these maps from?
If you type in on google "napoleon extra maps mod" its the first option
Pretty close to the best movie "Waterloo", but some glaring errors. Squares are incorrect. French marched in columns not in line. British and Belgian and Prussian troops had a rate of fire at 3 to 4 rounds per minute, while the French struggled to manage two. Napoleon used Polish lancers against British cavalry, and didn't wipe them out, merely drove them back. Most of Heugomont battle took place on orchard and lanes with British garrison firing from behind walls; same for La Haye Saint. Left out the fight for the Pit in front of LHS. Napoleon fled in a carriage from the inn La Belle Alliance. This battle is so well documented from both sides, especially from eye witness accounts, these errors should not have occurred.
Our military efforts divided in two directions instead of taking care of us, needed real soon.
Sorry you got one thing wrong it was The Royal Scots Geys who were attacked by the Polish Lancers
Suicide, walking forward like one was shopping.
Musket ball tracers ftw
That's one tough battle at Waterloo & the end of Napoleon 's conquering the world.
Высшая оценка!
Проделан большой труд.
Привет из России! ❤
Thanks for the support 😁
And the Little Corporal was defeated one final time
Good video as per, but the AI narration really lets it down. I’d be happy to offer my services as a narrator just so I don’t have to cringe at the pronunciations!
Wow okay what an offer , can I get a sample from you?
@@cinematicbattles559 Absolutely! Is there some way I can get in contact with you to send one over?
I deleted my previous comment out of respect for your work. Cheers!
Thanks man😁
WATERLOO. I WAS DEFEATED YOU WON THE WAR
ah yes, field marshal BløTcher
Glad I didn't live in Waterloo, with that lot ruining my Sunday.
Fancy having to stand up while advancing and firing. I wouldn't
1st day of somme!!!
The imperial guard were Napoleon Best trained troops... yet in this battle they were the absolute worse!!
Napoleon split his force, and cost him victory. Without doubt had he kept Grouchy on the field the allied army would have been severely beaten. Hearing this Blucher would have had to retreat.
Grouchy had been ordered to keep Blucher from joining up with Wellington. He did not attempt to do, choosing to just follow Blucher at a distance and was too far from the battle to rejoin Napoleon before he was defeated. The rain also caused Napoleon to have to refrain from starting the battle when he wanted too, giving Blucher more time to reach Wellington!
Napoleon made his first big mistake because he believed the Prussian army was battered and demoralized, and wasted a lot of time before ordering Grouchy to follow Blücher the next day.
Grouchy allowed himself to be trapped by Blücher in Wavre. There were 14,000 Prussians fighting against Grouchy so that he couldn't move to Waterloo.
...the rain...
It rained for almost two days during which the Prussians went to Wavre and then to Waterloo to fight, over completely sodden streets in which the wheels of the cannons sank.
If it hadn't rained, the Prussians would have appeared on the battlefield even earlier.
Grouchy did only what Napoleon ordered him to do. He only got the order to go in pursuit of the Prussians 18 hours after the battle of Ligny. And Grouchy had only 30000 French troops, when the Prussians at Wavre numbered 90000 in the night of the 17th. At Wavre, ordered there at 15h30, Grouchy only heard at 17h on the 18th that Napoleon gave battle at Waterloo. It was already far too late for him to be able to intervene in the battle. Yes, it's only about 10 kilometers, but the terrain was in a terrible state en the Prussians troops under Von Bulow needed 7 hours to cover that same distance. In war everything is simple, but the simplest things become the most difficult to execute (freely from Clausewitz).
Grouchy followed the instructions of the emperor, he pushed to Brussels the next day and saved his army.
The real problem with the Belgian campaign is that it was lost in advance.
Napoleon made do with the means at hand, he was surrounded by those who wanted, not the best, not the most skillful.
But especially with 4 armies marching towards France it was lost from the departure from the island of Elba...
Waterloo was only a normal conclusion to a hopeless return
If Grouchy had of got between Blucher and Wellington and stalled the Prussians Napoleon would have won. The Prussians were moving to far ahead of Grouchy there was not much he could do but follow them.
@@dduckman1423 It had previously rained for days and an army could only move around on paved paths.
This was also the reason why the Prussian army had not fully arrived on the battlefield until the end of the Battle of Waterloo, because there were only 2 usable routes from Wavre.
Given the weather conditions, Grouchy wouldn't even have had the opportunity to stand in the Prussians' way, quite apart from the fact that the Prussians had a triple superiority.
7:15 the French Cuirassiers swinging their straight swords LOL. They were used to stabbing because they didn't have an edge.
Much better than Ridley Scott's horrible garbagefest. I bet it cost less, too.
Thank you 😁 yes I cost a bit less than $200,000,000🤣
You mean the Polish Calvary took out British heavy Calvary, while Marshall Ney heavy Calvary failed to dislouged the British infantry square, German-Austian under Blucher attacked Napoleon's right flank and the rest was history.
Cavalry* dislodged*
Aust(r)ian?
It was only Prussians under Blücher's command.
Good content but terrible pronunciation of the various place names.
Thanks, my apologies the narration was made using AI
Beethoven wrote his Wellington's Victory based on this battle.
There were so many troops of german states at Waterloo, but history made it Wellington solo victory.
The Prussian artillery finally arrived [16 guns] in the final hour of the battle, held up on the muddy roads. The French formations were now in a crossfire from the front [Wellingtons line] and the Prussians on the French right flank. Wellington had to send a rider to stop the Prussians firing so his troops could clear the French off the field. Wellingtons now exhausted troops only advanced about a mile , the French were pursued by the Prussians into the night. Wellington was not only a competent general but was very good doing his own PR, looking forward to politics.
I'm English but have always known it was a allied win not just Wellington my friend
German troops under the command of an English general, with him deciding the tactics - along with a British army.
Why attack on column against a defended line, it is suicide
It was a repeating air gun I think it was 46 caliber 22rounds could put a hole threw a 1 inch pine board at a hundred yard quietly called the Geodony spelled wrong I'm sure made I believe in Austria. And lews and Clark had one when cross the us
I don't understand why the cavalry was committed to frontal charges; at least give them licence to outflank!
Wasn't It Raining Durning
This Battle ???
The Prussians lost 16,000 soldiers in Ligny, Napoleon lost 12,000 men, not 20,000 to 10,000!
Which 48,000-man Prussian army are we talking about here???
Before Ligny, the entire 4 Prussian corps consisted of around 126,000 soldiers, of which only 3 were deployed in Ligny.
Minus the losses in Ligny and deserters from the Rhineland troops formerly allied with France, an army of around 95,000 soldiers was still on the way to Wavre.
The French army consisted partly of fortress troops and also many inexperienced new recruits who were barely able to load a musket. The French cavalry was only average because Napoleon's veterans died in Russia.
It takes up to 4 years to train a good cavalryman!
Only Germans were stationed in La Haye Saint, no British.
A small, crucial clue would have been that the 1st Prussian Corps under the command of General Ziethen occupied Wellington's left wing in the afternoon, whereupon Wellington was able to withdraw troops there to reinforce his center, without which he would not have been able to withstand the French attack.
The British troops only consisted of around 26,000 soldiers and around 5,000 Germans from the KGL.
At the end of the battle, almost three times more of the soldiers involved spoke German than English.
😂 why did you use this Total War Game to get a message across???
Why not ?🤣
@@cinematicbattles559 😆
Pretty good but the British infantry squares were 500 men, 4 ranks deep.
The only inaccuires is...
Most of French are wearing tricorn instant of standard shakos
Poor Horses got killed in such battles for no fault of theirs and just To serve greed of one man against another.
insanely better than ridley scott's "napoleon"
Error no habia arboles.eran campos de cultivo de trigo de altura de 3 metros que quedsron aplastados
THERES NOTHING WE CAN DO
The background looks like a game
Yes it is , it’s in the title 😉
What from what device you can get this from?
On your computer you can get a video game called Napoleon Total War
Great video, but the French uniforms look incorrect. They didn’t wear the hats depicted.
Thanks man I appreciate the feedback 😁
Its a shame Scott didn't watch this, as it's a good deal better than the crummy film he made of it.
Thank you !
Why not make the battlefield more accurate? It was barren of all trees except near hougemont
Where's the Highlanders?
Yes you are right
Waterloo is in the united states of Belgium
what mods?!?!
Landscape all wrong. Trees everywhere?