Why Was the Holy Roman Empire Dissolved? (Short Animated Documentary)

Подписаться 1,7 млн

Просмотров 1,3 млн

50% 1

The Holy Roman Empire was at the heart of European politics for centuries when abruptly in 1806 it disappeared from history, never to be seen again. Given its importance it makes sense to ask why. Why did the Holy Roman Empire die? To find out watch this short and simple animated documentary.
/ histmattersyt
Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
Merch: teespring.com/stores/history-...
A special thanks to all of these Patrons below, without whom the show wouldn't be possible:
Fox2012
Robyn Kitchen
Southside Mitch
Hasmuffin
Michael Kram
Ryan Schindeler
Andrew Partington
Franco La Bruna
Dan Reiher
Mickey Landen
Kevin Phoenix
אורי פרקש
Brian Giordano
Richard Wolfe
Aaron Conaway
Scott P
Chase Labiste
sharpie660
David Brown
Hedrin
Ian Jensen
Porkmeister
Robert Brockway
kevinh
Nicholas Menghini
Ian Smith
Phil and Lisa Toland
James Nile
anon
Adrian Marine
Mantodea
Curt Helmerich
Andreas Mosand
SirAlpaka
Ainar Garipov
Alex Slepak
Dullis
Dragan
KNSTRKTVST
Tat Tvam Asi
Chris Weisel
zockotron
Tyler Jenkins
Paul Franche
Jeremy Arghhhhh
Juan Castillo
Alexander Washofsky
Alex G.
Wolf
Qi Xiao
Dexter_McAaron
Burt Clothier
Joel Cromwell
Bernardo Santos
Andrew Niedbala
Heytun
Jeremy
Clayton Schuman
Adam Stalter
Justin Pearson
Victor Warmflash
Ryan Haber
Toucan _
John Garcia
Riley davidson
Benjamin Bowring
Joseph Reinsch
Marty Myers
Rod D. Martin
Matthew Toles
BattleGoat Studios
Scott O'Donnell
Jane Sumpter
Roan Haggerty
Snowdon
Mik Scheper
Zach Rust
Steven Gibson
Keith Garvey
Christopher Godfrey
Stefan Møller
Cody Yarger
Nathan Snyder
VileBikeman
Yick Chung
Käs
Allen Rines
ScottishTrekkie
Yuichiro Kakutani
Tristan Kreller
Wilhelm Screamer
Robert Woodward
tfw robot
Danny Anstess
blaZzinG_FurY
Mark Alexander Mednikov
Matt Conger
Robert Mitchell
Keith A. Layton
Warren Rudkin
Jackson Mehr
Joshua A Bishop
Perry Gagne
Ricardo Salcedo
Vance Christiaanse
Adam Rabung
Mars Project
Tim Lane
Joseph Kerckhoff
Pierre Le Mouel
Michael Galloway
Franklin Sousa
Sean Long
Eddie
Andrew F
Gregory Priebe
bas mensink
Zachary Oertel
Magdalena Reinberg-Leibel
Alen
Joooooshhhhhh
HappyCow
David van Reyk
John Orr
Tim Stumbaugh
Mathew H.
Matthew Literovich
Daniel Bith
I'm Not In The Description
Phil Simmons
Raymond He
Thomas McGill
Andrew Patane
Chach
Christian & Penny Gray
William Wold
LambOfLeg
David Johnston
Parth S
Joker 54
Michael Wagner
Liam Gilleece
Bartosz Zasada
Vegard Tønnessen
Coolin Castleman
Ellen Teapot
Jabob1998
Fernando López Ojeda
Matt Reed
Vilelmus_veliki
Jeffrey Schneider
Proxy
Jack Nelson
Ryan Short
Ciege Engine
David Silverman
JAY ALAN EDELMAN
Hunter Quintero
Clay Carroll
Layne Nielsen
Chrisaztec
Kinfe85
Sahni
Anthony McCann
No way
Mark Ploegstra
Matthew O'Connor
Matthew Hogan
Haydn Noble
sam
Thomas Wang
Nick Davies
ARandomPaperClip
Andrea Dekrout
Corey Frank
Mr Sandman
James Bisonette Fan #1
Joerg Sch
Phillip Gathright
James
Bryan Linsley
Imperial Pony
Serius_Loyola
Joseph Hutchins
Andy Pottkotter
Colm Boyle
Christian Vasquez Leon
Dakota Brunell
Léon M.
Matthew Trimborn
Joshua Rackstraw
Ron Johnson
Dr. Howard Dr. Fine Dr. Howard
The Roger Luna
Harley Raptopoulos
Sethars
Windischgraetz
Colm Byrne
Arthur Hosey Jr.
James Anthony
Tactical_Jackal
Mathew Glen Williams
Björn Wittmann
Gabriel Lunde
nullptr
Piotr Wojnowski
Gerald Armstrong
Chris Winther
William Adderholdt
Erik Hare
HelloAgain
Now Seibert
Steve Bonds
Tailsdoll
SmythProductions
Dima Volodin
Konstantin Bredyuk
Melissa Prober
mohd
Eugene Delacroix
Vilena5
Peter Konieczny
David Patrick Bucko
Christine Purvis
Colonel Oneill
Richard Manklow
Donald Weaver
Peter Marino
Abhijeeth
Mirza Ahmed
Cor Gar
Nathan Ngumi
Andre Filliettaz
Seth Reeves
Richie abel
João Santos
Oliver Jenner
Baste
James Fouts
Isabel Harrison
Erik Carlsson
Olaf
Erik Hall
Abdallah Al-Ammari
Michael Coates
Gerard O'Reilly
Froilan Legaspi
Paul McGee
Ben L
Daniel O'Reilly
Laura Jeal
Jamie Service
Rhys Little
Friedrich Demmer
zemnmez

Опубликовано:

16 июн 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 1,9 тыс.

@ricardoguanipa8275 3 года назад

Francis II first Rage quit in the middle of the game ever recorded in History

@sviatoslavs.1305 3 года назад

Literally HRE gaming.

@planescaped 3 года назад

Chat~ HRE: Dude wtf! this is such bull****** _HRE has left the game_

@ekn_38 3 года назад

Tbf he copied Flavius Valentinianus, the true pioneer of rage quitting

@theyoungbonaparte3739 3 года назад

I don't know why this one got me laughing for a long time

@PureFPSPwnage 3 года назад

The brilliance of this comment.... _KINGS TO YOU EDMOND_ ...

@jeremyshafer6720 3 года назад

I like it how the map at 0:28 illustrating Europe in the image of French interests is completely missing the Isle of Great Britain lol

@profesionalshitposter675 3 года назад

why yes the floor is made out of the floor France and Britain hated each other so if Britain was in that position id be the same for france

@criszn504 3 года назад

@@profesionalshitposter675 I think he is just pointing out the jokingly manner in which was portrayed in the video, no need to get all stingy about it. Chill.

@miguelrodriguezcimino1674 3 года назад

I come to the comments section just to find small details like this that I might have overlooked. 🤣

@Itachi951000 3 года назад

@@stront6655 Not yet...

@MrMokele03 3 года назад

@@profesionalshitposter675 I think it was a brexit joke

@jadapinkett1656 3 года назад

It's absolutely amazing that a relic as old as the HRE existed at the same time as the United States.

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions 2 года назад

As an American, I also find it remarkable! The very old and the very new, existing with one another for 30 years!

@Jakeonkuningas 2 года назад

Or the Ottoman Empire surviving to the time of film.

@bennethoffmann1872 2 года назад

Even today there are still medieval kingdoms: Saudi Arabia and Qatar for example

@fandemusique4693 2 года назад

@@bennethoffmann1872 saudi arabia wasn't really saudi arabia, they only got to rule over so much of Arabia in the 20th century

@Leyrann 2 года назад

@@bennethoffmann1872 Just mention England and France then. The difference is that the HRE FEELS medieval, both because it no longer exists and because it's height of power was in medieval times.

@samrevlej9331 3 года назад

Quick rectification: this makes it sound like Francis II did a Charles V and gave up all power to retire somewhere. He didn't. He'd created the title of Emperor of Austria and the Austrian Empire (made up of the Habsburg territories like Austria, Bohemia-Moravia and Hungary) in 1804. So essentially he gave up one useless title for one with actual power over the territory he cared about.

@concept5631 Год назад

Interesting

@drphot6050 11 месяцев назад

Ahh that’s why they gave us Arnie!

@-Eisenfaust- 10 месяцев назад

That's right. Francis II knew that the Holy Roman Empire would not last much longer (all states were already part of the Confederation of the Rhine and only Prussia and Austria were still formally part of the HRE). And because Napoleon had himself crowned Emperor of the French in 1804, it was to be expected that he would soon be the only ruler with the title of Emperor in the western world, which Francis II could not accept. For this reason he formed the Austrian Empire in order to preserve the equality of rank with Napoleon as Emperor. Under pressure from Napoleon, he had to dissolve the HRE in 1806, making Austria and Prussia de facto sovereign states for the first time. From 1804 to 1806 Franz was the only double emperor in the world. As Francis II Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and as Francis I Emperor of Austria.

@HermitKing731 Месяц назад

Both Napoleon and Francis killed the HRE so they could both proclaim themselves emperors of their own empires and reduce the former HRE to buffer states.

@joshuasims5421 3 года назад

France's interest number one: widen the English Channel. A lot. 0:29

@charlesdegaulle6663 3 года назад

France's greatest dream

@volodyadykun6490 3 года назад

British Sea - like Atlantic Ocean named after people that probably are just a myth and never existed

@paulcalixte2223 3 года назад

Don't you mean the Irish Sea?

@milas5108 3 года назад

actually Napoléon wanted a global peace but some monarchies didnt wanted

@artemius8442 3 года назад

@@paulcalixte2223 Je pense que Joshua veut parler de La Manche. :P

@ordinary_magician 3 года назад

The Ottomans: Spend forever trying to destroy the HRE Napoleon: Dissolves it in like 2 years

@charlesdegaulle6663 3 года назад

Never underestimate a Frenchman

@carlosgarciamarin7316 3 года назад

ottobads

@plzburnme3809 3 года назад

@@charlesdegaulle6663 Corsican? Napoleone di Buonaparte is not the name of a Frenchie

@IAmGlutton4Life 3 года назад

@@plzburnme3809 that is true my friend but you know how people are

@kimok4716 3 года назад

@@plzburnme3809 *Sigh* always tiring to see people desperately try to take Napoleon away from French History. If he was Corsican and not French why didn't he fight for Corcisa's independence like Pascal Paoli ?

@Longknife 3 года назад

I like how all these empires in history were conquered in some dramatic fashion and for the HRE it's like "meh tbh I kinda wanted to die at that point, so I did."

@ozthegamer6399 3 года назад

@Абдульзефир Except it was, you're only looking at the HRE post Westphalia.

@ozthegamer6399 3 года назад

@Абдульзефир What does rebellion had to do with my comment? I'm arguing about your claim that the HRE was not an empire or unified, by your logic then the Roman Empire wasn't also an empire or unified considering they had many rebellions.

@GeldtheGelded 2 года назад

@پیاده نظام خان In that sense, the byzantine empire also wasn't an empire, because its vassals also constantly rebelled and feudalism n all that, as you put it. Learn some history yourself

@jenshep1720 2 года назад

one of the few empires to die peaceful, in bed, from old age. lol.

@drphot6050 11 месяцев назад

USA keep your fingers crossed 😂

@Robbstark2024 3 года назад

The Holy Roman Empire was kinda like the simpsons where it was super influential when it first began but slowly deteriorated over a long time to the point where everyone thought it had ended even though it technically still ran

@BocchiSensei 2 года назад

The HRE is diffrent from austria. It also doesnt make any sense when you said francis himself founded austria even though it existed for centuries by that point. The HRE was dissolved during the nepoleanic wars period... Gone, Deleted, Removed from the map. Didnt exist.

@BocchiSensei 2 года назад

@علي ياسر Read the message, the comment gets messed up because of your name

@BocchiSensei 2 года назад

Also stop thinking that you're the center of definition just because you think it existed until the first world war doesn't mean its correct, i would like to see atleast 1 million historians agree with u. It should be easy because theres 7 billion people in earth.

@stephenderry9488 2 года назад

Well it is an anagram of Early Homer Ep Not Him!

@karlscher5170 Год назад

Are the simpsons still on?

@grugthecaveman4565 3 года назад

“If I can’t have it, no one can!” - Francis ii

@basedkaiser5352 3 года назад

“It’s not like we wanted it anyway” - everyone else

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

It would be comical though if Napoleon DID claim it. Remember he already had been crowned King of Italy.

@Imperator_Alexander 3 года назад

The best part is that that's exactly what happened. Even if the imperial title was a purely ceremonial one, it was one of incredible prestige and political importance, so better to abolish it that let Napoleon have it

@jeremiahsytamco8352 3 года назад

666th like.

@Moaaz_9872 3 года назад

It's like them kids who bring the football and get angry😂

@sciencer7005 3 года назад

‘Or even stop a certain naughtier subject from warring against the emperor himself’ I laughed so hard

@Christopher_TG 3 года назад

More like Mylesia!

@youneskasdi 3 года назад

Austria: " I'm the emperor and i have all power over germany " Prussia: " No you don't " Austria: " no i don't "

@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 3 года назад

*herself*

@drswag0076 3 года назад

spoiler alert Prussia united all of Germany forming it's own empire.

@thequeenofspades 3 года назад

@@drswag0076 With blackjack and hookers

@archstanton3931 3 года назад

"I found the crown of the HRE in the gutter, and I didn't pick it up." - Napoleon, 1806

@archivesoffantasy5560 2 года назад

😂😂

@maazkalim Год назад

Napoleon knew ‘gutter’ as a word back then? Clearly not Holy enough.

@edipires15 3 года назад

1:10 Holy Roman Empire last words: “Stop quoting Voltaire” 😂😂😂

@Elitist20 3 года назад

'You mean "Neither Holy, nor Roman.."?' 'STOP THAT!'

@macanaeh 3 года назад

Nor an Empire

@KlaussMarcellus 2 года назад

STOP POSTING ABOUT VOLTAIRE I'M TIRED OF SEEING IT

@looinrims 2 года назад

Y tho

@Perririri 2 года назад

* Jesus Christ, _that_ quote again!

@leogonazalez9988 3 года назад

0:39 I love how Napoleon is excited when he is winning at first until he gets tired of constant battle.

@alexandrelandel4246 3 года назад

I didn't notice the first time 😂

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

It's also partially because of how brutal the battles became. Even Marshal Ney was horrified by the carnage at Eylau. "What slaughter! And without result!" he is said to have exclaimed in shock.

@sylvainprigent6234 3 года назад

I had missed it thanks so much !!!

@fredbarker9201 3 года назад

@@thunderbird1921 Eylau was the first one of the “slugging matches” but Friedland, soon after, was a smashing win. Thereon tho the big battles were brutal slugging matches Wagram (09) Borodino (12) both at their occurrence biggest yet seem in history. Then same for Leipzig (13). Austerlitz and Friedland are very impressive but naps most genius was first or sixth coalition controlling 30-50K men

@vincemarenger7122 3 года назад

That's basically the plot of One Punch Man, lmao

@CliffSavage2021 3 года назад

The delivery and writing of these videos are a form of comedy I can't describe. I love this channel.

@HurjempiPr0 3 года назад

"What are you gonna do, beat me to death with a sceptre?" "turns out: yes"

@nysteven1 3 года назад

Fun fact: no

@chronikhiles 3 года назад

It's called deadpan or dry humour.

@jonasb104 3 года назад

Yeah, it's a league of it's own. Not comparable to anything realy.😂

@KR-mm4el 3 года назад

“his career suffered a slight setback; he died”

@LuckyBird551 3 года назад

The early Napoleonic wars was basically Napoleon going "How many times do I need to teach you this lesson old man?" to all of central Europe

@riograndedosulball248 3 года назад

It did went like this. But after SO MANY years fighting France, Austria finally caught on to their tactics Then Napoleon wasn't laughing anymore

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

@@riograndedosulball248 Same with the British & the Russians :D .

@archivesoffantasy5560 3 года назад

@@riograndedosulball248 he still was laughing then, but when you then add losing half a million men in Russia and all the major powers cornering you at once, then he stopped laughing

@liamjm9278 3 года назад

@@riograndedosulball248 And by caught on to their tactics they mean wait for Napoleon to fuck up and then avoid battling armies led by him personally.

@sviatoslavs.1305 3 года назад

"Gentlemen, if this Man was alive, we wouldn't be standing here." - Napoleon to his soldiers while pointing to the Frederick's the Great grave (not sure about the grave, though).

@creek4188 3 года назад

He said it standing at his grave, as far as I know. Quite badass

@sviatoslavs.1305 3 года назад

@Абдульзефир not sure if a joke or you don't know he died way before Napoleonic wars.

@sviatoslavs.1305 3 года назад

@Абдульзефир maybe he wouldn't have trouble, or maybe would have, I just deployed a quote and left to discuss. We're not historians to judge, we can only guess what would have happened. Maybe you're right, maybe there wouldn't be any threat.

@morganv7895 2 года назад

@Абдульзефир Napoleon Used a lot of Friedrich’s Tactics in battle: Loyalty among his troops, Well trained and Well Disciplined Soldiers, and Surprising his Enemies.

@GeldtheGelded 2 года назад

Frederick the Great got his a$$ whooped a number of times, the only thing that saved him was that the empress of russia died and her successor was such a prussia fanboy that he straight up left the war he was winning

@BeWe1510 3 года назад

A video about the HRE without the Voltaire quote, I must be in heaven

@johnfelixable 3 года назад

1:10 Stop quoting Voltaire!

@dete31 3 года назад

"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire." - Voltaire

@basedkaiser5352 3 года назад

“Gaming” - Voltaire

@maxion5109 3 года назад

Yup, it's such a cringy quote

@GeldtheGelded 3 года назад

@@dete31 Voltaire was a cringe philosopher

@dario3931 3 года назад

HRE: falls Everyone: Oh no! Anyway...

@parhamnourollahi2927 3 года назад

HAMMOND YOU IDIOT!

@alec0062 3 года назад

*still, could be worse...*

@colindaniels945 3 месяца назад

Everyone else: Damn, you're still around? We thought you died at least a century ago.

@muffinman4515 3 года назад

The subtlety of the UK disappearing as the map fades to France’s view of Europe is priceless. Very well done!

@xaviersaavedra7442 3 года назад

0:39 I love how napoleon gets progressively board as the battles continue.

@michaelrizka 3 года назад

0:39 Napoleon: Haha look at them running away! 0:42 Napoleon: Can't you just stop please?

@charlesdegaulle6663 3 года назад

France vs Europe

@nicbahtin4774 3 года назад

in 1812 Russia: haaaaaaaaghaaaaaa haaaghaaaaaa Napoleon: Why Are You Running ? Why Are You Running ?

@nickstoneham5629 3 года назад

Lol. At first he thought this was fun, but after a while he had seriously concerns on how these nations managed to last so long.

@fredbarker9201 3 года назад

@@elmascapo6588 if you’re talking about the pasha, he literally stayed in siege whilst being reinforced by Britain. Napoleons Egyptian/Syrian campaign failed overall due to Nelson and Sidney Smith, he failed to break the siege at acre, but look at the pitched battles against the ottomans they were the most one sided of Napoleons whole career

@AsbestosMuffins 3 года назад

if at first you can't succeed, keep throwing men at napoleon until france runs out of armies

@mrscribbles2693 3 года назад

“Plans to reforge Europe in Frances image” *Erases Britain* Looks bout right

@thunderbird1921 3 года назад

What's funny is that Napoleon III actually had a plan for balancing Europe that he drew up with the assistance of his wife Eugenie, which he hoped would end a lot of the warfare (the new Kingdom of Italy was part of this plan). Bismarck and others saw to it that it never had a chance of getting fully implemented.

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

2019 British Meme of France being erased from the map: "Bah; plagarist!"

@CosmicAeon 2 года назад

Wellington and Nelson: So Napoleon, about that idea...

@thebandit0256 Год назад

U.S and Canada: That's illegal

@diargakande6740 3 года назад

Good to note that Francis also elevated the various Hapsburg realms (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary...) into an empire of his own after Napoleon crowned himself emperor of the French. I imagine even he realized that his title over the HRE didn't mean anything at that point and that he might as well create a new legit empire out of the land he had actual direct rule over. Sucks that he then found himself at the head of a multiethnic state just when nationalism really started picking up...

@Godslayer5656 Год назад

To be fair, he didn’t really have to deal with that as much as the next rulers. Ferdinand I had abdicated during 1848 due to the riots and revolutions, and then Fraz Joseph’s entire rule was pretty much dealing with those Ethnic Minorities.

@Murray4211 3 года назад

Holy Roman Empire 962-1806 "Stop Quoting Voltaire" These little jokes in the background are what make your videos really special.

@peffiSC2source 3 года назад

"It's dumb anyways, I don't want to play with anymore" ~ Emperor of the HRE after getting smacked by Napoleon probably

@Dragonfire511 3 года назад

*Le Bonke*.

@michaelrizka 3 года назад

0:16 I appreciate the time you take to paint this mess and drag them all along 6 separates way

@1959ticktock 3 года назад

You sound like a great patreon of History Matters.

@nguyenkhoi3010 3 года назад

0:45 I love the fact that while you reused the same map from “Why did Napoleon invade Russia?” you corrected it by colouring Venice as part of Austria (before the battle of Austerlitz gave it to France of course). Amazing attention to detail :)

@Siegbert85 3 года назад

About the last point though: nobody wanted the HRE's crown in its current state at the time. But they did want to continue the idea of a German Empire. That's what was officially stated in 1848/49. And even when William I of Prussia took on his new title as German Emperor he did so in direct reference to the HRE. They also attempted to get the actual physical crown kept in Vienna but the Habsburgs had no interest giving it to them so they went ahead without it but designed a new crown that looked remarkably similar.

@wetwillyis_1881 3 года назад

I love how Napoleon gets more and more bored as he starts beating them more and more.

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 3 года назад

Replace "bored" with "overweight" and it would also be accurate to history.

@ecurewitz 3 года назад

he won't be bored after the Battle of Borodino

@Attam0604 3 года назад

Late game Napoleon Total War

@wetwillyis_1881 3 года назад

@@Attam0604 Lol, yeah, I love that game.

@stanislausklim7794 2 года назад

He got tired of winning.

@Jedi_Spartan_38 3 года назад

"Had plans to reforge Europe in France's image and interests." **Britain has left the server**

@Itachi951000 3 года назад

Brexit: The prequel

@6timesbabyyy996 3 года назад

We really are a pain in everyone's ass's

@AlexanderDiviFilius 3 года назад

@@6timesbabyyy996 a fine staple of English and British history is pissing off some part of continental Europe

@proxybum8895 3 года назад

@@Itachi951000 Brexit but they leave earth

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

^ Nah. We just sail away to somewhere warmer, and with less frenchies :D .

@heresyhunter4100 3 года назад

This is the perfect channel! The content is informative, concise, and entertaining, the animation is fun, and the uploads are consistent. The use of signs to me is the cherry on top. Great work, guys.

@FilmReviews_ 3 года назад

I love how between 0:37 and 0:44 ish Napoleon's face becomes more and more bored by defeating everyone with ease 😂👍

@diggareesworld5668 3 года назад

Love how on 0:29 Britain is just blank

@TheZPTR 3 года назад

Britain = Atlantis

@infedius7214 3 года назад

That's because the president at the time was John Cena.

@Thunder.Sizzle 3 года назад

I didn't even realize this.

@foundationgamer9771 3 года назад

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 XD

@6timesbabyyy996 3 года назад

@@_CobraTate. When Britain has colonies on every continent around the world. That was never going to work lmao. The French just couldn't do anything about us

@theskepticalwhaler4946 3 года назад

I love how consistently History Matters draws Europe without Britain whenever Napoleon is involved

@theskepticalwhaler4946 3 года назад

Also how Napoleon goes from excited to bored with each successive victory over the coalition

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

...and then to really chilly, and then muddy, and thdn on some windswept island being poisoned by the wallpaper XD.

@MilesStratton 3 года назад

"More like Mylesia" is my new favorite burn

@riograndedosulball248 3 года назад

"BRANDEMBURG!" ~shaking fist~ Every Holy Roman Emperor, ever since Prussia started chimping.

@williamhild1793 3 года назад

I enjoy your channel for the history lessons, but also I get the biggest kick out of the animations! It's a combination of the quaintness of the cartoons, and the dry wit humor! Just wonderful!

@leonardorivelorivelo9253 3 года назад

0:29 lmao britain gets vaporized from the map, truly the French Dream

@Koala1203 3 года назад

Score: French fantasy/10

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

That; or we just said "well screw this" and sailed away to warmer climbs.

@macanaeh 3 года назад

I mean, I hate to be this guy, but in France's dream world it would be only England who'd get vaporized. The French actually love the Scottish, they have one of the oldest bromances in Europe

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

^ False; as the de-facto alliance yielded no military success, and was basically dead by 1603. Now that between England / GB and Portugal: oldest and longest alliance in history, which aided both in the Napoleonic Wars. GB's alliance with Chile is also a lengthy one, which proved mutually beneficial.

@macanaeh 3 года назад

@@jimtaylor294 Who is talking about the alliance here? I'm talking about mutual respect and overall warm feelings

@simonparadis1773 3 года назад

Francis II : I'm gonna do what's call a pro gamer move. Also him: Francis II left the game.

@vladlusca2589 3 года назад

Rage quit

@lordmustafa3309 3 года назад

@@vladlusca2589 that was perfect 😂

@MPHJackson7 3 года назад

*Francis II:* "don't worry guys I have a plan" *Francis II has left the game*

@veryblocky 3 года назад

I’m pleased you covered this topic, there isn’t any other good video material on it that I could find.

@jimon8998 3 года назад

I look forward to your videos all week. I really love how accurate and fast they are plus your jokes are always funny

@DefenderofFuture 3 года назад

"More like Mylesia" made me laugh out loud at the office.

@trisblackshaw1640 3 года назад

My brain was saying "think about it... think about it... *laughs in history*"

@KeiO993 2 года назад

@Name Silesian wars

@number1kenyan 3 года назад

0:39 to 0:41 I like how Napoleon slowly gets bored of winning all the time.

@Bloodlyshiva 3 года назад

"Why do they keep trying at this point? Can't they just GIVE UP?" It was something like 5 to 7 coalitions.

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 3 года назад

Napoleon to Francis: HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN?!

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

Mother Nature, the Royal Navy & a chap known for rubber boots: "Be careful what you wish for, mwahahahahaha!"

@gsmith4757 2 года назад

This approach to presenting history is perfect. Concise, pleasant to hear and memorable. Thank you.

@MoiLiberty Год назад

First Reich = Holy Roman Empire That's memorable. This video is garbage.

@purplecrayon07 Год назад

I love how the reason the empire ended was because of a rage quit

@cprow0997 3 года назад

Finally, a video about the HRE

@cprow0997 3 года назад

@Thorne 3 isn’t enough, he makes too much modern history videos.

@beastdeas7250 3 года назад

@Thorne we need more

@snare5903 3 года назад

@Thorne WWII is modern

@RizeUp8083 3 года назад

@@cprow0997 ostrich lookin ass

@maximilianolimamoreira5002 3 года назад

@@snare5903 yeah, but technically we are in the contemporary era, the Modern period already ended in 1789.

@aotoda486 3 года назад

1:50 Ohh, _Frederick_ **cue laugh track**

@TheMagnificentMongoSlade 3 года назад

0:39 This Napoleon's growth from excitement at gunning down Europeans to bland indifference has more character development than most movies and comics today.

@oliversherman2414 Год назад

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!

@SamTheFable 3 года назад

"[...] simply because nobody cared to save it" *sad Holy Roman Empire noises*

@davidlefranc6240 3 года назад

i agree and same time they just didnt wanted to be in the way of napoleon !

@dblundz 3 года назад

“You want the Crown? Well F you I’m taking it, oh yea and HRE is over, yup shutting that down. Yea I get the last laugh”

@tannhauserr 3 года назад

Napoleon: 😬😬😬

@basedkaiser5352 3 года назад

France, Austria, Prussia and Italy: did somebody say something ?

@B3RyL 3 года назад

Napoleon: "FINE! Take it! I didn't even want the stupid crown in the first place. I got all the titles I wanted anyway so I... don't... need it..." *sniff, sniff* :'(

@Theshadowdemon9 3 года назад

The last Palailogos from the grave: Finally, the LARP is over.

@sherlocksmuuug6692 3 года назад

@@Theshadowdemon9 Fun fact, a cadet branch of a cadet branch of the Palaiologos family, the Paleologo-Oriundi, have survived until today. At least seven members of the family would have been both alive and adults when the HRE was dissolved. The family lives in Venice now, ironically enough.

@DarrenBates 3 года назад

The detail is so epic. It would've been very easy to overlook France's involvement in Ireland's rebellion of 1798 (Ireland's history so often gets overlooked compared to affairs on the continent), but History Matters makes it matter.

@akiamini4006 3 года назад

Epic and splendid content as always !👍

@dirckthedork-knight1201 3 года назад

0:14 It must have been a huge pain to draw all the individual member states as well as researching their borders

@varana 3 года назад

"All" the member states? Oh no, not by far. :D

@harelkalifa2451 3 года назад

1:11 so true! Never saw a video about the HRE that didn't quote Voltaire

@jjforcebreaker 3 года назад

Great vid as always.

@helloarigato 3 года назад

1:33 "Despite the fact it was a Grey area, end the empire did". Subtle.

@Schaapdatmekkert 3 года назад

0:39 I like the fact that Napoleon starts to get increasingly bored with his victories

@kadencollins 3 года назад

Get ready for spam of everyone’s favourite quote about the HRE ‘Not holy, not Roman, not an empire’

@freewal 3 года назад

@RafitoOoO 3 года назад

Tbh it's true

@thezeitos469 3 года назад

Actually you are the first to say those overused by now completely meaninless words

@GeldtheGelded 3 года назад

It's official name was just "The Empire" or the roman empire. The holy part was something first mentioned in a document of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and the others just kinda went along with it

@Itachi951000 3 года назад

@@RafitoOoO No it is not. It only became true as a result of the Thirty Years' War. That was the biginning of the end for the HRE. Voltaire's quote dates back to the 1740's, so it was already true at the time but shouldn't be used to describe the HRE for the entirety of its history. Keep that in mind.

@pyrotechnick420 3 года назад

0:38 check out Napoleon's facial expression in the left corner as he increasingly becomes bored constantly winning lol

@legmaineeier 3 года назад

Francis II: Dont worry i have an idea *Francis II has left the game*

@danmanproking2179 3 года назад

0:29 France: snap Uk: mr. Napoleon, I don’t feel so good.

@limyangxuan 3 года назад

Snap back to reality. UK: Hold my Waterloo.

@Jacksiloution 3 года назад

"Why die?" The HRE before napoleon

@ryanmann1416 3 года назад

This voice really drawn me into these videos, great job

@nik65stgt60 Год назад

Great content!

@jeckstrom6814 3 года назад

You should make a video “why does Lesotho exist?”

@solwen 3 года назад

Because Napoleon

@CeoMacNCheese 3 года назад

I don’t care if I haven’t seen the video yet I’m still liking

@karsentube13yt 3 года назад

Ah yes, a man of culture

@sirwaltercrescentsneed 3 года назад

One interesting topic you should consider making a video on would be the War of Burgundian Succession, since it in a way represents the beginning of the later territorial conflicts between France and Germany. In any case, love the video!

@NoBudjetFilms 3 года назад

I already knew all of this, but your videos are always entertaining, and so I wanted to see how you told the story.

@Kartofl12 3 года назад

0:28 i like how again Napoleon's dream Europe is where the British isles don't exist

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

The British: "Same; only with no France XD"

@charleslathrop9743 3 года назад

0:30 the entire island of Britain is just gone. I am rolling.

@bandlerching4892 3 года назад

Your channel is one of the only ones where I like the video before the ads finish

@jennifertennent8319 3 года назад

Love these videos. Informative, concise and witty. I have read quite a bit about the Napoleonic Wars, but never heard or seen this addressed. Maybe the channel could do a video on The League of Armed Neutrality? Maybe the Quasi War between America and Revolutionary France? The coup 18 Brumaire that brought Napoleon to power? The assassination of Tsar Paul I? The two bombardments of Copenhagen by Britain? Maybe a video on Bernadotte becoming ruler of Sweden and the political shenanigans of aligning himself against Napoleon? A video about the trial of Louis XVI, being convicted of treason and executed? A video about the breakup of Denmark and Norway? ((I am unsure how this relates to the broader political, military and economic struggle of the Napoleonic era, but I believe this happens within the Napoleonic Wars.)) There is so much that happens during and leading up to the Napoleonic Wars and yet it tends to be discussed in broad general strokes.

@kianocallaghan5788 3 года назад

“Reforge Europe in Frances interests” Removes Britain Laughs in French

@jimtaylor294 3 года назад

The British isles meanwhile: *laughs in new tropical climbs; having sailed away somewhere not french* XD

@Mbatty1991 3 года назад

History Matters: *posts Me: well, I know what I’m doing for the next 4 minutes

@TitanOfGlory 3 года назад

I really like the simplicity and it stays my time frame that I can keep watching a video

@KakuzuX7 3 года назад

Love your videos

@mysticwizard4642 3 года назад

What actually happaned is that James Bissonett stopped funding the HRE

@heliothrax7716 3 года назад

"The Emperor of France had plans to reforge Europe in France's image and interest" *Britain literally gets wiped off the map*

@Gamelpilz 3 года назад

super interesting and entertaining. Thank you.

@JELMIG 3 года назад

Do you know what I just have to say I love this channel it is SO GOOD!

@mojom.9221 3 года назад

"More like Mylesia " ah brilliant. Humor like tis is (on of) the Reason I like this channel so much

@lhistorienchipoteur9968 3 года назад

1:40 You should have ad something like "hence why Prussia and even Austria, the emperor's personnal territory, had lands both in and out of the HRE." That would have clear the geographical confusion on your map.

@mandurugas69 3 года назад

awesome as ever

@Karts753 3 года назад

"Aight I'm abdicating, smell ya later!" "Can... can we have the crown back?" "No!"

@ryantheredzombie6124 3 года назад

The Holy Roman Empire wouldn't have been dissolved if they were helped financially by James Bizzonette.

@noone3272 3 года назад

Who?

@arne1021 2 года назад

@@noone3272 a patreon of History matters

@emmanuellawyer8562 3 года назад

I literally just asked myself of you uploaded recently

@timmccarthy872 3 года назад

Hey, has it been about ten seconds since History Matters uploaded a video?

@josephjose9100 3 года назад

I just love the way he summarizes the entire history of the empire.

@davidroman4780 3 года назад

On my first watch i didnt even notice entire Britain was missing in 0:29, its such a great silent joke i love this channel so much

@jonasb104 3 года назад

0:39 the way he get's more and more uninterested from victory to victory.😂

@jonasb104 3 года назад

@@regabrielexv same tbh😂 this is one of the few I noticed by myself

@TheBrickMasterB 3 года назад

"Reshape the world in France's image." *shows britain disappearing* TRUE.

@charantk 3 года назад

I like the style of narration

@MrDylan2125 3 года назад

Yet another great answer to a question I didn't know I had.

@charlesthorner7423 3 года назад

Just one precision about a mistake often being made when talking about Napoleon : He did not declare a SINGLE war. Yes, you read well. All the wars were declared either by the British, the Prussians, the Austrians or the Russians. (Althoug in the end it kinda was all Britain since they just payed countries to fight for them). If you don't believe it just check all the coalition wars and you will see that France mostly defended itself. The fact is the neighbouring countries were simply too afraid of the revolutionary ideas that were continued by Napoleon (another misconception : Napoleon did end the first French republic but kept most of its new administrative and civil law aspects) and he perpetuated the individual freedoms obtained through the revolution with the obvious exception of democratic rights. All of this to say that portraying him as a malevolent conquest thirsty tyrant is a bit incorrect. He was perhaps a tyrant in France but the conquests he performed during his reign were reactional, and when Britain/Pussia/Austria declare war upon you five times in a row in spite of just having signed a peace treaty you start wanting to permanently hamper their hability to attack you.

@chinsaw2727 2 года назад

Well Revolutionary France did start everything by declaring war on all of Europe, but that happened years before Napoleon was even in charge. But what you said was true, Napoleon himself was only reacting to a hostile Europe who didn’t want this nobody who crowned himself Emperor and the revolutionary ideas he brought with him.

@michaelbayer5094 2 года назад

I've seen a lot of revisionist history, but, please, don't try to sell Napoleon as a pacifist, or worse, a victim.

@chinsaw2727 2 года назад

@@michaelbayer5094 Well, it’s complicated. Napoleon was far from a pacifist, and he was the “victim” of European aggression. Yet, he never sought the peaceful solution, like ever, he kept fighting battles instead of seeking peaceful resolutions.

@ng.tr.s.p.1254 2 года назад

@@michaelbayer5094 Is reading comprehension a luxury these days?

@michaelbayer5094 2 года назад

@@ng.tr.s.p.1254 No, but apparently inference is a lost skill. Chainsaw understood my point. Without any snark, BRW. What's your complaint? Because it's not clear.

@bbenjoe 3 года назад

It's remarkable how Napoleon ended some of the oldest states in Europe to shake things up. His other famous victim was the Republic of Venice which too was milennia old by that time.