"Grandpa, what did you do in The Soviet Army?" "I fought The Battle of Waterloo."

@user-bw4ec4bm2t

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@TheButterMinecart1

3 жыл бұрын

That's pretty badass

@dw1218

3 жыл бұрын

What?!

@sachoune3416

3 жыл бұрын

@@dw1218 most of the extras in that movie were soviet soldiers.

@dw1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@sachoune3416 yes, I just realized what that's refering. Waterloo was casted with soviet military as extras.

,,I lost the battle of Marengo at five but won it back at seven'' That was soo badass...

@harbl99

3 жыл бұрын

"Let me tell you about that Corsican." -- Alexandre Dumas' dad

@jocelynndotson7273

2 жыл бұрын

That was my favorite quote from Napoleon in this movie

@derpynerdy6294

2 жыл бұрын

desaix: LOL Grouchy: 😰😥🤫

@trollege9618

2 жыл бұрын

@@derpynerdy6294 Where is Grouchy?!

@troll5161

2 жыл бұрын

@@trollege9618 wtf

1:19 how I talk to my reserve units before sending them into a hopeless Napoleon Total War battle

@charlietheanteater3918

4 жыл бұрын

kakabukkake0 Yes

@josephstalin7353

4 жыл бұрын

*then gets slaughtered by heavy cavalry*

@msmlolmanpolybrige0335

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephstalin7353 *laughs in line infantry forming square against baudin*

@samuelbt3726

3 жыл бұрын

@@msmlolmanpolybrige0335 *laughs in infantry support*

@msmlolmanpolybrige0335

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelbt3726 *you see baudin only brings horses, and i wouldn't advice a fight, bayonet horse*

I’ve never seen a scene that made me care so much about both sides as the breaking of the Old Guard. Ney’s desperation is heart wrenching, Wellington’s joy at the break through is infectious, and then Napoleon’s determination slowly melting into hopelessness. It’s an absolute roller coaster of emotions, so we’ll acted, and so well filmed.

@erner_wisal

14 күн бұрын

For every battle won is a battle lost for another person

R.I.P. Christopher Plummer 13th December 1929 - 5th February 2021

@yes.2966

3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P.

@canadianmistake2640

3 жыл бұрын

COVID

@rexxtank8165

3 жыл бұрын

RIP Christopher Plummer, His portrayal as the Duke of Wellington is simply amazing, not to mention his resemblance to the original duke (just look at the Wellington portraits), Plummer looks like a twin brother. Rip of a great actor.

@jocelynndotson7273

2 жыл бұрын

If someone hadn't eaten a bat then he would be alive maybe even to today

@BigBangAttack-mt6pz

2 жыл бұрын

U haven't seen the movie but he seems like he was a great actor Rest in peace sir

RIP Christopher Plummer, His portrayal as the Duke of Wellington is simply amazing, not to mention his resemblance to the original duke (just look at the Wellington portraits), Plummer looks like a twin brother. Rip of a great actor.

@voiceofreason2674

5 ай бұрын

So much better than the goof ball they got to play him in the recent Ridley Scott Napoleon movie. It wasn't even a terrible movie, but it's sillyness was overwhelming. You can have jokes, this movie does. But it was just nonstop in Ridley Scott's movie, and the battles weren't spectacular so much as shocking with gore and graphic depictions of death. What a bummer.

3:14 When your history teacher asks about your six month project which is due in the next day.

@marshalsoult3860

2 жыл бұрын

goddamit!!

@suyogphadtare348

Жыл бұрын

Why am I relating to this situation so much 😂😂

@Ilikepotatoes067

17 күн бұрын

1:34

"My God sir, I've lost a leg"

@Resentius

8 жыл бұрын

Righto good chap I'll have the medical corps take care of you good fellow!

@stephenstephen7424

8 жыл бұрын

My God sir, so you have

@_4025

8 жыл бұрын

Did Wellington killed him with a knife?!

@sovietsniper2279

8 жыл бұрын

+Loop23rte24 Nah Earl of Uxbridge was shot by the French artillery

@_4025

8 жыл бұрын

Then.. why was he reaching something in he's pocket..

Wellington had passed through that part of Belgium the previous year en route to Paris (many months before Napoleon's return from Elba). He had taken particular notice of the topography, how well suited it was for a battle, and had made detailed drawings that still exist.

@eldorados_lost_searcher

3 жыл бұрын

He said something to the effect that he'd kept the Battlefield in his pocket, just in case.

@James-xm9oq

Жыл бұрын

Wellington was certain Napoleon had learnt the lessons of his armies defeat in Spain and Portugal. He hadn't. Go figure!. He tried " The same old way." He got his ass kicked.♥️♥️

@wei-mingyu5865

Жыл бұрын

looking back now, what the great Britz stands for now?? so pathetic .....what a film to remind us, never dream on the past

@wei-mingyu5865

Жыл бұрын

not even football .........opium, maybe, some left over

@m1821Z

Жыл бұрын

@@James-xm9oq Not quite. The battle was very close.

"I LOST THE BATTLE OF MARENGO BUT WON IT BACK AT SEVAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"

@pix046

7 жыл бұрын

At 5 o'clock but I won it back at 7!

@philipm06

7 жыл бұрын

The Marengo is a bar in Paris.

@orangepekoe5243

4 жыл бұрын

philipm06 it was happy hour

@tosspot7998

4 жыл бұрын

@@philipm06 it was also a battle in italy between france and austria in 1806.

@radspencer8187

3 жыл бұрын

Rod Steiger is fucking awesome.

British - Do you French surrender? French- I fart in your general direction!!

@daytonaaviation4449

8 жыл бұрын

Omg best ending ever

@RKidd-ex3rh

8 жыл бұрын

+Dangerfinder treasureseeker The British then responded with cannonfire.....lol

@John77Doe

7 жыл бұрын

Dangerfinder treasureseeker The Old Guard replied "Merde," and the British finished them off. 😃😄😅😆😁😬

@cogidubnus1953

7 жыл бұрын

They've been farting in our general direction (and largely at our expense), ever since...no more...and I voted remain...what a bunch of cunts they are

@saemushailstorm3135

5 жыл бұрын

well - what else could you expect...?

As a simple fact. Waterloo would not have been won without the arrival of the Prussian's. However had Wellington not decided the ground and held it the Prussian's arrival would have meant nothing. Napoleon's generals did not fear the Prussian's. They did fear Wellington. The only allied commander who consistently beat them in battle. So much credit to the Prussian's but let us not belittle Wellington's achievement.

@dialyt1309

8 жыл бұрын

Kohl423 Yes, it seems to me the Prussians don't get their fair share of credit in this one.

@gorankatic40000bc

8 жыл бұрын

Kohl423 I disagree. Napoleon attacked constantly British center and was essentially agreeing to meat grinder instead of inspired maneuvers and flanking he used in many battles before. He did not manage to impose favorable attrition to Brit army because Wellington used field advantage for protecting the main body of army and British firepower in defense - hallmarks of his tactical preferences and skill. Plus one more thing that was crucial - Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte strongholds drained Napoleon's offensive capacity in attritional battle for fortified positions with the devastating fact for French left flank that it did not manage to capture Hougoumont during the whole time span of battle and that La Haye Sainte was captured too late.

@zenoist2

8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Packinpah was a classical composer which shows napoleon failed.

@Kimchiboy08

8 жыл бұрын

+Kohl423 Actually Wellington deserves no praise but for another officer who after all reports were handed in post battle would have made Wellington look incompetent. Look it up.

@heyricksander

8 жыл бұрын

+Kohl423 Another way to look at it is that Napoleon failed to beat the British before the Prussians showed up - which was his goal - divide and conquer. By holding out, Wellington was able to defeat Napoleon. They were Allies with the Prussians and were depending on one another strategically - and both had reasons to distrust the other - and both armies' chiefs of staff hated their ally. However, Wellington conducted a series of maneuvers to ensure that Napoleon could not cut him off from the Prussian line of attack - another French failing. If you really study the battle, the French earlier in the day believed they held a cross roads that would cut off the Prussians from supporting the British - and the Emperor sent 11,000 of his Imperial Guard for the task, but the French general vacillated and never took his objective and the Emperor never confirmed - another French failing. It was very close, and Napoleon believed he would win, split the alliance (the British were financing the war and if they were defeated, the Prussians would have made peace.) But its more complicated than it appears and the battle was decided by a series of decisions throughout the day - and lastly, the English defeated a final attack by the undefeated Imperial Guard. As it was described at the time, the unbeatable met the undefeated.

"I hope to God, Ive fought my last battle". Wellington was tired of it all at this point.

@absolutcabbagery3661

2 жыл бұрын

You've gotta wonder what it's like living so long in the dying business

@olivercromwell432

Жыл бұрын

@@absolutcabbagery3661 Blücher enjoy it

"My God sir, I've lost my leg." "My God sir...so you have." I defy you to think of a more British response to losing a limb

@theawkwardskeleton6608

4 жыл бұрын

Pastor of Muppets These Americans will be easy to beat! Now where is my tea?

@minoreror9961

3 жыл бұрын

“Sir, it seems as if my leg is gone.” “That’s is quite the predicament. Will you be able to make it to tea time?”

@stephennewton2777

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, bad luck!

@paganphil100

3 жыл бұрын

Pastor of Muppets: While his leg was being amputated (without anaesthetic) Uxbridge calmly remarked that the surgeon's knife seemed a little blunt (see link below). www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/lord-uxbridge-the-cavalry.html

@dominicleigh1808

3 жыл бұрын

I think there is a better one I think I have lost a leg Oh dear would you like a cup of tea?

Wellington must have been a comedian before a general XD

@eliasandersson3299

7 жыл бұрын

Man, you have my profile pic

@WestTNConfed

7 жыл бұрын

+Elias Andersson Are you Wellington?

@JohnnyNorfolk

7 жыл бұрын

He had the Irish sense of humour

@basoldenhuis8512

6 жыл бұрын

Johnny Norfolk he was born in Ireland

@saemushailstorm3135

5 жыл бұрын

Or Plummer was, ha !

i lost the battle at five o'clock but i won it BACK AGAIN *_A T S E V E N_*

@borninjordan7448

3 жыл бұрын

And he did it purely by shouting.

@jocelynndotson7273

2 жыл бұрын

"I have destroyed the Austrians simply by marching"

@JANG553

Жыл бұрын

100th like

@FrogArmyBoi

9 ай бұрын

Tuff luck frog we are working on gmt

Wow I love the historically accurate half company volley fire by the Redcoats. Sounds almost like a machine gun firing bursts and that exactly what they drilled to do. The French Column was a great tactic except when put up against a truly professional military capable of putting out rapid fire volley's that just ate entire columns up.

@lufsolitaire5351

2 жыл бұрын

How many do you think were veterans of the Peninsula war? If quite a bit, by this point most of Napoleon’s finest laid in mass graves in Russia and by this point most of the French army was cobbled together conscripts for the hundred days war. The British seems during this period and onward seemed to rely on a smaller yet more professionally trained army that patrolled their colonies in peacetime vs. the French/German/Russian conscription. While this means pound for pound the average British soldier could outshoot and outperform any other besides the mid-19th century Prussians that small professional army of ~= 100k would be their undoing in the true modern age.

@MrSummerblade

Жыл бұрын

@@lufsolitaire5351 That small professional army saved the day in the early days of WWI. Yes, it was massively outnumbered by the German conscripts, but ground them to a halt while losing many of its own. The Germans thought they were facing machine guns, but they were expertly wielding LE 303s. Helped to save Paris did the ‘Contemptible Little Army’

@matthewkang6838

Жыл бұрын

@@lufsolitaire5351 most of the veterens were in america

@SergyMilitaryRankings

9 ай бұрын

​@@matthewkang6838no they weren't, in WWI the US wasn't even a major player.

@SergyMilitaryRankings

9 ай бұрын

The French under Napoleon literally conquered most of Europe at the time, they were the second most powerful empire before the British, but make no mistake Napoleon was vastly superior commander.

The guy that played Marshall Ney looks exactly like the portraits of him.

@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167

3 жыл бұрын

His real life son played an American captain in Sharpe’s Eagle

@spacebeam6480

3 жыл бұрын

@thesnoopmeister Snoops you mean Ney's actor's son plays Captain Leroy?

@nigelft

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting thing about Ney ... He actually ended up being executed by a French firing squad. Given his position, and much else besides, he actually gave the order to fire, without a blindfold ... No wonder Napoleon called Ney 'The Bravest of the Brave' ...

@diogenesesenna9323

3 жыл бұрын

That would be Dan O'Herlihy - who incidentally also played the alien Grig the Last Starfighter.

@hannibalburgers477

2 жыл бұрын

Blucher, Ney even Napoleon. Playing NTW after Waterloo felt weird.

"the whole line will advance" "in which direction, your grace?" "why........straight ahead to be sure." i love that exchange. :D

@Zakalwe-01

2 жыл бұрын

A brilliant ‘we shall advance to the rear’ gag! 😄

@totemictoad4691

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zakalwe-01 its also a comment that rather than trying to flank or turn or push a certain strategy its done, this isnt maneuver and strategy its rout them from the field,

@kenbell3250

Жыл бұрын

The battlefield was wreathed in smoke and Uxbridge lost his bearings so his question makes sense. Wellington pointed him in the right direction.

British : Do you agree to surrender? France : Meh! British : *Destroy them with cannons*

@TheBlueCream

5 жыл бұрын

wrong...it's 'merde'...french for 'shit'.

@Charles2k

3 жыл бұрын

@@pancakemacbuttery9142 Except he never said it IRL.

@jaykilbourne1110

3 жыл бұрын

@@Charles2k A different officer might have though.

@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167

3 жыл бұрын

He denied he ever said it.

@bogdandamaschin9381

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167 the french wrote it on his toomb. So he said it, no matter what he believes

'my god sir, I've lost my leg' 'so you have' Most British though upper lip line in movie history

@danphillips2784

4 жыл бұрын

And, apparently, REAL history!

@scl9671

4 жыл бұрын

I would argue the surrender scene from a bridge too far beats that!

@firingallcylinders2949

4 жыл бұрын

Adrenaline is a hell of a thing.

@ivan0525wow

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. Arthur Wellesley was a badass and a good leader and he was funny. Even napoleons generals had feared him because he only lost 1 battle, only 1! People say without the Prussians he would have lost but that isn’t true. The Prussians showed up hours late. Sorry for going off topic lol but he was funny and a badass as well.

@fasthracing

3 жыл бұрын

I have seen the chaps actual false leg think it was in a castle somewhere

Rod Steiger’s performance was Masterful! Absolutely Brilliant!

What true heroes and chads. This movie still suprises me every time I watch it, seeing so many real people together gives me goosebumps.

What makes a great soldier Hagman "The ability to fire 3 rounds a minute Mr. Sharp".

6.50 "Merde" roughly means "hell no" shouted by General Cambronne, he actually survive artillery

@charlietheanteater3918

4 жыл бұрын

Thebluewind3 I thought Merde meant “Shit”

@Bloblom

4 жыл бұрын

@@charlietheanteater3918 Merde does mean shit

@eldorados_lost_searcher

3 жыл бұрын

Cambronne was rumored to have said either "Merde!" (Shit!) or "La Garde mort, ne surend pas!" (The Guard dies, it does not surrender!"). But he denied both versions to his dying day. And then they put it on his grave marker.

@alexioscoulissegur6733

3 жыл бұрын

or poo

@galactica604

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlietheanteater3918 merde mean shit

That last move with the cannons was so unfair. They were loyal till the end

@danphillips2784

4 жыл бұрын

It was also dramatic license...the Guard DID surrender, but only after heavy fighting. They weren't shredded by light artillery,

@JCaroleClarke

3 жыл бұрын

The Old Guard would fight for Napoleon as long as he lived so such a potent force had to be eliminated as Napoleon was sent into exile on Ste. Helena. Simple military expediency.

@mrcool2107

2 жыл бұрын

That's why you get when u refuse to surrender

@themalaysianguy6603

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcool2107 At least they didnt surrender like WW2, look at the impact.

The Guard dies, it does not surrender.

@laralarah2236

5 жыл бұрын

And thank God it died.

@mrvulture8981

5 жыл бұрын

@@laralarah2236 not fan of Napoleon ay?

@teviottilehurst

4 жыл бұрын

unlike France 1940 lol

@shokiji6893

4 жыл бұрын

@@teviottilehurst you're such a funny and original person you know that ? " lol "

@shokiji6893

4 жыл бұрын

@shaun king and what do you know of the French way except what every kid behind a computer say ?

Nearly every action scene look like a old oil painting so well produced

Blucher is a straight up mack. "On, my Children!"

@philipm06

7 жыл бұрын

He ran a nursery in Prussia.

@DonMeaker

7 жыл бұрын

The infantry are the infants, the children.

@justanobadi6655

5 жыл бұрын

I think its the sign of a good officer to treat the men under his command like his own children.

@lindaterrell5535

4 жыл бұрын

Erik Rensberger Seeing Blucher must Ave unnerved a lot of the French. They knew he wasn’t taking prisoners

@countOfHenneberg

3 жыл бұрын

@@Spearca I saw a KZread video of Leipzig, the Battle of the Nation's, where Blucher's early arrival and aggressive attack forced Napoleon to turn troops to hold the Prussians back that were needed to defeat other armies to the south. Without Blucher's early arrival Napoleon may have been able to defeat the opposing armies one at a time.

i love how this movie uses extra soviet soldiers instead of CGI and i didnt even notice those extras were real until i began looking further in this movie

Waterloo credits: The Soviet Army T posing Napoleon Crazy Marshal Ney Great meme templates

"The Old Guard knows how to die, but does not know how to surrender."

5:06 That is one of the most dramatic scene I ever seen. Back then they know how to make a film.

@Webby104

4 жыл бұрын

You're just talking jackshit it didn't mean anything and films nowadays are far better than this. They're not even comparable.

@shootingstar3371

4 жыл бұрын

@Scott Drinkwater you forgeting teen age mom, Geordie Shore how would this crap compere to real life drama

@QuincyVollstandig

3 жыл бұрын

Commander Rex well you know that Hollywood would not make history movies as accurate as back in the days and this really is almost 100% accurate with the ball that’s being held in Belgium was not it was actually take place in a barn not a mansion but it is good and the the few inaccuracies didn’t ruin the film it is a good film. What you see in movies today is all cgi and special effects, Waterloo is a film where they have real people dressed up in napoleonic uniforms and all of those people we re from part of Soviet army. So your lucky that this film still exist and loved to be seen by history buffs. So don’t talk shit for a movie that is considered accurate than history movies today, even though I like them too

@paulroach9764

3 жыл бұрын

@@QuincyVollstandig Some people just prefer the marvel comics films nonsense. YOu are right, modern movies are nonsense.

@NapoleonBonaparte-of4sl

2 жыл бұрын

@@Webby104 i bet you have no taste about movie

"Sir, I've lost my leg". I guess that was just another of those flesh wounds.

@MrBITS101

3 жыл бұрын

@blackzed well yeah... i guess he got sick of walking round in circles

One soldier “Merde!” Wellington “I see you have chosen death” Other soldiers “Hol Up!”

@mediummemish5749

3 жыл бұрын

He is their commander, not a common soldier. Actually ı thought he is Ney but he is different guy

@phillawrence5148

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@vincebaseley13

9 ай бұрын

Merde! Hey wait a minute mate you don't speak for all of us!!!

Two of the most victorious generals in history Napoleon and Arthur Wellesley 🇨🇵🇬🇧❤

@West_Coast_Gang

Жыл бұрын

Both had balls of steel, also balls of lead that fired out of muskets

@yberai

10 ай бұрын

@@West_Coast_Gang especially Napoleon

"Where is Grouchy?!!!!!!!!!!!" Well classic scapegoat of Napoleon....

@Jon23189

3 жыл бұрын

to be fair... 30k in reinforcements would have been nice for napoleon to have

@rhysnichols8608

3 жыл бұрын

It’s true tho, if grouchy joined the battle France would have won

@luowatson6246

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhysnichols8608 Austrians, Prussians, Russians and Britains would mobilize another 300k + troops to re-enter France just like previous year.... It won't make any differences on the outcome.....

@rhysnichols8608

3 жыл бұрын

@@luowatson6246 I disagree, and so did Napoleon, a man with 20 years experience leading armies. Defeating wellington and blucher at Waterloo would leave the French armies free to fight Austria and the slow arriving Russians. It may even have stopped them at least temporarily from attacking France. Napoleon’s plan was to split the British and Prussian armies and beat them alone. He then wanted to negotiate peace from a position of strength, if Austria and Russia kept advancing. Then Napoleon has a fighting chance of separating them and beating them, or perhaps they would temporarily call off their assaults. Yes it was a long shot but Napoleon had a small chance of success

@luowatson6246

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhysnichols8608 His only chance was to utilize the bad coordination of the coalition force, if there are any, and beat them up before merging, just like in 1805. To do this he had to penetrate deep into Germany again and at least knock out either Austrian/Prussian forces before Russians arrived... In the meantime he also had to keep British and Spanish at bay, and stamp out all rebellions and traitors inside France. One step wrong he is doomed. Many of his experienced officers and marshals doesn't return to his service, and veterans squandered in his previous years of campaigns. He has situation even worse than 1797..... I seriously doubted if coalition trust Napoleon as reliable negotiation target, as everyone knew that concession to Napoleon will only bring doom their countries in past experiences.

Absolutely brilliant battle scenes I'd imagine that this is what it was like at Waterloo on that June day in 1815!😀💂🔫⚔️🐎🐎🌄🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷

@matthewgray469

3 жыл бұрын

I believe employing real human beings as extras rather than relying on CGI makes all the difference.

4:13 Egads! It seems my leg has been blown to smithereens! I do say!

@lilpenpusher

8 жыл бұрын

+Russian Turnipz *looks down at leg* Oh cock! *dies*

@malachimatcho7583

5 жыл бұрын

Big Heehee Hahahahaha!!!! 😁

@harbl99

3 жыл бұрын

"Oh dear. How frightfully untidy. Tea anyone?"

A movie masterpiece that can never be duplicated.

4:12 the most casual reaction to your leg being blown off in cinema history xD

@martyrobbins5241

5 жыл бұрын

HolyHank that is how it actually happened, infact wellington was not bothered as he hated uxbridge

@chrisnorton4382

4 жыл бұрын

@@martyrobbins5241 - Uxbridge had run off with Wellington's brother's wife. Bit of a scandal, which is why Uxbridge wasn't his cavalry commander in Spain.

@martyrobbins5241

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisnorton4382 yes, thats also why he insulted him at the Duchess of Richmonds ball

@kieran5191

Жыл бұрын

He had his leg buried with him 😂

@luckyspurs

5 ай бұрын

"Your leg's off" "No it isn't".

They dont make movies like this anymore utter brilliance.

@bull010163

4 ай бұрын

Or historically accurate ones either.

best response ever "¡MERDE! 6:49

@philipm06

9 жыл бұрын

Ricardo Navarro Translates as sheeet - we surrender.

@macflyice2402

9 жыл бұрын

philipm06 huuum no, you should may be retrun to school ;)

@infinitecanadian

5 жыл бұрын

Dumbest response ever.

@fr-pf1cz

5 жыл бұрын

Translate merde---> Shitttt!!!

@homelander7496

5 жыл бұрын

Nyald ki!

Gloriously good film. My favourite war movie.it’s very even-handed between the two sides: the French are intense, courageous and valorous. The British (that’s all we see on the allied side), are characterful, humorous, professional and very dangerous. The Prussians are hilariously positioned as the film’s antagonists! A bit soon after the Second World War for a positive view of Germany I think! Plummer’s superb depiction of Wellington is like Edmund Blackadder, but Steiger’s Napoleon…what an incredible performance. I love Lord Uxbridge’s clever joke at the end, hinting that Wellington’s order to advance might really be a disguised order to retreat to Brussels. Very amusing!

@jimdonovan243

Жыл бұрын

The prussians had just been mauled in a battle a few days previously and were demanding to return to Prussia. Blutcher demanded they proceed with the agreement he had made with Wellington. Good old soldier that had just survived the battle after being trapped under his horse.

@teethadore

11 ай бұрын

I believe Uxbridge proclaimed some years later that Waterloo was worth a leg! What men there were then!!

An Oscar for that poor horse at 7:31

@JANG553

Жыл бұрын

Greatest horse actor in history

Best historical film ever.

Sir Peregrine Maitland's patience was a major factor here. The British are noted for their patience & that has always been a key factor in British military victories throughout the ages. This clip looks good in widescreen.

'If I do, it will be here, with my men!' Magnificent, magnificent.

@alexpaulyoungthemuso3937

Жыл бұрын

I get chills on that line of dialogue

3:16, my favourite dialogue in the movie

The British were critical at Waterloo, much of their success was the famous two-lined-thin-deep-line against a mighty battering ram column, driven by constant drumming. However the British lines could bring every musket to bear, and they were the best trained and most drilled troops in the world. Disciplined and experienced troops will stand and volley fire at the front and the sides. There is a drill movement still in the Guards regiment to this day called the left and right incline which is a 45 degree turn to the left or right. The order came present, ready, fire. Amassed volley ripping great holes in the approaching columns.

@mitchconner4573

4 жыл бұрын

I believe this became true later like in the Zulu war, however during the Napoleonic wars British troops weren’t that good, Wellington actually had little regard for them because they looted dead soldiers. I’d say in that period the French imperial guard was the best. Trained and very experienced. The new meritocracy system also allowed for better generals since it was no longer reserved to aristocrats.

@wargey3431

4 жыл бұрын

Mitch Conner the British troops may not have been the best but they would die where they stand look at Abheura and the Die hards they were being fired into be cannon at 90 -100 yards and still as was written died where they stood every wound to the front they also actually survived the battle when French so demoralised that they couldn’t break them with canister and hearing of advancing British troops withdrew

@zarabada6125

2 жыл бұрын

​@@mitchconner4573 Looting is not a good indicator of the quality of training. The French army that you say was the best trained was notorious for looting. Looting was also known to happen in WW2 (central European artifacts keep popping up in the estates of former American soldiers) so it wasn't confined to a particular era. As well trained as a soldier can be for action during battle, it has little impact on their behaviour after the fighting has finished.

@MrSummerblade

Жыл бұрын

@@mitchconner4573 Napoleon’s armies were notorious for ‘living off the land’. Many of Wellingtons curses of his troops were banter, back-handed compliments. Basically, they’re sons-of-bitches, but they’re my sons-of-bitches

@jameswilliamtaylor-hu9ex

Жыл бұрын

I was taught left & right incline while at attention or marching during my recruit training in the RAN in 1972. It's not confined to just the Guards regiments.

Wellington was a master strategist. When the imperial guard was attacking he assembled his troops in a single line on the downhill. The moment the imperial guard came close they all fired at once resulting in mass casualties

R.I.P The good chap in the Blue Uniform and Bearskin! 6:04 The Young Guard and Old Guard In a Final stand to prove they are the Best of the French Military. Refused to surrender rather die with Their caps and Bearskins held high. And General Blutcher... Jeez I like his small Speech! I will use it at Reenactments and such!

@CommanderWittman

10 жыл бұрын

***** LOL anyhow R.I.P I love his part when Wellington says : "The whole line will advance!" And he says in which direction, I figured it was humor to say now the Prussians arrived and now it makes 30,000 men and they control the entire lower hill.

@CommanderWittman

10 жыл бұрын

Guess he didn't expect Blutcher. Or His Personal Elites to Break.

Timing is everything and Maitland certainly had a great sense of timing!!!

Duke Wellington was earlier deployed against Pazhassi Raja,a local feudal ruler of South India who only had a handful of tribal archers.But he was a master of jungle warfare.He used the thick forests and knowledge of geography to his best advantage.Morover the British redcoat uniform was not at all suitable for the humid rainforest and made them easily identifiable targets for the archers.Wellington miserably lost failing to crush the warlord's guerilla warfare and was recalled in 1803 after 3 years of fighting.Pazhassi Raja is the only warrior who has defeated Lord Wellington.He defeated the strongest Emperor on earth but lost to a local landlord.Raja was later defeated by Thomas Baber who was just a civil servant then.

@ramankutty5867

Жыл бұрын

Pazhassi raja killed himself using his sword.....Main reason for his defeat was some of his native local people cheated him for money offered by British and so his companions were captured and killed thus pazhassis army became weak..

@guillaumefrenkel6993

Жыл бұрын

great victory of duke of wellington frogs d ont result attacck again dispositif of wellington destroy by british mitraill and a ccharge of belgium soldiers

@bethanyw8941

Жыл бұрын

thank for you sharing

@skinwgs2275

Жыл бұрын

Amazing! Never knew that. Great piece of history.

@grom4818

Жыл бұрын

so he lost where he should have won, and won where he should have lost

The seminal moment in the history of humanity. The greatest and most tragic moment.

@philipm06

7 жыл бұрын

No, that was when the French surrendered in WW2 and installed the Vichy government.

@jacktheblackisback3132

7 жыл бұрын

The greatest and most tragic moment was D-Day, Stalingrad, Battle of Tours, (my profile pic. lol.)

"THE OLD GUARD HAS BROKEN!!!"

1:23 to 1:54 How i speak to my squad in war thunder when all points are took by enemy but I still think we can win

@jocelynndotson7273

2 жыл бұрын

That's also how I speak to my team when it looks like we're losing but I still think we can

Having had the honour of serving the British Crown when it was a British Army I can only salute an enemy such as those brave Frenchmen. Truly a worthy adversary. I wish I'd had the privilege to face men like these in the field, not the dogs I did.

@alexjoly1732

8 жыл бұрын

+sledge1960 Those Frenchmen were kicking your ass in that battle.

@sledge1960

8 жыл бұрын

Had Blucher's people failed to hear the sound of the guns in the distance Europe may well be a very different place today. Having said that, Napoleon didn't understand Naval warfare which would have left him very vulnerable had he won at Waterloo. He could never have maintained a worldwide Empire with the Royal Navy as powerful as it was. It would also most likely have hastened German unification which would have been a constant threat. Napoleon was brilliant at campaign warfare but not so good at winning the peace.

@alexjoly1732

8 жыл бұрын

sledge1960 No, I would assume Napoleon would still have been defeated by the Austrians and Russians who would incredibly have overwhelmed him with much superior numbers had he won Waterloo.

@alexjoly1732

8 жыл бұрын

18tangles The Battle of Waterloo.

@alexjoly1732

8 жыл бұрын

18tangles Also with all of Europe combined you couldn't even defeat France. Meanwhile, all France needed was a navy good enough to land on Britain and you would've been quickly invaded.

Can we appreciate how 3:19 is so triumphant and upbeat before cutting back to the horrors of war almost immediately after

@stephaniemitchell9563

2 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the song

@t-6215

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephaniemitchell9563 the girl i left behind me

The Battle of Waterloo is both Wellington's and Blucher's victory. The Prussians saved him from defeat by diverting the French forces at Plancenoit halfway during the battle, and then they came in with the main army and crushed the right flank. This guaranteed victory, but before that, Wellington was on the verge of losing and would have retreated.

@rpryce2140

Жыл бұрын

Only in this movie.

@memelord2799

7 ай бұрын

In real life, Wellington still hadn't deployed his reserve troops, while Napoleon was already depleting his. The Britiah were close to having their front lines broken, but the fallback line was still ver much intact.

that last scene, savage

@laralarah2236

5 жыл бұрын

It was the best scene because it finally ended the dreams of the Corsican and established the end of France has a great power. Great Britain would now dominate the politics of Europe and her navy would dominate the oceans.

@MikeB071

4 жыл бұрын

...and of course, it didn't happen that way. Fucking Hollywood idiocy.

@TheNabOwnzz

4 жыл бұрын

@@MikeB071 It's a joint Italian/Soviet movie, moron. Hollywood has nothing to do with it.

@jesterofspades3903

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeB071 it’s a purely European made movie and is almost completely historically accurate it has nothing to do Hollywood

@smal750

Жыл бұрын

@@laralarah2236 I mean France was clapping british cheeks without the help of the coalitions

Using more than 20 people in a scene depicting a battle in the Napoleonic Wars? Now that’s sol- I mean.... dedication. It’s dedication.

Rip Christopher

as Wellington said later 'they came on in the same old way and we sent the back in the same old way!'

@smal750

Жыл бұрын

We and the allies 😂😂

*Top 10 Saddest Anime Moments*

@HeirarchistAreSubhumans

3 жыл бұрын

Go to the Last Samurai.

"Merde!!!" (The fabled French response of 'Shit' which in modern terms is basically telling the British to stick the surrender you know where.) Gotta love French, even the swear words sound romantic.

@mrcool2107

2 жыл бұрын

And yea then later British served them meat balls

holy crap those double canister shots. friggin shredded them.

@trifidos39

4 жыл бұрын

Horrible weapon, very effective!!

@bigglesbiggles1

4 жыл бұрын

Basically huge shotguns at that range. Nasty beasts. Fired one at a target for a research project. Can see why so feared

The battle of Waterloo was one of the most bloodiest in British and French history. Terrible loses on both sides. But let’s not forget all the other Allies under Wellingtons command! RIP brave soldiers!

A cast---literally-- of thousands.

Imagine the work it took to equip some 17,000 men with period accurate uniforms and weapons.

@curseditem8354

4 жыл бұрын

If during the period they were able to equip 100 times as much i doubt that there was a prolblem with that especvialy to improved technology

@praetoriandorn3154

4 жыл бұрын

@@curseditem8354 They would have also had a lot more manpower to do it in that period. France and the states it occupied with their own elaborate regimental uniforms.

Hands down my favorite movie

0:40 Imagine standing up to early and your head being annihilated

@redornament3248

4 жыл бұрын

They have big hats, so the bullets would probably go through their big hats

@V1nce_man

4 жыл бұрын

Chess-Playing Skeleton I’m just saying though this type of action must have had some accidents right?

Gotta admit the French really believed in their Emperor if they decided to die

@jauntyangle5667

4 жыл бұрын

And yet Napoleon treated them like cannon fodder.

@jumperwilli7770

3 жыл бұрын

Jaunty Angle in then end, soldiers are

@airdeprime8560

3 жыл бұрын

@@jauntyangle5667 you dont know shit, he was obsessed with economizing lives of french and allied soldiers ! And I'm not even a bonapartist.

@jauntyangle5667

3 жыл бұрын

@@airdeprime8560 Yes, after his trip to Russia France had 600,000 less mouths to feed. Napoleon was obsessed with war you cretin.

@jauntyangle5667

3 жыл бұрын

@@jumperwilli7770 Death in war is unavoidable but the term cannon fodder shows a contempt for soldiers lives.

2:30 *Blood and iron fan boys unite*

@thelvadam2375

4 жыл бұрын

daredevil06 Gaming channel if only they had sappers to build outside

@redornament3248

4 жыл бұрын

Those sappers wouldn't stand a chance against a battle the likes of what's in the video.

@toxictrax9977

4 жыл бұрын

AH YES...the good ol days...when I got banned multiple times cuz I kept on clutching (totally hacking definitely) by 6 yr olds

@sovietapples6122

4 жыл бұрын

They killed the goddamn musician.

you are so right, no one could answer him better than you did.

THE SPANISH HEROIC GENERAL WHO FIGHTED AGAINST NAPOLEON IN WATERLOO. Miguel de Álava (Fernado VII's Ambassador to the Netherlands, a veteran of the Peninsular War, Wellington's personal guest at the Duchess of Richmond's ball) was the "second" in the shadow of the Duke of Wellington, a great friend of his (Wellington le sent a lot of letters, in Spanish language, Wellington learned it during the peninsular war) during the conflict that ended with the French. The war cries that echoed throughout the Waterloo countryside during one of the most famous battles in history, which occurred exactly 205 years ago, were primarily English, Prussian and Gauls. However, among all those foreign howls stood out those of an officer who, on his horse, chewed his orders in a very academic British with a Spanish accent. This was none other than the Spanish General Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivel, who fought in the General Staff of the Duke of Wellington and who, when fate caused his superior to cause loss, was not daunted and organized the movements of part of the troops allies fighting the 'Empereur'. A job that, coupled with his extensive resume, earned him unquestionable fame in the land of the Lords. The Englishman was also lucky because he encountered the Spanish, a man he knew he could trust and who had organized armies from scratch in the War of Independence. In addition, as his second officer (Murray) was in Canada fighting and his substitute, on a honeymoon, needed someone to do that job. In this way, Álava became the "second" for all purposes of the Duke. Although always unofficially. ALAVA IN WATERLOO On June 18, 1815, Álava took his place as part of the British officers in the Waterloo countryside. «As he was part of the General Staff, Álava had to keep up to date with everything, direct the deployment of the troops and take care of the quartermaster. Once on the battlefield, he too had to be very close to the soldiers and do a tough job of organization. That was his task until the British "Quarter Master General" (one of the highest ranking generals in the army), William Howe De Lancey, was wounded by the French and had to be evacuated. What to do without a superior officer? Wellington must have thought. But nothing easier to solve. Without thinking twice he gave that position unofficially to Álava. The Spanish general, on his part, arrested him and set out to do a job for which he was perfectly prepared and which he had already been doing in the shadows for days. However, he was always in the background, as he officially he was nothing more than an observer. In fact, and although the job of the General Staff was not to go into battle directly, but to organize the men, the Hispanic came to find his bones and his buttocks in one of the most dangerous positions on the entire battlefield: Hougoumont, where the allies organized an all-out defense against Napoleon's attacks.

Damn! french soldiers have balls! respect!

@hannannah1uk

4 жыл бұрын

Cannon balls.

@juancarlosdegoya2757

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannannah1uk that too

@harbl99

3 жыл бұрын

French general: "Okay. March towards the cannon until they get frightened of you and all run away." French soldier: "Mais oui. Seems legit."

The one thing that I find incorrect is they called him in the film the duke of Wellington which he was not made until this battle was over he was lord Wellesley at this point

@96tommyt

8 жыл бұрын

He was made the Duke of Wellington of Talavera after a victory against the French at Talavera, Spain in 1809.

@oliverwyeth8616

8 жыл бұрын

+Purpl3Jam actually that was when he was made a lord as before that he was sir Arthur Wellesley

@96tommyt

8 жыл бұрын

+Oliver Wyeth I don't recall him being made a lord but he definitely became Viscount Wellington after the battle (slight mistake in previous statement as he wasn't made the Duke of Wellington until after the Peninsular Campaign).

@oliverwyeth8616

8 жыл бұрын

+Purpl3Jam I thought he was made a lord after the battle a viscount after the war and a duke after Waterloo

@96tommyt

8 жыл бұрын

+Oliver Wyeth It was viscount after the battle, Duke after the war. Not sure about Lord.

Thanks very much! to be honest the opposite would have disappointed me a lot. I give you back the politeness from the bottom of my heart.

The killing of the Old Guard is a memorable scene, but it does not do the murderous effect of hail and grapeshot at close range justice. After that cannon volley, there would have been no distinguishable corpses left, it would have been a tangled mass of blood, gore, mangled body parts and clothing. A truly horrendous sight.

@Shirozarusama it's really the same in any country, In Spain they hardly mention British involvement in the Peninsular war despite the fact that it was the British that technically won the war in Spain for the Allies.

Napoleons piles were driving him mad by now!

Just imagining sharp in this makes it so much better as he was the true hero of the Napoleon era (I know its the wrong series/movie/whatever_it_was. but it just makes it better

Una película ,que hoy día no se producen ,por historia que nos enseña ,por actores formidables y por la cantidad de extras, detalles ,hechos ,palabras ,uniformes formidable .

This damned Grouchy :(

3:13 When your muffins are all gone

you are absolutely right

Excellent.

3:13 when your mom types "p" into the search bar on your computer

@arty5876

3 жыл бұрын

Mom: 7:16

la garde meurt mais ne se rend pas !!! historique

@fr-pf1cz

5 жыл бұрын

Is not Merde!!!! La garde impériale ne se rend pas!! ??? You are good in french:)

@jakechinn6561

4 жыл бұрын

I mean he said neither. At least he claimed he said neither up to his dying day, didn't stop the french from slapping it on his grave though.

They really nailed the actors for Napoleon & Wellington.

This was a huge production.

3:14 lol his expression

7:10 WTF?! I honestly didnt think they would pop out with mass artillery! O_O'

The shock and horror on Napoleon’s face at 3:14 is so compelling that I feel genuine sympathy for the great man. Rod Steiger is great!!

@thebullfrog9416

5 ай бұрын

It’s the moment he realised he’d truly lost

Fantastic Film

When I contemplate the enormous casualties and surgery without any anesthesia, I cringe about the huge collective screams of agony going on behind the lines during-and for months after the battle. It was merciful to be killed outright on the battlefield.

@chrisholland7367

4 жыл бұрын

No arguments there, it wasn't until the Crimean war that there was a root and branch change in military medicine.

@tomservo5347

8 ай бұрын

Still the Crimean and American Civil War while having anesthesia was only about 10 years away from a groundbreaking change that would have saved thousands of lives from disease and illness-germ theory. I've read surgeons and doctors years after the Civil War were horrified at how they operated in open air tents with just a wipe of the knife on a bloodstained apron between patients.@@chrisholland7367

5:18 the “vive L’emperorrrrrrrr!!” Gives me goosebumps! It’s so sad seeing the hero lose!

@bnm0883

Жыл бұрын

It's true but at the end of the day with the uninterrupted arrival of the Prussians, the french were fighting 1 against 2,5 and were very close to winning ! That is why it is a glorious defeat for Napoleon...

RIP Christopher Plummer

Expertstrategy I respect you sir.