The Deadliest Day of WW1

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What was the deadliest day of any nation in WW1? There are multiple candidates for that, but why should we even care? Well, the answer to this question highlights a challenge with popular memory that is often focused on the biggest battles of the war like the Somme or Verdun.
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@TheGreatWar Год назад

Watch Red Atoms on Nebula: go.nebula.tv/redatoms?ref=the-great-war

@buddyluv584 Год назад

Better watch real footage and interviews with actual event participants on youtube than another garbage which is called high quality docu lol for some reason!

@spoolermount3343 11 месяцев назад

tell us first about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the USA. It's not fictional.

@mistressofthewoods5333 11 месяцев назад

Sounds like a Skyrim quest

@Stopovergarding 9 месяцев назад

1st day of American Invasion on Iraq on Just Civilians,? 750k ......Woopes! Sorry about that

@partygrove5321 9 месяцев назад

@@Stopovergarding Sorry liar, but 750K civvies did not die on the first day of the Iraq war. And most that did die were killed in sectarian violence caused by the poor handling of post Saddam Iraq.

@user-cd4bx6uq1y Год назад

It's insane that numbers like 23,000 dead in a day are thrown around casually when it comes to this war

@darthyoshi4016 Год назад

The Battle of Malplaquet was one of the European battles of the 18th century, and had about that same number. It only lasted a single day, so imagine on of those every single day during a major battle of WW1 for months straight.

@peterrobbins2862 Год назад

Yes that's half as many are killed by guns in America each year per day

@Paul-bs5wl Год назад

@JZ's BFF People being less questioning of civil and religious authority does not cause them to be illiterate? Most soldiers from Britain, France, Germany and Austria were literate, probably less so for Russians, but not by a lot. But don't worry, people are as unquestioning of "civil authority" as they ever were, it's just now they are also dependant on it in a way that the people of 1914 were not. There is merit in the idea that people become accustomed to death and suffering, this is true. Even if sheltered and working on a farm it would be normal for children to regularly witness the killing of animals as well as a higher base level of violence in society, settling things with a fight wasn't particularly frowned upon. Honour duels were still legal in a few places in Europe in 1914. However, even by the standards of the day, people knew that the war was a different beast. Even by the standards of war it was a protracted and ruthless business that nobody thought would be sustainable save for a few eccentric military thinkers.

@JG-oi5gg Год назад

The term “wastage” is the one that strikes me - the term for daily casualties of incident and intent

@charlesc.9012 11 месяцев назад

It was characteristic of the age. In 1910, having 3 full meals a day was rare for the urban working class, childhood diseases like polio and scarlet fever were rife, and tuberculosis was still incurable and rampant. Values like patriotism and steadfastness also made up the political correctness of the age, so you would be cancelled just as easily. Times were hard, and so people were desensitised to suffering and death. We have come a long way, despite the global population being 3x higher than in 1914

@anemptykarst Год назад

“The senseless insignificance of heroism” ( 18:47 ) is such a harsh and raw line, so full of disgust and anger, but also pity and respect.

@siggifreud812 Год назад

Hemingway wrote of it:......"What has been done this summer cannot have been done in vain.’ I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. … Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

@TonyBongo869 Год назад

My grandfather served in the 7th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was wounded on the Somme. About 12 of his mates signed up in January 1915, by October 1918, three were left. The rest dead or wounded. I’m writing a book about it. Lest we forget

@samr6408 11 месяцев назад

Quite often those who lived through such a tragedy are able to put it into words best. WWI really broke the old ideas of glory and pulled people into modernity

@HistoryMadeSimple90 11 месяцев назад

@@TonyBongo869 Where could i read it once its done?

@lahire4943 Год назад

My great great grandfather was the commander of the 3rd regiment of Zouaves, lieutenant-colonel René Louis, during the offensive of Champagne of 25th September 1915. His regiment took 400 prisoners in a few hours. He was shot in the belly and died in terrible suffering on his way to the hospital. He was professor of general tactics at the Military School in Paris, and advocated for combined arms tactics. His brother had been badly wounded in October 1914 and had to experience trepanning.

@atomic4650 Год назад

Sorry to hear that. My great grandfather managed to survive and later helped smuggle weapons to the resistance.

@secretagent86 Год назад

my grandfather fought in the Canadian army serving as a front line grenadier. he survived without any injuries that i am aware of. he never spoke of it. Our family treasures his "i was there" medals. How awful for your ancestor to go that way. RESPECT to veterans (and those serving today)

@Kekorast Год назад

I respect you all. Your Grandfathers were all heroes! ❤

@davidlafranchise4782 Год назад

What is trepanning?

@lahire4943 Год назад

@@davidlafranchise4782 Some king of head/brain surgery

@HeisenbergFam Год назад

WW1 is one of the scariest events in human history, its crazy there was Christmas truce in 1914 where soldiers of both sides buried friends and foes together

@artificialintelligence8328 Год назад

@@mikeirvine1734 I'd say two decades afterwards would be a lot scarier for civilians.

@mckessa17 Год назад

This war was brutal

@charlesm.2756 Год назад

What's even more interesting is that modern warfare has come full-circle. Advancements in technology have relegated combat in Ukraine right back into the trenches. History repeats!

@GerMFnU1848Sax Год назад

Britain should have joined the Germans. Period

@mckessa17 Год назад

@@GerMFnU1848Sax I always thought the US should join with North Korea.

@oliversherman2414 Год назад

I already mentioned this in the comment section in Patreon but my great great uncle fought and died in the battle of Passchendaele in 1917. He served in the British army. His body sank into the mud and was never recovered. I thought I'd mention it here again for those who didn't see it on Patreon

@hohooooooooify Год назад

That's terrible I can honestly say that is a terrible but honorable way to go

@secretagent86 Год назад

so sad

@oliversherman2414 Год назад

@@secretagent86 indeed

@stompythewonderlizard286 Год назад

Just looking for attention then?

@buttered__toast_2899 Год назад

@@stompythewonderlizard286 shut it

@Jimleben Год назад

The numbers of killed and wounded in WW1 are mind boggling and inconceivable. Too bad that these horrors are forgotten and man seems bound to repeat them.

@mistressofthewoods5333 11 месяцев назад

Trust me Europe, Scandinavia and The North will never go through that again. Believe me we remember (😑👉🇷🇺)

@idiot_city5244 5 месяцев назад

@mistressofthewoods5333 everything resets on a long enough timeline

@sealboy1211 5 месяцев назад

Every 100 years or so. Before this; the napoleonic wars. Before that? Man waged wars across continents for North American furs and African lands rich in resource. Before that?? Peasant wars and vassal states breaking free of old ways. It goes in and on.

@MichaelMcGuyer Год назад

My favorite thing about this channel is the attention to the memories of the common soldier.

@jessealexander2905 Год назад

Thanks.

@keithplymale2374 Год назад

To put that day day in perspective I have read that the Germans opposite the Commonwealth countries suffered around 8,000 total casualties. And the initial attacking force on that day was around 66,000. So that also puts the losses he quoted in even more perspective.

@kenhayward5009 9 месяцев назад

The horrible losses experienced by the Newfoundland Regiment on the first day of the Battle of the Somme is still remembered to this day. July 1st was named Memorial Day after WWI and still is today despite it now being a part Canada (since 1949). Unofficially, the morning is a somber day of remembrance, and Canada Day isn't really celebrated until after ceremony at the National War Monument in St. John's.

@tokencivilian8507 Год назад

Great episode, as always Jessie and the entire GW Team. Such a somber topic. For context for the US audience, the Battle of Antietam was the single bloodiest day in the Civil War with ~23,000 casualties, on both sides, dead, wounded and missing combined. To think the French suffered this many dead in a single day is tragic.

@alexp2327 Год назад

To think americans love to make fun of french fighting spirit and their soldiers is tragic

@bobmcham5192 8 месяцев назад

@@alexp2327 I think most of the unsympathetic attitude towards the French defeat in the second world war comes from their petty attitude at the conclusion of the first world war, which is arguably what lead to the second world war. From the American perspective it was another pointless European pissing contest amongst their elite aristocracies. The U.S. tried very hard to stay out of it for three years and was only dragged in due to cooperate greed in sending munitions aboard civilian transports to make a quick buck. Afterwards the attitude towards Americans was a ridiculously outrageous "why didn't you join us in our meat grinder sooner!?" So kindly excuse us for taking a jab at the French and their "pristine military record" that they pride themselves on every now and then. Most of us are protestant Christians and pacifists , we have sympathies for losses from all sides, but are also frustrated at the entire ordeal to begin with and rely on humor to ease over the subject.

@greatwolf5372 7 месяцев назад

@@alexp2327French mock the Americans all the time as well.

@musc1esman 2 месяца назад

We joke about the french and saving their asses because over a century before ww1 the shoe was on the other foot and the french helped us out as a young nation in our fight against the british. Playful jabs really.

@shadwknight2172 2 месяца назад

I love the French. Napoleon is my daddy.

@gobanito Год назад

Its amazing to realize that only less than a hundred years had passed between the Battle of Waterloo and the first opening shots of World War 1. Only 102 years had passed when La Grande Armee marched into Russia and the First Battle of the Marne. Someone being born during the Napoleonic Wars was still alive in World War 1.

@Slenderslayer351 Год назад

100 years isn't as long as many would think

@drunkenmmamaster419 11 месяцев назад

@@Slenderslayer351 yeah bro 100 years totally isn't a long time 😂

@LilBoiPeep69 5 месяцев назад

@@drunkenmmamaster419it really isnt all that long ago.

@HanginInSF День назад

Somebody born during WW1 was alive during desert storm

@Simple_mechanic_guy Год назад

I personally know and remember the "second bataille of Champagne" besause of my Great Uncle who died there in October 1915. I preserve his "Médaille Militaire" and his memory, with the "citation à l'ordre de l'armée" to my grand father, who vas wounded in Verdun 1916 and was prisoner in 1940. This war was unbelievable... Inimaginable.

@andrewmarino5441 11 месяцев назад

I think the Battle of the Marne in 1914 might have one the bloodiest days. 153,000 were killed in on both sides in only a 7 day battle and its known to have the highest average casualties per day than any battle in WW1

@1969Risky Год назад

1:48 When I saw that footage of the names of the fallen in stone, the name R. Ritchie stood out. I know it wasn't my Great Grandfather Robert Ritchie as he survived the Great War but I had to do a double take. Any loss of life in war is senseless & we lost a generation. Thanks again for another brilliant episode Jesse.

@justinh6651 Год назад

Great video. Love to see the channel dive deep into the conflict. I very much miss the forays into the Interwar period though. But it seems it just sadly didn't get enough views

@Warum_Nicht Год назад

Thank you for getting the French names right. And for recalling France’s losses. English speakers only remember the Somme. It is always “English speaking history.”

@vincentlefebvre9255 Год назад

He is canadian. He speaks french,english and german.

@pianoman1857 Год назад

@@vincentlefebvre9255 i think he meant that the history of WW1 is often depicted through the prism of British history and memory

@Mike-tz4ku 11 месяцев назад

the English speakers can finally understand that they were not the only one who fought the Germans

@anthonycaruso8443 6 месяцев назад

I guess the Brits are supposed to write French history.Not many French were alive to right history@@pianoman1857

@danh555 4 месяца назад

@@pianoman1857no it’s not What kind of deluded statement is that

@Moredread25 Год назад

France's casualties in 1915 were catastrophic. It's not widely known, but they were just brutal.

@Paul-bs5wl Год назад

@JZ's BFF Not so much a surprise. The combined population of the primary allies (UK, France and Russia (USA after 1917) was more than 100 million more (with Russia) and 30 million more (with USA) than the Central powers, and the allies had a massive global base of supply thanks to the Royal Navy and lukewarm US sympathy (until late 1916). You also have to remember that everything Austria did that wasn't directly supported by Germans was pretty much an unmitigated catastrophe, and the Italians signed up (which at the time would have seemed like treachery) so the Allies did have optimistic news out of the South and East to keep up morale both in leadership and public circles.

@bruantquentin2777 Год назад

@JZ's BFF except that the two highest year in term of casualties in the French army is not '15 and '16 but '14 and '15

@martint5606 Год назад

My great grand father (my grand mother’s dad) was wounded at Souain on the 25th. He was with the 5th colonial infantry regiment. It is strange when you realise that sons and daughters of men who fought that day are still around.

@sinisatrlin840 8 месяцев назад

My great grand father (father side) was medic in Austria Hungary military. He survived the war and was later working pro bono fixing broken limbs, fractures and wounds. In those times real doctors where rare so all armies trained lots of combat medics, Sanitater was German name. I was born in 1975 and he has died before, but i remember fighters of the great war being around untill early 80s.

@user-md9ee9xk8q 9 месяцев назад

I'm a former serviceman in the British armed forces and I have visited the battlefields and cemeteries in France. The thousands of rows of gravestones was absolutely heartbreaking to see and it still seems impossible that so many fell. The graves went on for an absolute eternity and I don't even know how many cemeteries there are in France and Belgium 😢

@yurilytviak9066 6 месяцев назад

It’s a shame that the Germans are forever condemned for all the war time deaths of the 20th century. Even more so when one considers the even-greater death tolls achieved during peace time under the soviets, who were sufficiently beloved in the west that millions more would die to save Stalin’s regime from its various victims …. That would be a discussion needed for eight or so decades by now..

@timturriff3823 Год назад

I had the opportunity to travel to Belgium and France with the Vimy Foundation in 2016. We toured the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, where the Newfoundlanders were positioned on the first day of the Somme. What a solemn and heartbreaking site. While most of Canada celebrates the anniversary of confederation on July 1st, Newfoundlanders remember the Somme.

@lllordllloyd Год назад

It's even sadder and more incredible to think the Newfoundlanders were a follow-up unit: when they left the trenches, no-man's land was already full of dead and wounded from the regiments that had gone before them. Somehow, most modern British historians regard it as all part of a 'learning curve' and not a failure by any means.

@baabaabaa2293 Год назад

Same as the Australians at Fromelles... planned by British Generals to 'blood' the Australians. Australians used it as a how not to pull a stunt from thereon.

@welcometonebalia Год назад

Thank you. I didn't know that database had made us change our perspective on the deadliest day in the war. But it allowed me at the time to track down an ancester of mine who died at Chemin des Dames in 1917.

@guaporeturns9472 Год назад

So are you extending a welcome to all species of Nebalia , or are you welcoming folks to a place named after the genus Nebalia?

@carolinerussell3782 Год назад

My great grandfather died on July 7, 1916 in the Battle of the Somme. ❤ My two year old son is named after him.

@alexandrasmith4393 Год назад

My grandad was there, he was 21 when the war started, and fought through to Italy. We were blessed to have him back, even after he was gassed.

@fastfaps 11 месяцев назад

RIP to your great grandfather!

@toastertastic5085 Год назад

Thank you for these informational videos!

@scumbaag Год назад

Phenomenal content, as always. Glad to see the great war in my feed again. Keep it up fellas!

@arsenal-slr9552 Год назад

I've tried researching the French battles of 1915, esp Champagne, there is very little English language materials out there for the public unfortunately

@tiko4621 Год назад

Time to learn French

@arsenal-slr9552 Год назад

@@tiko4621😂 No kidding

@captintinsmith3774 Год назад

Thanks for posting this .... Very well done! 👍 My great grand uncle Camille (sergeant in the 90th Infantry division) was killed in September 17th 1915, while preparing lateral trenches for the Third Battle of Artois.... His brother Adrien, survived the Battle of Verdun....both my great grand fathers also survived the Great War ... I believe both were auxiliaries in the rear, due to their age.....

@simongleaden2864 Год назад

05:00 Five old boys from my school were killed on 1st July 1916 in the Battle of the Somme. That day was tragic for many communities in Britain.

@mpersad Год назад

Another very well researched and produced video. Another excellent addition to an excellent channel.

@jeffersonwright6249 Год назад

Very small quibble to Alex’s as-always outstandingly well researched documented and narrated history videos: minute 2:27 unless I am mistaken I am certain this is a clip taken of BEF soldiers climbing out of tunnels dug half way into No-Man’s Land at the start of the Arras Offensive on 9 April 1917

@djmario2038 Год назад

Great explanation and commentary! Thanks for the video🙏

@danwallach8826 Год назад

Thank you for the great perspective and clear presentation.

@OmarChida Год назад

This channel is golden!!! I'm definitely subscribing to Nebula for more content from you ! Red Atoms sounds like a great doc to watch

@zetectic7968 Год назад

Champagne-Artois often is overlooked because of Verdun, Somme & the Belgium sector. Very interesting video

@Kino_1988 Год назад

Great video, loved the list kind style. Can you guys please make a video on the Battle of Tsingtao?

@calvacoca Год назад

Awesome work ! 😯 Thanks guy ! 👍

@adrianobier7593 8 месяцев назад

It took me a while, but NOW I'm uptodate with the channel. Great job these past 9 years, guys. BTW, will there be any more uploads?

@jessealexander2695 8 месяцев назад

Yes!

@adrianobier7593 8 месяцев назад

@@jessealexander2695 Yay, that got me excited!

@PurrtyPukeShoes69 Год назад

Such an excellent episode. 11/10.

@sevensongsful 7 месяцев назад

I really enjoy your channel. Doing some research on my great uncle who fought in WWI in France and died two years later in Montana. He's was in the 361 Infantry Regiment. So many of the records have gone missing with the archives fire. Sounds like the other allies haven't done much better with record preservation

@mogensschultzruhoff6770 Год назад

I sometimes go to the churchyard in Haderslev (Hadersleben in German), Southern Jutland, Denmark. There's a memorial for the fallen from the city and surrounding countryside, who fell during the Great War in German service. Haderslev were part of Germany/Prussia from 1864 (after the war with Prussia and Austria-Hungary) until 1920, when Southern Jutland voted itself back to Denmark as a result of the plebiscite. There's more than a hundred single stones for the fallen, some of them with two and even three names on them (probably brothers). Not many of them more than 20-25 years of age when they were killed. I can't but think, that my great-grandfather could have been one of them. Luckily he survived the war, and lived on to be 90-something before dying of old age.

@philsigman9088 Год назад

My great uncle was killed on Oct 8, 1918 during the Argonne -Meuse Offensive. He was in the US Army, 4th ID. Him and my grandfather registered for the draft together but my grandfather was deemed 4F due to a hernia.

@guydegregg8555 Год назад

Very well done, I generally don't subscribe after only one viewing but the facts, photos and narrative are compelling.

@RTDice11 Год назад

You're one of the only History-tubers to give the men who bled in the dirt the respect they deserve, instead of treating them like squares on a map. Kudos, and hope to see more of your work here and on Real Time History!

@Roronoa79 Год назад

Another excellent video from this channel. Though i am curious if there was any information on the deadliest days for the more minor players of the war? Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria? Belgium? Individual French colonies? British India? Japan? The Ottomans were certainly major, but finding sources for them, especially accurate ones, must be daunting if not impossible.

@alansiebert7029 Год назад

Serbia in ww1 is interesting

@maryhamric Год назад

Great video. An endlessly interesting topic.

@g.pistof7581 6 месяцев назад

Excellent work, full of well documented information and quote of the sources.

@manindisgiuze7780 Год назад

FAAAAANTASTIC VIDEO, I love history and I consistently was blow away at your research skills and how little I truly knew about WW1.

@jonathanniay4649 Год назад

I live near pere Lachaise cemetery, there is a 100m memorium with name of the fallen Parisian soldiers, so much names that's frightening me every time i see it. Be nice to each other, don't do war.

@dansmith4077 Год назад

Excellent video thank you.

@thebrightdangerousmysterio7685 9 месяцев назад

Hello! I am a regular watcher of your channel and has been for the past months. Though, I fail to see that you have uploaded many videos in the past month or so. Is there a specific reason as to why that is the case or has the Great War ended? Thank you.

@pdruiz2005 10 месяцев назад

Ahhhh...thank you for bringing attention to the Battles of Artois and Champagne. This is literally the first time I've heard of them, and I'm a huge history geek.

@ehayes5217 Год назад

& btw, ur narrations, along with the video clips, were absolutely fantastic!!!🇺🇸

@mortenbund1219 9 месяцев назад

My great great grandfather fought with the Germans in WW1. We don't know where he died, as the village is not found on modern maps. All we have left is him sending letters to his wife about the situation, full of excitement and confidence.

@geraldbutler5484 6 месяцев назад

Brainwashed hero? Many young Australians thought they were going off on an adventure until they met the Galipoli veterans.

@thezztoxy8821 5 месяцев назад

@@geraldbutler5484have some respect.

@jankusthegreat9233 Год назад

U guys are the best RU-vid channel

@arkadisevyan 11 месяцев назад

No doubt about that, I've been watching this channel for years

@trenchgaming2166 Год назад

Sergeant Welsh being able to standing at attention and asking permission to retreat after being shot twice in the chest is pretty baller

@davidcarr7436 Год назад

Just a note to point out that Newfoundland was not a part of Canada during the First World War, but was a separate Dominion. Also, July 1st, 1916 was the 49th anniversary of the Canadian confederation.

@jessealexander2695 Год назад

That's why Nfld and Canada are mentioned separately in this video.

@davidcarr7436 Год назад

@@jessealexander2695 outside of Canada, other than historians, I would say not many people would know that.

@vincentlefebvre9255 Год назад

@@davidcarr7436 I believe only one irish battalion had a higher ratio of killed men on the 1st of july.

@vincentlefebvre9255 Год назад

@@jessealexander2695 Jesse tu devrais écrire des livres.

@jessealexander2695 Год назад

@@vincentlefebvre9255 J'en ai écrit trois!

@alexamerling79 Год назад

Such a horrific war.

@Masada1911 Год назад

Indeed.

@drunkenmmamaster419 11 месяцев назад

By far the worst in history and most that were lucky enough to survive got sick and died from the Spanish Flu

@teddyduncan1046 Год назад

I love the video as a whole but especially your pronunciation of the many names especially the French.

@williamp.9045 11 месяцев назад

22nd august 1914, 27000 french soldiers died in 1 day, the bloodiest day of the French army in history. One of my related felt this day in the east of France near Pierrepont. One dead every 3 seconds, scary...

@nerdyguy1152 11 месяцев назад

Mes plus sincères condoléances. Vive la France 🇫🇷

@jessealexander2695 11 месяцев назад

Watch the vid, newer estimates put the losses that day at a lower number, and another day higher.

@MrGouldilocks Год назад

I'm guessing the largest single day loss had nothing to do with actual combat. It's probably ill-equipped Austrian soldiers freezing to death in the Carpathians or their Ottoman counterparts freezing in the Caucus Mountains.

@paulx7540 Год назад

Thanks, new information for me. New Zealand’s blackest day was attacking Bellevue Spur in the mud on 12 October 1917. 843 dead, a high toll from a population of one million.

@johnnyreno7200 Год назад

Awesome production..great job guys..your ease in pronouncing the French names is so impressive

@jessealexander2695 Год назад

I started learning it when I was about 4, so that helps!

@johnnyreno7200 Год назад

@Jesse Alexander I really do enjoy the videos man...great work, the Sparkling Wine quip at the end was a crack up

@Ukraineaissance2014 Год назад

He speaks every language for some reason

@jessealexander2695 Год назад

@@Ukraineaissance2014 haha, not even close.

@flyforce16 Год назад

@@jessealexander2695 Which languages do you speak?

@richcifelli7777 25 дней назад

By far the best narration for any European conflict of any era. Excellent German and French (especially) pronunciation; Italian words even creditably expressed. Easy to follow, clearly enunciated: bravo!

@jessealexander2695 23 дня назад

Thanks!

@indianajones4321 Год назад

Another WW1 video here we go!

@shivanshna7618 Год назад

Did you get over you're fear of snake's?

@indianajones4321 Год назад

@@shivanshna7618 not one bit

@user-ru3ql6ji4p Год назад

You guys are the best!

@BlueJayWaters Год назад

This isn't as surprising to me as one would think. I am a veteran of the US Navy. Through my time in service, though brief, I learned a lot about our military as a whole, and it is quite often the small forgotten battles that lay waste to the most souls. That was the reason they were forgotten. Perhaps that's only the case with our military, or when we're involved, but your average American knows absolutely nothing about most major conflicts, and it's up to us veterans to remember our brothers (and sisters), and the families of the departed to remember their names. And what's worse? 108 years from the day you talked about, we're about to live through the nightmare again. With the risk of nukes involved, who's going to remember our names? Who's going to be left to tabulate the losses?

@Surferjo Год назад

it was all deadly..........great channel ty.........

@wapiti3750 Год назад

Thanks!

@t5ruxlee210 Год назад

The repeated failures of British industry to mass produce reliable clockwork fuzes for the WW1 army artillery projectiles was another major reason for high British Empire casualties on the Western Front. Excessive consumption to offset the high dud count was the real reason for the "shell shortage scandal". The huge PR effort involving constant cinema propaganda newsreels of the flood of munitions pouring forth from factories and "quickly being shipped to the front" was an early form of "damage control".

@method341 2 месяца назад

Sort of like western propaganda regarding ukraine today.....

@tristonvisser 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for a great new video just wanna ask if you can do a video about south africa during ww1 and the tensions between the English and afrikaaners.

@BangFarang1 Год назад

My French great-grand-father has been killed on 20 April 1915 aged 34. My grand-mother was 8 and her brother 6. My great-grand-mother was 33, they were married during 10 years only.

@jeremyrounds6821 Год назад

Determining the deadliest day is about impossible because you have often multiple battles and offensives at once in various locations and slow attrition in so-called quiet sectors and then the lingering impact of disease, deaths in captivity, the Arminian genocide, etc

@Digmen1 Год назад

Jesse what about the Russian losses at the Battles of Tannenburg, or the Masurian Lakes a few days after. A geat video thanks I have studied WW1 since I was 15.

@PtolemyJones Год назад

Been awhile, pleasant surprise to see this in my feeds. I think the Somme would have been high on my list. Not shocking that most of these are when a nation goes on the offense.

@jimraymond1393 6 месяцев назад

The host/narrative is excellent and easy to follow and listen to.

@brianoneil9662 Год назад

Considering the tactics, and the attitudes of their leadership, the later mutinies of French troops seem not just understandable, but inevitable.

@Balrog2005 Год назад

Considering that British ''tactics'' were quiter similar in even in the Somme and in the 1917 Flanders offensives I don't see nany specific French, a part the fact that they endured a continuous series of ofensives from 1915 to mid 1917 and had to defend Verdun. The mutinies changed the mindsed to defense, limited well prepared attacks and large counter-attacks in 1918. But it's not ''tactics'' it's policy and politics that get to use of over the top offensives. The same as in other armies, even as the germans like in Verdun or in the Kaiser's offensives of 1918. Tactics largely changed, a french platoon in 1918 would have be seen as very alien a strange to french soldiers from august 1914 in nearly all aspects.

@Trebor74 Год назад

The British practically rotated troops out of the trenches extremely frequently,some months troops never went to the front trench. The French kept troops in the trenches for prolonged periods. The British were better looked after but lost local knowledge of the sector they were on

@maskr5520 Год назад

French mutinies are overlooked. Every country had its own mutinies, sometimes more serious and more harshly reproved.

@noreply-7069 9 месяцев назад

Can you do a video on Finnish Civil War (theater of Russian Civil War) or Heimosodat (the Kinship/Tribe Wars) which were a series of expeditions by paramilitary groups to claim territories beyond the borders of Finland? Imo they are really fascinating periods of Finnish history. That would be awesome. Either way, thank you for your content, I might just become a paid supporter of this channel!

@rodrigobasoaltoc.1743 7 месяцев назад

What the name of the background song used at around 19:40? I would really appreciate if you guys were to include the names of the song in the descriptions of videos! :)

@ehayes5217 Год назад

What a great video, thanks!🇺🇸

@jarroddivens8339 3 месяца назад

1915 also included the majority of the fighting in the Vosges, First Champagne, Vaquois, Les Eparges, the Battle of the Woevre Plain, and other battles that English historians generally brush over.

@bigsarge2085 Год назад

Incredible.

@scottamori3188 Год назад

This video is simply superb.

@asullivan4047 9 месяцев назад

Interesting and informative. Class A research project. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project. Special thanks to the veterans sharing personal information/combat experiences. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death 💀 Debilitating wounds were possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That’s true grit style determination to succeed. Along with the medical 🏥 personal.risking life and limb tending to the wounded.

@Meneldhil Год назад

I'll make a guess and say the 22nd of august 1914, when the french army lost ~22.000 men in a few hours. But IIRC those estimates were criticized by some historians. Now onto watching the video.

@garybobst9107 11 месяцев назад

I've got a pictorial history book on the Great War, published before the bodies got very cold. A great attempt at downplaying how bad it was, with talk of stalwart heroes and daring deeds and on and on.

@johncox2865 Год назад

13:15 “irresistible élan”? Big words for an old man who wouldn’t be anywhere near the bloodshed himself.

@nvelsen1975 Год назад

Being ex-army myself I answered "That day the army cooks let their imagination run wild, that was the deadliest day" as I'm aware those guys cause the most casualties. 😉 That said, let's watch the video and see if I'm right.

@jessealexander2695 Год назад

Haha, we should have included that as a candidate!

@markmaher4548 Год назад

Or as they're commonly known to the rest of us? RATION ASSASSINS!

@billyjackson2605 9 месяцев назад

Solid music with the video

@briangarrow448 Год назад

Have you thought about doing a movie review of the new interpretation of “All Quiet on the Western Front”?

@spiffygonzales5160 Год назад

Review: It wasn't quiet! It wasn't quiet at all! :(

@RR-fg2rl Год назад

What a touching video. Great job. The American civil war lost so many in one day so fast it seems also thought that the war would be over quickly

@DidierDidier-kc4nm Год назад

american civil war was very deadly i ve heard a french historian explained that the losses of confederates and union enlisted were comparable to ww1 losses in proportion to demography

@RR-fg2rl Год назад

@@DidierDidier-kc4nm it seems they used advanced weapons and old tactics in these wars that is why it killed so many.

@benbaker3710 9 месяцев назад

For anybody interested (this is by no means a correction to the video), but the British on the Somme chose a rigid battle timetable (barrages etc) and to walk, due to the inexperience of Kitchener’s army. They went for a simple plan in order to account for the new troops. They weren’t confident they could correctly execute an intricate, high speed plan. It wasn’t simply stupidity as some think

@northernhound3899 8 месяцев назад

It was still a stupid plan though, sending green troops burdened with heavy kit into a hail of shells and machine gun fire. And then continuing to do so, day after day after day. For months. Haig’s apologists should hang their heads in shame.

@rb239rtr 8 месяцев назад

The post did mention the losses of the Newfoundland regiment- the Colony of Newfoundland had 220,000 inhabitants. THe colony sent a regiment of 1000, of which 700 died on July 1. This loss was 0.3% of the population of Newfoundland, very significant- by scale it this was USA today, the death toll would have been 1 million men

@zeldalinkring8471 Год назад

Without watching I'll make the guess of September 6th 1914 or some other early September date. First Battle of the Marne and Battle of Galicia both raging at the same time, both having a disproportionate amount of dead when compared to the length of the battles.

@mightbesomeone6391 2 месяца назад

Two of my great great grandfathers were soldiers in the Portuguese army during ww1, they were both in the same company and they both made it through 2 years of the war

@MrChaostheorie13 Год назад

I'm going to guess maybe in 1914? Maybe during the battle of the frontiers? Anyway, super happy to see this video!

@yellowjackboots2624 Год назад

My first thought

@Ukraineaissance2014 Год назад

Im guessing that as well before i watch the video, although it could also have been on the eastern front, russias mad casualties dont seem to be talked about

@derrickthewhite1 Год назад

That was my guess: the moment when it was revealed that grand rushes on machine guns didn't work... I've watched the video now, and its... very very close to the most. 2nd place, and only after close inspection of fastidious records.

@heatherhoward4197 Год назад

I already knew this studies it for over a decade at 24 and the battle of the Somme was brutal and for very little gain. RIP young men.

@rhysplant8392 11 месяцев назад

Just a little chemistry for you. Contrary to what you may first think, phosgene is not phosphorus, it's actually named after a the process of it's creation, 'phos'(light)'gennao'(birth of) and it's made of Carbonyl dichloride. A heavy aerosol that lingers, and rapidly produces H+ and increases acidy of aqueous chemistry(all chemistry) in the body to the point of extreme degradation. SO essentially, dying by acid in your own bodily fluid.

@LLUUCCAA1914 10 месяцев назад

Which WW1used gas has the most devastating effects in human body? Phosgene Chlorine Or Mustard gas

@rhysplant8392 10 месяцев назад

@@LLUUCCAA1914 It really depends on the application or how they can be applied (it would determine how effective they are). They all effect the body in the same way. All them creating extreme oxidization via radicals. Most of them are made differently regarding methods of distribution.

@EricMatheson 2 месяца назад

The quotes in these videos always muster emotion

@wills2140 Год назад

"In Flanders fields the Poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place ; and in the sky ; We are the dead. ... " And with parts of that great poem by Lt Col John McCrae - Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz taught an ( all too ) young me just how deadly WWI was. With simple words and art in an animated cartoon, Snoopy and the gang transported to a place and a history I had not known or thought about ( though my mom had always told me her father served in the U S Navy during the Great War ). Support arts and humanities teaching folks, it matters. Thank you to Jesse Alexander and all @ The Great War and Real Time History. I like the ongoing "update" videos, as well as these "special episodes". Though it took me a couple of extra days to ... prepare for this - I knew it would make me cry. Thanks again, everyone. (:

@KelsaRavenlock Год назад

Looking at the thumb I was struck with the thought of how odd it is at a time of war when both food and supplies are lacking severely or non existant and half the troops are dying of diseases or bad leadership that everyone still made sure to properly wax their moustaches.