Where can I find the maps you guys use for your videos? They are really good

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Great video guys!! Charlemagne is for me such a black whole for me, nice job lobbying for that period!! ALso one more thing...any perspective on a new video on Hannibal it s been a year since the battle of Cannae! :D

@@user-gz1ye2jo1q Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

@@user-gz1ye2jo1q If they were baptized, having a Christian education and believing in the Bible 's words, the Holy Spirit was working in them. Meaning the existing God in this world was working through them.

Makes me think of Boromir and the Horn of Gondor

Im currently writing a college essay on Chanson de Roland due to its historical importance at large, greetings all the way from Chile.

@@rangerstedfast I think it might have inspired Tolkien

@@samdumaquis2033 Very possible

They might as well teach you that Jesus could turn water into wine and Mohammed had flying horses. Oh wait, I think they actually teach you that crap as well.

You can also feel the pleasure of the Basques taking revenge for the barbarities the French committed against their people. Neither the Romans nor the Muslims ever subdued the Basques, they reached agreements beneficial to both, because both Romans and Muslims were aware of the fierceness of the Basques. That is why today we still preserve our language, the only pre-Indo-European language, and our millenary culture. Respect for those who have survived millennia in their land, few peoples in the world have managed to do so.

The song of Rolland, calling on his horn to Charlemagne for hours as they fought to the bitter end is an important part of France's History, we were taught it in school. But I also respect the basque for keeping their history.

One way of preventing these ambushes was to employ reconnaissance if possible/safeguarded with natives, same strategy Caesar and Alexander used centuries ago. This is such a costly experience for Charlemagne

@@juanc.9814 You survived in culture but not in direct control or autonomy over you're nation, It's still under latin-french rule for so long that nobody really knows about ur existence and will any foreigner will call you simply French.

@@itzikashemtov6045 We are not in the best of situations but we have survived since millennia in our land, with our culture, the only pre-Indo-European one surviving in Europe. I don't care if they know us or what they call me, I know who I am, what I am and where I come from. Everyone has the right to be proud of his origins, it is a way of respecting our close parents and our distant ancestors. Finally I live in the Spanish part of the Basque Country, we are now part of the EU and I would be very happy if Russia was also part of the EU, it would be the best for all of us, even if for "others" it is not so good. In this sense I am ashamed again and again of our politicians, I hope you understand this.

I feel like 12k views in a couple hours is honestly major documentary work, but yes I agree.

It's the script mainly which is great , the narrator does different videos and while he is great , the script is what makes it really special.

What major documentary work? Ancient aliens?

@@JayzsMr really? Why don’t you reread the script over this video playing and see if that holds true

@@jameslourenco1570 why ?I am not too dumb to distinguish these two things , unlike you

And Hannibal saved his rear guard.

Kuoni von Stocken

"horrifyingly good one" wtf?

@@richbob9155 yep

The song of Rolland, calling on his horn to Charlemagne for hours as they fought to the bitter end is an important part of France's History, we were taught it in school.

Well said old chum, well said :)

@@anasevi9456 I doubt this cause they were under Muslim rule who weren’t anymore friendly to pagans than Charlemagne. Also lack of Muslim sources describing them as ‘Majus’ (pagan).

Huh?What do mean inspire JRR Tolkien death of Boromir?

@@nebsam715 the death of Rolan, with his desesperate horn blow calling for help like in the Boromir death scene. You can see it in the intro scene of this video, but not in the battle scene it self.

@@pettermct I see

The Little Corporal knows it.

@@HistoryMarchehe learned the hard way

Got the notification for Hansa. Heading over to watch right now :)

@@HistoryMarche I just headed in the opposite direction

What is this Kings that is mentioned. Curious Love the history on this channel.

@@kennethnew3075 kings and generals channel

I like both channels

Historia prehispánica?

@علي ياسر they became Muslims enemies with time

@علي ياسر Not helped but submitted with pragmatism because the superior force of muslims... until they became enough strong to shake off the ties and fight as independient and free kingdom.

@علي ياسر Not in YOUR history but if you allow yourself to investigate and read more, you will learn how basque kingdom submitted to Cordoba, allied and got marries alliances with muslim Banu Qasi (the only well considered muslim noble family to Pamplona) because their disadvantage, but as soon as they could they get rid of muslims gobernors in Pamplona, settle in fo their own and began a more and more independient politics, specially becoming a realm with their own kings. Basques sufered alot of "Razzias" from Cordoba califate because of their constant disobedience and defies to the Califa mixed with forced peace treaties with him. So it was constant tension and not armony nor friendship among basques and cordobeses. And with time the Kingdom of Pamplona shown their cards, breaking with Cordoba, ally with christian Asturian realm, as basque was, and fighting their former "ally", oblied friend and neighbor but not never more.

@ايجون تارجاريين Yes, they did. And in time they fought castililans too. And aragoneses and french. As most kingdoms in the Middle Age, they foughts against all their neighbours, and the muslims were their first main neighbour. So Yes, of course basques fought muslims and took lot of their lands adding them to the basque realm of Pamplona (later Navarra)

It does seem like it was a very painful loss and Charlemagne never forgot about it even in old age according to the sources. *The sources make clear that aulici (like Roland, Eggihard and Anselm) were appointed by Charles personally; their service to the king was especially important, and their deaths in battle signified correspondingly painful losses for the king. The relationship between the king and each aulicus, like other vertical dyadic bonds - between lord and man, between nurturer and nourished - were peculiarly emotionally charged. It was a matter of trust. The ArF reviser wrote - in words that deserve to be repeated: ‘The pain of the wound the king received overclouded (obnubilavit) in his heart a large part of what had gone successfully in Spain.’ The late Tim Reuter persuasively dated the reviser’s work to very near the end of Charles’s reign. If this is right, and the reviser was writing at court on the basis of conversations with (among others) Charles himself, it is a plausible suggestion that the memory of Roncesvaux’s psychological trauma and loss was present to Charles in old age - perhaps more present than it had ever been since 778.*

@@joellaz9836---How interesting.

@@joellaz9836 he smashes all opposition ⚔♥️⚔

Ca devait être y’a longtemps, aujourd’hui les jeunes français sont éduqués dans la haine d’eux même

@@romainmodestie8844 2004/2005

Yes sir, that's the guy.

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@@user-my8yj5el4j technically the tricolor is a inaccurate representation of the Frankish kingdom

He followed the most important rule of knighthood: Die well.

One writer said that since Charlemagne was so loved in the Middle Ages that even his one defeat was turned into a victory through the legend of Roland.

@@joellaz9836 hmm isn’t that just propaganda and manipulation tho?

@@comradekenobi6908 The song of Roland was written centuries after charlemange´s death, how can it be propaganda?

@@roan2288 It was more propaganda for the first crusade (the basque were turned into Muslims).

He destroyed the walls so they couldnt rebel, because if they did he could just go and sack the city. Thats what pacify means.

What do you mean "that's what pacify means"? How do you know that is what pacify means?

@@LuisAldamiz And that´s a problem?

@@LuisAldamiz its a story in honor of a Frankish hero, ofc its all made larger then life thats the point. To inspire and unite future Franks.

An anonymous translation of it called “Roelantslied” is also one of the most important sources of middle Dutch. You know Dutch is actually the direct descendant of the old Frankish language. A modern Dutchman especially one from the province of Limburg could have a reasonably good conversation with Charlemagne, while a modern French speaker would not have a clue.

@@Judge_Magister Yes I know that buddy, but actually I think the closest to old Frankish is Luxemburguish (but the song of Roland wasn't initially written in Frankish as far as we know)

@@tonyhawk94 you think but it is not true. Luxembourgish leans more towards high German dialects, while Frankish was a low German dialect and so is Dutch and Limburgisch. The Dutch province of Limburg is literally 5 km away from Aachen/Aken the Frankish capital and throne of Charlemagne.

I mean.. there’s a lot of good history channels out there, so I’m always cheating. HistoryMarche is my main squeeze tho.

Not true, his own advisor Alcuin of York who later became an abbot, urged him to show leniency and favored conversion by peaceful means and persuasion instead of war. So there you have contemporary criticism, as well as no sources for what you claim to have been the origin of his nickname.

Lol Actually No, that's actually propaganda used by enlightenment thinkers to discredit Christianity amongst the common man, to turn it from a religion of peace in their eyes to a war mongering philosophy and thus increase their power and wealth in society. Infact Charlemagnes actions were highly criticized by many of his own people, it led to the Danes building a highly fortified earthen wall the entire length of southern Denmark which they maned all year long with troops for almost a century. And many historians have postulated that the age of the Vikings which started shortly after this was extra nasty to Christians precisely because of Charlemagnes actions in these campaigns as many of the first Viking raiders were the sons, daughters and grandchildren of the men and women that Charlemagne slaughtered in the name of Christianity and thus they wanted revenge. This sad fact is made even more ironic and sad because Charlemagne didn't kill all those Saxons for Christianity, he killed them to increase his power and wealth he only used Christianity as a shield to hide this fact from the common man just as our own politicians and leaders use things today like vaccine mandates and the war on terror to increase their power and wealth. It's funny and a little sad how everything changes and yet still stays the same.

@@loslobos786 The earthen wall in Denmark had been built even before Charlemagne began his conquest since Danes and Saxons weren’t really the best of friends. *According to written sources, work on the Danevirke was started by the Danish King Gudfred in 808. Fearing an invasion by the Franks. The Danes however, were also in conflict with the Saxons south of Hedeby during the Nordic Iron Age and recent archaeological excavations have revealed that the Danevirke was initiated much earlier than King Gudfred's reign, around 500 AD and probably well before that even.* And majority of historians certainly don’t think viking raids happened because Danes cared about Saxon pagans. Charlemagne’s close friend Alcuin of York did criticise him for his actions (seeing forced conversions as wrong) and Charlemagne must have listened since he removed the death penalty for many of the infractions, but Alcuin nowhere near thought Charlemagne was a butcher. But besides that, people never much cared about what Charlemagne did to the Saxons (the Saxons themselves just a century after his death would be among the ones to praise him like Widukind of Corvey who wrote deed of the Saxons). Criticism of Charlemagne’s actions didn’t appear again until the enlightenment and the beginning of German nationalism. *In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, historians generally approved of the executions of Verden, as displays of Charlemagne’s piety. During the Enlightenment this changed. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the first to suggest that Verden cast a shadow over Charlemagne's legacy. Voltaire considered the king a "thousandfold murderer", with Verden the centrepiece of his barbarism. According to Barbero, the executions of verden would be little more than a footnote in scholarship were it not for controversy in German circles due to nationalistic sentiment before and during the Nazi era in Germany.The controversy over the massacre was linked to disputes among German nationalists about the image of Charlemagne.*

@@Creativethinker12 yes the Earthen wall was being built before Charlemagne however much like the Great wall of China it was a series of fortification built by various rulers and never intended as a border wall to keep people out. It was only after Charlemagnes massacre of the Saxons that the current ruler of Denmark linked the various fortification together to form one wall, just like the first Emperor of China linked the various Chinese fortification to build one massive wall to keep out the Mongols. You should also ask yourself why would the Danes do this??? They weren't massacred right? They hated the Saxons too right?.... WRONG the Danes were allies at this time of the Saxons and thousands of there soldiers died fighting Charlemagne. Lastly as a Christian and a Soldier who has taken life myself I find it hellarious that any rational human being can see the the murder of prisoners of war as a display of Piety SMH that is a prime example of a leader using the tools of the state to justify his atrocities and quest for more power.

@@loslobos786 The Danes never really helped the Saxons (except to shelter Widukind). Besides that, the Danes didn’t do anything else. No sources from that time mention Charlemagne having to fight Danes in his battles against the Saxons so thousands of Danes certainly did not die fighting Charlemagne. There was an alliance between the Slavic pagans known as the Abodrites and Charlemagne oddly enough. The Abodrites would often help Charlemagne put down Saxon rebellions by attacking the saxons from the north and in return Charlemagne let the pagan Slavs settle in saxony. *AD 798 there was a short-lived revolt by some of the northernmost Saxons, almost certainly resisting deportation. In response Charlemagne took advantage of his alliance with the pagan Prince Drożko of the Abodrites. Together their forces crushed the rebels at the first battle of Bornhöved. Towards the end of the war, mass deportations of the northernmost Saxon populations and the handing of their ancestral homeland over to an allied, though still pagan, Slav tribe finally broke Saxon resistance.*

Basques weren't Gauls.

Thank you so much 😀

Charlemagne's forces came back though, and put the Spanish March to heel.

@@ariyoiansky291 Had I been there, after successfully achieving my targets (killing most enemies and getting back the plunder) I would have left as soon as the rest of the French army had appeared. As easy as that. No point in fighting a well trained, clearly superior army on their terms. They knew they had exploited their strategic advantage, it would have been suicidal to continue to fight. Just disappear. BTW, most local historians agree that both Muslims and elite Asturian troops also took part in the event. It would seem logical from many perspectives.

@@ariyoiansky291 where is the spanish march now?

@@Kronosaur0s It became the basis for the Kingdom of Aragon, including the Catalan Counties, Andorra and Navarre through Pamplona. They were not unified from an administrative perspective.

@WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE The whole point was attacking the army at the gorge. That's why you do it....and of course, it has been done in Spain a ton of times, as it has been done in the Alps a ton of times. Just a matter of common sense. BTW, I did not call them "Spanish" but "Spaniards". Just FYI.

Thank you very much!

Yeah, your resolution needs to be HD to read the names of the various countries and people who pop up on screen.

@@angusyang5917 Not to mention he cuts off the bottom of their portraits. And in the battle maps you can't even see those!

K&G are a cash grab, they cover a lot of subjects with the most superfluous information(mostly from Wikipedia) and pop out a high quantity of videos for revenue with no passion behind the projects.

@@dontworry9540 For some reason they just suddenly stopped one of their most popular series last year (Ottoman wars). Hope they continue them, along with Napoleon.

No, hes right, HistoryMarche has a better one

being in the Commonwealth we get the Brit historical perspective in school, form my grandpa all the way to me. We'd rarely get the complete story. I'd be pretty choked if the "other guy" decided that wrecking villages and farmland and for good last measure, my Capital, was his "Right". Particularly since it seemed unprovoked. The Swiss did the same thing 500 years later on a lakeside road to a bunch of Knights. That didn't end well, either.

Robbers robbing to another robbers. Robin Hood.

The visigoths and frank learned very early on that the basques didn't take kindly to either of them, which lead to numerous raids in both ways (in and out of the basque lands)

Ancient/medieval morals were simply belligerent, very hard to think someone was right or wrong with our todays culture. If you had the bigger army, then it'd be all about going around killing, pillaging, making tributary/levy vassals and getting richier until someone with either a bigger army or enough wits would depose you.

Can anyone say Islam? The intellectual cowardice on display is truly staggering.

More to come eventually! Great to see you here as always KHK

I'm gonna watch all your video now

Thanks for the visit

Thank you sir.

Thank you for sticking with me on this long journey!

Thank you so much 😀

Glad you enjoyed it! Always great to see you in the comment section.

@@HistoryMarche No problem! :)

@علي ياسر huh?

@علي ياسر basque are not spanish and for sure never have been muslims

@@obiwankenobi2083 us basques are very much Spanish, just not Castilian.

@@bromomento3950 well is a complex topic. I will not contradict you, but a good portion of your goverment and people like the catalunian want to be indipendent and exit spanish goverment and ETA fight for this as well. You can say now you want to exit castillan rule, so it is a little confusing for me..

@@obiwankenobi2083 of course, and it's because they've been brainwashed by the same who want and have always wanted to see all spanish peoples weak and destitute. The problem doesn't originate with Spain itself, but rather the spanish state. if you look up the carlist wars in the 19th century those were wars to retain the autonomy us basques had always had, and had recently been stripped by the new government.

Thank you for watching.

It depends on what kind of plants you have on offer.

@@HistoryMarche man, basques in that ambush gained so more wealth ...what a smart tactic they made...it's like cutting the head of the golden snake ..."you destroyed our wall of the city , then you must pay for it!"