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Heinz Guderian? Never heard of him. He seems to have done his homework. So where did he come from and what became of him? Yes, I can research, but the results might not be as accurate as Historyhit channel. What was in the papers that the French burnt? My guess, something that someone could sell. Or use to their advantage somehow. What, exactly, was going on in France at the time?
No doubt the mace makes complete sense against someone encased in armor while you yourself are encased in armor, but if neither of these conditions are met, the mace is arguably suboptimal. If you aren't wearing armor you have no hand guard and a swinging weapon is less efficient than a stabbing one. If the opponent isn't wearing armor, then there are a wide swathe of more effective stabbing weapons. At the end of the day, provided there is sufficient room for front to back movement, the polearm has no equal, and a spear isn't terribly far behind.
I second her encouragement to read some Victorian porn, particularly for the 'Victorian prose' she mentioned. When I was in the army in the 80's it was common for various publications to be shared around (not so common was finding somewhere to 'read them'), and at one point several paperback compilations of Victorian porn started doing the rounds - if memory serves from a publication called 'The Pearl', originally published in periodical pamphlet form. Apart from being the most 'hardcore' written material I'd ever seen (and often the most 'unconventional'), the language was absolutely hilarious given the subject matter. I took one home on leave to show my then girlfriend, who also found it extemely funny, then confident that she'd get the joke rather than be weirded out I unleashed a personal favourite at an appropriate time... "I SPEND!!!" It kind of ruined the moment in a way, but it absolutely made it in another. We were both helpless with laughter for several minutes, and it started a 'thing' where we'd both occasionally 'talk Victorian to me', but not often enough that either of us would ever be ready for it.
I've read and heard discussion that if they hadn't tried to turn out of the way of the iceberg that the ship wouldn't have sunk. It would have crushed the nose and probably one or two of the floodable areas... At the speed they were going, reckon that's likely?
Magnificent! I've come to understand through my readings and this video that Windsor Castle is really at the heart of the Monarchy and not Buckingham Palace. And with a million visitors a year at some number of pounds each the tours must go to making up a great deal of the funds needed for the upkeep and staffing!
Given their history, she may have been intoxicated when she was strangled or strangled herself. The mutilation does seem to point to something more sinister. Very interesting. While I doubt he was the Ripper, he may have been influenced by the news accounts, especially since he lived in the area. The bruises are also interesting. And a slight rise in a ligature could also be caused by someone taller standing or even kneeling behind the victim.
I used to be a "HH" subscriber, and have seen the series Meares narrates. And it is well worth the subscription by itself. Well worth your time. And no I won't get ANY consideration for this comment. Blessings.
My hands down favorite movie. A wonderful presentation based on my all time favorite series of novels. I grew up being a Hornblower fan, but my old friend Horatio was superseded when the Aubrey-Maturin series came along. Sadly, I guess those of us who love the amazing quality and authenticity of the movie are too few to make it a commercial success. I imagine it would have required a love interest and some bodice ripping to appeal to reduce it to a level today's audiences could enjoy. Of course, then it would have lost the real fans like us.
One key Nazi weapon was Pervitin, medical grade meth amphetamines.
First, Katana not samurai sword. The mace seems too high and war hammer too low. The war hammer with its curved pick end were very effective against armored opponents, especially from horse back where knights would bash through the helmets of opponents. The hammer side was as effective as the mace for destroying joints.
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love this channel
I wanna party with you Doctor! You seem like a blast!!
Much respect to the Chaplain who tried to stop the massacre. I completely understand that the RN had to sink the Bismarck, both tactically and for vengeance and to restore national pride. But what a cost, she was unable to fight back long before the firing stopped, so many men blown to mulch, I doubt they would have surrendered the ship, but they had no way to personally surrender. What a terrible thing pride can be.
As even your original footage shows, Pz2 and Czech tanks were dominant. PZ 3s and 4s were rather rare still.
The Maginot line continued further north at least up to Belgium
Now I know why the British always get their butts kicked in war. The guns are locked away in a vault instead in the homes of the people. Not very bright.
Those German marching songs have a certain inspiring effect!!.
What i fail to understand is how the French fought so hard against the Allies after surrendering to Germany. A shame they did not fight as hard against Germany.
Because the consequences of resisting the Nazis were substantially greater than the consequences of defying the Allies. Also the Vichy French leaders and commanders were motivated by the knowledge that the French people would seek revenge against them in the event that France was liberated.
@@StuSaville Your comments are relevant, but why take up arms against the Allies. the VICHY were fully supportive of the Germans. If the French had simply surrendered and not taken up arms against the Allies, that i could understand. the destruction of the French ships at MERS EL KEBIR was necessary as the French were likely to support the Germans, refusing to take the ships to a neutral port or scuttle the ships. The French were angry with the British over the action and to this day have still held it against the Brits. The fact that many French fought on against the Germans and Vichy is not forgotten.
Still so fascinating.
Keep in mind the ethnicity of this former BBC employee.....making it difficult to produce an impartial account.
WOW !!! Ukraine has been thru Hell since its inception seem like.
Read "Bleeding Blue & Gray" about medical practice during the American Civil War. Not a lot different from the Napolionic period.
I love Dan's enthusiasm, but come on, no edged weapon used in battle was "razor sharp" - you don't need a razor to cut someone, and making an edge too sharp just means it breaks. Also, I confess I'm extremely disappointed that a "deep dive" into the historical accuracy of this film skipped over it's one major historical failing: to wit, that the French did not have ships built in Boston and that while the Acheron in the movie is a very good depiction of an American heavy frigate, in real history all those ships were operated by the Americans. (And, indeed, in the novels the enemy of "Far Side of the World" was the American Navy.) This was my only disappointment in what is otherwise my favourite movie adaptation of a book. As a Canadian, the War of 1812 is a major part of our history and national identity and while I understand *why* the studio was leery of releasing a movie where the Americans were the bad guys, it's a period of history that gets very little attention in pop culture (and what there is tends to focus on the early American victories at sea, or the technically-after-the-war-was-over Battle of New Orleans, and ignore the British and Canadian victory in the war as a whole). That's a detail that should at least have been *mentioned* in this video, though.
The French make terrible soldiers. They haven't performed well in wars since Napoleon's days. Didn't they invent the philosophy- 'make love, not war'?
Would it be more accurate to say they struck the yards, rather than the masts?
Uhh, probably relatively short and brutal just like the serfs and peasants. Not a guarantee, but medicine wasn't great
The French strategy was to fight the next war in Belgium. Not let the German army advance to France. Unsurprisingly Belgium was not keen turning their entire country into a killing zone. For the sake of sparing French territory
Wait...what? The French installed the Maginot Line to deny the German forces a fast and easy invasion at their existing border. France didn't planned to use Belgium as a Battlefield, but they suggested that Germany would try to use Belgium again. It wasn't France fault that Germany preferred to invade and cross uninvolved Countries without a declaration of war. After Germany won against Poland, Belgium immediately positioned nearly all its forces at the eastern border with Germany, NOT at the western border with France. Until the German attack started Belgium was neutral and had no allied forces in its country.
"making them FRANK-LY useless.." I see what you did there 😏
Interesting that the dwarf-like human species remains were found on isolated islands. Makes me wonder if Homo Erectus dwarfs could have become outcasts from typically sized groups of Homo Erectus, and were forced into exile on several islands in that area. Once a few of them made it to the islands, they reproduced, and began a dwarf sized offshoot of Homo Erectus, evolving into their own species. I think this is what the video implied? He only hypothesized that a few smaller sized Homo Erectus made their way to the islands, but I don't think he mentioned the possibility of them being driven from their group due to their size, but I know primates are known to reject members of their groups due to physical differences, handicaps, etc
I have never seen the photo of all those horse drawn wagons abandoned by the British and French forces.
Zoomer Historian put out a great video recently about the opinions of British veterans many years after the war. Shockingly, around 95% of these brave men and women hated the way Britain had become and regretted the war and their service. Really makes you wonder if we did the right thing.
Love this movie. I wish more movies were more accurately depicted. I get to kill two birds with one stone then, a great movie and a documentary.
One of the major reasons that the French armies collapsed was because the allies conceded almost total air supremacy to the Germans. Partly that was because the French were too late in re-equipping their air force, but it was also because of the RAF's lamentable disinterest in supporting the troops on the ground. During the kaiserschlacht in March 1918, the RFC and RNAS had thrown almost every plane they had into interdicting the German attacks and supporting the troops on the ground and had done so with telling effect, but by 1940 the RAF's leadership had convinced themselves that victory would go to the side that bombed the enemy's production out of existence. They didn't see the ground war as being relevant to them, used their medium bombers to attack industrial targets rather than German troops, and apart from half a dozen squadrons of hurricanes, Fighter Command kept all it's planes in Britain to defend against German bombers that never came during the fighting in France. If the RAF had supported the ground troops as they had done in 1918, then the French would have had a good chance to stabilise the front and could have stayed in the war.
The fact she didnt point out there werent black men in Mary's court xD
Feminists are now “sex historians”, of course. But they never study the role of men. Cuz they were all rich. Left wing crap
I'd say guilty of murdering his wife but definitely not the Whitechapel murders. With the exception of when he was apparently disturbed, JTR's mutilations were progressively more extensive - with a huge leap on the last attributed murder, when the time constraints of potentially being disturbed didn't really apply. By contrast the extent of his wife's mutilation, in their own home with no chance whatsoever of being disturbed (and therefore unlimited time), appears to have been a huge leap back. Perhaps emulating the mutilations as reported at the time, without the full details that only came into the public domain many years later I'd guess that he was playing out some fantasy based on a morbid fascination with the Ripper murders, so close to home for him at the time, right down to (privately) declaring himself to be 'Jack Ripper' in the writing on the wall and door.
The short answer is WE DONT REALLY KNOW ..... KNOW nothing about this at all ... we are borne 2K years too late .ok?
Excellent work. Thank you.
To equate the Russian conflict with Ukraine with the US - Cuba missile crisis is deeply troubling and disingenuous for a channel dedicated to “history”. Bogus history maybe yes! But…
Swords required large skill to use and were still quite poor at fighting, used as a good sidearm to those who could afford it, should have been b tier Daggers cant be classed as primary or secondary and were mostly just there, they served a specific purpose and were good at it, b tier as they were mid and itger options werent very good Swords were used to stab into joints due to manouverability, armor that isnt made in china costume grade will not get crushed with a mortals hand, you would crush theur ribs before you dent their plate, maces were light overall and a good sidearm once polearm distance closed, deals damage through blunt force, a few pounds on a stick usually going for the head or upper torso Spear not mentioned Early modern weaponry brought in, the zweihander and others role were against pikes and the extra handle allowed you to force them out the way to limit the number of spikes facing your own pikemen as they advanced, good at its role but used as a primary so c or d tier, minimal extra damage but were similar weight to a longsword with double the handle, these blades role required limited training but you had to be trused to be using one War pick is on the same page as poleaxe, concerntrates force a bit better, a tier Getting these out the way; Crossbow a tier, bow a or b tier, sling a or b tier Morningstar are pretty much anly usable by knights in good plate and arent that good Swords were known just as a sword at the time, you picked a style you liked, greatswords and swords would probably be the only way these would be reffered to The katana was kind of like the dagger of japanese fighters however daggers could be carried too By the near late samurais development you had a dagger, katana, naganata and a polearm if you were an active fighter, many options The katana is inferior on the battlefield, great as a self defence weapon since its blade does not have to shatter when hitting any firm armor and its portability helps alot Within context it can get a b or a but if purely battlefield then b or c
😮I will mention and could be wrong, but anyone who is being strangled would try and remove the rope or hands from their neck during the sruggle...there would be scratch marks around that strangle area but there wasn't .I still agree he did kill his wife. May be he tried to hide the fact he had murdered her by then hanging her after, or she was unconscious, hence there not being any scratch marks .
What is not mentioned strangely is that Bury, after trying and failing to get a reprive, wrote a letter of confession; the relevant part: 'I admit that it was by my own hands that my wife Ellen Bury met with her death. On Feb 4th in the house 113 Princes Street Dundee by Stranglation'. Bury hit her, strangled and mutilated her as she was just dead or dying. At about 4 am, and then burned her clothes in the fire (note some of Kelly's clothes had also been burnt.
Yet another clickbait title. You make some good videos, but this one is really just a shallow summary of how France collapsed, with little consideration of the reasons for it. Calling the video "The Real Reason..." isn't just misleading; it's an outright lie. I'm unsubscribing until you start using titles that accurately represent the content.
The French government, the French People, and the French Army could not get themselves into a warlike mindset to fight the Boche tooth and nail as they did in 1914. The Frenchman of 1940 was a different person than the nationalistic, pugnacious Frenchman of 1914. Still shell-shocked, horrified, and traumatized from the mass slaughter of WW1 that sent 700,000 Frenchmen to their graves, leaving hundreds of thousands left wounded, maimed, and scarred for life, the Frenchman of 1940 did not have any fight in him. The problem were the men in the French government, constantly quarreling with themselves. The problem were the old men running the French Army. These old generals should have long been retired instead of thinking in 1940 that it was still 1916 to 1917. Just better, dynamic, inspired French military leadership with younger, stronger, resolute, aggressive generals might have resulted in driving the German Army in retreat back across the borders with Adolf Hitler asking for an armistice.
not 700k but 1,397 k soldiers and 300k civillians died during WW1. On a population of 41 million in 1914. France had to wait 1950 to have the same population as pre-WW1, while Germany managed to gain 5 millions inhabitants betwenn 1910 and 1940, from 64 to 69 millions. And nobody believed that another was possible, hence why they preffered to give away Czechoslovaquia to Germany than declaring war to them. And you had to that some right-wing political group that promised a civil war if France attacked Germany, or helped Spain.
Completely True. De Gaulle had written a thesis on the evolution of the War and the army in 1932, and urged the old generals to apply new maneuver tactics like tanks followed by infantry. But they barely listened, the latter didn't have enough influence yet.
If anyone would ask this wealth of knowledge Mary Beard what was the full extent of the Iranian history it would send St George back to Turkey and every fake englishman shit his bowels out.
Brilliant film. Brilliant analysis.
12:24 what versions of the Spitfire and Mustang used radial engines? This dude is not an aircraft enthusiast.
I once read in a history book that when the Mongols defeated the Ukranians in a battle they issued an order to the Mayor of Kyiev that all young women be thrown into the streets. If any women remained hidden the entire city would be burned.. Is this true?
"Britain, and her empire, stood alone". You mean, "Britain, and a lot of independent countries, stood together." Fixed.
Technically it was Commonwealth, Colonial, or Imperial troops supporting the U.K, depending on the independent status of each country at the time.
@@IntrospectorGeneral Whatever, the point is, calling it an "empire" is ridiculous, and simply serves to denigrate the contributions of a lot of people who could have just remained neutral and let the Brits truly 'stand alone'.
Example: “The prolonged defense of the French garrison played an important role in the reestablishment of British troops in Egypt. From the outset, the Free French seriously disrupted Rommel's offensive. The supply of supplies to the Afrikakorps was severely affected. The increasing concentration of the Axis to pierce this abscess saved the British 8th Army from disaster. The delays brought by the resolute resistance of the French increased the chances of the British to recover and facilitated the preparation of a counterattack. In the longer term, the slowdown in Rommel's maneuver enabled British forces to escape the planned Axis annihilation. This is how we can say, without exaggeration, that Bir Hakeim facilitated El-Alamein's defensive success. " _ British historian Ian Playfair, on the Battle of Bir-Hakeim in 1942.
Sadly the germans didn't succeed in saving us of global financiar DICTATURE of jews, more than that, the british EMPIRE jewish DICTATOR, soon after war ended estabilished even a jewish country in palestina.