The Battle of Durbe 1260 AD

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Not many people have heard about the Baltic crusades and the pagan defenders, thank you Baz for covering them!

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What the f@ck are you talking about? Every European teenager that being influenced by Euro-Nationalism won't shut up about crusaders, and especially baltic crusades. If you were to ask about baltic crusades 20 years ago, sure not many people would have known about it.

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as long as the Teutonic Order loses the "whole" affair should be well covered here on yt oddly enough the same doesn't apply to teutonic victories and no videos whatsoever about for instance the Battle of Streva, 1348, Battle of Rudau 1370, Battle of Siritza 1501 or the Battle of Lake Smolina 1502 and just 1 for the Battle of Konitz 1454 .....a gaming video.....and, toootally unexpected, it lets the Teutons lose.....

[@EykisCorporation]

Many have not heard. And on the territory of modern Latvia there were as many as 3 knightly orders: the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, the Livonian Order and the Teutonic Order.

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They were ruthlessly killed by bigger pagans than they "christians"

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[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

You see this is what happens when you try to rule by fear, the moment they dont fear you they will abandon you. That is literally what happened every single time the german crusader armies where slain by eastern europians after their unwilling auxilieries left the field not fearing any reprisals from those soon to be dead.

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When Baz's narrator says "The battle is about to begin" I get goosebumps without fail.

[@maclain728]

Honestly it just illustrates how important proper discipline is with an army, despite the terrain what should have been an easy victory was lost due to poor discipline and morale You could have the best soldiers and equipment in the world, but if they all care significantly more about themselves than the army as a whole, you’re gonna have some big problems

[@Acid_Viking]

I'm imagining that the native levies had very different reasons for being on the battlefield, and were less invested in the conflict, than the crusaders were. There may have been limits on how much discipline the crusaders could realistically have expected from that unit type.

[@PudgyFat]

Not even just discipline, but just having sound tactics makes all the difference. I’m no medieval warfare expert, but anyone who opens with charging all their cavalry before even letting the foot soldiers set the line deserves to lose. Sucks the Encyclopedia of Military History wasn’t around for these knights to read.

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@@PudgyFat Knights might be living tanks, but they’re unruly, arrogant and often refuses to listen to commanders who would use them as a final charge. Tactics require discipline and an established chain of command.

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@@martytu20 Exactly. Battle of the golden spurs is perfect example too. In this battle Knights were probably arrogant, and wanted to break the enemy head on, even if they held back and attacked the rear would mean a certain victory, routing an enemy from the rear is less of an achievement in their eyes.

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@@PudgyFat except for all the times that tactic worked.

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@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 no love for history marche?

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@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 kings and generals are too politically biased for modern wars in my eyes, so i tend to avoid their modern wars content, but the rest is good.

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I've heard a lot about the Teutonic Knights and the Baltic adventures in general but...I think somehow this is the first time I've actually seen one of their battles.

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Then go watch Bazzes other videos.

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Check the video for the Battle on The Ice and you would have seen two battles.

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It's just not cool to talk about how some pegans beat best trained holy knights

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@@narutoincore123 Good because what this video is about is noble savages slaughtering demon worshipers.

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@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Maybe not noble, but definitely less evil than god worshipers

[@js9869]

Amazing video! One thing to point out is at 2:25 you said "kunigas" which translates to priest, what Mindaugas actually was was a "kunigaikštis" which translates to chieftain, duke or something similar to a warlord, later on he bacame a king or "karalius".

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Traditionally kungas means lord/king in latviešu language. Karalis originally meant something more like emporor since Karl- is the name of the grate frankish Emporor (you might know him as Charlemagne). Ou the titules are so messed up...

[@flamingas]

Kunigas means priest in modern Lithuanian, however this only came to be after the christianization of the country. Before that the position of the chieftain and the head priest was the same and thus shared a name - kunigas. Kunigaikštis was introduced later around the 19th century in order to distinguish between the past pagan chieftains and contemporary christian priests. You can even see it in the etymology of the word, as kunigas comes from old german kuni(n)g meaning king - a political position.

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"Kuningas" in modern finnish means KING

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@@harakiri8548 Dont you finic people repalce baltic -s and -as with h and ah?

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Mindaugas knew that Teutonic order won't be able to take control of samogitia. Nobody could. Thats why he "gifted" them.

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[@darryk4154]

My family came from Lithuania originally so this was pretty interesting. Thanks.

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I don't think I ever saw a video were the Teutonics or Sword Brethren won a major victory, these guys never catch a break.

[@ralfsbeitans3769]

Their major victories included burning down wooden towns/castles and slaughtering civilians into submission.

[@ColHoganGer90]

Biased sources. The ordinary skirmish won doesn‘t get recorded. The shocking defeat of the superior adversary makes shockwaves, though.

[@blacklight4720]

Well, few reasons for that. 1. Crusaders are exaggerated these days by political and ethnic bias. 2. Crusaders were in enemy territory, likely outnumbered and probably fighting guerrilla style battles. Romans had similar problems with "Barbarian" enemies. 3. Questionable loyalty of occupied population by the crusaders.

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their victories were primarily against undefended villages and children

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@@ColHoganGer90 they won ordinary skrimishes but eventually due to higher level of tribal cohesion they rallied up and defeated them in the biggest of battles

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Wonderful video, as ever! The quality continues to be astounding! Brutal battle. Just the good use of terrain was enough to nullify the knight advantage, and the sheer ferocity of the locals did the rest.

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Lmfao just like the swamps of Saulė in 1236

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

You see this is what happens when you try to rule by fear, the moment they dont fear you they will abandon you. That is literally what happened every single time the german crusader armies where slain by eastern europians after their unwilling auxilieries left the field not fearing any reprisals from those soon to be dead.

[@Fankas2000]

@@danilapolesciuk4316 It's hard not to pick a swampy terrain in the Medieval Baltic lands.

[@Dayvit78]

Wow that was a complete surprise. When you mention how the pagans only had at most leather armor, I figured it was just going to be a quick slaughter, but wth happened!

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

The average only had cloth and leather for armor. The higher nobility had chainmain. And during this time a shield is your best protection and that everyone had.

[@Dennell_Mount_and_Blade]

A large portion of the Livonian army were equally armored since they were tribesmen as well. So while the Crusaders had the advantage when it came to equipment and training, they were still heavily outnumbered and outflanked when their auxillaries fled the battle. And when panic strikes it spreads like a disease.

[@shrekas2966]

They didn't have leather for armour. Its not mentioned in the sources. The only armour they are confirmed to have in 13th century is maille and lamellar or scale, call it however you want. Balts are confirmed to use leather armour only in late 14th century onwards when they became christian for the most part. The german order, on the other hand, could have used leather. It was often worn by wealthier individuals on top of maille. It was treated in a way it would be rigid and protective. It wasn't light and had the same role as plate armour parts which were starting to become popular on some parts of the body. Hell, even when plate armour reached its meaningful existence in late 14th century, leather versions of it were still being worn.

[@shrekas2966]

​@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714Really? Got any sources of 13th century balt leather armour?

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@shrekas2966 Hold your horses, the balts didnt become cristian in the 14. century. The peace treaties concluded that they had to go to church but that doesnt make you cristian especially when all the clergy speak latin and german and thus you have no idea what the hell the churches doctrine even is. A majority of baltic people where cristian only in the 16. century when the protestands in their reformation and the chatolics in their counter reformation finally realized that it would be a good idea to preach to the people in a language they can actually understand.

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Wow! Thanks for the great video! Fun fact, I played as the Lithuanians in the Medieval 2 Total War kingdoms expansion so this hits close to me. in a good way

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