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@TheRealForgetfulElephant

Жыл бұрын

The Harpax sounds interesting, I had never heard of it before. It’s funny how the Corvus is invented during a battle of Sicily just like the halpax. Thank you for you’re outstanding quality!

@zddxddyddw

Жыл бұрын

You should make a series on important South American wars and battles, like the Cisplatine War which had great confrontations like the battles of Juncal or Carmen de Patagones.

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

@@historictubeedits dew it

@sumitkumarsaha6206

Жыл бұрын

Kindly make videos on Indian History

Hey all, I was the writer and historian for this episode, hope you all enjoyed! If you've got any questions or feedback, feel free to leave them below, I try my best to get around to all of them!

@Kiritoxidekd

Жыл бұрын

Moin Peter😂

@thepast7287

Жыл бұрын

How much Work do you pour into a 20Min Long video? like that

@darrylerren8185

Жыл бұрын

Hey can you make a video about Lepidus's life story. Cuz I genuinely felt bad for him. After all, he was Caesar's second in command and had played well in the aftermath of Caesar's assasination only to be forgotten and portrayed as a fool

@jozzieokes3422

Жыл бұрын

Peter how did the roman navy of this period organise themselves for battle and for other general operations?

@siken__

Жыл бұрын

What anecdotes or quotes do you find most interesting about this civil war?

Agrippa was the Yin to Octavian's Yang. For all his talents he wasn't a military man by nature, but he knew how to pick damn good ones.

@HowlingWolf518

Жыл бұрын

Competence 101: Know what you suck at, and find somebody trustworthy and equally competent to do it for you.

@jbb4105

Жыл бұрын

@@HowlingWolf518 not always an option, unfortunately

@geordiejones5618

Жыл бұрын

Agrippa could have easily changed Roman history if he wasn't completely subservient. Every time he was asked to do something he performed at the highest level of excellence whether it was with the legions or as a magistrate. Had Octavian died in 23 BCE it would have been Agrippa at the top.

@catriona_drummond

Жыл бұрын

@@HowlingWolf518 "find somebody trustworthy" in Rome. That's been the hardest part to this very day. Just look at the current uneasy triumvirate waiting for each other to make a mistake.

@annwilliams6438

Жыл бұрын

@@geordiejones5618 Agrippa would never have been on top. He came from a family that was only just above slaves whilst Octavian was a royal… This is the reason while their partnership worked so well. They absolutely needed each other and thus trusted each other completely. Neither of them stood a chance without each other.

21 legions defecting is actually nuts😂

@LegioXXI

Жыл бұрын

Not really considering the circumstances. After so much war, especially war for careers of a few politicians, many just had enough.

@Elj_Calisthenics

Жыл бұрын

Like 115k troops 🤣🤣

@arcadion448

4 ай бұрын

@@Elj_Calisthenics - 115K troops is a large amount of men back 2K years ago. The 80K who died about 200 years before that during Cannae was estimated to be 20% of the abled bodied men of the Roman Republic.

Lepidus was certainly no fool. I mean, he played the game for a decade and stayed alive, didn't die in battle and/or wasn't assassinated etc. Apparently he had to have been well respected to have lasted so long and not been killed after losing his "power." It's so crazy to me how.... large and dynamic the political and military maneuverings of the Roman Republic to Empire period are compared to say the Middle Ages. It's wild that there were more soldiers on just Sicily here than during really any medieval war.

@syjiang

Жыл бұрын

Aye he was no fool. The man played the game and survived from start to finish. That is an accomplishment.

@lik7953

Жыл бұрын

A perfect sign that he was no fool is that even 2,000 years later, people still know his name and talk about him

@dennisgichohi5392

Жыл бұрын

@@lik7953 I know right...when u played the game u either won or died man lived till he was 76 and prolly think part of him was proud considering how violent this era in Rome's history was

@patrykg6220

Жыл бұрын

After Caesar assasination it was Lepidus not Antony that became Pontifex Maximus - highest priest of Rome. Perhaps he was not a fool after all.

@tomvu1470

Жыл бұрын

@@patrykg6220 Remember too it's often the victors that write the history (and obviously Octavian won) so who knows what the actual truth was. Lepidus survived & passed away from old age regardless of how he ended up.

The fact that Lepidus did not die a violent death speaks for itself. The only other member of the two triumvirates to do this was Octavian himself

Agrippa was such a badass. No way Octavian could have overcome all these challenges without him. Marcus planned and executed the invasions of Sicily, Greece and the revolt in Illyria, and even more important he never once tried to use his prestige to make a bid for himself. Even gave up a triumph because it would have overshadowed Octavian. And he wasn't just a general, he was an excellent adminsitrator. One of the last of the great Roman soldier-statesmen. After him it was crazy rare to be an excellent general and administrator without being hampered or killed by the paranoid imperial court. Up there with both Aetius and Pompeianus as the greatest Romans during the empire to never take the throne.

Really feel bad for Lepidus. He was a capable soldier, but also unlucky enough to have two titans like Octavian and Antony as political rivals. It is pretty sad that he spent the last days of his life exiled and that Augustus constantly mocked him by making him the last to vote.

@handlesrstupid123

Жыл бұрын

A real survivalist

@jaohonaxa

Жыл бұрын

Triumvirates only last until one member is strong enough to defeat the other two.

@brianjones3191

Жыл бұрын

Antony a Titan? He was ok, but not in Octavian’s league.

@e21big

Жыл бұрын

well, but then again, live a comfortable live and pass away peacefully at old age is a luxury most people don't get to enjoy at the time

@OptimusMaximusNero

Жыл бұрын

@@e21big But that was at the cost of being remembered as the silly member of the Triumvirate. Lepidus would have surely prefered to heroically die in battle before being remembered in History like that

Lepidus: my loyal men shall never join you Octavian, even if they're lives are in danger. Right guy's? Guy's...?

The strongest man in history had a right hand to aid them. Genghis Khan had Subutai, Han Wudi had Huo Qubing and Octavian had Agrippa. Agrippa was a military genius and yet he is almost unknown. How is that possible?

@andrewhenshaw4067

Жыл бұрын

Same with Subutai honestly, most ppl wouldn't recognise the name while many knows of Ghenghis Khan

@VanBrokkost

Жыл бұрын

It was Octavian that ascended to power and later become emperor, hence why he is the big name remembered. There were a lot of capable generals, but not everyone is know as much as other people that truly shaped their world

@geordiejones5618

Жыл бұрын

Imperial propoganda straight up. He married into the family but he was always on the outside looking in.

@byronwaldron7933

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. Liu Bang had Han Xin, Diocletian had Galerius, etc.

@Palasdin

Жыл бұрын

I am Subutai! Thief and archer and dinner for wolves.

Speaking of Lepidus' defeat, I loved the funny ending of Total Rome 2 where the general emerges victorious and becomes the first Emperor of Rome. Sure that gave the real Lepidus a good laugh in the afterlife

@Bazerald777

Жыл бұрын

To be fair all triumvir share the same ending.

Agrippa, the MVP who constantly have to clean up after Octavian´s opsies. It was luckily for Octavian Agrippa was content with his position and was loyal to him.

@geordiejones5618

Жыл бұрын

I would have loved for Agrippa to seize control because the JC dynasty was an absolute shitshow. Octavian was very insecure and let his wife dictate his policies.

@kohtalainenalias

8 ай бұрын

Could you name, elaborate a few of those Oopsies, please

@lucaskitamura614

7 ай бұрын

This is perhaps to the credit of Octavian himself, as he seems to have recognized the loyalty and competence of Agrippa, but also his own inability at military affairs. Thus securing a loyal general to wage his wars, and act as his most loyal right hand man.

Octavian was arguably the best successor a man could ask for.

GET OVER HERE!

I can’t wait to watch this when I have time! Any plans on the Punic Wars?

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

The scripts are being written. Probably after we are done with the Peloponnesian War

@iexist3919

Жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals that’s great! Looking forward to both that and the rest of the Peloponnesian War!

@adityasinghjadoun6675

Жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals hello kings and generals can you tell me the name of this music used in your episode about timurs invasion of delhi? kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6enp9GtZsaWlJM.html

@DrKarmo

Жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals are we, humble peasants without membership ever going to see the Peloponnesian War videos?

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

@@DrKarmo at some point, yes

Hot take: Agrippa is the reason Sicily was taken. Neither Octavian or Lepidus, or both together could have taken Sicily. Octavian didn't have the naval skill to challenge Pompy and Lepidus would have been bogged down in the west with limited success, fighting with stretched supply lines in an area hostile to him. Agrippa made it all possible.

@geordiejones5618

Жыл бұрын

He was also the reason Antony was defeated and the first Illyirian revolt was put down. The propoganda surrounding Octavian was some of the best ever, up there with Jesus and Muhammed, but the truth is that Octavian never has a chance without Agrippa. Antony would have won had Marcus simply fought for anyone else.

@shehuyakubu3751

11 ай бұрын

Funny to hear westerners talking about propaganda LMFAOOO yeah okay! Sure

@CMMDRAsh

10 ай бұрын

Soldiers fight wars, Generals get the credit. - Napoleon Agrippa fights, but History Remembers Octavian

@TheWhiskyDelta

8 ай бұрын

So up until Agrippa was appointed Octavian had a string of absurd luck, where he would do something Stupid only for the god to intervene and save his ass hard where anyone else would have died, like Philipi where Cassisus mistook allies for enemies turning Octavian's pathetic disaster into victory. Agrippa is basically the gods got fed up and so they decided to make his childhood friend a god of war so that he could do the hard work and they could stop constantly saving him.

Sextus: I've built my fleet up bigger and stronger, Agrippa! Agrippa: GET OVER HERE!!

I was always led to believe that Rome never had more than 36 Legions at one time, yet just in Sicily there are 42 legions, those are crazy numbers

@konstantinosangelopoulos5367

Жыл бұрын

During this period there were legions all over the place.... Some of them were understrength but for the most part each triumvirate had around 20-25 legions and would levy even more for a campaign... After Anthony was defeated Octavian had like 50+ legions... It was he who disbanded most of them and kept the number around 30 legions

@syjiang

Жыл бұрын

What I find really interesting was that while this titanic and prolonged civil war was ongoing, Romans still managed to fend off external foes what were opportunistically but temporarily nibbling off chunks of territory.

@enderreaper1482

11 ай бұрын

I wonder if there was a point in history where Rome had over a million soldiers.

I hope this series continues

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

It will

Lepidus offering Octavian Sicily and North Africa for Gaul, Hispania, and Illyricum... Octavion: ah yes, the negotiator

Please don’t ever stop these videos They’re what we need in life.

I wonder if Agrippa's back hurt from carrying Octavian so much

Kings and Generals is the absolute master of Roman military history. Content and visualization.

What an incredible work, and plot writing. History really comes alive with you guys! This is the best historical channel ever!!

@albertovalerio6766

Жыл бұрын

Agree!

@apexnext

Жыл бұрын

They truly do make it seem real don't they? I can see ourselves in this utterly ancient time with ancient names. Of course we are crazy different, but I can see how humanity really hasn't come as far as we like to think we have. ❤️ And that true history is hard to get from school. 😳

@RexoryByzaboo

Жыл бұрын

8th like.

@al_fire

Жыл бұрын

@@RexoryByzaboo thank you!!

a really solid synopsis on Lepidus. Sorely overlooked but even for all he achieved and managed to gain, was still always a second to greater men.

Love this series! Please continue to show how Octavian eventually gained ultimate power and authority.

Wish I knew this prior to 1961-1962. We sailed those same waters several times when I was in the US Navy.

Agrippa out here just causally inventing new weapons the mad lad.

I love Augustus. I love his wit, his mind. I also love Agrippa. I love the loyalty and friendship Augustus and Agrippa had to each other. Thank you again, for this wonderful video.👍

Hockey intermission, time for history!

Wow, I never realized how credible of a threat Lepidus had posed at the time. I always thought he had no chance against Octavian with only a few disloyal legions on his side at the time.

The multiple perspectives on the events in this presentation is excellent, Keep it up K&G Team!

Liberators: "Octavian! In the name of the senate, you're under arrest." Octavian: "No. I am the senate!"

9:17 "Drag them closer, I want to hit them with my Gladius!" Agrippa, probably.

Excellent as always, guys. I can't wait to find out what happens next!

Im craving for the next part. This is a part of Roman history I always wanted to learn more from. Huge thanks to the Kings and Generals team

Thank you so much for making these videos. I grew up reading my friends old Roman History books he used in college when studding Anthropologie. Seeing them beautiful illustrated and researched fills me will nostalgia and gratefulness. Grateful there are history fans out there like me! ❤

The animations are getting a lot better. Keep going!

Good thing Octavian had Agrippa on his side, since he himself seems to suck at military matters

I love this series! I hope there’s another episode coming soon!

He learned from the best 😊. Thanks Kings 👍

I've been waiting for this video! Could you do a series on Mithridates VI, the Poison King?

@joshuaherbert30

Жыл бұрын

They already have one

@MsGyzy

Жыл бұрын

Do not believe them! 😉

@cirthador1453

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuaherbert30 Yes, but its old and not very complete. It does not go over the whole Mithridatic Wars.

Thanks for another fantastic video! ⚔🔥🙌

17:03 - That's a fair assessment of Lepidus, you can't be a damned fool if you were able survive to an old age during the chaotic time that led to the end of the Roman Republic. Surviving after the death of Caesar and after unsuccessfully challenging Octavian is no small feat.

Yass more Octavian videos 🙏 kudos to the team for another banger 🎉

Love this channel ❤️

I like this Octavian-Agrippan story but I hope it will be continued even after Anthony's defeat because August's time was a plenty of "forgotten war" e. g. rebellion of Illyria, conquer of Batavia, Pannonia, Noricum, rest of Thrachia, Germanian territories etc. etc.

I love your videos man, you are doing a great job keep up the good work.❤❤

Thanks for the video

Loving this series

I clicked so fast. Keep up the great work K&G!!!

Agrippa's space boots saves the day.

Good video thanks

awesome stuff

Time traveler Agrippa has done it again!

Kings and Generals is the Caesar of history documentaries.

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! (He implies that we are going to get murked)

@Zero-my2kv

Жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals Murder always comes after greatness after all, that is just the rule of history.

Agrippa was the Sam to Octavian's Frodo

It's shocking how Octavian was such a brilliant politician but atrocious military commander

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

Actually quite normal. If you look at the Roman history of that century or so, you will see maybe 2 or 3 men who were good at both things.

@someguy1026

Жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals Just feels odd since I'd think that the high IQ needed to be such a proficient politician would carry over to generalship

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

@@someguy1026 IQ is bullshit. One of the smartest people - world chess champion Kasparov believes in the ridiculous Phantom Time theory

@someguy1026

Жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals I think that's the strongest argument again IQ I've ever heard

I always like the video before watching it coz i knew it would be entertaining.

Great content as usual! I am sure you've heard of the huge earthquakes happening in Turkey. To spread awareness you could make an episode about the most destructive earthquakes in history and their social, political and military results. Would be a very interesting and informative video. Cheers

Urging their Allies with shouts of encouragement ! So you mean cheer leading squads of Roman marines.

And my respect for Octavian continues to grow. He was not a great military leader, but it's incredible how intelligently he used his more competent men to his advantage.

Thanks To This Magnificent Vídeo.

Where is the continuation????

I believe that a video dedicated to Agrippa would be quite welcome. Have not seen one on the major channels so far. Thank you for your exemplary work.

I love these videos. It amazes me that so many centuries ago, people weren't all that different than we are today. Even more amazing though is when I hear something like " so and so had two legions, that needed to get back to Somplacopolis before winter set in, so they built 40 ships and sailed to assist their ailing allies." To imagine men making their own seaworthy boats , fully capable of getting them wherever safely.... they had to use what they could find to aid them, there was no " Lumpus , take your horse to Home Depot and get more nails and wood glue" if they needed it they had to make it. Not to mention the guys thay had to forage, whatnot to feed these guys and their horses, the ovens that had to be made for bread ( I'm assuming they made and ate bread if the ingredients were readily available). The amount of wood, the trees they had to cut down.. that alone would be back breaking work, forming the needed planks etc. What a wonderful and somewhat different world.

*Yo* 👋 I honestly can't wait for the Mongol Alternate History videos your other Channel

Is the episode about the battle of Achelous coming soon? We have been waiting for it

This is so awesome channel on you tube . I Have subscribed your channel . How do you make such amazing animations of wars ?

The music of course, King and Generals 😀

So much enjoying this....thanks makers for this wonderful eye opener...always a Cesaran but loyal to the senate

3 million subs , congrats

Perhaps leaving an estimate on each troop unit size (in this case legions) for each video in the might help casual viewers get an idea of the numbers involved

Looking forward to you making videos on how Octavian defeated Mark Antony.

Really want to know when the next episode is

Can't help but wonder that if Lepidus had been willing to wait just a little longer in putting up with Octavian. After all if he'd still been in the fold when Octavian went after Antony and Cleopatra things might have turned out differently.

The size and number of people in these ancient armies and battles is crazy and unmatched till when? The French revolution?

Yes sir we enjoyed it

sad the video was so short, i love each one of them, but they come out every once in a while and again are quite short :(

I love The vid so much 😁

Marcus Agrippa was always Octavian’s go to guy during the War Of The Third Triumvirate. So many people don’t appreciate or realize just how talented of a general Agrippa was.

Upload the next episode asap please

When is the next episode? Love Roman history especially on the late republic or early empire.

Yet again our boy Agrippa saving that ass

I want you to cover Mark Antony's relationship with Queen Cleopatra of Egypt!

Got to say I personally prefer your videos in this time in history to ww2 or modern I do love ww2 but I feel you do this time in history better not a criticism just my personal view look forwarded to more! Love the channel.

Lepidus became thirsty for power and overplayed his hand.

NICE VIDEO

Octavian was my boy, we used to kick it in the the royal palace, dude was hilarious. I miss that guy

Nice video

This is my favorite history channel by far

I wonder what the full video's title will be, "How Rome Became an Empire" perhaps (Will we get a series on the Sicilian Wars between Carthage and the Sicilian Greeks? It's such an underrated conflict)

Sir can you please do a series on Antony parthian campaign and last civil wars of Republic

@KingsandGenerals

Жыл бұрын

We will

i need more episodes

Octavian and Agrippa, Greatest Bromance in Roman history.

Ohhhhhh shit!!! A new Augustus drop! 🔥

My boi Sextus has been exiled and friendless before. I'm sure he'll be back up on top before long. Maybe even with a strong alliance with Mark Anthony!

@apexnext

Жыл бұрын

I've got a good feeling! 😁👍

hey K&G you guys ever thought of doing zombie stuff? ik you already got into alt history a couple times but I'd love some battles in the zombie genre they usually always have major wars in-between the zombie combat

Haven't watched, but let me guess: Octavian leads the campaign, got his fleet destroyed, went back to Italy crying, and Agrippa came to save the day?

It’s just like Caesar said. “Veni, Vidi, Vici.”