Evolution of British Uniforms | Animated History 

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In toss of a coin, the British lost the toss to George Washington, and he imported that the British will March in a straight line and wear Red while the colonist will shoot from behind the rocks and trees- Bill Cosby.

There were reasons why they actually fought in lines. 1. Accuracy. If everyone was scattered and in cover, no one would be hit by muskets. They were notoriously inaccurate and unreliable, with a 1 in 5 chance of misfiring in the best conditions and being virtually impossible to aim over 100 yards. As well, it took 15 seconds on average for a well trained soldier to reload (4 shots per minute), and kneeling took 50 percent longer. So unless you want to be uselessly tossing a small metal ball every 30 seconds or in an endless turtled stalemate, both sides agreed to fight in formation and open space to actually end the damn war. Plus, most men would rather be hit by bullets and have a chance of surviving then being stabbed to death and for sure dying. 2. Calvary, unless you have unwavering trust in your untrustworthy musket, you want to be with your buddies bayonets ready so as not to get cut down by the horses that are more than ready to jump on scattered troops. Of course the outright replacement if muskets fixed these issues but until then, this was the best way to fight with msukets.

@@Swift-mr5zi to add to this: proper "line & kneel" tactics (dispite seeming stupid today) were used by all professional forces and were hard to preform correctly if not trained properly now I know what your thinking "it's just standing in a line, shooting and kneeling" but no, the effectiveness of "line & kneel" tactics is half performance half action (P = performance, A = Action) you must stand defiantly in front of an array of guns and lower your guns/knee then lower your guns simultaneously at the target (P), Aim at said target (A), And fire simultaneously at the target (A & P). All this while being fired at. Now you next thought is likely something like "Well that's horribly inefficient" but, yet again, no. while the performance part of "line & kneel" tactics seems inefficient it actually maximizes the effectiveness of 17'th to 18'th century muskets. say you point your musket at a line of men and fire. provided your not a specialist unit with a rifled gun and you have basic training, you have about 50-30% chance of hitting roughly were your aiming and a 70-50% chance of actually hitting someone. so tacticians of the time went "have more men fire at the same target to maximize hits and kills". as for the "simultaneously" aspect. that was to make every kill simultaneous as well and to cause mass moral damage each shot. think about, which would freak you out more when facing a 5 man deep 30 men wide line: your allies and friends dying every so often while 30 men fire at you every minute or 21-15 of your your allies and friends dying at once every minute. then there's the "standing/kneeling in a line" part: "that 5 man deep 30 men wide line has been reduced to 3.2 man deep 24 men wide line and their STILL STANDING THERE" yes it is literally to establish dominance and, no, I'm not memeing. Line infantry were trained to stand in the face of anything and everything specifically to establish a sense of dread and superiority, I mean if they won't run despite all you've done to kill them, they start to look bigger than they actually are of course that effect gets reduced the better train the enemy is, but the effect still remains. then accurate guns showed up, making the tactic outdated, then rapid fire guns showed up, making the tactic suicidal, then modern machine guns showed up, making the tactic as brain dead as we currently think it is.

But remember Polish soldiers are heavily defending London but after war british take them to new communist Poland and there Polish soldiers were killed..

18th-19th century British soldiers deployed often in 'Open Order' and did skirmish - and in battle, realistically, line formations did breakdown in crisis moments with kneeling, taking cover, running away.... that's real history, not Hollywood.

They were actually used up until the mid part of World War II in fact many US soldiers still wore World War 1 era uniforms and doughboy helmets until 1942-1943.

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US Sailors, marines and soldiers still used the m1917 helmets and m1928 haver sacks

@@the-dank-gatsby3413 If you look at old photos from 1940-43 they wear them

@soulless nft They said they were retired dumbo

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Oh nice, what reg? I'm trying to get into the Scots myself.

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Yeah. It make me, an USer cringe at how we act as tourists.

@@petertrudelljr although the US provides its fair share of annoying tourists, youre usually friendly and pleasant at least. Some other countries can't say the same

Barely a step down from special forces. OK mate sure

They are just regular frontline soldiers doing ceremonial duties. One regiment on ceremonial duties while its brother regiment on combat deployment. Nearly no different than the US Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment aka THE OLD GUARD.

@@woodlandcreature8857 what countries?

The french uniforms are also quite stylish and badass

@@iamhorny4542 not in ww1 tho

American Civil War Union Calvary Uniform is one of my favorites

Swiss guard. *fail’s to elaborate further

@@deerdust6484 In WWI The Senegalese Tirailleurs had the coolest uniform in France. And they were an Afro-French battalion.

Yeah, the British have some of the longest and most intense basic trainings in the world, it’s why they’re so good.

Just to add on that after phase 1 at pirbright they then head off to relevant trade training camps for their second phase of training.

@@teacoffee5847 and royal engineers have 9 weeks phase two combat engineer training and then phase 3 is their trade training

also winchester no just pirbright

@@blair4935 For the Light Division (RGJ & LI). The Light Division & Gurkhas have different drill movements (“in stop, turn stop, in stop, out”, versus “one, tup, three, one”) from the rest of the Army.

We prefer being stylish rather than functionality

Don't forget we Americans defeated them twice (revolutionary War, 1812) and saved them twice (WW1, and WW2)

@@GandalftheWise No, once, the war of 1812 was a stalemate.

@@GandalftheWise typical American

@@GandalftheWise Wrong, you didn't win the war of 1812 and you didn't save anyone in WW1. The Entente would have won regardless

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U. S:"No we have the drip." Native:"Silly White man you don't have the dr-" U. S:*Flex yellow and blue soldier uniform* Native:-Fucking does a dance and dies-

I mean, ngl I'd give them all my land and straight up help them take other people's land if they got that drip.

@@thatonefriendiii2827 I would promise all members of the empire such drip Also, is your pfp Thomas the Stug III?

@@chubski2514 nah that's a SU-85 with a Thomas the tank engine camo

I'm surprised they haven't put that in one of the campaigns

Yah hope they put it in next cod titles

Thats where CoD got it from, events like that were the inspiration!

That would be an amazing mission

@@sirpizo555 I’m not really surprised,there were only 6 hostage takers and COD usually has hundreds of enemies in their missions

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That's just Wolverine.

kinda weird to call military uniforms beautiful or stunning lmao

Brodie helmet can double as a disk in case of emergency.

@@sam-bq7hl I feel you, But I dont go over beauty if I designed a camouflage, I'd go over How hidden you'd be how it would fit in in Biomes etc.

@@rogueleader7506 maybe a plate

The British uniforms in Korea looked good too although they did borrow US weapons such as the M1 Carbine and .30 Cal Brownings for their use.

They were pretty useful, until the Great War came and they had to blend in with the dark

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@@ea.fitz216 lol

@@GeorgeSemel Thank you george very cool.

its called a sabre briquet

@@soliform3485 I thought sabre briquets were a French thing? The rifles did use a so called sword bayonet

If they do the spanish uniforms, they should also include their colonial troops like they did with the british. It would be nice to see the army of Blaz the Lezo in Cartagena or the peruvian royal army

@@sebastiant1577 Maybe also the Spanish Blue Division in World War 2?

gotta do the french after the british, the 2 most iconic rivals in history.

Battle of Peking is a marvelous idea

Of course mate, that would also be cool to see

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@@dotdashdotdash precious former colonisers so nice

@@APersonOnRU-vidX every culture has had to colonise at some point.

@@dotdashdotdash Never so aggressively for profit alone :)

Yeah and totally missed the MKIII/IV helmet.

I agree with this. DPM has a darker shade of black that stands out and the lines and patterns are more solid.

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“Referencing and introducing many people to the sharpe series? Now that’s soldiering.”

@@retardcorpsman TY

Sharpe is one of the few people who can survive being portrayed by Sean Bean!

By GOD that’s soldiering

well whats so special about the evolution of their boots?

My thoughts also, midway through I realised I was hearing more about the weapon carried rather than the uniform of choice and why it was chosen.

If you've been in the army you'd know that your footwear is the most important part of your outfit. Nothing else really matters if you're simply unable to stand the whole day in your boots.

@@doujinflipAlthough i've never been in the services, I consider this the most important part of my work wear also, good boots although several hundred dollars to purchase justify themselves everyday I use them and I do use them 6 days a week for up to 12 hours a day. Everything else can be compromised to some extent but not your boots or a great pair of socks.

@@kiwidiesel your bed and your footwear are indeed your most important posessions as you will spend almost a third up to half of your life in each.

You Made a Sharp Referenc ? Now thats soldiering!!!

Soldering!

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And when reloading he need to hold it but it did not hold it just hold a invisible thing

Soldering!

There are two types of people who glorify and seek out wars of aggression: The mentally deranged, and those who've never experienced war.

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@@SheriffJoe420 THEIR STORY TOLD RORKES DRIFT CONTROLLED

@@snuzzleberry8579 Later on that fateful day as they head towards the drift! Stacking boxes, fortify, preparations must be swift! Spears and shields of oxen hide facing uniforms and guns! As the rifles fire, echoes higher, beating like the sound of drums!

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As a greek I would be pleased to see that

@@user-jf5im4kf1g Yes the Greek army of Alexander is one of coolest looking ever.

I agree That would be awesome, since I'm Greek too Minoans, Trojan, Roman and Antic, Dark Ages, Viking ages (Harald Hardrada was a Varangian Guard and fought in Sicily), Byzantine or Eastern Roman Era (also include Trebizond, Morea, Knights Hospitaller, Theodoro which is Crimea), 19th century Greeks including the Bavarian Auxiliaries, ww1 and ww2, Military Junta of 1967 to 1974, Turkish Invasion Of Cyprus, Aegean Crisis of 1987, Greek Volunteers fighting Bosnia, peacekeeping in Kosovo, to modern day

Sounds like you know your stuff.

A lot of inaccuracies tbh. Pinch of salt needed

*ITC Catterick

That’d be hard to do since there wasn’t a standard military unform for the majority of soldiers so far back

As well as Polish ones...

So we know, Poland ceased to exist as a independent nation for the entirety of the 19th century (independent in terms of not being a rebellion or client state), so it would probably be almost impossible to study their uniforms due to them being split between the Kingdom of Prussia/German Empire, the Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire.

The reason behind the square rig for example.

They’re also dope af

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Kilts and stuff aswell

Sounds like a rebel conspiracy but ok

well the british infantry always looked like clowns in battles sometimes because of their uniforms but mostly because of how incompetent they were

@@ommsterlitz1805 we’ve won the second most amount of battles in History

@@evanjones3707 Yeah against zulu with spears while you shoot them with gatlin guns lmao how brave same for indians of america and asia and you also counted multiples battles when 20 drunk irish men fought against policemen and when fishermen attacked some Iceland boats just lmao😂

French wearing horizon blue was actually fairly logical and quite smart.

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Yes, but the issue is the tanks of the dominions (Canada’s Ram II, Australia’s cruiser, and Zealand’s Bob semple)

No he’s gonna do a Canadian army one now boi

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@@syrian-countryballs7380 yeah Canada our best friend

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Oh yes the “GREAT” British army

@@averagegamer6831 Gotta problem

in their traditional black and white uniforms, which are still in use today only penguins in training are issued a full fluffy thermo dress, which offers better protection against cold weather but is not suitable for amphibious tasks

I think you'll find that's the other way around mate.

The US copied ours and added black to it

@@alfieogden OCP is a copy of Crye multicam which predates the British pattern of the same kind (mtp) by 6 years.

It's yet another illustration of how ideas bounce between nations and thus evolve and improve. UK and US; current camouflage, P51 Mustang (originally designed to sell to the Brits, improved by sticking a Merlin engine into it), the English Electric/Martin Canberra bomber, the Harrier. That's just the military stuff.

@@richardsawyer5428 difference is that multicam (both mtp and ocp are variants of it) was created by an American company

I think that the British and the French started off as rivals but later became friends.

@@ethanarnold4441 Yes they are our ultimate enemy, but i do respect them, after all they have one of histories greatest generals in Napoleon.

I guess after The European Championship their arch nemesis now is Italy🤷🏽😬

@@user-ik2zr1cx1u No i love the italians, one of my best friends is Italian and i've travelled to Italy a few times.

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Let's be honest. The British and French are more frenemies than they are enemies.

Being a commander&

@@operatorargus9751 wow, that's amazing!

Wow. I never knew your dad was a super cool soldier in UK. You must be proud of him.

@@SpadeyBoah I'm sure proud of him. I always ask him funny stuff when he was in the army

I thank him for his service

Literally Britain's greatest ever commander and one of the top worldwide as well.

Yes, I am the same, I am enlisting for the R.A.F next month.

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Dieppe is said to be haunted because of that landing in fact during the 1950s some family who was staying there reported hearing gunfire and battle sounds including planes flying over but found nothing.

@@ihaveaweirdnotsolonguserna5270 explain D-Day,the Battle of the Bulge,the Dieppe Raid,Battle of Hong Kong,Battle of Britain (operation Sea Lion), Battle of Monte Cassino,Operation Abercrombie,battle of Anzio,Operation Market Garden,Operation Astonia,Operation Atlantic,Black Friday Raid,Battle of the Caribbean,Dunkirk,and many more Edit: he deleted his comment,for those who wonder why this reply was written the person said “Omg Canada did nothing during World War 2 I hate you” And “I hate you Canada did nothing during world war 2”

@@ihaveaweirdnotsolonguserna5270 Canada was an official member of the allies, later NATO and fought in both world wars, if Canada was neutral, explain the landing on juno beach. also you just say i hate you to anyone who says facts that you don't agree with for some reason?

@@NumptyDumpty33 to be fair it was mostly French Canadians that were sent there to die but did amazingly well in combat to the surprise of many considering they always gave them the worst equipment and no support, these men were really the bravest allies soldiers in ww2

@@NumptyDumpty33 and that’s not counting WW1 and the war of 1812

Meanwhile the RMC at 32 weeks of training

26 weeks for basic infantry, the guards do a few weeks extra for ceremonial training and I think the paras do a little be more as well to earn their wings, the paras actually have a different training camp to the rest of the infantry as well but it's literally across the road haha

ACTUALLY they are not, while the bayonets are real the rifles are not loaded unless the threat level is high or an attack is suspected, however, ammunition is always only a stones throw away, and there is always armed police around Buckingham Palace who’s rifles are loaded

They're actually only loaded during a high threat of terrorism

@@tomsoki5738 Realistically the civilian police are probably in a better position to deal with any terrorist threat anyway.

nah bro *You were dripped in tea*

@@theclone9123. tea isn’t red

Well at the end of the day they are still soldiers trained in modern combat tactics including martial arts, making them fully prepared to kick your ass or the ass of anyone with genuinely nefarious intentions.

Mostly genocide in Ireland😡

@@conorflynn6666 Well, partly anyways.

​@@conorflynn6666 Pretty sure that was just war.. rather than Genocide. We seem to misuse that word more and more as time passes.

@@conorflynn6666 a brutal war is not genocide

@@conorflynn6666 congrats on not knowing what genocide means

Shame they didn't do the riot kit from The troubles

@@joshuagraham8479 yes exactly