The Battle of Lissa - Incompetence Persanofied

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5 ай бұрын

No that is not a typo.
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@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Slight ammendment, I said Kaiser was the 'Only wooden ship to fight Ironclads'. I should have said 'Only wooden ship of the line to fight and win against Ironclads'

@derrickstorm6976 5 ай бұрын

A pretty important amendment lol

@danfruzzetti7604 5 ай бұрын

but also titles it with "persanofied"

@ColinWrubleski-eq5sh 4 ай бұрын

Anyone who accuses other people of being incompetent, but then types the not-existent word "persanofied" in his video title, is truly someone who sucks sloughwater...

@artoriastheabysswalker 4 ай бұрын

@@ColinWrubleski-eq5sh Have you considered that 'Persanofied' is by no means a mistake, but a conscious pun on the name of the Italian commander in the battle this video is about?

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

Mate you'd be amazed at how many people haven't picked up that it is wordplay. Even with the first line of the description

@mikevismyelement 5 ай бұрын

Dude is literally me trying to figure out the naval mechanics in HOI4

@Spiderfisch 5 ай бұрын

History of everything makes a video about Naval incompetence and the russians arent involved?

@thejudgmentalcat 5 ай бұрын

TIL my Italian ancestors were about as incompetent at naval battle as the Russians 😂

@derrickstorm6976 5 ай бұрын

Russians studied Battle of Lissa for decades to perfect their art!

@TrollOfReason 5 ай бұрын

La Russia moderna vorrebbe poter raggiungere l’apice dell’incompetenza a Lissa! Una stupidità di così vasta portata, un'arte così idiota! - è al di là dei consanguinei di Mosca. Lissa era così stupida da influenzare il design della corazzata! Tutti ridono della marina russa.

@TrollOfReason 5 ай бұрын

When you're so dumb that you influence battleship design for decades... you might be Italian. When you're so bad at maintaining your stuff that the lower decks are prolly infested by SCPs... you're just Russian.

@nickwilson7796 5 ай бұрын

I know, I'm also inconsolable

@mikemullen8174 4 ай бұрын

'No Fleet will ever make a worse showing' Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron, 'Hold my beer'.

@fourthknower9831 4 ай бұрын

Which one is that?

@flickcentergaming680 4 ай бұрын

@@fourthknower9831 the Russo-Japanese War of the early 1900's was an absolute DISASTER for the Russians. Start by watching "The Russian Navy SUCKS Part 1". It gets wacky..

@fourthknower9831 4 ай бұрын

Oh it's that one. I'm quite aware. to be fair to the 2nd "Pacific" Squadron, their ships were NOT meant to work anywhere in the Pacific. They were meant for the northern European seas. Sure it's arguable how many of them actually could fight, but they were sent on something that was always going to be a farce In contrast the Italians are in their home seas. Which makes it far worse. @@flickcentergaming680

@mikeprimm4077 4 ай бұрын

hijinks ensue

@KRDecade2009 3 ай бұрын

Do you see torpedo boats?

@Telsion 5 ай бұрын

Alfontadore trying and failing to ram the Kaiser repeatedly has '406 suffers failure on launch again' vibes

@arthas640 Ай бұрын

It's insane anyone thought that was a good idea. Sailing boats had pretty much gotten to the point where ramming as a dedicated or primary function was pretty much totally outdated around the time cannons became a thing, it was done into the modern age as a secondary role or as an act of desperation or to exploit a sudden opportunity. Building a steam powered ram was just dumb, especially since early steam ships were still pretty slow and in some cases still slower then sailing ships. Making the short range assault ship your flagship is just insane

@TheBrandon40500 5 ай бұрын

I agree with you 100% that the Austrian Tegetthoff class battleships are some of the coolest of all time. Something about its simplicity and those triple turrets just make it look so powerful and downright awesome. One of these days I will build a model of one of them.

@egoalter1276 5 ай бұрын

They look ljke somethimg a dwarf would make.

@TheBrandon40500 5 ай бұрын

Are you high?@@egoalter1276

@pavelslama5543 4 ай бұрын

With armor made in Vítkovice foundries and turrets made Škoda Pilsen, they are to this day the pinnacle of Czech naval heritage.

@mikhailiagacesa3406 4 ай бұрын

The triple super firing turrets were revolutionary. Why I like the Pennsylvania's and New Mexico's.

@ALEXANDER1318 2 ай бұрын

There's a very nice model in the National Technical Museum in Prague. www.google.com/maps/place/National+Technical+Museum/@50.09758,14.4247827,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPMiFvk-nf9bxRd21Od6co2awnFt19GC3EQ0-I0!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPMiFvk-nf9bxRd21Od6co2awnFt19GC3EQ0-I0%3Dw203-h151-k-no!7i4000!8i2992!4m7!3m6!1s0x470b94c4641f1bb1:0x1227b94335120fff!8m2!3d50.0973756!4d14.4249052!10e5!16zL20vMGdsYjQz?authuser=0&entry=ttu

@CommissarMitch 5 ай бұрын

Ok so swapping flagship would be a good strategy to throw the enemies off. However step 2 is to relay this to your fleet.

@bryant7201 5 ай бұрын

Every time you said "SMS Drache" I thought of a certain naval historian streamer.😂

@TheSchultinator 5 ай бұрын

"No record exists on whether Teghethoff found a jar of silver paint, slathered it under his mustache, and declared [Witness me!], but I rather like to think that's the case" 😂

@The_ZeeT 5 ай бұрын

It is somewhat hard to follow, when ships are counted down at the beginning. Adding a graphic to visualize number of ships and their names, could be a big improvement

@SirDarthDragon 5 ай бұрын

The hardest blow of the battle was delivered by Tegetoff only after the had ended: The Italian kingdom kept claiming to have sunk SMS Kaiser during the battle to save face. So Tegethoff threw an international dinnerparty onboard the Kaiser. He even Invited many officers of the Italian Navy (who declined to attend). To his protest Tegethoff was reprimanded for this rouge diplomacy. Also the relative overperformance of the austrians isn't fully suprising - attracting only men of passion since the actual glory and career was understood to be made in the army. As opposed the Italian side where navy positions were sought after as political springboards. Both from: Große Seeschlachten : Wendepunkte der Weltgeschichte von Salamis bis Skagerrak / Arne Karsten ; Olaf B. Rader , Munich, 2013

@atomichobbit7358 5 ай бұрын

I never heard of this battle so I looked it up. Saw it involved Italy and my first thought was, “well, that makes sense.”

@Mamorufumio 5 ай бұрын

Yeah Italy really fell far from their glory of Rome

@michaelmoorrees3585 5 ай бұрын

Drachinifel covered this battle, a couple of years ago. It was a comedy on the water, due to the Italian lack of performance. Mostly due to their incompetent leader.

@Italian_Military_Archives 5 ай бұрын

Sadly, english sources are quite lacking on what happened...the story is a bit more complex: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbZ8htagnN3IeKs.htmlsi=tbgZ38rC-xAm_qHF

@atomichobbit7358 5 ай бұрын

@@Italian_Military_Archives sure enough but let’s just say that Italian military history is not exactly something to be proud of. From the miserable performance creating an African empire to the “genius” of Luigi Cadorna, a man who hated hi soldiers so much he starved them and reinstated decimation, to the incompetence of the Italian invasion of Greece, Italian military history is synonymous with the phrase “lions led by donkeys.”

@Italian_Military_Archives 5 ай бұрын

@@atomichobbit7358 certainly, but I prefer to go deeper at the roots and causes of certain events instead of using simplistic phrases or long-told myths.

@vidogams 5 ай бұрын

The HMS Dreadnought also only sank one enemy vessel, a submarine, that she rammed.

@hawlitakerful 5 ай бұрын

Bunga bunga

@secretbaguette 5 ай бұрын

Didn't she do it accidentally too?

@vidogams 5 ай бұрын

@@secretbaguette according to the wiki it was intentional and the only time in history a battleship intentionally destroyed a submarine.

@secretbaguette 5 ай бұрын

@@vidogams Whoops

@Packless1 4 ай бұрын

@@hawlitakerful 😉😁👍

@Gewehr_36 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact : after annexed Austria the German plan to name one of Hipper class heavy cruiser “Tegetthoff” but later change the name to “Prinz Eugen” to avoid upsetting Mussolini

@SeveralWeezelsInaTrenchcoat 5 ай бұрын

A video about the italo-turkish war would be cool, it was the first war that saw the use of planes first as scouts and later as bombers

@legoeasycompany 5 ай бұрын

I always love hearing about the Battle of Lissa, perfect example of how incompetence at the top snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Also at 19:23 I hope you misspoke on the wooden warship and meant wooden ship of the line because there's several others who can claim that "honor" albeit slightly less well off than SMS Kaiser.

@7deEspadas 5 ай бұрын

yeah, just in my country the pathetic wooden schooner Covadonga, won against the Ironclad Independencia in the battle of Punta Gruesa

@Dilley_G45 4 ай бұрын

@@7deEspadasnever heard about it. Make a video about it 😆

@Shaun_Jones 4 ай бұрын

Yea, the American PT boats would like to have a word about that.

@Hatzi89 5 ай бұрын

Iron men on wooden ships beat wooden men on iron ships

@CaptainColdyron222 4 ай бұрын

Tegetthoff was also supposed to be the name of a German Hipper class heavy cruiser. However since the Germans didn’t want to insult their Italian allies with a ship named after Tegetthoff they changed her name to Prinz Eugen. That’s how there was a German warship named after a French prince who fought for the Austrian army.

@HoppouChan 3 ай бұрын

notably, Eugen von Savoyen was, as the name implies, also closely related to Italy, what with being from a collateral line of House Savoy

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 27 күн бұрын

Prince Eugen is the only naval.name that can be found in three navies (British Royal Navy, German Kaiser/Reich/Kriegsmarine, and the Italian Regina Marina) and used for one exact purpose (anti-French sentiment)...

@HoppouChan 27 күн бұрын

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Technically Prinz Eugen kept her name after being transferred to the US Navy too

@FrakkinGaiusBaltar 5 ай бұрын

*we're getting out of the Adriatic with this one!*

@NickJohnCoop 5 ай бұрын

As soon as I heard that the Austrians were diligent about their training I knew who was going to win the battle. What is it about certain commanders that think that you don't need to bother about one of the most important things about being in a military?

@Funkaheltok 5 ай бұрын

Training demands effort, that’s why. People are lazy

@aleale6277 4 ай бұрын

Noble or patrician admirals and generals who bought their command, probably

@jedimindtrix2142 2 ай бұрын

@aleale6277 This is right here. It was an era of aristocratic swag, my man. Competence be damned!

@mikoto7693 Ай бұрын

I had similar thoughts at that point. Admittedly I don’t know too much about military history but generally speaking having highly trained soldiers and well maintained vehicles and equipment gives that side a HUGE advantage.

@derekputz8568 5 ай бұрын

I had to do a double-take as the thumbnail genuinely looked like you dressed up Lord HardThrasher in a clownsuit!

@deaks25 4 ай бұрын

The Italian fleet survived the encounter with the rabid, rage-filled, feather-spitting Kaiser, so it probably could be counted as a victory.

@marcusott2973 5 ай бұрын

I filmed a documentary about Lissa with Gerhard Tötschinger, for Austrian TV, it was full of possibly incorrect quotes, and light on details. I got to spend a week in spring in Croatia, so I'm not complaining, but really looking forward to your take on it. And how you pronounce, Tegettoff, that name is hard for non native speakers, tripped up Drach in his video. 😂😂

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

I just accept that I've done it wrong 🤣

@marcusott2973 5 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel "Hölzern die Schiffe, eisern die Herzen!" Translation Wooden ships, hearts of iron.

@Hatzi89 5 ай бұрын

Dont sell yourself short, your pronounciation was very good

@marcusott2973 5 ай бұрын

@@Hatzi89 it was indeed very good.

@Italian_Military_Archives 5 ай бұрын

@@marcusott2973 here i put together a story of the Lissa campaign, which goes a bit more in depth: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbZ8htagnN3IeKs.htmlsi=tbgZ38rC-xAm_qHF

@stekra3159 5 ай бұрын

The last hura of the KUK Navey

@squeaky206 4 ай бұрын

They would have some moments after in World War I, but never again on the scale of Lissa.

@TravelerZ24 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Mr history guy. Hope things have been nice down there.

@EA0700 5 ай бұрын

Ok, so, this is pretty fucking bizarre… I was literally having a think and quite a few chuckles about this battle earlier today, particularly concerning the bit about how nobody seemed to really know what the fuck happened to SMS Kaiser! Then you go ahead and post this, thank you! Love your content too!

@Echo2-2 5 ай бұрын

I have heard of this battle before. However, I have never found a video that covered it until now. Excellent work! Also, congratulations on reaching 40k!

@alessandroiorio6248 4 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbZ8htagnN3IeKs.html

@adamfrazer5150 4 ай бұрын

I think a video on 'Accidental Victories' would suit your style and vicious sense of humour 👍😎🍻

@anno-fw7xn 5 ай бұрын

Ther is so much history to learn thanks for the video!

@DepartmentOfResults 5 ай бұрын

A great video, as usual.

@zallia_ 5 ай бұрын

Another amazing video, thank you! Would love to see some more maps though

@kylemoffat1258 4 ай бұрын

Excellent mate!

@silentdrew7636 5 ай бұрын

The firing blanks bit suggests the Italians weren't doing live fire exercises. You find similar situations with US Civil War battlefields where there were rifles found with multiple powdet and shots loaded and unfired in them.

@snapdragon6601 5 ай бұрын

I heard that before too but now I wonder if that was really true. I could understand it maybe if they were just pouring the lead shot down the barrel out of a container before using the ramrod to push it down, but it turns out that usually the cartridges were already made with the proper amount of gun powder and lead ball wrapped in paper that they would tear the end off with their teeth before pouring the powder down the barrel and then ramming the ball down the barrel with the ram rod. When thinking about the cartridges made like this, it seems like it would be very unlikely, no matter how nervous they might be while under fire, to ram multiple lead balls down the barrels without realizing it. The only other reason I could think of as to why someone might do that in a battle was if they were wanting to look busy in front of their officers during a battle but too afraid to move out from behind cover and expose themselves to enemy fire. 🤷

@supremecaffeine2633 5 ай бұрын

@@snapdragon6601 It should also be noted that the rifles used needed to be cleaned at least twice every 40 rounds to prevent jamming. It was also mentioned that most of the cartridges were found to be intact when loaded, increasing the chances of jamming.

@loyalpiper 5 ай бұрын

You should do a video on the 2 battles of Algeciras

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

It's on my very long list

@owainlloyddavies7107 4 ай бұрын

Got to correct you on something; ramming wasn't never used again successfully, don't forget, HSM Dreadnought rammed and sank a U-Boat being the first sinking of a military naval vessel of the first world war

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

I would argue semantically that ramming submarines isn't the same as a fleet engagement. It's very circumstantial

@owainlloyddavies7107 4 ай бұрын

@HistoryofEverythingChannel true, but it's also fair to say not having a chance to ram is also circumstantial Either way very entertaining video btw

@scotfield3950 5 ай бұрын

Thank you well done!

@peterestrada9420 5 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’ve ever Laughed, so much, during a: “history lesson”🤣😂🤣🤙 Keep up the great production’s😉🙏

@meglukes 4 ай бұрын

Is History of Everything that people enjoy videos about incompetence so much?

@nephilimorder9622 5 ай бұрын

Great video, love learning about lesser known naval battles especially from such an interesting time period.

@robertmills8640 5 ай бұрын

Excellent 👍

@CowMaster9001 5 ай бұрын

Flagship Naming conventions: British: Our navy has a long and glorious history of ships to honor with a newer ship of the same name. France: We have many fine Republican heroes to name ships after. Austria: We bring honor to our modern Caesar with a ship bearing his name. Italy: Dis boat gonna sink a lotta a da enemy boats so we calla her _The Sinker_

@secretbaguette 5 ай бұрын

OH WAIT OH FUCK THE SINKER IS SINKING WE DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT

@pavelslama5543 4 ай бұрын

Although the only ship that The Sinker ever sunk was itself...

@farnow01 5 ай бұрын

I hope the next video is going to be the Battle of Sara! and then the Battle of Jenny!

@TiocfaidhArLa34 Ай бұрын

This is me in Total War Empire naval battles. I found the best strategy is to run straight into the enemy formation and then command your ships to just turn in circles over and over. it looks and seems absolutely stupid but somehow it works.

@BNRmatt 5 ай бұрын

Did anyone else wonder briefly why he dressed Hardthrasher up as a clown?

@RedDotChiliPepper96 5 ай бұрын

Until yesterday I thought it was going to be a Hard Thrasher video, until I looked closer.🤣

@pietrovezzaro1530 5 ай бұрын

Glad to learn what the italian navy did. Beacuse in our history lessons when read and learn than the lose big, but not why. Also a question. Will it ever be a series, like "the russian navy", abaout the "mediterranean shenanigans"? From here, the battle of Lissa, to the cold war ship design of italy and France

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Probably not, but I'm working on a very long series about the formation of Italy

@pietrovezzaro1530 5 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel okay, very interesting. If I may ask what do you think is the end, thus the formation of "THE italian people"? Might be strange question and spoil me the serie (although I will watch it). But the creation of the state and the apparatus dosen't make the people. There's an suggestion of the historian Barbero that a possible "date", where we could say was the start of the italians, was at the defeat at Caporetto in WW1. But, in my limited knowledge, I would say that the real moment where tha population became italian was at the referendum of 1946, with the universal suffrage of men and women to decide whether they wanted to continue with the monarchy or a full democracy. I don't belive it was the decision to became democracy but the vote in its self, the fact that it was the first time women could vote. And the result of the vote helped move the sedimentacion of the italian people

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

That question of the "end" of risorgimento is something I'll be examining in itself because it is really complex

@veritusahriman9720 5 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel Look forward to watching it!

@anzaca1 3 ай бұрын

7:49 He almost certainly did. Trafalgar had only occured about 60 years prior, recent enough to still be well-known in naval circles.

@notusneo 5 ай бұрын

Does battle of Mona exist out there? Genuinely curious

@sirfredrin6302 5 ай бұрын

Oh no…. A video about boats! My only weakness!

@WriteInAaronBushnell 5 ай бұрын

Did the Sms Hapsburg take one on the chin?

@sifangwuhai 5 ай бұрын

Wooden men of iron ships defeated by wooden ships of iron men.

@bumblingbureaucrat6110 5 ай бұрын

Well said my friend

@SeveralWeezelsInaTrenchcoat 5 ай бұрын

That quote is fake and was invented by a french newspaper

@derrickstorm6976 5 ай бұрын

Poorly said my friend; as always Italian soldiers (this time sailors) were well trained but in incredibly poorly lead. Only wooden parts the Italians had were the heads of two out of the three heads of the admirals

@SeveralWeezelsInaTrenchcoat 5 ай бұрын

@@derrickstorm6976 to be fair the other 2 admirals were good it was just Persano that fucked up, also there were communication problems on the italian ships because Italy was just united and the crew were mixed from different regions that spoke different dialects so they couldn't understand what they were saying

@sifangwuhai 5 ай бұрын

@@derrickstorm6976 ok thanks

@vidowski_airsoft 5 ай бұрын

When I saw Drachinifel make video about Lissa I was like yooo. But then it was only 15 min. Then I saw this video :D priceless

@joeyates3909 2 ай бұрын

it would be nice to have some visuals to assist with the explanations in positions

@basilmcdonnell9807 4 ай бұрын

Bit of foreshadowing to know the name of the Austrian admiral was later the name of a battleship.

@CommissarMitch 5 ай бұрын

War is Tech and Tactics. Which would make a fun board game.

@Gameomaster-vv1cx 5 ай бұрын

What happened to the affontador?

@RedXlV 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Affondatore was originally designed to have no guns at all, and rely *solely* on ramming. During construction, somebody realized that was really fucking stupid and altered the design to include a pair of turrets, each containing a 9" Armstrong gun.

@SheilaTheAussie 5 ай бұрын

this is gonna be gud

@RedDotChiliPepper96 5 ай бұрын

Great video! I have to say, though everytime the Italian national anthem is in the background I can't concentrate on whats being said. Might be because it's so catchy.

@tobiasfreitag2182 5 ай бұрын

I mainly hear the Radetzki March in the background and find that kinda disteacting because it is so catchy😂

@RedDotChiliPepper96 5 ай бұрын

@@tobiasfreitag2182 that as well 🤣

@cyberfutur5000 5 ай бұрын

I thought the guy in the thumbnail was our dear Lord Hardthrasher in a costume. And this will be some sort of stage play, starring him as guest star :S

@EricDKaufman 5 ай бұрын

Persanofied... I see what you did there

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

It is incredible how many heads this is going over

@darthmaul5413 5 ай бұрын

Battle of Lissa (1811) or Battle of Lissa (1866)

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

1866

@Legitpenguins99 6 күн бұрын

What?! Your telling me that the politician was a shitty admiral?! I'm shocked and offended 🙀

@roland228 2 ай бұрын

At first, I thought Persanofied was a misspelling.

@plymouthruckingberg3479 4 ай бұрын

I don't know what is funnier, hearing how bad the Italians dodged up on their side of the battle or the vibing Persano clips. Always great to hear this silly stories of people having loose screws in their heads, especially those that aren't Russian focused.

@FireOccator 2 ай бұрын

When your fleet is run like a grocery chain.

@user-ns7tk9mr2b 4 ай бұрын

During the ACW there were several times when wooden ships fought ironcalds - Virginia vs Congress and Cumberland and several wooden ships vs the Albemarle, so woodend ships did fight ironclands but I don't think any as well as the Kaiser

@user-ns7tk9mr2b 4 ай бұрын

Please ignore I missed his correction

@R005t3r 2 ай бұрын

Let us hope that the presently well equipped Italian military has learned from it's inglorious 19th and 20th century antics.

@mazeman5637 5 ай бұрын

What song plays at the beginning

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser

@mazeman5637 5 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel thanks

@eastromangaming1033 5 ай бұрын

Good ole Italian military stories

@endermarine1686 5 ай бұрын

can you do something on american civil war naval battles?

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Intend to do something on CSS Alabama

@michaelnewman5734 5 ай бұрын

Might have benefited from some animation of the battle in motion. Not wanting to downplay your narration but only so much you can portray .

@charleslarrivee2908 5 ай бұрын

"Viva San Marco!"--the Venetian sailers aboard SMS Kaiser.

@anzaca1 3 ай бұрын

13:10 Very much like Yamato at the Battle of Samar.

@anzaca1 3 ай бұрын

15:06 To be fair to the Italians, ramming is much, much harder to do than people might think.

@LordBathtub 5 ай бұрын

Just so you know lads you've misspelled "Personified"

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Read the description

@LordBathtub 5 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel ahh I see

@sifangwuhai 5 ай бұрын

If anyone asked, Persano was the Italian admiral there.

@menwaralanazi47 4 ай бұрын

personified !!

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

N o

@spacelemur7955 4 ай бұрын

Great self-own. "Incompetence persanofied" Persanofied!!!

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

You've never heard of wordplay have you? There's still time to delete this

@spacelemur7955 4 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel Fess up to an error with grace, and move on. Treat it as an opportunity to proofread better. There's no need to be just another KZfaqr with poor spelling and poor punctuation, when getting these right make you look like a pro. Your channel is pretty good on the whole, and I like that you cover more obscure events too. 🍻

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

It's not an error. Hence the description, title, and thumbnail... Again, wordplay. If you're not a native English speaker, I get it. But it is intentional.

@CanadianDolphinSurf 4 ай бұрын

@@spacelemur7955 ' > The Joke \ / You >

@alexwinfield9540 3 ай бұрын

@@spacelemur7955 hey are you still an idiot?

@silentdrew7636 5 ай бұрын

I remember hearing that Italy joined Bismarck fighting the Austrians to try and get Venice, but never looked into it. This is neat.

@Dilley_G45 4 ай бұрын

It was more important for Austria to hate Prussia than to defend the Southern Border and they paid a hefty price for that

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

I mean not really considering they won at the Battle of Custoza pretty handidly

@egoalter1276 5 ай бұрын

Albeeni. Italian is pronounced as written, an i is always pronounced ee, never as eye.

@Blackgriffonphoenixg 5 ай бұрын

Am clicking this to see if misspelling personified is part of the joke

@7deEspadas 5 ай бұрын

Dude, just in the Nitrate War saw a wooden Shooner winning against an Ironclad and another Ironclad ramming a corvette, and that's from 1879, years after Lissa

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

I'm aware. Hence the pinned comment.

@ONI_002 2 ай бұрын

ramming was very much still used in both world wars, but very rarely and circumstantially, not ass a battle tactic

@chronicmaster7689 3 ай бұрын

I’m not that learned on the austro Italian war, but considering the Italian navy’s other ‘exploits’ I didn’t have much hope for them

@kkupsky6321 2 ай бұрын

Steve abini?

@Warpcaller 5 ай бұрын

Very NelSONIC... Austrian fleet: I gotta go fast!

@bassetdad437 4 ай бұрын

Is your caption error intentional? Incompetence Persanofied? Do you mean Incompetence Personified?

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

It is an intentional pun yes

@RM61827 Ай бұрын

I think there’s a typo in the title “Persanofied”

@kai990 5 ай бұрын

jeez, australia contested venezia?

@TheAustrianAnimations87 5 ай бұрын

Prussia: Beats the crap out of Austria Italy: Somehow loses 2 ironclads to an inferior Austrian navy

@geordiedog1749 4 ай бұрын

Nelsonian. “Nelsonic” is kinda cool though:)

@martinchamberlain542 4 ай бұрын

Sorry, but did you mean “personified “ or did I miss something?

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 4 ай бұрын

You did

@alexwinfield9540 3 ай бұрын

Did you watch the video? Because that would probably help you not look like an idiot, but if you did and still don't get it, the admiral was called Persano, so it is word play, get it?

@martinchamberlain542 3 ай бұрын

@@alexwinfield9540 I apologise, but I don’t think you need to be so personal when attacking me.

@astridvallati4762 4 ай бұрын

An Italian comment on the Incompetence of Italian Fleet Officers: Navi di Ferro, Teste di Legno! Iron Ships, Wooden Heads!

@Ploxtifs_OldAndDeadAccountXD 2 ай бұрын

Mama mia!!!

@hobbitomm 5 ай бұрын

I think the ram was used again. HMS Dreadnought sank a U boat by ramming

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Dreadnought wasn't fitted with a ram. It just sorta did it

@toawing 2 ай бұрын

Ok I doubted that much could top the Russians, but the Italians gave it a good go. If I had to pick one thing to question, how do you forgot to actually load your guns with anything besides gunpowder?

@Ballin4Vengeance 5 ай бұрын

The first and last time the AH navy did… well anything of note.

@riograndedosulball248 5 ай бұрын

They were hampered by geography in WW1, to get out of the Adriatic would be to fall directly into the arms of the Royal Navy, the French navy and the Italian navy all combined. But along the coasts of the Adriatic they called the shots. The KuK Navy harassed Italy throughout the whole war

@alessandroiorio6248 4 ай бұрын

The Allied navies too were hampereed by the geography of the western Adriatic coast which is unsuitable for the construction of major ports. There were battleships only in Venice (which was very close to the front), and the other extreme Brìndisi (which was very far and just meant to bolster the Otranto barrage). The Kriegsmarine never called the shots, they were purely a fleet in being, and never harassed anyone with surface vessels in any meaningful way. The only exceptions being the day-one bombardment around Ancona (nice win for AH but irrelevant), and Horthy's attack on the Otranto barrage (again nice but just a small show). They instead lost three battleships and some other minor vessels. Their only relevant effort was the use of submarines which passed through the barrage, and the Allied ASW technology wasn't good enough to stop them anyway.

@JamesLeeuwen Ай бұрын

So it was a Trafalgar 2.0 with a more incompetent villnueve and crazier crew

@IsaacCarmichael 5 ай бұрын

Umm he said it was the only wooden ship to fight an iron clad. What about the US civil war? Am i missing something?

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I should've said "ship of the line to fight and win against ironclads"

@silentdrew7636 5 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannelor "the only ship of the line to defeat an ironclad". Would probably sound better.

@slavkovalsky1671 5 ай бұрын

Is that the sound of a thousand angry Austrians typing angrily about the wrong national anthem?

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

It's the correct one actually

@535phobos 5 ай бұрын

I think its the austrian Kaiserhymne (the anthem for the Kaiser). The melody was later used for the Deutschlandlied, but if you listen carefully you hear different lyrics.

@slavkovalsky1671 5 ай бұрын

@@HistoryofEverythingChannelGood to know! (starts wiping egg off face, gives up)

@HistoryofEverythingChannel 5 ай бұрын

Meh it's fine to be wrong. I made a mistake in this video