The Meme Battle that No One is Talking About: The Battle of Fuengirola | Animated History of Poland 

​@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki that inaccurate fire seemed to have sufficient psychological effect to sink a british gunboat on its first volley.

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki I've noticed that in a lot of military contexts, a lack of classroom training is not an indicator of ability. The the chataeu officers tend to overcomplicate things. That one NCO that paid attention when he was working with the gun-line doesn't know firing tables or saturation of fires, but he knows how to use the sights and trigger. It might not be the most efficient method, but it'll do in a pinch.

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@@submarineinthesky8946 hahahaha

They rolled with disadvantage and just kept hitting double 20s

True dat

Making up for all the unluckiness they get with neighbours.

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The Irish are probably amongst the top ones as well

@Somarik Green soo you do portray this situation as Stalin did. Where did you find this narration of betrayed neighbour? It ignores the fact why czechoslovakia got Zaolzie in first place

Current objective: survive.

No the enemy always is

Except the winged Winged hussars, they play legendary.

I know

Huh, so ur saying the Polish army had it easy? Since i guess other nations played on _realistic_ 😜

You can't lose something that you don't have./They didn't have it to begin with.

@@elmascapo6588 because napoleon wanted to won against Russia and lost most of the army because of attrition qnd the vassal/puppet country recolted because of his lose. They would have losed the Waterloo too if not for the German/New Prussians

@@alexandrub8786 Acually the Peninsula war was won before Napoleons invasion of Russia failed. That and the battle of Waterloo was actually going quite well for the British even before the Prussians showed up. But they were the final nail in the coffin to end the battle.

Savage

@@theanglo-lithuanian1768 Quit well? They were almost loosing in Waterloo

They just took their enemies's guns. Not that they needed them, they weren't even trained how to use them.

Blayney's sabre is now on display at the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków.

All canons fire at will. Burn their mongrel hides.

well it wasn't balanced....... For the British

Caden Kruger unles it’s ww2

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki I get what your saying and do agree with you about poland being a great empire but that was achieved with the help of lithuania. But during the end of the commonwealth they got totally stomped on by other kingdoms and continued that trend for the rest of they're history and I'm not hating on them I'm just saying that when a country fought poland and out numbered them in a battle that country had a pretty good chance at Losing or at least the pols would make the battle take way longer than it should have but the country would still win the war Ex: germany v poland ww2

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki lol, pilsudski defeat bolshevik

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki its lol because i find it funny that the red army failed so miserebly. I hope you realize im agreeing with u

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki lol!

@Jonathan Williams every time you mean the one time when The ottomans attacked Austria trying to get Vienna Vienna being part of Austria that's a part of the Holy Alliance and if you know who also was part of this alliance Poland Lithuania thus It hade to fight that the polish came at the end of an Long siege should also be considered in telling how hard there fight was bdw Austria isint German as they say so fuck you Germany never betrayed Poland

It’s pretty interesting

@@HistoryHouseProductions Hey, thanks for the reply. Keep up the quality content coming; this channel has a lot of potential.

its about time someone had something British in a museum, considering how much stuff the British have from everyone else on display.

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Lord Blayney the lord of memes! Meme creator before It was cool... or even invented!!

Throw in some "ohhh kurwa's" and that's pretty much it

Pro gamer move

And the spanish retake it by attacking only fridays.

Omg now I know what to do if I want to take over Iberia. Thanks for the tips!

In a Asterix cartoon this is used as a joke. When Caesar wants to conquer Britannia he only fights them on the weekend because the british refuse to fight on the weekend. This is literally a cartoon joke come to life

Soy español y te digo que nosotros hacemos todo todos los días, más incluso si es para defender nuestra tierra. Los árabes entraron porque hubo una guerra civil visigoda y los contrincantes a Rodrigo les dejaron entrar.

That’s what I’m saying

@@HistoryHouseProductions There were many worst. Too many lol

I’m also from Poland hi

U lot hate Muslims. Pretty bad tbh

@@wonderchiken9883 Maybe its because most muslims act like its still 600s? As much as love possible from Western Turkey

*God

I think the polish were protestant so they good

The Polish were hella Catholic too

@@HistoryHouseProductions o

@@HistoryHouseProductions hhp i was wondering since you make a lot of video's about poland, do you have polish herritage or something?

I think they also said Yeet Haw first

[writes tic-tac-toe]

@@septimus64 lol, pretty close, it's pronounced Yeah-bach (spelt 'jebać' in Polish), meaning F*** 'em up!

"You can go to hell; and I'll still be in this fortress." ~Polish version of Davy Crockett, probably.

*Proceeds to kill David Crockett*

That’s a good come back

@Targ im. G. Busha mł. w Kabulu , complete

Classic

Damn it, Fish and Chips are perfect Lent food though!

How the hell did they win.

I made a video about that! Most underrated battle in history!

@@prestonjones1653 good discipline and armour ig, remember the attackers were comparatively worn down

@@Whatareyoudoinnhere preety accurate

@@prestonjones1653the tartars gave up after losing 2,000 men

In france they say "Drunk as a polish"... Because apparently they took an impossible to capture mountain fort while they were drunk. Wodka, wine and dwòjniak make a hell of a potion I guess.

@@redpolscorp Version I heard was that after one battle (I don't remember which one) all Napoleon's soldiers were celebrating and when Russians counterattack only Poles were able to fight and drove them off despite being as drunk as rest of the army.

@@Krokmaniak maybe both are true? Or both are false and it is largely a reason to give a stereotype a somewhat positive twist.

@@redpolscorp I did some quick searching and apparently there are three situations that are supposed to be genesis for this. First one was battle of Somosierra when polish light cavalry charged 4 fortified artillery batteries and one general was supposed to say "Only someone drunk would give such an order and only someone drunk would fulfill it". Other two are basically Napoleon saying something like"I wish all my soldiers were drunk like Poles" One was just random inspection after some celebrating in Spain and only polish solders could stand straight and other is what I described earlier and it was battle of Frydland

Lol

Tell this joke to Edward Vernon I guess he would laugh too, wouldn't he?

It's all Spain's fault.

@@raz_hz yeah not at all the british, yeah it's not like they had to relay on their own allies and also say wrong facts about spanish people.

@@DJREPLAY32 Blas de Lezo has found your comment to be very true.

I have a shirt that says that

you win the internet for me today with that comment, love the reference

Yeah, we defended our independence from the Soviet army after 123 of foreign rule, for 20 years... to be invaded by III Reich and USSR... Yeah, the Soviets are now our allies and the coming to Poland to fight the Germans... and take our independence for another 50 years...

@@janherburodo8070 I'm polish as well, lul

I mean Poland is independent...for now.

Władysław Łokietek (Ladislaus the Elbow-High) reunification of Poland in XIV century? It wasn't a complete success (ihe didn't manage to unite Silesia with the rest of the Poland, nor defeat the Teutonic Knights), but as the end of feudal fragmentation, it is a kind of happy ending, isn't it?

@@adamlatosinski5475 Which that lead to us not regaining silesia for over 500 years and ended up being the reason why we didn't expand north to be more prosperous and so got fucked by russia

Ah yes, aljubarrota with 30,000 Castilians against a few hundred Englishmen… oh and 6,000 allied Portuguese I guess

Sadly their country doesn't.

“Polish Plot Armor” is an outfit that’s too OP to pass up on.

yes, the writers are very hit and miss when it comes to poland

It's a Hodów not Chodów ! I mean h and ch are basically pronounced the same but (ch is pronounced longer than h)

@@vattghern257 i know, im polish. But that was a Simple mistake.

Wasn't the 3rd battle for Poland won because some Hungarian nobles got pissed at the mongols so they just made there own armies and marched into Poland to kill mongols.

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki I know, but i just added the lithuanian light cavarly as they were part of the commonwealth and our allies. Without the poles, lithunians would have lost. without lithuanians poles would have lost.

@@kingsarues1586 Boy, this list doesnt even deserve polish hungarian friendship, as it wasnt a tactic. it was somethiong much bigger and much more often than the other on the list.

Haha! That’s cool that you live next to such a cool piece of history!

I mean poles are still good catholics aren't they.

*wniwecz = ~nothing

A plot twist indeed

it was not that wild for them, polish soldiers fought in wars all across the world hey had been in italy under napoleon first also this was napoleonic subjection b ut specifically poles fought in the american revolution, hungarian revolution, carlist wars, some in the risorgimento (republic of rome spec), american civil war, paris commune, mexican revolution

Imagine being sent to haiti to fight rebels tgen u join them look it up

Germany forces:Ok,40:1 it is

@@galang.satria Polish Soldiers: *Ah, yes, a fair fight it is!*

commence chest beating: hmmmm-hmmmmm-hmmmmm.... tootski?

@@thegeneraljohn2895 Naw, that was almost a drow, G-man.

Thanks for the information! You have a good year too!

Afterword England: This battle never happened

It's not England. It's the UK or Great Britain if you want to be more loose.

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Aren't there *six* battles considered "Polish Thermopylaes?"

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@@HistoryHouseProductions Napoleon himself said that this was the best cavalry charge he ever saw.

Winged Hussars tradition.

I wonder which were more shocking for the spanish, thay charge or the one by the llaneros in Queseras del medio

@@alejandrop.s.3942 This was actually Ułan tradition. These cavaliers were ex Ułans. For those interested: Ułans were light cavalry used by Poles between XVI century and WW2.

Haha!

yeah brother because our histotry is insane and full of honor

true

The world may never know

@Aleksa Petrovic um

By using pre-existing feuds between native. funny enough i think the EU IV Dharma (edit: trailer)is the best explanation.

Not a widespread habit, just an extremely conservative commander (which wasn't the norm, not until the Carlist wars)

By using the six other days of the week to their fullest.

"in any countries"

They can also do the same in their country: -polish bolshevik war -polish Austrian war during napoleon

They fight even harder in their own country

poles defending other countries: instant success poles defending poland: i guess i die now

@@cageybee7221 Check the enemies depending on the regions - on one side Brave but quite unexperienced armies of Spain and Italy + Confused British and German mercenaries - on the other side OP Prussian drilled army, MASSIVE Russian Tsardom hordes (Literally waves of soldiers) and the Austrians ALL AT THE SAME TIME, so I'd give us a pass XD

Yes

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Glad you enjoyed it!

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki wow. Polish soldiers really remind me of Spanish ones. Some examples of battles (10 because I could name more, but it would take too long and 10 is a nice number) and soldiers are: Battle of Cape Celidonia 1616 (6 Spanish ships vs 55 Ottoman ships) Battle of Gibraltar 1621 (9 Spanish ships vs 50 Dutch ships) Battle of Kollum 1638 (8.000 Spanish vs 22.000 Dutch) Cagayán battles 1582 (40 Spanish vs 1.000 Japanese, Chinese and Cambodian pirates and soldiers on an open field) Battle of Krasny Bor 1943 (5.900 men of the Spanish Blue Division, which led the battle and an uncertain small number of SS troops vs 38.000 soviets and 90 tanks. Out of 20.000 casualties, 11.000 were made by Spanish Battle of Cartagena de Indias 1741 (3.000 Spanish, of which 1.600 were proper soldiers and 6 ships vs 27.400 British troops and 186 ships) Battle of Pavia 1522 (pretty even armies ~18.000 Spanish vs ~19.000 - 30.000 French and Swiss depending on the source, probably 19.000 vs 30.000, the French cought by surprise the Spanish troops, but when on the first assault 3.000 men got killed they retreated, and Spanish troops lost 0. One, if you take into account a dude that died because of a mule kick xd) Sieges of Oran and Mers El-Kèbir 1563 (1.500 Spanish defending two cities at the same time vs 100.000 Ottomans on 50 ships, many of which were Jenissary) The Cádiz expedition 1625 (6.300 Spanish vs 15.400 British and 105 warships) The battle of Gembloux 1578 (armies did not completely fight, right army engaged, left total: 1.600/17.000 Spanish Cavalry (1.200) and infantry (400) vs 20.000/ 25.000 Dutch which contained elite infantry from William of Orange himself) Undefeated commanders: Blas de Lezo (the Half Man, I lost one eye, one leg and the mobility of an arm) since he enlisted in the army at young age and fought in battles such as the Siege of Toulon of 1707. As soon he became commander, no battle he fought in was lost. Álvaro de Bazán, a might commander, who's first battle was the battle of Muros Bay 1543, and commanded the decisive battle of Ponta Delgada 1582. Other soldiers: Diego García de Paredes (the Sanson of Extremadura). His herculean strength made him famous. On the military scene, episodes such as his fight in Rome armed with just a stick against 15 armed italian soldiers inside a tavern which ended in the death of the Italians, attracted the Pope's attention, making him chief of his personal guard inmediately. In the Siege of the Castle of Saint George in 1500, Diego enlisted as a soldier under Gran Capitán's command. The 700 Ottomans (Jenissary garrison) had among their offensive weapons a machine equipped with hooks that the Spaniards called "wolves", with which they grasped the soldiers by their armor and, lifting them high, they smashed them, letting them fall, or, they attracted them towards the wall to kill them or captivate them. Diego was one of the men who in this way were taken to the wall, where they threw the hooks at him, and after fighting with the device so as not to be shaken to the ground, they raised him on top of the wall. Paredes then keeping his sword and shield, set foot on the battlements, and once the artifact was opened he was free to begin a fight that seems incredible and is, however, completely true: with unbridled violence he began to kill the Jenissary who tried approaching to knock him down, and neither the party in charge of killing the prisoners nor the reinforcements that arrived could surrender him; reinforcements and more reinforcements came against him, crashing before the resistance of the man of amazing energies, who "seemed to be increasing the difficulty". He resisted inside the fortress doing "things so worthy of memory defending himself that they could never surrender him ". the Ottomans," ​many of which died lost hope of restraining him, "they could only capture him until fatigue and hunger stroke him, and after fighting for three days, he surrendered. During the Battle of Garigliano 1503, another event occurred "as true, as apparently incredible." Paredes felt hurt in pride after a reproach from the Gran Capitán for a tactical proposal. Blinded by an outburst of madness and melancholy, he took his 2-handed sword and went alone to the entrance of the Garellano river bridge, personally challenging a detachment of the French army (according to the legend of 2.000 men who surely were about 500). With great fury and holding the imposing steel, he began to fight the French, who due to the narrowness of the bridge, faced each one of them hand in hand. The Spanish and the French could not believe what their eyes saw. The French crowded together to try to knock down Diego, who had the bridge full of corpses. Only the warnings of his companions claiming that the enemy had artillery made Diego withdraw.

It’s all worth it in the end

Britain didn't do much in WW2 until the end

The French also took Moscow....

You mostly don't hear about it, because during most of the war, Russia was in a state of civil war, where the Polish aristocracy supported opposing sides to screw over Russia, or the famine that killed a third of the population, 2 years before, Poland invaded. Or the fact that eventually 2 years after the Polish took Moscow, the Russians, still in their dynastic civil war, managed to take back Moscow, despite the defending Polish army being 50% larger than the attacking Russians. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_Troubles en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1601-03 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow_(1612)

@@belgebelgravia100 Yes.

@@____union____5319 but the reason why the French couldn't take it by force is literally because they kept crusing the Russians and the Russians saw it best to fight a war of nutrition then a direct engagement.

@@____union____5319 French destroyed Russian army first, at Borodino, then took Moscow from retreating Russians. Burning was started on Russian governor's orders after the French entered the city.

@Gamble Shanks Literal blood for the blood god, but in Catholic edition in meele XD

You can't invade Spain on Sunday; it's close

Good Catholics don't invade on Sunday bro.

Thank you!

Yeah, some other people have said that it isn't super talked about in the local history.

@@HistoryHouseProductions This is the case, or was more before, with Poland's history in general outside its borders.

Makes sense

Where'd you find all this info? Pretty interesting stuff. In regards to the British and Poles not fighting again, I meant that they never fought again after the Napoleonic Wars. I could've been more clear on that.

@@HistoryHouseProductions Polish sources, including: Krzysztof Mazowski' "Fuengirola 1810"-pretty good monograph about that battle; Marian Kukiel "Wojny Napoleońskie" and few others. I studied history and napoleonic wars were my main interest, especially military history of Duchy of Warsaw ;)

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Boom

Wow already

Check the description. ;)

@@HistoryHouseProductions Does it mean I'm an influencer now!? 😆

Yes

@@HistoryHouseProductions Sweet!

The castle is a little bit outside the town, so maybe there’s more info there? I think they did a re-enactment there a few years ago.

@@HistoryHouseProductions it might have been back in the day but its practically a sea fort. And is surrounded by new buildings. In regard to info the whole occupation by the french is not well publicised as its still today an embarrassment. Then of course the British reenactors turn up lol.

It is indeed a meme battle

The memest.

A veces pienso que nos iría mejor si España desapareciera como nación, no sé, como parte de Alemania por ejemplo.

spain did a lot of amazing things in it's history

@@r32guy85 Among them, not falling apart completely

@@alejandrop.s.3942 pues antes de jodernos la soberanía a los demás lárgate tú a Alemania o guirilandia, y no toques los huevos desgraciaoh

@@alejandrop.s.3942 Por qué piensas eso

Dude. That’s insane.

Beware, During 16'th century Poland could stomp EVERYBODY, but chose not to, mostly on a whim.