The attack on Ath, with 40.000 Soldiers and 20.000 workers, 34 siege guns and 80 other artillery pieces, against less than 4000 defenders with 32 artillery pieces, well the outcome is obvious, isn't it? Ten times more soldiers and three times more artillery. But they just had about 200 casulties, that is impressive.

14:39 Judging on the french soldier infront i think this photo is rather taken in WW1

In 2024 you know someone would be the first up and say "we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"

Now it clicked why in EU4, each upgrade in forts necessitates an increase in the army size of the besieging unit, especially the artillery.

This was for Romans only. Title is misleading.

@부엉이셋째동생 In the early days of Korea, taking advantage of the confrontation between the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, they secretly expanded into the territory of the Jurchen ethnic group in the north. Korea converted the former Helan Prefecture, which belonged to the Yuan Dynasty, into its own territory, which is now located in the southern part of Hamgyong Province in Korea. During the reign of Yi Song-gye, he took advantage of the Jurchen people's lack of understanding of the changes in the Central Plains and his close proximity to them to portray himself as the suzerain state of the Jurchen people, attempting to establish his own hegemonic position in Northeast Asia. Until the first year of Yongle, when Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, the Northern Yuan had already split, and Ming Chengzu finally realized the small manipulation of Korea in Northeast China, and the contradictions between the two sides began to emerge. There is a tribe among the Jurchen people called the Huligai tribe, which was originally one of the 50000 households in the Yuan Dynasty. They once lived in the Yilan area of Heilongjiang Province and moved south to the Mudanjiang area in the late Yuan Dynasty, so they are also called Huligai. As a vassal of the Yuan Dynasty, in the 19th year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty, Ahachu, the leader of the Huli Gai tribe, married his daughter to Zhu Di, who was then the King of Yan, and became a concubine. So there is still a marriage alliance between Zhu Di and Hu Ligai. After Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, the Military and Civilian Command Department of Jianzhou Wei was established in the Huli Reform Department. His father-in-law Ahachu served as the first commander of Jianzhou Wei and held the military and political power of Jianzhou Wei. From then on, the Ming Dynasty officially began actual control within the Jurchen tribe. Zhu Di's actions angered the Korean side, and King Taejong of Korea openly declared that these Jurchen people had now assimilated into Korea and that the Ming Dynasty should not accept them. He even said that the ancestors of the Korean people were the Jurchen ethnic group

Are these uploaded somewhere else? KZbin has become intolerable with their ad enforcement. I would rather not leave Sand Rhoman History behind :/

Ottomans were parasitic peoples

It has always been the 72 virgins. In death or in life.

This is just insane.. God protected Vienna these days

If you need to ask this I'm guessing you're not great at sports or anything competitive

They climbed up because they had several daggers in their backs!

Easy, get the guy whose family died from the plague, and they dont want to live anymore.

the spear tips behind them was a good reason.

I have always speculated that its the same thing that motivates Marines to charge machine gun nests. The lifestyle is just so shitty that you would rather take a bullet than wake up in the morning.

Churchill family were weapon providers and war mongers, he help setup WW-1 and WW-2 and rolled out the cold war for all of us taxpayers to keep money flowing into the hands of the weapons manufacturers and dealers.

A breach just funnels troops, defenders will concentrate forces. If its a double wall then its gonna nasty with ctoss fire. All about numbers, defenders might be women and children trowing rocks. Hard fight taking someones home

Thatnks for the great video. One remark: the term pirate legaly and historically does not apply to the Barbary corsairs as they were not illegitimate sea Robbers, but rather legitimate sea warriors (corsairs or privateers) sanctioned by legitimate polities to conduct maritime irregular warfareon their enemies. From maritime international law prism, paracy and corsairing are two separate things.

I was first up the wall….on the 50th wave.

As one of my characters in my (still unfinished) novel says: "Fair fight is for morons and suiciders. Generals are not here to ensure a fair fight, but to ensure an unfair one."

Women can be useful for anything not involving killing a man in melee combat. And despite wars generally being focused on killing people, there´s still a plethora of other stuff to do.

GUYS DIG YOUR DIGES

Thanks we might have a lot of encirclement but the French didn’t stand a chance

does anyone know if there is a PC game where you can do formal sieges? So you have to build the contravallation and trenches and stuff?

Clearly Sextus wasn't the first one

Short answers: Because soldiers are idiots... Through the history soldiers were used like toys, while the "rich" stayed safe far away. Well except a few kings who marched with their army, respect for them. But even nowaydays a lot of stupid folks following the orders of megalomaniac assholes, and willing to die if ordered to. That is surely the sign of being dumb as fuck.

Ugggh. Now I wanna start playing Crusader Kings again 😅

Thank you for not keeping knowledge behind a pay wall like some educators have had to do lately

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Pretty obvious isn’t it I swear these wannabe smart people just over exaggerate things it’s simple those people were miserable all they knew was death

The author said. It may seem crazy today.. Nope.. totally normal phenomina today too. Kamikazi is infinitely worse than climbing wall.. atleast they had slim chance.. Kamimazi had null. Also in Indo Pakistan wars.. or any Asian countries wars.. this is quite normal that soldiers literally attack alone on a post..

In regards to your conclusion, have you ever looked into the 9 Years War? A key aspect of that particular war was the fact that the Irish Covenanters relied largely on modern European style pike and shot formations over the more traditional Irish troops that the English were used to fighting: this accounted for a number of their successes in the war, which they actually came close to winning at points.

This guy is literally just translating your videos and changes the images. I can't report it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/anmtcp93otGXd9E

The Stelling van Amsterdam is the pinnacle of 19th century fort design.Too bad 20th century technology made it obsolete.

I still want to find out how to lay siege to a sprite fortress.

Someone screamed “last one there is a rotten egg “

Senior officers of italian army (like colonels and majors) still have a similar badge on their uniform. The colonel for exemple has 3 golden stars and a golden towered crown

My father would break down in tears as he talked about his fellow Marines on Iwo Jima who were ordered over the birm into withering Japanese machine gun fire and certain death but they went anyway. They knew they were going to die as soldiers did on the beaches of Normandy, the trenches of Verdun, the fields of Gettysburg and so many other battlefields throughout history.

The idea that guys were fighting to be the first over the wall, my first thought was, only the ones that wanted to. Wouldnt have been hard to hang back a bit then and keep the dream alive of buying the farm.

Interesting video, but Scipio it's pronounced "Shipio" non "Skipio"

Ah, yes. Bart Balls.

Because the guy who was first on the wall and lived has proven himself and secured honor. Your life wasn't all that. Honor was a bigger deal than it is now. Most westerners don't even know what it means.

"Soldiers' lives are sometimes worth less than time." Actually, in this period almost always, because the soldiers are probably dying in large numbers of disease. Taking Badajoz by siege would probably cost a lot more than 3,000 soldiers. Wellington hated sieges and I'm guessing this is a major reason why.

Stupid Question really. Orders, thats what!!!! Soldiers are generally stupid and more scared of being called a coward than listening to some dumbass bloke with stripes.

moral of the story, when the winged hussairs arrived!

What happened to the soldiers who said "Hell no I ain't going up first".......

Very interesting indeed

Wagenburg by Czech Hussites was essentially the same. Ukrainian Cossack relied on the same tactics. I believe the root was that the army was more alike peasant militia. The troops were light infrantry with mittle armour. Hence a traditional pike ranks were not possible

Back when men were actually men lmao

But what if the first person climbed and then died? Would the next person get the award or no one? Because if no one would get it, there isn't really a huge reason for everyone to rush to the ladders. Not only that, if one person already reached up through the ladder, wouldn't others be more demotivated to go up. Although in the 2nd case you can make an argument that they went up because there were already soldiers above to back them up. I am seeing this from a more modern viewpoint and I am clearly quite uneducated on this topic, so I would love to know the answer.