This guy is a legend. One of the greatest strategists in European history and beyond. It is interesting to note that he actually left the French court because the French king (who was his cousin) refused to let him pursue a military career. The thing is he was kinda small and sickly so they in fact laughed behind his back for requesting to join the army. He left France and went to Austria...something the French would regret during the "War of Spanish Succession". He was of the same Savoy branch that would later become rulers of Sardinia and eventually united Italy.
American figures have thousands of movies and books made about them because the authors of said movies and books are British and American. Is their fault that Austria does not have a booming global movie industry ? lol
He earned the nickname "the ottoman slayer" by crushing the ottoman horde on battlefields. Was a true hero and military genius, spreading fear among obnoxious ottomans. In my opinion, he was also underrated, less known general. He definitely deserved more recognition and respect. I'd like to thank you personally, for covering him in this video.
He offered his services, early on, to Louis XIV and Louis rejected the offer. That was a costly mistake for Louis. He then became one of the most effective generals fighting against Louis XIV.
It's interesting to note that four powers named major warships in his honor: Austria, a dreadnought; Germany, a heavy cruiser; Italy, a light cruiser; Britain, a big gun monitor.There's too little written of this great soldier in English.The narration here lacks inspiration.
Wow I can't believe I've never heard of this man, he definitely deserves more attention. Also I found it quite funny that he said "Either I will take Belgrade or Belgrade will take me" since Mehmed II said the same thing about Constantinople before conquering it.
@@CaraTibi Fatih Sultan Mehmet said his quote in 1453, 235 years before Eugene took Belgrade...in other words Eugene ripped off Mehmet. Next time *Read Slowly* before you comment & I'd advise brushing up on your knowledge of history before you start critiquing others so that an embarrassing faux pas like this doesn't reoccur.
@@RandomGuy-df1oy Nooo, They were a treacherous empire that was not European and broke Islamic laws with mysticism and dirtied the noble faith of contemporary Islam.
I had no idea this Prince Eugene of Savoy was such a thorn on the Ottomans. I think he defeated the Ottomans more times than any other European general. The Battle of Zenta has always been among my favorites when it comes to Christians vs. Muslims conflicts. And to find out that Prince Eugene of Savoy also defeated the Ottomans in several more battles, now makes him one of my all time favorite generals. He also deserves recognition as one of the greatest generals ever, because he won several battles against one of the greatest empires in history (Ottoman Empire).
ottoman didnt deserve to be the one oof thet greatest though, the greatest empire that has ever ruled in the balkans were Russian Empire, Ottoman couldnt go head on with the russian empire without british and france intervention, without british and france, ottoman would have ended about 150-200 years earlier
@@SousukeAizen421 Lol if you look at that way, Russia was not alone against Ottomans. most of the time Ottomans fought with Russia and Austria at the same times. Also Russia was growing and Ottomans was declining at these times so it is normal. Earlier even march of Ottomans, Crimean Khaganate, defeated Russians several times.
Ottoman pashas were joke at these times. Eugene stomped these stupid pashas but Ottomans still couldnt take lessons because the whole system was corrupt
@UCJbBhX0w7MVYiaSkDnFCGVA said that"Crimean Khaganate, defeated Russians several times". I said neither Grandy Duchy of Muscovy nor Russia. Even I say Russia for Grand duchy of Muscovy, it is not wrong. Grand duchy of Muscovy succeeded by Tsardom of Russia and Tsardom of Russia succedeed by Russian Empire. These are same things with different forms. So dont equivocate. For a long time, Ottomans didnt see Russians as a threat so they just send some janisseries to the Crimea when Crimea asks for help. First actual war between Ottomans and Russia took place in 1687, long after Ottomans prime times. So if you say that "Russian Empire is greater than Ottoman Empire because Russians defeated Ottomans." It doesnt make any sense.
@@aknakcam4677 excuses excuses, you should really thank your british and french master from saving you, how does it feel to be british puppet state for 200 years ? before being discarded at the dawn of the great war that is after the ottomans outlived their usefulnes, doesnt matter how many battle the crimean kahanate won, in the end, they lost the war, that's all that matters, Russia is still a superpower while turkey is just an insignificant country
Why is this almost the only video about him, while there are tons of videos about the 2nd siege of Vienna or the Siege of Malta (and obviously everything the English ever did)? That was a winning streak comparable to Skanderbeg, Yi Sun-sin and Napoleon (and on top never got himself killed or exiled). He's ignored to a degree that it almost looks deliberate.
While the 2nd siege of Vienna was a very important battle in history indeed, we still shouldn't forget Eugene of Savoy's roles against the Ottomans. He certainly deserves much more attention. Edit: Oh, found this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gPQXGtFIt0U.html
A Proud European He wasn’t the commander during this battle. The Imperial Army as such was commanded by the Duke of Lorraine, the left wing of the army that was attacked by the Ottomans and crushed them during the battle was under the command of Maximilian II. Emmanuel Elector of Bavaria. Eugene of Savoy was only one of several generals under the command of Maximilian II. Emanuel.
Thank you for making a video about a forgotten hero, the greatest general of the Habsburg Empire! Sincerely from someone whose country (Hungary) was liberated by Prince Eugene
Skanderbeg, John Hunyadi, Vlad Dracul, John III Sobieski and the Prince. All played key roles in halting Ottoman expansion. Some are better known the others, not many movies about their exploits but history enthusiasts will never forget them.
Yes, they're. But already the Ottomans were reached to natural borders in east also we can say this for west, about fort of Vienna. It's so higher than Ottoman's border. And if we say this they are important in collapsing of ottomans. and finally, Skanderbeg is national hero from Albania. He is not affected the Ottomans. We can see this, ii.Murad's attitude. We'll not forget them. And you never forget too some persons. ((:
@@sergenguler1386 Skanderbeg was a small pebble in.the ottomans shoe, but they couldn't remove that pebble for years. They would send armies into his country, sink massive resources into military campaigns with little to show for it time and time again. He wasn't a threat to invade Istanbul obviously but he put up massive resistance despite being hugely outnumbered every battle and siege.
A movie about Prinz Eughen? With this political environment surely someone could accuse him of imperialism/racism against the"poor" ottomans (but with modern CGI and good writers would be awesome!)
Great to have a video about Eugene Von Savoia but please check your data! He was at the battle of Vienna because he had just received the news of the death of his brother Louis Julius, killed at Petronell by the vanguard of the Ottoman army and the Tatars. He ran to Austria, as many other young nobles volunteers, to avenge his brother's death and to fight against the enemies of Christendom. Of course he fought well at the battle of the Kahlenberg but, even more important, he had strong support from influent members of the Imperial High command, and he very logically took command of his brother's regiment, the von Savoy dragoons (former Kuefstein dragoons until February of 1683).
There was muslim lipka tatars who saved Jan Sobieski's life in the battle field vs christians fighting under ottoman flag . It was a battle of power but no religion .
Eugene of Savoy, Louis II Prince of Conde, Marshal de Turenne, Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Gustavus Adolphus, and Frederick the Great. Hands down best commanders of the 17th and 18th centuries. Napoleon was the best of the 19th and Charlemagne was the best of medieval times.
Interesting to see how a young foreign noblemen became the most respected military figure in Austria, even fighting against his previous homeland France. This story makes me think about Maurice de Saxe, who was a German aristocrat but is now the most revered French military leader of Louis XV's time.
By that time, there was not such thing as "nationality". Loyalty was a very personal thing, and since he did not swore loyalty to Louis XIV he felt free to swore loyalty to any other king or emperor. By the way, this wasn't something new, or unheard of. Louis II, Prince of Condé, which was a french general during thirty years war, switched side and took command of spanish army against France in 1652. This was never considered shamefull or outrageous, since Prince of Condé was allowed to return to France in 1659.
Amongst the comments here implying the irony of the fact that a German vessel of WWII was named after a personality who had fought alongside Sir Winston Churchill's famous ancestor nobody has thought to mention that, to accentuate that irony, the Italians had the 'Eugenio di Savoia', a light cruiser, in WWII and in WWI the Austro-Hungarian Empire had another 'Prinz Eugen', a Dreadnought-class battleship, which was commanded by the future Regent of Hungary, Admiral Miklós Horthy, whose wife would go on to launch the 'Prinz Eugen' of the Kriegsmarine. In another twist of irony, given the fact that one of the actions of the 'Prinz Eugen' of WWI was bombarding Ancona, the 'Eugenio di Savoia' was launched by the Duke of Ancona. It's been very interesting over this past few days looking into the activities, in a similar part of Europe, but slightly earlier in history, of that other personality after whom another of Italy's 'Condottieri' Class light cruisers was named, Raimondo Montecuccoli.
4:50 Spanish Succession : William III was the one calling the shots. He'd already organised a Triple Alliance and Grand Alliance for previous wars with Louis XIV. And had been calling for a Grand Alliance over Louis' occupation of Flanders but was refused by parliament. Only when British commerce was threatened did parliament acquiesce. The Dutch (who had been fighting France on and off since 1669) were obviously in. Archduke Charles (Leopold's son) the Allies candidate, visited Queen Anne in 1704 (to receive her imprimatur) before landing in Lisbon. I should add, William died in March 1702 and war was declared in May 1702. But William had been the driving force. As much as he distrusted/disliked John Churchill, he had sent him to the Hague as a plenipotentiary in 1701. Everything hinged on Parliament giving the nod.
I don't believe in reincarnation but like to think Victor Orban of Hungary today is his spiritual successor, God Knows somebody like that is needed so much today in Europe.
ARE U SUGGESTING, FOR 1 MINUTE THAT LIFE UNDER THE OTTOMANS WOULD BE ANYTHING LESS THEN AWESOME??????????????? AAHAHAHAAAHhahahahaaaahaaaaahahahaha R.I.P GENERAL
@tesko radic you were complaining about Eugene attacking Sarajevo, and I said that it made perfect sense for him to do so because Sarajevo was an ottoman stronghold And what he did was perfectly normal for the time, the ottomans were also cruel against their enemies
Born to a noble French family ??? His father was Eugene Maurice of Savoy from the Carignano family of Italian extraction and his mother was Olympia Mancini, another Italian family. Historically Savoy was a duchy across Italy and France and the Savoy royal house was one of the driving forces determining the creation of the unified Italian nation. A correct definition would be Italian-French noble family. Incidentally, the full name would be Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano.
I enjoy these videos describing famous people of history whom I’ve barely (if ever) heard of. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
During the War of the Spanish Succession there was another major war in Europe: the Great Northern War - the first war the Russians won due to the Russian Winter and thr war that made Russia a great power. For that matter it would be nice if you cover Charles XII of Sweden and/or the Swedish Karolean army - despite fighting alone against four states and being outnumbered in every battle by between 2/1 and 4/1 they were undefeated for nearly 10 years.
It's Austrian History and is taught in Austrian High Schools (Gymnasium). But not so much of British History ist taught in Austrian Schools (except of course Lord Nelson at Trafalgar), so I think Austrian History is not much of a topic in British Schools either.
He teamed up very well with Malborough and together they put their ego away that is very rare ! a perfect badass military Genius pair !!!unfortunatly for us! French !!
@Antoine B de M Funny how you quoted our national hero Pasquale Paoli(sounds quite italian to me). When he himself in his most famous writing wrote "WE ITALIANS". Fucking french colonizer acting like he's corsican. Corsica first, italy second
This is an excellent synopsis, thank you for making it. Love the visuals. quibble: 3:39, 7:22: it's "cavalry" (horseback soldiers), not "Calvary"(where Jesus was crucified)
Brother, I've only seen one video, and I know this channel is fresh. I'm about to watch this second video, and if it's as good as the one on the Swiss Pikemen, I think I'll be hook yo!
An absolutely remarkable military leader with eminent achievements and astonishing unknown especially for mostly younger Europeans which formed Europe in so many ways after defeating and defending Christians from the powerful Ottoman Empire.
While the Austrians suffered more casualties than the French, this battle wasn't decisive and most of Eugene's army was still unharmed. However, the French managed to capture most of the towns which they lost in the last years.
@@TheAustrianAnimations87 Yes you are right. This was not a decisive French victory. However, with the French defeat at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709, Paris was left defenseless. France could fall. They carried out a counterattack and were saved from destruction thanks to this battle. So it was an important victory.
The fact that the Ottomans held on that long against such an alliance is a testimony to the continued strength of the Empire, contrary to narratives of Ottoman weakness after the death of Suleiman Kanuni.
>such an alliance They still couldn't field armies as large as the Ottomans though. You're acting like it was 1 nation vs. 4 nations. It was one empire of many nations versus other nations.
@Syed Ahmed the only european empire was the holy roman empire, and that was less coherent, than anthing that comes even remotley close to a unified state .plus it was in a constant state of war with france, hence the bulk of its forces were always bound in the west. As well as constantly fending off the tartars in the east. E.g. the siege of vienna only encountered such a small resistance force, as the french were doing a full skale invasion from the west at the same time. This betrayal of christianity even started the hereditary enemyship with the french from the german side. This is also why the emperor did not send troops to aid vlad dracul, after he annihilated the ottoman forces in his region, as again war with france was on the horizon. The problem was not, that european powers didn't have the power to crush the ottomans in europe, it was more that they were all in a mexican standoff and no power could risk taking on the ottomans, as that would have weakened their position too much in their conflict with the other european powers.
@@jabotjab6239 in the Battle of Chesma(1770), there was a British admiral in the Russian fleet. How do you think the Russians have crossed the English channel and the Strait of Gibraltar? Also they were allies in the Battle of Navarin (in 1827) and WWI. The British always protect their own interests.
King Louis the XIV declined Eugene of Savoy's petition to join the Army declaring the request was modest but not the one making it. It would be probably one of the biggest mistakes Louis the XIV ever made during his reign. Not only did he lose a good officer but also ended up losing to him.
Prince Eugene of Savoy lived from 1663 - 1737. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (the background music for this video) was first performed in 1808. Perhaps you should have picked a piece of music from the time period in which Eugene lived.
You left out the fact that later he was reincarnated as George S. Patton. [No, I am not being serious. I could easily enough imaging Patton identifying with him, though.]
@@Hope-om1kc well no, it was defined as French by Voltaire, for the English it was defined as Italian, for others it was seen as German. But he belonged to an Italian Royal family(although a branch belongs to it) and his mother was Italian.
I noticed that his statue depicts a horse rearing up with both front hooves off the ground. I've heard that means they had died in battle, but he died in his sleep. I looked up the hoof placement of these hero horse statues & apparently the hoof placement is a myth. Anyone else heard this?
Eugene of savoy was as camp as a row of tents! By that I mean that he was gay and never married.Most people around him knew this.The grateful Austrians built the stunning Belvedere palace for him in Vienna(now an art museum) In the same way that the grateful British had the equally stunning Blenheim Palace for the victorious duke of marlborough his co-commander in the war of the spanish Succession.I would define his nationality as italian rather than French (his mother was the niece of the very Italian cardinal Mazarin PM of France and his father from house of Savoy which came to rule the kingdom of sardinia with its capital at Turin,Italy.They eventually became kings of united Italy in the 1850's but had to give their core territory of Savoy to France because the French emperor helped them against the Austrians.They also gave the town of Nice to the French as part of this agreement.I don't know where eugene is buried but most members of the Savoy dynasty are either buried in the basilica of La Superga overlooking Turin, or in the basilica of Vicoforte in Piedmont or in the Pantheon in Rome.
True but there were broad cultural areas that could be considered French, or Italian, or English or German.Mozart would be considered a German because he came from a German speaking cultural group -he wasn't even really an Austrian as salzburg, where he was born, was then a separate political entity to Austria -it was ruled by a prince-bishop and Mozart's mother and father were from Augsburg.Many many Italians (some were Swiss Italians) moved to the habsburg lands, to Russia,Poland, the Netherlands, the british isles and even scandinavia -they were often great soldiers like the Colloredos and Piccolomini who fought for the Holy Roman Empire or architects like the ones who designed many of the Czarist palaces in Russia, painters like Tiepolo and canaletto/Bellotto or musicians and composers like Caldara,Porpora,Bonno and a host of others who worked for the Habsburg Court.
Come on!!! He was born in France but He was Italic, as many of the greatest commanders in human history. He was a SAVOIA in Southern France (old Roman Provenza, Italian zone) and his mother was the italian noble OLIMPIA MANCINI. He had a great statue in Budapest.
Savoy as always been part of the Gallo-Romance not the Italo-Romance the Savoy people speak Francoprovençal not Italian and they have almost nothing to do with Italy. + it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialetto_savoiardo
Prince Eugen is King of France's bastard . King of France is Roi Soleil . I respect Prince Eugen , he was a great commander , an anecdote ; The Grand Vizier "Diamond" Mehmet Pasha killed during the Zenta war . I guess the reason for this nickname is very clear .Prince Eugen didn't win a only great glory after the Zenta war, also won a great loot .
