The Battle of Brandywine Creek 1777 - the largest single day engagement of the American Revolution

[@lyricalpanic618]

Glad to finally see a total war battle recreation using Empire. Fantastic work!

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

thanks, this new mod - Empire 2 is amazing for movies like that

[@firewavetv9010]

reisen fumo spotted!

[@craphat1873]

Infact, the British were very rarely defeated in open battle and lost the war due to lack of money as Britain was fighting a war in Europe.

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

at that time thay had best line infantry

[@mattbanco4406]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar Prussia had better infantry at the time

[@rvanleersum]

@@mattbanco4406 That's contentious at best. I've generally accepted the regulars were better for the Prussians thanks to their especially cruel practices in training regiments. Some of the elite units of the British Empire, however, were as good as it got by this time in history, of which some fought on the continent.

[@niclasjohansson4333]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWarSeveral European countrys had as good or better infantry than the glorified British !

[@psycho8927]

​@@niclasjohansson4333nope

[@jevinlippincott8783]

As a Pennsylvanian it’s awesome to see local history from my state shown! I’d recommend looking up the story of one Ned Hector that fought at Germantown and at Brandywine if I recall correctly!

[@Ashley-q4n6y]

Great depiction of this battle !

[@johnholmesinchesahead342]

It was not a 'Revolution' - merely a change of management. The British Bourgeois in America took control of the means of production from the British Bourgeoisie in London. There was no change of class control. The workers remained just as oppressed after 1776 as they were before that date.

[@multipipi1234]

At last.Wrll said.

[@greg6235]

You just proved you have never run, managed or owned a business, and never will.

[@francisbrewster4948]

Careful about yr ideas about class conflict .... this id-ology is poisinous & ev-l ....it will twist our perception of reality hey man

[@warehousejo007]

✊🏽

[@warehousejo007]

​@@greg6235 typical petit booge-what hornswaddle. 🧐

[@petermillist3779]

There is no way muskets would have hit a British soldier over 500 yards away!

[@niclasjohansson4333]

Muskets did regularly hit men in large formations at several hundred yards during 18th century battles !

[@greg6235]

Most muzzleloaders will tell you 800-1000 yards is the accepted distance.

[@waynenash6008]

Maybe but not many, an would be seen as a waste of a volley,

[@GregoryDurrance]

Maybe not 500 yards but a Pennsylvania or Kentucky Long Rifles could hit a target at over 300 yards by an expert frontier marksman. Especially if he loaded with silk and extra charge.

[@freeconfederate]

The effective firing range 100 yd (91 m) for a (point target). For an area target 300 yd (274 m). Maximum firing range 1,200 yd (1,097 m) (the maximum range of the bullet when fired at an angle of 60°).

[@Enfield-1853]

My 5 times great grandfather Captain John "Jack" Ashby of the 3rd Virginia militia was wounded going to the aid of a young officer on horseback he saw get wounded during this battle. Turned out to be Lafayette.

[@KevinGSmith-mi8js]

SALUTE!🇺🇸

[@mikey29211]

I love this engine, even the back ranks take casualties. Their bayonets are a great deal improved from the big block a third way down the barrel as before

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

try this mod, its amazing

[@ardalla535]

And the artillery shell that explodes right in the middle of a British formation, yet nobody falls over.

[@j.alejandromatos837]

Not here to critique the visuals, because I get that it’s tough to perfectly replicate using Total War mods. I am, however, here to critique the description of the battle in the video, which is wildly inaccurate. On the morning of 9/11/77, the Continental Army was entrenched on the east bank of the Brandywine, facing west. The Crown Forces (British & Hessian troops) were camped about 7 miles west of the river in Kennett Square. Knyphhausen led a column directly west against the Continental position. There was skirmishing between British and American light infantry/riflemen west of the river. Once Knyphausen reached the river, his men deployed, but did not launch a full scale attack, instead demonstrating as though they were planning to cross. Meanwhile, Howe and Cornwallis marched well to the north, then east with a flanking column to two unguarded fords north of Washington’s position. Wayne and Greene were on the American left, facing Knyphhausen across Chads Ford. The Americans began to attack Knyphhausen across the ford, when word came that the flanking column (which presence to this point was unconfirmed by Washington) under Howe and Cornwallis had appeared to the north on the Continental right flank at Osborne’s Hill. Generals Sullivan, Sterling, and Stevens pulled back from the ford, and marched north to counter the British flanking attack. The Americans positioned themselves south of Osborne’s Hill on Birmingham Hill, centered around Birmingham Meetinghouse. In the late afternoon, the British stepped off from the area around Osborne’s hill and advanced south against Sullivan, Sterling, and Stevens. When Knyphhausen heard the assault commence to the north, he launched a direct attack east across Chad’s Ford against the American defenses. The Americans did briefly hold Birmingham Hill, but were pushed south and east by the elite units deployed by Cornwallis. The defenses along the Brandywine crumbled as well, and those troops began to withdraw. Greene did fight a “last stand” of sorts that blunted the British/Hessian advance, and prevented the Continental Army from being completely routed. In conclusion, I’m not really offended as much by the graphics (which most people seem to be squabbling over) as I am by the woefully inaccurate description of the battle itself. This battle is so important, and so many people get the basic facts wrong like they don’t matter. Shame.

[@pHen6598]

Definitely cringeworthy, the video! Ugh 🤢🤮

[@matthewshepherd5390]

Why did it swap to a somewhat less than convincing American accent at 2:21 then swap back again at the next section of narration?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

no idea 🤷‍♂️

[@matthewshepherd5390]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar well didn't you narrate it? I still liked the video though

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

@@matthewshepherd5390 no its auto generated, I have teribble voice

[@davidsharpe7644]

Were the English fighting the French or the Spanish, or, was it a combination of the two?

[@byrd-is-the-word]

Never mentioned the Loyalist contributions at Brandywine Creek .. I had two grandfathers there .. with the two regiments most responsible for the British victory .. Captain John Howard of the 1st Dutchess County temporarily with the Ferguson Rifle and Captain James Kerr of the Queen's Rangers .. a wood Mason's gavel Howard carved from the staff of a captured American flag and presented to Kerr still remains in the family ..

[@jspee1965]

Good Lord sir you must be aged to have grandfathers present 😳

[@anotherroady6234]

They are still traitors

[@jamesbednar8625]

Awesome video!!! Good golly - even though these were animated dudes, definitely felt their pain.

[@lewis7315]

A serious error is the long ranges the lines of troops were firing at each other. All these soldiers had muskets which could not hit anything at fifty yards. So in the real world, the lines of troops would no be more than 100 feet apart at the most. The casualties from such mass volley firing often resulted in half the soldiers being killed and wounded.

[@bobmacdonald6183]

Think the Brits had the new Baker Rifle. Better range and accuracy. Not many can stand against British army volley fire. Or bayonet charges.

[@bogtrottername7001]

Very few !

[@bogtrottername7001]

Not true ! Another Rev. War myth ! 1/2 killed --- No Way !

[@ken9660]

British against British they're own

[@billybennett1253]

Why are the Americans flying Union Battle Flags from the Civil War in what's supposed to be a Revolutionary War Battle? Where's the Stars and Stripes?

[@alistairprice2837]

They fought for the first while under the Grand Union Flag. They still thought of themselves as British, as did Washington. Stars and Stripes came afterwards

[@davidkoehler136]

wow how come the uniforms are wrong?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

why wrong?

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

How did you get the AI voice? How did you film this and how did you get this filmed without no UI?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

You can find lots of AI voices on google, "UI you can hide in game options, and filmed in geforce expirance

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar Here's the thing, I've tried to film without UI. But I can't do that when I'm playing a battle. As in I can disable within the battle playing, but I can't get rid of the annoying unit box or cursor that appears. In replays, its impossible to get rid of the map or the timer. How did you work around this? Pretty good video, loved the shot of 4:48 - Reminded me of the Age of Empires III intro

[@mikey29211]

Can you make a tutorial on how you make these cinematic video's?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

there was one on youtube, remember watching years ago

[@jaytowne8016]

To win a war of resistance one does not need to win battles, fight battles and retreat without being vanquished.... and live to fight another day. and never stop

[@pauld677j9]

US would still be British if the French Spanish and Dutch had not saved the Yanks more colonials were beginning to fight for the British than the yanks like to admit as well as the Native Americans who would suffer terribly after the British had been vanquished again yanks do like to admit the genocide.

[@spritbong5285]

The sad thing is that this war was British against british.

[@thomasmoore5949]

It really wasn’t. It was those who served that evil empire and those who were on the way to becoming a significant democratic force for good!

[@thewheatness]

maybe the British should have treated the colonists like legal British citizens then

[@MrNemo-oi8cl]

What ? Which country had slaves in it ? UK never had since 1080 !@@thomasmoore5949

[@frankleespeaking9519]

I just completed my family genealogy and found out that my maternal 7x grandfather fought at Trenton and brandywine. He died in 1839 in Huntington Pennsylvania

[@scottmclaughlin5221]

Wildly inaccurate narration-Left and right wings of armies wrong. No mention of Sterling's Division; Hessian Division was on the British right and feinted against American left etc etc.

[@MikeHunt-c5p]

my Hessian Grandma in Delaware still bragged about kicking arse at Brandywine

[@TotalWarDocumentaries]

Awesome battle mate! Is this Napoleon of Empire?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

Empire but with Empire 2 mod, greetings,glad you like it

[@TheWarAtHome]

Nice!!!! Whats the music?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

this is Empire total war soundtrack

[@TheWarAtHome]

damn! was hoping it was some kindve royalty free stuff I could purchase, good bloody music! and also great cinematics man, i like the use of close ups etc, I think if you take into account the limitations you're working with in regards to stuff hard coded to the game, it flows damn well! and has as much accuracy as allows with reference to games hard coded stuff.@@WingedHussar-TotalWar

[@gilmer3718]

The quadruplets at 1:16 must have gone to the same barber too!

[@mattbanco4406]

My only issue with empire 2 total war is the inconsistency of the uniforms like I’m looking at the uniforms of the British army in this film and they’re more accurate to the seven years war than they are to the American revolution like in certain factions unit rosters you literally get uniform styles from across the entire century and it just doesn’t make sense. Like the Garrison infantry looks like early line infantry from the war Spanish succession with regular infantry looks like it’s from the other end of the century in the 1780s

[@Fuzznator]

The game starts in 1690 with the most recent update of the mod but the thing i found really annoying is the economy, its extremely weak like you recruit one unit in excess and you go bankrupt, the low public order is also annoying but in imperial destroyer is worse, pirates uber alles needs a guide just to impost the game and darth mod is too old and arcade so.. empire total war 2

[@a4v2rocket]

Loved it. We need more Revolutionary War battles to be told. An interesting one would be the Hessian attack and repulse at Red Bank/Fort Mercer on the Delaware river in months later in 1777.

[@charleswilson1572]

Wasningpaleays minimizedcthis battle as it was the second time that how used flanking tactics to route Washington. (Brooklyn heights)

[@odinsavenger4965]

What mods are being used here?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

Empire 2 total war mod, truly amazing mod

[@jspee1965]

It's been forever since I last played Empire, some of the musket shots look awfully long range for the weapon. 😮

The artillery seems to have been rather ineffective.

[@ffjsb]

Evidently most of the deaths were from glitching...

[@jeffburnham6611]

Who would have thought a battle as tragic and devastating as Brandywine, could be so humorous lol.

[@barukkazhad8998]

Ooh I wore the brandywine flash in my headdress....shame you didn't mention this ...we "slashed " them up so bad Washington said when he found out the regiment responsible he would hunt them down so we put red bits of cloth on our headdress 😊

[@Dutch-Buddha]

what game is this

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

Total War Empire with mod Empire 2

[@AlexanderHölttä]

What mod are you using?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

Empire 2 total war mod, you can find it in moddb site

[@grug6682]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWarhow are your men using fire by rank on empire 2 mine don’t

[@Manu-rb6eo]

​​@@WingedHussar-TotalWaris it an older version ? I noticed the flags are not the same as mine with the version 4. Or what submod do you use ?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

@@Manu-rb6eo yes it older version, I start doing it on older ver then came new one and was to late for change

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

@@grug6682 i think they need to be expirance enough

[@martinyan2260]

what mod for total war empire ?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

Empire II Total War, you can find it in moddb site, greetings

[@martinyan2260]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar nice ! just wanted to make sure

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

@@martinyan2260 you welcome ;)

[@MHG571]

"Make Ready" - "Present" - "Fire" Fire!!👍👍🙌🙌🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@peterolbrisch8970]

Where are the orcs?

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

different universe mate ;)

[@peterolbrisch8970]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar Oops!

[@petermillist3779]

How to make a sound defeat sound like a victory, according to this narrative 😂

[@tomtalley2192]

Didn’t realize they had hand grenades in 1777

[@alsmitley3455]

Hence the term “Grenadiers”.

[@alsmitley3455]

Beards? Look at contemporary paintings.

[@MegaWillieo]

The Continental Army was still poorly equipped at this time. All had muskets but bayonets were still lacking.

[@mkNf-uk8py]

This video is very well done. If you used the empires 2 mod, you must have selected nice looking units, cuz I have found very ugly units in that mod.

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

maybe you selected low graphic settings, for me all units in this mod looks amazing, much better than vanilla

[@mkNf-uk8py]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar I have the highest settings configured, and with the same configuration even in the same battle, some units look high quality and others are horrible and too simple. Some factions are well done, mainly because units are vanilla. Others are horrible. For example, check all Spanish units, you'll see the mix.

[@clarkewi]

Must have been something to see.

[@michaelsnyder3871]

British Regulars did not wear blue, only the Royal Artillery. Hessians wore blue but carried Hesse-Kassel colors not British. Some of the British uniforms are from the Seven Years War. Loyalist units wore green. Most of the Continentals wore brown. The British light dragoons also wore red, while the small numbers of Continental, State and Associator light horse wore brown also. The Continentals had no battle cavalry. They certainly didn't carry colors that weren't issued before 1792. Nobody formed up more than three ranks deep. The whole thing is a mess. Total War is not an accurate simulation of horse and musket combat. There are better games for this, such as Hiller's tactical battle sims. Brandywine was a defeat for Washington, but it wasn't decisive. A few weeks later Washington counter-attacked at Germantown and came very close to driving Howe's army off the field when things started going wrong. Washington was able to rally his army and withdraw without a British pursuit. Germantown had as much effect on the French decision to join the war as the victory at Saratoga.

[@scottythetrex5197]

I live right down the street from this battlefield. It was a disaster for the Americans. On 9/11. Glad to see a video about it. It's rarely discussed.

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

I was always thinking about doing battles from American Revolution

[@ronalves8816]

God save king George

[@tonyhill1264]

Joe Biden was a young 19 year old 2nd Lieutenant at this battle in 1777....So brave!👍

[@craigwollen5615]

LoL! 😂😂😂

[@DelapazTotong]

British Civil War technically speaking😂

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

exactly 😁

[@BooNight-u1j]

You can say what you like but we won the war

[@mikecamp486]

War of attrition works all the time

[@revere0311]

Love it!

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

thank you ;)

[@amaree9732]

I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those kilts.

[@jakeseeley2712]

Unfortunately many men were quite literally caught dead in one of those kilts lol

[@bogtrottername7001]

You are no fun !

[@loganplank504]

Let's party Like it's 1777

[@malgusvitiate7002]

Another stunning video as usual! For future videos regarding historical battles, you should do the Battle of the Sabis (57 B.C.E.), the Battle of Silva Litana (216 B.C.E.), and the Battle of Artaxata (68 B.C.E.) for Rome II, and the Siege of Milan (452 C.E.), the Battle of Cartagena (461 C.E.), and the Battle of Vicus Helena (448 C.E.) for Attila. In regards to non-historical battles, you should do Carthage vs. Royal Scythia, Ardiaei vs. Massilia, and Kush vs. Pergamon for Rome II, and Vandals vs. Picts, Anteans vs. Langobards, and Aksum vs. Sassanid Empire for Attila. Keep up the good work👍😁!

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

SOME MANY IDEAS! i wish i have time to do them 👌 I will check them

[@heathclark318]

Please dont use Rome 2... The New Imperium Surrectum Mod is stunning and has an engine that can handle the fighting of the Age, Charges with actual weight to them. No blobbing and actual simulated battles, not spreadsheet statistic calculators that Rome 2 and beyond are

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

@@heathclark318 this mod for Rome 1 Remaster ?

[@heathclark318]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar Yes sir.... You wont regret it. It is still developing, has almost 100 factions. Thousands of units and I believe it has 1200 provinces spanning Portugal to India, Britain to Sudan... Its EPIC

[@conrod60]

this is the pre-made map, is it not? *edit: pre-made BATTLE

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

yes, this battle was in historical battles in Empire 2 mod

[@peterpim6260]

"Continentals" be damned. Besides, it is nonsense tho show soldiers pumping away with their ramrods. One push had to do ! Too much close action , no general overlook over the wole battle.

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

thanks for your opinion, still learning 👍

[@loyalpiper]

The whole action of the ramrods is hard coded into the game, theres nothing that can be done about it.

[@Steve-i1w4i]

The british looks so silly in their costumes

[@angloaust1575]

The british won some battles But lost the war Much like the americans in Vietnam!

[@plymouth5714]

Actually the British won most of the battles but lost the war partly due to having to fight both the French and Spanish at the same time and also the 'Patriot' campaign of misinformation - every American success was a victory and every British victory was a 'massacre' (much the same as their campaign against the indigenous native Indians a century later). In actual fact the patriots never amounted to more than one in three of the population of the time. One third were patriots, one third loyalist and one third 'neutral'. After the war most of the loyalists moved to Canada and a few years later many of the neutrals joined them as Washington's government became more oppressive than the British ever were. When the War of 1812 began the Americans invaded Canada expecting to find allies waiting for them to kick out the British, instead nearly the whole population hated their guts and were willing to defend their homes against them!

[@pauld677j9]

France Spain and Holland won the war for the revolutionaries not themselves The British had far more support than the Colonial forces even more so when the French took over the war..

[@mikefranklin1253]

All the Americans needed to do was survive the battle and cost the British men and money.

[@juice6459]

This was beyond goofy.

[@dudleydoright2706]

This is what our ancestors did and died for, to protect our democracy, and from a dictatorship of fascism

[@tonyfoye5657]

😂

[@monza1002000]

😂😂😂😂😂Not very good at history are you 😊

[@joeflatley8523]

Looks like a battle of clone armies...

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

limitation of this engine

[@wbbartlett]

15000 Brits against an army of traitors

[@amitkenan3878]

against an army of free men

[@legofan4047]

At least the Brits held their promises to slaves that enlisted. The Americans just re-enslaved them. The Brits weren’t the bad guys.

[@ChingChangWallah.]

@@legofan4047 The first things the Americans did was override the proclamation of 1763. The promise not to expand west into Indian territory.

[@Earthman99999]

Looks like clone armies.

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

This is made on very old engine

[@Earthman99999]

@@WingedHussar-TotalWar 😊Just kidding. Looks cool enough to tell the story.

[@richardando7081]

When armies were clueless about camouflage….😂😂😂

[@philthycat1408]

We knew what you’d let happen to it. 🇬🇧😂

[@grahamward3504]

Uniforms are wrong --anachronistic

[@Skipper.17]

If it wasn’t for the French, Americans would be speaking English.

[@lauriekutcher4825]

Don't Americans speak English?

[@Skipper.17]

@@lauriekutcher4825 no they don’t

[@michaelschneider7853]

Wrong flags, wrong uniforms, wrong formations ... sorry ...

[@89volvowithlazers]

nice

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

glad you like it 👍

[@Leorn-dq1yz]

Too damn much music. Can't watch this shit.

[@unitedwestand5100]

This is childish..

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

why?

[@pHen6598]

This is absolutely horrendous and full of horrible factual inaccuracies throughout!! Horrible, horrible, horrible!!!!

[@gen_robert_lee]

so many twins :D

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

this game engine have limits 😜

[@BarbaraKasperek-r4l]

😊

[@Primarch19th]

Waste of bandwidth.

[@Thedude59]

clone army :)

[@WingedHussar-TotalWar]

unfortunately game engine have limits 😒

[@Ben-hv4pr]

Bro theres no such thing as the British army nor a such thing as the British crown there the English armed forcesy,the English Crown then theres the Scottish armed forces and the Scottish Crown

[@NigelHatcherN]

What? Please reply.

[@brianferris8668]

What a load of bullshit.

[@donkeylong7707]

My great ggg grandfather Lt.Col. George Washington Carpenter fought in this battle and two of my great ggg uncles

[@Tyrone-hq6dr]

Damn skippy we did !

[@hazeish3137]

Man now i want to play total war empire 😂

[@KevinGSmith-mi8js]

BS! This is not how Brabywine was fought!

[@robertsanzotera9591]

not historically accurate at all. no one could hit a target back then from that far away.