Viewers: “Do you have a channel that talks about…” Simon: “yes”

The Franco-Prussian War is so vital to understanding the two world wars yet it's so unknown, I'm loving this new channel!

I've missed the old History, Discovery, and NatGeo channels since I was a kid, glad Simon is singlehandedly replacing every one of them!

In the future, I will tell my grandchildren about a long forgotten time when Simon didn't single-handedly controlled KZfaq... Keep up the good work!

A new channel from Simon!? With the first vid being on the Franco-Prussian War!? One of the best Christmas presents anyone could ask for!

I'm starting to lend credence that Simon is bionic. He is always making new channels like a A.I. super machine. Keep it up whistle, love all the content!

Helmuth von Moltke was a brilliant soldier who nobody talks about, and it's unfortunate. He did far more than military strategy, he single handedly wrote the book on modern mass transit in warfare.

No one has this much time to spend on making videos. Simon is a time traveler. Allegedly….

I see Simon more on a daily basis than I do my family.

12 channels and with videos everyday with the same energy for each. Well done Simon and team.

A new channel? this is one of the best Christmas gifts I could've asked for

I think it's worth mentioning that Prussia, a proud Kingdom given their history (still in living memory to many) of Frederick the Great, got absolutely humiliated by Napoleon in 1806. Because of this (once all of Europe combined had put down Napoleon), the Prussians severely improved their military capabilities. As well as a bunch of reforms, one of the major things they did was adapt their officer schools. They began studying Clausewitz (who wrote his famous treatise during the Napoleonic Wars) and, perhaps more importantly, Jomini (one of Napoleon's staff who analysed how Napoleon was so successful). Essentially, they began learning from the French victories in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This is, btw, why but the Schlieffen Plan on paper, and also the Bewegungskrieg used in the Second World War (this time to success) were so similar to Napoleonic tactics. There's something poetic, I think, about Prussia using Napoleon's own strategies against France and Napoleon's own descendant in the Franco-Prussian War.

I realize that you’re mainly just the presenter and you have a huge team writing, filming, and editing your videos, but the fact that you can still present so many videos every day so professionally is amazing. Definitely a robot, or a few robots. Or you have a twin or are one of identical triplets…

As a Mexican with German and Spanish ancestry, I was pleased how you mentioned the French’s embarrassing loss in my country 😂 VIVA MEXICO 🇲🇽🤝🇩🇪

"The French army, by contrast, was like a slumbering old man raising himself off of the sofa, yawning; scratching his balls before shuffling off to make coffee." There usually isn't even an attempt at humor in these types of videos. Yet, Simon and Morris sprinkle little hilarities like this throughout. I love it. "Now, back to watching France get humiliated."

The night after the Battle of Sedan, Bismarck gave a toast to the unification of Germany, but he did it in English. The reason why was who he was with: they were all on horseback, and it was Bismarck, his nephew (who was also bilingual, and brought the bourbon), and the man who couldn't speak German: US general Philip Sheridan, famous from his work in the Civil War that had wrapped up six years earlier, there as an observer.

I like how the channel was created in October and the first video comes out for Christmas. Simon playing the long game

Definitely need to cover the Crimean War

YAAAAAAAAAS! Simon finally started Wargraphics! I can already tell this is gonna be good!

I can't wait to see the videos this channel puts out. Keep it up Simon.

I would love to see a video about Portugals "Vietnam", the portuguese colonial war (1961-1974). I feel like it's a very overlooked part of African and portuguese history.

A British guy living in the Czech republic finally gets me to understand a key part of my home country's history and coming into existence. Thanks a lot Simon!

Excellent vid. I really dig your delivery of the subject at hand. You've blended the history with a cheeky narration. Brilliant! Makes a somewhat dry subject entertaining and informative. Outstanding! Keep up the great vids.

The German portion of my family all emigrated to the USA between 1871 and 1879. Most would list on US census records that they were from West Prussia. Family stories also tell us that many of them left Europe because they wanted to get away from the ongoing wars and political unrest. They all settled in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in communities made up entirely of people of German descent.

I had been so curious about the hiatus in the other channels only to realize this was the most rewarding thing Simon has. I cannot wait to see what this channel offers.

Morris M. is an incredible script writer! I see their name a lot on Simon's other channels, always an interesting video when they're writing. Awesome that they get to be the first writer on Warographics!

That bit at 11 minutes is probably my favorite Simon Whistler line ever. Delivered the perfect dry matter of factness

1:20 - Chapter 1 - The first iron man 5:45 - Chapter 2 - In the city of lights 9:50 - Chapter 3 - The march to war 13:55 - Chapter 4 - Catastrophe 17:05 - Chapter 5 - 1st as tragedy... 20:45 - Chapter 6 - Stage of siege

Really liked the prelude section that gives it all the background and also the more casual mode

this man truly is an absolute legend, Cheers to you Simon and your entire team for keeping my work day enjoyable with tons of content :)

Yes!!!! I’ve been asking for a ‘Warographics’ (even same name 🤣) for over a year! I’m really looking forward to this! For April Fools day next year can you do the Great Emu War, which my country lost in 1932? Not our proudest moment. 🤣

I'm looking forward to seeing what else crops up on this channel. Go Simon!

Very interesting, and, as always, very well presented. Thanks, Simon.

Awesome, glad to see another great channel from Simon! Loving the content as always, sir!

Very interesting subject that is under-studied. Great video. As a side note, Simon's beard is becoming more epic and should soon launch it's own channel, Mega-Beards.

Great video and clear, interesting explanations. Thank you! I never realized the true impact of the Franco-Prussian war. It makes sense now. I especially liked learning the connection between this peace treaty and the reason the Versailles treaty was so hard on Germany. It makes sense now. Thank you again.

I recently canceled my cable because I have 127 channels of Simon Whistler to keep up with. I feel like there are 20 more channels you're doing out there that I've not yet seen.

I am so absolutely excited. Great writing. Great presentation. I love you Simon!

This is fantastic. Lesser known recent-ish deep dive. You really get to gain an insight into the weaponry of pre WWI! Thankyou, Simon! Loved it.

i clicked on this video so fast! another channel from simon is an early chirstmas gift in my book! simon whistler you have one of the best personalities for hosting and i love your energy! always look forward to a new upload from you! keep up the hard work!

literally like 4 days ago i was thinking about the franco prussian war and how there’s only a handle of channels i enjoy watching that have good vids on it. then simon out of knowwhere drops this??? Amazing

Of course there’s another channel, and of course I’m gonna subscribe. Happy Holidays. 🎄🎅🏻

I’m so excited for this channel since I’m a big war geek. Thank you Simon you’re my god

I’ve been excited for this channel ever since Simon asked in one of the Biographics videos

I wonder how different history would have been if Austria and Italy allied with France for this war

Great first video 👍 next, please do the Crimean or the Seven Years War.

This provides a huge amount of clarity and context to both WW1 and WW2. Brilliant and interesting, thank you.

Simon, you dispense history with the skill of a poet. Your colourful commentry and play on words presents history to us in an honest and frank format. Thank you so much for this channel. I have been enjoying it tremendously, as well as learning a thing or two.

My goodness Simon is well on his way of having a monopoly on youtube. But hey I admire the work Simon and his team does. Also I like the video, entertaining and informative as always.

The Boer wars would be interesting to cover.

Excellent. So much detailed background and lucid telling. Thanks from Vancouver!

Finaly, the channel i have all been waiting for since i first discovered simon on yt! Now i can watch videos about a war in general an than binge the videos of all the generals that fought in it on the biographics !😍 You sir are more educational than my entire school time !

*laughs like emperor Palpatine* I have been waiting a long time for this moment. My little bald friend.

Simon can be so incredibly funny sometimes in the most serious of historical scenarios. Lol

Another excellent and fascinating channel. Well done Simon and team! 😊❤

Just subscribed to ANOTHER channel from Simon. I’m addicted, your shows are awesome

This makes me excited to see some “Wars of Revolution” content, or even smaller conflicts like the Chechen Crises, War in Kosovo, and the Yugoslav Wars.

While I really enjoy Infographics and Mr. Ballen, Simon is my favorite KZfaq commentator by far. Keep up the awesome work. I have been a fan since 2014

Oi, Factboy. About time you did a channel dedicated to war. Good on ya!

Simon makes so many KZfaq channels that I can't keep up. I find new one's and I'm like damn why haven't I seen this before. and somehow they're all good! Soon he will be all my subscriptions I think

Simon: “About as comfortable as a porcupine enema.” Graphic: A hedgehog tunneling into a sweater sleeve. My brain: Everything here checks out completely.

Consider a video about another lesser-known war that changed the course of history - the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. It is a conflict that gave rise to Japan's imperial ambitions over the succeeding 40 years after the conflict's resolution and the beginning of the downfall of the Russian Empire into the path of revolution.

Finally!!! I've been excited for this channel since you mentioned it :)

One of the best War Graphics video's I've seen. Good job!

Nice. Can you do the First Sino Japanese War next Simon?

I think we need to have an Intervention for Simon he's addicted to starting KZfaq channels and podcasts

KZfaq: We can never have too much content. Simon: Challenge accepted. Keep up the good work.

The channel I’ve been waiting for! Thank you Simon

In the United States what is taught in schools of this time period is overwhelmingly about our Civil War, what happens in Europe is barely mentioned if at all. Thanks for the video.

Just another big piece of a domino effect that's that leads a straight to World War I also just really fascinating.

Simon you absolute mad lad. Making another channel. Though this is definitely one i'm going to be waiting on new content. Love this idea

Simon, you mad lad. I love finding another one of your channels before you even announce it

He released Warographics this year! Was starting to think it wasn't going to be until January! Simon is a legend!* *It may just be a bunch of clones, instead of just one Simon. He's never really denied it on BB, so it's a definite possibility. 👀

I'm considering making a second KZfaq account just to sub to all Simon's channels. This will become one of my favorites.

These are the wars I love to learn about. The very interesting obscure ones. There are 50 bajillion documentaries on WW1 and 2. It's so nice to hear about some things that no one really knows about

This is excellent. You've really stepped your game up.

It's kind of interesting that the Germans learned about the use of trains for military logistics by studying the US civil war.

One bizarre coda of the Franco-Prussian War was the role of disgraced US Civil War General Sickles in assuring the fortress city of Belfort remained a French possession after the war even though France had to surrender the rest of Alsace. "Devil Dan" Sickles, the brilliant but eccentric attorney, polyglot, acquitted murderer of his wife's lover, and self-described Hero of Gettysburg was the US ambassador to Spain at the time of the war, but hurried to Paris after hostilities ended to resume his tryst with the exiled Spanish Queen Isabella II. While there, the desperate Third Republic President Adolphe Thiers apparently asked Sickles to intercede with Bismarck to salvage as much territory as possible during the negotiations over the Treaty of Frankfurt. According to one biographer, Sickles' boozy weekend with the Iron Chancellor in Spa, Belgium was instrumental in saving Belfort for France. Hard to believe? Yet Thiers awarded Sickles the Republic's highest medal, the Grand-croix de Légion d'honneur, before the French President left office in 1873. Sickles became second (or possibly first) American to win the Grand-croix and the first man to hold both that medal and the US Medal of Honor. The thuggish yet cultured Sickles' impressive collection of rare XIXth-century French literature resides in a library named after the General near Belfort. I gave a lecture on this and other unbelievable aspects of Sickles' 75-year long public career (bookended by arrests for embezzlement when he was 18 and 93 years old) : www.c-span.org/video/?456987-1/sculptor-vinnie-ream-daniel-sickles-andrew-johnsons-impeachment

I am so excited about this channel!!!! I don't know how Simon keeps up but I am sure glad I found your vifeos

Time management strategy reveal, Simon xD Seriously, the Franco-Prussian War is a good starter for this channel. :)

Bismarck employed one of the first modern day style spymasters/ propagandists. He and his agents, among many other feats, surveyed the priority military marching routes within France and then came up with maps that were much more accurate than those of the French Army.

Loved the Attack on Titan reference. LOVED IT

Just discovered your channel. Great stuff. Going to use these into my classroom teaching...

Good luck on this new channel. I am a huge fan. Gracias por los videos amigo.

What an absolute legend!

"But Bismarck had a plan...Bismarck always had a plan" 😎

I just stumbled upon your channel 2 days ago. I am very impressed and enjoy your episodes greatly. Thank you!

Very very interesting. I learned a lot today. Thanks and regards from Chile 🇨🇱!

This is when my family fled Prussia, and we came into the US as illegal immigrants over the Canadian border.... along with about 8 other families the still live in the same place in Wisconsin we came to so long ago.

Crazy that I've never heard of any of this but it gives SO much context to the events in the beginning of the 20th Century. And it makes me understand why my grandmother sometimes still said that her family was Prussian - despite the fact that by the time she was born (1921), Prussia as such wasn't around anymore...there was always a strange pride in the way she spoke about Germany, about Prussian history - though she didn't exactly give me lessons in it. (Very likely because I was a little kid and wouldn't have paid attention!) But I get it now, at least I have a tiny bit more understanding than I did before. And it makes so much sense too that the French held such a deep hatred for the Germans. One thing I do wonder a bit though - with such badassery in their military history, why on Earth is France considered so bad at war? I can't think of how many times I've heard various comedians and so on diss on the French military. Granted they did lose a LOT - seems like from this war onward - but still!

I am absolutely loving this new channel. Keep it going

I know it well. The road to German Unification, Bismarck and the Franco-Prussian War was a part of my A-Level History course back in 1986. The joys of AJP Taylor stays in my mind. Along with the brilliance of old Otto and the stupidity of Louis. If you can't defeat a relatively undeveloped Mexico what on earth makes you think Prussia was going to be walkover?

And for next week. We will see Simon speaking to a therapist about his addiction to making youtube channels.

As a fan of historic warfare I found this absolutely brilliant and I must admit that I’d no idea about this war , not one I’d looked into Thanks

This is an absolutely fantastic channel, Fact Boy! Looking forward to the conflicts we get to see! Would love to see some of the conflicts of the Crimean region. Crack away, Whistler!

here in Germany, its called Deutsch - Französischer Krieg..... no mention for Prussia only.... the German language is most times straight on the point!

Simon, you know you don't need to create a channel for every video you make?

Great presentation

Love the new channel Simon!!

And thus the foundation for jokes about France and its military was laid for decades to come. And based Bismarck got what he always wanted, a German Empire under Prussian leadership.