One of the signature battles of Frederick the Great, immortalized in the “Höhenfriedberger Marsch” used by the Prussian and German armed forces. “Prinz Karl ist erschienen auf Friedbergs Höhn, sich das Preussische Heer mal anzusehen!”
I saw this battle explained in other channels, including I read books about this battle but your video is the best. I really appreciate your narration, your detailed explication, your maps and total war footages. Your work is absolutely the best to learn about Frederick's campaigns.
Love the content.. I commented month or two ago about how the commentary seemed dry and you replied you were working on that .. this episode (about 4-6 later ) and I see some real progress on that front.. please keep up the good work I love your content . You honestly just keep getting better at the content you make and it is already great content
I was a bit distracted by the map. It looks great and my city is marked on it, but that's the problem. Łódź was a very small, rural town, practically almost a village, until the industrial revolution. Other towns in the region, like Łęczyca, Sieradz or the nearby Piotrków (known as Piotrków Trybunalski due to being a seat of the Crown Tribunal, alongside Lublin) were bigger and more important. Not mentioning such cites as Krakow, which also aren't marked. Beside that, it's a great video (and I had a pretext to talk about my home region of central Poland under a video about the Silesian Wars).
Thank you for the valuable feedback! The map is a work in progress (as I am sure you know, it is much better than earlier videos). I will make sure to add the towns you mentioned to it. Slowly but surely I am trying to accurately fill up every territory, but sometimes oversights (such as Łódź ) slip through the cracks.
Hey Artur, I am currently in the process of creating my own historical world map to add more detail - do you perhaps have Discord? I'd love to have your insight on what cities/towns you consider relevant to be added, especially in Poland/Silesia.
@@HoH I unfortunately don't have Discord (maybe I should but I already spend so much time here on UA-cam). Perhaps it's worth to try reaching out to Polish channels about history that have good maps? I recommend 'Na bitewnym szlaku' and ThrashingMadPL (they both make videos in Polish, I don't know how's their English). Also, Danzig HD Mapper and POGKPP are mapping channels from Poland. There's also Eastory, who is from Estonia and works with the crew from Time Ghost/WW2 channel specifically on maps. While mostly interested in recent history, he made some videos about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
@@Artur_M. Thanks for the suggestions, I will have a look! Old maps also help a bunch, fortunately. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for the continued support & insights.
1:20 Friedrich the II organized his hussar regiments, inviting Hungarian hussars from Hungary. These were Protestant Hungarian hussars, who felt oppressed by the Catholic Habsburgs. These Hungarian hussars officers were immediately put in leading positions in the reformed Prussian Hussar regiments, called the Black Hussars. These Hungarian Hussar officers were: general Károly Zoltán, general Zsigmond Halász von Dabas, general János Tivadar Rüsch, major general Péter Győry, major general Mihály Székely, lieutenant general Pál Werner, colonel István Somogyi, colonel Ferenc Károly von Kőszeg.
Pfaffenhofen was not a Bavarian defeat but a French and Palatine one. The Bavarians under Seckendorff already had negotiations at Füssen with the Austrians. Louis XV didn't commanded in Alsace in 1744 but Coigny. Louis joined the army later in Autumn 1744 for the siege of Freiburg.
You do excellent work. I would love to see an in-depth discussion of the WW2 battles in the Aleutians. It is always explained away as merely a feint by Japan to draw off US forces for the Midway battle, but it was actually a strategic move in its own right. Dutch Harbor protected Unimak Pass. Surface shipments of lend lease material transited the pass on its way to Russia. Further to the east, on the Alaska Peninsula, is Cold Bay, a major stopping point for lend lease aircraft. Additionally, looking at the charts, the great circle route between Seattle and Japan (the shortest distance) is not too very far south of there. The Japanese needed to control the area for both offensive and defensive purposes. Frankly, it was a brilliant plan. Had US code breakers not broken the Japanese code, there is a good possibility that both missions would have succeeded. If for moral purposes only, it was necessary to take back that US territory back. There was some drama over US command that end with a general being relieved. And one of the largest banzai charges of WW2 took place there.
I enjoy these small productions. 20 minutes is about all of the time I will spend watching a video. We both know your history is correct. I want you to know I like your style.
Great video ! In this battle there were critical blunders . They are stated below : (1) Look - outs should have been posted & scouts should have been active within 5 mile radius . Napoleon Bonaparte probably learned from this battle much hence he always kept 5 mile radius scouts . "Suprise only lasts until it no longer is ! " . (2) Austrians & Saxons should have kept at least 10% of their army as battle ready . Instead it seems only Saxons cavalry was awake ! If Austrians cavalry had charged against the right hand side hill then the Prussians would have been delayed . (3) Why didn't the Saxons retreat towards Austrians? Biggest Blunder of the battle ! Even if half the army had joined Austrians in rear , they could have been deployed. Imagine if Austrians artillery at right had been joined by Saxons Infantry . (4) Austrian Cavalry seemed to hesitate to charge the side-flank of Prussian infantry . They had sufficient time to deploy fully however foolish reason to join piece by piece. A massive cavalry charge towards either Prussian Cavalry or Infantry would have done enough damage . (5) Prussian officers were drilled to take advantage of any suprise element & maintain discipline .Austrians Generals seemed to not grasp the situation quickly enough . This could be among the many reasons the Austrians Generals were considered inferior to Prussian Generals ( no offense meant to Europeans ) .
By the way, if you guys are wondering why Friedrich's intelligence and scouting seems to have improved 100% from the previous battles (and why Charles of Lorraine did not know what Friedrich was doing nearly as well as before), thank that hussar transition from being versatile light cavalry to more of a specialist scouting/anti-reconnaissance force. Prussian hussars would be feared for the rest of Frederick's reign and have inspired many German language military units ever since. (Sorry, deleted the first comment that said this). 😂😅
Friedrich II der GroBe: You underestimated me Charles von Lorraine, I wasn’t called the great. If I can’t even beat a small fry Count Charles von Lorraine: Angry Austrian Noises*
A correction here. The prussian infantry was not "light". They were called "musketiers" or "fusiliers" depending of the regiment, and were line infantry. They were not light by any means. The prussian army at the time had only one light infantry regiment, the jaeger regiment, armed with rifles.
As this war processes, and even more so once the Seven Years' War broke out, Frederick often received incomplete intelligence reports. Frankly, if there is one central tenet to Frederick's battles, it is lacking reconnaissance and intelligence reporting. But then again, this was nothing unusual for the time period.
@@HoH Thanks for the reply & info. Maybe the cavalry were too busy foraging than to scout. I know that Wellington didn't hold a high opinion of his cavalry.
If only Frederick's dad hadn't been such a gullible monster, Frederick could've married the woman he loved and Prussia would have Britain as an ally in this war.
02:42 Officially declared war is one thing. But with borders like this, how was Prussia not raided off the map. It looks like a logistical and strategic nightmare. Thanks
What do you think of the Battle of Minden, where the future English Lord Germaine fails to get into the fight, and gets kicked out of the British Army?
Don't you think that second silesian war should be considered continuation of first silesian war. Rather it should be called second campaign of First silesian war?
It is more or less a continuation of the war, yes. Some people refer to the Seven Years' War as the Third Silesian War. I personally don't really have a strong opinion on the matter. All I think is that it's an incredibly fascinating period in history.
9:56 A lie. Croatian Pandurs were local militas and not armed forces per se, even to this day the word pandur is a synonim for a police officer in the Balkans, i think you confused someone with Grenzers.
@@HoH pandurs in name only. By the middle of the 18th century, law enforcement in the counties of Croatia included county pandurs or hussars who patrolled roads and pursued criminals.[5][6] In 1740, the term was applied to frontier guard duty infantry deployed in the Croatian Military Frontier (Banal Frontier), specifically its Karlovac and Varaždin Generalcies.[7] The role of the pandurs as security guards was extended to Dalmatia after the establishment of Austrian rule there in the early 19th century.[8] The term has dropped from official use for law enforcement officials, but it is still used colloquially in Croatia and the Western Balkans in a manner akin to the English word cop.[2][9] The unit raised and led by Trenck is also referred to more specifically as Trenck's Pandurs,[10] and less frequently in Croatia than elsewhere, as Croatian Pandurs.[11] So pandurs you speak about were in fact as i said Grenzers from Slavonia (Military Frontier Men) and they were mostly serbs ethnically, hence why Trenk brought an orthodox priest alongside a catholic one.
@@HoH PS: this would be like if american swat police team made its own military unit and named it SWAT. that does not make it swat, just as much naming it cat would not make it a cat.
@@HoH you are most welcomed and sorry if i came out as rude, balkan people are kind of like the dutch extremely direct, + i most probably had a male ancestor in that unit
Karl was idiot and frederick was good at tactics, but not so good at strategic level. Instead of keeping army intact he forced them in needless battles, costing prussia immense casualties and loss of good troops.
Learnt from the best in history, but never really learned to stop coalitions from forming.
Napoleonic tactics make a lot of sense after studying Frederick the great campaign's?
Nice one
Him and Napoleon would of had a lot of jokes to crack with each other
Except for that whole Catherine/Maria/Polish thing after he mellowed out in his final 23 years of rule.
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I wait for the battle of Zorndorf. A battle described as so fierce both sides ran out of ammunition and took to biting each other.
The "Hohenfriedberger Marsch" is still played by the German Army and one of my favorite military marches :)
This arena of the wider Seven Years war definitely isn't covered enough; your videos on this Front is spectacularly superb, keep the content flowing!
One of the signature battles of Frederick the Great, immortalized in the “Höhenfriedberger Marsch” used by the Prussian and German armed forces. “Prinz Karl ist erschienen auf Friedbergs Höhn, sich das Preussische Heer mal anzusehen!”
Quite a catchy song is it not? It is worth singing.
Drum Kinder seid lustig und allesamt bereit
Auf Ansbach Dragoner auf Ansbach Bayreuth
Hohenfriedberger*
YES! This is one of Frederick's greatest victories. His first massive victory.
I saw this battle explained in other channels, including I read books about this battle but your video is the best. I really appreciate your narration, your detailed explication, your maps and total war footages.
Your work is absolutely the best to learn about Frederick's campaigns.
Really cool to see more youtubers showing different ways on their own style what happened in history, keep it up! Really interesting.
Excellent video man love this series on Fredrick hope to see more about it soon but keep up the great work
Love the content.. I commented month or two ago about how the commentary seemed dry and you replied you were working on that .. this episode (about 4-6 later ) and I see some real progress on that front.. please keep up the good work I love your content . You honestly just keep getting better at the content you make and it is already great content
Thank you for the kind words, Drew!
@@HoH love the content please keep making and releasing it ..
I was a bit distracted by the map. It looks great and my city is marked on it, but that's the problem. Łódź was a very small, rural town, practically almost a village, until the industrial revolution. Other towns in the region, like Łęczyca, Sieradz or the nearby Piotrków (known as Piotrków Trybunalski due to being a seat of the Crown Tribunal, alongside Lublin) were bigger and more important. Not mentioning such cites as Krakow, which also aren't marked.
Beside that, it's a great video (and I had a pretext to talk about my home region of central Poland under a video about the Silesian Wars).
Thank you for the valuable feedback! The map is a work in progress (as I am sure you know, it is much better than earlier videos). I will make sure to add the towns you mentioned to it. Slowly but surely I am trying to accurately fill up every territory, but sometimes oversights (such as Łódź ) slip through the cracks.
Hey Artur, I am currently in the process of creating my own historical world map to add more detail - do you perhaps have Discord? I'd love to have your insight on what cities/towns you consider relevant to be added, especially in Poland/Silesia.
@@HoH I unfortunately don't have Discord (maybe I should but I already spend so much time here on UA-cam).
Perhaps it's worth to try reaching out to Polish channels about history that have good maps? I recommend 'Na bitewnym szlaku' and ThrashingMadPL (they both make videos in Polish, I don't know how's their English).
Also, Danzig HD Mapper and POGKPP are mapping channels from Poland.
There's also Eastory, who is from Estonia and works with the crew from Time Ghost/WW2 channel specifically on maps. While mostly interested in recent history, he made some videos about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
@@Artur_M. Thanks for the suggestions, I will have a look! Old maps also help a bunch, fortunately. Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for the continued support & insights.
Was waiting for this one! Thank you!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Excellent explaining Military Movements & Political Collaboration among allies
This series is really interesting. Nice video.
1:20 Friedrich the II organized his hussar regiments, inviting Hungarian hussars from Hungary. These were Protestant Hungarian hussars, who felt oppressed by the Catholic Habsburgs.
These Hungarian hussars officers were immediately put in leading positions in the reformed Prussian Hussar regiments, called the Black Hussars.
These Hungarian Hussar officers were:
general Károly Zoltán, general Zsigmond Halász von Dabas, general János Tivadar Rüsch, major general Péter Győry, major general Mihály Székely, lieutenant general Pál Werner, colonel István Somogyi, colonel Ferenc Károly von Kőszeg.
The death hussar ?
Thank you for sharing - köszönöm!
@@HoH Bitte schön.
Pfaffenhofen was not a Bavarian defeat but a French and Palatine one. The Bavarians under Seckendorff already had negotiations at Füssen with the Austrians. Louis XV didn't commanded in Alsace in 1744 but Coigny. Louis joined the army later in Autumn 1744 for the siege of Freiburg.
Good point - should have been more clear on that.
Your presentations are fascinating, most informative, and beautifully illustrated. Thank you so much for posting them.
You do excellent work.
I would love to see an in-depth discussion of the WW2 battles in the Aleutians. It is always explained away as merely a feint by Japan to draw off US forces for the Midway battle, but it was actually a strategic move in its own right.
Dutch Harbor protected Unimak Pass. Surface shipments of lend lease material transited the pass on its way to Russia. Further to the east, on the Alaska Peninsula, is Cold Bay, a major stopping point for lend lease aircraft.
Additionally, looking at the charts, the great circle route between Seattle and Japan (the shortest distance) is not too very far south of there. The Japanese needed to control the area for both offensive and defensive purposes.
Frankly, it was a brilliant plan. Had US code breakers not broken the Japanese code, there is a good possibility that both missions would have succeeded. If for moral purposes only, it was necessary to take back that US territory back.
There was some drama over US command that end with a general being relieved. And one of the largest banzai charges of WW2 took place there.
Im Really enjoying this series. Excellent wok. Thank you.
I have been watching your videos fora while now, great job. Thank you for the quality and the effort you are putting into it.
I enjoy these small productions. 20 minutes is about all of the time I will spend watching a video. We both know your history is correct. I want you to know I like your style.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Incredibly clear and welll illustrated account - words and map movements carefully co-ordinated - thanks!
Great video ! In this battle there were critical blunders . They are stated below :
(1) Look - outs should have been posted & scouts should have been active within 5 mile radius . Napoleon Bonaparte probably learned from this battle much hence he always kept 5 mile radius scouts . "Suprise only lasts until it no longer is ! " .
(2) Austrians & Saxons should have kept at least 10% of their army as battle ready . Instead it seems only Saxons cavalry was awake ! If Austrians cavalry had charged against the right hand side hill then the Prussians would have been delayed .
(3) Why didn't the Saxons retreat towards Austrians? Biggest Blunder of the battle ! Even if half the army had joined Austrians in rear , they could have been deployed. Imagine if Austrians artillery at right had been joined by Saxons Infantry .
(4) Austrian Cavalry seemed to hesitate to charge the side-flank of Prussian infantry . They had sufficient time to deploy fully however foolish reason to join piece by piece. A massive cavalry charge towards either Prussian Cavalry or Infantry would have done enough damage .
(5) Prussian officers were drilled to take advantage of any suprise element & maintain discipline .Austrians Generals seemed to not grasp the situation quickly enough .
This could be among the many reasons the Austrians Generals were considered inferior to Prussian Generals ( no offense meant to Europeans ) .
Complimenti. Bellissimo video, come sempre.
Grazie mille!
Excellent battle animations. The battlefield is so alive and full of details. :) Bravo!
Very nice video, thanks for uploading.
By the way, if you guys are wondering why Friedrich's intelligence and scouting seems to have improved 100% from the previous battles (and why Charles of Lorraine did not know what Friedrich was doing nearly as well as before), thank that hussar transition from being versatile light cavalry to more of a specialist scouting/anti-reconnaissance force. Prussian hussars would be feared for the rest of Frederick's reign and have inspired many German language military units ever since.
(Sorry, deleted the first comment that said this). 😂😅
Excellent presentation.
Friedrich II der GroBe:
You underestimated me Charles von Lorraine, I wasn’t called the great. If I can’t even beat a small fry Count
Charles von Lorraine:
Angry Austrian Noises*
Love this series! Please more
Well done keep up the good work
Excellent video
How did you find it? It's not supposed to be online.
@@HoH when I opeaned your channel it was there and I started watching it.
Up, Ansbach Dragoons! Up, Ansbach-Bayreuth!
Thanks for sharing 👍
Yes i really like fredrick the great and german history thank you from mosul
I would love to see you do a video about the battle of shiroyama, the samurai are definitely one of my favorite group of warriors
Awesome suggestion, thank you!
great video! Could u perhaps change the cursive font?
Yep of course, thanks for the feedback!
I love your videos
Maybe adjust color so we have a better visual but great info 😃
I love myself
Adjust what colour?
A correction here. The prussian infantry was not "light". They were called "musketiers" or "fusiliers" depending of the regiment, and were line infantry. They were not light by any means. The prussian army at the time had only one light infantry regiment, the jaeger regiment, armed with rifles.
Can you do a video on the bulgaro-byzantine wars. They are not mentioned often.
Well done sir 👌
Please improve your mic setup whenever possible, there's way too much echo
Interesting. Note sure why the Prussian weren't aware of the ford sooner or the state of the bridges. It appears that reconnaissance was lacking.
As this war processes, and even more so once the Seven Years' War broke out, Frederick often received incomplete intelligence reports. Frankly, if there is one central tenet to Frederick's battles, it is lacking reconnaissance and intelligence reporting. But then again, this was nothing unusual for the time period.
@@HoH Thanks for the reply & info. Maybe the cavalry were too busy foraging than to scout. I know that Wellington didn't hold a high opinion of his cavalry.
Очень приятно смотреть ваши видео. Спасибо за труд.
Excellent!
love this series
This battle supposedly demonstrates Frederick's use of oblique order, but I don't see it having any significant impact here at all....
i want a video on battle of khotyn
Traun's campaign in 1744 was genius, sad that Charles didn't learn much and Traun had to deal with the French and capture Frankfurt.
Thx U.
If only Frederick's dad hadn't been such a gullible monster, Frederick could've married the woman he loved and Prussia would have Britain as an ally in this war.
Makes you wonder what would have happened if Frederick had been around Eugene, Marlborough and whatnot during the early 18th 🤔
Awesome
Friedrich: How many times do i have to teach you this lesson woman ?
02:42 Officially declared war is one thing. But with borders like this, how was Prussia not raided off the map. It looks like a logistical and strategic nightmare.
Thanks
Have you covered Blenheim?
Not yet 😉
@@HoH that's great! I look forward to it. I read an old book about it I found in a second hand book shop.
This is severely underrated
Perhaps diversify your content
What would you suggest? I'm always eager to explore other topics.
@@HoH great northern war
@@AdityaSingh-iz5zs I am working on the Great Northern War series on HistoryMarche's channel. First episode will be online in February I think!
@@HoH that's great. Thank you very much.
What do you think of the Battle of Minden, where the future English Lord Germaine fails to get into the fight, and gets kicked out of the British Army?
Definitely on the list of what I will cover soon!
Are you the guy from Baz Battles?
Unfortunately I lack the smooth British accent
17:38
Wher was prinz Karl
Don't you think that second silesian war should be considered continuation of first silesian war. Rather it should be called second campaign of First silesian war?
It is more or less a continuation of the war, yes. Some people refer to the Seven Years' War as the Third Silesian War. I personally don't really have a strong opinion on the matter. All I think is that it's an incredibly fascinating period in history.
@@HoH sir, your work is equally incredible.
Thouuuuusands and thouuuuuusands.
9:56
A lie. Croatian Pandurs were local militas and not armed forces per se, even to this day the word pandur is a synonim for a police officer in the Balkans, i think you confused someone with Grenzers.
Trenck's pandurs?
@@HoH pandurs in name only.
By the middle of the 18th century, law enforcement in the counties of Croatia included county pandurs or hussars who patrolled roads and pursued criminals.[5][6] In 1740, the term was applied to frontier guard duty infantry deployed in the Croatian Military Frontier (Banal Frontier), specifically its Karlovac and Varaždin Generalcies.[7] The role of the pandurs as security guards was extended to Dalmatia after the establishment of Austrian rule there in the early 19th century.[8] The term has dropped from official use for law enforcement officials, but it is still used colloquially in Croatia and the Western Balkans in a manner akin to the English word cop.[2][9] The unit raised and led by Trenck is also referred to more specifically as Trenck's Pandurs,[10] and less frequently in Croatia than elsewhere, as Croatian Pandurs.[11]
So pandurs you speak about were in fact as i said Grenzers from Slavonia (Military Frontier Men) and they were mostly serbs ethnically, hence why Trenk brought an orthodox priest alongside a catholic one.
@@HoH
PS: this would be like if american swat police team made its own military unit and named it SWAT. that does not make it swat, just as much naming it cat would not make it a cat.
@@pepamethodman Interesting, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing!
@@HoH you are most welcomed and sorry if i came out as rude, balkan people are kind of like the dutch extremely direct, + i most probably had a male ancestor in that unit
All these Victories raise one question: was Frederick brilliant or was Karl just an idiot?
Karl was idiot and frederick was good at tactics, but not so good at strategic level. Instead of keeping army intact he forced them in needless battles, costing prussia immense casualties and loss of good troops.
Frederick in the early battles is inexperienced so he has less initiative to command on a higher scale
18:00 let me guess, Maria or whoever you refer to was a woman (the one trying to reassure others she was 'somehow winning'). Lol.
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This is ASMR quality in my opinion. I listen as I go to bed and dream of glory.
Thanks Richard, happy to hear you enjoy my work!