The Second Opium War: When China Kidnapped and Tortured A British Diplomat | The Summer Palace Burns

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[@ryanthered2060]

Could you do the typing rebellion next?

[@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349]

​@@ryanthered2060the what?

[@General_Romesmarck.77]

How about making episodes on the Taiping Rebellion & later the Boxer Rebellion? I would love to see a series dedicated to China’s Century of Humiliation…

[@Melkersjöberg7]

🐶

[@hadiomidi4829]

Video about boxer rebellion when

[@getfreur2458]

I think this is the first time i see a wife and mistress helping each other after their hubby died, instead of butchering each other in a power struggle.

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

Oh trust me it didn't last long, not long at all.

[@captaintitus4637]

@@KaiHung-wv3ul why am I not surprised

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

​@@KaiHung-wv3uleven if that's still kinda nice

[@commandermcnash5137]

You haven't watched battle harem animes too much eh?

[@jamesanderson7243]

Yeah that really confused me as well, especially since the child was the mistress's

[@floridaman484]

"Most retelling leave out he was almost certainly drunk at the time" Isn't specifying an irishmen is drunk redundant?

[@redhausser7492]

Ome would think so

[@msmith1890]

I am so early the Qing Empire was just Manchuria.

[@bayarsejar5831]

They are from Manchuria who then took over china.

[@c10lx2_6]

@@bayarsejar5831it is badly worded but he is right, reread lol

[@Kasubaz]

Here before 10K

[@tubacollossus9619]

Shame that we didn’t arrive when they formed the Aisin Gioro Clan :(

[@InquisitorXarius]

Its called the Jurchenland, it was illegally occupied by Russia, illegally occupied by Japan, and is illegally occupied by the Chinese.

[@RKNGL]

5:37 Good sir, the intoxication of an Irishmen can always be presumed unless it’s specified he was sober.

[@lordadorable1140]

As an Irishman, I agree with this statement.

[@Dockboy-ie4yu]

The fact that they saved the dog and gave it to the queen who loved it 🐶

[@kaiserwilhelmiii6036]

🐶woof

[@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349]

🐶

[@sirneko1278]

And the chinese(at that time period) called them barbarian This comment is a joke

[@randomchannel6008]

🐶

[@magmat0585]

and then they called the dog Looty. As in, the dog was looted.

[@KonyCurrentYear]

Qing arrogance and stubbornness really was their downfall.

[@newguy8288]

I don’t really blame the Qing completely; it was the Chinese dynasties in general never really modernizing or working upwards from their own inventions. Invent gunpowder? Let’s just use that for basic artillery, riffles and mainly for fireworks Early printing press? Use it solely to print out ancient Confucian texts An incredibly large navy? Use it mainly to secure the trade and never do much significant exploration The Chinese dynasties where mainly driven by tradition, not because intellectuals didn’t exist as rulers mind you, but because the state itself was driven purely by nostalgia

[@TheMarianadealmeida]

No doubt

[@leaf0nthewind625]

In all honesty the Qing were inept to the point of criminality. They had been given so many opportunities to come to terms with the reality on the ground but refused every single opportunity, and everyone suffered for it.

[@monkofdarktimes]

Han Racism is something else

[@gadgetboy4717]

There was a Chinese commercial for laundry detergent where a woman shoved a black man that was hitting on her into a wash machine and he came out as a Han Chinese man. Yikes !

[@DIEGhostfish]

It is quite nice how low-drama the two empresses seemed to be.

[@lovablesnowman]

It does not last....

[@halorecon95]

Oh buddy, if only you knew... Cixi is the reason the Qing didn't last.

[@ahorribledude9550]

Qing dynasty when when the "Western barbarians" burn down the summer palace:

[@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569]

Anyone can call anyone a barbarian and anyone can be a barbarian

[@ProfTricky3168]

We can all call the French barbarism mercenaries

[@usaball9190]

Before that it was the northern barbarian from the steppes. Later on, it will be the island barbarians from the east.

[@tubacollossus9619]

TFW your Celestial Heavenly Grand Empire loses 10000000000k soldiers against 5 British Barbarian Tribal scum soldiers (1 of them got a tiny cut after tripping over a rock)

[@passionfruit7617]

pretty sure the word barbarian is not the right word. I'm chinese and the word we use is 外国人 which actually means "people from countries outside china" which is way less negative than barbarian

[@hakopathebro9727]

Hey man, I’m from New Zealand, small country I know, but our history is quite fascinating. Look up the New Zealand musket wars and the Waikato war. A quick fun fact is Maori who are the natives of New Zealand, used trench warfare against the British, as a Maori I remember playing in the old trenches as a child, we call them Pā. Another interesting fact the might make you interested is that during the war the Maori killed a Prussian officer.

[@hannibalbrown]

Much love to the 🥝

[@plussum3255]

Another nz'er here, I second this!

[@MrLuisfrossi]

The Qing Dinasty or How to Gain the Ire Most Industrial Superpowers in a Few Weeks

[@redbagelpuppies9884]

It’s criminal this channel doesn’t get more attention.

[@Elenrai]

The creator was deemed "problematic" by a certain group of self-declared women. women being a very loose definition here. Same thing happened to Arch and Invicta, Metatron too, oh and Shadiversity the aussie sword enjoyer.. Almost as if a tiny minority of people are shitting up the internet for the majority, due to the crime of wrong think. Seriously the algorithm is still suppressing Eziekiel, cant discuss history without altering it to fit the "modern world" on youtube, otherwise we risk you pointing out inconvenient facts, like the ethnic composition of the Waffen SS being more diverse than most woke people´s social spheres :)

[@CliffCardi]

So Ezekiel is just not going to cover the Taiping Rebellion? Because that alone killed more people than WWI did.

[@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349]

Prolly soon

[@RIlianP]

I prefer he covers it in a separate video where he can do it justice, or none at all, instead of just gloss it over in the sidelines in a video where its not the main focus.

[@fiendish9474]

Ask and you received, he made a video on it

[@ShamanMcLamie]

I visited the Summer Palace back in 2008. Its like a big park. There are a bunch of these empty pedestals that used to have Bhudda statues that were stolen by the allies.

[@Wormopera]

​@@def3ndr887the communists were Chinese.

[@NightPhoenix.Y]

The communists never touched the forbidden palace so I doubt it

[@def3ndr887]

@@NightPhoenix.Y excuse my lack of trust but the with cultural revolution in mind I doubt that

[@NightPhoenix.Y]

@@def3ndr887 yeah ok buddy 👍

[@andreyhempburn]

Calling the Looted dog Looty is pure genious

[@kaiserinvictoria8085]

As a Mongolian it was such a surprise to see your video including mongols! Thanks lad!

[@dickinwurfer]

Fake Mongolian I real Mongolian real Mongolian no watch anime Chinese virus

[@sakurakou2009]

Weren't Manchus and Mongolians of that time allies?

[@crazydinosaur8945]

@@sakurakou2009 the Qing conquered mongolian homeland shortly after their conquest of china. so they were allies in the same sense that the Sikes soldiers whare allies to the british. aka they were subjects

[@kaiserinvictoria8085]

@@sakurakou2009 Not allies, But Overlord and subject, we were invaded by Manchus like British invasion of India. And even though we were subjects, there were edict of the first Emperor of the Qing that states no Mongols shall leave mongolia, no chinese or manchus shall enter mongolia ( Revoked in 1900 which led to our independence).

[@wilsonanimates6362]

@@kaiserinvictoria8085did u guys also invade china too back then in 1200s I heard about that thing

[@DIEGhostfish]

Looty the Looted dog.

[@rat_king-]

17:15 Can relate as a british man...

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

Can relate as a canadian man...

[@lovablesnowman]

Despite being a fairly unjust war waged on the chinese its just so hard to have any sympathy for them. It was blind luck that saved Parke and the other ambassadors from execution, not to mention their physical abuse beforehand. The chinese tortured those poor soldiers along with Parke to death. The chinese got exactly what they deserved. If anything they got off lightly And the chinese had the gall to call the westerners barbarians I really hope you continue this China series with the so called "Boxer Rebellion"

[@ToastieBRRRN]

Exactly, delay tactics and cowardly torture. Not surprised the Qing got retribution. Like how he emphasised why they chose to burn the Palace but not Peking. Otherwise there would be no Beijing today. Something that most people seem to miss.

[@Runetrantor]

Im finding it hard to feel sympathy for either side beyond specific points like for the westerners for the torture part. But man, both sides did some shitty stuff.

[@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349]

Interesting

[@smaguy64]

@@Runetrantor That;s history for ya

[@熊唯嘉]

Those cruelties pale at the horrors of the civil war ongoing in China at that time. Up to 100 million people died within a timespan of 20 years. The opium wars were only a catalyst to the brewing antagonism in dynastic China.

[@clarafindley6689]

Wake up honey CallMeEzekiel posted a new video all jokes aside love your videos keep up the good work 👍

[@cka2192]

I'm so happy It's up also the chinese man at 6:35 is very nervous

[@manugamer9984]

Wow, the Qing Court was sooo ridiculously out of touch... you don’t call two European empires “barbarians” and get on with it

[@puchy110]

I mean China was the same nation that called the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history, a horde of barbarians.

[@magmat0585]

China in general viewed any outsiders as "foreign devils". They called themselves the middle kingdom because they believed themselves to be the center of the world, and that idea hasn't completely gone away.

[@barmybarmecide5390]

@punchy110 Civilisations isn't determined by the size of your empire, it's the sum total of your technological and cultural feats. The Mongols were laughably barbaric in comparison to the Muslim and European polities they attacked and in some cases conquered

[@marcobelli6856]

@@barmybarmecide5390yes they were right about the mongols in fact their “Empire” was Short lived

[@WispyKatt]

That was likely the single most ominous thumbnail ever lol

[@DIEGhostfish]

I really liked this in the Flashman books.

[@alexrator7674]

Never once did I expect that an Irish once kowtowed to a Mongolian

[@ingold1470]

Interesting parallel between Alaric's sack of Rome and the burning of the Summer Palace, both were provoked by atrocities that the empire committed against those of the invaders in their power. Honorius ordered the massacre of the Goths' families living in Rome, and soon after the Gothic foederati rebels sacked Rome for the first time in centuries.

[@spiffygonzales5160]

I would totally be down for a Phoenix Write style countryballs game

[@thekingminn]

Now I want to see a video on the Anglo-Burmese wars.

[@yourdaysarenumbered3012]

She deadass named that dog Looty

[@asianperson104]

The shocking this is that China was still dealing with the taipings and Muslim rebellions at the same time this was happening. Truly a century of disasters after disasters.

[@jimmothy3012]

it would be fitting to do that boxer rebellion after this

[@vapaus831]

8:34 The uniform of the British Soldier is from 1840s instead of the second opium war.

[@External2737]

Stole a dog and called it "Lootie". Wow...

[@homoe7976]

Whatever shall we call this looted dog, your highness?

[@lordofspearton8643]

Fun fact I learned not too long ago, the palace depicted at 16:02 and 16:32 was designed by a man named Giuseppe Castiglione. He was as Jesuit Missionary and court painter from Milan for the Qing in the mid 18th century. Like much of the rest of the summer palace it was destroyed. Very sad, but also poetic that a palace designed by a European in China, intended as a fusion of the two cultures, should meet its end in a war that drove them further apart.

[@WanderlustZero]

5:05 Wrong countryball for these guys. It should be the Cross of St Patrick

[@nightazday7988]

Cixi has been portrayed horribly by history but in this case I got to admit she has a point

[@csmth96]

Cixi is poorly portrayed by Chinese historians because at that time women are seen to be completely unfit to rule even as a regent. They have little respect to Queen Victoria either, just because she is a woman. This may be caused by reactionary sentiment during Qing era, because Empress Lü Zhi (呂雉) was generally accepted at Han era.

[@yusephsulandario-q8c]

Eno supply to Chingtaiwan before 1949 from Geelung Harbor. Geegeedong none supply tready now.

[@tomfoolery6080]

The Apocalypse Now theming is awesome, my favourite film of all time!

[@kucimaka8092]

I wish there was a game about this fascinating conflict.

[@schneejacques3502]

Any game around this time period would be good. Crimean war, opium war, ashanti expedition, boshin war ect.

[@nalanhazzard]

I was waiting for this love callmeEzekiel

[@shawngilliland243]

Thank you for telling the truth of Chinese perfidy. Elgin wasn't the most tactful diplomat, that's for certain.

[@zurielsss]

Do the Boxer rebellion and Taiping civil war too, it will be interesting

[@ticketschreiber3326]

Will you continue with the Boxer rebellion?

[@michaelbuchler4380]

🐶, Looty, what an ironic name

[@KyleSSamuelson]

Your channel is so high quality, I love your animations. Just sub’d

[@DanH-u3f]

'Peking' is what the British called Beijing because they couldn't pronounce it properly.

[@calvin_the_hee4554]

That ace attorney reference at the end was 👌

[@StephanieGegner]

Is the next vodeo going to be about the 55 days at peking?

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Bum bum bum bum bum bum

[@nikostsiantas4060]

Probably the boxer Rebellion which includes the 55 days at Peking

[@StephanieGegner]

Im Jahre 1900, da rief der Trommelklang,

[@Kronos-zj3ei]

Wow, interesting that the UK as long history of Pekingese dogs started after the opium wars

[@kingdm8315]

Nice apocalypse now reference

[@manwithgun9768]

Ooo yeeee, bet that the boxer rebellion is next

[@huabinsitu6459]

>gets mad about being called barbarians and your people tortured >literally drug cartels

[@nerino_chan]

Now it’s time for 55 days at peking

[@heinzguderian628]

Any day is a good day when Ezekiel posts a video

[@keannoxyrenceesquivel2349]

Ong

[@jakegarvin7634]

9:53 - you'd think they would realize they were losing a war

[@alex.zeze16]

our girl cixi will fuck up real bad in when the boxers would come around

[@fredrikjonsson-bj5ru]

I loved it keep up the excellent content

[@obi3107]

Honestly i have to say i forget this channel has 92000 Subs and not 900000 because the Video Quality is honestly immaculate

[@MrSkullSociety]

As a non china chinese, these are all caused by the pride and poor direction by the emperor. The china empire holds so much potential.

[@hallelbimpong1901]

I just love this channel

[@noobbro3469]

Love the apocalypse now reference

[@accountthatillusetocomment3041]

"The sight of so much concentration of wealth in one place left the expedition with no other choice than to loot all of it". Literally every single colonial power

[@thor1829]

Every single conquest in the history of humanity***

[@graceneilitz7661]

That is pretty much every army in history. It’s extremely predictable.

[@martinparra3650]

🐶I have a pekingese dog!

[@Ploxtifs_OldAndDeadAccountXD]

The Contra Affair, but done right.

[@redunbreon5911]

I really love the music you use for these videos. From where do you have the music or is it made for the videos ?

[@scientistx5717]

5:35 Irish gotta Irish

[@jordanlawrie8331]

Ultra handsome scots there in the end screen

[@thechangeling3851]

Hey Ezekiel will you countinue and follow up on further Chinese history? Mainly the boxer rebelion?

[@iandoster4680]

3:31

[@amhuman5138]

eziekel has dropped a video

[@amerikarhineland3185]

could you do the 55 days at peking since you did this video?

[@TheFrenchBaguettes]

12:51 what are those gold boat looking things

[@benjamincolon5486]

Hope you do the typing peasant uprising and hong xixuan or or something like that?

[@sahilhossian8212]

Lore of The Second Opium War | Vengeance and Taku, the Summer Palace Burns, Treaty of Peking | Polandball momentum 100

[@paulthetyyppi]

Is that the same Lord Elgin who stole from Parthenon?

[@ラーメンのボス]

Can you do a video on the Sino French War?

[@slayermcrx7519]

didn't the video have a different thumbnail beforehand?

[@corradoalamanni179]

In my headcannon the dog Is called Looting

[@clover1475]

I can't believe the Chinese didn't use their vast wealth to buy European weaponry then he might have had fighting chance 🐶

[@devinsweeting4978]

A mistake the Japanese did not make.

[@clover1475]

@@devinsweeting4978 very much true

[@silverkingisley6438]

Best part is that even far *far* more impoverished (and at the time nominally occupied) Ethiopia managed to get that part right. ... Granted they were helped greatly by the Italian's own incompetence.

[@clover1475]

@@silverkingisley6438 oh yeah that was very embarrassing a European country being beaten by Africans 🤣

[@Taiyama2]

As you saw in the video, the Chinese DID have guns. Otherwise they couldn't have lost 75 of them to the Brits in one battle. The problem is far more complex. We see often during this time period non-Westerners bringing guns against Westerners and STILL losing with utterly lop-sided casualty figures. I'm not sure why this is, but I have a few guesses. I think that 19th century tactics simply suit Western culture more, as since time immemorial we've always placed an emphasis on close-ordered ranks of infantry. Morale is another possible factor: the British were fighting for their country, which was ruled by a constitutional monarchy, while the Chinese were fighting for Manchu outsider overlords. Also, I think there's simply a factor of institutional experience with a weapons system: the British had well over a century's experience with using guns, cannons, etc. in warfare. The Chinese were johnny-come-lately, and even if they HAD the tools they didn't necessarily know how to use them effectively.

[@normalplayer7377]

Next one: Boxer Rebellion

[@PossessedPotatoBird]

Could I have a source for the Irish Mongolian thing?

[@ethanmcfarland8240]

everything changed when the british empire attacked

[@Manwithnoname1967]

Apocalypse Now

[@zurielsss]

Looking at today's China, history may not repeat, but it certainly rhymes 😂

[@tekinet7958]

China can literally 2v1 France and UK

[@amacsizbirkisi]

Can it also 1v1 US (current world leader de facto)? Chinese military is a paper tiger, numbers mean nothing if you can't take over an island right next to you for over 70 years

[@tekinet7958]

@@amacsizbirkisi red herring. No one mentioned the US

[@amacsizbirkisi]

@@tekinet7958 UK and France were in a position comparable to US of today (global policeforce), thus why I compared it to China which has not changed much its global ranking and status You also seem to miss >(current world leader de facto) part, instead making me write a comment explaining it unnecessarily

[@tekinet7958]

@@amacsizbirkisi so you say that US is an empire and China another victim of their imperialism? Glad we agree on this one

[@theluisyoutube]

Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness

[@5eyoshi]

Amazing

[@GeorgeSemel]

Very good one.🐕‍🦺

[@hadiomidi4829]

Do a video about the boxer rebellion next

[@BawnzyBun]

Here before this blows up

[@AmericanPopulist]

So is next video about the colapse of the qing?

[@lordbusiness-qs4ok]

Will you do a video about the hundred day’s reform?

[@boomstick7506]

55 DAYS AT PEKING!

[@fattshea8085]

great vid make a vid on cixi next ‼️

[@Admiral-General_Aladeen]

Can't wait for dun dun dun dun dun dun

[@DrBrightstein]

Bruv you’re like the armchair historian, but on a budget. You make VERY impressive videos, keep up the great work!

[@augustuswade9781]

Ahh the MO of the Chinese: going low in hopes of beating you, and get their asses handed to them in a silver platter. EACH. AND. EVERY. TIME.

[@Lowgraphicsdeer]

🐶that is a good dog name

[@alltheclovers266]

Wait, the second opium war's treaty made Hong Kong permanently British? Then why did they hand it over at the end of the 99 year limit?

[@Epicrandomness1111]

CCP legal bluffing that the British backed down on, it was more of an agreed pretext for British withdrawal than an actual end of a lease.

[@jonC1208]

Because by the time they handed it over they could finish as portuguese india or give it voluntarily

[@Kirb-kc4vs]

Bc at that point britian was no longer a global Power, and the British Goverment knew that keeping Hongkong was impossible.

[@ToastieBRRRN]

It was technically only the new territories that had the 99 year lease. Kowloon and Hong Kong island were held in perpetuity. But were given back together cos it be too much hassle.

[@kungwu5686]

@@ToastieBRRRN All important infrastructure was located on the leased land British could have kept Hong Kong iland but then Chinise could cut the fresh water power ect.. I don't remember if they did but they might threatened it openly.

[@InquisitorXarius]

Burn the Foul Summer Palace of Zhongguo’s Arrogance and Malice.