British troops in North Africa did use bayonets it has always been a vital part of British military training especially in those days.

The part that isnt coloured in is called "vichy france" Hitler kept it this way to make the allies think the french had switched sides or was atleast content under german occupation and occupied mainly the coast for defence

Coffee substitutes were used during the war when there were shortages, these would be made with acorns or chicory. Coffee had to be imported and German Uboats were very effective at sinking supply ships.

That burnt cross was the alter piece & what's left of Coventry cathedral.

The Patriot Movement was British, founded in 1725. There was no repercussions against those supporting independence because they were simply the opposition in parliament. My home town of Rotherham Yorkshire was Patriot. Yes’ led by two rich and powerful men - Lords Effingham and Rockingham, but the movement also had middle and working class members.

The surface area of Great Britain (not the U.K as this excludes North Ireland): 209,331 km² Surface area of Idaho, U.S: 216,400 km² So Idaho is slightly bigger than Great Britian, but not bigger than the United Kingdoms.

We have a saying here in UK, ‘tall fences make good neighbours’ and another ‘Chesterton’s Fence, never take a fence down unless you the reason why it was put up’ 😊

Re the bombers: First one was a US Douglas Boston, second was a Vickers Wellington, designed by Barnes Wallace of bouncing bomb fame. The big four engined one was a Short Stirling, nothing to do with it's size, it was built by Short Bros of Belfast. Later on there was a clip of a Bristol Beaufort, a pretty mediocre bomber that would spawn the Bristol Beaufighter, used by the UK & US as a night-fighter, and the UK as an anti-shipping strike aircraft, known as "The Ten Gun Terror" 4 20mm cannon in the nose, 6 .303 machine guns in the wings, and 8 60lb rockets slung under the wings.

20:40 - In regards to the invasion of Greece; it is definitely not taught in British schools and is not a well known event. I myself don't know much about it, but the gist of it is that in 1941 Greece gets invaded, initially just by Italy and then Germany too (for the same reason as in North Africa). At this point in North Africa the Brits have had their successes against the Italians, but now the DAK is arriving in full force. The Brits had to decide between trying to consolidate their gains in North Africa, or diverting troops to Greece in a desperate attempt to save them, or at least honour their alliance, which they did, allowing Rommel to more easily push the Brits back to Egypt. Edit: It should also be noted that the best troops were pulled out of North Africa and sent to Greece, this was all seen as an honourable act, but was futile at the end of the day.

awesome , looking forward to part 2 , peace from England

We couldn't import coffee during the war, it's a substitute to coffee. Britain's food was also terrible at the time because of rationing. It is why we have a bad reputation for food. It's not true the food over here is much better quality than the States.

17:00 in 1940 when France surrendered the Germans only occupied the northern half of the country (as represented on that map). The southern half was "Vichy France" which was run by the French in a puppet government which was controlled by the Nazis. French troops fought the allies and their own resistance (although not very forcefully) in Vichy France and North Africa (Morocco was a French colony which was administered by Vichy France) until the Allies invaded Morocco then the French there surrendered to the Allies and changed sides, becoming the core of the "Free French forces". This is also why the Royal Navy attacked & sank a number of French ships at Mers El Kébir when they surrendered to the Germans in 1940. Churchill ordered the ships to be sunk in the harbour to show the world (mainly the Americans) that they would stop at nothing to prevent the Germans from winning. The worry was that whilst the French fleet was supposed to stay neutral (as was Vichy France) Churchill didn't want to risk the Germans later taking over the ships and deploying them against the Allies, either with French or German crews, so he ordered them sunk. Their admiral was given the choices to either sail to a neutral port to be interred (likely in South America), scuttle his own ships, or surrender and join the British. He dithered and chose none, the deadline expired, and that was that. Sadly, this cost many French lives which didn't need to be lost really.

Britain still use Bayonets today. they were and still are to some extent a vital piece of British strategy. they were used on Dday also

The original speech was never recorded as it was in parliament. At the time it wasn't allowed to be recorded. That speech was read by an actor impersonating Churchill for the radio, most people thought it was actually Churchill at the time. The version you know was recorded by Churchill after the war for posterity along with all his wonderful speeches.

Americans called British coffee: coffee concentrate. This was long before Starbucks changed America. In those days I went for coffee to an Italian when I was in the US...

@16.40 That part was Vichy France, a German run fascist state which was the the civil administration of France at the time of occupation

29:00 I think that may have been a cross which caught on fire.

George Washington had his roots in England of course but, in an angry moment, he said he never wanted to set foot on England's soil again. When America sent us his statue we sent to America for soil so, when Washington eventually stood in London, he did not stand on our soil and so his vow was not broken. The statues of Abraham Lincoln were sent to us, by Abe Lincoln, as a thank you to the Mill workers, many of whom were women, who walked out of the cotton mills if the Owner tried to use cotton from American slave plantations. The workers were very poor and with families, and some starved to death. Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter too thanking them for their support in his efforts to rid America of slavery. You might like to look at 'THE TRUE HISTORY OF FREEDOM NEVER TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS'.

The bit of France wast cover was called free France

Beyonets where used by British troops fighting in the falklands against the Argentinians

Are you going to make a second part yet? Your commentary is very interesting unlike most peoples! Love from UK

We still used bayonets in Iraq and Afghanistan, there was at least one notable bayonet charge in Afghanistan and a lone Gurkha used one when he took out 30 Taliban alone (he didn’t just use the bayonet)

Bayonet's where always used & standard issue - where do you get your info from?????????? and Cricket being Gentile LOL

We have free speech because the law that stopped free speech was accidentally not renewed on a yearly basis. The reason you have free speech is the same, as you adopted it from Britain. In Britain, we have free speech that's exactly the same as the US, whether it's written down or not. We know it, and remember it, we don't have to write it down 😂.

Washington is still in Trafalgar Square and Lincoln is still by Parliament - both in the exact same spots

It is like Dunkirk in the sense that it was a defeat with honour. Britain had pledged assistance, so she went in, full knowing she would be defeated.

it was not coffee, we could not import such luxury goods at the time. It was made from chickery syrup and tasted a little like coffee, may be! You can still get it now, it's used in cake making After we joined the EU we stopped producing any thing never mind the best stainless steal in the world.

idaho is about 90percent the size of britain so there is not that much difference between them size wise

You had MP Charles Fox who used to turn up to Parliament dressed in Continental Army buff and blue for the duration of the Revolutionary War. Sadly with the war becoming the mythic founding event it’s become reduced to cartoon level simplicity for many if not most in the US, and it seems like it’s often taught as if it happened in a vacuum where there’s no sense of it as a British political event happening in a British world, influenced by British culture, philosophy and politics which it absolutely was. The Patriot cause was much a product of ‘Britishness’ as the Loyalist one - for example the writings of the British Country Party in the earlier in the 18th century were a huge influence on Patriot ideology although they failed to take off in Britain. Thomas Paine, the most vocal advocate for independence was British and lived in Britain until 1774, where he was a supporter of the nascent Patriot cause then. General Howe was also a politician and one of his campaign promises was that he wouldn’t take up arms against the Americans (as it was always mostly an unpopular war and increasingly so as time went on). Of course he did in the end but it always seemed fairly half hearted. Former Prime Minister William Pitt who in response to the pre-war opposition to taxes said to Parliament “I delight that the Americans have resisted.” The two political parties at the time were the Whigs - which is what the Patriots were also known as and it was the Whigs in Parliament that were largely sympathetic, and the Tories who were the party in power, and of course Loyalists were also known as Tories… As I say there’s so many fascinating connections that are lost now though, the propaganda at the time was intended to draw parallels between George III and Charles I (who was very much known by Americans at the time), who had tried to rule as an absolute monarch but after the British Civil Wars he was tried and executed in 1649 for treason against the people and it was firmly established that the power of the crown came from the people and their permission and not from any divine right. It also established the notion of the Rights of Englishmen, the precursor to inalienable rights - that founding father George Mason invoked when he said we only wish for the same rights as our fellow Englishmen as if we’d remained in England (I’m paraphrasing). After a failed attempt at a Republic in Britain after that the monarchy was brought back in 1660 but with those limits on their powers firmly in place. That was even more established with the 1689 Bill of Rights which was one of the main inspirations for the American Bill of Rights. There weren’t necessarily any repercussions for voicing support of the Revolution, early on a lot of the Whigs in Parliament cheered for Patriot victories and it wasn’t just their position that shielded them. They were the Loyal Opposition in Parliament

I was stationed in England in the 50's and I am commenting on your remarks about coffee. To survive I quickly learned to drinking tea as their coffee was terrible and tea was better though they did not make iced tea at that time. Also a cricket match was not understood or appreciated by the average yank.

The south of France capitulated to Germany. Thats why it doesnt show up on the map.

In our town centre in Wales, we have a statue of Hitler.

Rather amusing. The narrator sounds very much like the famous Academy award winning actor, John Huston, a Canadian from Toronto. Huston narrated quite a few American wartime Hollywood productions. Shortly after arriving in the United Kingdom, General Eisenhower came up with the brilliant idea of challenging the Canadians to a friendly game of football, the first ever to be played in Great Britain. The Yanks stacked their team with All Americans. Who won? The Canadians did. It's a fact. - George Kush @ Fort Macleod, Alberta.

Hope you can do part 2 soon

The southern part of France was the unoccupied part of Vichy France under Petain, in contrast to the northern part under direct occupation by Germany. Maybe worth doing a video on

37:22 Those taxes were via Acts of Parliament. Not sure what you're talking about here.

Just imagine it was less like a porch and more like a hotel balcony and you can see into the neighbours room, space is tight and that's why we need a bit of privacy

My grandparents lived in Portsmouth during the blitz. One evening, the warden knocked on their door to warn them of a coming raid. As soon as they took cover, there was an almighty explosion! Gramps house was still intact, but when they opened their front door.. the houses across the road were completely destroyed, and there on Gramps doorstep were the wardens shoes! No sign of him

Sorry, Munich was in 1938

Silly boy of course they used bayonets.Have you heard of War correspondents film.

We are not European but British isles

I think it’s still broadly spot on despite being very much of its time

OK, lets end this once and for all. You won a revolutionary war against 1 10th of the British Army. We were busy with the French and other colonies. You also had huge help from the French. You lost most of the battles and only escaped from Yorktown because of the fog. Yes you won your independence , BUT you hardly beat the full British military. Then 50 years later we came back, burnt the white house and made you adopt what we wanted, which you are still doing now, So really, who won?. WW2? We were fighting the Germans and the Japenses largely on our own (with colonial forces) . Stop using the word 'shameful'. > What was shameful was the US reluctance to join the war . You do realise that IF we had lost the Battle of Britain, You would have been invaded from both sides and were not prepared for it at all, You certainly couldnt have defeated the Nazi war machine head to head in 1941 and then also had the Japanese from the other coast. lol, American free speech is way more censored than ours. The fact its not in our constitution (because we dont have one), makes it even more free.

You should watch the video about the De Havilin Mosquito by Fat Electrician i believe

The leaflets were dropped at the request of France

No part 2

You pause and get involved too much just learn

Britain has never had a constitution or at least not one written on a single document.

We don't have porches in Britain because why would you like to sit in the pissing rain and hurricane force winds on a good day? Unless it snows in the US you can sit there and watch the world go by, in Britain foreigners freeze to death in summer. It's geographical that's we don't have porches pmsl.

8:18. London even today has a lower crime rate than NYC. Back in 1944 (and almost any time before the 90s) all of Britain had fewer murders than just nyc + New York state.