As an American originally born in China, it brings me such pleasure knowing that Dr. Felton lived in my home country for 10 years! China is rich in history and culture, especially that of military history and that’s one of the reasons why I chose to major in History in University!

@accidentalgenius8252

Жыл бұрын

While I agree with your statements, I despise the CCP so much that I can’t visit china even if I wanted too. China might write some horrible history in the future.

@1funnygame

Жыл бұрын

@@accidentalgenius8252 You should visit Taiwan, the culture that was destroyed during the cultural revolution on the mainland was preserved there

@greenkoopa

Жыл бұрын

You gotta change your handle in the settings! Now you're @expandedhistory991

@expandedhistory

Жыл бұрын

@@greenkoopa what do you mean?

@MuddieRain

Жыл бұрын

And anything is super great about China 👮🏽‍♂️

It’s amazing what you come across when you look. I was diving out of Ascension Island a few years ago where I came across a 5.5 inch naval gun in its white casing on Cross Hill. I later discovered it came from HMS Hood, being installed on the island for defence in 1941. What a find!

@dustylover100

Жыл бұрын

And what you come across when you least expect it.

@SuperDiablo101

Жыл бұрын

A story on it's own

@TeddyBear-ii4yc

Жыл бұрын

Once upon a time, wasn't there more than one? Will go check...

@carlproctor8975

Жыл бұрын

You are correct there was 2

@matpk

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperDiablo101Chi Na is💩 place to live

I swear I ever win the lottery I'm hiring you for tour guide on my trips around the globe

@shawnr771

Жыл бұрын

Now that is a cool idea.

@OleMisss

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnr771 imagine taking a tour of Omaha beach with Dr Felton.

@shawnr771

Жыл бұрын

@@OleMisss love too. My sister n law got to go to Pointe du Hoc for the 75th Anniversary on a tour.

@davidthurman2267

Жыл бұрын

Count me in

@cruzaider5339

Жыл бұрын

*Get's a call at three thirty in the morning* "Eyy we're going to Portugal pack up Mark"

Just 5 minutes from me is one of those Armstrong Guns at Fort Glanville Semaphore ,Adelaide , Prof Felton was alluding to. Even in the 1880's the early Settlers were worried about Russia

What a fantastic piece of history and an incredible find. It is amazing that the canon was not melted during during the 'Great Leap Forward.'

@niepowaznyczlowiek

Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness, so much culture lost just to be melted into shoddy steel.

@gdutfulkbhh7537

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps it survived because it was too heavy to move, given the diminished capabilities of revolutionary China.

@matthewlok3020

Жыл бұрын

Which probably such fate befell the companion guns

@johnvannewhouse

Жыл бұрын

Boy, you can say that again. What possible factor lead to it NOT being melted down for scrap during the "Great Leap". We'll never know....but I'm sure it is a fascinating story...

There are German guns in China from the boxer rebellion times. As described in William Manchesters book. The Arms of Krupp.

@Calligraphybooster

Жыл бұрын

Which is a fantastic book!

@DougsterCanada1

Жыл бұрын

@@Calligraphybooster Agreed!

@wombatwilly1002

Жыл бұрын

The Nazi's helped China against the Japs before Ww2

@datadavis

Жыл бұрын

Nazis? Prussians werent nazis.

@davidwong3613

Жыл бұрын

One of my ancestors was a commander of a fort guarding the approaches to Amoy City in 1916 or thereabouts. I believe the artillery installed were Krupp guns.

I went to the Hulishan fort in Xiamen last year, It's a similar fort in same time period and preserved a 19th century 280mm Krupp gun said to be the last one of this large. It actually destroyed a Japanese destroyer during Japanese invasion in ww2

@masahige2344

Жыл бұрын

Ironic, given the Japanese also made heavy use of the 280mm M1892 gun during the Russo-Japanese War!

@Debottro

Жыл бұрын

@@masahige2344 golden kamuy vibes

@somerandomdavid6775

Жыл бұрын

@@masahige2344 lol have a taste of its own medicine

In chile, Talcahuano exactly, we have a war ship made in england from the 1860’s that todays works as a museum. The full metal Huascar is the pride of the Chilean navy for its beauty, simbolism and history. If you ever come to southamerica be sure not to miss it 😊

@tanteju944

Жыл бұрын

¡Devuelvenlo ya! 😀😀😀

@carlossuarez3445

Жыл бұрын

@tanteju noup😊

@zen4men

Жыл бұрын

'Thank You, Chile!' for your help in the 1982 Falklands War

@carlossuarez3445

Жыл бұрын

@@zen4men awww we didnt do that much

@zen4men

Жыл бұрын

@@carlossuarez3445 It was of great importance, trust me

Felton videos are the only thing on KZread where I just go ahead and click on it no matter what

I spent 9 years in Mongolia and had the chance to tour the battlefield around Kharkin Gol several times since we had a mining exploration permit out there. All kinds of cool stuff lying around (along with some decidedly un-cool unexploded ordnance.)

This reminded me of the time when I was 16 (and still a huge gun nerd) and my family and I took a trip to the Dominican Republic. One of the toll checkpoint soldiers saw me trying to look at his rifle from the back seat and he held it high over his head to show it to me, it was an M1 carbine and it was awesome. We visited an my dad's uncle who told us when he was in the Dominican Navy thay they issued them Stahlhelms

@brittakriep2938

Жыл бұрын

Attention! In german language, i am german, every helmet from 1915 onwards made of steel is a ,Stahlhelm'.

@ryankiesow8440

Жыл бұрын

@@brittakriep2938 because German is a very literal language when you translate words from German into English

@jerichofalls8236

Жыл бұрын

@@brittakriep2938 I see. Well the pictures he showed me looked like m35's that they'd painted more of a bluish grey

@matpk

Жыл бұрын

@@brittakriep2938Chi Na is 💩 place to live

There are some Krupp naval guns (I think) in Nanning as well. I saw them in 2001. They were used for defence of the river, amongst other things, during some war/dispute back in the 1880s.

Speaking of odd discoveries... many years ago my family was visiting Magnetic Island, which is just off Townsville in Queensland. During a walk one day I was surprised to see a WW2 Japanese tripod mount machine-gun (either the Type 3 or the Type 92) in someone's driveway near the open gate! In fact, so surprised was I that without thinking I walked up the driveway to look at the gun. There must have been no-one at home. It was about a minute before my parents realised where I was and called out to me to come back.

You can find more old guns at an old fort now museum in Xiamen. If I recall correctly, they have the only remaining pre-WWI Krupps cannons, bought from Germany in the 1890s, the rest having been melted down after the war.

Always a treat when I view a bit of history from the master story teller, Dr. Mark Felton !

I'm a simple creature. I hear Mark say "Nun Wun Gun", I'm happy

There is a paintball place about an hour outside of Shanghai, China. I visited in 2016, and just FYI, they have an ancient, hopefully defunct, heavy machine gun behind the front desk. I have no idea what kind it was, I presume a relic of the revolution, but it's waiting there to be rediscovered by historians.

@mattandrews8528

Жыл бұрын

“Hopefully” it would jus be oh so terrible if Chinese citizens had the right to keep and bear arms right? You’re clearly not American lmfao, weak 👎

@johnelliott7375

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that they have a good idea where everyone is and what they know about where the relics are is probably documented and they have made sure that no one is able to get the pieces they are going to need to use it. Especially if the world is on o

@FrauleinMuller999

Жыл бұрын

@@johnelliott7375 yes, it’s a dictatorship

@ihatecabbage7270

Жыл бұрын

@@johnelliott7375 I don't think they would use the machine gun though, they currently not at war even with Taiwan despite the saber rattling. They probably see what happened with Russia and is happy at their current position of not waging war and doing business, for now especially they doing quite well despite Covid. My supplier is already recovered losses. Let's hope we avoid stupid wars.

@yfelwulf

Жыл бұрын

@@ihatecabbage7270 UKR is getting alits butt kicked Europe is collapsing America is out of weapons and collapsing China supplies the world yeah China is terrified Russia has destroyed Europe without a shit fired

MARK IS THE GENIUS.

Dr Felton mentioned that several 64-pounders survive in Australia, and the Zhapu gun looks very much like the guns at Port Fairy in Victoria.

We need a Mark Felton & Ian McCollum crossover video!

@johnyricco1220

Жыл бұрын

Ian said he’s a subscriber. So he will probably see this one.

"Historical Battle Damage" sounds like something straight out of Kung Fu Panda, ironically.

Nice video as always. We have some old Armstrong cannons here in Norway at Seiersten Festning, in Drøbak erea. 😃

Would still like to find the "missing" White Russian armored train last seen in the 1940's

During the American Civil War at the siege of Vicksburg in 1863 the Confederate garrison had a Blakely Rifled cannon designed by Capt. Theophilus A. Blakely of the British Army. The Confederate soldiers called it "the Widow Blakely" because it was the only gun of that type they had. Earlier in 1862 at Fort Pulaski in Savannah, Georgia the US Navy used modern rifled guns to great effect. You can still see holes in the walls from naval shells fired from Union warships. Most of the damage was caused by the modern rifled guns used by the Federals. The Confederate commander Col. Charles H. Olmstead could not fight back because the guns of Fort Pulaski were of the older smooth bore type and lacked the range of the Federal guns. He surrendered the fort to avoid further loss of life. Fort Pulaski, along with numerous other brick forts built along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coast were constructed after the War of 1812 and were designed to withstand the weapons of that era. By the time the American Civil War started in 1861 they were obsolete due to advances in artillery technology.

@stevetilk4926

Жыл бұрын

I was at Fort Sumpter this past weekend and I saw a Blakely cannon there as well.

@pittbullking87

Жыл бұрын

@@stevetilk4926 I have been to Charleston, S.C. but I did not visit Fort Sumter. I have however visited Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island. There are constructions there all the way from the Revolutionary War to World War 2.

I was in the Navy in the early 70's and our WesPac Homeport was Subic Bay, Philippines. There was a small island at the entrance of the bay that was used a as recreational area. To my surprise there was old fortifications with two cannons that had a MFG date of 1904.

@TheTomasio1975

Жыл бұрын

Yup, Fort Wint, Grande Island Subic Bay. Built by the US Army early 20th century. It had the following batteries: Warwick: 2x 10" guns on disappearing carriages; Woodruff & Hall: 2x 6" guns on disappearing carriages each; Flake & Jewell: 4x 3" guns on pintle mounts each. Some of the guns were moved to Fort Casey in Washington state in the 1960s.

@chuckdacon4797

Жыл бұрын

When you mentioned Subic Bay I knew immediately it would be Grande Island. Been there in the late 70's

I'm sure someone has already said it but 6 inch isn't 120mm ( which is 4.7 inch, also a popular Naval Caliber) it's actually 152mm. As you say they never really were satisfied with the Mark I but thats what you might expect after all it was the first breech loading Naval Gun of this size and they quickly moved on to the subsequent Mark II through Mark VI. It's a marvelous find Dr F ! Both this and the 64 pounder are in excellent shape I really hope we see more.

Great video Mark always a joy to listen. I was recently in Thailand and when i was in Bangkok we visited a temple. I come across hundreds of British made cannons in a section in the temple. All different sizes and styles. Nothing explained why they are there or why they have them. I wonder if you know anything about it, i did Google it but it didn't say anything

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

Жыл бұрын

Siam purchased lots of British artillery in the mid- to late-19th century. They also have Disappearing Guns covering Bangkok Harbour, though I missed them when I visited.

@Replica-Airgun-Lovers

Жыл бұрын

@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton thank you for the feedback Mark i was very surprised to see them but couldn't find any information about them. I also visited the bridge on the river kwai and paid my respects to the soldiers. It was a very strange feeling being there but such a beautiful setting. I know its not the real bridge as that was bombed in the war but i still walked it and took some great photos of it

@TheBeefybeefy76

Жыл бұрын

In Chanthaburi there are 2 forts, i cannot recall if french or Thai. I cannot attach photos, but armstrong cannons are there

@annaju5543

Жыл бұрын

@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton Hi Mark, could you please make one video about Nanjing Massacre in December 1937 during World War 2? Many thanks. 300,000 Nanjing people including my grand-uncle was killed by Japanese in Nanjing in December 1937. Chinese has never received any apology from Japan. This history shouldn't be forgotten! My mum was born in Nanjing in August 1937.

@matpk

Жыл бұрын

@@WarStorieswithMarkFeltonChi Na is 💩 place to live today. That's why many Chinese move to US and Hongkonese move to UK

Dr Fulton, there is fully restored cannon like these in Peru. It was used in the defence of El Callao on 2nd May 1866. It is fully operational for ceremonial use in that date.

A 1878 RML was installed in Queen's Park, Toowoomba Queensland Australia in the early 1900's. To celebrate, it was fired with a blank cartridge, but still managed to demolish a greenhouse. The experiment was never repeated, so now it is the delight of various children of bloodthirsty demeanour. I believe it was constructed at the Woolwich Arsenal.

There are old British battery positions and forts all over Bermuda. I took a day in Hamilton and hiked all over seeing many when we were there a decade ago.

The 1880 6" gunlocks surprisingly in good condition. Even seems to have a fresh coat of paint. I do wonder how the Sandstone would hold up against a bombardment from an attacking ship.

I was in Nanning in 2007 and stumbled on an old Krupps gun in a city park apparently installed by local war lords many years ago.

I know that in Australia, there are many guns from around the late 1840’s early 1850’s still dotted around the coast that were erected due to fear of a Russian invasion.

Nice find. My dad was in China in1945-46 with the USMC and he remembers seeing a lot of old things. I do have 3 Opium War medals to the 18th and 49th Foot.

@kennethkay1144

Жыл бұрын

My dad was with the army air corps 1943 - 45 with the Chinese American composite wing / third fighter group. Very rough times. He wrote a ongoing history while there, of which I have a copy.

it is indeed fascinating what you find when you look. in my many travels across the USA on the back of a Motorcycle, I've come across many a relic like this. lots of tanks, lots of planes, lots of artillery pieces twice as old as the tanks or planes. sometimes it's an old Spanish fort.

I have long heard from some Chinese friends I know of that there are actually a few 19th-century Krupp cannons in a city called Wei Hai, modern day Shandong Province.

Mark Felton should visit the Hel peninsula north of Gdansk and Gdynia in Poland if he likes old naval gun emplacements. Lots of 440 mm guns used to be there but they were melted but some of the casemates and forts are still there.

Funnily enough I've been there myself. Lived and worked in Pinghu nearby. Didn't know the history behind it so that's fascinating

Cornwallace makes me laugh everytime. He was one of the kids of Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo

Fascinating finds! I do hope the Chinese government sees the value in restoring and preserving these soon, it would be wonderful to see them up close and restored in a museum

Dagu / Taku fort south of Tianjin has a massive rifled muzzle loader.

I am amazed by the Pearl's Dr. Felton finds. Never ending.

@garypulliam3740

Жыл бұрын

*pearls

I really think you are probably the one long running KZreadr that hasn't sunk into producing click bait. Bravo! Well done! Actually, it's astounding. It apparently becomes tempting to seduce subscribers for more and more views in order to keep the shop running. But, you simply bring on the facts instead of falling into that click bait pattern. And it's more than satisfying.

@dustylover100

Жыл бұрын

And the fact that he keeps coming up with new material helps prevent that descent. This is great stuff.

Such a great story. Perfectly complemented my train ride this morning. Thanks Dr. Felton

Great stuff as always Herr Doktor, Thanks!

There are some Armstrong guns in at least one Qing fort in Taiwan.

Thank you for sharing this fascinating bit of history!

I wonder if the "palace" fort played any role in the Taiping Rebellion in China. This civil war started in 1850 led by a guy named Hong Xiuquan who was, (according to him anyway) the younger brother of Jesus Christ. He had his own rival dynasty called the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in southern China until his final defeat in 1864.

@mikepette4422

Жыл бұрын

thats quite a leap of a almost couple thousand years to be JC's younger Brother lol

@danielhui

Жыл бұрын

I did some googling it's in Chinese 天妃宮炮台(palace for godness) so palace in here means literal 'palace'

Your videos never disappoint.

Your videos are always fascinating! Love your work!!

Very interesting. Always the best. Thanks Mark!

Very interesting account of something that I knew very little about. Thanks Dr. Felton.

Great coverage, thank you.

Very neat! Thanks for sharing Dr Mark! JJ

Fascinating, you do find the little stories no one else tells. Have you done any videos on the Japanese relics in Micronesia? I saw a few things on Moen in the Truk lagoon, but I didnt know what I was looking at.

Amazing, I hope these places of history can be preserved!

I love the on the ground reporting Dr. Felton! Thank you! (And please make a video on CARINHALL)

Another great video, and pertinent to today’s time ! Thanks Dr Felton

Amazing. Thanks for your videos.

This was a very informative and enjoyable post, l hope to see more about your time in China. I hope that for histories sake , these pieces are restored.

Excellent find, Mark!

I visited the fortifications around Humen (Tiger Gate) which guarded the Pearl River estuary into Guangzhou (Canton). Well preserved coastal battery with Qing era cannons on fixed mounts. But to my surprise there was a large mounted Krupp gun pointing out to the bay that was located inside a cave carved into a hill. There are also the pits where the Qing authorities burned the confiscated opium as well as a couple opium war museums. Mark I hope you had a chance to visit that place.

@johnsamu

Жыл бұрын

I visited this fort in 2011, it's a real tourist attraction (for Chinese tourists).

@alainw77

Жыл бұрын

@@johnsamu well yeah its mainly meant to “patriotically” educate chinese tourists and one of many historic sites not really marketed to foreign tourists. The vast majority of tourists just visit the main battery, but a short distance down the coast there’s another battery which is located adjacent to a military barracks. It is referred to as the “corner or angle” gun battery. The british attacked this position as well during the opium war. The fortifications were later modernized and this is where i found the hidden krupp gun emplacement.

There's a very similar Armstrong gun from the same era close to my home. If you want to see it closer like 1 or 2ft away you can come to Taiwan

Well done Sir. Excellent. Keep up with the great work. Thank you very much.😊 🙋‍♂️🐈👍✌️

Wow ,great presentation, thank you.

Hey thanks Mark I was field artillery in the army and I always like seeing the big guns.

I am in Shaanxi province, if you have the chance to come back, there is an old little fortress that was used by the KMT leaders when chasing down Mao and his thugs into the mountains. There are MANY British cannons and other interesting relics.

Very interesting video. There are several of these guns still in existence in UK, 2 in Plymouth alone. One B Loader on a moncrief mounting at Crownhill fort, and the other being a 6" RML on a replica mounting at Drakes Island in the middle of Plymouth sound. You can also see a 17.25" 100 ton RML the largest, and only one in the world, on a hydraulically operated mounting at Fort Rinella on the south east side of Valletta harbour in Malta.

Fascinating video!!! It’s always a good night when I have scotch, a cigar, and a new Mark Felton upload to watch. Tonight I traveled back in time to relics from the Opium Wars. Just magnificent!!!

Thank you for the lesson.

Still like to see the story of Port Phillip Bay's defences in Victoria. Forts, manmade islands, disappearing guns and electric mines were all used. High tech stuff for the time.

Going around an unpopulated area and finding hidden and obscure historical treasures sounds like the most fun anyone can ever have haha

@fuckyougoogle1148

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like geocaching

Mark if you have the time please check out the cannons in Eaglehawk, Central Victoria, Australia! We have 2 permanent cannon from the then HMS Nelson circa 1814. I believe they are RML’s? The ship itself was later recommissioned to the Victorian navy in 1867. There was also another 2 HMS Nelson cannon discovered in Rosiland Park in Bendigo in 1997 during restoration works of said park. I’m not sure of their model designation. 🇦🇺👍🏼

That's a pretty cool find. I hope that the Chinese government takes steps to preserve those guns either nn place or put them in a museum for future generations to see. I know that I'd certainly to be able to take a hike and look at some old coastal defenses. Along one of the several Southe4rn California beaches is part of an old coastal fort, not much is left except for l;large concrete rings that indicate where the guns once stood. While that's pretty cool to see, it would be even better if the original (probably WW II era0 guns were still there.

@thatlittlevoice6354

Жыл бұрын

I hope the Chinese government takes steps to better it's human rights stance, but to each their own.

Mr Felton thank you very much for doing what you do you alone have intrigued my interest into history itself again thank you

The anit ship ammunition for RML guns was Palliser Shot. Common and shrapnel were anti personnel along with cannister. However many 64 pounders were made by rifling 64 Pdr SBML guns. Almost looks like a later carriage mounted 64 Pdr or a 7" RML. The beer bottle look makes one want to do a bore check.

Loved visiting the old muzzle/breech loading Armstrongs in Bermuda, whilst I was out there. Wish I was still there.....

fantastic, thank you

Excellent video attention to detail is second to none🍻I very much enjoyed this video

Thank you Mark. I encourage you to continue bringing us the unknown portions of the Opium Wars. There is more we don't know than we do. Cheers!

I'm surprised these weren't melted during the "Great Leap Forward" in the 50s.

@mikepette4422

Жыл бұрын

probably lacked a means to move them they are solid steel and iron after all

@brittakriep2938

Жыл бұрын

I have read, that somewhere in Ethiopia there is a giant brass muzzleloader cannon, next to a fortress ruin, nobody was able to transport it away in old days.

If you want to see more Chinese land-based naval artillery, I would recommend looking into the city of Humen at the mouth of the Pearl River. The Bocca Tigris naval fortress not only fought the British during the Opium Wars, but actively took part against Japan, notably a rare naval action on 14 September 1937.

Similar guns on Flat Holm an Island in the Bristol channel off Barry. They had Moncrief mounting and the magazine is still intact.

Thank you Mark.☺

Very nice pronunciation Mark. Especially the Cantonese. 👍

Great video thanks. Have you ever thought about doing a video on the two forts at the entrance to Cork Harbour? There are some really interesting gun in placements.

Another great video.

Awesome thanks mark

Excellent vidya, Fark Melton

I think you will find more cases from WW2 in India. I thought of Willy's jeeps or old Chevrolets and British uniforms from WW1 and WW2. But Indian people who lived through WW2 are becoming more and more scarce.😌

As a Chinese, I am happy to see foreigners interested in these modern Chinese artillery. I wonder if you have photographed more inscriptions on the barrel? In fact, around 1876, the British Armstrong Company had transferred the technology of 4.7-inch, 6-inch, and 7-inch muzzle-loading rifle to Kiangnan (Jiangnan) Arsenal in Shanghai, China, so the artillery in the photo may be made in China.

There is only one man who will brave the horrid weather and torrential rains just to see history as it was... Mark Felton

Amazing, never knew you lived for 10 Years in the PRC :O Would be amazing to hear more Stories of your China Adventure Mark (:

My ancestors originated from what is present day Ningbo, and Jiapu is not far away from it

Cool!

You mentioned a search for “artifacts”. Did this include any beach combing, or metal detecting? I’d love to hear about even the smallest of finds.

Drachinifel will be beside himself with excitement! 😂

That is amazing. Dr, did you wonder if your had slipped into a wrinkle in the space time continuum? Thank you, as always.

fantastic. Can't believe you waited 10 years to make this vid!

Very cool.