John Robins & Elis James' 100% Accurate Retelling Of The Battle Of Waterloo | Drunk History UK

[@ThePaintballgun]

This was everything besides the battle of Waterloo...

[@jenniferdunstan5065]

"YOU'RE the best battle in military history!" "Thank you."

[@kp361]

"What were you doing at 26?" "Temping." "Exactly."

[@GurkoKurdo]

What does temping mean

[@kp361]

@@GurkoKurdo Temporary work, usually office based in things like admin.

[@GurkoKurdo]

@@kp361 thx

[@lukassnakeman]

why is the music so loud damn it

[@tb4522]

Brits don't know how to sound mix.

[@tairneanaich]

HUGH DENNIS AS NAPOLEON??? My goodness 😂

[@Anotherpuppychild]

I like the fact that it's "melting" into obscurity, instead of "fading" like all those people we can't seem to recall.

[@philipsalama8083]

Wellington didn't have an Irish accent. He practised to eliminate it in his youth due to anti-Irish stigma.

[@ArtemisScribe]

he also didn't have a mobile phone but the video is funnier with both.

[@thenextshenanigantownandth4393]

Well Ireland was never part of Britain ether, and that's debatable. He took illocution lessons from a Irish women so lol

[@Oxley016]

@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 If Ireland was never a part of Britain then why did the Irish fight to be independent from Britain?

[@thenextshenanigantownandth4393]

@@Oxley016 You're silly, uk is not the samething as Britain.

[@Oxley016]

@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 oh look at you being pedantic, you sure showed me.

[@123haninhk]

the music is too loud!

[@namaste91]

WHAT?!

[@rainiaananda9327]

Side note... Napoleon knew that a fed and healthy army was a strong army. He wanted a way to preserve food long term for his troops (which DID historically give him an advantage). It started with champagne bottles of soupy stuff and an inventor (under Napoleon's request), I think named Alpert (sp?), came up with the original vacuumed canning. So, thank Napoleon every time you reach for a can of soup or the like.

[@q1w2e3621]

Most interesting.

[@StuSaville]

The soupy stuff you mentioned was Johnston's Fluid Beef commonly known in the UK today as Bovril.

[@colleenposey9552]

Rainia Ananda Campbell should have name their soup Bonaparte’s lol

[@Mkristensen6745]

Wait why was I not taught this? This is actually important. A lot of wars wouldn’t have lasted as long as they did if we didn’t have canned food.

[@WorkerBeesUnite]

@@Mkristensen6745 oh snap ur freaking right...that invention changed history so much more than ud think..

[@XatxiFly]

Might want to have another go at that audio mix.

[@LuxLisbon26]

I now have a weird crush on John Robins and desperately want him to call me the best battle in military history.

[@SaranshTiku1]

"YOU ARE THE BEST BATTLE IN BRITISH HISTORY" Totally using that line now

[@chiefgee]

The face he made when he asked what are Napoleon's interests... priceless. 😂

[@julietblue1240]

The music is too loud to hear the dialogue. Work on that.

[@cameronallenmusic]

How did this audio mix make the final cut, with no one on the production team of DHUK noticing the clipping/distorted vocal recording and a mix where words are lost behind the music?

[@abm697]

Very funny, but hits different when you hear how John talks about his drinking now that he’s been sober for several years now. Best wishes for him.

[@truecrimerip7936]

congrats to your post production team that thought music should be way louder than the dialogue for the entire video.

[@aleksandryoung2213]

Whoever thought of Drunk History was brilliant! I myself studied History both of my own Country and others as well. Watching this makes me want to down 6 or 8 mugs of Ale and try retelling the Battle of Gettysburg or Fredericksburg.

[@CocoOPNY]

Aleks The Deplorable do it and post it here, you've got a ready audience!

[@aleksandryoung2213]

+Coco S I want to believe me. My problem is I don't have a camara or a cast and crew to act out the parts while I ramble.

[@nedisahonkey]

Aleks The Deplorable Yeah talking about history drunk has been a hobby of mine for nearly a decade so I was stoked when they made this program.

[@jennya9838]

I would definitely listen to you!

[@IESWlodarczyk]

This is Prussia???? I never put hate comments but what the holy f.

[@flyinspirals]

hell-o, like -- drunk? history

[@staggabob]

Prussia is drunk too.

[@pabloramos1022]

Funny how its just a reskined modern map, and lil' Austria sitting there like, "Were's my empire yo?! At this time i had a muthaf*cking empire at least put some color on me!

[@TangoBravoAlerts]

Most of what was then Prussia is Poland now actually: blame Stalin and Hitler and World War Two and not giving a F about drawing accurate maps

[@MilanMilan0000]

IKR???

[@tamarafarmer7040]

You're the best battle in military history! ...thank you

[@Matt-cz6ti]

3:10 Missing the crucial German element of Prussia there

[@tunclegingercunt9696]

it's so anoying. also it where Belgians and Dutch

[@doumahamigahila8133]

they won under the genious of a british general though and the original fight consised of mostly british troops then the prussians arrived later

[@bloodtastesyummyxD]

They only coloured east prussia for some reason.

[@Wanderer628]

It's a fucking comedy. They aren't going to be paying attention to details.

[@stewarthayhurst5718]

No such country as Germany at that time it was just a load of small principalities like Baden baden or Hess Cassel etc a bit like Italy it was Bismarck who united them, it was not a British genius general who won the battle it was more to do with a lot of incompetence on the French side and the help of the Prussians

[@corlaineymoore8004]

This would have helped me so much on test last year. I love history but this is just fantastic. My teacher wasn't that great

[@WorkerBeesUnite]

He shlda been tanked

[@elliotinions6435]

9 double rum and cokes? That is impressive.

[@skynyrdjesus]

Actually Napoleon was 5'6" based on the French inch of the time, which was slightly longer than the standard imperial inch we know today. Napoleon was in fact about the same height, if not slightly taller than, Wellington.

[@alilemon]

XD my history teacher should put these on in class. history the fun way

[@dexterammortis6928]

Napoleon kind of looks like a rugged Phil Collins.

[@ciaragildea998]

He's Hugh Dennis.

[@nedisahonkey]

Haha the boxing matchup shot is great

[@lukeoleary1389]

trilled to bits! I wheezed

[@vincenthunter1615]

I love how the Netherlands weren't included in the allied armies even though one third of Wellington's army were Dutch

[@vincenthunter1615]

And also Napoleon was actually one inch taller than Wellington at 5 foot 4 inches which was about average for a man in the early 1800's

[@yvardietvorst]

Well technically Belgium was part of the Netherlands during this battle. Waterloo was a Dutch village (now its Belgian though). So when they highlighted Belgium it kinda also means the Dutch

[@maxjones503]

When was Prussia Poland instead of Germany?

[@laurecrp8751]

Max Jones germany is more on the left

[@beth12svist]

Historically a lot of Poland was a lot more to the right (AKA East ;-) ). I'm not sure how far West it went. But in either case, by this point it had been divided between Prussia, Austria and Russia. So... at this point of history a lot of the then-Prussia was, in fact, the before-Poland. Not claiming that map is correct because I strongly suspect it isn't. Just that Prussia, historically, really is mostly further East than today's Germany.

[@alexthelizardking]

The Les miserables account ID Waterloo was the first drunk history.

[@cybersearcher1041]

When Wellington flicks Napoleon's hat of he's like "Boy I'll f*** you up!"

[@jackgroves2518]

maximum shunting

[@vww3606]

tall british comedian who makes fun of the french, a lot, plays Napoleon Bonaparte. Love it.

[@verdeyenbart]

Belgium didn't exist yet as a country in 1815. Their independecy from The Netherlands came later, in 1830

[@zbleubleuokeydokey6547]

I love them both so much!! wish it were longer...Are you on email???

[@NachaBeez]

You simply have to be these days

[@makeitsonumberone1358]

I love paint balling in a big way 😂

[@FabulousKilljoy917]

“Which is fine”

[@eviebradney2068]

Elis James and John Robins! I dont know where to look I find them both so attractive 😂

[@drclaw9864]

music is far too loud. this is nearly unwatchable.

[@mmeblaerlin5933]

I love how people take this so seriously. THEY'RE DRUNK! Its false facts on purpose. Fuckin' cheer up .

[@nathanbarnard7896]

That's not a map of Prussia, I'm laughing so hard.

[@pop5678eye]

The British like to take credit for the defeat of Napoleon, but they were actually Johnny-late-comers to the battles that defeated the Grande Armee. Yes, The Duke of Wellington was the chief commander at Waterloo, but even at that battle the British relied on many other allies, and it neglects all the battles and sacrifices made by other nations leading up to it. The fact that the first removal of Napoleon was precipitated by his disastrous campaign in Russia, followed by successive abandonment by his 'allies' should tell you that the British, while helpful, were not the primary heroes in defeating the tyrant.

[@Natehasmusic]

Definitely worth putting up auto captions. Can't hear shit and the captions all of a sudden we're so off...

[@giselmaria8312]

Those blue eyes.. As common as grass in your country, as rare as cold fire in mine.

[@pop5678eye]

Myth: Napoleon was short. Fact: He was average height for Frenchmen of the time. The myth that he was short was just petty propaganda by the English.

[@sergeyandreev4949]

Lol Belgium didn't even exist back then. But whatever.... this is super entertaining anyway.

[@brahms63]

It was a coalition of 6 or 7 countries against Napoleon, so it's not easy to remember the names LOL

[@tunclegingercunt9696]

belgium was part of holland wich was part of the coalition

[@MateusVIII]

I think the most offensive thing here was Poland painted as Prussia. LOL

[@TravelingOnaShoestring]

Holy cow couldn't even finish this. The music is crazy loud and cant hear them

[@buddyltd]

What kind of borders for Prussia are those??? That's bloomin' Poland, Lithuania and Kaliningrad!

[@twistedfinch]

Oh god when the first part of England got colored red for some reason it sounded like someone throwing up idk why?? 😂

[@MrPrettyboybrady]

Wow, you guys really think Prussia is Poland and Lithuania?

[@Tulbia]

Yeah, exactly! LOL! :D

[@winnetvids]

There was no Poland or really eastern Europe. It was mostly either Russian-controlled or Prussian-controlled, some were also Austrian-controlled and there were the two states of Moldavia and Wallachia as well, but that's further south.

[@winnetvids]

AndriarSmith Sir that very link says that by 1795 - well before Waterloo, they ceased to function as a state until 1918

[@Tulbia]

Peter BSander That very link says that AFTER 1791 THE fucking KINGDOM OF POLAND and Grand Duchy of Lithuania formed the Commonwealth of Poland. See the dates of influence 1569 - 1795. LOL By the way, this is a cool piece of history for You as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Swedish_War_(1600%E2%80%9329)

[@winnetvids]

AndriarSmith I'm familiar with that war but thanks for the gesture. You yourself, however just said that the Commonwealth of Poland ended in 1795. 20 years before Waterloo.

[@napoleonemperorofeurope7585]

0:47 "Twin military geniuses of their age" Ok I stop to watch this joke.

[@chikitabowow]

2:14 It bugged the hell out of me that his sabre is on the wrong side for that scabbard...

[@tatewinter8056]

wait, napoleon was exiled to Elba?! he probably said "able was I ere I saw elba", or maybe it was the other way around, all the letters the other way around. try it. also "fading"

[@Dan-mw1le]

Where'd they get the metric that the Iron Duke was 5'9"? To my knowledge he was around the same height as Napoleon, as 5'6"-5'7" was the average height of the day.

[@beevers93]

Who put that the Duke of Wellington was 5'9? He was supposedly shorter than Napoleon, but other sources say the same height.

[@nedisahonkey]

Luke Beevers They probably made it up. No one cares about height except short guys anyways.

[@beevers93]

Ned Gold Hahaha decent point I guess. They were both over the average height of their day though.

[@nedisahonkey]

Luke Beevers Yeah napoleon gets a bad rap for being short because he hung out with a bunch of 6 foot Giants (for the time)

[@beevers93]

Ned Gold Well most of the bad rap comes from a comic about him from the time that called him small. He was for the most part, slightly over average.

[@patrickmacready1779]

what? napoleon was actually like 5'4". wellington was like 6'0"...

[@bdbs5618]

Wellington was nowhere near the equal of Napoleon. Napoleon was not the commander of the "French Army" at the age of 26. He was the commander of part of the army that was at war against Austria in Italy at 26.

[@progKansas]

1815 with cell phones. LOL

[@HikaruAkb]

cue entire part of les mis where its literally just,,,,,,,,,,pages of the history of waterloo

[@izzywarner2216]

This drunk history is better than the American Version.

[@imperialwarhawk123abc5]

Izzy Warner american history is drunk

[@EJPal]

i feel as though they try too hard to be funny sometimes...American DH tries to get too drunk which brings the hilarity

[@nedisahonkey]

Izzy Warner On average yes. But the best American ones are better than the best British ones. The British one is consistently good.

[@EF-zy3nr]

I've watch many of the British Drunk History episodes & clips and the British just are not as funny as the American for a few reason. 1) the story tellers are just buzzed, not drunk. 2) The British version is missing Derek Waters the creator of the show who gets drunk with the story teller and ask questions. 3) The Ameican version has funnier reenactors and bigger stars playing the parts.

[@wildstrawberries7836]

I find that it varies between certain storytellers between the two versions. I will have to be that person and say that I like them both.

[@kevinmaclean6607]

One of the best parts of the American version of this is that they load up the re-enactments with famous actors. Are these actors famous in England?

[@bethrique]

They’re both standups/radio show presenters, fairly well known yes

[@vgverog]

Napoleon is a bad guy? For nobility maybe, but he still has the popular vote to this day in France.

[@kafalotofeao462]

I was trying to figure out where I've seen these people before and realised... I don't know who tf they are! They both sound like Josh Widdicombe, and I'm 100% sure the one on the right is actually him.

[@BlueMathRecruit]

not a bad Irish accent all things considered.

[@Abnormalities55]

music is too load

[@clatpot88]

Music is louder than the dialogue.

[@ericpanissidi6761]

Aww.now i get it.i could absorb it in school.i need slppy drunks to explain it.

[@katekennedy4292]

brb melting into obscurity

[@misterprecocious2491]

Fading

[@baloog8]

I really just cant get used to the accents for this type of humor. Im glad everyone else seems to like it just fine.

[@nissyyy6152]

drchen054 probably because most of us watching the UK version are from the UK

[@hughstark4882]

2:31 are those the modern cast of dads army?

[@lubeucrap]

Are you on email ?

[@robdale88]

+Paul Bruce Yes I am. You simply have to be these days.

[@flyinspirals]

lol

[@indiciaobscure]

This show makes me wish I could still tolerate alcohol.

[@lightspeeder]

Melting into obscurity..

[@Gates_Writes]

YES PRUSSIA’S GETTING IN ON SOME MILITARY ACTION LETS GOOOOOOO BOI

[@lykos89]

Jesus, could we possibly make the music louder?

[@wilshb]

Wellington was as Irish as Rudyard Kipling was Indian.

[@navayti]

Is that left guy family of Lewis from the yogscast? They sound almost exactly the same

[@triinpokk9198]

The music is wayyyy too loud for the talking sound.

[@republicofsandles]

Yeah that sounds like the British understanding of Napoleon.

[@alykat9463]

What is the song at 1:57?

[@kaden1209]

The guy on the left kinda sounds like Dan Howell

[@Altoids101]

I can confirm that this is 100% historically accurate

[@Altoids101]

Why would I lie?

[@thepaleify]

What is the song at 1:30

[@harveychallinor367]

the battle of waterloo 10 thousand bullets flew one poor soul got a bullet up his bum the next poor soul got two

[@BraveLittlePixel]

It's nice they asked normal people and not celebrities to tell the story but it doesn't have the same appeal as other episodes. Also the music was playing over dialogue a lot of times which made it hard to hear.

[@vincentgaulin6663]

Fading

[@tb4522]

This series needs to be on American Comedy Central! I'm sure they'll say, "But Americans won't get the history references." Well, we don't know our history either, so go for it!

[@fridericusrex7042]

3:09 yeah that’s not exactly Prussia.

[@margaritam.9118]

Indeed, 5'6 was an average height in 19th century.

[@wlwilliford0207]

Who is playing Wellington ? He looks like Ty Burrell ?

[@bartmans7]

dutch? the dutch? pls

[@kajaprummel2879]

Finally someone who knows we had a part in it!

[@bobsnow6242]

They're not drunk enough.

[@flyinspirals]

What were you doing at twenty-six? Temping. But, duh -- look at Napoleon's clothes! If men would at least dress 'ready to kick ass' again (instead of 'ready for a nap'...) well... well, they'd at least look great. And then, hey -- they might even be inspired to kick ass! I know *I'd* move you from temp to permanent. All you guys should, really, try this.

[@winnetvids]

The idea that your clothes define you in any real way is more than a little outdated. It provides power to the establishment at the cost of personal freedoms. I'm not talking about uniforms or basic cleanliness and safety guidelines or anything, but thinking someone is worth less because they're wearing something more casual is ridiculous. Suits, and to an extent all formalwear, exist to prove that you never in your daily work have to do any form of physical labour, you know that right? If you can afford to wear expensive, easily ruined clothing that is not in any way conducive to any form of labour, light or not, then you can flash that wealth at people.

[@susannam3923]

I used to think Waterloo was is Russia lol

[@catmagic2226]

Why is there a potted plawnt...there is def. a potted plawnt...

[@iLOVEpicklesBRO28]

Ellis is a lil hobbit with his curly hair

[@saoirsedeltufo7436]

An Irishman commanding a British army fought an Italian commanding a French army. That’s not to mention the Prussians...

[@kristinanikolova3754]

Why is the Duke of Wellington wearing a 1770s uniform from the American Revolution?

[@peachimeachi8170]

This video was pretty short... like Napoleon