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@danielsantiagourtado3430

26 күн бұрын

You guys are the Best ❤❤❤❤❤

@also_arles

26 күн бұрын

I'm already celebrating the new upload! :) ❤️

@a-posingroach

26 күн бұрын

I’m gonna steal your liver

@mattdragon333

26 күн бұрын

Did they plan to ally with Belgium and turn Mexico into a Belgian Congo kind situation?

@thechannel2975

26 күн бұрын

Hey, I was wondering more if you guys post your sources somewhere for videos? Some videos I want to learn more about, like the past videos of this series.

Me: Ooooh cool name! Extra History: They were designed to keep slavery alive. Me: So the coolness stops at the name then?

@konstantinosnikolakakis8125

26 күн бұрын

Like with many things, sadly.

@frankie3010

26 күн бұрын

Villains are always cooler then heroes.

@mosin_boi

26 күн бұрын

I say the idea of adding Mexico to the States is a cool odea

@Mustafa_AhmedPGH

26 күн бұрын

Pretty much.

@andrewhopkins886

26 күн бұрын

@@mosin_boi it's actually quite hot down there.

Its crazy that the more you learn about the Confederacy, how maniacal they really were, and how its good they only lasted basically 5 years

@thequietdreamer2186

26 күн бұрын

It’s also crazy that the Union Army didn’t have a shoot on sight order for every Confederate they encountered.

@codycarney2311

26 күн бұрын

It's such a shame that even though it's cultural impact has far outweighed its real historical one

@peggyliepmann5248

26 күн бұрын

Every time I learn something new about that era, the more I can't help but see the whole thing as a bunch of con artists and rich jerks doing an increasingly frantic tap dance routine.

@50TNCSA

26 күн бұрын

And the Yankees were no better where did they get their cotton for their mills to industrialize who did the federal government use to build forts along the coast .. who did they use to build DC... slaves ...the federal government that put down sovereign states is not innocent

@destructorinator

26 күн бұрын

The more you learn about the Confederacy the more you question how they lasted five full years, these yahoos were worse than the fucking habsburgs

The Knights of the Golden Circle make for great villains in any period setting or alt-history game. My husband is planning a lovely campaign where the Knights discovered how to use blood magic and are now only kept in check by an alliance of voodoo practitioners centered in New Orleans.

@andrewhopkins886

26 күн бұрын

wait... that sounds awesome.

@mistformsquirrel

26 күн бұрын

... okay that's kind of a badass premise...

@KasumiRINA

26 күн бұрын

Kingsman the Golden Circle and Bond Live and Let Die crossover we never deserved.

@roguepsykerhaaker4813

26 күн бұрын

That's so cool

@freedomgeek2

26 күн бұрын

Yeah I was thinking that they were way more deserving of being the secret society used as a villain in lots of media than the Illuminati who more or less seemed to advocate things most modern people would support.

🇲🇽 Mexicans in Matamoros: "What are those gringos doing?" "They're the Golden Circle guys. Just ignore them."

@EEEEEEEE

24 күн бұрын

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

Bickley had a [lousy] plan. Bickley always had a [lousy] plan.

@MrDalisclock

26 күн бұрын

I wonder if Dutch Van Der linde was modeled partially off Bickley

@1Ring42

26 күн бұрын

Because the plan wasn't "Get 'em"

@kenzieafent6291

26 күн бұрын

"Soon, we're gonna make *them* harvest mangoes in tahiti!"

@mebrychi6504

26 күн бұрын

And he never became a [[BIGSHOT]] lol

@Toneill029

24 күн бұрын

@@MrDalisclock I mean…probably

One of my favorite things about learning about the golden dawn (in an academic setting) was that they literally start rituals by t posing to assert dominance. So dabbing as a secret society gesture isnt really that far off

@olefredrikskjegstad5972

26 күн бұрын

Presumably mimicking Jesus on the cross.

@9gagHasMySoul

25 күн бұрын

Greek political party golden dawn?

@thehungrylittlenihilist

25 күн бұрын

​@@9gagHasMySoulmore likely the hermetic religious order.

@9gagHasMySoul

25 күн бұрын

@thehungrylittlenihilist thanks! I wouldn't have put it past that specific political party though

Southern slavery expansionism is worthy of its own series. Both William Walker’s and Narciso López’s filibustering in Nicaragua and Cuba respectively had the eventual goal of being annexed by the US as slave states, a la the Texas Revolution. López asked both Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee to lead expeditions to overthrow the Spanish government in Cuba. They declined but it didn’t stop them from trying to do the same thing later on with their own government.

@CamelJoeNukesTheWorld

26 күн бұрын

Hell yeah.

@Attaxalotl

26 күн бұрын

The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico is really quite underrated, too! Some randos from Arizona ended up charging the Union lines with lances instead of rifles, and the ones from Texas might as well have been invading Russia for all that went wrong for them.

@beeaggro2593

26 күн бұрын

DR too. William Walker deserves a series for himself alone

@RozenGermain

26 күн бұрын

@@beeaggro2593 William Walker's story has the happiest ending I can think of in regards to colonizing bastards! So I hope they cover it!

@angusyang5917

26 күн бұрын

​@@RozenGermain ​ It says a lot about filibustering when the happiest ending has you actually take control of a country and establish a slave-friendly government, only to then have all of Central America's governments unite in a coalition backed by American business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, expel you from the country, only to come a few years later to be handed over to one of those governments and executed by firing squad.

The quack joins the Confederate army as a doctor. 😂

@ecurewitz

26 күн бұрын

And promptly gets captured

@emyra_3293

26 күн бұрын

rip whoever got “treated” by him

@johnoglesby-vw7ck

26 күн бұрын

History rhymes...

The Confederacy is a never ending L

@bthsr7113

26 күн бұрын

At least it gave us an enduring way to spot stupid.

@Magnustopheles

21 күн бұрын

It's an L that lasted less than five years, actually 😂

@Michigan_npc

5 күн бұрын

​@@Magnustopheles a L is an L no matter the time it was a L

Interesting to see how public they were. For all their secret handshakes and rituals and whatnot they sure were eager to put their messages in newspapers, have public conventions and openly recruit.

@tjenadonn6158

26 күн бұрын

Yeah, it really seems about as secretive as the Boy Scouts.

@Oxtocoatl13

26 күн бұрын

I guess it's hard to recruit an army if you never talk about fight club.

@thor30013

25 күн бұрын

Honestly, I half expected to find out that the whole organization was at least partly a money making scheme. Those membership prices don't _sound_ high, but you could buy a lot more with $1 back then.

@palladin9479

25 күн бұрын

The point of a "Secret Society" isn't that the group is unknown, but that it's methods, practices, membership and internal agendas are unknown. The Freemasons are a good example of this, everyone knowns they exist but if I ask anyone about details all they can do is vomit nonsense they heard from somewhere else. Even Extra History is rather clueless in that regard.

@HungryLoki

22 күн бұрын

I think the secrecy was more about their intentions and activities, rather than their existence. Take scientology for example. Their existence was widely known for decades, but they were just viewed as a whacky cult believing in a weird book written by a failed science fiction author. The true extent of their activities didn't come out until much later, when increased public scrutiny encouraged former members to speak up and call the group out for what they are.

So from an inflation calculator: The iron hands would have had to pay about 37 dollars, the second tier about 180 dollars and the highest tier about 370 dollars in today's money.

@wh0_knows_

23 күн бұрын

bless i was wondering about this thanks!

I genuinely love that "don't Google it" is a doctrine. It fit especially well last episode, but it's also perfect for modern cults and many organizations of "dont question it." Not intended but still perfect, and i love it.

Inside me there are two wolves: one of them is a racist of legendary proportions, the other has worse organizational skills than a gaggle of middle schoolers who were set a group project.

@darkhobo

26 күн бұрын

They both lose

@HedgehogSpeedSonic

25 күн бұрын

@@darkhobo And are also extremely proud of their shared loss, and flaunt their defeat.

@THECHEESELORD69

21 күн бұрын

@@HedgehogSpeedSonicnow replace the wolves with anything having to do with America and that’s how politics work!

No mention of John Wilkes Booth belonging to the Knights of the Golden Circle?

@philiplathrop9250

26 күн бұрын

Or John C. Calhoun

@fullmetaltheorist

26 күн бұрын

@@philiplathrop9250 Every person with the surname Calhoun is very sus

@philiplathrop9250

26 күн бұрын

@@fullmetaltheorist He was awful

@draco84oz

26 күн бұрын

@@fullmetaltheorist I don't know - Barney keeps trying to offer me a beer...I think he's ok.

@felixsubakti6907

26 күн бұрын

​@@fullmetaltheoristdid you just diss cdawgva?😅

Extra History: "Where small groups would invade Latin American countries and try to take over the government." CIA: *taking notes*

@Dreamfox-df6bg

26 күн бұрын

That's what I was thinking as well.

@THECHEESELORD69

21 күн бұрын

Well you have to start somewhere

"THIS TIME SHALL BE DIFFERENT!" (shortly afterwards) "IT'S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT STEVE?!"

As a citizen of the rio grande they never taught me of the meeting of the knights order thank you for teaching me and others

I got distracted by the low dollar amounts and looked up how much those would have been. A dollar would have been about 24 grams silver or 1.6 grams gold. Since the modern prices have diverged, the gold standard dollar would be about a hundred dollars today while the silver one would be only a bit over twenty. Some inflation calculator I found says it'd be about 40.

@literallypochiyama

26 күн бұрын

if you think about it, it's still very small as request compared to standard lodges

@AnthonyGarcia-sy3yk

26 күн бұрын

The actual question would be how much you buy with 10 dollars at that time..

@haemocyte2224

26 күн бұрын

@@AnthonyGarcia-sy3yk I believe that would be the 40 dollar figure.

@AnthonyGarcia-sy3yk

26 күн бұрын

@@haemocyte2224 negative !!!!! HiI'd get a Colt Army percussion revolver, a Kentucky (Harper's Ferry Mississippi) Rifle, a Colt Contract musket, and a Sharps percussion rifle, and still have 25 cents change left.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131

26 күн бұрын

​@@AnthonyGarcia-sy3yk A brand new Colt revolver after 1863 costs 15 dollars. You can get a decent gun for less than that...

Of the secret societies you've covered, the Knights of the Golden Circle was definitely the most sinister yet. Nice job, Extra History!

@HedgehogSpeedSonic

25 күн бұрын

And stupid. Imagine declaring a battle that nobody shows up too, and instead thinks their leader ran off with the money. Cave men with sticks planned better than this new world order group of slavers.

Finally hear my hometown here on the channel and it had to be this episode 🥲

"This is getting out of hand! Now there are 7 of them!" I'm sorry if that Phantom Menace joke was already made but that's the first thing that comes to mind when one more cloaked figure emerges from the shadows...or from off-screen.

Thought you would have given a moment to the KotGC's most infamous member, one John Wilkes Booth.

It's truly a damm shame that the confederacy has had such a disproportionate cultural impact when compared to its historical one

@fullmetaltheorist

26 күн бұрын

It's mostly because of people who want to keep It's memory alive.

@codycarney2311

26 күн бұрын

@@fullmetaltheorist you can say that again.

@thanhhoangnguyen4754

21 күн бұрын

​@@codycarney2311 Well to be fair though not all of them on board with the ideal. Usually the politician and plantation is the big pusher for it.

Watching the baby grow up in the cartoons is really sweet

Now I want to see a series on the history of slavery in Brazil.

@joshuafrimpong244

26 күн бұрын

Some is answered in the history of Brazil

@bickyboo7789

26 күн бұрын

Oh, it's brutal. They bought a LOT more slaves than the American colonists.

@trevinbeattie4888

25 күн бұрын

@@joshuafrimpong244 Thanks! I’ll have to re-watch that - my memory is short 😅

oh look they're back, time to rewatch this until next week

Yay!! Its Extra History time!!!

@EEEEEEEE

24 күн бұрын

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A group of people that wanted to own people to do all their work turns out they had no idea how to do any actual work.

Friendly reminder that the confederacy lasted a meager 4 year...Fortnite lasted long- LEAGUE OF LEGENDS lasted longer.

@HedgehogSpeedSonic

25 күн бұрын

The Union should have crushed the confederacy harder. For some reason, the confederacy flaunts their pride as if they won or fought for something to be proud of.

@forbidden_muffin

5 күн бұрын

Bro, Nickado Avacado lasted longer, that's sad

The Confederates will never not be a big joke and I love it

I've lived my whole life here in the Rio grande, and I don't even know if my HISTORY MASTERS mother knew about them. Thanks

@HedgehogSpeedSonic

25 күн бұрын

The US northerners were too gentle with reintegrating the confederacy back into their history. So this stuff was not mentioned to avoid making any southern pride aspects more butthurt.

This is the one of the best history channels

Ah... I just noticed tha the wee one is standing now... she probably has been for a while... but still. It's still super cute. Seeing how much she has grown along with the show.

After the Civil War the Emperor of Brazil gave lands to Confederate Americans, which settled in what's now the city called Americana, belonging to the metropolitan area of Campinas. They have a Confederate cemetery and an annual tradition festival. Not sure if they are the same people mentioned in the video, though. Ironically, Campinas was a center of the campaign to abolish slavery in Brazil.

The last thing I expected was to hear Extra History mention the name of my hometown when I clicked it this morning

Lexington, Kentucky here. Our main road that encompasses the city is called New Circle Road.

@fullmetaltheorist

26 күн бұрын

Not very subtle...

I NEED that secret handshake scene to be made into a gif... 😓

Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai!!

This series is amazing so far! I'm loving every minute of it! ❤

Brazil mentioned :(

YAYYY ANOTHER BANGER FROM EXTRA HISTORY!!!! LOVE IT SM 😆😆❤️❤️❤️❤️

This new series is so awesome! Thank you

You should make a video on Emperor Maximilian of Mexico Would be cool

@nixonhoover2

24 күн бұрын

No.

been loving the series

Thank you for all your hard work great video as always. It’s hard out here for KZreadrs and you guys have been consistent. Thank you.

animation is perfect as always.And nice storytelling too

Fascinating bit of history that I have never heard of. Thank you EH creators!

I really love this series specifically because of how unique of an idea this was. Really love it

Never heard of this group before. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Love to learn more with You guys! You're amazing 😊😊😊😊😊🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I love this series so far.

At this point, they mentioned Freemasonry so much they should do an episode on that probably separately because I would be more interested in learning about the night Templar

As European person I did not have that much knowledge about this topic. As always you made it funny and interesting. I will be coming back next week for new rank in our not so secret order :)

Yes! The hermetic order of the golden dawn! The ogdoadic! My first occult rabbit hole. I love them

Well, that all went in the most predictable ways possible, huh?

Stoked for next week!!!

George Bickley was trying to conquer Mexico around the same time as fellow quack-doctor/journalist/lawyer William Walker was trying to conquer Baja California and Nicaragua. I would be interested to know if they ever interacted.

I am really loving this series.

Been waiting for this one since you announced it.

For those who wanna know the outro music is called Odd and ends

Thanks for sharing this information

Woah, it's not often that a video has 100% new information for me

Oooh the Order of the Golden Dawn! Really hope we’ll be seeing the Aleistor Crowley vs W.B. Yeats drama!

Aaaahhh really looking forward to next week!

I can’t wait for the golden dawn

6:12 hey México, whose idea was to name the town “Moor killer”?

@beeaggro2593

26 күн бұрын

probably the conquistadors because many fought in the reconquista

@onbearfeet

26 күн бұрын

There are a lot of Matamoroses in Mexico. Probably a combination of there being a place in Spain called Matamoros and reverence for a Mexican revolutionary hero with the surname Matamoros. It's a bit like all the American places named after George Washington. The name ultimately derives from a version of a Catholic saint venerated in Spain for killing Moors. So ... yeah, blame the reconquista, but at some distance from the actual town.

@mistermagoo8685

26 күн бұрын

It’s a common spanish last name

Happy 4/20 guys! 😉😉😉😉😉

@Jason-fm4my

26 күн бұрын

Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of the death of Lord Byron too. It's perfect.😊

Is the question not rather why do it in the first place? An entire Empire just for the sake of slavery is a stupid idea...

@Dreamfox-df6bg

26 күн бұрын

Not from their point of view and if you factor it that (I think) it was around that time that the British made a dent in the transatlantic slave trade. Which led to slave owners having to breed their own new slaves. So securing a larger supply didn't sound to crazy to them back then. There was of course also the fallout of having those lands to make a profit. They just wanted to start the 'Manifest Destiny' a little earlier with slightly different goals.

I found it very easy to forget the Knights' racism knowing they had such an incompetent leader. Also, why is it that the worst groups of people have the coolest names and uniforms?

Hext week: "Tony Orlando and Dawn!" Oh, .....sorry.

*jokes about rob being evil for what he does* Rob:It's okay, I wrote the joke! Me:*laughs* ok

Love your content guys! Thanks For this! Hearth please 😊😊😊❤❤❤

Yay! The next one is about the guys who overthought a game!

I love the way you present history in a fun, interactive way... Like I feel like I'm part of it too 😁😁😁. I hope you're going to continue with the secret societies series...I particularly want to see one about the Priory of Sion 😊

I love how silly this mini series is its great

Nicely done video

Damn, you're telling me that an organization founded by Southern racists fell apart due to poor planning and incompetence? I'm shocked. Truly surprised. I never would've seen it coming.

@litjay7073

26 күн бұрын

Who would have thought it possible…

@THECHEESELORD69

21 күн бұрын

They had us in the first half but it was definitely a twist. 10/10 good movie

Very interesting I can’t wait to hear about the next secret order?

2:17 - BRAZIL MENTIONED! But not for a nice reason. Still, history must be told. Anyways, much Respect, and Please Come to Brazil.

@Omniscient_AI

26 күн бұрын

I can't come to Brazil :/

@Fenrisson

26 күн бұрын

@@Omniscient_AI Of course you can! You are an Omniscient AI! You can do anything!

@THECHEESELORD69

21 күн бұрын

I had no money for transport to Brazil.

@Fenrisson

19 күн бұрын

@@THECHEESELORD69 It's okay. Let's make a kickstarter to get you money to come to Brazil! You can stay at my house, I have an extra matress.

ngl I think this may be my favorite series EH has ever done

MORE HISTORY 😊

Always a good day to watch a video on rebel failures

I am a master of history because I watched all of these

Nice video

"Bickley" reminds me of Binkley, a character in a PG Wodehouse book...puts him in the right sort of perspective

The name sounds absolutely badass!

Once again proving just how important “state’s rights” and “self determination” were for the confederacy

Pretty cool that you're doing a video on the GD. Does that mean we can expect future ones on Rosicrucians, and of course Masons? There are some fascinating groups there, especially around the order of Memphis Misraim

A secret society which garners press attention. Ofcourse their plans would DEFINITELY work.

Still waiting for the episode for ORDO EXTRA HISTORIA

You are really hoing to Brazil this time 😮

Hey, I knew about the Knights from a movie!

The amount of people and resources that flocked to their banner. I shudder to think what they could have achieved if they actually HAD competent leadership...

@Oxtocoatl13

26 күн бұрын

Probably not what they set out to do. Even a weakened Mexico was still strong enough to deal with a few thousand armed anglos. Besides, the Mexicans of 1859 had more recent war experience than the Americans and were already mobilized.

Bickley: he did exactly what I did! Jefferson Davis : but better (Of course, the really great thing is that all of them failed. Insert Union Dixie here)

I have often wondered what might have happened if the American civil war expanded outward to include places like Mexico or Cuba, instead of being stubbornly confined to their own borders. Thanks for this brilliant research!

Interesting, they are crazy

If you would, would you do a series on Canadian history, something like the fathers of confederation?

pls cover the Philippines' Katipunan

I'm really enjoying this series, but I just had a thought that it's a pity that the Carbonari were not included in it. Oh well, maybe they'll be included in some other series one day.