he would have been fine if 1. he didn't push to moscow and probably been fine if 2. he didn't spend an entire week in moscow letting the russians regroup
@@irov5884 Not really. This series showed both smoothbore cannons firing standard cannonballs through the ranks AND a variety of ordnance used by the French. The "exploding" things are presumably mortar and howitzer shells. The shell that land and fizzles on the ground should be a delayed shell fired by smoothbore cannon. Those vertical "explosions" (no fire, just earth thrown upwards) should be mortars or howitzers. BBC wouldn't spend all that money on correct uniforms made with authentic fabrics, breeds of horses appropriate for Hussars, recreated weapons, cannons, used pyrotechnics to show a bloody cannon recoil just to f**** up with a random explosion.
@@SlavicSpring " _Those vertical "explosions" should be mortars or howitzers_ " Mortars were alsmot not used, it was about like 1 mortar per 100 canons, while on the scene about 90% of the explosions are vertical explosions. And about howitzers, their canonballs never fell vertically but a rounded way. " _BBC wouldn't spend all that money on correct uniforms made with authentic fabrics[...] just to f** up with a random explosion_ " Why they wouldn't ? The 1970 Waterloo movie spent so much money on similar authentic stuff, with dozens of thousands real people and horses, just to fuck up on canon shots and recoil. Their canon had no recoil and all aimed at the sky like WW1 artillery.
Imagine getting slaughtered by a platoon of Light Cav, or Hussars because you weren't in formation and wasn't backebup by Battalion(Line) infantrymen. This comment was made by Linear warfare gang.
The director sure took the trouble to reveal the “mass destruction” effects of twelve-pound solid shot smashing into infantry columns. Very few war films featuring smooth-bore ordnance, with the notable exception of Griffith’s “Birth of. Nation” (1915) and its ricocheting solid shot, strive for such realism. But I guess he had to contend with many elderly Civil War veterans who still had sharp memories being cannon fodder.
Much credit to the uploader for uploading another great battle scene from the movies. It's flicks like this that remind one why one loves military history in the first place. Keep 'em coming.
@@Tar.oGenerals and monarchs did in fact lead charges, although extremely rare and risky such could boost morale & organization upon ranks as a last resource. Napoleon did it too in his early stages although much later as emperor, specially at Waterloo it still a heated matter of debate. Possibly swinged & slashed the sword on horse a few minutes luckily to a not so lucky foot soldier. Then ran back to the rear! But still unlikely...
Enis Ektem Because there’s quite a lot of distance between them and cannons. It’d be unwise to run at those cannons since, by the time you reach them, you’ll be tired and exhausted.
El problema de esta versión es que toma un poco de la estética de combate de Hollywood enfocado con muchos soldados peleando de forma individual en lugar de enfocarse en muchas formaciones cerradas como la historia dice y la versión del 68 siguió.
In August 1812, the Russian border was crossed by the strongest army in the world, the Grande Armée, numbering more than 600 thousand soldiers. In December, a crowd of 1,600 ragamuffins followed the Russian border in the opposite direction. "Whoever comes to Russia with a sword will die from the sword" Prince Dmitry Donskoy, XIII century.
la Grande Armée was the biggest of the world to dominate europe and the world.. President Putin said he had napoleon and de gaulles as his favorite military genius .. hitler was also inspired by napoleon for his wars.... military genius like napoleon to win so many wars are few..; alexander the big, gengis khan, jules cesar,
@@thepny_chasseur_de_tricera5361 What difference does it make? Winter, disease, the resilience and determination of the Russian people. Also, disease was a problem for all armies of this period, not only the french one.
The officer was very badass for starring down an unexploded cannon ball until the cannon ball surrendered. That is a man's man and not a cowardly wussy. The rest of his troops laid down on the ground and waited for the cannon ball to explode.
If Napoleon had reached the American continent in 1815 Some of these possibilities would have occurred. Napoleon could have settled peacefully, probably near his brother Joseph, who lived in New Jersey and had land in upstate New York. Through his supporters in Europe, Napoleon probably would have tried to undermine the Bourbon regime and gain support for his return to France, or for his young son to be placed on the French throne. Napoleon could have tried to rally his followers and peacefully start a colony within the United States. This is something he fantasized about when he was in Santa Elena. The Bonapartists actually tried to establish colonies in Alabama and Texas, which was then under Spanish rule, without much luck. In search of a new throne, Napoleon could have attempted to launch an invasion of one of Spain's American colonies, which were then seeking independence. The most obvious candidate would have been Mexico, via Texas.
Perhaps, but then it would have been the French that had to deal with American settlers instead of the Mexicans in the coming years. Either way I imagine it ends up annexed as part of the United States.
When Napoleon reaches Russia Napoleon: Right lads! Russia will surrender for we are in Moscow! We are gonna reach the borders of... Why did I think this would be easy? Soldier: The city is on fire! Soldier: Whatever shall we do?!?!
look how from 1815 to 1914 or even 1939 technology fast develop. from musket and fire of rate 4-6 rounds per minute to machine guns like MG42 and 1200 round per minute from horses to steal machines which can shoot kilometers away It is both wonderful and frightening that the fastest way we develop are ways to kill
Imagine how would you became a general and commanding those many units. Already tried that on Total War : Napoleon and it sucked me up cause I've never win the game if it took more than 5 cards😂.
That's why you have corp, divisional and regimental commanders. It's impossible and detrimental for a general to micromanage an army, like we do in Total War series. It would be really cool to see a game about realistic field commander experience of the line tactics time. Instead of glorious cavalry charges and valiant infantry stands in the bird's eye view, you might see an insides of a dirty shack a few miles behind the front. Bedridden by dysentery, near delusional due to the chronic sleep deprivation and stress. Only information about the battle would be distant cannonade and conflicting and confusing messages from couriers, that would arrive always late. And you'd judge the situation mostly by your gut, and your personal knowledge of your commanders' virtues and vices. Of the constant requests for reinforcements some you'd deny, knowing, that this corp commander is overly cautious, and probably reacting to some cossacks, demonstrating on his flanks. And some you'd regard as an immediate call to action, knowing, that this commander is so proud and stubborn, that this request probably means, that your whole flank is already being overrun somewhere over this distant hill. Or behind this forest. Or somewhere over there - you can't really see because of the fires and the smoke. Anyway, you have to make a decision and you have to make it now. And look convincing for everybody to write home about.
That's exactly why they have the Core system and every Core has it's own high Marshall and it's like a small army that has musketeers cavalry and Cannons.
This era of warfare has to be the most wretched. Everyone is just cannon fodder with pointy guns, marching slowly into enemy fire one platoon at a time. Absolutely wretched!
3:55 The decision that allowed the Grande Armée to leave Russia. Keeping his last reserve intact meant that the Emperor was able to force his way back out again. The Russian Cossack commander, Count Platov, compared Napoleon and the Imperial Guard smashing through the Russian army at Krasnoi (during the retreat from Moscow) to a warship crashing through fishing boats. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🇫🇷🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🇫🇷🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🇫🇷🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🇫🇷🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
@@RamonRodriguez-hq7vn I never said anything about who they were fighting, I said Russian got their behinds handed to the in Crimea. I wasn't implying that France beat them I was merely stating taking Russia is possible.
Russia lost all the batlles against France,and France took many cities including Moscow,. The cold and the fact Russians were hiding was the reason why Napoleon decided to retreat not mentioning starvation & the sickness of Typhus since the french army passed Poland..
“Napoleon Empire War” is such a shitty name for a title of a youtube video. You could’ve just said “Napoleonic Wars, Battle of (whatever)” lmao. First you thought Sweden vs Russia was Seven years war, now this.
„Peace lays in Moscow“ Napoleon Bonaparte. Well I can agree to the point, on which Napoleon thought, taking Moscow (burning or not) would convince Alexander to negotiate Peace. This naive assumption cast doubts on his political genius. But that Hitler had the SAME idea after Napoleon failed....it’s like peeing to the electric fence after your friend felt on his butt by doing this. It’s like Russia is Gods answer to evil conquerers to finish their abilities. Praise the lord and thank Russia.
Здравствуй, меня вообще смущает тот факт, зачем Наполеон брал брошенную Москву, когда столица была в Петербурге, и Александр там же находился)))).... Или история ложна))) Hello, I am generally confused by the fact why Napoleon took the abandoned Moscow, when the capital was in St. Petersburg, and Alexander was there)))).... Or is the story false)))
@@freewal Inded. Napoleon, tho being an opportunist, still cherished the ideas of the Revolution and wanted to export them. After all, he is the only reason why the majority of countries believe in freedom and democracy nowadays.
на счет Гитлера... Гитлер планировал сделать огромное искусственное озеро, как следует из дневников генерала Франца Хадлера. После полного уничтожения многомиллионного города Гитлер рассчитывал раскрыть шлюзы канала «Москва - Волга», чтобы затопить столицу СССР.... Но Между тем, осенью 1941-го, как и осенью 1812-го, уничтожить город собирались не только захватчики, но и его защитники. Защитники Москвы всерьез были намерены уничтожить город, взорвать метро и затопить город чтобы он не достался фашистам. Время идет, а методы не никогда не меняются, что показывает, что русские никогда позволят врагам получить желаемое. _______ Hitler planned to make a huge artificial lake, as follows from the diaries of General Franz Hadler. After the complete destruction of the multimillion-dollar city, Hitler hoped to open the floodgates of the Moscow-Volga canal in order to flood the capital of the USSR.... But meanwhile, in the autumn of 1941, as in the autumn of 1812, not only the invaders, but also its defenders were going to destroy the city. The defenders of Moscow seriously intended to destroy the city, blow up the subway and flood the city so that the fascists would not get it. Time goes by, and methods never change, which shows that the Russians will never allow the enemies to get what they want.
i’m french and the actor who’s acting napoleon is Mathieu Kassovitz, a french man who said alway bad things about his natural country... c’est vraiment putain d’ironique.
It was very interesting to watch waves after waves of infantrymen dying by the thousands unprotected. No body armor protection. It was not until the killing fields in WW1 by modern machine guns that tank was being invented to protect the infantrymen. Amazing war history.
@@seanweston2907 А Карл XXII? А монголы? Тоже зимой? Русские тоже воевали ЗИМОЙ, условия были одинаковые. What about Carl XXII? What about the Mongols? Also in the winter? The Russians also fought in the WINTER, the conditions were the same.
This campaign changed warfare. Napoleon thought he had one because he captured Moscow. The Russians refused to concede and proceeded to torch Moscow with Napoleons army inside. The Russian Winter plus the Scorched Earth tactics used by the Russian army were ultimately the demise and the beginning of the end for Mr. Bonaparte
Очередной "олень с промытыми мозгами". "Русская зима", "Тактика выжженной земли". Это первая война, которая была выиграна не за счет одного генерального сражения, как раньше до этого, а за счет мобилизации, лучшей организации снабжения, размена времени и территории на истощение врага, и множества мелких сражений, в которых планомерно уничтожалась великая армия. Кутузов провел гениальную компанию и заставил французов жрать мертвечину, как до этого заставил делать тоже самое Турок. На счет якобы холодной зимы, к моменту когда армия Наполеона уходила из России на реке Неман даже сильного льда не было и им пришлось искать место для строительства мостов🤨
Actually it's just a big piece of land. Very strong but their size and weather have been a reliable strategy to lean on. Saving it vrs (recently) Sweden, Germany in the early 18th century. 19th century agency Napoleon being able to retreat after Borodino 1: Napoleon lacked cavalry. 2: Napoleon made mistakes being too conservative. Stayed too long jeopardizing supply lines and get obviously looked of retreat against winter and massed troops. Obviously WW1, and WW2 (Soviets lost over 6000000 troops in just one campaign but replaced them due to land long distance Germans had to cover, enemy or no enemy), where they lost any after any DVD the Russians are very tough and always some of Europe's toughest and most dependable to show up though
How to defeat every invading nation as Russia: Step 1. *prolong the enemy advance to Moscow into attrition, so they fight into the winter* Step 2. *Blitz them to their capital*
Keep retreating while scorching the earth until the enemy's supply line is stretched to the extreme. Winter is an added bonus, but the sheer size of Russia is its biggest strength imo, you can't safely supply an army 1000km deep into enemy territory.
3/4 of the Grand Armee that invaded, were non-Frenchmen, but troops that were drafted from French-occupied territories that either loyal or not toward Napoleon. If I am right.
@@alfredobecerra2878 lol I accidentally switched from one to the second account. Anyways, I don't know about Frenchified-Spaniards in Napoleon's Grande Armee. The Spanish mostly hated the French and fought against Napoleon
Pas toute la France ni tous les Français. Le combat a continué ailleurs. La bataille de France est une défaite certes. Mais les Français ont combattu encore et jusqu'en 1945. Monté casino, Alsace, Bertchesgaden, JKoufra, Bir hakeim etc etc... Perdre une bataille n'est pas perdre la guerre ^^
