See how a revolution in France transformed the entire continent of Europe with the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. ➤ Support this channel with my Patreon!: / emperortigerstar Credits are at the end of the video.
@@LuisAldamiz well, i dont remember. I think 3000 is the amount of people declared guilty and killed/tortured. So i am probably wrong on that. My mistake.
@@blackflamefegari5756 Their Military might decreased after the seven years war and the death of Frederick the Great but yeah, they thought a bit like this
there was a chance for peace in 1803/1804 i think... Napoleon was Machiavelli's the prince who failed to stabilize the new world order after winning the last war if you fail to stabilize, your luck will eventually run out, and you will get knocked back down...
There is the answer : /watch?v=dkhcNoMNHA0 We had the same demography as Russians (around 34 million inhabitants whereas the British were half of that). Germany also wasn't united. Napoleon was a pure genius who also had enough human resources to reach his goals. He probably wouldn't have started his conquests if he didn't have these resources anyway.
@@Mornepin He also ended up killing a sizeable chunk of the french youth as a result and reducing France's density advantage enough for Prussia to take over.
@@11Survivor you just ignore the fact that all of these wars ware declared on Napoleon, if there is a one person to blame here then ill say its George III.
@@11Survivor He didn't declared wars it's the monarchies that wanted the Republic dead learn history ffs it's tiring of repeating the same thing over and over to ignorant
@@sucellus5452 Its a common misconception that winter was the reason Napoleon lost the war. Thats not actually true, far more of his soldiers died in the summer of typhus and the like than in winter. 1/3 of the Grand Armee was captured or killed in action. 1/2 died of hunger, disease, and the climate. Only 1/6th crossed back over the Nieman.
Napoleon was like a very skilled but unlucky and too ambitious EU4 player. Because of all his Agressive Expansion points, everybody allied against him, struggling to win at first, then overwhelming later. He even tries to go out with a firework. Truly one of history's most interesting characters.
@@edwardendo2155 Moscow was far more important than St.Petersburg, being the capital is merely symbolic. If Napoleon captured St.Petersburg the outcome would be the same
Definitely Russia The thing about the peninsular war is that Napoleon completely remade 1700’s warfare, but only in a way that works against conventional armies. The Spanish using guerrilla tactics completely upended this
@@jijex213 Borodino would like a word. And before you say that was a French victory, it was a victory on paper only. It destroyed half the French army, and Napoleon failed to gain a decisive victory which he needed to win. It was a tactical and maybe even operational victory, but a strategic defeat.
@@erwannthietart3602 Spain: Is over France! I have the Spanish guerrilla! France: You underestimate my power. Spain: Don't try it! ... Spain: We were the chosen ones! We were supposed to destroy Britain, not force me to join him! Bring illustration to Europe! not to leave her in ruin. France: I hate you! Spain: You were my brother France! I love you.
@@shiedakaynlincurve9554 Got nothing? They took colonies from Spain, France and Netherlands, and all colonial rivals (Spain, France and Netherlands again) were on their knees at the end of the war. They had all what they wanted. Austria put much more effort in the war and won less (some border changes but not in the good way, influence in German states eroded in favour of Prussia...)
Another interesting thing about this map, that no one talks about, is that it reminds us that even before Napoleon was put into charge of everything, France, while dealing with huge internal problems, insurrections and civil war, also managed to fight its neighboring monarchies on every border, even pushing into Flanders to the borders of the Dutch Republic. For anyone who knows a bit about these chaotic times in France, despite the general mess inside the country the revolution allowed talented men to express themselves (talents who were shut down before the revolution as within the "Ancien Regime" any important position was occupied by noblemen ; birth privilege came before talent). This is how talented soldiers, such as Napoleon Bonaparte but also others like Lazare Hoche (who was a rising star just like Napoleon, sadly he died very young of tuberculosis) quickly accessed the higher positions in the Army and managed to win against these coalitions despite the odds.
*europe votekicks napoleon* Lol he was hacking no way he could've gotten to moscow, ok back to our game *napoleon rejoins* HACKER HACKER HACKER HACKER HACKER
@@Cancoillotteman More accuraretly : German Generals : "Damn ! If only we had taken Moscow, those fools would have surrendered !" Hitler : "Did you fools just forget what happened to Napoleon?"
@@derhenri2002 Well not really : Hitler was hellbent on prestige objectives (Moscow, Stalingrad), instead of rushing the Bakku oil fields as his generals wanted to do
(1792) Austria: ALRIGHT IM IN THE WAR!!!! (1797) Austria: ight my head out (1799) Austria: ALRIGHT IM IN THE WAR!!!! (1801) Austria: ight my head out (1805) Austria: ALRIGHT IM IN THE WAR!!!! (1806) Austria: ight my head out (1809) Austria: ALRIGHT IM IN THE WAR!!!! (1809) Austria: ight my head out
Civil unrest in france had little effect on the military, in fact revolutionary guard enjoyed unmatched morale and France could field superior troops thanks foreign auxiliaries and a new invention - nation wide conscription.
@@rockun7929 The Revolution had a massive effect on the French army : - That was composed of the nobles, but they got expelled so basically the French army was shattered. - Had to force conscription and enroll unexperienced citizen as officers - Renew all its military doctrine. In the end it led to the best generation of French militaries, but in the begining it was a big danger.
@@tonyhawk94They indeed had incompetent officers but common soldiers fought motivated by ideas of revolution and preservation of france while the coalition soldiers did not have such motivation
First Coalition: 0:40 Second Coalition: 3:14 Third Coalition: 4:52 Fourth Coalition: 5:20 Fifth Coalition: 6:20 Sixth Coalition: 7:51 Seventh Colaition: 8:38. This is the number of coalitions needed for defeat one country: France.
@@vladislavokolovic5007 I love how haters dissociate Napoléon from France when he wouldn't have been able to achieve what he did with any other european power at the time lmao. The French pretty much embarassed the first and second coalitions without Napoléon in charge yet, no?!
One of the strongest and biggest, sadly in 1700 Poland had economic and internal problems which our neighbours used and take our land. 1772, 1793, 1795.
That's the biggest flaw of the video. I will have to read up on that and will most likely edit my comment afterwards, but, yeah, the First Partition of Poland happened before the French Revolution, so I have a hard time understanding why exactly was it included at the beginning of 1790s (when it originally happened in 1773), only to be succeeded by the Second Partition which happened in 1793. Edit: Sike! I didn't pay enough attention to the video on first watch. Poland starts out with the First Partition borders then is put through the Second. Silly me.
u can notice that napoleon wan't the head for the 2 first colations, republician armies managed too conquer a lot of regions against them then napoleon went and he amplificated the whole thing
@@lama99654 yeah, in the first coalition he conquested Piedmont, and in the 2nd one, he put down a revolt in Paris, and took over western states of the rhine River and took back Italian states
@@mr.smiley1652 Not really, in the First Coalition Napoleon was a general and won many victories in Italy, he almost single handedly knocked Austria out of the war with his threatened march on an exposed Vienna leading directly to victory. In the Second Coalition Napoleon became First Consul of France (Head of State) and again led French troops in Italy and led France once again to victory.
@I like your neck lmao russians were just stubborn af which for their time it is typica to fight a huge battle and then made peace afterwards but in this case no
Yup i mean more like run out of supplies retreated winter destroys half of his army and then russia chases him down and europe decided to gang up on him
@@ygotsvlog3762 invading spain IMO was his biggest blunder, he made a costly war and wasnt content with having portugal, he should have keeped spain as an ally and probably had more troops to use.
@@Hugo-cn9no most of French army was destroyed by hunger and desias in summer, because very experienced in combat, Russian general Barclay de Tolly, of Russo-English-Polish-Litwanyan origin, in 1806, during the Fourth Coalition, after the battle for Presische Eilish, which ended in a draw and heavy losses on both sides, being wounded, after distinguished himself in the battle, told Alexander the first his vision of the war with France. The Russian army in 1812 in the European part of Russia was outnumbered by the French by more than 2 times. Russia had 330 thousand soldiers, 1300 guns and 20 thousand cavalry. Napoleon gathered an army of 600 thousand soldiers, 40 thousand cavalary, 1 100 guns, including 80 thousand Austrians advancing on Kiev, 70 thousand Prussians advancing on Petersburg, 80 thousand Poles, 85 thousand else soldiers, and 390 thousand French attacking Moscow. However, the Russian command knew that due to the huge distance between France and Russia, Napoleon would not be able to supply his troops, and his army would receive food and supplies by plundering the occupied territories of Russia. General Barclay proposed to buy out without a fight, and destroy the industry and agriculture of Russia, in order to deprive the French army of supplies, and to avoid the defeat of the Russian troops. Russia acted on this principle. As a result, over the summer more than 70 thousand French soldiers died from illness and exhaustion, supply lines stretched for many kilometers and were successfully attacked by the Cossacks under the command of General Platov, and the entire Great Army became incapable of combat. As a result, by August, half of Napoleon's troops were in the rear, guarding the occupied territories, 70 thousands died of disease and hunger, another 40 thousands died in battles, and he was with 130 thousands exhausted soldiers near Moscow. And opposite 120 thousand Russians. But the problem was that Russia is a huge country, Napoleon had a lot of room to maneuver, a lot of room where he could advance. Therefore, in the Battle of Borodino, the Russian troops were stretched over a long distance, because it was not known where exactly Napoleon would hit. Napoleon wanted to surround Kutuzov with cavalry maneuvers, but failed, precisely because Russian troops were located everywhere, and because of this Napoleon would not be able to use his legendary cavalry in battle, because after several hours of battle the cavalry would be tired and incapable of combat. However, due to the fact that the Russian troops were stretched, Napoleon managed to successfully hit in a very narrow sector, and despite the fact that the Russian troops were not inferior in numbers to the French, and outnumbered without cavalry, the French had a huge numerical superiority over the enemy, and despite exhaustion, they broke through the defense lines. The Russian defense collapsed and the retreat began, but General Bagration went to the battlefield, raised the flag, and talked a pretentious speech, after which Russian troops, leading by him, counterattacked with a bayonet, stopping the French offensive, but General Bagration was mortally wounded. At this point the battle of Borodino ended, and the Russian troops retreated, evacuated and burned Moscow. Then Napoleon sat for 2 months in the ruins of the city, and tried to make peace. His troops ate the horses from hunger, and winter began. Kutuzov counter-attacked near Moscow, trying to encircle Napoleon, but the French began to retreat, throwing guns and heavy equipment. Then there was the pursuit of Napoleon, but the Russian troops missed the opportunity to encircle him near Smolensk due to casualties from the cold, the army was quartered in the liberated cities. But towards Napoleon was General Chichigov, who blocked the river Berezina. However, a strong blizzard and forest terrain made it difficult for Wintgenstein's army to pass, advancing from the direction of Petersburg, which had previously stopped the offensive of the Prussian army under the command of General York, which, with the beginning of the withdrawal from Moscow, began secret negotiations and made peace with Russia, just like the Austrian army of Schwarzenberg, advancing on Kiev, ended the offensive back in July due to the blow of the Cossacks under Platov's command to their rear. Forest terrain almost stopped his advance, and the Polish cavalry legion, under cover of a blizzard, armed by cold weapon, was able to quietly get close to the troops of Kutuzov, that was fatal to infantry. This seriously slowed the Russians down, and Napoleon made a false attack across the bridge over the Berezina, diverting most of Tormasov's troops, while Dutch engineers built another bridge a few kilometers to the north, and the French army half-crossed. Half of them were overtaken by Russian troops, and either were taken prisoner or drowned in icy water, trying to escape. This is the end of the Russian campaign. France and allies lost 90 thousand died form desias, 200 thousand from cold, 110 thousand killed, 220 thousand captured or injured. Russia lost 150-210 thousand killed, 150 thousand injured, 50 thousand deserted. That was a turning point of war. Most of French troops were destroyed, and occupied by French Europe became undefended, while Russia, Austria, and Prussia opposite, grew in numbers of troops, and have *TOTAL* numericial superiority in 1813, resulting victry over Napoleon and conquest of Paris
@@arty5876 gosh man you don't need to spit everything out. You could have just napoleon had more than 600+ thousand men. Invading Russia. And I mean you could have also said "DO AND READ HISTORY". I'm not going againts your comment (maybe). And just said "Napoleon had 600+ thousand men invading Russia.right after napoleons retreats from Moscow to Warsaw/poland his old allies Austria,Prussia and Sweden declares war on him" and Soo on and you could have saved some time instead of correcting someone who is wrong.
i love how sometimes countries join a coalition/alliance only to leave just 3-5 months later. given how slowly information traveled back then it must have literally only taken an angry letter from france to get their enemys to sign a peace treaty
France, the country that helped the US gained its independence from Britain including Spain and the Netherlands. The country that went through a revolution and suffered rebellion, unrest, and foreign conflicts. The country where half its population spoke French during The French Revolution. Now, it's a Republic, defeating many kingdoms and making smaller kingdoms into puppet states and making them Republics. The country where Napoleon crowned himself Emperor and managed to defeat the great powers of Europe, but eventually be defeated. After that, it became a Monarch again and Napoleon came back and was defeated again and France would be a monarch again. All that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
He really said that and the interpretation of this quote for me is that the Declaration of Human Rights was created in France during the Revolution so any free man with rights is also french in a certain way.
@Apple with comments If you can you have to try eating a baguette from a french baker, it is so good even though it is basically bread but there is something different in it
What have we learnt today? -Never atack Russia -Never betray Spain -Humillating Austria is a tradition And thats how you create your brand new empire bricomaniacs
@Moritz der Echte because they are so misleading....People really believe France is a nation of pushovers and as the Simpsons put it “Cheese eating surrender monkeys” Now on its own those memes are funny but now it’s painted a lie in peoples heads The purpose of the maginot line was to force the Germans into Belgium. It wasn’t some comical error. And France still has the best military record in history. But now people just think of WW2 and ignore everything else. It’s misleading to a point where people now believe a total lie about France in WW2 They had horrible Generals and outdated tactics They weren’t cowards...The French army of WW2 were lions lead by sheep
Something that i find genuinely interesting is that a majority of the wars Napoleon took part in were technically defensive ones, meaning it was Europe who declared on him. We just don’t really see it like that because even though he was declared on, he would almost immediately take the fight to them. Of course, he still declared offensive wars plenty (and ironically his two greatest campaign failures, the Russian campaign and the Peninsular war, were both offensive wars by Napoleon), but aside from maybe using war as a means to an end too freely in the latter part of his reign, i struggle to call him an outright warmonger.
I'm still amazed at how well France did considering it was basically in a state of total anarchy for 20 years prior, managing to conquer literally everything from Portugal to Moscow.
If nothing else Napoleon did achieve one thing that future generations would be forever grateful for: he ended the abomination that was the Holy Roman Empire.
No he didn't, that states were still independent after he lost. It was easy to make europe, just paint all the HRE like one country. After Napoleon destroyed HRE the German Confederation was made, that new state was an abomination for maps.
@@nicks5636 Apart from the Confederation, he united many small countries into larger ones that were allied to him, so he made it easier (Bavaria and Saxony).
He also ended the Spanish inquisition and the tyrany of using some random king appendages as a measurement unit. Giving the people equal rights before the law and granting the jews equal rights to everyone else was just a nice bonus
@@nicks5636 He created the confederation of the Rhine, creating bigger entities and harmonizing the legal and political system, though Germany was still far from unified, it layed the foundation of modern Germany and actually put an end of the administrative chaos in Germany. When you think about it, it's kinda funny that Germany had the worst political and legal organization for most of its history whilst being seen today as an organized people. :)
Me, before watching the video: "How nice would it be if Emperor Tigerstar used 1812 Overtoure as the music?" Emperor Tigerstar: uses 1812 Overtoure as music Me: happy viewer noises
Maybe at the time period I prefer putting late Mozart in the French Revolution and Beethoven in the Napoleonic Wars. Eroica Symphony was written for Napoleon.
I want to remind people, that it took 7 coalitions and most of eroupe to defeat one country. Just shows you how much pf a genius Napoleon was when it came to strategy.
I want to remind you, that Spain, Netherlands (Batavian Republic), Italy (Kingdom of Italy, Kingdom of Naples, Kingdom of Etruria), Switzerland, Dano-Norwegian Realm, 20+ german states fought on the France's side. In addition Austria, Prussia, Sweden and Russian Empire were allies of France at different times during the war. Against 1 country you say? It's not a school fight in the backyard, war doesn't work like that. And Napoleon wasn't a genius, as well as any other general of the world in that epoch. If you wanna have a more clear understanding and comprehension of those wars, read "War and Peace" of Leo Tolstoy.
@@TheMurtukov how tf did you miss out Poland, pretty much their only loyal ally? Or am I blind. Either way to the original commenter; THANK YOU! Finally someone who appreciates the help France got from its allies!
@Тимур Муртуков this is narrow-viewed. Most of his ‘allies’ barely assisted in his wars. Russia did almost nothing against Austria, likewise from them. He won almost all his wars alone with his French army. His allies were predominantly procured by winning wars. So that’s equivalent to saying the Cossacks helped the Russians, as they were already encompassed by Russia. These stated had little assistance until the massive Russian campaign that almost had more foreigners then French. Your use of his ‘allies’ as counter claim is completely devoid of context and reality. Regardless, the biggest blunder is declaring Napoleon an average general. This is simply false. He won the most battles in history, against formidable odds occasionally. He revolutionized warfare and invented systems like the corps. His battles are still studied, he would not be this successful if he was ‘average’. And this is ignoring all his political and social reforms.
@@PRubin-rh4sr he made 3 very very big mistakes attacking the ottomans when he had enough enemies already instead of keeping his armies in france and secure what he had won and use the extra men against the next coalitions attacking spain while they were his allies so he didn't need to fight them attacking russia in the winter while also being busy in spain
@@TheHunterOfYharnam Well in fact, Napoleon never choosed to attack the Ottoman. It's the French gouvernement that sent him in Egypte (he was not in charge at the time) to keep him away from France internal politics affairs because they were afraid of his popularity. And they were hopping very hard that nopleon get killed there. Also he didn't choosed to attack spanish, it's the spanish people that rebels against France because life was too hard for too long... Napoleon tried to restaure order to have free hand somewhere else.
@@Weget2 ah thanks for clearing this up for cause i have have seen many documentaries and stuff but they never mentioned these but couldn't he just try to keep good relations with spain and not go to war with them?
@@TheHunterOfYharnam Well, Napoleon placed his brother Joseph to rules spain to be sure that it will follow France but you guess that the spanish people desagree with this. Plus the fact that, because of the economics struggle in France, because of the british control of the seas litteraly cutting all incomes, life was really hard for the French. So i imagine that it was even worse for the spanish people because of the occupation. I guess things in spain could be managed better but you know... at this time the doctrine was more to shoot on rebels with rifles (What Napoleon and everybody else used to do in their own country) than help people with money the states did not have.
When Royalist troops were deployed to stop the march of Napoleon after he escaped from Elba. Napoleon stepped out in front of them and said "If any of you will shoot his emperor, here I am." The Royalists joined his army.
They were not royalists, they were french troops, and some of them had served Napoleon previously (Their leading general for instance). Even after his final defeat, the french kingdom keeped troops under service. They had hard time to make the old guard say "long live the king" tho.
@@moderatemapper9440 When Napoleon wanted peace, they rejected it becasue they thought it was to buy him time to go on to reinforce for another campaign and declared war on him but not the country
@@moderatemapper9440 almost everywhere and litteraly everytime (except maybe Russia and Spain, but everyone forgets THEY betrayed Napoleon first by not applying blockade)
Really didnt need to invade Spain at all... altho they wanted Catalonia. Could have let the Russians come to them... hmmm yeah Napoleon once invading Spain was on his back foot.
Fun thing is that the current king of Spain is from a French dinasty, which was the same dinasty from Napoleon's time. This damn family has been expelled from the country several times but they always come back. Next time will be for good.
Russia was actually pretty weak in the Napoleonic wars. The only reason they won is because they were smart enough to run away, and Napoleon was foolish enough to follow.
the music (1812 ouverture) was actually written to represent the war between France and Russia. Thus the main themes answering each other are the French and Tzarist national anthems, trying to drown the other out.
As a swede living in Umeå i'm so happy that you included the skirmishes around Umeå in august 1809. which is a small detail that often is overlooked, but is quite importatnt where i live.
@@Cancoillotteman there was a battle in Hörnefors och Sävar and also a smaller engagement in Ratan. And the russians occupied Umeå. So to be precisely there was no battle in Umeå but in but in the county around it. Fun fact is that the Battle in Sävar was the last battle fought on Swedish territory in history! I live in Hörnefors on the old battlefield so i'm quite interested in the battles fought here
@@ferreisd495 they did tho? You need to pay more attention and think more critically my guy. He said lived long enough. Which would suggest past 1821. Many Napoleonic veterans were photographed. Including Wellesley in 44.
@@williamtoner8674 he didn't failed, have you seen the video, france spent 30 years 1790- 1815 at war against all of europe, and at some point against ottoman it's so badas french are one of the most badass country of all times
@@gutsjoestar7450 yea its probably one of the biggest flex in military history with the blitzkrieg, and Hanibal crossing of the alps with elephant, sure france was already an old and populous empire, but then after a economical crisis ruining france, a revolution/civil war not helping, a poor military more like a militia than prussian space marines in the early stage of the revolution, 1 against 3 great powers at once while at agony and they won, not only that they also invade the neighbor and egypt, then Napoleon come to power and utterly crush the former balance of power, once twice 3 time, and even when they overextended they managed to do what no one did since PLC, occupy moscow, without any good supply route like germany tried to abuse in the 1940's
@@jameslegrand848 but france is a giant nation compared to uk spain and austria they have lots of manpower and a proffesional army on the other hand there is unorganized german and italian states we all saw what happened when germany got together
It took the whole of Europe 7 coalitions and 17 years of constant fighting to finally beat the french, and they ended up giving it basicially the pre war borders. Thats mindblowingly generous compared to modern peace treatys...
There were massive reparations though. Heavier than those Germany paid after WW1 in comparison to GDP (which is ridiculous since France had caused very little damages in invaded countries, unlike WW1 Germany)
Europe knew that if it carved up France, it would destroy the balance of power. The nations didn't trust each other and didn't want to agree to any treaty that made the others more powerful. So they left France as a barrier against each other getting too powerful.
he paved the way for two world wars, a global banking kabal, the eurpean union getting rid of national soveriegnty, millions of muslims pouring into european countries, mass desecrations of catholic churches including notre dame, women's right to vote, gay pride parades, everyone brainwashed by the media and technology, and you think this is a "good" thing?
@@j.6378 Now, without his conquests, the liberal ideas of the French Revolution probably wouldn't have been spread to other European countries as much as it did. Without these ideals, we would still have monarchies where one word against the sovereign would be enough to have you killed.
So to defeat ONE country you need, 7 coalitions of all the greatest power at the time, about 20 years of constant wars, overcomitement and the coldest winter of this century
Imagine it taking 6 coalitions to get rid of a guy only for the guy to show up again forcing you to attack a seventh time. You’d think after like 3 or 4 times they’d just give up.