Sabaton - Long Live The King REACTION!

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  • Опубліковано 15 лис 2024

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  • @DarthNoox
    @DarthNoox 4 роки тому +190

    Karl XII of Sweden: *dies*
    People 300 years later: *cries*

    • @astorstiby1755
      @astorstiby1755 4 роки тому +1

      Fuck you

    • @gnz_0523
      @gnz_0523 4 роки тому +7

      @@astorstiby1755 bruh

    • @nathantorresstanevil6958
      @nathantorresstanevil6958 3 роки тому

      @@gnz_0523 Must be an Swede who's angry because nobody was upset for 300 years

    • @nathantorresstanevil6958
      @nathantorresstanevil6958 3 роки тому

      @KriegLord typo. I hate my phones keyboard lol. Its always the same words I make typos on

    • @raggarbergman
      @raggarbergman Рік тому +1

      Because it was pretty much the end of the Swedish Empire. Today we are kind of the laughing stock of the world, but back then we were feared and respected.

  • @HistoryNerd808
    @HistoryNerd808 4 роки тому +135

    Nobody knows, Billy, because it was war. The fog of war covers a lot of things, even here in the US. Same reason that no one knows who fired "The Shot heard 'round the world" at Lexington.
    P.S. He's known to history as Charles XII, Carolus is just his Latin name.

    • @hullmees666
      @hullmees666 4 роки тому +22

      CARL XII, the anglo world calls him charles. i have always hated the changing of the kings' names.

    • @MyenaVT
      @MyenaVT 4 роки тому +5

      Plus it was during a siege in the middle of the night.

    • @chesterzimmerman1479
      @chesterzimmerman1479 4 роки тому +2

      dont forget a true secret why didnt lee take the high ground at gettysburg even tho he knew it was empty

    • @lionfromthenorth4580
      @lionfromthenorth4580 4 роки тому +7

      The king obviously refused to keep his head down... He was a soldier as well as a king.

    • @tntfreddan3138
      @tntfreddan3138 4 роки тому +6

      @@lionfromthenorth4580 Well respected as well, both by his men and by his enemies. He was with the men and dug the trenches, cleaned muskets and rapiers. He took a lot of the heavier duties for himself, and thus earned the respect of his own men. Many leaders weren't respected by their own men. But Carl was very well respected.

  • @erlandvonhofsten3970
    @erlandvonhofsten3970 4 роки тому +111

    Karl the 12th was shot in the temple in Norway 1718 at 36 years old. He had been crowned king at 15 and fought of most of northern Europe for the past 21 years of his reign. Some claim the shot was fired by an enemy sharpshooter, others that it was an assasination from within his own ranks.

    • @peo4989
      @peo4989 4 роки тому +4

      Yeah the sharpshooter theory is way off. No rifle at that time could hit that target at that range.

    • @erlandvonhofsten3970
      @erlandvonhofsten3970 4 роки тому +12

      @@peo4989 Well it wasnt necessarly fired from that long a range and he was at the very front. There is also a theory that it could have been grapeshot but as the song says we will never know for sure.

    • @Rattlepiece
      @Rattlepiece 4 роки тому +6

      @@peo4989 He was at the frontline against all his generals and staff's advice. For that very reason.

    • @peo4989
      @peo4989 4 роки тому

      @@erlandvonhofsten3970 he was approx 125-150 metres from the fort and any enemy watchman would need to dustinguish the king at thst distance. Then fire accurately the rifles at that time were not even accurate 90 metres away

    • @ashleycroydon9743
      @ashleycroydon9743 4 роки тому +1

      Life time of War 💯❤️

  • @peo4989
    @peo4989 4 роки тому +75

    BTW as a Swede i can say this. Karl XII had enemies that had taken control in the capital when the king was forced to retreat to Turkey after invasion of Russia and after battle of Poltava. The ruling council in Sweden saw it troublesome to continue the war because Russian warships encroached on Swedens trade routes and shores. Even though Swedish and sometimes british/dutch navies helped. When the cat is away the rats rules and dance the table is the saying and that what happened in Swedish politics. Despite Karl XII instituted great tax reforms which we use to this day etc and made farmers excempt from taxes for their contributions to the state etc. The rich and powerful had dealings with Russians. When king Karl XII returned to Sweden and raised an army to achieve a better peace settlement by removing danish influence over scandinavian neighbour Norway Karl XII recieved several messengers from Stockholm. Most likely one of these emissaries fired a pistol at the king on his routine observings of the danish fort. This happened in the dark so its IMPOSSIBLE for an enemy watchman to take aim and fire that accurately when king Charles observed from the trenches. The weird thing is the "bullet" that was used to kill the king was made out of a meltdown button from a soldiers uniform. The saying said over the course of the war that king Charles XII was "too hard to shoot" because he had been in the front of many battles leading the cavalry on scouting and in charges and had recieved alot of bullet shots but none had pierced his skin except from a bullet he took to the foot prior the one only battle he ever lost POLTAVA. So bear with me....Basically an assassin would take the legend for true and meltdown a soldiers button and use it to kill the king CLOSE UP.

  • @fallenknighttyler8695
    @fallenknighttyler8695 2 роки тому +7

    He was killed at night during a siege, if I remember correctly he was observing the area when musket ball hit him through the temple.
    Militarily he was actually really skilled and at that time the Swedish army was one of the best in the world seeing a lot of success in the Great Northern War.

  • @cytorakdemon
    @cytorakdemon 4 роки тому +5

    Carolus was a people's person in the army. He slept in the barracks, he patrolled camps, stood guard in watch towers.
    During a siege, he was there in the trenches. And it scared the hell out of his officers, his final words were "don't be afraid" and as he looked over the trench a musket ball flew through his head.
    Was he shot by an enemy sharpshooter or by someone in his own army either by accident or on purpose to end the war? They haven't been able to find hard evidence, and they've apparently dug him up three times to examine his skull with the most recent being in 1917.
    We still don't know.

  • @carls8286
    @carls8286 4 роки тому +8

    Great reaction. Thanks. The Carolus Rex album deals with the wars in northern Europe during 16-1700 and is a fantastic piece of historic musical story telling. I love every note on this album. Its so well made.

  • @babyphoenix246
    @babyphoenix246 4 роки тому +14

    Sabaton - Lifetime of War or Ballad of Bull next please.

  • @dezraboudreau1871
    @dezraboudreau1871 2 роки тому +2

    So many of this band's songs bring me such emotion, especially the lyrics, "For their honor, for their glory
    For the men who fought and bled
    A soldier from Sweden remembers the dead." As one of Swedish ancestry and a veteran of the US Armed Forces, they make me cry.
    I definitely loved this reaction.

  • @reecedignan8365
    @reecedignan8365 4 роки тому +6

    If you want a good history on Carolus Rex, listen to more Sabaton song from the album, but also check out Extra Credits series on The Great Northern War and you’ll get a good history on him too

  • @DetectiveMelon
    @DetectiveMelon 4 роки тому +16

    Love the Sabaton reaction as always! Can you please react to Hearts of Iron by them, it tells a very unknown story from the end of World War 2 that I want to see your reaction to.

  • @Gelathius
    @Gelathius 4 роки тому +31

    Billy please react to screaming eagles by sabaton(music video) really good and upbeat sabaton song!

    • @Hussein1440
      @Hussein1440 4 роки тому +1

      Smoking snakes is a better one

    • @Gelathius
      @Gelathius 4 роки тому +2

      @@Hussein1440 zero fucks given

  • @reycvik
    @reycvik 3 роки тому

    this song really brings me to cry

  • @binboh
    @binboh 4 роки тому +5

    My boys Sabaton! Thank you for reacting to them :)

  • @ingvartorma9789
    @ingvartorma9789 Рік тому

    Sabaton is a Swedish Power Metal band from Falun, which was formed in 1999. The band's songs are inspired by various historical wars. Even the band name is military inspired, as Sabaton is also the name of the part of the armor that covers the foot.
    As you can see above, Sabaton make music ONLY about historical wars and nothing else as you mentioned about these mass shootings, Covid-19 and other things, you've got the back foot that they sing about everything that happened historically, but only about war, that's therefore their stage clothes consist of camouflage pants.

  • @combine_1028
    @combine_1028 4 роки тому +3

    Check out this awesome song by civil war: march across the belts and these sabaton songs: 1648, long live the king and ruina imperii.

  • @bhight100
    @bhight100 4 роки тому +7

    I really want to see you react to Creepy Pasta Russian sleep experiment, that's some messed up stuff, and not impossible to believe.

  • @peo4989
    @peo4989 4 роки тому +13

    You will probably not read this :) but nice reaction, cheers and hug from Sweden a bro hug that is :). I would really suggest you cheack out Caroleans prayer with Sabaton but in the swedish version :). Also killing ground is an awesome song.

    • @user-zk1ic1gb5i
      @user-zk1ic1gb5i 4 роки тому +1

      I would say Lifetime of war is one of the most moving and impactful songs on the album.

  • @jespergran7628
    @jespergran7628 3 роки тому

    got that picture as painting at home! long live karl the 12th

  • @tntfreddan3138
    @tntfreddan3138 4 роки тому +1

    Carl XII of Sweden was shot in the head during the Siege of Fredrikshald in Halden, Norway, in 1718. He was one of the best military masterminds through history, up there with, if not surpassing, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn, The Lion From the North (Gustaf II Adolf/Gustavus Adolphus. aka the inventor of modern warfare), Arthur Wellesley, etc.
    It began with Poland-Lithuania invading from the south into Livonia and laying siege to Riga. The Poles had 14 000 men but the Swedes counterattacked and the Poles were shattered and their general laid dead. They were now in full retreat back across the border.
    Then the Danes attacked. Carl XII raised money from all across the empire to fund the military and personally lead (at 17 years old) an army to conquer Denmark. He made Denmark capitulate in 1 single month, doing what no other Swedish king before him has been able to do, so quickly.
    In November 1700 (Carl is now 18 years old) Tsar Peter I decided that it was a good idea to invade Swedish Estonia and try to take Narva. Narva had a garrison of 1800 men and only a few artillery pieces. The Russians numbered 40 000 men, entrenched, with multiple artillery pieces. Carl XII had just lead a beach landing against the Poles and Saxons and marched 150 miles just to face the Russians at Narva. Carl was outnumbered 4:1. 18 000 Russians were slaughtered on the battlefield or drowned in the river due to the bridge collapsing. But being outnumbered was going to be sort of a common scene in the war for the Swedes as most battles they were outnumbered at least 2:1 but still didn't lose a single major battle until 1709 at Poltava where 20 000 sick, exhausted, sleep deprived and starved Swedish soldiers met the Russian elite, numbering 40 000. But even so, at the beginning of the battle and into the middle stages it actually looked like the Swedes might win the battle. The Russians were retreating in panic but rallied by the tsar himself. It ended with 18 000 dead Swedes and a king that got shit in the foot. Had the leadership of the Swedish forces not been conflicted (since the king was injured with a musket ball in his foot and rule was left to the two generals Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt who didn't agree on what to do) the Swedes would have a considerably high chance of winning or being able to fall back and regroup to live to fight another day.

  • @henrikgafvert5983
    @henrikgafvert5983 4 роки тому +4

    Well, they don't know who killed Carolus/Carl the XII, it's speculated that one of his own soldiers killed him or it could have been one of the enemy. All they know he was killed at night while besieging the fortress Halden.

  • @zacharyipsaro4936
    @zacharyipsaro4936 4 роки тому +2

    Hey Billy, I think you should really do a video on Sabaton's song Union. It's a personal favorite of mine even if it is one of their lesser known and less popular songs. The song is very triumphant and is about the allied nations bringing an end to the battle of Monte Cassino during the Italian Campaign of World War 2, which I personally think is cool cuz I like learning about history and the Italian Theater dosen't get much attention.

  • @imperialviking2817
    @imperialviking2817 4 роки тому

    New evidence that came out just this year points to it being a bullet shot from the norwegian side. Meaning he wasnt killed by his own. So good timing on this one!

  • @ancientmingyu0604
    @ancientmingyu0604 4 роки тому

    SABATON - GHOST DIVISION
    You will never understand the true raw energy and power Sabaton has and is able to induce to a crowd until you watch the live video of “Ghost Division” at Woodstock in Poland back in 2012 where they brought a crowd of over 650.000 Europeans, including Polish and French, to jam their heads in circles to a song about the 7th German Panzer division.

  • @calebturner405
    @calebturner405 4 роки тому +2

    Love this song. You gotta listen to Carolus Rex, To Hell and Back, The Last Stand, and their cover of Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God. I don't care if you do a reaction, just listen to those songs. They're nuts

  • @keithcook9699
    @keithcook9699 4 роки тому +2

    Should react to Sabaton Sparta or White Death.

  • @eduardklima5698
    @eduardklima5698 4 роки тому

    Most recent topic of Sabaton songs: Panzer Batalion (Operation Iraqi Freedom), light in the black (UN peace keepers), We burn (wars in former Yugoslavia (1991-2001)) and Reign of terror (Operation Desert Storm).

  • @gamergoblin69
    @gamergoblin69 4 роки тому

    Poor Carolus
    No one knew about him until 30p years later..

  • @PetterVessel
    @PetterVessel 4 роки тому

    The newest and most certain theory is that the sweedish king got killed by a cannistershot, fired from the norwegian side. They had a examination of his remains few years ago, to find out if the diametre of the bullet hole in the skull matched the swedish or norwegian rifle calibre. It' was neither.

  • @donaldhillman4943
    @donaldhillman4943 4 роки тому

    This is Country Music -- Brad Paisley,Doug Supernaw - I Don't Call Him Daddy,Aaron Lewis Grandday's gun,blake shelton austin

  • @Fuilleverte
    @Fuilleverte 4 роки тому

    Full story of Carolus Rex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden
    Check the section under Death

  • @chesterzimmerman1479
    @chesterzimmerman1479 4 роки тому +3

    please do belemy brothers just an old hippie in dedication to my dad who move out to get a job for our family

  • @cpt7486
    @cpt7486 4 роки тому +1

    More Sabaton!

  • @bettyblue1465
    @bettyblue1465 3 роки тому +1

    I might be wrong but Carolus was 15

  • @animatedink2529
    @animatedink2529 3 роки тому

    The tragedy of Carlous Rex's death reminds me a LOT of Robb Stark from Game of Thrones to the point I'm almost certain George RR. Martin based Robb off the Swedish king. Both were young when they took the crown, both were excellent military commanders and good men but unfortunately not very good kings and both died young, Robb definitely betrayed by his men and Carlous likely also suffered the same fate.

  • @Fill256
    @Fill256 4 роки тому +1

    Sabaton - Poltava - is great song about the greatest fail of this king.
    But I think 40:1 live would be more interesting :D

  • @brandenvorak3340
    @brandenvorak3340 4 роки тому +3

    cledus t judd every light in the house is blown reaction plz

  • @Wenchework
    @Wenchework 4 роки тому +2

    This,Bismark and Wolfpack is best of Sabaton,from norway and yes it was debeted if sweeds or norwigans killed Charles the 12

  • @supersublimegenki9432
    @supersublimegenki9432 4 роки тому +2

    Well, Carolus was shot in the head in the dead of the night, honestly could’ve been a stray bullet

  • @danielnystrom7310
    @danielnystrom7310 4 роки тому +1

    Karolius rex (karolius king) karl XII of sweden. He had a few more names that i cant remember...
    Lissen to sabatons in the name of God, thats kind of what happens today in a sad and dissgusting way

  • @user-zk1ic1gb5i
    @user-zk1ic1gb5i 4 роки тому

    Billy, please react to Sabaton- Lifetime of wae. it's so impactful and while it's about the aftermath of the thirty years war, the message still holds true to today. the Swedish version is even more impactful, this is a song i think you'll appreciate even more because you're a veteran.

  • @chesterzimmerman1479
    @chesterzimmerman1479 4 роки тому

    past history i more song worthy than modern snorefest history but all history is written down and respected

  • @danielnystrom7310
    @danielnystrom7310 4 роки тому +1

    He got murderd in norway 30 november. 301 years ago this year. Still no one know who shot him.

    • @merkavamkivm3373
      @merkavamkivm3373 4 роки тому +1

      This is said in the line "Killed by his own or by foes?"

    • @danielnystrom7310
      @danielnystrom7310 4 роки тому

      @@merkavamkivm3373 well. No one knows, the castle was infront of him and he got shot behind the ear. So probably someone sick of war...

  • @brendaortiz2203
    @brendaortiz2203 4 роки тому

    Hey Billy, been a long time. Hope you and your family are doing well. I wanted to ask you to play a Kenny Rogers song- ... "Ruby, don't take your love to town. It's really A sad song about a soldier that got wounded in the war. Thank you Billy. Peace ✌

  • @pokitu73
    @pokitu73 4 роки тому

    Sabaton uprising

  • @cigonasnigga8693
    @cigonasnigga8693 4 роки тому

    The 6 dislikes are probably bicues he easnt crying like crazy but he was saying aw man.

  • @revan_alva2077
    @revan_alva2077 4 роки тому

    Billy they themselves explain the stories behind the song in the Sabaton history channel check them out

  • @ChloePrice1994
    @ChloePrice1994 4 роки тому

    Would love to see you react to "Washed by blood" By Brian Head Welch.

  • @KaNoMikoProductions
    @KaNoMikoProductions 4 роки тому +1

    "Ka-roh-les"

  • @rampartwarrior6213
    @rampartwarrior6213 4 роки тому

    If you want something more recent i would suggest sabaton panzer battalion

    • @SayaViking
      @SayaViking 4 роки тому

      If you mean a song that was released more recently, then no, Panzer Battalion was released several years prior. If you mean a more recent event in history, then yes. Though I think the albums after Metalizer are better.

  • @Gelathius
    @Gelathius 4 роки тому +1

    They have already said they wouldn't do modern history because how controversial it is as they had made a more modern one and it didn't go very well

    • @MrJamesBanana
      @MrJamesBanana 4 роки тому +2

      For anyone interested, Panzer Battalion was recorded after Bush declared victory in Iraq. Turned out the war is still ongoing.

  • @ilikedogs1587
    @ilikedogs1587 4 роки тому +1

    Billy can you react to Brad Paisley's new song it's called - no I in beer

  • @hunterdivert3689
    @hunterdivert3689 4 роки тому

    Hey billy have you react to camoflage sorry my spelling!

  • @britneyfanvideosfl
    @britneyfanvideosfl 4 роки тому

    Bro! Check out Haley Orrantia- find yourself somebody! She's on the show the Goldbergs

  • @tonynomikos3702
    @tonynomikos3702 4 роки тому

    Please do midway by sabaton great song

  • @Anderssea69
    @Anderssea69 3 роки тому

    It was a "Coup d'état"

  • @heeman1203
    @heeman1203 4 роки тому

    If you want songs about contemporary events, they already have a song about terrorism called "In The Name Of God".

  • @brandonjodrey2319
    @brandonjodrey2319 4 роки тому

    I Hope By Gabby Barrett Featuring Charlie Puth

  • @bumblebeeyellowdragon
    @bumblebeeyellowdragon Рік тому

    It's pronounced Ca-lor-us.

  • @B12BENNETT
    @B12BENNETT 2 роки тому

    LEVE CAROLUS

  • @breesusjesus9207
    @breesusjesus9207 4 роки тому

    Great video. Please react to devil in i by slipknot. Also I recommend to react to the non music video version cause it's to distracting.

  • @andrewr.cornelius4490
    @andrewr.cornelius4490 4 роки тому

    React to hillbilly moon explosion

  • @domthespecialist
    @domthespecialist 4 роки тому

    react to the t pain mashup pls
    like if he should

  • @Thebaseline2024
    @Thebaseline2024 4 роки тому

    React to fozzy Judas

  • @jricks9824
    @jricks9824 4 роки тому

    you need to midway

  • @chriselyea2545
    @chriselyea2545 4 роки тому

    Watch Sabaton History Channel!!!!!!!!!

  • @doctorchaotic3415
    @doctorchaotic3415 4 роки тому

    There is a song about the future event billy,In the Name Of God is about the terrorism today.
    Its a good song but i dont think ISIS deserve such a good song from Sabaton though 😅

    • @cameron4562
      @cameron4562 4 роки тому

      Came out before ISIS was the threat it turned into. So more for Al Qaeda or the Taliban, though the Taliban were known to only operate in their home country.

  • @Ultras1907
    @Ultras1907 4 роки тому

    The Swedish version is better.

  • @kingkraut4692
    @kingkraut4692 Рік тому

    He was 100% killed by one of his own. If you read about it and the "coup" that happened after and how a new king from a new line got to power after they forced his sister to abducate and the new king gave the nobels more power because of his death etc. A man also confessed to killing him, he shouted it from his window out to the streets because he couldnt bare the guilt, but then the nobels with new found power said he was sick and delerious. Also, the bullet goes from temple to temple, someone put a gun to his head and shot. The fortress was on a hill looking down the trenches, for the bullet to go temple throught temple the king m ust have had his head in a REALLY weird position. You can also look up photos from his skull, the exit wound is on the wrong side.
    AND a person told a priest he had the "bullet" that killed the king but it was not a bullet, it was a copper button from one of the swedes uniforms. The priest told him to throw it away and never speak of it again. They also couldnt find any traces of lead in the kings skull. To many coincidences imo.

  • @tommyandersson4911
    @tommyandersson4911 Рік тому

    hope u do not play jokes of our Swedish history and Carolus rex! Americans have there own history and we have our own. -do not plz play jokes at Swedish history. Hope soon Sweden will take care of our own history