Indeed a good video, Spain was Napoleon first mistake but we have the advantage of hindsight today which he hadn't

Glad to see you guys continuing this series. Thanks for the react 🦞 🦞

“His conceit will be the death of him.” Oh, yes. As much as I love the guy, Napoleon was definitely his own worst enemy.

I wish EHTV had mentioned it here. After the news of the French disaster at Baylen and in Portugal, all the anti-French forces in Europe revived. Austria began mobilizing its forces. Napoleon decided to withdraw his best troops from Germany and Central Europe for a campaign in Spain, which he would lead himself. But he needed to secure his position against a possible Austrian attack. In Erfurt, a German town, a meeting was arranged between Napoleon and the Russian Czar Alexander I. Importantly, it was no longer a meeting of winner with the vanquished (as in Tilsit the year before), but negotiations between two equal players. Because of the bad situation in Spain, Napoleon had to accept that now Russia would also defend its interests. After difficult negotiations, the Russian-French alliance was confirmed, Russia accepted the role of mediator between France and Britain, and also undertook to enter the war against Austria on the side of France. Napoleon, in turn, was forced to reduce the astronomical contribution from Prussia and withdraw his troops from this country (except for a few strongholds). Napoleon's rear was secured for a time and he went to Spain. The treaty at Erfurt soon gave up. Napoleon never withdrew his troops from Prussia, and Russia only formally participated in the coming war with Austria.

Sir Arthur Wellesley also known as Duke of Wellington was one of the best British generals. He started his early career in India where he defeated British's biggest nemesis Tipu Sultan. It was Tipu who innovated the Missiles. He innovated Mysorean rockets which was one of the first of its kind. Later British adopted this technique and called it Congreve Rockets. You can see a poster in NASA about Mysore Rockets fired from Tipu's fort.

Napoleon wanted to conquer Spain and impose his brother as king. His ignorance of Spain was fabulous.

The British army arrived to assist the spanish but when they arrived the spainish resistance had just been crushed and they were being chased by an army more than double their size. I think it was absolutely justifiable that they had to retreat.

“That’s a movie I’d like to see.” There aren’t enough movies about the Napoleonic Wars. We need more of them.

I can't wait to see the next one

Would love to see you react to the history of Russia from the same channel. Its really well done and it explains a lot on why that region was always unstable.

Well, the influence of the Frenchs in Spain was 0. Only 2 years of invasion. Anyway France and Spain have things in common. Like food and buildings. The relationship betwen Frenchs and Spanishs is not the best.

Nice reaction man. Looking forward to future napoleonic war videos. Also how's your health condition man.

Historian Oleg Sokolov conducted a study that showed that the average height of the French army was about 165 cm. And this despite the fact that not everyone was taken into the army, that is, people below a certain height were not taken, that is, the average growth of the population of France was even lower.

Thanks to Napoleon my country became independent.

You mean," The enemy of my enemy is my friend?"

When losing is Spain ... invade Russia too!

History of russia by epic history tv is very good :)