History's Biggest Disappointments 

To remind you this war also known as gentelmans war here is a Mustafa Kemal Ataturks words for ANZAC soldiers mothers "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

“And let’s face it, you’re not all that great! You tossed away lives in Gallipoli like they were scraps off your plate! You should be ashamed of your military honor!” Theodore Roosevelt

It’s always fascinating when the commanders are eager to fight when they’re not the ones that will do the actual fighting.

The Soviet threw the poles to the wolves twice

Didius Julianus’ fall from grace was the most poetic. Money can’t buy you happiness, and it certainly can’t buy you power and respect.

The ship incident with most dead people was in 1945 , when a russian U- boat sunk german cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff, overloaded with german civilians fleeing from Eastern Prussia. About 10000 persons died.

They said it'd end by Christmas. They didn't say which Christmas

An honourable mention should go to the last speech of Romanian Communist Dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu. After the arrest of an ethnic Hungarian Pastor, László Tokés, by the Romanian Secret Police, protests started erupting in the city of Timisoara. These protests grew and grew, but Ceausescu was on a state visit to Iran at the time. Upon his return, he organised a rally in Bucharest, the Romanian Capital, in his support. Addressing a crowd of over 100,000 people, Ceausescu promoted the achievements of the "Socialist Revolution." But less than 10 minutes into his speech, the crowd chanted the name "Timisoara". The dictator raised his right hand, to silence the crowd, something that had worked for his entire regime, but not that time. This time, the crowd kept chanting. Because it was supposed to be broadcast live, the cameras couldn't hide from the public what was unfolding. Ceausescu looked visibly stunned, not getting the response he expected. He and his wife eventually escaped from the roof of their palace by helicopter, but because the army believed that the Defence Minister had been murdered, they quickly captured the dictator and his wife, put them both on trial, sentencing them to death, the sentence being carried out on December 25th 1989. The Romanian Revolution was by far the bloodiest of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, with over 1000 people killed.

Captain Smith did not ignore the warnings of the icebergs. They were noted and the course was adjusted. Every action was part of the protocol they had back then. The lookouts spotted the iceberg at 11:40pm and William Murdoch didn't ignore the phone as he wasn't even the one to answer it, it was James Moody. Murdoch was the one who ordered hard a starboard and was sending orders to the crew below to initiate the reverse. Also, the passagers didn't even feel anything from the collision. Seriously who was in charge of the script for this video?

As an Australian and ANZAC Day was a few days ago felt fitting to see the first story of this vid being about about Gallipoli

War is murder if its not necessary. -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk As a Türk, british died in Çanakkale/Gallipoli because they arent in their homeland. And for anzacs u should mention to brilliant Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He didnt obey his commanders order and he expect the attack will be on beach. Thing went as he expect,he was war tactician,genius. Anzacs and Turks who died in that battle rest in peace. The last gentleman's war🫡🇹🇷 Peace at home peace in the world -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

What about that time england sent thousands and thousands of troops and more than a than hundred ships vs a small spanish garrison, only to be utterly defeated ? One of the biggest humiliations in royal navy history.

It amazes me how sometimes people have high expectations of something only to get hit extremely hard by reality and all these examples really explain a lot, thank you Simple History.

Fun Fact, HMHS Britannic, Titanic's sister ship sank because of a mine, as she was tasked to evacuate soldiers from the Gallipoli Campaign.

The Ending to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was the biggest letdown in my life

Ottoman uniforms are depicted incorrectly. They should have worn khaki green uniforms, not beige. Private jackets have 5 buttons, officer jackets have 6 buttons. They put a bag on their back, a coat on top of that, and a white tent cloth folded on top of that. The coats are lead grey. Private pockets are straight, officer pockets are curved. I obtained this informations by reading the regulations.

It wasn’t unsinkable, like one newspaper said it was “practically unsinkable” and the captain said he could not think of a way for it to sink but didn’t say it was out of the picture Also they did not ignore them, the captain and crew received several but the one which would have told the location of the ice near the titanic just never made it to the bridge. Further more, when she hit the iceberg She did not have a violent collision. It was more of a small bump Also she did not reach that high of a angle during the break up, she most likely reached a 20 to 25 degree tilt towards her bow when she broke She also didn’t break behind her 3rd funnel. She broke her back around the front of the 3rd funnel.

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We all have the the believes that we will make such a success. But in reality there is a such different story. Cause we sometimes didn't predict things cause they simply nobody counted on that. My professor from college once told this thing as well: It's easy being a general after a battle. Let's see you as generals during the battle, and you make some important an crucial decisions that will show the outcome of the battle. Speaking of Titanic, I can say that my ancestors was suppose to travel by that ship to US. He was one the guys from Balkan peninsula who had a ship ticket. What happened is that he had to sold the ticket, cause one of the passengers wanted to enter that ship as well. And the mentioned situation happened. A year later he went to US. He was couple of years ago there, and after that he returned to Balkan peninsula (Yugoslavia, to be precise).

A couple corrections regarding your Titanic chapter: Firstly, Captain Smith didn't "ignore" iceberg warnings. In fact, upon hearing the warnings, he altered the Titanic's course slightly south where it was believed there were fewer icebergs. Also, he kept the Titanic's speed because that was just the standard maritime practice at the time Secondly, Titanic wasn't ever called "unsinkable" by the White Star Line. The company merely said it was as safe as a ship could get. Nobody seriously had a divine faith in the ship's "invincibility"

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Watching this video (especially the Gallipoli part) after playing Battlefield 1 Operations ... It hits different

that thumbnail is kinda wild though 💀

The Maji Maji rebellion in short: A witch doctor leader, thinking he's possessed sends a few thousand to die in a charge, thinking they are bulletproof before they realize that they've been lied to by him. I think I understand why countries went around colonizing, now. It was too easy with that kind of logic in a resistance.

4:27 man on the right opens his eyes and then closes it again

as always, very informative, I loved it!

Our friend Mike Brady is going to be fuming while watching this video

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Never let Commanders get to Enthusiastic 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Ukrainian 2023 counteroffensive also counts here.. as an example ro EVERYONE to respect the old military wisdom of keeping your war plan SECRET ie. NOT TELLING THE WHOLE WORLD your strategies in advance for your enemy to anticipate..😔

You should make a remake Gallipoli campaign very please

11:08 It was also a moonless night. And the binoculars were locked in their box because the previous look out took the keys with him when he left the ship.

So many incorrect parts of the titanic….

How you deal with let downs will always set you apart from everyone else

11:35 There's also the fact that most weren't even lowered with a max number of people in them.

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I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series, especially the Vom Kriege one, on the topic

Genuinely never heard anyone mispronounce Tanzania before. How did you manage that?

Hahaha 9 weeks as emperor. He was literally emperor for half a semester of highschool.

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The allies, winning both world wars despite making the worst decisions in 20th century.

Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army. Please

I love how spit-y they made Henry VIII lmao

Wow you guys actually included the hidden boiler fire on the Titanic. Well done 👍

great video👍

Perfect video for watching while in the bathroom

That cannonball transition tho 😍

If anything I have learned in military, politics, business and life in general, it's this: Expectations are overrated. :(

Didius Julianus' mistake was relying on the Praetorians, knowing what they already did with the previous emperor

Well, technically, Didius Julianus WAS emperor for the rest of his life.......

Plan as nations will, War has its own its own plans.

Some of these were honest mistakes, others were just plain stupidity.

Could you do a new version of the "WWI Christmas truce"?

Rumor has it effingham was originally called fuckingham but they had to keep it PG so they changed it to effingham

Titanic's maximum speed was around 23-24 knots and its service speed was 21 knots. So Captain Smith certainly did not increase the ship's speed to 25 knots. It was probably traveling at about 20.5 knots. But he didn't DECREASE speed which probably would have been prudent.

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In my personal opinion, the biggest letdown in history was the star wars sequel trilogy.

didus julianus: bro was like ill buy the emperor gamepass for a bunch of robux 💀

i like this animated narrator!

The micro cheeseburger has fine dining dead to rights

Is that the Battlefield 1 support pose on the thumbnail?

9:58 no one ever said that Titanic is unsinkable before her voyage. Americans "journalist" twisted the accounts of the engineers after the sinking...

The famous 300 Spartans in the battle of Thermopylae were joined by about 7000 Greek soldiers. They still were massively outnumbered but that's a huge amount of allies that you never really hear about making the battle seem that much more less impressive

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Your pronunceation of Tanzania is hilarious

You forgot the greatest disappointment in the history of Warfare- Goliath.

4:28, Somehow, someway, Hans and Fritz returned. :)

Good video.

Didius Julianus: lasting 66 days in power British Prime minister Liz Truss: 👁👁 👄

Honestly besides the other Stories on this video, The titanic Incident was definitely a hundred percent prevailable That's the problem with arrogance And being over confident It leads to Unexcusable mistakes, which costs a lot of lives that day.

First thing i tought was Gallipoli, and was right

I got News for you could you put down battlefield Britain I think it’s got the warrior queen Battle of Hastings Spanish Armada Battle of Naseby Battle of Culloden and Battle of Britain 🇬🇧❤ I can’t wait

The second one hits hard ngl

Food For Thought: To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

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Listen "waltzing Matilda" by pogues... it explains that emotionnally

Expectations vs Reality… See the Bay of Pigs incident.

I agree

11:45 sorry to correct you there but that is not true, its the German Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 taking the lives of 9400 people the most deadliest maritime disaster ever

I suppose there are others like Operation Market Garden, the Fall of Singapore, the Ukranian summer counteroffensive of 2023, Afghanistan 2001-21, the Bay of Pigs invasion, India’s peacekeeping mission in Sri Lanka

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When you expect a payday but go bust

The Detroit lions loosing the Super Bowl last year:

You forgot about the English Armada. Right after the Spanish Armada was defeated, the English, realizing that Spain can easily rebuild its naval power given time, counter-attacked and tried to invade them through Portugal. The English Armada was even bigger than the Spanish, but the reason English historians gloss over it was due to it having been totally annihilated in a humiliating farce. They tried to stir up dissent against the Spanish King in Portugal, only for it to fail, and their armada was soundly crushed by the defending Spaniards. This allowed Spain to rebuild its armada and continue being a naval and global superpower until Napoleon invaded them in the 1800s.

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🤨 No *Halifax Explosion?* No *Dieppe Raid?* 😐

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That's rough buddy

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Your information about the titanic is incorrect. At 11:40 p.m., lookout Frederick Fleet saw the outlines of a large dark object looming in the mist, and he rang the 16-inch brass bell in the crow’s nest three times to signal “object directly ahead.” He rang the telephone connecting the crow’s nest to the bridge, and when Sixth Officer James Moody answered, he shouted into the phone, “Iceberg right ahead.” Moody relayed the order to First Officer Murdoch in the wheelhouse, who tried to prepare the Titanic for impact.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was in 1943. The Warsaw Home Army Uprising was in 1944.

Titanic could have been avoided if they spent their money on competency like they spent money on the ship

11:45 No, That is Not where the Titanic broke, It broke in two between Second & Third Funnel NOT Third & Fourth. 12:00 No, White Star Line Did NEVER Called Titanic Unsinkable.

0:14 j cole apologized😭

Lmao the thumbnail

The flying pig in the picture got me dying💀

Lol, who was that person with you at the end there?

HATE the new format of guy talking to camera thanks guys

Anyone else hear “around 5 pm” in the opening? Really confused me haha