Emin Pasha was a rogue with a shady background including practicing medicine without a licence in many places. He changed his name and moved on quite a few time, but with his natural charm and charisma he always seemed to land on his feet. See my book "Tippoo Tib" for detailed chapters on Stanley and Emin. Great video, keep up the quality watchable work.
@janviljoen-rm8zs3 ай бұрын
paul sounds very good. i lived in africa for many years its not for amateurs .one has to know when ones numbers up or become mr pasha .
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@MikeLeeke2 ай бұрын
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@davidcunningham20743 ай бұрын
stanley's endurance was incredible. He survived these terrible expeditions time and time again.
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
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@SnoopReddogg3 ай бұрын
Those old school Victorian's certainly had big balls of steel.
@erezklein57693 ай бұрын
Any different to the Greeks and Romans? Genghis khan? Han dynasty? Maia?
@CarolFremel-my4hs3 ай бұрын
And always correctly dressed with it 😂
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@freewater_dave2 ай бұрын
Almost as big as their egos and hubris. Stanley was already known to be more glory-hound than explorer. His poor expedition planning and notoriously hostile acts against local tribes had also been well documented. And his route-choice for this ‘humanitarian’ expedition is extremely questionable, given that the geography of East Africa was well known. Ergo, his plan to exit via East Africa.
@nathanappleby53423 ай бұрын
Nice job as usual. No denying it one of the darkest stories in the history of Africa. It was also indeed one of the greatest physical and traveling feats ever pulled off.
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
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@daltonweeks67363 ай бұрын
I was just about to take my dog for a walk thinking damn I have to find something to listen to, and then this popped up! Brilliant timing thank you!!
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
Dalton, I always aim to please! I hope you enjoy it
@daltonweeks67363 ай бұрын
@@TheHistoryChap yes it was a great story! And yes to a future video about the Congo free state in some way please
@kitwanaabraham5603 ай бұрын
@@TheHistoryChapSerious question: For how much longer, and what would it take for Europeans to finally stop peddling this tired, worn-out, racist and white supremacist garbage about "Africa's heart of darkness"? Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history - which I am certain you possess - would know that on the contrary, Europe and European have arguably been the most violent place, with the most blood thirsty people on the face of the earth, over the last two millennia. If ever a continent and its people truly deserved the ignoble label of possessing a "heart of darkness", it is undoubtedly Europe and Europeans. So again, when will people like you stop regurgitating this tired, worn-out, racist and white supremacist garbage that Africa - and by extension, black Africans - possessed a "heart of darkness"?
@retriever19golden552 ай бұрын
I often listen to Chris while walking the dogs!
@sharioverend1618Ай бұрын
You're weird
@Johnny-Thunder3 ай бұрын
I read about this expedition in The Last Expedition by Liebowitz and Pearson when I was in university. Such an adventure!
@berteisenbraun74153 ай бұрын
I have the book its very very good.
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@olliefoxx716523 күн бұрын
Would you recommend the book?
@berteisenbraun741523 күн бұрын
@olliefoxx7165 it's a Amazing book worth your time. Definitely eye opening.
@olliefoxx716523 күн бұрын
@berteisenbraun7415 Thanks! I've put it on my "To Read" list.
@pippohispano3 ай бұрын
Between 1884 and 1885, two Portuguese explorers, Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens, lead an expedition that took them from Angola to Mozambique. They traveled some 8000km. In the end they put all in their book "De Angola à contra-costa".
@malkomalkavian3 ай бұрын
Did they fail to get enough boats and nearly all starve too?
@pippohispano3 ай бұрын
@@malkomalkavian nope. 🙂
@malkomalkavian3 ай бұрын
@@pippohispano Spooky :)
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@olliefoxx716523 күн бұрын
Is the book in Portuguese only?
@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek3 ай бұрын
A Fascinating Tale, Leading Us into the Heart of an Immense Darkness!!!!
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@hobbitspot69983 ай бұрын
Gripping narrative👏. Beautiful presentation.
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@tomc6423 ай бұрын
Another interesting European figure working with Gordon was Rudolf Slatin, an Austrian soldier who became governor of Dara in Darfur. After several battles, he finally surrendered and spent eleven years or more in Mahdist captivity. Eventually, he was able to escape with the help of then Major Reginald Wingate.
@macbatz67343 ай бұрын
Yes Indeed : a good future Subject for you : Sir Rudolf von Slatin Pasha, the only man ennobled by 3 sovereigns. His book Feuer und Schwert Im Sudan is required reading for all interested in the Mahdi.
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@CaptainLuckyLuke3 ай бұрын
I highly recommend Peter Forbath’s novel ‘The Last Hero’ which is about these events. If you love old school adventure novels then you’ll certainly adore this book.
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
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@eazygamer89743 ай бұрын
I know there are some wild things happening in the UK. I hope you are staying safe. We need our favorite British historian! Thanks for another great video!!
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
All good here. Thanks for your concern.
@maxreed23433 ай бұрын
@@TheHistoryChap Should've thought to ask that very thing myself too. Such a relief to know that it seems things are all good and quiet for now where you live, dear Chris, considering the sickening violence and riots that've sprung up all over the country all cos of last Monday's heartbreak with those three poor young girls being murdered. That said, do PLEASE make damn sure you stay safe and take care, we CAN'T afford to lose YOU at all. And to respond to your own reply to my own comment, it's always a pleasure to be giving ya all the massive support and love as ya could ever need, like I say your history giving videos are one in a million when it comes to British military history lessons I never learned at all in school, am SO happy indeed I found you last year
@georgeamanor-boadu67713 ай бұрын
@@TheHistoryChapglad to know you are safe and do keep those videos flowing.
@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul3 ай бұрын
Now London is "The Heart of Darkness."
@WilhelmHand3 ай бұрын
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul Just about every european city, and all blue cities in the USA.
@beachboy05053 ай бұрын
Excellent video 📹 Greatest journey Stanley; Gordon: Emin Pasha: Khedive; Mahdi; King Leopold: Kaiser; Tipu Tip and Jameson Whiskey.
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@ZeroDefects7Ай бұрын
Wow! Thank you for this incredible piece!
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@Epic5history3 ай бұрын
looking forward to the next video
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@maxreed23433 ай бұрын
Forgotten by history, FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY, THIS?!!! I'm in TOTAL disbelief at that, Chris old bean, though I myself had NEVER heard of this ever myself until of course, and as I've always tended to say when commenting on your incredible videos since discovering your wonderous self last year, you posted said update for today and I saw the topic's subject title. But now that you've given the history lesson on it, MY GOD, WHAT A STORY, what an INCREDIBLE feat of endeavor into the very heart of uncharted Africa, literally too, by the man who found David Livingstone (THAT I've known about thanks to a US cartoon series I used to LOVE so so much as a kid, but EVERYTHING about the FULL history about it I've absolutely NO clue of whatsoever, so I would certainly recommend it as a possible future video by ya's, our KZbin history superstar figure, as well as one about Belgian King Leopold's disgusting treatment of his Congolese subjects, something which the 2015 movie 'The Legend of Tarzan' features in its plot) Henry Morton Stanley: 6 months and 500 miles of total hell, two thirds of the force dying of starvation, having to deal with forest living pygmies who mistook Stanley's marching force for Arab slave traders, and the controversy by the guys in charge of the left behind rear force, porters beaten to death and one of the leaders accused of selling a slave girl to cannibals so he could draw the grisly spectacle... HOW THE HELL could THIS absolutely UNBELIEVABLE and incredible historical happening have been forgotten by history? This could damn well make SUCH a movie or better a TV series. Seriously, YOU, Chris old bean, are JUST what this site could ever have needed to be gifted with, until I found YOU I'd NEVER known even half the things your incredible one in a million videos have revealed to me ever since I began doing 'em. And I've STILL to get such a damn move on with LOADS of your older ones, INCLUDING the ones to do with Charles Gordon and the fate of Khartoum and the failed Nile Expedition attempt to rescue him. If I can just GIVE MYSELF THE DAMN TIME AND CHANCE TO WATCH 'EM, FGS, haha...
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
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@paulmartin41683 ай бұрын
Never use one word when eight will do. Excuse while I go to another table
@dreamjackson54833 ай бұрын
Love your videos. One thing I'd like to learn more about is factories around the world used by the British empire to equip their armies. I'm from limerick in Ireland. And have heard of factories in the city that were used to make buttons for the redcoats army! But can't be sure. Would love to learn more
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
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@cynthiaalver3 ай бұрын
I would love a video of King Leopols 2 and Congo Free State. King Leopold's Ghost is one of my favorite books.
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
Whilst I specialise in British history it would be good to cover some other stories…not least to show that other Europeans were no saints when it came to colonialism.
@eazygamer89743 ай бұрын
That video will probably be instantly demonetized! 😮 But I still want to see it!
@neilcoligan86213 ай бұрын
@@TheHistoryChap Stanley was definitely British (although claiming to be American) in the employ of King Leopold. There were also significant UK players on both sides of the slavery issue and the rubber trade so I see some onramps.
@Johnny-Thunder3 ай бұрын
There is an excellent 80 minute video on Leopold II on the channel The People Profiles.
@Jiggleton3 ай бұрын
That book is pure garbage.
@jeningle82883 ай бұрын
Thats a great tale of derring do,wonderful Boys Own goings on at its finest!
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@BootsontheTable3 ай бұрын
Another fascinating story. I didn’t know much about Emin Pasha myself
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@Gaius_Claudius3 ай бұрын
Well this is a treat. Never seen a History Chap video within the first half hour of release. Not done yet, but the expedition tale is exciting! Thanks for telling the story!
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
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@jovanweismiller71143 ай бұрын
YES!!! An episode on King Leopold & the Congo 'Free' State.
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@davidwoods77203 ай бұрын
wow Sir Hiram Maxim...... I teach people how to operate "Sir Hiram Maxim's captive flying machines" at Blackpool pleasure beach,still going strong since 1904. What a small world. thanks Chris
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@annehersey98953 ай бұрын
Definitely interested in Leopold and the Congo. Living in the US thus never having a Colony in Africa, we never really learned about Africa in school and heard how horrible the Congoese were treated but all in Vague terms. I loved the Colony map in this video
@janviljoen-rm8zs3 ай бұрын
yes usa had african colony
@annehersey98953 ай бұрын
@@janviljoen-rm8zs Never
@janviljoen-rm8zs3 ай бұрын
@@annehersey9895 typical if your educated in usa. can not think. yes they did
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@theskyizblue2day4312 ай бұрын
@@janviljoen-rm8zsjust say you hate white people. USA never had an African colony
@ropeburnsrussell3 ай бұрын
Super subject! Thanks!
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@Fred-px5xu3 ай бұрын
An impressive achievement for Stanley!
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@ianbell56113 ай бұрын
Great video. Brutal times weren't they..
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@shermangriffin46683 ай бұрын
Hello History Chap. It is good to have time to watch your videos again. They are so interesting. Thanks
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@ProfessorM-he9rl3 ай бұрын
Thank you for this post.
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@peterkerruish81363 ай бұрын
Once again Thankyou.
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
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@jonmeek38793 ай бұрын
This is by far your best and most interesting video to date , job well done
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@calvinmondrago73973 ай бұрын
Outstanding story and narration.
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@Benvolio13 ай бұрын
Excellent as usual.
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@DarrenMarsh-kx8hd3 ай бұрын
Outstanding work, if a little grisly. Putting the book on my watch list.
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@peterkelly16653 ай бұрын
many years ago read a fictional account of the expedition it was a good read but have forgotten the title and the authors name. however to hear an account of the real expedition brought it all back very enjoyable presentation !
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@martinhogg53373 ай бұрын
That was fascinating, Chris. Great story!
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@kerryturner69482 ай бұрын
That was fantastic!
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@user-tp1bi6of3v3 ай бұрын
Thanks HC. Please do the story about Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) and his expeditions. Thanks
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@simonnoble75893 ай бұрын
Good morning Chris , how are you ? . Whot a true adventure , with everything thrown at them ... Thank you for your hard work Chris cheers
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@robertgraham10883 ай бұрын
Excellent. Thank you.
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@angloaust15753 ай бұрын
Amazing all without aircraft And automobiles The human spirit conquers all!
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@angloaust15752 ай бұрын
That's for fish not humans God gave us feet to walk with Not gills!
@kevinspoerle3 ай бұрын
your presentations are outstanding, a show on the scramble for Africa would be great !!
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@olliefoxx716523 күн бұрын
Delightful video! Well done from writing to narrating to editing. Interesting comment section full of history enthusiasts. Subscribed
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@neilreynolds38583 ай бұрын
Nice map! I've never seen it all in one place before. There are good books on Emin Pasha, Leopold, Tippu Tip, and Chinese Gordon. A friend who was getting his Master's in Turkish history back in the 1960s turned me on to a pile of books on the ME and Africa including Egypt and the Congo. Unfortunately, I don't have them out on the shelves right now to give you names and authors but ones about the relief expedition are relatively cheap and easy to find.
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@atlantasailor12 ай бұрын
I really appreciate this narrative. Very entertaining. Member of Explorers Club NYC
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@Lassisvulgaris3 ай бұрын
David Livingstone found Stanley rather presumptive.....
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@harryshriver62233 ай бұрын
I think this could be be classified as unhumanitarian mission, Chris. This sounds like some bad asd bush to hump, old military axiom. A well done presentation 👏 and keep up the good work, I never knew that Heart of Darkness was based on this event, what a fustercluck!
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@edgregory122 күн бұрын
Thought it was soley based on Conrad's Congo diary. Glad I found this channel.
@xispaster3 ай бұрын
Pedro Páez Jaramillo, S.J. (Portuguese: Pero Pais; 1564 - 20 May 1622) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be the most effective Catholic missionary in Ethiopia. He is believed to be the first European to see and describe the source of the Blue Nile, which he reached on 21 April 1618.[1] Páez' two-volume História da Etiópia (History of Ethiopia) is regarded by scholars of Ethiopian history as one of the most valuable and accurate works on the contemporary Solomonic Empire and its history (as understood by local sources) up to his own time, particularly as the works of local writers, despite the Ethiopian Orthodox Church's long tradition of literate monastic scholarship and the regular compilation of imperial chronicles, have in large part been lost in the centuries of intermittent conflict that followed or otherwise remained unknown to contemporary scholarship.
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@NoahCarver-lt6qd2 ай бұрын
Stanley made that trek 3 times! It's hard to imagine making it once.
@formwiz70963 ай бұрын
The great irony is that Africa never paid off for the Europeans the way they had dreamed. Thomas Sowell has written greatly of how the continent's geography, then and now, thwarted the great potential always seen for it.
@ozzyphil743 ай бұрын
It paid off even less for those pesky Africans
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@vo7414Ай бұрын
@@ozzyphil74What do you mean by "pesky Africans"?
@olliefoxx716523 күн бұрын
Thomas Sowells video mentioned by the OP is worth watching, although I found points of disagreement about his conclusions. Geography IS NOT an excuse for Africa's under performance, it is a factor.
@americanpig-dog705120 күн бұрын
@olliefoxx7165 Africa failed to develop because Africans failed to develop. You could put any other group of people there and it would be infinitely better.
@JamesCarpenter-uu6po4 күн бұрын
I am enjoying it immensely
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@davidsauls95423 ай бұрын
One of your best ! Thank You !
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@michaelmalone90623 ай бұрын
Thanks for another absolutely outstanding historical account.
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@ebrahim_al_mutawa3 ай бұрын
I’d be interested in watching a History Chap video on the Congo Free State
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@waynevanrensburg80373 ай бұрын
Enjoyed that, thank you
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@kingjoe3rd3 ай бұрын
I like how these men didn't shy away from the possibility of death in the name of adventure.
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@user-tp1bi6of3v3 ай бұрын
Very well done. Looking forward to see one about Sir Richard Burton (not the film actor). Thanks again.
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@lesterbrandt32032 ай бұрын
Stanley's book was great. He took a wee dog with him.
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@yawgreymills15873 ай бұрын
I had a book heart of darkness, but always found it hard to finish reading i dont know why but this is really helpful
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@pakde8002Ай бұрын
Remembering of course that the feat of physical stamina was mainly on the backs of the local porters.
@olliefoxx716523 күн бұрын
Local populations use to the climate and conditions. The Europeans deserve credit for their impressive achievements. I know it's popular to dismiss all things European however I for one will give them credit where credit is due.
@tresojos3 ай бұрын
AMAZING storytelling
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@zukosmom3780Ай бұрын
Does anyone else think that this was nuts? I'm actually shocked that they would even think about doing this, let alone setting out on such a stupid mission. All of this for one man. It's just unbelievable
@olliefoxx716523 күн бұрын
They were a different breed back then. Men of iron will.
@kkupsky63213 ай бұрын
I like this dude. He defenestrated himself. That musta been an awesome night.
@malcolmyoung78663 ай бұрын
One of my mates did a similar thing when we were on exercise in California. Whilst upstairs in our accommodation he was chatting up a US female soldier and went to lean on the window sill, he missed the sill and fell out the window, breaking his arm in the process… Oh how we laughed!
@kkupsky63213 ай бұрын
@@malcolmyoung7866 awwww. I was hoping you were gonna say he was aiming for the pool hahaja
@macbatz67343 ай бұрын
I'm sorry to say that you're wrong to say he was inebriated. Emin Pasha was extremely short sighted to the point of being virtually blind!
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
Must have been some party!
@kkupsky63212 ай бұрын
@@TheHistoryChap do you need a carpet? Don’t have to. Just for personal reasons… hahaha
@XXawacs773 ай бұрын
Fascinating.
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@MrStevos8 күн бұрын
Very interesting not known story, & well done THX+
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@jona8263 ай бұрын
Another great video. I love the Victorian Age. So many amazing stories of derring-do.
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@kentmerrill89253 ай бұрын
Very Good story! Keep up the good work!
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@davetheotter70393 ай бұрын
Truth is stranger than fiction!
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@shanemossmoss3 ай бұрын
I have enjoyed this emencly . Would like more of the same
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@johnnylingle9314Ай бұрын
Excellent
@geoffreypiltz2713 ай бұрын
This story is all there in the chapter "The Waters of Babylon" in Alan Moorehead's classic book "The White Nile".
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@retriever19golden552 ай бұрын
A wonderful book!
@Robutube122 күн бұрын
A story previously unknown to me and well told. Whilst an remarkable feat one has to remember the terrible loss of native lives these things required and how they were so casually dismissed.
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@Momusinterra3 ай бұрын
When Emin couldn't decide whether to stay or go he was not 'prevaricating" as you state. He was vacillating perhaps, waffling but not lying.
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@keithhagler5022 ай бұрын
I never realized just how much resemblance Charlton Heston had to Gordon until I saw that picture. I had never seen it before.
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@AxelPoliti3 ай бұрын
What an incredible story beyond the Livingston one! And the closing on Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now... fascinating
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@SorinSorin-y3j3 ай бұрын
Yes, please, a video on Leopold!
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@ferretman67903 ай бұрын
11:17 the moment people run out of food, ideas like “Humanitarianism” jump right out of the window
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@talpark87963 ай бұрын
thx again, Chris (billy barker, eh? 😃)
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@peregrinemccauley5010Ай бұрын
Alas, I'm bereft of pertinent commentary.
@thecount55583 ай бұрын
Honestly, with the mention of the Congo Free State, I'd be interested in a video regarding the participation of the Congo Free State/Force Publique under Louis Napoleon Chaltin in the Mahdist War.
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@davefellhoelter13433 ай бұрын
This has a similar taste as the Lewis and Clark mission in human efforts, but 180 deg in leadership, moral, and preparedness, or sucsess.
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@mattzaske3 ай бұрын
.... So Dennis Hopper is... ah, makes so much more sense now.
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@mattheweagles51233 ай бұрын
What a story!
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@Kit-vb5rmАй бұрын
What brave, unprincipled men were they who worked to build the 'Great' British Empire .
@TheHistoryChapАй бұрын
Nothing to do with the British empire per se. British expedition rescued Emin, they didn't take over the area that he controlled.
@inregionecaecorum17 күн бұрын
I can remember reading a book about this years ago.
@TheHistoryChap17 күн бұрын
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@inregionecaecorum17 күн бұрын
@@TheHistoryChap I have found the book "In Limbo: The story of Stanley's rear column" by Tony Gould. There is also a play en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rear_Column
@ianmckee_843 ай бұрын
I'm interested in more on Leopold II of Belgium
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@reet-ko9lg3 ай бұрын
cool
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@tomjeffersonwasright22888 күн бұрын
That expedition.... British dithering...at a colossal scale...with no result.
@TheHistoryChap6 күн бұрын
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@DanetteScheel2 ай бұрын
What a fiasco! What an accomplishment! Leopold the second is one of history‘s greatest butchers of humanity. Definitely do a special on him. The more people know the less likely it would ever happen again.
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
Well we can certainly hope that is the case 😊
@paddyglenny3 күн бұрын
My favourite adventure book is a fictionalised account of Stanley's attempt to relieve Emin Pasha, called The Last Hero by Peter Forbath. I think it only came out as a hardback, so not easily found, but it is a fantastic account. About 500 pages but you cannot put it down. If you spot it for sale, buy it as you won't regret it.
@TheHistoryChap2 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching my video & for sharing details of the book.
@ronaldpatterson1177Ай бұрын
Remind me never to set foot in Africa! ( Or at least: "Never get out of the boat!") 😱😱
@sheldonwheaton8813 ай бұрын
You can do an episode on the unfortunate R. Casemate and his involvement in the Congo?
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
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@YellowJeep3 ай бұрын
I'm considering legally changing my surname to Pasha. It has a nice ring to it.
@TheHistoryChap3 ай бұрын
It certainly sounds good.
@janlindtner3053 ай бұрын
👍👍👍
@TheHistoryChap2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it.
@nigelsmith2457Ай бұрын
I think we can all guess what the men of William Musgrave Bartalot 'affectionately' nicknamed him.