Fun fact: Napoleon wanted to enlist in the Russian Imperial Army, but he changed his mind, because then in Russia there was a rule for foreigners that they had to serve with a lower rank, relative to their original one.
@@alberainunrelated to the Napolenic wars, but in the 7 years war, despite Portugal being facing it's deepest bankruptcy and still recuperating from the devastating Earthquake of 1755, the Portuguese King upon inquired if he should accept the Franco-Spanish ultimatum and turn on Britain, said: "I will sooner see the tiles of the Royal Palace broken and scaterred in the ground, than Portugal's diginty and honour."
You made a mistake here, Moscow wasn't the capital of the Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Saint Petersburg was, from 1730 to 1918. It only became the capital in 1917 when the Bolsheviks moved the seat of the government due to the German invaders getting too close to Saint Petersburg.
@@50pka He did, look closer at the map. He marked the capital cities with a dark yellow dot, and, as you could've guessed, Moscow was marked with a dark yellow dot and St. Petersburg was marked with a white dot, when St. Petersburg should've been marked dark yellow and Moscow white.
@@noleasesto2313 Yea, Napoleon was an ordinary person who was simply the owner of Europe. The Europeans were stupid and you were the only smart one ... The modern world is very strange, people who have never seen war in their lives talk like that about great commanders and generals, it would be interesting to see how you would run away from the Napoleonic army if you lived Then
Spain fought with regular army and guerrilla (by the way, the word guerrilla comes precisely from the Spanish at this moment in history). The regular army was not able to stand without the help of the British and the guerrilla was, along with the invasion of Russia, the start of the end for Napoleón. These two extremes of Europe were of impossible digestion for the French.
if you think thats big then you'll be surprised by ww2, in ww2 there were army groups. for example army group center during the assault on moscow was 1.9 million strong and commanded by fedor vond bock. but every army group consisted of individual armies which were commanded by generals and armies consisted of corps which were commanded by generals, and so forth.
I mean this is nothing to compared to WW2 armies German or Soviet, they had over 1 million men under there command in Army Groups and Germany had three of them.
You miss the point in the comments. Wwii armies were much more numerous, but at the age of radio communications, planes, motorised light reconnaissance units, and so on. Napoleon and his marshals led half a million men with paper maps, horse messengers, and by looking them from a nearby hill. Never, in the history of human conflicts, so many men were coordinated, and with such precision, by so few. So yeah, quite impressive.
He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
Spain was the MVP against Napoleon. Spain was eating up French soldiers and resources the whole time. History always makes it seem like Russia was the main reason, but i would say Spain played the biggest role. They never stopped fighting the whole time.
Napoleon said before he dies: I was defeated in Spain. Later, propaganda of Hollywood's movies did the job to hide this, as always. Why Spain gets more troops: Spain, in this time, was Peninsula and America (20 times the size of actual Spain). That's not in this map, but to have context, you need to know that. Even if French had conquered Peninsula, Spanish were in both sides of Atlantic.
It wouldn't work out that well if all of Spain got conquered. Maybe they would do something like Portugal and form a union with their colonies, but New Spain would definitely try and gain independence once Spain lost its grip, just as it happened in 1830.
@@tricksor6589 That wasn't because of Napoleon but because of Romanticism. That would happen with or without Napoleon cause the storytelling was built years before since Enlightenment.
@tricksor6589 New Spain declared its independence with Iturbide because he was a conservative who opposed withe the liberal Cádiz constitution, but he was loyal to Ferdinand VII, on the other side Hidalgo never accomplished anything, and instead he fought for british masonic interests, managing to convince thousands of indigenous people to fight for him.
@@Sussy_Sus76 He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
The video does a great job of tracking the territorial changes throughout the period, but troop numbers in many campaigns/theatres are quite off the mark, not just in 1813, but throughout the video.
@@joeacrobat4243 the region of Andalucia or Murcia or most of Extrenadura (that are in the south) were necer conquered by france, only the northerm part because Napoleon helped taking again the capital, and most of the northem-central spain because they were losing, but when he left, they reconquered, even in the city of Vigo (Galicia) some farmers could solos some french troops and reconquered the city
Spain was the beginning of the end for Napoleon. Thanks to great heroes like Juan Martín Díez, better known as “el Empecinado” who invented guerrilla warfare or Manuela Malasaña a seamstress from Madrid who fought against the French. Like them many others, ordinary people without military training were the ones who began the fight until they won.
@@danielguerrero894 Are you responding to every comment praising Spain? Even Napoleon admitted it later in St. Helena, writing that "all my subsequent disasters can be linked to that fatal situation, the war in Spain. It destroyed my reputation in Europe and embroiled me in difficulties"
@@PabloGarcia-ly7pm There is no proof, and if I had said it, it would not be true, since the French Empire maintained an enviable reputation and its maximum extension was in 1812, it even had a mini-Pax of 2 years in which it did not intervene in any conflict other than in Spain, which by the way without the regular army they were winning until mid-1812 with the entry of Wellington. Napoleon and the Grande Armee were never defeated in Spain, because they were only there for 4 months in 1809, The reality is that no, the peninsular war was not decisive in his fall,and it I feel for you, Pablo. It was the second great rebellion against his power like Napoleon in 1806, the difference is that it was a mountainous country where the rebels entered and the English entered the country in order to protect Portugal, but Napoleon only had a definitive mistake: Russia.
@@danielguerrero894 The napoleonic army reputation was heavily affected after their surrender in Bailen (against an only-spaniards army) and their later escape to the north of the country, this was the first open-field defeat for a Napoleonic army. News of the defeat spread like fire through Spain and Europe and convinced the spaniards to resist and the Austrian Empire to start the war of the 5th coalition, which affected deeply Napoleonic armies reputation after their loss at Aspern-Essling. Napoleon was no longer able to conqer the whole of Spain again. He once said that if he had thought the peninsular war would make him lose 60.000 soldiers, he would have never started it, but he knew this was impossible. He ended up losing 200.000 soldiers there.
Good video, just some mistake ; How Napoleon only have 30k soldier during german campain in 1813 ? Napoleon have 350 000 french soldiers in germany, and 180 000 at leipzig, and 100 000 under siege in city in poland and prussia at 8:47 at little mistake, Savoy and Nice was in piemont not french, and in the south west, There was not 300k soldiers, i mean at basque countries, 70k Brits and portuguese, at catalogna only 60k Spanish soldiers.
@@luiscastelo4169 No he did, in 1807 Napoleon order the invasion of portugal, the french army strong of 30,000 men and led by the General Junot invaded easly portugal, they take lisbon the 30 November 1807 and force Portuguese Royal familly to brazil, it was Franco-spanish victory and they temporally disolved the portuguese army. But after the spanish revolt against the French, British landed forces in portugal and with the help of portuguese they beat the remaining French forces occupying Lisbon.
That was after the invasion of Russia and the retreat from Poland to the Saxony where Eugene de Bearauneis (Napoleon's step son) was in command to hold the line until his father can gather sufficient strength to muster a force to engage them in Eastern Germany which he did in March 1813
damn, we've all learned how Napoleon's army was fameously ganged by european kingdoms after their loss in Russia, but I feel like the Spanish stand here is quite more impressive. Numbers just grow on both sides for quite some time
you're a liar!!!! >:( Napoleón was pretty ded when this wars ocurred the person u see leading the Lé grande armee was his very evil fat avarage-sized brother twin napleson bouner, he changed his name u don' know *n o t h i n g* about *h y S s t or i* , bad bad person Source: *idk it was bait*
@@applescruff1969 Napoleon did not protect minorities. Rather, he used the minorities according to the principle of "divide and rule" to secure French rule in the occupied territories. The minorities were, so to speak, the collaborators of France. Beginning of the wars of liberation in 1813 ua-cam.com/video/T9FFybprT0E/v-deo.html Covenant song before the battle ua-cam.com/video/Kkg7_I6kt2g/v-deo.html The Prussian army led by Blücher intervened in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and sealed Napoleon's defeat ua-cam.com/video/uwBRssktGoc/v-deo.html
@@bruhbruh-us6gl After Tordesillas, Wellington evacuated Madrid, and the French held it until they in turn had to evacuate it at the start of the Vitoria campaign. So Madrid changed hands 3 times in total. This map does show a slight French gain north of Madrid, but I don't think it depicts Madrid changing hands. This is the test I use to see if the newer map is better researched then the one already out there. I mean, it's not some super niche info, you can figure it out from Omniatlas or listening to the Epic History series - not saying these are perfectly accurate, just that even those picked up on it.
@@bogumir5866 And Napoleon have lost more men in Russia during one campaign than Russia lost during all the Napoleonic Wars combined. Imagine losing half a million men in less than a year!
There are many things wrong in this video, but I enjoyed the timing with the song getting somber around 1809-1812 when most of Europe was allied with France.
Other countries: you're doing it right Spain: I'm doing it all Viva españa mi nación mas de 240000 soldados franceses perdieron la vida en españa, y no les enfrentaron nuestro ejército, si no el propio pueblo. Que se levanto contra ellos. Eterno 2/05/1808🇪🇦🇪🇦
Napoleon is one of the worst rulers in the world and the worst ruler of France. to lose all the colonies, to lose the prestige of the country, to lose in the population, after Napoleon, nationalism began to emerge in Europe, which would develop into Nazism. After the mediocrity of Napoleon, France was despised by everyone, people stopped speaking French. This is really "genius", which suggests that the worst enemy is always among his own. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
@@BAD_IT would you say the same for Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union with 3.5M infantry and resulted in Berlin being occupied by the soviets and the rest of the country being occupied by the allies and soviets?
Esta não foi a primeira guerra mundial, mas deve ter sido a primeira super guerra na Europa além da primeira guerra envolvendo várias potências coloniais.
@@henrycrystal9740 A guerra dos 100 anos passou longe, fosse assim qualquer conflito na América do sul colonial seria mundial, mas a guerra dos 7 anos, de fato, é mais merecedora deste reconhecimento, o primeiro prelúdio talvez?
Germany was defeated by winter technically lol. And the US was the only reason Russia wasn't crushed, because the US supplies is what kept them in the war.
@@Redslayer86 Russia won Moscow, Stalingrad & Kursk battle with 20% of total 1941-1945 lend-lease. Even full lend-lease was 4% of USSR power and it was actually 1% when USSR totally destroyed german war machine
I dont understand why he tried to invade Russia while his war in the iberian peninsula wasnt over yet, fighting on 2 front is kinda of a dumb idea in my opinion
There are many reasons at once. The Tilsit Peace (1807) between France and Russia was very flimsy. The continental blockade of England was extremely unprofitable for Russia, so she traded in secret. And by 1811, Russia openly continued to trade with England, and other European countries also traded through Russia. Napoleon did not like it, so he decided to act by force. + Napoleon's personal ambitions were also influenced. He wanted to use Russia's resources to capture India, which would be a big blow to England.
тогда не было концепции фронтов в иберии шла партизанская война да она высосала силы франции но серьезных столкновений не было а не фронтовая тогда победа в войне решалось в отдельных битвах вто время не было понятия фронтов потому что россия нарушила условия тильзитского мира возобновила торговлю с британией
Solo España le plantó cara,los demas inclinaban la cabeza a su paso por toda europa,hasta que llego a rusia,240.000 franceses perdieron la vida en España.
@@toargueortonotargue But they fought with guerrillas and killed hundreds of thousand of Frenchmen without any british aid, even though Napoleon had almosy all of Iberia occupied.
@yasinneysari Supply chain stability, gear maintenance, troop readiness, resource prices, manufacturing tempo, spending balance on technological advances, corruption, loss of purpose, and loss on geopolitical leverage, cultural differences, pride, humans emotions, and way too many otger reasons more, I just named a few. lol
A very interesting fact: Napoleon, when he attacked Russia, did not want to occupy it; his main goal was the surrender of Russia, entering into an alliance with Russia and going to India to defeat the British there. By the way, I have an interesting question: what would the world look like if Russia did capitalize?
He did not take into account one important fact - Russians do not really like it when someone else's army comes to them and forces them to surrender. It seems to me that this should be taken into account in your plans before sending you to war with Russia
@@waylhaffai5186 it wasn't fully controlled, as they had to invade three times Portugal, all three targeted towards Lisbon and Porto, and none of them resulting in capitulation, with the third actually not even reaching its destination
He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
Napoleon defending France against all odds at the end of the war is nothing short but remarkable. What a legendary general who made his enemies very frustrated not able to win the war quickly in France.
Later they come back to Spain when France told them: Here is not Spain and their languages, everybody here speak just French. Freedom of languages and peoples in Spain VS imposition of French language
@@napster1987 ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Catalan language, which had been banned by the Bourbon monarchy, was restored as the language of use in public administration and official documents by the French and Napoleon promised the Catalans to respect their culture. That's why many people here supported annexation. In fact, only the most reactionary sectors of society opposed it: aristocrats, clerics and illiterate peasants
@@rafel73 ¿Which do France says when Catalunya was in France? You are saying just the first part of the history, not all. France says: In France we just speak French. It's clear. Actually, they say the same now. This information is know and is in archíves, mate. Say all history, not just one part, please. Regards
@@rafel73 The defenders of the Siege of Gerona and the troos of of the battle of El Bruc, Bisbal or Molins de Rei, or the 200 catalans of the battle of Bailen, were mostly fascist aristocrats, fascist clerics and ignorant idiots that do not know was is the true enemy. OK. Keep throwing dirt on your ancestors.
He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
In fact, if you look up how many casualties Napoleon had in Russia and how many in Spain. You will be surprised that Spain has the same number of casualties as Russia (~300.000). But of course Russia was the one that unbalanced the balance that made Napoleon lose.
Sorry, but the first nation which defeated napoleonic armies was Spain. Napoleon himself said: " It was the Spanish Ulcer that ruined me." When most of Europe was occupied by France, and Russia had not yet been invaded by Napoleon, Spain was the first nation that rose against Napoleon, deploying 450,000 soldiers on Spanish territory, the figures on the interactive map do not reflect the amount of French soldiers who were really deployed in Spain.
@@ВелиалВинчестер After a war of years was loosing against Spain, of course. With tired troops. Napoleon said that he was defeated in Spain and nobody tooks this words in a interested way, of course. Take more information. In Russia you are not gods, mate. In other hand, UURS won the WWII, not USA. That's true.
Это показывает сколько на самом деле сделала в этой войне Россия и сколько Англия. Но Англия почему-то предпочитает забрать все лавры себе. Хотя всего лишь добила тяжело раненого
As always. They did the same with ww1 and ww2. Or today in Ukraine. Englishmen love nothing more than waging a war with someone else blood and then take credits for the victory.
Por favor, ESpaña fue el que más hizo. Él mismo lo dijo "su mayor error fue invadir ESpaña" Napoleón: “Los españoles todos se comportaron como un solo hombre de honor. Enfoqué mal el asunto ese; la inmoralidad debió resultar demasiado patente; la injusticia demasiado cínica y todo ello harto malo, puesto que ha sucumbido”
@@Hohol_HATER “Los españoles todos se comportaron como un solo hombre de honor. Enfoqué mal el asunto ese; la inmoralidad debió resultar demasiado patente; la injusticia demasiado cínica y todo ello harto malo, puesto que ha sucumbido”
This video is giving you a very wrong persoective though. Napoleon didn't conquer and occupy all of Europe. He beat the armies of his enemies and they surrendered to him. These countries were all still completely functional which is why Napoleon wasn't able to win in the end. The Nazi's on the other hand conquered all of these countries (for the most part) and did indeed occupy and govern them. They were completely under german control. Even against Russia the Nazi's took far more territory and actually governed all of the territory west of moscow. Napoleon didn't occupy anything, he just marched towards Moscow and burned it down which didn't achieve anything.
@@dalaios2132 Napoleon did the same thing in Europe in 1809 to 1812, all of Europe was under his command. The only functional and independent countries were Russia, the United Kingdom and Sweden, the rest were dominated by the power of Napoleon Bonaparte.
@@iaaf919 Yeah Napoleon was an fool for doing that, just a few years previous We (Britain) kicked both you and France's butt at Trafalgar and a few years later come crying for our help, how things quickly change.
It is on you, little brothers. You did backstab us by tagging with them to invade us, and then we had to go in, with the Brits, to save your asses when you got backstabed yourselves.... May it be a lesson for you... to treat your elder brother with respect. A hug from Portugal ;)
@@Tusiriakestu better thank the English,but the Spanish did everything in the east, and the English and Portuguese in the west, little brother 🇪🇸🇵🇹💪🏼
Excellent graphic. Really shows the "Spanish ulcer." I thought I knew my Napoleonic history pretty well, but I have no idea what that multi-year campaign in the Romanian-ish area was? Was it France fighting Turkey?
Britain is just chilling in the Atlantic Ocean while being a pain in the ass to Napoleon for 15 years lol Napoleon: "stop funding all my enemies!" Britain: "Here comes the money, here comes the money"
Old story about two Royal Navy captains having a meal. One is lamenting how Napoleon is master of Europe, the other is more up beat saying who cares we have the rest of the world. (Bit of an exaggeration both ways, but with an element of truth). But it was trade with the rest of the world and the beginnings of the industrial revolution, which had got a boost from contracts to supply the war time 1,000 ship Royal Navy. (As a contract to the lowest bidder able to supply the Navy with a 1,000,000 widgets a year, was a great incentive for someone to invent and build a steam powered widget factory.) That gave Britain the funds and material to eventually destroy Napoleonic France.
Spain was never Napoleonic territory, until the invasion of 1808. Afterwards, the first major defeat and surrender of a complete Napoleonic army was at Bailen, at the hands of the regular Spanish army. Afterwards he never had complete control of the peninsula, where he also had to face the guerrillas and the British army, and the remains of the regular Spanish army too, finally being totally defeated and expelled from the peninsula after the battles of Vitoria and San Marcial. Napoleon himself acknowledged that his first and greatest ultimate mistake was the invasion of Spain. Disastrous Russia campaign was the finisher.
He regretted Spain invasion for moral reason ! Peninsula battles didn't weaken so much. French army still stronger after that. 600.000 of its best fighters have been sent to Russia...
@@thierryfromgwada9312The moral effect throughout Europe of the first great defeat of an entire Napoleonic army, which also fell entirely prisoner, including all its officers, was undoubtedly the factor that encouraged the spirit of resistance everywhere. THE WEAR OF THE NAPOLEON ARMIES IN THE PENINSULA WAS DECISIVE, to the point that the army that invaded Russia was already composed mostly of recruits of rank or force, from foreigners, not French. Many of them deserted at the first opportunity. For example, the Spaniards who had been part of the Spanish army sent to Denmark under the command of the Marquis of La Romana, joined en masse with the Russians, who formed with them the Imperial Alexander Regiment, placed at the service and guard of the Tsarina. You will have to study the matter a little more.
@@jocair For sure not. When i talk about moral, I talk about ethics. It was not acceptable morally to invade Spain. No confusion. Napoleon never lost a battle, himself, in the peninsula. But he have already lost a battle before Spain war. Then, the lost of the peninsula didn't affect his personal reputation of invicibility ! The peninsula Wars, was not decisive at all. He went to Russia with the biggest army ever seen ! The spirit of resistance ?!! What are you talking about ? 😂 During the Russia campaign, russian avoid the direct confrontation, and even burnt their whole capital ! Napoleon reached Moscow, and without winter, no disaster would happen. What you call spirit of resistance ?? Seriously ? The others countries did nothing at that time. Why Spain, Portugal and Great Britain didn't try to invade France before the Russian campaign, if they felt Napoleon so weak ?? Spanish and Portuguese people often overinterpret the lost of the peninsula by Napoleon. Napoleon invaded the peninsula only for the blockade. These 2 countries was not a threat for France, unlike, the others countries which wanted to destroy the french republic. If the peninsula was a major objective, threating the french republic, the french army would not have lost.
@@thierryfromgwada9312 The FACT IS THAT NAPOLEON lost the Peninsular War. Napoleon himself tried to right the situation personally, but he saw that he could not achieve it, so he again abandoned his armies on the peninsula, to their fate, just as he did before in Egypt. You can read Thiers' work, where all these things are detailed, despite being very favorable to Napoleon... Furthermore, the Spanish and English armies DID INVADE FRANCE, IN 1913-14, AND CONTRIBUTED DECISIVELY TO THE FALL AND ABDICATION OF NAPOLEÍN, AFTER THE BATTLE OF TOULOUSE, WHICH, OBVIOUSLY, HE LOST. The French chauvinism that you display so ardently, continues to ignore that the so-called 'Grande Armée' that tried to invade Russia, unfortunately failing, was composed, for the most part, of foreign mercenaries, and many of them FORCED. The desertions were constant. For my part, as a French citizen, or simply as a history lover, I have always been fascinated by the figure of Napoleon. But I have always been very clear about his genius, and also about his flaws and failures, many of them with tremendous consequences, even for himself.
@@jocair French lost the peninsula war, but Napoleon, himself, never lost a battle in this part of the world. Afterwards, he went back to France because Prussia was about to attacks France, letting his marshalls deal with the situation, better than it was before his coming in Spain ! Open a book to have more informations about that era. Any amateur in Napoleonic era know this basic. Spanish and Portuguese invaded France only after the Russian defeat. Never before. What didn't they do it before as Napoleon supposes to be weak after the peninsula war ? The invasion of Spanish and Portuguese was not decisive at all bro. Napoleon abdicated because of Autrichian, russian and Prussian armies in Eastern France ! French didn't even notice the Spanish invasion 😂 You're just a pretentious spanish guy, pretenting he is french. Mercenaries are forced ? So they are not Mercenaries 😂 Most of the Grand Armée, in 1812, was foreigners soldiers. And what ? What the point with our discussion ? The desertion is due to the roughness of the journey to Moscow. But why are talking about that ? You think to prove me that you know better the napoleonic wars than me. But you don't ! 😁 You're just another arrogant guy on UA-cam.
@@MeisterHeringАлександра уже поставили перед фактом. Главные инициаторами были англичане. Так как Павел хотел заключить союз с Наполеоном и готовил войска для похода на Индию.
@@Природныйчел Что у вас в головах, если вы думаете, что в Российской Империи англичане могли инициировать убийство императора. Это же просто невозможно!
@@alexla_grange8957Невозможно возможно. Павел готовился к походу на Индию в союзе с Наполеоном. А потеря Индии для Британии означал бы крах. Тем более что недовольных политикой Павла было предостаточно. И английское золото и советы посла сыграли свою роль. Тем более убийство или свержение правителей не было в новинку и сейчас также, поэтому что у вас в голове за каша я не понимаю.
Frankly I think the Fuhrer's ego was no less, but Napoleon achieved everything as the main fiddle of the machine, and Hitler was more of a pretty face against the background of the German experienced generalship@@tession1747
Napoleon literally restored the Western Roman Empire in less than a lifetime but it also got it taken away in less than a lifetime. But his Conquests prove Quality over Quantity.
i DO NOT understand how can someone think that Napoleon wasnt the greatest military general of all time,even when the odds were against him he fought, and won a lot of battles, even at the battle of waterloo where he was fighting with just men who he scrounged up, and had no time to train, and was outnumbered by more than 20 thousand, he still inflicted 1 thousand more casualites on the enemy, even after the disastrous campaign in Russia (which he could've easily won if he managed to catch the russians), he still inflicted quite a scare on the defecting germans and austrians, leaving them with a bloody nose.
@@saobaomenace All odds were against him, yet he still won against a huge coalition 7 times, he managed to reform the french army in italy from rags to being an effective fighting force in less than a month, and at one point he had the entirety of europe under him, there is no man better than Napoleon.
He comitted the error of invading Spain provoking an unnecessary úlcer if not with Spain as his allie and only one front he couldve destroyed russians and english
Ага, так должны, что почти каждый месяц на нас санкции накладываете. Что мы вам сделали? Напали на Украину? По вашему потеря Украины это гигантский шок для Западного Мира?
@@doteleven5890 Sauf que c'est faux justement. À part certaines campagnes comme l'Espagne Napoléon n'a fait quasiment que se défendre face aux coalitions financées les Anglais. Même l'invasion de la Russie avait un but défensif puisque la Russie voulait envahir le Duché de Varsovie ( la Pologne ) qui était un allié de la France auquel Napoléon tenait beaucoup.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 La France révolutionnaire s'est faite littéralement attaquer quasiment non-stop par toute l'Europe ( dont la Russie ) depuis la proclamation de la République et sous l'Empire, donc oui il est normal de prendre des mesures préventives contre quelqu'un qui a déjà essayé de me tuer plusieurs fois.
Fun fact: Napoleon wanted to enlist in the Russian Imperial Army, but he changed his mind, because then in Russia there was a rule for foreigners that they had to serve with a lower rank, relative to their original one.
Да ты прав друг он хотел служить в Одессе если я не ошибаюсь, но передумал т.к. при переходе в Российскую армию чин понижали на одно звание
@@niky8185 Его не взяли просто
@@rob_gerasim Нет, его взяли бы, но он не хотел, так как быть майором его не устраивало.
@@niky8185 Егь хотели взять в 44 нижегородский полк.
when he first started his military career however he wanted to be in the british royal navy
when napoleon invaded rusia it looked like his army ran out of steam. 600k to 70k in a span of one month
ignore the numbers in this video, they are very crazy and have nothing to do with reality
Winter: bonjour
@@The_whales Most deaths occured in summer due to disease. The winter of 1812 was actually relatively mild
@@The_whalesNapoleon invaded in the summer and by the 6th of December the French Army (or what was left of it) was already out of Russia.
@@mihailupu5107 oh, I guess thanks for that
Napoleon: You will all stop trading with the United Kingdom.
Portugal: No 🧐. We need to export our Port wine.
Best ally anyone coud ask for.
@@alberainunrelated to the Napolenic wars, but in the 7 years war, despite Portugal being facing it's deepest bankruptcy and still recuperating from the devastating Earthquake of 1755, the Portuguese King upon inquired if he should accept the Franco-Spanish ultimatum and turn on Britain, said:
"I will sooner see the tiles of the Royal Palace broken and scaterred in the ground, than Portugal's diginty and honour."
France: THEN YOU SHALL DIE
You made a mistake here, Moscow wasn't the capital of the Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Saint Petersburg was, from 1730 to 1918. It only became the capital in 1917 when the Bolsheviks moved the seat of the government due to the German invaders getting too close to Saint Petersburg.
He didn't say that it was.
Бро🥶🥶🥶💀💀💀
@@50pka He did, look closer at the map. He marked the capital cities with a dark yellow dot, and, as you could've guessed, Moscow was marked with a dark yellow dot and St. Petersburg was marked with a white dot, when St. Petersburg should've been marked dark yellow and Moscow white.
@@FilipFCB как ты это рассмотрел? Если бы ты не написал, я бы и в жизни не увидел
@@Destroyer_6161 Вероватно сам приметио кад су се Наполеонове снаге приближавале Москви.
Napoleon is probably the best general of all time incredible video
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He was not smart... The other people were dumb
@@noleasesto2313i think tis both
Napoleon Bad country like German Empire and Nazi Germany
@@noleasesto2313 Yea, Napoleon was an ordinary person who was simply the owner of Europe. The Europeans were stupid and you were the only smart one ... The modern world is very strange, people who have never seen war in their lives talk like that about great commanders and generals, it would be interesting to see how you would run away from the Napoleonic army if you lived Then
Spain fought with regular army and guerrilla (by the way, the word guerrilla comes precisely from the Spanish at this moment in history). The regular army was not able to stand without the help of the British and the guerrilla was, along with the invasion of Russia, the start of the end for Napoleón. These two extremes of Europe were of impossible digestion for the French.
Hello old friend ;) help from the British and Portugal might I add. You fought bravely as well;)
Spain fought alone
@@muhai8061 ? You are joking, right?
@@muhai8061 Ehem...... The British Also Helped the Spanish.
they used guerilla because their army was almost always by the french even at 3 vs 1 lol
6:34 I can’t imagine leading a whole army that size
if you think thats big then you'll be surprised by ww2, in ww2 there were army groups. for example army group center during the assault on moscow was 1.9 million strong and commanded by fedor vond bock. but every army group consisted of individual armies which were commanded by generals and armies consisted of corps which were commanded by generals, and so forth.
I mean this is nothing to compared to WW2 armies German or Soviet, they had over 1 million men under there command in Army Groups and Germany had three of them.
@@ChrisCrossClashnot to mention, the Soviet army had 34m men, of which is almost as big as Poland's population
That's what subordinates are for..
You miss the point in the comments. Wwii armies were much more numerous, but at the age of radio communications, planes, motorised light reconnaissance units, and so on. Napoleon and his marshals led half a million men with paper maps, horse messengers, and by looking them from a nearby hill. Never, in the history of human conflicts, so many men were coordinated, and with such precision, by so few. So yeah, quite impressive.
People often forget that Spain slowly bled Napoleons forces. They were getting mauled by Guerella troops
Wrong, french troops destroyed sapin ....
He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
@Iosinyhrh No the Louisiana purchase was in 1803 which was just at the start of the Napoleonic wars.
@@julienn8889napoleonic troops were getting destroyed by the people, read
@IosinyhrhSpain was decayó g already, is not because Napoleón
France 1815:Annex Germany
Germany 1942:Annex France
Russia:❄️
1941.......
Ah, yes, the famous Russian winter that starts in June and ends in November!
Россия: 1918 победа Германии.
Spain was the MVP against Napoleon. Spain was eating up French soldiers and resources the whole time. History always makes it seem like Russia was the main reason, but i would say Spain played the biggest role. They never stopped fighting the whole time.
Napoleon said before he dies: I was defeated in Spain.
Later, propaganda of Hollywood's movies did the job to hide this, as always.
Why Spain gets more troops: Spain, in this time, was Peninsula and America (20 times the size of actual Spain).
That's not in this map, but to have context, you need to know that. Even if French had conquered Peninsula, Spanish were in both sides of Atlantic.
It wouldn't work out that well if all of Spain got conquered. Maybe they would do something like Portugal and form a union with their colonies, but New Spain would definitely try and gain independence once Spain lost its grip, just as it happened in 1830.
@@tricksor6589 That wasn't because of Napoleon but because of Romanticism. That would happen with or without Napoleon cause the storytelling was built years before since Enlightenment.
@tricksor6589 New Spain declared its independence with Iturbide because he was a conservative who opposed withe the liberal Cádiz constitution, but he was loyal to Ferdinand VII, on the other side Hidalgo never accomplished anything, and instead he fought for british masonic interests, managing to convince thousands of indigenous people to fight for him.
Napoleon was not beated in Spain,by english troops,was Russia.
I love how you guys made France red like it's the villain in most timelapses.
Red is the attacker blue defender thats why in ukraine russians are red and ukrainians blue
@@escalope5553bro UK attacked france
@@FOKLORE. But the one Who started attacking first in the war is France thats why its in red it doesnt mean bad or good
@@escalope5553 no UK was the first declaring war
dont talk@@FOKLORE.
Damn, the iberians did really bleed out Napoleon an his army.
Yeah, one of the errors of Napoleon that make him lose was to invade Spain (his biggest ally)
@@Sussy_Sus76 He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
@@Tusiriakest Zaragoza: the defenseless city that defeated the largest army in the world, we didnt need british people
@@sergiobarcelona6279 Good for you! One less that the Portuguese and the British had to liberate. Lovely city btw.
Ok "Francisco"
this is so good, i have a suggestion, put city names on the map but its ok, you dont have to
How big do you want the city to be seen? Bigger than Belgium?
@@Dudefrom8Carson dot
@@JumlesssMappingThere are already dots. Look closer to where a capital should be.
It's a good video but the very big mistake for the campaign of Germany (1813) kinda ruins it. It wasn't 30k but around 300k/400k on Napoleon's side.
The video does a great job of tracking the territorial changes throughout the period, but troop numbers in many campaigns/theatres are quite off the mark, not just in 1813, but throughout the video.
Finally someone that doesnt put all Spain aa a french territory
At one point Spain only hold the city of Cadix, leading to the 1812 constitution.
@@joeacrobat4243 Then do they took the canary islands or ceuta and melilla? And if they only hold cadiz, then why they didnt took Portugal?
@@Sussy_Sus76 Spain only hold Cadix in continental Spain more precisely.
@@joeacrobat4243 the region of Andalucia or Murcia or most of Extrenadura (that are in the south) were necer conquered by france, only the northerm part because Napoleon helped taking again the capital, and most of the northem-central spain because they were losing, but when he left, they reconquered, even in the city of Vigo (Galicia) some farmers could solos some french troops and reconquered the city
@@Sussy_Sus76 Then you should write it to the museums in Cadix.
Spain was the beginning of the end for Napoleon. Thanks to great heroes like Juan Martín Díez, better known as “el Empecinado” who invented guerrilla warfare or Manuela Malasaña a seamstress from Madrid who fought against the French. Like them many others, ordinary people without military training were the ones who began the fight until they won.
No,was Russia.Spain didn´t decide nothing y they had to wait at the arrived of british troops for beat to french troops,sorry.
@@danielguerrero894 Are you responding to every comment praising Spain? Even Napoleon admitted it later in St. Helena, writing that "all my subsequent disasters can be linked to that fatal situation, the war in Spain. It destroyed my reputation in Europe and embroiled me in difficulties"
@@PabloGarcia-ly7pm
There is no proof, and if I had said it, it would not be true, since the French Empire maintained an enviable reputation and its maximum extension was in 1812, it even had a mini-Pax of 2 years in which it did not intervene in any conflict other than in Spain, which by the way without the regular army they were winning until mid-1812 with the entry of Wellington. Napoleon and the Grande Armee were never defeated in Spain,
because they were only there for 4 months in 1809, The reality is that no, the peninsular war was not decisive in his fall,and it I feel for you, Pablo.
It was the second great rebellion against his power like Napoleon in 1806, the difference is that it was a mountainous country where the rebels entered and the English entered the country in order to protect Portugal, but Napoleon only had a definitive mistake: Russia.
@@danielguerrero894 The napoleonic army reputation was heavily affected after their surrender in Bailen (against an only-spaniards army) and their later escape to the north of the country, this was the first open-field defeat for a Napoleonic army. News of the defeat spread like fire through Spain and Europe and convinced the spaniards to resist and the Austrian Empire to start the war of the 5th coalition, which affected deeply Napoleonic armies reputation after their loss at Aspern-Essling. Napoleon was no longer able to conqer the whole of Spain again.
He once said that if he had thought the peninsular war would make him lose 60.000 soldiers, he would have never started it, but he knew this was impossible. He ended up losing 200.000 soldiers there.
"Luckily, they banished him to an island."
🎵 But he came back 🎵
"Luckily, they banished him to another island."
One of the best videos ever on the internet 🤣
You are just 🤢🤮
What is the video? I wanna see it
Good video, just some mistake ;
How Napoleon only have 30k soldier during german campain in 1813 ? Napoleon have 350 000 french soldiers in germany, and 180 000 at leipzig, and 100 000 under siege in city in poland and prussia
at 8:47 at little mistake, Savoy and Nice was in piemont not french,
and in the south west, There was not 300k soldiers, i mean at basque countries, 70k Brits and portuguese, at catalogna only 60k Spanish soldiers.
I remember that he never conquered Lisbon capital of Portugal
@@luiscastelo4169 No he did, in 1807 Napoleon order the invasion of portugal, the french army strong of 30,000 men and led by the General Junot invaded easly portugal, they take lisbon the 30 November 1807 and force Portuguese Royal familly to brazil, it was Franco-spanish victory and they temporally disolved the portuguese army.
But after the spanish revolt against the French, British landed forces in portugal and with the help of portuguese they beat the remaining French forces occupying Lisbon.
That was after the invasion of Russia and the retreat from Poland to the Saxony where Eugene de Bearauneis (Napoleon's step son) was in command to hold the line until his father can gather sufficient strength to muster a force to engage them in Eastern Germany which he did in March 1813
@@inigobantok1579 Yes, but the video show only 2,000 when it was at least 80x times that.
Wrong. Savoy and Nice were french in 1814, France lost them in 1815.
damn, we've all learned how Napoleon's army was fameously ganged by european kingdoms after their loss in Russia, but I feel like the Spanish stand here is quite more impressive. Numbers just grow on both sides for quite some time
Spanish Ulcer and Strategic Disaster
fr most of these wars are the same random dude just appears and conquers whole europe and then his country collapses like a house of cards
Fun fact: during napeleonic wars napeleon was alive.
I BeT YOu diDnT kNow ThAT
Lies
you're a liar!!!! >:(
Napoleón was pretty ded when this wars ocurred the person u see leading the Lé grande armee was his very evil fat avarage-sized brother twin napleson bouner, he changed his name
u don' know *n o t h i n g* about *h y S s t or i* , bad bad person
Source: *idk it was bait*
“I always wondered why it was called the NAPELOEONIC wars” 🤔
"napeleonic" "napeleon"
@@krisfedora8316Appleleon
Where Germany got his inspiration from:
Actually true.. Hitler was a big fan of Napoleon
The main difference being that Napoleon protected minorities whilst the other tried to eradicate them.
@@applescruff1969
Napoleon did not protect minorities. Rather, he used the minorities according to the principle of "divide and rule" to secure French rule in the occupied territories. The minorities were, so to speak, the collaborators of France.
Beginning of the wars of liberation in 1813
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Covenant song before the battle
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The Prussian army led by Blücher intervened in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and sealed Napoleon's defeat
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Who told you such lie?@@applescruff1969
Napoleon had honour. He never attacked a country without declaring war. Hitler was always treacherous in his attacks on the other side.
Yet another Napoleonic war map fails the Battle of Tordesillas test.
What’s that?
@@bruhbruh-us6gl After Tordesillas, Wellington evacuated Madrid, and the French held it until they in turn had to evacuate it at the start of the Vitoria campaign. So Madrid changed hands 3 times in total. This map does show a slight French gain north of Madrid, but I don't think it depicts Madrid changing hands. This is the test I use to see if the newer map is better researched then the one already out there.
I mean, it's not some super niche info, you can figure it out from Omniatlas or listening to the Epic History series - not saying these are perfectly accurate, just that even those picked up on it.
Oh are you same guy that edits wikipedia?
When Napoleon declared war on the RE - Russian Empire , he lost...
Not for long 🇨🇵
@@yohannchojnacki9426😂, ты перепутал флаг Франции вот он - 🏳
@@Artemka-es5xd 🙄 you have 14 years old. France beat Russia
but RE - Russian Empire declared 3 wars on FE - French Empire and lost....
@@bogumir5866 And Napoleon have lost more men in Russia during one campaign than Russia lost during all the Napoleonic Wars combined. Imagine losing half a million men in less than a year!
Remember, Spain managed to contain the French even though its professional army had already been worn down before the Napoleonic betrayal XD.
England* help in Spain managed to hold ground against France. Not Spain, they got destroyed.
There are many things wrong in this video, but I enjoyed the timing with the song getting somber around 1809-1812 when most of Europe was allied with France.
Leo Tolstoy: yes that’s what i was talked about 🌷
yep war and peace is how it is
I can easily disprove some of these numbers, but overall still good video
Do it then.
Austria: I think...
Napoleon: shut up
Other countries: you're doing it right Spain: I'm doing it all
Viva españa mi nación mas de 240000 soldados franceses perdieron la vida en españa, y no les enfrentaron nuestro ejército, si no el propio pueblo. Que se levanto contra ellos. Eterno 2/05/1808🇪🇦🇪🇦
Когда он вторгся в Россию, вся армия была уничтожена. И что дальше?
Fun fact: austria and prussia were allies with france but didnt join the war on france his side until in 1812 before the invasipn of russia
Ага. Как на Австрию, так всего 50000солдат выделяют. А как воевать. С Россией так сразу 600000 солдат и все страны европы
bro what austria and prussia was def in the war before the invasion
@@innocentnote alliance and joining a war but not sending troops is the same
i love at 7:18 Napoleon was holding back i dont even know how many time the russians. That just shows how good he was.
Napoleon is one of the worst rulers in the world and the worst ruler of France. to lose all the colonies, to lose the prestige of the country, to lose in the population, after Napoleon, nationalism began to emerge in Europe, which would develop into Nazism. After the mediocrity of Napoleon, France was despised by everyone, people stopped speaking French. This is really "genius", which suggests that the worst enemy is always among his own. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
>>>Entered to Russia with 600'000+ soldiers
>>>Left with 30'000
I'm note sure if he was that good
@@BAD_IT cuz his soldiers died in the winter and it gets very cold in russia
@@BAD_IT would you say the same for Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union with 3.5M infantry and resulted in Berlin being occupied by the soviets and the rest of the country being occupied by the allies and soviets?
@@meta_blox3382 no bcs Hitler losed much less soldiers than the soviets
6:56 napoelon takes moscow
А потом он теряет Париж
Esta não foi a primeira guerra mundial, mas deve ter sido a primeira super guerra na Europa além da primeira guerra envolvendo várias potências coloniais.
@@henrycrystal9740 A guerra dos 100 anos passou longe, fosse assim qualquer conflito na América do sul colonial seria mundial, mas a guerra dos 7 anos, de fato, é mais merecedora deste reconhecimento, o primeiro prelúdio talvez?
E a guerra de sucesión da Espanha tamen foi moi grande.
7 Year War was 1st "world war" on multiple continents
What happen to France in the end was almost like what happened to Germany at the end of WW2
Both defeated by Russia
And ?
We talk about a great man !
No Army wise maybe Russia and Prussia did the most, but overall Britain did the most to taking down Napoleon FACT.
Germany was defeated by winter technically lol. And the US was the only reason Russia wasn't crushed, because the US supplies is what kept them in the war.
@@Redslayer86 Russia won Moscow, Stalingrad & Kursk battle with 20% of total 1941-1945 lend-lease. Even full lend-lease was 4% of USSR power and it was actually 1% when USSR totally destroyed german war machine
@@ChrisCrossClashвот это вклад, почти всю войну сидеть на островах и раскидываться деньгами!
I dont understand why he tried to invade Russia while his war in the iberian peninsula wasnt over yet, fighting on 2 front is kinda of a dumb idea in my opinion
There are many reasons at once. The Tilsit Peace (1807) between France and Russia was very flimsy. The continental blockade of England was extremely unprofitable for Russia, so she traded in secret. And by 1811, Russia openly continued to trade with England, and other European countries also traded through Russia. Napoleon did not like it, so he decided to act by force.
+ Napoleon's personal ambitions were also influenced. He wanted to use Russia's resources to capture India, which would be a big blow to England.
тогда не было концепции фронтов в иберии шла партизанская война
да она высосала силы франции но серьезных столкновений не было
а не фронтовая
тогда победа в войне решалось в отдельных битвах
вто время не было понятия фронтов
потому что россия нарушила условия тильзитского мира
возобновила торговлю с британией
А Германия? Вообще на несколько фронтов воевала в обеих мировых войнах.
@@astronavtcosmos7313 And lost equally
The Ottoman Empire traded with England, why didn’t Napoleon attack it?
So cool!
Spain: Our role in Napoleon's defeat is always being forgotten/neglected.
Portugal: Hold my beer.
Did you know napoleon was the closest to unification of Europe.
Not hitler? In 1941, all of continental Europe was under fascism save the soviet union and Britain (and Switzerland which is too irrelevant to count).
@@mappingshaman5280even LIECHTENSTEIN
Charlemagne did it before
@@mappingshaman5280 Испания - нет.
@@mappingshaman5280 Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Finland, what about them?
Bro ur vids are getting better and better but this vid is NEXT LEVEL!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great video bro🔥🔥🔥 love France from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿❤🇨🇵
Love kazakhtstan from France !🇰🇿🇫🇷
Мне две в сырном
U forgot to include the persian russia war
Oh my bad, thanks for the information tho!
Why you point Moscow as the capital of Russan Empire? At that time capital was in St.Petersburg.
I like how the music is at its hardest in his victory times
Numbers after the invasion of Russia don't make sense. Napoleon had a couple hundred thousand troops in Germany and at Leipzig.
It feels so weird to seeing french as red and english as blue
Solo España le plantó cara,los demas inclinaban la cabeza a su paso por toda europa,hasta que llego a rusia,240.000 franceses perdieron la vida en España.
A nadie le importa
@@Speed249 lo que no importa a nadie ,eres tú,aton tao.
@@Speed249 A Napoleon si le importo
Stood? Spain literally got more than half of its territory occupied.
@@toargueortonotargue But they fought with guerrillas and killed hundreds of thousand of Frenchmen without any british aid, even though Napoleon had almosy all of Iberia occupied.
I am Russian but I think Napoleon was a incredible guy
Over extention is the Achilles hills of every empire.
Why
@yasinneysari Supply chain stability, gear maintenance, troop readiness, resource prices, manufacturing tempo, spending balance on technological advances, corruption, loss of purpose, and loss on geopolitical leverage, cultural differences, pride, humans emotions, and way too many otger reasons more, I just named a few. lol
A very interesting fact: Napoleon, when he attacked Russia, did not want to occupy it; his main goal was the surrender of Russia, entering into an alliance with Russia and going to India to defeat the British there. By the way, I have an interesting question: what would the world look like if Russia did capitalize?
He did not take into account one important fact - Russians do not really like it when someone else's army comes to them and forces them to surrender. It seems to me that this should be taken into account in your plans before sending you to war with Russia
What if the Third Reich and Napoleonic France had defeated Russia? I guess we never know😎
France never fully occupied Portugal. There were 3 invasions, all of them later repelled
Portugal was fully controlled and splited between Spain and France ( the north French occupation) and the south ( Spanish occupation)
@@waylhaffai5186 it wasn't fully controlled, as they had to invade three times Portugal, all three targeted towards Lisbon and Porto, and none of them resulting in capitulation, with the third actually not even reaching its destination
@@hotman_pt_ they did occupy Lisbon the Portuguese government exiled itself in Brazil
@@hotman_pt_ It was Britain who saved Portugal.
@@ChrisCrossClash you can't really say "Britain saved Portugal" when in fact it was Britain who dragged Portugal into the war.
Can't stop, addicted to the shindig
Chop Top, it says I'm gonna win big
In the end, the savior of Europe is Spain
He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
Russia:wtf?!
Lol. Yeah no.
No you fool Russia is
Well, not really. There was the British and Portuguese army in Spain. The Spanish were good at guerrilla warfare but not that good at full-on battles.
Napoleon, the sigma he was, almost defeated the tyrants.
Soldier:what are we going to do?
Napoleon:There's nothing we can do(8:00)
Dans mon esprit tout divague, je me perds dans tes yeux
@@mapshistoricalwhat
Napoleon defending France against all odds at the end of the war is nothing short but remarkable. What a legendary general who made his enemies very frustrated not able to win the war quickly in France.
@@saobaomenace
It's the lyrics to te song of the meme
Incredible that Catalonia became independent form Spain and was annexionated to France.
Later they come back to Spain when France told them: Here is not Spain and their languages, everybody here speak just French.
Freedom of languages and peoples in Spain VS imposition of French language
@@napster1987
ABSOLUTELY FALSE.
Catalan language, which had been banned by the Bourbon monarchy, was restored as the language of use in public administration and official documents by the French and Napoleon promised the Catalans to respect their culture. That's why many people here supported annexation. In fact, only the most reactionary sectors of society opposed it: aristocrats, clerics and illiterate peasants
@@rafel73 ¿Which do France says when Catalunya was in France? You are saying just the first part of the history, not all. France says: In France we just speak French. It's clear. Actually, they say the same now.
This information is know and is in archíves, mate. Say all history, not just one part, please.
Regards
@@rafel73 The defenders of the Siege of Gerona and the troos of of the battle of El Bruc, Bisbal or Molins de Rei, or the 200 catalans of the battle of Bailen, were mostly fascist aristocrats, fascist clerics and ignorant idiots that do not know was is the true enemy. OK. Keep throwing dirt on your ancestors.
España fue el mayor error de Napoleón 3:42..Viva España🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Нет
@@npc0467Yes ,3:42
He tried to invade Portugal 3 times, and 3 times he was pushed back. The Portuguese and the British then helped the Spaniards get up on their feet again and fight.
Нет ахаха. Вторгаться в Россию было самой большой ошибкой
@@TusiriakestYo we know you love portugal a lot but stop spamming non-sense things
Spain was not invaded until 1808.
In fact, if you look up how many casualties Napoleon had in Russia and how many in Spain. You will be surprised that Spain has the same number of casualties as Russia (~300.000). But of course Russia was the one that unbalanced the balance that made Napoleon lose.
Sorry, but the first nation which defeated napoleonic armies was Spain.
Napoleon himself said: " It was the Spanish Ulcer that ruined me."
When most of Europe was occupied by France, and Russia had not yet been invaded by Napoleon, Spain was the first nation that rose against Napoleon, deploying 450,000 soldiers on Spanish territory, the figures on the interactive map do not reflect the amount of French soldiers who were really deployed in Spain.
@@nivariax si pero me refiero que lo que hizo desequilibrar la balanza fue Rusia. Porque ya no era solo España el problema…
Napoleon said: I was defeated in the war of Spain. (Documents of archives)
Russia help to this, but Spain did.
Russia destroyed Napoleon's huge army of 700 thousand soldiers and convinced Prussia and Austria to go to war with Napoleon. Russia defeated Napoleon
@@ВелиалВинчестер After a war of years was loosing against Spain, of course. With tired troops. Napoleon said that he was defeated in Spain and nobody tooks this words in a interested way, of course. Take more information. In Russia you are not gods, mate.
In other hand, UURS won the WWII, not USA. That's true.
"Look! Theres 100k russians headed for benelux!"
Napoleon: theres nothing we can do
Это показывает сколько на самом деле сделала в этой войне Россия и сколько Англия. Но Англия почему-то предпочитает забрать все лавры себе. Хотя всего лишь добила тяжело раненого
As always. They did the same with ww1 and ww2. Or today in Ukraine. Englishmen love nothing more than waging a war with someone else blood and then take credits for the victory.
@@joeacrobat4243😂
Por favor, ESpaña fue el que más hizo. Él mismo lo dijo "su mayor error fue invadir ESpaña" Napoleón: “Los españoles todos se comportaron como un solo hombre de honor. Enfoqué mal el asunto ese; la inmoralidad debió resultar demasiado patente; la injusticia demasiado cínica y todo ello harto malo, puesto que ha sucumbido”
@@ivanovichdelfin8797он говорил, что большей ошибкой было вторгаться в Россию, не ври
@@Hohol_HATER “Los españoles todos se comportaron como un solo hombre de honor. Enfoqué mal el asunto ese; la inmoralidad debió resultar demasiado patente; la injusticia demasiado cínica y todo ello harto malo, puesto que ha sucumbido”
2:20 perfectly synced
At least we took Moscow, take that Germany 🇫🇷
Круто,но я почти смог это сделать за 2 дня,даже быстрее чем "Киев за 3 дня". Просто за 200 км до Москвы Лукашенко подкупил меня картошкой.
Altijd welkom hier in Waterloo, Napoleone Buonaparte 😂
Bro this is honestly everything Hitler could have wanted and more 😂
Nope he did not want that Emperor Kaiser already did took smaller than
This video is giving you a very wrong persoective though. Napoleon didn't conquer and occupy all of Europe. He beat the armies of his enemies and they surrendered to him. These countries were all still completely functional which is why Napoleon wasn't able to win in the end.
The Nazi's on the other hand conquered all of these countries (for the most part) and did indeed occupy and govern them. They were completely under german control. Even against Russia the Nazi's took far more territory and actually governed all of the territory west of moscow. Napoleon didn't occupy anything, he just marched towards Moscow and burned it down which didn't achieve anything.
@@dalaios2132 Napoleon did the same thing in Europe in 1809 to 1812, all of Europe was under his command. The only functional and independent countries were Russia, the United Kingdom and Sweden, the rest were dominated by the power of Napoleon Bonaparte.
all the countries: stop developing so much troops you’re going to become too overpowered some random soldier: I am the one who fight for Napoleon
I respect the French empire but the way they conquered us is ratty
In fact Spain declared war on France. Search about war of the Pyrenees.
Yeah Napoleon was an foolTrafalgar
@@iaaf919 Yeah Napoleon was an fool for doing that, just a few years previous We (Britain) kicked both you and France's butt at Trafalgar and a few years later come crying for our help, how things quickly change.
It is on you, little brothers.
You did backstab us by tagging with them to invade us, and then we had to go in, with the Brits, to save your asses when you got backstabed yourselves....
May it be a lesson for you... to treat your elder brother with respect.
A hug from Portugal ;)
@@Tusiriakestu better thank the English,but the Spanish did everything in the east, and the English and Portuguese in the west, little brother 🇪🇸🇵🇹💪🏼
Excellent graphic. Really shows the "Spanish ulcer." I thought I knew my Napoleonic history pretty well, but I have no idea what that multi-year campaign in the Romanian-ish area was? Was it France fighting Turkey?
That was Russia fighting the Ottoman Empire.
God. Reading the comments was NOT a good idea. Enjoy the video and get out while you can ! 😂
8:01 Мощно-Русская высатка в Париже! Славянский зажим с двух сторон!
Invading russia while losing almost all your men while being the greatest general yet is as dumb as calling people to ask for thier phone number
Britain is just chilling in the Atlantic Ocean while being a pain in the ass to Napoleon for 15 years lol
Napoleon: "stop funding all my enemies!"
Britain: "Here comes the money, here comes the money"
Old story about two Royal Navy captains having a meal. One is lamenting how Napoleon is master of Europe, the other is more up beat saying who cares we have the rest of the world. (Bit of an exaggeration both ways, but with an element of truth).
But it was trade with the rest of the world and the beginnings of the industrial revolution, which had got a boost from contracts to supply the war time 1,000 ship Royal Navy. (As a contract to the lowest bidder able to supply the Navy with a 1,000,000 widgets a year, was a great incentive for someone to invent and build a steam powered widget factory.) That gave Britain the funds and material to eventually destroy Napoleonic France.
@@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2чужими руками
Oh, I really thought this time the blues would be the villains, how surprising!
Hey, you Napoleonic Wars every day, you make sure this is one of them.
Spain was never Napoleonic territory, until the invasion of 1808. Afterwards, the first major defeat and surrender of a complete Napoleonic army was at Bailen, at the hands of the regular Spanish army. Afterwards he never had complete control of the peninsula, where he also had to face the guerrillas and the British army, and the remains of the regular Spanish army too, finally being totally defeated and expelled from the peninsula after the battles of Vitoria and San Marcial. Napoleon himself acknowledged that his first and greatest ultimate mistake was the invasion of Spain. Disastrous Russia campaign was the finisher.
He regretted Spain invasion for moral reason !
Peninsula battles didn't weaken so much. French army still stronger after that. 600.000 of its best fighters have been sent to Russia...
@@thierryfromgwada9312The moral effect throughout Europe of the first great defeat of an entire Napoleonic army, which also fell entirely prisoner, including all its officers, was undoubtedly the factor that encouraged the spirit of resistance everywhere. THE WEAR OF THE NAPOLEON ARMIES IN THE PENINSULA WAS DECISIVE, to the point that the army that invaded Russia was already composed mostly of recruits of rank or force, from foreigners, not French. Many of them deserted at the first opportunity. For example, the Spaniards who had been part of the Spanish army sent to Denmark under the command of the Marquis of La Romana, joined en masse with the Russians, who formed with them the Imperial Alexander Regiment, placed at the service and guard of the Tsarina. You will have to study the matter a little more.
@@jocair For sure not.
When i talk about moral, I talk about ethics. It was not acceptable morally to invade Spain. No confusion.
Napoleon never lost a battle, himself, in the peninsula. But he have already lost a battle before Spain war. Then, the lost of the peninsula didn't affect his personal reputation of invicibility !
The peninsula Wars, was not decisive at all.
He went to Russia with the biggest army ever seen !
The spirit of resistance ?!! What are you talking about ? 😂
During the Russia campaign, russian avoid the direct confrontation, and even burnt their whole capital ! Napoleon reached Moscow, and without winter, no disaster would happen.
What you call spirit of resistance ?? Seriously ?
The others countries did nothing at that time.
Why Spain, Portugal and Great Britain didn't try to invade France before the Russian campaign, if they felt Napoleon so weak ??
Spanish and Portuguese people often overinterpret the lost of the peninsula by Napoleon.
Napoleon invaded the peninsula only for the blockade. These 2 countries was not a threat for France, unlike, the others countries which wanted to destroy the french republic.
If the peninsula was a major objective, threating the french republic, the french army would not have lost.
@@thierryfromgwada9312 The FACT IS THAT NAPOLEON lost the Peninsular War. Napoleon himself tried to right the situation personally, but he saw that he could not achieve it, so he again abandoned his armies on the peninsula, to their fate, just as he did before in Egypt. You can read Thiers' work, where all these things are detailed, despite being very favorable to Napoleon... Furthermore, the Spanish and English armies DID INVADE FRANCE, IN 1913-14, AND CONTRIBUTED DECISIVELY TO THE FALL AND ABDICATION OF NAPOLEÍN, AFTER THE BATTLE OF TOULOUSE, WHICH, OBVIOUSLY, HE LOST. The French chauvinism that you display so ardently, continues to ignore that the so-called 'Grande Armée' that tried to invade Russia, unfortunately failing, was composed, for the most part, of foreign mercenaries, and many of them FORCED. The desertions were constant. For my part, as a French citizen, or simply as a history lover, I have always been fascinated by the figure of Napoleon. But I have always been very clear about his genius, and also about his flaws and failures, many of them with tremendous consequences, even for himself.
@@jocair French lost the peninsula war, but Napoleon, himself, never lost a battle in this part of the world.
Afterwards, he went back to France because Prussia was about to attacks France, letting his marshalls deal with the situation, better than it was before his coming in Spain !
Open a book to have more informations about that era. Any amateur in Napoleonic era know this basic.
Spanish and Portuguese invaded France only after the Russian defeat. Never before.
What didn't they do it before as Napoleon supposes to be weak after the peninsula war ?
The invasion of Spanish and Portuguese was not decisive at all bro. Napoleon abdicated because of Autrichian, russian and Prussian armies in Eastern France !
French didn't even notice the Spanish invasion 😂
You're just a pretentious spanish guy, pretenting he is french.
Mercenaries are forced ? So they are not Mercenaries 😂
Most of the Grand Armée, in 1812, was foreigners soldiers. And what ? What the point with our discussion ?
The desertion is due to the roughness of the journey to Moscow. But why are talking about that ? You think to prove me that you know better the napoleonic wars than me. But you don't ! 😁
You're just another arrogant guy on UA-cam.
Can you do sepoy mutiny of 1857 every day if you can?
Napoleon: We can nothing to do...
Наполеону не повезло дважды. Смерть императора Павла и ненависть к нему императора Александра.
Смерть? Его же убили, при непосредственном участии сынки
@@MeisterHeringАлександра уже поставили перед фактом. Главные инициаторами были англичане. Так как Павел хотел заключить союз с Наполеоном и готовил войска для похода на Индию.
@@Природныйчел Что у вас в головах, если вы думаете, что в Российской Империи англичане могли инициировать убийство императора. Это же просто невозможно!
@@alexla_grange8957Невозможно возможно. Павел готовился к походу на Индию в союзе с Наполеоном. А потеря Индии для Британии означал бы крах. Тем более что недовольных политикой Павла было предостаточно. И английское золото и советы посла сыграли свою роль. Тем более убийство или свержение правителей не было в новинку и сейчас также, поэтому что у вас в голове за каша я не понимаю.
@@Природныйчел на первом канале услышали данный "факт"?
Somehow, Napoleon returned
Слава Великому Наполеону!
Помершему от ещё более великой России
@@tession1747ну к Наполеону уважение есть, чем к тому же гитлеру
@@fenaseek Наполеон ставил себя выше бога
Frankly I think the Fuhrer's ego was no less, but Napoleon achieved everything as the main fiddle of the machine, and Hitler was more of a pretty face against the background of the German experienced generalship@@tession1747
Imagine if USA sent 500 troops, they would claim today to have defeated Napoleon
proud to be sicilian #NeverConquered
Damn my guy Napoleon just got Betrayed from his allied countries again and agaig..😢
Great killer and tyran
I like history it's my favorite lesson in school that's why I'm watching history videos
Who’s ready
Im out 👉
The only time we see Switzerland in a war
Winter: I'm gonna destroy this man's whole career
Napoleon literally restored the Western Roman Empire in less than a lifetime but it also got it taken away in less than a lifetime.
But his Conquests prove Quality over Quantity.
His 600k troops died so fast
6:40 Austrian Painter💀:
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I love this style of video. Would love annotations or text with context about major changes as they happen. Well done, regardless.
Yes
Вывод: никогда не вторгайтесь в Россию🔥
Land,winter,man power?
Conclusion: always invade russia in the spring
@@cargem-mx6ihwinter? Napoleon lost his power in septemper, that is winter
@@reenoyet9651 september ia so cold in russia
@@cargem-mx6ihкак житель Петербурга скажу- сентябрь тёплый месяц, там оуоло 15 градусов
Napoleanic France is like Victorious Germany in WW2, lol.
Germany didn’t learn from history. They made dumbass mistake, they were in better position than the french were but they bottled it
i DO NOT understand how can someone think that Napoleon wasnt the greatest military general of all time,even when the odds were against him he fought, and won a lot of battles, even at the battle of waterloo where he was fighting with just men who he scrounged up, and had no time to train, and was outnumbered by more than 20 thousand, he still inflicted 1 thousand more casualites on the enemy, even after the disastrous campaign in Russia (which he could've easily won if he managed to catch the russians), he still inflicted quite a scare on the defecting germans and austrians, leaving them with a bloody nose.
i know a reason why he wasnt the best general ever
he freaking lost the war
@@saobaomenace All odds were against him, yet he still won against a huge coalition 7 times, he managed to reform the french army in italy from rags to being an effective fighting force in less than a month, and at one point he had the entirety of europe under him, there is no man better than Napoleon.
General Grievous was a better leader
Napoléon is the greatest general, by far. Even greater the Cesar or Alexander the Great !
He comitted the error of invading Spain provoking an unnecessary úlcer if not with Spain as his allie and only one front he couldve destroyed russians and english
Dang my man look like the third teich
Thank you, Russia. The world owes you.
Ага, так должны, что почти каждый месяц на нас санкции накладываете. Что мы вам сделали? Напали на Украину? По вашему потеря Украины это гигантский шок для Западного Мира?
@@VerticbroОн лично накладывает санкции?
@@VerticbroДа-да,за убийство мирных жителей мы,русские тоже должны получить наказание.
@@Couqwerty Он нет. Он Сказал МЫ должны
@@Couqwerty Странно, но за убийство Вьетнамских жителей США не получили наказание🤔
had he lived a couple of more decades we might have had pictures of him
Usually the red is for the bad guys. You inverted the colours there. Otherwise very good job! 😊
red usually means invader and blue defender…
@@doteleven5890 Sauf que c'est faux justement. À part certaines campagnes comme l'Espagne Napoléon n'a fait quasiment que se défendre face aux coalitions financées les Anglais. Même l'invasion de la Russie avait un but défensif puisque la Russie voulait envahir le Duché de Varsovie ( la Pologne ) qui était un allié de la France auquel Napoléon tenait beaucoup.
@@ModoGallico If I shoot you because I thought you wanted to attack someone else (while you didn't want to), who's the aggressor?
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 La France révolutionnaire s'est faite littéralement attaquer quasiment non-stop par toute l'Europe ( dont la Russie ) depuis la proclamation de la République et sous l'Empire, donc oui il est normal de prendre des mesures préventives contre quelqu'un qui a déjà essayé de me tuer plusieurs fois.
@@ModoGallico So following your logic, Russia has all right to attack Ukraine because Ukraine has been repressing it's Russian-speaking population?