The Seven Years' War: The Battle of Hastenbeck, 1757 ⚔️

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The Battle of Hastenbeck took place on July 26, 1757, during the Seven Years' War. It was fought between the French army, commanded by Louis Charles César Le Tellier, Duke of Estrées, and the Allied army of Hanover and Great Britain, led by the Duke of Cumberland. The battle was a part of a larger campaign in which the French sought to conquer Hanover, an important ally of Britain. The engagement was characterized by a series of manoeuvres and counter-manoeuvres by both sides, with neither gaining a clear advantage.
In the Battle of Hastenbeck's aftermath, both commanders were dismissed, and it is one of the few curious battles where both sides lost, rather than won.
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0:00 Introduction
0:05 Prelude to the Seven Years' War
1:44 iolo - System Mechanic Ultimate Defence
2:58 The Seven Years' War Breaks Out
9:17 The Battle of Hastenbeck
21:30 Aftermath
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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Awesome! Can't wait to learn more of the war that has been called "The real first wolrd war"

[@dindin8753]

Eventho the real first world war is gotta be the wars of Alexander the great or the invasion of the sea people in the bronze age collapse and the bad guys win in both wars.

[@sirwolly]

I love this seven years war serie. Any plans on showing us how old Fritz build up Prussia after the war? Must have been pretty devastated.

[@HoH]

I might release an epilogue around the war of the Bavarian Succession.

[@jurgschupbach3059]

​@@HoH wenn die Anzahl der Toten die der Lebenden übersteigt Feudalismus ist Ehre und das Menschenmaterial muss verwertet werden

[@Vampirewolfking]

​@@HoH That war was an embarrassment for Prussia and her king.

[@yourroyalchungusness]

The forgotten theater of the seven years war, i'm glad that you covered it

[@MarkStorey-dc4tm]

I agree!

[@chezburger1781]

i never understand battles from this period. 40k plus men fighting for hours and not even 3k dead. really good vid!

[@tonyhawk94]

Being French what I respect about the English is that they understood very early the key importance of North America as being the main objective. Even if France had prevailed in Continental Europe, the real deal was keeping North America French and make it a commercial exchange partner independant or not.

[@FieldMarshalYT]

Lovely! It seems like most Seven Years War content is, albeit understandably, entirely focused on Frederick the Great. This is a good breath of fresh air.

[@paulceglinski7172]

Outstanding!!! I like that you got rid of the voice filter. This whole series of Alte Fritz's campaigns has been excellent. The long video on the 1st and 2nd Silesian Wars is one of my favorites and gets played often. Can't wait for the Wars of Bismarck and Revolutions. Cheers from Tennessee

[@HoH]

Thanks for your continued support and feedback, Paul!

[@Built_Mago]

The narration of the whole battle had me on the edge of my seat great stuff I cant wait until you expand more on this entire affair.

[@brokenbridge6316]

This was a nice video. Maybe one day you can do a video series on the American Revolutionary War.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Prussia trying not to start a war challenge: Impossible.

[@HoH]

They just keep doing it. Just wait for my series about the German Wars of Unification. Bismarck even told the Russians he'd pull a Frederick II move.

[@ethanpf449]

Honestly your videos get more and more well animated every time

[@anselmdanker9519]

Thank you for covering this battle.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Incredible video as always!

[@elijahbrown9738]

Really love everything about HoH videos. Great info, great maps and great details of battles.

[@KHK001]

Great video as always!

[@ofallmyintention9496]

I always love videos around the 1400's-1700's. From the transformation of Prussia, and the establishment of an assortment of huge European kingdoms; to the world becoming more connected...despite most other peoples' best efforts to rid themselves of the French, British, Spanish, etc. in their corner of the world.

[@Back4Fungame]

in short: bravo to you for releasing this excellent video series, that tells the story in a compact, but still very well researched manner

[@archanarajan7086]

Love this new series. Hope you cover battles like Kloster Kamp, Bergen and Korbach.

[@xjuliussx]

the new quality of the battle maps is excelent ¬! Your documentaries are climbing for sure in the top of good quality video documentaries !Love the series and your efforts!

[@albertgreene313]

Thanks for looking to this part of the theater. As much as I loved the look at ol fritz, there are so many players and dynamic at play. I want to get some understanding of all of it, all the players, down to the fictional Barry Lyndon, (that last one is the job of my cinephile channels)

[@michaelcarlin9153]

Maybe the best video of the series! Excellent. Good strategic and tactical analysis and detailed orders of battle for the armies. The period artwork is much better than the AI images of the last few videos. Well done!!

[@abdelilahfahi6488]

Great video. Love your content

[@richarddr1234]

Happy to see another Frederick the Great story. I was worried you were done with him with your previous upload on the Battle of Freiburg.

[@franciscovelasco5422]

I always wondered whether you would cover other theaters of this war.

[@Fallout3131]

Thank you!

[@robbabcock_]

Great video!

[@3ntra]

love your content

[@Jesse_Dawg]

Please more videos and please more on Hanover! I neeeeeed it

[@charenton82]

Tout est tres juste. tout est bien. Bravo!🎖🎖🏅

[@gromotion933]

Hastenbeck is just a small place I drove past severeal times..didn´t know that a battle of that size just happen around the corner..thx!

[@user-vg8nb1vt2c]

You are the best!!!

[@Dark-Steve]

Nice video!

[@philliprandle9075]

Can not wait to learn more about this front

[@patrickjeffers7864]

Louis xv was more disastrous for France than louis xvi

[@bombaclart3910]

Good videos per usual, been watching for a while now. I would suggest that you maybe cover the tudors 1485-1603 along with the battles and rebellions, you’d be a criminal to not cover such a fascinating period of English history.

[@HoH]

Any reading recommendations? 😉

[@bombaclart3910]

@@HoH 1485 Battle bosworth 1487 battle stoke field, , 1513 battle spurs, battle of flodden 1513, battle pinkie 1547. Beginning of 1588 Spanish Armada, 1557 st Quentin. 1558+Other years of the Spanish Armada. siege of Calais, 1544-46 siege of Boulogne 1593-1603 Hugh O Neill rebellion. (There are others I’m sure but can’t remember as of now.) You could alternatively look into the reforms carried out from the monarchs of the periods along with any interesting events of their time period spanning from 1485 -1509 Henry VII, 1509-1547 Henry VIII, 1547-1553 Edward VI regencies of the dukes of Somerset and Northumberland, 1553-58 Mary I, and 1558-1603 Elizabeth I I hope you’ll take my suggestions into consideration! And I hope I haven’t disrupted any plans!

[@47ravenlord]

Excellent video!!!! I am glad i found your channel and now have to watch your other videos. I can't compliment the way you pronounce foreign names enough. Another channel recently covered a similar French scenario and the way they over pronounced EVERY French word irritated me to no end.....it reminded me of the TV show King of the Hill when Peggy speaks Spanish and over does it on every word and it is extremely rough on the ears....so, thank you again for your style. I also find the details you add to be very attention grabbing and not just irrelevant filler that makes listening tedious.

[@Frompasttopresent444]

How you represent troops through square shapes and how you made maps. What softwares or apps for making video you use. Explain me briefly.

[@muhammadfarhanfadillah32]

Can you continued making a video about rakoczi's war of independence

[@Back4Fungame]

i think it's very important to shed more light on the seven years war, since it could be considered the first world war with oddly similar geopolitical constellations regarding the later two world wars. it's even odder, that this war is almost completely forgotten outside circles, which deal with historical topics to a greater extent. the emergence of prussia as a great european power alone and the tightly socially intertwined, almost populist militarism it solidified, had a gigantic impact on europe for the next two centuries; some might even argue today

[@BounceBackBelfast]

Would it be possible to cover the glorius revolution period, siege of Derry and the Williamite war?

[@ashleyparker8793]

Very interesting

[@charlesjohnson6777]

I was confused cause this is before the last battle. 😅

[@matveykurland7012]

Could you please make a video on Minden?

[@paulgaskins7713]

21:11 the source I’m looking at says 2200 for the French losses but it might include Swiss losses or even all casualties but for the British losses it say’s ‘casualties of 1400…’ so I’m not sure, the source is ‘Encyclopedia of Warfare’ (Showalter, Sterling Publishing.2013)

[@ygdmdx]

下一个视频在哪里我想知道什么时候会谈七年战争汉诺威前线，i must say This is the most detailed video of the Seven Years'War I have seen so far

[@beepboop204]

[@rogernull6151]

As an American, the "7 Years War" was taught to us as "The French and Indian War." While I have some knowledge of that war on the North American continent, I never really knew anything about the European aspect of it. Having lived in Germany, I now know who 'Frederick Der Grosse' was.

[@titanschannel585]

This coverage of the Hannoverian front is great, but man, that is a big "what If", what if Cumberland didn't call a retreat and the french right flank collapsed?

[@transylvanian8437]

The rest would have retreated in good order, entire armies getting routed was getting rarer by this time.

[@corentinkaiservonhohenzoll9114]

And India.. and North America next 🙏🏻😅

[@jameslafrite]

Every time you Cumberland I couldn’t stop laughing 😂😂

[@jameslafrite]

« you say »

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

Just saying but I can’t wait to learn more about the Hanoverian front of the seven years war because I know barely anything about the front.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

A wonderful doing ...good luck and best wishes for the house 🏠 of history 24:27

[@peterspatling3151]

I wonder if we will see anything about the county of Schaumburg-Lippe and their infamous "diables noires de Buckebourg"? :)

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

This “Anglo-French” war was not officially declared, but was rather just skirmishes in disputed territory This is in Contrast to the War of Jenkins’s Ear which was formally declared just one year before a wider European war broke out

[@Chris-mf1rm]

The War of Jenkins' Ear broke out in 1739, the Seven Years War in 1756. The British and the French did fight a war that overlapped with WJE, as part of the wider series of conflicts known as the War of the Austrian Succession. But that was a different war to the SYW, with a different constellation of alliances as the video points out in the intro.

[@EMarcisz32]

you just created another playlist for 7 years war ;p There are already 2 playlist with the topic, "History of Prussia" and "Prussian Battles". Could you please organize it bit better? :)

[@HoH]

The History of Prussia and Prussian Battles playlists are entirely different playlists with entirely different videos.

[@EMarcisz32]

@@HoH they both contain videos on seven years war, as this one. And some of the videos are in both playlist ;p

[@revere0311]

👏

[@stevenmc56]

It lasted nine years in America

[@Billy_Bob_Dan]

You produce A1 content mate. I must admit, you even surpassed kings and generals at this point, keep it up

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

D'estrèes led his army astray

[@SmokeJam]

I always wonder what would have happened if Cumberland would've been more competent or less cowardly, nor that protected from the top brass. If he wasn't the 3rd son of the king, he would've probably been courtmarshalled upon return, not just "encouraged" to resign. "Only" around 3-4 thousand dead or wounded from both sides combined in a battle including more than 80 thousand men total was a rather tame outcome compared to what could've transpired without the fretting retreat.

[@Raphael-pt7rx]

11:56 this guys name literally means testiclescastle - no joke hoden means testicles

[@nathanhull8302]

I wonder how well France would half faired against the English had they not put so much effort into Hanover

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

When in doubt, invade Austria-Hungary

[@Thomas_Name]

The battle both armies lost 😂

[@markgarrett3647]

Old Fritz should have known that most of those Brits are more seadogs than landlubbers.

[@zetectic7968]

Duke of Cumberland aka Stinking Billy proving that accident of birth doesn't make you a good general.

[@Raphael-pt7rx]

but bielefeld doesnt even exist

[@jeanjacquespelletier6821]

In these days france always fought against multiple nations

[@Grabacr-pl3wy]

This channel keeps making me boot up EU4

[@beachboy0505]

It was useless for Great Britain 🇬🇧 to get involved in continental wars.

[@adelaidesngan604]

French vs Germany

[@MrSinclairn]

Cumberland-waste of space !🤨

[@johnflesner8086]

Cumberland only won a single battle. Culloden Moor.

[@lukasj1980]

The old german problem of having shitty allies…

[@lesdodoclips3915]

When britain was paying for Prussia’s war and winning in every continent they are not a shit ally

[@lukasj1980]

@@lesdodoclips3915 fair enough, their engagement in Europe was pretty lackluster though

[@cyrilk3254]

​@@lesdodoclips3915 ya i agree but only Prussia army only if britain send atleast 20000 troops and some hanover army the Austria might get knocked out of war

[@charenton82]

Viver d'estrée et vive le marechal de Richelieu, the only one who can defeat Frederic II. But it's not happend because of Mme de Pompadour who hate Richelieu and prefer Soubise. Women are shame of armies🤸

[@corentinkaiservonhohenzoll9114]

And also because she was an internal enemy.

[@doritofeesh]

Naw, the Marechal D'Estrees and the Marechal de Richelieu weren't on the level of Friedrich II. D'Estrees failed to win decisively at Hastenbeck against a below average commander like Cumberland while Richelieu was only decent at sieges, both having the advantage of overwhelming numbers. The only one around that time who could have defeated Friedrich II was the Marechal de Saxe, and only in a defensive battle. I feel like if he fought an offensive battle and numbers were similar, it would either be inconclusive or his defeat. Friedrich II was very formidable on the offensive, even if he has a tendency to slam his head against a brick wall at times in costly engagements. His record on the defensive, given similar odds at Liegnitz also was very good. The only French commanders of the 17th-19th centuries which could likely attack and defeat him given equal odds in numbers are Napoleon (especially if he has Lannes with him), Turenne, Luxembourg, and maybe Conde.

[@charenton82]

@@doritofeesh Richelieu and frederic II have the same friend:Voltaire. All 3 make letters to gether (during Seven Year War) personnaly I study Richelieu. He win all type of war and was lucky. In utopia Rich won Fr II. really, the french army was not good in details (old, heavy) and fight not as well of Fredic II in war and in battle. After 1762, all the french militaries love only Frederic II but the Louis XV no more interested in Army, Louis XVI, idem. Only navy with America Independance War.

[@nathanbot5373]

What a scam of a sponsor lmao

[@Platanis2008]

Almost 100.000 men fighting 5 hours, in "relentless" attacks and defence and "brutal" fights...resulting in 3.000 dead, wounded and missing from both sides! What kind of battles are these? 😂

[@transylvanian8437]

How many you want?😅

[@Platanis2008]

@@transylvanian8437 That's a neighborhood brawl! 😛 I would expect 20.000-30.000 on the winning side and 40.000-60.000 on the loosing side to call it a battle...

[@marctempler3250]

There was no need for the childish vulgarity near the end. It is the sort of thing one would expect from an 18 year old tiktoker and cheapens what was until then a fine and mature presentation.

[@HoH]

What are you talking about?