The First War To Be Photographed | Crimean War | Timeline

The bloody conflict that pitted Russia against a large European coalition is shown here to be part of a chain of long-held antagonisms that continue to this day.
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[@JR-kk6ce]

I have read accounts of that and other wars. During that time cannon fire was many times directed so as to bounce a cannon ball along the ground and into troops in formation. It was considered cowardice, if a soldier saw that a cannon ball was going to hit him and he stepped out of the way. In another conflict, Napoleon would brag that he could make men risk their lives for mere colored strip of cloth (a medal). The decks of British ships were painted red to help hide the blood during a skirmish. I can go on and on, but having served in the U.S Army, I can tell you that no one really wins a war. God help us all.

[@therealthreadkilla]

War, like fighting, are just different levels of losing.

[@richardmcknight9015]

Yybytttvttb

[@user-fv6rz1ou4o]

Glory, Honor...the sales pitch works every time

[@samuelbraziel6267]

War is just old men getting young men to die for them

[@Eden894HisBiome]

🙏

[@jenniferthomas3875]

The photographers in the Civil war changed many peoples opinion of war. The film they had was much slower than modern film. You had to remain completely still for awhile to get your picture taken. They could not take pictures of soldiers doing anything. It was easy to photograph all the dead soldiers. So they would photograph the thousands of dead soldiers laying on the battle fields. These pictures appeared in newspapers to show America what war was really like.

[@howler6490]

This was a decade before the civil war...photography had made big forward steps by the time of lee and grant. This was extreme news reporting,photos used then would not be used nowadays, the weakened modern psyché should not be exposed to such barbarity.

[@brianeleighton]

@@howler6490 Wrong. In order to take a photograph during the Civil War, a person had to remain perfectly still for about 20 seconds. Matthew Brady was arguably the most famous war photographer of that war. They didn't have the technology at the time to print photos in a newspaper, any pictures in papers would be a engraved rendering. However, Matthew Brady had a public exposition of the photos he took. A review said that if Brady had not taken the dead and dropped them on people's doorstep, he did the next closest thing with his photos. War correspondents are literally showing us dead bodies as we speak, or have you paid zero attention to the reporting from Ukraine?

[@tommeakin1732]

"The Civil war"? Is there some kind of global civil war that I'm unaware of, or has there only been one civil war in one country in the world?

[@stinkbug4321]

@@tommeakin1732 Oh Just be quiet, they are Americans talking to other Americans. So they know what each other meant. The vast majority of people on KZbin are American. Quit being so nitpicky. In fact, I'm looking at an add for a video put up by KZbin Titled Antietam: The Bloodiest Day of the Civil War not Antietam: The Bloodiest Day of the American Civil War.

[@Magooch86]

Luckily, they never fought another war after that.

[@prairiestategenetixseeds9726]

"Death loves a crowd" they were very poetic back then...

[@peredavi]

Another excellent production. The Crimean War is fascinating. How strange that people of the age thought war was a magnificent and noble enterprise. A soldier though differently when seriously injured or sick with dysentery ect.

[@foxmulder7616]

It's all fun and games until you get dysentery lol

[@michaelmcginn7260]

Not strange really, a different time and ideology. People believed the narrative.

[@johnn.2017]

@@michaelmcginn7260 lucky that's all in the olden days when people fell for obvious propaganda! Not like today, right? We're all so much smarter now...

[@tickles5289]

You mean 'etc.'

[@felice9907]

@@michaelmcginn7260 just like today, isn´t it ...?

[@idleonlooker1078]

The other day I bought a book: "The first VCs by John Grehan. All about this campaign, and that which invoked the creation of the Victoria Cross. The book is filled with very vivid and incredible descriptions/recollections of the battles and actions meriting VC awards. War in those days was up close and personal: true, bloody, carnage where thousands fought each other toe to toe in the open - unlike, small formation actions, or, pressing a button today.

[@Blanca12369]

Iraq and Afghanistan vets, wounded in war, might disagree.

[@aethelwolfe3539]

IEDS aren’t exactly in the open, and you do push a button for those.

[@222rich]

it's all still death

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

All vc's are made from a Russian bronze cannon, captured in the crimea war.

[@Patriot1789]

War today is even more inglorious than it was then. Today innocent men, women and children are killed by armies but mostly by bombs and rockets of their homes, schools, libraries, energy centers, shopping malls, bus stops . . . a truly glorious exercise in killing for the purpose of changing minds and conquest.

[@stephenfinn3937]

My great great grandfather Patrick Finn from Thurles Tipperary fought and was wounded in the head at the battle of Alma…33rd regiment of foot…

[@tuforu4]

Did he go back to TIPPERARY and the RAGG....

[@stephenfinn3937]

@@tuforu4 he joined during the famine 1846 while his father and mother left with rest of their children to England never to return….Patrick joined them after medical discharge he married a Sligo woman in England their son James married a Co Derry girl, they moved to Scotland and we’re been here every sin 1890 since…I had to goggle the ragg hope to pop in one day cheers

[@tuforu4]

@@stephenfinn3937 jimmy finn was a legendry tipperary hurler and use to live ina little village called the RAGG near THURLES co TIPPERARY. My aunt use tell me about our family went on famine ship to USA and 2 kids died. My father was born in 1905 was not dwelling on the past too much guess he wanted to see us all move forward. I worked in SYRIA iraq in the 1980s i seen bit of the HORROR of WARS take care..

[@troidva]

Mexican-American War was the first photographed war. In1847, an unknown American photographer produced a series of fifty daguerreotypes depicting scenes from the Mexican-American war in Saltillo, Mexico. The most famous being American General John E. Wool and his staff riding along the Calle Real in the town, possibly just before the February 1847 Battle of Buena Vista.

[@riskyron1416]

Correct Patrick. I was going to reply with the same. You beat me to it by 3 days. Looks like you know your history. I just returned from a 4 month stay in Mexico and taking in all the historic and archaeological sites. Teotihuacan is frequently called the Aztec Pyramids but pre-dates the Aztecs by about 800 years. First built took about a century. Then a new architect and astronomer shows up and informs them they are 19 degrees off true north. So they spent another century tearing it all down and yet another century rebuilding. I sure would not want to be the original architect. Or at least long dead before anyone discovered my mistake.. Thumbs up for you of course. Ever in Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador or Peru look me up.

[@Songblade001]

And now I know what a Daguerreotype is - thank you both

[@paulloane4982]

@@riskyron1416 And you both beat me by a couple more days. Around 1980 a box of about 100 dags exposed during the Mexican-American War were uncovered in a house in Pennsylvania. Most were cased and had descriptive notes or catalogue numbers pasted to the backs. Some were in great condition, others not so much. A handful had been out and known for many years. I knew the dealer who brokered their sale to a museum in Dallas, Texas. The staff is still working on discovering the identity of the photographer, who beat these others by a decade in becoming the first "war photographer."

[@davus4242]

Where can you find these said 50 photos of the 1847 Mexican war???? They don't seem to be in the Google picture catalog. LOL Not just pictures of people who were in the war, but of the war-front itself.

[@paulloane4982]

@@davus4242 I believe the images are in the collection of the Dallas Art Museum

[@jerryumfress9030]

I'm an american born and raised but my ancestors are from England. I've always loved American history and the history of Great Britain. Having said that, the Crimean war is one conflict I didn't know too much about. I had read bits and pieces from time to time about the conflict but this video has enlightened me. Thank you for posting this important piece of history😎

[@tobiasgriffin4263]

Everyone in a American our from a different part of the world that why I never understand your problem with Mexican and other people who try and go to the usa

[@rosesprog1722]

I am Canadian, one of my long dead uncles went to Korea I think, I love watching history documentaries and I hate wars but this war is also one I knew nothing about until recently probably because Canada didn't fight in it, I don't know. So, we can come from very different worlds, some of the things we don'tb know are exactly the same!!!

[@johno9507]

@@tobiasgriffin4263 Americans don't have a problem with legal immigration. I don't know of any country where you can just walk in without a passport and make yourself at home.

[@jerryumfress9030]

@@tobiasgriffin4263 I have close friends from all over the world. Nigeria, Kenya, Central America, Mexico, Ecuador, Cambodia, ect. That's just to a few. They all immigrated to this country legally. It took most of them up to 10 years to get through the process. All but one came here with less than $500. We're not talking about people with money. Some were penniless, but they were determined to make a life for themselves and their families.

[@jm329]

@@tobiasgriffin4263 People don’t. You have been manipulated.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Thanks Timeline! The roar of the Crimean War echoes today. Some historians call it "World War 0."

[@user-to7mi5fw3vpavel]

Thank you for uploading such great video!My grandgrandgrandfather from Siberian Cossacks was drafted to serve as a sailor en Sevastopol .Once again my big thanks for this video

[@antarcticmoongiant2691]

Imagine the ptsd these guys would come home with. Horrible how man treats one and other even today

[@bobapbob5812]

And no one on the home front, esp the politicians, would have any sympathy for these men

[@flouisbailey]

Cheer boys cheer then get your limbs thrown or blown over here.

[@michellemarieperez6574]

How sad.

[@2394Joseph]

@Duke of Paducah Jeremiah 17:9

[@albertplumer]

Iraq and Afghanistan experience d estimated fifty thousand rapes each in the last three decades. Is this to advance human genetics?

[@jayantkumar2314]

Meanwhile history channel Ancient aliens Pawn Shop

[@Justthatguy420]

Straight garbage these days

[@catsofsherman1316]

I like pawn stars, but history channel has really lost its way for sure.

[@jerryjohnson8485]

This is history channel now! There is not another

[@jasonbourne9819]

Disney owns 50% of the history channel. Hence the disney like production. Full of fables.

[@ljchase7155]

"Where the truth, is history!"

[@Martincic2010]

Amazing how history repeats itself

[@brushbros]

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I have an MA it the subject, thus the house painting gig.

[@Danny_Boel]

indeed, we are now in the middle of the second Crimean war

[@alanrogs3990]

@@Danny_Boel And what do you think of it?

[@e.s.6275]

@@Danny_Boel the twelfth one I'd rather say .

[@billsmith380]

History never repeats itself, only man repeats his failures to learn.

[@962momo]

this is outstanding! Small details are very nicely done. thanks

[@nonyabiz9487]

Hey cool Mr Snow good to see you again! I enjoyed the heck out of your work with your father doing Britain and 20th Century Battlefields!

[@RUCKERMAN]

This is an abridged version that was a 3-part series when I first saw it uploaded to You Tube in about 2012 or thereabouts. Still a good historical documentary.

[@aurathedraak7909]

Like the best thing I ever saw on a youtube video. Thanks photography. We can witness all the wars back then. Too bad motion video wasn't there.

[@ThatDrummerFrank]

incredible story telling accompanied by fantastic illustrations but i just wish there were more dates for major events included.

[@ogmack8242]

Genius channel. I ❤️ history. For me personal it is like Netflix

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

PSA this is a first episode; stops just at the Charge of the Light Brigade. 2nd EP is "The Crimean War-Episode 2 - the Valley of Death." And then "The Crimean War Episode 3 War and Peace" Thought I'd save some bother, as it's not on Timeline, and was a bit tricky to find. Does anybody else actually feel real anger at the senseless loss of life from the British stuff ups?* A Chief Strategist who at 71 had never been in a battle field? War as tourism? Hey, bring the wife, she'll love it. Tbh, though, Fanny's hubby sending the note to tell her to get a move on or she'd miss it, was a refreshing example of a Victorian era man respecting his wife's courage and abilities *Yes I do realise the Russians lost men senselessly as well, possibly because they simply had more men to be literal cannon fodder. But as an Aussie, I really feel this war was a dress rehearsal for the Great War, as far as British Command incompetence at least. It is more accurate to say it was a Death Rehearsal, and I keep wanting to howl,"*Why* didn't you learn from your mistakes?" This is the first time I've learnt about the Crimean War from a military angle, although I did know quite a bit about Miss Nightingale's achievements. I'm embarassed to say I didn't even know Britain and France were allied with the Turks in a Jihad. However, from what I've learnt here it wasn't so much fighting a Muslim war, holy or not, as it was about preventing Russia gaining valuable territory. The frequent mentions of "stalemate", the No Man's Land ceasefires for Death Patrols, (all in episode Two), the critiques of the British Command, poorly equipped soldiers losing more limbs to frost bite than to cannon balls,....*why* was it all repeated within living memory of the Crimea? Sorry for the essay. I am just so enraged I had to vent.

[@dustin628]

Yeah, I honestly can't believe how such an awful inexperienced man got to lead the entire campaign. It's just so horrible on so many levels.

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

Dustin At least Lord Raglan eventually felt shamed. He himself said if he returned to London he’d be horse-whipped or stoned

[@airmark02]

Britannia rules the Wars...lol

[@LTPottenger]

They used war as a form of population control. Look at the scots at the beginning. They did not want to be there at all and in fact the english had promised not to use the scots in foreign wars but they lied. They also stole all their land and turned it into estates for the queen and other worthless royals. There are still crumbling scottish villages all over their estates they never bothered to even knock down they were so uncaring in their theft.

[@jrossofskb]

Thank you. I was wondering why it ended the way it did.

[@mrmagoo8956]

I love how this is edited with the paintings and showing the present day representation

[@fortunatusnine2012]

Very enjoyable and informative !! Professionally well done !!

[@johnpanos2332]

" war is a racket. always has been always will be. " gen. smedley butler

[@fresatx]

Nice! Smedley was spot on... Always will be.

[@joeg5414]

It's really weird when you think about it. "lets destroy everything and kill each other, but you better follow the rules or you can't play." So strange. And I'm a veteran lol. It's so weird that we would just start wholesale killing each other (many times for reasons those doing the killing don't understand) and then justify doing it. Particularly disturbing is using religion to justify your killing.

[@Itsjustelectrons]

If Butler had been around for Pearl Harbor, he would have changed his tune

[@fresatx]

@@Itsjustelectrons Well just because its a "Righteous" war (and keep in mind Japan just wanted an empire like frekin HOLLAND had, but thats the yellow man gettin uppity) that doesnt make war any less of a racket. Lot of people made their fortunes in WW2

[@TheGoldtopdude]

Semper Fi

[@HandleMyBallsYouTube]

I live in a city that was at least partially burned down by the British during the Crimean war, although it wasn't much of a city back then, more of a small town, blew up a lot of the forts round here too, shame, they'd have been nicer spots had they remained intact.

[@crustybastard1068]

Sadly it did not receive the Iraq treatment

[@geoffbell166]

Colonists do that...

[@HandleMyBallsYouTube]

People really do get mad at you for mentioning historical facts huh?

[@SStupendous]

@@geoffbell166 British weren't colonizing anywhere involved in the Crimean War.

[@cruisepaige]

But what’s in your sink?

[@ForeverBleedinGreen]

The best doc on this long-forgotten war I've ever watched. It actually made chills go up and down my entire body - probably because I've the blood of the entirety of the British Isles coursing through me veins, matey...

[@barrydysert2974]

"...the blood of the entirety of the British isles..." your eloquent phrasing reflects my own ancestry and sentiments. Well met, Dude!:-)

[@alykkt]

helping Turks lol.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

The Brits invaded CHINA and LOOTED CHINA at this time, too. While screaming to Russia that they better not do the same to Istanbul. This was pathetic, this entire 'history' video is pathetic. Also, as the US Marine Corps song about 'from the hills of Montezuma to the SHORES OF TRIPOLI'...we were fighting Muslim pirates in the Mediterranean Sea and the Brits didn't like us doing this and gave us endless troubles while US ships were raided and sailors and women kidnapped by pirates or impressed by Brits...We Americans who have been Americans for several hundred years remember all this, my family fled England during the religious wars of the 17th century...

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

@@emsnewssupkis6453 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz What a trumpet, an American Englander, FFS!!! What a fckn breed indeed.

[@crustybastard1068]

@@WalintHUN all roads lead to the chosen people . That's why Christians betrayed Christians . They were owned by the banks by that time

[@jackee-is-silent2938]

There's a slight inaccuracy in the final moments. The order for the attack was not just to the Light Brigade, it was to the whole Cavalry Division, both the Light and Heavy Brigades. Partly due to the poor directions transmitted in the order, misidentifying the actual guns to attack, the charge wasn't directed to the captured Turkish guns on the ridge but towards Russian guns farther up the valley. Part way, the Heavy Brigade was halted and the Light Brigade continued alone. If the whole Cavalry Division had continued, despite the misdirection, the attack would have likely been relatively successful and even overall casualties lower.

[@michaelpielorz9283]

it is a fine example of military blunder with no excuse and turning the attack into a example of bravery i simply dishonouring the soldiers taken part in favour of rule britannia by some cowards. remember the homicidal earl!

[@leodesalis5915]

If the whole division had advanced then it wouldve been even more carnage and death, that valley was a killzone and more horses and men charging through it, wouldn't have changed much but made my ancestor lt col Rudolphe de Salis and his valiant horse drummer boy have to make even more trips to pick up wounded men and he might have not returned from one of them, I'm glad it was just the light brigade

[@jaymac7203]

What a fantastic video. 👏👏👏 Absolutely fascinating 🤔 This channel is amazing!

[@Bigbacon]

Stonehenge was a huge let down when I visited a few year ago. Couldn't get anywhere near the thing. I recommend people just skip it now.

[@nampam3945]

Agreed, you can see if from 200meters away on a cold windy viewing platform and in the visitor center the usual distortions of history to match the current narrative. Aussies built a new one kzbin.info/www/bejne/qX3WcmCgppmYd6M

[@jenrutherford6690]

I'm not sure the war was about tourism

[@nampam3945]

@@jenrutherford6690 Crimean war was Uk trying to constrain Russian ambition. However, the Russians wanted to free persecuted Christians in Balkan countries, eventually liberate Bulgaria, Romania and Greece from the Ottomans. UK should have let the Russians clear out the Turks, who used to rule the entire Black sea. Beats me why we are taking about stone henge, but there you go.

[@harbourdogNL]

​@@nampam3945 Russian ambition: "I think I'll open that other bottle of vodka."

[@icemule]

@@nampam3945 It's KZbin, half the morons here don't even know what their watching or why they clicked on it.

[@__itsRobin]

The guy at the beginning of almost every Timeline video is the reason I subscribed to this channel. Now I know a lot about history around the world. I would like to thank him but I don’t know his name.

[@garybates5505]

You mean Dan Snow?

[@Jeez208]

Dan snow

[@conzmoleman]

@@garybates5505 woooosh

[@kekistanihelpdesk8508]

Jeffrey Epstein.

[@austincriswell8480]

LOL I fast forward thru his intros

[@Baskerville22]

Lord Raglan didn't refer to the French as "the enemy": he referred to the enemy in the Crimea, the Russians, as "the French". He had been on Wellington's staff during the Peninsula War against Napoleonic France, but by the time of the Crimean War 40+ years later, he was rather 'gaga'.

[@datsunlambchops4624]

Your revisionism. Haha. So detached.

[@williem1710]

Western Russians were very ‘Frenchified’. Many educated Western Russians spoke fluent French. St Petersburg was more of a French city than a Russian.

[@Baskerville22]

@@williem1710 The Russian Army, then and later, was overwhelmingly composed of uneducated peasants and unemployed city poor. They didn't speak French, fluent or otherwise. And I doubt Raglan referred to them as "the French" simply because a very small percentage of Russians - the rich and the nobility - spoke that language.

[@smal750]

​@@williem1710 proof?

[@williem1710]

@@smal750 Read some history. It’s an established fact.

[@800_k_7]

It's amazing how war was fought back in medieval times, hand to hand combat and closed encounter. However, humanity hasn't learned yet to get along. Technology and science has given men the power to destroy the planet. God have mercy 🙏

[@jwilcox4726]

@20:40 a young pic of "Leo Tolstoy" nice picture.

[@Nikki-kg6ne]

This is what history channel use to be like...

[@ChildovGhad]

Been a looooong time, but yeah.

[@davesinclair1836]

Fantastic video!

[@bpcgos]

Yes, have been waiting for this... Its the remastered/clean up version of the UKTV history I presumed

[@mikewatkinson1996]

Not the whole series though unfortunately. Im sure theyll add the other 2 parts later.

[@kiwibird8441]

Well you know... here at timeline where they make documentaries...

[@eltonjohnson1724]

These series are great because they are very educational. I always thought that trench warfare started in the American Civil War but apparently it started in the Crimean War.

[@mattkoch692]

Thought that, also.

[@Paulie17]

What a great documentary thank you so much

[@Ko5taKo66e]

A great documentary. Its was interesting to learn what the great russian naval victory at Sinop entailed, admiral Nachimov being one of the heroic figureheads of Russian navy. All this period was mainly skipped over during our history lessons at school, straight to the eve of First World War.

[@broken1394]

What a truly mesmerising and horrifying doc - you just can not get nearer than to being there than hearing first hand accounts of those whom were there. Unless you were there. Thanks for the share and may these people ... Rip. ⚘️⚘️⚘️

[@forrestmosby7118]

93rd Highlanders-The Thin Red Line-as well as the Charge of the Heavy Brigade and the Battle of the Alma are mostly overshadowed by the Charge Of The Light Brigade

[@wardjones2261]

"First" war photographs? What about the daguerreotypes from the Mexican-American War 1846-1848? And also remember that some weaponry used 1,000 years plus prior to The Crimean War were worse than anyone even today could have ever imagined. EGAD!

[@michaelwinkler9881]

Interesting, I've Never Really got into all of this. Cool Love ❤ the channel Keep it Up!!............

[@TheTraveller20081]

This is billed as part of a series on the Crimean War. Can you make a playlist of them on the channel so we can actually find them, please? They're lost in a list of over 300 programmes.

[@Ryuko-T72]

Im ngl I always just thought this channel was 1 dude pirating documentaries. Was waiting for the day that something happened, and Im honestly proud you've been able to do this for years.

[@moorbilt]

The "The Netflix Of History" slogan is annoying

[@MajesticSkywhale]

oh my god there was a chance for the russians to retake constantinople and the british stopped them? come on guys

[@farhanatoerien3437]

🤣🤣

[@harbourdogNL]

Rule Britannia.

[@theoutlook55]

RE-take?

[@MajesticSkywhale]

@@theoutlook55 for christianity i mean. Moscow became the third Rome when constantinople fell after all

[@theoutlook55]

@@MajesticSkywhale ah. Um, alright then.

[@iga279]

Like the honesty of the narrative. In this day and age of PC it sounds quite refreshing.

[@mikepage8180]

Very well done. Factual. Thanks to recent events I now longer feel that we are any wiser. superior to

[@waltermichaelscharf9526]

my great-great-great grandfather fought in that war as part of the Royal Irish Regiment on Foot...

[@laurabogdan8821]

Yes,the first photographed war was the Mexican-American one.but since it was made with a daguerreotype and the artist was unknown, most historians recognize Szathmari as being the first known war photographer(also he used calotype).

[@KingofAmerica97]

Thank god I'm not the only who knew this when watching this video.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

This still doesn't excuse the exaggeration that the 'first' were first. This is infuriating. One of my frontier ancestors was a painter who came West in 1848 to the California Gold Rush and made money making pictures of that event. He then went into photography.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

So the Mexican-American War was the first photographed war

[@nopasaranexetercityfc4666]

@@DonBean-ej4ou We had Wrexham away that day Don.

[@nopasaranexetercityfc4666]

@@DonBean-ej4ou Boring no-score draw.

[@TheGwydion777]

Very interesting bit of footage. But my silly question is: was that Dominic West narrating part of that? I know he did other narrative work, but can't find this on Imdb.

[@ignrey]

Great video !

[@d.cypher2920]

The first war to be photographed... A documentary with very few photographs of said war. Nonetheless, i learned something.

[@ikr9358]

*sees Sebastapol practically undefended* British Commander: "Sorry boys, the book says we have to attack the walls with cannons. Time to go around."

[@salbarnaby6556]

The Brits still didn't learn. Remember Montgomery and operation Market Garden or Churchill and Gallipoli.

[@T0mat0S0up]

@@salbarnaby6556 Even the Russians stated the British were "Lions led by donkeys". The arrogance of Aristocracy.

[@averyhandsomechilean3218]

@@T0mat0S0up I thought the germans said that about the french

[@Sh4d891]

Its Sevastopol not seba,...... Sebastian? Lol

[@mamapetillo8675]

It’s just struck me, how sad these photos are. Interesting, fascinating, giving humanity to every soldier. Yet, there are photos of the exact same fields of war, that are completely at peace, with no need to remember a crashing, booming, blood drenched time so long ago. We’re just passing through, don’t mind us.

[@joaopinto7291]

Is there an episode 2? Me is really aching for episode 2. PLEASE! Can some link me out of my misery?

[@tangobayus]

Last night I watched the 1968 movie about the Charge of the Light Brigade. It's interesting that Europe has been warring with Russia for a long time.

[@jayturner3397]

Famous charge Famous military blunder, its a wonder we ever won anything, ..given our leadership 😆 🇬🇧 England 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@model-man7802]

Anyone want a good book?Trevor Royales "The Great Crimean War".I read it then went to the Crimea about 12hrs from our family's house in Ukraine.Really cool Battlefield and a fantastic book.

[@kushanshah8040]

What about the book by Orlando Figgs?

[@model-man7802]

@@kushanshah8040 yes,I have that one too Great Book also. Unlike many Battlefields the valley of death still looks the same as in the sketches and paintings. It full of grape Vinyards though.

[@notarobot2243]

Love the loud music over the talking spot on👌

[@jonathanbirch2022]

Funny how history repeats itself

[@tbwpiper189]

"It's like Netflix for History..." That's little recommendation if you've watched Netflix lately.

[@DaniD540]

I honestly have no idea how Netflix became as big as it is now. When it first started it was endless buffering and terrible resolution. Now it’s those terrible original tv series and movies they try and push down our throats

[@stanbattle7436]

I had Netflix for about a month, decided it should have been renamed "CHICKFLIX" and stopped subscribing!!!

[@Humanophage]

@@DaniD540 Some people are not proficient enough with the internet to use free streaming or torrents. Same thing as using Facebook and Instagram instead of the real internet.

[@DaniD540]

@@Humanophage it’s so easy to stream for free but people are so afraid/lazy to actually try it

[@keithparker6520]

My great great grandfather was there at all four major battles. Even met Florence Nightingale after being hospitalised for frost bite.

[@sanjayvictorsharma8272]

I was there at all four major battles. Even met Florence Nightingale after being hospitalised for frost bite.

[@DocTruman]

Nice video!

[@gordondunlop7600]

John McCosh photographed the 2nd Anglo-Sikh War 1848-1849 and the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War of 1852

[@e.s.6275]

But this was the first really big war and the first war in Europe to be photographed.

[@justdoingitjim7095]

Tens of thousands of young men die so old, senile officers can take credit for their soldier's victories and get their names in the history books.

[@sac1776thePatriot]

Such is war... But those Officers, not so senile, fought theirs too, and survived. It is called experience. War is a natural occurrence, sometimes unnecessary... sometimes needed to stave off oppressive government and invaders. It makes those that fight them appreciate life... those who never experience it, only talk about their opinions of it.

[@scoots8519]

What you just said is true of every war that has been fought for the last 1000 years.

[@clawhammer704]

A lot of officers come from rich families. They get to send the soldiers to the deaths, but the officers get the medals and the honor.

[@teneremuseu]

@@clawhammer704 the snowflakes cries on internet, the strongmen goes to fight

[@ZecaPinto1]

@@teneremuseu Hurra!

[@SWSimpson]

I wish I could have walked right up to the stones at Stonehenge when I was there. But the public is kept back several feet and you can't get close to them. It's a beautiful place. The road from the East, heading West splits right at Stonehenge and you can see it up on a hill as you approach.

[@mandaroseblade1000]

How fortunate to be a able to camp at Stonehenge in the early 70's....no wire.... and l confess that l lay on a stone, an eighteen year old " sacrifice" while my companions danced and made merry.

[@-xirx-]

One day of the year, you can go to the stones. A pagan holiday.

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

On midsummer's day I had to go to Heathrow from Devon, west to east. On the a30 at around 4.30am I crested the hill and drove with stonehenge in the distance. With not a cloud to be seen, and a deep blue sky, the sun rising Sat just above the main stone, Allmost as if placed there. Yellow fields either side, And burial mounds of to the right What a sight and effect it must have been over 5000 years ago, As masses converged on the site.

[@chrisbrent7487]

We have an area in Melbourne Australia called Caulfield and its main roads are Inkerman Road, Alma Road and Balaclava Street but also, Redan Street, Crimea Street, Sebastopol Street, Odessa Street, Malakoff Street. All named after battles or forts in the Crimea. People here really freaked out and thought if the Russian won they would come here. Forts and artillery batteries were built along the bay and out on islands and at it's head. Of course they would never have come but still folks here really freaked out. Many streets were also named after personalities in the war like Cardigan and Raglan. It was the modern technologies like telegraph and photography that allowed people in British colonies so far away as here to freak out so much. The first modern media war I guess.

[@peterhill8398]

And don’t forget the suburb of Sebastopol in nearby Ballarat or just ‘Zabas’ as locals say.

[@mikha007]

and the same in the suburb of Onehunga in Auckland NZ

[@FM-vo8pb]

Most of Australia's cities, roads and suburbs are named after British soldiers,cities, and wars.

[@-xirx-]

Same in Cambridge, U.K. there is an area with all the pubs and a few roads named these names from the Crimean qar

[@John-ob7dh]

I believe I read somewhere that when the Japanese were thought to invade Australia that people sold and fled thaler houses in that area of OZ for practically nothing .I bet the ones who bought and stayed after buying were well happy.

[@johngideon6540]

5:55 what's the song in the back ground??? Does any one have an idea about it please....

[@OlleyAney]

It is a Cossack song. Judging by the accent it is performed by singers from Donetsk or Lugansk. This is the accent of Michael Gorbochev. Nikita Krustchev spoke this sort of Russian as well (the former CCCP leaders). Also, these songs were popularised in 1950-60s by a Nobel Prize winner, M.Sholokhov, the author of "Quitely the Don Flows". To my ear, it sounds too much "paysan" and rural... Something like that is at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKXLqpKFl9d9Y80 (By the way, the Cossack singers wear the same uniform, which was in the Russian Army during the Crimean War. Large red stripes on the Cossack trousers had been introduced shortly after the Napoleonic War by the winner, the Russian tzar Nikolus I.) Enjoy!

[@johngideon6540]

@@OlleyAney Thanks buddy.I thought it was some Russian Orthodox Song or some Mennonites song.Thanks a lot.

[@OlleyAney]

@@johngideon6540 Good point, John! The Cossacks are all Orthodox to the extent that all their folk songs bear strong similarity in the form and spirit to the Orthodox daily prayer hymns, which are still popular in the Ukrain, Don Region and Syberia.

[@thornwarbler]

The book, A Crimean war reader by the erudite author Kellow Chesney is a good read for the scholar of this conflict.

[@huarwe8797]

When you look at the glorious architecture in the photos and then see muddy rough streets with people using horse and cart something seems off.

[@blitz8702]

this is really nice documantary i never heard about this part of history in such a detail it is amazing that this rivalry continues even up to today crimea and ukraine . letters in alphabet that russia use are C is S, B is V , P is R , they have different letters for c and i its similar to latin alphabet with few differences . sebastopol is sevastopol instead of changing the whole meaning of towns better to learn to prounounce them properly.

[@michaelhalsall5684]

In those days people in Western Europe didn't understand the Cyrillic alphabet. Today we have the utterly mistranslated "Moscow" (Moskva) , which we can't even agree on pronunciation, (mosko , moskou) and of course "Macedonia" which should be "Makedonia"

[@eddieds312]

What happened to the second half

[@haroldgodwinson832]

What a magnificent bunch of fellows.

[@solorfi]

I had no idea. Terrible. Thank you for the history lesson

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

Really good doccumentary. I'm happy about a video on this topic.

[@IceglacierArnar]

This action kept Ottoman empire alive in another 70 years, and there would not be any Armenian genocide if Ottoman would have fallen earliear

[@jaimep3432]

No there would of been a turk gonocide.

[@derinden15]

There was no genocide. There are 11 million Armanians in the world and the population of Armania is 3 million. This 8 million Armanian diaspoara are mostly the descendants of the Armenians who were expelled from the Eastern Anatolia in 1915.

[@catsofsherman1316]

Didn't happen. Cenk Uygur said so.

[@manuelmantualopes5549]

@@derinden15 May Jesus Christ help you. You have issues. Seriously.

[@derinden15]

@@manuelmantualopes5549 Turkey offered Armenia to set up a commission made up of historians and specialist to look into this matter. Turkey isn't afraid of the turth but as expected Armenia rejected the offer.

[@Handle35667]

I wrote a paper on this for school. Some of my best copy and paste. Got an A+

[@allninelivez7631]

@Buttery Lannister so smart. You literally wasted your time. Lol

[@vojislavdragic5090]

@j g we should consider the effort that he took to copy and paste..that counts for something, right?:)

[@allninelivez7631]

@Buttery Lannister I hardly play games anymore. What are you on about? It's just an opinion that's factual. I taught myself more than what school has done. I ain't no millennial too.

[@MrFreddiii]

Cheating = trash

[@doones4649]

Do it properly and you might learn some thing

[@Nessevan]

Great documentary. Can anybody shed some light on what music i'm hearing from 5:58 onwards? Much appreciated!

[@2pintsofcremedementh]

I find it fascinating that, in the alternate timeline of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of novels, the Crimean war continued unabated for over 150 years into the modern times of that literary world. That this part of the world is once again the frontline between East and West makes his novels even more remarkable. Life imitating art, or did Fforde simply seize upon an obvious geopolitical hot potato?

[@janejohnstone5795]

It was all about,..pride, honor and glory...about being tough and manly.

[@redwingrob1036]

LOL. Try being manly in today's Western Woke societies 😅😂🤣. PRIDE never goes away; it just changes its appearance. AS for honour & integrity; keep looking!

[@michaelhurley3171]

Here in the US we know nothing about this war. We do know Florence Nightingale though. Very informative.

[@mitchellsmith4690]

Here in the US we know of this war, especially the more inefficient aspects of C3 and logistics.

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

In fact people in the U.S. have rarely an interest for what is not concerning them .

[@yesindeed2151]

@@vincentlefebvre9255 And you have rarely any idea is concerning to Americans.

[@MrEscen]

In the US most people can't even point the country on the world map.

[@biglebowskithedude777]

@@MrEscen what do you mean it can't be🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[@mihovilraboteg2888]

Will there be part 2?

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

Link to part two!?!

[@magan57]

Very good record of the times and tribulations and the amount of suffering experienced by soldiers, shame nothing has changed in the past 150 years.

[@mrvn000]

I disagree. It has changed for worse.

[@bernarddavis1050]

@@mrvn000 Not in every respect. Modern day soldiers hardly ever die of dysentery, but in the mid 19th Century it killed far more soldiers than guns ever did.

[@lucisferre6361]

Hopefully we can get over ourselves soon enough to save ourselves. Though we have far less wars these days, our capacity for obliterating ourselves has increased exponentially since crimea. Perhaps we can learn from the very costly mistakes of the past and not repeat them.

[@MECX3490]

War is part of what we are...embrace the suck! A great storm is gathering...be prepared or be a victim!

[@jaymesguy239]

But we can't and we don't and we do.

[@CowboyCarCrushing]

See even folks in the comment section go to war. There will always be war

[@cincoy3679]

We are in war right now.

[@cincoy3679]

@@CowboyCarCrushing No it’s the gov. We need good people not bad

[@philodonoghue3062]

I’m glad someone made this point. The American civil war was the proto industrial war including railways, rifled firearms, Gatling guns - and photographic images which portrayed the human cost not glory of mass citizen armies

[@dwgwnr1969]

Great video

[@guitargentmick-tv8424]

And the poor child who played the cymbals has lost a leg……..incredible

[@kimmoulton8868]

I know, right? What on earth is a child doing at the front lines of a war playing cymbals??! Generals, war mongers - showing you no regard for people or children for that matter.

[@GertjanZwiggelaar-mo4tz]

A very well done, brilliant documentary of yet more, bloody history. That is what history is, just one bloody thing after another thanks to politicians and the puppet masters.

[@radman1136]

Well ... you almost got there. Human beings as a species suck. Thankfully our run is about over.

[@finddeniro]

Read about Florence Nightingale...Her 1st duty was scrub the bloody floors..and Late Nights.

[@ruslanakhalaia1193]

What music is running in the background from 19:06 to 20:30?

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

This woman's voice is incredible.

[@TAZAR_II]

"To the north, waited Russia like a vulture..." C'mon.

[@vienogola1421]

@Finnian MacCool Black lives. matter.

[@holyworrier]

Yes. Vultures don't 'eye their prey', as they do not prey.

[@holyworrier]

@Finnian MacCool - GFY

[@antifazisbonifaz6964]

@Finnian MacCool Not in this case against the Otoman empire. But yes in the case of the Usa and México or France or England in Africa or Asia. The Otoman empire was a rapacious empire. A vulture in itself. Not the case of French, English and Americans in his imperialistic adventures

[@antifazisbonifaz6964]

@Finnian MacCool I hate all who thinks that have some kind of "blue blood" and thinks that thats renders superiority to him. Is such an idiotic thing!!! But i love Europe and European culture. It's only that i don't believe in "master races" and such heinous idiologies. Have a nice day guy

[@jackoshea7668]

Listen to the hugely haunting and evocative ‘Mrs McGrath’ on Springsteen’s ‘live in Dublin’ album for a tragic tale of our troops bravery and fortitude ☘️🎼⚔️

[@maxwalker1159]

Fascinating

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Do a "where are they now" for the veteran survivors.

[@trajanfidelis1532]

They're dead

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

@@trajanfidelis1532 I was wondering if someone would mention that. My Dad Jokes just pour out of me at will. Can you believe it?

[@mar10ssj1]

@@trajanfidelis1532 That's the joke.

[@catsofsherman1316]

They would be 175+ years old now

[@robertbruce7497]

James McMahon, born 1835, died June 8th, 1921 at Chatham, Ontario, Canada (Crimean War) - said to be the last survivor, other sources say Edwin Hughes (born Dec 12th, 1830, died May 27th, 1927 age 96 at Blackpool, England), (charge of the light brigade) ("where" are they now and what uniform did they "wear"(?)). Looks like about 86(?) and 96 yrs, pretty good longevity after all that life of soldiering and who knows what else.

[@ShanghaiRooster]

I remember reading many years ago that the first war to be photographed was actually the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852-53. It's a pretty obscure affair even by small colonial campaign standards though, which is why this particular 'first' gets ignored in favour of something everybody knows.

[@corygriffiths4394]

The Mexican American War was the very first war to be photographed not just in American history but world history the Mexican American War was from 1846 to 1848 there’s at least 50 photographs of that war.

[@ShanghaiRooster]

@@corygriffiths4394 Interesting. Thanks.

[@unbanned6175]

​@@corygriffiths4394 seems like it was only battles photographed, not the whole war like this one

[@unbanned6175]

I do think they mean the worst proper, large-scale war with large scale photography. I'm sure somewhere there's an exposure of a battle back whenever but it wouldn't be the first

[@damiandunbar6702]

Thank you.

[@paulmont9094]

Iron Maiden's - The Trooper is thus inspired in this war. Cannons to the right of them, cannons to the left of them..

[@rachaeldangelo1337]

The cover is my favorite iron maiden album cover with Eddie in a British Army uniform running through no man's land clutching the union jack " these colors don't run"

[@jmazoso]

Up Irons

[@charlenegarrigan1393]

Charge of the light brigade the finest light cavalry in the world back then and arguably of all time, were decimated thx to comms breaking down but being the disciplined troopers they were they followed the insane tactical nightmare of an order to attack straight into the Russian guns (artillery) with no flanking maneuver nor base of fire supporting them!!

[@ringo1692]

You take my life but I'll take yours too! You fire your musket but I'll run you through! And while you're waiting for the next attack, you better stand there's no turning back...

[@sagebiddi]

True story?! ...that's what I mean by learning something new by way of history meeting with the current times. I would have probably not heard or been made privy of this had it not been for you sir and by way of proxy the historical documentary society on KZbin as this is where I mostly hang out on here ...thank you good citizen for that tidbit !

[@Rachels123]

So proud to fight and die. The love and fear of misery. Men marching off to war to die for reasons that wouldn’t affect a poor man. The poor are miserable no matter who over lords him.

[@burtonhollabaugh3767]

What a stupid war

[@raymar091]

Aren't all wars

[@icemule]

All wars are stupid, with WWl being the dumbest of all.

[@gallowladh]

why? For example, the Soviet-Afghan war was not stupid.

[@paulhomsy2751]

ALL wars are sad occurrences. There are times when men are obligated to go to war to defend their countries and their compatriots if they've been attacked. Although wars are sad and stupid, they become for one side or the other, inevitable and fighting is a matter of survival.

[@paulhomsy2751]

@@janielunday5012 No, people who wish to defend their country go to war. If you call them stupid, you're a coward.