OverSimplified: The Napoleonic Wars - Part 1 REACTION | DaVinci REACTS

[@personmanman3071]

12:50 the nose on the Sphinx was actually gone at least 300 years before Napoleon got there

[@arad4852]

Yeah, there are medieval Muslim accounts that talk about the Sphinx not having a nose. According to them, it was done by a zealot who saw the local people giving sacrifices to it.

[@garethlawton5278]

"In 1378 CE, Egyptian peasants made offerings to the Great Sphinx in the hope of controlling the flood cycle, which would result in a successful harvest. Outraged by this blatant show of devotion, Sa'im al-Dahr destroyed the nose and was later executed for vandalism. Whether this is absolute fact is still debatable."

[@ahmedwalid4893]

I think it was the mamluks

[@chrisigoeb]

The nose was just gradually deteriorating through the centuries until it was gone

[@chugachuga9242]

Well thanks guys now I can say the Egyptian girl in my class is lying about Napoleon

[@TheNobody1324]

"I am the revolution" Sounds a lot like "I am the senate"

[@doesnotexist305]

But Napoleon did more for the revolution than anybody else while Palpatine was just full of shit.

[@sodblitz3445]

Napoleon is only seen as a tyrant because that's what is taught in other countries.. in reality he only ever declared war on Russia and Portugal,. In France he is idolized like George Washington.. he ended the reign of terror, brought stability and prosperity and defended France when all of Europe declared war on them for over throwing their monarchy

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Louis XIV: "l'etat c'est moi."

[@Greatkingrat88]

@@sodblitz3445 I mean, he literally _was_ a tyrant. You can argue he did good things, but a dictator is a dictator.

[@marxistvalorie]

@@Greatkingrat88 he definitely wasn't

[@chrisigoeb]

The corps system was indeed a revolutionary new way to wage war. Napoleon didnt directly invent it, it had been tested before in the french army, but Napoleon made it viable and greatly improved it. Btw the Generals that would lead the armies in the American civil war were all trained in Napoleons tactic. So for me, Napoleon is without doubt the greatest military genius in history

[@xenotypos]

I think the thing is, that the corps system is only viable when armies reached a certain size. As armies grew bigger and bigger during the Revolutionary wars, it became more and more viable to use this new way of organizing your army. Not only because of speed/supply, but because it meant screening a larger area, battles were more spread out so it simply made sense.

[@billdehappy1]

yes yes so new the nomads done it for couple millenias already...ah you peasents

[@KobeGuydude]

I know it’s two years ago but I just gotta. I had read your comment as saying the “American revolution” war rather than civil war and was about to pull out every “um actually” I had at my disposal lmao 🤣

[@jmanjman2685]

Napoleon is definitely the greatest general the world has ever seen.

[@traz7298]

Nah, Alexander and caesar

[@sodblitz3445]

@@traz7298 Napoleon won more battles than both of them combined

[@simonbarabash2151]

@@traz7298 There was a guy who used a mathematical system to determine the skills of generals, napoleon blew everyone else out of the water. Caeser was a distant 2nd and everyone else fell way behind even Caeser.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Thank you for respecting our Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Aka Master of Europe. Best Conquerer in Europe and Greatest Strategic Military Its the only French Figure who pulled France to the top. France has currently the most military victories in the World all thanks to him In my eyes, Napoleon Bonaparte was never been atyrant 5th may 2021 was his Bicentenary

[@NyangisKhan]

I doubt he's the greatest general the world has ever seen. He *is* the greatest *pre-industrial* general of all time. The enemies he faced were nobility. Who barely had to compete with a thousand people at best. While the generals we have in the modern age have competed against millions. Just plain mathematically Generals like Norman Swatzkopf Jr. and Jim Mattis are far more likely to be smarter than Napoleon. Napoleon and his marshals are probably the first _modern_ generals in Europe. And when it came to reforms, the corps system that gave the Grande Armee its mobility advantage against the allies was thought up by Marshal Berthier.

[@douglaswills4624]

Napoleon and Alexander are usually considered to be in the top, top, upper-echelon of generals in history. One of the funniest parts about how Napoleon lost is that the strategy eventually used to beat him was literally: Never face Napoleon head on in battle. So if wherever he was, the opposing army started running away, and only attacking the generals around him. He did lose in Waterloo, but even that was extremely close. Wellington ran out the clock on him (and it was a very, very short clock).

[@jameskarg3240]

"This lady produced an army faster than the russians in WW2" XD That put me on the floor dude.Take this sub and let me shake your hand for that one!

[@Random_Dude4486]

Hahahaha me too

[@kapatidtomas]

I agree

[@kapatidtomas]

I definitely agree on your opinion, that the fact that oversimplified and his videos are a great tool of a starter pack just getting started into reading history deeply. It's amazing

[@personmanman3071]

28:30 Similar things to the corps system had been used before, but never on such a large scale to such a success. And it’s really revolutionary because Napoleon’s corps system is still used by almost every army in the world

[@wafs1393]

French General Jean Moreau invented the corps system and napoleon was the first person to implement it to a nation's military.

[@drewstanley7606]

My first thought of independent organized regiments of soldiers is usually the Roman cohort system. Simple, effective, and highly modular

[@purplepill2024]

Yup, after the War of the 3rd Coalition - every army copied the French's Corps System. The same with Prussian's General Staff after beating Napoleon III.

[@billdehappy1]

nomads done its over millenias by this time

[@phetproductions5818]

The “beanie” was called something like the revolutionary bonnet. Wearing it showed you supported the revolution.

[@chucku00]

Bonnet Phrygien* This beanie is wore by Marianne (woman representing the French republic) bust statues in every French mairie (town hall).

[@NyangisKhan]

28:21 it actually has been done before. The Mongols under Subutai moved in a similar manner. In his invasion of Hungary and Poland, Subutai's divided his roughly 40,000 men into smaller divisions that harassed enemy armies and raided villages. And when the small divisions encountered a large force that they could not compete with alone, they'd just feign a retreat to a rendezvous point and destroy the enemy army with the help of other divisions. But the knowledge has been lost because Mongols aren't the type to leave military manuals. So Napoleon or more precisely Berthier's rediscovery is equally impressive.

[@acanadiancapitalist2107]

I was waiting for this today. Great content

[@oakenfort6547]

If you want to learn more about the Napoleonic wars in detail, then I highly recommend the excellent series made by Epic History TV, there they cover all the major events post 1804 (Napoleon's coronation)

[@charlessapp1835]

Just recommended that myself. I made a chronological playlist of all his videos so far. kzbin.info/aero/PLtaWRcdDVPiegXD71ARj920AYYpEin48N

[@bradenr867]

@@charlessapp1835 dang that’s actually really cool, thanks for that

[@sodblitz3445]

7:05 "would it be fair to say Napoleon was the greatest general of all time?" Top 10 generals in world history ranked by battles won: 10)B. Montgomery 19 9)Cao Cao 20 7)Maurice of Nassau 21 7)Oda Nobunaga 21 5)Tekeda Shingea 22 5)Alexander (The Great) 22 4)Julius Ceaser 23 3)Khalid ibn al-Walid 28 2)Duke of Wellington 39 1)Napoleon Bonaparte 56

[@hoangho6781]

No doubt Napoleon won that by a long shot

[@Number1Irishlad]

I think that winning battles is only part of it tho. Id still say alexander or Caesar were still "greater"

[@jordanwhite8718]

Why isn’t Genghis Khan on that list. I’m pretty sure he never Lost a battle.

[@johncarlollavor2146]

@@jordanwhite8718 he was a warlord like Hitler and Stalin but he is not a combat general like Napoleon, Hannibal, Caesar etc.

[@jordanwhite8718]

@@johncarlollavor2146 in his early years he definitely lead a lot of battles especially while gathering the Mongol tribes together.

[@basedkaiser5352]

I’m French and we still love the Emperor. And yes there have been good “dictators” throughout history, Caesar was considered a good leader by the people.

[@Tamaki742]

I feel like he should've stopped while he was ahead. Like he's shown to be very competent to the point of reforming the system effectively, preventing it from going into the old ways of the French monarch. He should've focused on that.

[@pashauzan]

@@Tamaki742 Exactly

[@pashauzan]

@@joshuamatthews8326 ok

[@Tamaki742]

@@joshuamatthews8326 Well, can't say I'm surprised considering the time.

[@garethlawton5278]

Hey, we Brits love him too.... He was a shining example to us. That if you persist with the naughty step punishment, it will eventually sink in to even the most stubborn child.

[@ajvanmarle]

12:57 No, that's just an urban legend. The nose of the sphinx simply fell off due to gravity. Napoleon wasn't an idiot and he did not use national monuments for target practice.

[@Uncle7amada]

nose of the sphynx was gone a long time before napoleon showed up. Most ancient Egyptian architecture and statues have no noses because they were generelly weak areas that didn't survive the wear of time

[@evalationx2649]

@7:25 I would say, as far as the superior general question, I'd have to give it to Napoleon. Not only did Napoleon straight up dominate on the battlefield, but he literally invented the tactics himself that he used to win. Alexander was an excellent commander, but part of his inheritance was his fathers army. @17:02 The hat is actually a take on the ancient Phrygian cap. Worn by the European Yamnaya people that many modern Europeans can trace ancestry back to.

[@alskjflah]

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is held as a paragon of Roman Patrician virtue. When G. Washington became President a British critic predicted he would seize dictatorial control and declare himself king. He said if Washington gave up power willingly he would be a modern Cincinnatus. That became his nickname and is what Cincinnati is named for.

[@vincentbergman4451]

Carl von Clausewitz claimed Napoleon was the “God of War”

[@bradenr867]

“And the answer are 97 to 2” That’s some quick maths

[@saiien2]

Corps system was actually inspired by Roman legions. Napoleon was a big fan of Julius Caesar so he took inspiration there. Based in smaller armies which are more maneuverable than massed troops in large armies.

[@gidi3250]

There was a Roman who became dictator for a while crushed the Roman state's enemies and retired and whent home and farmer for the rest of his life (this is before modern day dictators back when it was especially what we call martial law, when the military takes over for a certain period, basically untill the threat is dealt with)

[@lithium23]

7:08 On pretty much everyone's list Napoleon is at the top as the best general. Even the British general Wellington, who defeated him at Waterloo, stated that Napoleon was the best general, past or present.

[@painvillegaming4119]

To be fair he was kicking Wellington ass until the Calvary arrive And his army was severely weakened

[@subtitleguy8799]

17:03 the hat is called "bonnet Phrygian" and it is used as a symbol of freedom by revolutionaries. It was a hat that slaves used to wear when they were freed.

[@PhilHug1]

Napoleon's battle record was like 62-8

[@fredbarker9201]

All loses being partially/ severely outnumbered too

[@sodblitz3445]

56-3

[@enomiellanidrac9137]

16:58 And years later your wish's been fulfilled as the "bonnet Phrygien" was chosen as France's mascot for Paris's Olympic and many people actually wore the plushies looking like it.

[@charlessapp1835]

Armies living off the land for speed was not new. King Charles XII of Sweden (1697-1719), moved rapidly because his armies lived off the land. It worked really well until Czar Peter the Great beat that system by his scorched earth policies.

[@danhair]

That was done long before by the Ottoman Empire who did the same thing. It was actually used in Central Europe too by Vlad the Impaler to slow down the Ottoman Empire and it worked. This was a tactic well known by countries who faced larger armies.

[@brittonicparadox2850]

@@danhair very true, although I would say vlads tactics were slightly different then the Russians. The Russians relied on attrition, where as vlad used it with psychological warfare.

[@Number1Irishlad]

Devon was more talkin about the Corps small army system than the "living off the land" thing

[@jeremyreyna9533]

There was a guy named Cincinnatus during the Roman Empire who once became a dictator in order to restore power among the people. He served for a few years until eventually giving power back to the Roman republic. It happened before Julius Ceaser

[@js3244]

The nose of the Sphinx was lost around 400 years before Napoleon went to Egypt

[@Number1Irishlad]

28:23 i think the corps of an army idea could be compared to the Roman Cohorts of a Legion. Like a cohort could operate on its own, apart from the main legion

[@charlessapp1835]

King Charles XI of Sweden (1660-1697), was given a divine right to rule because he was a great military leader, reformed the country's finances, and in general made Sweden prosperous. So although he was not technically a "dictator" he did have 100% control of the government. He was one of Sweden's greatest kings.

[@ivanradstrom9939]

Indeed. He also cared a lot about what the common folk thought and often went out to small villages and town disguised to see how things were in the empire.

[@Greatkingrat88]

"Given" divine right to rule? Every single king with power over his country is a dictator per definition. You can argue some of them are effective and do good things, but any inherited lineage of power is dictatorial. Especially one with 100% control of the government.

[@Steve-hq4fm]

I heard one of his men shot the nose off.

[@amberswafford9305]

The people loved Ceaser. He broke laws & became dictatorial but in his case I’d say the ends justified the means. Not his end but the result he was aiming for which was a far less corrupted Rome.

[@Rwscienceguy]

The misconception that Napoleon is short is not only due to people being shorter back then, but also a difference in units of measurement. The french used a different "inch" then everyone else.

[@artembentsionov]

Cincinnatus was known for voluntarily giving up his dictatorial powers after the threat to Rome was over and returning to his estate. It’s why Washington was referred to as “the American Cincinnatus” and why the city of Cincinnati is named after him

[@Cmcoluch]

Yeah, it’s the Duke of Wellington who beat him at Waterloo

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

yeah, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.

[@basedkaiser5352]

LMAO no ! Duke of Wellington got his ass handed to him by Napoleon (the Emperor was even at his weakest during the battle), he literally had to be saved by the Prussian army.

[@AKAZA-kq8jd]

Bro these battletactics that Napoleon used against the allies are same tactics we used in the American Civil War so yeah these were revolutionary.

[@jacobglass6521]

I believe the corps system was loosely based on the legion system of the Roman Empire. Also it was Napoleon’s corps system that America used during the Civil War

[@Number1Irishlad]

I may be wrong, but i think itd be more equivilent to the cohort system (as in, the cohort is to the legion as the corps is to the army), if that makes sense

[@nishiyama.Akihiro]

Napoleonic wars was just game of thrones in a nutshell but more factions and improve tactics (french ones)

[@Difdauf]

And the white walkers won.

[@rubenfosse5809]

the beanie is a bonnet frigien, wich is like the most iconic hatof the french revolution. And Marianne, wich is to france what the bald eagle is to america wears it basically evrywhere

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

Napoleon basically created the textbook for Westpoint, so generals like Lee, Grant and Sherman were influenced by him.

[@MrRainierSalu]

There was a time in Roman history when dictators are chosen and have time limit on their position, and as far as I know Julius Caesar was where we got our modern concept of dictators as life long absolute rulers of a society.

[@Zonatewalter7]

That hat is a Phrygian cap or a liberty cap. It's a revolutionary symbol signifying republican form of governance, revolutionary french folks wore it and replace any crown symbol they found with the cap (say, like if there is a crown symbol on a coin, the cap was put in its place instead.).

[@PuckishAngeI]

What you said at the start, there was an interesting case in Lithuania 1926-1940. Smetona was a president, people liked him, but later after couple more presidents there was a coup which overthew the goverment. they decided to legitimise it by giving full power to Smetona, making him a dictator. He wasn't a bad person, although it might have gone to his head.

[@m.h.7364]

The revolutionary hat is called a phrygian bonnet, you can look it up, it's not exactly like a beanie but it's pretty close

[@thomashan4963]

*Lessons from history:* 1. You can stabilize a crumbling society, fix the crippled economy, or defend and expand a country against tyrants from different countries and still not be remembered as a great leader. ... 2. You can be a tyrant, call yourself a monarch, and rule a country by diving people into different levels of classes and still not be labeled as a tyrant. ... All you need is to join the other tyrants and defeat those who threatens your dictatorship. It doesn't matter how many battles you embarrassingly lose, or how many soldiers and civilians you have to sacrifice. Just defeat your enemy and win the war. Then you have even stronger control, including the flow of information, to make yourself look like a great leader. Hey, you can even label a great leader as a "Tyrant' if you defeat that leader.

[@federalisteconstitutionnel]

What is a Phrygian cap? Loris Chavanette. - The Phrygian cap is one of the symbols of the French Republic and even of the French people in general. At the time of the French Revolution, it was first of all a sign of rallying to our motto: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”. It is the symbol of adherence to French values with a universal vocation. Where does this Phrygian cap come from? *The Phrygian cap has a long history dating back to Antiquity! But it became famous during the time of the Roman Empire. During slave freeing ceremonies, it is the cap of liberation, the one which represents the transition from a state of slave to a man who breaks his chains.* During the American War of Independence, the Phrygian cap crossed the Atlantic. The Americans took it in turn, always with the idea of freeing themselves from dependence, here on the English occupier. (For the record, the hat is still present on the New York State flag!) Then, he went “in the opposite direction” and returned to France, in 1789, at the time of the French Revolution. It then becomes the emblem of all lovers of freedom. From 1791, it was worn by the “sans-culottes” (the name given, at the start of the Revolution, to popular demonstrators) and brought to the forefront by the Jacobins in Paris. We're talking about a revolutionary hat. In June 1792, these revolutionaries forced Louis XVI to wear the Phrygian cap as a final irreverence of the people to the king.

[@Archangelarts]

7:27 "Duke of Ellington" LMAO, Brotha! And don't forget the Count of Basie.

[@purplepill2024]

32:32 - Issue with "conquer the world" or in Napoleon's case (conquer all of Europe) is that no country in history has enough of it's native population to just occupy newly conquered land. For example if France conquered Prussia, now what? There were almost as many Prussians as Frenchmen, and even if Napoleon's sent half of his Grande Armée to occupy newly captured Prussia (the other 340K to defend France), that army is still outnumbered by the 10M native Prussians. People forget that Napoleon's rule was very short, ~16 years. That too short of a time frame to properly militarize your country and conquer all your neighbors. If you want to do that, you need to do it slowly for decades, if not centuries - like Qin during their Wars of Unifications. Qin took decades to build up their power base and weakening their rivals through bribery, before finally being able to unify China. Same with Rome and Carthage, even though Rome severely weakened Carthage after the 2nd Punic Wars, they waited another 50 years before completely destroying it. Had Napoleon played the long game and used peace time to stabilize his empire, he could've set the foundation for his descendants to properly conquer Europe.

[@andrebraga3839]

You can't wait when you are permanently aggresivly attacked by other, uk and his ally didn't ever stop it until defeat of one side.

[@purplepill2024]

@@andrebraga3839, learn one of key rules of warfare - "There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare".

[@andrebraga3839]

@@purplepill2024 well sûre, but when everyone is up to go against you it realy doesn't matter, they had nothing to say if this wasn't uk it would have been prussia, austro hungaria, russia or what soever, and actualy you can have benefit from it, as long as you don't pay the most costly things in it English country have very well understood that, knowing when it is nessessary to be Quick or a long à conflict to win at the end and make other country does war in continent for them, uk was rich like heavily rich they were right to continuously goes after him as France with révolution and contiously be engaged in war economy was doomed and many men died, they had to sel the Louisiane for continue à forced fight for instance, if this isn't à great démonstration of the utility of it i don't Know what this is.

[@purplepill2024]

@@andrebraga3839, and that was Napoleon's downfall. He had no real shot at invading UK, his trade policies were failing. He was also getting up there in age and even before Russia was noted to not have been as "spry" as he used to be. There's a reason why people don't fight wars on end, he should've taken a more passive stance - focus more on ruling but still train his army if he felt another Coalition War was coming. Rome didn't destroy Carthage after weakening it in the First and then severely weakening in the Second Punic Wars. Rome waited nearly 60 years after Second Punic Wars before completely sacking Carthage. That was an example to learn from.

[@andrebraga3839]

@@purplepill2024 and that is why you are wrong, uk have direct border, strong navy and WANTED HIM down Just how he is supposed to do thing when évery navy trade is being shut ? When you can being raid or invaded in any point of your coast ? Geez start thinking, it's not like he wanted that, he HAD to, and UK knew that being engaged in à long war Napoléon Will fall eventualy

[@danielbutler2827]

Devon DaVinci: 2:59 Russia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJrHY3t_mZ54jLs (Do the timestamp first, then link)

[@jonathancunningham8739]

The Hat was a revolutionary hat it was not like a beany it was longer and shorter depending on who made it and always red and some had a fez like dangle thing.

[@johnmorales6281]

Alexander or Napoleon, either one...as much as I am a nut for the Classical Greek Era, rise of Macedon, to the Roman Empire....I have to give it to Napoleon, yes he made the mistake of invading Russia during the winter but he was beating Coalitions of armies from different nations and unlike the Persian Empire, the Coalitions Napoleon faced were professional military traditions

[@drewstanley7606]

True, and I’ve always had a hard time thinking of Alexander as a tactician, rather just a force of nature on the battlefield where he would often just hearl himself at a problem and so it would break, or he would

[@johnmorales6281]

@@drewstanley7606 Alexander definitely had tactician prowess, however not on the level as Napoleon....example his battle at Gaugamela was a great win using tactics like running the calvary on the right win out to stretch the Persian line thin and then turn to shatter the gap. Also the Battle of Tyre...however Napoleon is above him due to the fact that he was a great tactician and the quality of his opponents

[@fredbarker9201]

@@johnmorales6281 and Napoleons enemies always could come back from defeats a lot harder than Alexander’s (Britain funding war after war, despite Europe being smashed). Napoleon studied and admired Alexander a lot

[@TechnicalHotDog]

Plus Alexander had his older commanders who were essential on his campaigns and brought a lot to the table.

[@johnmorales6281]

@@TechnicalHotDog well Napoleon did have the Corp system with his Martials too

[@jayjaybee]

The Sphinx thing is a legend--there's no actual proof.

[@hunterxkiller8732]

napoleon's definitely up there with the greats.

[@NyangisKhan]

16:43 it really did exist and it wasn't _exactly_ a beanie but it really looked like one.

[@joshuacordero8163]

You should react to the Epic History Napoleanic Wars series, it's in great detail.

[@miscellaneous_man756]

Excellent

[@irvingramirez2335]

Bout to learn some dope history

[@KhanQ1400]

I would say napoleon is the best general in all of human history we know so much of him and he was very successful

[@kemal1232]

29:22 Devon wondering why russians are considered Tuff in America hahaha

[@avalle4493]

Actually you are right in something: In terms of number of victories Napoleon is the greatest commander in history. Also is probably the man that change the most the nature of war.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

Living off the land was around for a long time however not on the scale that Napoleon relied on.

[@BajanEnglishman51]

bruh his hair cut is soooo cleannnn

[@strawberifieldsforeva3953]

My favourite generals are Wellesley, duke of Wellington, Lord Nelson, and Napoleon

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

For those of you who's watching Thank you for embracing and respecting our Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He represents the Power of France Its the only French Figure who pulled our country to the top. France has currently the most military victories in the World all thanks to him In my eyes, Napoleon Bonaparte was never been tyrant. 5th may 2021 was his Bicentenary of his Death. The House of Bonaparte is stil living such as the House of Orleans Vive l'Empereur ! 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜🦅⬜⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥

[@lyras.9161]

That is actually the hat, yeah.

[@reillyclements1673]

Holy hell did anyone else notice the video quality skyrocket from the last OS? Budget boost perhaps?

[@chaoticwj1772]

The Corps style system had absolutely been done prior. The Roman Legions were basically Corps.

[@joshuahunt3032]

7:20 You’re probably thinking of the Duke of Wellington. There’s just a W on the tip of your tongue.

[@gametrollerprime1594]

That was the actually hat, a bonnet.

[@edsionmartinez8828]

Part 2 came out 1 hour after part 1

[@MukbangMermaid]

🐳 My Scales are mingling, Gills are tingling & Tail is wigglin after this and I loved it like I love you XOXO🐳

[@hino9611]

13:09 he is 5 ft 6 i think

[@timmiller666]

Genghis Khan, Alexander the great, and Nepoleon are definitely the top three generals of all time depending on what you are measuring by. The first two by land conquered and the third by defying all odds and winning most of the time.

[@shadowulfhedinn8261]

The people of Rome loved Caesar, not the aristocracy. Also if memory serves Napoleon is considered the leader with the most victories of all time, and the corps system was indeed a new concept at the time. A great leader.

[@flamingoxe5984]

i really enjoyed this reaction

[@bradenr867]

I don’t think Cesar was a bad dictator I’m pretty sure the people liked him because he did things to help them

[@eastsidereviews727]

Highly recommend this channel Biographics, particularly this video about a rival of Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas.

[@matthewarsenault8705]

I would not say he's the greatest General but definitely on the top five

[@Difdauf]

Top five ? you manage to find 4 guys to compete with napoleon ?

[@majestic8054]

Napoleon is not considered the greatest General of all time, He *IS* the greatest general currently.

[@Mrader1983]

My parents punished me severely. still no conquest.

[@billdehappy1]

depents view of comander had cyruss temujin timur an example emporer lvl eurasian nomads

[@Ikit1Claw]

7:11 It's really hard to say who is the greatest general of all time, but I think Napoleon is the strongest candidate to the title.

[@charlessapp1835]

If you want a highly detailed series of videos on the Napoleonic Wars, then you need to check out Epic History TV. They are AWSOME! Or I should put it EPIC! I have created a playlist of all the videos in Chronological order. kzbin.info/aero/PLtaWRcdDVPiegXD71ARj920AYYpEin48N Also, if you like historical fiction, you might like G.A. Henty's books. He has several books that take place during the Napoleonic Wars. (From a British perspective of course because Henty was English). If you like audiobooks, you can get some of them for free from Librivox.org. Personally I would not recommend "Through Russian Snows" as the reader is not good. (All Librivox readers are volunteers). There is a good recording by Jim Hodges but you will have to buy it from his website. "One of the 28th, a tale of Waterloo" has a really good reader. And "With Moore at Corunna" and the sequel "Under Wellington's Command" also have a good reader. (Me).

[@baseupp12]

Define decent for a dictator. Decent for the time because that means there are several, but if you are talking decent for the modern era the answer is probably no

[@personmanman3071]

Nah he’s still pretty decent compared to many of what you could actually call a dictator in modern day

[@siegelink9549]

@@personmanman3071 Like China yes.

[@Undeadking66]

France being France in France lol

[@aleksandersredni4018]

1:20 Atatürk, Piłsudski, Tito

[@thatindiandude4602]

Lee Kuan yew?

[@adrianaslund8605]

Decent dictators? Well some Monarchs have been pretty neat. Like Frederick the Great and Khosrau the Magnificent. Both Ceasar and His successor Octavian could be very cruel. But they were competent.

[@remo27]

One of the reasons that MARRIED men (at least in English speaking countries) had more rights in Marriage (thus more power though certain alleged powers such as 'the rule of thumb' seem to be myths) was that men were held criminally responsible for their wives crimes (yes you could go to jail or even lose your life due to something your wife did) and civilly responsible for their debts. With more power came more responsibility as it should have. Husbands also, at least in Britain and I think Colonial America had a non-negotiable and legally enforceable duty to support both wives and children. Failure to do so, plus physical abuse were the only reasons that civil divorce was permitted, at least in early Colonial America.

[@Bronasaxon]

Duke of Wellington

[@danielholt1984]

Lord Wellington lol

[@pascalplantagenet4802]

the only time Wellington beat Napoleon it was in Waterloo and thank you the Prussian .

[@zalaweyker8007]

what is the renaissance crew?

[@oz1319]

huey long the dictator of Louisiana

[@ld1449]

To answer your question on wether there's been a dictator that's somewhat decent- Spoiler alert... Yes. To name a few: Bismark, Sultan Mehmet the second, Mansa Musa, Sala Haudin. and even Napoleon himself. Now, granted when I say "Decent" I don't necessarilly mean them as a person, but rather them as an administrator of the state and the people within that state. There's no such thing as absolutes in history. So you will have good dictators and bad ones, just as you'll have good monarchs and bad monarchs along with good and bad presidents. So everything should be judged on its own merits rather than the label placed on it as a general marker. Also, I wouldn't say Napoleon was the greatest General of all time, that would go to Ghengis Khan, or more specifically one of his "Dogs" -Subutai who is easilly the most successful General of all time.

[@MarcusKrestaevus]

1:11 maybe tito?

[@matthewarsenault8705]

No it's not true if you bring Scholars with you you're probably not the type of person to shoot cannons at ancient stone faces

[@798jeremy]

I would say he's more like a "grey-area" dictator. Sure, he did some bad things, but he also did good things. Initially, he was the one who's been attacked over and over, so he just kept defending himself and defending France, in the mean time. If the other european countries would have just stopped attacking first and respected the treaties that were precisely supposed to give peace and keep it as long as possible, Napoleon had no personal interest to conquer just for fun, actually. He didn't want to purge some ethnic groups from others, even though he sure had big ambitions for himself and for France...but the only things he tried to impose on other countries was, at worst, revolutionary ideas. So the other countries would just follow the same political model as France, but not necessarily by occupying them...maybe with a "soft power" way of leading, kinda' like the US are pretty much doing nowadays, in fact. EDIT : This is why people comparing Napoleon to Hitler are just sheer ignorant dumbasses, IMO. Long story short : Napoleon was an "anti-hero". Hitler was a villain, straight to the core.

[@Random_Dude4486]

Nybody know whats the song at the beginning with Napoleon called?

[@oakenfort6547]

la marseillaise?

[@Random_Dude4486]

@@oakenfort6547 thnx

[@albinedstrom3685]

I think it i hard to say who was the greatest general but i think that Alexander the great and Cesar both are other great ones. Alexander and Cesar both never truly lost Alexander more so than Cesar. But Cesar also fought rome and won one of the greatest military forces at the time with half the army. But since they all are from diffrent times it is a har case

[@mebarkiimad8999]

Yes, Napoleon is the Greatest general of all time. I'd say only Khalid Ibn Al Walid would've been on Napoleon's level if he had the same political ambitions and propelled himself into a Caliphe.