Battle of the Pyramids - Napoleon in Egypt - Part 2 - Extra History 

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Love coffe and the video!

It's finally out, yes, I have waited a whole week for this. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😊😊😊😊😊

Where do you find your history resources? To be precise I'm interested in prehistory of Ethiopia. There is a lake tana and dek island that seems historically interesting. This is to niche to find a youtube on, would like to read up on it if there anything.

Not wrong tbh. Beast of a man.

You can barely even see the dude on his own column.

Just like Walpole?

I believe he was also already missing his arm by the battle of the Nile, so minor drawing error there.

Makes me want rum every time

Course, irritating, and gets EVERYWHERE

@@OfficialTexan maintenant c'est du podracing

I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE! YOU LOVE TOMMYKAY TOO!

And every US military member (& probably other countries, too) since 2003 lol I can't stand it

You really believe the Directoire sent Napoleon to Egypt with the expectaction that he would succeed? They wanted to get rid of him.

@@nm7358 What does that have to do with what he says ? And the Directory did not sent such a large fleet and 50.000 men in Egypt just for him to fail.

​@@Moroes11 he's saying it's not surprising because they sent him at a bad time on purpose to get rid of Napoleon

@@history7501 He talks about the directory, is Magellon from the directory ?

@@Moroes11 oh i read it wrong sorry

Yeah with him it was "Oh, it's only a little heat" and later it would be "Oh, it's only a little snow".

that's what people that never opened a book about Napoleon say

Because everyone knows marching into Russia on foot at the height of summer is a terrible idea, it's the driest time of the year and extremely hot, such that even a century later there are records of soldiers dying from heat exhaustion at the side of the road while the army rushes past them. Napoleon lost half of his army by the autumn, and understandably so

@@greg_mca Everyone also knows that Eastern Europe turns into a thick mud in the spring and fall (known as rasputitsa), which makes the seasons where armies can march the best on the poor roads to be summer and winter. And of those two seasons, summer offered the best chances to forage. If Napoleon was to invade, his decision to invade in summer was the right one. The disaster of the Russia campaign is less how Napoleon did it than that he did it at all. And that is more of a discussion of how France was locked into an unwinnable war. France could not defeat Britain conventionally, so economic warfare seemed like the only option. Yet France could not wage an economic war if other countries continued to trade with Britain, so this strategy embroiled France into war with offenders. Worse, the strategy itself was dubious, since Britain could make up for its trade with the continent thanks to their navy while the continent could only isolate itself. And yet, with France unable to challenge Britain on land, it seemed like the only way to strike Britain in _any_ way. Napoleon at least seemed to have realized the logical conclusion of this strategy eventually, as he is quoted in private discussions as saying that he wanted to create an unified European bloc, with a single legal system, with free movement of peoples, and coalesced into one great United States of Europe. This is some heady stuff for his time, even if he had come to it by the realization that he could not beat Britain by simply taking France against coalitions over and over. That said, he only mentions it in the months before his invasion of Russia, so he realized it too late for it to matter.

I bet if you were a general you would not care one bit of the climate

He also lost is right eye way earlier than that in his career, as well. Seeing Nelson with two eyes open is so unfunny, it's like WTF.

@@nm7358 Very good point. I was aware of that injury as well but didn't double check the date. This graphic would be perfect for when he's looking at Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's signals at the Battle of Copenhagen, but that's two strikes for it fitting in here.

@@nm7358 I also had to check which eye got blinded, because the animation has him looking into the telescope with the right eye at 1:40 :D

@@nm7358 it's said that the idiom "turning a blind eye" originated from an incident involving Admiral Nelson.

I wondered if they had missed that detail.

Good catch

i have tried to do some research on this, and what i found was that in the redecanse all paintings of watermelons were different from the from today, but it seem so that the 1800s watermellon was a like as todays. you may know more then me on this subject. idont know to be honest.

I'd say touche, but I'd need a doll to show where.

Who are you? Charles Fredric Andrus?

Watermelons are pretty much just sweet cucumbers. That's why I think it's so weird that people call cucumbers vegetables when they are clearly fruit. All gourds are fruit.

Also has the telescope up to his blind right eye, he had lost the sight in a battle in 1794

@@hotmechanic222 Nelson was just half a head at this point. Limbs are for the weak.

​@@ASpaceOstrich Arms and legs are for cowards!

@@ASpaceOstrich "Tis but a scratch"

@@ASpaceOstrichlmao he had a blind right eye and he also lost his right leg I guess he ain’t “all” right 💀💀💀 Edit: I meant right arm 👍

yeah that's not the only mistake, this channel is not very serious

@@Moroes11 When someone favors dramatic intros to the actual history, its whitewashing.

@@AxleEnterprisesLLC Mireur's career was not in jeopardy for him speaking out against Napoleon. He had powerful allies in the French government and is famous for creating the French national anthem, he was extremely popular in all circles of French society. He would not have had a reason to kill himself if he was one of the most popular men in France.

@@AxleEnterprisesLLC Not to mention who Napoleon had a pretty great relationship with his mother.

​@@jeanlannes1368 He was probably eliminated by Napoleon or conveniently disappeared from his sight because he had spoken out against him. One less challenge to your eventual rule.

I hope it doesn't get worse with recent interventions by Ethiopia...

I was not expecting a Jojo reference, but maybe I should have.......

. . .what?

@@dominicguye8058 A Japanese teenager fighting a Bɨseχʊal British Vampire...and they both have the ability to stop time......

And snow in the Sahara in what? 2006?

That's cool got a source as well?

Ohhh they’re referring to the pulling of the trigger rather than the ‘fire’ from the barrel - Interesting! I wonder what other languages use as their “fire” commands, maybe their words for “smoke” or “spark” or something like that.

"tirer" means "to shoot" in that context, not "to pull". A word in a language can have several meaning in another one, but I'm wondering if it doesn't originally come from what you pointed out as there is coincidence. It would be interesting to know why "tirer" has this second meaning.

@@shakya00 maybe it goes back to bows & arrows? You need to draw the arrow back before you can fire, so it might’ve been referring to that literal “pulling”. It would make sense that the word for “shoot” would come to be the same as “pull” since bows can’t be kept drawn for any real length of time. It’s more useful to know when to prepare your bow than it is to be told when to shoot, so you don’t get tired out waiting to fire. Then that term gets carried over into later weapons, like crossbows, & eventually firearms. I might be wrong though.

That’s why he’s a thane in Valhalla.

Watching Napoleon dun goof in Egypt is surprisingly entertaining.

I've never heard anyone refer to Napoleon as "Nappy" but I'm all for it

This nickname runs into problems for stories about his childhood.

Nappy? That sir is Ol' Boney

Nappy is my new favourite nickname for him

The Corsican ogre

Which war are you referring to? The Egyptian campaign in particular?

"F#&% OFF IM THIRSTY!" - Random French Soldier probably.

@@spiffygonzales5160 They had plenty of water at that point lol the march through the desert was a unforgettable lesson to pack tons

@@spiffygonzales5160😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@TheRealLaking30 soldiers died from drowning when they reach the river , jumping mad from thirst

No Egyptian thought Napoleon freed us, We knew his true colonial imperialistic intents and resisted him

LoL, in Egypt, the crusaders were called 'franks', so when the French came, it was like a new crusades has begun. No Egyptian thought it was a 'liberation movement'

@@manetho5134 Yeah, but him proclaiming a new age is what the next wannabe tyrant usually says.

@@Omer1996E.C Egyptians we’re like oh look, more crusaders, can we kick these ones out too

@@nathanseper8738 Yeah so many villain speeches mention declare the 'start of a glorious new age' 😆

That'd be an amzing series. In the meantime, I really enjoy historia civilis's videos on ancient Rome, if you haven't checked them out!

​@@seanicus100 BEST RU-vid channel ever, his video on Ceasar death still haunt me

You mean Marius and Sulla?

@@KaiHung-wv3ul Yeah just edited it thank you

Publius Quinctilius Varus give me back my Legions !!!!!!😂

@pluh363I am very much alive.

@@NapoleonBonaparte4721 you wouldn’t be able to conquer if my grandfather Fredrick the great was alive

@@DrinkScotchForMuscles the grande army could beat his.

Weather was part of a strategy at Boulogne when directly invading England by sea but call out at the last moment when Austria declared war on France and also at Austerlitz, both consisted to conceal the army behind the mist, it worked perfectly at Austerlitz.

about that....

And yet they forgot the most basic factual element that Nelson was missing both an arm and an eye by 1798.

especially since their name literally mean "Sir" rather than any higher rank like "Pasa", and who only there was a Sultan.

Reportedly, when they did an autopsy on him, they found he had no brain. Just a little cockpit with a dead squirrel in it.

@@garcalejIt was actually a chipmunk, do your research right

Indeed, really nice to see non Arabs knowing sort of obscure things about our language.

@Ziyad Al-Atherah I'm not an example of normal western knowledge of Arabic, though, I specifically picked up Middle Eastern Studies as a hobby.

I've watched some documentary on printing presses and they were known by Ottomans but gradually phased out apart from a few in the capital because it didn't work with local culture and traditions of writing at the time. There's a lot of myths from claiming lack of printing press either shown Ottoman empire as technologically backwards and it didn't allow for enlightment to spread, but it's kinda bogus since real history is more complex than the Civ3 tree where things like stirrups send you to next age. Oh and Arabic printing presses, of course, exist to this day... Probably more in museums though since modern printing phased them out decades ago.

I wondered the same thing. Each letter has at least 3 forms ي، في، يمكن for example, the letter yah

the historical rigor of extra history has gone out the window for some time now, there's an obivous tint to these videos that are not very honest and push a certain storytelling narrative.

​@@cseijifja I think they kinda just pull a "GameTheory" sort of thing and skim over stuff. I mean we all do the same thing so no judgment. But yea I think that's what it is.

It would not have made much sense for him to kill himself at this point in any case.

sod*mising french prisoners isn't the best idea either for a cordial entente

That was the other way around, the clergy revolted and took refugee in Al-Azhar that is why it was blasted.

Lol, that's the first thing I thought of too as soon as I had heard this sentence 😂

he probably thought muhammad in islam is like jesus in christianity :/

they do worship Muhammad though.

I'm wondering how "worship" is defined. I feel like Muslism won't identify as worshiping Mohammad, but they are very, very respectful of him (more so than christians are of Jesus imo), to the point where most won't draw images of him and they will say "peace be upon him" after they say his name. Maybe worship means "praying to", in which case, they don't worship Mohammad. It's an interesting question anyways.

​​@@porphyry17 no, he is important, but not worshipped. He's the final messenger

It seems one sided probably because he had a hard time finding Egptian sources on the events.

Booo.......

Wait Mansa Musa.What did he do destroy the economy?😂

@@slimyday2738 yes, actually

What a surface level view. The mamluks weren't a dynasty, they were a class. These mamluks aren't related to the ones of Ain Jalut... also what does mansa musa have to do with this? Are you just namedropping historical figures you have seen on "fun fact" trivia channels?

But in the end OTTOMAN WON so 😝

@@islammehmeov2334 They can thanks the Englishmen for that

@@Moroes11 whay the englishmen did not only destroy the french fled

@@islammehmeov2334 They were forced to capitulate because they did not have any reinforcement, it ain't the same 😅

@@Moroes11 that is there problem not many 🆗 if they can't reinforce there army's that mine that napoleon is not great commander

Yea...very very big mistake and wonder what else he got wrong

⁠1.there was no disease that had anyone blinded 2. The commander of Cairo wasn’t General Dumas , but General Dupuy And that’s just in this part of the video .

Ottoman rule was very indirect, the ottoman governor collected taxes through the Mamluk elites who dominated the feudal system in the country. Mamluk private militias far outnumbered the ottoman garrison in Egypt.

The idea is that you have soldiers facing in all four directions so the cavalry can't get behind the formation. I believe the men were also packed tight enough to brace each other. Then, the soldiers would volley fire to the charge. The weakness is that the men must hold firm against an oncoming cavalry charge and hold their fire until the right moment. So, a cavalry unit would use feints to bait wasted fire, try to unnerve the men, and go for the corners. Alternately, you'd bring in your own infantry or better yet, artillery with cannister (think "shotgun shells") to take advantage of the tight formation and three quarters of the men facing the other way.

The sqaures mean there's no flank to quickly get behind while riding around the square still leaves you in the overlap of fire. It's like Rock, Paper Scissors: Infantry Square bests Cavalry, Artillery beats Infantry Square, Cavalry beats Artillery

Squares create schiltron walls of bayonets and musket fire in face of horses, which they will absolute refuse to charge into. Since man has been able to domesticate horses we know that the latter will never charge full-face into a wall of pointy spears, let alone a wall of musket fire, and no amount of training will break that instinct; instead they will instinctively curve to avoid the obstacle and run between the squares. However, because in squares men are standing divided toward four hollow directions they will get absolutely destroyed by support infantry assaults, due to sheer frontal concentration of fire. See, for example, what happened to Jacobite schiltron formations at the battle of Culloden. Look at the 1970s movie Waterloo to see cavalry attacks on squares recreated. It's as real as you are going to get because the horses react just like Ney's cavalry reacted at the real Waterloo - they run in-between the squares like currents of water around poles in the ground. This is also why Napoleon was furious that no infantry support orders were given by his generals when Ney foolishly decided to charge - because close infantry support is what hinders your opponent to just square uncontested against cavalry.

You put them into square hole...

At least they did something to do with Napoleon. His life is so interesting and the wars so wast that they won’t fit into one series anyway.