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    Sources:
    1: Wawro, G. (2010). The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr.
    2: Badsey, S. (2014). The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
    3: Kovacs, Arpad F. "French Military Institutions before the Franco-Prussian War." The American Historical Review 51, no. 2 (1946): 217-35.
    4: Howard, M. (1961). The Franco-Prussian War; the German invasion of France, 1870-1871. New York, NY: Macmillan.
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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  Před 3 lety +1231

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  • @acrispywaffleiron4014
    @acrispywaffleiron4014 Před 3 lety +6373

    Some European country: *Gains power
    The rest of Europe: Time for the durability test

    • @ajgraves8016
      @ajgraves8016 Před 3 lety +100

      Ya gotta show me bitches!!!!!! Lol

    • @murkywateradminssions5219
      @murkywateradminssions5219 Před 3 lety +512

      Welcome to another stress tess today our new product will be the kingdom of prussia.
      Let's see how well it'll face against the 2nd French emp- aaaaaand France is now... A republic? Yo prussia stronk

    • @DoctorYoda2
      @DoctorYoda2 Před 3 lety +20

      Hahahahahahahhhaa

    • @NewPaulActs17
      @NewPaulActs17 Před 3 lety +10

      i gave you your 499th like

    • @acrispywaffleiron4014
      @acrispywaffleiron4014 Před 3 lety +8

      @@NewPaulActs17 thanks!

  • @kamikazeviking3053
    @kamikazeviking3053 Před 3 lety +3784

    Napoleon III: please hit me
    His horse: dude WTF

    • @bocilepep3684
      @bocilepep3684 Před 3 lety +63

      Poor horse

    • @kamikazeviking3053
      @kamikazeviking3053 Před 3 lety +213

      @@bocilepep3684 he's the emperor's horse. He's the opposite of poor. And why does the horse's financial status have to do with this?

    • @toastbot9496
      @toastbot9496 Před 3 lety +41

      @@kamikazeviking3053 I think they meant "poor horse" as in "aw the horse had to go through that, sad" not so much about the horse's financial status.

    • @kamikazeviking3053
      @kamikazeviking3053 Před 3 lety +112

      @@toastbot9496 r/wooosh

    • @toastbot9496
      @toastbot9496 Před 3 lety +54

      @@kamikazeviking3053 how original

  • @communismwithgiggles2515
    @communismwithgiggles2515 Před 3 lety +5311

    Napoleon III: "Just let me die already!"
    The Prussians: "Wouldn't it be funny if we left that one guy alone?"

    • @vicenteabalosdominguez5257
      @vicenteabalosdominguez5257 Před 3 lety +476

      Now I'm imagining Napoleon III surrounded by shell craters standing on the only patch of grass remaining.

    • @depressedtoothpaste6033
      @depressedtoothpaste6033 Před 3 lety +29

      .

    • @awc6007
      @awc6007 Před 3 lety +138

      Can’t help but feel sad for Napoleon lll

    • @maltheopia
      @maltheopia Před 2 lety +34

      Signers of the Treaty of Versailles: Yeah. Real funny, grandpa.

    • @justblast3393
      @justblast3393 Před 2 lety +25

      @ottoman barbarousse Let me remind you your knowledge about history is trash

  • @whateverthisis389
    @whateverthisis389 Před 2 lety +3957

    It’s a bit poetic that the German Empire started and ended in Versailles.

    • @jaymeister4850
      @jaymeister4850 Před 2 lety +238

      What is old, becomes new and becomes new again.

    • @winnienguyen4420
      @winnienguyen4420 Před 2 lety +12

      It almost seems like it was planned that way by the allies to piss the Germans off even more.

    • @pulpficti
      @pulpficti Před 2 lety +45

      @@winnienguyen4420 yeah, they didn't like their own medicine

    • @ShutUpBubi
      @ShutUpBubi Před 2 lety +183

      Berlin still rules over France when it comes to the EU lol

    • @pulpficti
      @pulpficti Před 2 lety +69

      @@ShutUpBubi inferiority complex much? It's also bs

  • @Fordo007
    @Fordo007 Před 3 lety +4392

    So Napoleon III was the real life 'Why are we still here? Just to suffer?' meme.

    • @k-studio8112
      @k-studio8112 Před 3 lety +41

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @TKUltra971
      @TKUltra971 Před 3 lety +235

      Franco-Prussian war = Fall of mother base
      WW1 = The phantom pain incident
      WW2 = Rise and Fall of Zanzibar Land.

    • @Butter_Warrior99
      @Butter_Warrior99 Před 3 lety +27

      @@TKUltra971, Best comment.

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 Před 3 lety +7

      @@TKUltra971 👏

    • @awc6007
      @awc6007 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TKUltra971 XD

  • @jhibbert6627
    @jhibbert6627 Před 3 lety +1777

    French army: We need Napoleon
    France: we have Napoleon at home
    Napoleon at home:

  • @skymaster4743
    @skymaster4743 Před 3 lety +5385

    Fun Fact: During the Battle of Sedan, a young Japanese army officer witnessed the brilliant victory of Moltke as a military observer. He would go on to command the Japanese army gaining victory over the Russians at Liaoning and Mukden in the Russo-Japanese War. His name was Marshal Oyama Iwao.

    • @hititmanify
      @hititmanify Před 3 lety +165

      is this true?

    • @perrydb9299
      @perrydb9299 Před 3 lety +213

      epic fact, love it

    • @Marc_Masters
      @Marc_Masters Před 2 lety +33

      How?

    • @franzivan4567
      @franzivan4567 Před 2 lety +153

      Hold up, wtf is a japanese doing in european soil? Did he come from a rich family?

    • @perrydb9299
      @perrydb9299 Před 2 lety +737

      @@franzivan4567 Expeditionary generals, sent by the government to be educated by western officers. When the mission is successful, the general will return home and educate other officers of what he has learnt.

  • @cameronburke8002
    @cameronburke8002 Před 3 lety +5133

    Proclaiming the new German Empire inside the Palace of a King you just beat in a war is probably that Chadest thing that has ever been done.

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 Před 3 lety +95

      no it wasn't as the monarchy in France was extinct since 100 years at the time

    • @Cl.M
      @Cl.M Před 3 lety +269

      Well, the seat of power was the Elysée Palace already and Napoleon III wasn't a king. But yeah, could have been. Still the symbol was still stong and was seen as a humiliation.

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 Před 3 lety +132

      @@Cl.M not a humiliation but a revenge for sure after the many consecutive defeat of the HRE and prussia in early 19th century even a victory against the weakest France it had been in centuries against german states was to help forgot the many wars they lost against France

    • @vic_r023
      @vic_r023 Před 3 lety +161

      And then we humiliated them after ww1 in the galerie des glasses and then they humiliated us in ww2 in the same wagon the German signed the ww1 armistice was signed. It’s an infinite loop. XD

    • @Bunionification
      @Bunionification Před 3 lety +21

      @@ommsterlitz1805 the last French king was the same year Napoleon 3rd took over

  • @murkywateradminssions5219
    @murkywateradminssions5219 Před 3 lety +3499

    "Is this an order"
    -some french soldier on sedan

    • @Sleepy_boi206
      @Sleepy_boi206 Před 3 lety +15

      Lol

    • @MechWarrior894
      @MechWarrior894 Před 3 lety +85

      The other guy - “Guess we’ll just die.”

    • @FlagAnthem
      @FlagAnthem Před 3 lety +13

      @Ahmet Ali Cetin yes and right on the spot. Humour and narration perfectly balanced
      ...as all things should be

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 Před 3 lety +1

      Some French soldiers who speak remarkably good English.

    • @balkenkreuz2063
      @balkenkreuz2063 Před 3 lety +7

      "I guess I'll just die" replied the other anonymous soldier, LOL

  • @antitroller101
    @antitroller101 Před 3 lety +2088

    "We are in a chamber pot, about to be @$#% on"
    I would give a medal to that man's brilliant choice of words

  • @danioking5369
    @danioking5369 Před 3 lety +4138

    “This will be a long war, with many battles being won by the french”
    “What do you mean they’re sieging Paris”

    • @jimvolk9911
      @jimvolk9911 Před 3 lety +181

      french fighting with old tactics while prussians were fighting with new cannon and tactics french had no chance

    • @hirocheeto7795
      @hirocheeto7795 Před 3 lety +306

      @@jimvolk9911 Oddly familiar to another German-French war

    • @corrat4866
      @corrat4866 Před 3 lety +39

      @@hirocheeto7795 eh technically a German-Polish war.

    • @hirocheeto7795
      @hirocheeto7795 Před 3 lety +61

      @@corrat4866 Yeah, for like a little over a month.

    • @Bartaz19
      @Bartaz19 Před 3 lety +18

      @@corrat4866 With Poland there was also Soviets attacking on thier backs, 17 days after Germans.

  • @tylergregersen9546
    @tylergregersen9546 Před 2 lety +1862

    Fun fact, Otto von Bismarck's son was a participant in the death charge. He was reported dead, but that was a mistake. Bismarck actually travelled close to the front to see him

    • @7shinta7
      @7shinta7 Před 2 lety +189

      I fail to see where this fact is fun, but it's very interesting nontheless.
      Just think of politicians with a vision for their country and taking responsibility for their actions to a drgree where they sent their own family into the battles they ignite. Hard to imagine nowadays.

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance Před 2 lety +56

      @@7shinta7 Prince Harry served in Afghanistan.

    • @7shinta7
      @7shinta7 Před 2 lety +109

      @@Ballin4Vengeance
      I'm aware.
      But he's a high priority target. They'd never let him get in harms way for real.

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance Před 2 lety +8

      @@7shinta7 Probably

    • @generalgrievous2202
      @generalgrievous2202 Před 2 lety +9

      @@7shinta7 iirc he was a logistics guy, delivering supplies and the like, could be wrong though

  • @martinxy1291
    @martinxy1291 Před 3 lety +2369

    I just imagen a poor french general standing in a wide open area screaming "SMITE ME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD" only for everything else around him to explode missing him entirely

    • @robbieaulia6462
      @robbieaulia6462 Před 3 lety +251

      German officer: "Yeah keep him alive and let him suffer."

    • @redskull8354
      @redskull8354 Před 3 lety +210

      @@robbieaulia6462 Bavarian officer: "Your cruel"
      German Officer: "I know."

    • @TravelerZ24
      @TravelerZ24 Před 3 lety +19

      Bavaria is german. Screw you

    • @miko5742
      @miko5742 Před 3 lety +90

      @@TravelerZ24 By German I think he meant the North German Confederation

    • @TravelerZ24
      @TravelerZ24 Před 3 lety +4

      @@redskull8354 War is cruel

  • @clivestegosaurus4136
    @clivestegosaurus4136 Před 3 lety +4450

    Crazy that veterans of this war were still alive when Hitler marched through Paris in 1940.

    • @joevenespineli6389
      @joevenespineli6389 Před 3 lety +692

      De ja vu for them.

    • @civilengineer3349
      @civilengineer3349 Před 3 lety +834

      They would be about 90 years old which was difficult during those times

    • @TravelerZ24
      @TravelerZ24 Před 3 lety +156

      Von Machenstein maybe, but probably not

    • @chombus2602
      @chombus2602 Před 3 lety +94

      @@civilengineer3349 not really

    • @CocoHutzpah
      @CocoHutzpah Před 3 lety +749

      @@civilengineer3349 It's not unheard of. The last veteran of the American civil war died in 1956.

  • @darthplagueis13
    @darthplagueis13 Před 3 lety +1203

    "So... We were originally supposed to harass the rear guard, but we then kind of ran into their entire army because they were so gosh-darn slow on the retreat, so we just took out their artillery...."

    • @culturedman2757
      @culturedman2757 Před 3 lety +189

      "Task failed successfully."

    • @sherabtod3728
      @sherabtod3728 Před 3 lety +40

      fun fact: bismarks own son was among the cavalry and was belived MIA for a time after the battle

    • @Zwijger
      @Zwijger Před 3 lety +16

      @@sherabtod3728 You can't be "believed MIA", because it means "missing in action". You either are missing or not, there's no believing involved.

    • @sherabtod3728
      @sherabtod3728 Před 3 lety +49

      @@Zwijger well he was reported Mia and believed dead untill he was found alive later

    • @generalgrievous2202
      @generalgrievous2202 Před 2 lety +6

      @@sherabtod3728 i think you are confusing MIA and KIA

  • @user-tm3si7pw3u
    @user-tm3si7pw3u Před 2 lety +491

    17:41 But it wasn't just the German patrols spotted the French movements, French newspaper also helped the germans: in addition, the national customs of the French were the most stupid, for example, they described all the movements of their troops in the most detailed way in the newspapers. Historical fact: the 3rd Prussian army missed the French troops of Marshal MacMahon and lost the enemy. But then the Germans got their hands on a fresh French newspaper, which described in detail how MacMahon was stationing troops in Reims. The Germans, delighted, turned to Reims, in fact they found MacMahon there and poured it into him sensitively.

    • @Aluzcz
      @Aluzcz Před rokem +52

      Classical French arogance and lameness.

    • @zawarudo1161
      @zawarudo1161 Před rokem +33

      That sounds extremely French.

    • @michaelwan9112
      @michaelwan9112 Před rokem +3

      Really cool information

    • @smal750
      @smal750 Před rokem

      @@Aluzcz would still rape

    • @nikel-
      @nikel- Před rokem +24

      "in fact they found MacMahon there and poured it into him sensitively"
      This phrasing caught me off guard lmao

  • @jessewillason2064
    @jessewillason2064 Před 3 lety +920

    "It will cost what it will cost" Prussian cavalry commander that cleared the French artillery

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Před 3 lety +96

      I assume the original quote would have been "Koste es was es wolle", which is used in the way of "no matter the cost" or "whatever it takes".

    • @alikos88
      @alikos88 Před 3 lety +61

      Prussian Cavalry Commander quoting Lord Farquaad:
      "some of you _MAY_ die...but its a sacrifice _I_ am willing to make"

    • @LoLMasterManiac
      @LoLMasterManiac Před 3 lety +2

      @@alikos88 lol

    • @heinzguderian628
      @heinzguderian628 Před 3 lety +7

      god I love these Krupp guns...

    • @wtfduud
      @wtfduud Před 3 lety +10

      @@alikos88 Presumably the cavalry commander would be part of the charge.

  • @theresgottabeagermanwordfo903
    @theresgottabeagermanwordfo903 Před 3 lety +6644

    Imagine having a better Map of France than The French

    • @def3ndr887
      @def3ndr887 Před 3 lety +484

      Basically whoever had the better artillery wins, and also logistical superiority

    • @theresgottabeagermanwordfo903
      @theresgottabeagermanwordfo903 Před 3 lety +441

      @@def3ndr887 Sounds napoleonic alright

    • @friedrichwilhelmviktoralbe349
      @friedrichwilhelmviktoralbe349 Před 3 lety +21

      ha

    • @janjansen3315
      @janjansen3315 Před 3 lety +104

      @@def3ndr887 Still same, only artillery has been changed to airpower. But logistics is the key to any victory in war, when its superb then you can win but when its screwed: you are as well

    • @busodelor1977
      @busodelor1977 Před 3 lety +7

      da können die Moffen wirklich extrem stolz sein, Nachbarländer angreifen und massenhaft abschlachten Heil, z. B. auch Deutschsüdwestafrika und Namibia, habe ich gerade gestern wieder gelesen, deutsche Effizienz, Eingeb orene in der Wüste entsorgen wa kostenlos, wenn man die Greueltaten dieses Trotha liest, bekommt man heute noch Tränen
      Norwegen, Belgien ud Niederlande waren in WK 2 auch höchst entzückt über die Nazibrutalitäten

  • @sir17pounder8
    @sir17pounder8 Před 3 lety +336

    The true definition of "I'll be home for christmas"

    • @druisteen
      @druisteen Před 3 lety +4

      The war was arsh for both side & opened to WW1 & 2 .
      Think about

    • @SVASH-hz5ji
      @SVASH-hz5ji Před 2 lety +3

      And Germans got a glorious empire as their Christmas present!

    • @gamerdrache6076
      @gamerdrache6076 Před 2 lety

      @@SVASH-hz5ji and elass lothringen

  • @SDRlegacy
    @SDRlegacy Před 2 lety +603

    Fun fact: the italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi fought the war on the french side. He was the only general who haven't lose a battle and the only one who has capturated a prussian flag.

    • @piepiep2368
      @piepiep2368 Před 2 lety +38

      Old time when french can trust italien without need to verify if italien attack french when we have the back turned unlike 1940

    • @mexicoxv2236
      @mexicoxv2236 Před 2 lety +22

      imagine that at some point the Italians were a military power, fate played rough.

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims Před 2 lety +6

      @@piepiep2368 I mean the French did completely lie to the Italians, the Vitorio Mutillato if you recall
      Oops

    • @thiccupcake
      @thiccupcake Před 2 lety

      @@looinrims Vittoria Mutilata

    • @thiccupcake
      @thiccupcake Před 2 lety +6

      @@mexicoxv2236 I think it was Garibaldi's skill as a general more than anything. He was a war hero and even a grest contributor to the unification of italy

  • @WereWolf-ry3yv
    @WereWolf-ry3yv Před 3 lety +2381

    Napoleon III looking at the enemy army be like "at least they're not british"

    • @Brehat29
      @Brehat29 Před 3 lety +165

      Without the arrival of Blücher at Waterloo, Wellington was done.

    • @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889
      @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 Před 3 lety +75

      @@Brehat29 Hypothetically, Wellington would've far likely be defeated than be victorious without Blucher.

    • @DarkLizard-
      @DarkLizard- Před 3 lety +66

      The Prussians couldent have done it with out the British tho

    • @Wanderer628
      @Wanderer628 Před 3 lety +66

      @@Brehat29 It wasn't some miracle, Wellington only held at Waterloo because Blucer promised support. If Blucer hadn't promised to come then there wouldn't have been a battle of Waterloo as Wellington wouldn't have made a stand there.

    • @Brehat29
      @Brehat29 Před 3 lety +30

      @@Wanderer628 I never wrote it was a "miracle". I only mentionned Blucher because the British have this tendency to claim all the merits of a victory, as well as to blame others for their failures. I'll bet whatever you want that if Grouchy had arrived before Blucher, the British would have put all the blam on Blucher.

  • @aveioacosta371
    @aveioacosta371 Před 3 lety +1666

    French Artillery being outdone and outclassed:
    Napoleon I turning over in his grave so hard it shakes the earth.

    • @mill2712
      @mill2712 Před 3 lety +60

      I wonder if there was a major earthquake that year.

    • @Jim-fi4dc
      @Jim-fi4dc Před 3 lety +74

      Believe it or not , the French artillery during the last years of the Napoleonic wars was outclassed by Austrian and Russian artillery. True story

    • @Jim-fi4dc
      @Jim-fi4dc Před 3 lety +27

      @@elmascapo6588 After 1812 the French army started losing momentum and suffered numerous defeats both in the east and in Spain.

    • @skyhappy
      @skyhappy Před 3 lety +5

      @The Death Star source

    • @uorothewizard3576
      @uorothewizard3576 Před 3 lety +28

      @The Death Star The Prussian artillery corps was nowhere near as competent on the command level as the French. Shoddy organisation, wherein the artillery chief at army level was usually a general, but had no army level artillery reserve, was a massive handicap. That left nothing for the army commander to use, in terms of artillery, on order to exploit an advantage, or commit at the decisive time or place.
      Even in the late stages of the Napoleonic wars Prussia suffered from a lack of effective artillery coordination and leadership. One only has to look at Ligny, whereupon the army artillery chief, Karl Friedrich von Holtzendorf, was seriously wounded, losing a hand, and was sent to the rear. His place was taken at army level by the senior corps artillery chief, a mere lieutenant-colonel, whose rank was too low to effectively coordinate with senior officers at a command level.
      The French artillery clearly dominated the field at Ligny, despite being heavily outnumbered in terms of batteries and men. The Guard artillery was massed against the Prussian center at 20:00, and blew a hole in the Prussian lines, paving the way for an attack by the Imperial Guard and Gerard's IV Corps which split the Prussian army in two and won the battle for the French.

  • @eddie0lutetia
    @eddie0lutetia Před rokem +103

    If I remember correctly, the Prussian army sent observers to the American Civil War, who learned quite a bit about the effective use of railways for moving troops, the use of telegraphs and a centralized command structure for processing information faster. Some of these lessons were implemented successfully during this war.

    • @HellStr82
      @HellStr82 Před rokem +5

      You serios think that any european country could have learned anything from the US back then în matters of war? :))))))

    • @chanti9274
      @chanti9274 Před rokem +8

      @@HellStr82 The french probably thought like you hence they lost.

    • @pretzelstick320
      @pretzelstick320 Před 10 měsíci +10

      @@HellStr82every war has observers. The American civil war was a massive and long war, with casualties high even for European standards.

    • @larryalvares1369
      @larryalvares1369 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Prussians in the civil war: Damn. They suck at this
      Fun fact: some of the commanders that fought for the Union in the civil war were Prussians

    • @parsatayebi
      @parsatayebi Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@HellStr82when it came to maneuver warfare the acw was one of the biggest wars of its era

  • @crazycrayon4247
    @crazycrayon4247 Před 2 lety +215

    Prussia was just really known for their incredible military reforms and tactical innovations with a hint of incredible discipline. Their probably were a lot of details that played through the Prussian success but this was the main reason for their amazing victories.

    • @winnienguyen4420
      @winnienguyen4420 Před 2 lety +5

      I've never understood why they fell so quickly against Napoleon at Jena-Auerstedt in 1806. Seems like such a historically excellent army would have been able to hold out longer.

    • @gen169
      @gen169 Před 2 lety +1

      @@winnienguyen4420 mainly officers are the problem after Frederick the great the Prussian army rests on its laurels and Prussian command was plaque with personal rivalry and other things and the Prussians faced the might of a reformed new french army

    • @zarakdurrani7584
      @zarakdurrani7584 Před 2 lety +6

      @@winnienguyen4420 the Prussian army of 1806 was the same army that Frederick had used in the Silesian wars half a decade before. Incredibly well disciplined and reliant on the expedient of marching in excellent order over all kinds of broken terrain. Sadly, by 1806 this iron discipline and neat, mechanical marches didn't help against Napoleon's Grande Armee with the revolutionary logistics and tactical flair.

    • @abdirahmanidris290
      @abdirahmanidris290 Před 2 lety +1

      @@winnienguyen4420 Prussia reformed after their humiliating defeat to Napoleon. However it was only in 1862 after Bismarcks Army bill got passed that the Prussian army became elite

    • @blackimp4987
      @blackimp4987 Před rokem

      I thought the same until I watched a much longer documentary about it. The main reason was they outnumbered French and had longer distance guns. Prussians won some battles - as told in this video too - by losing HALF of their men! HALF! they attacked furiously with no order being decimated but winning thanks to their number. The long distance guns did the rest. I don't see the other details so much relevant than these. In this video was omitted that French at the beginning of the war used their traditional red trouses that allowed Prussians to see them better when French moved in the battlefields

  • @2Links
    @2Links Před 3 lety +1518

    Love the detail with the hot air balloon when illustrating the defenders of Paris.

    • @charliefoxtrott1048
      @charliefoxtrott1048 Před 3 lety +12

      Love those eastereggs - they do it everytime :)

    • @gtbest5417
      @gtbest5417 Před 3 lety +6

      Context?

    • @Henri.d.Olivoir
      @Henri.d.Olivoir Před 3 lety +23

      @@gtbest5417 Napoleon III tried to escape the siege of Paris with a hot air balloon

    • @HolgerLovesMusic
      @HolgerLovesMusic Před 3 lety +131

      @@Henri.d.Olivoir Not Napoleon III, but the new minister of the republic.

    • @Henri.d.Olivoir
      @Henri.d.Olivoir Před 3 lety +49

      @@HolgerLovesMusic seriously? My whole life has been a lie lol

  • @gostavoadolfos2023
    @gostavoadolfos2023 Před 3 lety +1505

    The moment king Ludvic II and his brother realized that the Kingdom of Bavaria will never be independent.

    • @jerikrazik4707
      @jerikrazik4707 Před 3 lety +77

      I dont know they may come back the spirit of the Alimeni mt kingdoms is fierce and as the west Germans doom themselves to oblivion it won't be the East to just protest, the Chinese phrase works for Germany too, " long divided must unite, long united must divide "

    • @leonrothier6638
      @leonrothier6638 Před 3 lety +42

      @@jerikrazik4707 Of course it’s a Chinese proverb.

    • @gostavoadolfos2023
      @gostavoadolfos2023 Před 3 lety +73

      @@jerikrazik4707 the German nation lost most of the eastern territories to the slavic people after WWII.. now they are undergoing a drastic demographic changes caused by psychotic storm Merkel's masochistic open doors and the collapse of birth rate.. my point is Bavaria could ve followed Switzerland's model but now they are drawing with the rest of Germany.

    • @kevinbauer2187
      @kevinbauer2187 Před 3 lety +7

      @@gostavoadolfos2023 Berotoroto!

    • @l0lLorenzol0l
      @l0lLorenzol0l Před 3 lety +65

      @Dave Baton lmao I guess he just imagined Merkel massive immigration wave then. I guess the hordes of "syrian refugees" are just my imagination. Get real.

  • @makeromaniagreatagain9697
    @makeromaniagreatagain9697 Před 3 lety +79

    10:04
    Napoleon III: okay guys, so we need to fight the Germans in Alsace-Lorraine?
    Soldiers: did you say L'Algerie?

    • @piepiep2368
      @piepiep2368 Před 2 lety +2

      I don't understand?

    • @makeromaniagreatagain9697
      @makeromaniagreatagain9697 Před 2 lety +5

      @@piepiep2368 the war was in Alsace-lorraine and some idiots met up in Ageria

    • @Corpus.Adamus
      @Corpus.Adamus Před 2 lety +4

      It means Algeria, the French had bad orders that confused some officers during the mobilization and some went to Algeria😂

  • @daguard411
    @daguard411 Před 3 lety +109

    I am very happy that you brought up Moltke, a general so brilliant that he developed a command structure that is used by virtually the entire world for their military's. Also, it would also be worth mentioning that the early frontal assaults, where most of the German casualties were suffered, was contrary to Moltke's orders. He had developed a doctrine of flanking and envelopment, ordering that with the new types of weapons, frontal assaults were stupid. When he heard of they that ordered frontal assaults, many were dismissed immediately. Few hear or read of Moltke for the very reason he stated when others said he would go down in history as the best, and his reply was "Nobody will hear of me as I have never conducted a retreat."

  • @lalallama171
    @lalallama171 Před 3 lety +2245

    France: we have an awesome empire. We can conquer anyone.
    Germany: deutsche Qualität

    • @fenzelian
      @fenzelian Před 3 lety +319

      France: We have a railroad to the front!
      Germany: We have two railroads to the front!
      France: Ha, what a waste!
      Germany: How do you get your trains back to fill them with soldiers with only one set of rails? Do you just stop sending troops while the trains go back?
      France: ...

    • @polygonalfortress
      @polygonalfortress Před 3 lety +142

      Who knew having one extra railroad track could drastically improve a military's logistics.

    • @notthebeaver1532
      @notthebeaver1532 Před 3 lety +13

      @Anthony Amable Feliciano I think that was sarcasm...

    • @TravelerZ24
      @TravelerZ24 Před 3 lety +54

      "War isn't won by tactics, it's won by logistics"

    • @fkjl4717
      @fkjl4717 Před 3 lety +1

      Empire without army.

  • @Anglomachian
    @Anglomachian Před 3 lety +525

    “It’ll cost, what it will cost”.
    - The Cavalry Commander before the death charge.

    • @muneebnajam3744
      @muneebnajam3744 Před 3 lety +14

      How many of you clicked
      After knowing extra credits own video

    • @peterroberts4415
      @peterroberts4415 Před 3 lety +34

      "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

    • @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889
      @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 Před 3 lety +4

      Name : von Bredow
      Event name : Von Bredow's Death Ride.
      The Battle of this event : Battle of Mars-la-Tour/Rezonville.

    • @mrunaltondre6051
      @mrunaltondre6051 Před 2 lety +2

      800 charged
      420 returned alive

    • @johny16G
      @johny16G Před rokem

      ​@@peterroberts4415 *some of us

  • @mafiousbj
    @mafiousbj Před 3 lety +76

    19:31 If I could give you two likes for the use of the "Is this a ...?" And "Guess I'll die" memes I would

  • @ziomudru
    @ziomudru Před 2 lety +36

    Wheni was young i was fascinated by epic battles between great empires. Now i m old, i m a parent, and i m heartbroken by the awareness of what men can do to each other.
    Outstanding work man!

    • @Apex_Alpha53
      @Apex_Alpha53 Před 2 lety +1

      I m a young boy being fascinated with such wars... well ur comment gave me something to ponder upon 😞

  • @alexius23
    @alexius23 Před 3 lety +1124

    When Napoleon III’s only son died, as an observer, died during the Zulu Wars...this was the final coup d’grace to the French Empire

    • @Julianna.Domina
      @Julianna.Domina Před 3 lety +11

      D'Gras*?

    • @clementl.9566
      @clementl.9566 Před 3 lety +120

      @@Julianna.Domina Coup de grâce* in French

    • @alexius23
      @alexius23 Před 3 lety +15

      @@Julianna.Domina the final blow

    • @alexius23
      @alexius23 Před 3 lety

      @Egg Egg egg egg ?

    • @tipitjo
      @tipitjo Před 3 lety +64

      He was more than an observer ! He was enlisted as an officer, with a special authorisation from Victoria. He went to a military academy in the UK

  • @thegoldencaulk2742
    @thegoldencaulk2742 Před 3 lety +2907

    Prussian war planners: We know how many loaves of bread the French have in reserve
    Nazi war planners: he have no idea how many soldiers the Soviets have in reserve

    • @skymaster4743
      @skymaster4743 Před 3 lety +430

      "The Russian colossus has been underestimated by us. Whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with another dozen."
      - General Franz Halder during Operation Barbarossa, Summer 1941

    • @destubae3271
      @destubae3271 Před 3 lety +305

      @@nettleleaves8224 If you look up "Hitler's everyday talking voice," you'll even hear him shocked at the amount of tanks USSR made. They underestimated them for sure

    • @joeyreidelbach5509
      @joeyreidelbach5509 Před 3 lety +70

      @@nettleleaves8224 True but you gotta remember the 2 Russian winters borg down the Germans which slow the Germans down which Stalin knew that was going happening so Stalin was able to send around 5 million Soviet soliders to reinforced the cities of Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow, Kieve and Baku from Eastern Russia cause he was paranoid of a japanese invasion plus Soviet was getting alot of Aid from USA during the lend-lease deal such as 5,000 M4 sherman tanks, 7,000 jeeps, oil, steel and around 8 billion dollars which gave the Soviets ability to mass produce there tanks in large quanities and thousands of stuta-baker trucks which were fitted with field rockets plus the British was using there navy to keep the seaways clear of German U-boats so the American cargo ships would reach seaports in Northern Russia to drop the materials and also Stalin was begging Americans and England to open a western front to relieve pressure off of Soviet Union.

    • @joeyreidelbach5509
      @joeyreidelbach5509 Před 3 lety +23

      @@skymaster4743 True, but the soviet soilders were inexperince and undertrained cause 80 percent of the Generals were let go by Stalin and the other 20 were in gulags but was replace with yes generals didn't know what the crap they were doing but always agree with Stalin which gave Germans the ability to push the Soviets back to the gates of Moscow.

    • @Intreductor
      @Intreductor Před 3 lety +55

      @@skymaster4743 funny Halder mentioned it as he was the one responsible for screwing up both Barbarossa and Fall Blau. Hitler primarily wanted Ukraine for the food and Caucasus for the oil. Halder went all in and threw it all at Moscow.

  • @earthenjadis8199
    @earthenjadis8199 Před 3 lety +35

    18:45 - There is a famous painting called "The Last Cartridges" (Les Dernières Cartouches) about Bazeilles.
    The room the painting depicts has been preserved like it was on that day and is now a museum.

  • @mikestafford6900
    @mikestafford6900 Před 3 lety +88

    Your animations are getting really, really good! I had no idea the Franco-Prussian war was so brutal and humiliating. Explains a lot.

  • @jeremiahkivi4256
    @jeremiahkivi4256 Před 3 lety +471

    Prussia had that extra soft attack with that artillery tech upgrade. Research bonuses pay off.

    • @redskull8354
      @redskull8354 Před 3 lety +37

      Eyyyyy fellow Hoi4 fan :'D

    • @JuanMatteoReal
      @JuanMatteoReal Před 3 lety +31

      And they have stronk National Spirits and generals with good traits and skills.

    • @FreaKCSGOHacker
      @FreaKCSGOHacker Před 3 lety +19

      @@redskull8354 I am pretty sure that at least a third of this audience plays hoi4

    • @YataTheFifteenth
      @YataTheFifteenth Před 3 lety +21

      -should've rushed researched Gas Attack-

    • @lazyeggs3133
      @lazyeggs3133 Před 3 lety +9

      as much as i love victoria 2 i dont understand the game half of the time and i dont think the ai does either so i just stick with hoi4

  • @dinolandia8978
    @dinolandia8978 Před 3 lety +1540

    Napoleon I rolling in his grave: " I do not know this man, Napoleon III, who claims to share my name."

    • @galatheumbreon6862
      @galatheumbreon6862 Před 3 lety +51

      lmao come n he wasn't that bad

    • @alaricneviaski780
      @alaricneviaski780 Před 3 lety +220

      Napoleon III is known for being a great manager for France, bringing the country into modernity. His oncle would be proud of his nefew for sure

    • @darrenbutler9819
      @darrenbutler9819 Před 3 lety +24

      @@alaricneviaski780 uncle*, nephew*

    • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228
      @axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Před 3 lety +31

      @@darrenbutler9819 Doesn't matter. The thought is there. They'll learn to spell it correctly sometime at their own pace...

    • @darrenbutler9819
      @darrenbutler9819 Před 3 lety +60

      @@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 or you could help them learn by pointing out the mistake and then put the correct spelling in.

  • @BigBrotherTheWatcher1984
    @BigBrotherTheWatcher1984 Před 3 lety +682

    I made one mistake in my life I should have burned Berlin.
    - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815

    • @Enyavar1
      @Enyavar1 Před 3 lety +92

      @Soumyadeep Chatterjee Maybe only one, instead to the dozens he had because he was lenient.
      If you are fighting an enemy who will kill you upon surrender, will you consider surrendering? No, you won't. Napoleon had this many victories because he quickly overwhelmed other forces, made them say "uncle" and then let them join his own forces (under strong supervision, he was no fool).
      Had Nappy been a bloodthirsty tyrant, he likely wouldn't ever have risen to power.

    • @Enyavar1
      @Enyavar1 Před 3 lety +40

      @Soumyadeep Chatterjee He, umm... did? He rewrote the map of Europe. France annexed BeNeLux+Rome+Catalania+Croatia, his brothers were made kings of Westfalia, Spain and Italy; his ambassadors ruled all the smaller territories in his name, even Poland; his general was made Swedish king... the whole shebang. And whenever the results were not fast enough, he annexed territories for his crown (like Benelux which started as his puppet state and then was made French proper in due time). Had Napoleon not begun the war with Russia and had he clung to power just a decade more or two, his foundations of a continental European Empire might even have lasted.
      Read up on what Napoleon did! He DID right what you suggested, usually just stopping before massacring people.

    • @jacopoabbruscato9271
      @jacopoabbruscato9271 Před 3 lety +15

      He burned Moscow, didn't do much for him

    • @olympia5758
      @olympia5758 Před 3 lety +99

      @@jacopoabbruscato9271 No, Moscow was burning before Napoleon and his army even got there. The Russians were using a scorched earth strategy.

    • @23GreyFox
      @23GreyFox Před 2 lety +2

      @Soumyadeep Chatterjee Because he tried, the time of his rule isn't the best memory. In Germany it's still called "die Franzosenzeit". And in 1870 France declared war again. Never trust the French.

  • @johnhendrickson1806
    @johnhendrickson1806 Před 3 lety +26

    You’ve gone above and beyond with your graphic design dude. So much improvement in such little time. Props

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 3 lety +827

    "You know I had to do it to em" - Otto von Bismarck

    • @VanshVadhavan
      @VanshVadhavan Před 3 lety +12

      Why are you everywhere

    • @DK-tv6rk
      @DK-tv6rk Před 3 lety +69

      Don’t put random quotes on me
      - Otto von Bismarck

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs Před 3 lety +2

      Ok

    • @Diego-fd3we
      @Diego-fd3we Před 3 lety +3

      Why are u in every comment daddy

    • @Riolupai
      @Riolupai Před 2 lety

      "You know I had to do it to em" - Joseph Stalin

  • @crw45able
    @crw45able Před 3 lety +1117

    Man, your channel is 80% history, 20% ASMR, and 100% brilliance.

  • @davethewave2197
    @davethewave2197 Před 2 lety +10

    A few months ago, I randomly watched this video because I was interested in the topic.
    Today I had my A-Level exams with the random topic of Bismarck and his plan to Unify Germany through war. We had covered this topic in school, but the only thing I could ever remember about the Franco-Prussian war was this video.
    Thanks to you I passed my exam!

  • @NovaExeRegent
    @NovaExeRegent Před 3 lety +10

    Appreciate the fact your team are taking two weeks to make videos, it really gives a chance to increase the overall quality compared to a singular week.

  • @tigershark2328
    @tigershark2328 Před 3 lety +805

    Other CZcams videos: 16:9 or close to 16:9 aspect ratio
    The Armchair Historian: I don't even know what aspect ratio this is but omg it commands such a powerful presence that I must pay attention to it...

    • @TheArmchairHistorian
      @TheArmchairHistorian  Před 3 lety +357

      Widescreen all the way!

    • @restless6107
      @restless6107 Před 3 lety +43

      @@TheArmchairHistorian Wide screen go brr

    • @Julianna.Domina
      @Julianna.Domina Před 3 lety +4

      @@TheArmchairHistorian 18:9, is it? I have an 18:9 phone and it seems to fill the screen. Or maybe 21:9?

    • @Julianna.Domina
      @Julianna.Domina Před 3 lety +4

      It's 21:9, isn't it

    • @itarry4
      @itarry4 Před 3 lety +3

      The animation and art is amazing as well. It makes understanding the content so easy to understand and entertaining to watch. It's honestly incredible.

  • @colbykitto4597
    @colbykitto4597 Před 3 lety +1475

    16:18 respect to Napoleon III, never leaving his men, despite his agony. He fought on.

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 Před 3 lety +365

      Napoleon III was a brave soul who did all he could, and is only remembered for his disastrous defeat and wrongly as a coward, which in fact he was the opposite

    • @supermario5849
      @supermario5849 Před 3 lety +60

      It’s a shame that Napoleon lll was captured in a shameful way. He was better off staying in Paris where he was safe.

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 Před 3 lety +123

      @@supermario5849 he considered returning to Paris, but with his wife’s advice backed down as they’d see him as a coward. I believe him showing in the battlefield was to motivate his soldiers as he knew the war was going to be lost

    • @michaelnash1067
      @michaelnash1067 Před 3 lety +6

      Yes, Yes, misery loves company. 🤔
      So they were miserable together, so nice...🙄🙄

    • @richardmangelmann4975
      @richardmangelmann4975 Před 3 lety +3

      @@fahoodie1852 I meeeean have you ever looked into what happened in Egypt? He surely left his men there

  • @erikjohnsen5154
    @erikjohnsen5154 Před 3 lety +6

    Excellent video. Very informative about a war i always was interested in, but never seemed to be able obtain much information about. Learned a ton! Loved the style of the animations and the narration also. Well paced and just professional in every way.

  • @tymofo2540
    @tymofo2540 Před 3 lety +19

    The vic2 music sold me, absolutely nostalgic

  • @kamikazeviking3053
    @kamikazeviking3053 Před 3 lety +383

    Getting coronated in a captured enemy palace in the middle of the war requires the balls of tungsten and is also the biggest flex of all time.

    • @sunrisings292
      @sunrisings292 Před 3 lety +9

      Haha! Agree.... I could not put it any better.

    • @filipkopec525
      @filipkopec525 Před 3 lety +23

      At the end of the war, with the enemy traped in their capital city...

    • @kamikazeviking3053
      @kamikazeviking3053 Před 3 lety +5

      @@filipkopec525partisans

    • @emc8476
      @emc8476 Před 3 lety +13

      @@filipkopec525 partisans could still be close and if the French somehow did a comeback that could have been the most shameful retreat in history.

    • @AllGoodThings607
      @AllGoodThings607 Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah, still not entirely sure why the Germans did that. Maybe because the war was still going on and all the principles were camped out in Versailles to help continue the conduct of the war? I'm not sure.

  • @somefilipino
    @somefilipino Před 3 lety +507

    The Kaiser do be lookin good with his drip

  • @grigorijklymenko3198
    @grigorijklymenko3198 Před 2 lety +26

    To me, this episode looks substantually better then the other ones you uploaded, and definetely a lot of dedication went into making it.
    I appreciate it a lot, having proper animations help immensly to understand the subject. Thank you.

  • @t5ruxlee210
    @t5ruxlee210 Před 2 lety +10

    Prussian spymaster and police chief (1818-1882) Wilhelm Johann Carl Eduard Stieber (3 May 1818 - 29 January 1882) was one factor behind much of Bismark's Franco Prussian War battlefield successes. He was responsible for much of the prewar legwork which built up massive reams of data correcting French Army mistakes in mapping etc. He and his spies even discovered that many official roadway distance markers had substantial errors re distances.

  • @andresemilior.gonzalez
    @andresemilior.gonzalez Před 3 lety +686

    That quote of Napoleon on his death bed made me sad :(

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 Před 3 lety +188

      His story is sad, all his 22 years of hard work and success overshadowed by a war he didn’t want to fight

    • @creepygamerful
      @creepygamerful Před 3 lety +109

      @@fahoodie1852 Well, he actually declared war because of a letter, so I think he really did wanted to fight

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 Před 3 lety +178

      @@creepygamerful the population pressured him as there were massive demonstrations. He was very skeptical and said “the war will be long and difficult”. After his capture in sedan he told the Prussian king he was reluctant and didn’t wish to fight. He had many reasons not to want the war, most notably France’s unpreparedness and his failing health

    • @tibsky1396
      @tibsky1396 Před 3 lety +15

      @@fahoodie1852 That's not impossible. Republicans pressured him to sabotage the project and bring down Napoleon III

    • @Thomgxx100
      @Thomgxx100 Před 3 lety +56

      @@tibsky1396 France declared war on Prussia because France couldn't enjure more diplomatic defeats from Prussia. Mind that France by 1869 had transposed into a (weakened) constitutional empire like that of the British monarchy. Napoleon 3 had to comply with the French goverment's decisions. Everybody in France were in favour of the war declaration, including the republicans and socialists, because they too saw the authoritarian Prussian state as a threat to French reforms, as a threat to liberty in general and to France itself. @ Andres R Napoleon the 3rd said those words with pride (We weren't exactly afraid at Sedan, were we? - Those were his exact words) What he meant was, that he himself and his Army of Chalons had fought very bravely at Sedan, which they truly had, with the 3rd Zouaves breaking through the Saxon lines, with the Marine Infantry twice retaking and repulsing the Bavarians at Bazeilles, with parts of 45. Reg. breaking through the lines of the Prussians Guards in the north. The rest only surrendering to avoid being plastered with German grenades coming from all directions.

  • @yazui.i.9368
    @yazui.i.9368 Před 3 lety +460

    Bismarck: " I am going to do what is called a pro gamer move"

    • @selinane2Seli-zw3pz
      @selinane2Seli-zw3pz Před 3 lety

      A real pro gamer move wouldn't have taken Alsace-Moselle
      Just check German border of today compared to 1914.

    • @danmenard6917
      @danmenard6917 Před 3 lety +14

      Bismarck had a plan. He ALWAYS had a plan.

    • @lolcop7416
      @lolcop7416 Před 3 lety +7

      @@selinane2Seli-zw3pzBismarck was put out of Service in 1908 from Kaiser Wilhelm the second

    • @selinane2Seli-zw3pz
      @selinane2Seli-zw3pz Před 3 lety +1

      @@lolcop7416 And ? Alsace Moselle was taken from the French in 1871. And the treaty of Frankfurt was harsh nonetheless French paid it all, contrary to Germans whining about Versailles.
      What is your point ? In 1914 alsace Moselle was still German. Bismarck did terrible mistakes

    • @c4m0uflag34
      @c4m0uflag34 Před 3 lety +16

      @@selinane2Seli-zw3pz sounds a lot like a salty french to me

  • @robertbell8378
    @robertbell8378 Před 2 lety +11

    Dear Arm Chair Historian,
    I greatly commend you for this video, I high school I could find little on the full details in my high school and local libraries.
    This half hour video gives the viewer a strong basic understanding of this conflict.
    And the notes in your bibliography reinforces text to gain, yet a deeper understanding.
    I would suggest that you also make animated videos on how the German 🇩🇪 forces exploited the Loshiem Gap in 1914, 1940 and 1944.
    This would surely give you a larger following among students of military history, my friend's son is army jrotc in high school and follows your videos and even donated to your cause.
    When my unemployment finally clears, so will I, you do great work, it's engaging, very enjoyable and highly educational.
    Yes, I am a big fan of your work, as a Pennsylvanian, I enjoyed your bird's eye view of the battle of Gettysburg.
    In addition to your video on the public wars, I sincerely thank you for all your hard good work and I pray that I can get more involved soon!
    Sincerely
    Robert Bell

  • @a_Minion_of_Soros
    @a_Minion_of_Soros Před 3 lety +2

    Amazing production quality. The artwork is just great!

  • @drawnout3349
    @drawnout3349 Před 3 lety +236

    I do really love that all the german actions are said to be made by Bismarck, even though Kaiser Wilhelm was the person who (technically) made them. Really shows how much influence he wielded.

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall Před 3 lety +11

      Bismarck is an amazing individual.

    • @misterjder1.831
      @misterjder1.831 Před 3 lety +34

      Actually Otto von Bismarck Bismarck was chief of the government of the north German confederation.
      So basically he was in charge. He was also in charge of Prussia at that time if iam not wrong.
      So basically he was the one who did daily business. The king reigned. But Bismarck had to ask him before every action.
      But Wilhelm I. Was very dependent upon Bismarck.
      A good example is the German Austrian war 1866. After the victory Wilhelm I. Wanted to annex Austria or parts of it but Bismarck didn't like this decision because other nations could be terrified and that would endanger Prussia / Germany. And it wouldn't have been good for the austro German relations.
      So Wilhelm I agreed on leaving Austria be.

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall Před 3 lety +24

      @@misterjder1.831 Bismarck also disdained colonies and wanted to stay allied with the UK. Wilhelm II going against this led to WWI

    • @misterjder1.831
      @misterjder1.831 Před 3 lety +13

      @@shorewall more or less.
      Bismarck said after the war 1871 "the empire is saturated" meaning Germany won't expand any further.
      Wilhelm the second nonetheless wanted "a place at the sun" demanding, like other empires colonies in Africa.
      Due to many reasons it got to the point, that the Germans got various colonies around the world which at the end Bismarck greeted.
      But after the years Bismarck got very old and senil in old years and above all stubborn.
      (many say that the retirement of Bismarck from wilhelm II. Was a mistake and lead to ww1.)
      But that's incorrect. But that wasn't the case. Out of Wilhelms perspective the retirement absolutely justified because Bismarck was as I said very old.
      And You'll never know how history would've went if even just a little detail changed.
      Yes sure the aggressive emperor was a factor. But only one of many. Imagine if Franz Joseph the Austrian emperor would've died of a heart attack. That would have changed pretty everything.

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 Před 3 lety +1

      @@misterjder1.831 I've never heard of anyone saying Bismark had gone senile when he was dismissed, is there a source for this?

  • @mule8064
    @mule8064 Před 3 lety +284

    French Military: *Is Retreating*
    German Military: *Teleports behind them*

    • @rainningstorm
      @rainningstorm Před 3 lety +28

      But if they're retreating, shouldn't they be already behind them?

    • @mule8064
      @mule8064 Před 3 lety +16

      @@rainningstorm wow, you got me there.
      It does make the joke more comedic tho

    • @gyrozeppeli751
      @gyrozeppeli751 Před 3 lety +19

      germany: *nothing personal kid.*

    • @noone3272
      @noone3272 Před 3 lety +3

      @@gyrozeppeli751 ......but I gotta go all out on you

    • @kidd32888
      @kidd32888 Před 3 lety

      @@rainningstorm wow this makes perfect sense

  • @Kalron9
    @Kalron9 Před rokem +3

    I love that these videos are meant to be standalone pieces of information that can support themselves but if you watch some other videos of the same era, you start to see a much larger picture unfolding because some of the same events and people are intertwined and you can see how they affected the events of the video you're currently watching.

  • @jebbroham1776
    @jebbroham1776 Před 3 lety +7

    Dad passed away in 2019, but when I was going through the things he left behind, I found a French Curassier bayonet from the Franco-Prussian war. January 16th 1870 is stamped clearly on the flat side of the tang in French just forward of the mounting lug for whatever rifle they used it on back then. Possibly a needle gun? Idk. It's pretty cool though.

  • @Captain_Dough
    @Captain_Dough Před 3 lety +320

    Editing is getting really so much better

  • @blinkakadu
    @blinkakadu Před 3 lety +355

    I love his animation style

    • @itarry4
      @itarry4 Před 3 lety +18

      It's unbelievable isn't it? TV shows that do history should take notes. It makes it clear to understand and really entertaining. I honestly can't think of a better way to make videos to get such information across.

    • @Litovskyy
      @Litovskyy Před 3 lety +4

      Yeah the animation is lit

    • @eggisfun4217
      @eggisfun4217 Před 3 lety

      same

    • @eggisfun4217
      @eggisfun4217 Před 3 lety

      i mean its a pretty strong reason i use this channel than others

  • @tikkurilaboi6893
    @tikkurilaboi6893 Před měsícem +1

    I am saddened to hear that CZcams hasnt fared the best on your channel. But I wish for great success to you and your videos, theyre genuinely some of the best.

  • @RRaquello
    @RRaquello Před 3 lety +18

    One interesting thing about this war was that it was a French-German war where the US tacitly backed the Germans. We were neutral, of course, and couldn't give any material aid, but because of bitterness over the French adventure in Mexico during our Civil War, our government was extremely hostile to Napoleon III, so we sent Phil Sheridan to spend the war as an observer with the Prussian army-a neutral, but friendly, observer. Sheridan had been sent to the Texas-Mexico border after the Civil War ended, with a large army, to give Napoleon a hint to "git out", and also supplied the Mexicans fighting the French with weapons and other supplies. He was present, as an honored guest, at the surrender of Napoleon to the Prussians.

  • @arodv
    @arodv Před 3 lety +292

    Really love this Era. Wish that there's a total war game abt this

    • @Armann_
      @Armann_ Před 3 lety +18

      Probably enough war games already depicting Germans getting slaughtered. Enough with that stuff.

    • @matt47110815
      @matt47110815 Před 3 lety +8

      There is. Europa Universalis

    • @angeloluna529
      @angeloluna529 Před 3 lety +29

      They will never make a 1800s total war, they'll produce either fantasy warhammer or another ancient era game.

    • @leonrothier6638
      @leonrothier6638 Před 3 lety +23

      There’s Total War Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai which takes place around this era

    • @angeloluna529
      @angeloluna529 Před 3 lety +13

      @@leonrothier6638 I already played it, I want total war empire 2

  • @MrMask-mw5fd
    @MrMask-mw5fd Před 3 lety +121

    Loved the target poster on Napoleon’s horse

  • @pictheboi
    @pictheboi Před rokem +1

    You gotta love the small details in videos like these, like the balloon carrying Leon Gambetta away from Paris.

  • @alexandrorodriguez5289
    @alexandrorodriguez5289 Před 3 lety +2

    It is so cool to see how much this channel has evolved!! Congrats!

  • @MoriorInvictus1453
    @MoriorInvictus1453 Před 3 lety +402

    Dear Griffin, will you please make a video about life in the German Empire? It's something I and surely many others have been looking forward to for a long time. Thanks in advance :)

    • @NordisktLejon
      @NordisktLejon Před 3 lety +9

      Agreed.

    • @hamzamohamed9862
      @hamzamohamed9862 Před 3 lety +8

      y’all have the same avatar! :O

    • @eatathepizza4449
      @eatathepizza4449 Před 3 lety +2

      Ridiculously militaristic

    • @Jim-fi4dc
      @Jim-fi4dc Před 3 lety +29

      @@eatathepizza4449 no lol. The German empire was propably the most prosperous country in that era.Arts and science thrived not only the military.

    • @eatathepizza4449
      @eatathepizza4449 Před 3 lety +10

      @@Jim-fi4dc Yeah , 47 noble prizes is cool for a short lived empire

  • @seancuevasmusician
    @seancuevasmusician Před 3 lety +112

    What’s amazing is the evolution of this videos animation since the last Franco Prussian war video 3 years ago.

  • @Hugehugebighuge
    @Hugehugebighuge Před 2 lety +2

    Loving the widescreen. It fits my phone ( one plus 8) so cinematically. You are a beast.

  • @MetDaan2912
    @MetDaan2912 Před 3 lety +3

    This video is so well made: beautiful animations and great information!

  • @2Links
    @2Links Před 3 lety +229

    Remember watching your old video on the war, focusing on the Battle of Sedan. Glad to see you're revisiting the subject.

    • @TravelerZ24
      @TravelerZ24 Před 3 lety

      Pretty sure Bismarck's son was in the death charge

    • @luigidisanpietro3720
      @luigidisanpietro3720 Před 3 lety +2

      Such a great jump from the Old Artstyle to the New....

  • @pathosofmine
    @pathosofmine Před 3 lety +114

    18:50 i like the detail where the rifleman had to reload a single round, considering needle rifles were single shot rifles

  • @leonidasj406
    @leonidasj406 Před 3 lety +4

    That was a very good narration and description of the Franco-Prussian War. That conflict’s outcome marked the pinnacle of Prussia’s power and influence in Europe since its inception centuries earlier.

  • @themfwestcoast
    @themfwestcoast Před 2 lety +1

    So well produced! Well done!

  • @wachtwoorden2
    @wachtwoorden2 Před 3 lety +146

    19:35 the meme guy "is this an order" had me dying hahaha

  • @dancingcow8640
    @dancingcow8640 Před 3 lety +255

    Poor napoleon the 3rd, couldn’t even have the dignity of dying among his men.

    • @emugaming8548
      @emugaming8548 Před 3 lety +57

      I honestly kind of feel bad for the guy. Living just enough to get roasted by all of Europe and not being remembered for winning the Crimean war. Ouch.

    • @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889
      @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 Před 3 lety +18

      @@emugaming8548 I, too. As a young man he was persecuted by the Bourbons and Louis Philippe. Then, he became President and everybody was belittling him. Later, he became emperor and had a good life up to 1867. Then, the Mexican crisis, everybody started hating him. Fought a war provoked by the Germans and was humiliatingly captured. And after the war, the French Republic antagonizes him to get rid of their responsibilities of their defeat. That is the view of many modern historians.
      Napoleon wasn't 'the Great', but he wasn't 'the monkey' described in the past.

    • @ancientnumbat4631
      @ancientnumbat4631 Před 3 lety +2

      @@presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 How did the Germans provoke the Franco-Prussian War?

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 Před 2 lety +12

      @@ancientnumbat4631 it was with the ems telegram. There was a diplomatic standoff between the two countries, and the telegram was manipulated to make it look like the sides insulted one another. The French population went into uproar and declared war

    • @matcha1693
      @matcha1693 Před 2 lety +1

      @@fahoodie1852 It was a silly thing to declare war against Prussia outright without the French government consulting with its British and Italian military allies in order to make sure that all three countries would coordinate their military plans against Prussia.
      The smart thing to do would be for the French government to respond by issuing an extremely insulting ultimatum against Prussia , thereby forcing Prussia to declare war against France, and ensuring that Britain and Italy would honor their military alliance with France and join together with France in fighting the war against Prussia.
      Furthermore, issuing an extremely insulting ultimatum against Prussia instead of issuing an outright declaration of war against Prussia would have given the French government more time to get ready for war and to organize and mobilize the huge unwieldy French army.
      In the final analysis, France would have been guaranteed to win the war against Prussia because France and its British and Italian allies had 3 times the military power of Prussia and its German allies.
      Not to mention that Austria and Denmark would have been very keen to join a military coalition against Prussia, and to attack Prussia from the rear in order to obtain their revenge against the Prussian army.

  • @nestpascamillekazeyquiveut9984

    You should definitely do a full episode on La Commune de Paris! I also appreciated the Mongoltfière you animated in the background as the french government fled an assieged Paris by air to get to Bordeaux
    .

  • @Kobrag90
    @Kobrag90 Před 3 lety

    Quality of this is amazing.

  • @DD-qw4fz
    @DD-qw4fz Před 3 lety +392

    Napoleon the Third
    "third time is the charm"
    Germany
    Plays "drop it"

    • @AndrewGeierMelons
      @AndrewGeierMelons Před 3 lety

      Third time is the charm... 3rd Republic, that is

    • @german_doggy7314
      @german_doggy7314 Před 3 lety +6

      Thirds time the charm?
      Ask the french or germans about that

    • @eddiejc1
      @eddiejc1 Před 3 lety +3

      It's really only the second time. Napoleon II was more along the lines of England's Edward V and France's Louis XVII----kings or emperors who were only so in name only.
      While obviously the 1870 war was a disaster, Louis Napoleon remained in power longer than his uncle, and he had a bigger impact on the architecture of Paris.

    • @mone3145
      @mone3145 Před 3 lety

      @Rafiquil Alam In 1806, France took Berlin in 19 days

  • @Topst_er
    @Topst_er Před 3 lety +170

    its always a good day when he uploads!

    • @cameronii5979
      @cameronii5979 Před 3 lety

      Very true

    • @Sigur114
      @Sigur114 Před 3 lety

      Yes.

    • @RK18771
      @RK18771 Před 3 lety

      Please dont assume gender!

    • @Topst_er
      @Topst_er Před 3 lety +4

      @@RK18771 please get out of here? Its clearly a boy. he dont have his pronouns anywhere so go away. thank u!

    • @RK18771
      @RK18771 Před 3 lety

      @@Topst_er its a joke.

  • @jonaselze9316
    @jonaselze9316 Před 3 lety +1

    Really a nice and very, very informative Video. The only thing I heared about that war in history lessons was the cannon barrage on Sedan.

  • @lightbluewaves5526
    @lightbluewaves5526 Před 2 lety +6

    20:40 that horse be like "dafuq bro i don't wanna die!"

  • @vonKraehe
    @vonKraehe Před 3 lety +213

    27:19 I never thought that I would feel sorry for Napoleon III... Das rührt schon fast zu Tränen

    • @faithlesspancake4800
      @faithlesspancake4800 Před 3 lety +10

      Fast....

    • @fuhlvee5555
      @fuhlvee5555 Před 3 lety +11

      ​@@faithlesspancake4800 not a native german speaker, but in this case "schon fast" should mean almost

    • @dee3246
      @dee3246 Před 3 lety +4

      @@fuhlvee5555 yes!

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek Před 3 lety +3

      Don't. The guy was a tyrant and a traitor to his country, and his ambitions too big for his boots. He got what he deserved, nothing more.

    • @faithlesspancake4800
      @faithlesspancake4800 Před 3 lety +1

      @@fuhlvee5555 i know

  • @brianboru2762
    @brianboru2762 Před 3 lety +352

    And then six years after his death, his only son died in a skirmish against the Zulus when he had been scouting with the British, everyone on both sides of the fighting was horrified when they realized what happened. The Zulu king swore he would never have been harmed if they had known who he was.
    Thankfully the original Napoleon had a lot of brothers so the family is still kicking.

    • @TehScareM8
      @TehScareM8 Před 3 lety +56

      His son is buried in my hometown in England, weird story

    • @Nixie_noobionlassie
      @Nixie_noobionlassie Před 9 měsíci +3

      this was napoleon III son right?

    • @leemarshall348
      @leemarshall348 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Nixie_noobionlassieyes

    • @larryalvares1369
      @larryalvares1369 Před 6 měsíci

      @@TehScareM8dang. Do people visit his grave?

    • @TehScareM8
      @TehScareM8 Před 6 měsíci

      @@larryalvares1369 It's in a catholic monastery, I'm sure people do, will have to go and check it out at some point!

  • @GeneralMacek
    @GeneralMacek Před 2 lety +3

    With such quality animation I am surprised you aren't having a small strategy game in the development already.

  • @carlos.daniel.santmaria5477

    The quality of this content never disapoints!!!

  • @Gray-Wolf
    @Gray-Wolf Před 3 lety +70

    The map format in these videos could be a strategy game lol
    Edit: I like the use of Vic2 music

    • @eugenej.6331
      @eugenej.6331 Před 3 lety +4

      I smiled so fast when I heard the music!

    • @Gray-Wolf
      @Gray-Wolf Před 3 lety

      @@eugenej.6331 ikr lol

    • @soldiersPL
      @soldiersPL Před 3 lety +3

      Great thing to hear, puts you in proper imperialist mood

    • @Gray-Wolf
      @Gray-Wolf Před 3 lety

      @@soldiersPL suddenly the British Empire turns into the "Bri ish Empai-uh"

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 Před 3 lety +57

    the textbook definition of a quick decisive victory.

  • @TheAlaskaninja
    @TheAlaskaninja Před 3 lety +7

    The Victoria 2 soundtrack is so good for this video!

  • @aasemahsan
    @aasemahsan Před rokem +3

    3:10 Context of war
    6:59 Battle ensues
    Helmut Von Moltke (key figure behind Prussian victory)
    The death ride
    Bombardment of Sedan
    Partisans Resistance
    25:46 Casualties

  • @kingofthesandbox7467
    @kingofthesandbox7467 Před 3 lety +47

    Now that balloon escaping Paris was a wonderful detail. During the seige French politician Léon Gambetta escaped the seige in such a balloon.

    • @omarbradley6807
      @omarbradley6807 Před 3 lety

      Let me guess. He never become popular after that!

    • @kingofthesandbox7467
      @kingofthesandbox7467 Před 3 lety +13

      @@omarbradley6807 Believe it or not but no he actually was very prominent in French politics until his death in 1882 from intestine and stomach cancer.

    • @omarbradley6807
      @omarbradley6807 Před 3 lety +1

      @@kingofthesandbox7467 Well yeah, prime minister, he was a flip-floper it seems, not so good taste by the third republic it seems.

  • @MrSamgillis
    @MrSamgillis Před 3 lety +213

    Ahh yes the french greatest enemy
    Also THE FRENCH

    • @j.franklin21
      @j.franklin21 Před 3 lety +8

      The French are half Italian, Half German lol.
      More wars won than any nation.
      But they lost WW1 quickly, WW2 within a month, and of course this war, and Vietnam.

    • @fleauryanh528
      @fleauryanh528 Před 3 lety +32

      @@j.franklin21 Wtf are you talking about ? Are you okay ? France had won ww1. And french are not italians there are LATIN, that's realy different and they are more something like 40%latin 40%celtic(gaulish) and 20%german

    • @j.franklin21
      @j.franklin21 Před 3 lety +11

      @@fleauryanh528
      I'm fine lol.
      The French were whipped in WW1, the Allies had to save them. Same in WW2.
      I'm comparing France as a military power to Italy in WW2. Italy sucked, they were the weakest Axis power. France was the weakest Allied power.

    • @tomprelitz8067
      @tomprelitz8067 Před 3 lety +9

      @@fleauryanh528
      If the French are 40% Celtic then I'm a feathered bipedal.

    • @TheFrenchscot
      @TheFrenchscot Před 3 lety +23

      @@j.franklin21 whipped in WW1? France basically did much of the fight on the western front and by far. Look at Verdun, the Marne or how the French saved the Commonwealth troops at the Somme. You have to be american to say that. Your education is known for well... basically suck.

  • @qahless6900
    @qahless6900 Před 4 měsíci

    I gotta say that photo made the video for me. I’m not downplaying the quality both in terms of historical accuracy and visual representation of the facts after thoroughly researching them. I just love the little details like this, especially since I didn’t know they had photos of a battle that early into the history of photography,( I did know that it was invented before this war). Absolutely fascinating, thank you for that photo Mr Armchair 😎

  • @matteoinve5126
    @matteoinve5126 Před rokem +1

    Great job, described in great details and really entertaining to watch. Hi from Italy.

  • @SousouCell
    @SousouCell Před 3 lety +22

    Most impressive part of this video :
    23:17 leon gambetta fleeing Paris in an air balloon..... goddamm precise..... love it

    • @massimomax3215
      @massimomax3215 Před 3 lety +1

      think about if the wind turned blowing towards german troops.. lmao

    • @SousouCell
      @SousouCell Před 3 lety

      @@massimomax3215 hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣, thats a good one, never thought of it ......

  • @trygveblacktiger597
    @trygveblacktiger597 Před 3 lety +45

    I do think it should be mentioned that the Germans relaince on Trains was one of the biggest advantages they had. They saw its effect in America druing the Civil war and while France had more troops when the conflict started the Germans greatly out numbered them quickly thanks to their ability to transport soldiers from Dresten,Berlin and Kønigburg to the front mutch quicker than the French could even think off.
    P.S The uniforms of the German artillery is abit off as they had canon balls instead of spikes on their helmets to note their service.

    • @sommojames
      @sommojames Před 9 měsíci +2

      I lolled at some French reporting at rally point in Corsica and Algeria

  • @knightnight1894
    @knightnight1894 Před 3 lety +1

    Amrchair, you've done it again. great video! Bravo 👏