The Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory 

Well, except for "Ancient Aliens", of course! 😅

Why is it a shame? We're getting fantastic history lessons from enthusiastic, passionate people with actual expertise in actual history for free. This is arguably better. Plus, good old school History Channel content is still available on RU-vid. The History Channel is dead, long live History Hit.

I think they moved all that to Military Channel, I agree HC has no more content matching its name.

History Channel used to be great at military shows ..now sadly it caved in to "reality" t.v. trash.

There is a channel called History that has a lot of their old content such as Dogfights on RU-vid. However, I agree that there are several channels that have far more suprior content than the History Channel ever did. That is why I do not have a TV.

Scott is an ass. Tired of his wannabe un-historical movies.

Scott is an arrogant twat. I'm disappointed that Snow had originally posted a rather negative critique of the film (and Napoleon) pre-release, but for some reason, he changed his tune after that interview. Scott has always played roughshod over historical facts

Did he really do and say that? What a fool.

Apparently Scott took his ‘history’ from the self serving and greatly embellished dispatches Napoleon would send back to Paris in order impress Josephine. God help a generation that gets its history from movies.

That “interview” was pathetic. Quite disappointed in Dan Snow.

Talisman video guide 👍🏻

That’s why I’m here too.

Absolutly, thank you

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Aw my brothers….. Get of YT and get to F’ing work!!! 2024 is OUR YEAR!! TODAY IS OUR DAY!!

But with napoleon you never know, when losing he will give a story about his generals losing the battle., surrendering the high ground was maybe just that.

Agreed on all counts.

Hear me out, Suvorov's siege of Ismail is a masterpiece. You could say that this man was single-handedly responsible for the Russian Tzardom surviving Napoleon.

But the film said it was all about the allied army fallen down a frozen lake, what is this Dan Snow??

The film is just a fictional part. It was Napoleon's strategy but they depicted him as a simp and loser.​@@lotennaokeke3414

Oh, I really appreciate that this video came out on a snowy winters day. 😊

It was really masterful, giving up the heights as bait and luring the enemy off the Pratzen heights with the thinly held village of Solkonitz. Timed it with the mist/smoke perfectly. Total genius stuff. I would *never* have even considered that, given the risk...

I wouldn't wanna sit across Napoleon at a poker table.

California, dreaming.

​@@kkidcruz6118Baccarat, more likely.

he should have have thought of that when invading Russia.

@@tomhirons7475 "One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant" -Napoleon Bonaparte

@@tomhirons7475 The invasion itself was a good move. The Russian Empire was Napoleon's last great Continental enemy and defeating it would have made him master of Europe. The interesting conundrum is whether he should have pushed on to Moscow after Borodino or Wintered around Smolensk. Militarily this would have made for a sound strategy but politically it might have made him appear weak and indecisive. The alliance with Prussia was shaky and the peace with Austria was uneasy at best. Imho it was the invasion of Spain that doomed Napoleon. It sapped French strength and confidence whilst giving the British public, particularly the urban middle-classes, the impression that their taxes were achieving something other than subsidising foreign armies that Napoleon kept defeating. No Peninsular War, Britain makes peace after the defeat of the Austrians at Wagram and the 5th Coalition collapses, Napoleon has no need for his 'Continental System', and a Polish 'buffer state' is established as Russia turns its attention towards The Ottoman Empire. As a bonus Wellesley commands the British forces during the war of 1812 and the United States of America is returned to The Empire as he is granted the title of 'Duke of New York'. * *I may have gotten a little carried away there. 🤣🤣

Personally I like it because I find it funny: “You can do anything with a bayonet, except sit on it”.

When he’s making a mistake*

It's a shame you can't even spell cannon... And you're still wrong anyway. Cannon and cannons are both acceptable as the plural form of cannon. You're trying to look smart but it's not working very well when you can't even spell correctly. And you're wrong on top of that.

Heh heh. Thanks for the chuckle. =)

There is a reenactment every year at Austerlitz, so even Napoleonic soldiers fighting at the location in the proper season, that's something anyone can film on a smartphone these days.

It takes up 25% of the movie, pretty accurately too

@@murkysebit’s a tiny scene in the film and the most inaccurate depiction humanly possible. Literally the worst recreation of any battle on film I’ve ever seen.

@@pauls064 as a historian I can say it's an accurate depiction of the battle

@@murkyseb as an actual, working, real historian, I can tell you you’re full of shit. No “historian” would ever make such a claim. I’ve been twice to pratzen heights and Telnice in the last 5 years and the geography is comedically bad in the film, the movie portrays the battle in a tiny valley when the line was 12km long, when the Satchan ponds were emptied after the battle, they found only 3 bodies and 150 horses (the “drowning” was an inconsequential part of the real battle), there was no snow and the day was sunny and bright after the morning fog, etc etc etc etc The whole battle scene was so bizarrely bad, myself and several peers (also historians) who were reviewing it nearly gave up…. I had the displeasure of working on a Randall Wallace film as a researcher and never thought anyone would direct battles so badly, but scott is the master of screwing up every possible fact in a historical battle.

@@murkyseb It's about as accurate as the battle of sterling bridge scene in braveheart and had the strategic grace of a multiplayer round. Sure a number of allied troops died from some ponds, but misses the whole heights portion of the fight.

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They literally only show the end of the battle as if that was the whole battle.

I don't know why this channel is shilling this movie so hard. It's bad.

Did enjoy it but it was soooo so clueless....

​@taylorarnold5311 So how long would it be if they showed all of it? 😅 A tad bit more than 5 minutes me thinks!

@@cleverusername9369 Practicality

Davout's III Corps (nicknamed Napoleon's 'X Legion') forced marched for two days to the battlefield, which is a fantastic feat in itself. Considering going straight into action on the right flank, afterwards, holding the flank in a stalemate until Marshal Soult's attack on the centre. Marshal Davout Napoleon's finest Corps commander by far.

That would be rude😃

this battle has evaded attention?

@@soloar2007 yes, in napoleonics, it’s always Waterloo, Waterloo, and some more Waterloo just in case.

You mean tsar Alexander?

@@jabm344 yes my bad.

Waterloo was even more of a joke in that movie.

Wait you're saying this isn't in the movie?

@@bine35It is but it just consists of people charging into each other and firing artillery into ice

@@JayvH Ah yes with the legendary charge of Napoleon at the head of its cavalry under the threat of a british sniper

@@ToonStory-fh4gnIt surely went down in history

Well said Marc!

I’d still rather be him than one of the soldiers 😉 it’s better to have to bury the dead than be one of them!

Correct! 2-3 bodies and ~150 horses. The “lake” was just shallow polder and many of the men in the water were pulled out by the French themselves or simply waded out and surrendered.

unlike what they show in the movie right? :D

@@Raguel1984 The movie made the whole battle about that one thing implying that Napoleon tricked the entire Austrian army to cross the lake while retreating so he can destroy them by drowning. Just idiotic Hollywood stupidity

Well good lot of actual info coming out …

There were very few inaccuracies

@@murkyseb There were several but other commentators have explained them better. 1) Napoleon's army did not shoot the tops of the pyramids off. 2) Josephine died an entire year before Napoleon wanted to return to France for the 100 days. 3) Napoleon was not present at Marie Antionette's execution as he was already in the south of France fighting the British. 4) Napoleon did not lead a cavalry charge at Borodino as he was unwell that day, possibly with a urinary infection. 5) Brunswickers, Nassau, King's German Legion, and Belgian troops are absent from Ripley's depiction of Waterloo, even though they compromised a large chunk of Wellington's army.

​@@celston516. Napoleon did nothing in Waterloo due to hemorrhoid, let alone leading a final charge

@@murkyseb you sure bro? lol

The movie was fckn terrible u doofus!

the new movie sucks