🚩 Video Sponsored by Ridge Wallet: www.ridge.com/HISTORY 🚩 Use Code “HISTORY ” for 10% off your order 🚩I apologise for the delay. My father is seriously ill and, without going into too much detail, we have surgery scheduled for June 22nd. Needless to say this has caused a lot of stress and worry, and it's quite difficult for me to focus. I will try to complete the Battle of Badr as soon as possible and also work on Hannibal episodes. See you all soon! 🚩The Battle of the Field of Blood and the broader struggle for Aleppo was an intensely complex affair, drawing in many factions-Frankish, Turkish, Armenian, Arab, and Byzantine. Like so many of the Crusader States’ wars, it was rarely a simple matter of Christians versus Muslims.
All Crusader states got destroyed by Turks County of Edessa->Nuraddin Zangi County of Antioch->Baibars County of Jaffa and Ascalon->Baibars Lordship of Sidon->Baibars County of Tripoli->Al Mansur Qalawun Lordship of Tyre->Al Ashraf Khalil Kingdom of Jerusalem->Al Ashraf Khalil Also Armenian Kingdom of Cilica got ended by Bahri Sultanate
@@joaop4585 they were probably not two entire squadron its obviously an excuse. They were very little in number and tired so charging at numerically superior heavy soldiers while outnumbered and exhausted is committing suicide he did the right move by retreating
I think that the display of an military element with blocks is not to be confused as a total, fresh contingent fully equipped and replenished, probably a portion of the contingent survived, needed to rest and of course only fight when their officer fights taking only orders from him. If he is down then you don't fight
Give it time. I only found out about them when looking up Bannockburn - there's too many battles for one channel like K&G to cover all on its own. Speaking of, I remember finding Kings and Generals back when they were at about 200k as well, and look where they are now.
From what I can tell from watching this, if Rainald Mazoir's knights, rather than bring their lord to a nearby tower to recover from his wounds, had charged the back of the Seljuk army, they might very well have turned the battle to the Crusader's side. Amazing what little things completely change the course of battles.
Seriously, why did those dumbasses even do that lol, did he really need an entire army to escort him ? If only they had sent just some body guards with him and left the rest so that they keep fighting, things could have been totally different. What a incomprehensible and disastrous choice.
He was most likely very confident because of the earlier minor win and the service held the day before. But who knew that heavy cavalry would be beaten by light cavalry..... Sort of like tigers vs t-34s from ww2
@@lostmusic99 the thing is the sheer number of t34s would completely outweigh any advantage your perceived might of the tiger may have had. I say perceived because the fact you said that means you know nothing about tank penetration, t34 shells were WELL capable of penetrating any German tank, despite popular belief and the sheer numbers would have only ensured that. usually tanks get hit once before they are KO. and comparing tanks to men on horses has to be the worst analogy.
I am originally from Zardana (nowadays called Aldana) we had found alot of metal arrow heads while we were looking after our farms and fields in the area between Aldana and Atharib.
ايش دخل الحروب العالميه؟ حبيبي حبيت تصدق اهلا وسهلا ماحبيت شي راجعلك. لست ملزم اخليك تصدق ولا يهمني ان صدقت او لأ. الاثار اللتي وجدناها في مناطقنا لازلنا محتفظين بها َانت اذهب الى فديو اخر وكذب شخص اخر من خلف شاشتك!!!
@@Hummer4Man it must amazing to live in such places brother ! I very big respect for the Syrian people and would love to visit and see the old churches and rich history !we have good history here in England but nothing like the antiquities of Syria !
@@Saxondavid Thank you Brother. You are welcome anytime to visit Syria. It is not safe that much now to visit it. In my village itself there is alot of Roman statue. All villages around are surrounded with very old historical places to visit.
I don’t think there’s a better commentator then this guy. Brings the battle to life
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Dayuuum, welcome back and thanks for kicking it on such a subject :D It's always an immense pleasure seeing you have uploaded a new video! I hope it all goes ok for your father, much love and support! And thank you for bringing joy and knowledge to our days
Welcome back! And thank you for the good wishes! It has derailed work a lot, but I will try to get videos your way as often as possible over the coming month or two.
Nice throw, Rainald. Did the whole retinue have to retire from the battlefield while having a considerable tactical advantage, when 3 or 5 men could have taken care of him?
@@albertovelaluis8512 Rainald and his retinue retreated to Sarmada which they eventually surrendered to Ilghazi when he promised them safety with his ring.
Ugh Rainold.... you scoundrel! That attack to the rear would've broken the Turkic center, but instead your men took you to the nearest Sheraton hotel... Great battles always come down to a single moment, a single choice.
seems easy for us snowflakes thinking this is some sort of total war game extremely difficult what rainold did and why unhappy that the other side one? watch with objectivity not biased to ur religion
@@saadshoaib901 What on earth are you on about? He did not even mention religion. I felt the same way. That unit left the battlefield and because of it, the battle was lost and the remaining troops got slaughtered. Such a shame.
@@saadshoaib901 dude, your ability to understand English is not good enough to have this conversation. you're completely misinterpreting what people are saying
I used to read the Osprey books of all these battles and now it's great to be able to just click and watch the whole thing with animated maps: thanks very much to the creators!
These last breath exhale effects after the death of bohemond and tancred and the little details like this ones determines the quality of your videos. This is why this channel such succeed. HistoryMarche rules!!
Your style of narration, the music & sound effects, the animation and just the depth with which you have done your research is absolutely marvellous. You really are passionate about this and it shows. Really appreciate your work & efforts as a history buff myself.
Im speechless at both the quality of these videos and the subject, i mean i never even heard of this battle but you made it more interesting than if a movie was made about it
I suppose the reason the famous battles from the high and late middle ages are famous is because they managed to find ways to win against a charge by knights, an extremely difficult thing to do. That said, because those are the stories that we know best, you always kinda just roll your eyes when a side relies entirely on those charges.
I have seen several failed crusades against the Ottomans because of Frankish foolishness. Franks got beat up by Henry V also because of this blind belief. Tactics and strategies are more superior.
@@babulburel547 Did you miss the fact that here the muslim army was twice as numerous ? What were the Franks supposed to do ? It's a fucking miracle it was so close to begin with, and it shows that indeed knights (which were a little part of the army, 700) were bloody effective. And in general, it's wrong to say that there weren't great tacticians in the medieval period. Knights were in general 1/10th (or less) of a medieval army in Europe. It was a tactical element in itself, not the whole stuff.
Aleppo: "We're willing to transfer guardianship of these strategically invaluable lands to you in a peaceful manner." Roger of Salerno: "No, I don't think I will."
“Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.” “Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.” “Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror.
Can you make a video about the moroccan spanish battle of Alarcos please. I'm wainting for it and i think many other subscribers want the same thing. Love you, one of the greatest channels on RU-vid i ever saw 💕🥰🤩🤗
Just think. 700 knights, trained their entire lives, on the other side of Europe. Every moment of their life up to that point led to this moment, and they just get ground down in a rather irrelevant battle in the grand scheme of things. Just weird to think.... what were some of their names? Life stories? Was there a funny drunk among them? What about in the moment, any rallies that stabilized the situation for an hour or two...? Who knows, totally lost to time, only survived a single generation in the memories of the men present. Most who probably died within a decade..... Just so interesting. It's a mind warp.
@wassim games Oh man, you gonna throw even more mind fuck on top! For sure, two sides, really probably 3 or 4 to every story. Very true. I always think about the Native Americans who lived in my area a couple hundred years ago. They weren't even really native to the area but pushed here from U.S. government within living memory. And to think of how much they'd already lost. Seminoles fought for years and I often think "did a family have a little hut somewhere around here, maybe fished that stream, shit in those woods over there, grew food there," etc.
There were many peaceful times too, mostly when ran by an Empire. Ottoman, Persian, Caliphates, Mamluks held Palestine and it was rather peacefull and somewhat boring. The only problem is what happens when those empires fall.
@@BLRSharpLight Well when everyone is already invaded there are less risks of war in the area. It doesn't make it a good thing. In central Europe not only did political fragmentation favored wars, but the Ottoman empire itself participated in some of them.
@@BLRSharpLight The middle east is mainly destabilized because they have been liberated from the Ottoman. Once again, imposed peace by force isn't really better. It's just Roman peace. As for the Ottoman in Europe, it depends what you call "central Europe". Hungary and the surrundering territories sure had their fair share of agressions.
We need more crusader battle videos this was awesome one of my favorite videos and battles of all time. Can we get a battle of azaz or Hattin hopefully soon!
They will make battles about the first crusade and third crusade they won’t make any battles from the other crusades because Europeans got smashed brutally, they dont want their egos hurt
History marche love all videos make and when you said on Hannibal after came thire be part 14 but love every video you make you should do another collaboration with epic history or kings and generals
As an Arab Muslim from the middle east, I have always read and heard about lots of muslims battles during school study, but I have never heard it in details like the “tactics” in this channel videos show, bro I can’t believe we as muslims in the past were so damn tactical & smart !!! Im so proud with that because I know for a fact muslims didn’t have strong munitions as the same Christians did have. Although “Christianity and Islam are all alike” one god but lots of misinterpretation lol
@@abdulrahmannawaf9120 old days were good man, sensible leader and their great achievements but then Allah knows what happened in midway we fall into fanatics. And so called supreme leaders/imams
For what it's worth I feel there's a decent stretch of time, especially with the rise of the Ottomans where Muslims enjoy a qualitative advantage of both strategy and equipment. The Janissaries around the time of Mehmed II are probably what we can consider the first modern army with gunpowder. Europeans tended to be more heavily armoured in general but there was more to battle than that, as can be seen with the Rashidun smacking the Byzantines in the mouth until they were no longer the power they once were. Or the advent of gunpowder making armour more irrelevant.
Middle East used have great fighters now their command structure has brought many down…. It’s hard to wage war when you always afraid of your leader and if your allowed to make a decisions on the battlefield.
@@jonathanwilliams1065 uhhh I never called anyone a moron dude…Im simply saying the command structure in Middle East doesn’t allow fighters to fight with freedom they need to win.
@@dustintacohands1107 I agree with you so much! Nowadays if an arab commander tries to rise up the ranks and reform the military he would most likely be a target for the ruling class, they would prefer to have one of their own to be commanding generals and defence ministers. This is due to the fear of having the military overthrow them, Egypt is a common example of this also Saudi arabia which has the Saudi Arabian National Guard made up of 325,000 loyal tribesmen. It differs from the regular Saudi army in being forged out of tribal elements loyal to the House of Saud and tasked with protecting the royal family from internal dangers such as a coup d'état. Even Iranian revolutionary guard corp is a branch of the armed forces which apparently "protects the Islamic revolution" essentially means its the clergys personal army to deter coups!
What an amazing video of this battle! I really didn't know which way it was going to go until very close to the end especially when those knights broke through the Selçuk lines. Both sides fought hard and brave. Is it known what the casualty rates were?
The minute the battle went in the muslims favor was when the dust storm started... the muslim army is well used to dust storms and fought like nothing was happening while the crusaders werent used to such storms at all... another major factor to the muslim's victory was the strange decision by reynold to withdraw with his forces rather than contributing on forming a pincer. Anyhow this battle is nothing compared to the future ones between muslim and christian armies... its funny because that area (middle east) never saw 10 years of peace in its history and till this day... a holy but cursed paradox
Thing is, it actually was a sensible choice by the time battle was certain to happen. Roger got outmanoeuvred before the battle, charging in was his best and only option at this point.
I just caught that "Willhelm Scream" for the first time lol.. I wish there were more movies on the ancient history, the Crusades and medieval battles and such like Kingdom of Heaven, Braveheart, Gladiator, etc. I know they're not historically accurate and I wish they'd stick to history in Hollywood - I really love history and I love to learn what _actually_ happened and not some doctored up Hollywood fantasy - but usually when I'm watching movies like those, I'm mainly watching them for hacking and slashing, sword fighting, pre-battle speeches, cool quotes, etc. But that was kind of cool on the heavy cavalry horse training. I didn't know the horses were trained to kick and bite their riders' enemies. That's pretty interesting. Like the horses were more than a "vehicle" and actually part of the offensive mechanism. And thinking about knights being trained from childhood - I guess that made it a substantial loss to lose a knight.. Like 20+ years of training down the tube. As a total side note, someday, I hope we have something like a virtual time machine - virtual so we don't mess up history - but I'd like to see what would happen if you went back to medieval times and gave them modern weapons lol... Again, virtually, because I'm sure with as hostile as everyone was, they'd probably destroy the world. I'm a bit of an anarchist but not _totally_ insane.
