American Reacts Winston Churchill: In the Darkest Hour
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When Churchill was visiting the US, he had dinner at someone's house, where they served roast chicken. When he was asked what part of the bird he wanted, he said he wanted the breast. He was corrected by his hostess, "Mr. Churchill, we say white meat or dark meat". The next day, he sent a corsage to the hostess, with a note thanking her for the dinner, and he hoped she would honor him by wearing the corsage on her white meat. 😄
He also had a wicked sense of humour. At a dinner party Lady astor approached him and said "Winston if you were my husband I'd put poison in your coffee" and he replied "Nancy if I were your husband I'd drink it"
A little know story also involves a dinner with Sarah Churchill and her husband Vic Oliver (Whom Churchill did not like). Oliver asked who Winston admired most, Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini. Winston chose to ignore the question at the first asking, Vic then tried to persue the question to which Churchill replied "Mussolini . When Vic asked why? Winston said "He had the courage to have his son in law executed"!
Another was the clash with Bessie Braddock: Bessie said " Winston, you are drunk, you are disgustingly drunk" to which the reply was "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly"
At another dinner where Churchill had consumed a few too many brandies Lady Astor chastised him for being drunk at a formal affair. She said indignantly: "Mr. Churchill you are drunk!" Churchill replied "Yes madam I AM drunk. And you are ugly. And tomorrow morning when I wake up I'll be perfectly sober."
Then theres the one where he was standing at a trough urinal and a well known Labor politician comes up and stands beside him for to same purpose. Winston slides away, and the Laborite said "Feeling standoffish today Winston?" Winston replied "Every time you people see something large, you want to nationalize it".
@@charles7443 Then there is the story told by Orson Wells. Wells was staying at the same hotel on the coast of Italy when Churchill was out of power and on vacation.
Wells was ‘hustling’ a financier for money for an upcoming film. Well’s didn’t know Churchill well but had met him a couple of times. As Wells walked through the hotel restaurant with the financier he was hustling he passed Churchill’s table, Churchill nodded at him acknowledging him. This greatly impressed the financier and Wells knew he had his financing.
The next morning Wells ran into Churchill on the beach and told him what a great favour he had done him with that simple nod. Later that afternoon Wells passed Churchill’s table again in the restaurant with his financier in tow.
This time Churchill stood up and bowed down at the waist as Wells passed by.
My father was a military man since he was 14 years old (an orphan). When Churchill died, my father was a Major; it was the only time I ever saw him cry.
With out him n zi would have won
@@Unknownuh188 They sure would. Winston Churchill saved the world from N_zi evil and domination.
Those speeches were legendary and the hundreds of quotes make his sharp wit and dry humour obvious. Churchill represents the very British character, forged in harsh and violent circumstances, stoic and good humoured in the worst of times positively heroic in the face of danger. We call it the Bulldog spirit... it is not fair of face, it won't win any races but it is fiercely loyal and determined, when it comes to a fight it's the bulldog you want at your side.
Absolutely. My favourite was always about the fall of France -
'The French said within 3 weeks our necks would be rung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!'
Always made me smile that one
@@stevecooke355 And the French capitulated within six weeks....
Let's just gloss over Gallipoli, Ireland, India, his vile racism and everything else. He was a horrible person, but a good leader during WW2.
@Pom X a couple of points suggest themselves.
1. Your not wrong he did some questionable stuff, but he was a war leader. They aren't supposed to be nice, their supposed to kill people. Considering the alternative is the nazi jackboot, I'd go with winnie everytime. 2. They also missed out his alcoholism, his choice to let Coventry burn for the greater good and that his experience in Galipoli lead to the genius invention of the mulberry harbours. If they mentioned everything, it would be hours long.
You have valid points, no doubt, but as the man himself said 'I'd happily invite lucifer into the alliance if it meant putting Hitler down'
@@stevecooke355 "questionable stuff"?
3 million Indians starved to death, for a start.
Like I said, great war leader, despicable human being.
The plain talking woman MP Bessie Braddock once said to WC "Winston, you're drunk"!
His reply, "And you are ugly, but in the morning, I shall be sober"!! 🤣🤣🤣
My favorite Churchill quote was from day of the Pearl Harbor attack, “That night I slept the sleep of the saved.” That was surely true.
You're right, in his memoirs, Churchill was delighted with the attack on Pearl Harbour
The famous funeral in 1852, was the Duke of Wellington. Churchill has to be overly simplified. He served as cavalryman/correspondent in 4 wars on three continents before he was 26 ... including the India/Afghanistan border and the Sudan (The River War is the greatest war journalism, by someone who actually fought there). He was correspondent in both South Africa and in Cuba (during the revolt against the Spanish, before the US invasion). He put manhood first, like Teddy Roosevelt. In his first Parliament speech, is forgot his lines half way thru and was laughed at. He then always had a typed copy of his speech in front of him, just in case. In 1914, he personally organized the defense of Antwerp in person, allowing the escape of the Belgian Army by delaying the Germans for one week (shades of Dunkirk). While First Lord of the Admiralty, he had the original idea for the "tank", which fortunately was improved by actual engineers, once it was moved from the Navy to the Army. He took responsibility for the Dardanelles failure, buck stops here, even though it wasn't his fault (he was given no power to direct it). To recover politically, he went to the trenches in France as a Lt Col for almost a year. Back in cabinet, he was first munitions minister and then secretary of war.
I thought that, but was confused when the guy said 'commoner'. Is a Duke classed as a commoner?
@@ProfessorBernardFuck Ideally a brother of the current or previous king ... aka a Prince, but not the Prince of Wales.
Technically, the head of a duchy. They were rather liberal in giving out titles back in the day ... Duke of Wellington, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, Duke of Victoria, Marquess of Wellington, Marquess Douro, Marquess of Torres Vedras, Earl of Mornington, Earl of Wellington, Count of Vimeiro, Viscount Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, Baron Mornington, Baron Douro
@@ProfessorBernardFuck Wellington was born a commoner as he was the younger son of the Earl of Mornington, who incidentally was also a soldier, born a Commoner and raise to the aristocracy for his service.
Younger sons of the aristocracy are born Commoners. Only the oldest inherits the titles. It's to preserve the power of the family.
I'm descended from King James III of Scotland on dad's side and King Edward III of England on Mum's but because we have generations of younger sons, we're grubby commoners! My Great great grandfather worked in the steel Mills of Falkirk, Scotland and my mother's great grandmother died destitute in a Poor House in London
A friend’s firm was taken over by its German rivals. As a team-building exercise and to initiate bonding, the UK director’s PA was asked to book an outing and a dinner. What did the two teams have in common? What would give them something to talk about? What would be an interesting venue in London? This is how one German firm’s employees and the people from the UK firm it took over found themselves in Churchill’s War Rooms eating a dinner in stony silence.
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I think I would have added Churchills participation in one of the last great cavalry charges: Battle of Omdurman with the 21st Lancers. Churchill was lucky to survive the ill-judged charge of the Lancers which saw heavy British casualties. Churchill was awarded the Queen’s Sudan Medal and the Khedive’s Sudan Medal. After Gallipoli, he served in the trenches with his old regiment, aged 41, in November 1915 and ended up commanding 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers. While he too part in no great offenses, he was in the front line, was shelled and came under direct machinegun fire. Seeing the ground, he became a vocal advocate for better aircraft and the tank. While on leave, he decided he could do more by being in parliament than sitting in a hole in France.
At his home in Chartwell in Kent he had a ginger cat called Jock. He requested there always be a marmalade cat called Jock at Chartwell, it was in his will. So, we are now on Jock VI of Chartwell. He got the original Jock for his 88th birthday in 1962.
One of my favorite quotes from Churchill, and I'm paraphrasing, was when a woman who didn't like him said, if I was your wife I'd put poison in your tea, he replied with, if I was your husband I'd drink it.
1852 was the year the Duke of Wellington died
Brilliant reaction You ! Actually LiSTENED to the whole thing and made pertinent comments and questions…. Nicely Done That Man !
Guys all these comments like this really mean a lot to me, thank you 😅 You are too kind!
Wooooo! Goes from gallipoli to 1929! Completely misses out what Churchill done when he resigned from the admiralty when that campaign fell on its arse. Churchill resigned from that top position and returned to his regiment as an officer and served on the western front where the casualties were horrendous and he knew it. You have to admire that character trait. Yes you're correct, he did say (the actual words I can't remember) something about being happy over pearl harbour and knew victory was now going to be definate
Also his plan in Gallipoli would have work if he was given the numbers he asked for
Churchill was only “happy” when Pearl Harbour happened because he knew the Americans had been Cowards & REFUSED to get involved in the War at all for the first 2-3 years of it, so he knew once Japan had DRAGGED the US into the war they HAD to get involved & we’ve been allies for a long time before that, so he knew it would be Us (England & USA) vs Them (Germany & Japan)!!
& I’m English but I think Russias contribution in the defeat of Germany in the 2nd world war has been MASSIVELY Overlooked here, Hitler took on more than he could deal with & their contribution (like them or not) shouldn’t be ignored!? 😅🏴
@@MikeyNottz completely wrong about the Americans, and throwing men into battle in the east coz casualties were meaningless to stalin and overpowering the Germans by pure numbers isn't good tactics. You antifa?
@@tobytaylor2154 in what way am I completely wrong about the Americans, so do you genuinely believe they would of EVER got involved in the war if Japan hadn’t literally Dragged them into it?? 🤔🙄
& wether the leader of the nations valued their soldiers, cared about them or not (it was WAR after all) it was still MANY individual lives that were sacrificed to win the war, so I don’t think ANY nations that fought in the war should be overlooked (especially not those nations that lost more personnel that ANY others)!! 👌
& your msg sounds like the typical American narrative about Vietnam, about how the Americans were “sooo courageous & ‘Saved the world’”, when the reality is…….. You Lost (to Vietnam) & that’s what happens when you fight wars alone, you lose cuz America is 💩 at war & your record proves that, 👌🙄
No wonder you were sooooooo reluctant to get involved in WW2!! 🙄🤣🤣
@@MikeyNottz I'm English 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Guess that makes you luke wrong
I'm glad you take such an interest in British history .
1852 was the funeral of the Duke of Wellington; the victor of Waterloo and Prime Minister. Comparable to Churchill. As for Clemmie - he DID tell her EVERYTHING, including military matters.
She was an absolute rock to him. He had total trust and respect for her.
Well done Conner you are listening more, and getting used to the many accents we Brits, have from posh boys to Del boy . I wish you ever well Merry Christmas and every possible happiness for the new year.
As the saying goes, some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Churchill was all 3. God rest his soul
He was a pisshead and only one claim to fame ww2
@Ryan Coackley your right he was an alcoholic. But your assertion about one claim to fame is so dumb it's unbelievable. I suggest you watch the documentary before you embarrass yourself. Afterall, when did you become a soldier with a reputation for bravery, first lord of the admiralty and prime minister twice in one lifetime? Let me guess ... never
@@stevecooke355 Gallipoli
@@stevecooke355 didn't he also starve to death an entire nation. ?
@@stevecooke355 sorry just 3 million Indians but its okay because he said they breed like rats
Recently visited the churchill war rooms in westminster, the underground area that they oversaw the war. I expected a series of boxes with labels, and instead walked from room to room of precisely detailed original rooms - it was as if walking into them as they were then. amazing.
Yeah, They were amazing, went there in 99, loved the original radio program that was interrupted by an air raid "It's that man again!"
Churchill's memoirs - Pearl Harbour: "went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.”
I love the Churchill comment to Lady Astor when she accused him of being drunk. His reply ? " Madam, I might be drunk, but in the morning I will be sober, but you...will still be ugly" ! Classic.
I supervised the overhaul of the "rustic" bridge from which Churchill fell. It is in Bournemouth, Hampshire, UK.
You're absolutely right about the Pearl Harbour thing/ Churchill. Churchill said the same himself: essentially: "We are saved".
Except the Americans only entered the European war after the Germans declared war on them. The leaders of America at the time made it clear. They would not have entered the European war had the Germans not declared war on them.,
There was a lot left out of this but even so shows how remarkable Winston was warts and all....
Yeah, He was in many Battles whilst in the Cav, carried 2 Mauser Broom handle pistols, would ride through the enemy, a pistol in each hand. A very Brave man.
Simon is from Kent in the south east of England but lives in Europe now, I do not know him lol but I love his content very informative, all of his channels.
You’ll like this Conner, Churchill had ADHD, it’s why he failed school, but, he became the greatest Briton of all-time, and with Britain’s history that’s up against a lot of competition.
I think when you struggle at anything and work to improve yourself in order to improve, you become better than everyone else because you are motivated in a way they are not, you have to make an effort others don’t which gives you energy to endure more than others who had no reason to make the effort that gave the energy that gave something extra that made the difference.
WATCH A VIDEO ON ALAN TURING! He had an insanely huge influence on the war and is still unknown by many people to this day.
Agreed. More computer science students know about his impact on the war than history students, and I think that's a shame.
Well I'm 64 going on 65 and born 12 years after WW2, so I know of Alan Turing. A brilliant man, a brilliant mind.
I've watched documentaries and the film with Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing. I've always been fascinated by personal courage. His personal story is heartbreaking and he deserved a hell of a lot better from the British authorities, and history itself.
1852, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died, Irish born and one of the first "common" born to be given a state funeral
The funeral in 1852 was for the Duke of Wellington.
My favourite books were a trilogy titled, "A history of the English speaking peoples" by Winston S Churchill. I still have them and must dig them out and read them again.
What did you think of them.
I just found my mother's copies. I have read the first-compelling!
@@RonSill1986 I think I gave a clue, when I said they were my favourite books!
@@Mark_Bickerton great. I might by them now seen as they're your favourite books
@@RonSill1986 Do it mate, you wont be disappointed!
Simon Whistler in from the South East of England and his accent is RP Received Pronunciation (posh), Queen’s English. A great deal different from Yorkshire in the North where I’m from.
Hi ,
Please look at Henry Tandy (Victoria cross )the man who let Hitler go free after capturing him in ww1.
Also Captain Eric (Winkle) Brown who saw Hitler shake hands with Jessie Owens at the Berlin Olympics
The aircraft carrier Eric was on was sunk in ww2 and Eric went on to fly several hundred aircraft types including the first jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier..
Hi Connor. I recommend “The Gathering Storm” an enjoyable movie about Churchill’s life in the few years prior to the start of World War 2. It stars Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave and is free on CZcams.
1852 was the death and funeral of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington and Victor at Waterloo and the Peninsula War and later Prime Minister.
A great man indeed without Sir Winston Churchill the world would be a different place today.
Churchill single handedly stood with the British people alot of other mps wanted to do a deal with the nazis
As a Jewish man with millions of American dollars in the bank he bought the death of millions of White Europeans the real enemy of his people, he obeyed his people declared war against, know your facts not the crap you are trained to accept
View Churchills 'Finest hour' speech. The original recording can be heard in the film 'Reach for the sky. '
Soon the might of the enemy will be turned upon us....Hitler knows that he must beat us in this island or lose the war, if we can stand up to him.....etc. etc.
Yea...to bulldogs...keep brave and strong...all the time. Churchill, was indeed a special man....I appreciate him.
1852, funeral of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, liberator of Spain and Portugal and Waterloo. Wellesley was born the younger son of a the 1st Earl of Mornington, an Anglo Irish soldier called Garret Wesley, who was raised to the peerage for his service. Garret was the younger son of a minor Baron. Younger sons are born commoners. Like his father, Arthur was a younger son.
Although the 1st Duke of Wellington and arguably the greatest British general off all time (Although I belive Churchill's ancestor the Duke of Marlborough was the greatest British General in history) Wellesley was born a commoner so the last state funeral of a commoner was his in 1852.
I'm descended from King James III of Scotland on my father's side, and on my mother's from Rollo, the Viking who became the first Duke of Normandy, the Ancient Kings of Brittany and William the Conqueror. By 1870 my father's ancestors were working in the steel Mills of Falkirk, Scotland and in 1600 my mother's ancestor inherited a single cow and her great grandmother died in a London poorhouse....
Aristocracy only applied to the eldest son! All my ancestors appeared to be the youngest sons! Which is why we ended up with a cow!!🤣🤣🤣
I know the Harrow School, as used to drive past it when I went shopping at Harrow. The way the boys uniform looked was very alien to me.
I've literally seen old videos of the presenter speaking with an almost entirely different English accent. It's likely he puts it on for his videos. And, to be fair, it makes most foreigners think we sound really, really smart. Than again I'm from Kent so some people think I sound like a posh evil villain anyway.
You're from Kent, you are a posh, evil villain. 🤣🤣
@@reiverraider4887 Ok ok fine I admit it
Hey at least you're not from Hampshire like me, we sound like stuck up farmers apparently 😂
I'm from manchester. Your posh lol
Yeah, evolution of a presenter. He was very formal until his fans started telling him to reveal more of himself and be more natural.
It has often struck me that Churchill's wartime speeches never pretended things were better than they were, and he never talked about himself. This is a marked contrast to the previous US President when confronted with the Covid crisis.
Please go cure ur TDS .. and you must think biden is great ..
He was indeed always honest, the best example being at the pit of our fortunes in 1940 when he started a speech with ‘The news from France is very bad’ which by God it was.
Merry Christmas Connor!
One thing he didn’t mention was Churchill was the main architect of the failed Norwegian campaign which lead to Chamberlain resigning and Churchill taking over. Also he is referring to Wellingtons funeral in 1852
Simon whistler is from the uk but this isn’t what his normal voice sounds like this is his video voice I guess you could say
When Churchill heard of the Pearl Harbour attack he said that he slept the sleep of the saved and the thankful.
You're absolutely right, Churchill breathed a sigh of relief when he heard news of Pearl Harbor.
Churchill had a razor sharp wit and was renowned for his speed of reply especially in Parliament where he excelled.
For years Lady Astor tormented him and one day she said:
"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your drink!"
To which he immediately replied:
"Madame, if you were my wife I would drink it!"
On many occasions Astor commented on Churchill's drinking and on one occasion she said:
"You Sir are DRUNK!"
To which Churchill replied:
"And you Madame are ugly! But at least I shall be sober in the morning"
Oh and here is a fun fact. The "fight them on the..." speach. The one o the radio... Yeah, that's not Churchill. There is recordings of it but the original one was done by an impersonator as there was tech problems
The presenter is Simon Whistler who was brought up in the south-east of England. After completing his university education (undergrad business BA, postgrad law diploma PGDL), he worked abroad for one year where he met his now wife and eventually ended up permanently moving to her home country, the Czech Republic.
Churchill received the Nobel prize, for literature.
Kinda like the addition of '..as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.' in the citation.
No, you were quite right to point out Churchill's huge relief (a very real form of happiness) when Pearl Harbor was attacked. In his diary that day he wrote: "So we had won after all."
I think the presenters accent is a little off the track from the typical accent/slang you would normally hear, I believed it is a version of 'received pronunciation' or more specifically contemporary received pronunciation. You tend to find this accent from the royal family and higher members of parliament for example, basically a very clear and proper way of speaking the "queen's English". It sometimes used on tv/radio programmes or was a recommended accent back when radio/tv was first introduced into society.
I dont know the origins of the Historian chap , but he did pronounce some words in a non British way The first one I picked up on was his pronunciation of the name Gallipoli the disastrous battle where many ANZACK and British troops perished. some of his words I do not recognise as British pronunciations, but then upper class pronunciations are lost on me too.
When I was a small lad of 5 my sisters took me to Downing street where I saw Winston Churchill in the flesh, also watched the great mans funeral when I was barley 16 years of age.
You mean ANZAC, no 'K'.
Cheers!
I was thinking the same thing - that he speaks English but the pronunciation errors make me wonder if he was brought up elsewhere. Not just in this video by the way. Great content though!
@@micko11154 your right i'm having a senior moment lol. Getting a few of the recently lol.
you should read the history of the english speaking people's by Winston Churchill its a great series
The work on Marlborough is an excellent read.
1852 would be Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, responsible for leading the British and allied forces to victory in both the peninsular campaign and the "hundred days" campaign of the Napoleonic wars. 2 time prime minister, member of the house of lords and at one point, commander-in-chief of the British army, also served as ambassador to France during napoleons exile.
Churchill was very much an adventurer from an early age. He was engaged in the last of the Victorian campaigns of the Empire. He served in the Boer war and WW1. Caning was normal in all British schools until c1970s.
Best movie about Churchill I’ve ever seen.
Happy Christmas 🎄
Churchill - the more you find out the better he gets !
I absolutely agree Andy. There is a great piece documented regarding a local gypsy and he wife who were constantly moved on in the Westerham area. Churchill offered "Donkey Jack" and he wife an area to camp in his woods behind Chartwell. When Jack died Churchill paid for his funeral so he didn't end up in a paupers grave. When Jack's wife later became less mobile Churchill offered to pay for he to go to an old people's home - which she declined.
This is very interesting and educational.
Good reaction mate. A complex man, but by the grace of god he was there in EVERONE's DARKEST HOUR.
Churchill had the intelligence about the Japanese intended attack but ( FORGOT ) to tell the Americans as he knew that an attack from Japan ( who had signed an alliance with Germany ) would bring America into the entire war. Something that was needed.
Source ?
You’re point about Pearl Harbour has been mentioned many times
The one thing that Churchill possessed above all others in my opinion was Courage , both physical and mental, there are many who criticise him today but he really was a product of his time , I really don't believe there has been anyone else quite like him in modern times it really was a case of cometh the hour cometh the man . Ps Think you are correct about Pearl Harbour as Churchill knew that the might of America was the game changer infact there is a conspiracy theory that says that Britain knew what the Japanese had planned but kept quiet , personally I don't believe this theory.
I think if he had known he'd have told them. The end result would have been the same, America would join the war. They'd been supplying us up to then and I too highly doubt that he'd let an ally be caught off guard like that.
Sounded perfect
Churchill was really in ecstasy when Hitler & Mussolini on the 11th December 1941, both unaccountably declared war on the United States 🇺🇸 for no really compelling or obligatory reasons for doing so!
Btw, in 1852, that point was then raised because it was when the old Duke of Wellington died, then aged 83 years & was then accorded a “State Funeral” by both Queen Victoria & the British Government at that time.
It is one of the myths of the Second World War that Great Britain stood alone at the fall of France. It had the resources of the Empire, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa and all the other colonies and dominions.
Yes, though the "alone" meant us, the British Empire " without France ( and its Empire) I suspect and probably stemmed from a picture in a newspaper with a Tommy waving his fist at the continent after the fall of France stating" Very well, alone "
It didnt really have canada and australia. They were sovereign and has no obligation to help.
They chose too. The other actual colonies yes.
But in europe itself it was just them. The varipus resistance forces. And what remained of the french army evacuated from dunkirk
you need to watch Remembrance ceremony from the Royal Albert Hall.
In 1852 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died and was given a state funeral, one of the few commoners to receive one.
1852 === Death of Duke of Wellington
1852 was death of Duke of Wellington. He also had a grand state funeral
You ARE right about Churchill being so happy about Pearl Harabouir, BUT did you know that because OF Churchill, the British actually declared war on Japan because OF Pearl Harbour..BEFORE the USA..Churchill feard the might not still decalre war on Japan so wanted to make sure they had not choice!
The worst mistake by the axis was to attack pearl harbour. It awakened a sleeping giant.
People seem to forget that that he sent 30 thousand troops to their death at Gallipoli.And people call him a hero. He was a fucking maniac who was pissed all the time.
When Churchill was on Boer war the Boers would wait for the sixth shot then pull him off horse to kill him .Churchill bought a C96mauser pistol which dho ots
in 1852, the Duke of Wellington died and the hero of Waterloo (who also became prime minister) was awarded a huge state funeral
Simon Whistler is a great host
All his channels are worth looking at
I’m a shy centrist too mate
Watch Curchill's 1942 speech to Congress.
He had them in the palm of his hand.
lol I think Simon buggered up "Gallipoli" (failed front against the Turks) - should make more sense when we know the campaign in question is somewhat infamous..
Edit: He's used the modern naming of it which nobody else does when referring to the wars..
As an old Aussie, with forebears who fought at Gallipoli, i have never heard and 'new' pronunciation. It's always been pronounced 'Gallipoli' to me.
@@micko11154 Same - though tbh I only know it from history books and not anything from my own lifetime. Even as a Dane, it just sounded wrong but the video, or rather that point in it, loses a fair amount of clout by not having the name right, in context.
My condolences for your fallen countrymen and my sympathies to those who made it out of there, and the generation that came after for that matter. My Grandfather (1916-2002) was in the Jutland Dragoon Regiment - have his sabre somewhere.
i know what you mean you look at middle ground rather than radicalised left or right. I agree with you.
if you haven't already seen it, the darkest hour movie about churchill is a good watch
i watched to the end and the part about America joined in the ww2, was a moment my Mother was bombed out of her home in Streatham Hill, Brixton London, she remembered her bedroom wall collapsing at age 7-9 by doodlebug (V-1) flying Bomb, the time the USA joined she and he brother were evacuated to Newcastle, and her new school friends learning to knit Gloves and hats to be sent to Russia, along with Government agents taking metal railings from private property for the war effort, from what she recalled the UK was nearly on its knees.
i suggest a couple good movies, the gathering storm and into the storm, i have a hard copy of both
1852...Funeral of the Duke of Wellington
"even if you're watching this on a phone throw it away". now THAT'S funny.
The Duke of Wellington was given a royal like funeral in 1852. In answer to your question
He made the most subtle and cutting remark about his successor - an empty taxi arrived at the houses of Parliament and Clement Attlee got out .
Now that IS comical !
I’ve forgotten which lady criticised Churchill for being drunk but his response was, “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
As an aristocrat and connected to military and politics, it seems that Churchill had a close relationship with military intelligence, even when he wasn't in the cabinet. That is how he knew the real story of German rearmament (minions provided him with info he wasn't cleared for). As First Lord of the Admiralty (civilian) he worked with the naval officer First Sea Lord (who was head of military intelligence too). He was involved with such special forces operatives as Lawrence of Arabia and the spy game in the early 1920s in the Middle East ... and later until he retired from politics. He wasn't re-elected in 1945, because he was never yet elected, PMs are simply the internally chosen head of the winning party. The Tories simply replaced one failed party head (Chamberlain) with another ... and it fortunately wasn't another failure, Lord Halifax, who was responsible for the impossible security guarantee for Poland. PM Asquith in 1914 and PM Chamberlain in 1939 were basically responsible for not preventing WW I and WW II, of not encouraging them. He wasn't actually elected PM until 1951. He crashed his planes 3 times, the last time is when his wife made him quit. He invented the Naval Air arm as First Lord of the Admiralty.
So proud to be related to such a great man
Gallipoli?
@@ryancoackley3660 so your one of the fools that think people can't make and learn by their mistakes, I suppose you've never made a bad decision, people like you that act morally superior generally aren't,
"Fools" quite on the offensive when questioned, suppose the apple doesn't fall far from the tree after all. He just sent one of my family members to their death is all. And for what cost "king and country" everyone makes mistakes but you're talking about people lives. Most of them were still kids really.
@@escobarlisle6007 30 thousand isn't a mistake. That's only the official death count. Rule number 1 of war. Always hide the true cost. No one wants to hear the true cost cause of how demoralising it is. Russia ww2 14 million dead Russians, official count when really it was 24 million
Also didn't he starve to death 3 million Bengals. And say it okay cos they breed like rats
Churchill in his diary s says he had the best night's sleep after pearl harbour .
The thing is Britain were turning the tide and gaining victories before the USA joined the war so I wouldn't say we needed the USA to win but it certainly shortened the war by several years
1852 was the state funeral of the Duke of Wellington.
He was a man at that time, like him or not was the very best to be where he was. Simply why we all have the freedom to critisise now. The world would be different if not for him and not in the way we'd like.
1852. Death of Wellington.
1852 the Duke of Wellington
Merry Christmas.
Perhaps you could say Churchill was 'relieved' when he heard about Pearl Harbour? Happy or pleased, no - it was a disgusting act - but relieved to have an ally he could talk to properly.