The Battle of La Lys - Operation Georgette I THE GREAT WAR Week 194

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A year after the US entry into the war, the German Spring Offensive 1918 continues with operations Archangel and Georgette. The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps has to pay the price while the British manage to orderly retreat.
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@orenashkenazi9813 6 жыл бұрын

"We're being rotated out tomorrow" is the WWI equivalent of "I'm two weeks from retirement" in detective stories.

@davidwright7193 2 жыл бұрын

Journeys End starts with a group of troops being rotated in knowing that Operation Michael is going to start before their week in the line is up.

@Ratelheart 2 жыл бұрын

That’s why, when my family goes skiing, we never take a last run. You always get hurt on the last run.

@fsls13 6 жыл бұрын

The Kaiser was like " Happy birthday, here, have a statue.. of me."

@sparetime2475 6 жыл бұрын

I love it when people give statues of them to me

@DylanDude 6 жыл бұрын

Considering the monarch is supposed to be an inspirational figure, it's not that ridiculous. That is, until you realize this is Wilhelm II we're talking about here, and the only type of person he could inspire would be a Nicholas II apologist. _"At least he's not Wilhelm II!"_

@karlkarlos3545 6 жыл бұрын

DylanDude Compared to Nicholas II Wilhelm was almost a liberal democrat.

@DylanDude 6 жыл бұрын

Karl Karlos I would certainly pick Wilhelm II over Nicholas II in a contest of monarchs, however that isn't a statement with much merit.

@NickRatnieks 6 жыл бұрын

Then his statue on Corfu. Here are some lines from Wiki about it: Archaeologist Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, ... the Kaiser's advisor, was invited by the Kaiser to come to Corfu to give him advice where to position the huge statue. The famous salute to Achilles from the Kaiser, which had been inscribed at the statue's base, was also created by Kekulé. The inscription read: To the Greatest Greek from the Greatest German No arguing with that statement at that time!

@blade5896 6 жыл бұрын

Next time it's a friend's birthday I'll gift them a statue of myself

@sloths-df3gf Ай бұрын

I give nude statues of me, at 1/12 scale. My friend says he hangs his towel on his.

@misterrocketman 6 жыл бұрын

You're Indy Neidell, welcome to The Great War.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

No, YOU'RE Indy Neidell

@BrorealeK 6 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite choose your own adventure book.

@blackmichael75 6 жыл бұрын

"I'm Indy Neidell, happy birthday, here's a small statue of me"

@vivekkondapalli568 6 жыл бұрын

Did Indy just pull a No U. Hilarious, but I am very disappointed.

@imswanronson3558 6 жыл бұрын

Brothers, we are ALL Indy Neidell.

@angelocortez4471 6 жыл бұрын

I'm The Great War, welcome to Indy Neidell

@ncrveteranranger9126 6 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@johnanth 6 жыл бұрын

"Enter the Indy"

6 жыл бұрын

Aníbal Milhais became known as the Soldier Millions (Milhões, in Portuguese), since it was told he was worth more than a million man for his bravery. Fun Fact: His village took his surname (Valongo de Milhais, previously Valongo. De Milhais translates to "of Milhais") and his family adopted his nickname as a surname (Milhões - Millions).

6 жыл бұрын

Einh?! Mas quem embandeirou em arco? Vá, só querias dizer umas coisas quaisquer na internet, porque até viste o filme...ou viste o trailer... "cresçam rapazes, vejam o mundo" diz o Captain Nuthead...na internet... Falta de noção is strong with this one!

@Veon1 6 жыл бұрын

Captain Nuthead, yes the war was dumb, yes Portugal joining was stupid, yes the way we sent our men was awful, yes our officers were complete morons, and yes, the way these soldiers (and Milhais in particular, o pobre diabo) were used to promote the subsequent military coup and the fascist regime was absolutely disgusting. I have only contempt for anyone in Portugal who to this day tries to hide or deny that. But even with all that said, we can still recognize that Milhais was an incredibly brave soul who deserves tremendous respect for the way he conducted himself in the horrible conditions he found himself in. In a pointless war full of incompetent generals and countless wasted lives, this poor soldier did his armed forces proud, and there's nothing wrong in admiring that.

@MigasMG 6 жыл бұрын

Milhais and other officers heroic achievements were also promoted by the 1st Republic. 2nd Republic (military dictatorship + New State) didn't brought these facts out nowhere.

@helderfernandes9488 6 жыл бұрын

They are making a movie on Aníbal Milhais

@diogomoreira5129 6 жыл бұрын

it´s out already

@thienngo7252 6 жыл бұрын

Portuguese soldier: “ finally we can have some break. Man I can’t wait to head to the tavern.” *german attack* Portuguese soldiers: “ OH COME ON!”

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN 3 жыл бұрын

The Portuguese soldiers can't even say "hold my beer".

@miguel.s7729 Жыл бұрын

@@ZER0ZER0SE7EN we fight while holding Bears

@jasperwinehouse9456 5 ай бұрын

@@miguel.s7729We fight drinking wine and eating pastel de nata

@yankee3875 6 жыл бұрын

It makes sense Karl wanted peace so bad, he was a staunch catholic who’s devoutness poured over into his tenure as emperor, and he admitted to his wife when war was declared in 1914 that he hated war. Rip blessed Karl, pray for us

@kevinbyrne4538 6 жыл бұрын

1:39 -- A statue ... of the Kaiser? I can hear Ludendorff thinking: "Well, Sire, don't put yourself out on my account. I'm just struggling to save your country from imminent defeat."

@varana 6 жыл бұрын

Pictures of the Kaiser were a frequent (and often popular) gift when someone was honoured. A statue is quite a step up from that.

@CD-vg4hl 6 жыл бұрын

The Kaiser: Think nothing of it, admire my statue!

@wordsmithgmxch 6 жыл бұрын

Douglas Haig (3:35): "With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause, we must fight to the end." Oh, sure: easy for HIM to say!

@Johnnycdrums 6 жыл бұрын

The aristocracy is still there, they gave the Subjects Socialism in order to keep it. The worst of both worlds, Venetian Conspiracy continues.

@LtKharn 6 жыл бұрын

That's true of any order a General gives, plus in ww1 officers suffered a high rate of casualty(higher than the ordinary soldier ).

@cwovictor3281 6 жыл бұрын

To quote Blackadder: "We'll be right behind you. About ten miles behind you to be exact"

@NaumRusomarov 6 жыл бұрын

It's the suicidal dragging those who want to live to death.

@nostradamusofgames5508 6 жыл бұрын

"KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARL!!!!!!!"

@flyforce16 6 жыл бұрын

Coral*

@nostradamusofgames5508 6 жыл бұрын

oh cool i was "

@YvonTripper 6 жыл бұрын

Teacher: Karl, are you and Georges passing notes? Karl: No, Mr. Ludendorff! Georges: Yes, Mr Ludendoff. Teacher: Georges, why don't you come up here and read it in front of the whole class? Georges: "Dear Georges, since you and I both hate Mr. Ludendorff, do you want to be friends? Sincerely, Karl" Teacher: Karl, I'll talk to you after class...

@mammuchan8923 4 жыл бұрын

Love it🤣

@potatoman5933 3 жыл бұрын

This is Art

@-et37- 6 жыл бұрын

HappyBirthday here’s a statue of me Kaiser Willy the troll

@nerdothn892 6 жыл бұрын

As we did the First world war i already knew everythink. I actually know more about the war then the teacher and the schoolbook. Thanks Indy and Crew !!!

@zissimus8462 6 жыл бұрын

martial arts,music and history in the test: write down main fronts of war. Everyone :Eastern and Western. Me:Caucasian, Eastern, Serbian, Galipoli, Western, South Africa, Palestinian, Italian,

@sharpshot8999 6 жыл бұрын

martial arts,music and history yep same here at one point my teacher just sat down and let me talk the class through the battle of passchendaele

@54macdog 6 жыл бұрын

Your teacher probably knows how to spell and capitalize correctly

@zissimus8462 6 жыл бұрын

54macdog excuse me if I misspelled something.

@Cancoillotteman 6 жыл бұрын

+Zissimus you forgot the Mesopotamian, East Africa and the Chinese Seas ;) (that's if we don't count the North Straits and the Van Emden :p ), but you'd have given your teacher a seizure X)

@markbecker71 6 жыл бұрын

So many teenagers, never had a chance..

@cwovictor3281 6 жыл бұрын

The cream of a generation, gone. That's what total war does.

@criscabrera9098 5 жыл бұрын

“The lost generation”

@roryokane5907 6 жыл бұрын

“KAAAAAAAAAARL, that’s treachery, Karl!” “I did not know that.”

@gcircle 6 жыл бұрын

Congratulations. You almost got the "lh" sound in Anibal's name right. And you clearly showed portuguese troops in some of those pictures: those mustaches are iconic. More seriously now, thank you for mentioning that portuguese were caught in a very unprepared position and extremely tired, but still bravely tried to fight back. Many simply diss on the portuguese expeditionary corps for being weak and cowardly. Some more notes on that battle: it was pretty much the end of Portugal's participation in the war. Reinforcements were nil and the few soldiers that weren't sent home were attached to divisions of other countries, where they would perform decently until the end of the war. But the defeat at La Lys was so horrible that it destabilized the already frail government and helped pave the way for the Estado Novo dictatorship. Say what you will about Salazar, but he did do one thing right: kept Portugal out of WWII, despite the most absurd efforts from both Allies and Axis to the contrary. La Lys was our realization that we were simply not made for shitstorms of that scale.

@clickbaitjr2624 6 жыл бұрын

Erich Ludendorff gets a birthday present it’s a statue of the Kaiser -___-

@philbrown6787 6 жыл бұрын

Glad to see the painting “Gassed” by JS Sargent as your thumbnail. He was an official war artist and also did “Some General Officers” . He was American but had a niece killed during a bombardment in France. Great portrait artist (Madam X) as well.

@lookythat2 6 жыл бұрын

John Singer Sargent was the greatest American painter, ever. Bar none.

@victorbruant389 6 жыл бұрын

2:42 They wrote it in german AND english? How considerate

@matiasmakinen5028 6 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute

@UnintentionalSubmarine 6 жыл бұрын

Makes sense they would. In an area where prisoners might be marched through, it would be pretty stupid not to label it so they could understand the dangers too. After all, who would have to take care of them if they got exposed? There is both a moral and a practical reason behind it as I see it. Which one was the more important one to the people that ordered the sign to have English as well, I shall not guess at. The question really is, why not also in French? I mean at least *some* civilians must have been around, and Frnech prisoners can't have been impossible, even in a non-French sector.

@victorbruant389 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but prisoners were guarded by german soldiers who could read signs too and wouldn´t just let them enter buildings without their approval.

@justafaniv1097 6 жыл бұрын

My Birthday was on the 9th too! Sadly, I didn't get anything from the Kaiser :(

@user-qf3df6jz7m 3 жыл бұрын

@thelordofhead-ass5240 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, you deserve a statue of the kaiser too lol

@jccosta5640 6 жыл бұрын

The most epic obrigado I have ever heard!

@th3freakie 6 жыл бұрын

Another connection between today's episode and Portugal is that Emperor Karl is buried in Madeira Island. Because life is strange.

@tonygunk3328 5 жыл бұрын

I must say, although all the leaders of the great war were immoral in a lot of ways, I think that Carl is the most honorable of them all, he did not enter the war by choice, it was there when he became Emperor and he knew it was wrong and was willing to risk he honor and title to find a way to end it, truly an honorable act

@mammuchan8923 4 жыл бұрын

I agree, he gets a bad rap, but I feel he was personally feeling the trauma and human cost.

@indianajones4321 6 жыл бұрын

The British retreat must be orderly

@cwovictor3281 6 жыл бұрын

When the British surrender the last of their empire, the forms will be perfectly in order.

@HaNNibal97smiTH 6 жыл бұрын

Lol you british are lucky because you're isolated on an island

@craigeast3682 6 жыл бұрын

Massimiliano Palladini Being an isolated island didn't protect the rest of the world from us though, did it?

@matiasmakinen5028 6 жыл бұрын

Tea must be saved

@HaNNibal97smiTH 6 жыл бұрын

craig east being an isolated island protected you from the rest of the world, thanks to this advantage you could focus on building the largest empire in history

@bothejack5929 6 жыл бұрын

Betray of an allay. What did the Italiens do this time.

@bothejack5929 6 жыл бұрын

jack flash no

@diogomoreira5129 6 жыл бұрын

A new Portuguese movie just came out talking about Soldier Millions and a bit about the Battle of La Lys, it´s called "Soldado Milhões"

@littlejimmy8744 6 жыл бұрын

little Portugal just sitting there like I'm going to be apart of this too.

@tinkmarshino 6 жыл бұрын

Always so damn interesting... You make my grandfathers stories, come alive again! He was a great man!

@ruicesar2382 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you , You’re a legend!

@sleong 6 жыл бұрын

I miss Galicia(1914), Lodz(1914), Przemyśl(1914, how did Indy say that so many times in 2014-2015), Masurian Lakes(1914 and 1915), Belgrade(1914/15), Loos(1915), Lake Naroch(1916), and Arras(1917).

@kostaskossivakis1947 6 жыл бұрын

Scott Leong Forgot Hotzendorf :(

@mammuchan8923 4 жыл бұрын

Indy saying Przemysl gave me a little shiver of delight

@fuzzydunlop7928 6 жыл бұрын

"Her statesmen give lip-service to peace..." Woodrow "He Kept Us Out of War" Wilson.

@andrewrobinson2565 2 жыл бұрын

My maternal Great-Uncle Robert Weir Blackwood (Black Watch) was captured on Day 1 of Operation Michael. My paternal Grandfather Christopher Watson Robinson (Royal Engineers) was building gas screens, blowing up bridges and laying barbed wire (and getting wounded) in this week of April 1918.

@thatdude2508 6 жыл бұрын

Although you may have heard this already, I think your channel is great and worth the watch. Just yesterday my history teacher showed us a picture and asked us who it was. It was Gavorilo Princip. Out of the 32 students I was the only one to know who he was, what he did, and why it was important. All thanks to your channel!

@helderfernandes9488 6 жыл бұрын

That Guy in The Corner Same

@sciblastofficial9833 6 жыл бұрын

BUT WHAT DID THE OTHERS SAY?

@thatdude2508 6 жыл бұрын

SciBlast Official / New Videos Half thought it was a young Ghandi the other half had no idea.

@nemafann 5 жыл бұрын

That guy in the corner Get out of the corner and move to the head of the class! Ain't it cool to be smart?

@mikoajbachosz3673 4 жыл бұрын

It's worth mentioning that pope John Paul II was named after the emperor Karl I by his mother :) His real name was Karol (polish version of Karl) Wojtyła.

@UCUCUC27 6 жыл бұрын

what a birthday gift...

@ronswanson7150 6 жыл бұрын

THIS CHANNEL NEEDS TO HIT 1 mil before the END OF THE WAR !!!

@rabihrac 6 жыл бұрын

Thank God that nowadays someone remembered the peace oriented thinking of the emperor Karl who lost the war and his throne : the Pope John Paul II

@warmasterbarron3046 6 жыл бұрын

The battle of la lays interesting need to search more into it,thanks for the video!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@hadenthomas123 6 жыл бұрын

This is a sick b-day, I love the Great War

@GFM_90 6 жыл бұрын

It's so crazy how far the Germans were advancing. I wonder what would happen if they were able to close the bulge up to the channel.

@jackdingle356 6 жыл бұрын

Really love and appreciate this channel for the information! Keep it up I know more now than I did months ago

@raingermedia 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton for all your videos! Another great video as always! :)

@jeroldproductions6367 6 жыл бұрын

Seriously it's great morbid fun watching this.

@brandonholdridge2775 6 жыл бұрын

I feel like the focus is on everybody but France in this series. Where are the battles they take part in? The defensive actions they took?

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

did you see our Verdun coverage or 2nd Verdun or Battle of La Malmaison? We also just in this episode talked about them.

@hiukas. 6 жыл бұрын

Can't stop watching your videos

@radiomilano2346 6 жыл бұрын

Excelent video Indy

@onesmoothstone5680 6 жыл бұрын

Great programs!

@stentbeefclench 6 жыл бұрын

I hope you guys get to 1 million subs by November 11th

@lapisleafuli1817 6 жыл бұрын

what if they hit 1 million on the 11th hour of November 11th.

@stentbeefclench 6 жыл бұрын

Wyatt Farmer I'll eat my hat

@wolfgang6517 4 жыл бұрын

"Chamas-te Milhais, mas vales milhões!"

@SteveMHN 6 жыл бұрын

This war started off very confusing and just becomes more and more confusing by the week.

@brokenbridge6316 4 жыл бұрын

Some of this stuff should be made into a movie. Because it's pretty darn interesting. Great job.

@gravijta936 6 жыл бұрын

I bet there is a statue of Indy at The Great War HQ. If there isn't one, there should be!

@Bird_Dog00 6 жыл бұрын

So, finaly caught up with the series. Yay! A question: There seems to be a prominent gap in the frontlines in the western front. Roughly between Basel and Bormio. Will you talk about what happend there in one way or another?

@yeeter5328 6 жыл бұрын

This was a good episode. I enjoyed. That is all.

@incestuveritas 6 жыл бұрын

You really master this theme!

@wordsmithgmxch 6 жыл бұрын

6:04: Indy, the Story-Teller: Love it!!

@Zombie_FrieZ 6 жыл бұрын

Been enjoying the whole WW1 series so far! Awesome work! What will you all be doing after November 11th? Is there a WW2 Series in the near future? Cheers!

@andreborges73 6 жыл бұрын

OH !! YOU DID IT !! La Lys ! I asked you a week or two ago. Thanks

@82dorrin 6 жыл бұрын

"Wow. I kinda fucked things up, eh?" -Gavrilo Princip, 1918

@hoangkimviet8545 6 жыл бұрын

The first I've known it. Thank you! :-0

@rat_thrower5604 6 жыл бұрын

Ohmygoodness i just remembered about Indy's new project on the Second World War which is starting very soon. Is Mediakraft getting involved in it?

@Stuka55 6 жыл бұрын

le Beast what project?

@OwonaVivienD 6 жыл бұрын

Is it starting on 01/09/2019 (exactly eighty years after the beginning of WW2)?

@tf2664 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@clashcitywannabe 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Indy and company, I have a question for out of the trenches: what do you know about Austrian conscription of Romanian citizens into their army during their occupation? Particularly minorities within Romania. The reason I'm asking is because my great Grandfather was a Romanian Jew who was conscripted into the Austrian army. During the central powers' occupation of Romania did they specifically conscript Jews because of their history of being persecuted in Romania? How did Austrian conscription in Romania work and did it focus on populations already marginalized within Romania?

@Malegys 6 жыл бұрын

The retreat to get behind Hazebroucke & to the Channel ports is like a proto Dunkirk evacuation

@doubledouble4g379 6 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man - I learn something new, I click the like button ;)

@monks311 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, June already. How time fly.

@SuperLusername 6 жыл бұрын

So sad watching Austria-Hungary die such a slow, painful death. Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser!

@sciblastofficial9833 6 жыл бұрын

Evilsamar I predict they're gonna collapse on October 31

@DeathOnSernpidal 6 жыл бұрын

It is something of a miracle that Austria-Hungary managed to last this long.

@Quickshot0 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe they didn't release the letters earlier on, as they might have still hoped that it would give them an option to peace out Austria-Hungary in case that seemed like it might be necessary. So many things changed over the years in the war after all, just burning a potential diplomatic solution for some short term gains might not seem like a good idea. Especially if as said this drove Austria-Hungary even further in to Germany's influence, as that means that you basically lose the chance to negotiate anything except with Germany itself.

@Autobotmatt428 6 жыл бұрын

You forgot to talk about the action of the 26th Infantry division.

@oOkenzoOo 6 жыл бұрын

This week, the sacrifice of the Portuguese soldiers was commemorated in France for the centennial of the battle of La Lys. www.remembrancetrails-northernfrance.com/history/nations-in-war/the-portuguese-in-the-great-war.html abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-portugal-mark-centennial-wwi-battle-54335254 france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/emission-speciale-portugais-grande-guerre-1454251.html

@TheVideomaker2341 6 жыл бұрын

GREAT VID!!! KEEP IT UP!!!!

@fatalexception1269 2 жыл бұрын

Got to make sure you hold the C and D flags when in Amiens. Also, watch out for that damn armoured train.

@robertdevito5001 6 жыл бұрын

"Have you ever thought of testing your vacuum with a blacklight? Probably not, that'd be weird..." Well, that's one way to start a video about ww1, granted it's just an ad, but still, I start off these videos by watching the ad.

@Carlton-B 6 жыл бұрын

Haig: "Each one of us must fight to the end." Okay you go first.

@Speeder76 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting: I've seen this week a movie we did about Anibal Milhais, called... you guess it, "Soldado Milhões".

@dndboy13 6 жыл бұрын

6:03 lady liberty's got some fancy moves man

@1996koke 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Indi and crew, I love your show, you have one of the most professional channels in KZfaq and I have already suscribed to "time ghost" channel, I recently saw the video about shell shock and I would like to make a school project about the subject but I need bibliography, could you give me the sources that you used for the video?

@MIRobin22 6 жыл бұрын

Once you finish this series you'll have only nine months' break before starting "the Second World War: 80 years later". But don't worry! Once you get through that you'll have almost three years off before starting "the Third World War: 10 years later"!

@sciblastofficial9833 6 жыл бұрын

MIRobin22 Nope, he's gonna do the Cold War.

@Narmatonia 4 жыл бұрын

7:32 Indy channelling his inner Rick Grimes

@Xtravia9 6 жыл бұрын

I'd love to get a statue of Indy for my birthday!

@masonponton3077 6 жыл бұрын

Love to see an episode on the Ford 3 ton M1918 tank!!

@nicholaspatton5590 6 жыл бұрын

If I were a General, having been given a statue of my kaiser on my birthday, would exclaim: "Just what I wanted!"Then proceed to fly it around through the air, making little airplane noises and pew-pew, pew.

@aureliocorrida6115 3 жыл бұрын

I had a neighbour who fought on The Battle of La Lys he used to tell me stories of that battle some he never finished he would start crying the mustard gas left him half blind and with constant cough died in his 90s they held the ground so the British could retreat they felt betrayed but still they fought on till they were wounded and run out of bullets the Germans praised the Portuguese soldiers for that,he belonged to the “Brigada do Minho”

@Valdagast 6 жыл бұрын

What did I tell you? Another stalemate is looming. The war will not end for many years yet.

@bradwatson1142 6 жыл бұрын

Indy, I saw an interesting video about teddy roosevelt winning the 1912 presidential election and its effect on the war, what are your thoughts on that what if?

@Johnnycdrums 6 жыл бұрын

As much as I hate Wilson, I'm glad Theodore Roosevelt didn't win. He was a rabid Anglophile who would have gotten us into war much earlier. Taft was the answer. Teddy's ego made Wilson possible by running as a third party which split the Republicans. Wilson won by default.

@Kilo12117 5 жыл бұрын

My Great Great Uncle Sargent Major William Heffer died in the La Lys Offensive serving with the 11th Battalion Suffolk Regiment

@Sniper_Cat_71 6 жыл бұрын

Look out, here we come. Rock of the Marne!!!

@oOkenzoOo 6 жыл бұрын

Not yet my dear friend, have patience =) Your turn will soon come this summer.

@silvioevan11 6 жыл бұрын

Thug life? No. Aníbal Milhais is Tuga life! ('Tuga' is a nickname for Portuguese - like 'Yankee', 'Canuck' etc...)

@OnajTamo 6 жыл бұрын

Can you tell us more about the green units in Austria-hungary?

@edwardcamp3376 6 жыл бұрын

Howdy y'all! Question for OOTT: I had heard that the US didn't officially join the Entente b/c of politics. Was Pershing still under Foch or was a different arrangement made? If so, how did the American public feel about US troops being under foreign command? Was it easier since the French were republicans as well? Also, thank you guys for your incredible dedication to the project. It's been and remains amazing.

@CJ87317 6 жыл бұрын

The US was a associated partner - so yeah they were never "officially" allies. Pershing still thought of Foch as his boss in some respects, but he definitely also did as he saw fit. It was a complicated arrangement and Petain had to play peacekeeper a lot since both men liked Petain, but they didn't exactly get along well with each other.

@Landsknecht89 6 жыл бұрын

I think that's a really good idea. I'll start giving statues of myself on birthdays.

@timmccarthy872 6 жыл бұрын

You say "Anibal Milhais fought so many Germans, they went around him." Sure, that speaks well of Milhais' courage - but it isn't surprising, is it? The main idea of stormtroop tactics was to bypass strong points.

@gladehartdreamer5620 6 жыл бұрын

yeah, but "strong points" are usually fortified bunkers with multiple defenders, not a single guy in a hole with a lewis gun.

@rat_thrower5604 6 жыл бұрын

Tim McCarthy I think that's the meaning, one man alone was deemed a strong point.

@matiasmakinen5028 6 жыл бұрын

"Have you taken the trenchline" "What trenchline? I dont see one" *slowly slips away*

@zecanas1 6 жыл бұрын

He did not set in a bunker waiting for them to pass by. After the first wave there was another which had portuguese soldiers serving as bait, he was already alone with another companion, he managed to save those portuguese soldiers and killed more germans in the process, after that they retreated and where surrounded, killed again more germans and saved the companions again. Its in public interviews and shown in the movie that is going out this week. If you think only your country has heroes, grow up.. war is war..

@dndboy13 6 жыл бұрын

when anibal 'soldier million' milhais reloads does he make the million dollar man sound effect?

@ReconPro 6 жыл бұрын

Hi everyone. ✋😁

@wholt242 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Great War, one question. After some study, most sources say that the French experienced slightly more casualties than the British during the spring offensive. However, the brunt of the German offensive seems to be directed at the British lines. Why did the French experience more casualties, or are my suppositions wrong.

@smal750 11 ай бұрын

they tried to save the british ig

@neilhogg1219 4 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather died in this battle on 14/4/18 .. aged 28

@raseli4066 6 жыл бұрын

1:35 did The germans have that triangel rank system in The Great war too? ? I se that on one of The soildiers there

@NiskaMagnusson 4 жыл бұрын

no wonder the Portuguese stayed out of the 2nd war, very little benefit for them to have lost so much, other than to honor their alliance with the British. We do not give them enough credit.