Why Did Kings Stop Leading Troops into Battle? (Short Animated Documentary)

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Kings always used to lead troops into battle and would often command them during it. But when did this change and why? To find out watch this short and simple animated documentary.
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@matschr1806 3 года назад

Queen Elisabeth rappelling down the rope had me on the floor laughing.

@tashantimothy6180 3 года назад

matschr1806 the very thought 😂😂😂

@sunixjester 3 года назад

I could see her doing it though.

@DOSFS 3 года назад

But that will be the COOLEST THING EVER if she really did it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@nothingtolose1781 3 года назад

same ;)

@OtakuMeister 3 года назад

Same

@togrulhuseynli7600 3 года назад

Argentinian soldier: "I fear no man,but that.....thing..... *looks at Queen Elizabeth rappelling down the rope from a helicopter* it scares me"

@k0mentator507 3 года назад

nickys34 sir this is a Wendy's

@nytrex_yt7417 3 года назад

I’m just laughing at the replies

@christianhoej1562 3 года назад

@nickys34 what did you smoke and can I have some of it?

@bioemiliano 3 года назад

Soldado argentino: "No le temo a ningún hombre, pero esa... cosa *Mira a la Reina Isabel bajando con una cuerda de un helicóptero* Me aterra"

@jorgebarriosmur 3 года назад

I know for sure I would surrender inmediatly to his majesty

@barryirlandi4217 3 года назад

"A king has many privileges, but safety in battle cannot be one of them" attributed to Alexander the Great.

@monsieurcondottiero2685 2 года назад

Alexander led from the vanguard, even in ancient times that was almost unheard of. But that’s why he’s Alexander

@lalehiandeity1649 2 года назад

@@monsieurcondottiero2685 A god among men.

@otundetchagala9560 2 года назад

This whole video can be summarized with - "Because they're pussies."

@WelcomeToDERPLAND 2 года назад

@Reinhard Von müsel Even though his empire dissolved after his death, the impact of him conquering pretty much all of civilization in the west at that point had profound consequences that would shape the future of humanity irrevocably. His death may have left his empire shattered and fractured among his generals, but it still led to hellenic culture being spread across the med. and greek gods along with their ideas and cultures being spread across the middle east. Not to mention how for literally thousands of years after his death generals and kings would seek to emulate Alexander and revere him. All of human history would be changed had he not achieved what he had done, and history as we know it would be unrecognizable as it is today.

@bitgrenadier5798 2 года назад

@Reinhard Von müsel He is in many religious sects and is immortalized in religion, he chased down the persian king on his horse, and built an Kingdom bigger then rome and also built the 23rd biggest empire in the world. Also Ramses II's Kingdom is a small fraction of Alexander's Kingdom, and yet you call him overrated.

@TheDarthbinky 2 года назад

King Albert I of Belgium not only personally led his troops in battle during World War I, but he fought alongside them in the trenches.

@falconeshield Год назад

Did he surrive?

@Nova-jd5hc Год назад

@@falconeshield Infact, he did and died in a mountain accident in 1934.

@gameknightjek2640 Год назад

@@falconeshield Yep. This guy is the absolute Chad of Belgium, he is so loved that even now and after his son surrender to the German, the Belgians love their royalty. This guy dig trench for his soldier to rest a little. How badly do you want to fight for a king after seeing him in person in the trench with you, digging and fighting. He used to says that before being king, he was a Belgian citizen, and it was his duty to show the exemple.

@Azraenore Год назад

@@gameknightjek2640 how did he fit in those trenches then? Didn't his big balls cause trouble?

@gameknightjek2640 Год назад

@@Azraenore He died in a climbing accident, so we believe the rock just couldn't stand the weigh of thoses balls But yeah, personification fo gigachad At the beggining of the war, the guy just go to the parlement in military uniform, break the door on his horse, and threaten to overtrowe the governement if they where thinking of surrendering. Wich he did some month later, when they speaked about give up the little belgian land we where fighting on. I've got so many thing on this guy, i got to do a work on him for my history degree, boy that was a fun work to do.

@morten3243 3 года назад

Imagine being a argentine soldier and getting shot by Queen Elizabeth.

@jossanecassar8683 3 года назад

Morten imagine being tea-bagged in your last moments of life by her.

@ANobodyatall 3 года назад

It would have been an honour !

@g3heathen209 3 года назад

She has had firearms training.

@MasterMalrubius 3 года назад

@@ANobodyatall "It's . . . an . . . honor your majesty."

@Davidsladky135 3 года назад

Id have paid good money to see that!

@Nietabs 3 года назад

British soldier: Sir, we're overwhelmed. we need back up British officer: Send in the Queen 0:09

@dophan6938 3 года назад

*Queen's voice * -Good evening.

@sherrattpemberton6089 3 года назад

One does not simply "send in the queen." She sends in herself

@jedironin380 3 года назад

Why do I suddenly expect a Mel Brooks musical number here?! :D

@bloodyuseless7677 3 года назад

@@jedironin380 WOW

@JozeManuLOL 3 года назад

Fine, I'll do it myself

@tommanners1116 3 года назад

I mean to be fair the President of Chad died in battle yesterday so it can still happen

@maxthexpfarmer3957 2 года назад

Wow, really?

@seatray_real 2 года назад

@@maxthexpfarmer3957 he got shot down by terrorists during his expension of troops on the frontline

@endersonshaskaumali4541 2 года назад

guess he wasn't a chad

@alteumaen4820 2 года назад

@@endersonshaskaumali4541 Disagree. Getting KIA is the most chad way for a leader to die.

@the_tactician9858 2 года назад

@@seatray_real That sounds like peak guerilla warfare tbh. Getting to kill the guy who has been ordering your demise must be quite the big catch for terrorists.

@CraftySouthpaw 2 года назад

Since you mentioned that the practice declined after the Thirty Years' War, I would surmise that the death of Sweden's King Gustavus Adolphus during that war may have been a key factor.

@jarogniewtheconqueror2804 2 года назад

Not to Sweden they had more kings fight and die after that like Charles xii

@Themadness42 2 года назад

And a number of other princes involved in the German states. Though he's right professionalism of the general staff is what most impacts.

@Themadness42 2 года назад

@@jarogniewtheconqueror2804 royalty takes a minute to not go out in a blaze of glory like their dad

@baraxor Год назад

After the Thirty Years War, and especially in the 18th century between the death of Louis XIV to the French Revolution, war among the Great Powers stopped being conflicts for the existential defense of the realm or of a dynasty, or striving to acquire such realms, and instead became little more than games between opposing monarchs and/or their ministers and favorites for reasons of gaining resources or trade advantages, or even for simple personal pique, with the dirty parts of the job being done by proxies ranging from generals to foot soldiers. No longer was a ruler expected to leave his comfortable palace when his subordinates could do the job better than he could.

@arnaldoenriquez6191 Год назад

@baraxor I feel like this is where abunch of individual sports start to take off, regardless of when they were invited chances are the nobles had more and more time to play Polo Tennis Golf Fencing Probably archery just to keep it alive

@samarkand1585 3 года назад

Be honest here, you made this video just for the opportunity to animate Queen Elizabeth with war paints going down a rope firing a gun

@Ieva_Leonardo 3 года назад

Underrated comment

@joycerouget2379 3 года назад

Well there are photos of her in war uniforms and firing with a big badass gun ..

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

Well she technically did serve in World War II, she's one remarkable lady.

@BoostedMonkey05 3 года назад

@@thunderbird1921 she was definitely not very ladylike compared to the standard for royalty. She loved cars and served as a mechanic for the British army.

@bigfootjinxthecat8696 Год назад

Worth it

@edgelord8337 3 года назад

Kings: *even though some of you may die that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make*

@flushed5683 3 года назад

Is this suppose to be funny?

@nowhereman6019 3 года назад

@@flushed5683 it's a Shrek reference, so yes.

@brandonlyon730 3 года назад

Well technically he wasn’t a King.

@ASillyHistoryBuff 3 года назад

@@flushed5683 you must be a riot at parties

@subliminaldoomer1966 3 года назад

@@ASillyHistoryBuff You shouldn't really talk back to the almighty God of Wii Sports, Matt himself.

@NguyenHoang-mo7hs 2 года назад

There were so many battles in history where the monarch dying literally resulted in the entire army, despite previous advantages, being routed. Such as what happened to the armies of Ibrahim Lodhi and Imam Admad. Putting the ruler in grave danger also endangers the cause of the conflict - truly a game of chest where only the King piece determines victory.

@tgsachris Год назад

There are examples where the opposite happened too like when Alexander the great was shot with an arrow while sidging a castle, his men believing he was dead stormed the castle and slaughtered everyone for vengeance

@falconeshield Год назад

Chess?

@J040PL7 Год назад

It's better this way so the outcome can be decided without waiting for the last man standing. Just like the Greek often decided battles in a 1v1 to avoid further bloodshed. What happened was leaders would rather lose 100% of their army than to die and save thousands

@madebybelle6965 Год назад

@@tgsachris Yeah definitely the case if the troops were of low quality. And the reason to fight is not clear. The leadership dies and no one to take over. The army don't know what to do and route. Alexander the great's troops were trained very well. They respected Alexander and he had very good generals that could take over in an instant.

@tgsachris Год назад

@@madebybelle6965 That is a very good point, it takes a well trained, well disciplined, highly motivated army to fight on without their leader

@pontusleblanc1481 Год назад

I think improved communication might also play a role. In classical and medieval times it was a lot harder to know what was going on in a war compared to the 17th and 18th century.

@SmallSpoonBrigade Год назад

That was my thought. Not just that, but you get a better vantage point and potentially the ability to have a room of maps and charts to consult as well. Plus, a general isn't that much different from the sorts of nobility that would have also been leading armies into battle at the same time as the king was.

@williamtheconqueror7807 3 года назад

It's because people do not appreciate their leaders appear to a press conference with blood-soaked all over their clothes and a leg missing.

@yorktown99 3 года назад

You'd be surprised.

@Veriox22 3 года назад

Nice one, bastard.

@RyoKasai25 3 года назад

Speak for youtself mate.

@angela_merkeI 3 года назад

If they shed blood and got missing legs no one would have to go to war in the first place.

@williamtheconqueror7807 3 года назад

@@Veriox22 Yet this bastard became King of England. What have you done?

@Lolzyeets 3 года назад

Queen Elizabeth would have been getting a lot of kills increasing her kill streak

@this_is_a_cat3437 3 года назад

They’d never be able to kill her, since she’s immortal.

@emperorkarlfranzrulerofthe2826 3 года назад

her kill streak would give her the nuke,

@chinsaw2727 3 года назад

Wait... increasing? As in it gets bigger?

@Phoenix_The_HeroHater 3 года назад

Hol up Kill streak?

@Spencerinio5 2 года назад

She just teleports onto the bow of an Argentine ship and annihilates everyone onboard

@troll9111 3 года назад

The visual of Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher rolling into the Falklands army of two style is just too damn good.

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

Would they both be riding in tanks though?

@MythosTheSophist 3 года назад

Immortal Queen and Cyborg Prime Minister decent into combat. Sounds like a manga. I would read that manga.

@ckl9390 2 года назад

Except, if I remember correctly, they despised each other.

@falconeshield Год назад

@@ckl9390 Queen won that battle. No one loves Thatcher.

@ReptilianLepton Год назад

Shoutout to Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt III, who died of a heart attack in Normandy in July 1944. Despite being the son of Teddy Roosevelt and a distant cousin of FDR, on top of having a bad leg and overall poor health, he refused to ride out the war in a staff position behind the lines. He basically harrangued his superiors into letting him go ashore in the first wave on D-Day. This ended up being very fortitous, as the first waves in his area, 'Omaha Beach,' ended up a mile from where they should have been. As a general ashore and seeing the situation with his own two eyes, he ordered the next waves diverted to reinforce the landing at the "wrong" location, which ended up saving the entire operation in that stretch of beach.

@Fordo007 5 месяцев назад

Wasn't it Utah Beach he landed at?

@adriantsui9566 5 месяцев назад

@@Fordo007 It was.

@williamtheconqueror7807 3 года назад

That Elizabeth II with the Camo on her face... Just beautiful.

@noidea2568 3 года назад

I'd like to think that there is an alternative universe where that's exactly what happens.

@Cnut_the_grape 3 года назад

Oh hey William

@cantipi4337 3 года назад

I’m simple man,When I saw that scene my fingers went to the like button.

@jacksonville667 3 года назад

KD 47.6

@instantinople3796 3 года назад

Are you proud of your descendant?

@bobmcbob49 3 года назад

"the effective range of a musket was short, so leaders were pretty safe" _Karl XII glares from his trench_

@user-vz2fj4wq7d 3 года назад

I thought he was killed by cannonball?

@bobmcbob49 3 года назад

@@user-vz2fj4wq7d stray grapeshot

@88oscuro 3 года назад

Could have been an assassination as well. Since there a lot of information pointing at a closer range shot.

@bobmcbob49 3 года назад

@@88oscuro according to the autopsy it couldn't have been. The hole was so clean that it had to be a shot from very long range. Anything closer would've been a lot messier.

@Fredrikschou 3 года назад

could he have been the last head of state to fall in battle?

@user-xd2eu3py2h 7 месяцев назад

In WW1 king victor emmanuel the third of Italy often visited the trenches where the soldiers were in. He didn't fight in the battles but the soldiers in the trenches still respected him a lot for going there, to the point that they called him "the soldier king"

@SerhiyKulykOnuferko 3 года назад

"Chad president dies from combat wounds" I'm about to end this man's whole career

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions 2 года назад

I remember hearing about Idriss Déby upon his death back on April 20, 2021! This means that the last time a head of state led an army into battle would be the 2021 Northern Chad offensive, occurring centuries after most Western heads of states stopped fighting their wars!

@naphackDT Год назад

Chad president... literally.

@jascrandom9855 3 года назад

For those wishing to see Queen Elizabeth II in camo in Falklands, remember she volunteered as a Mechanic and Driver during WW2.

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

That's only half of it. The Queen's father, King George VI, regularly practiced with Tommy guns and other weaponry. He was willing to fight alongside British forces if the Nazis landed on the isles and tried to take London.

@yochaiwyss3843 3 года назад

@@thunderbird1921 damn. Long live the King indeed! Wouldn't that be a sight?

@minjajovanovic6501 3 года назад

@@yochaiwyss3843 sad how he died 7 years after the war ended

@firemangan2731 3 года назад

@@thunderbird1921 Damn, he would’ve the baddest badass king of the 20th century.

@nutfunny5600 3 года назад

Onebody like this comment anymore

@therealdave06 3 года назад

*"Philip! I got one! I got an Argentinian!"*

@knickglay 3 года назад

Great, Liz! Don't get cocky

@ezekielellis7471 3 года назад

Why cant i love this comment it deserves more than a like

@hkchan1339 3 года назад

Well done Liz, we will get it stuffed and mount it up next to the boar head in the hunting lodge

@DarkMatterX1 3 года назад

@@knickglay I see what you did there.

@ckl9390 2 года назад

I remember hearing that the Belgian King fought along side his soldiers while trying to repel the German invasion during one of the world wars. I should look it up to find out more details.

@ClawedAsh 2 года назад

King Albert I, an extremely popular King who was a good man

@giovannyflores1961 3 года назад

To be honest queen elizebeth would be good in battle shes immortal after all

@Hobbes4ever Год назад

not anymore

@egg-iu3fe Год назад

well this comment aged like milk

@baha3alshamari152 Год назад

That would be Henry Kissinger

@schwartzseymour357 Месяц назад

@@baha3alshamari152 Nope...

@BelgiumKanarie 3 года назад

King Albert 1 of Belgium used to lead his soldiers in the First world war and fought in the trenches, his queen was a nurse.

@kriegsmannighthawk1335 3 года назад

Same thing with Kaiser Wilhelm's son. He led the german army at Verdun, although I'm not entirely sure if he fought in the trenches, but I do know he led the battle and was actually very honorable towards the French. He even presented a german ceremonial sword to a wounded French sergeant who defended one of the forts with all wounded men.

@TheMonkeygoneape 3 года назад

Czar Nicolas did the same thing, but that ended up blowing up in his face on both the frontlines and politically

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

King Albert is INCREDIBLY underrated, don't forget he literally cleaned up the Belgian royal family's image after his uncle Leopold II's scandalous reign.

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

@@kriegsmannighthawk1335 That's very interesting. Jordan's royal family is getting like that too (generations of military service). Not only is King Abdullah II an accomplished warrior, his daughter Princess Salma became a fighter pilot for the Jordanian Air Force this year.

@adamdickinson2894 3 года назад

@@TheMonkeygoneape I don't think the Tsar actually led them into battle or fought. He just took himself to the front to be closer to the battle when he was commanding. And even then he mostly listened to Rasputin

@rangerbobox1915 3 года назад

Fun fact: George Washington was the first and only (US) president to lead an army in a battle while president. (The whiskey rebellion)

@veskascito 3 года назад

@@andresrueda6677 they mean among US presidents

@varana 3 года назад

@Nicholas Skinner That was his point - Bolívar was an American president, as in a president of a country situated on the continent of America. ;) People from Mexico southwards tend to be a bit annoyed about the use of "American" for only the USA. This was one of the more intelligent ways of pointing that out. :D

@marcolerga3586 3 года назад

@@williammoon4497And the Gran Colombia was in America

@edwardcollier7218 3 года назад

@@varana Internationally speaking, American often refer to as someone or something from the United States of America.

@marcolerga3586 3 года назад

@@williammoon4497 I know it

@tgreythorne45 2 года назад

"Professional Rubber Stamp..." The audaciousness. The nerve. Do it again, it slayed me

@lordedmundblackadder9321 3 года назад

"stopped after the invention of firearms" Charles XII of Sweden: *laughs in never being hit in battle*

@The_Lidless_Eye 3 года назад

Fun fact: king Albert of Belguim is know for being the soldier king becouse he was fighting in the front in ww1

@The_Lidless_Eye 3 года назад

@Jonathan Williams Really, thanks i didn't know that

@The_Lidless_Eye 3 года назад

@Wayne Hitchcock he was an underated monarch.he fought for his country even in bad times.His son was a coward.

@papuhdave9643 3 года назад

@@The_Lidless_Eye Why do you say his son was a coward? did he run out when belgium was taken?

@The_Lidless_Eye 3 года назад

@@papuhdave9643 Yes.when he got back after WW2 the people said that the king left them to die or he's nothing like his father.his rule was short thou.reinging from 1933 when King Albert died in a mountain climb (people theorize that he was murderd). Leopold III (Albert's son and king then) was forced to give up his title as king in 1951 when King boudouin was 21.

@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 3 года назад

Same for Victor Emmanuel the Third. Of course his reputation as soldier king was tarnished by being alive during WW2.

@FDNY101202 3 года назад

Lets be honest Teddy Roosevelt would have got his hands dirty...

@timesnewlogan2032 3 года назад

That’s the main reason why he never declared a war: he didn’t want to send the troops without going himself.

@joecool2810 3 года назад

TimesNewLogan Teddy is my favorite President and when I think of him going into battle I just remember the spinning fury of Teddy’s head and his many arms carrying various objects.

@jonathanallison785 3 года назад

he did get his hands dirty in the Spanish American war, he led a regiment from the front in a charge uphill whilst all the guys around him were getting shot

@octavian2381 3 года назад

he did.

@FDNY101202 3 года назад

@@jonathanallison785 @octavian as president ya potatoes

@devdrastic 2 года назад

Seriously i have wondered about this FOR YEARS!!! Thank you for all your vids!

@jessewilliams9195 Год назад

The humor in your illustrations are fantastic. Thanks for posting

@benjbk 3 года назад

2:28 I like "Jesus mildly annoyed by his own crucification."

@user-lp7sl6ff2d 3 года назад

Crucifixion, not crucification

@spary5751 3 года назад

@@user-lp7sl6ff2d damn, when Napoleon corrects your English

@pashauzan 2 года назад

@@spary5751 lmao

@itsblitz4437 2 года назад

Jesus seems to be annoyed by everyone

@unclenogbad1509 2 года назад

Well, he IS Church of England, after all.

@eointraynor5873 3 года назад

Another episode of “Things you didn’t think you wanted to know until now”.

@DaveSCameron 3 года назад

And knew anyway if prompted?

@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 3 года назад

I’ve always wanted queen Elizabeth to wreck somebody on a battlefield so I don’t know who you’re talking about

@burdenuner9084 2 года назад

3:20 “Lizzie would have been great at it though” LMAO

@henrylarson6970 2 года назад

2:30 Jesus looks so bored just chillin on the cross, love the little details!

@EarlHare 3 года назад

Lizzie coming out of the chopper all camo'd up was absolutely fucking glorious i love this channel

@jared305 2 года назад

who tf calls the Queen “Lizzie”

@Edmonton-of2ec 2 года назад

@@jared305 Babe, literally everyone in an informal context. And she’s my Queen too, I live in a Commonwealth realm

@falconeshield Год назад

@@jared305 Many did. Long may she rest. Until Anubis gets scared and she's reborn a yank

@theinternpianist1439 3 года назад

What about droid attacks on the wookies?

@AF-tv6uf 3 года назад

We do not have many ships to spare...

@etho7351 3 года назад

That wasn't recent "In a galaxy far far away and a long long time ago"

@brendonabney7207 3 года назад

I find your lack of faith disturbing

@_chew_ 3 года назад

It is critical we send an attack group there immediately

@highadmiraljt5853 3 года назад

It is a system we can not afford to lose

@oliversherman2414 Год назад

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

@lezamaduque 2 года назад

Hey! Good video. I never asked myself this question before. But I’m glad someone answered. 👍

@nikolaevkatesla3823 3 года назад

Historians: who is James Bisonette? Geographers: Where is James Bisonette? Phylosophers: Why is James Bisonette? James Bisonette mon: How is James Bisonette?

@ufhb6649 3 года назад

*Philosophers: Pay me James Bisonette

@pisaks6782 3 года назад

But nobody asks how is James Bisonette

@DaveMiller6042 3 года назад

Me: how is James Bizanet?

@nikolaevkatesla3823 3 года назад

communist boi my comrade do you let me put this in the comment?

@nikolaevkatesla3823 3 года назад

communist boi you are a boss

@chr0min0id 3 года назад

“And Queen Elizabeth wasn’t engaging in the Falklands” *She just didn’t want to waste her time with that silly conflict*

@anujpandita3387 2 года назад

Ywah, she could single handled the whole world

@PugnaciousProductions 2 года назад

Immortal doesn’t mean invincible.

@Stars_cream_2007 2 года назад

@@PugnaciousProductions mah man spittin fax

@tornado1050 2 года назад

@@PugnaciousProductions She survived the asteroid 66 million years ago and the dinosaurs before, pretty sure she is invincible.

@PugnaciousProductions 2 года назад

@@tornado1050 Yeah? And the T-Rex became the chicken by hiding in a cave.

@darkfox172 Год назад

'... In a way that a professional rubber stamp could not' 🤣🤣🤣💀💀

@GlamorousTitanic21 9 месяцев назад

“Kings no longer lead troops into battle.” Jordan: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t hear that.

@_edward_l4522 3 года назад

0:09 ngl if I was an Argentinian soldier seeing an immortal old lady shooting at me with an assault rifle, I did surrender immediately.

@LuisAldamiz 3 года назад

You wouldn't, you'd want to kill her with your silver bullet and then get a selfie with her detached bloody head (literally bloody, I mean).

@muhammadfadhiil5992 3 года назад

I'd do the same

@tobivon2074 3 года назад

@@LuisAldamiz deja de representarnos mal boludo

@dominionofquebec10452 2 года назад

thats a battle rifle actually

@EdbertWeisly Год назад

"Immortal" rip

@runnethdown 3 года назад

Everyone's making jokes about James Bizanet Meanwhile I'm just wondering what happened to PartyBoyCo

@petartoshkov2076 3 года назад

MI6 made him disappear at the orders of James Bizanet

@NeonColored 3 года назад

everything's fine as long as James Bizanet and Rob Waterhouse are still with us

@Ar-pz4cp 3 года назад

How about David Archaeologist

@aliensinnoh1 3 года назад

@@Ar-pz4cp Izzy?

@anitanegi9422 3 года назад

@@aliensinnoh1 Izzy was mentioned, but PartyBoiCo was not

@sexyalien806 Год назад

This channel is honestly amazing

@Exotic3000 2 года назад

Yes. This was a great episode!

@gideonmele1556 3 года назад

“Professional rubber stamp” is my new favorite monarch reference

@brobamathegreat7527 3 года назад

Topic: Why did kings stop leading their troops into battle? Jordanian king: this is an insult!!!

@eoghanwalsh7569 3 года назад

So your saying that the Jordanian king was on the front lines fighting Israel?

@zerg539 3 года назад

@@eoghanwalsh7569 the current Jordanian king has flown sorties on targets in Syria after ISIS killed a Jordanian Pilot

@eoghanwalsh7569 3 года назад

You learn something new every day

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

King Abdullah II has won several medals for killing and capturing terrorists. However when he became King there were serveral things he had to stop doing like parachuting and rally driving (hence Jordan has lots of rallys) to protect the King's life. The military love him because he is one of them but he is not allowed to risk his life beyond being the King anyways.

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

@@zerg539 no, I was there at tge time. However it did turn even extremist Jordanians against ISIS so it was also a homegoal.

@takecourage92 6 месяцев назад

Fun fact: before becoming Queen, Liz was a mechanic and drove a jeep for the military during WW2 (obviously not in combat situations). So as far fetched as it is that she'd be leading an army in battle, she probably got closer than most US presidents of the 20th century.

@arlanhelm2300 3 года назад

Hi Mr History Matters, I really enjoy your videos and you're "Fun fact's and the Field of Daisies" is Absolutely Fabulous. Keep up the Great Work!!!

@johnyz.8152 3 года назад

"In mid-19 century the practice was pretty much dead" Napoleon III didn't get the memo

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

Prussia's kings didn't get the message either, at least for a number of decades. Frederick William III and I think Wilhelm I both lead armies directly into battle.

@aldo_agazzi 3 года назад

Neither did Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, Hitl, Fidel Castro, Peron, Hussein.... or maybe this video is just ignoring history

@cockoffgewgle4993 3 года назад

@@aldo_agazzi When did any of them lead armies into battle?

@highadmiraljt5853 3 года назад

@@aldo_agazzi I don’t remember Stalin going to the frontlines in any war

@doomer704 3 года назад

@@aldo_agazzi you just ignoring brain

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 года назад

Little did we know Queen Elizabeth actually single handily retook the Falklands.

@user-nf9xc7ww7m 3 года назад

Technically her corgis. That's why she keeps so many.

@rubberduck8594 3 года назад

She would be the real life equivalent of Tanya Adams. :)

@Xfirefire 2 года назад

I love your channel!

@GodBlade132 3 года назад

Your channel is full of questions I never knew I wanted the answer to

@JenniferinIllinois 3 года назад

I bet James Bizonette would still lead troops into battle.

@whafflete6721 3 года назад

He'll flood the battlefield with money

@Fruitsmymainispomgranates 3 года назад

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 года назад

Seeing Elizabeth II in camo makes me wish she did fight in the conflict, that would've been a sight to see. She is immortal so nothing can stop here. And she has a powerful corgi army too

@silenthunteruk 3 года назад

She served as a mechanic in the Second World War at a base in London. Picked up skills she can still use today... and is apparently a rather fast driver.

@truerespect4247 3 года назад

@@silenthunteruk So is prince phillip

@ArkadiBolschek 3 года назад

UNLEASH THE CORGIS

@user-nf9xc7ww7m 3 года назад

If the opponent beheaded her with a sword then she would be killed. There can be only one!

@mohdadeeb1829 3 года назад

You again

@muthahumpa2715 3 года назад

I love the humor in this channel.

@anthonygerace8926 Год назад

Good video as always with this series. Actually, in at least the past 150 years or so, high-ranking officers (general and colonels) weren't at the front lines either. Famously, Douglas McArthur (who was a lot more popular with the newspapers than he was with his own troops) was often called "Dugout Doug" by his soldiers. It was not a compliment.

@mikk348q 3 года назад

"And whilst rare Kings did get captured and killed." "Whilst Rare" CK2 seems to disagree on that.

@mortache 3 года назад

If you play CK3, almost all wars end in capture of ruler or their heir

@mahmud7645 3 года назад

@@mortache I can't, I have a mac

@jeffthemercenary 3 года назад

Wierd its rare for me even when the enemy is outnumbred i only had 1 king who was captured and another king who was killed but thats just it

@mortache 3 года назад

@@jeffthemercenary the king has to actually lead his troops for a chance of that happening. And if the battles are "slaughters" there's a much higher chance.

@jeffthemercenary 3 года назад

@@mortache yes most my king had trait strong or genius and other martial increasing trait (duelist, tactian, flanker etc)

@sergiovarela8724 3 года назад

I was expecting Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden to be mentioned Losing your head of state suddenly in the midle of a war isn´t good something which the swedish should have learned with Carolux Rex also known as Charles the XII

@juanducas6967 3 года назад

Mighty eagle!

@T_Mac__ Год назад

Solid video.

@padraicglynn2657 2 года назад

Great videos

@danielmp2085 3 года назад

As a little curiosity the Battle of Solferino in the First Italian Independence War was the last battle where all Heads of State of the contenders where leading their respective armies. Napoleon III, Franz-Joseph I and Victor-Emmanuelle I.

@mat2000100 2 года назад

A Swiss dude called Henri Dunant visited the aftermath of the battle of Solferino. Horrified by what he saw, he founded the Red Cross in response.

@OffensiveMiddleFinger Год назад

Volodymyr Zelensky is leading his armies in fighting Russia currently in the Russo-Ukrainian War

@ilania95 Год назад

@@OffensiveMiddleFinger yes and no: president Zelensky is coordinating and daily inspecting the Ukrainian army *as the Head of State*, as far as I know he is not doubling down as professional military personnel the same way, say, Napoleon Bonaparte used to.

@danielmp2085 Год назад

@@OffensiveMiddleFinger He's not and even if he was it has nothing to do with what I commented, do you even understand what I was talking about?

@Lappmogel Год назад

@@ilania95 lmao

@brobroman9356 3 года назад

Napoleon being the only ruler to lead his military into battle during that time says a lot about him honestly lmao.

@samarkand1585 3 года назад

it's questionable how often this has actually happened though. Especially after he's been made emperor

@AhmetwithaT 3 года назад

He was literally a general before he made his way into monarchy while other monarchs were just born monarchs.

@ANobodyatall 3 года назад

People are forgetting Cromwell ! Mind you Charles I led his own too and Ollie was only ruler after being a battlefield general. As you were !

@simon38778 3 года назад

The swedish King at the time (formerly a French General) also led his armies personally

@elbucho8867 3 года назад

Napoleon lead a desperate charge at the end of the battle of lipezig if I remember correctly

@Mr.happycamaro Год назад

This was very cool to see

@rubenaerts7284 Год назад

The Belgian king Albert still led the Belgian forces in Wo1. He had militairy training and was commander of the army. He was the last, or one of the last to ever do that.

@solinvictus1214 3 года назад

Because after Solferino they weren't gonna risk their lives

@elemperadordemexico 3 года назад

Indeed

@Edmonton-of2ec 3 года назад

The Franco-Prussian War would like to have a word with you

@thenoobgameplays 3 года назад

What happened at that battle?

@Edmonton-of2ec 3 года назад

The Noob Gameplays - Músicas A battle during the Second Italian War of Independence. The Austrian Army was directly led by Emperor Franz Jospeh I and suffered a catastrophic defeat

@Knihti1 3 года назад

@@thenoobgameplays It was the last major battle in world history where all the armies were under the personal command of their monarchs. Of course Napoleon III had another idea in Battle of Sedan (1870)...

@QuestionEverythingButWHY 3 года назад

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” ― Herbert Hoover

@kousvetkousvet4158 3 года назад

Kinda normal you can't send to battle people with 20 and 70 years old at the same time

@zddxddyddw 3 года назад

@Wyatt Earp Said as if being antiwar was a bad thing.

@ZMGian 3 года назад

@Wyatt Earp This guy goes on every channel and keeps spamming quotes that don't have any correlation to the video they commented on. At this point it's getting tiring.

@JohnSmith-hd2tl 3 года назад

You must be dying a lot in the Modern Warfare campaign lol.

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions 3 года назад

I was thinking of that same quote during this episode! In olden days, the aforementioned "older men" declared and fought in their wars. Nowadays, you wouldn't expect a president or a monarch to fight in their wars. The last time in Europe may have been Napoleon. The last time in the United States was _certainly_ George Washington.

@dimamatat5548 3 месяца назад

1:29 The Mongol warrior here is not just a Crash Course reference. The medieval Mongol armies did have frontline commanders. And in the 1930s Choibalsan (the ruler of Mongolia at the time) led troops against the Japanese at Khalkin Gol (along with Zhukov).

@hisham_hm Год назад

0:53: "well"

@BallisticDamages 3 года назад

I'm not even 30 seconds in and I already can't get the thought of Lizzy fast-roping into a hotzone on the Falklands out of my head 😆

@MiguelMartinez-jw4mw 3 года назад

Argentine soldier: what are you? Queen Elisabeth: DEATH!

@benjaminthompson8359 3 года назад

I appreciate the bullet point summary at the end.

@FIREBRAND38 2 года назад

I liked the summary of points at the end but I loved a cammied up QE2 fast roping into the Falklands! That should be a poster or on a History Matters coffee mug!

@roadhouse6999 3 года назад

The U.S. had Stan McChrystal at the very least, a four-star General who, according to members of his staff, joined soldiers on patrols in Afghanistan while he was the commander of U.S. forces there. He'd spent some time in the 7th Special Forces group and then the 75th Ranger Regiment before becoming a general officer, and some of my friends said they saw him running at the Army ten-miler in 2017 or 2016. Apparently, the guy Naruto-runs unironically (It's not a 1:1, but he does have a pretty unique running pattern)

@jesusizquierdo3831 Год назад

that's not a king though

@alvarorodtavares8339 Год назад

@@jesusizquierdo3831 nor president/prime minister

@mustang8206 Год назад

@@jesusizquierdo3831 never said it was

@mustang8206 Год назад

@@alvarorodtavares8339 never said it was

@sikViduser Год назад

@@jesusizquierdo3831 He is a king in our hearts

@daltoritheashamed1806 3 года назад

British Soldiers: "For Queen and Country!" Queen Elizabeth: "For me and Country!" Edit: Holy...thanks for over 1k likes! My top comment ever! :D

@mateiaprozianu3289 3 года назад

🤣

@Chris-hp9be 3 года назад

While singing“God save me”

@ApocryphalDude 3 года назад

She’d probably say “Crown (or God) and County!”

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

@@ApocryphalDude I agree. That's what likely she would say, "For God, for liberty and Britain".

@aamnamasqati3570 3 года назад

I was the person who made 1k

@tribacioustee2846 Год назад

Good video

@dimamatat5548 2 месяца назад

You forgot to mention the role advancements in technology played. The invention of the telepgraph, the phone, the radio and later, the internet, allowed rulers to command remotely without putting themselves at risk.

@Edd-el 3 года назад

"Well" *shows a picture of a well* I was like "what?" XD

@garlandgarrison3739 3 года назад

"Dad I heard your brother died in the invasion." "Yeah, he got 360 quick scoped by George W. Bush." "Fucking sick LMFAO"

@Snubrevolver 3 года назад

"...Don't let them tell you it was a fair fight though, his ping was off the charts"

@garlandgarrison3739 3 года назад

@@Snubrevolver it was confirmed Bush did infact use aimbot

@aaronmarks9366 2 года назад

Best comment

@SerPinkKnight 3 года назад

"The range of a musket was short and so leaders were still safe" The number of people in Napoleon and Wellingtons retinues who were killed by cannonballs suggests otherwise. Likewise the front line isn't always neat and Napoleon got hit my musket once or twice as I recall. Napoleon remarked on it himself, that in his era any general had to get within cannon range to amke the observations needed to to actually command.

@pupukachu 2 года назад

@Turaglas @Shotgun Parley I believe Napoleon was only hit by a musketball once, and the bullet had lost all its power from the distance + ricochet by the time it hit him in the ankle. And yes, although the video was pointing out the efficacy of muskets rather than cannonball, in reality the danger is much worse considering them. So yes the muskets weren't much of a threat at that range but the amount of men who had their legs smashed by cannonballs on a daily basis, and some battles in which over 40,000 cannonballs were fired over the course of a day, would have given even Achilles pause.

@looinrims Год назад

Cannons =/= muskets Not sure the point of this comment or why it got any likes minus contrarianism

@AlexanderRM1000 Год назад

0:40 Brett Devereaux wrote a series on premodern generalship recently and one of his points was that "general on a hill behind the battle" only became a thing after the invention of the telescope, plus maybe some gunpowder related changes in how armies engaged. In ancient times you couldn't see anything from a hill behind the field and couldn't do much anyway, once the battle started many generals would choose where to send in reserves then run in with the last group of reserves themselves to a key spot for the morale/prestige boost. (Caesar and Alexander have quite different styles but both do this repeatedly)

@rajansinghnandrha1837 3 года назад

just another reason why napoleon bonaparte was such a legend

@gontrandjojo9747 2 года назад

It's different. Napoleon Bonaparte was not a king leading his troops on the battlefield, but a general that staged a military coup to take power and become emperor. In fact he was exactly this guy at 2:09 , he was given an army and after victories he used his army to overthrow the ruling government and take power (if the kings in the 18th and 19th centuries had nothing to fear from their generals because the regimes and law of successions were old and well established, it was not the case for a new and not well established regime like the French republic and it lasted 10 years before a general used his army to take power XD).

@tomben6180 2 года назад

@@gontrandjojo9747 Bingo

@2adamast 2 года назад

Napoleon 3 went to battle and didn’t run away when things went bad, unlike some other Bonaparte

@emaarredondo-librarian 2 года назад

@@gontrandjojo9747 However, after taking power and becoming Consul, First Consul, Consul for life and Emperor, he did went to battle. He didn't head the Grande Armée when charging (Murat did that), but he was close enough to the action as to be wounded by a bullet once, and having horses killed under him. The distinction made in the video is valid both ways: as Napoleon was an officer (artillery) before becoming a ruler, he had the professional training and experience other contemporary kings didn't have, and, once he became a monarch, he continued to go campaigning with his soldiers, who worshipped him. That's why Napoleon was in Austerlitz, Jena, Moscow, and Waterloo, whereas the kings his enemies were in their palaces. Or fleeing from him. I highly recommend you the excellent book Swords Around a Throne, by Col. John R. Elting. The best to know how worked the complex machinery of Napoleon's army.

@MidlifeCrisisJoe 2 года назад

@@gontrandjojo9747 Yeah but the French government at the time was a huge post revolution mess of nonsense. It's still nonsense to this day, but it was especially nonsense when Napoleon took over the institution.

@generalgrevious9960 3 года назад

Can we just appreciate the humour this channel provides us. I hope it never changes, along with the narrator.

@greenbutter3190 3 года назад

Stable video👍

@abisaijorgevegaperez5289 Год назад

Altough Napoleon loved the battlefield and leading his armies, when he took power in 1799 France had already suffered through 5 different coup detat in barely 10 years, so by staying with the armies and away from a siegeable palace in Paris he ensured that his reign couldn't be toppled, somewhat similar to what Cesar, Aurelian and Vespasian did during the Roman Empire

@gontrandjojo9747 Год назад

Napoleon was not a "King" of an established dynasty. He was a general first who seized power by a military coup and his title of "emperor" didn't change the fact that his regime was a military dictatorship.

@NeverGoingToGiveYouUp000 Год назад

@@gontrandjojo9747 Nothing wrong with that of course

@christopheripoll2580 Год назад

@@gontrandjojo9747 Sidenote : a "dictator" who was loved by the population and remains in our French hearts forever.

@sandeepgill9975 Год назад

@@microsoft8301 Nice spelling

@xGOKOPx Год назад

@@gontrandjojo9747 Who asked

@TheDarkever 3 года назад

And here I thought it was mainly because even if the king / noble was captured, he wouldn't be killed but simply used for a huge ransom and land concessions. The video's points make much more practical sense! You learn something new every day :)

@jimmyjackson9558 3 года назад

Imagine a king that fights his own battles-Achilles

@copan2289 3 года назад

I knew somebody would put that on the comments

@JukeboxTheGhoul 3 года назад

Most badass gay this side of the Peloponnesian War

@eedwardgrey2 3 года назад

Fun fact: in the Illiad Achilles was also a king and Agamemnon did plenty of his own fighting

@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 года назад

1000th years old bitch elizabeth: *sweats nervously*

@jimmyjackson9558 3 года назад

Copan 22 lol beat you to it

@alfredmorency8296 2 года назад

@ History Matters I like the detail at @1:08 where two U.s.,. soldiers (Presumably Spanish-American war) have Krag Jorgensen rifles.

@my9thaccount140 Год назад

I’m going to make the assumption that the reason why it stop could be attributed to one thing. Primitive Snipers. Having your leader fight alongside you is a great morale booster, having his head blown off from out of nowhere by a single gunman does the opposite.

@mekingtiger9095 7 месяцев назад

Finally, someone not responding with the simplistic mindset of "Urh, durh, because old leaders were real men or something".

@ErikHare 3 года назад

LBJ leading the troops personally was pretty much all anyone wanted in the Vietnam War.

@mrbisshie Год назад

Seeing Bush in Afghanistan/Iraq, and Obama in Afghanistan/Syria leading the troops at the front lines would be great.

@fatyoshi4853 3 года назад

Nice idea: why did the Dutch have a trading port in Japan (i think Nagasaki?) when no other Europeans did?

@williamtheconqueror7807 3 года назад

It's because they didn't want to spread religion into Japan. They just wanted to trade.

@themaniac2448 3 года назад

wtf? the portuguese were the first to reach japan

@infinitememegod 3 года назад

The Maniac we know that, he said why did the Dutch ONLY

@infinitememegod 3 года назад

Not Nagasaki, I think it was during the isolation period and the Dutch showed that they would trade in science for goods

@luca_history 3 года назад

Because the Dutch didn't support a Christian rebellion while everybody else did

@hagamapama 8 месяцев назад

surprised you didn't shout out King Albert of Belgium, who was one of the last kings to lead his troops in large scale battle.

@majordolmann2767 3 года назад

RIP to the president of Chad

@Jiji-the-cat5425 3 года назад

I can just imagine one day, a King is on his horse or something leading soldiers into battle, canons and artillery everywhere. Then out of nowhere he's like "wait a minute I'm the King! I don't have to do this shit!"

@fishnujish1511 3 года назад

Wait a minute, it's almost as if I can be a cowardly fuck!

@steelbear2063 3 года назад

Wait a minute. I'M WHITE HAHA

@DF-ss5ep 2 года назад

Wait a minute, I can just have my scribes write that I was in battle and fought several people at once, and people will believe them centuries later 🤔

@PhilosophiceRetardari Год назад

@@steelbear2063 What?

@randomguy6152 Год назад

@@PhilosophiceRetardari watch boondocks

@ravenlord4 3 года назад

Having said that, many royal families (and some political ones) require (or highly encourage) some form of military service by their scions in their early years. It's not always plush duty either -- it can get down right dirty and dangerous.

@Morskoy_Velican 2 года назад

Oh. This is the weakness of humanity. It's probably in our genes to rejoice that the leader, the ruler, takes a gun and is ready to shoot at foreigners. An increase in morale, and not only, is guaranteed.

@goolah2000 Год назад

Love your stuff. Just a note on your mentioning king Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia leading his troops in battle in the 1930's I'd like to mention another king/emperor leading his troops in battle in the same decade: Hailey Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defending against The Italian army's mechanised invasion