Archeologists Uncover How Napoleon Lost At Waterloo

[@bernardmcmahon351]

Alice Roberts is a very good presenter, her knowledge and enthusiasm interviewing other archaeologists makes her presentations so interesting

[@MrDaiseymay]

YES, SHE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEGES FELLOW EXPERTS IN OTHER SPECIALTY , RELATED AREAS.

[@mrdogshit]

shes very smart and has an interesting voice I forgot his name right now but listen to his podcast the Scottish gentleman Tony Robinson is very easy to listen too not many can make history interesting

[@72Bigray]

she is great....Dan Snow... gladly not part of this show.. he is a poor poor historian... all showbiz no grit for me. reason i wont sign upto anything he is involved with

[@PG-zv9mf]

9:54 "The artifacts from the bottom of this trench date to the year of the battle" as the shot slowly pans across Phil Harding standing in the bottom of the trench 😂

[@wisecoconut5]

Now that is funny!

[@MrDaiseymay]

GOOD OLD PHIL, I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THAT OLD

[@duudsuufd]

@@MrDaiseymay Thanks to your answer, I get it!

[@CalebCluff]

He’s a damn treasure

[@stephenconnolly3018]

Always a program if professor Alice Roberts is in it.

[@alfredpaquin3563]

Wellington knew the terrain, and the weather was a disadvantage for Napoleon's cavalry.

[@chucky2316]

Any excuse

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Not so much the cavalry as the artillery. Napoleon was an artillery man. He used it as a concentrated offensive weapon. There were cavalry attacks both early and late in the battle by both British and French. It's often cited that part of the reason for Napoleon losing was the late start of the battle due to soft ground reducing the effectiveness of his cannon. That is, not only was moving cannon on soft ground difficult but solid shot would be less effective with soft ground (one of the techniques used was to bounce shot through lines). On the other hand, someone pointed out that a cause of the delay may also have been the fact that not all of Napoleon's troops had reached the site yet. With the Prussians not retiring to the east time was not on Napoleon's side.

[@tonyjames5444]

Wellington knew all about the sunken road by the farm and everything else about the battlefield of Waterloo, he'd identified the site a year earlier and recognised it would be a perfect spot to hold an advancing enemy.

[@williamcurtin5692]

The Peer was peerless.

[@tonyjames5444]

@iberian5319 Yet if Wellington and his allied army had broke and retreated before the Prussians arrived Napoleon would've won so the British having the right to name to battle was right. As I said Wellingtons aim was to hold until the Prussians arrived which he did, if the roles were reversed I'm certain Wellington would've had no problem allowing Blucher to claim the victory and name the battle on behalf of his Prussians who fought to hold the ground.

[@tuttebelleke]

In an other British documentary about Waterloo, it is explained that Napoleon's artillery in certain places of the battlefield could make no more advance, being stuck in the mud, unable to reach Wellington's troupes. These researchers went to battle location and simulated the wet underground (it rained for 3 days before the battle) simulated the artillery and tried to make any move by help of several horses and men. Their conclusion was: Napoleon's artillery must have been completely stuck.

[@MrDaiseymay]

WITHOUT THE PRUSSIAN HELP, WE WOULDNT HAVE WON, BUT WE DON'T MENTION THAT, WHOOPS DMMMN !

[@duncbee]

@@MrDaiseymay Yet everyone knows so what is your point. Napoleon should have won at Waterloo but he didn't as usual he came up against Wellington and lost. Wellington fought a defensive battle because he had no choice he simply didn't have the troops to anything else. Marshal Ney went on the missing list with his troops and had he not done that Napoleon would have won. However as Napoleon pointed out he'd rather have a lucky General and on that day the luck was with Wellington. Blucher was late and it got to a point where the battle started turning and Wellington knew it he was hanging on for dear life and its well documented. Napoleon had all the benefits. A large chunk of Wellington's Army had been fighting for Napoleon earlier he couldn't guarantee they would fight as he needed. Napoleon was on home turf he could supply his army much more easily and get replacements more easily. In fact the biggest surprise of the battle is that Napoleon lost Wellington certainly wouldn't have if the situation was reversed. He would never have allowed Ney to go on a wild goose chase with 30,000 troops. Wellington was a soldier Napoleon was a demagogue. Napoleon's generals didn't question him Wellington's did. Napoleon never dealt with British tactic of placing cannon below the horizon. The simple fact Napoleon lost every campaign he fought against Wellington. The march to Russia destroyed his best army and never got over it. Totally and utterly outplayed by the Russians. Napoleon is not the genius people claim. Strategically he stank. Blucher was part of Wellington's Army not the other way round.

[@megapangolin1093]

Lovely programmes, Alice. I am rivetted every time. You look incredible as always.

[@Rebel1972x]

😂😂😂😂😅

[@dewardroy6531]

Thank you, Dr. Alice Roberts and everyone!

[@michaelpfister1283]

The Hawker Hurricane fly-by was an awesome touch. :-) Great story.

[@FatManWalking18]

i could listen to Dr Alice read from washing machine repair manual.

[@MrDaiseymay]

I WISH SHE;D READ MINE, i CAN ONLY WORK ONE PROGRAMME, AFTER 15 YRS

[@jfc213]

dr alice is a true wounder she is woundefull thanks

[@MickRiley]

Shes a professor now I think

[@kcstafford2784]

sure wish she would get rid of the nasty red and go back

[@MrDaiseymay]

A WHAT?

[@tonyjohnson8752]

Yay. Good ole Phil Harding. I knew him by his voice before I saw him.

[@briangodfrey7424]

'E's got a new hat, though.

[@philipm06]

Ooh arr.

[@ledacedar6253]

Who wouldn’t recognize Phil by his accent & ways of expressing his opinion.

[@理高]

Professor Alice Robert, most beautiful academic scholar.

[@mightymike2192]

Not so much any more. Haha.

[@StevenBrown-w5b]

What do you mean?

[@judibill72]

Celebrate the intellectual ability . Looks had nothing to do with it.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@mightymike2192 YO00000 CAD, MIGHTY IDIOT

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@judibill72 Waaal NOT QUITE CORRECT

[@j.r.shartzer]

TVF spreading the Alice Roberts content across all their channels. I will follow it all.

[@steveshepherd2712]

And here in Ontario Canada while metal detecting I found a Wellington half penny token that lists the battles on the penisular against Napolions army. The token was struck to pay the surviving troops many of whome ended up in Canada after the war of 1812 against the Americans 😉

[@judibill72]

AND UNLIKE THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY THE USA LOST THE BATTLE. WHO DO WE VERIFY? SIMPLY CANADA IS A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY.

[@pigdroppings]

The whole reason for the War of 1812 was for the US to grab Canada from the British while they were busy fighting the little Italian Napoleone. The Canadians didn't want to be grabbed, and defeated the US Army which left with its tail between its legs.

[@mrdogshit]

@@judibill72 we like our Canadian cousins we all fight together like a big family

[@petemc5070]

@@mrdogshit Like a big mafia family.

[@ledacedar6253]

@@judibill72yeah not any longer Canada under Trudeau the tampon guy we are owned by his WEF allegiance! Brain dead, no rights to think let alone speak or it’s life in jail with thousands owed to the crown!

[@katiemoyer8679]

Lovely and scholarly presentation. Thank You to all involved. 👌

[@artbargestudio]

Thank you Alice! Another brilliant episode!~

[@chadwhitman1811]

Marshal Grouchy's inability to make contact and engage the recently defeated but not destroyed Prussians under Marshal Blucher was the main reason. Wellington was in a tight fix when old gaurd advanced and is alleged to have said ' give me night or Blucher' .Blucher arrived first caught and the French in critcal moment and defeated Napoleon's army and maybe the first time truly defeated Naploeon who was left no real options but surrender.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

The Town of Wavre had a deep ravine creek with two bridges , buildings that were on fire all resulted in a plug he couldn't get through quick enough

[@StevenBrown-w5b]

Grouchy was fighting his own battle at Wavre , at the time .

[@2adamast]

Napoleon asked for a parade the day after Ligny with all his troops, costing Grouchy nearly a day. And could have held Crouchy on his right flank to counter Wellington's plan, instead of imagining Blucher marching to Liege. Napoleon was aware of Blucher by two o'clock, long before the night.

[@BobBlarneystone]

I read somewhere that the bones of the soldiers buried at Waterloo were dug up and ground for fertilizer. Is that so?

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

And for making a kind of sugar..

[@flashladderacrobat]

yes , that was the norm in that age, it became so bad the practice was eventually outlawed.

[@gl2773]

Spread on the fields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia. At least they came home…

[@andriesscheper2022]

Yes. And to produce bone coal used to refine beet sugar in Northern France. There almost isn't a bone to be found left. That's where grandpa went! 😮

[@AndyJarman]

Funny how we can accept poor penniless workers being torn to pieces by the hundreds of thousands, yet we feel it is somehow undignified to treat their dead bodies with disrespect. We truly are a curious creature.

[@FlyTyer1948]

Any evidence of Sharpe onsite? ;-)

[@Getouttahere78]

Over the hills and far away 😁

[@FlyTyer1948]

@@Getouttahere78 :-)

[@chrishill7797]

@@Getouttahere78😂

[@davidthomas6859]

Yay ,Phil has a new hat 😊

[@MrDaiseymay]

ONLY THE SECOND ONE IN 80 YRS

[@MichaelCampin]

Exactly what happened to HMS Hood, not a good idea to have ready use ammo with open doors to the turrets and the ammo and charge storage

[@MrDaiseymay]

YOUVE ANSWERED YOUR OWN QUESTION.

[@johnpinkerton772]

Excellent segment!

[@margarance]

Great episode. The Hurricane/Spitfire thing is a real triumph of branding over fact that should be taught in schools because in the modern world we need to constantly separate reputation and reality. Hougoumont Farm is amazing. We visited several years ago and sat in our camping car having afternoon tea and discussing the issues of access and location. To see ‘Phil the dig’ on that original road surface was really game-changing.

[@knarftrakiul3881]

One thing I've noticed Is archeologist dig nice square ditches. I'd like to hire them to do my footers 😅

[@BaronsHistoryTimes]

4:00 Wellington's victory is properly Wellington AND Blucher's Victory... it was a joint plan they put in place that riskily lured Napoleon into the battle. Without Blucher fulfilling his part in the trap, the battle would have been 'Wellington's Massacred Army'. Hougoumont pronounced with the 'H'... 'ooo' rather than 'Who' 6:00 Wellington actually sent thousands more soldiers to directly and indirectly support the Hougoumont buildings and orchards and woods. 7:00 Napoleon could not see the chateau or the wall as the woods in front blocked the view to his command post. He actually sent orders to his brother to only capture the woods. 8:00 There were German defenders inside Hougoumont too, not just British. Hundreds of Green uniformed Nassauer troops joined the defence just before the French attack. The story of just 800 reinforcements sent by Wellington to help defend the Hougoumont area is not correct. Several brigades of mostly Germans were moved in and around the area. 19:00 The ammo supply waggon was noticed and fired at by the French skirmishers.

[@Tony-z3p1r]

Wonderful museum there ..well worth a visit !

[@RoyCousins]

Sadly the Museum of London closed in 2022, but is due to re-open as the London Museum at a new site at Smithfield in 2026.

[@justinneill5003]

Apparently on returning to the site of the battle some time later, Wellington was shocked to see the Lion Mound, because the soil used to create it had altered the topography of the land around it. “What have they done to my battlefield!” I think were his words.

[@LordLouie-u9b]

Nice video

[@markthornton7347]

1815 was a very wet year do to volcanic activity in Indonesia, it rained egregiously for the three day battle...on the 18th the French did not start at 7 0r 8 am as one could on a fine summer day but later , at 11:30 after the soaked fields could be negotiated...and we all know what the results of a late start can do to ones aims for the day....

[@Rusty_Gold85]

moving in the mud was a slow sticky problem not the myth he waited for it to dry out .

[@Jls75]

Awesome!

[@williamcurtin5692]

Overconfidence by the "Ogre" and leaving Davout in Paris- one shudders to think what Quatre Bras might have been like with him in Ney's place. And absolute coolness and battle control by Wellington, the "Sepoy General".

[@giabgr]

So much I never knew about this train station!

[@vodcancoke]

I met Napoleon, bloody nice chap

[@mikedawe692]

For those who forget the lessons of the past…

[@MikeSavage-i9r]

"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained" wellington

[@TonyWhite-n9p]

I have such a crush on Prof. Roberts. Smart, gorgeous and so cool

[@ledacedar6253]

Yeah well I’m competing you as a woman who loves women & she’s quite the healthy woman, attractive & intelligently a great communicator. Most men don’t like to communicate feelings, intuition or thoughts too often but that’s okay for us lesbians

[@divarachelenvy]

thanks prof

[@TheFlyingHaggis]

Where wid we be if it wisnae fur oor wellies? The lovely Alison is here to explain ❤

[@RealAndySkibba]

I feel like they should've just asked ABBA.

[@sharioverend1618]

You are the funniest

[@beast4661]

😂😂❤

[@DangerGrouse]

😅😅😅

[@williamcurtin5692]

I love that song but I like Stonewall Jackson's (American country singer) take in 1959 better: Waterloo Waterloo Where will you meet your Waterloo? Every puppy has his day Everybody has to pay Everybody has to meet his Waterloo Little General Napoleon of France Tried to conquer the world But lost his pants Met defeat Known as Bonaparte's Retreat And that's when Napoleon Met his Waterloo

[@henrykszuplakszuplak6578]

I feel like they should've just dug on the east side of London Waterloo.

[@campbellprice8431]

Impressive!

[@EverettvonNordeck-gf2cw]

Here for the video and the entertainment of reading thirsty for Alice comments. I'm never disappointed😂

[@briancrowther3272]

Am seeing Alice at the State Theatre in Sydney Friday week, 29th Nov 2024. Love her stuff. Am from the UK living in Sydney since the early 80s. Brought up at Ruislip, next to Notholt Aerodrome where the 303 squadron flew from. My grandad had the contract for the paving in the war at the aerodrome. We used to in the summer hear the spitfire, lancaster and hurricane coming back from an air show to land at Northolt. Wed run out of the 1936 house, through the French windows to watch these 3 do a little show for us before they landed. Getting entional here. Mum was about 13 when the Battle of Britain took place and lived in that house. During the raids she would hide under the stairs, the safest place bar the Anderson shelters, (little airaid shelters fir a family in the back gardens), ( grandad had a contract to build those too). She would count the bombs, if she counted 6 she had survived, as the dropped in 6's. One time one landed on a house 2 doors down and on the house on the other side of the road. Both destoyed, amazingly, the families in their Anderson or out. Our house had the windows blasted out and the ceilings come down. Mum was ok, so were her Mum and Dad. Lucky for me and my brother. Lots ofvstories like this to tell. Mum was always scared of thinder. I never thought about it. My daughter at about 21 yrs was livingvwith Mum on a gap year before uni in Australia. Mum told her that was because she was scared of the bombs i feel so sorry for the kids and people in Gaza and Palestinevtiday being slaughtered in a genocide perpetrated by Israel and facilitated by the USA. If Mum was suffering from 13 to 92yrs, what will it be like for the Palestinans undergoing worse now?

[@MrDaiseymay]

THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR FAMLIES HISTORY, I WAS BORN IN 1941, DURING AN AIR RAID ON MY CITY. WE LIVED NEAR THE SPITFIRE FACTORY AT CASTLE BROMWHICH, AND OFTEN SAW SPITFIRES ROARING OVER OUR HOUSE, HEADING FOR R.A.F BASES. I SUGGEST THAT YOU SHARE AND EXPRESS YOUR OPINNONS , OF THE MIDDLE EAST WAR, WITH YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER'S, ETC, AS i USED TO DO, YOU MAY GET RESPONSES, FOR AND AGAINST YOUR VIEWS.

[@Ap-cm7mx]

NOW THE WHOLE STORY: I think the team has found only 3 skeletons at Waterloo. More than 25000 tons of bones (human/horse) from Napoleonic battlefields were exported to England to be processed into fertilizer at facilities in Doncaster. Sources from the 1860s report that bones from the Crimean War (1853-1856) ended up there as well. The mentioned "Waterloo Teeth" provided (as it was called) a "Healthy Waterloo Smile" for London's elite. The British were called the Vampires of Europe when all this happened.

[@MarkoZalad-x4j]

Yes Victor Hugo was a guest at a Country estate near Doncaster when 20,00o Bushells of Bones from the mass graves at Waterloo, Austerlitz and Leipzig were ground down at a Bone Mill on the Don at marshgate and turned into Fertiliser, then ploughed into the fields where I live on the Escarpment.

[@Ap-cm7mx]

@@MarkoZalad-x4j Thank you, I had not heard that. A few weeks ago I watched another attempt on KZbin to rewrite this history. The "explanation" provided for the absence of bones focussed this time on the "1815 peasantry" supposedly burning bodies on an industrial scale as well as the "current locals" as "being uncooperative" to support archeological work at Waterloo to uncover the dead. Developers are accused of "disturbing the field of honour" so that "the evidence" will be lost forever. Trying to cover up the Fertilizer/Teeth story is one thing but pointing the finger at the "1815 peasantry" as well as the current locals is another.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@MarkoZalad-x4j WHAT DOES THE FLOUR TASTE LIKE AROUND THOSE PARTS ?

[@MarkoZalad-x4j]

@ PUT ME OFF GROWING vegetables in my Garden! There were 3 mills so flour was ground in a separate Mill, also a Mustard mill!

[@2adamast]

I knew Wellington cut down the trees after Waterloo as he owned the place, so he harvested his army too.

[@Novotny72]

The Poles: a great bunch of lads

[@philiprayner]

Napoleon made one mistake he should have brought up heavy mortars and Leveled Hougoumont

[@MichaelCampin]

Please remember that the Hurricane could suffer more damage and was more prevalent that the early Spitfire, God bless the Hurricane

[@helenswan705]

Most appropriate, I watched the last segment of this on Remembrance Day

[@sev-nutz8524]

No one tried to sell me their book on this video and that's awesome! 😎

[@wisecoconut5]

And it is U.S. politics free! Bonus!😂

[@PierreGillet-i1x]

It seems they have been retrieved by farmers to be used as fertilizers !

[@whipsnadepoacher]

Please change the title. You didn't visit one wreck. That said, a well done series. Thank you.

[@dogpaw775]

my dentist still works to a similar standard used in Warerloo Tooth procedures, on second thoughts I believe my dentist may have failed Carpentry 101.

[@PierreGillet-i1x]

Where are the bones,if any, excavated in the Waterloo battle field ?

[@creightonjason]

Only one or two bodies, they were dig up and turn to fertilizer

[@zjmgxclips5633]

Wow that horde is fascinating,

[@kevingray3550]

AEthelred was not "unready" in our modern sense that he wasn't prepared of organised. In his case "unready" meant that he was "ill advised" or without adequate counsel

[@Oh-hardy-har-har]

>Do not go on a warship, full of gun-powder, and smoke.

[@christopher480]

thumbs down for you for your clickbait title.

[@missasinenomine]

51:30 Was that woman really drinking that putrid water?!

[@paulmicheldenverco1]

The sad thing is that most of the Poles probably never went home [or had long waites] because the Soviet Union invaded Poland by necessity, but they stayed after the war, so i'm sure many lived out their years in The UK.

[@obiss-e5b]

Has it been established with any certainty if the 800 nassau troops defending the southern wall of hougamont were still using french muskets retained from when they fought for Napoleon only a couple of years previous or had been reissued with british weapons?

[@trollmeistergeneral3467]

Why are the “Waterloo Uncovered” speakers, and others for that matter, not identified earlier in the video? The chap speaking at around the 8 : 10 mark, Major Foinette, for example, (later promoted to Colonel), served with the Coldstream Guards, the Regiment which saved Hougoumont Farm. We were apprised of this fact later, but I think we should have been told earlier. Phil Harding should have been identified when he first appeared in the video, although I accept we all know who he is.

[@kevinjamesparr552]

Wellington picked that battlefield and drew Napoleon on to it

[@Sam-nz6ju]

He lost because the Coldstream Guards held the Farmhouse on Wellingtons right flank. Just saying.

[@duudsuufd]

27:48 That skull is alive!

[@PBUCKY1969]

With the observations of the sailor's skeletal injuries, we see the importance of navy rum

[@nPcDrone]

What few know is that in the weeks leading up to Waterloo, Napolian was getting a lot of heat and bad press because his entire command staff was made up of white males. DEI initiatives swept through his camp, and unqualified people were put in charge of key logistics and artillery, and the veteran leaders were pushed to the side. The lack of experience and conflicting interests of the DEI hires brought his military to a grinding halt, communications broke down, and eliminating symbols of the patriarchy and colonialism took precedence over combat effectiveness and professionalism.

[@isazaid5858]

اووووه تقصد نابليون المستعمر 😂 اول شخص وضع عينه على فلسطين غزاة شياطين مستعمرين 😂

[@nPcDrone]

​@@isazaid5858 you must be a retard low IQ dumb ass. Please tell me what you think the above joke was joking about? And napoleon was not a colonizers. He was a pure conqueror of his neighbors. No colonies. Just conquest. And the colonizers from. EUROPE. *WHITE MEN" saved Europe and Asia from the French War machine. Freaking special Ed Mfer you are.

[@lenabreijer1311]

Actually one of his most successful generals in Egypt was Alexander dumas father, Haitian and very black.

[@Filthyanimalyeh]

Fantastic lol 😂

[@nPcDrone]

@Hellbillyhok communists do not subscribe to DEI either. All your socialist idols killed ethnic minorities and any heterosexual deviation. All are equal. None are raised above their fellow citizens. DEI is discrimination. You are the fascist. Liberty and freedom for all. Not more liberty and freedom for some and less for others.

[@kenowens9021]

She had flaming red hair when she worked on Time Team.

[@annbretagne2108]

Dyed.

[@mightymike2192]

@@annbretagne2108 Condolences

[@chucknichter3233]

You can’t reuse musket balls the French have already shot. It’s not like they are just lying on the surface.

[@abcovanmeekeren588]

As a Dutchmen it's always funny to see how chauvinistic the British are if the subject Waterloo is discussed and to roll of Wellington. It's something like..we the British vanquished Napoleon. Prof. Alice Roberts mention in the youtube video " there were other people involved...as if they were not importent !..so arrogant..Just check out Wikipedia ! Wellington army total 68000 soldiers of which 31000 British and 17000 Dutch ( including from 1840 Belgium) and 20000 Hanover/Nassau/Brunswick. In other words the British army on it's own could never beat Napoleon alone !! Not to mention...if Blucher's army of 50000 soldiers did not arrive on time at the battlefields it would end up as a total disaster for the allied troops. So Prof. Alice Roberts it's time that you tell the complete story about Waterloo !...without chauvinism please !

[@skylar7740]

This documentary is not meant to be an in-depth analysis of the Battle of Waterloo, which was just one of several stories about multi period archaeological stories. To include every aspect of the Battle and the composition of the three armies that took part would take a whole series of many hours. There are many documentaries and books from British sources that include the role of other nationalities within Wellingtons army.

[@luciusesox1luckysox570]

Ahhemm. Who was responsible for their placement, the tactics used, and whether you like it or not which soldiers were the most steadfast.... Finally It was English Guards who repelled Napoleons last ditch effort to break the allied line by attacking with his Old Guard the first time they were ever repelled by the way.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Nap-boy going to sleep for a couple of hours didn't help the French

[@PaulTomblin]

Napoleon was very sick - either an ulcer or possibly even appendicitis.

[@LindsayImms]

“We can see from his bones that he survived some nasty insults “ 😂 come on editors??

[@VonDutch68]

Smoking pipes ! Shock horror ! You know they had open fires in the galleys to cook on to !

[@robertoorsi5771]

Napoleon lost at Waterloo because he split the army in two armies. At 5:00 pm Wellington had lost the battle. Blucker was arriving and Ney was far away.Full stop.

[@miketriggs2156]

Ney, the bravest of the brave was in the thick of the fighting. Grouchy and his corps who were supposed to keep the Prussians away from Waterloo failed to march to the sound of the guns and took no part in the battle although he did win the last battle of the napoleonic wars the next day at wavre.

[@albertenriquecrowleybeastc217]

Clicked on thinking huh, Waterloo video i havent seen,and i am right,but i was hoping it was a video dedicated entirely to Waterloo archaeology. My reason being is because evidence from that battle,ie victims,bodies and such are gone,most corpses and bones left being used up amongst other things as fertilizer. Every now and then they find some scant burials one two or three and thats if they are lucky. Very important question poised here,Imo British Tenacity is how they ended up winning that battle,and of course When Blucher arrived, it put the nail in the coffin for Napoleon's comeback.

[@christopher480]

How come your title doesnt match the title of the actual video?.......Is it because you uploaded it without the owners permission?

[@TheTimeDetective42]

He was outnumbered 2:1.

[@Waikato62]

Closed the gate against a flow of French, now thats's soldiering.

[@MountainRaven1960]

Ethelred the ATM!

[@brucesiefkes4081]

i read a personal letter of a German soldier who has the same last name as I he lived a long time had 3 different wives about 15 kids who lied in leer Germany

[@ledacedar6253]

The British woman’s front teeth were like beavers teeth with the two lower front teeth way taller than the ones beside it! I can’t imagine eating & chewing with that scenario.😂

[@christianklein5774]

...as i know Blücher run with the german Caverlie in the masiv frensh canonfire to asist perhaps help some british troops ther what had given him ia hie numberl off lose in his unit and he was heavy woundet , later Dnewitz Geneisenau 1taken with solwer marching tropps over all frnsh line in the 10 time numberal off frensh man , ther mnust be t (some historian withe they taken all ther madels as metal off the dead frensh and ther was low funeral culture out off low recpect as time and condition)....

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Napoleon's Younger Brother Jerome of the 6th Division led the attack on Hogoumount. He was not of great Militarily or capital thinking and made many mistakes

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

Awesome the history of waterloo teethts..and the mistery of the bodies continues..

[@gregbors8364]

You could say he came up a little… short I’ll let myself out 😔

[@gl2773]

I love the prof but there’s some lazy reporting in this programme.

[@rickcarmack5850]

i have the biggest crush on alice and i dont care who knows

[@mightymike2192]

creepy.

[@graceygrumble]

How many adverts do you think you need? This is ridiculous! I am interested in everything and it is beautifully presented, but good grief!

[@Swngflwr]

Imagine dying and then being put in a cardboard box in a museum

[@kenlandgren4701]

I believe the soggy conditions at Waterloo impacted the French more because they were on the offensive.

[@jggallow01]

The battle did not commence until 11:58am. Napoleon waited - wrongly - for soil to dry out so he could better maneuver his artillery. The delay made no difference for his cannon and also limited daylight to further prosecute the battle.

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

The majority of this video has little if anything to do with Waterloo and the part that deals with the battle is hardly a revelation - the sunken road has been known about since the battle as has the fighting at Hougoumont. The idea that the size of the armies’ musket balls had any relevance is laughable because there are no accounts of allies troops running out of ammunition and using the French supplies and no accounts of the French running out of ammunition either. Even had hougounont been taken it was ahead of the right of wellington’s line which was well hidden and would have had to have been attacked in any event. The key events about the battle are well known and the material reason for napoleon’s defeat was having to start the battle five hours late by which tome the Prussians could join- and the failure to follow up the battle of ligny properly by grouchy which allowed Blucher to regroup. The idea that its new news that the fighting at hougounont was fierce is laughable as well, given the accounts of the fighting and the idea that it was essential to wellington’s victory is also doubtful given the battle was fought and lost in other areas.

[@toxicblackwidow9841]

"Hougoumont" seems so hard to pronounce for Brits ! 🤣 Good job though. Greetings from Waterloo !

[@kathyastrom1315]

I am about 90% sure one of my 5th great-granduncles fought in the 23rd Light Dragoons at Waterloo. I know that, at the end of November 1814, he was transferred to England from the 104th New Brunswick Regiment as the War of 1812 was wrapping up. I found someone with his name in that Dragoons regiment’s paybook that began on December 25, 1814, and that man fought at Waterloo. I just have to find the previous paybook to see if the man was a new member or had been in it for longer than just a few days or weeks. If he’s there any earlier than mid-December, he’s not my guy. The National Archives does have that earlier paybook, but it’ll cost me $$ I don’t have right now to get the pages scanned. Oh well, someday eventually!!

[@apriladelewhyte]

That's pretty cool, I hope you find out.

[@nickmiller76]

What was his name?

[@kathyastrom1315]

@@nickmiller76 George Goodwin. He’s listed as “Geo Goodwin” in the regimental records. There is another “George Goodwin” in a different regiment who also was at Waterloo, but I found that man’s enlistment record and he isn’t my guy. There isn’t any enlistment record for Geo Goodwin, so I am holding out hope he’s my relative. Another factor that adds to my confidence in the family story is that I first found it published way back in 1900. It was included in a mini-bio in a sort of Who’s Who of New Brunswick for George’s great-grandnephew. That man was born just eight years after George died, so his parents probably knew George and told their son of his exploits in Belgium.

[@gregedmand9939]

Finding remains of beheaded individuals from a Roman occupation level aren't necessarily evidence of "Roman Brutality". A cleanly executed man means that their death would be considered quite humane for the time. No matter what brought the execution to pass. Rome and other states of the time had plenty of options for how to dispose of criminals and prisoners, that were truly brutal by any standard. All you need do is look at the mass burial of executed Vikings near the coast during Saxon times. Those men were hacked and beheaded in a killing frenzy by people who weren't very good at the job.

[@kevwhufc8640]

I've heard about that , I think there were 52 Vikings in that grave in southern England, and your right they were hacked to bits, not a clean job. Experts believe they were captured then executed, and not killed in battle.

[@geoffwright9570]

Britain had a better army and soldiers plus the right alliance with other countries and their armies.

[@PierreGillet-i1x]

To be fair Napoleon was badly sick, the stomach cancer he died from several years later was probably getting meaner. He actually did not leave his tent letting his generals unleashed. Ney and his cavalry shown their incredible bravery.

[@morningstar9233]

Also many of his finer staff officers who co-ordinated his plans were unavailable/ dead.

[@PierreGillet-i1x]

@@morningstar9233 yes , and of course Grouchy was trying to find his way to Waterloo. Very strange. He had light cavalry Hussards and Chasseurs à Cheval as scouts, in a francophone territory… really bizarre.

[@morningstar9233]

@@PierreGillet-i1x Yes. Its curious. I've read different reasons for Grouchy's decisions on that fateful day.

[@robharris8844U]

Blah blah blah he had hemorrhoids, he was cancer ridden, blah bah excuses excuses. The facts were he was a nasty piece of work and eventually he was out gunned and out strategised by supposedly inferior allies.

[@mariantaylor7109]

By the same reckoning Wellingtons army which had driven the French from Spain was mostly in America and he was left with a hodgepodge with all the problems involved .After holding the French most of the day it was the arrival on the field of the Prussians that finally ensured the Allied victory

[@RobertBlackie-g6v]

Don’t repeatedly show the same advert again and again ffs

[@DoctorPlaga94511]

Lord Wellington, the Iron duke, defeated Napoleón, deal with it...!

[@joescott7763]

With a little help from his dear friends. The Prussians.

[@Scimiter1948]

Unfortunately many people cannot stand the fact that a British general commanding an allied army defeated Napoleon.

[@luigiaqua2263]

Exploded gunship: some Russians smoking?

[@markshepherdmusic]

OK team. We have about 7 minutes of content and a decent presenter. Let's make a 52 minute show.

[@jimross538]

Archaeologists have discovered how Napoleon lost at Waterloo. How clever are they!?

[@jimclarke1108]

A large number of coins, the nearest bones? have tell something💀