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This video series is quite enjoyable. Great job.

Don't know if you will see this but next time. DO THE RISE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

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France then : GLORIOUS as hell! France now : what the hell?

After the second battle at Solferino, a Swiss man, Henri Dunant, found all the wounded soldiers on the battlefield and began to help them regardless of their origins. He then launched what was to become the Red Cross.

@@jean-louislalonde6070 absolute Chad bless that guy soul.

@J Kim you do know that Jesus Christ was also related to jews right?

Late 20s, but yeah…

There was nothing like teenage years where you got be irresponsible. You moved straight from from childhood to adult!

Yea and what have you done in ur 20s?😂😂😂

@Democrats Lie as opposed to any other period of time in world history? Lol death in the form slaughter and even genocide form as much a part of human nature as baby making… especially once the least intellectual fall for the trap of letting their entire existence be defined by something as trivial as political affiliation. *Checks the username* Yep, checks out

Then think of Alexander!

Timbers have been shivered

A legendary cuck

Mad genius

Irresponsible risk would have been trying to maintain the siege at Mantua. The Austrian force here is split, and Napoleon has the interior lines to fairly confidently face either part with advantage. Furthermore, Wellington knows that he can always retake the ground...since his position as general is secure (benefits of aristocracy). Given the instability of the Directorate...Napoleon may not have believed his personal command would have survived allowing the Austrian general to get away with the offensive. Furthermore, the Austrians signal early on that the objective is merely to relive the siege of Mantua (otherwise the western arm of their advance would have been MUCH stronger)...so Napoleon knows the threat of being cut off only exists if he stays with the siege of Mantua. Napoleon knows he can always return to siege Mantua...

@@dclark142002 Also Britian's safety is pretty secure by 1809, whereas the situation for France in 1796 was much more dire

@dclark142002 I agree but I wouldn't have started the siege of Mantua until after I had subdued the garrison at Milan. And defended the line Mincio river while doing it. But I am a much less aggressive commander by instinct than Napeolon and like I said it's hard to argue with the results.

@@seanmac1793 It can also be down to the makeup of the army as well, Napoleon had more cavalry than Wellington so he could take more bold risks, Wellington's army was largely infantry with a few thousand cavalry at most.

Neither can I!

Rumor has it Napoleon got tired of invading the Austrians and teaching them the same old lesson

@@RodolfoGaming the austrian s got him at a point

@@davidpovara6050 no, the Austrians did not got Napoleon, the Sixth Coalition got Napoleon, on their own the Austrians would have been crushed as they always were.

@@transylvanian8437 mai rar dai de un transilvanean pe youtube , de unde esti mai exact

That was such a crazy story. Imagine if one Austrian had just shot Napoleon right there...

heard abt Hannibal?

@@ManishThakur-qj2ro I guess not. Tell me about him

@@christianifechukwu9865 no military commander has wielded tgat total control over his troops as Hannibal did. study his campaigns. Historymarche youtuhe channel has a series on it

I assume his communications were well organized. Nothing of the sorts of "Take these hills *if practicable*" (Lee at Gettisburg), or sending Light Brigade in the direction of an unspecified handwave (Balaklava), or the order that left Union line broken at Chickamagua. But even if his comms organization was at the same level as his opponents - look at his positioning. Before anything begins, he already had well established interior lines of communications. And while being dispersed over the vast countryside, all major parts of his army remained within an approximate 40 mile distance by a road of each other. So, less than a day for a horse messenger, and a somewhat-less-than-two-days march by infantry. By comparison, the Austrians, sheeesh! I mean, attacking on both sides of lake Garda would require an unhealthy amount of windserfers to maintain communications at the best of times.

@@KidoKoin love to have discussions with people like you instead instead of jerks that start of everything with an insult Indeed I myself could see there was something wrong with that large body of water dividing the Austrian forces though I couldn't quite place my finger on it....

Same I’m Napoleonic wars

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@@bananaFederationrepublic Great minds think alike :)

Not the same scale. France had the experience with insurgency in Vendée. No pity was allowed when civilians rebelled. War should be a military concern.

Boney played Mongol conqueror during those revolts.

@@user-cj4df7vs7w that was normal back then. When you riot, you face consequences. Either your win, or you perish.

And the Tyrol, but those were always fomented by zealots of the church.

It's not like napoleon ever put down a royalist revolt or anything

Does this mean it was just bluster when he claimed he had learned nothing in his years as a general and had gotten it perfectly right from the start?

@@Fronzel41, a lot of Napoleon's sayings were bluster...

​@@Fronzel41"I have learned nothing which I already did not know, look at Alexander, he fought his first battle like his last" -Napoleon

Pretty much

I think it is worth mentioning that Napoleon was no ordinary 26 year old. He was a military genius.

There is no debate of any reasonable mind that he was ‘great’ in the sense of a military leader & political figure. Whether he was ethically right or wrong continues to be discussed of course. For my part I think his enemies were irredeemably awful people, fighting for shockingly awful reasons.

The affair with Marboeuf is likely a legend. His family was already well off by Corsican standard and the support they received was consistent with his father's willingness to collaborate with the French takeover and not that different from the other families that were elevated to French nobility in Corsica. In fact, the very reason that he was left alone with his mom in the first place was because his father went off to France to secure further benefits. There's been a lot of attempts, started by the man himself, to portray his family as poor and starting from nothing but they were basically the 2nd family in Ajaccio and by the time he was "cutting his pay in half to help his poor mother", Joseph was already married to the daughter of one of the richest man in France and pocketing millions. The Snowball fight is a legend, completely made up.

@@ddc2957 Agreed. However, he is not addressed by that epithet. This, inspite of Catherine and Peter getting the moniker. Even (the great) Conde. I think it has something to do with being the opponent of the established leader of cultural hegemony(read, media) in the world of the period. That would explain why Hannibal, a no lesser genius in the art of warfare than Alexander, also isn't addressed as 'the great'.

@@francismorin8561 Napoleon's codification of the law, albeit with the help of some prominent legal minds, his military reforms(horse artillery, central position, defeat in details, Corps system); his patronage of Egyptology, even his plunders of art, his contribution towards education, roads and canals, beautification and architecture, his stance towards slavery and feminism...issues that vary from being admirable to downright shameful, the chapters are too many .

@@beats4hobner He did not codify the law himself. The Code Napoleon was written and put together entirely by "some prominent legal minds". Napoleon's grasp of the law and economics was limited and he relied intensively on actual experts. For instance, he initially favored a return to the guild system until he was talked out of it. That does not take away from him ordering the code be made that way but he had very little input on it. All the military innovations you list were invented by other people prior to Napoleon and used by the revolutionaries to an extent. Horse artillery for instance had been around since Frederick the Great. His genius is that not he discovered any of it as much as he put it together and used it so efficiently. The army he inherited from the revolution gave him the means to score those early victories that made him famous but it also illustrates what happens from 1806 onward as the army replenishes itself with new recruits to replace the experienced soldiers and the decreasing quality of the Grande Armee. The patronage of Egyptology is actually an accident. The scientists and scholars brought along to legitimize the expedition to Egypt were supposed to help with amazing things like "better bread production" and other logistical problems but once they arrived to Egypt they had nothing to do and Napoleon reluctantly agreed to let them mess around in Egyptian ruins but his personal interest was limited. Don't get me wrong. Napoleon is an immensely complex character to study and he's very interesting. Its just that when you dig a lot you realize that he's not a one man wonder predestined to end up as Emperor of France. He received a great upbringing from his father and uncle but I think it bears saying that most of the Bonaparte family made a good impression on the mainland due to their education. Napoleon himself did not become head of the family until he took control of France. Up to that point it was Joseph who had the money and made the major decisions for the family. Napoleon narrowly avoided a completely different fate when he requested Joseph send him a pasta specialist and funds to buy machines to launch a pasta making business. We could be talking about the Emperor of Pastas instead of the Emperor of France right now but Joseph thought the idea was beneath the family's dignity and refused the request.

Ah the Lombards, always so particular 🧀

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Absolutely!! THIS VOICE IS MADE FOR THIS ❤

lose the confederate flag, it's embarassing.

It was damn inspiring I agree

They missed the real opportunity to finish him once and for all at Marengo.

After beating the French some many times in Italy the Austrians were defeated by Napoleon. Then they become a second tier power

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂

in 1859 was with 37,000 Italians

​@@radec5166 who proceded to run their heads into a stonewall

Puts Kings and Generals to shame

@@toochangz Shame is too strong. They are not that bad. But the quality of Epci History is definitly better

Thank you

The Intro Music! I been trying to hunt it down.

Napoleone, il miglior personaggio storico che sia mai esistito. Quell'uomo aveva tutto, genio di strategia e tattica militare, ottimo innovatore, Imperatore capace e coscienzioso, politico brillante e coraggiosissimo ed intrepido eroe. Di persone come lui ne nasce una ogni miliardo. Un'orgoglio italiano (entrambi i suoi genitori erano Italiani ed è nato in Corsica, che un'anno prima della sua nascita è stata occupata dai francesi). Si, ha governato e amato la Francia, ma era Italiano.

@@theimmortalgrenadier3851 La Corsica non è mai stata italiana, ma genovese. Il principio stesso dell'Italia non esisteva.

@@leoptn9969 Si ok ma Genova dov'è? Anche se non c'era l'Italia unita ancora era sempre parte dell'Italia non un'altro paese

@@leoptn9969 Poi Genova è diventata parte dell'Italia, e anche se fosse genovese è comunque italiano. Non capisco il tuo problema nè la questione in sè

@@leoptn9969 Ed esisteva il Regno di Napoli e poi il Regno d'Italia dal 1805 al 1814. C'erá giá l'identitá nazionale. Perfavore informati, pazzesco che moltissimi italiani sono antipatriottici e antinazionalisti e si inventano qualunque cosa per non essere fieri della loro storia

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The violins fit with the Italian region when you think of pieces from Vivaldi or Salieri.

And Suvorov Italian campaign!

Yes, both Archduke Charles and Suvorov were brilliant commanders who deserve their own documentaries.

Suvorov in fact claimed Moreau a master of withdrawal ("мастер ретирад" in Russian).

One could argue that Napoleon did not give Sauret in Salò enough troops, thereby leaving the army's lines of communication vulnerable to an attack west of Lake Garda. Napoleon had a lot of ground to cover, and a siege to maintain. The roads north and west of Lake Garda were also not thought to be suitable for large forces. So it's not exactly reckless. But if Wurmser and Quosdanovich had stuck to their plan and kept driving forward, Nap would have been in an ugly situation.

@@EpichistoryTv ok some possibly a slight lack of prudence at most. Also Wurmser didn’t really get much wrong based on the info he had. If his intelligence had been correct that could have spelled disaster. I’d say he was fairly competent overall though not spectacular.

@stuart1346 I would argue that perhaps waiting for the garrison at Milan to destroy and defend the Menico in the meantime would have been more prudent. Then again, I would definitely consider myself a less aggressive commander by instinct than Napeolon, and it's difficult to argue that I know better than Napeolon.

@@stuart1346 Yeah Wurmser did a good job but all can get on the wrong footing due to wrong information, imagine that he advanced and there really was a concentration of forces behind him it would had been even a biger disaster as they could had tried to cut his main retreat path

Perhaps Quasdanovich needed more men and not 18 thousands. His column according to plan played a pivotal role.

And then, while swimming in the lake, looking at the nearby road and thinking: ''Oh, there are the French fighting the Austrians''...