* Correction on Waterloo * My depiction of Waterloo in this video is overly-simplistic (well, the whole video is meant to be very simplified) but it implies that the Imperial guard didn't fight at all which is not true, I was simply trying to show that Napoleon didn't get them into action in time/didn't use them effectively which is a common theme among the historians I was reading to research this battle. Waterloo is one of the most studied and debated battles of all time, and is definitely worth looking into if you enjoy history. There are many, many myths and misconception about what happened that day and why it turned out they way it did, but at least you can know the end result is accurate - Napoleon lost. Criteria for battles chosen: Decisiveness, Scale, Backstory Intrigue, Fame, Characters, Historical Impact What did I miss and what are the most interesting battles to you?
Your passion does not go unnoticed. It is great to see you putting your storytelling and editing skills to content that is educational and thoroughly engaging. It's also really commendable that you haven't used your platform to try to blow this up. I'd encourage you to just make content about whatever you are passionate about.
One of the most interesting battles to me are the ones from Yi Sun against the Japanese in the mid 1500s his ability to single handedly carry his nation to victory despite being at such a disadvantage is incredible
As a terrible RL player who watches literally 2 RL-tubers, and consume far more historical type content, hearing sunless and having that moment of “wait, I know this voice…” was so strange
As a fan of history long before I was a purveyor of Rocket League, I love your take on the former. A lot of big history channels use a tone that is frankly quite dry in an effort to seem like an authority on the matter. I love your brand of humour and I think the application of that humour and tone will take you far with this medium. I appreciate your work Sunless, keep at it
Waterloo was NOT an important battle. A symbolic one maybe ? But the french were already defeated before waterloo even began. Napoleon wasn't a threat anymore. The Vienna conference didn't even stop for it because everybody knew his attempt was pointless. Trafalgar was way more important than Waterloo if you want to talk about the Napoleonic era
the number of soldiers in ancient battles are so insanely exaggerated. Yiu have to understand the sources we have of these old battles are usually just a couple historians (often it would be just one) always from the winning side, and they realize that exaggerating the enemies numbers makes their side seem even cooler, especially since they’d also write things like “enemy side, 15,000 killed, Alexander’s army, 13 men lost” and that’s not even an exaggeration
It's not necessarily about fleeing, it's the collapse of morale. Once things get going hard some fight and some run, and for the majority the flight instinct beats the fight instinct. Nature makes a coward of us all.
@@kolega_muffin I Agree. The most realistic estimate is over 100.000. The logistics were a nightmare, even the Romans could not put a larger army than a 100.000 in their campaigns over the centuries.
@theccpisaparasite8813 probably the one with Muhammad. Without 636ad battles Yarmouk and al-Qadisiyyah, Islam stays as a minor religion in the Arabian peninsula.
@@theccpisaparasite8813 Actually a lot. Yarmouk is among the top 3 battles that shaped history. Without it, the Roman Empire would have slowly recovered it's lost territories and continue to expand. No Islam or at least it remains a minority religion or at best a Persian religion. That's a huge butterfly effect. Yorktown should be removed here, so are Waterloo and Stalingrad because those individual battles does not define the war. It's important, but those battles alone and its outcome does not change a huge butterfly effect in history as Napoleon couldnever recover after Leipzig, nor can the Germans realistically defeat the Soviets in WW2 because of the Allied war marchine.
Your depiction of the Armada is over-simplistic too The Spanish Army was in the low countries. The Armada had to get to the Low Countries to rendezvous with the army. Also your narrative gives the impression that the Spanish were crippled from the loss. In fact, only 44 ships were lost and the Spanish built another Armada the next year. Whilst it marked the emergence of the English and the British fleet, it took a long time before the Spanish Empire truly declined
I would argue that Napoleon's first defeat was far more significant than Waterloo. At Waterloo, Napoleon's army was only what, about 50k strong? The nations allied against Napoleon were still mobilized and and could easily field way more armies than Napoleon could at this point. Napoleon was no longer Emperor of a vast empire with large amounts of resources to call on. Now he was an usurper being challenged by the full might of all of Europe's great powers. Napoleon didn't even have all of France behind him at this point. Waterloo changed very little in actuality. if Napoleon had won, there'd be another battle and another. Napoleon would have faced defeat by Summer's end regardless of Waterloo's ultimate outcome.
@@charlie8344except Waterloo isnt even the battle with the biggest impact of the Napoleonic war by a loooooong mile. Leipzig, Austerlitz, Iena, Trafalgar,Aspern then Wagram, Eylau are MUCH more important in the grand scheme of things than Napoleon's final battle, the biggest impact Waterloo had was bolstering British propaganda, but like history tells us about how precarious Napoleob's position already was during the hundred days, his entire empire was at stake at every single fight, because the entire economy of the country, thus his logistics for anything relied on Napoleon always winning his battles, he was one battle away from losing it all over again. Meanwhile in sheer Scale Wagram, Leipzig and Eylau are so much more important. On sheer importance as it allowed Napoleon to spread the revolution and nationalism across Europe Austerlitz still studied today and Iena etc... Trafalgar is singlehandedly the reason why Napoleon couldnt invade England etc...
@@Freedmoon44 Then I think Smolensk would be a better choice, since that was one of the only times Napoleon came extremely close to capturing the Russian army.
I can’t wait for you to cover Waterloo in your Napoleon Series. There seems to be quite a bit wrong about the battle in this video (a mix of actions from a few battles, particularly that bit about the Guard not being used), but I understand this format didn’t allow for incredibly accurate and detailed recounting. Really liking this channel, sunless!
I would love to see something about the Doolittle raid. The story is epic. Making bombers lighter, so they could take off from aircraft carriers, so they could bomb Japan, whilst still knowing they didn't have enough fuel to get back and had to ditch. One of the planes was Enolw Gay...the plane that went on to drop Little Boy over Hiroshima.
This was beautiful, thanks fir the great content. I love history videos like this and appreciate the time and effort put into the graphics and visual aids. Looking forward to more.
The editing pacing and attention to detail in this video are all amazing but honestly I just appreciate your voice over. So many history channels just have zero enthusiasm and charisma
Bro a kid can do this. Try HistoryMarche and Kings and Generals to see what is real work for these types of videos. It took him longer to find movies to put for visuals then to draw this and use it as a "map"
Wait this is fire. I didn't realize it was you Sunless, I just saw the title and thumbnail and this was right up my alley. Thanks for this, I'm super addicted to this kind of content
22:20 as a matter of fact, the first instance of large-scale use of poison gas was on 31st of January 1915, when Germany fired 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas on Russian positions on the Rawka River, west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov.
Another factor in the Anglo-Spanish Armada battle was that sir Drake raided the Armada's supply of oak that was being cured so they could make oak barrels for water intended for the voyage around Britain. So they had to use uncured wood instead, and it gave the Spanish crews diarrhea and "the shits" for the entire campaign. So the Spanish crews were not operating at 100% capability.
Dang, man. I'm hard to for it. Sunless got me learning history. That's what's up though. I didn't even know this channel existed. I saw the post about this video on Twitter because i was trying to find out what you were up to. Didn't expect this, but I'm not complaining. I'm down to watch this channel grow
Schoolhouse Rock from ABC taught me about one of these battles. The lyrics went, "At Yorktown, the Limeys could not retreat, bottled up by Washington and the Frog fleet. Cornwallis surrendered, and finally, we fuckin' won! And the shot heard around the world was the start o' the Revolution. The minute dudes were ready on the move. Take your gun, take your powder, go to Boston and eat claim chowder! Hurry boys, cuz we got shit to prove!" Good ole Schoolhouse Rock. It's a shame they don't play those on TV anymore.
Great work on this video, the editing and the historical accuracy is brilliant. Loved the Napoleon 1-3 as well, looking forward to more on Napoleon as well as the future of this channel. Keep it up! Oh and just because...."What a save!" Lol.
I absolutely love this content Sunless, I appreciate the crossover of Rocket League viewers who are also interested in History is small but please don't be disheartened, there is a huge audience for this brilliantly made and interesting channel!!
The battle at Sekigahara in 1600 A.D does not get a mention. It was a pivotal battle for Japan because the defeat of Mitsunari and his Osaka forces by the Edo faction led by Ieyasu created the Tokugawa dynasty which presided over the affairs of Japan for more than a century until the Meiji Restoration.
While that’s impactful to Japanese history, I understand why it would be omitted in a video like this. Due to their isolationist policies Japan didn’t play much of an impactful role in world history until after the Meiji Restoration so that battle had less of an impact on the rest of the world
metal stirrups had been in use in Europe since the 6th century. the true innovation that made William the conquerors cavalry so deadly was the use of the lance or spear while "couched" - ie. tucked up under the arm - along with saddles that supported the lower back
I'm glad you gave a mention to Kursk, but it should have been that battle, not Stalingrad, that decided WW II. Kursk, at great cost, took the strategic initiative from the Germans, and with that were able to inflict further defeats and a final checkmate. There's a reason why tempo is such an important chess concept. To re-purpose Churchill, Stalingrad was the end of the beginning, Kursk was the beginning of the end. On the Sp. Armada - it didn't kneecap Spain - she held onto most of her empire into the C19 and her army was still the premier one until Rocroi, 1643. And the last successful invasion? Not even close - the French dominated for some years 1215 - 1217, with treacherous barons' help, but the main one was the misnamed Glorious Revolution 1688, when a Dutch king, with a Dutch army (and an English Queen, but he clearly 'wore the pants') took over the throne, finally defeating a British monarch at the Battle of the Boyne 1690 to dominate England. even while he was aided by Quisling MP's, he was still the foreign head of a foreign army. On WW I, yes, Verdun had an incalculable effect on French national morale, but there were greater killing mills - the Somme and the Brusilov Offensive (both also 1916) and the Kaiser's Battle, 1918. Arguably, the Brusilov Offensive used up the last moral and material reserves of the Romanovs, enabling the USSR ...
bro. this video is amazingly solid. interesting, informative, and just overall a fun watch. wasnt expecting this level of polish. cant wait for more, keep it up my guy.
Spanish armada defeat is overrated in my opinion. In couple of years England itself launched a big campaign against Spain, which turned out a complete disaster
As a man who has been a history buff since birth, started playing rocket league in 2016, and watched sunless khan throughout college, getting a degree in history…this channel is the peak culmination of my life, orchestrated by 1 man
Interesting list, the world wars are a little underrepresented in my opinion, if nothing else from a scope perspective. This is so well done Sunless, I can't wait to see what's up next! Awesome job!
Really cool video and easy to follow along! Miss your rocket league content but you do you my man. Just want you to be alright and especially happy above all else. Hope you're doing ok! You're a legend and we all love and support you
We (Americans) were always taught that D-Day was the most crucial battle of WWII. Of course, we are also told that human biology is a matter of opinion, so...
Hey Sunless, been following you for a long time and love the way you have reinvented yourself with this new history page. I hope you finish your Napoleon series and expand on this one and do even more battles! Love to see you enjoying a new project that you're into!
You all have no idea how elated i was to hear Seth Rogen's voice scratching my itch for historical warfare 👍 I'm a double-sub now! Looking forward to a "toxic" battles vid in the near future
If I was rich, I would absolutely propose a DnD campaign that you’d be a part of and also edit/produce on the backend. Your skill with storytelling and shaping a narrative is well-practiced and your editing skills are so much better than Mustys.. I think it’d be a neat opportunity to flex your creativity and create some really compelling content. Also.. this video is a great watch, I appreciate you taking the time to put this together
This is an awesome video - excellent battle choices for battles - I'm curious, did CZcams give you any problems when using movie clips to create this video?
Your videos are much better than mine man. And no, being careful not to include any sound, cropping and making sure the clips are short, I haven't had any issues so far.
@@Sunless_Maximus appreciated! This video was really fantastic. Love your choice in music as well. I know someone who adds movie clips to their videos - he flips the visual around from left to right as well as dropping the sound.
Found you through RL, Sunless, and love the history shift! But how are you going to do the biggest battles in history and not have a single Chinese battle??? The Siege of Kaifeng and the biggest early use of gunpowder, the Battle of Lake Poyang and the largest fresh-water naval battle of all time, plenty of battles from the Taiping or Boxer Rebellions! Might have to do another 10 biggest battles video at some point!
This is so well done. We already knew sunless was a great storyteller, but the troop graphics are awesome too. Personally, I would love to see more little jokes like the elephant one thrown in, especially if you end up covering some heavier events in depth. Curious if others agree, but this is a banger video either way
A most excellent video. An honorable mentioned would be the Battle of Myeongyang where Admiral Yi Sun Shin led 13 of his ships vs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships. He won without losing a single vessel. This victory significantly reduced Japanese naval control and arguably prevented a Japanese Empire across Asia much in the same way the loss of the Spanish Armada prevented them from exerting more colonial control in the Americas.
* Correction on Waterloo * My depiction of Waterloo in this video is overly-simplistic (well, the whole video is meant to be very simplified) but it implies that the Imperial guard didn't fight at all which is not true, I was simply trying to show that Napoleon didn't get them into action in time/didn't use them effectively which is a common theme among the historians I was reading to research this battle. Waterloo is one of the most studied and debated battles of all time, and is definitely worth looking into if you enjoy history. There are many, many myths and misconception about what happened that day and why it turned out they way it did, but at least you can know the end result is accurate - Napoleon lost.
Criteria for battles chosen: Decisiveness, Scale, Backstory Intrigue, Fame, Characters, Historical Impact
What did I miss and what are the most interesting battles to you?
An excellently made video. You are underappreciated. My only critique is that you said "unhuman" rather than "inhuman".
Your passion does not go unnoticed. It is great to see you putting your storytelling and editing skills to content that is educational and thoroughly engaging. It's also really commendable that you haven't used your platform to try to blow this up.
I'd encourage you to just make content about whatever you are passionate about.
If we are counting sieges the Fall of Constantinople, or the Battle of Ain Jalut.
I forgot to mention the battle of Britain
One of the most interesting battles to me are the ones from Yi Sun against the Japanese in the mid 1500s his ability to single handedly carry his nation to victory despite being at such a disadvantage is incredible
Damn, first he said we suck at rl, now he’s saying we suck at history
Law of averages says he's right. 😂
Lol
Whose this 'we', pilgrim?
@@x8jason8x😂lol nice
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As a terrible RL player who watches literally 2 RL-tubers, and consume far more historical type content, hearing sunless and having that moment of “wait, I know this voice…” was so strange
As a fan of history long before I was a purveyor of Rocket League, I love your take on the former. A lot of big history channels use a tone that is frankly quite dry in an effort to seem like an authority on the matter. I love your brand of humour and I think the application of that humour and tone will take you far with this medium.
I appreciate your work Sunless, keep at it
Sunless come back to rocket luage❤
Waterloo was NOT an important battle. A symbolic one maybe ? But the french were already defeated before waterloo even began. Napoleon wasn't a threat anymore. The Vienna conference didn't even stop for it because everybody knew his attempt was pointless. Trafalgar was way more important than Waterloo if you want to talk about the Napoleonic era
Rocket League doesn't deserve such a great storyteller, editor, etc.
I love these styles of videos! Been watching a ton of historic stories on wars and battles lately and this one was great!
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The Genghis Kahn series will be the ultimate crossover.
a 200,000 men army running away from a 47,000 men army is unbelievable. this is why i love learning about ancient warfare
You should look at the Battle of Marista 900 VS 70.000 or Battle of Karansebes 0 vs 100.000k. I'm sure you will like it.
the number of soldiers in ancient battles are so insanely exaggerated. Yiu have to understand the sources we have of these old battles are usually just a couple historians (often it would be just one) always from the winning side, and they realize that exaggerating the enemies numbers makes their side seem even cooler, especially since they’d also write things like “enemy side, 15,000 killed, Alexander’s army, 13 men lost” and that’s not even an exaggeration
It's not necessarily about fleeing, it's the collapse of morale. Once things get going hard some fight and some run, and for the majority the flight instinct beats the fight instinct. Nature makes a coward of us all.
Darius probably had at most half of that, around 100,000
@@kolega_muffin I Agree. The most realistic estimate is over 100.000. The logistics were a nightmare, even the Romans could not put a larger army than a 100.000 in their campaigns over the centuries.
Terrific video! Also of note: Actium, Tours, Vienna (1683), Ain Jalut, Midway, Gettysburg, Tsushima, Sedan, Kursk, Trafalgar, Kadesh, Zama.
El Alamein (first and second battles). The first major defeat the Germans/ Italians suffered on land during the second world war.
Omitting the Battle of Tours is wild
Omitting pretty much every important battle in history is wild. Of these ten, maybe one or two should make it to a reasonable list..
Yarmouk not being here is extremely shameful
What would delete to put Yarmouk ...
@theccpisaparasite8813 probably the one with Muhammad. Without 636ad battles Yarmouk and al-Qadisiyyah, Islam stays as a minor religion in the Arabian peninsula.
@@theccpisaparasite8813 Actually a lot. Yarmouk is among the top 3 battles that shaped history. Without it, the Roman Empire would have slowly recovered it's lost territories and continue to expand. No Islam or at least it remains a minority religion or at best a Persian religion. That's a huge butterfly effect. Yorktown should be removed here, so are Waterloo and Stalingrad because those individual battles does not define the war. It's important, but those battles alone and its outcome does not change a huge butterfly effect in history as Napoleon couldnever recover after Leipzig, nor can the Germans realistically defeat the Soviets in WW2 because of the Allied war marchine.
Your depiction of the Armada is over-simplistic too
The Spanish Army was in the low countries. The Armada had to get to the Low Countries to rendezvous with the army.
Also your narrative gives the impression that the Spanish were crippled from the loss. In fact, only 44 ships were lost and the Spanish built another Armada the next year. Whilst it marked the emergence of the English and the British fleet, it took a long time before the Spanish Empire truly declined
And the English barely sunk anything
I would argue that Napoleon's first defeat was far more significant than Waterloo. At Waterloo, Napoleon's army was only what, about 50k strong? The nations allied against Napoleon were still mobilized and and could easily field way more armies than Napoleon could at this point. Napoleon was no longer Emperor of a vast empire with large amounts of resources to call on. Now he was an usurper being challenged by the full might of all of Europe's great powers. Napoleon didn't even have all of France behind him at this point. Waterloo changed very little in actuality. if Napoleon had won, there'd be another battle and another. Napoleon would have faced defeat by Summer's end regardless of Waterloo's ultimate outcome.
I highly recommend you define what "biggest" means, because many of these battles aren't what I expect most consider when thinking "biggest."
Title should be "biggest impact in history"
@@charlie8344except Waterloo isnt even the battle with the biggest impact of the Napoleonic war by a loooooong mile.
Leipzig, Austerlitz, Iena, Trafalgar,Aspern then Wagram, Eylau are MUCH more important in the grand scheme of things than Napoleon's final battle, the biggest impact Waterloo had was bolstering British propaganda, but like history tells us about how precarious Napoleob's position already was during the hundred days, his entire empire was at stake at every single fight, because the entire economy of the country, thus his logistics for anything relied on Napoleon always winning his battles, he was one battle away from losing it all over again.
Meanwhile in sheer Scale Wagram, Leipzig and Eylau are so much more important.
On sheer importance as it allowed Napoleon to spread the revolution and nationalism across Europe Austerlitz still studied today and Iena etc...
Trafalgar is singlehandedly the reason why Napoleon couldnt invade England etc...
@@Freedmoon44 Don't forget Borodino.
@@Gitmellow in scale yes, in importance technically by the time of Borodino the Grande Armée was already a shadow of its past self honestly
@@Freedmoon44 Then I think Smolensk would be a better choice, since that was one of the only times Napoleon came extremely close to capturing the Russian army.
You had my attention absolutely focused for the entirety of this video, please do more ww2 themed videos!! 😄
You will definitely see more WW2 content on this channel!
@@Sunless_Maximusor ww1 series
20:51 "but then napoleon did something he almost never did, he made a mistake" is such a cold line tho
I can’t wait for you to cover Waterloo in your Napoleon Series. There seems to be quite a bit wrong about the battle in this video (a mix of actions from a few battles, particularly that bit about the Guard not being used), but I understand this format didn’t allow for incredibly accurate and detailed recounting. Really liking this channel, sunless!
Very well done. You are an excellent storyteller. Another battle worth mentioning in ww2 is Midway. It turned the tide in the Pacific.
Yes! Midway is super interesting and important. Would love to do a video on that one in the future.
I would love to see something about the Doolittle raid. The story is epic. Making bombers lighter, so they could take off from aircraft carriers, so they could bomb Japan, whilst still knowing they didn't have enough fuel to get back and had to ditch. One of the planes was Enolw Gay...the plane that went on to drop Little Boy over Hiroshima.
Beyond impressed. I’ve watched all of your history vids at this point and this is for sure the best second channel on YT.
This is your first video I've seen. The line about elephants never forgetting: instant subscribe.
It was also the the first video I have seen from Sunless Maximus and its a great one
This was beautiful, thanks fir the great content. I love history videos like this and appreciate the time and effort put into the graphics and visual aids. Looking forward to more.
The editing pacing and attention to detail in this video are all amazing but honestly I just appreciate your voice over. So many history channels just have zero enthusiasm and charisma
The amount of work in this deserves an award. Also happy Easter Sunless🎉
Bro a kid can do this. Try HistoryMarche and Kings and Generals to see what is real work for these types of videos. It took him longer to find movies to put for visuals then to draw this and use it as a "map"
Wait this is fire. I didn't realize it was you Sunless, I just saw the title and thumbnail and this was right up my alley.
Thanks for this, I'm super addicted to this kind of content
22:20 as a matter of fact, the first instance of large-scale use of poison gas was on 31st of January 1915, when Germany fired 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas on Russian positions on the Rawka River, west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov.
I did not know that, thank you.
@@Sunless_Maximus glad to help in anyway I can.
Another factor in the Anglo-Spanish Armada battle was that sir Drake raided the Armada's supply of oak that was being cured so they could make oak barrels for water intended for the voyage around Britain. So they had to use uncured wood instead, and it gave the Spanish crews diarrhea and "the shits" for the entire campaign.
So the Spanish crews were not operating at 100% capability.
Bro. Been watching you for Rocket for years and now I'm even more hyped. History is my ish. Love it. Gimme more.
LOVE THIS VIDEO! Your editing is phenomenal!
Dang, man. I'm hard to for it. Sunless got me learning history. That's what's up though. I didn't even know this channel existed. I saw the post about this video on Twitter because i was trying to find out what you were up to. Didn't expect this, but I'm not complaining. I'm down to watch this channel grow
Schoolhouse Rock from ABC taught me about one of these battles. The lyrics went, "At Yorktown, the Limeys could not retreat, bottled up by Washington and the Frog fleet. Cornwallis surrendered, and finally, we fuckin' won! And the shot heard around the world was the start o' the Revolution. The minute dudes were ready on the move. Take your gun, take your powder, go to Boston and eat claim chowder! Hurry boys, cuz we got shit to prove!"
Good ole Schoolhouse Rock. It's a shame they don't play those on TV anymore.
Love this content! Can’t wait for more. Your style goes perfectly within this genre
I found this channel by pure coincidence! Hello again Sunless lol
Great video, i like how you not only talk about the battle, but also the impact. Fascinating to see how these battles affected us in present day!
People relly forgot about the Fall of Constantinople
Great work on this video, the editing and the historical accuracy is brilliant. Loved the Napoleon 1-3 as well, looking forward to more on Napoleon as well as the future of this channel. Keep it up!
Oh and just because...."What a save!" Lol.
Just found the channel and am loving the animation and storytelling.
Please keep uploading on this channel, I love it so much. I need more videos like this, the quality of each video is sooooo Fuego.
it is amazing to see you switch to history! please keep on growing this channel, the history nerd gang will support you
You got a great voice for this kind of content, I'm glad you branched out into this
I absolutely love this content Sunless, I appreciate the crossover of Rocket League viewers who are also interested in History is small but please don't be disheartened, there is a huge audience for this brilliantly made and interesting channel!!
The battle at Sekigahara in 1600 A.D does not get a mention. It was a pivotal battle for Japan because the defeat of Mitsunari and his Osaka forces by the Edo faction led by Ieyasu created the Tokugawa dynasty which presided over the affairs of Japan for more than a century until the Meiji Restoration.
While that’s impactful to Japanese history, I understand why it would be omitted in a video like this. Due to their isolationist policies Japan didn’t play much of an impactful role in world history until after the Meiji Restoration so that battle had less of an impact on the rest of the world
metal stirrups had been in use in Europe since the 6th century. the true innovation that made William the conquerors cavalry so deadly was the use of the lance or spear while "couched" - ie. tucked up under the arm - along with saddles that supported the lower back
I’d argue that Hastings should be way higher due to how much history would’ve changed
Waterloo and Leipzieg are both arguably worthy of this list.
I'm glad you gave a mention to Kursk, but it should have been that battle, not Stalingrad, that decided WW II. Kursk, at great cost, took the strategic initiative from the Germans, and with that were able to inflict further defeats and a final checkmate. There's a reason why tempo is such an important chess concept. To re-purpose Churchill, Stalingrad was the end of the beginning, Kursk was the beginning of the end.
On the Sp. Armada - it didn't kneecap Spain - she held onto most of her empire into the C19 and her army was still the premier one until Rocroi, 1643.
And the last successful invasion? Not even close - the French dominated for some years 1215 - 1217, with treacherous barons' help, but the main one was the misnamed Glorious Revolution 1688, when a Dutch king, with a Dutch army (and an English Queen, but he clearly 'wore the pants') took over the throne, finally defeating a British monarch at the Battle of the Boyne 1690 to dominate England. even while he was aided by Quisling MP's, he was still the foreign head of a foreign army.
On WW I, yes, Verdun had an incalculable effect on French national morale, but there were greater killing mills - the Somme and the Brusilov Offensive (both also 1916) and the Kaiser's Battle, 1918. Arguably, the Brusilov Offensive used up the last moral and material reserves of the Romanovs, enabling the USSR ...
bro. this video is amazingly solid. interesting, informative, and just overall a fun watch. wasnt expecting this level of polish. cant wait for more, keep it up my guy.
Spanish armada defeat is overrated in my opinion. In couple of years England itself launched a big campaign against Spain, which turned out a complete disaster
As a fan of rocket league, sunless' storytelling, and extertaining history videos, i see this channel as a win for me
As a man who has been a history buff since birth, started playing rocket league in 2016, and watched sunless khan throughout college, getting a degree in history…this channel is the peak culmination of my life, orchestrated by 1 man
The battle of Alesia and the battle of thermopylae could also be great battles to talk about
Keep it up sunless. Can't wait for more!
Interesting list, the world wars are a little underrepresented in my opinion, if nothing else from a scope perspective. This is so well done Sunless, I can't wait to see what's up next! Awesome job!
Really cool video and easy to follow along! Miss your rocket league content but you do you my man. Just want you to be alright and especially happy above all else. Hope you're doing ok! You're a legend and we all love and support you
Amazing video! Kept me watching till the end with the phenomenal story telling! Looking forward to the next video Sunless :))
We (Americans) were always taught that D-Day was the most crucial battle of WWII. Of course, we are also told that human biology is a matter of opinion, so...
When you learn History from Tiktok...
Awesome video sunless. These are so entertaining and informative
Im so happy you put time and effort into history videos, many people like me love them, please keep uploading ❤️
21:48
I think another reason was if Verdun fell, Paris gets encircled and like that, France is out of the war.
great video sunless! i especially love the visuals you made for this video. top tear! can't wait for more
In terms of biggest impacts, leaving out the battle of Actium feels like a significant transgression.
It's very cool that a lot of these battles flow naturally to the next.
This was a fantastic video. Informative, visually interesting, good pace. Bravo
You cannot miss Cannae, the tactical masterpiece!
Watch oversimplified bro
Hey Sunless, been following you for a long time and love the way you have reinvented yourself with this new history page. I hope you finish your Napoleon series and expand on this one and do even more battles! Love to see you enjoying a new project that you're into!
You all have no idea how elated i was to hear Seth Rogen's voice scratching my itch for historical warfare 👍 I'm a double-sub now! Looking forward to a "toxic" battles vid in the near future
That is a MASTERPIECE!!
This may be one of the greatest videos I’ve ever watched on this site
Sunless Khan teaching me history is something I was not expecting this year w video
Doesn't matter what it is, if Sunless is narrating, I'm watching.
If I was rich, I would absolutely propose a DnD campaign that you’d be a part of and also edit/produce on the backend.
Your skill with storytelling and shaping a narrative is well-practiced and your editing skills are so much better than Mustys..
I think it’d be a neat opportunity to flex your creativity and create some really compelling content.
Also.. this video is a great watch, I appreciate you taking the time to put this together
Ummm....we just not gonna talk about 1453?
about what
@@tundrxthe fall of Constantinople
@@lprxxx666 *Liberation of Istanbul
@@Turkistaniwhat liberation you fool, there was no istanbul
@@Turkistani Liberated from the people who ruled it for more than a millennium?
The 10 Most Important Battles in History for Britts & Americans.
Honorable mention should have to be Busan when the us was almost kicked out of korea
7:33 certified hello there moment
Not gonna lie this is a perfect pivot. You’ve always been a really good story teller so this just shows that even more.
Looking forward to the full Stalingrad video. No doubt a couple of the others will get their own videos too.
This is an awesome video - excellent battle choices for battles - I'm curious, did CZcams give you any problems when using movie clips to create this video?
Your videos are much better than mine man. And no, being careful not to include any sound, cropping and making sure the clips are short, I haven't had any issues so far.
@@Sunless_Maximus appreciated! This video was really fantastic. Love your choice in music as well. I know someone who adds movie clips to their videos - he flips the visual around from left to right as well as dropping the sound.
Yes I think I did that on a few clips as well, mostly just so they lined up with my battlefield though 😂
Nice video! Thank you for putting together. Love the scale of time you tackled.
Bro the effort here is phenomenal, love the new content
Dude, the butterfly effect is so cool in history
A less known battle but still important is the battle of Diu
Keep making videos, glad I found this gem of a channel
This is awesome, Sunless. I'm looking forward to more from your new channel.
Sunless covering historical battles, sign me up
This is why I love Sunless. The eye for details is amazing!
I think that the battle of Kursk was a bit more impact full than Stalingrad
Found you through RL, Sunless, and love the history shift! But how are you going to do the biggest battles in history and not have a single Chinese battle??? The Siege of Kaifeng and the biggest early use of gunpowder, the Battle of Lake Poyang and the largest fresh-water naval battle of all time, plenty of battles from the Taiping or Boxer Rebellions! Might have to do another 10 biggest battles video at some point!
This is my favorite passion project on the internet.
This is so well done. We already knew sunless was a great storyteller, but the troop graphics are awesome too. Personally, I would love to see more little jokes like the elephant one thrown in, especially if you end up covering some heavier events in depth. Curious if others agree, but this is a banger video either way
I thought Napoleon made the old guard charge into the British line until their unit broke then they ran?
That elephant dad joke was amazing
Clicked on this randomly only to find out it’s Mr. What a Save! himself. You’ve only further impressed me sir
Holy shit I was not expecting this to be sunless just got interested by the title. Happy surprise
A most excellent video. An honorable mentioned would be the Battle of Myeongyang where Admiral Yi Sun Shin led 13 of his ships vs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships. He won without losing a single vessel. This victory significantly reduced Japanese naval control and arguably prevented a Japanese Empire across Asia much in the same way the loss of the Spanish Armada prevented them from exerting more colonial control in the Americas.
What the heck! I didn't realize this was subless until i looked at the comments. This channel is just as good!
Epic video! Would have loved to see Battle of the Vistula River 1920, Battle of Grunwald or the Battle of Vienna... Alas, maybe for another time!
These were just small skirmishes on the eastern flank with no significance for big politics
@@paulizzs4720Ottomans taking over Austria or Europe being communist is not significant ok
The toughest battle in history is me getting out of bed
Waterloo? 😂.
I would argue, battle of leipzig was the pinnacle.
honest to god never expected this type a content from an rl content creator. but hey, im here for it.