The Franco-Prussian War using Google Earth

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The Franco-Prussian War from start to finish.
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[@mapsinanutshell]

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[@MH-jg6vk]

Russo-Turkish war 1877-78?

[@TheSlazzer]

Hey mapsinanutshell, great video! Can you share your sources for these movements? Or are they just approximations? :)

[@oajajaj]

​@@TheSlazzerHe traced the whole of Here mapping video on the Franco Prussian War

[@TheSlazzer]

@oajajaj haha OK. But where did he get the information about where? How many soldiers? Were moving at any given time of the video. These day by day videos make it seem like there's a "perfect" historical record when reality must be more blurry. Unless you read literally every divisions' or army corps' history. Which would be a task that would take a historian, perhaps a decade. So I'm just asking what approximations were made and what was used as a source, to get an idea how authentic it is. That doesn't take away from my appreciation for this video BTW :)

[@oajajaj]

@@TheSlazzer Yeah it's okay because here mappings video on the subject is the most accurate video on the war

[@TheGreatOne-gw7xh]

Prussians we’re on the offensive and still managed to suffer minimal losses. Wow.

[@saldjkalskdjasldkja]

A bit silly of the French to give it a go considering they, the British and the rest of the coalition learned against and beat their best tactician in years.

[@genkupoke7064]

​@@saldjkalskdjasldkjaFrance didn't expect German state to be part of the war. It's all due to Bismarck who managed to totally brained French état major

[@q3eq3eq65]

In these times going on offensive wasnt equal to suffering more losses

[@imreallynoob8311]

Normally in a pitch battle germans were the ones to suffer more loses from their tactics, but it enable them to outmenuvers the french force I assume the french casualties are because of the captured troops, and prussian superior artillery

[@IAmTheStig32]

Prussians were practically super soldiers. One of them could do the work of four soldiers from any other country.

[@eduardovictorfurlaneto805]

it is very interesting to see that in 1870 the armies hardly reached 1 million, but less than 50 years later, in the first world war, there were several million soldiers and millions died every year

[@scezich6126]

I mean the German leadership during the Franco Prussian war was much more bold compared to the causious aged generals of ww1

[@blackpaint9093]

​@@scezich6126Yeah you gotta keep in mind that in WWI germany was also facing UK in the western front and Russia in the east, the 2 wars are not comparable

[@bart3030]

​@@blackpaint9093yeah and adding to that, there is a huge difference in weaponry in those fifty years

[@commiethebeastie]

In WW1 industry was producing greatly more arms. The Russian industry that still was using steam power sources instead of electricity power sources has collapsed the first one.

[@commanderstorm8874]

@@scezich6126the Prussians were also first to the battlefield due to making the trains run on time and so the French were mostly disorganized

[@TheRealVovan]

"How many encirclements do you want?" Prussia: *yes.*

[@The13thRonin]

France: *Dies*

[@joasmares5836]

As a Belgian, it's weird seeing Germany picking the short way to France for once. Edit: why is everybody explaining my country's history to me i know about de damn Maginot Line guys it was a joke

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

Não existia linha Maginot ainda

[@bastykino5357]

lmao

[@phase0400]

The shortest route isn't always the easiest one, although tbf this was the easiest route in this war. By the time WW1 started, the French had learned their lesson. Massive defences were built along the Franc-German border, which would later become the Maginot line for WW2. Trying an invasion through there would result in massive casualties.

[@redzard2015]

Well maybe that tells us something, but either way Belgium should always be the obvious choice

[@TexasViking_INFP-t_5w4]

Northern French and the Dutch are just swamp Germans

[@dangerousnoodle8779]

The prussians were smart enough to snake France's victory points to force a capitulation with minimal losses. Must be very experienced hoi4 players

[@wilhelmu]

looking at the causality ratio they were not playing hoi there, they were playing dynasty warriors

[@Beowulf1222]

"Trucking into paris"

[@vierkantbonsai7450]

We invented it the old fashion way 😅

[@The_whales]

Finally, an offensive war that doesn’t involve going into Belgium

[@perfolkesson7333]

Such a shame for the invading armies missing out on the wonderful beer, waffles, and fries

[@dude861]

@@perfolkesson7333 Germany army certainly had no need for belgian beer, lol.

[@duckfero7362]

Damn, as a french myself, I didn't even know such a big part of France was occupied, I thought only Alsace and Mozelle was occupied at most

[@PhthaloType]

In WW1, Germany (prematurely) produced thousands of medals that showed the Arc de triomphe and Eiffel tower and said "1871-1914," since that was the previous time German troops were in Paris.

[@PrestoPresteinn]

У вас очень плохо преподают историю в школе.

[@Hazzelnot94]

@@ttthias About 60% of those 600 000 casualties were captured troops, actual deaths was around 150 000.

[@Mr_d42069]

@@PrestoPresteinn he is french, not american

[@PrestoPresteinn]

@@Mr_d42069 у них образование такое же плохое как в США. Образованные люди никому не нужны

[@precariousworlds3029]

After watching so many WW1 and 2 mapping videos it feels weird to see Germany invading France through the Maginot line

[@sleewa_]

cuz it didnt exist in that time

[@Arguingpit93]

This is the reason Maginot line was created

[@precariousworlds3029]

Ik but still

[@lingor_3217]

Same man.

[@beetlebg3759]

@@Arguingpit93It still failed

[@Averagemomrespecter]

Props to the google employees for keeping google earth up in the late 1800s.

[@19iason19]

Wait until you see their coverage of Alexander the Great‘s campaigns 🤪

[@MrDoesLiterallyEverything]

Finally someone did this! such a forgotten part of history.

[@mertm.995]

@fabianvoigtlander1042means I forgot it

[@legobullymaguire1375]

@fabianvoigtlander1042not talked about a lot (nvm its not actully forgoten )

[@linclokatz]

Pretty well known war ngl

[@CoolEdo]

Trust me if you think this war is forgotten, you'd be surprised.

[@Adamm17004]

Literally the birth of Germany, how is this at all forgotten?

[@rhyqatrophonlety]

I think you can make the flags that represent the troops translucent, otherwise it's hard to see the front lines.

[@austria-hungary7680]

Not too opaque however

[@ClaySmith-h1j]

It's not accurate anyway, it's more representational that a true record of where they were.

[@bordobjelizazivotcijeli]

This is really impressive! i look forward to watching every video that you make

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

Fun Fact: Germany became a country/German Empire on January 18th 1871. On that same day the United recognized it as a country, making the US the first country to recognize Germany

[@lennykump8396]

No. Germany was a country since the middle ages. In 1871 one federated German state was formed. Neither was it the first nor was it the last nor was it the only German state.

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

@@lennykump8396 I know that Germany has been around for over 1000 years. But you get my point.

[@KlassischLiberal]

@@andydufresnefromshawshank5866 This may have been a "thank you" from the USA. The first state to recognize the USA and the first to conclude a treaty with the USA was Prussia. This was under Frederick the Great. Frederick the Great was thus the first head of state to internationally recognize the USA.

[@anderskorsback4104]

Those big blue blobs of encircled French troops within German lines. Damn. That's like slow-motion blitzkrieg with infantry.

[@matheusexpedito4577]

The germans always had a need for speed

[@guyname8760]

well yeah, maneuver warfare has always been a part of German military history

[@quineloe]

Blitzkrieg was also fought with mostly infantry.

[@anderskorsback4104]

@@quineloe not really the blitz parts of blitzkrieg, even though the great majority of the Wehrmacht were footsloggers. The footsloggers were the general frontline, the motorized units the maneuver elements that did the operationally decisive actions.

[@stalhandske9649]

It's wild to think the war was practically decided in battle of Sedan 1-2 Sep. 1870, which takes place at 01:45-01:50 in this video. Yet timewise it was in the war's beginning phases. I found it strange, though, that the result said battle, liquidation of ~1/7 of the total French forces at the moment, is not reflected on the unit icons at all.

[@PropagandalfderWeiße]

Yeah, it was basically the french refusing to accept that they have lost after they started the war for a petty reason for half a year, costing them half a million lifes and afterwards being still salty about it, why the French were so keen on imposing such harsh conditions in the treaty of versailles. And that is why everyone hates the french

[@quineloe]

That part shows how inaccurate the video is. The casualty counter is including prisoners, Sedan by itself was 121k casualties including prisoners, yet by September 3rd, the counter only lists 80.000. All the battles, minus the sieges, according to wikipedia already pile up to 71k by September 1st, and then Sedan falls with 121k - the French should be at 200k casualties at this point, not 80k on September 3rd.

[@jacobtorti1486]

yep the animation must be bullshit. this isn't even how armies moved at this point in history, not at such a WW1-style operational scale. 100s of thousands were concentrated into armies in an area that you don't see super well on google maps. in the austro-prussian war for example the decisive battle was on the scale of a few towns, not 100s or even dozens of kilometers

[@B1lly_]

Napoleon III at Sedan on his horse with a hit mark: *plz kill me already* His horse: 🗿

[@strassenfrei3087]

POV:France without allies

[@mangomangay7747]

Seething

[@noahniskala]

​@@aume5763there talking about 19th century France, not Napoleon France. By this time they pretty much were way weaker against Germany and would've gave up in WW1 if the Germans were not at war with most of the world

[@ChrisCrossClash]

@@aume5763 You French didn't do sh it to Britain. it was Britain that checked France.

[@jonasweber9408]

No it’s france with an egocentric dictator who was captured… please know your history.

[@abdelrahmangamingpopo9289]

@@noahniskala france wasn't weak it was a big empire and germany was just got united the comparison was a new existing country vs a large empire and that new existing country won

[@Almagesto25]

I admire you for your sacrifice, I bet it was a big jorney of search and editing to make this video. You deserve this amazing video to become a reference for those who study the Franco-Prussian War, because your graphic quality is simply wonderful.

[@schatzkammerein]

sacrifice sounds like a dramatic word

[@noyes4968]

"Sacrifice" as if he was a veteran in that war.

[@schatzkammerein]

@@noyes4968 yeah it is cringe

[@heremapping4484]

I'm pretty sure he traced my video on the Franco-Prussian war, not that i'm against that. But it does seem to be what happened

[@Almagesto25]

@@schatzkammerein, I'm a mapper too, I'm currently editing a 2 minutes video since March which covers 500 years, and I still have a long time ahead editing 2 or 3 frames daily in order to keep my schedule. Damn yeah, that's a quite sacrificial, definitely not easy to do.

[@Samgar0359]

Great battle nice video good job bro love Germany from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿❤🇩🇪

[@larsgrotjohann]

I would be happy if ARTE would make a German-French documentary series about this conflict. Objectively and without nationalistic-patriotic inventions. I am glad that we are friends with the French and that the warsbetween our nations are a thing of the past.

[@charlesl3847]

Hope Germany burns in hell, and all of the Germans with it.

[@molybdaen11]

Sadly the warmongers are awake again. The eubhad to be stabilized with more cooperation, there has to be a standard refugee protocol and the leaders should send politicians and dilopmats instead of tanks and planes to stop a war.

[@siegfried7951]

@@molybdaen11Today, the only warmonger is Russia, not the EU, the USA, or Ukraine.

[@rohne83]

@@siegfried7951 the war in Ukraine was started by ukrainian Poroschenko regime in 2014 - trying to exterminate the huge Russion minority in Ukraine. Everything after that was just a futher escalation. And in March 2022, Ukraine and Russia were short before a freedom treaty - it was London and Washington who forced Ukraine to stop these negotiations and continue senseless fighting.

[@X3RUBIM]

ARTE has always been biased towards France, so that is not going to happen.

[@carteradams43]

seeing the German lines course through the French countryside like a snake was certainly something

[@Divran22]

The First Tour de France ^^

[@molybdaen11]

It's wild that the casualty's grow but the army's became even larger the longer the war lasted.

[@halberderdier8073]

They mobilised soldiers.

[@Regarded69]

In addition to new soldiers being mobilised the casualties don't grow in real time, I believe they simply count up at a constant rate from beginning to end. Where as in actuality many of especially the French casualties would have been soldiers that were surrounded and captured in massive numbers at a time in the latter stages of the war.

[@Youravrageguy]

That’s why you always remember to pack modern artillery

[@openlyracist8055]

Both armies reached over 1 million by the end, but French losses just were wild. The Germans cleave through the French like a hot knife in margarine.

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

Most of these losses were captured troops. Bad tactic and strategy lead to that...

[@openlyracist8055]

@@bunkerkorpf1440 so the French

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

@@openlyracist8055 in 1870 and 1940, yes, huge French fails. Although it was also true for USSR in 1941, with millions of captured troops in less than 5 months, still USSR won. Bad tactic and strategy don't always mean defeat if you have time to adapt and if you are able to replace losses (France in 1914, USSR in 1941). France couldn't win in 1870 once it lost it professionnal army, especially since "Germany" had far more people...

[@xoxoxoxo570]

​@@bunkerkorpf1440in 1870 both countries had around the same population around 40 million

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

@@xoxoxoxo570 Wrong, in 1870 France had around 37 millions people, and a far less younger population than Germany. So, far less soldiers indeed (soldiers are always mostly young guys), while "Germany" (ie german states forming later german empire) had around 41 millions people, and a far younger population (indeed second half of 19th century was a demographic boom for german states). You should learn more about history

[@JamesJohnson-l6y]

It's the war that unified the German 🇩🇪 Unification in 1870!!!

[@rrqfan1523]

France always looses in a 1 vs 1 against Germany 😂😅

[@matheusexpedito4577]

Except that time napoleon solo'ed europe

[@matheusexpedito4577]

@Iamnotracistlmao yeah, but the german states existed

[@adelaidesngan604]

Napoléon 😂

[@adelaidesngan604]

@Iamnotracistlmao Germany and prussians 💀💀

[@kleinbaba3607]

​@Iamnotracistlmaonapoleon have basically created the rhin confederation and make the heavy lifting for created later Germany Bassicaly napoleon beat holy Roman empire and prussian saxony and Bavarian etc So yes german existed from the rise of the roman empire called by another name etc But the german didn't have switch with prussian Saxon etc they just changed their name Time to learn maybe a little more

[@genericname4739]

I think the funny thing is that France had the latest and one of the best breach loaded rifles, the Mitrailleuse, excellent artillery, and some of the best soldiers in the world. And lost to a nation that used very obsolute guns. Then again while the Prussians had the inferior needle gun they had some scary Artillery pieces, the best soldiers in the world, and knew how to handle logistics. They also outplayed the French at war. At the end of the day you can have the very best in the world, but that means nothing if you dont use it effectively.

[@Jacob07111]

If I am not wrong the french were the ones who started the war and attacked first, why are the german states colored as red and France as blue?

[@stellargravitywell1828]

It's a reflex I guess

[@heremapping4484]

The French provoked the war hoping to march on Berlin

[@RKNGL]

France’s colour is traditionally associated with blue, while Germany’s is usually Black/Grey or Red.

[@nahouledeb5949]

France is always blue

[@lahire4943]

@@heremapping4484Bismarck provoked the war.

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

The Germans had a faster mobilization system which played a key role in this war.

[@Catos23]

It seems, Napoleon got nerfed in 3.0 update…

[@Sa1tCh1ps]

French: We have better guns and machine guns than you! Germans: Hehe, Krupp cannon go boom

[@dicetheplanet4207]

7:31 is When the German empire was founded

[@MrRexta]

100,000 subscribers, all deserved.

[@Charlie-backrooms]

Nice job love all your videos

[@chris6ix.]

Can you make a tutorial with DaVinci Resolve, please? I really like these videos and would love to make some myself, but Adobe Software is way too expensive.

[@Nylon_riot]

I watch these for the music selection more than anything.

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

It's on the description to let you know

[@Jordan77831]

This channel shows meps of wars that no one else covered yet. Thank you for preserving forgotten parts of history 👍

[@Stephen_the_Great_and_Holy]

No one? Not really

[@Egg_8]

Stolen comment + L ratio + grammar mistake “map” and also a lot of people made vids about this war.

[@goji3908]

@@Stephen_the_Great_and_Holy And forgotten? Not really

[@hansdampf640]

this was covered by many channel,with narration and background knowledge... this war was an answer,not a question

[@Egg_8]

@@hansdampf640 TRUE

[@nahojnosslrak8807]

germans sure know their war. im pretty sure they were the actual protagonists of this story

[@borisbrosowski6630]

Well it was France that declared the war....

[@DaoAncestor]

@@borisbrosowski6630 the reason why they started made this to a big humilation after they lost 😂

[@borisbrosowski6630]

Don't believe the BS that politicians tell you through state-financed schoolbooks and teachers (esp in history). Prussia had founded the North-German Confederation which threatened to be a predecessor to a united Germany, something that France could not accept as a united Germany would be superior (as proven in the war). Thus N3 looked for an incident to break up the NGFederation and maintain an influence over the smaller german states in the south. This general french policy led later to WW1 and even was continued up until 1923 when France tried to establish a Rhine Republic. @@DaoAncestor

[@ChrisCrossClash]

@@DaoAncestor I mean it's downright pathetic the reason this war even started in the first place, wasn't it because Germany and Bismarck insulted France and their honour or some B.S like that? pathetic.

[@alansewell7810]

I didn't know much about this war. The Germans really drove deep. No wonder they tried it twice more.

[@borisbrosowski6630]

and succeded.

[@bryce2179]

Insane how in the video the number of french casualties excelerates towards the end, if that is somewhat similar to how things really went, its no wonder France gave up.

[@TRWFacty]

It's absloutely cursed seeing Germany push through Elsaß Lorraine even though I know the maginot didn't exist back then

[@pyotrcapaldi451]

This War has 100% death rate Everyone dies in the end

[@Temblizz]

In Germany we don't hear much about this war, most of us don't even know it. It's just weird than Germany formed around 1850 and we went to war with France 3 times in 100 years lol I'm glad the times have changed and our countries work together. Just sad that we didn't do it in times where we actually were strong af.

[@StevieSantosia]

Nice work thanks ❤

[@maskofgordo]

"Prussia was not a country with an army but an army with a country"

[@acgmc6669]

Extraordinario trabajo, enhorabuena desde España

[@yusushin4155]

4:38 rare french counterattack moment

[@sx1ky438]

Wow bro! Amazing video. Can you do one about the pig war?

[@patrickp.1001]

What a humiliation for the French back then and and the last of the 3 German wars of unification that gave rise to the German Empire lead by Prussia. That war truly changed the course of European history

[@JacobFraps]

Had no idea so many people died in this war

[@cotefabrice1801]

french loses are like 60% captured. dead are similar to prussian

[@Leprofdesinnoh]

@@cotefabrice1801 No actually France lost three times as many men as Germany. About 150k for France and 50k for Germany.

[@cotefabrice1801]

@@Leprofdesinnoh you’re right

[@CA-jz9bm]

When some ignorant person will tell them how attackers always lose more men I will refer them to this video

[@thecouncilofthirteen2943]

No offense to you but if you make a casultie counter, dont just make it fit in a way its only accurate at the end of the war Either you actually try and make the counter realistic and accurate with corresponding battles, or you just leave it out

[@schnelma605]

Congrats on 100000!

[@warrior6673]

French Conquest . Swiss : 🙂 Franco - Prussian war Swiss : 🙂 1st world war Swiss 🙂 2nd world war Swiss : 🙂

[@RichardSchiffman-jn1ds]

I hope they make a movie about the Franco-Prussian war soon. I think it's high time they made one

[@aka99]

There is a video about the danish Prussian war. Maybe watch as long as there is no movie about Franco Prussian war

[@RichardSchiffman-jn1ds]

@@aka99 I know I've seen it. 1864. It was a Danish production but it had English subtitles. Very well made miniseries

[@Social_Communism]

Forget it there will be very less movies in which Germans win

[@politonno2499]

Here you can clearly see the tactics based on the mobility of the Prussian army

[@ninny65]

I never realised how smashed the French were in this war, I knew it was bad but nothing to this degree

[@lahire4943]

The video is caricatural. It was far from a cakewalk for the Germans. The month of August was the deadliest month of fighting in Prussian history. The battles of Gravelotte and Mars-la-Tour were respectively 2nd and 3rd deadliest battles in Prussian history. Though they suffered horrendous casualties in the process, the Germans won because they were able to outmaneuver the French Imperial armies thanks to their large numerical superiority (550k vs 300k, I don't understand how the video claims that there were 700k French soldiers in late August, they had absolutely nowhere near that number, and the Germans had nowhere near 760k troops either). In August 1870, the French suffered about 61,000 casualties (including 37,000 killed or wounded) and the Germans close to 70,000 casualties (including 65,000 killed or wounded). Once the Empire fell, the Republic sent armies of untrained conscripts to fight the German veterans, which explains the final disproportion of losses.

[@ChrisCrossClash]

@@lahire4943 🤡🤡You French are so funny, you can never admit when you are defeated seriously, you got your arses handed to you on a plate fair and square, and to think Napoleon III wanted Britain to join on there side. 😂

[@marhaskalk]

@@lahire4943 because the author of this video just took the values for the entire conflict and applied them more or less at a linear rate, which is terrible historiography. at the outset of the war the german states had managed to mobilize over a million whereas the french were sitting at under 300,000. nothing in this video makes any historical sense

[@brettvogel8418]

You can do some research yourself, as I don't want to write paragraphs here. It wasn't a cakewalk for the Prussians, as shown with the slow progression at times. But the Prussians had superior logistics, superior guns, and superior discipline in their forces. I think the French just don't like admitting Germany kicked their asses several times in its short history, so they come up with weak excuses for it lol.

[@Dandy-hh2tg]

That was disaster for France

[@bod-7268]

Atleast they didn't have to invade Belgium this time.

[@neried]

Cuz there were no maginot line back then

[@staymadlilbroski]

@@neriedthey’re basicly was tbh

[@jeetsamajdar3844]

​@@neriedlets assume the french were the maginot line

[@lahire4943]

@@neriedThere was no Maginot line in 1914 either

[@AbrahamCasillas-t3o]

Virgin Wilhelm II and Austrian Painter going through neutral countries to invade France vs Chad Otto Von Bismarck confronting France directly

[@torheim75]

Wilhelm II was Virgin? 😂

[@geokid317]

also, mistake, i believe that france was the attacker in this war

[@qwertyui_uwu]

yes

[@Sperenza2b]

But provoked by Germans

[@matheusexpedito4577]

​@@Sperenza2byet the french attacked

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

@@Sperenza2b provoked by what exactly?

[@tilofuder5182]

​@@G.A.C_Preserve provoked by the Bismark, who manipulated a telegram communication (known as the ems dispatch) in order to push France into attacking. It's a pretty well known fact, still, doesn't change the fact that France was the agressor.

[@mapshistorical]

awesome man

[@laurentquero3207]

The encircled French imperial armies capitulated by decision of the emperor and were included in the losses, they were the only professional armies in the country the French republic was proclaimed and organized the defense of France with armies of volunteers not always well armed and extended the war by 6 months to the surprise of the Germans

[@aksmex2576]

Yes this is time they learnt that a smaller professional army is not as good as massive conscript army. Same reason why Soviets repelled a surprise German invasion - their conscription system.

[@lester_the_molester]

@@aksmex2576The Wehrmacht was a conscript army too…

[@rbxless]

​@@lester_the_molesterMaking an army of conscripts only amplifies the population differences of countries. The Soviets had a lot more manpower to throw at the Germans.

[@lythd]

@@aksmex2576 i mean i certainly wouldnt ever boil something down to one factor, but in that case i feel like ur just wrong. the soviets were outnumbered for a huge portion of the war. i would say the biggest reason is just enough production to hold on and keep the oil, and the germans would run out and without fuel there wasnt much they could do anymore. supply would be another big reason too.

[@richardthomas5362]

I suspect their lack of training is why French casualties were so much higher, once the professional French army was mostly used up.

[@chill2512]

Paris Commune next video plz

[@thetf8142]

this is the war that caused the maginot line, which is why germany didnt go through belgium like the future 2 times in ww1 and ww2 weirdly this is a forgotten part of history

[@JOELMG918]

Sería buenísimo si haces un video sobre la guerra del Pacífico. Peru - bolivia vs chile

[@BoilingHotCoffee]

imagine chilling in the southern part of france throughout all of this

[@richardque1036]

Shock by the high french casualties,this despite the fact french superior rifle which out range the german needle gun

[@Mr_d42069]

Thankfully war with Germany is over🇫🇷❤🇩🇪

[@chickypoutch]

I love how you can tell the number of death day by day while pro historians affirm that nobody knows the real number of troops.

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

As a German, well done Prussia! Willkommen in Paris

[@faultier3215]

da hat sich ja jemand der allerfinstersten Seite der Reaktion angeschlossen....

[@myhiueri]

every theatre in 3 minutes indonesia google maps Indonesia vs Belanda

[@nick24488]

Germany not going through belgium feels odd

[@fadehistoria75]

Can you do the Paris commune?

[@frankbarron1907]

The French were toast.

[@leveenntt]

French toast? 🤔

[@torheim75]

Baguette! Prussians love delicious baguettes. That's why they invaded France. 😂🤣😂

[@jackderrida]

God damn! Look at those casualty ratios! That is nuts. It only grew more and more every couple months as it went on. Both this and Operations Barbarossa are the most absurd ratios I've ever seen. How do the Germans do it?

[@adamasagitprop]

Effective guns and tactics

[@adityapurohit713]

And that's why we have the forts and magnot line

[@gmunro5443]

5:23 There is a large encirclement comparable to Metz, but I never heard of it before. Are these movements accurate or estimation?

[@ColeInside-ij2yt]

Most likely a rough estimate because it is hard to confirm battles and how they played out in those years.

[@gmunro5443]

This was not ancient times, there are specific numbers for the losses of each battle.

[@gmunro5443]

Hello, this is me from the future. Every single troop placement in the video is extraordinarily inaccurate. This war was not even fought with front lines, it was fought with armies, like napoleonic times.

[@dannyarcher6370]

I have French (Rouen) AND German (Württemberg) heritage. And British (Middlesex) just to sit back and chuckle at the internalised mess the other two bring.

[@AcePilot24]

Great video, I feel like it would be better if you moved the flags away, there in the way of the Frontline

[@gungnir3926]

germany truly is superior

[@Janosaltaccount]

fun fact: the prussians had better maps of france than france itself

[@yourroyalchungusness]

The french casualities really ramped up during the siege of Paris

[@inhocsignovinces1327]

Well not that much. You have already the Châlons Army with 120 000 captured and Metz Army with 130 000. So in this video at least 250 000 are captured men, even more.

[@VisotCL]

WW1 if Germany didn't invade Belgium and drag UK into the war:

[@X3RUBIM]

Actually, in the talks prior to the outbreak of the war, Germany asked the United Kingdom if it would refrain from entering the war, if Belgian neutrality would be respected, which they declined.

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

The Prussias of the time were a force to be reckoned with.

[@anthonyluccini1015]

All German states fought in this war which is why Prussia became the Germanic Empire

[@bigfatchubbybritboy9445]

Revolutionary state of the art, cutting edge weapons and that's combined with equally modern, cutting edge new tactics etc Is why the Prussians were so effective.

[@SamuelFreeman-t4m]

congrats on 100k

[@Tadry]

I get the flags represent where the armies were but it really blocks the map where gains and losses are made, sometimes I can’t even tell at all what’s happening in some areas of the map.

[@oicmapper]

Maybe he should make the flags more differenciable

[@LOHZIHENGMoe]

shoutout to the division that protected Paris for such a long time

[@IloveAmin]

If we assume that one division is 10,000 soldiers, then Paris was defended by 25 divisions

[@austria-hungary7680]

Imagine getting Napoleon to see this. The look on his face😂

[@mland2012]

Man, that southernmost French flank on the border was just chilling for a solid four months.

[@tonyhawk94]

Modern historians call it Franco-German war as the term Prussian is very incomplete, all of the German states fought.

[@GodEmperorEnjoyer]

Well almost all of them. Austria was still licking their wounds

[@tonyhawk94]

@@GodEmperorEnjoyer Yeah but in any cases Austria at this point already diverged in terms on national destiny, everything was sealed after the Austro-Prussian war. I would argue that even before, regarding infrastructure development and natural barriers Austria was already a land of its own.

[@jksimmons2009]

Modern historians do alot of stupid retconing

[@vataroku]

unnecessary to say this but, i learnt how to make these videos by you and the first map project i made used this music bruh.

[@omayaki5264]

Isn't it technically wrong to represent the troops of the southern german states with the flag of the north german confederation before the formation of the german empire?

[@MMadesen]

Yes, it is. Its also wrong to call it franco-prussian war imo.

[@omayaki5264]

@@MMadesen fair

[@rohne83]

@@MMadesen German term is Deutsch-Französischer Krieg (German-French war) which is more accurate, as Armies of nearly every German state fought together with the prussians, and the outcome of this war was the German unification.

[@MMadesen]

@@rohne83 Exactly

[@Waffle_the_Great]

Prussia had superior artillery and a much, much, much better rail network. They were able to mobilize faster and get their forces to the front quicker giving them a manpower advantage in the early stages of the war. Isolating Napoleon III and trapping him and his army at Sedan to just wither certainly helped as well. France unfortunately for them were just hopelessly outmatched in this war.

[@iceluxe2578]

Look at those casualties, how can people ever call the French cowards

[@noidea5984]

Well thanksfully a good part of those casualties are captured soldiers, but still many French soldiers lost their lives in the fightings

[@lahire4943]

@@noidea5984Many of them being untrained conscripts who were sent to their graves by the Republic after the Empire fell, and who knew it...

[@iceluxe2578]

@@noidea5984 Valid point

[@ChrisCrossClash]

Over 470,000 of them were captured, not dead or wounded, again the French would be up to there old tricks in surrendering en masse 70 years later. 😂😂

[@lahire4943]

@@ChrisCrossClashWhere are you from?

[@OusmaneDembélé2210]

I like your videos very much ❤❤👍👍

[@Baathist_Brawler_1565]

Wow, what a trouncing, and just 50 years before Napoleon's France had casually swept aside the germans, conquering the Prussians in a mere 3 weeks. I think the French left behind the best of their race in Russia in 1812, they were never again the mighty force that had dominated Europe throughout the middle ages. This war was the nail in the coffin, and with the following instability and plummeting birthrates they sunk to become a mere spectator in history and have never again risen.

[@ThePalaeontologist]

It is rather more complicated than that. You say the best of their race died in Russia, but that is not correct. Half the French Imperial Grande Armee wasn't even French, and it was always held together through punitive threats and fear. It was not this monolithic, 750,000 strong army of Frenchmen. Nope. A huge number of other, enthralled nationalities, were in league with the French but largely, not by choice. And do not forget, that in 1813, as merely 35,000 bedraggled Frenchmen limped back into Western Europe, with about 58,000 others whom had been in that once mighty army to enter Russia in 1812, that Napoleon Bonaparte achieved a great feat of logistics, recruiting literally over 400,000 new troops in that year. Were they as experienced as the ones he'd lost in droves in the Russian Winter of 1812? No, not a chance. But they would fight with some ferocious elan and determination in the years 1813-1815. Literally hundreds of thousands of them would die, but still. Also, lest we forget, the French sacrificed 1.75 million soldiers in the First World War (most of which, French, some of which, French Colonial; aka with nationalities as varied as what we'd now call Vietnamese, and many others, such as soldiers from Cameroon) I'd say that it was after the First World War, in which France was truly spent. Her feeble efforts in 1940, were no match for the Germans. Cue crying Frenchmen drumming up the sacrifice of 30,000 French troops in rearguard (also with about 10,000 British soldiers helping them, which is often forgotten/omitted on purpose; and ffs it was happening in France of course the French should have had the biggest defensive forces in the region out of the allies at that time) for Dunkirk. Well, as much as some Anglophobes would like to blame Britain for all of France collapsing in 6-7 weeks flat, the truth was, France was pretty cocky in the interwar years acting like the mightiest nation in the world, thanks to it's immense army which was 2nd only in size, then, to the Red Army in Soviet Russia. However, in the grand scheme of things, that was about 1 corps of French troops being chewed up against an entire German field army, to help Britain evacuate 123,000 Frenchmen and about twice as many British, off the beaches of Dunkirk. Yet also, do remember, that approximately 93% of the French whom the British rescued (leaving behind many of their own men to fit more Frenchmen on British ships instead; also losing a lot of British ships under constant Luftwaffe Stuka dive bomber attack) from Dunkirk, _went home to France_ after they were given the choice of repatriation, by the British government. Some may have joined the French Resistance, but quite frankly, the scale of how many French returned to France, made what the British had done seem pointless. Britain was only ever meant to be a reinforcing faction in the Northern sector, just like they were in WWI. It makes me laugh when French dudes get pissy about the Battle for France, as though the British just betrayed France and left it to the German wolves. Not true. It didn't happen that way at all. France was puffing up it's chest for over 20 years at that point. It had bullied Germany at the Treaty of Versailles (France, not Britain, was the most aggressive in pursuing reparations from Germany, to the tune of 100 Billion Deutschmarks; which it simply, could not afford, especially due to hyperinflation; as in, the value of 100 Billion Deutschmarks _prior to_ the hyper-inflation, not during or after it; aka at 1918/1919 rates there or thereabouts) Why French dudes cope and seethe about Britain being not as numerous militarily, is hilarious. It's as if the French think they have this god given right to sacrificing British lives on the altar of saving France. France doesn't even respect Britain and is a very poor ally in terms of how it behaves and how it goes about things. e.g. France sold EXOCET missiles to Argentina which Argentina used against British ships in the Falklands War in 1982. French nationalists still laugh about that to this day. It's a total disgrace. British servicemen _died_ on those ships. Fvck France.

[@KarelCudej007]

How Germany was made. Almost one million dead, mostly French in less than a year. What a slaughter. Brits were so afraid on Napoleon III to be as powerful as his uncle, that they spend fortune to prepare for war with him. Prussians crushed this illusion in few months. Bismarck was a rightful political genius, yet this led to confidence in Germany that they can repeat this in 1914. Sadly, peace is never an option.

[@DaoAncestor]

This is one of my favorite wars. the way the Prussians responded to the arrogant French and their remarkable victory, humiliating the French as a newly formed country afterward, was absolutely amusing.

[@anthonyluccini1015]

You don't have much in your head. In the video it is not the Prussians but indeed all the German states who participated resulting in its unification. A Spaniard who comes to make fun of France we will have seen everything. With the number of spankings you've been given, you should make yourself very small

[@Behind.Heaven]

​​​@@anthonyluccini1015Oh man what a stupid answer from you, read his comment again😂😂