* Correction on Waterloo * My depiction of Waterloo in this video is overly-simplistic (well, the whole video is meant to be very simplified) but it implies that the Imperial guard didn't fight at all which is not true, I was simply trying to show that Napoleon didn't get them into action in time/didn't use them effectively which is a common theme among the historians I was reading to research this battle. Waterloo is one of the most studied and debated battles of all time, and is definitely worth looking into if you enjoy history. There are many, many myths and misconception about what happened that day and why it turned out they way it did, but at least you can know the end result is accurate - Napoleon lost. Criteria for battles chosen: Decisiveness, Scale, Backstory Intrigue, Fame, Characters, Historical Impact What did I miss and what are the most interesting battles to you?
Your passion does not go unnoticed. It is great to see you putting your storytelling and editing skills to content that is educational and thoroughly engaging. It's also really commendable that you haven't used your platform to try to blow this up. I'd encourage you to just make content about whatever you are passionate about.
One of the most interesting battles to me are the ones from Yi Sun against the Japanese in the mid 1500s his ability to single handedly carry his nation to victory despite being at such a disadvantage is incredible
As a fan of history long before I was a purveyor of Rocket League, I love your take on the former. A lot of big history channels use a tone that is frankly quite dry in an effort to seem like an authority on the matter. I love your brand of humour and I think the application of that humour and tone will take you far with this medium. I appreciate your work Sunless, keep at it
As a terrible RL player who watches literally 2 RL-tubers, and consume far more historical type content, hearing sunless and having that moment of “wait, I know this voice…” was so strange
Rome is long dead.no Roman army exist anymore. Important battles makes you still exist today.macedonian army is gone roman army is vikings army is gone.
22:20 as a matter of fact, the first instance of large-scale use of poison gas was on 31st of January 1915, when Germany fired 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas on Russian positions on the Rawka River, west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov.
Dude !!! CANAN!! Anibal!! Rome and Cartago!! And then the batle of ZAMA without it, the Roman Empire would have never existed and the entire western civilization
What a familiar voice, I didn’t even see who the creator was and clicked this video and all my sunless rocket league memories came flooding in. What a good time my friend
Great list but the lack of Tours 732 and Vienna 1683, both battles in which Europe stopped the advance of Islam (and is theorised that defeats in these battles would have lead to some if not all of Europe coming under Islamic rule), is kinda crazy. Arguably the most influential battles of all time for Europe.
@@Mrbeahz1 Also Charles Martel smashed a mobile, mainly cavalry force with dudes on foot with shields. But he was french so english speakers will never be taught about him.
I can’t wait for you to cover Waterloo in your Napoleon Series. There seems to be quite a bit wrong about the battle in this video (a mix of actions from a few battles, particularly that bit about the Guard not being used), but I understand this format didn’t allow for incredibly accurate and detailed recounting. Really liking this channel, sunless!
At the fall of Constantinople the Byzantine “Empire” was already broke, shrinking, depopulated, and had very little influence or prestige in the world. By the year 1400 the Ottomans had already conquered most of the former Byzantine territories and had made their way into Eastern Europe. Constantinople falling in 1453 was little more than a cultural signifier that times have changed and that the Roman Empire has now fully ceased to exist. It definitely wasn’t as influential as any of the battles listed in this video.
The importance of Hastings, Spanish Armada, Yorktown or Waterloo for world's history is often greatly exagerrated by Angloids. The first two were really imporant just for England, they did not change anything major even for other European countries. Meanwhile they overlook lesser known to them but more important battles like Zama (202 BC), Yarmuk (636), Vienna (1683), Leipzig (1813) or Warsaw (1920).
Waterloo is funny because even if Napoleon won that battle the coalition had like 3+ armies as big as the Wellington and Blucher's one. There is no way Boney would have won that, even if he won there the sheer amount of losses of the battle (Waterloo was like Eylau/Wagram/Borodino in terms of atrition) would make it a strategic victory for the coalition. The post-Leipzig campaigns were more hopeful to the french than the hundred days.
this must be a joke... Hastings?? Spanish Navy??? Yorktown??? Waterloo???... so much to say against your choices... but how can you miss Teutoburg Forest? ... that would fit perfectly with your Anglo-Saxon narrative...
Dang, man. I'm hard to for it. Sunless got me learning history. That's what's up though. I didn't even know this channel existed. I saw the post about this video on Twitter because i was trying to find out what you were up to. Didn't expect this, but I'm not complaining. I'm down to watch this channel grow
I would love to see something about the Doolittle raid. The story is epic. Making bombers lighter, so they could take off from aircraft carriers, so they could bomb Japan, whilst still knowing they didn't have enough fuel to get back and had to ditch. One of the pilots went on to fly Enola Gay...the plane that went on to drop Little Boy over Hiroshima.
@@BengalCatChilliduring the Doolittle raid, the US launched 16 B-25 medium bombers (with an estimated payload of 2,400lbs each) off of USS Hornet. Ebola Gay was a B-29 heavy bomber (maximum payload of 20,000lbs), a class of bomber which wasn’t introduced until 2 years after the dolittle raid and would never fit on a us carrier let alone take off from one
@@BengalCatChilli think you might be wrong again coz I’m almost certain he was C.O of a bombardment group getting ready to deploy, or already deployed, to England for the bombing of Germany
The battle at Sekigahara in 1600 A.D does not get a mention. It was a pivotal battle for Japan because the defeat of Mitsunari and his Osaka forces by the Edo faction led by Ieyasu created the Tokugawa dynasty which presided over the affairs of Japan for more than a century until the Meiji Restoration.
While that’s impactful to Japanese history, I understand why it would be omitted in a video like this. Due to their isolationist policies Japan didn’t play much of an impactful role in world history until after the Meiji Restoration so that battle had less of an impact on the rest of the world
5:26 why you said "humble gang leader" that hurts us don't ever call our prophet that. Our holy prophet was sent for peace spread of Islam. I deeply hurt by that man.
Your depiction of the Armada is over-simplistic too The Spanish Army was in the low countries. The Armada had to get to the Low Countries to rendezvous with the army. Also your narrative gives the impression that the Spanish were crippled from the loss. In fact, only 44 ships were lost and the Spanish built another Armada the next year. Whilst it marked the emergence of the English and the British fleet, it took a long time before the Spanish Empire truly declined
True, The Norman Invasion and the First Spanish Armada, are more monumental in the rise of Britain than changing the world order at the time.The Norman Invasion did bring some of the best Administrative, Legal and Scientific Practices to Britain and specifically England, inherited from the Holy Roman Empire who did their best to build on Roman and Byzantine Knowledge, which was some of the most Advanced at the time. So it did mark the beginning of English Meddling in European and subsequently world politics. And Boy are People Mad at the Job they have Done!😁
Correct, also it is incorrect to say that the English fleet became the most powerful after 1588. En fact, the world's most powerful fleet at the time was the Dutch and stayed number 1 until 1660 or so.
Wait this is fire. I didn't realize it was you Sunless, I just saw the title and thumbnail and this was right up my alley. Thanks for this, I'm super addicted to this kind of content
Interesting list, the world wars are a little underrepresented in my opinion, if nothing else from a scope perspective. This is so well done Sunless, I can't wait to see what's up next! Awesome job!
The importance of the battle of Tours / Poitiers has been enormously exaggerated by past historians. Charles Martel basically defeated a large raiding party that did not come to conquer France. It did not stop the Arabs incursions, which continued in the following yesrs, nor was the biggest Muslim defeat of that time.
metal stirrups had been in use in Europe since the 6th century. the true innovation that made William the conquerors cavalry so deadly was the use of the lance or spear while "couched" - ie. tucked up under the arm - along with saddles that supported the lower back
Really cool video and easy to follow along! Miss your rocket league content but you do you my man. Just want you to be alright and especially happy above all else. Hope you're doing ok! You're a legend and we all love and support you
I absolutely love this content Sunless, I appreciate the crossover of Rocket League viewers who are also interested in History is small but please don't be disheartened, there is a huge audience for this brilliantly made and interesting channel!!
that whole spanish armada part is bullshit 😭 literally 1-2 years after the counter armada happenned when the brits invaded la Coruña they suffered an even more humiliating defeat...
I think that's a really great point. I originally had a outro paragraph talking about how it wasn't my intention to glorify death and violence but I cut it when my run time came in at over 27 minutes. Each of these people that fought and died back then were just like you and me, and we're all just as capable of committing atrocities now as we were back then.
@@Sunless_Maximus yep only difference nowadays is everyone will see the news within 24 hours, so perhaps that is a deterrent to war crimes, but certainly doesn’t stop them. One historical thing that comes to mind is Olga of Kiev - one of the most brutal accounts of history I’ve seen. Video idea if you want it lol but interesting story nevertheless.
As a man who has been a history buff since birth, started playing rocket league in 2016, and watched sunless khan throughout college, getting a degree in history…this channel is the peak culmination of my life, orchestrated by 1 man
It wasn’t. Even if the Germans won at Kursk they were still heavily outnumbered and outgunned. Stalingrad was the last chance the Germans had at defeating the soviets. After that, it was nothing but delaying the inevitable
@@whoareyouyouareclearlylost323 You’re right, they probably couldn’t have won at Stalingrad. But Kursk was even more of a lost cause. By that point, the Germans were outnumbered 3-1 by the Soviets and were being outproduced industrially. The Allies also landed in Sicily only a few days after Operation Citadel began. Even if the Germans had managed to win at Kursk, the Soviets could have regained the manpower easily. I think this goes into the deeper idea that Germany could not have won the war in the East no matter how you slice it, it’s a country that’s too small industrially and population-wise to invade and take a country as large as the Soviet Union
Found you through RL, Sunless, and love the history shift! But how are you going to do the biggest battles in history and not have a single Chinese battle??? The Siege of Kaifeng and the biggest early use of gunpowder, the Battle of Lake Poyang and the largest fresh-water naval battle of all time, plenty of battles from the Taiping or Boxer Rebellions! Might have to do another 10 biggest battles video at some point!
It's a shame that the battle of zama isn't in their , where scipio met Hannibal , this battle was so significant that if Hannibal had won that battle and Rome fell , it would change the way we speak languages today ,as latin letters disappear you'd probably be reading this comment with a language with descent to ancient Phoenician instead of Latin The bible would change , everything about Mediterranean culture changes...
A thing I consider worth mentioning in the Battle of Stalingrad is that there was a counteroffensive with good progress by Manstein's forces, but the general/field marshall Paulus commanding the 6th army surrounded in stalingrad didn't try to break free of the encirclement and retreat and inevitably led to the destruction of the whole army. Just worth mentioning, I think, although you vaguely implied it. Loved the video tho.
A bit more on Waterloo is needed lol. Firstly there was 3 farms on sight not shown, hougamont, le have saints and frichemont aswell as the village of plancenoit that the Prussians attacked. The start was an attack on the first farm, hougamont, followed by a couple of ‘skirmishes’on Marshall de’earlon’s side between infantry and Calvary. Then neys Calvary charge, then capture of the next farm, le haye saint then Prussian attacking plancenoit then prince of oranges infantry movement, and finally the old imperial guard advance. The young imperial guard was also used. So you know I’m just guessing this, I have read 3 books on Waterloo, my favorite by Bernard Collin’s I think his name is. I have been to Waterloo 2 times, and planning to go in the future and I have looked at many maps of it. Apart from that, great video ❤
Honestly the battle of teh Spanish Armada wasn't that significant. The English only managed to sink 7 to 8 ships, it wast mostly the weather that did the damage. Also, "Spain's decline" didn't happen until wayyyyy later.
A very nice and informational video. Of cause there is room for discussion about other battles that might have deserved a place as well or instead of the ones mentioned. Obviously a few things needed to be simplified, but I only noticed one actual historical error: The stirup wasn't inventend around 1000 a.d.! However around that time (little earlier actually) they were brought to europe by the mongols, who at that point had used stirups for about 500 years.
You missed Gettysburg in the U.S. Civil War. It had world changing ramifications. If the Union had not won at Gettysburg, there would likely have been two, less capable, and competing countries on the North American continent. This would have had significant implications for the future. In particular, WWI and WWII.
Waterloo was actually irrelevant as massive Russian-Austrian-German army was on the way and the defeat of Napoleon was inevitable. Much more important battle would be Borodino. Had Napoleon kept his army intact instead of going into Russia much of Europe would be speaking French.
In the ten you mentioned only two changed the world order, Guagamela the Greek empire started, the navy battle of England, the rise of the British empire and the battle of Waterloo, the end of the Napoleon era, the rest are relatively battles.
A most excellent video. An honorable mentioned would be the Battle of Myeongyang where Admiral Yi Sun Shin led 13 of his ships vs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships. He won without losing a single vessel. This victory significantly reduced Japanese naval control and arguably prevented a Japanese Empire across Asia much in the same way the loss of the Spanish Armada prevented them from exerting more colonial control in the Americas.
