Waterloo: The Battle that Ended An Empire

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And well kept beard

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“I do not intend to run around this battlefield like a wet hen.”

[@eddiel7635]

You missed out the fact that Uxbridge had 8 horses shot from under him and after all that when his own leg was shot clean off by a canon ball he just exclaimed to Wellington “ by god sir I’ve lost my leg”... to which Wellington replied merely “By god sir, so you have”.

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Wellington loathed Uxbridge and was reluctantly forced to have him due to Uxbridge having royal favour

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And we all know that Sharpe was there kicking arse

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Bastards!

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Don't forget Harper

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@@dadjokes8963 don’t forgot the 95th and South Essex

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That’s soldiering lol

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@@adrianaspbury2970 that's soldiering ya bastards

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One again history has snubbed Napoleon of his greatest achievement. The combination of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream.

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I thought it was managing to eat an entire Ziggy Piggy ice cream dessert. 😆

[@WornDownSaint]

I’ve been to Waterloo many times.. Iowa just doesn’t seem like a place where this happened.

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How did they fight with so much corn?

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Love to see a bio on the Duke of Wellington

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Especially when he invented those cool green boots.

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There is one now.

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[@GuruOfwisdom]

Enjoyed the breakdown of this famous battle. Would greatly enjoy more videos of other famous battles.

[@braedenh6858]

Excellent video. You touched upon it here but I think the most significant parts of this battle took place during the days leading up to it: the Prussians were able to withdraw from Ligny in good order and stay in support range of Wellington, and Napoleon's decision to split his army and send Grouchy and his wing off to chase the Prussians. This led to Napoleon having a smaller army at Waterloo to start the day, and when the Prussian army beat Grouchy to the battlefield the numbers swung massively against him. And indeed, anyone with a map and a copy of orders can see that Grouchy never had a chance of stopping the Prussians. Napoleon sent him away too late to have any impact. I love your content! Thank you!

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The most I’ve ever learned about napoleon. Normally get bored but you tell a long story quickly and makes it easy to take in

[@wildwalkeruk]

i live in a place called Waterlooville, this was a staging area where troops would stay before being shipped over to France (via Portsmouth) we still have two pubs called the Wellington and The Heroes. We also have four forts built to defend against the French, these forts were never required, but had uses during WW1 and WW2.

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You for got to mention Napoleon‘s archenemy, Richard Sharpe! 😝

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@I know where Epstein Is you mean Boromir?

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and sgt harper

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Apart from the dire 1995 effort Sharpes Waterloo. Best left forgotten that one.

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@@annescholey6546 god yeah. That was embarrassing. I blame that movie for this stereotype of we Brits thinking we won it alone, but we dont! Just a terrible movie. Shame because the book is exceptional.

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AND THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED! Oh wait...wrong battle

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The winger seem to show up at every battle

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Then the Prussians arrived doesn’t have the same ring to it though.

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@@leholen381 It does if Preußens Gloria is played in the background ;)

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This is the most impartial and objective video on the Battle of Waterloo I've seen!

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[@heraldtim]

"It's over, Napoleon. I have the high ground." - the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo. Thanks for another fantastic video!

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He did make a video about them and if I'm not mistaken its on Biographics or Today I found out..

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I love the way this channel boils history down to its essence. Frankly, I would tend to avoid anything over 30 minutes. People who are fans of military history can find more detail elsewhere. I am very happy with this channel's ability to tell only the essentials and why that battle is considered so important.

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Two years later and they still have not made a video explaining how Britain lost the Empire after “winning” two world wars. And they will never make it.

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One of my favourite battles in history, love your channels, should do a biographics video about Wellington

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Napoleon couldn't win the campaign even if he had won the battle decisively. The Allies (or whatever we call them) were simply too powerful and unified around the deposing him. He would have had to bat 1000 in perpetuity to stay in power. Impossible, even for a genius. His Empire was lost in Russia. Everything after that was the twitching of its corpse.

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His biggest flaws were in display post Russia. He was probably the most egotistical and vain general ever hence the battle of Waterloo. People had been paying attention and studying him and his methods since Austerlitz. He had large body of work to study and really didn't change much. Granted they copied him to the letter, the entire Corp system is his invention.

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The Austrians being a next door neighbor would crush the not so grand armee with the army of Bohemia

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I’d argue that the empire and his throne were still his after Russia All he had to do was leave Germany and Italy to the allies and retreat with the army into France The allies would have sued for peace and they could have worked out a treaty that kept France powerful but not too powerful But Napoleon couldn’t stand the idea of losing his empire in Europe and kept refusing the coalitions peace offers

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Seconded. Even if he had crushed all his enemies in Waterloo, his empire just would have died another day - and that ABBA song would have had another name.

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@@benjackson91 Considering Napoleon had a vastly superior army Wellington did a brilliant job holding him up, equal armies and Wellington wouldn't need the Prussians

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5:50 Thats wrong, it wasnt the divide and conquer, it was the defeat in detail. Because he , even if those forces were split, they were never supposed to march as one anyway, was still good at beating numerically superiour feos.

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“That night at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender.” So that’s what happened. Love your videos.

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While I vaguely know of this battle, I didn't know much about it in general so this certainly been an eye opener for me, I know more about the later battles of the world wars than the ones that came before!!

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What a wonderful video Simon! Here’s a recommendation: Svalbard the Norwegian arctic archipelago. Lots of history there!

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We've all heard of the battle of Waterloo, but this the most in depth explanation of it that I've ever seen or heard

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Fantastic presentation by Simon Whistler.

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Loved the transition to the dashlane add. Well done

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Wellesley was made Viscount Wellington after the battle of Talavera in 1812. He wasn’t made a duke until 1814, after Waterloo.

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Great work Wellington! I love your beef

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I like when they broke into that little fort a few were trapped inside and killed. I like that a little drummer boy rushed in to battle with them lol

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Wonderful analysis. Thank you.

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Awesome! I’ve shared this with my kids. I’d love to see a similar video on The Battle of Trafalgar.

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"Why u all standing there like a frightening children?!" "Now maitland!. Now its your time!" "On my children!, on!"

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Thank you so much for this video quite concise!

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How about the battle of Poltava next? Another empire ending one.

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I really enjoyed that. It was a surreal place to visit. Can’t fathom the amount of death in one small group of buildings and farm land.

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1:10 - Chapter 1 - Napoleon 3:25 - Chapter 2 - Wellington & blucher 5:05 - Chapter 3 - Battle plans 6:20 - Chapter 4 - Battles of quatre bras & ligny 7:55 - Chapter 5 - Battle begins 10:00 - Mid roll ads 10:50 - Chapter 6 - Escalation 12:25 - Chapter 7 - Charge of the household gallery 14:00 - Chapter 8 - French cavalry assault 15:55 - Chapter 9 - Arrival of the prussians 18:05 - Chapter 10 - Destruction of the french army

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Excellent explanation and presentation. Thankyou

[@EvenWaysMusic]

Fun fact: There were about 161 British canons at Waterloo. HMS Victory alone carried 104 guns at Trafalgar! And they were all much larger! Just imagine the noise.

[@jonathanallard2128]

Fun fact: There were about 3800 muskets at Trafalgar. The French 4th division of the 1st Corps alone had 4000 at Waterloo and they were all concentrated! Just imagine the noise.

[@TrifinThomas]

Great video! Small mistake towards the end, europe did see war again before WWI. The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 was a key ingredient of the tensed relations between germany an france that later escalated and made france get involved in the first world war. Some even argue that the treaty of Versailles was in some aspect a sort of retaliation for the treaty of Frankfurt that was signed at the end of the 1870 war and saw France lose part of its territory and pay a hefty war indemnity

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1870 was Between 2 countries on the Franco-Prussian border and lasted less than a year, effecting only those two nations the Napoleonic wars and the First World War were multi national , multi year ,

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"the old guard dies it does not surrender"

[@BaronSamedi1959]

But it actually did surrender at Waterloo.

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Routes off the field*

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@@BaronSamedi1959 nope, it died protecting the retreat. The elements of the guards that were beatten were of the young and middle guard.

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MERDE!

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[@mileshigh1321]

Thank you for this great explanation of an important piece of history! There is a museum in Montreal, Canada that has Napoleon memorabilia including one of his hats, and a boot, and some of his furniture!

[@kathyastrom1315]

There was more Canadian participation in the Napoleonic Wars than I first thought. I have two 5th great granduncles from New Brunswick who supposedly fought at Waterloo after fighting in the War of 1812. I am waiting to hear back from the provincial archives on assistance for the research in verifying that information.

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There's a Napoleon hat in Le Procope restaurant in Paris as well.

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This better feature Whistler covering the ABBA song.

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Richard Glen You know what? That’s good enough for me!

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Thanks Simon, you told it straight

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Love these videos! Very educational and unbiased

[@GauntsTanith]

An excellent video, well done! Have you ever thought of doing a video about the Battle of Red Cliffs?

[@peronik349]

about grouchy and his absence on the battlefield ; it is said that the marshal would have been late because he had not finished his dessert (strawberries with sugar) when the battle had already started

[@albussr1589]

The story I connect with Waterloo is that of two horses: Napoleon´s white arabian stallion Marengo and Wellington´s chestnut Copenhagen. Marengo, who had carried Napoleon into battles like Austerlitz, Jena and Wargram and survived the russian campain, was captured that day and brought to England. He was said to be brave and one of his hooves was turned into a tabacco box - after his death, of course. Copenhagen was a chestnut thoroughbred and said to always greet every unit with an enthusiastic neigh. He was also known to kick if someone got too close. What I find most impressive is that the day before the battle, Wellington rode him from 10 am an to 8 pm with almost no interruption, then spend nearly 15 hours in the saddle on the 18th, constantly on the move. And yet, when he got off afterwards, Copenhagen still had enough energy to kick out and almost hit him.

[@jacktattis]

I think Wellington had him buried on his country estate

[@albussr1589]

@@jacktattis He did!

[@jacktattis]

Reminds me of a Australian Light Horse Bill the Bastard Always bucked when his owner got on always, except for when he carried 3 or 4 soldiers from the Battlefield I think two extra on his back and two men with one foot in the stirrups with the rider holding on to them I dont know what happened to Bill Only one horse was brought home That was General Harry Chuavels mount.

[@LexieLPoyser]

*makes a quick passing glance at the screen, see Waterloo and immediately thinks "This isn't the one in Iowa, nothing happens in Iowa."*

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I love all these videos! I always learn so much!

[@anthonyhartley6098]

excellent video as always

[@cassandraralph5906]

Very interesting and educational video, I learned something new today again! Thank you!

[@Morbos1000]

Nice timing on this. I'm currently listening to a podcast on the history of the French Revolution and they are just now getting to the rise of Napoleon. Now I just need something to cover the history of the main part of his rule!

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Try Epic history tv, the Napoleon series!

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@@mulapare2593 best series ever!

[@jamiegodwin3070]

An extremely accurate video. Nicely Simon

[@PiersLawsonBrown1972]

The film Waterloo is also one of the best and accurate films ever made

[@nathanlowe5346]

The film Waterloo may be accurate, but it's not a good film by any means.

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It is not good. It is jolly good!

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You should check out the channel History Buffs. He researches the accuracy of historical movies. Waterloo is of course one of them

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@@nathanlowe5346 you must be blind

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It is a fantastic film! Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer played Napoleon and Wellington superbly. Very accurate film and superbly made.

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Here I am learning more at work from this guy than any teacher in any of my schools

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Keep it up Simon. Good content, good humor. Yes, believe it or not, some of us Yanks actually enjoy your British humor!

[@Irondrone4]

Wait, I thought Waterloo was a water park near where that Wyld Stallyns band got started.

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“Be excellent to each other, and... PARTY ON DUDE!!!!”

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Station!

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We're Not WORTHY!!!!

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Pretty sure Simon has been a better Teacher than all my teachers put together... I've learned so much, and I always catch myself telling my friends the shit I learn in this videos lol

[@ajthorn]

One thing to note about 11:30 - La Haye Sainte was defended by 6 Companies of the 2nd Light Battalion, KGL, 1 Company of the 1st Light Battalion, KGL, and 1 Company of the 95th Rifles, its misleading to describe the defence as being performed by the "Kings German Legion", since they consisted of Riflemen, Line Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery, as well as the 95th not being KGL.

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I do love the videos guys and i see through your own commercials Simon Whistler , but still we have to see the other adds thats not right .... U could do commercial any day haha and id be joyful (keep in mind that i hate hate hate commercials :P ) Thanks again for great videos .

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Hey man, I love your videos I follow pretty much all of your channels. I was hoping to maybe get a video on the Franklin expedition. if not, it’s cool I’m gonna put it out there. Keep great history, videos comments.

[@lindamlacombe62]

Awesome 😎 I studied the Battle of Waterloo in school but not in any detail. This rounded out my education on that bit of history! 👍🏼

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Good piece. Well done. 👍🏻

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We’ve all been where Grauchy was…’Sweet, the boss has delegated me for a road trip. I can bludge today’

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Any chance of a video on the charge of the light brigade????? Loved this and all your videos

[@vinak963]

I wouldn't really describe Waterloo as a battle that ended an empire...more like putting it out of its misery.

[@jonathanallard2128]

Napoleonic France was in misery??

[@vinak963]

@@jonathanallard2128 ...do you not know what happened just prior to Waterloo?

[@ginne7268]

Finally someone who knows it stuff . The most Brits think that Wellingtons army were only British but actually there were 6 armies under Wellington : The British ( 25000) , royal German legion ( 6000), the Prussians( 60000 but 48000 came in action at 18:00 hours) , the Dutch (17000) , the Hannover (11000) the Brunswick ( 6000) and the Nassau (3000) armies all approximately . It was a coalition not one country. One little correction it was Col. Detmers who did a bajonet charge on the mid garde and broke the old garde.

[@lesdodoclips3915]

Almost no Brit thinks that. It’s a myth to say otherwise

[@ginne7268]

@@lesdodoclips3915 after 9 years of studie the battle of Waterloo i did discover more things that are unknown to 99% of the people . All in all i can say that this was a very complicated battle that can't be portrayed in a movie. After 9 years studie i still don't know a lot of things.

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Imagine fighting an entire battle and suffering over 60,000 casualties just for an ABBA song.

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or to name a Tube station

[@cbooc]

Thanks... history is cool.

[@rogerhinman5427]

21:00 What about the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) and the Crimean War (1853-1856)?

[@pokiparkassistent]

Roger Hinman why you call it franco prussian war when it was the franco german war as the german kaiserreich was already founded

[@spikespa5208]

Bad to be sure, but still mostly localized, short, and/or relatively remote to Europe.

[@stevenwebb3634]

@@pokiparkassistent it has always been called the Franco-Prussian War

[@pokiparkassistent]

Steven Webb but not in Germany. Because just before the franco prussian war started, Germany got united.

[@pokiparkassistent]

In germany its called deutsch französischer Krieg which translates to german french war

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[@RagsLighthouses]

Hulking French soldier breaking down the door with an axe. "Eleve sous-Officier Clegane, abattre ce mur!"