The Second Opium War: When China Kidnapped and Tortured A British Diplomat | The Summer Palace Burns
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@ryanthered2060
8 ай бұрын
Could you do the typing rebellion next?
@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
8 ай бұрын
@@ryanthered2060the what?
@General_Romesmarck.77
8 ай бұрын
How about making episodes on the Taiping Rebellion & later the Boxer Rebellion? I would love to see a series dedicated to China’s Century of Humiliation…
@stupidgameshow
8 ай бұрын
🐶
@hadiomidi4829
8 ай бұрын
Video about boxer rebellion when
I think this is the first time i see a wife and mistress helping each other after their hubby died, instead of butchering each other in a power struggle.
@KaiHung-wv3ul
8 ай бұрын
Oh trust me it didn't last long, not long at all.
@captaintitus4637
8 ай бұрын
@@KaiHung-wv3ul why am I not surprised
@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
8 ай бұрын
@@KaiHung-wv3uleven if that's still kinda nice
@commandermcnash5137
8 ай бұрын
You haven't watched battle harem animes too much eh?
@jamesanderson7243
4 ай бұрын
Yeah that really confused me as well, especially since the child was the mistress's
Qing arrogance and stubbornness really was their downfall.
@newguy8288
8 ай бұрын
I don’t really blame the Qing completely; it was the Chinese dynasties in general never really modernizing or working upwards from their own inventions. Invent gunpowder? Let’s just use that for basic artillery, riffles and mainly for fireworks Early printing press? Use it solely to print out ancient Confucian texts An incredibly large navy? Use it mainly to secure the trade and never do much significant exploration The Chinese dynasties where mainly driven by tradition, not because intellectuals didn’t exist as rulers mind you, but because the state itself was driven purely by nostalgia
@TheMarianadealmeida
8 ай бұрын
No doubt
@leaf0nthewind625
8 ай бұрын
In all honesty the Qing were inept to the point of criminality. They had been given so many opportunities to come to terms with the reality on the ground but refused every single opportunity, and everyone suffered for it.
@monkofdarktimes
8 ай бұрын
Han Racism is something else
@gadgetboy4717
8 ай бұрын
There was a Chinese commercial for laundry detergent where a woman shoved a black man that was hitting on her into a wash machine and he came out as a Han Chinese man. Yikes !
"Most retelling leave out he was almost certainly drunk at the time" Isn't specifying an irishmen is drunk redundant?
@redhausser7492
8 ай бұрын
Ome would think so
The fact that they saved the dog and gave it to the queen who loved it 🐶
@kaiserwilhelmiii6036
8 ай бұрын
🐶woof
@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
8 ай бұрын
🐶
@sirneko1278
8 ай бұрын
And the chinese(at that time period) called them barbarian This comment is a joke
@randomchannel6008
8 ай бұрын
🐶
@magmat0585
8 ай бұрын
and then they called the dog Looty. As in, the dog was looted.
I am so early the Qing Empire was just Manchuria.
@bayarsejar5831
8 ай бұрын
They are from Manchuria who then took over china.
@c10lx2_6
8 ай бұрын
@@bayarsejar5831it is badly worded but he is right, reread lol
@Kasubaz
8 ай бұрын
Here before 10K
@tubacollossus9619
8 ай бұрын
Shame that we didn’t arrive when they formed the Aisin Gioro Clan :(
@InquisitorXarius
8 ай бұрын
Its called the Jurchenland, it was illegally occupied by Russia, illegally occupied by Japan, and is illegally occupied by the Chinese.
5:37 Good sir, the intoxication of an Irishmen can always be presumed unless it’s specified he was sober.
Qing dynasty when when the "Western barbarians" burn down the summer palace:
@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569
8 ай бұрын
Anyone can call anyone a barbarian and anyone can be a barbarian
@ProfTricky3168
8 ай бұрын
We can all call the French barbarism mercenaries
@usaball9190
8 ай бұрын
Before that it was the northern barbarian from the steppes. Later on, it will be the island barbarians from the east.
@tubacollossus9619
8 ай бұрын
TFW your Celestial Heavenly Grand Empire loses 10000000000k soldiers against 5 British Barbarian Tribal scum soldiers (1 of them got a tiny cut after tripping over a rock)
@passionfruit7617
8 ай бұрын
pretty sure the word barbarian is not the right word. I'm chinese and the word we use is 外国人 which actually means "people from countries outside china" which is way less negative than barbarian
It is quite nice how low-drama the two empresses seemed to be.
@lovablesnowman
8 ай бұрын
It does not last....
@halorecon95
4 ай бұрын
Oh buddy, if only you knew... Cixi is the reason the Qing didn't last.
Hey man, I’m from New Zealand, small country I know, but our history is quite fascinating. Look up the New Zealand musket wars and the Waikato war. A quick fun fact is Maori who are the natives of New Zealand, used trench warfare against the British, as a Maori I remember playing in the old trenches as a child, we call them Pā. Another interesting fact the might make you interested is that during the war the Maori killed a Prussian officer.
@hannibalbrown
8 ай бұрын
Much love to the 🥝
@plussum3255
7 ай бұрын
Another nz'er here, I second this!
It’s criminal this channel doesn’t get more attention.
The Qing Dinasty or How to Gain the Ire Most Industrial Superpowers in a Few Weeks
So Ezekiel is just not going to cover the Taiping Rebellion? Because that alone killed more people than WWI did.
@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
8 ай бұрын
Prolly soon
@RIlianP
8 ай бұрын
I prefer he covers it in a separate video where he can do it justice, or none at all, instead of just gloss it over in the sidelines in a video where its not the main focus.
@fiendish9474
8 ай бұрын
Ask and you received, he made a video on it
Looty the Looted dog.
17:15 Can relate as a british man...
@ASlickNamedPimpback
8 ай бұрын
Can relate as a canadian man...
I visited the Summer Palace back in 2008. Its like a big park. There are a bunch of these empty pedestals that used to have Bhudda statues that were stolen by the allies.
@kakkakapwppwow
8 ай бұрын
@@def3ndr887the communists were Chinese.
@NightPhoenix.Y
8 ай бұрын
The communists never touched the forbidden palace so I doubt it
@def3ndr887
8 ай бұрын
@@NightPhoenix.Y excuse my lack of trust but the with cultural revolution in mind I doubt that
@NightPhoenix.Y
8 ай бұрын
@@def3ndr887 yeah ok buddy 👍
Wow, the Qing Court was sooo ridiculously out of touch... you don’t call two European empires “barbarians” and get on with it
@puchy110
8 ай бұрын
I mean China was the same nation that called the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history, a horde of barbarians.
@magmat0585
8 ай бұрын
China in general viewed any outsiders as "foreign devils". They called themselves the middle kingdom because they believed themselves to be the center of the world, and that idea hasn't completely gone away.
@barmybarmecide5390
7 ай бұрын
@punchy110 Civilisations isn't determined by the size of your empire, it's the sum total of your technological and cultural feats. The Mongols were laughably barbaric in comparison to the Muslim and European polities they attacked and in some cases conquered
@marcobelli6856
5 ай бұрын
@@barmybarmecide5390yes they were right about the mongols in fact their “Empire” was Short lived
As a Mongolian it was such a surprise to see your video including mongols! Thanks lad!
@Shuaib_Aslam
8 ай бұрын
Fake Mongolian I real Mongolian real Mongolian no watch anime Chinese virus
@sakurakou2009
3 ай бұрын
Weren't Manchus and Mongolians of that time allies?
@crazydinosaur8945
3 ай бұрын
@@sakurakou2009 the Qing conquered mongolian homeland shortly after their conquest of china. so they were allies in the same sense that the Sikes soldiers whare allies to the british. aka they were subjects
@kaiserinvictoria8085
3 ай бұрын
@@sakurakou2009 Not allies, But Overlord and subject, we were invaded by Manchus like British invasion of India. And even though we were subjects, there were edict of the first Emperor of the Qing that states no Mongols shall leave mongolia, no chinese or manchus shall enter mongolia ( Revoked in 1900 which led to our independence).
@wilsonanimates6362
20 күн бұрын
@@kaiserinvictoria8085did u guys also invade china too back then in 1200s I heard about that thing
Despite being a fairly unjust war waged on the chinese its just so hard to have any sympathy for them. It was blind luck that saved Parke and the other ambassadors from execution, not to mention their physical abuse beforehand. The chinese tortured those poor soldiers along with Parke to death. The chinese got exactly what they deserved. If anything they got off lightly And the chinese had the gall to call the westerners barbarians I really hope you continue this China series with the so called "Boxer Rebellion"
@ToastieBRRRN
8 ай бұрын
Exactly, delay tactics and cowardly torture. Not surprised the Qing got retribution. Like how he emphasised why they chose to burn the Palace but not Peking. Otherwise there would be no Beijing today. Something that most people seem to miss.
@Runetrantor
8 ай бұрын
Im finding it hard to feel sympathy for either side beyond specific points like for the westerners for the torture part. But man, both sides did some shitty stuff.
@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
8 ай бұрын
Interesting
@smaguy64
8 ай бұрын
@@Runetrantor That;s history for ya
@user-uh8fu3mb9l
8 ай бұрын
Those cruelties pale at the horrors of the civil war ongoing in China at that time. Up to 100 million people died within a timespan of 20 years. The opium wars were only a catalyst to the brewing antagonism in dynastic China.
I'm so happy It's up also the chinese man at 6:35 is very nervous
Never once did I expect that an Irish once kowtowed to a Mongolian
Calling the Looted dog Looty is pure genious
Interesting parallel between Alaric's sack of Rome and the burning of the Summer Palace, both were provoked by atrocities that the empire committed against those of the invaders in their power. Honorius ordered the massacre of the Goths' families living in Rome, and soon after the Gothic foederati rebels sacked Rome for the first time in centuries.
Whatever shall we call this looted dog, your highness?
I really liked this in the Flashman books.
Wake up honey CallMeEzekiel posted a new video all jokes aside love your videos keep up the good work 👍
I would totally be down for a Phoenix Write style countryballs game
Cixi has been portrayed horribly by history but in this case I got to admit she has a point
@csmth96
2 ай бұрын
Cixi is poorly portrayed by Chinese historians because at that time women are seen to be completely unfit to rule even as a regent. They have little respect to Queen Victoria either, just because she is a woman. This may be caused by reactionary sentiment during Qing era, because Empress Lü Zhi (呂雉) was generally accepted at Han era.
The shocking this is that China was still dealing with the taipings and Muslim rebellions at the same time this was happening. Truly a century of disasters after disasters.
Now I want to see a video on the Anglo-Burmese wars.
That was likely the single most ominous thumbnail ever lol
Fun fact I learned not too long ago, the palace depicted at 16:02 and 16:32 was designed by a man named Giuseppe Castiglione. He was as Jesuit Missionary and court painter from Milan for the Qing in the mid 18th century. Like much of the rest of the summer palace it was destroyed. Very sad, but also poetic that a palace designed by a European in China, intended as a fusion of the two cultures, should meet its end in a war that drove them further apart.
it would be fitting to do that boxer rebellion after this
She deadass named that dog Looty
I was waiting for this love callmeEzekiel
Do the Boxer rebellion and Taiping civil war too, it will be interesting
The Apocalypse Now theming is awesome, my favourite film of all time!
That ace attorney reference at the end was 👌
Will you continue with the Boxer rebellion?
Your channel is so high quality, I love your animations. Just sub’d
I loved it keep up the excellent content
I really love the music you use for these videos. From where do you have the music or is it made for the videos ?
I wish there was a game about this fascinating conflict.
@schneejacques3502
8 ай бұрын
Any game around this time period would be good. Crimean war, opium war, ashanti expedition, boshin war ect.
8:34 The uniform of the British Soldier is from 1840s instead of the second opium war.
Ultra handsome scots there in the end screen
I just love this channel
Wow, interesting that the UK as long history of Pekingese dogs started after the opium wars
Love the apocalypse now reference
"The sight of so much concentration of wealth in one place left the expedition with no other choice than to loot all of it". Literally every single colonial power
@thor1829
7 ай бұрын
Every single conquest in the history of humanity***
Ooo yeeee, bet that the boxer rebellion is next
'Peking' is what the British called Beijing because they couldn't pronounce it properly.
Honestly i have to say i forget this channel has 92000 Subs and not 900000 because the Video Quality is honestly immaculate
Amazing
Nice apocalypse now reference
Is the next vodeo going to be about the 55 days at peking?
@Kaiserboo1871
8 ай бұрын
Bum bum bum bum bum bum
@nikostsiantas4060
8 ай бұрын
Probably the boxer Rebellion which includes the 55 days at Peking
@StephanieGegner
8 ай бұрын
Im Jahre 1900, da rief der Trommelklang,
Any day is a good day when Ezekiel posts a video
@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
8 ай бұрын
Ong
9:53 - you'd think they would realize they were losing a war
Hey Ezekiel will you countinue and follow up on further Chinese history? Mainly the boxer rebelion?
Lord Elgin was shocked by looting of artifacts? Is this the same Elgin that looted statues from the Parthenon?
@kylezdancewicz7346
Ай бұрын
The only thing he was disgusted by was not getting there first
our girl cixi will fuck up real bad in when the boxers would come around
Hope you do the typing peasant uprising and hong xixuan or or something like that?
eziekel has dropped a video
12:51 what are those gold boat looking things
Now it’s time for 55 days at peking
The Contra Affair, but done right.
Lore of The Second Opium War | Vengeance and Taku, the Summer Palace Burns, Treaty of Peking | Polandball momentum 100
could you do the 55 days at peking since you did this video?
5:35 Irish gotta Irish
great vid make a vid on cixi next ‼️
Next one: Boxer Rebellion
Will you do a video about the hundred day’s reform?
Lol, i love how this is a reference to the TNO New Order: Don't Surf
@MalcolmIIofCaledonia
6 ай бұрын
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Thank you for telling the truth of Chinese perfidy. Elgin wasn't the most tactful diplomat, that's for certain.
Can't wait for dun dun dun dun dun dun
So is next video about the colapse of the qing?
Do a video about the boxer rebellion next
>gets mad about being called barbarians and your people tortured >literally drug cartels
everything changed when the british empire attacked
Very good one.🐕🦺
didn't the video have a different thumbnail beforehand?
Apocalypse Now
Godspeed Luni 🐶
Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness
what is cowtag or whatever it was called that the irish men hade to do ?
@huge7800
Ай бұрын
Kowtow, a ritual deep bow to show subservience in Chinese culture. Diplomats having to kowtow was one of the things that enraged Britain enough to start the first opium war.
In my headcannon the dog Is called Looting
Is that the same Lord Elgin who stole from Parthenon?
55 DAYS AT PEKING!
Could I have a source for the Irish Mongolian thing?
Yay
3:31
We out here Ludi maxxing 🐶
🐶I have a pekingese dog!
Nice
Video idea: The War of Spanish Succession
ezekiel on top
🐶that is a good dog name
I want to know more about those chinese empress's
Here before this blows up
Bruv you’re like the armchair historian, but on a budget. You make VERY impressive videos, keep up the great work!
I can't believe the Chinese didn't use their vast wealth to buy European weaponry then he might have had fighting chance 🐶
@devinsweeting4978
8 ай бұрын
A mistake the Japanese did not make.
@clover1475
8 ай бұрын
@@devinsweeting4978 very much true
@silverkingisley6438
8 ай бұрын
Best part is that even far *far* more impoverished (and at the time nominally occupied) Ethiopia managed to get that part right. ... Granted they were helped greatly by the Italian's own incompetence.
@clover1475
8 ай бұрын
@@silverkingisley6438 oh yeah that was very embarrassing a European country being beaten by Africans 🤣
@Taiyama2
8 ай бұрын
As you saw in the video, the Chinese DID have guns. Otherwise they couldn't have lost 75 of them to the Brits in one battle. The problem is far more complex. We see often during this time period non-Westerners bringing guns against Westerners and STILL losing with utterly lop-sided casualty figures. I'm not sure why this is, but I have a few guesses. I think that 19th century tactics simply suit Western culture more, as since time immemorial we've always placed an emphasis on close-ordered ranks of infantry. Morale is another possible factor: the British were fighting for their country, which was ruled by a constitutional monarchy, while the Chinese were fighting for Manchu outsider overlords. Also, I think there's simply a factor of institutional experience with a weapons system: the British had well over a century's experience with using guns, cannons, etc. in warfare. The Chinese were johnny-come-lately, and even if they HAD the tools they didn't necessarily know how to use them effectively.