Crazy Things that were “Normal” for Napoleon’s Army

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What makes Napoleon a successful Military Commander to the likes of all the other great French emperors? His near-perfect record on the battlefield. He won 90% of the battles he participated in and his soldiers followed him blindly in the stakes where their lives were the wager.
Of course, a general is only as good as his army but what life was like living under the command of arguably one of the most charming, direct, inspiring, kind of goofy, and ambitious military commanders of all time? Well lets find out...
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@pauloamw 6 месяцев назад

This video is 100 times better than the recent movie.

@ddc2957 5 месяцев назад

What isn’t? That film is a crime.

@nicolaspetit6718 5 месяцев назад

This movie is a rape against Napoléon and History

@randovids 5 месяцев назад

When it comes to history, RU-vid is often better than traditional media, especially movies.

@markedfanatic9349 5 месяцев назад

@@randovids I totally agree, and I find myself asking the question "who is this for?" constantly with more recent historical or fantasy films and shows. When someone makes a film about Napoleon, or the middle ages, or LOTR, or any other niche interest, the vast majority of people couldn't care less, but a decent minority will be absolutely stoked about it. So when these films end up incredibly inaccurate and show no respect for the original source material, I just can't figure out who the target audience is meant to be

@kingkongkungkwang 6 месяцев назад

I'm a simple man. Nutty History uploads, I grab a bottle of beer and get learning.

@raymondboyd1200 6 месяцев назад

Grab two and forget.

@odeleon24 6 месяцев назад

Good because there will be a test!

@zacharyprince4713 6 месяцев назад

Same 😂 we are getting old my friend

@malikholloway343 5 месяцев назад

I grab a blunt and get intrigued

@spacekadebt1641 5 месяцев назад

I grab a bottle as well. Usually of the forty ounce variety. Anyhow, I appreciate a person of culture. Cheers!

@mlc808 5 месяцев назад

Neither Davout nor Ney (just off the top of my head) were ‘yes men’ … and they were two of his most trusted Field Marshalls. His Corps were designed to be capable of independent operation, which developed their leaders. He failed in Russia because his men froze and starved …. it doesn’t require more explanation than that. Waterloo happened because he was fighting the whole continent and the real Grand Armee - full of the seasoned veterans of 1805-1809 - ceased to exist in 1812. Not really buying off on the last point.

@Corrie-_- 5 месяцев назад

Been following this channel for quite some time now, and I've learned more than any history taught in school. This is also far more interesting lol

@barrya2808 5 месяцев назад

Love the video. Just to point out though, Napoleons charge with the flag at Arcole didn’t actually work, the men were too afraid to charge, and he ended up falling off the bridge into some sludge which is quite funny. The battle of Arcole was actually won and done the next day, and he wasn’t actually present at the time.

@Jon-ko1qg 5 месяцев назад

nutty history falling for french propaganda xD thats a huge point to get factually wrong. brings down the credibility of the rest of the video

@peterlynchchannel 5 месяцев назад

"Let them eat cake!" - Napoleon Bonaparte on army rations.

@moonlover2022 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video, thank u Nutty History

@mattiasesttroff 5 месяцев назад

this is actually a really good video

@CornNation 5 месяцев назад

Very well done thank you.

@debbralehrman5957 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the history lesson.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@gas481 6 месяцев назад

Here before you hit a million subs 🙏🏽✊🏽

@mushed321 5 месяцев назад

A great man manager! Everyone loves that. I can see him being popular, like one of the soliders with humility, but above it at the same time as their leader.. Reminds me of the tales of Alexander the Great who was also very frank with his armies and a warrior himself.

@tramlink8544 5 месяцев назад

just to add to the food problem, it got to the point that one of the most famous marching songs of the napoleonic army became ''Chanson de l'Oignon'' (Song of the Onion) a song literally about how great onions taste

@BigChucka419 6 месяцев назад

10:20 Grand Armee upgraded from the "roasted joints" mentioned earlier I see

@tryingmybest9819 5 месяцев назад

I had a relative who fought on the British side at Quatre Bras and Waterloo and survived.

@odeleon24 6 месяцев назад

Imagine a king who fights his own battles… Emperor Napoleon: hold my croissant

@JaylaStarr 5 месяцев назад

Not his croissant 🥐 😂

@kirgan1000 5 месяцев назад

Sweden and its long rows of warrior kings, and 2 was killed then they did lead from the front.

@thomasjamison2050 5 месяцев назад

Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great.

@johnking6252 5 месяцев назад

And here a mere 200 years later and he's still famous, strange the people we choose to remember from history? 👍 Nicely done.

@charlie91757 5 месяцев назад

winners write the history

@williamashbless7904 5 месяцев назад

Napoleon’s Army moved fast as it foraged off the countryside and wasn’t tied down by long supply chains. This is good, except stealing from the citizens of whatever country they were occupying or passing through led to bitter relations. Spain is a perfect example. The name ‘Pumpernickel’ is thought to have been coined by soldiers who complained there was no bread for them, but Napoleon’s favorite horse, “Nicolle” got plenty.

@mikemyer3361 5 месяцев назад

His marshals didnt lose him Waterloo he was defeated by the Russian winter way before it destroyed more than his army.

@alexhale6582 5 месяцев назад

The moment Napoleon grabbed the flag to inspire his troops was rather different from how you describe it incorrectly. He actually referred to his men as cowards because they were hiding from the Austrian volleys and not shooting back, under a hail of fire a number of his officers were hit, some killed, and he was dragged out of the danger only to end up in the mud.

@alexhale6582 5 месяцев назад

Also Germany didn't exist until 1871 as a unified country under one flag.

@gaigejones3947 5 месяцев назад

you’re a real person!?! I thought that voice was bot or something like that. Never would have guessed you would be real!

@wannabe4668 5 месяцев назад

Nutty history, yep he was nutty

@jubi400 6 месяцев назад

Thanks Tony! Great work! I enjoy your sense of humor, you make me smile and giggle quite often. A great 2024 to you as well!!

@cliffnelson1174 6 месяцев назад

Too bad he did not have access to a few strykers.....

@732466 4 месяца назад

1.3 million of Napoleon soldiers died serving his power hungry wars from 1792 till 1815

@cassandrabrowne-schneider4951 5 месяцев назад

Never throw away your hard tack "clack, clack"

@timtheskeptic1147 4 месяца назад

Eh, you could toss it on the path side and retrieve it after a year. It'll be fine. The US had hardtack in storage made during the Civil War that, in WW1, was still "edible".

@FlatDerrick 4 месяца назад

@@timtheskeptic1147 That's probably because the US didn't really use it anywhere near as much as Euro nations, having learnt how to make the superior Pemmican from the natives well before the civil war. In fact the Euro nations holdings in North America preferred pemmican too, the Hudson Bay Company even fought a war over it!

@justinlast2lastharder749 5 месяцев назад

Napoleon, the last Frenchman born with Balls.

@kentjensen4939 6 месяцев назад

It would be fun to hear about his brother, Jerome, who lived in the US and was married to an American.

@markcrider4574 4 месяца назад

Jerome's grandson was teddy Roosevelt's attorney General and help start the FBI

@edocsil123 5 месяцев назад

nice video! but the grande armee was never in egypt (4:37), it was the armee d'orient

@hellion2009 6 месяцев назад

cette video est genial!

@mikitz 6 месяцев назад

'Military grade'... Some things never change.

@yesteryeardude370 5 месяцев назад

The French Army called the "Army of Italy" LoL

@artemusp.folgelmeyer4821 5 месяцев назад

Common practice. The British army stationed in Europe during the cold war was called the British Army of the Rhine.

@doctoronishispsychosislab1474 5 месяцев назад

NO WAY they trew away food or didnt take water on a 3 day march. JUST NO WAY. thats complete lunacy

@Raintiger88 6 месяцев назад

Perfect timing as I just finished watching Napoleon last night.

@IGotBoergs 5 месяцев назад

And how great they depicted him…

@SanitysVoid 5 месяцев назад

Me as a member of any army 180 years or more back in time. Superior: Why do you wear a Samurai Sword at all times? Me: In case the Dr needs to amputate, he's using my sword not a damn saw.

@gothdogs6300 6 месяцев назад

I also watch Sharpe...😊

@iceman9678 5 месяцев назад

Was Charlemagne more successful in battle than Napoleon? 🤔

@RadRicardo446 5 месяцев назад

I was actually thinking of this. Have to keep in mind though, France is not the same as the Frankish empire that Charlemagne ruled over. In any case, I would like to add Clovis in there as well to compare against them.

@user-vf6nn6hx9x 5 месяцев назад

Napoleon's commander of cavalry for the Egyptian expedition, Haitian born black General Thomas Alexandre Dumas, incurred his wrath for complaining about the poor treatment and conditions of the expedition troops. When Dumas was captured by the Italians on his way back to Europe and imprisoned, out of spite Napoleon refused to ransom him and let him languish in prison for several years, and refused his family his pay and pension. Dumas' son Alexanre went on to write the novels The Three Musketeers and The Count Of Monte Cristo partly based on his father's life.

@garysteinert8040 5 месяцев назад

Successful French Army? Never heard that before

@zach7193 6 месяцев назад

Well, this was something. Much better than the film. If Ridley Scott had known more about Napoleon, the film would have been worth watching.

@ddc2957 5 месяцев назад

He knew. He just wouldn’t be a Brit if he didn’t perform a character assassination.

@RP-ks6ly 5 месяцев назад

Worst 20 bucks and 3 hours I have spent in decades.....

@Wordbird69 5 месяцев назад

You expected something different?

@wimdefoort7698 5 месяцев назад

Hands off approach van lead to things getting outta control, he lost it in Egypt

@withnail70 4 месяца назад

"What makes Napoleon a successful military commander to the likes of Alexander the Great and Ghengis Khan ?" asks the narrator at the beginning of this video. I can guarantee that Alexander the Great and Ghengis Khan had never heard of Napoleon, so he was nothing to them.

@elvisrodriguez2935 5 месяцев назад

He learned a lot from a guy named juluis ceaser who also was loved and respected from his soldiers

@seejur 5 месяцев назад

Apparently he did not learn from him the importance of logistics by watching this video. Surely it will not bit him in the ass during the Russian campaign.... (other than that, one true genius commander)

@elvisrodriguez2935 5 месяцев назад

@@seejur i think napoleon at the end though he was unbeatable and was full of himself by overestimating his enemy

@tommywolfe2706 6 месяцев назад

611 grams is only 1.35lbs each. My steel toe work shoes weigh more than that. When I was fabricating, my boots weighed almost 2.5lbs each. I bet their boots were really good quality too, not like what I had.

@cassandrabrowne-schneider4951 5 месяцев назад

Did you have to walk for several miles in those shoes???? I wore doc martens and steel toed caterpillars in the 90s and would have never wanted to walk that far with no break in them 😢😂

@victornewman9904 5 месяцев назад

Great stuff. You should cover Berthier's role. His assassination was essential to Napoleon's failure.

@ABeautfulMess 6 месяцев назад

Id rather smoke hash then go to battle too.😂

@merlebarney 5 месяцев назад

Can’t argue with that!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@phineascampbell3103 5 месяцев назад

Napoleon went other places than Waterloo?! I never knew! We left that other lot out of English history books

@FlatDerrick 4 месяца назад

You must have been skiving for the lesson about St Helena!

@phineascampbell3103 4 месяца назад

Ñow, what side was she on?

@Skipjack7814 5 месяцев назад

Was Napoleon a 'Commanding General' at Arcola?

@Smittenkitten303 5 месяцев назад

Yes, but they didn't charge the bridge.

@Skipjack7814 5 месяцев назад

Thats right! He picked the flag and fell into the water! Still, he was certainly brave, and that exploit won him his first "Legionne D' Eau," a kind of Merit Badge for swimming.

@ddc2957 5 месяцев назад

Do not believe the lies of Napoléon’s enemies. If you are unfamiliar with the period, you have probably been deeply misled about this great man. You don’t become as beloved as Napoléon was if you don’t prove yourself endlessly as a caring, considerate, decent & fair man. Generous, even. “The old King would have first asked if this brave man was noble, before rewarding him. Our new Emperor instead asked if this noble man was brave.”

@andyleighton6969 5 месяцев назад

Napoleon was routinely profligate with his own men's lives, regarding it as their duty to die for him - something he had in common with Frederick the Great but in comparison with Wellington - he casually referred to casualty lists as "the butcher's bill". Caring and considerate he was not.

@ddc2957 5 месяцев назад

More British “facts.”

@artemusp.folgelmeyer4821 5 месяцев назад

Like the one about Napoleon being short.@@ddc2957

@RichardCatto 5 месяцев назад

anti-biotics were not invented, they were discovered. It is an important distinction. Anti-biotics have existed for millions of years. We just were not aware of them and their utility to cure infections.

@jorgeparente6424 5 месяцев назад

Bad shoes?? Defeat was sealed.

@bobbystanley8580 5 месяцев назад

Very true about the dull saws, I have read

@janandersen8735 5 месяцев назад

Waterloo nonsense. He lost because 1. he failed to defeat the Prussians 2 days earlier at Ligny, allowing them to withdraw in good order and stay in within a reasonable distance of Wellingtons forces. 2. Delaying the assault on Wellington until early afternoon, though rain played a role. 3. Allowing the attack on Hougoumont to consume to much time and troops instead of by passing 4. Issuing confusing orders to Grouchy who could have delayed the Prussians, in part due to not taking Berthier, who had been a brilliant chief of staff back in the same role. If there is any overriding theme to his defeat was a Napoleon that was indecisive and worn out. The Napoleon of Austerlitz likely wins at Waterloo.

@GavTatu 5 месяцев назад

and don't mention a 'little man' complex... admiral the lord nelson was shorter than him !

@johntony6974 5 месяцев назад

HOlup that man said bonERparte

@JohnH-mo5mb 5 месяцев назад

What do you mean a general is only as good as his army? It is exactly the mark of a great general that he’s going to be able to win the battle even with inferior forces.

@MrStephen777 5 месяцев назад

I think we all agree especially French people now that Napoleon was a lunatic, Whereas Wellington was rational and by far the better military strategist.

@markedfanatic9349 5 месяцев назад

@9:09 he said "A 3-day march from Alexandria to Cairo was made without water canteens on burning sands in thick European armour while carrying heavy armour because the time to fill canteens had to be forfeited so there wouldn't be any delay". I am so confused. What "thick european armour"? What century do you think this is? Do you just mean uniform? Carrying what heavy armour? What are you talking about? How does not having time to fill a canteen necessitate carrying heavy armour? As far as I'm concerned, you're talking nonsensical gobbledygook

@clunkclickeverytrip 5 месяцев назад

Napoleon also used to chew alot of liquorice so apparently his teeth were blackend.

@LoLreality1 5 месяцев назад

The artist rendition resembles Vladimir … opinion

@duaneolsen8603 5 месяцев назад

What’s the nutty bit?

@MachoSquatcho 5 месяцев назад

Salt peter maybe?

@Humble_African 6 месяцев назад

I wonder if Napoleon will be influential/relevant today?

@jamesbodnarchuk3322 6 месяцев назад

No beverages?

@jamesbodnarchuk3322 6 месяцев назад

I d like a six pack N

@jamesbodnarchuk3322 6 месяцев назад

And some hash😊

@RUcookoo 4 месяца назад

He really was only 4 ft 7 with a pot belly and farted frequently !

@heofonfyr6000 5 месяцев назад

Here's a crazy and often overlooked thing that was normal for Napoleon's army; losing to the British virtually every encounter from 1801 - 1815

@ddc2957 5 месяцев назад

Well when you fund other armies to do the fighting for years until your enemy is worn down because you lack the guts & ability to do it yourself, or run across an entire country to escape the French, or get rescued by an entire other nations army arriving on the battlefield, that can tend to inflate one’s record. I wonder what Wellington & his buddies thought of Britain adopting the French revolutions ideals wholesale in the end. Who won again?

@heofonfyr6000 5 месяцев назад

@@ddc2957 by the way, you're talking pure crap, because the Napoleonic wars went on until 1815, and as I already pointed out, the first major clash between British and French armies was 1801, and what happened? the same thing that then proceeded to happen damn near every other time as well; the Redcoats smashed them to pieces, because they were better 🤷🏻‍♂️ exactly how worn out were the French by 1801 when it happened the first time? 😅 (first of some 30 times) certainly not enough to render anything about your statement truthful... sure, Britain lacked the numbers to face the French alone on the continent without being overrun, but who didn't? 🤷🏻‍♂️ certainly wasn't gonna be the world superpower that happened to not be a continental power and continued to profit regardless of Napoleon that was gonna do most of the bleeding... how much sense would that make? our army however, was of higher quality, otherwise it wouldn't have convincingly beaten the French at nearly every encounter, would it? 🤷🏻‍♂️ common sense really... by the way, you're welcome that your country fought the French off the back of British funding. anytime 👋🏻

@ddc2957 5 месяцев назад

Yeah I’m Australian so I was fed your British lies about Napoléon from a young age. Save your breath. Am I talking “pure crap” when I say Britains army was bottlenecked & busted to buggery on the Dutch coast? Am I talking pure crap when I say Britains army had to literally run across Spain to escape at sea a French flogging? Is it crap to say Wellington’s entire campaign left him right back where he started after marching on Madrid? “Better” & “won every time” is the crap here. Even Waterloo was a defeat in waiting until an entire second country’s army showed up to rescue your mob. You won the final battle, then adopted all your intractible enemies beliefs & values, which you uphold in law & conscience to this day. Who won again?

@heofonfyr6000 5 месяцев назад

@@ddc2957 this is exactly what I'm on about 🤦🏻‍♂️ you claim some intense British propaganda but you never even heard of the entire long Penisula war, and that it ended with a successful British invasion of France, and instead only knew about the abortive opening battle where there were still 4 or 5 French armies to the one British one before the long liberation of Spain even really got underway!!! 🤡 how much British propaganda and exaggeration can there be if you never even heard about the entire conflict 😂🤣 obviously, the propaganda is all against Britain 🤷🏻‍♂️ thanks, come again

@emmanuelnaudin6726 5 месяцев назад

England at war since centuries ago:1/ I find some allies 2/ I let them take the first blows 3/ If necessary I find new allies 4/ At the end of the war, I explain I won the war alone.

@mitchbatten8281 4 месяца назад

Now they have Macron, baaahaahaha

@Alifofara 4 месяца назад

Had to stop at less than 1 minute in tonsay this yes, he reinvented the weel militarily speaking. He invented the Core system and the rations

@johnharris2337 5 месяцев назад

A brilliant commander, civil administrator, law maker, in the end a tyrant and a looter, responsible for catastrophic loss of upwards of 6 million lives through battles, starvation and destruction that left Europe in ruins. He re introduced slavery, suppressed free speech, imprisoned and tortured his opposition. No mention of the Jaffa massacre.

@shadowdweller6738 4 месяца назад

Yeah, millions of lives lost because of one man's vanity. What can one say? At least he wasn't as bad as Genghis Khan. History is far too kind to this monster.

@jcordero8947 5 месяцев назад

ICTIPPD………………………………………….

@raybowman5170 3 месяца назад

I am surprised how little americans know about world history…. Read a book it really works wonders

@Atlas_21 4 месяца назад

Nice video but you guys totally butchered "chleba" though, it is not pronounced with a "K", a simple search would have given you the correct pronunciation, which is not that difficult.

@geraldperyman6535 5 месяцев назад

Won all his battles except the LAST one!

@markuspemler3489 4 месяца назад

This is just storytelling, the report is biased, not objektive. A movie appears and someone pretends to clarify but tell nuts.

@ThomMorrison 4 месяца назад

the battle of Arcole.....? you related the myth not the reality......present history not the Coles notes

@tanindunn8379 5 месяцев назад

What was normal for Napoleons army was that they died by the thousands. He lost an estimated 1.7 million troops. He wasn't brilliant. He wasn't a great tactician. He simply didn't care about life and seen troops as expendable to ensure a win.

@artemusp.folgelmeyer4821 5 месяцев назад

The other countries of Europe attacked France first. The French Revolution was the reason.

@andrewlerdard-dickson5201 5 месяцев назад

What makes you think that he was Charming, Were you his Lover and Boyfriend....Mr Queer

@geraldperyman6535 5 месяцев назад

Use a dictionary.

@davesherry5384 5 месяцев назад

LOL! Successful? He won ever battle........except the last battle. Then he went back and tried it again and again failed. Dismal failure at Moscow just like Hitler after him. And just like NATO after him.