You've got the descriptions for the armies that fought at Cannae mixed up. Hannibal's army was composed of veterans, mercenaries and allies, all of which had significant experience in battle. The Roman army on the other hand was a mass of recruits with little training. This is what allowed Hannibal's strategy to work, his men held line against overwhelming odds.

@jhtsurvival

2 жыл бұрын

Right... I knew something didn't sound right about his description. This isn't the first mistake of his facts I've noticed in videos. Seems like he's paying someone to throw together scripts and not actually fact checking.

@michealstrom4425

2 жыл бұрын

@@jhtsurvival you expect the best work from people locked in a basement! For all we know these mistakes are an anagram that’ll form some sort of s.o.s! 😂

"Yeah, I was in that battle. Bloodiest battle of that whole war..." "You mean the one where a bunch of armed, drunken hooligans took things too far and spent the night killing their allies and friends?" ".... yes. But that was _incredible_ schnapps."

@philvanderlaan5942

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a World Cup game , not a world war . ( for anyone who doesn’t know the difference in a world war both sides stop killing each other to play soccer ( sorry FOOTBALL) in the World Cup after the game both sides fans start killing each other)

The Malayan Campaign and the eventual Fall of Singapore needs to be here.

@951sht

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, its forgotten bcoz' pf bigger ones like Dunkirk.

@kieronparr3403

2 жыл бұрын

Singapore is going to fall? Tell me more

@hanglee5586

2 жыл бұрын

@@kieronparr3403 I am referring to WW2, December 7, 1941 - February 20, 1942. It was Britain’s greatest defeat, resulting in 130,000 POWs of Commonwealth troops.

@kieronparr3403

2 жыл бұрын

@@hanglee5586 oh sorry I thought I'd missed a revolution or something 😅

@dinomonzon7493

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. The Battle of Singapore was an epic fail and could’ve been avoided had Lt. General Sir Arthur Percival heeded timely advice to properly position his troops and artillery. He and his staff also Ignored direct orders from Churchill to strengthen defenses and fight to the very last, even if Singapore City lay in ruins.

Alternative video title: "Austrian army sufferes worst hangover in military history"

If you look up Hannibal's forces armory and weaponry at the battle of Cannae, you'll quickly find out they were much better equipped than what this video gives you credit. Being bolstered 1/3 by gauls, the 2/3 remaining forces were advance mercenaries who had outfit with metal gear very similar to the Greeks.

Worth noting that the battle of Dien Bien Phu lasted almost 2 months, and was such a crushing defeat, that one of the French commanders committed suicide in his bunker

@BaronSamedi1959

2 жыл бұрын

Upon which the French then tried to hide the fact of this suicide of their artillery commander, only making the matter even worse.

@Sideprojects

2 жыл бұрын

Damn

@vic5015

2 жыл бұрын

"The French were overconfident and expected to prevail through superior tactics and advanced weaponry." Hmm, sounds *very* familiar.

@frankieseward8667

2 жыл бұрын

@@vic5015 The Iberian wars in 19th century.

@gabrielfestini

2 жыл бұрын

@@vic5015 and yet France is the country that won the most battles in history 😉 don't forget that

What about the epic military blunder of Australia vs emus?

@dannyjackson5883

2 жыл бұрын

Rod Hull and emu are too blame

@jasongraf600

2 жыл бұрын

@@dannyjackson5883 or lemu emu and Doug....liberty liberty 🗽

@dudepool7530

2 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for the typo sequel: Australia vs Emos.

@owenshebbeare2999

2 жыл бұрын

@@dudepool7530 Yeah, those damn New Zealanders! 😆😆😆

Loved it Simon, that was great.

If the Kamchatka doesn't make an appearance in this, I'm hurling my binoculars into the sea.

@dh1040

2 жыл бұрын

Do you see torpedo boats?

@bloodrave9578

2 жыл бұрын

"We're sinking" much to the cheers of the rest of the fleet.

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Battle of cannae 5:15 - Chapter 2 - 1st day of the somme offensive 1916 7:55 - Chapter 3 - Dien bien phu 11:25 - Chapter 4 - The battle of karansebes

I like the new beard blaze ad read. More focused.

@brett4264

2 жыл бұрын

And, like a godsend, shorter!

No Emu war? Though to be fair, the entire war was a blunder.

@jasongraf600

2 жыл бұрын

I said the same thing...no blunder in military history is worse than being beaten by emus

@owenshebbeare2999

2 жыл бұрын

Blame the Australian government at the time; they were told it wouldn't work.

@goober5713

2 жыл бұрын

How much PTSD would you have from fighting Emus lol.

@ketchysplatbartom3737

2 жыл бұрын

wasnt a war. just 5 guys with a machine gun

F1's ability to move all of the people and equipment from Istanbul, Turkey, to Austin Texas in 2 weeks.

@maxcaiazza8471

2 жыл бұрын

This is a great idea!

@oxcart4172

2 жыл бұрын

Several jumbo jets are the answer!

@mols89

2 жыл бұрын

As an F1 fan, yes!

@TonyGrenadeF1

2 жыл бұрын

He should do something f1 on all of his channels. Worlds greatest racing sport

@kieronparr3403

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic for the environment too!

This is one of my favourite episodes from this channel

The battle of the Somme achieved it's primary goal. Relieving pressure on the French at the battle of Verdun.

@DidMyGrandfatherMakeThis

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It actually did what it was meant to do and considering the meat grinder battles of the Great War, it shouldn't be seen as a failure. A lot of people died to achieve little in terms of strategic advances but it relieved the pressure on the French at Verdun and kept them in the fight at a dangerous time for the Entente.

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe but the losses were much higher than they should have been...still a blunder.

The most epic side project is Simon's beard

@COBALTCOVERT

2 жыл бұрын

I want to be simons level; able to sponsor his channels with his own product.

@j.a.weishaupt1748

2 жыл бұрын

Such an original and funny comment

@michaelpipkin9942

2 жыл бұрын

This is hilarious. Why no one has thought of it before is incredible.

@cleverusername9369

2 жыл бұрын

More of a front project, isn't it?

@dudepool7530

2 жыл бұрын

@@cleverusername9369 front, side, underneath. Everywhere but the top lmao.

The Romans were still a republic at the time of Cannae. Though they did have an empire.

@vic5015

2 жыл бұрын

So, basically the same as the USA?

@dongiovanni4331

2 жыл бұрын

@@vic5015 If you have future knowledge to say this sort of thing, can you give me the right tech to invest in?

@vic5015

2 жыл бұрын

@@dongiovanni4331 the US *definitely* is an empire. Just look at all of the foreign territories where we have troops stationed.

@vic5015

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 I'm American and I 1000% agree with you.

@dongiovanni4331

2 жыл бұрын

@@vic5015 under that logic, NATO is the bigger empire.

But wait there´s more... I hope you do another one of these, my favourite is the "Journey of the Damned"

@seafodder6129

2 жыл бұрын

I see Japanese torpedo boats! Oh wait, that would be the _voyage_ of the damned...

@fluffyshrimp9198

2 жыл бұрын

@@seafodder6129 Torpedo boats, in every direction! Hundreds of them!

@iron_side5674

2 жыл бұрын

@@seafodder6129 I MIGHT have switched it up :P

love this channel and your others.

Hell Yeah, gimme those facts!

Simon, you certainly have style 👏👏👏

Good video 👍

Hey, Simon! You should absolutely have an episode of SideProjects on the domestication experiment on foxes that was disguised as a fur farming effort to keep Soviet Russian Officials from blacklisting the scientist!

@H_412

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure he did, at some point, on one of his channels. It was the story about studying domestication where it turned out the foxes he started with were already partway domesticated by a previous scientist, right? If it's that story I definitely saw it a while back. Maybe a biographics?

@SchwarzeskabelGWP

2 жыл бұрын

@@H_412 I remember it also being done

@Sideprojects

2 жыл бұрын

I know that story, which makes me think I've covered it before, but I've made so many videos I honestly have no idea where or when :)

@jrodstech

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sideprojects hard to keep up? Hell I just discovered yall a few months ago. After a few videos I went ahead and subscribed to every channel. Good job I love these videos and I learn something new :)

@dereinzigwahreRichi

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sideprojects You definitely did! I remember your voice telling me about that story, Simon... ;-) I think it was some kind compilation on science experiments, not a video with a single story. Something with female scientists not getting the credit they deserve...maybe?

I like the random topics on sideprojects, varied

Every time you do a topic like this, I wish you would give Gallipoli the Legendary Simon Whistler treatment. Thanks!

@jcoe371

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this

@andywilson5828

2 жыл бұрын

Which wouldn't of happened if Churchill wasn't such a pussy and let the army dictate naval doctrine and plans

@collincovid6950

2 жыл бұрын

@@andywilson5828 The man who told the admirals to fail into sea mines to clear the way, regardless of the sailors on board. Churchill had no time for people, and was completely up his own arse, could not organised a deck of cards

@sweney04213_

2 жыл бұрын

What is the Simon Whistler treatment?

@brett4264

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, quit kissing his ass. As his head has gotten bigger, the quality of his videos has gone down.

More Simon More!!!

@j.a.weishaupt1748

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what his wife said last night too

@cleverusername9369

2 жыл бұрын

@@j.a.weishaupt1748 good for him. Good for him.

If there's ever a follow-up, make sure to include the Battle of Adwa.

As General Jan Smuts (one of five permanent War Cabinet members) put it, much of WW1 was about keeping the UK in the war - forcing the UK out of the war would have meant a German victory and german domination of Europe. German subs were in Belgium ports of Nieupoort(??), Ostend and Zeebrugge just 50 km from the English Channel supply lines keeping the UK in the western front war. The UK Navy could not get close enough to damage the subs in port. It was up to the Army to take the ports to remove the threats to its supply lines. Sitting back waiting for the Germans to attack was seen as a risky war losing strategy. While the UK was aggressive and sometimes ill prepared and losing more troops, and not gaining much ground, it was staying in the war. Eventually the Germans ran out of troops and it was over. While the heaviest resourced theatre, the western front was one of ten fronts on which the UK fought the war. In one way, the five member UK war cabinet was fighting the Germans and everybody under their command were just pawns in the war. For several years, Smuts, for example, was the war cabinet member who chaired the army-navy-airforce committee that decided the number of each type of aircraft that would go to each command and directed the aircraft manufacturers as to the volumes of each aircraft to produce.

Great video

The battle of the Somme was also diverting from the offense against the offence against the German on that of Verdun. The British New army was a very long way from considering from being even remotely ready for combat, being newly raised and barely trained. This does not detract from their gallantry but there are more factors to consider...

Lol those last 2 were funny 😂😂

Everyone loves a good blunder. But I would love a video on The Big Thompson Water Project in Colorado. That would be awesome!!!

Nice

That citrus blaze is amazing!

Epic military blunders - ww1

dont forget about that ludicrous display "the long night" from GoT

@seaniekay

2 жыл бұрын

Battle of the bastards was the better battle you couldnt see jack shit on the battle of the long night

Invading Belgium in 1914. It removes the reason for Britain entering the war.

The charge of the light brigade comes to mind

Video topic: Bradley fighting vehicle There was actually a movie about it (pentagon wars) about how ridiculous its development was.

@shaider1982

2 жыл бұрын

The movie was a bit misleading. Bradley's weren't designed to take RPG rounds and it was designed with a turret due to the BMP. Checkout Nicholas Moran's video on it.

@p.strobus7569

Жыл бұрын

A BIT misleading? The whole movie was Hollywood making things up in order to sell a satire of “those dumb military people.” Lazerpig has a nice video that rakes the self proclaimed “hero” over the coals for being a rank idiot.

'Nam wasn't a total loss. 'Nam had PEAK asthetics and jams. The only jams the war in Afghanistan had were the Linkin Park Discography and "Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the FLAAAAAAA-!"

Upcomming part2. The failed conquest of Simons beard is the worst military blunder😁

Love how business/brain blaze is so interchangeable..

@starsoffyre

2 жыл бұрын

We gotta change it back

There's been a far more recent one than any of those.

I cannot imagine the field after that Battle of Cannae. 100,000 dead , all from swords and spears. It would’ve been a lake of blood

@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-

2 жыл бұрын

Truly countless bodies

The KZread channels called The Great War and World War II are fantastic and they cover the battle Of the Somme.

If you do a followup, you should cover Gallipoli.

Battle of Karansebes Ottoman army: Hey guys, what's going on in... *sees devastation of the Austrian army* Ottoman army: ¯\(◉‿◉)/¯

Totally saved beadblaze into my bookmarked pages. I will be a customer soon.

The Battle of the Hurtgen Forrest should be here. It was one of the most savage battles of the World War 2 western front. Over 33,000 American soldiers were killed in an ineptdly conceived plan that made no sense. Sending troups into a densly wooded forrest with virtually no clear paths and a well armed and entrenced enemy was suicide. If you have never heard of this battle, I suggest you read about it.

Ha business blaze still getting mentioned on Simon's other channels.

Not a bad one Simon..... not bad at all.

One of my ancestors died at the Somme.

as you have said on many occasion "the past is the worst"

That last "Battle": "Alcohol was involved." Yikes!

Me : Only men have beards. Aunt Marge: Hold my beer.

@benwherlock9869

2 жыл бұрын

Also Aunt Marge: Hold my beard.

@dudepool7530

2 жыл бұрын

I've been spiking Auntie Marges coffee with testosterone for a bit. My bad.

How about a video about the french submarine Surcouf?

Kinda missed out on a super weird footnote of history with Dien Bien Phu; the Japanese were still present in the area after WW2, and in some respects set up the conflict due to some pretty complex politicking/coup de etats. To the point where Allied personnel were welcomed and guarded by fully armed IJA soldiers and Viet Minh because the Japanese had disarmed and interned the Vichy French rulers of Indochina before the Japanese surrender. There was also a decent amount, (like, almost a battalion or two) of Japanese soldiers who stayed behind in Vietnam to train and fight with the Viet Minh against the French... It would be pretty difficult, but maybe it would make a cool side project topic, "You thought WW2 ended cleanly after Japan's surrender?" and you look at all the super messy logistical/cold war problems of moving occupying troops around, dealing with collaborators, etc... A thought.

@Horizontalvertigo

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, and a Marine mate of mine likes to make the joke "The US should definitely have fought in Vietnam... Against the French!"

It’s insane to even comprehend 1,000,000 casualties in a single battle. Hell on earth

@brett4264

2 жыл бұрын

It makes The Battle of Sharpsburg look like a day picking corn.

Can you do an episode on the Smithsonian on here or on Megaprojects?

Holy shit man the last few sentences in the bit about the Battle of Somme were crazy. Those are some truly insane statistics.

@rodchallis8031

2 жыл бұрын

As long as you live, every time you watch a documentary or report on WWI, you will be astonished by the casualty figures. When the Canadians took Vimy ridge, there were about 3500 dead, and 7000 wounded. Remarkable for how *light* the casualties were.

@gjrip

2 жыл бұрын

@@rodchallis8031 yeah it's some unfathomable stuff and it really wasn't even that long ago

About the 1st day of the Battle of the Somme. The British military authorities putting freshly trained voluntary civilians online for this battle, thought that if they were told to run during the assault, these troops would flee in all directions. The fire resistance of the British troops can only come after years of training. So these young men were instructed to attack enemy trenches marching at the speed of a military parade. It goes without saying that in the opposite trenches the Germans appreciated having more time to aim. this detail of the "marching attack" contributed greatly to the disaster of the day.

With the Roman vs Hannibal battle....you missed much of the psychological fun part. Where Hannibal played off the two Roman consuls to specifically fight the one he wanted. The younger one who he knew was aggressive and believed in his superior numbers would win the day and was hungry for glory and a strong heavy forward strike. So Hannibal played to that, Hannibal started the fight squared up and had his center fall back and his cavalry move up the sides in order to create his envelopment where he could squeeze and slaughter the Roman forces, many of whom were not as well trained as normal Roman legions as they has been hastily assembled while Fabius used, well, Fabian tactics (how that trick got its name) to buy Roman time to get a large army set up.

I'm fully expecting the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War to make it on this.

The vietminh were so bad ass soldiers. Like for real. Bringing artillery on top of mountains throught thick forests with zero truck or machine to help em... hardcore.

The video starts at 1:05

Are the ingredients of Beard Blaze flammable?

Not sure if this was just something that didn't make it in, but General Howe in the American Revolution also super messed up. Then again, it wasn't one specific battle, unless you're talking about Saratoga.

Simon: "I don't have grey beard hair, it's blonde!" Me: "Yeah, but is it though? Those close-ups look pretty grey to me."

Men, War and Alcohol do not mix!!

That beard.

You are so good, that it is difficult to skip over your adds, in which I get duped into hearing your rant that I will be Inevitably Stockholm Syndromed into paying for... help me. I have a Simon problem/solution.

@brett4264

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, quit kissing his ass. As his head has gotten bigger, the quality of his videos has gone down.

Gypsy Schnapps will get you every time

Simon you need to either update your ad read for Beard Blaze or get through the backlog of videos from your other channels that don't call your channel Brain Blaze

Can you do a Biographics on Simon Whistler? Must be holding a few records for YT by now right

I was laughing at the last story, about the people fighting over booze. Then I remembered that Pearl Harbor basically went down how it did because everyone had been out on the town and missed all the early warning reports. That’s a part of the story everyone would like to forget.

I feel that I need to let you know of one glaring problem I've found with Beard Blaze, I don't have a beard.

Believe it or not my seamstress was there as a child.

One should be called beaver juice.

Just pointing out that by the 2nd Punic War Rome was not using the Phalanx and had switched to the Maniple sometime during the Samnite wars.

If you put all the videos on shuffle you can tell what year it was made by the length of Simons beard. All time should be measured by this standard... 'dinosaurs? Oh they was 137 million Simons beards ago'.

@dudepool7530

2 жыл бұрын

I wish. The wifey complains when it gets too long, and he trims it down. I mean, Im not stalking him... 🙄

Not the Roman Empire in the battle of cannae, it was a republic at that time and for another 200 years. Kind of important distinction

Great episode as ever. You missed the charge of the Light Brigade!

@boris1387

2 жыл бұрын

Have you watched the video? 😂😂😂😂😂

@davidgriffith8292

2 жыл бұрын

@@boris1387 The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War.

@boris1387

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidgriffith8292 I know what it was😂😂😂 But you said Simon had missed it out. He starts the video by taking about it😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Cannea was not a blunder Hannibal showed them everything that they wanted to see laying an ambush in plain sight. And the core of his army were basically professional killers.

@iLumberjack

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't a core of professional killers the intent of any army except perhaps the Salvation Army?

@steveclapper5424

2 жыл бұрын

@@iLumberjack I heard that their battles looked like ametuers vs professionals. Romans had a conscript army for the most part and the core of Hannibal's army had been soldiers forever.

@iLumberjack

2 жыл бұрын

@@steveclapper5424 I'm sure they were a very formidable force. It would be interesting as an academic exercise to see how soldiers from a modern army, appropriately trained in the weapons and tactics of the era would stack up against Hannibal's army. I suspect that physical fitness, strength and endurance, would favor the modern soldier, but I'm not sure if the fighting spirit would favor one or the other. Thoughts?

@steveclapper5424

2 жыл бұрын

@@iLumberjack war at close range is really hard to wrap my head around. You look into the eyes, you smell you are covered in the blood of the men you kill. It's all in the society you grow up in and what they expect from you.

@Ashannon888

2 жыл бұрын

No, it was a blunder. The Romans knew how dangerous Hannibal was and should have been expecting something. Instead they just looked at it and went, "Yep, this looks perfectly fine" If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

You forgot the "battle" of may island, that was quite a tragedy

Haha The Battle of Cannae was only a Military, "Blunder," for the Roman Legions going up against Hannibal "Battle of the Bastards"-style lol for Hannibal, on the other hand, it effectively secured his immortality with his tactics against the perpetually better armed and provisioned Roman soldiers going on to be discussed for the next couple millennia, and even taught at Military Academies around the World until the present day.

@skynyrdjesus

2 жыл бұрын

Well, to be entirely honest it's giving Hannibal a little too much credit to claim that the Roman legion in this particular case was better armed than Hannibals forces. Cannae was only really possible because the massive Consular army was made almost entirely raw, unconditioned, and meagerly trained conscripts. While an argument can be made that the regularity of Roman equipment, even in this period, was a massive advantage in quickly training a force, it's hard to make the case that their gear was optimal to engage a veteran Carthagenian force, and more importantly, it doesn't matter much what weapon you put in the hands of an inexperienced and dangerously overconfident child. An experienced North African with a dull knife and a hide shield would still be better equipped for advanced, dangerous military maneuvers than an Italian teenager days or weeks removed from plowing a field, even fitted in top of the line lorica and gladius, and that's far more of a difference in equipment than actually occurred.

i really like the story of Operation Cottage, where the US suffered 313 casualties fighting against no one. (the enemy retreated in the middle of the night).

"When a girl says, 'It's a good size,' that's just a nice way of saying it's small." -Rene, "Mallrats" (Kevin Smith film) j/k 😉

So, when do we get a Sydney Opera House video????

Woohoooo

the great schnapps rebellion

What about Napoleons 3 month road trip to Moscow?

The Somme was not a failure on the strategic level as is it did it's purpose of reliving pressure off the French near Verdun.

well the first day of the somme was pretty sucessful for the french, they achived almost all of their objectives, mostly because they had much larger amounts of heavy artillery avaliable, the big problem for the french was the fact they were unable to exploited to greater advantage their success.

You really need a shirt that says, "The past was the worst"

@terryenby2304

2 жыл бұрын

There is/was one, I now own it :)

"the French and English doubled down..." the somme was fought by the British Empire, not just England. Being Scottish, that coming with an English accent was particularly painful!! And Im not one of those wankers who love to point out mistakes - I just couldnt let that one go. FFFFFFRRRREEEEDOM!!!!!!!!!

Roman names. Add US or A AT the end. And make a 100 syllables long

As an austrian I am not suprised......

Rome lost like 10% of all their fighting age men in one day in that battle.

LOL. My military is so bad they excluded them to talk about the lesser screw ups : ). Signed: USAF MSgt (Ret) Tim Geisler. Sorry, I am trying to change them.

I’m pretty sure that beard blazed used Simmons head for there logo