9:54 "The artifacts from the bottom of this trench date to the year of the battle" as the shot slowly pans across Phil Harding standing in the bottom of the trench 😂
Great episode. The Hurricane/Spitfire thing is a real triumph of branding over fact that should be taught in schools because in the modern world we need to constantly separate reputation and reality. Hougoumont Farm is amazing. We visited several years ago and sat in our camping car having afternoon tea and discussing the issues of access and location. To see ‘Phil the dig’ on that original road surface was really game-changing.
Funny how we can accept poor penniless workers being torn to pieces by the hundreds of thousands, yet we feel it is somehow undignified to treat their dead bodies with disrespect. We truly are a curious creature.
Wellington knew all about the sunken road by the farm and everything else about the battlefield of Waterloo, he'd identified the site a year earlier and recognised it would be a perfect spot to hold an advancing enemy.
To be fair Napoleon was badly sick, the stomach cancer he died from several years later was probably getting meaner. He actually did not leave his tent letting his generals unleashed. Ney and his cavalry shown their incredible bravery.
@@morningstar9233 yes , and of course Grouchy was trying to find his way to Waterloo. Very strange. He had light cavalry Hussards and Chasseurs à Cheval as scouts, in a francophone territory… really bizarre.
I am about 90% sure one of my 5th great-granduncles fought in the 23rd Light Dragoons at Waterloo. I know that, at the end of November 1814, he was transferred to England from the 104th New Brunswick Regiment as the War of 1812 was wrapping up. I found someone with his name in that Dragoons regiment’s paybook that began on December 25, 1814, and that man fought at Waterloo. I just have to find the previous paybook to see if the man was a new member or had been in it for longer than just a few days or weeks. If he’s there any earlier than mid-December, he’s not my guy. The National Archives does have that earlier paybook, but it’ll cost me $$ I don’t have right now to get the pages scanned. Oh well, someday eventually!!
But, there are nearly no skeletons of the soldiers!!!. A good kept secret is that chalk from those skeletons was used for the sugar production. Maybe your ancestors have eaten some sugar with reminents of those soldiers.
i read a personal letter of a German soldier who has the same last name as I he lived a long time had 3 different wives about 15 kids who lied in leer Germany
1815 was a very wet year do to volcanic activity in Indonesia, it rained egregiously for the three day battle...on the 18th the French did not start at 7 0r 8 am as one could on a fine summer day but later , at 11:30 after the soaked fields could be negotiated...and we all know what the results of a late start can do to ones aims for the day....
There's a curious relationship between the people of the UK and Poland. Clise wnough to be rekateable, but geographically distant enough ot to have trod on each other's toes !
What few know is that in the weeks leading up to Waterloo, Napolian was getting a lot of heat and bad press because his entire command staff was made up of white males. DEI initiatives swept through his camp, and unqualified people were put in charge of key logistics and artillery, and the veteran leaders were pushed to the side. The lack of experience and conflicting interests of the DEI hires brought his military to a grinding halt, communications broke down, and eliminating symbols of the patriarchy and colonialism took precedence over combat effectiveness and professionalism.
@@isazaid5858 you must be a retard low IQ dumb ass. Please tell me what you think the above joke was joking about? And napoleon was not a colonizers. He was a pure conqueror of his neighbors. No colonies. Just conquest. And the colonizers from. EUROPE. *WHITE MEN" saved Europe and Asia from the French War machine. Freaking special Ed Mfer you are.
@Hellbillyhok communists do not subscribe to DEI either. All your socialist idols killed ethnic minorities and any heterosexual deviation. All are equal. None are raised above their fellow citizens. DEI is discrimination. You are the fascist. Liberty and freedom for all. Not more liberty and freedom for some and less for others.
He was outnumbered and in command of a hastily assembled army made up of many nationalities, his brief was to hold his position until Blucher arrived which is exactly what he did.
Napoleon lost against a coalition including a number of European nations. If Marshall Grouchy had not gotten lost en-route to Waterloo the result of the battle could have been different. British money was buying everything…Grouchy too ?
A really difficult video to watch, a disney advert every 5 minutes, gawd the yanks have gotta muscle in on everything. Spoiling our entertainment because of their jealousy. Dr. ALICE must've also found it difficult stopping her narration every 5 minutes, it's a wonder she managed to stay on script.
So, 20,000 bodies were dug up and put in carboard boxes in a museum. Ms Taylor was laid to rest in church yard and now her final resting place in a box in a museum. Desecration.
I don't think Alice realizes she has so many blokes around the world who have a crush on her....my wife came home from work and said my colleague wzsvtelling me today her husband has such a crush on Alice Roberts....random...but true
Yes, Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo. No, Wellington did not win it. The truth is much more complicated, mysterious and different. When his spies in France informed D. João in Rio de Janeiro that France was planning to invade Brazil, the Portuguese king realized that he had nowhere to run. So he decided to do the unthinkable for a Catholic king. D. João asked an important Portuguese nobleman to call a trustworthy person from the colony who knew the intricacies of indigenous and Afro-Brazilian folk beliefs with a mission: to hire indigenous shamans and black slave sorcerers to conjure the demons and evil spirits of Brazil to destroy the French emperor. Images of Napoleon were provided to the shamans and sorcerers and they performed their rituals against the French emperor without knowing that they were hired by D. João. Some people say that Prince D. Pedro, in disguise, even watched one of these rituals, but there is no documentary proof of this. So we can say that the one who defeated Napoleon was the only Bourbon he was unable to arrest in Europe. It was the action of indigenous shamans and Afro-Brazilian sorcerers that made Napoleon wake up late and unwell on the day of the Battle of Waterloo and this determined his defeat.
The Prussians lost a battle with Napolean just days before Waterloo. Yeah, a great army 😂😂😂 do you know, the Brits and her non-Prussian allies just sat on their arses during Waterloo 😂😂😂We Brits were the main financier of the wars against Napoleon and our navy blockade helped defeat Napolean. Brits played a pivitol role against Napolean. Our British squares brought Ney down. Yep the Brits did nothing at Waterloo 😂😂😂
