A Brief History of: The Capture of Guam

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Hello everyone I hope you enjoy this weeks video!!

[@BHuang92]

Another bizarre battle I know of. Have you heard of the Battle of Texel?

[@PlainlyDifficult]

I haven't heard of that Ill have to look it up! thanks for the comment!

[@Diamond_Dude30]

Could you do a video on the Battle of Kinsale?

[@PlainlyDifficult]

That sounds interesting thanks for suggestion!

[@MrJetFormation]

Plainly Difficult do the second raid on swinefurt I think that's how it is spelled

[@yognut72]

I just love how civiliized the battles and wars were back then 'oh were at war? well i cannot surrender on your ship please come on land I do not wish to break spanish law

[@PlainlyDifficult]

It does seem rather civil, as even guerrilla warfare at the time was considered 'un-sportsman' like!!! Thanks for the comment!

[@MistaTofMaine]

"At war huh? Well guy you appear to have completely caught me with my pants down" - Governor of Guam

[@deenasmusicbox]

I lived there for 5 LONG years as a USN dependent, it's much more developed than it was at the time I was there. International calling was ridiculously priced @ $1.35 / minute to the United States. We had the proverbial McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and get this one, a mobile roach coach Burger King 👑. This was all in the early ’90s time frame. Beautiful location for sure and keeping on the subject matter I have visited the USMC location of the barracks which was erected AFTER the United States reclaimed the island. Great work by the way!

[@Titoflavio01]

My grandmother's uncle was a soldier in the Spanish garrison of Guam 1898, he comes from Marbella (Málaga, Spain). When I was little I heard stories about Guam and the arrivings of Northamerican one day early in the morning the US fleet appeared. After a few years he return back to Guam as a civilian emigrant, he had family there.

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

Still waiting to see if you would do a vid about the american destroyer who fought off a Japanese submarine with potatoes

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Ah yes USS O'banon, I'm hoping to star doing short videos on Mondays about funny topics in history, and this would be perfect for it! Thanks for the comment!

[@bradlemmond]

The _Ridiculous History_ podcast did an episode: www.ridiculoushistoryshow.com/podcasts/the-wwii-naval-battle-won-using-potatoes.htm

[@kingrich97]

it would be sick if you did a video about the British raid on St. Nazaire in WW2. I think its the best war story i have ever heard!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the suggestion, Sounds really interesting! I hope you enjoyed the video!

[@spaghettiandmeatballs6471]

Yes, please make a video on that!

[@NigelRamses]

It baffles me that you don't have more subscribers. I look forward to each new post from you as a delightful treat from these here interwebs.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks, the channel is still relatively new hoping to get more subs soon! Thanks for the comment and the support!!

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I am glad to see that you are finally gaining some traction on KZbin and your content is getting better everyday!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment and the support James! Glad your enjoying the videos!!

[@grindstone4910]

What an incredibly polite invasion.

[@cadenmilligan3489]

Great video as always. Please keep continuing to make these as they are both very entertaining and educational! Thank you for your work!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks man! I'm glad your enjoying the videos! Thanks for the comment!

[@dannysulyma6273]

I am very happy to have found your channel a month or two ago and am in continued disbelief that you have so few subscribers with such well produced and informative videos. Please persevere, one day it will kick and your base will grow very quickly, you should have a couple hundred thousand subscribers with such a high quality product. Thank you for making the effort, I do appreciate the result.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment, and the support, I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos!! XD

[@thomasboardman9652]

I'm from Guam and didn t even know this🤔

[@Dylan_Goodboy]

Great video and I love how you use propaganda posters from the period you can really get in the attitude of the time when seeing those posters.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks Dylan! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I always try to find propaganda from the time period!

[@usslibertyincident]

An interesting war story I heard of was the Transnistria War, the entirety of it, thousands of soldiers were involved but only around 300-600 troops were killed.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Ive never heard of that one, ill have to check it out thanks for the comment!

[@erikwenglikowski644]

I've been watching your videos for a few months now and you always make a professional product, good job Englisher

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks Erik! I try my best, although I'm still using iMovie!! I need to upgrade at some point soon! Thanks for the support and the comment!

[@erikwenglikowski644]

Oh and a video idea for you is the battle of fallen timbers in Ohio, general Anthony Wayne spent 2 years training in special Indian fighting techniques to finialy defeat Little Turtle and other chiefs who reigned over what's today Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. Some of my details might be a bit off but at an old job of mine we would reenact the battle and treaty. It's a pretty exciting story

[@mandrc5562]

Best way for a war to go, turn up exchange letters then meet for a conversation to settle the matter. Shame we can't have all conflicts go this well. No guns, bombs or death required just some good linguistic skills.

[@thomasbell7033]

Yeah, but where's the fun in that?

[@williamdevane88]

For reasons I have since forgotten, I believed guacamole was Guam and Guam was guacamole until embarrassingly late into my childhood. Would love to see a video on the War of Jenkins Ear and thanks for another great production!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for comment! Thanks for enjoying the video! That sounds like an interesting subject thanks for the suggestion!

[@dentistguba]

Well seems like america took the island as casually as one would pop to the shop to buy some chips and dip haha.

[@jsocrates1]

Great story, well told. The battle between Ohio and Michigan is similarly bizarre, and includes a bovine casualty.

[@MagicraftYT]

My country is MENTIONED in your video [Philippines] ! My life is complete! I wish you can tacke about World War II in the Pacific.. It has a lot of great stuff in it!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

It was an interesting theatre of war! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!! Thanks for the comment!!

[@Ravenfort]

Recently found your channel. +1 really good content. (And great music!)

[@Karpin122]

Brief history of boxer-briefs

[@PlainlyDifficult]

XD

[@bradlemmond]

@@PlainlyDifficult _Well actually,_ that might be interesting!

[@Jodonho]

the Battle of Castle Itter is the strangest battle of WW2 -- by a big margin. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment! I've already done a video on the battle check it out if you want? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYKYoaWulreYecU

[@NizarAlAufi]

awesome video, perfect length as well, keep it up!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment and the support, I'm glad you enjoyed the video!!

[@NizarAlAufi]

Plainly Difficult I hopped back in to like your reply, and I realised I watched all your videos. I'm happy you reply to our comments, thanks for the good work!

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I love your channel and in particular this episode!

[@gyromurphy]

enjoying my morning bulletproof coffee and cigarette to this. ... which compliment these videos perfectly.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Cheers man glad you enjoyed the video enjoy your coffee!!

[@0hn0haha]

Great music in the background!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Can't go wrong with some good old Gustav Mahler! Thanks for the comment, and I hope you enjoyed the video!

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

Probably the most-polite letter ever written 5:30

[@tungstenivoxide2407]

A brief history of the California Republic maybe?

[@PlainlyDifficult]

thank you for the comment! A friend of mine has done some videos on California's history: kzbin.info/aero/PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru Check it out and say hi to him for me! Thanks again!

[@Mustangguy9702]

What would be awesome is a video on Taffy3. Durring ww2

[@gwyneddboom2579]

The 335 years war is quite amazing.

[@briangarrow448]

Have you done a video on the Pig War of 1859, between the U.S. and Britain?

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

Thank you for this interesting video.

[@OAleathaO]

1:12 - "If I had just declared war on a world power I would probably send out urgent messages to all my colonies to prepare for some fighting..." Details, details... lol

[@jacobfox9343]

It'd be great if you made a video on Operation Cottage!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Ill have to check that out! Thanks for the suggestion and the comment!!

[@scottplumb1]

The battle of castle itter, if you haven’t done a video of it already.

[@fluxthelycanroc9603]

Battle off samar is a weird one. A real David vs goliath

[@MrTokesu]

Rather interesting! Good video!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment glad you enjoyed the video!

[@pepe6666]

man. someone turns up with a huge ass vessel and fires weapons - and you write them a polite letter in return.

[@nemonatussum7040]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War , don't know if you have or haven't covered this but i couldn't believe it when i heard about it.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment and the suggestion! I hope you liked the video!

[@stefanatliorvaldsson3563]

great video

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Takk! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@roryjones95]

Honestly that sealed order can have Spain and Guam replaced and its the good for anyone

[@charlieguerrero1149]

can you do a video on the Nicaraguan Revolution?

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment and the suggestions ill look up the subject thanks!! I hope you enjoyed the video!

[@matthewlee8667]

People who talk about the horrors of Stalingrad have never heard of this war crime.

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I'm shocked you do not have more followers, you should definitely start looking into sponsorships soon. Just be weary of their terms.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the support!!

[@abark]

And now more than 100 years later, it's in danger of tipping over.

[@5roundsrapid263]

This sounds like the opposite of The Battle of New Orleans. The British tried to capture the city (and lost) two weeks after a peace treaty had been signed!

[@destroyer6869]

I thought that it was going to be the ww2 battle of gaum

[@yaboi4564]

When Sydney australia, your home, attacks an island 😆

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Hehe XD

[@austrone8586]

hmmm Spain, do a brief history about the country of the Philippines

[@PlainlyDifficult]

That would be interesting thanks for the comment!

[@jorgeadelprado]

Hmmm Spain?

[@sergius9571]

The american attacked a weak country in that moment, but which had rich colonies ( Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philipine Islands, plus the islands of the Carolines, Marianas, and Palao, and the Sahara recently occupied in 1884, and a protectorate in Equatorial Guinea, but the video it's great, you have my like!!

[@Bakarda]

Look at Battle of Domažlice where outnumbered Hussites destroyed 5th Crusade against Bohemia by singing :D

[@jeffcampbell1555]

Sheesh! I know the multitude of moral objections to Spain's Imperial record (so don't bother castigating me,) but I can't help feeling sorry for the Spanish officials of Guam. An author of fiction couldn't devise a scenario better suited to make civil servants self-atomize under the weight of their own insignificance. If it wasn't for the Plainly Difficult standard of research accuracy...I'd call bullshit. My brain = blown.

[@I_am_a_cat_]

There are so many channels that do this style of video. Its a little ridiculous, but I still like them haha. Great job. Evan though stuff like this is ez mode.. Haha. Maybe do some more drawings yourself? Instead of just showing pictures you got off Google.

[@lordpuppydudley]

This channel doesn't get the attention it deserves.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks Lord Puppydudley, I love your display picture by the way! Thanks for the support, and the comment. I hope to see you on the next video!

[@Firethorn275]

Is that you at the beginning of this video?

[@maddin95k1]

Maybe you could make a video about the strangest war of them all: The Great Meme war? :-P

[@PlainlyDifficult]

I think i could do a video on the Pepe Civl war XD :D

[@Joebro7471]

that Mahler tho

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Great composer! Thanks for the comment!

[@TheBfredrik]

as always a like from me

[@PlainlyDifficult]

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[@weirdworld7024]

what happened with the eyebrows

[@PlainlyDifficult]

I'm not sure :D

[@jemtbbb3223]

I enjoyed the video all but the emojis

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment!

[@Madchef8u]

The Pig War (not bay of pigs) and the battle for the bucket 😀

[@barrydysert2974]

🖖

[@zero_one4056]

In world war 1 German soldiers retreated after the soldiers of the Russian fort they were shelling were gassed and came out literally hacking up parts of their lungs. They looked like zombies according to the reports.

[@Liana8310]

6:39 cat

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Well spotted! thanks for the comment!

[@Liana8310]

😂 🐱

[@indicus9075]

Lol John D Long

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I knew if I scrolled long enough 🤣

[@nicobyrne2774]

55 secs Harry Potters papa.

[@petertrebilcock719]

Battle of samr

[@petertrebilcock719]

Samar

[@pappapaps]

So John D. Long _didn't_ star in porn is what you're saying?

[@manfromnantucket9544]

#nukeguam

[@kurtschelzig]

First

[@marius8014]

The Bro-Gamers You're second

[@cubalibreball3809]

look up the battle of Karancebes. it's morbidly funny and idiotic

[@PlainlyDifficult]

It is a rather odd battle as the Austrian army fought itself over some barrels of booze if i remember! Thanks for the comment! It will probably feature in a video coming soon! Check out my war of the kettle video its from around the same time and it happened under the same Austrian Emperor! Thanks for the comment, and I hope you enjoyed the video!!

[@cubalibreball3809]

Plainly Difficult Dude you're cool. I've actually seen most of your videos after I subbed. I enjoy your channel and it's great to see you considering people's suggestions. keep it up my man

[@c.w.8200]

Wow, nice how you butchered that good strong German name 😂

[@abyssaljam441]

first

[@pissoffliketomorrow458]

What about a brief history of a flag perhaps? I'm sure there is some big history behind some flags. overall, great videos! Keep it up!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the comment! Thats a good idea, as flags do have rather interesting histories!