You've got the descriptions for the armies that fought at Cannae mixed up. Hannibal's army was composed of veterans, mercenaries and allies, all of which had significant experience in battle. The Roman army on the other hand was a mass of recruits with little training. This is what allowed Hannibal's strategy to work, his men held line against overwhelming odds.

"Yeah, I was in that battle. Bloodiest battle of that whole war..." "You mean the one where a bunch of armed, drunken hooligans took things too far and spent the night killing their allies and friends?" ".... yes. But that was _incredible_ schnapps."

Alternative video title: "Austrian army sufferes worst hangover in military history"

The Malayan Campaign and the eventual Fall of Singapore needs to be here.

If you look up Hannibal's forces armory and weaponry at the battle of Cannae, you'll quickly find out they were much better equipped than what this video gives you credit. Being bolstered 1/3 by gauls, the 2/3 remaining forces were advance mercenaries who had outfit with metal gear very similar to the Greeks.

Worth noting that the battle of Dien Bien Phu lasted almost 2 months, and was such a crushing defeat, that one of the French commanders committed suicide in his bunker

If the Kamchatka doesn't make an appearance in this, I'm hurling my binoculars into the sea.

F1's ability to move all of the people and equipment from Istanbul, Turkey, to Austin Texas in 2 weeks.

I like the new beard blaze ad read. More focused.

Loved it Simon, that was great.

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Battle of cannae 5:15 - Chapter 2 - 1st day of the somme offensive 1916 7:55 - Chapter 3 - Dien bien phu 11:25 - Chapter 4 - The battle of karansebes

The most epic side project is Simon's beard

But wait there´s more... I hope you do another one of these, my favourite is the "Journey of the Damned"

Hey, Simon! You should absolutely have an episode of SideProjects on the domestication experiment on foxes that was disguised as a fur farming effort to keep Soviet Russian Officials from blacklisting the scientist!

The Romans were still a republic at the time of Cannae. Though they did have an empire.

Every time you do a topic like this, I wish you would give Gallipoli the Legendary Simon Whistler treatment. Thanks!

This is one of my favourite episodes from this channel

What about the epic military blunder of Australia vs emus?

love this channel and your others.

No Emu war? Though to be fair, the entire war was a blunder.

Good video 👍

As General Jan Smuts (one of five permanent War Cabinet members) put it, much of WW1 was about keeping the UK in the war - forcing the UK out of the war would have meant a German victory and german domination of Europe. German subs were in Belgium ports of Nieupoort(??), Ostend and Zeebrugge just 50 km from the English Channel supply lines keeping the UK in the western front war. The UK Navy could not get close enough to damage the subs in port. It was up to the Army to take the ports to remove the threats to its supply lines. Sitting back waiting for the Germans to attack was seen as a risky war losing strategy. While the UK was aggressive and sometimes ill prepared and losing more troops, and not gaining much ground, it was staying in the war. Eventually the Germans ran out of troops and it was over. While the heaviest resourced theatre, the western front was one of ten fronts on which the UK fought the war. In one way, the five member UK war cabinet was fighting the Germans and everybody under their command were just pawns in the war. For several years, Smuts, for example, was the war cabinet member who chaired the army-navy-airforce committee that decided the number of each type of aircraft that would go to each command and directed the aircraft manufacturers as to the volumes of each aircraft to produce.

The battle of the Somme achieved it's primary goal. Relieving pressure on the French at the battle of Verdun.

More Simon More!!!

dont forget about that ludicrous display "the long night" from GoT

If there's ever a follow-up, make sure to include the Battle of Adwa.

Lol those last 2 were funny 😂😂

Great video

I like the random topics on sideprojects, varied

The battle of the Somme was also diverting from the offense against the offence against the German on that of Verdun. The British New army was a very long way from considering from being even remotely ready for combat, being newly raised and barely trained. This does not detract from their gallantry but there are more factors to consider...

Simon, you certainly have style 👏👏👏

Hell Yeah, gimme those facts!

Everyone loves a good blunder. But I would love a video on The Big Thompson Water Project in Colorado. That would be awesome!!!

Upcomming part2. The failed conquest of Simons beard is the worst military blunder😁

Nice

Me : Only men have beards. Aunt Marge: Hold my beer.

'Nam wasn't a total loss. 'Nam had PEAK asthetics and jams. The only jams the war in Afghanistan had were the Linkin Park Discography and "Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the FLAAAAAAA-!"

Totally saved beadblaze into my bookmarked pages. I will be a customer soon.

There's been a far more recent one than any of those.

Video topic: Bradley fighting vehicle There was actually a movie about it (pentagon wars) about how ridiculous its development was.

That last "Battle": "Alcohol was involved." Yikes!

The charge of the light brigade comes to mind

Love how business/brain blaze is so interchangeable..

I cannot imagine the field after that Battle of Cannae. 100,000 dead , all from swords and spears. It would’ve been a lake of blood

That citrus blaze is amazing!

Not a bad one Simon..... not bad at all.

The KZfaq channels called The Great War and World War II are fantastic and they cover the battle Of the Somme.

Can you do an episode on the Smithsonian on here or on Megaprojects?

It’s insane to even comprehend 1,000,000 casualties in a single battle. Hell on earth

Ha business blaze still getting mentioned on Simon's other channels.

Invading Belgium in 1914. It removes the reason for Britain entering the war.

If you do a followup, you should cover Gallipoli.

One of my ancestors died at the Somme.

The Battle of the Hurtgen Forrest should be here. It was one of the most savage battles of the World War 2 western front. Over 33,000 American soldiers were killed in an ineptdly conceived plan that made no sense. Sending troups into a densly wooded forrest with virtually no clear paths and a well armed and entrenced enemy was suicide. If you have never heard of this battle, I suggest you read about it.

Holy shit man the last few sentences in the bit about the Battle of Somme were crazy. Those are some truly insane statistics.

Kinda missed out on a super weird footnote of history with Dien Bien Phu; the Japanese were still present in the area after WW2, and in some respects set up the conflict due to some pretty complex politicking/coup de etats. To the point where Allied personnel were welcomed and guarded by fully armed IJA soldiers and Viet Minh because the Japanese had disarmed and interned the Vichy French rulers of Indochina before the Japanese surrender. There was also a decent amount, (like, almost a battalion or two) of Japanese soldiers who stayed behind in Vietnam to train and fight with the Viet Minh against the French... It would be pretty difficult, but maybe it would make a cool side project topic, "You thought WW2 ended cleanly after Japan's surrender?" and you look at all the super messy logistical/cold war problems of moving occupying troops around, dealing with collaborators, etc... A thought.

Simon: "I don't have grey beard hair, it's blonde!" Me: "Yeah, but is it though? Those close-ups look pretty grey to me."

Epic military blunders - ww1

With the Roman vs Hannibal battle....you missed much of the psychological fun part. Where Hannibal played off the two Roman consuls to specifically fight the one he wanted. The younger one who he knew was aggressive and believed in his superior numbers would win the day and was hungry for glory and a strong heavy forward strike. So Hannibal played to that, Hannibal started the fight squared up and had his center fall back and his cavalry move up the sides in order to create his envelopment where he could squeeze and slaughter the Roman forces, many of whom were not as well trained as normal Roman legions as they has been hastily assembled while Fabius used, well, Fabian tactics (how that trick got its name) to buy Roman time to get a large army set up.

Battle of Karansebes Ottoman army: Hey guys, what's going on in... *sees devastation of the Austrian army* Ottoman army: ¯\(◉‿◉)/¯

About the 1st day of the Battle of the Somme. The British military authorities putting freshly trained voluntary civilians online for this battle, thought that if they were told to run during the assault, these troops would flee in all directions. The fire resistance of the British troops can only come after years of training. So these young men were instructed to attack enemy trenches marching at the speed of a military parade. It goes without saying that in the opposite trenches the Germans appreciated having more time to aim. this detail of the "marching attack" contributed greatly to the disaster of the day.

Can you do a Biographics on Simon Whistler? Must be holding a few records for YT by now right

You are so good, that it is difficult to skip over your adds, in which I get duped into hearing your rant that I will be Inevitably Stockholm Syndromed into paying for... help me. I have a Simon problem/solution.

as you have said on many occasion "the past is the worst"

How about a video about the french submarine Surcouf?

I'm fully expecting the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War to make it on this.

Simon you need to either update your ad read for Beard Blaze or get through the backlog of videos from your other channels that don't call your channel Brain Blaze

Gypsy Schnapps will get you every time

I feel that I need to let you know of one glaring problem I've found with Beard Blaze, I don't have a beard.

Not sure if this was just something that didn't make it in, but General Howe in the American Revolution also super messed up. Then again, it wasn't one specific battle, unless you're talking about Saratoga.

That beard.

The vietminh were so bad ass soldiers. Like for real. Bringing artillery on top of mountains throught thick forests with zero truck or machine to help em... hardcore.

Are the ingredients of Beard Blaze flammable?

I was laughing at the last story, about the people fighting over booze. Then I remembered that Pearl Harbor basically went down how it did because everyone had been out on the town and missed all the early warning reports. That’s a part of the story everyone would like to forget.

Not the Roman Empire in the battle of cannae, it was a republic at that time and for another 200 years. Kind of important distinction

If you put all the videos on shuffle you can tell what year it was made by the length of Simons beard. All time should be measured by this standard... 'dinosaurs? Oh they was 137 million Simons beards ago'.

One should be called beaver juice.

Just pointing out that by the 2nd Punic War Rome was not using the Phalanx and had switched to the Maniple sometime during the Samnite wars.

Woohoooo

You forgot the "battle" of may island, that was quite a tragedy

So, when do we get a Sydney Opera House video????

"When a girl says, 'It's a good size,' that's just a nice way of saying it's small." -Rene, "Mallrats" (Kevin Smith film) j/k 😉

Haha The Battle of Cannae was only a Military, "Blunder," for the Roman Legions going up against Hannibal "Battle of the Bastards"-style lol for Hannibal, on the other hand, it effectively secured his immortality with his tactics against the perpetually better armed and provisioned Roman soldiers going on to be discussed for the next couple millennia, and even taught at Military Academies around the World until the present day.

The Somme was not a failure on the strategic level as is it did it's purpose of reliving pressure off the French near Verdun.

What about Napoleons 3 month road trip to Moscow?

i really like the story of Operation Cottage, where the US suffered 313 casualties fighting against no one. (the enemy retreated in the middle of the night).

Believe it or not my seamstress was there as a child.

Men, War and Alcohol do not mix!!

You really need a shirt that says, "The past was the worst"

well the first day of the somme was pretty sucessful for the french, they achived almost all of their objectives, mostly because they had much larger amounts of heavy artillery avaliable, the big problem for the french was the fact they were unable to exploited to greater advantage their success.

You forgot to mention that nearly 30% of British shells fired during The Somme were duds. Also, British Artillery wasn't very good at this time.

Cannea was not a blunder Hannibal showed them everything that they wanted to see laying an ambush in plain sight. And the core of his army were basically professional killers.

You now what did fail? Syrians who wanted to pour water on their crops. But the Big Thompson Water Project helped a couple of farmers with water. Love to see a video on that. Just before our government nationalizes water supply.

The video starts at 1:05

"the French and English doubled down..." the somme was fought by the British Empire, not just England. Being Scottish, that coming with an English accent was particularly painful!! And Im not one of those wankers who love to point out mistakes - I just couldnt let that one go. FFFFFFRRRREEEEDOM!!!!!!!!!

the great schnapps rebellion

I’m pretty sure that beard blazed used Simmons head for there logo

I wonder if the people who pulled the "I told you so!!!" out of their bag were shot for being right? :P

Great episode as ever. You missed the charge of the Light Brigade!

The number of deaths throughout history caused by alcohol must be truly astounding. Although it is absolutely dwarfed by the number of bafflingly idiotic and tragic things that have occurred because if it.