Ancient D-Day - What Were Amphibious Assaults Like? DOCUMENTARY

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In this history documentary we explore the topic of ancient amphibious assaults? What were they like? How did they compare to D-Day? Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: try.magellantv.com/invicta. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: www.magellantv.com/explore/hi....
We begin by discussing naval warfare of antiquity. This involves reviewing the major types of warships such as the Lubirnian, Trireme, Quinquireme, and Polyremes along with the smaller scout ships and lumbering troop transports. We then jump over the the defender's side to see what we might expect. Most of the time this was almost non-existent along the shoreline besides the occasional watchtower or fort. While communities along the water did often set up their own fortifications to protect their naval flanks this was never as intense as the German Army's Atlantic Wall.
Next we go on to cover specific examples of amphibious assaults from antiquity. These include: The Battle of Marathon during the Greco Persian Wars, the Battle of Pylos and the Battle of Sphacteria during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, the Siege of Tyre during the Conquests of Alexander the Great, the Invasions of Britannia during the Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul, and the Battle of Pharos island during the Alexandrine War. There are many more we could potentially discuss but these offer great insight into what we can expect in general.
Stay tuned for more episodes on military history from antiquity and more episodes on naval warfare!
Sources and Suggested Reading:
"Amphibious Warfare in the Ancient World" by James M. Tucci
"History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides
"The Anabasis of Alexander" by Alexander
"Commentaries on the Gallic War" by Julius Caesar
"Commentaries on the Civil War" by Julius Caesar
Credits:
Research: Chris Das Neves
Writing: Invicta
Narration: Invicta
Artwork: Gabriel Cassata, Penta Limited
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29 июн 2021

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@InvictaHistory 2 года назад

More episodes on ancient naval warfare: Types of ships: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7PhRpvPZuIc.html Operations: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-397-i39mN4g.html Tactics: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VOc8muR2eq8.html

@jake4194 2 года назад

5⁵⁵⁶

@kaushiksheshnagraj7176 2 года назад

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@shafqatishan437 2 года назад

K&G got the 2M mark, you need to get to 1M soon. Please post more. If possible, do a collab with them, as well as with History Marche.

@brokenbridge6316 2 года назад

Nice video. And what your saying in this video is that Amphibious Assaults happened but weren't like D-Day. Got it. Thank you.

@bathhatingcat8626 2 года назад

Huh? It’s not the like the end of the newest Robin Hood movie?

@corngreaterthanwheat 2 года назад

"Good Gods, man! They've fortified the beach!" "So, like, sail around to another one?" "Yeah. Let's just do that."

@juanjuri6127 2 года назад

"they'll see our beach is nicer and despair!"

@riograndedosulball248 2 года назад

The island of Tsushima, second Mongol invasion: "Sir the Japanese have walled all the beaches" "Bollocks"

@kaboomluong9373 2 года назад

@@riograndedosulball248 Jesus Christ, every beach?

@Lloyd_Montecillo 2 года назад

@@kaboomluong9373 Every beach that the Mongols could reasonably land on, not the entire stretch of Japan's northern shores. However, it was still enough to give the Mongols numerous casualties upon landing.

@corngreaterthanwheat 2 года назад

@@kaboomluong9373 There's, like, four you can actually land on. The rest is all super mountainous. Japan is kind of a fortress island geographically.

@johnathanadams6378 2 года назад

Never forget that Chad aquilifer that called his boys pansies and charged the Britons alone.

@Heyprinny 2 года назад

@Random Guy Sadly C*mmodus would change all that

@theamericancristero7390 2 года назад

Absolutely based. I mean, what are you gonna do? Let the barbarians take the standard?

@TemenosL 2 года назад

This is actually relatively common. Not just w/Romans either. Leaders on the ground commit many acts of badassery through time, and because this sort of combat was so heavily dependent on morale, exhortations were an important aspect, as well as provoking social shame.

@ReaperCH90 2 года назад

Legio X Equestris Invicta Aeterna!

@royalhero4608 2 года назад

I read Caesar's commentaries years ago, but that is one individual I remember, what a badass. He'd be proud to know his exploits are still remembered 2000 years later

@knightshousegames 2 года назад

"The Athenian fleet sailed around the Peloponnese to conduct operations along the enemy's rear" Little did they know however, that conducting operations along the rear was something Spartan soldiers were highly skilled at, as they practiced it regularly back at camp.

@joel0joel0 2 года назад

i am ashamed that i needed a minute, to get the joke

@joweeqc98 2 года назад

Hehehehehhehe

@sparkywu905 2 года назад

I dont get it Time to get to be woshed :p

@kingt0295 2 года назад

@@sparkywu905 the Spartans were very open in mind and ass

@Jakob_The_Stoic_Viking 2 года назад

Be careful around Spartan war-camps at night...don't know what you might run into

@michaellewis1545 2 года назад

I think the biggest reason we did not see more D day style battles beside lack of fortification. Is that in the old days. Is because if you saw a defended beach. You could easily sail away and redeploy some were else then the defenders could redeploy.

@johnshea2764 2 года назад

And to be fair d day is more of really big river crossing rather than a amphibious assualt since that most of forces move from one land mass to a even bigger land mass for a more by definition of a amphibious assualt look at Tarawa Leyte Solomon islands chain Okinawa and Iwo jima since there from ship to shore as most of the force is from troop ships supply ships and only from the ships. Just pointing that out

@gregmchurch 2 года назад

@@johnshea2764 You could also include the Falklands War.

@SalreixVonOtsuu 2 года назад

why is your sentence cut up

@normtrooper4392 2 года назад

The scale of Naval warfare in the ancient era of history always surprises.

@yanlibra8886 2 года назад

These ancient people really like ships

@InvictaHistory 2 года назад

Anyone else heard of the Battle of Pylos and Sphacteria before? Loved reading the descriptions of these captivating events from Thucydides

@LuanMower55 2 года назад

I had heard of them before but not in as great detail

@SimuLord 2 года назад

I was more like "Battle of Bacteria? What now?" Then I remembered that reading the comments before watching the video is a bad habit.

@stevenironside4648 2 года назад

Yep read a historical fiction book about it quite a few years back, was a good read and instantly new what you were talking about. I had to laugh when i seen this video as only a few days ago om facebook i watched a video were some historians from museums and universities talked about the realism of war in movies. And this guy said that battle scenes like that of troy were its a d day styled landing never happened in history, and i was just like huh, a certain battle of Caesar in britain comes to mind lol.

@bonefetcherbrimley7740 2 года назад

Never heard of them. Rad video, though! Good job.

@hankrearden20 2 года назад

@@stevenironside4648 same. There were so many exciting battles in the Peloponnesian War. Can't remember all of them.

@vit968 2 года назад

*Saving Legionary Mattius Damonius*

@roxxxydubois 2 года назад

saving Triones Mateus Damonius

@Normacly 2 года назад

I think most ancient commanders would shy from D-Day attacks, because it would be extremely cost for both the attackers and defenders . Moreover, they can also generally avoid such battles. The Allies and Germany have no such choice. The Allies needed to capture the French cities with deep sea harbors to bring in supplies. Meanwhile, the Germans couldn't allow the Allies to land unoppose at the beaches. The motorized Allies could advance faster than the German defenders if left uncheck (Falaise Gap). Machine guns and artilleries also mean the Germans didn't need much manpower on the beaches, as even a few hundred men can stall a naval landing of tens of thousands.

@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 2 года назад

Yeah, fortifying massive fronts were impossible for ancient peoples. Rome and China are a good example. You can try and fortify the territory, but it won’t work.

@Stoic_Zoomer 2 года назад

I was thinking the same thing but of course this video isn't geared toward those with extensive knowledge of both ancient and modern warfare

@thabomuso6254 2 года назад

Also, there was air power and the Allies had an absolute control over the skies with several hundreds of bombers and attack aircraft. Finally, there were airborne troop using parachutes and gliders. Divisions were brought in overnight into France. None of these factors were applicable in the ancient world, which made naval landings a totally different affair.

@Dan_Kanerva 2 года назад

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 "you _can try and fortify the territory, but it won’t work_ man" China = HAHAHAHAHA

@pionosphere 2 года назад

I would think that a ancient defender would be happy to oppose an attacking force as they disembark. But yeah, I'm surprised there were as many examples as there were. Especially Caesar landing that first time in Britain. He must have been low on supplies.

@huantruonginh2946 2 года назад

Operation Sea Lion 1940 A.D: Scheise, we could have taken Britain unopposed if the RAF and RN didn't exist. Operation Seasar Lion 55 B.C: Hmm, say what?

@alsatusmd1A13 2 года назад

In other words, Hold my wine.

@killer4player845 2 года назад

@@jakobinobles3263 FU

@Alex-yq8zj 2 года назад

Immediately, that scene from Ryse Son of Rome comes to mind when thinking about ancient D-Days

@grandbaronofsolland3683 2 года назад

Ryse is basically Call of Duty but set in Ancient Rome, complete with ludicrous historical inaccuracies.

@aidanrozema8522 2 года назад

@@grandbaronofsolland3683 ikr

@huantruonginh2946 2 года назад

@@grandbaronofsolland3683 haha yes and never forget the historical invasion of Rome by Boudica with her elephants and painted warriors !!

@boshinimperialofficer3250 2 года назад

@@grandbaronofsolland3683 The game was meant to be fantasy

@kurosakiichigo7475 2 года назад

@@boshinimperialofficer3250 he never said it wasn't

@baihongliang 2 года назад

Nothing is better than eating at Caesar’s Grill after an amphibious assault 👍

@d.esanchez3351 2 года назад

I'm amazed and intrigued about how... Modern. Ancient battles were compared with medieval and even early modern ones. Both in numbers and in tactics, despite the obvious technology gap

@ericklajara8641 2 года назад

The weapons change, the strategies don’t.

@ArmouredProductions 2 года назад

Agreed.

@mr.notsonice 2 года назад

There is only so many ways to kill groupa of people effectively

@scottdodge6979 2 года назад

I've heard that at some point after the fall of Rome, that the ability to drill and train large scale armies in maneuvers and tactics were lost. Would be interesting to know if this had anything to do with illiteracy post Rome.

@JJtoutcourt 2 года назад

War never changes.

@pipebomber04 2 года назад

The most badass premodern landing was that of byzantine general nicephorus phokas' invasion of crete. His horse transports had landing platforms on them. The cavalry thus seemed like they charged right from the sea and into the beach.

@marneus 2 года назад

Spanish marines landing on island Terceira disagree.

@StephenAslett 2 года назад

Ah, Ancient warfare. Where everyone be yelling florid speeches.

@paxromana9709 2 года назад

I mean....how else would you boi your boys onward?

@scp-2348 2 года назад

In British accents,no less.

@Fred_the_1996 2 года назад

No need to worry about some idiots over there!

@Nolaris3 2 года назад

Avoiding contested amphibious landings is always preferable. They are difficult, time-consuming, and costly at any time in history. D-Day happened the way it did because there was really no other choice with the Germans making massive defenses at all points of coastal northern Europe, but Normandy was the least worst options.

@Mcree114 10 месяцев назад

Also it was no secret that Germany would eventually collapse under the weight of the Soviet bear and because the Nazis were idiotically refusing to see the writing on the wall were going to cause all of Europe to fall under USSR control. Nazis hated both communism and capitalism and nonsensically believed both were secretly run by sPoOoOkY jEwS (despite the capitalist & communist states both engaging in antisemitism for decades/centuries) and thus refused to do the sensible thing and let the Western Allies roll over them. A foothold in France had to be established ASAP to dislodge the idiotic fascists who were ceding Europe to the USSR with their delusions of somehow turning the war around.

@historylegends 2 года назад

I think we can agree that most amphibious landings in history were unopposed. The attacker had the luxury to pick the location and there was no point assaulting defenders head on if it was not necessary. I did a couple historical reviews of amphibious landings and I'm glad you made this video. Might use it as reference for future videos!

@Zsmart17 2 года назад

This is the kind of content that really gets my juices flowin'.

@AnthroTsuneon 2 года назад

Also, I like how even in an ancient speech, they basically told people to never tell them the odds

@sam21462 2 года назад

That almost certainly began when one guy noticed that the other side had sharpened sticks and all his side had was these stupid rocks but he decided not to tell anyone. Those rock guys, what a bunch of losers.

@MrShitthead 2 года назад

Ramesses III’s battles against the invading Sea Peoples at the Nile is a really good one too. There are accounts of the Egyptians shooting at the enemy ships from shore and sea as the Sea Peoples attempted to land. The battle is almost described like D DAY except the invaders got mercilessly annihilated with the remainders dragged off their ships and cut to pieces.

@shafqatishan437 2 года назад

K&G got the 2M mark, you need to get to 1M soon. Please post more. If possible, do a collab with them, as well as with History Marche.

@chasecharland1160 2 года назад

Amphibious landings are considered the most dangerous of all military operations. Ppl think D-day was tough but many of the American landings in the Pacific theater of WWII against the Japanese were some of the most vicious battles ever fought in history. There are stories of Higgins boats getting hung up on reefs and all men on board dismounting only to sink and drown. Iwo Jima was of course the most costly battle if you tally the loses between American and Japanese. Worst fighting in history to be apart of, trench warfare, tunnel rat, and amphibious landings, honorable mentions being day time bomber runs, protracted swamp or jungle battles, being cut off and surrounded like the Germans at Stalingrad, and any situation where your unit is ambushed. War is hell.

@ISawABear 2 года назад

THANK YOU. I'm so sick of the "Opposed landings never happened in ancient times." Sure they're not nearly that common, but they certainly happened.

@jymscarlfamilar7661 2 года назад

Feels good. (never thought I'd see you here bear)

@casparvoncampenhausen5249 2 года назад

Also opposed landings certainly aren't the norm today. If you don't know they're coming you don't build defenses and don't defend it

@iddomargalit-friedman3897 2 года назад

@@casparvoncampenhausen5249 Exactly, even in WW2 a lot were unopposed - Denmark, Norway, most of torch, many of the initial japaneese invasions, etc.

@Rokiriko 2 года назад

And they don't have to be titanic battles.

@hosmerhomeboy 2 года назад

Yeah, unless the defenders are aware in advance where they should be, I'd imagine the attackers can simply pick an undefended point. Exceptions being cities with obscene walls like carthage or constantinople. I believe the romans decided to land a force outside the city anyway, but afaik they did have a naval component for the actual attack on the city.

@expneperien 2 года назад

damn that battle between spartans and athenian was really interesting and well narrated, we could make a great movie out of this !

@balonkita185 2 года назад

Saving legionnaire Rianvs

@orarinnsnorrason4614 2 года назад

That score TW Saga - Troy is so underrated. Very beautiful.

@dariustiapula 2 года назад

I wonder if the ancient marines drink paint?. I mean that is their equivalent of crayons.

@moritamikamikara3879 2 года назад

Marines back then weren't a separate force, they were just soldiers who happened to be on board a ship at the time.

@rizalalbar 2 года назад

@@moritamikamikara3879 isn't The Roman Have a navy? Although i did hear the Navies were mostly were just for used to supporting the Army.

@colonelpanic17 2 года назад

From lead cups no less

@hannibalburgers477 2 года назад

kek

@hannibalburgers477 2 года назад

@@moritamikamikara3879 Oh.. Does that mean rations did not included beautiful colors? Shame. I remember reading about Carthagenean Marines and how they were so rich that they had at least 1 cup of purple paint each week, so you are in the wrong side. You should read more history books.

@Rokiriko 2 года назад

It is worrying and troubling how many people here take Ryse seriously as a historical piece, and even worse how many people don't know the difference between ancient and medieval eras... Mongol invasions have nothing to do with this video!

@kielplayz7934 2 года назад

When did mongols get included? Please time stamp

@arkwrightdubstep 2 года назад

Are you insinuating that Nero didnt live to a ripe old age and have a shape shifting Colosseum in real life?!

@redeye4516 2 года назад

Yeah, it's like they wrote a fantasy game and gave everyone actual historical names. I like the depiction of the Scots/Picts as fucking terrifying forest cult people but beyond that I find its history appalling. Fun game though.

@ahmadtarek7763 2 года назад

While it's not historically accurate, it was a lot of fun, which is a game's primary function.

@Rokiriko 2 года назад

@@ahmadtarek7763 Too bad 90% of its fanbase cannot figure out that part, and they think they played pure history.

@laki7480 2 года назад

I'd say the most important thing to contest a landing would be intelligence of an assault. We have the battle of hastings where defences were kinda set up, but then the whole story happened about harvest and vikings etc... The japanese had the knowledge and mounted a successful defence.

@HansLemurson 2 года назад

In the first Mongol invasion, the Japanese were unprepared and were nearly driven from the beaches, in the second invasion they had prepared and fortified many places, but were facing a larger force and were in a precarious stalemate until a Typhoon came. Both times the Mongols were prevented (by the challenges of beach-landings) from bringing their full force to bear to sweep aside the Japanese (as they would have been able to on the open field), and weren't able to create a successful foothold before the weather turned against them.

@kake9845 2 года назад

imagine just being able to just view these events as an eye witness. it really was a whole other world thousands of years ago

@ktheterkuceder6825 2 года назад

Do a topic on Alcibiades and his campaign in Sicily. I hear it was tragically comic.

@imooumoo4 2 года назад

I am so jealous of your library. I'm moving 3000 km away and can only bring a few books with me. I understand why ancient peoples brought their manuscripts with them

@sam21462 2 года назад

Do not take me wrong, I do so love my books, however, I have also had to move many times over the decades. Each move always came with a culling. It is one of the reasons that I have become such a fan of digital media over recent years. I believe that I now carry more in my pocket than I have in my library and I find that both amazing and somewhat comforting.

@litlpunch 2 года назад

There are online source archives like Worldcat, where scholars (bound to their institution) can freely read articles, E-books etc.

@christobalcolon6601 2 года назад

An amphibious assault is like a frog mugging a salamander.

@Fierysaint1 2 года назад

Oh man Invicta is so good! You don't get topics like this anywhere else! Keep it up!

@planetsec9 2 года назад

Ancient Naval and amphib warfare is so godamn interesting, would eagerly watch a part 2 of this topic, awesome video

@Thatshistoryright 2 года назад

This is a fantastic video, and probably the best one on this topic available anywhere.

@Patman0074 2 года назад

Was getting ready to comment about Caesar's landing and then it came on haha. Great video!

@loke6664 2 года назад

The vikings were really the masters of amphibious assaults but they rarely looked like D-Day either. Their ships were fast and didn't need very deep water so they could quickly move to the beach before the defenders could organize something. Usually if they were spotted they would prefer to move away and find a better spot, no need to risk valuable warriors if your goal is general plundering instead of a specific target. I wouldn't call that ttctic the opposite of D-Day but more the opposite of another famous modern battle: Gallipoli. There are some battles were the vikings attacked a well defended position but that often ended poorly for them. But then, amphibious assaults on well defended positions usually ends poorly for the attackers. There are a few Dieppe for every D-Day after all. And of course, the less experienced your troops are in this rather specific type of warfare, the higher the chances it will end badly. Just look on the Mongol invasion of Japan, it is a great example of the difficulties when you have troops inexperienced in attacking from sea.

@georgethompson1460 2 года назад

Hence the premoninance of fuedal castles and knights post viking era.

@loke6664 2 года назад

@@georgethompson1460 Not only that but city walls even for smaller cities and towns and an increased number of soldiers for kings and nobles. That is really what ended the viking age, a lot of people claim it was Christianity but the vikings were pirates and Christian vikings were not less likely to plunder you then the pagans, more then a few of the worst like Eric Bloodaxe were christians. But the better defended any places of wealth was the more people you needed to plunder or blackmail them and the less profit per person. Eventually it just wasn't profitable enough to be worth the risk killing off the vikings for good. Note that "viking"do not mean Scandinavian but "pirate" and to some degree "trader" and "mercenary". Some vikings were one of these things, other all of them but people staying home in Scandinavia were not vikings and neither were most settlers in northern England and Normandy.

@Blairington 2 года назад

6:40 I don't know what source my history teacher used, but apparently what prompted the charge was defecting Anatolian-Ionian Greeks who left the Persian army to join the Athenians, and told them that the Persian Army was going embark back into their ships and sail around to Athens and sack the city before the hoplites could return to Athens to defend it.

@MandaloreTheReclaimer 2 года назад

I wonder where he got that information, I'd never heard that account of it before. That's the thing about history, some things we'll never truly know because some people could just be lying.

@Blairington 2 года назад

@@MandaloreTheReclaimerit's frustrating attempting to confirm this theory because, as sudden motivation to charge into an army that heavily outnumbers you, thinking your home city will be sacked if you don't makes a lot of sense to explain the reckless charge. But out of a dozen or so other accounts of this battle I've read/heard about, exactly zero corroberate this account of Anatolian Greek defection.

@joshuasharpe8047 2 года назад

THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL AS WE MAKE OUR WAY TO HEAVEN THROUGH THE CARTHAGE LINES

@shelbyxy933 2 года назад

PRIMO VICTORIA

@primal_guy1526 2 года назад

ROMA INVICTA Same tone as Primo Victoria

@VainerCactus0 2 года назад

@@primal_guy1526 WE'VE BEEN TRAINING FOR YEARS, NOW READY TO STRIKE

@michimatsch5862 2 года назад

We have been here before used to this kind of war Cannae burned itself into our heads Our mission was easy It's kill or be killed! Blood on both sides will be spilled. In the dawn they will pay With their lifes as their price History is written today After the inferno of Utica where nothing remains Now our forces advance through the great plains

@Rokiriko 2 года назад

Do cringe Sabbaton fans have to appear in every historical video?

@chubbymoth5810 2 года назад

Nice details of these events. I vaguely recall reading about these in a few sentences, but nothing much. Thank you!

@davideli1999 2 года назад

I’ve wondered about amphibious assaults in ancient war. Thanks for putting this video together!

@terryhughes7349 Год назад

Incredible analysis. Well done.

@Fatherofheroesandheroines 2 года назад

Last time I was this early Caesar hadn't taken Gaul yet

@loods2215 2 года назад

This channel never disappoints fr

@nateconley5923 2 года назад

Keep up the great work invicta

@rizalalbar 2 года назад

And now, i'm going to play Rome 2 again and doing sieges on City Port with Naval Reinforcement.

@awesomehpt8938 2 года назад

Did Tom Hanks fight in any of these battles?

@barbiquearea 2 года назад

No but Brad Pitt certainly did.

@huantruonginh2946 2 года назад

I think his ancient Latin cousin, Tomus Hancus, fought in some battles though.

@ventura9388 2 года назад

@@huantruonginh2946 I'm not sure about Tomus Hancus, but Antoninus Curtus definitely took part in the Spartacus revolt.

@BeingFireRetardant 2 года назад

Schoolteachers make the best Sergeants.

@Fred_the_1996 2 года назад

Biggus Diccus

@robertsansone1680 2 года назад

Excellent! Thank You!

@FreeFallingAir 2 года назад

Your the best! Great video as always!

@mikooou 2 года назад

I adore the content you create

@azazzelx 2 года назад

very informative

@HighGroundSand 2 года назад

I liked the food videos but i have been looking forward to these videos for sure the most!!!!!!

@jonbr0535 2 года назад

Dude thank you. I was literally scouring youtube for info about this subject the other day.

@SamtheIrishexan 2 года назад

I dig this one of yours Invicta!

@thalesrufini8367 2 года назад

Please, do more stuff like this!!!!!

@NomeDeArte 2 года назад

Amazing information

@lambastepirate 2 года назад

Fun fact: Horses would not really work in a sea invasion they get sea sick, it takes at least a few hours for them to be of any use after landing.

@lucasvanderhoeven3760 2 года назад

Amazing idea!

@HellenicWolf 2 года назад

interesting video, thanks

@anastasiacisarovna8460 2 года назад

You could easily do a part 2 with the Roman siege of Syracuse, as mentioned. Archimedes and all those inventions of his at that battle could be a video in itself.

@dango470 2 года назад

I was going to comment as tp how they could forget Archimedes

@-RONNIE 2 года назад

Good video 👍🏻

@maaderllin 2 года назад

Last time I was this early, Hannibal was attacking at the Trebia

@youvebeengreeked 2 года назад

*SAVING PRÆTOR CASSIVS*

@youvebeengreeked 2 года назад

@Luca Picchio it’s Latin as well. Makes an “i” sound

@giovannidipierfrancescodim3058 2 года назад

@Luca Picchio IVLIVS CAIVS CÆSAR

@youvebeengreeked 2 года назад

@Luca Picchio From what I know, yep. “Caesar” is actually pronounced like the German “Kaiser”, which is the word’s origin.

@youvebeengreeked 2 года назад

@@giovannidipierfrancescodim3058 AVE IMPERATOR GAIVS IVLIVS CÆSAR

@nonbreapelido3549 2 года назад

@@youvebeengreeked Æ isnt a letter in latin. A and E exist separately, and they can form a dipthong together sounding like "ai", but were always two different letters.

@alexyang2925 2 года назад

You know what lies beyond that beach? Immortality. Take it, its yours!

@milomateer6565 2 года назад

You deserve so many more subs

@Szycha8412 2 года назад

Very good clip :)

@bernardplacide2610 2 года назад

good content

@Tepalus 2 года назад

"This was made most famous in pop culture in events like dday in saving private ryan" I mean...that's a way of putting d-day in modern times.

@bludfyre 2 года назад

I think he meant the method of depiction. I don't remember any large-scale amphibious assault being depicted like D-Day was in the opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan." So that is where that conception of what it looked like came from (other than the memories of those who were there)

@tl8211 2 года назад

@@bludfyre It's similar to tsunami: they aren't at all a new thing, and people as early as Thucydides not only described them but also gave the correct explanation for their existence. Yet most people in the West had completely wrong ideas about how they look like until they got televised.

@awesomehpt8938 2 года назад

Don’t forget you had a Roman beach landing depicted in the game Ryse son of Rome!

@huantruonginh2946 2 года назад

Lol that was so absurb yet so dramatic that i tried to recreate one in Rome 2 Total War!

@primal_guy1526 2 года назад

Saving Legionary Marius

@rav9066 2 года назад

@@primal_guy1526 LOL

@dabo5078 2 года назад

I mean Ryse son of Rome is a purely fantasy version of Rome like god of war was pure fantasy version of Greece.

@Rokiriko 2 года назад

That is a fantasy video game

@strategos5889 2 года назад

can you guys make a serie on hellenic warfare in the hellenistic age, on how it developed from Alexander till rome takes over and comparing different states like: Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid empire, pontus, Pergamon and bactria to name a few. going in depth on tactics, arms and armour, mentality of the commanders, the shadow of Megas Alexandros and in later times the diadochi looming over their successors as they try to emulate them and lastly wars, campaign battles, navies, ships and siege engineering. i Love ur channel its one of the best out there

@thatonerussiandictator5412 2 года назад

I actually watched your videos on the Roman fleet whilst at a party. Wasn't a big hit with the ladies (who would have thought) but got a cadre of lads together to drink with. Over all good time.

@owenstorey573 2 года назад

The Troy beach battle is soooo good

@napolien1310 2 года назад

That one Roman Signifer under Caesar

@furioni333 2 года назад

age of empires 1 shows it perfectly - ships were randomly stuck on terrain, some of the ai pathing causes them to go into random directions. Sometimes not all units embark, or don't embark at all. In a way age of empires 1 is perfectly showing how chaotic battles were in ancient times. And all it took was some bard looking mofo to write all those battles as this cool, amazeballs, coordinated effort of a tactical genius.

@chrisaristopoulos241 2 года назад

At the time of Marathon, there was not a port yet at Peiraias, the port of Athens was at the bay of Phalero, which was much broader and thus impossible to be fortified.

@aleckazamproductions8139 2 года назад

Nice

@AmericanRadass0 2 года назад

Always respect for amphibious troops. Semper fi.

@comradekenobi6908 2 года назад

Paratrooper too

@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 2 года назад

A polyreme is equivalent to a USMC MEU. That's insane.

@armandom.s.1844 2 года назад

Ancient Greek and Roman accounts of battles are truly cinematic, far better than the medieval ones which are just "lot of people died and God is cool"

@skullthrone8882 2 года назад

You should do urban warfare

@afterfall8133 2 года назад

From what i know most sea invasion is actually docking and establishing camp nor outpost away from the nearest intended siege target , they build palisade dug a ditch and setting up a stake.

@silverjohn6037 2 года назад

People often forget just how unpopulated the landscape was back in this period. You could land a day's march outside of an average city and you'd be lucky to find a few farms let alone forts.

@scottdodge6979 2 года назад

Yeah even as recently as pre WW2 most of America was still open country, I would wager the ancient world was spread even thinner population wise.

@Conorp77 2 года назад

I once saw a video of a scholar ripping apart the landing scene from Troy and saying it would never have happened and amphibious assaults were rare if not non existent in the period, but I can still name a few. Caesar's writes that his first landing on Britain was highly contested.

@MrBaLard1 2 года назад

Great video - as always. I'm curious, how was it that the Brits knew of the Roman arrival, and what were their actions leading up to this? (Did various tribes come together, did some turn-up and others not?)

@daneal681 2 года назад

Japanese Shogunate also have experience in amphibious defense against Chinese-Mongol Yuan dynasty army...Arabs also when the crusaders attacking Jerusalem

@jacopofolin6400 2 года назад

Jerusalem is on land

@comradekenobi6908 2 года назад

Jerusalem is by land

@daneal681 2 года назад

@@comradekenobi6908 what I mean is...they using the strategy when attacking a city in conquest of occupying Jerusalem

@HAYAOLEONE 2 года назад

'Liberating' Jerusalem.

@michaeldunne338 2 года назад

Well, the Kamakura Shogunate had to prepare against the Mongols, which utilized much in the way of Korean resources as well as men, materials, etc. from other conquered lands. And by the Japanese accounts, weather by way of the Kamikazi was pretty impactful, if not decisive. Not sure how much experience was institutionalized from that, and weather it helped during the Senkoku era of civil war, or with the Imjin wars in Korea towards the end of the 16th century?

@swoljoe 2 года назад

I've missed seeing total war gameplay in your videos 😍😍😍

@almirante_kiko Год назад

Please do a Video about the Siege of Lisbon,it was ine of the greatest Conquest in the 2nd Crusade

@InMaTeofDeath 2 года назад

Ancient D-Day and Documentary in the title? You sir know how to tempt me.

@sgtrpcommand3778 2 года назад

I find this trope of beach landings in general to be funny. Not even modern militaries want to do an opposed beach landing. The only reason DDay was, was because the Germans had fortified pretty much the entire coast anyway (although, thanks to an amazing game of false intelligence, convinced them that the landings were elsewhere, which reduced the strength of the Normandy defences).

@edwardalegado5636 2 года назад

The video is so good that it's has only 7 dislikes

@prod.scares9998 2 года назад

Could you make a video on the topic of individual transport in anquity? Like for example, let's say a legionary was released from his service after 25 years in gaul, and now wants to return to his home province of africa. How does one do this? Did they walk all the way or were there taxi-like services?

@burtonbarnes3265 2 года назад

How was piracy in the ancient times different from Caribbean piracy?

@bryanjames7528 2 года назад

No gunpowder

@giacomosaracino6036 2 года назад

The pirates were actually united and even had a capital. UNDERRATED See Pompey's campaign agaist them.

@lowenergyvideos4658 2 года назад

Big love to the person who recreated Troy but with the sound effects from AOE1. King (or perhaps Queen, I do not know. Either way much respect)

@omgfackdehell 2 года назад

I had such an interesting video idea for you earlier today.. but I forgot..b

@claudiopereira5163 2 года назад

Can you do a video about the roman legionary encampments during campsigns?

@arthurfields9575 2 года назад

What about the MULTIPLE D-Day like landings in the Pacific Theater of WW2! I feel like those beach landings are often forgotten about. Examples would be beach landings on Peleliu, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and many others.