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Then why did no other nation use a grey-blue uniform?🤔

@@Briselance Austria and China did during WW2.

Austria had very blue uniforms.

@@Briselance Austria-Hungary started off with one, officially called Hechtgrau or "pike grey", although some cavalry initially wore brightly coloured uniforms including red breeches. Hechtgrau was found to be unsuited to the Eastern Front and in 1915 a gradual change to field grey like German uniforms came in.

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Maybe it looks great but it looks greater for german machineguns who easly targeted them, I will never understand the french obsession with blue

Fr, but german uniform goes hard, too. Trenchcoat, all gray and badass helmet with "devil" horns.

I agree that the French uniform has something iconic and beautiful. But personally, I prefer the German ones; the iconic "field grey" (a mix of green and grey) in early war with red stripes, combining modern camouflage (that the French obviously hadn't) and remains of the older times. Later of course, field grey tunic, stone grey breeches and the incredible "Stahlhelm", that unfortunately became infamous in WW2...

Yo so we can blend in- With the sky...

Bleu la couleur des franc-maçon. La France pays des franc-maçon

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It makes no sense for people to criticize the French as if they were the only ones who wore colorful uniforms at the beginning of the war. Almost all nations also wore colorful uniforms at the beginning of the war. The perspective of war in the 19th century was the same for everyone, and in these wars the uniform still only had the purpose of symbolism. The Austro-Hungarian Empire even wore uniforms that were red, blue and white, which were even more eye-catching than the French uniforms. The Kingdom of Hungary used fully traditional Hussar Charges, with bright colors and the use of bright gold.

There were experiments before the war with "reseda green" uniforms for the French army but they came to nothing.

@@stevekaczynski3793 Before WWI France, that may be ironic for some, was one of the countries that put more thougth and work on camouflage and new uniforms. The Reseda was ready but political and other things came in his way. So in late 1914 they have a lot of experience and designs ready, the problem was that the industry was now not ready for certain desings because of the mobilization and the lack of certain dyes, the horizon blue was the best they could, and ''Moutarde'' (mustad color) for the colonial troops, but the uniform was more modern and the Adrian was the first mass produced modern helmet. In a few months the french soldiers get one of the biggest change in gear of the war.

hello, not also on the ww1, the most : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

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"The French were also in the war "... Yes, 1400 000 dead french soldiers remember it .

@@oiseaudeminerve1478 I cant stand the "internet trolls" that states that the french are cowards...They where the ones who had to teach the Yanks when they entered the war.. Otherwise the US would have repeated 1914 all over again.

Also? You mean mainly?

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During the american civil war, uniforms were inspired by the french uniform.

The french army uniforms barely changed between the 1870s and 1914, because there wasn't a lot of war the army got involved in during this time (most of the wars were colonizing and were fought by the Navy's infantry, except for the conquest of Madagascar), and also because the public opinion liked this uniform and when the Headquarters tried to modernise it in the late 1900s/early 1910s there was an immense backlash. You can look for the 1903 "Boër" uniform, which was a dark shade of blue-grey inspired from the Boërs "uniforms" the british were fighting at that time, we don't know for sure why it was not adopted, and for the more famous 1911 grey-green "Réséda" uniform, which appeared first in a quite large scale during the 1911 military exercizes but caused a huge backalsh and was then scrapped.

@@didierpaya9069 and there ya go. Didn't know that, thanks.

@@didierpaya9069indeed, the French were seen as a military gold standard, until the Germans bested them and stole the title. Civil War Zouaves bear an uncanny resemblance to the Frenchman of 1914, down to the red pantaloons for some units.

It was the first helmet to see wide adoption, early in 1916. The British Brodie helmet began to be introduced in the spring of the same year and the German Stahlhelm late in July 1916.

@@stevekaczynski3793 French helmets were issued in the summer of 1915.

Oui mais malheureusement, les hommes qui gagnent de l'argent sur les guerres décides

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He would be a regular infantrymen, with an assault set up. With the billhook that would have been an issued item with 16 distributed within the company

With the transition of red trousers to the horizon blue m1914 trousers there was a shortage of material and horizon blue material was focused on coats. So with that gap The french military decided to use corduroy work trousers sewn to the pattern of the m1914 trousers as a temporary measure due to their hardiness and low price. But like you mentioned, them being seen as a civilian item, french soldiers who were captured wearing them would be tried and shot as spies. So those trousers were put to a stop quickly and only seen in 1915 really.

@@horizonbluemedia Interesting! Thank you very much!

@@horizonbluemedia The Belgians also fought in full-colour uniforms in 1914, then in 1915 they went through a period where their troops, cut off from their depots in Belgium, were also wearing corduroy work trousers, sometimes wine-red in colour. Later on they adopted khaki uniforms as well as a version of the Adrian helmet. Probably they obtained their clothing from French factories.

The Lebel 1886 was use during all WW1,but after 1915 more and more other weapons was use like the all first squad automatic rifle CSRG 1915 Chauchat , Berthier 1907/1915 muskets (3 and 5 magazine), and finaly 2 weapons delivered to a limited number of squads like the semi automatic rifles RSC 1917/1918 (all this weapons did use the 8mm Lebel cartiges), and the automatic rifle Ribeyrolles 1918 with experimental intermediate 8x35 cartige (yes far before the sturmgewehr...)

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The uniforms are all custom made by tailors within our re-enacting groups!

That’s going to be future videos! Where we’ll be diving into the separate years of the war talking about kit and changes

It is his “Toile de tente” or his shelter half worn in the assault order

If they happen to be a Senegalese Tiralleur, yes

@@RandomFurry07 but he's not in this case. As far as I know, it wasnt used by metropolitan regiments

It’s a French issued Billhook or “Serpe”, 12 were issued per company

@@horizonbluemedia thank you!

About 27000 casualties in fact. But The unifom had little to do with that, 85% of the casualties where caused by artillery. The shells don't care about the color of your clothes ... the high death tolls come from attacking right into a zone designed by the german as a trap in german Lorraine, with pre-programmed artillery barrage and defensive position. A few day later, after the french withdrawal, the german army suffered the same way when they marched into the same kind of trap in the battle of the "trouée de Chames" in french Lorraine, hence a bloody stalemate on this part of the front. These battle have been largely forgotten due to the importance of the clash on the western part of the front (culminating in the battle of the Marne).

@@vonlienstein5783 excellente analyse.

@@didierpaya9069 Merci. je te renvoie vers la chaine youtube "Sur le champ" si tu veux plus de détail sur les combats de l'année 1914 à l'ouest

@@vonlienstein5783 Good one a part form that the germans were massacred by French 75mm when they used the attack in masse as others in that era, the uniform was of little help.

As was found by many armies at the time. The French were so partial to wearing the greatcoat, even in the summer, that there were rumours they had no tunics. In reality they did have one, called the "vareuse". The Austro-Hungarian Army's wool uniform was also too warm in summer - a lighter-weight cotton version did exist.

@@stevekaczynski3793 They must've been limited by how they were dressed in terms of combat performance in the summer. It reminds me of the last royal wedding here in Sweden, where a soldier dressed in an old-style uniform passed out on camera.