Sertorius - Anti-Sulla Rebellion in Spain DOCUMENTARY 

great vid please do one on anglo sikh wars and afgan sikh wars

Also iberian warfare

Napoleonic wars when

@@resistance-is-growing7632 true

@@resistance-is-growing7632 to some extent

Lol well said.

Says a Romanian. 😝😁

VANITY

Ha! True. Gods love them...it is.

Great comment

Time is money

Time is against u... that's for sure

Most likely quoted from the Roman historian Appian, who covers this period very well.

Jacob Sertorius has grown into a wise lad hasn't he?

Yeah not even money is worth much notice.

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Sulla was good

@Emre Al I'll put you on a cross,put respect on the Emperors boi.

Currently reading Rubicon by Tom Holland

Caiã Wlodarski He was

To Sulla, only Marius is his enemy. Sertorius to him is but remnant of a defeated foe

@@howiechang8516 Sulla was a douchebag.

@Lucius Cornelius Sulla :'(

@@foxglove65pleb

Sulla was not prepared to allow the manipulation of the law, to the point he marched on the city. His second "reign'

Indeed, if not for this channel, i would never know about this great man. If he succeeded in surviving his ordeals, we would have a very different rome.

Tacitus wrote about him but only a few words but he wrote that Rome had a hard time with Sertorious and Hispania. Luckly i now know the whole Story in detail, not knowing that there was a more detailed source.

You should look up famous Roman writers like suetonius and livy the former wrote a history on the early empire, and the latter wrote a general history of Rome from the mythical foundation 753BCE to the early empire around 9BCE

@@evanq9743 Thx! i look for this i only have Livius some books ab urbe condita ..... and Sueton some Books de vita Caesarum, read it 20 yrs ago but i dont remember that there was a detailed Story about Sertorius

@@thinkwithurdipstick sic semper asinus...

This is the way

@@AV-nl9gc This is the way !

@Amirul Asyraf Protekt da Hispania mai bruddah

@@eduardochiscuet3146 It's possible

@@eduardochiscuet3146 It is scientifically possible that the Basque descend from the Iberian language (although there are no written records of the Iberian). Therefore it is very possible that before the Romans all the ancestors of the current Spaniards spoke something very similar to Basque

We are here now listing of his exploits so I wouldn't say he was not recognized

He was not recognized during his lifetime and till Julius Caesar time.

​@@nebsam7137 Radas meant tgat was not recognised by the Romans

Thanks to Plutarch he became more famous in posterity than many other Romans of his time who were objectively more prominent and powerful. It also helps that he had a big charismatic talented personality but still.

Always thought that about Sertorius, after reading about him. With, of course, a lead-in from the bloody Marian-Sulla conflict to give it a proper basis in the beginning.

@@budibausto You're too naive, hollywood would turn him into a black lesbian with tattoos and piercings.

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Ikr!

@Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix The other ones mentioned I get, but I've never seen a movie even hinting at Zionism...care to give examples?

I cried when he got assassinated, couldn't believe how attached was I to him!! And I never heard about him before this video!!!!

Geralt of Rivia It’s why Pompeii executed his murderer.

A hero's journey!

Hell yeah

same

Sertorious would have made a great Consul.

He was kinda responsible for the deaths of thousands of Romans though (not counting other peoples he met). He was competent, that's for sure. But was this really a gain for Rome?

@@abcdef-cs1jj Probably the total death toll was not significally higher than that of Ceasar or Octavius

Basket crab syndrome

@@LuisAldamiz That seems to have been the general rule of the era, the holding of power as a survival strategy. A competent ruler no doubt.

No kidding damn, imagine the times now.

It's sad. He was clearly a man of great talent.

Who said that?

Where is this quote from?

Perpenna didn't kill Sertorius for the amnesty, but to take his place. Unfortunately for him, he was not Sertorius. Pompey easily defeated Perpenna's army and captured him. After having been captured, to have his life spared, Perpenna offered to Pompey all of Sertorius' correspondence. Pompey indicated he would accept the papers and, when they had all been gathered together, he burned them, so giving a de-facto amnesty to all those that secretly helped Sertorius for all those years, and avoiding another bloodshed in Rome. Then amnistiated all of Sertorius' soldiers that asked for it.

@@neutronalchemist3241 actually ..... pompey copied the list before they were burned in view of others. he subsequently purged the names on the list. that's Rome for you.

@@TheGhostOperative According to?

​@@neutronalchemist3241 I was looking through the comments exactly for this. Perpenna after entering the Hispania almost immediately began subverted and sabotaging the power base of Sertorius. Perpenna bribed some or spread lies about Sartorius and his intentions. He drove allies away with insults and brutalization under the name of Sertorius, and began extorting and pillaging more allies claiming that he was under orders while enriching himself and claiming he would be a better leader if he were in charge. He had specifically done so within the heart of the Sertorius power base with Lusitania tribes as they were the most largest most powerful making up the core of the Iberian resistance to Rome. Despite this deceit, Sertorius spent the good year still winning battles despite his resources in money and manpower shrinking each week. Sertorius still had loyal allies and victories to the end. He never took action against Perpenna as far as we know. After his murder Perpenna took over his forces but was neither charismatic nor competent enough to do what his predecessor had pulled off. Ironically sealing his own death as he destroyed the power base of the very person who had safeguarded his life. I also wonder how accurate his depiction by Rome as a man who became a degenerate in his final days. It could very well be more machinizations of Perpenna spreading his rumors or a simple result of them as things fell apart.

@@vguyver2 Maybe, but it's also not hard to believe that someone who gave so much for an ideal (of sorts) became disillusioned late in life. He wouldn't be the first

The "artist" deserve a reward and yeah I got it 😊👍

Rapa Nuii I suppose the landscape made this more possible and inevitable by having so many mountains and passes.

When you are surrounded by mountains and cant compete against better equiped forces you adapt quickly. See the lesson Charlegmane learned at Orreaga by vengeful basques

As I see it, Spain didn't exist until the 16th century. There was nothing that could be called "spanish" in that moment. Sertorius was Roman.

@@herrero4270 Hispania.

@@herrero4270 Call it hispanics... Iberiand, spanish... same thing

I cried to that

Kinda like Decimmus Brutus

@@LuisAldamiz As a mountain range (Get it, because..., the Atlas mountains of Morocco and Algeria...?)

here in Morocco we have a lot of Roman leftovers one of witch is the cave of Hercules.

@@LuisAldamiz the video says Antaeus, not Atlas. Or is that his North African counterpart?

@@LuisAldamiz that was some awesome trivia on Spain's etymology hahaha interesting theory too

Wow, Mauritania has the "Eye of Africa" or "Richat Structure". The same dimensions as Plato's writings for the mythical Atlantis! A comet or asteroid hit Greenland during the Ice Age and created the great flood that all cultures world wide have tales about. Atlantis was supposedly destroyed and marked the end of that age. Hearing that they excavated some "Demi-God" there got me so excited, they even sacrificed to the skeleton is mind blowing if true. Can you please send me a link to where you found this information? I would love to look into it a bit deeper!! Thank YOU!

He was Caesar, before Caesar.

@@PersimmonHurmo you mean when they got back stabed like so many times xD since its real life he couldnt respawn

@@PersimmonHurmo Julius Caesar was defeated in Dyrrahachium in Gaul. What does that make him?

@@hyperion3145 pretty sure that was in Greece but ok

@@hyperion3145 *Gergovia in Gaul, Dyrrhachium in Greece

Another possibility is if he was granted amnesty rather than he forced to wage a useless civil war

It might've been a useless war but if it's true he was the father of guerrilla warfare then Michael Collins took a page from his book and as an Irishman, not enough good things can be said about Mick Collins

Have you read The Man With Two Names? If you're interested in Sertorius, I strongly recommend that book. It's the first book of a series of 4. I just finished it, and I'm planning on reading the remaining 3.

@@Jacob-mu3dj just bought it there on audible will listen to it later nice one pal

@@danielgilhooly1118 Very true good friend, Michael Collins was great.

@robert rowe more people know gibraltar

I don't understand why is Sertorio a portuguese hero. He had the same of portuguese than I of japanese.

robert rowe - quite true.

RIP Sertorious cursed Perpenna

@@GeraltofRivia22 And Sertorius wasn't anti-Rome. He was anti-Sulla who's faction ruled Rome. He'd have very much fought against Spartacus and Mithridates and the Irony would have been that he'd probably have had amazing success because aside from his tactical knowledge, his diplomatic and strategic mind were unmatched at that time. Your alternate history in my opinion would be better suited to had he beaten Pompey, returned to Rome and legitimized himself. Then carrying Rome's interest in the Mitrhidatic wars.

@@GeraltofRivia22 Perhaps Mithridates apologies and promises reparation to their families.

Not likely Sertorius was like any other roman viewed mithridates as a client ally to be used only to be later brought to heel by him like they did with all the "roman allied states" and "client kingdoms." Not sure if you already started the story but a good point of divergence could be that perpenna while fleeing dies before he reaches sertorius and his legions defect to sertorius side but this time without perpenna Sertorius could do better against Mettelus and Pompey

It would simply not work, Sertorius hated people like Spartacus, in reality they would've fought .

@@alanpennie8013 He wouldn't do that.

As a French, .. i painfully approve

@@iagosevatar4865 Can you suggest a good cheese for a fondue? No, really.

Perhaps Sertorius is the origin of Iberian propensity for guerrilla warfare.

@@tylerdurden3722 No, many centuries before even Rome or Carthage even existed, Greeks already witness hit and runs tactics by the Iberian, if you check for the Lusitanian-War Viritathus basically killed 5 roman legions with guerrila warfare in 139 BC, in the Battle of Tribola the lusitanians ambushed a roman legion in a cliff, on one side Romans had forest full of lusitanians rushing them and they could use their formation because they had do place, and they could not retreat because they had a cliff behind where in the end most of them fell off. It was a great ambush and for some reason people give more credit to Arminius and his ambush in Teutebourg Florest. Guerilla Warfare is just part of us because we have a many florest in a very hilly landscape we can kill whole platoons without loosing too much. Historians declared Iberian Peninsula as the Vietnam war for both Rome and France. Look at this France invaded Portugal 3 times and failed and in the last invasion they entered the country with 65.000 men, and when they reached our capital Lisbon they just had 20.000 because we killed the rest during their journey through northern Portugal which is the hardest place to invade because we have 1000 meters mountains that are easy to defend. France lost 150.000 soldier in Portugal and Portugal lost 6.000 and Roman even tho they conquered us took them 200 years and 80.000 men had to die in ambushes to win after 200 years of fighting.

So, it's a bad love story?

A man among men? Isnt that what most of us are? Lol

more like D&D. tyrion never said anything this far from truth in any book

@@caf3in323 He actually does say that in "A Clash of Kings"

@@GeraltofRivia22 I wish people of European descent did the same in regards to Rome, but we're so guilty-minded or whatever.

@@HerculesMays Same I wish we did it for Rome, and a lot of other European countries, it would be so cool to see a accurate historical depiction of the Battle of Hastings or something to that degree.

I remember in these books, it was said that Sertorius was a relative of Marius. But it is not covered here.

Great books!!

Same here :-)

@@KingsandGenerals thanks for the reply. Big fan and awesome job BTW!

Great men preceeded the beginning of the end you refered to. What started the end was the Military Reforms of Gaius Marius. In those reforms, the commander of the army became responsible for securing the pay and retirement of his soldiers. This reform shifted the loyalty of the individual soldier from the state, to their commander. After the Marian Reforms, even poor Plebs were allowed to join the army. Which meant more individuals in the army were even more dependent on their commander. Semi Romanized Spaniards and Guals were also allowed to join the army. Virtually all of these have never been to Rome or even seen it from a distance. So why would they have loyalty for Rome? E.g. most of Caesar's army was made up of Spaniards and Guals. His most loyal legions were Spanish legions.

@@tylerdurden3722 i would blame the senate for not being willing to be in charge of giving land to the legions after they left

gaius julius caesar

Differences in geography and sociopolitical of region

@@Jejak_Pengangguran Considering that the Gauls were such good warriors that Caesar and his successors actively killed nearly a third of Gaul's population to bring them to heel. I don't think that statement is quite fair.

Terrain matters. Which is why Spain never was fully conquered by the Muslims.

On that note: Muslim conquest of Spain = 77 years. Christian Reconquista of Spain = 704 years.

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Always more in the works :-)

Exactly.

Well atleast we now know on who's side K&G were.

While I agree with you I think it's fair to say that at this point Sulla WAS Rome

@@drFocak Sulla's side was the correct side

@@Nihoolious in*correct. FTFY

Thank you, good sir!

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@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 the problem was that Sulla won. He wasn't anti-Rome or anything. His only crime having been a Marian. Had Rome pardoned him or had he crushed Pompey if not for Prepenna's incompetence, he very likely could have sought to make a deal. Crushing Pompey and Metellus, Sertorius might well have been able to sue for peace or pardon. Rome likes to shoot itself in the foot however and punish good, useful men. Sertorius would have handled Mithridates IMO.

Considering!

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Iberian, latin and basque?

who is this impostor?

the mountaims always speak rebellious!

Sullan armies when the hills start speaking a Hispanicized dialect of Latin: ***nervous sweating***

@@otgunz The hills are alive with the sound of "hippity hoppity, get the hell of my territory"

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I don't know. He participated in the destruction of a whole people (we'd call that genocide nowadays) and had his own allied slave-soldiers murdered in their sleep ... Not the kind of guy I'd like to drink a beer with.

@@abcdef-cs1jj "having as his body-guard a picked band of the slaves who had flocked to his standard, to whom he had given the name of Bardyaei. These fellows killed many of the citizens at a word of command from him, many, too, at a mere nod; and at last, when Ancharius, a man of senatorial and praetorial dignity, met Marius and got no salutation from him, they struck him down with their swords before the face of their master. 4 After this, whenever anybody else greeted Marius and got no salutation or greeting in return, this of itself was a signal for the man's slaughter in the very street, so that even the friends of Marius, to a man, were full of anguish and horror whenever they drew near to greet him." ... "The people were most distressed however, by the wanton licence of the Bardyaei, as they were called, who butchered fathers of families in their houses, outraged their children, violated their wives, and could not be checked in their career of rapine and murder until Cinna and Sertorius, after taking counsel together, fell upon them as they were asleep in their camp, and transfixed them all with javelins" It had been already estabilished that Sertorius was not fond of rapists.

@@neutronalchemist3241 Okay, this does sound different, I admit that ... On Sertorius and rape: I don't want to paint the man in all-black, we don't really know him as a person, but I think we must expect him to shape his public image and thus his efforts in this might influence our sources to this day. I'm not saying he definitely didn't hate rape, but I guess a man that takes part in genocidal war (a war where, if I recall correctly, the women of the enemy are known to have killed their children rather than having them fall into Roman hands and fought to the death rather than letting themselves be captured) is probably not the most faint of heart. If I might put it like this ... Again, not saying that he is definitely all-evil, but I'd be at least wary of his reputation.

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I can't believe why they didn't pardon Sertorius . I mean after sulla and marius was dead. Why just don't give this man a break!?

@@v44n7 No

Probably cause he humiliated Pompey

There is still a chance to be better

@@KingsandGenerals Nah. Peace is a lie there is only passion.

@@KingsandGenerals can you do one on lithunian or iberian warfare please

Otto von Bismarck someone like von Moltke you mean?

The only peace there is and all that matters is peace with God through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. No peace with God and rest assured you will have no peace.