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can u cover the Távora affair of 1758-1759 in a future vid?

I have been waiting for my boy fresrick the great to get a viedo I havent whatched it yet u better mention he was gay in this viedo

@@jordantomes2658 dude Voltaire wrote about

NordVPN has been hacked in the past and they even tried to hide it from their customers. NordVPN clearly cannot be trusted.

Eh, nice to find you here i guess

@@catherinethegreat2548 I hope you both are doing well 🤠

I'm a bit homophobic, but your one of the few gay people I'm ok with.

@@aydankhaliq2967 as a person of German descent, I can accurately say that Frederick and I do NOT claim you or “your kind”. 🤮❌

Big fan of your oblique tactics

That guy was a pretty good guy, like not the best, just alright. Go Derrick!

Or Erick the okay

Or his cousin merrik the eh

​@@solidraven6986 except that Merrik the eh, was just kinda Meh.

@@KaptajnKaffe lol

Ha! Gay. Or is that a pedophilia joke?

@@iasonjacksongrace Gay, not pedophilia

Sparta was pretty gay tho.

I always see the analogy as Prussia being Sparta and Austria being Athens, as Vienna was the better known German capital for arts and culture.

@@iasonjacksongrace No . He literally means that prussia is both a military superpower and a very well organized philosopher sattate.

Aside from the fact that if Frederick was alive, there wouldn't really be a point in visiting an empty plot of land where his tomb would be? But yes, I understand what Napoleon meant to say...

He's being humble. Napoleon would have demolished him.

@@Fyrdman I dunno, i think it would be closer than you think just look at Leuthen, Hohenfriedberg and Rossbach.

@@Fyrdman Napoleon, being humble? The man didn't have a single humble bone in him...

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- And look at his other battles. Especially the one where he launched a front assault against Russians and Austrians on a hill. The guy was a one trick pony that used the same tactics over and over again; which resulted in losses even when he won. Frederick would have been decimated there and then. And Berlin would have been taken... Again

true dat

@@jayb9153 yep indeed mate

Absolutely

acapella

and Fritz used "the flute!" 🙂

@@ctrusse2 Napoleon was a genius, he just didn't know when to back down. When the third coalition was marching through Europe, dismantling his empire piece by piece, they offered him a peace deal and he still said no. Realistically there was no chance Napoleon could win the war at that point. He could have taken the deal and saved what was left of his empire, but he insisted on fighting on.

@@ctrusse2 I don't know about greatest of all time, but he was certainly great. Like I said, he was just cursed with the utter inability to recognize the value of a strategic retreat or realize when a situation had gotten beyond the point of salvage.

@@ctrusse2 indeed, but histories most memorable heroes and villains tend to be blown out of proportion sometimes, at the end they were all humans and humans make mistakes. Not to mention how many people were involved with every great battle that we remember today.

I think unlike Napoleon, Frederick the Great wasn't an egotistical psychopath who did everything for his own personal glory. He also didn't commit war crimes like massacring villages for revenge.

@@yourstruly4817 to make it short: he wasn't a narcissist

History books remember the battles, even the treaties. Nations remember potatoes. Or at least they should. If only because without them there would be fewer people around to remember anything. In Spain we had this shameless social climber minister Godoy. People remember him for being corrupt and the queen's lover. BUT. He organized the first smallpox vaccination campaign in the Americas. Such things pay for many sins, you know.

Know I'm 1 year later but thank you for this. I like hearing stories from around the world of culture and history.

LMAO potato king that is great. It’s nice to hear what people in Germany think of him.

Not really that important

@@balabanasireti Saving people from famine and introducing a very stable crop into eastern europe is kind of important. Not the MOST important but still a little.

HAUBITZEN!

HANZ!! GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!!! -Me on Napoleon TW WW1 Mod

@@spiffygonzales5899 Was playing empire today, saw that quote!

literally had to fire up total war empire seeing this video

@@Jacking0ff Literally any reason to play Empire total war is a good reason to play Empire total war. Respect.

Old Fritz! Old Fritz! Old Fritz! Old Fritz! Old Fritz!

IM FREDERICK THE GREAT FIRST EVER SERVANT OF STATE

Oblique attack tactics aint exactly straight

Last time I was this early I hadn't waited a week, by putting it in my watch later list, to finally watch it

I've got creative talents and battle malice

You made me laugh so much.

Actually it was at the Potsdam city palace where Napoleon held uo Frederick's dagger and said to his officers, "Gentlemen, if the man who wielded this was still alive, we would not be standing here." Of course, this was pure theater, Napoleon knew well that he had in fact defeated what was basically still Frederick's army, as he boasted in a letter to Josephine. And when Napoleon visited Frederick's tomb, an eyewitness reported that he only said, "sic transit gloria mundi."

@@Alterfritz1763 Frederick was a man that made sure his army was up to date with the time. After he died the Prussian army pretty much rested on its laurels, Frederick died 3 years before the French revolution and during that time and Napoleon's reign the French army was massively reformed while the Prussian army was resting in its laurels. So when Napoleon fought the Prussians, their forces were pretty outdated compared to his army. What Napoleon meant was that if a guy like Frederick was in charge things might have been diferent or at least more dificult and Napoleon held Frederick in high regard and admired him.

@@masterplokoon8803 You obviously know some history, but in this case I have to disagree with the Jedi Master. You need to catch up with the current state of miilitary history research. The consensus is that Frederick's army was out of date long before he died. For decades, Prussian military refromers like Scharnhorst had pleaded for modernizing the army but Frederick refused to listen to them. General Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst, who had served under Frederick in the Seven Years War, wrote:that Fredrick couldn't imagine that his "soldiers were beings with free will and intellect who could be inspired by anything else than force and fear." Moreover, he wrote that Frederick couldn't conceive of using any other kind of weapons or tactics than the ones he was used to. Cathal Nolan, author of a standard work in military history, "The Allure of Battle," concludes: "The great innovator left behind at his death a reactionary Prussian army inured to serious and much needed adaption and reform, run by old generals who thought the highest art of war was merely to drill and arm and fight exactly as he had done a half century after he first did it, When they led this anachromism into battle against newly dynamic and reformed and much larger armies of revolution it would be shattered in a day, and Prussia occupied and reduced." So, as I already pointed out, Napoleon did defeat Frederick's army, as he wrote to his wife. His comment about not making it to Potsdam if Frederick had still led his troops was pure theater.

@@Alterfritz1763 but after Frederick died the army had plenty of time to modernize but didn't. The reforms than Napoleon made to the French army( the corps sistem) were much more advanced than anything Frederick might have done in his time. And if Frederick was in command he might not have made the sloppy diplomatic and military mistakes the prussians did during the war. He probably wouldn't have rushed to send an ultimatum to Napoleon , he probably would have waited for the Russian forces to arrive he also wouldn't make most of the sloppy childish mistakes the prussian commanders did. He may have been outdated but he would have been tougher nut to crack than the weak Frederick William III. Apart from that Napoelon did seem to have some genuine respect and admiration for him, however I do believe Napoleon always thought of himself as greater than Frederick the Great like you said. I really don't see Napoleon of thinking that someone could be his equal or superior.

@@masterplokoon8803 You make some excellent points. I think the sad truth is that it usually takes a catastrophe to wake political and military leaders up to the need for serious structural reforms. Ultimately. the old ancien regime armies were no match for the massive armies of revolutionary France, which, thanks to the levee en masse , had troop numbers unimaginable to Frederick the Great. You should check out Nolan's book. He argues that we tend to vastly exaggerate the significance of indiviudual commanders and single battles. In the end, almost all military conflicts are wars of attrition which are normally won by the nations with the greatest resources. But thank you, Master Jedi, for our little discussion and inspiring me to reconsider some of my views. May the force be with you!

You know... what we can call traumatized childhood and youth, might have been pretty much the norm back then. Just saying.

@@EurojuegosBsAs Unfortunately, this still seems to be the norm to this day.

@@EurojuegosBsAs well I would just say, if that were the case, that even if it was normal doesn't mean it was not also traumatic.

Only by putting people through hell can we tell who is strong and who is weak

@@damsarebiotic6263 or we could just avoid putting people through hell altogether and discard that archaic idea of "strong and weak." People are people and as long as they don't hurt anyone, they all have equal value.

Frederick William directed a small group of troops at the Battle of Malplaquet, so he technically did fight at war, just not on a large scale

During Frederick William I's reign Prussia was involved in the Great Northern War, the War of Spanish Succession, and the War of Polish Succession.

Well, did anyone ever see them in the same room together? :)

you are the backbone of the human species.

Yes

Make this happen, I fully support

@@theyoungbonaparte3739 I can just request and the rest depends on Simon.

Yes please

@@theyoungbonaparte3739 Yes particularly Beethoven he had a pretty rough childhood

@@theyoungbonaparte3739 Or another great would be Bach

Wow are you Simp for Fredrick

@@thorpeaaron1110 I like too much history, the Enlightened era especially, the minds of the great are easy to learn from, right?

But Napoleon lost. Plus, for all his innovations, he was still a petty despot who tried to maintain slavery. He is fascinating, I'll admit, but admirable? Not the word I'd use.

@@theyoungbonaparte3739 Indeed especially Frederick who's military skills as a commander could rival Napoleon

@@thorpeaaron1110 there is nothing bad about simping for Frederick

*A lion from the north by Sabaton intensifies*

Wish granted.

just guys being dudes

@@NobodyofTwilgiht just doods being guys (after his execution, Freidrich broke down/ went silent whenever he heard his name)

There is a big difference between a commander who just says, "CHARGE!!" and one that says, "FOLLOW ME, BOYS!!" The odds look better when you are following your commander into the fray.

Man. You're hysterical.

bruh, luv u

Indeed

Old Fritz! Old Fritz! Old Fritz! Old Fritz!

A flute never sounded so awesome.

OLD FRITZ! OLD FRITZ! OLD FRITZ! OLD FRITZ!

Also made a scapegoat for all of Robert E. Lee's mistakes by the "Lost Cause" myth.

Yes being hard as steel in the field genteel in the palace

@@oneasiangirl the guy who would pay somebody to tear his eyes out if he had to look at Ivan's troll face every night

Yes. Hearing the comedic blind noises too?

Meh. It is hard to respect Simon when you realize he does none of the research and knows very little about history himself. Not unlike a mouthpiece for WatchMojo doing a top ten for a topic they know nothing about.

@kingstarscream320 who cares dude, he makes the words come to life, which is arguably more important than the research itself..

Who the heck are you referring to? There never was a Swedish king by that name, only a bunch of princes.

mine too! Happy eating:)

What are you both having

Fredericksburg, Maryland by any chance?

I'm Freddy the great

Yea, it feels so nice tho when Simon comments that he was very likely a queer figure. He reaches more ppl than most professional historians working on museums. Still you are right, Frederick sound like a drama queen but his sexuality is always doubted despite him sending erotic poetry to Voltaire

Frederick the Great: **loses a major battle** Frederick the Great: Lady Luck is mad at me because I'm too gay to court her. Historians: Yeah but, what does that mean... exactly?

✋🏻 me lol

@@dannahbanana11235 cool

One of my great great great grandfathers IIRC was one of them. He came to the US in 1866 and we suspect he may have been trying to avoid fighting in the Austro-Prussian War, among other reasons.

@@thunderbird1921 cool

I can't. Lower Saxony, NRW, even Bavaria, but no Prussia.

I thought that was from Georges Danton :o)

And he allowed the Catholic Church to build a cathedral in Calvinist Berlin, effectively ending the legacy of the 30 Years War.

Frederick III is one of the greatest tragedies in European history. That man just might have stopped the two world wars on the continent if he had lived longer.

ERB?

@@kingstarscream320 Epic Rap Battles of History. It’s a thing on KZfaq

Man you gotta be playing Nioh lol

@@jaleel3092 and also total war Shogun two that’s a good game

@@jaleel3092 no bro, I'm just a history nerd and also a big fan of shogun 2 lol

Oh no, the weebs are coming

Damn weebs

His Wikipedia page has "Dōkyō" as his spelling, but his descriptions there are from an encyclopedia and do not convey how dramatic and controversial his life was.

There was a man in Japan long ago. He was big and strong and his eyes were very brown. People looked at him with terror and with fear. But to Tokyo chicks he was such a lovely dear.