Napoleonic Wars in 8 Minutes - Manny Man Does History 

for uneducated people yes

+Anon ymous tell us when they surrendered ?

+linkid17 it's an old British name for the French. it comes from a true story that in ww1 the British troops thought that a massive German army was running towards them. when they got close, the British saw that it was an entire French army retreating.

Anon ymous how can you explain their brilliant war record ? any sources (SOLID SOURCES) on what you're saying ?

+Anon ymous Intresting. Even being french I didn't knew that one. I do remember that USA consider mostly french as surrenders.

You cane after? I came before

Me too :)

Niiiice

I came after History Matters to relearn what I've forgotten from history class.

@GeneralOfficerDuck ya, wtf does this comment mean?

The metric system did it bring man to the moon?

+Finn Heyne you mom is invalid. (It was a joke)

A terrible one.

Dekatovikk INCHES!!!!!!

NASA uses metric system.

Hayden Lau Hey what about the Carolinian Empire?

+redarrowhead2 The reason why the joke "French only surrender" exists is because they were the only fucking European nation at the time to stand up to hitler, outmanned, outgunned and obviously aware they would lose but still refused to surrender The amount of balls it had to stand up to Hitler was insane and still France refused to surrender How about next time you finish 8th grade world history before bashing on France

ElUnico Y AuntenticoCrack did you know Greece's army had the highest resistance in world war 2? Refusing to surrender to the German's without putting up a fight (217 days I believe). This had a great impact in the German morale and fatigue since they had to travel to Russia after.

Theodoros Maraziotis They didn't enter the war right away Plus when the war first started France was a main target for the Nazis But i didn't know that, thanks

False false and false. France had a natural defensinve strategic advantage, an awesome maginot line to support its defense, numerical and technological armored divisions superiority, an actual navy, huge number of colonies permanently bringing resources to mainland, lend lease, commercial and military aid from UK, Netherlands and Belgium. And it felt in 1 month against a humiliated Germany, who had to pay a colossal tribute during the republic time, whose army was reduced to 100.000, also losing 1/8 of population and territory in the previous war(at the peace treaty!) and whose only significant advantage was the aerial combat(and even there, the uk had comparable technology and numbers). So, what is your excuse for surrendering, le baguette?

NapoleonBonaparte until Trafalger. Actually until Borodino

Should have left Spain alone

Ah yes

And then you got destroyed by Britain 🤣🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

0:12 derp

+LiteUpMI 10/10 would escape again

Andro A except for the fact that there is no "Russia" in ww2. It was a monstrous and bloody regime called the Soviet Union.

Alexander Pavlovich Romanov Imperial Russia wasn't much better than the USSR tbh.

Andro A at least we don't kill our own people for no good reason, and we value the people's lives.

Alexander Pavlovich Romanov Actually Imperial Russia didn't abolish serfdom until 1861 so value of people's lives clearly wasn't their priority. Especially thowards the beginning of 20th century things just went from bad to worse.

+Alexander Pavlovich Romanov Like when your descendant Nicholas II shot civilians at protests because they were starving through 1905 to 1917? Look up Bloody Sunday.

That would actually be very interesting.

***** Pls Nerf

3 great Russian generals, December, January, and February, Destroyed the Grande Armée

TheLightStudios also in ww2

BATO GB I am aware of that

BATO GB During WW2 winter gave Russians enough time to re-group or reinforce. Nothing more.

I have an old Enfield from the boar war

+Benjamin Macdonald my father learnt to shoot with the mk.4 in the 50s.

Sounds like Asia except without the Khans

Especially, Germany in 1932-1945

Asia has a much more intresting history but it never gets told in western schools unless you specifically study Asia.

You wanna pretend like Europe didn't buttfuck all other continents once they got a technology advantage, sure.

Subcontinent has the best history

They didn't want to set an example of monarchs killing other monarchs :P Not that the Jacobians cared.

Especially the second time!

Killing people make them martyres.

Or it sets the precedent that monarchs can be executed, something the other ruling monarchs in Europe were definitely afraid of.

That'd be a dick move Napoleon conquered Prussia and Austria several times, yet he never executed their monarchs (he didnt even depose them).

Don't forget about the Chinese civil war(ik it wasn't really considered a proxy war but it can be fun to see a vid on it)

The hundred years of wars, the thirty years war and the seven years war too

Chinese history is very interesting

+Michael Gillespie (Magnesium Reviews) roman empire?

+Lebanese Republic you mean awfully tragic.

victoria gewargis unless you're american

then how did britain become rich using the imperial system? it must be because we are smarter ;)

Um... because empire.

+victoria gewargis Where is your evidence?

Metric system is less complicated and it's still correct just like the impieral

+Fantastycznie majestatyczny jenot He also invented canned food, and made possible for almost every country in the americas to get their independence from Spain

+Fantastycznie majestatyczny jenot He started a series of wars that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.

Nope, French were fine with being better and democratic, but rest of Europe declared war on France. And French defeated them and Napoleon went one step further.

Fantastycznie majestatyczny jenot They weren't really fine with being democratic. They ran the moderates of the French Revolution out of the country... or killed them.

I'm not saying they were perfect, but they were still better than other European countries.

+Ambasador Chleba he lost overall.

+Petar Radoje but still lost at the end

+BlackWolf9988 but he didnt lose imediatly.

+Radoje - He didn't loosed because of russian army, most of his troops died to cold or was too hungry (you know BECAUSE THEY BURNED THERE FREAKING CAPITAL TO WON).

Charlie MASSON one does not simply invade russia in winter...

Loyal? Spain wasnt an ally but a recently subdued enemy Look up "War of the Pyrenees". Spain was to Napoleonic France what Vichy Francec was to Nazi Germany

Spain was France's pussy whipped ally. Then Napoleon took a step too far and Spain joined the right side of history (against France), much to Spain's benefit

Owen Jones "much to Spain's benefit" If by "benefit" you mean losing their colonial empire and sinking into definitive irrelevance that is

LeHappiste Colonial empire or not, the option for Spain was occupation from France or to fight and win their freedom back, which they did Spain had been on a downward spiral for some years before the Napoleonic Wars anyway, their empire was beginning to rot away.

Charlie Pemberton Napoleon treated the Spanish like a vassal. They were right to side with the Coalitions

@Archie HW really the only thing they invented of importance was the metric system I'm sorry the only thing the Brits invented of importance was football

Its because of Bush and Irak war and maybe jealous ahahah

@Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist Give me the most important inventions of the world, i'll give you french. The internal combustion engine, the refining of oil, aviation (yeah, the wright bros were second to Clement Ader, change my mind), the railway (first railway line was in france), the car (1679 Cugnot), the gothic architecture (and the romanesque architecture for that matter), the first state run printing presses, Photography, color photography, film, microprocessor, microchip, radar (not british, sorry), sonar (not british, sorry), parachute, the notation of music, vaccines (although i understand that there's a large anti-vax movement in anglo saxon countries, that's a byproduct of being a backwards shithole), the big bang theory, a modern democracy that works (sorry america, nothing like the direct suffrage to elect a president), the principles of atomic fission, radiology and radiotherapy, modern military medicine, etc... The british invented the concentration camps in South Africa. And the pennicilin because their scientists were so bad they actually forgot their petri dishes out in the open. Oh, and the anglo saxons created capitalism. A hell of a track record in my book. Good job, maybe we'll give you a pat on the back.

@Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist lol

Dude, everyone saw the mistake. Including myself! Unfortunately once the videos up I can't change it, only put on annotations

+John D Ruddy I scrolled down the comments a bit and didn't find anyone correcting this mistake and so I spoke out. Wasn't expecting a reply from the main man though lol :p

+John D Ruddy It would be really nice if you could speak at a slower pace.

+Harparam Singh Ghuman Kind of missing the pint of these whirlwind history guides there bud.

+Dan Brown I don't think a "whirlwind history" is supposed to be a "super-fast history", just edited to include the basic information in a format that's easy to digest.

I'm guessing your Spanish and that's why you're complaining I'll be honest I'm German and I do the same thing in ww1 and 2 videos

No I'm not.. France really could've used Spain's assistance

+Vincent Susilo I agree they could have cut off the supply line in Portugal

@The sound of, do you hear it? Git Gud idk wat u meant by no choice . Im pretty sure napoleon invaded them for no reason other than conquering it

Which point in the video? Always looking to improve myself! I'm overall very pleased with the maps in this one! Probably the most complex I've done yet!

RudtheSpud Here is what is considered Memel: vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/mattsmaps/images/c/c4/Memelland%2Bmemel-southernmemelkaliningrad.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20150619011310 Here is Memel compared to your mistake on the video: vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/mattsmaps/images/c/cd/RudTheSpudMemelland.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20150619011722 Here is Memel compared to Prussia: vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/mattsmaps/images/1/1a/MemelComparedToPrussia1807MapR.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20150619011940 Sorry if i make a big deal out of this. I am a history and geography nerd so yeah...

Hello

+Gaelic Mapping Finland is, they are using the Euro, they are in the Schengen.

Alwin Priven I never mentioned Finland.

Nazi-(-2)

Don't forget Sweden! And Japan didn't even get past Mongolia!

@@SamAronowSweden was fine with the weather, and Russians suffered the winter alot as well, it's a stupid stereotype that Russian winter defeates everyone. Who beat Russia in WW1? Germany. Who destroyed an almost 4 times larger and fortified Russian army, during a winter (and huge snow storm) in Narva, modern day Estonia? Sweden. Who captured Moscow, gave a string of defeats to Russia? Napoleon Bonaparte I and the French. The French did not retreat from Russia because of winter. The retreat started months before winter. The winter just made the retreat more harsh. The French during their time in Russia, were harassed by partisans and the Cossacks, when they were also very low on supplies. Many people who actually study history and not just watch inaccurate memes, are sick of People who say Russian winter this and Russian winter that. Just saying, that the Russian winter never saved Russia.

Finland-(1)

Finnish Patriot Swedes were not fine with the weather. They lost thousands upon thousands of men due to the Great Frost. It was a considerable setback to King Charles XII military ambitions.

Still called it, if you look at Britain's doubts

+John D Ruddy the crusade?

+Amirul Karimuddin or Vietnam war/Korean war

+Nick Valentine (Timdgoliath05niner) You are just jealous. this was june-november 1812 and the weather has become critical for Europeans only in the last two weeks, when they were actually left the territory of Russia and outcome of the war was essentially clear

+Nick Valentine (Timdgoliath05niner) Russian Winter proves ineffective against mongols

Cuz u dont know how to play

And what's _too bad_ about that?

He ought to attack when Spring comes there.

Same thing happened to the Nazi.

@Mr. Shlock So edgy.

@@federalstateofaustria7611 Or you know. Don't start a two front war...

Zack Irahza he didn’t want a 2 front war.

He didn't invade russia in the winter, that's the whole point. He knew of the dangers of winter, on his way back from moscow is when winter fell, and it fell hard. People are just misinformed about Napoleon. Truly a great man. Not a perfect man, but definitely great.

Russian winter struck earlier that year, that's why he was caught. Otherwise he could have retreated.

***** Do you have any knowledge of history at all? Most kids out there associate Napoleon with, like Hitler or smt and you seem to be one. It's an easily debunkable statement you're making. Did anyone ever tell you before that all those wars Napoleon fought in weren't started by him but by his enemies? Do you know anything about the French revolution and what it caused to the rest of the monarchs in Europe? Do even know what a coalition is? You still have the nerve to come up and shout up shit thinking they're undisputable facts. It seems the finger that's pointing at me is itself covered with filth.

It's all relative mate, France should be seen as a hero to the french people. France post-revolution was in shambles and they had many enemies since all the monarchs felt threatened of france's new libertarian ways. (And in fact france was already at war with austria in Italy before Napoleon was even in power) So we can hardly say napoleon caused those wars. HIm coming back from exile is an exception since the whole of europe actually declared war on him, not France. But tbh, the only reason he came back was that the monarchy in france was unpopular and everyone in france wanted him back. We can argue that without Napoleon, there wouldn't be a france as we know it, and there certainly wouldn't be Europe as we know it. He's the one who first brought the continent together, coming up with the metric system, he even wanted to make them all have the same money. I don't deny that Napoleon has done some bad, after all every world leader has. But imo he's done more good than bad, especially for France. And that is why, yes, he can and should be seen as a hero to this day. At least to the french people.

DBeiki Great reply! Just want to add that without his unprecendented measures to emancipate the minorities in his Empire like the Jews, show tolerance and high respect towards Islam, become a strong patron of Science and Mathematics to oversee the greatest generation of European thinkers before the Quantum Era began, realise the importance of cultural, linguistic and national identity to directly or indirectly create nations like Italy, Poland, Germany, all of Europe, not only France, would be in a worse condition today

+Dolly Vader Whatever ya bum........

+redryan5048 haha ... damn bums

Yeah but you did no work. You just took this video...

Haha not a bad comparison!! :D

John D Ruddy The Madman actually responded!

I love Stannis but he is useless, he lost King's landing and Winterfell, in tv show at less

RyanIsWatching No. The Russian did defeat Frqnce. They burn Moscow and Jungles.

Adam Hope How does throwing a match at their own fucking capital count as a victory?

RyanIsWatching It's called a Strategy.

Adam Hope Throwing a match at a french occupied place is "strategy"?

RyanIsWatching lel Russia never defeated France? If I'm not mistaken, after 1812, Czar Alexander I myself led the sixth coalition to fight the French, and guess where we ended in? That's right, Paris. The imperial Russian army captured France in 1814 and resulted in Napoleon being exiled to Elba! The Russians won the French by force!

Oh I know... Believe me... I know...

But then it was greek war

Haha, sure you've gotten a lot of harassment for that one xD Oh well, mistakes are common and inevitable

wat

Nexxy lol what

What,no it was Russia that told that,and the Swedish king was Napoleon's marshal bernadotte

@@deepyamandas1192 not during the war

I thought Napoleon had left Russia by december

Hey, let's calm down, okay, how about we do how Russia fled from Afghanistan

evan nesbitt it's not a provocation, I'm french by the way so keep your russian anger for yourself.. it's just an interesting part of history

Russian anger? I think you need to calm down, and BTW it's not very interesting in America

evan nesbitt sorry my english is not perfect yet, I mean "keep your anger toward Russian for yourself". I think it's a very interesting and controversial part of the cold war and could be a nice video.

evan nesbitt How is that a provocation?. So nobody can talk about that because the USA lose. Let's do one on that, and if you want ask one on how Russia lose Afghanistan, I don't see what the problem is.

​@Roman Dubrovin yeah it took Napoléon 1 week to arrive in Russia -_-. Are you stupid ? He arrived and he left Russia in october-november, the comeback was during a hard winter. Russia does not say it but its hidden weapon is winter

@@Unpseudopascommelesautres Oh! It looks very weird when man who can not google trying to talk about history. Main battle of this was Borodino was on 26 of August. Napoleon started invasion to Russia on 24 of June. Last battle in Russian territory - Berezino(when French army was already collapsed) was on 26 of November. It is important that Nepoleon had to force this river because it wasn't frozen - coevals of this war noticed unusually warm Autumn.

@@user-dl1zx9sr4q Battle of Moskova : french victoy. Date : 7 september of 1812 On the way back from Russia, the winter was rough, in addition to starving the Grande Armée, winter did not help things. The Russians took the opportunity to attack the French army, very weakened by winter and hunger.

@@Unpseudopascommelesautres 1. Wow! Somehow Frenches had battle of "Moskova" on September despite the "fact" that "He arrived in Russia in october-november". It's amazing!!) 2. You must understand context to discuss this topic. There wasn't any battle of Moscow, Moscow was left without battle. Battle was on Borodino. It was two way victory because goal of Kutusov was to hold Napoleon while Moscow was being prepared for surrender, goal of Napoleon was simply get field. He used vantage of long distances, partizans and terrible French supply. If it were not for the tsar's mistakes, then this battle could not have been at all, as Kutuzov had planned. If you will google way of invasion you will see that Kutusov led Napoleon by one way and turn him back by absolute same way without chances to get food and arsenal from another cities. It is example of genious maneurus. www.belarusguide.com/images/maps/map1812r.jpg 3. What winter in september? Have you ever been in Russia on september? It is pretty warm weather. As for me, best weather in Russia is on May and on Septemper - Not too hot, not too cold, It's about 20°C.

@@user-dl1zx9sr4q okay but winter and disease and hungry defeated France. medium.com/war-is-boring/if-you-think-your-winter-is-bad-napoleon-had-it-way-worse-3e18b89a4d92 this winter was unusually rough from what I read

This

Phantom Of The Opera same could be said about the French&Indian War which preceded the American revolution.

John D Ruddy true that, thx for replying dude. u are awsome! are you still working on the Vietnam video?

John D Ruddy how about a Boer Wars video?

Phantom Of The Opera The First World War was fought almost everywhere, involved people from most of the world's areas and changed the world economy and global attitudes. Previous wars were not on this scale so I would say it's a first.

Yes I did! Thanks!

6 coalitions, not 4 Europe needed 6 coalitions to defeat France and 2 World wars to defeat Germany

HankproBR they needed 6 coalitions just to defeat him. I don't really wanna consider those coalition bastards being the winner cause Napoleon beated them from 1st-4th or 5th coalition, so overall France is the winner.

Pipsy considering Germany started the war that’s not true...

@@gabrielheraud41 i'm so late but germany as been defeated in ww1.

They needed 7 coalitions to defeat France alone.

Just shows Napoleon and Frances power

It's actually the old ottoman flag. It's just part of the empire, I can see what you mean though

John D Ruddy so its nothing like a historical state i never heard of or anything?

+Yousef Atta nope

John D Ruddy thanks, love your videos!

+John D Ruddy war of 1812

There were allies with nazi Germany since Spain was fascist under general Franco

Spain was hesitant in joining the war since they fought a huge civil war in the late 30s. Spain was also not very United initially after the fascist regime took power.

Alex Roberto poor as shit because of the civil war, country without a strong sense of national identity unlike other powers, world war ii would have seriously fucked them over

Alex Roberto Britain threatened to blockade Spanish ports if they joined the Axis forces.

Alex Roberto Francisco Franco was a shrewder leader than Hitler and Mussoline were.

Эрик Токарев So may god bless the enemies of Napoleon

***** it's short enough to finish before Canada Day

I would like to learn more about my country since I haven't leanrt much of it cause of how Canadian history is pretty much forgotten.

CV9 History class in Ontario is dedicated to Canada though

CV9 i would as well, I was born in Alberta, but lived in Australia for so long i only know little history of my birth place so yes it would be very grand if he did a video on it

There isn't that much that history class schools in my area.and Canadian history is more ww1 and ww2 it is very rich history.

Yea I know that. I'm trying to spot where I've said Holland. If I have, I'm sorry, I'm usually more conscientious about that.

John D Ruddy Alright thanks for your reply :). Your videos are very interesting and educational though.

Adna technically it's the kingdom of the Netherlands

Gojira Beaver Yeah it is, but the kingdom includes some Caribean islands to this day. Holland is North- and South holland, which are 2 provinces. The entire country is the Netherlands.

My dear dumbass.. I hope that the was satirical.

+Alex “Spongebob” Coffey Check the upload date before saying crap.

It is 2016 here. I did not check the upload date because It was not needed. HELLO? Are you from the future?

Hope you are a troll.

+Alex “Spongebob” Coffey Clarify?

TheCakeMuffinCrew neither did the nazis,thry fought communism/bolshevism

Øivind H. Bechensten Norway is part of the EU

@@awesometello9966 It's not. They're associated with the EU but not a member state, much like switzerland. They are however a member state of Shenzhen.

I would agree

RoundMaster more like a continent war

No, not a world war because it was only based in Europe.

Europe was the world at the time

Panurge No, still not a world war, there's china, japan, Korea, and a bunch of other countries that didn't be included or participated in the war, So technically it wasn't a world war.