Some extra Information: For centuries Austria was considered the leader of the German states and the Habsburg Family controlled the Emperorship of the Formal Holy Roman Empire. Another German state, Prussia became increasingly powerful and by the late 18th century was ranked as one of the great powers of Europe and started to contest Austria's supremacy in Germany. As nationalism increased in Europe, a powerful aim of most German nationalists was the gathering of all Germans under one state. Some possibilities existed. One including Austria, and one excluding Austria. The Prussian Prime Minister, Otto Von Bismarck opted to not impose harsh terms against the Austrian Empire, so they can become allies in the future. After the German Unification there will still be rivalry between Germany and Austria, but they were allies in World War 1. There were also other major battles that we didn’t cover in this video and also the Italian participation was very important. To not make this video very long we tried to focus on the major events and on the most important battle of the war.

@abrahamlincoln8037

2 жыл бұрын

first

@Friendship1nmillion

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry , *THIS* is boring 🙄 . Could only sit through it till 1:00 of video timeline. 😓

@shadmanabdulkalamkalam2261

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice 👍

@petrameyer1121

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should state history correctly? The Danish started the war rather foolishly.

@LinhNguyen.

2 жыл бұрын

I just watch a video about that and you upload wow.

a couple decades later: Bismarck: I'm going to jump Kaiser Wilhelm II: Do a flip!

@tylermech66

2 жыл бұрын

Damnit Billy respect your elders!

@Barwasser

2 жыл бұрын

a couple decades later: Kaiser Wilhelm II: I'll do a flip - look mom, no hands! *directed by robert b weide

@tenid4824

2 жыл бұрын

so true, hahaz!!

@user-qd3lc7zb6n

2 жыл бұрын

Most important part of history

@aredpandahREAL

2 жыл бұрын

That Bismarck guy is incompetent lol

Bismark really knew how to make peace. Sometimes this is just as important as knowing how to win wars.

@axelpatrickb.pingol3228

2 жыл бұрын

Know when to hold, know when to fold, said Kenny Rogers...

@emamag6455

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, if the French had not imposed such harsh terms to Germany at the end of the ww1 probably there wouldn't be a ww2.

@actin9294

2 жыл бұрын

@@emamag6455 the terms were too lenient mate. Germans imposed much harsher terms on their crushed enemies and nobody talks about it.

@ItsClout_

2 жыл бұрын

@@actin9294 anyways

@actin9294

2 жыл бұрын

@@ItsClout_ what

Austria ruled German states for centuries. Austria today: we're not German.

@Getcakedieyoung23

2 жыл бұрын

After WW2 they didn’t want to be german anymore 😂🙈

@xenotypos

2 жыл бұрын

It's because there's always that confusion between German and Germanic, when Austrians say they aren't German it's just a matter of nationality, they just want to distinguish themselves from German citizens. They aren't denying they are Germanic.

@internet5076

2 жыл бұрын

@@xenotypos Nowadays Deutsch means of German nationality but especially before WW2 I feel like it meant Germanic.

@florl5350

2 жыл бұрын

@@amirudinadnan7024 You miss the Anschluss. Are you serious? And yeah, we don’t consider ourself german because we have another culture, history and dialect as Germany, even though everyone knows that we are ethnically german. But even when we would be part of Germany like Bavaria, most of us would feel more like an Austrian. Many bavarians don’t feel german and many germans don’t feel like it belongs to Germany. What I wanna say is that the „Entnazifizierung“ was an extremely important thing, but we would still feel Austrian without it

@trollinape2697

2 жыл бұрын

@@xenotypos germanic =/= german. Germanics also a counts for scandinavia netherlands etc, austrians felt they were ethnically german and nowadays an austrian would get annoyed if you called them german

A good book that covers this topic is "The Pursuit of Power. Europe 1815-1914."

@shweli4326

2 жыл бұрын

That book is some beautiful literature

@commentbellow8185

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this suggestion. I will look it up. People say social media is all bad but I have learned a lot.

@DisgruntledHippo

2 жыл бұрын

@@commentbellow8185 Anytime! That's one of the reasons why I love these channels. It's great opportunity to give book recommendations on the subject if someone would like to take a more in depth look at the topic.

@VenomousSpyro

2 жыл бұрын

@@commentbellow8185 Social Media for the most part is bad. But the history community is pretty good. And the history community is almost exclusively to the right Politically. So we avoid all the Leftist Crap that plagues social media.

@DisgruntledHippo

2 жыл бұрын

@@VenomousSpyro lol

"It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians" - Bertolt Brecht

@Threezi04

2 жыл бұрын

@@godlovesyou1995 How so?

@godlovesyou1995

2 жыл бұрын

@@Threezi04 sorry, i misread the meaning/ tone of the words

@comradekenobi6908

2 жыл бұрын

Based

@blubberwasser5105

2 жыл бұрын

do you know the original version which is presumably in german?

@grandcrowdadforde6127

2 жыл бұрын

And! quote... Its not a crime robbing a bank; its a crime starting one !

I live in north-east of Czech republic. Almost everywhere around you can see 1866 crosses. Under my small 5k town lies 50 000 soldiers. Just because Austrian general didn't listen to retreat command and sent his man in small groups against prussians. Horror.

@andreikier

2 жыл бұрын

Do today's Czechs side with Austria?

@rajaamirul3208

2 жыл бұрын

damn, that a lot of space for 5k town

@ondrejsatny5919

2 жыл бұрын

​@@andreikier At that time , we were under austria, so czechs fought for them because we had to, we didn't want to. ( In WWI Czechs often ran to Russians and created legions.) I would say Czechs always hated Austrians/Germans but after 40 years of communism more people hate Russians. I think now it´s friendly, there is no reson to hate them now. if you´re asking about army- after WWII they signed Austrian State Treaty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Treaty so now they should be neutral.

@troelembiid6970

2 жыл бұрын

@@ondrejsatny5919 Many Czechs didn’t actually hate Austria. That is a myth that people believe about the Austrian empire. Many ethnicities did not believe in nationalism and actually embraced a unified country.

@pavel6688

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreikier What do you mean by "side"?:)

Bismarck was the greatest diplomat to ever live. The amount of foresight he had is astonishing

@thewingedone1172

2 жыл бұрын

Bismarck singlehandedly ensured that France will become Germany's enemy in next global conflict and Germany's expansion in his reign lead to eventual creation of Entente. He was only lucky to be kicked out by Wilhelm 2 before Germany faced consequences of his mistakes. German Empire's days were counted the day Rheinland was annexed

@MrAsullivan12

2 жыл бұрын

@@thewingedone1172 not exactly. Bismarck always made sure to keep russia as an ally to prevent russia becoming an enemy. But wilhelm 2 decided he knew better than bismarck and the rest is history

@costamcostam8961

2 жыл бұрын

And it was because of Wilhelm I that Germany took Alsace from France. Bismarck was aware that France will seek revenge after this. But to be fair, he wasn't protesting much against Wilhelm's idea. He as well wanted to weaken France.

@mosquitobight

2 жыл бұрын

@@costamcostam8961 Bismarck should have persuaded Wilhelm to ask for some colonies instead. France probably would have given up West Africa rather than Alsace-Lorraine. If the colonies weren't profitable, they could always be sold.

@fkjl4717

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrAsullivan12 this is not quite true. Bismarks diplomacy was different for different times. While German Empire was forming while it was just Prussia Bismark was seeking allies everywhere including Russia. After victory over France Bismark not needed Russia any more and signed alliance with Austro-Hungarian empire which had a quarrel with Russia over Balkans. Also at Berlin congress (1878) Bismark supported Austrian aims, not Russian and Bulgarian. Three emperors conference was just pocket sand into Russian eyes. Bismark also believed that it was important for Germany to weaken France and safe Austria stable. in 1866 Bismark refused military staff (Prussian) and Italian voices for pressing further into Austria and crush it, with possibility of creating the Grossdeutschland and freeing Trentino and Trieste for Italy. Also he refused any initiative to invade Austria again. So Germany anyway would at least take Metz-Strasbourg area from France and anyway become enemy with Russia. Also it would be fair to say that fortresses on Franco-German border were important for protection of Germany in future. If France saved control over all of them it would be a perfect stance for new Franco-German war. Bismarks late diplomacy was a pretext for WW1, even if Alsace was not taken it would only slow down creation of Entente. I believe WW1 could be successful for Germany only if Bismark did isolate Austria instead of supporting it.

Although my country has been part of Austrian empire till the end of WW1 and we've learned about this, I still managed to learn a lot In almost 11 minutes.. Great video!

@geocritic3577

2 жыл бұрын

What country are you from?

@magmanek1508

2 жыл бұрын

@@geocritic3577 Czech Republic

@geocritic3577

2 жыл бұрын

@@magmanek1508 nice

@stevensamuels4041

Жыл бұрын

@@magmanek1508 so you hatte Germans

@nycmapper8307

Жыл бұрын

@@stevensamuels4041 Czechs don't hate Germans

Ah the brother's war. One to remember.

@andatwsk2810

2 жыл бұрын

One not to remember, atleast for me

@riccards

2 жыл бұрын

@@andatwsk2810 *shut german*

@sadiqahmed4143

2 жыл бұрын

@@andatwsk2810 Sir you have been found being involved in anti German things we hearby Arrest you and sentence you to reduction of size and loss of your Empire now go get cringed

@andatwsk2810

2 жыл бұрын

@@sadiqahmed4143 I will consider myself german only after the prussian are gone

@def3ndr887

2 жыл бұрын

@@andatwsk2810 it’s a shame those pigs from Prussia United Germany instead of you

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. - Otto von Bismarck

@USSFFRU

2 жыл бұрын

Did Bismarck really say that? If he did, then he predicted WW1

@primkup

2 жыл бұрын

​@@USSFFRU Bismarck also said to kaiser Wilhelm II this: "Your majesty, so long as you have this present officer corps, you can do as you please. But when this is no longer the case, it will be very different for you. The crash will come 20 years after my departure if things go on like this." Bismarck died in 1898. 20 years later, German monarchy collapsed.

@USSFFRU

2 жыл бұрын

@@primkup Bismarck was a great general, but knew the future, jeez.

@USSFFRU

2 жыл бұрын

@Shadow Reptile it sucks no one would follow Bismarck's footsteps in the 1900s.

@primkup

2 жыл бұрын

@@USSFFRU Not general, politician. But yes, he was pretty good.

I am a German of Prussian descent and I am proud of it.

@davidson3658

Жыл бұрын

Im Czech from Konigratz 😊

Prussia : Italy what did you do in this war? Italy: that's the neat part, I didn't

@fkjl4717

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that Italy actually vowed Prussia to continue the war so they could take Trentino and Trieste. Bismark refused.

@macca154

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAO

@GenesisProgressive72

Жыл бұрын

Except it entered Trentino

Frederick The Great, the only German who defeated the world powers by himself.

@yes-tn2nk

2 жыл бұрын

Laughing as a french

@mariano98ify

2 жыл бұрын

He had the huge advantage of fighting at home. The supplies lines for the coalition armies and old communications tools were ineffective to coordinate big differetents armies.

@toonfranken5236

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky for him there wans’t a small angry Austrian guy who tried right?… right?

@LDW12887

2 жыл бұрын

>the world You know africans and asians are part of this "world" of yours, bigot

@joemamaobama6863

2 жыл бұрын

lmao only cuz peter iii was a prussian fanboy

Imagine a world where Austria unified Germany. I wonder how that would change the world

@thunderbird1921

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, from what I've read, Austria (or at least their allies) didn't exactly want a fully unified Germany, but either to preserve the German Confederation or go to a system somewhat like the former Holy Roman Empire. There was very little if any chance non-German peoples would be wanted in a truly unified German state, and Franz Joseph was determined to hold onto Hungary, the Czechs and some of the Balkans. Prussia was determined to go full unified German state, and thus this war became inevitable. The video sadly left out some CRUCIAL details. The "German Question" honestly reminds me some of America's struggle (strong centralized nation or loose union of states).

@fkjl4717

2 жыл бұрын

I dont think it would exist. Austria was interested in dominating over German cities but not in unifying them. If Prussia lost this war than what? I believe local nationalism would evolve also concerns about self-defence would grow for German states, so some smaller states would unify creating more big states like Bavaria and Prussia. Maybe France would make real project of South Germany (Baden and Wurtemberg united with Bavaria). So Germany would be split between North German state(under Prussia) and South Germany(under Bavaria). Without Prussia as unifier Germany would never unite. BTW there are also was religious difference Austria and especially royal court was deeply catholic while in German states protestantism was strong even in Bavaria were areas with domination of protestantism.

@MrSiddharthaSaha

2 жыл бұрын

Read the holy Roman Empire by a Chinese historian author. It is an historical self insert into Emperor Franz in his effort to recreate the hre.

@starcityrc3298

2 жыл бұрын

Well a certain guy with a mustache from Austria did Unify Germany lol

8:13 Bismarck being Bismarck

God, it sounds like 2 brothers who could not get along in their adult years and always got into a fist fight at summer family picnics lol.

@blockmasterscott

2 жыл бұрын

@Safwaan I've actually seen that happen!

@blockmasterscott

2 жыл бұрын

@Safwaan yup. Two of my cousins who are brothers tried owning a house together with their wives. They got tired of each other, one moved out and left the other with the mortgage, and they’ve hated each other ever since lol. They’ll act nice until a family member has some sort of drama snd then the hatred cones up again.

Prussia is such a kickass name for a country or maybe it's badass IDK

@Chalk_I

2 жыл бұрын

yeah adding a P in Russia is pretty cool ngl

@crusader2112

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍

@mosquitobight

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad they didn't add a C or a K, they could have been Krussia

@NicolaW72

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chalk_I Prussia = Preußen in German originates from the Latin Borussia = nearby Russia. The name was originally used for the territory later known as "Eastern Prussia" with the capital of Königsberg. In 1701 the first Prussian King Friedrich I. took his crown as a King especially for this territory. The territory around Berlin was the Electorate of Brandenburg. Only after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 the name "Kingdom of Prussia" was used for the whole territory. So, yes, "Prussia" had to do with "Russia".

@comradekenobi6908

2 жыл бұрын

P(lus) + Russia = Prussia

The video is finally here, thank you knowledgia

*Loads up Victoria 2* Ah shit here we go again

@uolboi5028

2 жыл бұрын

Play eu4 then Vic 2 so good same with ck

@alexanderraz.

2 жыл бұрын

What your récord of forming Germany?

@yourlocalt72

2 жыл бұрын

@@uolboi5028 i have almost 3k hours on eu4

@yourlocalt72

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderraz. late 1860s im not that good at the game

@sauronmordor7494

2 жыл бұрын

@@yourlocalt72 ja

The Battle of Königgrätz (Sadowa), 3 July 1866, is especially interesting because it culminates in a situation we have seen throughout military history: last-minute reinforcements arriving and turning the tide of battle. A few examples are Towton (1461), Marengo (1800), Waterloo (1815), Antietam (1862), and The Wilderness (1864).

@RagingGoblin

Жыл бұрын

@Mr Storni Agreed. I really hate the (predominantly British-American) fixation on Waterloo. Napoleon was beaten at Leipzig by Russians, Prussians, Swedes and Austrians. Pretending that Britain came in to save Europe doesn't really make it true.

The North German Confederation was no continuation of the German Confederation. It was not a loose assembly of independent states but a unified federal state. (And it did not contain Luxembourg and the Dutch province of Limburg.) In fact, the later German empire was nothing else but an extended version of the North German Confederation.

@P._Nisbroch

2 жыл бұрын

Korrekt

Holy moly what a good episode

Very nice video, never heard of that conflict, now we need the follow up war, the war of 1870 between Franc, Prussia an its allies, that led to the Germany unification.

it’s funny how these 3 nations would become allies less than 100 years later

@terrypennington2519

2 жыл бұрын

2. Italy didn't stay allied to them for long. And then 25 years later, Italy would again not stayed allied for very long. xD

@ilimes

2 жыл бұрын

@i-mm-o res everyone lost

@terrypennington2519

2 жыл бұрын

@i-mm-o res Austria has no reason for an army. They literally have no rivals, and none outside of Europe having any reason to rival them. Germany has NATO and works jointly with the US, as well as having a massive influence on the EU and becoming the most economically rich country in Europe. And no, Germany isn't weak, it has the 10th strongest military in the world. Not having much of a say in international affairs doesn't mean the countries are irrelevant, sure that means they don't call the big shots anymore, but they do work in close partnership with those that do, and have other ways of influencing the world. Plus, not having to put a massive focus on military means they can focus on cultural, economical, and technological development. A country can still be great, regardless of international relevancy or not.

@purpleteaisme

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrypennington2519 You clearly misunderstood what he said, please reread it more clearly now. Also, Austria do have a military.

@terrypennington2519

2 жыл бұрын

@@purpleteaisme "Austria has no army, Germany a week one. USA,UK,France,Russia and China lately have the last say in critical international affairs and negotiations. Austria is almost irrelevant internationally... These are the cruel rules, the winners take it all." I'm to believe I read it and understood it perfectly, and replied accordingly. What is it here that I am not understanding?

8:15 Anyone interested in this era needs to check out “The Fall of Eagles”, a 13-part BBC drama from 1974. Episode 2, “The English Princess", deals with von Bismarck (Curd Jürgens) and the building of the German Empire, and includes the scene describe here where von Bismarck threatens to jump out of a window!

Great video as always! I'd be really interested in countries history ✨😎‼

very cool explanations and animations. good work

Needle gun was the invention that tipped the balance of power.

@kremepye3613

2 жыл бұрын

And doctrine

Thank you very much for this very informative video, which is indeed a lesson in history! :-)

Thank you for the super straight forward title.

Wow very nice video please bro keep it up this type of work in future. Your all videos are very nice. I get very knowledge from your videos. Your channel is the channel on you tube

First and foremost Prussia profited from the peace deals of Bismarck in 1870 when France declared war on Prussia. Austria stayed out of the war between France and Prussia. The southern German states (Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Hesse) were obliged to join Prussia against France as they had to sign defensive treaties with Prussia at the end of the Austro-Prussian War. This added a significant number of troops to the soldiers mobilized by Prussia and its allies of the North German confederation. Bavaria alone deployed around 100.000 soldiers for the war against France.

@josecano9210

2 жыл бұрын

The Austrians wanted to join the Franco-Prussian war on the side of the French for payback against Prussia but by that time Austria became Austria-Hungary and the Hungarians wanted no part in the war so what the Austrians wanted got canceled out

@RagingGoblin

Жыл бұрын

Actually, Baden was pretty pro-Prussia, certainly compared to their southern neighbour-states. In the Austro-Prussian war, Baden's army was very intentionally blundering about and retreating from Prussia ... even as their southern comrades fought a relatively equal battle. Baden was particularly affected by the revolutionary waves of the mid-19th century. And Prussia helped them put the revolutionaries down.

Amazing History... Thanks!

@beastdeas7250

2 жыл бұрын

What's up 35th president?

@abrahamlincoln8037

2 жыл бұрын

@@beastdeas7250 sup

@awsomenesdragon8519

2 жыл бұрын

NO JFK, DONT GO TO DALLAS

@zzyy09

2 жыл бұрын

Why are you assassinated

@prussiansolider8087

2 жыл бұрын

F

An excellent video keep the good work up!

Excellent historic video from excellent historic channel with clear explaining of foes forces mobility thanks for sharing

Exam week next week I wish it was from this...

Please make more video about Prussian history

Great video thank u keep up the videos

This is really well made. Thanks a lot!

@mosmit8648

4 ай бұрын

Well - it's Wilhelm, not Wilhem, the colour scheme yellow vs. orange is debatable, and there is no effort to pronounce the german names correctly - apart from that I agree.

>for a continent so big >literally the smallest besides Australia (but yeah, it's big from a personal perspective regardless)

@Knowledgia

2 жыл бұрын

for a continent so big that had constant fights and wars in almost every region of it for centuries. I think we should have formulated it differently lol. Thanks for watching!

@haroldinho9930

2 жыл бұрын

It’s literally the biggest continent. The Americas are the second biggest, Antarctica is the third biggest, and Australia is the smallest.

@raptordoniv6779

2 жыл бұрын

@rahul Dio yes it is

@user_____M

2 жыл бұрын

@rahul Dio did you just asume its gender?

@darthplagueis13

2 жыл бұрын

That's kind of a difficult topic. The thing is, what would traditionally be considered europe would be a fairly small continent, but on the other hand, europe geographically speaking isn't an independent continent. Eurasia is. And eurasia is the biggest of the bunch, so depending on the definitions and semantics, europe is both the smallest and the biggest continent.

can you cover some medieval wars like the hundred years war please! :)

@wernervon5508

Жыл бұрын

that would be a 100 minutes video

Awesome as always

Watched the Video for 3 seconds now. I LOVE this sound design

Man this should be my social's teacher...

While the territory of Saxony was indeed occupied by Prussia, the whole Saxon Army linked up with the Austrian Army of the North and fought in almost every battle in the Bohemian theatre. I believe this could be called real support.

great video. loved it

Kings and Generals has an excellent video that focuses more on the battle of Königgratz. It is a good video to watch after this.

2:20 When you keep building up your troops along each other's borders in a game if Risk, and you know things are gonna get wild

Since Austria didn't become part of a unified Germany due to animosity / rivalry with Prussia, it is somewhat understandable that a pan-German like Austrian politician A.H. wished to correct what he viewed as a "historical error" by annexing Austria during the "Anschluss". Furthermore it's odd / interesting to see several fairly large isolated Prussian enclaves spread across what is now Germany, including a pretty big one along the Eastern border of the Netherlands (Where I live). My dad told me that when he was young, elderly Dutch people would still refer to Germans across the border as "the Prussians", not Germans.

@tomitiustritus6672

2 жыл бұрын

Austria didn't want to be part of a german national state, because Austria was an empire and would have had to give up their non-german holdings, most prominently the entirety of Hungary by such a move. Also the conflict over which of the two would rule a german national state was basically decided here. Austria lost that to Prussia and would never join unter prussian rule. It would have been just as that vice versa if the Austrians had won.

@MarcDufresneosorusrex

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomitiustritus6672 ruled by different royal houses; I think Prussian royal home was HoheStaufen, Austria's was based (not Hohestaufen)?

@tomitiustritus6672

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarcDufresneosorusrex Hohenzollern (Prussia)vs. Habsburg(Austria-Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Lorraine...) The Staufer (Hohenstaufen) were medieval holy roman emperrors (Friedrich Barbarossa etc.). But Nobility gets extremely convoluted extremely quickly. Edit: The Austrian Habsburgs Problem was, that Germany wanted to unite under a national State, guided by the idea of nationalism. The Habsburgs were still pretty spread out, across different holdings that were now understood as different nations. Hungary or the Balkans would not have been part of a german national state, but that was more than half of the Austro-Hungarian state. A german national state under prussian supremacy would be unthinkable for that reason. And of course for the reason that the Habsburgs were a multinational house that between them ruled half of Europe(Spain, Portugal, at times Belgium i think and so on). The biggest and mightiest and highest(in their eyes) Noble house and dynasty would never accept a comparatively local house like the Hohenzollern to rule over a Habsburg regent. That was also unacceptable.

@MarcDufresneosorusrex

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomitiustritus6672 thank you for this; i like to come back to my youtube comments for quick info : )

@actin9294

2 жыл бұрын

That big enclave bordering the Netherlands was called The Rhineland and was arguably the biggest asset of Prussia - it is rich in natural resources and heavily industrialised. Even today most of Germany's industry is concentrated there.

Thank You 😊 extremely interesting 🧐!!

Damn good content right here

I would rather call in the "Brothers War"

@sauronmordor7494

2 жыл бұрын

👍

@paulgro7255

2 жыл бұрын

In Germany it is known as the "Deutsche Krieg" the German war. No mention of Austria or Prussia.

This what I call the Austrian High Command in a Nutshell

Yasssssss! Please do more videos on Prussia

Good video

I really love your content,can you do a video about the Egyptian Ottoman wars of 1831-1833 and 1839-1841

@mostafasherif2685

2 жыл бұрын

I love this idea

@yousefshahin2654

2 жыл бұрын

@@mostafasherif2685 Really?

@mostafasherif2685

2 жыл бұрын

@@yousefshahin2654 yeah it's a great idea

@yousefshahin2654

2 жыл бұрын

@@mostafasherif2685 thanks, fellow Egyptian ;)

@mostafasherif2685

2 жыл бұрын

@@yousefshahin2654 my pleasure Mr. Yousef Shahin :)

You forgot that Austria defeated Italy in the naval-battle of Lissa and the battle of Custozza

@etetepete

2 жыл бұрын

Defeating Italians was never more than a side hustle for Austria. Even in WW1 when both their hands where tied in the balkans and Russia, Austria managed to defeat Italian offensives, while being heavily outnumbered. Austria also had the upper hand in the naval controll over the adriatic. Imagine that, Austria being a noteworthy naval-power. LOL

@TheAustrianAnimations87

2 жыл бұрын

@@etetepete Italy also had French & British naval support (while Austria had small German naval support), yet the European Entente Powers even needed American & Commonwealth support to finally defeat the Austrian navy (which was outnumbered & had fuel disadvantages but still was on the upper hand until the last war months) in 1918. At the Otranto Battle in 1917, much bigger Anglo-Franco-Italian fleets lost several ships to the vastly outnumbered Austrians. And aside from the battle of Lissa, the Austrian navy also played a role in the 2nd Ottoman-Egyptian War under Archduke Friedrich - defeating the Egyptian forces. So yeah, Austria was actually an effective naval power until 1918.

@vincenzochianese9378

2 жыл бұрын

@@etetepete And then Austria got crushed by Italy

@etetepete

2 жыл бұрын

@@vincenzochianese9378 Never by Italy, by Germany in the backstab of the "third Italian independence war" and by France and Britain in the great war, even though your ancestors backstabbed us there aswell. But hey, just give us back Südtirol, you can keep Trentino, and we're done with that story. Ciao!

@lucmanzoni6265

2 жыл бұрын

@@etetepete Second Battle of the Piave River: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Piave_River

Did the narrator just pronounce Wilhelm Veal-helm or was that just me hearing it like that. Anyway great video, this war needs to be covered more. It’s actually such an important war for Europe.

Interesting video

Germany was eventually unified because of continuously winning wars.

@godlovesyou1995

2 жыл бұрын

It didnt really unify, prussia conquered it all

@freikorps9661

2 жыл бұрын

@@godlovesyou1995 No. The German National Spirit was Born with the wars against denmark, Austria and especially france.

@mosquitobight

2 жыл бұрын

@@freikorps9661 The idea of nationalism was introduced to Germany, Italy and almost everywhere else by France during the Napoleonic Wars. Before that, everybody was a subject of "Graf von Schwarzberg" or whoever.

@NicolaW72

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, no. The decision of 1866 was that Austria wouldn´t be part of a future Germany, not more or less.

@lordyaromir6407

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicolaW72 Yes, but that was much more important than people give it credit for. Kicking Austria out of the Germany meant, that Prussia will be the leading power of newly unified Germany and it will impose it's will on rest of the German countries. That's why the 2nd Reich was pretty much glorified Prussia.

Why at 1:25 does it show Saxe-Lauenburg as a part of Prussia when it wasn’t until after the second Schleswig war?

@thewingedone1172

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

So nice!!!

Very interesting

"With a continent so big" knowledgia "It's the smallest continent in the world" atlas

@Knowledgia

2 жыл бұрын

-the smallest big continent*. Haha. Yeah, we should have formulated that differently. Thanks for watching!

@ajithsidhu7183

2 жыл бұрын

@@Knowledgia please do one on the sikh empire

@Veriox22

2 жыл бұрын

Oceania is smaller

@MasonGreenWeed

2 жыл бұрын

@@Veriox22 it ain't Continent, it's just cluster of Islands across Pacific

@Veriox22

2 жыл бұрын

@@MasonGreenWeed same thing. These islands do not belong to asia or any other continent so they are their own

This war was the final nail on muzzle loaders' coffin, Austria's generals had refused to adopt a breech loading rifle for logistical motives (!), after this war there was an hurry of most HQ to adopt a breech loading rifle, also if some , swiss, brits and italians were on the way (British army had bought some thousands of Sharpe's carabines for their cavalry)

@alessiodecarolis

2 жыл бұрын

@Абдульзефир Yes, but the french before the war of 1870 adopted the Chassepot and the British first the Snyder system as stop gap, then the Martini Henry (Zulu's rifle) , in Italy f.e. the Vatican's army had the Remington Rolling block, employed succesfully against Garibaldi' s patriots at Mentana (1867)

@MarcDufresneosorusrex

2 жыл бұрын

what's an example of breech loading rifle? is it American civil war ? was it used in conflict in Asia at all? thankyou very much

@MarcDufresneosorusrex

2 жыл бұрын

@Абдульзефир okay spasibo thanks (oh gosh , can you imagine fighting with those? that's crazy

@alessiodecarolis

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarcDufresneosorusrex The ACW was fought with muzzle loading muskets, but in the Union army some units, such as Berdan's Sharpshooters, had Sharpe breechloading rifles, some NG units also adopted breechloading ones or Spencer repeaters, at the end of the war all the Union cavalry had breechloading carabines or Spencer repeaters.

@MarcDufresneosorusrex

2 жыл бұрын

@@alessiodecarolis thank you; am reading on Simo Haya the sniper (history is amazing)

So nice good to watching

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

I generally agree with the opening statement except subsitute 'small' for 'big'. Europe is not a big continent compared to other continents.

@florianb2856

2 жыл бұрын

Not if you just count the landscape, but when Im correct, it was, if you count the population (at least back then, today Asia is the nuber one continent in both).

@woodcojb

2 жыл бұрын

@@florianb2856 In 1850, Asia already had just under three times the population of Europe if you include all of Russia's population as European. Europe was #2, some 100 million ahead of Africa. But the intro talks about features like borders, not people.

@florianb2856

2 жыл бұрын

@@woodcojb Oh really? I didnt know. Thats interesting.

Prussia actually did not demand much land from Austria since their war goal was to take their sphere instead

@chrisjennings3718

2 жыл бұрын

Spotted the Vic 2 player

Wow this video was almost as long as the war itself!

I have a Medal for Konnigratz I found in an antique store rummage box in Vegas in the mid '90s.

@moritamikamikara3879

2 жыл бұрын

@@letoubib21 Us non-Germans do not have umlauts on our keyboard, making typing it correctly a huge pain in the ass. Please forgive us if we're not able to type it correctly.

@tomfrazier1103

2 жыл бұрын

@@letoubib21 You Tube changes things automatically. I had initially spelled it correctly. I have been using a tablet for about five years, and probably use it such that I do not test it's potential.

War of the brothers nations.

@dragosstanciu9866

2 жыл бұрын

The Austrian Empire was a conglomerate of nations, the Austrians were a minority.

@superkamiguru6856

2 жыл бұрын

​@@dragosstanciu9866 The Austrians were still the prestigious group that was more influential than the other groups. It wasn't until the Hungarian rebellion that the Austrians gave some cessions to the larger ethnic groups. But even then, that wasn't enough to completely stop the instability, merely halt it.

@dragosstanciu9866

2 жыл бұрын

@@superkamiguru6856 Exactly.

@thunderbird1921

2 жыл бұрын

The German Civil War, as some have called it.

I live in Hradec Králové. Thats the city after which this battle is named. :)

@NicolaW72

2 жыл бұрын

It´s indeed the (Czech) name of the city. In Germany it´s known under its German name: Königgrätz. And in Austria the battle is known as the battle of Sadova.

@johnpepper8603

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicolaW72 Hradec Králové is its name. The only name :) Those are alternative names from the past at best.

@NicolaW72

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnpepper8603 No.

@johnpepper8603

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicolaW72 yes. learn some facts dude.

@Topvidi

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnpepper8603 Hradec Králové is the czech name and nothing more. Swallow that

Omg pls do the first and second Schlewsig wars (Denmark - Prussia 1848 & 1864)

thanks

Make on Franco Prussian war

Honor to the Prussians from Piedmont 🇮🇹❤️🇩🇪

Some dates would be nice.

Superb vid here, loved it. But can you put the nato symbols for the battles?

Make a vidio about russo - turkish wars

@papazataklaattiranimam

2 жыл бұрын

Nooooo

@mohammad.alkurdi.

2 жыл бұрын

@@papazataklaattiranimam why not? 😂

@mostafasherif2685

2 жыл бұрын

I support this idea

@Digmen1

2 жыл бұрын

There are so many of them. There is probably not much info on them

This battle is "Luckily for the Prussian" most of the time.

Hmmm this has got me motivated to do a Prussian Ck3 to Stellaris mega campaign

Interesting.

Idea: Boxer rebellion. The time where every major european colonial /non-colonial power, US, japan and Chinese christians teamed up to beat up China.

@MasonGreenWeed

2 жыл бұрын

An American, Australian, Austrian, Britain, German, French, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese walk into Peking

@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018

2 жыл бұрын

@@MasonGreenWeed Don't forget a dutch, belgian and a chinese christian.

@MasonGreenWeed

2 жыл бұрын

@@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018 Belgian and Dutch didn't participate in 8 nation alliance

@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018

2 жыл бұрын

@@MasonGreenWeed correct, but they still participated in the boxer rebellion.

@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018

2 жыл бұрын

@Safwaan it's actually 55 days.

Damn I can't wait to do all this in Victoria 3!

@costamcostam8961

2 жыл бұрын

I hope Paradox will not screw this up. That game has potential to be their greatest work.

Nicely explained.

Like how the video is almost longer than the war😉

Nice to hear about this battle. One of my ancestors fought in this war. He was lieutenant in the Prussian army and fought in Königsgrätz. I just found his certificate for a medal xD.

ahhh! EU 4 vibes all over ...

@AmanKumarPadhy

2 жыл бұрын

Vic2 vibes bhai. Also vic 3 is gonna be lit

@Jason06245

2 жыл бұрын

EU4 sucks Long live crusader kings 3

@reichtanglevictor1694

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jason06245 Ew

@FirstnameLastname-cw8ok

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jason06245 facts

@skeptic781

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jason06245 ck2 is better than ck3

The book, the Red Prince is a fabulous read on the Hasburges, just a thought.....

Austria did still use the same weapons sold to Americans for their Civil War that ended in previous year. Prussia did find an opportunity to test a new infantry weapon--Dreyse Breechloader Rifle. and proven that Breechloaders were teh 'future'.

Really great video, but please take some time learning the language's native pronunciation. Other than that, really good.

The battle of Langensalza is still kind of legendary in Lower Saxony, a moment of historical pride despite being a pyrrhic victory

@tomitiustritus6672

2 жыл бұрын

Losing war and independence by capitulation, because we got caught up in an unneccessary and strategically disastrous battle and then congratulating ourselves for winning that battle. Yep, thats the Hannover i grew up in. "We did it, Lads! Yes, we lost the war, but we mildly inconvenienced the Prussians in the process and kept them busy running after us for almost 2 weeks. We are the greatest!"

@frankthetank5708

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps in the province of Hanover. Definitely not in other parts of Lower Saxony.

The great war i have ever learned

I'd encourage anyone who's interested in the topic to read the Wikipedia article as a next stop.

For me this is mostly the most interesting history in europe.

@neroresurrected

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, some people would say Ancient Rome, the crusades, the French Revolution or Napoleonic era, I would say the turn of the 19th century in Europe right before and immediately following 1848 revolution till the dawn of 20th century till onset of WWI is my favorite because the stakes were higher amongst the European nation states and Europe as a continent became more civilized and diplomatic in its disputes with one another as time progressed. I would even argue the politics of this period was equally as interesting as the many subsequent wars that were fought on the continent by extension. Men like Bismarck, The Kaiser, Emp. Franz Joseph, Napoleon III, Victor Emmanuel II were fascinating figures each to be sure.

At the Time there were 2 Different Hessian States, Hesse-Darmstadt (the one you didn’t mention) and Hesse-Kassel (the one you did) what doesn’t make sense to me is that Hesse-Darmstadt actually send 20,000 men to fight in the Austria Prussian war and fought the battles of Frohenhofen and Tauberbischofsheim against the Prussians, when Hesse-Kassel was generally from what I have read, a less important player in the war

A really nice short documentation about all the essentials of the Prussian-Austrian - better known in Germany as the German War - from 1866. I would, however, wish that more attention would be paid to the pronunciation of German names used in German. If you didn't read it, as a German viewer you wouldn't know what or who you are talking about.

The Needle Rifle & use of the Railways won the war for Prussia!!!

@rafaelresendegoldschmidt1129

2 жыл бұрын

Precisely