American humour (in movies, say) tends to be slick and situational while British humor is more snooty and sophisticated... a non English speaker mightn't even be able to tell that a joke has been told, let alone get it. I'm neither, so I don't care how I write.
I love how the "excitorama" way of editing is literally how most History Channel and Discovery Channel shows are edited, multiple repeated cuts with suspenseful music, but, they cut to commercial every 5 seconds creating an infinite number of cliffhangers to something anticlimactic.
I’m a mortarman in the U.S. Army and it’s super interesting to see how much has remained the same in smooth bore cannons through the centuries. Even though the purpose is very different, this is essentially just a giant mortar pointed forward instead of up, even down to the ball on the end!
For Union batteries in the American Civil War it took about 2-3 minutes... and that's with trained crews. I guess the British did it quite differently.
@@mikeoxsmal8022 I think the joke is this, it took even a highly trained crew about 90 seconds to prep the cannon for firing again after the last firing due to all the steps that MUST be completed prior to loading a fresh charge/shot.
Now do it again. On a ship. With no headroom. In the Bay of Biscay. In a chop... interspersing the regular Atlantic swell. 600 feet from the vile frogs. And blood everywhere. Fire as they bear.
Come on the Exciteorama needs more shaky cam and chromatic aberration to be truly gritty and realistic like modern action movies! The one you showed was too comprehensible.
Although the cannon shown in the opening sequence are basically the same a Naval cannon of the period, they are sitting on cast iron fortification carriages, not Naval ones. Naval carriages were made of wood to reduce weight. One of the great problems with 18th C warships was that they were top heavy and anything to reduce the weight above the waterline was important.
I can tell you, as an artillery reenactor for the American Civil War, that you do not position your torso ahead of the muzzle while inserting things into the cannon. This applies to even the worm and the sponge. It's best to just not ever do it. Charges, shot, and implements should be inserted while you stand to the side of the barrel and behind the plane of the muzzle. It's slightly more awkward, but less so than dealing with your torso exploding.
2:17 I remember my grandpa used to tell that he saw an accident while a guy cleaning a cannon, accidentally fire was shot, blowing him up. The tine was 1930s in Buitenzorg. Now I understand what he meant.
+J Wood understandable they dident have proper ear protection then . and guns where always going off as arty men . lucky if you had any type of ear plugs
+cygil1 OMG so true! I was in a Marine tank company in the States, and boy I can tell you after 3 1/2 years after tanks going BOOM! you can't hear like you did before.
+cygil1 My grandfather was a career officer and spent his operational years in the Artillery. At his funeral all the old pals from the service showed up. This is one hundred percent true. :)
+cygil1 My uncle was in rocket artillery during the Vietnam war... he always said the only way to tell the difference between outgoing and incoming was to check for a new crater.
Everything you've shown here looks 19th century. The uniforms especially, distinctly mid-late 19th century. The artillery pieces I suppose could be late 18th century, and the use of a linstock (as opposed to a flintlock piece) reinforces that.
You are right. This is in Malta, which became a British protectorate in 1798 and a colony in 1814. Their experience of colonialism therefore mainly dates to the 19th century.
"..With copper, to prevent sparks..." "...Would not be a good idea to keep close to the cannon..." "...To prevent a premature explosion during the loading process..." Yeah, I can imagine one or two nasty accidents that eventually led to adopting many safety measures...
Just imagine these were cannons in the late 18th century the Ottomans had been using much larger ones since the siege of Constantinople the largrst shooting a 660 pounder
@@syedferoz2188 true. Now, to be fair, those cannons were pretty terrible, these ones were far more refined, with a 24 pounder being actually useable on the battlefield not just in seiges like that ridiculous 660 pounder, but they were definitely cannons, and they did do cannon things.
Does anybody know how much it cost (back in the day) to fire a single shot out (with your standard grain/shot) of a 24pdr (or 9/12/36 etc) - adjusted to today's money if possible.
+Bismarck almost impossible to say,depend of the kingdom/state and more factors...like:in those days they foraged battlefeild and re-gather all the non damaged canon balls...then seperated by caliber...and they were shot aain in another occasion...it may look futile but to cast a 24 lbs cannonball 200lbs of charcoal were to be used,more or less depending on the moistire etc,the competence of the guys etc etc as for the powder some most state in the 18th didint actually paid the powder,the charcoal burner had a tax that they paid in good,and the saltpeter was furnished by farmer who choosed to have a saltpeter pit and paid theyre tax with it...the same for people with big barn...the saltpeter accumulated under the wooden floor or on the corners so for all all those reason...and many others its almost impossible to tell you a price persay,because 80% of the process was done 'outside of the trade'...it was more aa thing of how much my state can give me ,than how much can i buy frederick the great who found his army always short of powder because he liked to fire-drill his infantry decided to start a feudal tax on every farmer on saltpeter...he got huga amout!(happy!) but he didint had anough mills to grind the powder so it was rushed so he got the worst powder of europe(unhappy!)the problem was only solved in the 1800 during napoleonic war.
+Bismarck Well what I know may not be the most extensive but, the kind of powder is probably around the texture of 1f powder. that means that the more f's (1f, 2f, 3f, 4f) means the more fine the powder would be (finer powder burns faster). If you tried to put 4f (FFFF) powder into a cannon, let alone a 24pdr it will blow up. But for the lead I looked up that it is currently $0.82 (U.S) a pound for lead so .82*24=$19.68. So probably $25-$35 per discharge, if not more given that you have a cannon and proper range and tools, hearing protection etc.
200 Lbs of charcoal is not a hard thing to come buy. I'd say the metal used is the thing they'd rather not waste. I can make a literal tonne of of charcoal in a few days on my own. Can't imagine how much an entire group of smiths could produce. Or better yet, i'd like to think i could produce a tonne of charcoal on my own thanks to primitive technology's channel, but i'd probably say "naaah, i don't wanna get all muddy." and then sit inside my comfortable, not so muddy house.
s/o to Primitive Technology, that guy is awesome. Documenting such impressive feats purely visually must be difficult. Isolating iron from scratch using only your bare hands and your mind (I suppose the internet helps, too) is bananas.
imagine being that person on the boat at 4:19 and looking over and seeing men dressed in 1800s naval outfits loading an 1800s CANNON, shortly before they fire a round nearly 100yds away from him, and thinking "Oh dear what in the 1800s is this".💀
As a former United States marine who served in artillery i can just say we still do these types of drill from the British army for how rapid and smooth it is to excite in full speed is a display of order amongst chaos.
At 3.08 you will see a flintlock attached to a cannon. Flintlocks were one of the reasons why Nelson won the battle of Trafalgar. The French had the older method of firing, where they used the lighted tape to fire the initial charge that in turn set off the powder. As such, there aim was subject to the rolling of the sea which was very hard to judge. many of their shots would have gone too high or low due to the seconds wasted waiting for the main charge to go off. Nelson's gunners however, could wait while the roll of the sea was directly at their aim before the flintlock was triggered, their guns fired instantaneously. Hardly any of their shots would have missed the required mark. Today, on Nelsons’ flag ship, the Victory in Plymouths naval dockyard, there is a portrait of Nelson dying on one of the gundecks. He is next to a cannon, and the flintlock can be clearly seen. The cannons that are now on the ship are either not the ones from the battle or have had their flintlocks removed. This just proves how important it is for our armed forces to have the most up to date arms and equipment.
True to an extent, although any experience gunnery officer would very quickly pick up on the rolling of the sea, and would be able to get the shots to land pretty often after a few volleys. This was helped by the fact ships are pretty large targets, and you rarely are aiming for anything other than a simple hit, as you were looking to kill the enemy crew in preparation for boarding, not sink the ship. Additionally, one of the major reasons the british won the battle was because they engaged the french and spanish fleets in close broadsides, which let the superior English gunner crews make more effective use of the greater volume of fire they could put out, as opposed to the more traditional longish range combat the french and spanish were prepared for, and of course in close range aiming is really easy, in long range aiming is quite hard. Technology is important. What is more important is having highly trained and effective troops, and engaging the enemy such that you can capitalise on your advantages whilst exploiting the enemies weaknesses. A man with a gun will loose to a man with a pocket knife if he's stabbed walking through a door.
Victory was never intended to be a museum piece, so anything like flintlocks would likely have been removed when she was decommissioned. I believe that they were brass, so a high value item.
@@lilporky8565 Red Leg = Artillery Comes from the old days when artillery Soldiers were identified on the battlefield with their bright red pants (hence "red legs"). Though the pants have (thankfully) gone by the way-side, the term remains.
@@zeroqp well Blue Leg (I see what you did there Infantry 😜) it's funny because what they are doing there (keeping the powder away from the gun) is what we still do today. You keep it away because if,God forbid, something happens to cause it to go BOOM then all you would lose would be the powder. The men and the gun would still be there.
@@vmi02raven Ah, of course. Thank you. And I'm not infantry, or anything in the military for that matter, unfortunately. 😅 "Blue Leg" was my way of saying civvy, because blue jeans...
I can remember one time while crewing a 6 pdr field gun in an 1812 reenactment one of the US crews we were fighting failed to mop out a barrel before reloading. The foil packet of powder went off while it was being loaded. Thankfully no one was seriously injured, though one man did have a nasty burn afterwords. The crew is now in the infantry and excluded from any artillery.
A lot of sound effects like that are constantly reused. If you've played Half Life 2 for instance you'll have heard other bits of media using the same sound effects from the game a lot.
My maternal Grandfather was a turn of the Century Royal Horse Artillery regular: Sgt. Wrangler specifically, also re-enlisted WWI. Later, with his explosives training, a Shot Blaster with the East Weyms Coal Company, Fife. Much of his regular service was ceremonial, duties undertaken now by King's Troop RHA
+Lindybeige : Well, you have this chap called Stuart Ashen (Ashens on YT) that manage to keep it exiting due to his wit and honesty. But I do look forward to your spoof if you decide to make it.
+weesh ful i find them useful. sometimes the stock pictures of a product are unclear about certain aspects, so seeing somebody hold it in front of a camera and look at everything can be very helpful.
Had a Renaissance era day in high school. We got to fire Field Guns on the school field. Very loud indeed. We were advised *not* to plug the ears and close the mouth, as the force could blow teeth out and burst eardrums. The technique was to cup the ears and have the mouth open.
"Theres always one" aint that the truth, pure gold great video, i really enjoyed watching it and it was very informative for me "could get one shot off every 90 seconds, or a minute and a half on a bad day" 10/10
+jh099 Not much! I surmise one billion dollars would make enough for bribing of officials and overcoming any pesty moral qualms the gunners might have.
+Luke DS =P naval canns are cast iron not brass or bronze,even new they often cracked...so imagin that antique,if it had to throw a real load it would probably spit more shrapnel backward than a ball forward they used cast iron because ships needed so many guns that bronze was just too expensive....when armies were short of canons they sometimes issued naval guns on field carriage...the crew felt 'dishonored and dishaertened' by that ...because they new that they couldnt maintain high rate of constant firing otherwise they would 'crack the pot'
+Luke DS just tie off a dinghy with a plywood sailor sot in it, and get some fireworks. Launch the firework out a PVC pipe the length of a cannon, and there you go.
Thanks for mentioning the "Friction tube!" I always saw cartoons and stuff with someone yanking a rope to fire a cannon and always wondered ... how the heck is that doing anything? I thought maybe it triggered a flint or something.
Shakecam is mandatory. Thanks for the good work, Loyd! Oh, yes- I almost forgot. I wanted you to know that you have inspired me to buy and wear bow ties. Proper ones, none of that pre-tied shite.
to be accurate when he would has asked the guy''do you like being in the artillery,the guy would had answered: whAaaaAt? -DOOO YOOUUU LIIIIKE BEING IN THE ARTILLERYYYYYYY!? -no need to wishper mate we are in the artillery everyone here is deaf and yes i like chantilly
+Nicholas Pantazopoulos Which is better - to disappoint the people who were lured in by the Excitorama, or to reward the people who watched all the way through the dull stuff?
Lloyd I don't know why, but I swear you could talk about paint drying and I would be interested. You have a talent for making most things interesting, which explains why you're internet famous. :)
No rubbish here. Loading and firing large guns is basically a bunch of cleaning and lifting. The excitement came from the fact that people were trying to kill you during your work. By the way, when will you post the Excitorama unboxing video of your new box?
+Floobs I'm not a fan of the jovial look that your profile picture is displaying, it's much too excessive. Tone it down a bit lad, there's a war on you know.
+touofthehighplains have you considered why shooting a large projectile may not be a good idea, when "these places" by which i assume you mean castles and forts etc are usually, not always, but usually near a large built up area?
+touofthehighplains I've been present at one where they load styrofoam balls. No difference in load, bang or recoil, but you can (maybe) follow the projectile and recover a charred ball.
+NorwegianChris And what's this nonsense I hear about giving the artillery train flintlocks? Bring back the matchcord I say! Nothing is as comforting as a glowing cherry by the powder kegs to remind us we're being guarded well.
This has been a great channel for a long time so it amazes me it doesnt have at least 1.5 million subscribers. edit.. There is a big difference in sound when a ball is used which always dissapoints me with various versions of the 1812 Overture. They fire big cannon but with blanks so it lacks that "BABOOM' and all you get is a fair bang lol.
I was at Fort Rinella last week. They don't let you fire the cannons any more. They told us that they had a tourist who ignored the rather simple instruction to not look at the cannon after lighting the fuse. This bloke then tried to sue them for the "damage" to his glasses... he didn't win, but they decided to stop letting people fire the cannons to avoid any more stupid tourists giving them hassle. They do still let you fire the rifles though, which was fun! And they told us they are planning to fire the 100-ton gun in the future. It needs more restoration work, but that's what they're aiming for. Might go back to see that in the future. Wouldn't have known about this place without your videos, so thanks Lindybeige!
I do much enjoy Lindy's sense of humor.
He's British... duh
+Riju Chatterjee British humor can be mainly seen in Ibiza, at night.
American humour (in movies, say) tends to be slick and situational while British humor is more snooty and sophisticated... a non English speaker mightn't even be able to tell that a joke has been told, let alone get it. I'm neither, so I don't care how I write.
+Riju Chatterjee "American humour (in movies, say) tends to be slick and situational" lol. American comedy is just awful.
***** the big bang theory, and every single US 'rom-com' are the epitome of genuine and completely objective awfulness.
I love how the "excitorama" way of editing is literally how most History Channel and Discovery Channel shows are edited, multiple repeated cuts with suspenseful music, but, they cut to commercial every 5 seconds creating an infinite number of cliffhangers to something anticlimactic.
gotta make it look gory and flashy or the kids these days will get bored and play on their telly-phones
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@@nelsonsmissingarm6951 imo it's more boring this way
Not to mention the people in the background wailing
@@nelsonsmissingarm6951 its boring because of all the adverts and dramatic cuts
5:27 "A drilled crew could get one shot off every 90 seconds, or a minute and a half on a bad day" Always a bad day?
Well, I guess a war day isn't really a "good" day.
what about taco Tuesday, it can still be a good day at war.
Thought he said 19
That's *what SHE SAID!!!*
Never a bad day in the artillery.
I’m a mortarman in the U.S. Army and it’s super interesting to see how much has remained the same in smooth bore cannons through the centuries. Even though the purpose is very different, this is essentially just a giant mortar pointed forward instead of up, even down to the ball on the end!
2:40 The Boat in the left corner: *see's the canon beeing loaded* "oh sh*t, oh sh*t, oh sh*t"
"Don't fret, helmsman. They couldn't hit the broad side of a freighter at this dist---"
90s seems good enough, but a minute and a half? That's just too much.
Michelle Stone watching this too help me in making a realistic revolution war game lol
Maximiliano Britez 1,5 min is 90 seconds
thats why theyre joking Knall
For Union batteries in the American Civil War it took about 2-3 minutes... and that's with trained crews. I guess the British did it quite differently.
You know 90s is the same as 1:30 right ?
That ending was 10/10
I was about to say the same thing.
Lindybeige knows all the keyboard shortcuts.
+cored goddamnit, +1
+Ticklehug Top Notch
+Ticklehug Yep, perfect
Anyone else noticed the boat in the background at 2:39 and was like "hurry up, they gonna escape!"
Eis Geflüster k
Could you say that in English please?
Imagine being on that ship, looking up the coast with binoculars and seeing these guys loading that cannon pointed towards you
@@nicollomatt run or leave you boat to survive that
@@davidratcliffe2265 how can’t you read that
5:46 Gordon Ramsey's great great grandfather loads a cannon. 1754 illustration colorized.
Hell Cannons
NOT LOADED
Where's the cannon BALL!?
“A good crew could get a shot on in 90 seconds,
or a minute and a half on a bad day.”
I just understood the joke.
Explain to me and I will be able to understand too
@@mikeoxsmal8022 90 seconds = 60 seconds + 30 seconds = 1 minute and a half
@@abramo7700 I know
@@mikeoxsmal8022 I think the joke is this, it took even a highly trained crew about 90 seconds to prep the cannon for firing again after the last firing due to all the steps that MUST be completed prior to loading a fresh charge/shot.
@@MegaRazorback
the joke is that it's always a bad day, since 1 minute and a half = 90 seconds
Now do it again. On a ship. With no headroom. In the Bay of Biscay. In a chop... interspersing the regular Atlantic swell. 600 feet from the vile frogs. And blood everywhere.
Fire as they bear.
"the vile frogs", lmao.
Thou seem'st to have gathered sand in thy breeches, me swabbie.
Remember that a cannon on land is equivalent to tree cannons on a ship, remember ST-Malo sieges perfidious Albion.
Love, vile frog.
You are talking like "Mette Fredriksen"...
And do it with two dozen other cannons all be fired around you on the same deck!
13 hours after the battle was already lost:
"now we add the slow match"
Come on the Exciteorama needs more shaky cam and chromatic aberration to be truly gritty and realistic like modern action movies! The one you showed was too comprehensible.
+ew275x He didn't even tint it blue at all!
+ew275x Yeah, that Eciterama was kind of dull, needs more explosions. Try some MichealBayorama next time...
+ew275x I just threw up.
+ew275x And more lens flare!
+ew275x Shoot it all at night so that nobody can see anything that is happening. That's how it's done you know.
Although the cannon shown in the opening sequence are basically the same a Naval cannon of the period, they are sitting on cast iron fortification carriages, not Naval ones. Naval carriages were made of wood to reduce weight.
One of the great problems with 18th C warships was that they were top heavy and anything to reduce the weight above the waterline was important.
"90 seconds or one and a half minute"
Ahhhh, that's why I love this channel.
I can tell you, as an artillery reenactor for the American Civil War, that you do not position your torso ahead of the muzzle while inserting things into the cannon. This applies to even the worm and the sponge. It's best to just not ever do it. Charges, shot, and implements should be inserted while you stand to the side of the barrel and behind the plane of the muzzle. It's slightly more awkward, but less so than dealing with your torso exploding.
the way they where trained was different
@@heresytoburn3358 The above reenactor is totally right, If they (really) were trained different ... sad !
Frankly speaking, I would rather die than lose my limbs
i can tell you now its the camera angle lol he is clearly off to the right with only his arms exposed, good stuff you smoking there mate lol
@@topbanana4013 agreed. you can see quite clearly he is standing to the side of the barrel and not in front of it.
2:17 I remember my grandpa used to tell that he saw an accident while a guy cleaning a cannon, accidentally fire was shot, blowing him up. The tine was 1930s in Buitenzorg. Now I understand what he meant.
An artilleryman says what?
What?
Right.
What?
What. He says what.
What?
Are you an artilleryman, by any chance?
What?
+J Wood understandable they dident have proper ear protection then . and guns where always going off as arty men . lucky if you had any type of ear plugs
+cygil1 OMG so true! I was in a Marine tank company in the States, and boy I can tell you after 3 1/2 years after tanks going BOOM! you can't hear like you did before.
After 4 Years of Arma i cant hear like before ;P
+cygil1 My grandfather was a career officer and spent his operational years in the Artillery. At his funeral all the old pals from the service showed up.
This is one hundred percent true. :)
+cygil1 My uncle was in rocket artillery during the Vietnam war... he always said the only way to tell the difference between outgoing and incoming was to check for a new crater.
Everything you've shown here looks 19th century. The uniforms especially, distinctly mid-late 19th century. The artillery pieces I suppose could be late 18th century, and the use of a linstock (as opposed to a flintlock piece) reinforces that.
You are right. This is in Malta, which became a British protectorate in 1798 and a colony in 1814. Their experience of colonialism therefore mainly dates to the 19th century.
@@kencur9690 A Protectorate isn't a Colony
@@GrenvilleP710 you should really make reading full sentences a habit. Especially when commenting and stating the obvious.
"..With copper, to prevent sparks..."
"...Would not be a good idea to keep close to the cannon..."
"...To prevent a premature explosion during the loading process..."
Yeah, I can imagine one or two nasty accidents that eventually led to adopting many safety measures...
Just imagine these were cannons in the late 18th century the Ottomans had been using much larger ones since the siege of Constantinople the largrst shooting a 660 pounder
There's a reason the spread of black powder weaponry also heralded the beginning of modern army drilling
@@MollymaukT Beginning? Romans and Greeks never drilled?
@@DaveMustaineShreds *modern army drilling 😅. Corrected the original post
@@syedferoz2188 true.
Now, to be fair, those cannons were pretty terrible, these ones were far more refined, with a 24 pounder being actually useable on the battlefield not just in seiges like that ridiculous 660 pounder, but they were definitely cannons, and they did do cannon things.
exitorama was great haha. my favorite was the random woman screaming
pablo diaz Deer joiiicxxxdr
H fgfffffftttttttttttt
Get on with it
There's always at least one.
No projectile, 1/10
Excite-o-rama, 10/10
THIS MUST BE APPLED TO REVIEWS AND UNBOXINGS....
It's still rubbish...
Does anybody know how much it cost (back in the day) to fire a single shot out (with your standard grain/shot) of a 24pdr (or 9/12/36 etc) - adjusted to today's money if possible.
+Bismarck almost impossible to say,depend of the kingdom/state and more factors...like:in those days they foraged battlefeild and re-gather all the non damaged canon balls...then seperated by caliber...and they were shot aain in another occasion...it may look futile but to cast a 24 lbs cannonball 200lbs of charcoal were to be used,more or less depending on the moistire etc,the competence of the guys etc etc
as for the powder some most state in the 18th didint actually paid the powder,the charcoal burner had a tax that they paid in good,and the saltpeter was furnished by farmer who choosed to have a saltpeter pit and paid theyre tax with it...the same for people with big barn...the saltpeter accumulated under the wooden floor or on the corners
so for all all those reason...and many others its almost impossible to tell you a price persay,because 80% of the process was done 'outside of the trade'...it was more aa thing of how much my state can give me ,than how much can i buy
frederick the great who found his army always short of powder because he liked to fire-drill his infantry decided to start a feudal tax on every farmer on saltpeter...he got huga amout!(happy!) but he didint had anough mills to grind the powder so it was rushed so he got the worst powder of europe(unhappy!)the problem was only solved in the 1800 during napoleonic war.
+Bismarck Well what I know may not be the most extensive but, the kind of powder is probably around the texture of 1f powder. that means that the more f's (1f, 2f, 3f, 4f) means the more fine the powder would be (finer powder burns faster). If you tried to put 4f (FFFF) powder into a cannon, let alone a 24pdr it will blow up. But for the lead I looked up that it is currently $0.82 (U.S) a pound for lead so .82*24=$19.68. So probably $25-$35 per discharge, if not more given that you have a cannon and proper range and tools, hearing protection etc.
200 Lbs of charcoal is not a hard thing to come buy. I'd say the metal used is the thing they'd rather not waste. I can make a literal tonne of of charcoal in a few days on my own. Can't imagine how much an entire group of smiths could produce.
Or better yet, i'd like to think i could produce a tonne of charcoal on my own thanks to primitive technology's channel, but i'd probably say "naaah, i don't wanna get all muddy." and then sit inside my comfortable, not so muddy house.
s/o to Primitive Technology, that guy is awesome. Documenting such impressive feats purely visually must be difficult. Isolating iron from scratch using only your bare hands and your mind (I suppose the internet helps, too) is bananas.
Military Aviation History A wild Bis has been spotted
Kid turns the wrong way.
There's always one.
I feel you on a level I didn't know I was on as I play strategy games
imagine being that person on the boat at 4:19 and looking over and seeing men dressed in 1800s naval outfits loading an 1800s CANNON, shortly before they fire a round nearly 100yds away from him, and thinking "Oh dear what in the 1800s is this".💀
I was really hoping that you would conclude the excitorama with the first man calmly fumbling to light the cannon.
Same:(
Hahah I thought I was the only one
Same lol that would be funny
I thought the same. It would have been hilarious! XD
Lmao why old brits military uniforms looks always so stupid and ridiculous 😂😂
Uniforms were much too late for these guns.
+Fritz Schumacher Yes. They had just performed their Victorian infantry drill, and were in the same kit.
+Lindybeige By "Victorian" you mean the WWI/Modern foot drill that passes for Victorian drill as performed at this fort?
+Fritz Schumacher - Yes more like late 19-th century or early 20-th century.
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yes coz it's recorded in the this century
I'm disappointed you didn't edit in an explosion at the end. Possibly a mushroom cloud.
+WalcomS7 And a hitmarker.
Doritos m8
+WalcomS7 Edit in? Obviously, this was what it really looked like.
+WalcomS7 And slow motion...
+WalcomS7 Don't forget to set it to some bro-tastic dubstep
As a former United States marine who served in artillery i can just say we still do these types of drill from the British army for how rapid and smooth it is to excite in full speed is a display of order amongst chaos.
At 3.08 you will see a flintlock attached to a cannon. Flintlocks were one of the reasons why Nelson won the battle of Trafalgar. The French had the older method of firing, where they used the lighted tape to fire the initial charge that in turn set off the powder. As such, there aim was subject to the rolling of the sea which was very hard to judge. many of their shots would have gone too high or low due to the seconds wasted waiting for the main charge to go off. Nelson's gunners however, could wait while the roll of the sea was directly at their aim before the flintlock was triggered, their guns fired instantaneously. Hardly any of their shots would have missed the required mark. Today, on Nelsons’ flag ship, the Victory in Plymouths naval dockyard, there is a portrait of Nelson dying on one of the gundecks. He is next to a cannon, and the flintlock can be clearly seen. The cannons that are now on the ship are either not the ones from the battle or have had their flintlocks removed. This just proves how important it is for our armed forces to have the most up to date arms and equipment.
True to an extent, although any experience gunnery officer would very quickly pick up on the rolling of the sea, and would be able to get the shots to land pretty often after a few volleys. This was helped by the fact ships are pretty large targets, and you rarely are aiming for anything other than a simple hit, as you were looking to kill the enemy crew in preparation for boarding, not sink the ship.
Additionally, one of the major reasons the british won the battle was because they engaged the french and spanish fleets in close broadsides, which let the superior English gunner crews make more effective use of the greater volume of fire they could put out, as opposed to the more traditional longish range combat the french and spanish were prepared for, and of course in close range aiming is really easy, in long range aiming is quite hard.
Technology is important. What is more important is having highly trained and effective troops, and engaging the enemy such that you can capitalise on your advantages whilst exploiting the enemies weaknesses. A man with a gun will loose to a man with a pocket knife if he's stabbed walking through a door.
Victory was never intended to be a museum piece, so anything like flintlocks would likely have been removed when she was decommissioned. I believe that they were brass, so a high value item.
Hey so that "Excitoshot" thing, might get you an editing job with the History channel, lol. XD
i was thinking the same thing lmao
not enough camera shake though
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That cannon firer guys voice is more terrifying then the actual cannon.
"And no, it would not be a good idea to keep these closer to the gun!" Me being a Red Leg absolutely died laughing at that, thank you!
What's a red leg?
@@lilporky8565 Red Leg = Artillery
Comes from the old days when artillery Soldiers were identified on the battlefield with their bright red pants (hence "red legs"). Though the pants have (thankfully) gone by the way-side, the term remains.
Is it funny because it WOULD be a good idea to keep them closer, or is there some kind of inside joke that I don't get because I'm a Blue Leg?
@@zeroqp well Blue Leg (I see what you did there Infantry 😜) it's funny because what they are doing there (keeping the powder away from the gun) is what we still do today. You keep it away because if,God forbid, something happens to cause it to go BOOM then all you would lose would be the powder. The men and the gun would still be there.
@@vmi02raven Ah, of course. Thank you. And I'm not infantry, or anything in the military for that matter, unfortunately. 😅 "Blue Leg" was my way of saying civvy, because blue jeans...
I agree, more things SHOULD be filmed in Excitorama! Great stuff Lindy.
That Excitorama at the end was worth the price of admission alone
I can remember one time while crewing a 6 pdr field gun in an 1812 reenactment one of the US crews we were fighting failed to mop out a barrel before reloading. The foil packet of powder went off while it was being loaded. Thankfully no one was seriously injured, though one man did have a nasty burn afterwords. The crew is now in the infantry and excluded from any artillery.
The sound of the guy dying at the end was a sound from M&B: Warband.
A lot of sound effects like that are constantly reused. If you've played Half Life 2 for instance you'll have heard other bits of media using the same sound effects from the game a lot.
You gotta love Marvin with his "motto". Great video +Lindiebiege.
+eastern_BANDIT that wasn't marvin. you can tell, because nobody would ever ask marvin how he was doing.
+spamhonx56 that was Lindiebiege' mistake.
Glad I'm not the only one who heard Marvin in that. :)
Love the EXCITORAMA filming!
As always your videos are educational and entertaining - thanks!
My maternal Grandfather was a turn of the Century Royal Horse Artillery regular: Sgt. Wrangler specifically, also re-enlisted WWI. Later, with his explosives training, a Shot Blaster with the East Weyms Coal Company, Fife.
Much of his regular service was ceremonial, duties undertaken now by King's Troop RHA
Fortunately no amount of EXCITORAMA can make unboxing video tolerable.
+bigfutus I have been considering making a spoof unboxing video for some while. "Look! Bubblewrap!"
+Lindybeige make sure the Bubblewrap has Michael Bay explosions...
+Lindybeige Omg DO IT!
+Lindybeige : Well, you have this chap called Stuart Ashen (Ashens on YT) that manage to keep it exiting due to his wit and honesty.
But I do look forward to your spoof if you decide to make it.
+bigfutus Perhaps a judicious use of field artillery could though.
"Unboxing videos"... is that anything like unwrestling?
+ixtl guul not even close.
All it is is someone getting a product, and making a video of taking it out of the box.
Usually something new, but even so.
+weesh ful i find them useful. sometimes the stock pictures of a product are unclear about certain aspects, so seeing somebody hold it in front of a camera and look at everything can be very helpful.
+weesh ful Psst! I think he was making a joke!
Ian Findlay Or possibly we both were... I can't even remember if I'm a troll or not, most days
sadly, I wasn't joking...
Had a Renaissance era day in high school. We got to fire Field Guns on the school field. Very loud indeed. We were advised *not* to plug the ears and close the mouth, as the force could blow teeth out and burst eardrums. The technique was to cup the ears and have the mouth open.
"Theres always one" aint that the truth, pure gold
great video, i really enjoyed watching it and it was very informative for me
"could get one shot off every 90 seconds, or a minute and a half on a bad day" 10/10
That editing work was pure genius!
Rotten bid of luck if you had one of those days when it took one and a half minutes in stead of 90 seconds.
Wait a min every 60 seconds in Africa a min passes
"Always merry and bright"
had me in stitches. XD
that ending was very entertaining
I love how no one notticed that there was a boat in the background while the cannon was being loaded
1:24 "There's always one"
haha I would have missed it if you didn't point it out.
Well that was rather entertaining, especially the EXCITORAMA!
how much extra must one pay to be allowed to shoot the actual cannon balls at the boats out on the water?
+jh099 Not much! I surmise one billion dollars would make enough for bribing of officials and overcoming any pesty moral qualms the gunners might have.
+Luke DS =P naval canns are cast iron not brass or bronze,even new they often cracked...so imagin that antique,if it had to throw a real load it would probably spit more shrapnel backward than a ball forward
they used cast iron because ships needed so many guns that bronze was just too expensive....when armies were short of canons they sometimes issued naval guns on field carriage...the crew felt 'dishonored and dishaertened' by that ...because they new that they couldnt maintain high rate of constant firing otherwise they would 'crack the pot'
Ragimund VonWallat
I don't think You understand the question, or the answer.
+Luke DS just tie off a dinghy with a plywood sailor sot in it, and get some fireworks. Launch the firework out a PVC pipe the length of a cannon, and there you go.
*****
That's not really an authentie-cannon.
that ending was fantastic.
I can't wait to see a series of videos entirely in excitorama, all of which are calm vlogs.
Thanks for mentioning the "Friction tube!" I always saw cartoons and stuff with someone yanking a rope to fire a cannon and always wondered ... how the heck is that doing anything? I thought maybe it triggered a flint or something.
lol shaky cam as well.
Shakecam is mandatory. Thanks for the good work, Loyd!
Oh, yes- I almost forgot. I wanted you to know that you have inspired me to buy and wear bow ties. Proper ones, none of that pre-tied shite.
+velikiradojica Excellent.
Love the EXCITORAMA bit.
Most fun UA-cam video i've watched in a while. Thanks!
Congrats Lindy, this video got linked in my online learning supplement to my textbook, TopHat, you're famous now!
1:33 *THATS A FINE TOILET BRUSH COLLECTION*
to be accurate when he would has asked the guy''do you like being in the artillery,the guy would had answered: whAaaaAt?
-DOOO YOOUUU LIIIIKE BEING IN THE ARTILLERYYYYYYY!?
-no need to wishper mate we are in the artillery everyone here is deaf and yes i like chantilly
Should have started with the excitorama
+Nicholas Pantazopoulos Which is better - to disappoint the people who were lured in by the Excitorama, or to reward the people who watched all the way through the dull stuff?
+Lindybeige Now who said anything about dull?
Lloyd I don't know why, but I swear you could talk about paint drying and I would be interested. You have a talent for making most things interesting, which explains why you're internet famous. :)
David Ingle I would honestly watch a video in which he explains the chemistry of paint and how it dries. Lindybeige
The comment about unboxing videos at the end is the best part of this masterpiece.
NGL, I may have only subbed just to read the funny end screens :D They have brightened my day significantly. Thank you :D
No Wilhelm scream. Not exciting at all.
No rubbish here. Loading and firing large guns is basically a bunch of cleaning and lifting. The excitement came from the fact that people were trying to kill you during your work.
By the way, when will you post the Excitorama unboxing video of your new box?
+john benko jr Not to mention sea sickness......
And that a group of Marines could try bayonetting you in the process
best ending ever!
oh gawd "there's always one" absoultly lost it had to pause for like a full minute it was just so real cause good lord your not wrong!
I am amazed about eighteen century century camera quality even the mic quality
excitorama had me giggling like a baby
This was the best thing I’ve seen made by someone with an English accent since the last Monty Python.
Excitorama™! Hm... Excitorama™ during unboxing videos? My god, this man may be on to something there...
That excitorama section was bloody brilliant!
In the EXCITORAMA part I was fully expecting to get to the part where they light the fuse and have him replay the cut with the guy that took forever.
+Jeffery Joslin Damn, I missed a trick.
Aahhh.. the good old days when everything was so slow
1:38 I didn't know bellhops worked for the artillery! /s
I can't believe this video is actually from the 18th century!
For a film editor sounds is everything
I am not a fan of this excitorama lark, far too exciting for my sensibilities.
+MrTrollaid that sounds lovely though
Majestic Skywhale
Didn't say it wasn't.
+Floobs I'm not a fan of the jovial look that your profile picture is displaying, it's much too excessive. Tone it down a bit lad, there's a war on you know.
+Floobs I AGREEE! THEREFORE I HAVE MADE A WRITTEN VARIANT WITH ALL CAPS! WITNESS excitorama IN THE COMMENTING FIELDS!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this. It was just what I needed to finish my sea bound horror story.
All these places never load a ball, how boring.
So true..
+touofthehighplains have you considered why shooting a large projectile may not be a good idea, when "these places" by which i assume you mean castles and forts etc are usually, not always, but usually near a large built up area?
+Izaac Wallis I was thinking about making a joke about how you didn't get the joke, but I was afraid you would also miss that one.
+touofthehighplains and safe, it's almost like they don't intend to kill anyone.
+touofthehighplains I've been present at one where they load styrofoam balls. No difference in load, bang or recoil, but you can (maybe) follow the projectile and recover a charred ball.
I was just going to bed but the excitorama has got me all worked up now. We need more.
Thought I would die of old age waiting for these guys to load and fire,lol.
NOT ENOUGH SHAKY-CAM!
I can still make out what's going on.
Seems rather impractical to have the powder so far away from the cannon.
+NorwegianChris they could've saved themselves a lot of running about if they put it a little closer
+max norman Especially since they wouldn't be doing any running once their legs were blown off.
+NorwegianChris Yeah, they should've had it right beside the cannon, next to the lantern or something.
+Tomtens Kanal store the powder at the muzzle men! we want to show 'em some big bang! lol
+NorwegianChris And what's this nonsense I hear about giving the artillery train flintlocks? Bring back the matchcord I say! Nothing is as comforting as a glowing cherry by the powder kegs to remind us we're being guarded well.
"It's still rubbish!" :-D
This old 13B found it quite entertaining. Thx.
i love the narrators sense of humor
That was only like 10% charge.
And without a projectile)
"there's always one" goddamit exactly what i thought!
dayum son , you truly got a bbc voice
이승현 I assume you mean a newscaster and not a pornstar.
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Excitorama is literally every historical documentary I come across
This has been a great channel for a long time so it amazes me it doesnt have at least 1.5 million subscribers. edit.. There is a big difference in sound when a ball is used which always dissapoints me with various versions of the 1812 Overture. They fire big cannon but with blanks so it lacks that "BABOOM' and all you get is a fair bang lol.
Please tell me these guns were aimed at France.
What would happen if you fired a coconut of one of these
instructions unclear, coconut stuck to anus
Lol
the coconut will disintegrate before it leaves the barrel
(maybe but if survives, it can be a bloody hell of a round)
kyubey, the cute little devil wrong, you never watched cartoons, man?
the cannon will rocket backwards and a flaming coconut will stay in place for a second, before falling straight down.
Ya just gotta love
Lindybeige.
Wachbatallion für arme 😂😂😂
Sehr informativ und cool!!!
It's amazing to watch ancient history of war by video !
I was at Fort Rinella last week. They don't let you fire the cannons any more. They told us that they had a tourist who ignored the rather simple instruction to not look at the cannon after lighting the fuse. This bloke then tried to sue them for the "damage" to his glasses... he didn't win, but they decided to stop letting people fire the cannons to avoid any more stupid tourists giving them hassle. They do still let you fire the rifles though, which was fun! And they told us they are planning to fire the 100-ton gun in the future. It needs more restoration work, but that's what they're aiming for. Might go back to see that in the future. Wouldn't have known about this place without your videos, so thanks Lindybeige!