Napoleon's First Victory: The Siege of Toulon 1793 

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napoleon knew how to play the game

Boys will be boys

'Get out you've got no respect'

Sledgehammer K35 That is some career. Surrender to both man who change the World. Makes you think your life is worthless.

Well he led a revolution against the biggest empire of his time that inspired similar revolutions to overthrow monarchs all across the globe... so yeah, I'd say he did change the world.

Washington himself surrendered to the French before they were allies (Battle of Fort Necessity)

His victories helped create America, which did change the world so yeah?

Ouinn Ouinn Why so salty to the United States LOL

While taking all the credit.

@@jauntyangle5667 he's the one taking them all under his wing, their accomplishments is his, and his are theirs also, mo surprise here

@@reximingan9420 Or, he is the one hanging onto their coat tails. "The *Napoleonic* code". So much for spreading the love.

@@jauntyangle5667 Yes because emperors were never remembered more than token jurists, economists or scientists. What a D-Bag.

@@MrBlueSleeves Yes, no one remembers Charles Darwin, MIchael Faraday, Charles Babbage, and dozens more Brits rocking this world in the Victorian age. Oh wait....

For some reason I think the man who inflicted the bayonette wound was killed, or hastily forgotten.

Don't think that sergeant survived after his glorious stab on Napoleon, think Napoleon or his closest soldiers didn't miss a vital stab.

@Kyle Whitehead You cant even begin to compare Napoleon to Hitler,God i hate this whole attitute "that guy was power hungry and wanted to take over the world" cliche. Theres plenty of material on the internet and i wont give it on a silver plater,you are gonna have to do some digging but to put it shortly: -Napoleon rose to power thanks to and because the people both needed him and wanted him,the revolution kicked off a hate towards France and even without him they would face coalitions. -There are no crimes or arbitrary actions of Napoleon neither was he powerhungry, the coalitions attacked because of fear and jeaolousy. -He spread the ideas so many nations today that claim to be "democratic" cherish like liberalism,right of self-determinations,etc. -He lead his own campaign and was competent on many fields,people even flocked to him after he was deposed. Even Hitler might not have been so evil,despite beign dictator he had underlings that had quite alot of autonomy + english propaganda. Dont believe everything you hear/read especially of mainstream origin. Stay educated.

@Kyle Whitehead I wont waste time reading this trantrum. To put it bluntly,i seriously doubt you have the age to be on this platform you imature shit. A simple historical fact triggered you so much,never underestimate propaganda ask your teacher or parents if they are smart enought they will tell you. Also from the first lines i can tell you either are indoctrinated NPC that "muh dictator took over countrizzz" or you are just jelous that you wont do anything memorable like they have,pull yourself out of your ass and start doing something instead of crying on the internet about the achievment of great men.

Kyle Whitehead way to show you have no idea about what you’re talking about.

Those were times of radical turmoil ... when one could lift himself from anonimity.This 21. century is FAR FROM IT!

Enjoying life by wanking to porn, while Napy busting his ass on the field surrounding by French dicks. Can’t complaint really.

Tigerred 3 .... not taking over the world

he also graduated from the french military academy at only 16.

Yudistira Liem You mean doing something significant?

He had a good sense of humor.

Abhinav Tiku a horrifyingly realistic dark one at that...

God fights on the side with the largest divisions - Josef Stalin

Long live Yellow vests!!! France needs need heroes T__T

Do you think that blasphemy is why Napoleon lost? Who had the best artillery at Waterloo? I’m gonna go check!

Bruh really?

If this is true, it’s really a solider thing to do, honor the great.

@@militaryjunkie6207 Murat, you traitor.

Napoleon Bonaparte Bruh

Makes sense, the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution

Do you mean coalition.

you mean France and French citizen who supported the republic and th empire

One slightly above average height boi

One blue boo

Thank you!

"Just the artillery officer." And the artillery were the most important according to Napoleon.

God was with him, for only by Him can such metal be given. Theres plenty to learn from this experience of Napoleon.

Yeah, like Võ Nguyên Giáp did at the battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954

I took a screenshot of this comment. Thank you

Napoleon I Bonaparte who would win A massive navy, with the biggest ships in the world One arm boi

20 Coalitions would win

Napoleon I Bonaparte *Who would win?* One Arty boi *Or* Winter

Frist Name Last Name *cough* Finland *cough* winter war *cough* white death.

FallenThunderFlash 18 *Cough* Finland is good. *Cough* I asked Napoleon not Finland. *Cough* White Death is a Finish Badass.

Yes it’s truly incredible all these men such as Fouché, Danton, Robespierre, Sieyes, Marat, Talleyrand, Barras ……

@@alexandrebenoin40 RIP all those good men the revolutionaries especially the incorruptible- who fought to create a better world.

​@@alexandrebenoin40 France had exceptional generals, commanders and soldiers on its side. It's no wonder they were able to hold their ground and beat back all of the invading powers.

Same thing happened over and over in French history. On the brink of utter anihilation, some hero (or heroin) rises above the rank and file through sheer self belief: Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Charles de Gaulle being the best known, but there are others, less known outside of France. King Louis XI being a prime example of sheer self belief altering the course of history.

​@@Sajangrg69 RIP? These lunatics are probably all in hell rn

Actually lots of the aristocracy had military experience and military offices were highly sought after.

The fact this comment has so many upvotes shows how historically illiterate most armchair historians are. Revolutionary era and Napoleonic era officers weren't WW1 generals, they couldn't lead from behind and in fact were expected to literally lead from the front ranks to show off their bravery. Even generals had to dodge cannon balls and got involved in the fighting with their men. That's why there's so many paintings of famous officers dying in the mud. Napoleon was no different in this regard from any other aristocratic officer at the time.

Just a pity he invaded countries without a second thought and killed millions

@@user-mw2vn7pv8n did he though? The only war he started was the invasion of russia

@@iron2684 Remember the Peninsular war against both Spain and Portugal? A brutal war of atrition with ungodly amounts of civilian casualties no less. Egypt? The wars he didn't explicitly start were almost all a result of France venturing out of its traditional boundaries and seeking to control people who did not want to be ruled by them and who were ethnically distinct. Making Germany and Italy French puppets. Annexing Belgium and the Netherlands. Rearranging the entire map of Europe according to his whims. Napoleon is one of the biggest warmongerers in history. If the holocaust hadn't happened I'd compare him to Hitler. Or say Timur or Genghis. Also "only" the invasion of Russia? He led half a million men to their deaths and killed even more Russian soldiers and civilians. All for nothing because his plan was doomed from the start.

Likewise. They helped add to the immersion of the video

Yeah, it's really interesting to see what people think in the moment when history is made

Such a nice touch

WheresWallace4883 SAME. Adds an awesome touch to this beautiful documentary!

Alex Voxel I agree!

Inspire the hopeless was what Napoleon did when he renamed one of the gun batteries

The Brits effed up by not anchoring a few ships of the line closer to shore to bombard the French as they tried to position heavy guns.

lol. But France did surrender under Napoleon: Twice.

@@jauntyangle5667 TWICE is not ALWAYS. France under Napoleon surrendered twice, but in the same time France had forced other European countries to surrender much more times than it did.

@@ducminhnguyen7835 You can knock down a boxer in every round, but if they knock you out TWICE in two fights, then you lose. Don't stick your chin out out next time, Frenchie.

@@jauntyangle5667 Ha ha, first ,you are definitely missing the point of my comment. Secondly, I am not even a french

@@jauntyangle5667 From 7 boxing rounds Napoleon knocked out the whole europe 5 times and was only knocked out by Europe twice.

> Yes, yes, YES!!!

Please

Flaneln Well it would be the shortest series in history if you did one on the wars he ACTUALLY WON, WHICH WAS ZERO.

+Science-is-god he actually won multiple wars

Milenko Jakovljević WHO CARES, HE LOST THE BIG ONE AND THEREFORE HE WAS ONE OF THE WORLDS BIGGEST LOSERS. It takes REAL GENIUS, to lose almost 500,000 men in the Russian campaign. He lost an ENTIRE NAVAL FLEET AND THEN AN ENTIRE ARMY IN THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN. Then the BIG ONE, he lost big time. We then saw what a COWARD HE WAS, HE SHOULD HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. But no, he MEEKLY went into the captivity of his GREATEST ENEMY and was imprisoned on a speck of rock in the S Atlantic guarded by his enemy. NO NAPOLEON WAS A GIGANTIC FAILURE AND COWARD.

Lol the more I learn about Suchet the more I realize dude was at like every major moment of the revolution. Fights under Napoleon in northern Italy as well.

Ezra Richards i agree, i think this new style looks more professional.

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@meaturama ya he was, Brandon's just jealous

@18tangles The French marshals conquered Europe before losing against the combined armies of all of Europe. Charles O'Hara just... lost like the piece of shit he was, first against a bunch of peasants, then against an army in rags.

Salvinius Augustus I mean to be fair the US had assistance from the Dutch, French and Spanish. It wasn’t exactly just peasantry.

@@xaoc6084 Yes, that part seems to be downplayed in US history.

To be fair, he allowed his soldiers to loot and some gained massive amounts of wealth, especially from Egyptian Mamluks. The Mamluks fought with all of their treasure earned over a lifetime attached to their bodies and horses. From the eyes of a French soldier, it was like repeatedly winning the lottery.

He was good unless if you're for the destruction of France and Poland.

So did hitler

lol

Yes 24 year old man with intellect like this rekting his opponent like that. No wonder he became great general for the next two decades after this battle.

He studied a lot Roman History when he was in school(and had a fondess for Caeser if I remember correctly) and was the closest thing to a Roman General/Emperor in the modern age

bossunlimited I've been trying to find sources on his injuries in battle, but they're fairly difficult to find.

meaturama Yeah, but part of what makes him so endearing to the men (so much so that they are willing to die for him) is how he often leads at the frontlines and got heavily involved with the soldiers. While I knew a one1legged Napoleon would find no excuse to not be with his troops, I doubt he can do much amongst his men at the frontlines with just a leg.

Just finished David Chandlers Campains of Napoleon.

Done!

almost there

@@paranoidandroid6095 Yep 🙂

I need it!

wow thats so deep

Epic History TV helped me realize how terrible Biographics is-- Biographics is too general, pun intended.

Gryphon ok

Alex M ok

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My God...

Simp

celtbhoy1993 Wow! Well said 👍👍.

Walter Smith and Gordon Neely? Ah wait the old club died anyway..

Famous leaders who did fall in battle include Gustavus Adolphus king of Sweden, Richard III of England, Charles XII of Sweden (kind of), Constantine last emperor of Byzantium (eastern rome) James Wolfe, Horatio Nelson and I really can’t think of many more who would be considered that famous

@@fredbarker9201 There's plenty examples on both ends, just pointing out how incredibly lucky basically how being among the most famous people in history and how lucky they were. And if you compare Napoleon and Hitlers early life and rise to power a lot of it is so eerily simlar. They had very similar lives, to a certain point at least.

@@celtbhoy1993 Your comment was interesting and it got me thinking about leaders who did die in battle, but as for Napoleon and AH, I hate that comparison. Napoleon freed the Jewish community released them from ghettos when they were considered lower class citizens. AH was purely a piece of shit, Napoleon had glaring faults but was a man who empowered millions of people

yes he probably hated more Sidney than Wellington

Napoleon probably disliked and at the same time admired the British most of all his enemies due to them being his most steadfast adversary. People always say Boneparte lost his empire in Spain (1808-1813) and Russia (1812). But in the end, the 'Whale' crushed the 'Elephant.' 1. Britain funded the coalitions against France from 1792-1815. 2. Sidney Smith partially burning the French fleet in Toulon (1793), escaping French jail in 1797 and causing Napoleon to miss his 'destiny' in Syria, (Arce) in 1799. 3. Admiral Nelson destroying the Napoleon's fleet at Battle of Aboukir Bay (1798) stranding the French army in Egypt. 4. Nelson destroying the French and Spanish fleet at Cape Trafalgar in 1805, saving and protecting Britain from French invasion. 5. Finally, Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) with Dutch, German, and Prussian help to defeat Napoleon's forces at Waterloo (1815). Yet at the end in 1815, Napoleon wisely realised that the British would be the nation and people who would most likely treat him the most humanely. Despite his exile on St. Helena I believe the British establishment and military grudgingly admired Napoleon and his achievements.

Wtf are you on about? What was "everything" wrong? Lol.

The Toulon scene was one of the better scenes in the movie.

​@@Woodsaras clown

Nop the movie was accurate, there was a battle in Toulon😂😂

Do you want to know something cool? I was at the battle, and if I remember correctly, we said, "𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 man we'll do it."

@@user-by6sm2zf1h We said it indeed

Good man

"Extremism" ? Ok Anarchist

It has become my favorite channel. Military historians like myself cannot help but benefit from the imagery its gives us. C'est superbe!

I agree so much. Military Historians throughout the world should watch this no matter what they are interested in. Rome? Watch the Belisarius series. Greece? Alexander. Middle ages? 1st Crusade. Napoleonic? This series. Modern? WWI

He had probably read the Napolon quote

Thank you, usually much harder to find such comments

I love u

Sir Leonor he made French great again!

@@yudistiraliem4379 No wonder how the people joined him again so quickly in 1815. Without a shot, he seized power with the people behind him.

Je suis d'accord

@meaturama for now I do not support them but if napoleon comes back who knows...

France just needed a Corsican man. By a man looking forward to Corsican independence :)

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We Monsieur !

Les Generali Great ouï Merci !

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Well put, well said.

When History2 launched and they had "ancient aliens" on,I was so mortified I quit watching.Its very nice to see an online channel that actually talks about real history and not about how all our ancient great buildings came to us from the space aliens.The real sad thing is that eric von dannigan and the crazy-haired greek have made a ton of money off their bullshitting people and an actual history channel like this one has such a small subscriber base.Im predicting this channel will get waaaay bigger though.

@@unacceptableviews1505 You were right.

In this format every school lesson can be taught, it would be cool. Epic physics, biology, maths.

same LOL. this was the only battle done well besides waterloo

@@AJ-sw8ufwas it though? Didn’t show the evacuation of ships, attempted sinking of the French ships and French people drowning trying to escape. Just showed a bunch of British warships burning which didn’t happen in reality…

@@tsimpson318 relative to the rest yes

Constantine XI TRIUMPHANT, triumphant men DO NOT end their days in humiliation on a rock in the S.Atlantic imprisoned by his GREATEST ENEMY. If that is TRIUMPH then Napoleon was THE best.

St Helena

@@brit1066 thats not true. For example khalid ibn walid was called the swors of Allah. On his deathbed he asked a friend: i sought my martyrdom in so many battles yet I lie here. His friend awnsered: if you would have fallen in battle, the sword of Allah would have fallen and this cant happen. Same with Napoleon, undefeatble on the battlefield

@@brit1066 "his GREATEST ENEMY"? LOL stupid arrogant British spotted... Less than 1% of French soldiers in the Napoleonic wars died under British fire... The British were only good to pull out by the sea while their allies were doing most of the fighting (the main British strategy in every war: run to their boots and blame allies when things turn bad, then come back at the end to attack in the back when their allies are close to victory and then claim all the credit). Even in the Iberian Peninsula only (the only place were Brits were not totally irrelevant), the large majority of the French died against Spanish armies or guerilla... not against little Englanders... "GREATEST" enemy MY ASS.

@@salviniusaugustus5541 "1% des français morts durant les guerres napoléoniennes sont tombés sous le feu britannique" T'a déjà entendu parlé de la Guerre d'Espagne, du duc de Wellington, ce genre de choses ?

y does it says 2 days ago wtf

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oh I never knew that

"Thanks, I'll remember that" Wellington.

@@jauntyangle5667 History is the version of lies men choose to accept. Napoleon

@@jamesharris30096 Did he write that while mournfully rotting away on St Helena?

@@jauntyangle5667 Never Argue With a Fool, Onlookers May Not Be Able To Tell the Difference. Mark Twain

@@jamesharris30096 "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" Sting.

Tommy

Evil Blast When you are à country stuck between Britain, Germany and Spain you are either erased from history or become a legend...

What do you mean?

Arc66 Military “FEET”, learn to spell, the word is “FEAT”.

@@leowilly29 Poète que tu es...J'adore cette phrase, cela dit ça nous fait beaucoup de pages dans les livres d'histoire :/

@Magne Or make Britain being cucked by its colonies.

Two of the great military minds of the time.

@@ajknaup3530 no just napoleon George Washington was overrated

@Prestige Gameplays how ?

@@shahsaud2625 the American revolution inspired the french

It might happen that cities are populated...

@@michaelmuller6890 you fool, dont do it

@@timmyp38 wha?

will you dress as napoleon?

@@victoria-renevazquez3652 Nay, but as Josephine.

If those 400 men are more motivated and better led than those 3000 , you can look forward to having 3000 prisoners . signed ... Ssgt . Howard platoon sgt. U. S. M.C.

Hoping to see the missing episodes on the campaigns in Italy and Egypt soon!

Ruben Avalos Fear of God? More like the fear of man, since non-theistic ideas were prevalent.

What are you talking about? Napoleon did not destroy monarchs, he created them, from his family. He made himself an Emperor. The only country without a monarch was the US. And only because George Washington turned down the title. Monarchies did not end until after WW1.

Vive l'empereur !

@Vequio Ourax Do you? I am talking about the Napoleonic era, not the French revolution. They are two different periods.

Vequio Ourax The Netherlands was not a kingdom until 1806. It had a sort of Royal Family but they were “stadhouders” sort of gouverneurs that lead the army. Only the last 50 years 1748-1795 they had almost absolute power. Before that period they had only much power in times of war.