Napoleon Defeated: Aspern 1809

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[@doctorj7112]

The Austrians sending those barriers down stream to destroy the bridges built by the French was brilliant strategy.

[@Drawnartist]

Yeah I was thinking that was very clever of them when he said that and it really helped them win in the end

[@haim0z]

big brain austrian

[@itarry4]

It's a common but effective tactic. Little down side as all you risk is heavy logs etc and if the river is fast enough it can be devastating.

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@@Drawnartist And then Napolean take revenge at the battle of wagram

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It was brilliant, someone read Alexander’s story for sure!

[@evershumor1302]

When Napoleon needed a second Napoleon, he send Davout.

[@dragooll2023]

When Davout needed a second Davout, god sent Napoleon*

[@madhurawat155]

When Napoleon needed a second Berthier, he found none.

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@@madhurawat155 trump card

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When he needed courage he sent Ney.

[@ShubhamYadav-kf9me]

Ney was courageous no doubt but was overconfident & always created trouble for the army​@@obi-wankenobi1750

[@napolien1310]

"Oh no we left Marshal Davout alone, again" Davot "so!?"

[@gamerland5007]

its DAVOUT

[@lukeparslow6780]

Davout be like : "I like those odds"

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

I'm starting to feel that Berthier was annoyed of Davout winning every battle and decided to see if he will lose this time by isolating him from the rest of the French army

[@derpynerdy6294]

@@VentiVonOsterreich Good theory 😁😁

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“A fair fight”

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19 minutes and sixteen seconds of sheer unadulterated "Epicness"... THIS is why I'm a Patreon.

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Did Toby get some

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Honestly amazing job! This has to be the best series on napoleon's battle on youtube. This feels so much more in depth than other channels. Great job!

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Totally agree. The Kings and Generals channel does a great job as well. And of course also History Marche, who collaborated on this video. History Marche's series on Hannibal is stunningly good.

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Its very funny when I in they Austerlitz video hear old myth about thousands of death soldiers in lakes... At the spring they found about 10 soldiers. :) But its funny how myths can be found in this "historic" videos.

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@@falc6125 Not in my Austerlitz video!

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@@EpichistoryTv you are right. It was from another channel. I forgot name of it but every time when I hear that one part of me day in that moment. Sorry for that and have a good luck in future from memeber of Austrian 20th regiment kaunitz!

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@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Thank you sir. And thanks for tuning in for the new Napoleon episode. Apologies for the delay.

[@charlescatt4607]

Charles did what he could with the tools he had. He came up with a plan using his strengths. Bravo

[@ANormalMeme]

Archduke Charles has to be the most brilliant Austrian strategist.

[@johnkaluzny9649]

It’s definitely not Mack

[@Krylov223]

All the bridge engineers and crews are like "Oh come on! Seriously?"

[@madhurawat155]

They were hastily built, temporary pontoon bridges. What else did you expected?

[@XyatuX]

I live in Aspern, which is now part of Vienna. Crazy to think that a hundred meters from my house, 150.000 men fought to the death.

[@modernclassicalmusic8942]

As a Canadian, it's hard for me to imagine how much history Europeans and Asians live right next to. We've only been on this continent for a little while, so anything big that DID happen near where I live was done by the Natives and thus not recorded

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@@modernclassicalmusic8942 Au Canada aussi de grandes histoires eurent lieu !

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@@modernclassicalmusic8942 Well, the natives didn't have a writing system or a civilization, so it is hard to research and find their history. However, we do have records of civilizations such as the Aztecs, Mayas, and the Incas since they had records of existence.

[@particuliervdm8603]

At the Battle of Eckmühl (a bit overlooked in this video for me), Davout's III Corps was heroic. During the first day of the Battle of Aspern, 27000 French fought against 95800 Austrians (1 vs 3.55) Fantastic video. Congratulation to Epic History TV and HistoryMarche!

[@zekramnordran9526]

Napoleon had been beating the stuffing out of the Austrians for more than 10 years by that point so its not surprising that he came to underestimate them and that made his loss all the more shocking

[@AM-lc3ur]

“My enemies are many, my equals are none.” Time to instal Empire Total War again.

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You mean Napoleon Total War

[@AM-lc3ur]

Austria Erit in orbe Ultima I liked Empire Total War more

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@@AM-lc3ur Yeah but that's not the Napoleon one obv

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T Spoon obv

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Nelson,butcher,charles,Wellington, the guy in borodino

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While Napoleon bombed Vienna, Beethoven was writing his Emperor concerto. After taking it, Haydn died while playing the Austrian Anthem to Emperor Francis.

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You mean Francis, Jospeh was already dead.

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@@AEIOU05 Yes Sir.

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You guys went the extra mile and discussed infantry organization which is awesome and I’m glad we are seeing the Austrians again in this series

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

Much respect to the Austrian army; despite having a bad military record they were the only ones who fought and won a battle against Napoleon without any foreign help

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Austria was more successful in the Neapolitan War than any wars against Napoleonic France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tolentino And even after the Napoleonic Wars, although the Austrian army horribly underfunded & suffered defeats, there was still some success: Austria's & Britain's navies saved the Ottomans against Egypt in the Second Ottoman-Egyptian War, Radetzky defeated the Italians in 1848, Austria & Prussia together defeated a Danish army in 1864 (while Prussia was pushed back at Mysunde in the early war days, Austria beat the Danes at Sankelmark at the same time), then challenged and lost to Prussia (also against France in 1859) at Königgrätz due the horribly army funding and inferior weapons, but at the same time won an excellent naval victory at Lissa against a better Italian navy and also pushed the superior Italians back at Custoza (1866), and invaded Bosnia. Of course Austria's military record wasn't as good as Prussia's one, but they still enjoyed some success.

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Isn't the Austrian empire quite a multitude of ethnicities?

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

@@artificialintelligence8328 A multitude of ethnicities under a single crown

[@julianius484]

It could've achieved much more if Franz II didn't expel Archduke Charles from taking any command. He literally expelled the guy from army who was the only one to defeat Napoleon alone just because he lost at Wagram. Even in Wagram the French army was about to break that's why they couldn't pursue the Austrians.

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@@julianius484 Yo damn it's my man from the French clan Jean Lannes, how's your leg

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@@tortuedelanuit2299 That was the first one I got

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@@tortuedelanuit2299 I finished that about a week ago. Incredible book that is a must-have for fans of the Napoleonic era.

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Not using footage of re-emactors helps. I hope this never changes.

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@@Brumairevideo Me too mate. Especially all of napoleonic wars series.

[@thehistorybard6333]

Loved the video, this series is awesome! Poor Davout, always left to fend for himself! He was a brilliant commander. RIP Lannes

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Can you make videos on Napoleons campaign in Egypt?

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*smirks in the royal navy*

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... Not my finest work...

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@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 right

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he invaded Egypt and defeated the Mameluke army but after that he tried to invade Palestine but Ahmed pasha el-gazar kicked his ass with the help from the ottomans

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@Gaël Scarselli nah

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Pressed like before seeing the video. Honestly, with your voices you should do videos on diverse topics which will rejuvenate old time fans of history TV like me. A series on ancient civilization would be a great start

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Hate to see our hero Napoleon lose but the video quality is astounding as always. Amazing work!

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Just wait for Wagram my friend 😉

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Another fan?

[@iondu655]

@@command_unit7792 Don't be to hasty to judge. His adversaries army did that too. At least Napoleon brought civil rights idea to Europe with his Napoleonic Code.

[@command_unit7792]

@@iondu655 Aside from The Prussian's(who did some looting in France) all other armies conducted themselvs with honour! The allied armies where welcomed to Paris like victors and not occupiers!

[@iondu655]

@@command_unit7792 The British soldiers also committed atrocity during the Peninsular war. A notable occasion in 1809 during the retreat to Corunna where they sacked Bajadoz and San Sebastian. Also, the coalition army does not get welcomed like liberators in Paris, especially when they know that the Bourbons are getting restored. France does love Napoleon not only due to his victories but also how he ruled. A compilation of factors that made his restoration in 1815 easier.

[@GentlemanGhost1]

Archduke Charles had a Sun Tzu like approach to war, more of a Go type thinking as opposed to Chess. And with a very pacifist-like shade to it. In his military doctrine he emphasizes winning through demoralising the enemy by outmaneuvering and securing a more strategically favourable position from where to negotiate the enemy's surrender and if necessary the inflicting of just the right amount of damage to hammer home the point. His philosophy was perhaps too passive for Napoleonic times but very viable in modern warfare.

[@kondor99999]

No, that sort of strategy was common in the period prior to Napoleon. It’s why the Duke of Brunswick withdrew at Valmy (for instance). Napoleon played for keeps. His enemies didn’t. Now, they are buried in obscurity. And he is immortal.

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More like Sun Bin. Sun Bin was the supposed descendant of Sun Tzu and was extremely underrated as a military strategist. In fact he wrote his own Art of War, I think is more brilliant than his Sun Tzu’s.

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​@@kondor99999immortal as a guy who went to commit war crimes and ate his own shit by bitting to much off.

[@chrismath149]

@@kondor99999 Immortalized as the Emperor who lost. And no, his opponents aren't buried in obscurity. You - and anyone who regards his opponents as such - confuse not knowing about someone with not being important. Stop showing off your ignorance as a virtue.

[@AtomicExtremophile]

@@kondor99999 Napoleon is immortal alright...he ran scared from Moscow leaving behind tens of thousands of his troops, troops who froze to death, starved to death or got massacred by Russians. He was a jumped up little man who crowned himself emperor, think about that, France murdered its aristocracy and Napoleon makes himself emperor. He was a land stealing ego maniac.

[@shawngilliland243]

Your moving maps are superb and the illustrations well-chosen. The description and illustration of infantry formations is another great aid to our understanding of Napoleonic era battle. Your account of the battle makes what happened clear and comprehensible. What a tremendous loss for France was the death of Marshal Lannes. :-(

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Yes finally... I wanna see Battle of Borodino in the future.

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I only know the battle of La Moskowa :-)

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Wagram before that.

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Hope so. Wagram too!

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@@DarthPlato obviously wagram first if you look carefully on the map it's just north of aspern. So it makes sense that's the next battle.

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Did you like it

[@chestertaylor383]

R.I.P Lannes and more, talk about a punch in the face to French morale and Napoleon

[@skiteufr]

Well not really a punch in the French morale. Thr French won the war anyway at Wagram with a decisive battle andbit ended with the French Empire at its largest extent and Austria submitted. Napoleon was maybe more impacted as it was his first personal defeat in over a decade... quite impressive.

[@sandrosaladze8095]

Yeah, Lannes was Napoleon's close friend

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

Didn't change much really

[@Nasir3623]

But the myth of napoelonic invinisibility was forever shattered and that encouraged many European states to defy him(most notably the Russians and Germans

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

@@Nasir3623 Nope. Napoleon had been defeated a few times before Aspern. No one went to war "becuase Napoleon was defeated at Aspern"

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RIP Lannes. Thank you for this awsome series, the best production value and contend on youtube!

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[@rhysnichols8608]

Arch Duke Charles is underrated, literally the only coalition commander to beat Napoleon ‘1 on 1’ with just his own army, and gave him a very hard time even in defeat. France was at her most powerful in 1809 too, it was foolish to sack Charles, he was the first to best Napoleon at his height in a fairly even battle.

[@dynamo1796]

No doubt Charles was an excellent commander but he definitely had it easier (in command) than Wellington did during his campaigns. Wellington had to organize an fight a multinational army, typically only half of which were regular and reliable British troops - the rest were a malaise of dubious troops from other countries, sometimes ones who had recently been allied with Napoleon.

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@@dynamo1796 RIGHT WE GET IT WELLINGTON WAS A GOOD COMMANDER WE GET IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Listen, Wellington never faced Napoleon alone, and never beat him alone, like Charles did, during Napoleons height,

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@@rhysnichols8608 neither were comparable to Napoleon. Charles had a good advantage at Aspern while at Waterloo, French mostly had conscripts while the Coalition troops were well trained.

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WE HAVE WAITED FOR TO LONG FOR MORE NAPOLEON VIDEOS

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Please say,"toooo long".

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Glad to meet a fan!

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MOORE*

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Excellent quality throughout the video. It was wonderful to see such a clear illustration of infantry tactics and their implementation in battle. You guys keep raising the bar, truly quality. Can't wait for more!

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Top notch video! One (really minor) thing: on the map a town is called "Rassdorf", it is actually called "Raasdorf". Yeah, i am fun at parties.

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Napoleon to Austria: "How many times do I have to defeat you?!" Austria: "yes"

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Now the Battle of Wagram should be the next one. Awesome video btw as always.

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Being in the first line is pretty much a death sentence. Another brilliant video

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I'm surprised that the Battle of Leipzig 1813 has been so widely ignored; the largest battle in European history prior to World War One,

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the largest batte in European history are many it can be Stalingrad WW2 La somme WW1 Vienna 1683 Great Turkish War Leipizg 1813 Borodino 1812 The Battle of Cannae, 216 BC Carthage vs Rome but the Battle of Leipzig is definitely the wildest battle in world history

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This entire video is such a gift. The explanation of battle tactics combined with the use of visual and sounds made it so easy to understand. Thank you so much!

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great to see a video giving the Austrian army some love they are very under represented even tho they were a major player & had the best looking uniforms

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@Napoléon Bonaparte Never heard of the multi-verse hey? Anyhow, in my world we won the Battle of Waterloo!

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@Napoléon Bonaparte Not humour. The ability to detect sarcasm is a genuine characteristic of intellegence. Rest in Peace 😘 Dont worry, I'll let you be a drummer boy in the Guard if you like...

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@Napoléon Bonaparte I'm not though. Are you? Shame...

[@leokorn1629]

Archduke Charles was a very underestimated commander.

[@godricalex3531]

Thank you for the great video as always @EpicHistoryTV This is always my favorite battle as I'm a fan of the whitecoats, especially the Archduke himself. It was sad that even though he won at Aspern-Essling, he got criticized badly and was ignored by the Austrian people after coming back from Wagram. He was not recognized until very late after the war was over, but still, a great hero in my eyes for defeating the undefeated :)

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Well he was bad seen on the big austrian circles but he was regarded as a hero for some, one example being the russian Tsar

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Napoleon: No one can beat me Bridge: Okeh

[@MarvinT0606]

the funny thing is, those barges kept going downstream and the French did *nothing* to stop them. A company of engineers with large wooden stakes upsteam could have stopped those barges altogether.

[@derpynerdy6294]

@@MarvinT0606 They probably thought: nah they won't do it twice. *Bridge gets destroyed* French: not thrice right? *Bridge gets destroyed* French: OK its probably the last *Bridges gets destroyed* Napoleon: Goddamit!!

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@@derpynerdy6294 Napoleon should have seen what the Austrians were really up to when the bridges got destroyed the first time but he was too busy trying to out-dick Archduke Charles in battle

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Thank you so much for this video! Aspern-Essling is one of my favourite Napoleonic battles ( I like Waterloo and Leipzig more) and it's great to see a video on it. Please do one on the Battle of Wagram next.

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Same as Chancelorvile for Lee in ACW. Lost his good general in battle. Lee losta Stonewall Jacksone, Napoleon lost Marchal Lannes, the guy who hold and baited russians near Friedland.

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I'm not french, but Napoleon... yeah, I would have fought for that guy.

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Does anyone else wonder what happened to all the people from those villages?

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evacuated

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Most civilians evacuated the area, as both napoleon and Charles didn't want civilian casualties

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Noble thing from both of them, to protect civilians.

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When I was a Junior in High School, for my history class project I was assigned to write a report on Napoleon's military campaigns. At first I thought, "Cool! A report on 2 or 3 battles and I can wrap it up with Waterloo." Once I found out the number and scope of battles I had to research and write about, I started to hate Napoleon as much as the Austrians did.

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Napoleon: "AHHH! DAMN IT!" Davout: "What was that?" Napoelon: "MY FOOT!" Davout: "I didn't know it could swear."

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Lost the battle, but not the war!

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Still won more wars than britain

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@Alex The Awsome In Europe, there have been 125 major wars, of which France has participated in 50. This is more than both Austria and England, at 47 and 43 respectively. Since 387 BC, they have fought in 169 battles - and they have won 110, drawing 10, losing 49. This is more than any other European country - in fact, it is more than any other country on the planet, regardless of continent. Whilst the number of wars they have participated in and won will obviously be higher as they have been around longer than most other countries, one cannot deny that to win so many wars, a country must be good at the art of war. Throughout history, France has generally had the largest army, the best-equipped army, and the most innovative army. Many words used nowadays when discussing war and strategy come from French: army, artillery, captain, cavalry, charge, espionage, general, lieutenant, lance, marines, manoeuvre, military, mine, naval, parachute, pilot, platoon, regiment, soldier and trench all come from French. Let it not be forgotten that the French achieved a feat nobody could ever repeat: they conquered Britain. Sir William Napier commented on the French: It is well known with what gallantry the officers lead and with what vehemence the troops follow.

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@Alex The Awsome Napoleon won the fifth coalition war by crossing the danube river in battle of wargram.

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Another great video, the Napoleonic Wars are currently my favorite series on this channel.

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My day is complete.👌🏻

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Another great vid, love the production.

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Respect for Austria for not giving up

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Amazing job!! Thanks for the effort!!

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Napoleon is my favorite of them all

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A good Italian general.

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Far better in quality and presentation than any history program on TV

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I feel like Napoleon is so interesting among famous generals because he faced legitimate hardship as opposed to many of the other military geniuses in history who either just so outclassed their enemies that they never faced a legitimate threat or something stopped them before they ever did. For example Alexander the Great came up against if I remember correctly two generals even approaching his caliber king porus and the Greek mercenary general whose name I forgot, so he never really met someone who could match him on top of the fact that he didn’t live long enough to experience the problems of a stagnating empire. Actually reminds me a lot of the man who reformed the Roman army many of his victories came from his mastery of logistics and military reform but he suffered setback after setback and experienced hardship at the hands of a strong adversary Sulla Or Caesar who faced more resistance but still his history is one primarily of success because his enemies just weren’t if the caliber required and he others that were generally were on his side until he died before they could turn on him.

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I agree with your general statement in 1st para, but not with the others. Caesar faced talented commanders like Pompey and Labienus, the only reason we don't remember them as such is because of Caesar's and later, Octavian's propaganda. Marius reformed an outdated army, which was loosing wars after wars against Germanics and North Africans(Jugurthine), and turned it into a world class force. Just because Marius is slightly overrated doesn't mean that we should underrate him either. I could agree with you on Alexander though. His Campaign was completely reckless, he was just lucky enough that most Persians haven't taken Greeks that seriously until that point.