Suddenly you know exactly how the Romans must have felt at The Teutoburg Forest.

English? About 1/3 of the British army was Irish. Then you've got the Scots regiments, the Kings German Legion, the Black Brunswickers and the Dutch and Belgian troops. It truly was an allied army.

@@LoudaroundLincoln “British” is the word you are looking for. The British infantry was arguably the finest in the world at that time. Napoleon was warned of this by his Peninsular veterans, but chose to scoff.

@@LoudaroundLincolnOh, shut up! The Frogs called them ‘English’, anyway.

Imagine for a second that the British forces were in square and getting hammered by French cannon and wave after wave of French cavalry!

you're right my man, although it's crazy that in ww1 it was the absolute opposite, there was in fact a huge gap in the german imperial army/navy between officers and soldiers

people think that napoleon feared the country of prussia, which he didn’t he just feared to be outnumbered, because Prussia wasn’t alone...

napoleon saved his people and also considered his soldiers his sons

@@AlxzAlec Napoleon was an Italian and believed himself to be a descendent of Julius Caesar. He was born on Corsica. He wasn't French and destroyed France in his mad quest to recreate the Roman Empire. He invaded Egypt because Caesar invaded Egypt, and he invaded Russia because ' Tsar ' is Russian for ' Caesar ' and he didn't want a rival to the claim of Emperor in his new Roman Empire. He did nothing for France except bring death and destruction. If you don't believe me, look up the portraits he commissioned. He had himself painted as Caesar. ;-)

@@johnlepant6953 Didn’t he invade Russia because they broke the treaty saying: don’t trade with England they’re a bunch of poopoo heads. I may have changed the language a bit but you get what I mean

Or in French “Oh Merde!!!!”

*WW1* France : ahh shit here we go again fighting germany

Happy to be scottish and prussian

@@supaidaman8071 Bruh Germany had no chance to win against all of those nations thats why Germany lost

@@supaidaman8071 More like franco-prussian war.

Mehdi Belacel Think you forgot a lot of zeros there XD

150%*

Actually 200%, the Swedish had 150%

150%

1000000%*

people think that napoleon feared the country of prussia, which he didn’t he just feared to be outnumbered, because Prussia wasn’t alone...

When your veterans have been held by a hastily arranged Anglo-Dutch army for so long that the Prussians arrive to strike the death blow*

@@robholloway6829 uh oh we have a historian here. shut up its a joke

@@Ms_Vylet kid you shut up

"Für König und Vaterland" is the precise wording :-)

Blücher crosses the Rhine: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/isCZq5WCr827hYU.html

That title goes to the legend Erwin Rommel

@@baileywood6490 But Rommel wasn't liked. Blücher was...

He had Gneisenau.... this was the genius strategist

@baz, you are right! Blücher must've been an absolutely amazing personality. It has been said that he was one of very few military leaders who wasn't afraid of having to face Napoleon, whom he hated with a vengeance. But Blücher's passion wasn't indiscriminate warmongering! He hated Napoleon because of the endless cycle of wars in Europe which needed to be stopped. It has been said that Blücher wasn't a great military strategist. But Blücher was aware of his own limitations, and he was smart enough to surround himself with able assistents like Gneisenau, who was a great expert in modern warfare. I think that Blücher and his Prussians were very important for the victory of the alliance! It was actually a miracle that the Prussians showed up on the battlefield at all! Two days earlier they had been seriously mauled by Napoleon at Ligny, and Blücher had been left for dead under his dead horse. Napoleon was convinced that he had eliminated the Prussians from the competition, and that they would retreat eastwards, never to be seen again. But Blücher's mangled body was salvaged and revived, and he managed to convince his very tired and mostly very young soldiers, that quitting wasn't an option. Blücher said that Napoleon needed to be stopped, and he had promised his friend Wellington that he would be there. This promise couldn't be broken! And since his soldiers respected their old leader so much, they were willing to follow him one more time. Blücher said:"My children, you say it's impossible - but there is no other way!" As we know, the Prussians did not retreat eastwards, but they regrouped orderly. It must've been a ghastly surprise for Napoleon when he realized two days later that the soldiers who slowly appeared on the horizon and moved inexorably towards the battlefield, were the Prussians and not the French contingent of his General Grouchy who should have finished the Prussians off! Blücher was already 72 years old in 1815. But had been chosen as the military leader of the Prussians because he was passionate, respected and loved by his soldiers - and he was indeed the right man. It's a pity that all adaptations treat Blücher as a minor figure. But he was hands down the most colourful personality, and great actors would've a field day with old Blücher's character.

Yes that's exactly what I thought!!!!

I think the battle of Vienna is more accurate for that, but this comes close.

I agree Ryan

@@ryanmerlino1003 Incorrect. Tolkien was a medievalist. The Ride of the Rohirrim was Heinrich I.'s and Otto I.'s so-called "Panzerreiterei" re-imagined. Those formations were legendary and the first German king (Heinrich) and the first German emperor (Otto) utilized it to defeat the Vikings and the Magyars (Hungarians). Until the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus on April 5th, 1242 the German Panzerreiterei was undefeated on any battlefield. Only the appearance of the low bow ended the era of those formations.

It makes me frustrated that the English forgot their old ally on the continent and united against the Germans with their rivals France and Russia. If there's a word I can use to describe the English it's opportunists.

@@xunqianbaidu6917 I'm not German if that's what you mean.

@Markus Buelow Mhhh interesting, from which branch of the von Bülow bloodline are you?

You rather should be ashamed to have anything common with this loathsome, murderous coward.

@@xunqianbaidu6917 Lmao what are you?

Actually the extras were Soviet troops and marched just so. It was one of the goofs of the movie.

@@briannaghten2201 They were trained in french marching formations

@@briannaghten2201 Eastern front was just domestic abuse by the father land and mother land England and the us was the divorce lawyer

Yeah. They were disgraced during 1806, Nationalism rose. Obviously

It was personal. Von Blucher was the cavalry commander at Jena-Auerstadt when Bonaparte crushed the Prussians. Leipzig the year before and Waterloo were revenge. The Prussians were pursuing nothing less than a restoration of their national honor.

He wasn't a corporal.

​@@anthonyhorne5851 "The Little Corporal" was a common nickname given to Napoleon.

@@byzantineJesusLov3R I know he was called that. He trained in the artillery and was made a Brigadier General.

@@anthonyhorne5851 So what? It was just a nickname, and it was British propaganda.

@@aTf2SoldierMain "the little corporal" nickname was given to him by his own troops, iirc. the word "little" in this nick has more affectionate, friendly manner, since napoleon was able to fraternize with his troops. but yes, calling napoleon short n small (in literal context) is indeed british propaganda.

What do you mean with finished Grouchy? Grouchy was fighting one Prussian army corps at the Battle of Wavre at the same time as the Battle of Waterloo happened. What Grouchy didn’t know was that Blücher in the meantime marched with the bulk of his army (three army corps with around 50.000 soldiers) towards Waterloo. Thus whilst the French won the Battle of Wavre (about 33.000 French vs. 24.000 Prussians) as the Prussians in the end retreated the day after the battle of Waterloo, it was a strategic victory for the allies as those 33.000 French troops couldn’t help Napoleon at Waterloo. After Grouchy learned of the defeat at Waterloo he retreated back to France with his army. At Wavre the Prussians lost about 3.200 soldiers and the French 2.200.

You can thank the French government.

And they actually made it to Paris

300 years +

You guys need to comeback, most of european countries is not inhabited by european blood anymore instead immigrants blood.

@@Made_In_Heavenn we don't need to come back we never left Europe iam 50%prussian and 50%dutch

Prussian is a culture, not an ethnicity

@@thorstenmarquardt7274 Indeed: "All religions are equal and good as long as the people practising them are honest people. And if Turks and Heathens should come and want to populate the land, we should build for them mosques and churches." - Frederick II (the Great)

Lol well I guess then 🤔 FUR KÖNIG UND VATERLAND!!!!!!

@@palastofhistory4026 FOR DAS VATERLAND!

Rest in Peace Frederic II

It was a joint win. Without the British distracting the main French force the Prussians would not have been able to attack from the rear and without the Prussian attack the British would have broken so it was a joint victory, neither could have won without the other

The Prussians aided the British to victory

Waterloo was the result of a British and Prussian decision to defeat Napoleon in a great, all-decisive battle. The Anglo-Dutch army was to bear the brunt of the French assault until the armies could combine and utterly defeat Napoleon. So yes, it was won by the Prussians; it was also won by the Anglo-Dutch not breaking against the full force of France's army. Were this not to be the strategy employed against Napoleon, there would have been another long, protracted campaign of multiple battles - the British position was not to defeat Napoleon in the field alone, but to hold his army until the Prussians could arrive and total victory could be achieved.

And also the biggest mistake of Ney and grouchy

@@Sven73524 The Prussians saved the allied force with a minor British contingent under Wellington.

They had to achieve that discipline again, cause Jena was a terrible defeat

Actually the Prussian Army was the least cohesive the all the nations at Waterloo. The origianal Prussian units were extremely well trained but after the abdication of Napoleon Prussia expanded into many directions and the Militia "Landwher" regiments raised in the year before Waterloo were poor quality units built on the same model as the long standing Prussian reservist Militias that also formed the support troops in the Hanoverian brigades. Most European brigades had one regular army unit supported by a reserve battalion of regulars like a training battalion and 1 or 2 battalions of militia to hold the line while the regulars attacked. Both the Prince of Wales's attack on the guard and that of Detmer's Brigade were carried out by regular troops while the Militia battalions stood ready to cover their retreat. By Waterloo generally the quality of the armies had been evened out by experience and attrition. The expanded Prussian army had a lot of inexperienced troops.

people think that napoleon feared the country of prussia, which he didn’t he just feared to be outnumbered, because Prussia wasn’t alone...

​@@AlxzAlec Napoleon was the greatest general in world history and I doubt someone will be better than him. But my comment was just a joke. Napoleon didn't fear Prussia but Napoleon acknowledge Prussian bravery ''Gentleman, if this man were still alive i would not be here''- Napoleon Bonaparte and his generals standing by the grave of Frederick the Great.

@@replynttomyrightntcomments7976 not true. he may have been a great general but there were numerous great generals. if there is a greatest general in history it has to be alexander the great of macedonia.

Please tell me that I’m not the only one who came here from blood and iron

@@vg_grover4828 I came here looking for a song about the Napoleonic Lutzow Freikorps from a roblox group I'm in so

ihaveamistakeofmylifeishouldburntberlin

Hitler probably said the same thing about Paris over 130 years later.

@@vg_grover4828 i play blood and iron but it’s not the reason im here

Wellington did most of the fighting

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- wellington survived long enough for the prussians to finish the job.

@@dannyboy4140 So? Wellingtons force was much bigger. Without Wellington who did most of the fighting and broke the French army the Prussians never would have been able to do anything. Wellington was a much better general than Blucher and unlike Blucher he never lost any big battle. The British army was much more impressive

The real winners are Wellingtons army. The man who fought Napoleon the entire battle and the man who broke his forces. The Prussians came when they seen the French were breaking

@@JJaqn05 Wellington broke the morale of the Guard when they saw what was hiding behind the ridge of the front line. Napoleon broke the morale of his own troops when they found that it was Blucher and not Grouchy arriving from Wavre.

That scene is cut scene in battle of ligny(it should be appear in the movie but has been cut)

Unfortunately it has no future, not one worth living.

*laughs in American*

I don't know about you, but i rather live a life of peace, than dying miserably somewhere for the ambition of another man.

Europe also has a history of being most evil continent due to imperialism and the holocaust. No other continent has ever caused so much pain to the human race.

@@KillerofWestoids Asia would like a word with you

Rip France today, say hello to Africa.

Yes, rip them apart

Napoleon must have died a martyr in that Battle, would be awesome

Does this count for 1944 and Paris too?

@@neinnein9306 Idk dude 🤷‍♀️

No he isnot saying that, he say ivemadeonemistakeinmylifeishouldhaveburntberlin

Of the napoleonic era yes

* Laughs in Rommel, Patton, and pretty much any notable general in the past 100 years *

@@FoulDwimmerlaik Why laugh in them? Wellington is better than all of them

@@JJaqn05 Wellington is pig-piss in comparison to any and every one of them on such an astronomical level. Homie literally won battles in an era where the tech was piss-poor and fighting was done in lines. His only notable opponent had to run his army, a whole empire and various political relations. Shut up and go back to roleplaying 1700s at whatever historical location LOL

@@FoulDwimmerlaik ….. How many battles did Wellington lose? How many did Rommel? Wellington *had* to be cautious. Britain had just one army in Europe and it wasn’t a large one. He showed himself the better Commander in his use of terrain and his flexibility in developing strategies to counter those of Napoleon.

Raise high the black flags children

@@AttyDouro22 Arr

"Raise high the Black Flags children..."

Wellingtons Army was not british it was a German british dutch mix.... the largest part of his troops were Germans ... King´s German Legion 6.000, Hanover 11.000, Brunswick 6.000, Nassau 3.000 = 26.000 ... UK troops 25.000 and 17.000 troops from the Neatherlands. This battle was not carried by british..it was carried by germans which represented 76.000 troops of the 118.000 of the coalition side

@@nagmashot right but that doesn’t change the fact that Wellington was British and was the general. It doesn’t matter where your army is from, soldiers are soldiers and they rely on a commander to navigate them. Therefore it’s referred to as Anglo-Dutch.

at this battle only the old guard had the discipline, cause the best experienced soldiers of napoleon died in russia and at leipzig

Jena-Auerstedt

On to Brussels

It's not that it's movie's mistake. It what happened in real life. I mean Wellington fights in a more traditional and pragmatical manner, does most of the thinga I mentioned up there, napoleon seems like he takes many unnecessary risks, borderline experimental in a critical battle.

its is because tightly packed formations increase morale and immediate strength in a charge while lines of 4 increase firepower but decrease melee defense and mobility. The prussian lancers were Ulanen which themselfes were often used as shock cavalry trying to mock or flank and dare certain enemy positions thus not used against infantry at all if not in a 80% favourable position themselves meaning a direct charge in the rear or flank or at already wavering/retreating formations. napoleon led them march in a block formation because he attacked the british with less men then the british would have for a counter attack since the prussian pinned the young guard aswell a chunk of the old guard and more reserves before. but the cavalry depicted in the movie are mostly hussars if not even death head hussars though i am not sure which during the battle charged and pinned the french right flank's cavalry while moving more reinforcments to Plancenoit in order to meet the french and force them to either retreat or split the french reserves which would it self be considered as the nail on the french armies coffin at that day I hope i could make it reasonable to you :)

That is battle of ligny but 1:28 - 1:33 is mirrored

The original dramatic chipmunk lol

You support the tyrant?

@@maikbam2827 I feel genuinely embarrassed for people who call Napoleon a ‘Tyrant’ 5 out of 7 wars he fought as leader of France were declared AGAINST him. He gave more personal liberties to his subjects than the feudal monarchical systems did, and he crushed the violent revolutionary jacobin party and restored order and culture to France. Napoleon tried for peace several times, but by 1808 it became clear the international monetary powers wanted him gone, as they through Britain kept funding his enemies against him. His invasion of Russia was a preemptive strike against a mobilising juggernaut, while he did mess up the campaign and caused many deaths, he had legitimate reasons for all of his wars. While Napoleon certainly had his flaws, he was no tyrant, many saw him as more of a liberator.

@@rhysnichols8608 hitler had almost all wars declared on him and he was a tyrant as well, how does that make him a good leader though? he failed to keep peace.

@@Killuminati-gx1id Silly comparison, non argument tbh. Declaring war on someone especially on bullshit premise, provokes bad things to happen. How is Napoleon anymore a Tyrant than the other monarchs of the time? They continually declared war on him, inevitably leading Napoleon having to conquer them. Maybe don’t declare war if you’re gonna call the resulting conquest ‘tyranny’ you sound like a boomer who doesn’t really know what they’re saying. Just this silly tyranny dog whistle

La victorie est a nous

It was actually a joint victory. The English would not have won without the prussians. And the prussans would not have been able to win without the English. So the real winner was Belgium as it almost got invaded :)

@@matthewthesaladbowl6315 lol

@@matthewthesaladbowl6315 And you didn’t even mention the other countries lol. Obviously the British troops (25.000) weren’t only from England. Then you had 26.000 German troops from Hanover (11.000), Brunswick (6.000), Nassau (3.000), King‘s German Legion (6.000, also mainly from Hanover) and some 17.000 Dutch troops.

@@HingerlAlois well I couldn’t be bothered to list all those armies. But the English were representing them in the battle so it’s still correct

@@matthewthesaladbowl6315 You probably mean the British, after all even Wellington himself was born in Ireland.

only sharpshooters wore black and green (some with red lanyard´s). (2nd light battallion).

The KGL were exiled troops from the German Confederation but they were mustered into the British Army as regular battalions.

@@briannaghten2201 BS ....they were not "exiled" they originated from Hannover ,Lueneburg and Brunswick, wich were at that time parts of the hre and GB with King George ( House of Welf ) as their rightful sovereign. And this was since George the 1st.

@@Azrael108 oh look another gob shite. Napoleon CONQUERED Hannover and the other German states. As such the men who became the KGL went to England and joined the colours of the King. Thus they were fighting as "EXILES" similar to the Free French in WW2. The Brunswick Corps were an independent unit at Waterloo under Brunswick command. The 1st brigade of the KGL were in one division and the 2nd brigade were in another. Each division had 1 British Brigade, 1 KGL Brigade and 1 Hanoverian Brigade, under a British Major -General. Wellington divided his experienced troops among his divisions across his front. The KGL were British soldiers in British uniforms under British command. They were not naturally British born men. They were expatriates who had continued to fight against their homeland's conquerors in a foreign army, ergo Exiles.

@@briannaghten2201 finally someone who knows history

Stil without the prussians wellington would have lost the battle of waterloo

The Prussians often face Napoleon alone (Ligny for example) and helped their ally (Waterloo) : Wellington and the British never did that. They arrived late, it's a joke ! Start of the battle 12 noon, arrival of the Prussians on the French right 4 p.m, end of the battle 8 p.m. Only on Plancenoit 36000 Prussians against 10000 French ! Stop British propaganda.

Waterloo or Sedan neither

@@bekluwe or 1940

I think Auerstedt ends up being more shameful... hard to downplay 76,000 men routed by a counterattack by a single brigade

idk 6 week slaughter of franco-prussian war, or the Reich goosestepping their way across france is good contenders lol XD

@@brotherhoodz97 yeah but you gotta compare the armies being humiliated. The French armies of 1940 and 1871 were jokes. Jena and Auerstedt it was the army of Frederick the Great that was being utterly destroyed even if Frederick himself wasn’t the one commanding

Das hat überhaupt keine Bedeutung.

You might care to check, but I believe he was talking to Maitland -Commander of the Brigade of Guards., not “England”…. the anti-England bigots will start complaining.

Now Maitland! Nows Your Time!

Prince Blücher von Wahlstatt General fought many battles as also as Prussian Fieldmarshall at the Battle of Leipzig wehre Napoleon lost the first time and was banned afterward (1814) to teh island of Elba.

Yeah there was more prussian scene but has cut

and had lost 2 horses under his arse ^^

Yeah the prussian charge was mirrored lol

Except they arrived with cavalry learn History it was the Prussian black hussars the infantry wore blue.

Gloria was only composed after the Franco Prussian War so bit early for that

The Prussian ending it reminds me of that meme where the guy celebrate with a champagne and making noise while he is only in third place (after Russia and Britain)

Same, it's super lame and ruined it for me