Napoleonic Wars: Battle for France 1814
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- Following his defeat in the giant Battle of Leipzig (Oct 1813), Napoleon's final defeat seemed only a matter of time. But when Coalition armies crossed the Rhine and invaded France, Napoleon - outnumbered 4 to 1 - began one of the most daring and brilliant campaigns in military history. However Napoleon's hope that his victories would cause a fatal split in the Coalition did not materialise, and eventually, Schwarzenberg and Blücher's dash for Paris would seal the fate of the Napoleonic Empire.
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Will you do a video about napoleon's campaigns from 1796-1800 as well in the coming months?
Fantastic series bye the way!
@Epic History TV, Do you think you’ll redo your video on the battle of Waterloo? It would be interesting to see how different it’d look compared to your oldest video.
Congrats for all your work
@@yfr2065 Same question
The Napoleon series is the best history series I've ever watched. Just brilliant.
Mercie !
I love how far they dig into everything! Lol
AGREE WITH YOU
It really is fantastic. The production quality is unmatched.
This and Blueprint for Armageddon are up there.
WHAT A CHANNEL!!!! the fact that these videos are a thing on a public forum puts history channel and national geographic to shame!!!
You are very true
RIP National Geographic
Rise Epic History TV!
Why isn't Epic History as popular as the Armchair Historian by now? The world may never know.
@@SireJaxs because of the upload rate which affects their performance in the CZcams alogarithm although I prefer it more like that because they are focusing more in quality than quantity
@@SireJaxs The Armchair Historian is good too, but after all Epic History TV is the master of The Napoleonic Wars, no one can beat the most qualified channel on Napoleon!
Outnumbered 4-1, deserted by essentially all his allies, hugely lacking in cavalry, most of his infantry are just learning how to hold a gun and at points he had to command whilst also manning the artillery.
The fact that Napoleon made this into any campaign at all is astonishing. The fact he actually scored a series of victories is just ridiculous.
“My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”
thats why out of all military commqnders this man is the most interesting not becaus ehe had no defeats or perfect but because he is flawed and again his story is sad if you think about it
Biden's General Milley can learn from Napoleon.
Willing to send good Frenchmen to a young and untimely death more like.
Let's not honour psychopathy.
@@2112jonr I guess some people can't understand history because they are unable to understand the difference between before and now.
Napoleon's victories during The Six Day Campaign are probably the greatest examples of "defeat in detail" in military history. Absolutely genius.
Seeing Napoleon’s banner fall at 29:53 was surprisingly emotional - having watched this series religiously since Austerlitz that banner has always been there...
When the final boss is defeated
I felt the same way - amazing what a little animation can deliver. This series is one of the best written, narrated and animated history shows ever.
Russia rules!
Have you guys noticed that Napoleon’s Banner is the only personal banner in the whole series to fall
@@emmanuelfernandez04 He was Emperor. He was Europe
French conscripts 1814: "We're not trained!"
*In combat with cannon and musket fire*
Napoleon: "This IS your training!"
Truly epic.
and he won ._.
@@Mustafa-to9si what do you expect? Napoleon is a God of war of his time.
@@nevermorelilzkie275 Napoleon is not a God of war of his time.
Napoleon is the god of war of all times
Nei Eduardo De Paula
Alexander and Napoleon is something special
You know a general is a REAL badass when he takes on an entire continent of allied armies copying his tactics and strategies and still dishes out the pain train.
HAHAHAH he was the genius
A genius of death and misery.
@@cristianheilbrunn5850 death and misery mostly provided by the monarchs of Europe, to villify Napoleon without making them out as just as terrible, the only reason they didnt do similarly as the french when they had the chance was because they werent as good as Napoleon at actually winning
This campaign is where Napoleon basically went all critical mode. Like when a boss battle phase turns deadliest when the boss's life meter turns red.
Well said!
Ultra instinct?
Napoleon turned feral; man was marching everywhere looking for a fight 😂
@@chrisstucker1813 he defended france well. He hoped to rout them out of france, but he had no manpower to enforce it anymore.
Terrific series
We've all been waiting
You know this
Not me, I’m a Patreon supporter.
@@lucinae8510 Can you tell me the topics coming up next because I wish to know what's coming up next.
ThatsJustJosh A poll will start to decide the next topic.
22:26
A marvelous end to a world class series. What Epic History has done is reconstruct the past in such a way, I dare say, it was as if we were living through it. The charisma and tenacity of Napoleon can be felt through the videos, along with every single soldier who fought in those years. It is such quality content that has and could be set down as a part of history.
This! I could feel the charm, the horror, the drama, the happiness of the Napoplenic wars in this series!
@@andreascovano7742 Agreed!
End? What about the 100 days?
_yes_
Absolutely right!
I mean, I am myself a fan of epic content. And this is so far the most epic content I have ever seen.
This is the best line ever -
31:56 " He was the last figure in history to combine total political power with frontline, military genius - in the mould of Alexander, and Caeser"
& superior to both.
And then Ridley makes a film about him absolutely desecrating his legacy. Good thing we've got these excellent documentaries on CZcams.
@@ddc2957inferior to both actually, but it's the best line
Joe Biden tho
@@user-qy4jl4ov5k Hard to compare. Such different eras and too many criteria to choose from. Alexander may have died somewhere around the peak of his empire while Napoleon saw the end of his, but Napoleon's overall in-the-moment, high mobility strategy was basically perfect (as long as he had good info); just larger than life, all of them.
The fact that in some battle his casualties are 600 and the allies are 3500 is just simply astounding
and he achieved that feat with a ragtag army consisted of a mix or regulars and barely trained conscripts against seasoned vets, it's just ridiculous.
The fact that it was actually 600 to 6000 as they said in the video. Ridiculus
You know the party is over when Davout is unable to join in
Well said. When the coalition troops cross into France I was eagerly waiting to hear about Davout's movement. Unfortunately it seems he was stuck in a siege.
Why is it always davout that is left behind?
Napoleon might have won had Davout led the defense of Paris. There would have been no surrender for the Iron Marshal.
@@AscentofTrollbane Paris might have been destroyed and sacked if it wasn't surrendered.
@@antiparticle1765 That is simply a sacrifice I am willing to make.
“We’re in the endgame now” - Napoleon Bonaparte
Sad in this endgame Bri-Thanos won.
@@mariano98ify Hah! I see what you did there. 🤣
@@mariano98ify french mad
Damnit, 5 hrs too late!
"I'll finish this like ant-man... all up in your stinky!" -Coalition
300 000 against 70000.
He is not 3 times faster but 6.
He doesn't kill 2for1 but 4for1
Enemies are more than 4 times his size, and they flee because they know he is in charge.
If i read a novel with this kind of character, i would be chastising the writer for his lack of nuance.
One of the few country elite that deserved such title.
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
@@smal750 British say. Napoleon Bonaparte alone is like 40.000 men
Imagine being a soldier in the allied armies. You all know what this man is capable of, and you receive news that he earned 4 victories in 6 days against the odds. Now, that is soldiering.
Imagine a marshal of the empire personally showing you how to use a musket now that is something no ordinary soldier can forget.
There is a high chance he died in Battle or from Sickness. Should have written a diary
@@marc9356 He instead wrote a diearhea
Imagine the Emperor himself sighting your cannon. It’s no wonder the soldiers followed this man when he returned.
@@Bugeye0704
im great eh?
Hahaha newb private
I never really understood what the hype around Napoleon was. Until I watched this series.
Great narrator, great visuals, so many emotions and heroic moments.
"You can't just ride out with 70,000 conscripts, and delay the army of Silesias' advance into France by 6 days!"
Napoleon: *"Bet"*
While his enemies has the manpower to defeat him in mere day but it took them weeks a month lol
410,000 against 70k lol
12:32, napoleon himself in the thick of the fighting, fighting for the survival of the French Empire at the gates of paris against the odds with the swelling music literally gives me goosebumps
😢 🇫🇷
Can anyone tell the background music used there?
skynet, seb jaeger
I came here faster than the training of French recruits in 1814
Haha
Epic History pin this now
I came here faster than my one pump chump willie does in intercourse.
Tu es un brave !
As a french, I must say that even in school we barely study Napoléon. Watching your serie gave me a renew interest for the history of my country
That's insane
they teach you to be proud not about heroic history but about gay parades
@@impaugjuldivmax Are you French? Did Napoleon persecute people based on their sexual orientations too, like your spiritual animal ol Adolf? Many Greek philosophers who laid the early groundwork for modern day democracy (and before that Enlightenment Era and the French Revolution both of which Napoleon was an arduous student)praised the love between two men. But of course a little man still living under an oppressive government in 21st century like you are have no access to that level of decent education.
@@cantbanme8971 It's not insane considering that the bulk of ideals Napoleon strived for during his lifetime has been achieved by the French people through years of struggle with the rest of slow peoples in Europe. Poorly educated people like the one I just responded to are entertained by the idea of waging wars on others to compensate for their fractured egos, something that Napoleon never had.
@@impaugjuldivmax .
Napoleon's counter attack against ungodly odds is some thing to be admire.
You do realize Napoleon lost, right? Or was that too hard for you to understand? Napoleon was nothing to be admired at all.
@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators
lmao you’re still here?
@@centurymemes1208 False narrative + Phony monuments = Fake History. Napoleon was one of the worst rulers in Western History, forever turning France into a second-rate nation. Napoleon was one of the most incompetent, reckless military minds in history, completely destroying the most powerful military force of the day in total defeat, the French military. There was nothing "glorious" or "triumphant" about so many young French conscripts in unmarked graves only to have foreign armies marching down the streets of Paris.
@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators of course he worst ruler...because he was train as soldier...and win a lot of battle... as soldier..surender is the the most dishonor thing ever done...but that what make nepoleon great general but worst ruler..
@@owenmorrison3095 The campaign ended in total DEFEAT! Yet people speak as if Napoleon won when he clearly lost. Napoleon went on the offensive in this campaign instead of defending Paris as he should have. He won meaningless battles that were of no consequence, and was completely out of position to defend Paris as it easily fell. So bad was this performance, that Napoleon was fired by his own Marshalls who had enough of his garbage command. And don't forget, the very reason they were fighting on French soil in the first place was because of Napoleon's incompetence, recklessness, and impotence at a commander. The incompetence of the disastrous Russian campaign. The recklessness of the invasion of Spain, the impotence of getting SMASHED at Leipzig, which all destroyed entire massive French armies. So don't give Napoleon any credit when they are fighting on French soil, and when Napoleon took worthless pawns and lost his king Paris by being out of position to defend the capital. Checkmate! Napoleon is fake history, glorifying the meaningless Six Day Campaign when Napoleon was easily defeated on his own soil by failing to protect Paris is further proof of that.
16:43 "Napoleon knew he had to land another decisive blow soon, so turned his attention back to Blucher". Among all the epicness, this sick burn was almost lost.
Lmfao! I’m so glad someone brought this up😂
I don't get it.
Blucher hated the French so much, when he entered Paris he learned there was a bridge called Iena recalling the battle that saw the destruction of a major part of the Prussian army, and so he ordered his troops to aim cannons to destroy it. French negociator Talleyrand intervened, telling it was not necessary since they would rename the bridge. Blucher accepted and the bridge was saved. It is still called Iena btw...
@@jean-louislalonde6070 i mean, Talleyrand always was a troll
@@erwannthietart3602 He played his own game and so survived the revolution, the empire and managed to be accepted by Louis XVIII.
Infinity War: "Most ambitious crossover"
6th Coalition: "Hold my musket"
Even better Boxer Rebellion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
Napoleon, right before his departure for Elba:
"I'll be back."
Terminator NB-1769))))
athenian warrior
Napoleon, right before being sent to St Helena:
“In my defence I didn’t say how long I’d be back for”
@@harleyokeefe5193 lol
Girl: You don't even cry at Billie Eilish song don't you have any emotional?
Me:
Napoleon when he was on a ship to st Helena: I will not be back
The 6 days campaign had to be one of the biggest humiliation ever displayed in a battlefield.
The part where Napoleon was helping aim the cannon was a little bit of a tear jerker. The man frantically pushing his men beyond their limits to match his genius in a mad attempt to stave off the inevitable, and still succeeding. It really is awe inspiring what he was able to accomplish.
He’s directly responsible for 3 million deaths and he kept Europe in a terrible war for fifteen years. He also betrayed the French Republic by crowning himself Emperor. All this in the name of personal glory.
@@TheCaptainZodo Exaggerated numbers, terrible understanding of the geopolitical stage of the time, and null knowledge about the state of the Directory before Brumaire. Congratulations sir, you check all the conditions of a basic bitch contrarian.
@@guts145 I've usualy seen the total military and civilian death rate put between 3,500,000 and 6,000,000. So I was actually being incredibly lenient with the 3 million figure. What kind of skewed source are you taking your idea of the deaths from? Furthermore, anyone who becomes an absolute emperor has certainly betrayed the republican values of the revolution which gave him that rise. Congratulations sir, you are a mook.
@@TheCaptainZodo You're telling me pop-his may be propagating myths? I never could've guessed (just like I totally didn't guess you took all that from Wikipedia).
You start off by attributing all deaths of a whole series of wars to one person, quite the dishonest move. Especially when they all stemmed from the end of the Treaty of Amiens, which unless you believe it states that France had no right to start diplomatic relationships with Algeria, Egypt, Russia, Malta and the US, or that nobody has the right to do what nations do except for England, wasn't caused by him.
Either way, allied figures are the hardest to situate, but they're between 1 and 2,5 million casualties. As for french ones, both the origin of the misconception and its rebuttal are widely known. It comes from Taine (nineteenth century historian for pete's sake, it's time to get new material) which put the deaths of both the Revolution AND the Empire at 3,1 million. The number in itself looks unbelievable, when comparing it to the french demographic growth under that period (and even just under the Empire itself), but other elements completely decridibilize it. First one is the number of people mobilized for the wars, as the Revolution and the Empire each mobilized a batch of 1,4 million people, which would nearly all be dead if we believe these numbers. Second is the number of remaining people that fought the napoleonic wars under Napoleon III (at around 1850) which is known because of a price he wanted to give them, and which stands at 450,000 people. Pretty impressive, especially when considering how far from the wars this was measured. Final one is the equalization of disappearances with deaths, when it is known that much of them were deserters who settled where the campaigns brought them. From all of that historians situate the actual number between 400,000 and 700,000. Sure, it's not a highly precise number either, but it's far lesser and more reliable than what Taine estimated.
As for the talk on republican ideals, I would except a careful debater to look up a short history of the regime I used as an example (the Directory), but this is apparently not what we have to deal with here. No need to look only at the Directory though, all of the First Republic's history puts the expression "republican ideals" when talking about the Revolution and used to differenciate it with Napoleon. We could talk about how voting was no longer secret since 1792, under the supposedly moderate Girondins-dominated Convention. Or about the coup against the Girondins. Or about how high absention was, showing even citizens didn't believe that these ideals were truly implemented (political inexperience doesn't explain everything, as the number are even smaller than under the constitutional monarchy). Or about how censorship of the press was even harsher than under Napoleon, under whom nobody had ever been executed for mocking someone. Or about how the Revolutionnary Government of 93-94 directly suspended all elections to put an end to the joke. There isn't a shortage of subjects to tackle here.
Then we can move on to the Directory, which started by the reassuring Décret des deux-tiers (which kept one-third of the Convention intact after Thermidor, with no need for a renewal), and continuated by barring some candidates from presenting themselves, and heavily restricting suffrage. As for repression, even though censorship was not at the level of before or after, it was heavily active, and the Bagne replaced executions. And when all of this wasn't enough, a good coup reminded everybody who the boss was (for example in Floreal or Fructidor, coups that targeted both the neo-jacobins and the moderate monarchists). So you with all of these points, you can imagine how anybody that knows a little about the history of the period would explode of laughter when reminded of the "ideals" Napoleon supposedly ended.
@@guts145 You wrote all of that to arrive at the figure of about 1.5-3.2 million? In other words, exactly what I said. Furthermore, you seem to only be talking about military deaths, not including civilians. You have a big mouth but you seem like a bit of an idiot. Secondly, funnily enough I'm actually studying the French Revolution at university right now, so I'm familiar with everything you're saying about pre-Napoleon France. The thing is, this is a CZcams comments section and you seem to have brought your thesis paper to argue against my very broad and general assertion that Napoleon was one of the people who countered the more democratic aspects of the Revolution even just for the fact that he became an emperor. Please don't rustle your jimmies any further.
When the picture of Napoleon bidding farewell to his wife and son showed up, knowing that he would never see them again, that plucked a string in me. Powerfully evoking. Brilliant.
How many Husbands , Fathers , Brothers didn't see their families again just because of him , it's true he was great but all he brought with him is war and destruction to Europe , im glad the allied won against him
@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 yes but most of them are proud what of they are doing. Sacrificing for the country and for their family.
@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 And this is very easy to say that to people who make war, from our little chair behind our PC. Of course it is horrible, lot of dead and wounded. But Napoleon never declared any war. He was defending France, but his defense tactic was not to wait, but to ATTACK.
The price we must pay to be part of the epic story of our nation, the best of the world. I'm proud of my ancestors that was fighting there, even if some of them was surely frightned like HELL while fighting. This is HONOR.
@@HauteGameFR well he did declare 2 wars and it was the 2 bloodiest for the french ^^' ironically.
@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 the Allies started the war. Napoleon didn't ever since the First Coalition
This man has the most epic and tragic story ever.
Yep but as he said his real legacy is in the civil code. He promoted Reforms that changed the world
@@fredbarker9201 i cry when his banner was down
For a Swede, Karl XII fills that roll of tragic hero. Although Karl XII never started a war.
@Robert Cawley a Monster for England, a god for the world
Robert Cawley He was a monster for the English Aristocracy only.
The opportunity of to spend a single day of talking with Napoleon would be priceless..
Napoleon could have been silent for days as some people mention. Emotionally he was a choleric person.
BGM:
0:00 Earthquake -- James Murrey
2:27 Kilimanjaro -- Seb Jaegar
5:40 Renegade -- Seb Jaeger
8:22 General -- Joseph Heath
11:30 Skynet -- Seb Jaeger
12:55 Poseidon -- Ben Hayden
15:00 Agent -- Ben Hayden
16:08 Major Incursion -- Ben Hayden
18:22 Warrior -- Goncalo Marquis Ferreira Martins
20:07 Centurion -- Ben Hayden
21:42 Renegade -- Seb Jaeger
24:42 Viking -- Joseph Heath
27:10 Beoluth -- Seb Jaeger
30:55 General -- Joseph Heath
A man of God! 🙏
Not all heroes wear capes.
Thank you!!! Would you do the same for the Decemberist series by them? Idk some of their songs, but no one will comment what they are.
Mecri mon ami
Thank you.
coalition: we have you 4 to 1 !
Napoleon: i like those odds.
*6 to 1
4 to 1 odds? Napoleon:"Hold my Beer."
*Then it is an even fight*
I cant even fathom the level of brilliance this man had
@@mannye21 Um...you do realize Napoleon lost. Napoleon was not a brilliant general at all. A brilliant general is not responsible for so many catastrophic blunders that wastes the best army in the world. When Napoleon seized power, he took the best army in the world. Napoleon took the most men, the most guns, the best horsemen, and that overwhelming force is why he was largely successful in the beginning. France's army could just overwhelm everyone....until Napoleon recklessly and idiotically wasted the Le Grande Armee with multiple disasters (Spain Russia Leipzig Campaign). Napoleon was not a brilliant commander. It is like if someone took over as CEO a powerful corporation like Google and 10 years later it went bankrupt. No one would call that CEO brilliant. That's what Napoleon did to the French military.
Seriousy, an HBO show about Napoleon would be the best thing ever.
Yeah, but keep D&D away from it please. Otherwise Napoleon will kinda forget about the army of bohemia
There was an A&E one in 2003ish. You can find it on youtube.
Tom Cruise could play Napoleon.
Yes, if the production do not adopt Anglo-Saxon propaganda as usual...
Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a movie about Napoleon. But he couldnt do because of the lack of funding. :(
Napoleon even when commanding raw recruits from an exhausted country against an international coalition was able to not only offer battle but destroy them and force them to retreat 🥲 This man is incredible
and chasing down an army 2x their size lmao
According to legend at 12:34, the emperor sighted the French cannons himself. As he had done at Lodi 18 years before
Some interesting factoids :
-Eugene de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson, fought well against the Austrians in Northern Italy, but did not came back to the emperor, waiting to see what would happen. After the war, he went to live with his wife's family in Bavaria, a melancholic, regretful man. He still managed to marry his daughters to many great noble families, who were impressed by his figure of hero of war.
-Alexandre I of Russia was probably the first Ouiboo, showing an absolute fascination with everything Napoleon's related, and frequenting his ex-wife and stepdaughter. He also showed an absolute disdain toward the returning French royalists.
-Marshal Marmont fought like a beast to defend Paris, ending the day holding his saber with only one arm and three fingers valid. When he heard about the marshal's revolt, he cancelled his order to surrender his corps to the ennemy and joined them to negociate. One disgruntled general surrendered anyway, making him look like an absolute traitor in front of his colleagues and convincing the allies to apply harsh conditions. His title, duke of Raguse, gave the verb "Raguser", to betray. He was the only marshal to meet the son of Napoleon at Vienna, many years later.
-Marshal Ney and Murat were both executed while leading their firing squad and without blindfold. Marshal Brune was cut to pieces by a royalist mob. Marshal Berthier jumped out his window while seeing Prussian troops parade before his window. Marshal Mortier was ripped to shred by an artisanal gatling gun in an unrelated anarchist plot, many years later.
-Davout held Hambourg until showed proof Napoleon had capitulated. He ordered to fire on royalist flags put in front of the walls, for wich he was in disgrace, and didn't have to swear allegeance to the king. This allowed to return to the emperor without betraying anyone during the Hundred-Days. His resistance is considered a model of defensive siege-warfare.
No one knows what killed Berthier. Some says it was an accident; other says suicide. If you consider that he was killed in the beginning of the Hundred Days, it is not difficulty to belive he was murderer in order to weaken Napoleon, since he was a master at understanding Napoleon's orders and transmiting it to the other Marshalls.
Agreed--I think Berthier was dropped out of that window.
Marshal Davout was my favorite Marshal fighting against the Prussians in Jena outnumbered, Helping reclaim a victory against the Austrians at Wagram, and a veteran of the Russian Campaign, let's not forget the sacrifice in Germany. All and all Davout was in my opinion the best Marshal France had.
ThatsJustJosh let’s not forget Marshall Lannes. He is the most heroic of all.
Just to be clear, Berthier’ death is uncertain, but Marmont’s traitory isn’t. He sided with bourbon France after the abdication of Napoleon, and was awarded by the new King of France. Additionally, he voted yes for the execution of his fellow Marshal Ney. No doubt he fought courageously, but he still betrayed.
The last verified soldier of the Napoleonic Wars was a Dutch veteran of the Grand Armee, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, who died aged 110 in 1899. The last claimed soldier was a Polish veteran who fought for Napoleon, Vincent Markiewicz, who died aged ~108 in 1903.
;-; sadly, today, we dont have any Napoleonic veterans in this modern world :( I kinda feel bad for what europe has become 😥
@@martinmagtagnob771 we dont even have ww1 survivors!!!!!
@@martinmagtagnob771 I don’t know I like that for the last 80 years we didn’t fight in Europe.
@@herrklugscheiser2330 we did Yugoslavia...
@@herrklugscheiser2330 .
My heart could scarcely bare to watch this one.
“My life.. what a novel!” - Napoleon
What a genius man he was! Even though he was outnumbered, outmatched, outresourced, just hearing his arrival could send entire enemy armies in retreat.
Russia: we will keep Europe in peace for 20 years.
Greeks: revolt
Russia: 🤷♂️
thank God Alexander died amidst the years of Greek revolution and his brother Nicholas took the throne as he was bigger fan of the Greek cause and helped us during the battle of Navarinno and the treaty of Adrianopol!
@@TeutonicEmperor1198 thank god? The guy basically ensured the end of his dynasty by supporting the Balkan independence movement.
Also November Uprising 1830-1831.
The Ottoman Empire was just another colonial frontier, clearly not Europe.
@@syed1431 There is no doubt that Alexander the 1st and Nicholas the 1st had the opportunity to reform the Russian empire , but to accuse the latter for the fall of the Romanov is a bit of an overstretching! If Nicholas the Second was a just a little bit less shitty the Empire would have endured for a couple of decades! Nicholas the 1st didn't sentenced the empire to death with his Balkan campaign but his unwillingness to make the vital reforms Russia needed seriously made things way worse for his house! Also Crimean war was a way more catastrophic defeat for the Empire in the long run than the successful Balkan campaign!
The coalition: "We have you four to one."
Napoleon: *"I like those odds."*
Just reading about the Napoleonic wars alone is fascinating. Seeing it come alive like this makes it all that much more incredible.
Marvel real quiet after this dropped
imagine we have modern movies in the same scale as Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace
@@oakoakoak2219 Uff would be to good
@@ThaStrum We can dream
@@oakoakoak2219 I'm rooting for that. A mix between the good of GoT and House of Cards on a massive scale and the point of view of every country and party of the time. With an appropriate budget and excellent realisation it would make the greatest show ever
@@Meksgehere
And add characters with motivation and Development because historically accurate cannot save a writing style
“If other history channels are foolish enough to make napoleonic content,
I will march to meet them...
Then you will see the meaning of the word debacle.”
Epic History Tv to his subscribers
Britain, May 2020
While giving them a good run for their money but yeah.
Oversimplified: Napoleonic Wars
@Kürassier1806 yeah its from someone who lost but left as a legend
@@angusyang5917
It maybe foreshadowed in his French revolution, But who knows if he ever makes it...
I love the irony of the outcome of the 1814 campaign. Napoleon loses in part, because the notorious aggressive Blücher manages to win a defensive battle and the cautious Schwarzenberg suddenly seeks a risky offensive encounter. If this wasn't history, I would call the writer out on such a "poetic switch".
Napoleons tale in general is like a Tragic stories of old.
You could be champions of the God a true god of war.
But when the whole world challenges you constantly, there is going to be a time where he falls
The voice that narratives this Napoleon series is just as sensational and powerful like the series itself. My hat off to you, sir whoever you are !!! Your voice just made the entire series came alive in my head. Thank you and for Napoleon, the emperor, you are always in my heart !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Everyone gangsta until napoleon sights the cannon himself
Ahlie🤣
point blank hit certainly
Everybody holding the village gangsta until Napoleon orders up the old guard
@@couldbeanybody2508 everybody gangsta till Wellington throws half of his army to deal with them.
everyone gangsta until napoleon appears on the field.
And finally, we are at the end. And my God, what a series! Until this very day there is no any other historical series of this format on CZcams done with such passion and love. You guys completed what could be called the greatest history series ever done on CZcams! I applaude you! The only thing that I feel is missing from this video is Napoleon's farewell speech to his guard. It went like this:
"Soldiers of my Old Guard, I bid you farewell. For 20 years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory.
In these latter times, as in the days of our prosperity, you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity.
With men such as you our cause could not be lost; but the war would have been interminable; it would have been civil war, and that would have entailed deeper misfortunes on France.
I have sacrificed all of my interests to those of the country.
I go, but you, my friends, will continue to serve France.
Her happiness was my only thought. It will still be the object of my wishes.
Do not regret my fate; if I have consented to survive, it is to serve your glory.
I intend to write the history of the great achievements we have performed together.
Adieu, my friends. Would I could press you all to my heart. I embrace you all in the person of your general. Come, General Petit, that I may press you to my heart!
Bring me, the eagle that I may embrace it also!
Adieu, my children! Be always gallant and good.
Do not forget me"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
When I read it the first time (I believe I was 15, maybe 16 or so then), I cried. The Old Guard, those men who withstood the sand of Egypt and ice of Russia. Men who didn't shake for 20 years on battlefield. Men who never complained. Those men now cried for his emperor. British Prussian and Austrian envoys too cried. Everyone cried. Only the Russians seemed untouched by Napoleon's words, although I believe they were.
Napoleon was beyond doubt a great man, we all know that. But, more importantly, he was, in my humble opinion, a good man. In his early years Napoleon was a stubborn man. And an unforgivable. Once, when he read one novel from Voltaire in which a dying hero forgives his killers, he was angry. He thought that a dying hero shouldn't forgive his enemies, but instead curse them and with his last breath make his friends swear that they'll avenge his death! That's what a real man should do, young Napoleon thought.
But when it was Napoleon's time to die......well he wrote a last wish. A last wish in which he forgives all his enemies, all those who betrayed him. Talleyrand, Fouche, "Raguser"......all of them were forgiven. Elba changed his views on the world tremendously. When he returned in 1815 in his Hundred days Napoleon was a different man. Much mentally much older, wiser and nicer. And that could be seen through his actions. He established free elections and free press, both somewhat banned during his previous reign. He even banned slave trade, which he himself re-established in 1802. Napoleon of the Hundred days wasn't that young hotheaded Napoleon. If during his first reign Napoleon passionately wanted to fix the world's mistakes, the Hundred days Napoleon wanted to fix mistakes that he himself made. And thus on Saint Hellen died a completely different man than the one who marched into Russia.
But that isn't the last of Napoleon. No! He still didn't showed us his last triumph! In 1840, during a July monarchy, Napoleon marched for the last time. This time millions of people came to see his remains being brought back to France. And they laid him in a palace of invalids, a place where people pay him respect for already 200 years. Napoleon maybe lost in life, but he beat them all in death!
Great message ... Totally agree with you, despite what others may think, he is a great man for who i have a lot of admiration
Napoleon failures are more glorious and amazing than his enemies victories.
Vivee L'emperador!!! Vive Napoleon!!
Long ago when I first came to know about Napoleon's last speech to old guard before his exile to Elba, I wept too.
But this time while I was reading your comment, I wept again, when I got to read - "British, Prussian, and Austrian envoys cried too".
I had read before that even enemy soldiers respected Napoleon, and saluted him during battle, lying wounded or half dead, when they saw him, but never knew that they cried for him too during his last moments before exile.
Napoleon was a rare man in deed; if he was able to make even his enemies weep for him, you can perhaps not fully imagine the euphoria of the situation, but only wish for yourself if you could have been present at that moment.
Now you made us all cry... :'(
Napoleon's young age, hot-headed philosophy as you have mentioned that a dying hero should not forgive his killers and enemies, but instead curse them and with his last breath should make his friends swear that they will avenge his death - reminded me of an incident from the Indian epic MAHABHARATA (originally written in Sanskrit), which is as it follows. -
DURYODHANA, a king and a great warrior, lying half dead on the battlefield of KURUKSHETRA, was visited by one of his best and only surviving friend - ASHWATTHAMA.
The latter crying heavily, and being unable to keep his eyes at DURYODHANA's sufferings and pains, asked for his permission to revenge on his killers - the PANDAVAs (5 brothers).
DURYODHANA being satisfied thinking that the war was not over yet and ASHWATTHAMA was his best friend in deed, permitted the latter's request.
That very night ASHWATTHAMA walked secretly into the PANDAVAs' shelter and killed all their surviving sons, 5 in number, misidentifying them for PANDAVAs and took their severed heads to show DURYODHANA.
DURYODHANA wept at the death of these sons looking at their heads as presented by ASHWATTHAMA and died.
PANDAVAs were alarmed and sought revenge on ASHWATTHAMA, but both were unable to kill each other.
ASHWATTHAMA, now being unable to kill PANDAVAs, took to end their family line instead.
Although he had killed the 5 remaining sons of PANDAVAs and they had no grandson except one who was yet to be born.
He cursed this grandson, who was in the womb of one of PANDAVAs' daughter in law - UTTARA that he would die young and the PANDAVAs line of family would not live happily to enjoy the wealth, the kingdom for which they killed DURYODHANA. Afterward he disappeared in jungles, lived there for all his life without being discovered by others.
The grandson, later became known as PARIKSHIT died very young due to his ill behavior and temper and thus ASHWATTHAMA's curse was fulfilled.
Now why did I mention this incident from MAHABHARATA?
The answer is -
First the similarity of intentions;
Secondly in one of the introductory chapters of this epic, in a verse, it is written - "All the possibilities of human relationships you can find here can be found elsewhere too; But those which can not be found here in this epic are nowhere else to be found."
This epic has thousands of characters, many of them unrelated (but related in a way as all are living and all denote essence of life and existence).
Among the characters, there are animals and pets as well showing them as emotional as they are and their relationships with humans.
DURYODHANA and ASHWATTHAMA's seeking for revenge is considered evil by most Indians as India is overall a country of AHIMSA i.e. non - violence, but by a few as greatest bond of friendship and brotherhood.
Girls: how did he not cry during titanic, do boys even have feelings?
Me: watches this documentary about Napoleon's defeat 😭
Napoleon was not defeated in 1814, he did his best but unfortunately Soissons and Paris surrended. 😐
Meaning he was defeated, paris was his fate, to which they did not have faith in his skills no longer.. He soon abdicated.
@@strange_gentleman182 As Selim wrote he did his best but others decided to surrender instead of fighting. If Paris had chosen to stand with their emperor and fight it would've looked differently. With a burnt down paris maybe!
I do agree, but i don't personally think that the coalition would burn paris (maybe alexander would.) Dead soldiers, young and old would be scattered through out paris. The coalition were going to remove napoleon, one way or another, today or tomorrow.
The music score, the battlefield graphics, this is truly a master piece of story telling. Bravo!
Epic History: Napoleon lost his empire due to the disastrous Russian Invasion.
History Channel: It was because of Aliens!
Epic history is the smartest history channel. Hand down
"new studies have shown that the british members of parliament had contacted the aliens to ask for aid against napoleon"
Epic history actually does research on his videos, History channel, I’m not so sure the people there are qualified enough. There are some other great history youtubers out there like Simple History!
Russia AND Spain
It's all coz of the British
This era is my favorite period of World History
I never really cared for it before, but now it has also become my favourite.
France an Europe 1789-1815: better than any movie
Well it's so connected to other key events such as the American Revolution, which was a source of the French debt that resulted in the French Revolution, then the rise of Napoleon that it covers all the major western powers and their empires. It's certainly one of the most important periods of history.
22:26
It's not my most favorite, but it's up there in the the top 5.
This is absolutely marvelous, utterly awe-inspiring, both Napoleon's genius and Epic History's presentation. History doesn't get any better than this.
When you see the Allies fleeing before Napoleon, you know how much they were afraid of him.
I have never, ever before come across a series, based on events that we already know what will happen, leave me so angry and sad at the same time about how things turned out for the Emperor, when there could have been so different. I have never, EVER, come across a channel that the quality of its content shames networks that reigned for years, the respect for its viewers humbles us, and its analysis of historical events is done in such an interesting and entertaining way.
I have nothing more to say, than Thank You. Thank you for this amazing series, and thank you for the company your videos kept me all these days. I hope you continue the amazing job!
Edit: Some mistakes, I’m sorry, english isn’t my first language!
Your english is fine, you're just fishing for compliments
Completely agree about the absolute brilliance of this series, tho I'm rooting for Napoleon's enemies throughout the series. Very satisfying to watch how the coalition finally managed to put the Corsican Ogre in his place.
Napoleon's unjust and outrageous actions in Spain and Russia finally avenged.
@@ihl0700677525 I was rooting for Napoleon but I guess its a matter of perspective
@@Aester rooting for the underdog is always more interesting.
@@ihl0700677525 That's fair enough, what he did in Spain is unforgivable that's for sure.
Marshall Marmont is an interesting figure.
His parents were minor nobility from Burgundy, and he went to a school in Dijon where he met a well-known young Corsican. Then he was accepted at the prestigious artillery school in Châlons, where he had brilliant grades and even met one of his future friends, Géraud Duroc. In 1793, his unit which was in the Army of the Alps, was redirected at Toulon where he fought with Napoleon and another famous man, Jean-Andoche Junot.
Long story short, his litte gang with Napoleon and Junot lived quite poorly after Robespierre's execution, Napoleon being discharged and without pay. After participating at the siege of Mainz in 1795, he was put in the Army of Italy with Napoleon, where he distinguished himself, notably at Arcole where he supposedly helped Napoleon get out of the mud in which he had fallen. Napoleon sent him to the Directory to deliver the standards of the defeated armies, and was made colonel at age 21 (!).
He went to Egypt with Napoleon, and followed him in the second Italian campaign where he notably organized the artillery's crossing of the St-Bernard, depicted in the famous painting of David. He was later appointed inspector of the artillery that he organized very effectively.
Disappointed of not being one of the first marshalls of Napoleon in 1804, he was put at the command of the 2nd Corps in Ostende for the future invasion of England. His corps particpated at the Ulm and Austerlitz campaigns of 1805 but not at the battle of Austerlitz itself. In 1806 he fought the Russians in Dalmatia, and stayed at Ragusa where he modernized the country, building roads, schools, hospitals. He was loved by the trooper and by the locals, but not by his immediade subordinates who found him arrogant and greedy. He was made duke of Ragusa in 1808 and marshall of the empire in 1809 after Wagram, where his corps fought with the Austrians at Znaïm. Napoleon made him governor of the Illyrian provinces, where his lifestyle and appetite for gold was very famous. He had near total power in Illyria, Napoleon nicknamed him "Marmont 1st" in reference of the "court" he had in Ragusa.
After a short stay in Paris, Napoleon made him commander of the army of Portugal. Considering the lack of ressources, he fought quite well until Salamanca where a cannonball injured his arm. He was made commander of the 6th Corps in Germany and in France, fighting with determination despite the odds.
But here's the interesting part. After withdrawing from Paris with his corps, he plotted against his old friend and Emperor. He made contact with Schwarzenberg and offered that his corps went in Normandy, in order to have peace. But on the 4th of April, Napoleon decided to abdicate with conditions. He sent MacDonald, Ney and Caulaincourt to Paris. Marmont followed them, but his negociations would be a weakness to Napoleon's conditionnal surrender, because the Emperor's main argument was the unity of the army to his cause. Marmont wanted to abandon his plot, and ordered not to move. But, in Paris, The Tsar dismissed the four emisaries. Why? Because Souham, the man left out to command 6th Corps, actually gave up his corps and marched in direction of Normandy. It's not surprinsing, as Souham was an ex-officer of Moreau, Napoleon's old enemy. At this moment all was lost, Napoleon had been betrayed. He abdicated without condition on the 6th of April.
Of course, Marmont, seen as the traitor, did not do anything during the Hundred Days. In the Bourbon Restauration years, he was in service of Louis XVIII and Charles X (a friend) and even discovered and neutralized a plot against Louis XVIII. He was persona non grata with the army, but was appreciated for his intelligence in the higher society. He was commander of the Army in Paris during the July Revolution in 1830, and was forced into exile as his troops opened fire on the revolutionnaries. Marmont, being a friend of the king, but in favor of the liberals and an enemy of the ultra-royalists in the government, was in the middle of the fight. He exiled himself to England with Charles X, then to Vienna and Venise.He wrote books on his journey which took him to Egypt (again) and Russia, and on military strategy : his books were best-sellers in Europe at the time. He even met Napoleon II, giving him "lessons" about his father once a week. He never went back to France, as Soult, a marshall with whom he had a terrible relationship since the Peninsula War, was made prime minister. He died in Venise in 1852, being the last marshall of Napoleon to die.
Why did he betray Napoleon? For the interest of peace, France, for having the luxury to have Napoleon's future in his hands? As the years passed, his relation with the Emperor deteriorated, the greed of Marmont being too strong. He always was in search of recognition from him, but never quite obtained it, and maybe this made him jealous. We'll never know, but I encourage EHTV's viewers to make researchs about the people of this time, as they were fascinating and shaped the world we live in today.
(PS : sorry for eventual mistakes, English is not my main language, and I'm a bit in a hurry :) )
Thanks for the very interesting write-up. I have to agree now, Marmont is a very interesting figure.
There is used to a synonym in French based on Marmont's treachery. It was to be a "Raguser."
As Marmont was the Duke of Ragusa. It is the same as being a Quisling.
One can compare Marmont and Bernadotte on the surface.
I don't blame Bernadotte for he had reasons of State and Napoleon attacked Sweden first. But Marmont? He was a straight up traitor. Politically and personally. Bernadotte and Bonaparte were never friends, and never even friendly. The respected each other but that is it. It was all business for those two. Bernadotte had built a stellar career even before Napoleon. He was Minister of War prior to the Consulate. Napoleon and Bernadotte owed each other nothing.
But Marmont? He was Napoleon's friend. He achieved his baton due to that friendship. His fortunate was made by Napoleon. His military career made by Napoleon. He owed EVERYTHING to Napoleon. His betrayal was personal. For that he deserved to be damned by Bonapartists and Bourbons both.
When your comment is bigger than War and Peace
I read it all. Very easy to read and interesting.
Crazy how during this whole Campaign for France. Napoleon managed to lose only 3 actual battles And win the rest. Unfortunately. time was ticking. The English really wanted the House of Bourbon in power
He didn't exactly lose 3, he lost 2 (the battle of La Rothière and the one at Laon) the battle of Arcis-sur-Aube was inconclusive although you can count it as a strategic allied victory (the performance however was poor, Schwarzenberg tried and failed to destroy Napoleon's rag-tag army even though he had a massive numerical superiority) while Napoleon won 8 battles of which my favorite is the battle of Reims (he inflicted 10 times more casualties)
Shows well that winning battles doesn't win the war.
@@ChemistTea ultimately his ideology of ending feudalism spread across Europe , which at the end his ideology won. The battles he won personally are more interesting than the wars he lost because he alone was able to damage his opponents in high numbers even while having a shitty army.
@@ChemistTea
If you said this about modern war (particularly WW1 and WW2) i would have agreed but in the Napoleonic era Clausewitz's principe of the decisive battle was still important, by 1814 the french situation was impossible and it doesn't matter how much victories Napoleon could achieve, however just months before that a decisive battle would have changed his fortunes.
@@judgebruceschroeder3118 that's a stretch, but I agree that winning a war isn't something to glorify or be proud about. All are losers in any war.
Been reading Andrew Robert's biography of Napoleon. He claims that Napoleon actually wanted to accept the frankfurt proposal, but it was the british who convinced the allies to give up on the proposal. Napoleon wasn't that irrational apparently.
The documentary channels are dead, Long Live Epic History TV !
The endgames of military genius like Napoleon and Hannibal are all depressing and a story of how things could have ended differently.
Thanks to epic history for such a series never have I loved history so much before.
You guys made Napoleon an idol for me
They really should not be depressing.
The only depressing thing for me is when the epic part of the video ends soon. This video is spectacular for me, because nearly all the moments are epic.
not really depressing but certainly epic
I am Russian and in my opinion, it was a happy and of the Napoleonic wars!
How can he be considered an idol? What good did he do to the world?
@@JohnyG29 bring the ideals of the french revolution to fruition and creating a civil code that still forms the basis of many european civil codes to this day?
I have watched this one 100 times at this point. Your ability to visually tell this story gives me chills on my spine. I know the end of the story but still find myself rooting for Napoleon. MASSIVE KUDOS on your ability to tell this story. I subscribe to maybe 20 or 30 channels, but at the end of the day this is one of my favorites. Keep the amazing content coming!
Us brother Us. We are the infantry of Napoleon ❤
*This is the thing many legendary conquerors have in common: Being in the fight with thier men, eating to same food, riding under the rain with them and generally sharing thier hardship. This is why thier men loved them so much and would push themselves so hard to make thier leaders proud.*
Sure. I think it's that soldiers most often display bravery because of the camaraderie with their fellow servicemen, when the lives of the others are threatened. Great generals, some by accident I think, learned how to fool their soldiers to subconsciously think of them as their comrades to inspire greater loyalty.
@@saldownik A lot of the French marshals under Napoleon were peasants and regular footsoldiers during their life. So they very much were comrades in the thick of the fighting with them. In this era generals had to be on the frontline to some extent since you didn't have radios or other forms of instant communication
>Being in the fight with thier men, eating to same food
You are the victim of propaganda. The image of Napoleon is highly romanticized.
He did not care about his soldiers, so he gave them difficult tasks so easily
"I sought a glorious death disputing, foot by foot, the soil of the country, the balls flew around me, my clothes were pierced, but none reached me"
Napoleon is the absolute definition of an anime character with plot armor
Even the poison he drink lost its compent, just whoa
Thats how a warrior sought to die thats why when you pity them for asking to kill them is disrecpectful.
@@dyingember8661 no definitive evidence.
Napoleon - When you're the only pro player carrying your team.
lol exactly what I thought when I saw him marching up and down, east and west 😂😂
@@easyspanish4894 100%, reminds me of that one kid ( or you those very rare games) trying to carry your team on LoL.
And whole server is against you.
You gotta give this marshals credit to
BOSS I remember playing a battlefield game, and as soon as it was clear my team would lose... I was shocked when my friend killed me from the enemy team. He had switched sides.
Fighting an enemy double your size and yet inflict the same amount of casualties equal to your own army is insane
This campaign must surely be one of the greatest feats of military genius in history.
What's so great about it?
@@saldownik Defeating an army twice your size and inflicting 10 times the amount of casualties as your own while relying greatly on poorly trained conscripts.
@@zombieoverlord51734 times his size …
@@saldownikif you can’t see what is great about it you are stupid mate
Britain be like: im gonna pay you 100$ to keep fighting france
Britain be like: I will fight Napoleon until the last Austrian dies
lol
@@datguy8006 To be honest no one forced the Austrian Emperor to take the money.
@@datguy8006 it's remembering me the fact that when the BEF left Dunkirk in 1940, while being protected by french , and then refused to come back for fighting, German Propaganda said "The english will fight to the last french" and it worked on some french soldiers
@@datguy8006 and the British army fighting in the Peninsula and Southern France? The Royal Navy checking the French all over the world?
Before Epic History TV started this series, the Napoleonic Wars never caught my attention like other wars did. I've always been more interested in World War 1 and 2, the wars in the 17th century and various wars of the Ancient history. But I can honestly say that I've never seen anything like this series. It has been the best history series I've ever watched on CZcams or anywhere else for that matter. Thank you for this, it has been incredible and I wish it could've gone on forever.
Seems like we're in the same boat
For me it was because of Sharpe watching it when I was younger made me fascinated by the Napoleonic Wars. Probably one of the most interesting wars in history in my opinion.
Could not agree more. I'm English and in the UK they not only defame Napoleon they pretty much erase him from history. This CZcams channel blows traditional TV documentaries with their immense budget completely out of the water. It's amazing, I always revisit it every few months. And I now love Napoleon, one of the greatest figures in history.
Eradicus - "one of the greatest figures in history" yes but for all the wrong reasons. A man totally infatuated with himself. Wellington respected his genius in the field but the verdict on his legacy, if we can call it that, is one of subjugating a nation and a continent to his outrageously inflated ego. The millions of lives lost, countries ravaged just to satisfy his will to dominate! I am not a jingoist but the real heroes of this terrible conflict are the countries that withstood against him all those years and finally brought back some order. It was the British navy that brilliantly and doggedly thwarted his designs all those years. Also if he had not had designs on Spain and Portugal he would never have had to fight on two major fronts, a major flaw in his overall strategy.
The music used here is just so absolutely beautiful and masterfully edited, that even Hans Zimmer would agree!
This man went south the north to south over and over what a leader.
Actually sad to see the picture of Napoleon drop to the ground after this long and glorius series. Great job!
lol
It's pretty clear that the allied commanders were scared shitless of Napoleon. Napoleon's success here was half military genius half his reputation working for him!
Have to win first to get a reputation right. Haha
My man was fighting a whole coalition of armies with just 30k troops and still won
It only happens when you’re the greatest of them all
People want to know why the French are not brave, all the brave ones died under Napoleon
People also dunk on his Egyptian Campaign, but he had less than 40k troops and still managed to clap the mameluks, british and any huge rebel force.
@@NeverGoingToGiveYouUp000 not to mention the Masterpiece at Mount Tabor, while his second in command General Kleber was beign routed by 30,000 ottomans , Napoelon arrived from the rear with just 2,500 troops in a brilliant encircle manouver and routed them killing 6,000 ottomans of the Army of Damascus sending them into a hasty retreat, Napoleon and Kleber had less than 4000 troops altogether
@@ernestoA.1999 People who make fun of the Egyptian Campaign only know the basic, that he went to Egypt, and Left. Sucks how they criticize without knowing the history
I love Napoleon. His quotes are inspiring, his military genius undisputed, but i think a combination of pride and overconfidence in his subordinates led to his downfall. Especially in the hundred days. Most hardworking and smart men can only hope to achieve 2% of what he did though.
Could you imagine what it must have been like, to have the emperor come up to your cannon and sight the gun himself, and then start barking orders directly at you to get the shot and powder etc. How invigorated the soldiers around him must have been. I bet that cannon fired and reloaded so fast after Napoleon left for the remainder of that battle. There must have been some truly incredible, undocumented moments in these final days of the empire.
*napoleon's flag falls at 29:53 *
Me on my one knee : emperor, you gave them hell even when you lost.
I would have never believed that such a man existed and has done the impossible things, if it wasn't historical fact.
Napoleon se defendió con todo lo que tenía , jamás arrugó y ganó muchas batallas estando en desventaja 4 a 1 , la verdad un genio total
In France, we just study Napoléon when we are 9 years old.
Very sad because it's an incredible story of our country 🇫🇷
That's bizarre. @_@
@@vicentgalvan70 i don't know for others but in France we have a lot of people that don't like french History, not pride about flag/country and always speak about the wrong side of French
Often the "progressive people
Honestly, teaching history anywhere before age 15 is kinda pointless in my opinion. It's just confusing and unrelatable to kids so young. The key to being fascinated by history is being able to see historical figures as real people with their own flaws of character and lessons learned and that's not really what kids are great at. To them, anybody adult around them is akin to a god incarnate, all-knowing and infallible.
I'm frensh too, I'm 16 years old and I didn't really study about napoleonic wars... Maybe 1 month, all the facts after the 19th century study before high school. But it's true that's in France nobody is proud of the history of France. Per example, one day I have done a work on Napoleon and my teacvers litteraly wants I talk about the bad fact of Napoleon (esclavagism, don't really respect the ideas of revolution etc...).
Parlez français si vous êtes français -_ -
Sinon pareil j'ai jamais étudié Napoléon en cours.
Even in defeat he proved himself to be the best general of his time
Of all time*
he could've accepted peace terms and retired as emperor but that's not him. he's a soldier.
john cho
“ lead by example “
Toulon
I won‘t lose cause even in defeat theres a valuable lesson learned so it evens it out for me
john cho exactly he’s not a king nor emperor , he’s a soldier , and real soldiers just keep fighting
Geez.. This series is amazing ! I started with the condensed Napoleonic Wars episode and was instantly hooked. From there I began watching the individual episodes and I have to say, I was blown away ! The narration, visuals, and of course, the music, is phenomenal. Epic History made an absolute masterpiece.
The man barely had a functioning army and kept spanking baby bottoms, absolute genius.
_This is beginning to be very_ *serious.*
_-Napoleon Bonaparte_
Russia rules!
Warrior Monk Russia simply feeds more men into the sausage grinder than other countries; there’s very little strategy other than win by attrition. That’s why Russia suffers the most casualties (military and civilian) in the wars they’ve fought.
@@yrsjhydjmdhyt France was more populated then Russia in the time. Also look at the campaign in Russia. Russia suffered much less causalties then Grand Army. Same can be said about many other wars. You have no idea what you are talking about.
@@fedorevdokimenko3978 but in actual battles napoelon beat them (Austerlitz, Friedland) . He lost to climate and disease in 1812 but it was a big sacrifices on the Russians part
@@fredbarker9201 Weather and desease are standart things in any war. Napoleon suffered huge loses and lost because Kutuzov outplayed him on strategic level.
Hope you will do a remake of Waterloo, with as much detail as you have done with this one ! Great series !
They actually done that czcams.com/video/nDZGL1xsqzs/video.html
I don't think they they need to do a remake of Waterloo they go into quite some depth when it comes to a battle but maybe redo the campaign it self so they can go into more details on the other battles like Ligny
I think enough have been made about the Waterloo campaign. In this channel and in History Marche. However I hope they will release videos about Napoleon's previous campaign, especially his first Italian campaign, which was a masterpiece
Absolutely the very best commentator.. I could listen to him reading a cook book and be enthralled! Could never be replaced. Keep up the excellent work please!
Marvelously done segment!
I learned more from it than from all the boos I have read so far on 1814 campaign.
Thank you to the creators.
*Napoleon in notification means Epic History TV has arrived*
I'm sad you didn't mention the battle of Bayonne the 14th of April 1814. The garnison didn't believed that the Emperor had abdicated and, outraged, made a "sortie" to break the siege of the city.
My complements to the editors on this incredible series. The red quotes are so effective, as are the painting cutouts, and the timing of this one in particular-one of the most complex of all of the Napoleonic ones- is simply incredible, and easy to follow. A tour de forcé.
As Napoleon sat alone in his quarters on St. Helena, lost in thought, a knock on the door interrupted his reverie.
"Enter," he called out.
The door creaked open, and in walked a loyal supporter, one of the few who had managed to visit him on the remote island.
"Your Majesty," the man said, bowing low. "I have come to pay my respects and offer any assistance I can."
Napoleon looked up at him, his eyes distant and unfocused.
"Thank you, my friend," he said softly. "I appreciate your loyalty, but I fear there is little you can do for me now."
The visitor took a seat across from Napoleon and studied him for a moment, taking in the once great emperor's haggard appearance and defeated posture.
"You look tired, sire," he said gently. "Is there anything I can do to make you more comfortable?"
Napoleon let out a long sigh and leaned back in his chair.
"Comfort is a luxury I can no longer afford," he said bitterly. "I am trapped here, cut off from the world, and forced to endure this wretched existence until I die."
The visitor nodded sympathetically. "I can only imagine how difficult it must be, sire," he said. "But please remember, even in exile, you remain a great leader and a symbol of hope for many."
Napoleon let out a hollow laugh. "A symbol of hope? What hope is there for a man who has lost everything he ever worked for?"
The visitor leaned forward, his voice earnest. "The hope that comes from knowing that even in defeat, you have left your mark on history. That your legacy will live on, long after you are gone."
Napoleon stared at him, his eyes flickering with a mix of emotions.
"And what good is a legacy, when I am reduced to this?" he said, gesturing to his shabby surroundings. "An old man, alone on a barren rock, with nothing to show for all my years of struggle and sacrifice?"
The visitor looked at him, his heart heavy with sorrow.
"The once glorious emperor," he thought to himself, "now is just an old man looking lost and trapped, unable to return to his glory days."
But he said nothing, knowing that no words could comfort Napoleon in his despair. Instead, he simply sat with him, offering what little comfort he could, as the once great ruler of France grappled with the bitter reality of his fate.
Did you write it?
@@gjzgodd no Ai did. Lol 😂
@@suyahatesntr 😲 far out
They would have talked like any average person today, not like in a performance. Also war is not something to be glorified. It is a childish idea that war or conquest is ePiC...
One of the best stories that history has to offer! Napoleon was truly a military genius and a brilliant innovator. But in the end, hubris was his downfall.
Too true...he was so good that the only person that could defeat him was himself.
Most of the great men fall once they believe their own press
No one is immune to hubris
He lost because of his bad diplomacy and the underestimation of diseases in the Russian Campaign. These diseases will ruin its Grande Armée.
@@freewal That too
The numerical superiority of the enemy Was overwhelming, however the performance and the achievement of Napoleon and the men under his command on the battlefield, can not be denied as history will attest.
I think these are awesome. I hope they go back and redo the Battle of Waterloo and make it sound as a completion of these are, with more in-depth on Napoleon’s return, his preparation for war, and the campaign in total.
"The result would one of the most audacious and brilliant campaigns in history" gets me.
In 1814, France was tired from 22 years of almost constant and deadly wars. All of Europe never stoped wanting to kneel the young Republic, and pushed France to establish an Empire under an Army Genius. The United Kingdom by funding all the coalitions, Austria, and Russia were the main responsible.
Thus ended one of the most formidable adventures in history for a man whose fate was to be an artillery officer in the royal armies of France. Given his modest origins, he could only be a Colonel at the end of his military career ... and not even sure. He should have stood out in combat.
One cannot sum up Napoleon Bonaparte to his talent for war. His achievements in the field of law (the various Codes), economic and financial (institution of central banks), administration (prefectural system), culture, science, architecture, urban planningg, are huge.
He modernized Europe like no other has done since Cesar
. Besides, no power that succeeded him called into question his gains, whether in Spain, Portugal, Naples, northern Italy, the German states of the Rhine, the provinces.
His main mistake was that from his accession to the Empire, he wanted to install a dynasty in Europe ... which he led to many diplomatic mistakes:
- Not destroying Prussia. He had the opportunity twice.
- Not destroying the Empire of Habsbourg by creating multiple Kingdoms / Sister republics. Take the opportunity to give to the numerous nationalities, a country.
- The marriage to Marie Louise and the alliance with Austria
- The Tilsit agreements very favorable to Russia which has proven later to be a very poor ally
- His will to always seek a favorable peace with the United Kingdom with the establishment of the Berlin Decree in 1806, even if it worked by hurting Perfide Albion very badly in 1812, causing famine but too late. The Berlin Decree will push him to the Peninsula War. An important mistake. A weak ally (and Spain at this time was) is always better than a weak (but determined) opponent.
In the end Bonaparte did not understand that he would never be accepted by other European dynasties. For these, the usurper would remain for life. Sadly for him and for Europe.
Vive l'Emperor.
I don't want to go into any conspiracies but it was known at the time with American Freemasons. he was in secret society and learned about the blood families running Europe, bankers and the Twisted ocult they were in and left the societies and wanted to get rid of it off the continent. He knew their plans. Of course he was not perfect. But at least he tried. We're still fighting the battle all I will say is look at the bankers and the elites around the world they have no Allegiance no Religion or race but themselves they want to make a one world Government.
The other European dynasties were prepared to let him keep his throne in return for a permanent peace among equals, the Peace of Amiens and the Frankfurt Proposals show that it was possible, but Napoleon rejected peace both times.
I remember that Napoleon offered Hungary independence in 1809, but the offer had an hostile response by Hungarian nobility, so the emperor renounced his intention to divide the Habsburg state. I'm not sure this offer was made before of after Wagram
@@dale6947 The peace of Amiens was broken by United Kingdom without any declaration, which shown how classy was UK by the way. The Frankfurt proposal was ok, but it was made by Metternich only, he feared Prussia and Russia. Napoleon was too optimistic on his own capacity to beat other armies and thought that he will get an alliance with the Habsbourg to beat Prussia and Rusia. That was the idea of his marriage.
Napoleon was an awful diplomat. (that;s why Taleurand quit him)
most of his victories is just an exploit of enemies blunders.
Napoleon - brilliant tactic but awful strategist.
destroying Prussia> Hasburg? are u mad?
This music and narration is unbelievable. The best thing I've seen in years.
Just hearing the word *Elite Old Guard* puts up so many chills in your body 9:47
As an Indian and obviously anti British, I always held Napoleon in high regard, I never wanted to watch the video till the end as it was too painful. Such Boldness, decisiveness, and wielding complete fidelity over his men. The man is a Legend.
You should not hold Napoleon in high regard, as Napoleon was directly responsible for the Pax Britannica. Since Napoleon weakened any other country that could check Britain's power, including France, which Napoleon weakened through his own incompetence. That led to the expansion of the brutal British rule in India. But by your logic, you must hold Hitler in very high regard, since his war on Britain led to directly weakening British power in India and ultimately kicking the British out, which I get it, the British were bad in India. But both Napoleon and Hitler were reckless, sociopath, incompetent, wasteful, warmongering military dictators who ended in defeat leaving millions dead. If that is who you hold in high regard, then you should seriously fix yourself. Admire Gandhi or someone great like that, not Napoleon.
@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators Fix myself, LOL!! I am perfectly fine and even though there is no need to justify myself, I'll say this, you can hate Napoleon for his military actions, but you cannot deny/admire his talent. That is something to look up to. BTW history is written by winners and had he won, I am quite sure you'd agree with me.
@@sriganesh5787 The enemy of your enemy is not your friend if he is actually helping the enemy, and that is what Napoleon did, he helped Britain become the sole superpower through is own incompetence that the destroyed his own army, the most powerful army in the world. France was very good without Napoleon. France had won the last three wars against Britain before Napoleon completely took over. France had been instrumental in giving Britain her worst defeat in the American Revolutionary War (whether France helped the USA too much, that's a different story, but the French were really the ones who beat Britain). France had conquered territory in Holland, Italy and Belgium before Napoleon took over. France had a great military structure, very organized, and strengthened with conscripts and rearmament. Then France actually gave Napoleon all the military resources and manpower possible, Napoleon wasted those vast resources, and Napoleon is solely responsible for France's defeat. France sacrificed a generation of men for Napoleon. Napoleon was dragging France into ruin, and the French finally stepped in to stop Napoleon from completely destroying everyone and everything in France. If France had someone more capable than Napoleon, they may have found a way to beat Britain. To make allies, build up the Navy, to not send the French Navy on foolish expeditions like Egypt where Napoleon got the best of his Navy destroyed, and find a way to invade Britain. France had the resources to do it, not even saying France would have won, but there would not be a 100 year Pax Britannica, and Britain would not rule India for as long as she did.The French invasion of Britain was real threat. After Napoleon, never a threat again. All France needed, with her vast resources and manpower, was someone competent enough to invade Britain. It could have been done, because it had been done before (William the Conqueror). So if you think that Napoleon was actually some military genius, a noble reformer that ended in victory, you better check again.
@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators Yeah, well that's kinda like your opinion man.
@@sriganesh5787 Yet you cannot admire both Gandhi and Napoleon, they are on opposite ends. Gandhi was a man of peace, Napoleon was a man of war. Gandhi was an intellectual, Napoleon was a manipulator. Gandhi had perspective and vision, Napoleon was reckless and lacked vision. Gandhi sacrificed himself for his country, Napoleon sacrificed his country for himself. Gandhi saved millions of lives, Napoleon destroyed millions of lives. Gandhi defeated the British through reason, Napoleon lost to the British through incompetence. Gandhi ended in victory, Napoleon ended in defeat. In other words, Gandhi was great, Napoleon was a lowlife. A lowlife who has been portrayed as something he was not, which was great like Gandhi.