The War Aims of Each Nation in the Austro-Prussian War 

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@Old Britannia I don't know what your intentions are for long term channel growth and direction, but, I would suggest you consider this. The algorithm may favor a series of longer documentaries of popular history topics, giving you a better opportunity for your work to reach a larger audience. The shorter videos may offer some reward in the short term, but, may fall into obscurity in the long term. Longer, higher quality videos may yield greater results in the long term. You have done a great job thus far with your history videos, especially covering the British Empire and the unification of the German States. Clear, in depth, and unprejudiced looks into such important periods of history are quite valuable. Keep up the great work. Three cheers from here in the United States.

@@Thoughtful7754 Thank you very much. And yes I absolutely agree. Longer form documentaries/series is what I’m looking to build up to. At the minute I’m still in very much an experimental phase with the channel, just to see what works, what I enjoy making etc. But it’s longer form documentaries is definitely what I want to switch to in the near future.

​@@Thoughtful7754 The flipside to this is that longer videos, let's say 20 minutes or more, may dissuade casual viewers from watching them due to time constraints and suchlike. A good compromise might be a one hour documentary, but split into three or four parts for easy consumption. Just my 2c.

@@StaffordMagnus He could do a mix of both; a couple of short-term videos like this one and then a long video which, as you said, could be split into chapters.

You would love Victoria 2 & 3

Is Victoria 2 gonna become free once Victoria 3 comes out? Like what they did with Crusader Kings?

@@somehistorynerd I don't think so, CK2 was made free because you already have to pay around 5 times the base game's price in DLC

The funny colors on the maps really do make all the difference

Damn, can’t imagine anything more basic. Only ww2 fanatics are worse.

You might be interested in the Real Time History channel if you haven't heard of them already.

@@WildWight They’re good too, already subscribed to them

True. This era is looked over massively when so much 5D-chess was being played all over Europe.

wasn't expecting to see you here

The Austrian strategy didn’t make sense at all. They would lose north eastern Italy anyway, so instead of sending more than 70000 soldiers there they could have kept them in the north against the prussians and win against them, while leaving only a token force in the south to slow down the Italian advance.

One of my favorite rare gems commenting on a video from another one of my favorite rare gems is very nice surprise.🤩

I don;t even get why Austria was more powerful than Prussia? Just because of territory? Vienna has tenous hold over various territory as evidence by their failure in Hungary and needing Russia's help. Economically they were eclipsed by Prussia. Excluded from the customs union and does not have anything like the Ruhr industrial district nor even the Silesian industrial area. Coal and iron was the industrial building block of the era. Diplomatically? It was isolated by the Crimean war and its intanglement in Italy and lack of plan in Germany. Ideologically? Thiers is an achaic system of dynastic anddeudal relationship, totally unsuited in the era of nationalism.

@@ryanjuguilon213 Austria had double the population of Prussia and a very similar GDP per capita. Less Austrians worked in agriculture than Prussians at the time. Austrian weakness is overstated throughout history only because of their inability to survive the most calamitous war in human history (something which Prussia-Germany and Russia also did not survive).

Ah yes. Those south Germans! Im sure the northerners were quaking in their boots. Just like at Rossbach. Or Wurzburg. Bavaria's last noteworthy performance was during the 80 years war. After that they were just cannon fodder for the French and Austrians. Whichever side they want to lick their ass.

Ah, yes. There is very nice video about Risogermento on Guido channel, showing Italian view of conflict.

or just German War

Seems a more appropriate name for the Thirty Years' War.

@@forthrightgambitia1032 I don't know if we want to call a war that included France, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Poland a German-German war...

i vote for it Monsieur Z Love from alternate history fan in Vietnam

Zvallid and whatifalthist is more of your level.

didn't know you watched him too

Wow, Mr Z here. Nice to see you watching this great channel too.

Yesssss

Securing the Alps and thus the peninsula was a strategic objective, still.

@@gs7828 Of course my friend, but it wasn't an objective at that time, they wanted Propoganda not functionality. (Something that will change in the next 30 years)

Bozen*

@@eb1184 It also got germanised by Austria. Italy was under German domination for centuries.

@@Real_MrDev Italian generals had also a say. The Alps are a strategic position, and a natural border. Also, South Tyrol/Alto Adige was Germanised too in the past. Rolling back foreign control of the peninsula passed through that chapter too.

Maybe Bismarck would have been more inclined towards Italian demands if the Italian army/navy did not perform so badly during the war.

@@Tacitus-qd3ev "Italy has great hunger, but bad Teeth" - Bismarck.

@@alexzero3736 That's why we needed the Great War to conclude our national unity and irredentism.

@@gs7828 but the Italiens were traitors there

​@@generalfeldmarschall3781 The Italian allies is basically saying we need your resources and another fronts. Not your fighting capability

Thank you. Literally just photoshop, and learnt with Dr Ludwig’s tutorial on RU-vid, from there it was just trial and error and finding map styles I liked online.

We all are in different ways.

Hell yes

Just a small problem in the future is that the Austrian prove to be worthless and inconvenient as an ally. I am guessing Bismarck didn't see that kicking the Austrian out of German affairs and left them in charge of a multi ethnic Empire with nationalism on the rise wouldn't be a problem?

This makes me think like Bismarck was alone genius who had real designs for united German states. Why Austria never tried to make German Confederation or even HRE a political entiety?(with or without Prussia). Why Russia, France and UK ( the Entente of 1914) ignored rising of Germany?

From this video, if the Austrians had been quicker in getting rid of Venice to placate France and Italy, maybe things would be different. It also would probably have been a good idea to spin off the Hungarian portion as a separate unit, since it seems that the gridlock between the that the and German portion caused Austria a lot of problems. Guarantee the Lowlands as a buffer state to get France and even GB on board, and just don't lose to Prussia. :D Maybe it's too tall of an order. Bismarck and Prussia really seemed to be in the right place at the right time, or rather, have an understanding of the spirit of the times. They could almost see the future, or just gambled and won. One way or another, it was Prussia's win.

British content is coming, don't worry.

Just through Photoshop. Learnt using Dr Ludwig's tutorial on YT. after that just trial and error and finding map styles I liked online.

Just premier pro

I think he did

Already did I think

My Castlereagh biography briefly covers it, though from a narrow perspective. At some point yes I’d love to.

Historia Civilis has a good video on it

@@rpan1738 Oh yes, that’s why I am asking in the first place. Historia Civilis Video is Great but also very detailed and lengthy. A compressed version with maybe more precise mapping and more focus on claims than political relations might be interesting as well.

My Source for South Tyrol is AJP Taylor. I couldn’t find anything about Istria myself, but I’m happy to accept the correction nonetheless.

@@OldBritannia It's fine, I love your videos and how detailed they are! P.S: To clarify Istria more, while I don't believe they publicly made an announcement but if the war prolonged and they fully conquered Venetia, Istria would probably be added (Or atleast the Italian majority cities like Triest and Rijeka (Back then Fiume)

South Tyrol is part of the peninsula and makes sense to defend the Brenner Pass, closing the entrance from Austria. Also, historically the Italian peninsula had always been portrayed in the Roman province of Italia and the Brenner Pass was part of historical Italy, Germanised later. Italy had, indeed, been dominated by foreign powers for centuries, but after the Great War the country finally concluded its national unity and control over its peninsula.

@@OldBritannia Also I have a recommendation for a future video, "War aims of states during the American civil war" At first it seems boring because it's only US and Slave owners but looking at it more deeply and how stuff like cook county seceding from Tennesse or West Virginia being created, and that's not even talking about the British proposal to hand over Canada to the US if they stopped the civil war.

@@foodman3695 I hadn't considered doing one on the Civil War, but that actually sounds like a really interesting idea. Perhaps I could even sneak in a section on Maximilian's Mexico. I shall add it to the list.

My comment got hearted, but the heart got removed due to me fixing a typo.

Haha, I’m afraid not.

Yeah, I agree it’s on the quiet side. Will endeavour to next time.

I should think so yes.

Ah, that's a mistake on my part. Simply forgot to match that border between layers in photoshop. Apologies, when one deals with so many maps, lots of little mistakes like this unfortunately creep through lol.

No need to apologize. I was wondering if it was just a mistake but if it wasn't I wanted to go ahead and ask because it probably would have been hard to find any information on such a small border change.

And that gave them the right to win because??? They point of that comment was to point out the stupidity of the decision to send a large force to the Italians for land they had already agreed to give up, he said that they deserved to lose because if they just pulled back to the alps or better yet just told the Italians they were giving up Venetia then they would have had a far better chance of winning. Instead they did what Austria has always done sent brave soldiers to die because of incompetent leadership. Also the Hapsburgs only came to power as Emperor at 1453, the Prussians would be founded in 1525, only around 2 generations later. So to say the Hapsburgs lead all the German states for centuries before they were founded is incredibly hyperbolic considering not even a century has passed since the Prussian state formed. In fact your statement becomes even more ridiculous if you include the Teutonic order who preceded the Prussians and pretty much laid the groundwork for Germans in Prussia when they took over in 1283. Which is around the same time that the Hapsburgs took control of the Dutch of Austria at 1246. Both states had the history, power, and prestige to take over Germany, which is why the war had to be fought to decide it.

@@tiringsarcasm The Habsburg's had the right to rule Germany because they had always been Germans while the Prussians are originally people from the Baltics and only became German when they had a personal union with Brandenburg. The first Habsburg ruler was Rudolf I who was King of the Germans from 1273. That technically means the Habsburg's ruled Germany for centuries before the Prussians. You can't lump Prussia and the Teutonic Order with the same history, that's like saying the Mongol Empire existed until the 18th century cause of their successors the Mughal's. Main point I was making that a Habsburg victory meant a truly united Germany instead of the two Germanies we have now.

@@imgvillasrc1608 Habsburg are cringe and incompetent. No thanks.

@@imgvillasrc1608 Hm, I suppose if the goal was true unification than a Hapsburg victory would make sense. Although it would be far far more difficult considering the pressure that the Hungarians would put on them because of it. The main reason they never unified before this was because the Hungarians would protest against adding anymore ethnic Germans to their empire, so it would likely become a loose confederation rather than one country.

They true unification is the one made by sicilian nobility under the house of Hohenstaufen

Yes, definitely on the list

@@OldBritannia Awsome!

They actually removed wars

@@alexzero3736 ??

there are streams on paradox channel about Victoria 3, you can watch gameplay...

@@alexzero3736 Wars are not removed which is why I put ??. Wars just got reworked. Honestly it's not even that bad, better than the Vic2 system that became a clusterfuck in the late game. I don't want to have to micromanage a huge army and a have to micromanage my economy at the same time.

But they made it all like border conflicts in Hoi, thats boring...also there no single animation, no units...

France, Russia and probably UK would disagree with such move and would put pressure on Prussia to give those lands back.

Imagine caring about irrelevant mud eaters

It was a demand from Napoleon 3," you give me Savoy and Nice wich were part of the French Empire, and i give you troops and letting you have your Little Italy". ( funny that Napoleon proposed Italy as confederation, with Rome staying under Pope forever...). Actually freeing of Venice also was promised to Cavour...Btw capital was in Florence until 1871.

The old name of the windsors it's Hannover, I don't see them owning territory in Germany right now. Owning Italy was far more worthy than owning an obscure province on the other side of the Alps

Thank you. I agree it is on the quiet side, audio in general is something I am still figuring out.

The crimean war was literally wortless

​​@@nouhowlmao2809 and the Napoleon III just keep pressuring the Ottoman for their goal which also hampered their mordenization. Which caused them to be unable to keep up if the Russian back again. Either Way i more support for the Ottoman if it the only way to keep the Balkan under control. The Balkan since the Ottoman left had been but catalyst for World War 1.

They Did, no?

@@alexzero3736 hmm, I need to re write the comment

Well, Bismarck was afraid about any major country interference, as war drags longer those probability is growing...i guess the result would be Status Quo and diplomacy would be escalated to International conference like Congress of Vienna, Bismarck and other Prussian leaders would be dissapointed that Germans are not deciding the future of Germany alone. The most likely outcome would be that German federation would split, allies of Prussia would be allowed to join It s federation, while others would stay in confederation under Austrian leadership. Venice would be given to Italy anyway. So, basically German unification would be stalled by 5-10 years. And south Germany like Bavaria, Baden, Wurtemburg may create their own little South German Federation.(With Austrian or French backing)

Nah. There are different evidence, Napoleon 3 never considered Austria as friend. In Crimean war Austria was neutral, in Italo- Austrian war of 1860 French troops attacked Austrians with Napoleon himself...

@@alexzero3736 does that not prove my point or at least justify why he was so complacent to opportunity? The original Napoleon was very opportunistic and the world banded against him. It’s entirely possible he might have had an inadequacy issue over that. He might not wanted to have gone as far as the original Napoleon, but in doing so he shot way under the mark.

There's definitely an element of that. In particular he was concerned about provoking Britain's ire. But in general he was just one of life's procrastinators in Foreign Policy, with not much in the way of ulterior explanation.

@@OldBritannia fair enough, the Bonapartes were always seemingly were secret admirers of Britain haha; and in some cases, like with the 4th, seemingly more British than French.

Actually it was a matter of time, such fast Austrian defeat was unexpected. So French declaration of war wont change much, as Bismarck offered peacedeal in hasty manner and with limited demands, not taking any piece of Austria itself.