If it's Not Scottish it's SH*TE
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- If you want to know the quality of something there's an easy test. If it's not Scottish, it's sh*te. However finding out the origin isn't always straight forward. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey looks at the origins of a cannon in Quebec City
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Hey Scottish Bruce! Your awesome man. The history of Scotland is great. Where do we get the call ; GREAT SCOT! I e always been curious about that. Cheers Bruce! Craig bowman
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When asked why he took up Quantum Physics, David Bohm replied "I tried studying Scottish History, Quantum Physics is so much easier to understand".
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That's because he didn't have Bruce to explain it to him!
Brilliant!
Hilarious!
So, that cannon is essentially your point, "Sometimes it's Scottish but still shite" 😂 I love your videos Bruce... 💙🏴
Fitba nuff said cmon ye pars
usually, we'r utterly cooked as a folk
Is that the origin then of the term... The Thin Red Line? Bruce's videos and research is just amazing; fantastic history!
It could have been The thin red Smear.
The Russian cavalry never actually got close to the infantry line I believe they may have gotten to around 100 yards not saying I would have liked it but certainly not like shown in Gibs painting. Remember they were using modern 0 . 5 inch calibre rifles accurate out to 1000 yards
Also, braw physics banter.
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Collin Cambell : "theres no retreat from here men... you must die where you stand"
me: "aye after you big man"
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me...."never happen" :)
Great intro to quantum physics Bruce, (loved the nod to good ol'Jock Schrodinger and his wee kitty) I'll be sharing this one with the kids, cheers mate.
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Guid lad
Good morning Bruce 💙🏴
Mornin
That Colin Campbell was one hell of a motivational speaker.
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You might have thought he would say something like "Stand fast, THEY die here".
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Colin Campbell was not his real name, just his nom de guerre. He was really Colin Macliver, the son of a Glasgow cabinet-maker. but after a successful military career (Peninsular War, Crimea, Indian Mutiny) he died as Lord Clyde with the rank of field marshal.
If it’s nay Scottish, it’s crrrraaappp! 🎉😻🏴🇺🇸
Reminds me of a sketch in blackadder where Edmund tricked a scottish noble into looking down the barrel
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At last! I now understand quantum physics...
I think it is linked to "Chekhov's gun". 🤔
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Hahahah! Love this one! Have a great happy 60th birthday big love from Australia
Cue: reference to Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" for one reference. I have wondered if the title of this video is from Mike Meyer's S.N.L. skit' from the '90's, "The Scottish Shop" -?
The 93rd were equipped with rifled minie ball muskets. The advancing Russian infantry had smooth bore muskets effective to 100 yards. These new rifled muskets were effective to 1000 yards. The thin Red Line fired their first round at 100 yards that went through more than one man with each shot. With each additional volley this new weapon caused great disaster to the densely packed Russian infantry. This was the second “Thin Red Line” the first was at Waterloo. The Minie Ball was about .50 cal and shattered bones as it passed through bodies. This caused the victims to have limbs amputated as there was no saving them. An awful weapon used in the American Civil War as well with devastating effect.
What infantry? The Russians facing the 93rd were drawn from General Rhyzov's cavalry (Hussars and Cossacks), the rest of whom - around 2000 or so - were turned back by General Scarlett's Heavy Brigade.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Thanks for the correction on that. My old source had different and probably incorrect information. The Minie ball still was a crushing weapon still and was one of the factors in the success.
@@michaeltelson9798 the minie ball was not a more damaging bullet. it was faster to load in a rifled musket, but still much more accurate than a smoothbore. everything else of that time period was also in the .50-.60 caliber range.
@@kenbrown2808 According to articles it was more damaging as well as faster to load and more accurate.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minié_ball
Not a 1000 yards, about 400 yards, still 4 times the distance of a round musket ball. The British Enfield Pattern 1853 used a .577 diameter Minié ball, the US Springfield Model 1861 used a .58 diameter Minié.
Could a Minié ball reach 1,000 yards? Only in the hands of a very skilled marksman, not the average soldier.
Ballistics Charts put the furthest point around 500 yards with the standard service black powder load for both rifles.
Both rifles with standard load averages 1,000 feet/second, a 60O grain ball will use a charge of 60 grains of black powder. For a 600 grain projectile, 1000fps is SLOW. Past 200 yards, velocity is shed rapidly. To hit a target 500 yards away requires aiming considerably above it, some 60 inches per the ballistics charts.
The effects, as you stated, were devastating. Round balls will "wander" dramatically in tissue, even, traveling around a bone, following paths of least resistance if the ball connects obliquely. Miniés punched straight through and created horrific wounds, shattering bone and destroying soft tissue as that ounce and a half of lead passed through.
It wouldn't be until the development of Nitrocellulose based powders in 1884 and the adoption brass cartridge case (1870s) over paper, that the 1,000 yard mark could be consistently achieved.
I was challenged about wearing the kilt! as my Grandmother is a Mac Dougal and father is of Baltic state was told I can't wear a kilt! talk about extreme people's views, funny how Bonnie Prince Charlie mother was Clemetima Sobeiskie of Poland ,so does the Young Pretender aka Charles Edward Stuart make
a tartan unwearable!
If I want to wear a kilt, I will. If I want to wear a turban, I will. If I want to wear wooden shoes, I will. If I want to wear pointy Aladdin shoes, I won't because of my wide feet. However, you are the one who chooses your wardrobe, unless your Mommy still dresses you, then all bets are off.
Yes I agree,it's just was a conversation from an far right that mentioned how he thought .
Thanks again Bruce, the carron iron works were indeed world famous. Along with some other iron works in Falkirk. Today only a couple of cannons stand on display at the old front of what was once the carron works. Glory days long gone. If you walk round the back. To the gates that used to stand at the grahamston iron works. A replica of the gates that stood at bellahouston park in Glasgow for the great exhibition in the 1930s. Sadly grahamston iron works is also gone. But the fact remains that in there day. Especially carron was at the forefront of navel technology. Giving Nelson the fire power to win at Trafalgar. Just recovering from a operation so not be dancing anytime soon.
Was great to meet ye today at the Port Hope Highland festival and Games! You did a great job. But I think you charmed my dad and now he's had a comedian friend 😉😂🇨🇦🏴❤
Brilliant. I'm still there
Another series of historical connections. Great stuff. How history is so intertwined. Always loved the Scots “Shite” as opposed to the English version. Funny how an “e” makes it so more acceptable. Is that quantum physics as well?
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Happy Birthday Bruce. Best wishes for many, many more.
As always,an delight. THank you.
Our pleasure!
Bruce, you are brilliant. I love the way you tied in physics with the story 😊❤.
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Thanks! I look forward to someday hearing more about Jock Schrödinger. 😀 Great video!
Ah huge thanks
Was nice meeting you at the Northumberland highland games !
What a grand day out
"Let me tell you a story..." here we go.
Can you do Mons Meg some time?
Mibbeys
And why it is stuffed with sweetie papers.
Thanks Bruce. I thought I knew a thing or two about the Carron Ironworks and carronades, having studied metalurgy as part of my mech eng degree but I didn’t know this.
Well that's it, I'm canceling that university course on quantum physics, thanks Bruce! I learned all I'll ever need tae know!!!
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Thats one of your funniest and most informative (International) vids yet Bruce. Well done. 👏👏👏
when i saw the word shite i immediatley thought of the scottish football team.
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Low blow!!!
England has seventy million people, then over a billion commonwealth citizens to pick a football team from. 8 of your England team could've played for different nations. So, not as superior as you think, sassanach 🖕🏴🏴
Great video Bruce
Thanks 👍
Love the humour. Great video. I was at your show in Hamilton last night ( June 20th). Very funny show enjoyed every minute.
Ive always loved that "if needs be" reply, when facing down (what would be for many other regiments) certain doom
Also an interesting addition to your canon Bruce 😂😂❤🎉😅
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I thought you'd went to Mike Myers Scottish shop (it's on utube)
Hopefully he wouldn’t ask for something Scottish like a little Leprechaun.
Bl**dy good, informative and humorous as always! Cheers! 😀😀
Thank you kindly!
Brilliant! Well done sir!
Thank you kindly!
Gasconade? We have a river in Missouri named that. Might have to look up why. Would love you to do some American Scottish history, plenty of Scots-Indigenous stuff to delve into.
If I ever get there
Dude,,, lol,,, that was freaking epic. I'm always down for obscure Quantum Physics jokes. Goodonyam8.
I haven't heard any one use that word in a very long time again Bruce you have delivered a very interesting history lesson thank you so much again Bruce
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the very cool history lesson, Bruce! I'd always heard that the term, 'thin red line' came from the Crimean War. It meant a small but possibly good chance of achieving your goal. It's out of use by most of the generations around me now, as my father's WWII generation was the last I heard using it regularly. Now, I know where it actually comes from! I now understand quantum physics a little bit better as well, oh physics professor! As a melting pot American, I can't always say that, but I've found that much of the history taught in this country follows your basic law of physics quite accurately! Actually, most countries usually follow that physics law, I think. Isn't it always written by the victors? Your videos prove that law on a weekly basis. I love that! ❤
Y'all take care now! 😊
Thx for the great show in Ottawa! 🙂 🇨🇦 🍁
It was great fun
Same here from Thunder Bay Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 😊
Brilliant Bruce!👍🏴
Fantastic information as usual.
Thanks again!
I love learning from you!😄😄 You pull all kinds of different things together.
I try
Dude I ❤ you and your program! Look forward to it every Saturday morning here in Humboldt California! Absolutely me favorite YT program!
Mornin from South Central Kansas, USA Bruce. Happy 60th Birthday! I'll be two years behind ya in October.
Because my hobby is studying and researching the 19th century rapid development of Arms and munitions, this was a treat.
One day, I might write that book.
at 8:43 "Who was Gascoigne, I hear you ask?" - good hearing, I had a time trying to spell it.
The closed captioning came through with unusual bilingual capability in Kansas.
I suppose SHT types in a transcript with correctly spelled names and Gaelic words
Fun video!
When you started talking about cannon and Scotland, I wondered when Carron would enter the discussion. Perfectly played. Factual and most entertaining.
Nice one, Bruce. Now tell us about the two Russian cannons in Stirling. They are up at the bowling green near Cowanes Trust (which also has a story worth telling). There is a heck of a lot of history packed into that area just below the castle. The two guns prominently displayed on "Battery Hill" overlooking the old bridge are quite boring by contrast, but the co-located heidin stane . . . Oh, and apropos Carron Ironworks: it is worth checking out old telephone boxes (remember them? Red things) and pillar boxes -- some of them were made in Falkirk.
loving learning whilst having fun. great banter! Ta muchly.
Glad to hear it!
I got a belly laugh with the summation. Thank you, Bruce.
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See you tomorrow night in Hamilton, ON for your talk/show. I wanted to wear my kilt, but my wife thought it would be too over-the-top for the audience.
Others have to other shows. Be what you want to be
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Bruce, I own up to my “faux pas” as it was I who tried to film a short clip of you for my wife (who absolutely adores you)…this evening in Hamilton, ON. Because our elderly dog became gravely ill today, she regrettably was forced to cancel out to care for him, and I took my cousin in her place. I am sorry for my behavior at the theatre and, if I had time I would’ve headed across the street and willingly purchased you a few beers. But because the late hour, and the two hour journey to cross the US-Canada we decided to head home. I figure I still owe you a few beers! I had absolutely no plans on sharing any images except with my wife. It was a great performance and, I found it interesting to find out that you, like I, have a background in electronics and physics.
Again, my sincere apologies!
Bruce
Ha ha! Keich …… I haven’t heard that word since I was a little boy! What a great flashback! Parents would say it when the caught you spreading BS - “Yer foo a keich!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Damn, I wish I could go to that ceilidh!
So sad to miss your Canadian tour. Enjoy!
The best physics class I never understood. 😂
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Great story! Got tickets for the Victoria show. Can't wait!
Brilliant
My favourite keech would either be Keech Richards, or Keech Moon. Which reminds me, I must get my dentures fixed. I had them done at the same place Sean Connery had his done. For the school boys amongst you, there is actually a business called Keech Hospice Care in Luton. I take it they don't have many Scottish inmates.
Highlander sweater shop here in Buffalo New York used that slogan 😂 I loved it!
Now I've been wondering about the origin of this since I was a Baern! Many thanks to Uncle Gary R.I.P. - and many thanks to you, Bruce, for your wonderful works!
Our pleasure!
Happy birthday Bruce 🎉
Looking forward to seeing you live on Thursday, Bruce. :)
Can't wait!
The opposite of "if it's not Scottish it's Sh*te" is "It's sh*te being Scottish" immortalised by Mark Renton...
A'reyt Bruce. When Gogglebox showed "Made in Yorkshire" with John Prescott (from Wales) the sisters from Leeds used a similar phrase to yours but translated into Tyke.
I suppose that quantum physics might explain this, especially with your country and my county being similar in population, give or take a quark or two. Does this prove the existence of leptons or is that a storm in an iced teacup?
From what I understand, the Quarkers started as a schism within the Church of England; though their exact beliefs changed under scrutiny.
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@@euansmith3699 was that the schism in the protontestant church?
"it is of no mischief if they fall" is all i know of Wolfe. i wasn't taught Scottish history at two different Scottish secondary schools. We've got a Carron bath.
You just brought The Thin Red Line to life for me. 👍
Brilliant
If it ain't Scottish, it's sh**e. Love it!😂
Hope your boy is doing well in Melbourne. From.the guy who's lady gave your crap at your show and a few drinks with you afterwards
I can add a few more elements to the possible journey and changing ownership of those cannons.
Napoleon did lose his captured cannon not long after his pyrrhic victory at Borodino, and the Russians lost a portion of those they regained that year forty years later after at the Siege of Sevastopol. Some of the Napoleonic-era cannon can still be seen in Moscow, lined up around the walls of the Kremlin Armoury. There was another Kremlin building where old gun barrels were stacked up about four deep along its base, but I think that may have been redesigned and rebuilt since I was there.
Almost a century after the end of the Crimean War, after the retreat from Dunkirk when the British Expeditionary Force had to abandon all its artillery, trucks and armoured vehicles, there was a push in the UK to help rebuild the army's losses by salvaging and melting down as much iron and aluminium as possible. Many Brits will be familiar with the sight -- still evident in many towns and cities today -- of bare garden walls and stone boundaries where iron railings had been sawn off and donated to the war effort. War memorials were not immune: some had their fencing cut down, and many towns also donated the cannon they had received after the Crimean War. The memorial in my home town has had a plaque added which says, "This memorial records the names of those from this borough who gave their lives in the Crimean War. It was originally surmounted by a gun taken at Sebastopol. During the war of 1939-1945 the gun was handed to the government to provide metal for armaments."
Some of that metal, though likely just a small proportion of it originally from Russia, will have found its way back to Russia. In June 1941 the Nazis invaded Russia, the Soviets joined the Allies, and starting in the winter of 1941 the Atlantic allies sent guns, tanks, trucks and other armaments from Britain, Canada and the USA to support the war on the Eastern Front. Forty-one convoys took place over three years, on what was called the Murmansk Run, with about a fifth of the ships being lost either to vicious Arctic weather or to Nazi attack. Some of that cannon metal will have made it to Murmansk and then been driven or hauled over the frozen Lake Ladoga to help relieve the Siege of Leningrad, and some may even have found its way further south to Stalingrad or Kursk and helped to turn the tide of the entire war.
It's a small world, when you get down to it.
My former mother in law's scottish grandfather fought in the Crimean War. She still has the little tin of cookies (not opened) that was given him (and presuemably the others in his regiment) by Queen Victoria. no one dared open the tin...at this point I would say the cookies are cack but its a good family story.
Love your references to footy. 🤣
I do wish that he would stick to politics and religion and keep contentious stuff, like futbaw, out of his videos. 😄😄😄
Bruce, thank you for the lesson in quantum physics. However, in engineering, "If it's not Scottish, it's shite" is an engineering truth!
Loved seeing you in Toronto. This video is one of your best, mainly because of the quality content, but also because you shot it in Canada. BTW, how did the photon get to Scotland? It took the high road and the low road at the same time.
I've uploadedl loads of videos from the Canadian trip. Two from Quebec City, three from Nova Scotia to date with more to come from Ontario and further west
I always enjoy these videos, although I have only recently found them. Have there been videos about the great Scottish scientists James Hutton and Charles Lyell?
No, but several others have been covered
Ya beauty it’s “the brucey fumey show “ oh happy day 🎉🎉❤
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OMG! What an awesome channel my friend. 💝
I was wondering if you ever heard, or know of any Tudhope’s? The Tudhope name comes from Scotland. 🏴
Sorry, I've got nothing on that Lori
@UCmSwBBdhuJ39zaA437NaeXA Thank you anyway! 💝
I pretend to be Scottish because my Granny’s maiden name was McEwan. 😂
Same here but my granny was a Graham.
Same here my granny's name was Murray
I have a bit of Scots in me, plus Irish, Welsh, Norman, viking and roman
Well Bruce, Jerry Garcia was the lead singer of the Greatfull Dead a very famous rock band here in America
I've heard of The Grateful Dead
@@ScotlandHistoryTours well Jerry Garcia was the lead singer, look him up, because like I said, you remind me of him
Ah, Mary seacole the famous hotel keeper and supplier of booze to the officers.
" if yer no fi Scotland yer a radge" 🏴 happy healthy peace ✌️
Oh my. That was quite the circumlocutory tale to find something Scottish in Quebec City. Here’s an easier one: the late stand up comedian of SNL fame, Norm Macdonald, was born in Quebec City to parents who taught English at the military base. 3 rd generation Scots of the Glencarry- Stormont Scots settlement.
It's no effort to find Scottish connections in Quebec City. Certainly no need to abandon history for current affairs
Your humor makes our videos sooo interesting....ou do have a passion don't you Bruce. 😂
By 1854 there would have been very few Highlanders in Highland regiments - because of the Clearances. Here is good evidence:
‘When I joined the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders there were four Gaelic-speaking men in the depot, and when attached to the 75th or Gordon Highlanders there was not a Gaelic-speaking soldier in the regiment.’
Source: Letter to the Highland News, 9th April 1898, sent by *A Recruit of 1860*.
THANK YOU, BRUCE, for teaching me quantum physics! NOW I UNDERSTAND! 😂
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You should cover the Scottish engineers contribution to the invasion of the plains of Abraham.
Next time round
@ScotlandHistoryTours I believe one of was one of them. my ancestors.
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Was it ever fired in anger from its present position ?
Fun fact every Victoria Cross ever made and ever will be made is made from a chunk of metal from a Chinese cannon the Russians used during the crimian war that we ceased
Ah, I wondered who was behind the Scottish schools curriculum...
Apart from most sports 🤔🏴.
Your thumbnail is Perfect!🎉
Quantum physics explained, ta lol
Jock Schrödinger’s cat 😸
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Hi Bruce, do you reckon the person just above the steps on the right 0:12 - 0:28 was a wee bit constipated???
I won't mention the German footy match then.
Yet our national team goes to extraordinary lengths to prove the opposite…
That might be right as of that fitba game with Germany, but, one thing about us Scots, is we just keep coming back until we do win. We will return, make sure of this!
@@mleggieri801 The problem is: no matter how often we return, we never get any better
@@GioMarron Are you talking about fitba or Scots as a people and a Nation?
A missed ye ma man the past ( a wis busy) wee while. TOPS AGAIN SIR