I'm sure someone has already asked this, but in the intro, the gun shot near the end where something is seen to burst from the turret- any idea what is going on there? It seems like the canvas cover around the gun ruptured. If this is a FAQ, please forgive me.

Could Japan have made landings in India to bypass Burma during WW2?

Source of the thumbnail pic? Thanks a lot.

In the unlikely scenario that the United States and Canada were on opposite sides of World War One, what would Great Lakes naval buildup and fighting look like if it went on several years? Does Canada, even assuming British backing, stand any chance?

Do you think Popov's rounded ships could have had promise if that line of thinking had been more thoroughly explored? The Livadia's problems seem to have come more from her flat bottom then her rounded design, and her stability and maneuverability didn't come at the cost of speed or efficiency. If the answer is no, are there any other unorthodox ship design ideas from the end of the nineteenth century that could have held promise, but never took off?

Problem is the bullies historically had plenty of boot to kick yo ass. Stand them down at your own Risk.

If you want peace, prepare for war.

@@mitchellhawkes22 And historically paying them off only ironed their boot so they could kick yo ass harder. Many an Empire was brought to the brink by subsidizing their neighbors' militarization.

Seems like people did just fine paying them off though, by and large, and maybe they were right to shy from outright invading and attempting to build friendly new nations.

@@tieck4408 What kind of utterly cuckolded way of thinking is this? "Yes, it's just fine we're paying these people who are attacking us and taking our people into slavery just so they don't attack us for a little bit - you know, until they do it again and demand more tribute". Tribute is what weak states pay to strong states, not the other way around. Those that attack you deserve your ire, those that _take your people into bondage_ deserve nothing less than complete eradication. Everything beyond that is a mercy you afford them out of the benevolence of your heart.

Who says Decatur won't have his own video at some point? :D

Agree. Everyone from Philly is fed the whole story at a young and impressionable age, Ask me how I know.

@@Drachinifel I would really like to see your recounting of this story. It is pretty epic.

@@Glo00n Hi five from a former resident of Sydney.

The destruction of the Philadelphia and the marines at derna were both amazing stories to me when I was a teenager. The fledgling new USA with all it's political bickering and lack of money actually built up naval forces to try to do something about the pirates across the Atlantic, at a time when the European powers seemed content to pay tribute, hard to believe... between that and the quasi-war the us finally realized it had to maintain some sort of navy, like it or not. I vaguely remember reading years ago that one of the rulers told the Americans this is our way of doing things and the Koran justifies it because you are unbelievers lol

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Also, get bitch-slapped with a fly whisk, proceed to invade and occupy a country for over a century.

@Andreas Glad It's the same thing if your terms are "fkn die already"

Starboard batteries, in ripples, from the fore, FIRE AS SHE BEARS! Or, in the words of a fictional warship captain 30'000years later: *"FIRE THE URSUS CLAWS"*

Royal Navy is paid by the people. Call it the People's Navy?

Somewhat ironic as many of the Icelanders ancestors were Vikings and not above piracy.

I remember reading something when I was a teenager and seeing a reference to Iceland being raided by barbary pirates, I was shocked but other sources online also mentioned it. I think that was back in their heyday or golden age around 16th and 17th centuries, I think in later times as in this video they weren't going up there anymore but were still very problematic around Mediterranean

That would be Murat Rais, spelling optional. Actually a Dutchman who conveniently converted to Islam. Also occupied the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel. Supposedly an ancestor of Humphrey Bogart and Jacky Kennedy.

@@bigblue6917 Nobody is above piracy.

@@brianensign7638 to paraphrase one man's privateer is another man's pirate

Everyone was at it at the time, the Turks and Europeans both hated each other as slavers. The abolition of Slavery by Britain was globally revolutionary.

Seldom spoken about? More like never spoken or talked about, mainly because we live in a time that everything is, somehow, America’s fault. Slavery? America started that. Sadly a lot of teachers don’t know this and are busy spinning a b.s. narrative. Personally history should be taught completely, not fitting one narrative or the other. Hell all subjects should taught that way. Sorry fir the mini rant.

@@tarn1135 slavery is the oldest business of man, predating metal. America has done many things wrong, but I don't think they are to blame for this one. And if you mean the Atlantic slave trade, it would probably be the Spanish, though everyone else immediately followed suit.

@@josephlongbone4255 You're 100% correct, however in many American schools (because of politics) slavery is taught as a western invention & the worst perpetrator is the USA. It's bull, but it is what is taught.

@@josephlongbone4255 Its kinda amazing how bad your comment is and that 3 people were ignorant enough to like it. Most of the Europe abolished slavery few centuries before the British made the decision to do it. So first part about "everyone was at it at the time" is a false statement as majority of Europe were not at it for a very long time. My country in the midle of Europe abolished it over a century before America was disovered and betwen that and the period you are talking here about we got plenty of wars with Turks... So the second part is just some attempt by you to project your almost complete ignorance of geography onto Turks. The third part is a false statement because British empire was not the centre of the world and the whole slavery bussines was more and more economically unjustified for British so even for them it was not a revolution but simply an evolution and industrial revolution was the main reson for it. You need to hire educated people to operate complex machines, you would need to provide food, home and cloths but also an education and then to protect that investment you would need to provide medication/treatment to your slave... so hiring a normal citizen was simply cheaper!

Jefferson was Governor of Virginia when the British invaded during the Revolutionary War... He absolutely agreed that they had to build up a military force to protect themselves, but then continually found excuses NOT to raise money to support this military force.

Sounds like he'd do well today.

Remember this the next time someone tries to tell you the founding fathers were genius who made the best government ever.

@@blastermanr6359 I can imagine a few that I know who might stop blindly worshipping him if you told them he was in favor of defunding the military...

@@andrewgause6971 defend the the military. Don't you have to fund it first

And today is called a business model for Amazon and Uber.

@@delurkor spot on

Nah, not likely but attrition rate must have been high because of sanitary issues.

@@808bigisland No , it was a deliberate policy , row them to death and get some more , whole regions in the Mediterranean coast were depopulated , slaving raids was the most profitable source of income for the Barbary coast pirates ,some were ransomed some were sold some were worked to death

That was a commmon practice that was used by almost all the mediteranian countries. Since the day the galley was invented. Most rowers did not do so voluntary its a shit job lol.

From the halls of montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. And that’s all I remember

"We Fight Our Countries Battles on the land, in air and sea."

They fight for Crayons

@Christopher Ridle, Quite picky, about details. One example, I left out some "colorful loud language" Two Highly motivated Drill Instructors at the same time explaining that recruit's lack of attention to certain details perhaps was a failing on their part that would be squared away right now, if it took until recruits enlistment was up.

Who cares lol

Yes he crucified them

Wherever you have a reliable presence of merchant shipping, you will have pirates. It’s a fact of all maritime shipping, through all time

@@Deadxman616 good man, understood how to speak pirate.

The Roman Caesar did his share of piracy, Although it was mostly land based piracy. The riches of Rome funded by the looting of his victims. Nations and cities even had to pay tribute tax to Rome under the threat of the sword. Real nice guy that Caesar dude is, yeah?

Pompey organized several fleets and systematically swept the whole Mediterranean and destroyed over 1300 pirate vessels in the summer of 66. He ended up resettling a whole bunch of them because he recognized the problem of desperation.

So now everyone knows USA first war abroad wasn't in Central America, or south America. The old new reliable, the Middle East.. Over 200 years ago.

@@declanfitzpatrick6747 technically speaking North Africa is not in the Middle East, or even particularly close

How can the grips be made of ivory? Certainly they switched to a replacement material.

@@gobblox38 as he stated, it's the pattern for the current Marine officer's sword. It's no longer ivory, just as the blade is no longer fighting sharp. The original Mameluke sword belonged to the Pasha of Tripoli, and was presented to Presley O'Bannon when the Marines deposed the Pasha's brother, who had wrongfully usurped the throne. So says the legend, anyway. Semper Fidelis.

When you geek over a dead painters colour choices of a single painting they did , almost certainly without references......He was a marine, and wounded... (sucker and loser for sir Mr still our president),

HD should be available soon :)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

What was the big motivator for raiding non-Islamic states after 700 AD? Yeah, the infidel at best deserves slavery as taught in the Koran, the most evil book in history. Slavers still operate today where the evil regime of Satan's servant Mohammed reigns. If there is no profit, then death to the infidel. The founder of the most evil religion ever was killed by a slave whose family he had murdered. Mohammed's punishments in Hell are multiplied the more his evil teachings spread. Accursed is Mohammed and his vile evil teachings, murderer, pedophile oath breaker and enslaving liar. Vile, evil, wicked filth of the Devil. But then, what do I know, maybe he was a nice guy who loved dogs like Hitler did.

Rome needed 400,000 new slaves every year to sustain itself.

@@magnacarta9364 Wow.

@@MountainFisher lmao I love the idiotic anti Islamic comments in the comment section that are always hiding in these types of videos 🤦🏾‍♂️😂 I know some cringe weirdo is gonna be like “he’s right though” 🤮. A bunch of colonialist and imperialists apologists everywhere these days

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USS Enterprise also took part of the war of 1812 and engaged against the HMS Boxer and captured her. Let's make sure history never forgets the name... Enterprise! - Jean-Luc Picard

:-) I'm a USS Enterprise vet. Served on her almost 5 years. Never involved in any wars though, but my ship was involved in the Vietnam war before my time. I'm happy a new one will be built. It's got quite the legacy.

@@jimmym3352 I very recently saw the cvn-65. So sadly to see it sitting there.

@Israel Hands yeah we, Americans, stole the HMS Enterprize from the Brits in revolutionary war. Well Benedict Arnold and his soldiers did and they were Americans so it still fits, and we Americans made Enterprise not only a legend but a name of honor for all. Btw there’s no such thing as American words. We speak English here, well some or most of us do. Regardless it matters not where a word originated.

ABSOLUTELY! LOL...All those times I heard someone say "Morrocco was the first nation to recognize the USA"... Well, I guess now I got a reply to them lol.

meanwhile, the British Empire: No taxation, no escort for navigation.

Doesn't the line go "Nice ship youse got der, to bad if sumin happened to it."

@@MarkVrem Morroco: "Nice nation you got there ... Now give me your money!"

@@CanalTremocos And then the US built a navy and marine corps, and proceeded to reject the Barbary States' tribute system and kick the Barbary States' ass.

No no! Not a sixpence!

@@BlindMansRevenge2002 Or a Franc!

@@bjturon Two things to consider about France. 1. Their most famous and most feared armed forces are made up by foreigners. 2. The first question the officer corps is taught to ask is "Can we surrender yet?

@@Proudmale Third thing the english were defeated by the French in Europe and America, washington was defeated by them in 1754 and your country wouldn't exist without French army

Interesting frog history ​@@niksarass

It's taught because that's what's relevant to American history. Why should Americans learn about other people being enslaved?

@@YasukeKomiya White Americans enslaved in Africa, ok nothing to learn here. back to the approved syllabus, masks on.

This old lie won't die. US students are taught about all sorts of slaves.

@@YasukeKomiya africans want 'their' history. Here it is, 18million slaves taken by Islam. Men castrated and women primarily for sex. Black slave traders were very wealthy. I understand why you'd want to ignore those parts. Efunroye Tinubu, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo and Mansa Musa are just some being of your hidden history. Black skinned people are probably the most lied to people on earth. By everyone.

@@YasukeKomiya Americans were enslaved by the pirates.

Chippy.

as a brit, that has not been my experience. the british are happy to let bygones be bygones and get on with addressing the furtherance of the common good. if anyone has a chip on their shoulder that they refuse to put down, its the americans. at least, thats how it looks from where i stand. if we hate anyone its the french! and thats only because its traditional lol. britian (and england in particular) has been around too long to hold grudges anymore.

I'm not surprised there is a difference of opinion here. Waiting for a couple of yanks to steam up in support.

@@ropeburnsrussell ill put the kettle on. tea?

@@viridisxiv766 Beer?

NORTH AFRICA NEVER ENSLAVED EUROPEANS

Nope you spain lost the war ?

They wrote a whole book on their European historical whitewashing lies---the so called "Barbary" are the term they used for the European born and expelled Moors, Africans, Jews and Muslims, who were still seething from the expulsions from Europe, that they literally took-over the entire Mediterranean sea board and parts of the coastal Atlantic, as restitution ---on the other hand the reconquista, had already metastasized into full board conquest, SLAVERY and colonialism, and that was the backdrop of the so called treaty of Tripoli...

Just because your a pirate does not mean you can't look good.

I thought the Barbery Pirates would take ships and give the crews new haircuts.

excellently funny"

I'm sure they've been on the cover of Vogue circa 1690 🤣

@@colbypupgaming1962 Barbering is a cutthroat business

Propaganda

​@@youarealooser121truth

Putting down such a wide-spread issue is difficult on the tactical level, a painful slog strategicaly and a logistical nightmare. There was a lot of coastline, many fortified harbours and hiding places and lots of Hinterland to cut and run to if the shit hit the fan. Putting the Barbary Pirates down for good would have required a complete subjugation of the entire nort african coast and effectively indefinete occupation. Not fun. Playing a prolonged game of whack-a-mole was often the best they could do given the strategic situation.

Yes and it is still happening in one way or another. Pan Am #103 comes to mind.

@@Bird_Dog00 Yeah, but there's playing whack-a-mole and then there's building them more warships by way of tribute than you're currently building for your own navy.

@@Ensign_Cthulhu That's the US Govt. Your original Comment was about european powers.

@@Bird_Dog00 Were they still under the nominal protection of the Ottoman Empire? There's always the risk that this protection would be more than nominal if they pushed too far.

Aka: Charlie don't surf.

Good luck trying to do that while your neighbours wage war on you every couple of years. The Barbary states survived so long because they were a minor inconvenience compared to the very real threat of other Europeans. Send your army to occupy northern Africa and some neighbour will send his army to you, thus the Barbary states continued on and on.

AKA Carthago Delenda Est

I was unaware landlocked Afghanistan was engaged in piracy on the high seas

Unfortunately now when the pirate ships are taken, as soon as the captured pirates are put aboard a NATO vessel, they then make an asylum claim. I think the RN was ordered not even to arrest pirates to avoid this.

Why so rude to Algerians?

That's because it's not a ethnic past-time, but a geographical and economic one.

actually behaviors like these are ethnic. If you live in a ethnic society that puts up with criminality, disrespect of others, greed, and such, well you will get a lot of bad things like piracy, but the ethnic group it springs from does not see it as being bad, to them, immoral as it maybe to us, there ethnic culture says it is acceptable behavior.

if the pandemic goes on shipping will grind to a halt, there wont be any targets for the pirates.

@@dave8599 You're saying this from your eurocentric view. You realise that Europeans, Americans, were doing slavery at a larger, more brutal scale than the Barbary Coast? You realise that America was continuing its genocide of the natives at the same time? You realise the most extreme estimate of slaves taken by the entire Barbary coast over 300 hundred years is 10 percent of that of the atlantic slave trade? If the Barbary coast were barbarians, the western world were demons.

I'm wondering if "Berber" comes from the Greek "Barbarian", meaning "somebody who says bar bar", aka literally anyone who wasn't Greek (Or Roman, once Rome had invaded Greece).

@@dylantowers9367 Yeah I think it is. What is also a fun fact in amazigh the language of the berbers europeans are called Arome wich i know comes from Rome.

@@zekbaker4727 because it's not about slavery at all

You're treading on the delicate feelings of The Religion of Peace. The alleged history, of taking Slaves from both Europe and Sub Saharan Africa, is surely just a conspiracy theory.

Muslim, there I said it for you! To Hell with the modern fascists, their cancel culture and their assorted despots in DC and in gewgle.

No, Algerie Pirates: We are the strongest and we don't care about anyone come. You cross the line, u will be demolish

@@akbeh Royal Navy: *Proceeds to utterly murder the Barbary States with maliscious intent*.

@@Duke_of_Petchington facts expect in 16th century they murdered Europeans to 1600s to 1700s

Colonialism in a nutshell.

Indeed, there are a lot of people who seem to think the only slave trade was the 'Triangle Trade' between West Africa and the Americas. There's also one odd consequence of the Barbary Pirate era not covered. Testemonials were often used to raise money to free female slaves taken to North Africa, over time these testimonials became part of the stock of tales used by contemporary romance novelists. Every time you see a Mills & Boon type novel where the romantic male lead is a sheik, that's where it came from.

You mean "We'll pay you tribute and build you warships so you can pirate even more." USA was quite a dumpster of failed politicians in those times.

Great Civil Religious Revolution-War and especially if Zemmour election occur in 2022

You noticed that too

“And then a minute passed…..”

He does do enough research to make it semi-historical doesn't he?

It's mostly because the US government in this period is so absolutely dysfunctional you have to laugh or cry. Say what you will about Congress these days but at least the pro-war people generally also vote for military budgets and vice-versa. It takes a special kind of stupid to advocate for both war AND not having a navy like Jefferson did. :D

@drachinifel In watching this, the more I learn and research about Thomas Jefferson, the more I become convinced that he was less a brilliant Statesman and more just a particularly gifted orator that was in the right place to write a particularly moving and important document at the right time, and the less I feel that the U.S. should revere him...to say nothing of the *other* things we've learned about the man in the last 30 odd years...

@@andrewgause6971 I must admit that writing that all men are born equal while keeping slaves has led me to the same conclusion

Did the Americans really ask for British naval support? That is the dumbest thing I ever did hear.

@@stevenmajor9513 If I had been President I would have immediately allied myself with the revolutionary French government and started building ships, lots and lots of super frigates and ships of the line. Trafalgar wouldn't have happened. Vive la République ! Do you want a guillotine in Piccadilly that says "Made in the USA!"

He doesn't have a clue - thinks "Berber" was an indigenous word (!), and clearly has a certain shall we say 'euro-centric' (a bit racist possibly?) bias.

Revenge is brutal. However, the Europeans did not depopulate entire coastal areas. By the 1840s the Barbary pirates were doomed, technology and the world had overtaken them, soon steam power, shells and steel armour would have obliterated them.

@@inesalguien3454 I actually did not know Berber was not an indigenous word either to be fair (Wikipedia says it actually roots from the Greek word for barbarian). As to the bias, you have to remember that Drach is basing his information off English language naval texts as well as the few Spanish and Italian sources which have been translated which understandably do not exactly portray the Maghreb in the best light. Genuine question, but are there any books on Moroccan or Algerian naval history in English? Which actually use Arab and Berber sources?

@@benlewis4241 Thanks for your honest and open-minded message. You see, I have no problem at all with anybody not knowing the origin of the English (anglicised Greek) word ‘Berber’. Nobody can know everything and everybody doesn't know about some things. That's fine. What I do have a major problem with, on the other hand, is when somebody claims to know the history and spreads clearly racially biased (sorry but that’s just a fact) nonsense as “history” and MAKES MONEY with that and builds himself a large platform - resulting in influencing many people who are not familiar with that history and are highly unlikely to do the research themselves. It makes his proclaimed “opinions” on history not just opinions of some guy in the pub having a chat or whatever. I have no idea what Moroccan or Algerian naval history books in English exist, if any. (Also, they all wouldn’t be written in Moroccan or Algerian Arabic but in Fusha - artificial “Arabic” which is very different and which ordinary people don’t speak in their daily lives, meaning only elites having real access, including Orientalists/racists in Europe and North America etc. Add to that possibly falsifications in English translations - as happens constantly.) But if you make claims about history (not you - him and people like him) than you don’t just have a quick look at *naval history* books (in whatever language) but research as widely as possible and from as many different sources as possible. Anybody who has studied history and understands anything about history knows that. Some KZfaqr making claims presenting it as “truth” or “facts” and “history”, should also know this. As to “naval history books” per se …almost all “naval history” or any other form of “war history” books are by their very nature right-wing distortions of truth and fact, mostly written by the “victors” (currently authors in the so-called “West”). Because it tends to be myopic, biased right-wingers - defenders of the vicious, perverted system of exploitation and wars - who tend to fixate on nationalist nonsense about who won which war and when etc. - instead of a more rounded and genuine history of ordinary peoples in whatever region. The true history of North Africa is one of being a victim of colonialist occupation, aggressions and exploitation. For many centuries, even millennia. But also a history of proud, brave peoples defending themselves and struggling for their independence and a better life through the ages. The history of those pirates is far more complex than all those racist wannabe (fake) historians want everyone to believe. And btw many of those “Berber pirates” were actually EUROPEANS - including English ones, such as for example the famous Captain Jack Ward. Anyways, nice ‘talking’ to you. Take care. :-)

Portugal and Malta only started doing that after the Barbary states started enslaving Europeans.

Karma for vikings lmao

Facts

I'd guess: very brief surprised piccachu face...

Phaser and photon torpedo bombardment from orbit was even more of a shock.

I'd have loved to have seen Ark Royal get stuck in. Swordfish were capable of dive-bombing...

Iceland was founded by Vikings and the people they enslaved in the 9th century. What goes round.......

Great film. But not much of priâtes more of the Barbary warriors on the land.

I suspected that was where the word Berber was derived from. IIRC, "bar bar" was originally Greek for "literally anyone who wasn't born Greek". It later expanded to "literally anyone who isn't Greek or Roman" only after Rome conquered Greece. The KZfaqr Metatron covers a lot of Roman stuff and has a video on the subject. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n6yUl8yrt7C2dWQ.html

Derka derka

It means bearded and was originally used to describe the Germanic tribes. The Berbers were originally Germanic and later became a mixed Islamic race. The Moors, vandals, and Normans were also originally Germanic tribes that invaded north Africa..

@abdennour O Numidians were the mixed race Berbers.They were originally Germanic or Scythian dependig on how far you want to go back..

Wrong, barbare from berbère

Agreed. I lol-ed to the title.