Reacting to the Napoleonic Wars - Oversimplified (Part 1)
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Hello! I'm an American on a quest to learn more about history, geography and the universe in general. In this video I take a different look at Napoleon and his takeover of Europe - this time a little more simplified. After going through Epic History TV's version of the Napoleonic Wars, and some of their Marshals series, I'm looking forward to seeing if I learn anything new, or how much I remember! If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
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Looks like I'm the only one here. I got an exclusive First view before everyone else.
Hey can u pls react to armchair historians video on crimean war pls?, they animate their videos and the video is really interesting and cool, and would love to see your reaction.
Oversimplified's War of the Bucket is sorta about the Holy Roman Empire (Also the joke about them is that the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and Certainly not an Empire)
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Napoleon came from an " Impoverished Noble" family. Basically a family of peers who had run out of cash, but kept the rank and position in society.
meaning more than half the nobility
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Exactly, nobility didn't necessarily mean wealth.
Exactly. In Britain we had John de Courcy, 35th Baron Kingsale (1941-2005). He ended up working as a lorry driver and oddjob man after his grandfather ran up massive gambling debts.
especially complicated in france given folks could buy their way into it and the number of different kinds that all operated under different laws. There was an Ancien Regime joke that no French Citizen lived under the same laws because of how bonkers the overlapping jurisdictions were.
22:30 the country was Hanover whose kings where also the Kings of England Hanover became Independent however when Queen Victoria became Queen and since Hanover did not allow women to rule Hanover was give. To her uncle.
Well that worked out for the best for Hannover, otherwise they likes would have ended up being fought over by Britain and Prussia.
Semi-ironically its where I was born (I'm British with British parents, my dad was in the army overseas at the time).
That's cool lol
The expeditions in Egypt made the country known all over the world. He brought with him scientists and writers who wrote the first books read in Europe about the incredible Egypt. Also, he stole many artefacts that are still in the Louvre museum today. It was one of the first real archeological expedition
the german state you were wondering about is Hanover who had the same royal family as the UK at the time
the small area in Europe is Hanover and was part of Great Britain as we shared a king, George III eg farmer george
It would be impossible for Hannover to be a part of Great Britain as Great Britain is an island separated from continental Europe by the English Channel.
@@Oxley016 King George was King of Hanover so it was Part of his realm
@@jensmaas555 I know that and I did not deny that fact. My point still stands.
@@Oxley016 but what was your point...I don't understand what you mean
@@nedeast6845 Well it's all rather simple really, I explained it in my first reply.
Brienne Military academy was administered by monks of the order of St. Benedict, the school in Champagne received 60 pupils (known as ‘pensionnaires’) from moneyed families and 60 scholarship boys chosen from amongst the poor aristocracy. Napoleon was one of the latter sort and received a bursary from the crown to finance his education. Having a hereditary title, which may have been granted hundreds of years ago didn't mean you necessarily had any money.
Under French Royal rule, the relative lack of meritocracy combined with Napoleon's independent personality would likely have ensured he'd never have risen to any real power unless the King rewarded him for some exceptional military effort.
25:03 man seeing ur reaction on the guilotined made me question myself on how i got used to so much graphic stuff lol
watching and learning about all the stuff that happend the Guillotine just seems like a normal and not so bad thing
A descendant of the Halifax gibbet 🙂
Well, french kids learn about the guillotine and all that stuff pretty early on. Like at 11 or 12.
@@noquarter9700 In that age we Germans have first lessons about our not so glorious History with 14-15 we will visit one of the death camps Dachau in my case so no sparing us there either
That’s not a common reaction to a cartoon.
Napoleon is the kind of person that's such an unstoppable force that, even if the French revolution never happened i believe that he'd find a way to be relevant and write his name in history in a big way. Maybe not as emperor of France, but still I'm sure he'd be renowned.
I agree.
6.45 the fact that you are a noble family doesn't mean that you financial well off.
If you don't have land with your title or very little, then the fact that you need to have a "noble lifestyle" with the expensives that brings, to keep your social status, can easily ruin you.
22:48, The red spot in Germany: It's Hannover. The Duke of Hannover and the King of Britain were the same person, since the Duke of Hannover inherited Britain in 1714.
Interesting Sarah's reaction to the head chopping..found out just the other day the last person was guillotined in 1977, pretty damn recent.
Lol at anglos thinking that Napoleon just did « some » good things. The majority of what he did was good to us, we still use a lot of his reforms here in France and even other countries took inspiration from his Napoleonic codes.
the metric system, which Americans still refuse to use....
Yeah, napoleon was VERY important in Brazil's history. When he invaded Portugal, the portuguese royal family fled to Brazil, and that build our path to our on independence.
AFAIK his actions were very regressive when it came to the French colonial empire.
They did a life size statue of Lord Nelson in London, stuck on the top of a column in Trafalgar Square. 18 feet 1 inches tall. About average height for British Sailors of the era.
They could also pluck cannonballs from the air with their teeth :P
Cricket was invented at this time by British sailors who batted cannonballs back to the French
he was shorther than napoleon
Napoleon also had more arms and eyes than nelson
@@miketriggs2156 This is turning into a schoolboy game of Top Trumps. Nelson was president of South Africa, Nelson never got exiled from Waterloos Watersplash Park in San Dimas.
Just a reminder that the 1970 Waterloo movie will make a fitting finale for your explorations of the Napoleonic wars
She should then watch History Buff's video about this movie.
That red little bit of Germany, allied with the UK, was the Electorate of Hanover, later upgraded to a kingdom. In 1714, after Queen Anne died with no surviving children, the heir to the British crown was the Elector of Hanover, who became King George I of Great Britain and Ireland. During the Napoleonic Wars, King George III was also the Elector of Hanover, ruling that bit of Germany.
9:12 - He would have to fight tooth and nail and most likely wouldn't be able to gather the support of enough people despite his genius for military command
Speed, the third of Napoleon's advantages, was actually more of a group effort than something that can be attributed to Napoleon alone.
Napoleon was a genius in battlefield tactics and strategy, but he was also very lucky that from the onset of his career, he had a very good working relation with his chief of staff. Berthier (we'll get to him in Marshals part 6) was just as much a genius in the art of logistics and planning as Napoleon was in the art of fighting battles.
I really think that guy doesn't get enough credit for the way Napoleon could move his armies across the continent with complete impunity.
I think I disagree. Napoleon is renowned as the best general ever in history, Berthier was amazing but napoleon was revolutionary
Its simple, having a noble name or title does not guarantee you wealth, there are plenty of examples in history of noble families losing their wealth, lands, and assets but maintaining a title of some sort. Now while these titles don't mean a lot of wealth on their own they can be used to gain favors, or get you access to something you wouldn't be able to normally. Its like a key that is good for certain doors.
During the Victorian Age rich industrialist would marry there children off to poorer members of the nobility in order to secure a title for their family.
6:47 It wasn’t uncommon for Noble families to be borderline bankrupt, often coasting by purely on social status rather than wealth. This might seem weird in this day and age, where wealth and social status are basically synonymous with each other, but it was radically different back in the 18th Centiries.
"Tactic of Nelson" first was used by Admiral Ushakov 25 years before Trafalgar during several Russo Turkish naval battles in Black Sea. And later Nelson saw it all, when he and Ushakov both fought French fleet in Mideterrenian.
Ushakov's great victories were against the Turks in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-92 when he did take single ships out of his battle line to fight the Turkish ships at close quarters, breaking their line and allowing his fleet to close with and destroy them.
But the first Admiral to take his entire fleet into close quarters was not Ushakov or Nelson but Admiral George Rodney whose British fleet defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Saintes in April 1782. Nelson was inspired by Rodney not Ushakov.
Ushakov and Nelson only met once, at Malta in 1800. Although both fought the French, they did not do so together.
He had the blood but not the money to back it up
most of the nobility was broke, this idea of privilege and nobility being together is a bourgeois myth
Napoleon was born the equivalent of high middle class. His dad was nobility but had to work.
As French. You got it right. His Family was in the middle class. Born in Corsica
When his dad died Napoleon took on his debt, it’s (his story) is still pretty rags to riches
If it wasn't for his power mania he was a great man. He loved science and helped that (including inventing the metric system). He introduced a lot of excellent reforms (the USA constitution was based on France).
About the red part in Germany relied with the UK it’s actually the electorate of Hanover which was basically the birth place of the British dynasty who was on the throne since 1714, they kept their titles and lands in Germany as well
Napoleon expected to either comit himself to the Ottoman Army, or raise Corsica against France, but he (not mentioned in the video) was an early supporter of the revolution, he become part of the Far-Left Jacobin club in 1791
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I think you are now ready to read On War by von Clausewitz. It puts the Napoleonic wars inperspective.
Congrats on the sponsorship, I’m glad to see your channel grow.
If you understand french, there's a ton of quality documentaries on UA-cam about specific moments in Napoleon's career and member of his family.
Napoleon went to Egypt because he wanted to seize the entrance to the Nile which was a crucial access area for British trade in India. He also wanted an opportunity to conquer the Middle East like his idol, Alexander the Great. It's a very interesting chapter in Napoleons life.
22:20 King George the 1st was Duke of Hannover and was chosen to become the King of England in 1714 as he was the closest relative to the deceased Queen Anne. He also was elector in the Holy Roman Empire. His son and grandson both named George inherited the crown of Britain and the Duchy of Hannover (until the latter became a principality and then a Kingdom in 1814). As such, Hannover was a loyal ally of Britain (although they were governed separately). Many Hannoverians would join the British army during the American revolution and the regiment of Hannover was created in 1803 and would fight against Napoleon until Waterloo as an expatriate German legion. The personal alliance ended in 1837.
Napoleon has over 3000 personal letters that have luckily been saved that are official which he was writing to people at the time. That is just from himself. The amount of first hand content we have from him is amazing, most of the more intiment issues with josephine for example is known because of those letters.
He's truly a fascinating character. There is a reason that no one compares queen Elizabeth, who came shortly after, to napoleon, even though she's ranked as one of the most influential figures.
Napoleon was simply one of THE influential people. If America didn't gain or independence, napoleon maybe never could have had the opportunities that he had.
But he did, and things like divorce law, peppery protection, alimony of a spouse deserves fair compensation, etc. are all civil law, which he basically managed in France which was so well made that it is what we still use even in America, such as "civil lawsuits"
It is such a underrated thing that napoleon gets credit for, even though (as he always written was his greatest achievement), its the single most impressive thing that differentiates him from anyone else
You have to remember the fact that EpicHistoryTV focuses on the Napoleonic Wars, from when he becomes Emperor in 1805 and onwards. But you’re right I would like to know more about his Italian and Egyptian campaigns too
The event in the St Cloud Palace (which doesn't exist anymore except for its gardens) is what you have heard of as the coup of 18th Brumaire.
That's one happy dog, huge smiles.
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To make a very complicated matter more simple, the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) was a political framework established by Charlemagne, with MANY different member states, each with varying degrees of high autonomy depending on when we’re talking about. Generally speaking, the emperor had little control over them. The heart of the empire was what is today Germany, but it also included northern Italy, Czechia, Burgundy, the Low Countries, and other neighboring areas at times. The emperor was elected by special appointed heads of member states called Elector Counts, so there were several dynasties leading the HRE until the Austrian Habsburgs formed an almost unbroken line of succession from the very late Middle Ages to its demise at the hands of Napoleon.
During the monarchy, French people were divided in the 3 "estates" : Clergy (priest etc) , nobility and the third estate (peasants, middle class etc in short all the people who were not noble or priest) => So you can be a noble but poor but still the rank of noble with all the benefits and in contrast you can be a very rich guy but not noble so you are in the third estate. So noble doesn't mean always rich and third estates doesn't mean always poor.
Napoleon's family were noble but "poor" or not very rich.
For finish, the "estates system" is not blocked => You can be born in the third estates and join the church or become noble because the king can give you a nobility title.
08:35 By the way, that refrence you keep hearing is most likely to Marquis De Lafayette, French aristocrat who fought and led troops in american revolution and later in both french revolution and july revolution. His close connections to George Washington and France earned him honorific "Hero of two worlds." His often only adressed by his title, because his real name Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier De Lafaytte is bit of a moutfull.
You'd think that De Lafayette would've been onboard with Napoleon, but it looks like he knew what his game was from the start: that Napoleon wished to become enlightened autorcrat rather than give chance of French having democracy or contitutional monarchy. De Lafayette kept being offered various positions by Napoleon's goverment, but he always refused, coming only out of retirement during Bourbon restoration.
13:57 This is also origin of Napoleon's nickname "'le petit caporal" or "little corporal". He held rank of a general, but put himself on harms way and took on duties micromanaging aspects of a war that would've been duties of that of non-comissioned officer.
Really loved the animations they made me chuckle.
16:25 - They didn't skip over it the Napoleonic Wars stafts when Napoleon becomes emperor (december 1804) not when he becomes first consul or essentially dictator (1799). Anything mentioned prior to december 1804 is not talked about in their series except for the siege of Toulon in 1793. A series on the Italian and Egyptian Campaigns is something i requested over there but they put up the vote for patreon so might not get chosen anytime soon. Its briefly mentioned in the marshals series btw.
Hello SoGal, Napoleon and Scarlett. For class system in a monarchy you could see Wandering Ravens on UK classes. The British king being Hanoverian may have come up in AWI studies as German troops were used, as per "Headless Horseman" - though I have mentioned the head thing now - think of a distraction - Scarlett fetch, mmm not sure that was a good idea.
There was a general discussion about it during Napoleonic era and after, 90% of the french people and overseas french were really happy about him. Not Louisiana who felt betrayed
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To answer your question. Napoleon would have been a writer if he hadn't joined the military. He wrote quite a few short stories and they were pretty bad. Even when he showed an old friend his new work, the friend advised him to rewrite the whole thing. He began to feel he was too incompetent to be a writer. So he started writing books on how muskets worked, how artillery worked, and military stuff. He did not become a writer.
That little part of modern day Germany is Part of Britain because sometime prior in the early 1700s one of the German Princes inherited the British throne and became the king of England while retaining the part of Germany that he was elector of.
This is why the British are sometimes called the Hanoverians.
That one red bit in Germany that seems to be allied with Britain is Hanover, the king of Britain was also the king of Hanover at the time.
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Thank you for this, also i think this is your first sponsor, so well done. Also the red part in the middle of modern day germany is hanover. Its allied with Britain because the royal house(family) of Britain was known as the hanoverian kings, George I was born there and only spoke german even though he was a british king, george II, george III and william IV and were part of the house of Hanover.
the part of Germany was in a royal union with the UK is Hannover, the the 4 king Georges were in charge of hannover before the uk and held onto it for a short period in history
The “little red bit” in Germany is the Kingdom (from 1814)/Electorate of Hanover/Hannover; on 1st August 1714 George, Elector of Hanover, had become George I of Great Britain/United Kingdom (from 1801), but remained Elector of Hanover. This meant the crowns of Great Britain/UK and Hanover were united until the death of William IV in 1837. Victoria was not allowed (being a woman) the throne of Hanover, so the Royals sent the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale to become a German. This is also why you will have noticed there were quite a lot of German soldiers about during the American War of Independence - George III was their king, too, therefore against you rebels.
i think the impoverished idea is his family was descended from nobles, but they were skint. I'm guessing his education with the military was effectively free
22:47 - That's Hanover. The British Royal Family descend from it's Monarch, Princess-Electress Sophia
Imagine napoleon is considered lower nobility in Hawaii right after it was annexed and he went to an American school in new York for the elites. His nobility was almost worthless in France at the time. It was almost a joke to his classmates.
Impoverished nobility was common in many parts of Europe, such as France, because inheritance was not governed by primogeniture. In Britain, the eldest son got everything when dad died, but in France, all the children got equal shares in the family fortune. So, in Britain, the wealth remained concentrated on one person each time a father died, while in France the family fortune was divided up into smaller and smaller amounts.
The ‘red’ state in Germany was the Electorate of Hanover (later the Kingdom of Hanover), which was in personal union with Britain. When Queen Anne died in 1714, the British crown passed to her closest relative, the Elector of Hanover, who became George I of Britain. The personal union ended in 1837 when Victoria became queen. Unlike Britain, Hanover had ‘Salic law’ barring females from becoming the monarch, so the Hanoverian crown then passed to her uncle Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland
6:47 - Minor Nobility is nobility who owns a small farm to sustain themselves and have some money left to pay for their sons education. The problem with this is that nobility is often associated with immeasurable wealth and that's not the case for all the nobility especially the minor nobility
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26:00 A little bit? The Napoleonic code is the basis for the legal systems of most of Europe to this day.
39:00 The best of Napoleon's Marshals is Bernadotte. When he changes side Napoleon crumbles.
A lot of nobility was pour. France didn't recognice every poor Corsican nobility. But Napoleons father, who was a lawyer, managed it in 1771. This meant, that Napoleon had the privileg to be educated in one of the kings military schools.
You get it more rightly than many of the others, but still, Napoleon was there because his father took debts to teach his son. Not because he was a noble or something. Besides the Military schools were cheaper than any other (for obious reasons)
That country you said is in red and in what is today Germany, was Hannover, a kingdom ruled by the same monarch as that of the United Kingdom
The Zen-learning method of studying Napoleon's campaigns really sold me! :D
that little red bit is Hannover which was in union with Britain for over 100 years
That red spot in the middle of germany is Hanover, at the time the king of the United Kingdom was also the king of Hanover so it was indirectly part of the United Kingdom at the time
22:58 Hannover as the king of England at the time was also the Elector count of Hannover 🙂
Epic History TV only covered the Napoleonic wars, which begin in 1805 and end in 1815.
They unfortunately didn't cover the war of the first coalition 1792-1797 (war of the coalition, Roussillon War and First Italian Campaign) as well as the War of the second coalition 1798-1802 (Campaigns of Holland, Switzerland, Egypt and Italy).
George the 1St of England had been Elector of Hanover beforehand. So the English/British Monarch ruled both until Queen Victoria
35:25 - the idea is there tbf didn't get it wrong at all. If you like this kind of video the war of the bucket video by oversimplified is the place to start
That red thing allied with the brits is Hannover
History does indeed repeat itself because, we dont learn from it or think we are better or different, that would never happen to us...
22:48 The Kingdom of Hannover was in personal union with England from 1714 to 1837. That means that King George III and George IV and Wiliham/Wilhelm IV were King of England and King of Hannover at the same time. The administration and all levels below were separate.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hanover
The Napoleonic war was in part the reason why Western Australia never became a French Colony. The French had explored much of WA before the English. The Explorers d'Entrecasteaux and Flinders met up off Southern WA and then parted ways without hostility during this time. Because France was a bit tight on cash during the wars they could not afford to claim and settle Western Australia. The English then claimed it and settled it. However that story also led to the whole West v East Australia thing which exists to this day, with Western Australia having a quite strong successionist sentiment just as it did at Federation and after it.
Yes I know the Dutch had already “claimed” WA with the plate on Dirk Hartog Island off Shark Bay.
SoGal's reaction to the births was priceless lol
The Epic History series picks up after Napoleon becomes Emperor, so you hadn't seen anything before that (except Toulon).
As for Hanover, the Dukes of Hanover inherited the throne of the UK in 1714 with George I, meaning the UK and Hanover were ruled in a "personal union" which is when two entities have the same monarch, but are politically separate (like England and Scotland before the Act of Union).
22:45 you ask about the small red bit of Germany? This is Hannover, a British owned (at the time) part of Germany. This was British as the Royal Family of Britain inherited the title through the Hannovarian nobles who intermarried with them.
That bit of Germany is Hanover which is where our current royal family comes from.
What shapes you in childhood, shapes you for life
Love it, so funny!
with reference to Napoleon going to Egypt to undermine British interests. I regard the Napoleonic wars as the first Global conflict. Later this would also influence conflict in America and Canada. This was World War One!
The Seven Years' War was the first global conflict.
22:43 it’s Hanover,a part of The Holy Roman Empire. It became a part of Britain because the royal family of Britain were who owned Hanover
Do oversimplified war of the bucket. That includes the story of how Charlemagne establishment of the Holy Roman Empire(Year 800). Charlemagne, King of the Franks wanted to create an empire that was suppose to be the extension of the old Roman Empire. It eventually came down to being just Germany.
We British confined the French to Europe mainly through naval battles and created the room for the colonies to expand as France was forced to sell its lands in America to fund its war. Would the USA exist without French help?
The nobility had mainly privileges (no taxes to pay, access to certain places of education and to certain positions) in general, the nobility had a pretty good life especially compared to the rest of the population.
The fact is, however, that they are not all equal and some nobles are immensely rich and influential, where as Napoleon's family lived well but had little influence. In fact, at that time, there were bourgeois who were richer and more powerful than many nobles.
It is fine, but Napoleon "nobility", was not a privileged one, his father was a Genoese lawyer, so he had some "status", but he had to pay taxes, etc, Genoa wasn't an absolute monarchy, was rather a Burgeoise Republic, with it's public officials refered as "nobles", but even that is not so important, because once anexed by France they even lost that status.
That bit on middle of Germany was british hanover
Here are answers to a couple of your questions.
The reason behind the Egypt campaign. Over in India, the British had been fighting the sultan of Mysore, Tippoo Sahib the Tiger of Mysore, who wanted to rule southern India. Tippoo's father Hyder Ali, had usurped the throne of Mysore and tried to beat the British. And failed. Then Tippoo tried to succeed where his father failed. Although he was a great Indian leader, he ruled by fear, and was no match for the British. Lord Charles Cornwallis could of dethroned Tippoo, but let him off easy. Tippoo rebuilt his armies, and formed an alliance with France. France's goal was to conquer Egypt and somehow do an Alexander the great conquest of the Middle East to get to India. They didn't realize how weak Tippoo was. When Tippoo declared war again, he was decisively defeated by a small army of Sepoys. (Sepoys were Indian regiments commanded by British officers). The fact that he had been defeated by only a small Sepoy army and he hadn't even faced the main British army yet, told Tippoo that he was screwed. He retreated to his capitol where he made a last stand and died in the defense.
The reason Hanover is allied to Britain. After Queen Anne's death, 1702-1714, Parliament didn't want to have do with any more rulers of the House of Stewart. So they called the ruler of Hanover, George, to become king George I, instead of the pretender king in France, James III. This created the House of Hanover. Thus Hanover was technically Great Britain.
I love the way Terry Pratchett put it, "Great-granddad chased anything in a dress, his dress if you understand me, granddad drank anything you could pour into a bucket, and dad was sober and respectable, but couldn't tell the difference between one and eleven. ' I don't see how that loses you money. ' "It does when you think you can play cards with the big boys." How nobility becomes impoverished.
One Austrian commander dismissed Napoleon's army as having, "No cavalry, no artillery, and no boots," he got to Vienna by the skin of his teeth.
Minor noble could have meant that they were completely poor but had an inherited title.
Yes! Epic History should do the Italian Wars and the Egyptian Campaign...
Am I right in saying this is your first sponsorship?? Regardless, congrats SoGal!
nobility is a title that you get from inheritance, usually it came with lands that generated money for them (well the taxes from the labor of the sefs (technically not slaves but quite close) was generating their wealth) but being noble also mean you have to look fancy or become an officer in the king army, both way require lots of money (as an officer you had to recuit and arm your regiment yourself, so lots of cost)
for some nobles their land was not generating enough money to live that life, so they were considered "poor nobility", so yeah you can be poor and be a noble, but you could also be very rich and be considered as part of the "third state" (not sure of the traduction of "tiers etat") if you were a merchant or an artisan ( the "bourgeois")
22:49 : the german bits allied with the UK Hannover, it's the state of origin of the english royal family until the death of queen victoria, so the king of england also had the crown of Hannover in their titles, hense why they show it fighting with great britain
22:30 that red piece of country is likely Hanover. It was UK territory. Epic History only covered Napoleon after he became emperor (1804) except for Toulouse
Toulon, but yes, they covered nothing of his battles from Saorgio to Marengo.
Nobility means titles and land. It does NOT mean wealth.
It is possible to be a minor nobility with not much land where you get barely enough rent off this to support yourself.
Likewise it is possible to be a merchant with a lot of wealth but no land nor title.
Thia period of time especially saw a lot of rich commoners buy land and (sometimes) titles. But be looked down on by the 'true nobility' who inherrited their land.... Even if it is a swamp and no-one lives there.
And there is also a difference between minor and major nobility. Basically when you are classed as a 'Lord' is nobility and the ranks below are not, such as Baronettes squires etc.
Hey So Gal, hope you watch Sharpe soon. It's going to help... So good to see Scarlett calm n happy in her home. Mibbies put a, 'lure' over the camera? Then you can tweak it with your fishing line remote. The bonny dug stares doon the lens, en'shAllah...
Epic History TV started at the actual period known as the "Napoleonic Wars", at the start of the war of the 3rd coalition (except for the video on the siege of Toulon, which happened when Napoleon was very young, there's a big gap after that). What they missed were the war of the 1st coalition and the war of the 2nd coalition, which technically are part of the "Revolutionary wars". That's why you didn't see the battles in Italy against Austria or Russia (notably the battle of Lodi, or the Battle of Marengo after the crossing of the Alps), and why you didn't see the Egyptian campaign too.
So to sum it up:
After the Revolution and internal battles here and there like the siege of Toulon, you'll have successively:
- the Revolutionary wars, which include the 1st and the 2nd coalitions.
- the Napoleonic wars, which include the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th coalitions (even if it's the 6th that really spelled the end for Napoleon).
23:57 is the face I'm making right now as my child wakes up while I'm watching the video 😴
The red land in the middle is Hannover and the ruler of Hannover was also the King of the UK. In fact George III the English King during the US war of independence was the first British King since a long time that was actually British. Only when Victoria became queen of england the Union with Hannover ended because women couldn't become ruler of Hannover.
And if you ever wonder "How did the holy roman empire work?" Just remember: It didn't
22:42 King George the first of House Hanover (German royalty) ascended the British throne due to lack of heirs. And since George the first was related to the British Royal family. He was crowned King. In 1714