We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender! And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
I've fallen in love with this song. It alone has made me want to buy the game. Although, I wonder how many Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish have looked through these comments and become annoyed by everyone referring to England as Britain.
I mostly play as England when I play Civ, and more often than not I take a defensive style. So this music for me has a very distinct "Sick of your shit" vibe.
When the fife and drums kick in at 1:29 I can picture the ordered ranks of Redcoats advancing across the open field into firing range under their fluttering Union Jack standard, their captain with his sword held high, barking his commands as his well-drilled soldiers prep their muskets and unleash a storm of lead on their enemies.
*sees large ships off the shore of my city, and long bowmen coming from the land* Aww shit... I will always remember the first time I heard this. I was looking up walkthroughs to find out the best civs in civ 5 and I saw England's UU and UA. I knew that I had to try this out. The first time I declared war, Egypt settled way too close to me capital, and I declared war. It was the renaissance, and I had both the UU's. Little to say, I docked my boats, prepared my archers. I took the city at size 10 in 3 turns. This theme played the whole time, and I took down Egypt single handedly (maybe faster if their capital was bordering the ocean...) definitely my favorite civ of all time
@Jendo305 England has been invaded by Anglo-Saxons (Angles and Saxons)? What the bloody hell is this? The English ARE the Anglo-Saxons, it was the Anglo-Saxons who settled in Britain and formed England.
britain WAS invaded by angles and Saxons... they settled there, much like the Normans later took Britain and settled there... englad today is a mix of many invading groups of people that got mixed into a people under one nation
beepIL No it wasn't, the Brythonic kingdom was invaded by the Anglo-Saxons from Germany who pushed them back into what is now Wales and Cornwall and they called themselves the Englisc and eventually united as the kingdom of England. The Normans were invaders who destroyed English culture and language and created the false English language and culture we have now.
have some sense of pride mate, england was a glorious nation and you have a lot to be proud of, from your humble roots to the british EMPIRE that ruled vast territories around the entire planet... chin up
beepIL yeah everything you were not part of, and you did never anything for it nothing of this you ever archieved, be proud about what YOU archieve not what someone else does...fucking nationalist
The best part of this score is the flute. I love how it remains steady as it is slowly drowned out by the other instruments. It reminds of England in WWII, remaining strong and fighting despite the growing destruction around them. (I'm American, by the way. Not an English fanatic.)
It gets good at 1:29. It gets GREAT at 1:53. When all the counterpoints get a harmony at 2:06, maximum awesomeness is reached. And then the choir kicks in at 2:22, and your head explodes! ... and we still haven't reached the crescendo yet!
they did an AWESOME job ob this game. the dialog, as well as the music makes every action you take in the game feel like an amazing undertaking. It's a beautiful mix of Heroizm, Conquest and Responcibility. i would love to meet the person who orchestrated the music for this game. they're a friggen genius!
I didn't find Civilization to be THAT epic, even though it's a far above average game... but the soundtrack! The creators of this are at the same level as any musical genius in our history!
Yes. The Levant Company, an English Trading operation, was set up to handle trade exclusively within Ottoman territories, after a Commerce treaty was signed in 1580.
I remember when I first got a domination victory, and this song played. I stared at the GAME OVER screen for ten minutes as the song looped, and I felt like God.
Galileo was sentenced to house imprisonment at one of his friend's rather comfortable villas on charges of heresy, although as with most history it's a lot more complicated than I can explain in five hundred characters. He died at the age of 77 from fever and heart complications and was buried (eventually) in the Basilica of Santa Croce. Other minds were similarly tried, but again such trials are hugely complicated and oversimplified. The so called "martyrs of science" were often anything but.
What's more is that the people who were the main guardians of Europe's intellectual past was the Eastern Roman Empire and the different Arabian Caliphates, where the greatest advances in astronomy and physics took place for the majority of the middle ages. I dare say, the Crusades, though bloody, were some of the best things that happened to Western Europe for bringing back the greater body of works of Rome, Greece, and the Caliphates.
@lordhoot1 I don't think Henry VII counts, since he was an English nobleman who won a civil war between feuding claimants to the English throne. It'd be like suggesting that General Washington conquered the 13 Colonies during the American Revolution. King William was, technically, invited by Parliament to replace James II after he became too Catholic and pro-French. That said, however, it was still technically an invasion, although it may be more accurate to think of it as a coup.
@MrLuizzuc So goes the national myth. Henry Tudor in 1485 and William of Orange in 1688 had some English support, but still essentially conquered the kingdom after invading with foreign armies.
I can't argue with that. The Renaissance was believed to have started when Byzantine scholars fled the fall of the Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, seeking refuge in Italy. They brought with them numerous Classical texts preserved for centuries there. Likewise, Islamic scholars made great advances in science, medicine and mathematics during Islam's Golden Years.
I heard my country calling, away across the sea, Across the waste of waters she calls and calls to me. Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head, And round her feet are lying the dying and the dead. I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns, I haste to thee my mother, a son among thy sons.
@Tolgron34 Henry was more Welsh than English, and you could argue William was a legitimate claimant in 1066. Nationality becomes a murky issue that far in the past I guess.
It was about to win the 100 year war, but France finally just said "We are done running." and not only stopped England from claiming victory it also reclaimed all it's original land and even conquered Cean(Normandy).
The Glorious Revolution. James II was attempting to restore Catholicism, but nobody really cared as James' heir was his Protestant daughters Mary and Anne, but then, James' wife gave birth to a boy, who'd undoubtedly be raised as a Catholic, so people were getting angry, so was Parliament, so Mary and her Dutch husband landed in the south of England and overthrew her father and became King William III and Queen Mary II, James' other daughter, Anne then became Queen as W&M never had children
Philip II Louis XV Napoleon I Wilhelm II Adolf Hitler All underestimated the British isles. All fell upon their swords for doing so. Don't invade Russia in the winter? Don't even attempt to invade Britain... Ever.
@@yurialbertoironico4907 All those I stated were defeated after 1066, meaning they were defeated by Norman England. The descendants of William the Conqueror have sat upon the English throne for one thousand years, and oversaw the defeat of all of those invasion attempts. The England we know today was founded by William. So it appears the only people who have successfully invaded England in the past two millennia, are the English themselves.
@@yurialbertoironico4907 No, the descendents of William the Conqueror are not dead. Queen Elizabeth II herself is a direct descendent of William. His line has not been broken for one thousand years. Also, the 'Glorious Revolution' has never been considered an invasion by either the Netherlands or England, and historians since have never classified it as one. The last successful invasion of England by military conquest was in 1066.
@Atvishees Naw, England had existed for a century or so beforehand. It was properly unified under King Athelstan about 927-ish AD and had remained more or less that way ever since. William of Normandy didn't create an English kingdom, he conquered one.
I heard this track in a game where England was the strongest military nation and it just so happens to be fighting America far away from its capital. I did an embark assault at London at the empty back end and this music came on - dangerous mission with dangerous music - this player was scared.
@SirViette Agreed! This song is quite fantastic all the way through! Best part would be when the harpsichord kicks in at 3:41. The British are coming! The British are coming! AND THEY'RE BRINGING A BLOODY HARPSICHORD IN TOW!
To answer your question seriously, no. A dutch King, William of Orange, was invited to become king, and brought an army with him because he didn't think he would be popular, but the people welcomed him, and the British Army and Navy sided with him, against the unpopular monarch James the second. So there's that, its called the Glorious Revolution. Funny thing about England..all the invaders from the past just became English themselves rather than the English 'losing' their nation.
We burned Toronto, they burned DC. Both sides gained territory but ceded it back in the Treaty of Ghent. Things went back to the Status quo ante bellum (the state in which things were before the war). In fact most British barely remember the war of 1812 and if it's mentioned at all it's mentioned as a part of the Napoleonic wars. 1812 was no great victory for UK not by a long shot.
No wonder the British managed to convince masses of redcoats to line up single file for bloody death when they marched them into battle with upbeat music like this.
And practically all medieval scientists and philosophers were priests, and yes, they existed and they were important. The middle ages are not a time of ignorance and superstition, as many people believe it to be. No barbarians could have built Notre dame or written the Divine comedy. The church did a great service to knowledge translating and preserving the ancient works, and founding universities and schools all across Europe.
Naval Advisor: "The Red Cross is ready to set sail once again en route to Jamestown. The pesky French under the fleur-de-lis and Napoleon have placed an embargo on all English goods. Should we sent our Galleons to raid Calais?" Elizabeth: "Do so now. You may lead the attack. Now, I must attend to negotiating with Caesar. He is being unreasonable with his military alliance with Montezuma. Tenochtitlan lies directly on a maize resource we desperatly need. If I must destroy Rome, too, I shall!"
William was invited though, so I'm not sure if it counts, after all, people were hating James II, and William's wife Mary was his eldest daughter, so I dunno, it's a grey area...
