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What’s crazy is that the Swedish royal family to this day is still the descendants of Count Bernadotte, Napoleons French Marshal. A lot of royal families from that time period are no longer around, but Count Bernadotte has endured.
Fun fact: The coat of arms of the House of Bernadotte has a Napoleon eagle symbol on the top right.
“when he approaches, we run away” has paid off 😂
Look up "Sweden masonic state".
I'm addicted to videos talking about Napoleon. But seriously that was the best reaction video of "amateurs" (I mean not history nerds/historians). You were genuinely interested in the subject and had great reactions. Great duo, keep it up !
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed our reaction! We definitely enjoyed learning about it.
sooo true!!!! i wanna see how they react to Waterloo
To give an exemple, France and Napoleon were at war against a lot of countries for 15 years.
10 years of total war.
At this time, it’s being said in France that one adult male on fives died during these years of total war
France and Napoleon (firstly as General in the French army, then as Emperor) were at war during 22 years, from 1792 to 1814.
@@Syl75 Yes
That Kid's Choice Award joke legit sent me on a giggling spree, WOW that was nice!!
France was at war with Europe almost entirely from 1792-1815. The selling of that land to America was in 1803. Napoleon took complete power in 1799.
18:10 the Duchy of Warsaw is Poland. Napoleon kinda liberated them for awhile with that duchy (still under his thumb). Russia never really liked a Poland that exists
More like poland didn't loke a Russia that existed Poland invaded them countless times.
The king sending soldiers to arrest Napoleon isn’t all the stupid. Outside of the allied countries sending foreign soldiers to arrest him, the result would’ve been the same. Every soldier in France at the time WAS Napoleon’s soldier. Napoleon had only been on Elba for 9 months, that’s not enough time to change the loyalties of current soldiers nor even get new recruits of soldiers.
All the soldiers were also part of Napoleon’s army, just not the army he commanded personally on campaign. Most were from the Spanish peninsular war or just soldiers that were stationed in conquered territory to garrison them. After the war of the sixth coalition they were all allowed to just return to France as the country had surrendered. Even in the event of new recruits being drawn on the arrest Napoleon they likely wouldn’t have. Remember Napoleon changed how the army operated and promoted those who had the ability and thought outside the box. Also, being a soldier outside of conscription was a career and those that went to military schools would’ve seen Napoleon as something of an idol. That added with the fact the monarchy was deeply unpopular meant that no one was going to really oppose his return to France.
Just want to add my opinion here, when put this into context it's really true & understandable. Great insite on this, mate!
I already knew they send Veteran soldiers to arrest Napoleon when Oversimplified mention it, fully agree with bith Chicago Actors reaction with it too. He's return to power after the first exile was inevitable for sure. Napoleon did learned alot from Julius Caesar for sure: gaining his troops respect & loyalty, master the propaganda, improvise tactic & strategy, ect ...
I disagree. As a veteran, I can tell you there are several comrades I would agree to arrest, just to find them first and warn them. (There are also some I'd immediately arrest). But this mentality comes from Napoleonic ideas of allowing units to act independently. Use your own judgement, and after WW2 and the Nuremberg trials, the mentality of "I was just following orders" is not a viable defense. So if I'm one of his old soldiers who fought without supplies or pay until he came along, I'm making an executive decision and overriding the arrest order. (And for the record, I served without pay for a period. My sergeants immediately had it sorted out. Everyone knows what an unpaid soldier can do. Sack of Rome, 1527)
Napoleon's style of strategy would - as said in the video - set a whole new doctrine that will be adopted by ambitious, major nations at the time. I'm confident saying it is still, to this day, a viable tactic, to an extent of course. But some aspects - focusing on strategic points, moving fast with fewer men, using artillery to support infantry and cavalry to pierce enemy lines (which granted, wasn't invented by him) in synchronization and coordinated... - are what makes great tactics, even to this day. Now of course it's so well known that other types of warfare appeared to answer modern characteristics - I'm looking at you USA, you guys and your overwhelming firepower - or guerilla warfare which also seeks to achieve a lot with but a few men and means normally would.
He also ended up being a tyrant but compared to the Bourbon... And with what he achieved, his deeds and mentality, he is still regarded as a national hero to this very day. Not unanimously but some French people are very proud of what he did and can even completely overlook/forget he was a tyrant for what he accomplished in his campaigns. And personally yeah, whatever if he was a tyrant or a brilliant general, he is still a major figure in French history and World history. The dude can make you proud to be French!
He was a low born who became the most powerful man in Europe and yes the civil war was fought by people who learned from him.
I think i heard that part of his succes also was the conscription and standing army system that no other state had at the time. Able to have large pool of manpower and gave discipline to his army.
@@lubu2960 alot of his tactics are still used to this day the cor system and merit based promotion and more.
3:06 That's actually really clever, because in the war of 1812, Britain did burn down the white house.
Hero, Villain, liberator, Conquer, Napoleon was all of those and is probably one of the most extraordinary human beings, with the greatest army to ever march across the Earth.
Good to see that now we can hear the hosts! I’m glad that part two didn’t fall to the same fate of not hearing the hosts.
Karl Johan's legacy is still alive, through his descendant, the current Swedish King Karl Gustav from the House of Bernadotte.
"Soldiers of the 5th, you recognize me. If you want to kill your emperor, here I am." - Napoleon Bonaparte, confronting Marshall Ney's army -
To me the major quote from him is "What a novel my life has been" this is so real...
And more than 200 years later we still honor him
Hi! ive been looking up reactions to oversimplified for a while, but i think you guys were the best, u talked about the subject in an interesting fashion, and u had real reactions that were fun and entertaining. I will for sure be watching more of you guys.
Napoleon was an undeniably flawed but utterly brilliant man. There are elements of how he conducted himself which warrant the utmost scorn, hatred, and ridicule, and yet other qualities which can be deemed such a pure combination of talent, hard work, and ambition that you’d think Napoleon was a character out of an ancient Greek epic
27:13 I love the idea of people getting attached to pierre like this is a tv show 😂
You guys analysis of the final Battle of Paris was basically bang on. The real fighters are more pragmatic, but the schemers/snobs indeed do change sides when it suits them and have no shame...many parallels even today I am sure.
its interesting the corp system he used reminds me of the roman manipuly system as the romans let individual units make desicions and made sure too spread out over the battle field like a net
After the French victories of Lutzen and Bautzen, during the 4-week armistice of Pleiswitz, the Austrian diplomat proposed a general peace to Napoléon if he abandoned all territory East of the Rhine, Holland, Switzerland, Spain and a large part of Italy. To the great surprise of the allies, Napoléon accepted, but they finally decided to resume war.
Can you give a source ? It looks very interesting.
@@shakya00 I learnt it watching this video : ua-cam.com/video/7drOjEyABAw/v-deo.html
It is serious and based on academic works. But I'll ask him if he can tell me the exact source of it.
@@shakya00
First of all, the peace treaty was never intended to be accepted by Napoléon. It was just a pretext to design him as responsible for war, so that Austria could declare war on France.
According to Jacques Bainville in "Napoléon" (p.385) :
"When he [Napoléon] sent at Prague his acceptance in principle, pending the examination of the details, the allies declared they did not accept any counter-project and that their conditions were an ultimatum."
Also, according to Thierry Lentz in "Napoléon : Dictionnaire historique", Napoléon did accept the peace conditions through the diplomat Caulaincourt, which is confirmed by "History of the Consulate and the Empire : commented chronology" by Jean-Paul Bertaud.
@@lahire4943 Ok merci pour les infos, j'irai voir ça. Bonne journée à toi !
@@shakya00 Tout le plaisir est pour moi !
« For History is dark and full of Spoilers ! »
Aaaaand, yes, back then the Russians kissed on the mouth. Napoleon didn’t like that one bit, but hey, diplomacy’s a bitch sometimes ^^
Poor Austrians though. They really got stomped over and over and over again…
A famous quote we French remember from Napoleon is « The battles, the conquests, the glories, all of that will pass. But my Code ? It will remain ». And history proved him right on that point.
An interesting point too : the Napoleonic code planted the legal roots for Meritocratic Republics all across Europe, announcing the fall of all European monarchies by 1918.
But that’s a topic for some other day !
23:32 The Napoleonic wars lasted 15 years ish. The wars were short, but it was a constant on and off (6 coalitions in 20 years!) the Louisiana purchase happened around 1803. But France troubles started in 1789 so it had been almost 30 years for them, understandable why they were exhausted.
during the quest for russia, napoleon moved slowly especially because he waited for his "friend" the king of russia to offer him peace, he had trouble understanding why his friend had done this and therefore in every town he succeeded, he was waiting for a letter from his friend.
The wars were from about 1796 to 1815. The American Revolution happened 20 years before Napoleon came to power
1792, not 1796
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
The real treasure was the Pierres we befriended along the way
The Russian Campain is a verry interesting subject on its own. Other that the Nazis later, Napoleon could expect to accually win, as the rules said "army vs army, who retreats loose", he also had verry acurat calculations on how many supplies he would need, but he couldn't manag to get them all ready (and he had pretty mutch taken all carts and horses out of Europe that he could get). He also expectet the Russians to be a chalange, as he would't have brought up sutche a massive army if he thought this would be easy. Alexander, for all intens and purpuses, "cheated". The only way for Napoleon to secure his Empire, was by defeating the British, or forcing them into a peace threaty. And he was just not able to do that, as the Blockad was a bad Idea and backfired enormusly.
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Americans were more concerned with the (sister-)revolution on present day Haiti. A slave revolution was simply more daunting for the status quo in America than the French Revolution was. And so Washington decided to negotiate with Louverture, the leader of the revolution. America and Britain would open up trade to Haiti, and Louverture would prevent the spread of the Haitian Revolution to other places in the Caribean and North America.
Well they were still concerned about it since the Napoleonic wars were the main reason for the war of 1812 between USA and Britain. In a way, this war was a side theater of the Napoleonic wars, as the Haitian revolution clearly is one too (since french troups were involved).
still waiting for these guys to react some SCP content once again.
Still amazing reaction as all ways owo.
Its coming
@@ChicagoReacts noice!
I just realised they mentioned Davout once in both videos. They did my man dirty, Dovout was only second to Napoleon and Napoleon was lucky the Iron Marshall was loyal to the end
4:36 Literally "SEND THEM TO BRAZIL" meme
28:18 Imagine how scary that would be, your stomach just drop by the idea of everything have been in vain
Victory disease...once they get a taste of major victories they just keep going and going like an addiction it seems..Hitler had similar issue. "The Coalition" in this case had the advantage on being mostly on the defensive so had more justification and could rely on more natural support from their people "defending the homeland" etc. while Napoleon's efforts solely relied on his leadership basically, so if his flaws started to show so too would his whole Empire's.
these guys understood the point,they understood how much of an asshole the frech people were to turn their back on the emperor who did it all for them
Interesting how you guys mentioned about how long the wars were...the sheer casualties of France from these wars might have indirectly contributed to the French performance in WW1 (almost defeated) and WW2 (defeated)...the loss of young men and strategic power, France would never really recover.
These events are several generations apart, if id had any impact it would be marginally. There were other wars between these major conflict which might have had a bigger impact.
That's a myth propagated by reactionaries and counter-revolutionaries like Pétain to dunk on the French Revolution and its political legacy. France just had its demographic transition earlier than most European nations: France's demographic growth peaked in the late 1700s to early 1800s, while other European countries boomed in the mid-to-late 1800s. This is why France had roughly the same population as the German states in 1870, but was close to half the population of the German Empire in 1914.
People in power obsessed over this after 1871 and even more after WWI, trying to boost birth rates, but from what I know, there wasn't much to do. It's very hard to create demographic growth out of nothing.
That was very fun
France completely gangsta until a unite Germany shows up and shows what the Germania gene is really capable of!
Just kidding 😂
love you brothers from France great history and great country. We are stronger together 🇩🇪❤️💙🇫🇷
HE existed dudes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Augereau
America was slightly involved in the Napoleonic wars as the war of 1812 uk vs us occurred during this time period, i don't know enough about the war though to know if it has connections with napoleon, i think it was just usa wanted Canada from the uk
Crazy that it even effected the US across the pond. Though if the US is trading with Europe, makes sense that it would effect them.
The u.s. has always been friends with france they helped us become independent and we still didn't like Britain not being allowed to trade with europe hurt us and the war happened for a bunch a reasons.
@@v-repmon2322 We helped you for your independence, gave you the Statue of Liberty and the enlightnment ideals inspired your new Republic. And in return you inspired us to create our own Republic, helped us during WW1 and immensely during WW2. It sounds weird that for a while now the USA and the UK, your former colonizer, have a greater relationship than there is between the USA and France. So, yes we are great historic allies but not as close as we should. Many french people and american, both love the country of the other one but there are also many on both sides who hate the other one. Strange, isn't it ? Especially when we consider the fact that our values are very close from the beginning (universalism and liberty are two strong conceptions in common).
@@shakya00 im from the south and my moms side is French and hurts to hear people bad mouth france I believe every country is or was great also d day or Normandy only happened because of French resistance I believe you should be proud of your history even if it's not all beautiful and remember who helped get you there as a Texan I know we owe europe alot and sorry for not paying you back after the revolutionary war.
@@v-repmon2322 You are right every country has glorious and weak times, dark times and good times. Haters will always exist but the more we learn about other cultures the less we believe in the stupid stereotypes ! Haters gonna hate, they are just ignorant, so that's ok.
Oh nice, you have french orgins. Do you speak some french ?
Vive les Etats-Unis, le Texas et la France ;)
Where is part 1?
Its private
they removed it (i guess to correct it), because we only had the oversimplified sound, not the reactors
Part 1 is fixed and up
Long live the glory of emperor Napoleon.
In regard to how long this period of wars lasted.
A that time in history there were always some wars happening in Europe, so it was nothign uncommon for the European peoples.
But the whole thing with Napoleon really began in the follow up of the French Revolution (1789), which had a great influence on how wars were fought in the later years and how they effected the population.
Feudalism was steadily replaced by Nationalism, and one of the consequences was mandatory conscription into the armed forces. Already in the countries that Napoleon had invaded and conquered young men with all kinds of national and ethnic backgrounds were forced into the French army and its allied forces.
What makes the Napoleonic wars stand out is the scale of it.
Says 30 years of war😂
Oops 😅
I wanna see you guys react to Waterloo... The movie is on youtube but its one of the best battle movies ever made. its pretty old...1970, but its awesome. Starring Rod Stieger , i am looking forward for the reaction.
22:30 good thing history doesn't repeat itself, eh? ;) btw there are an awful lot of guns in the american countryside, huh?
17:56 bro just traded Poland🤣 oh kurwa they have a bad geographical position indeed
uhhh...did noone really notice the Title clash with the thumbnail? Thumbnail says part 1 LMAO
Part 1 when o_o
There was no sound in it so I guess they removed it to fix it
Its up! sorry for the delay.
Your thumbnail says part 1.
But the video title says part 2.
Rule number 1 when you declare war on Russia: don't invade Russia
25:12 Yeah, that was AWFUL
Привет из России . Привет Наполеон )
@@illumey7884 Виват дедушка Кутузов! Да здравствуйет царь Александр!
Shouldn't Jared, the beautiful (Jared's description not mine) Kelly or Kit react to this since they did the other Napoleon videos?
Guys, if you think about two types of "Alpha" - "Leader of Men" types and "Popular with women" types (and the very rare individual like Alexander the Great who could do both) Napoleon was definitely one of the best natural leaders this world has ever produced. I'm for Democracy. But if I absolutely had to live under some other system I'd rather an Aristocracy of Talent rather than blood. And I think Napoleon represented the Aristocracy of Talent.
Definitely republics are my choice but he's the example of the good that can come from a monarchy.
@@v-repmon2322 his enemies are the example of the opposite.
@@speedy01247 precisely
"Alpha" type of sh*t is rubbish. Napoleon was undoubtedly a talented man, but there were a lot of very talented generals that could have taken his place. He owes his fate in large part to luck.
You definitely wouldn't want to live under the French Empire. Sure, there was more opportunity for social elevation... if you were from the middle class. It was still a very repressive police state, with workers kept under watch, peasants conscripted into endless wars and republican or royalist sentiment or any dissent silenced. And I don't think the campaigns were as glamorous for the soldiers actually fighting in it than for Napoleon fanboys playing Total War today.
@@samrevlej9331 "A lot of very talented Generals who could have taken his place". Military historians laugh at you. The guy is often considered the very best General in history and always makes any 'top 5' or 'top ten' list in the event he doesn't get first place and you think Napoleons grow on trees!
French againts russia is the only war napoleon declar
Napoléon wasn't an absolute monarch but a constitutional monarch. By the way, the Constitutions of the French Empire was very close on many points with the actual Constitution of the Fifth French Republic
He was an absolute monarch! He could take decisions by himself as a emperor!
@@X12223 A Constitution was wrote, the Parliament (composed by the National Assembly and the Senate) from the 1rst Republic was remained under the Napoléon's rule, so, de facto, the First French Empire was Constitutional Monarchy. Whether you like it or not.
They left the slavery out