9:54 "The artifacts from the bottom of this trench date to the year of the battle" as the shot slowly pans across Phil Harding standing in the bottom of the trench 😂
Wellington knew all about the sunken road by the farm and everything else about the battlefield of Waterloo, he'd identified the site a year earlier and recognised it would be a perfect spot to hold an advancing enemy.
@iberian5319 Yet if Wellington and his allied army had broke and retreated before the Prussians arrived Napoleon would've won so the British having the right to name to battle was right. As I said Wellingtons aim was to hold until the Prussians arrived which he did, if the roles were reversed I'm certain Wellington would've had no problem allowing Blucher to claim the victory and name the battle on behalf of his Prussians who fought to hold the ground.
In an other British documentary about Waterloo, it is explained that Napoleon's artillery in certain places of the battlefield could make no more advance, being stuck in the mud, unable to reach Wellington's troupes. These researchers went to battle location and simulated the wet underground (it rained for 3 days before the battle) simulated the artillery and tried to make any move by help of several horses and men. Their conclusion was: Napoleon's artillery must have been completely stuck.
And here in Ontario Canada while metal detecting I found a Wellington half penny token that lists the battles on the penisular against Napolions army. The token was struck to pay the surviving troops many of whome ended up in Canada after the war of 1812 against the Americans 😉
The whole reason for the War of 1812 was for the US to grab Canada from the British while they were busy fighting the little Italian Napoleone. The Canadians didn't want to be grabbed, and defeated the US Army which left with its tail between its legs.
I love that song but I like Stonewall Jackson's (American country singer) take in 1959 better: Waterloo Waterloo Where will you meet your Waterloo? Every puppy has his day Everybody has to pay Everybody has to meet his Waterloo Little General Napoleon of France Tried to conquer the world But lost his pants Met defeat Known as Bonaparte's Retreat And that's when Napoleon Met his Waterloo
NOW THE WHOLE STORY: I think the team has found only 3 skeletons at Waterloo. More than 25000 tons of bones (human/horse) from Napoleonic battlefields were exported to England to be processed into fertilizer at facilities in Doncaster. Sources from the 1860s report that bones from the Crimean War (1853-1856) ended up there as well. The mentioned "Waterloo Teeth" provided (as it was called) a "Healthy Waterloo Smile" for London's elite. The British were called the Vampires of Europe when all this happened.
Yes Victor Hugo was a guest at a Country estate near Doncaster when 20,00o Bushells of Bones from the mass graves at Waterloo, Austerlitz and Leipzig were ground down at a Bone Mill on the Don at marshgate and turned into Fertiliser, then ploughed into the fields where I live on the Escarpment.
@@MarkoZalad-x4j Thank you, I had not heard that. A few weeks ago I watched another attempt on UA-cam to rewrite this history. The "explanation" provided for the absence of bones focussed this time on the "1815 peasantry" supposedly burning bodies on an industrial scale as well as the "current locals" as "being uncooperative" to support archeological work at Waterloo to uncover the dead. Developers are accused of "disturbing the field of honour" so that "the evidence" will be lost forever. Trying to cover up the Fertilizer/Teeth story is one thing but pointing the finger at the "1815 peasantry" as well as the current locals is another.
Funny how we can accept poor penniless workers being torn to pieces by the hundreds of thousands, yet we feel it is somehow undignified to treat their dead bodies with disrespect. We truly are a curious creature.
Marshal Grouchy's inability to make contact and engage the recently defeated but not destroyed Prussians under Marshal Blucher was the main reason. Wellington was in a tight fix when old gaurd advanced and is alleged to have said ' give me night or Blucher' .Blucher arrived first caught and the French in critcal moment and defeated Napoleon's army and maybe the first time truly defeated Naploeon who was left no real options but surrender.
Napoleon asked for a parade the day after Ligny with all his troops, costing Grouchy nearly a day. And could have held Crouchy on his right flank to counter Wellington's plan, instead of imagining Blucher marching to Liege. Napoleon was aware of Blucher by two o'clock, long before the night.
Am seeing Alice at the State Theatre in Sydney Friday week, 29th Nov 2024. Love her stuff. Am from the UK living in Sydney since the early 80s. Brought up at Ruislip, next to Notholt Aerodrome where the 303 squadron flew from. My grandad had the contract for the paving in the war at the aerodrome. We used to in the summer hear the spitfire, lancaster and hurricane coming back from an air show to land at Northolt. Wed run out of the 1936 house, through the French windows to watch these 3 do a little show for us before they landed. Getting entional here. Mum was about 13 when the Battle of Britain took place and lived in that house. During the raids she would hide under the stairs, the safest place bar the Anderson shelters, (little airaid shelters fir a family in the back gardens), ( grandad had a contract to build those too). She would count the bombs, if she counted 6 she had survived, as the dropped in 6's. One time one landed on a house 2 doors down and on the house on the other side of the road. Both destoyed, amazingly, the families in their Anderson or out. Our house had the windows blasted out and the ceilings come down. Mum was ok, so were her Mum and Dad. Lucky for me and my brother. Lots ofvstories like this to tell. Mum was always scared of thinder. I never thought about it. My daughter at about 21 yrs was livingvwith Mum on a gap year before uni in Australia. Mum told her that was because she was scared of the bombs i feel so sorry for the kids and people in Gaza and Palestinevtiday being slaughtered in a genocide perpetrated by Israel and facilitated by the USA. If Mum was suffering from 13 to 92yrs, what will it be like for the Palestinans undergoing worse now?
THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR FAMLIES HISTORY, I WAS BORN IN 1941, DURING AN AIR RAID ON MY CITY. WE LIVED NEAR THE SPITFIRE FACTORY AT CASTLE BROMWHICH, AND OFTEN SAW SPITFIRES ROARING OVER OUR HOUSE, HEADING FOR R.A.F BASES. I SUGGEST THAT YOU SHARE AND EXPRESS YOUR OPINNONS , OF THE MIDDLE EAST WAR, WITH YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER'S, ETC, AS i USED TO DO, YOU MAY GET RESPONSES, FOR AND AGAINST YOUR VIEWS.
Overconfidence by the "Ogre" and leaving Davout in Paris- one shudders to think what Quatre Bras might have been like with him in Ney's place. And absolute coolness and battle control by Wellington, the "Sepoy General".
They forgot to mention that one of the key winning factors for the British defending the farm house was that they were the first British army (a portion of the defenders) equipped with rifles instead of muskets. That greatly increased the defenders' ability to hold off the French attack as rifles are much more accurate in hitting its target and with greater range. The reloading process is also much quicker with higher rate of fire. The French in formation columns after columns were mowed down by concentrated British rifle fire from the top of the wall!
1815 was a very wet year do to volcanic activity in Indonesia, it rained egregiously for the three day battle...on the 18th the French did not start at 7 0r 8 am as one could on a fine summer day but later , at 11:30 after the soaked fields could be negotiated...and we all know what the results of a late start can do to ones aims for the day....
Little recognition of the Prussians collapsed Napoleon's right flank at Plancenoit , There was Nassau troops sent into bolster the Coldstream Guards losing men in Hougomount, That south wall had collapsed during battle in one section and it is now a replica , there may have been 3 french entries into the Estate not 2. Very little eye witness reports or letters of the actions but bullet fragment locations lead to this hypothesis.
Great episode. The Hurricane/Spitfire thing is a real triumph of branding over fact that should be taught in schools because in the modern world we need to constantly separate reputation and reality. Hougoumont Farm is amazing. We visited several years ago and sat in our camping car having afternoon tea and discussing the issues of access and location. To see ‘Phil the dig’ on that original road surface was really game-changing.
To be fair Napoleon was badly sick, the stomach cancer he died from several years later was probably getting meaner. He actually did not leave his tent letting his generals unleashed. Ney and his cavalry shown their incredible bravery.
@@morningstar9233 yes , and of course Grouchy was trying to find his way to Waterloo. Very strange. He had light cavalry Hussards and Chasseurs à Cheval as scouts, in a francophone territory… really bizarre.
Blah blah blah he had hemorrhoids, he was cancer ridden, blah bah excuses excuses. The facts were he was a nasty piece of work and eventually he was out gunned and out strategised by supposedly inferior allies.
By the same reckoning Wellingtons army which had driven the French from Spain was mostly in America and he was left with a hodgepodge with all the problems involved .After holding the French most of the day it was the arrival on the field of the Prussians that finally ensured the Allied victory
Has it been established with any certainty if the 800 nassau troops defending the southern wall of hougamont were still using french muskets retained from when they fought for Napoleon only a couple of years previous or had been reissued with british weapons?
The sad thing is that most of the Poles probably never went home [or had long waites] because the Soviet Union invaded Poland by necessity, but they stayed after the war, so i'm sure many lived out their years in The UK.
Clicked on thinking huh, Waterloo video i havent seen,and i am right,but i was hoping it was a video dedicated entirely to Waterloo archaeology. My reason being is because evidence from that battle,ie victims,bodies and such are gone,most corpses and bones left being used up amongst other things as fertilizer. Every now and then they find some scant burials one two or three and thats if they are lucky. Very important question poised here,Imo British Tenacity is how they ended up winning that battle,and of course When Blucher arrived, it put the nail in the coffin for Napoleon's comeback.
I am about 90% sure one of my 5th great-granduncles fought in the 23rd Light Dragoons at Waterloo. I know that, at the end of November 1814, he was transferred to England from the 104th New Brunswick Regiment as the War of 1812 was wrapping up. I found someone with his name in that Dragoons regiment’s paybook that began on December 25, 1814, and that man fought at Waterloo. I just have to find the previous paybook to see if the man was a new member or had been in it for longer than just a few days or weeks. If he’s there any earlier than mid-December, he’s not my guy. The National Archives does have that earlier paybook, but it’ll cost me $$ I don’t have right now to get the pages scanned. Oh well, someday eventually!!
@@nickmiller76 George Goodwin. He’s listed as “Geo Goodwin” in the regimental records. There is another “George Goodwin” in a different regiment who also was at Waterloo, but I found that man’s enlistment record and he isn’t my guy. There isn’t any enlistment record for Geo Goodwin, so I am holding out hope he’s my relative. Another factor that adds to my confidence in the family story is that I first found it published way back in 1900. It was included in a mini-bio in a sort of Who’s Who of New Brunswick for George’s great-grandnephew. That man was born just eight years after George died, so his parents probably knew George and told their son of his exploits in Belgium.
But, there are nearly no skeletons of the soldiers!!!. A good kept secret is that chalk from those skeletons was used for the sugar production. Maybe your ancestors have eaten some sugar with reminents of those soldiers.
Napoleon's Younger Brother Jerome of the 6th Division led the attack on Hogoumount. He was not of great Militarily or capital thinking and made many mistakes
i read a personal letter of a German soldier who has the same last name as I he lived a long time had 3 different wives about 15 kids who lied in leer Germany
Is there something changing in the British mentality? They admit that they were not the only heroes (last story of the Hurricane air plane). Now for the inventions during history. I hope that the Brits and Americans become honest about these too.
is might intrstin to the the storry off the hessian dutch a cousin off the english king and what gneisenau odert the corps de guard with that peron in the east near his tent .
There's a curious relationship between the people of the UK and Poland. Clise wnough to be rekateable, but geographically distant enough ot to have trod on each other's toes !
Finding remains of beheaded individuals from a Roman occupation level aren't necessarily evidence of "Roman Brutality". A cleanly executed man means that their death would be considered quite humane for the time. No matter what brought the execution to pass. Rome and other states of the time had plenty of options for how to dispose of criminals and prisoners, that were truly brutal by any standard. All you need do is look at the mass burial of executed Vikings near the coast during Saxon times. Those men were hacked and beheaded in a killing frenzy by people who weren't very good at the job.
I've heard about that , I think there were 52 Vikings in that grave in southern England, and your right they were hacked to bits, not a clean job. Experts believe they were captured then executed, and not killed in battle.
...as i know Blücher run with the german Caverlie in the masiv frensh canonfire to asist perhaps help some british troops ther what had given him ia hie numberl off lose in his unit and he was heavy woundet , later Dnewitz Geneisenau 1taken with solwer marching tropps over all frnsh line in the 10 time numberal off frensh man , ther mnust be t (some historian withe they taken all ther madels as metal off the dead frensh and ther was low funeral culture out off low recpect as time and condition)....
I don't think Alice realizes she has so many blokes around the world who have a crush on her....my wife came home from work and said my colleague wzsvtelling me today her husband has such a crush on Alice Roberts....random...but true
Yet more hype on how Wellingtom and the English defeated Napoleon when the real winner of the whole campaign was Blücher and the Prussians who came to save Welligton from defeat. The weather saved him no doubt, for if there was no rain during the whole night he would have been attacked at 7a.m and defeated with all probability around 12-1p.m before the prussians could arrive to save him.
Honest question. At what point is it archeology, vs grave robbing? Is it after 8 years,, or after 140 years, or after 210 years. Somewhere inside of me,, I know that when I am put to my rest, I just want to stay there. I think someone digging me up to be put on display in a museum,, or worse,, stored away in some drawer of a 'collection'.,,,, The broach,, the Cross,, literally pried out of my cold dead fingers. Yes , there is a reason for archeology,, but some of it is just plain disrespectful.
Studied all those skeletons but have not reburied a single one,the ultimate evil for those bodies when they lived would be being disinterred &piled into a box and then left there instead of being buried, modern day graverobbing called science even after studying is finished!
So, 20,000 bodies were dug up and put in carboard boxes in a museum. Ms Taylor was laid to rest in church yard and now her final resting place in a box in a museum. Desecration.
What few know is that in the weeks leading up to Waterloo, Napolian was getting a lot of heat and bad press because his entire command staff was made up of white males. DEI initiatives swept through his camp, and unqualified people were put in charge of key logistics and artillery, and the veteran leaders were pushed to the side. The lack of experience and conflicting interests of the DEI hires brought his military to a grinding halt, communications broke down, and eliminating symbols of the patriarchy and colonialism took precedence over combat effectiveness and professionalism.
@@isazaid5858 you must be a retard low IQ dumb ass. Please tell me what you think the above joke was joking about? And napoleon was not a colonizers. He was a pure conqueror of his neighbors. No colonies. Just conquest. And the colonizers from. EUROPE. *WHITE MEN" saved Europe and Asia from the French War machine. Freaking special Ed Mfer you are.
@Hellbillyhok communists do not subscribe to DEI either. All your socialist idols killed ethnic minorities and any heterosexual deviation. All are equal. None are raised above their fellow citizens. DEI is discrimination. You are the fascist. Liberty and freedom for all. Not more liberty and freedom for some and less for others.
Click bait! I am disappointed that only a few minutes attention was given to the archeology of Waterloo. While the other aspects of this documentary are interesting they are decidedly off topic from the headline given to this video.
He was outnumbered and in command of a hastily assembled army made up of many nationalities, his brief was to hold his position until Blucher arrived which is exactly what he did.
Wellington's British/allied lines still held the ridge and two of the three farm houses against an overwhelming force for most of the day and into the evening until the Prussians arrived and were able to come up on Napoleon's right flank forcing Napoleon himself to abandon this carriage and rush away on horse back. The Prussians wouldn't have arrived at all if Wellington hadn't stood and fought.
Alice Roberts is a very good presenter, her knowledge and enthusiasm interviewing other archaeologists makes her presentations so interesting
YES, SHE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEGES FELLOW EXPERTS IN OTHER SPECIALTY , RELATED AREAS.
9:54 "The artifacts from the bottom of this trench date to the year of the battle" as the shot slowly pans across Phil Harding standing in the bottom of the trench 😂
Now that is funny!
GOOD OLD PHIL, I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THAT OLD
@@MrDaiseymay Thanks to your answer, I get it!
Yay. Good ole Phil Harding. I knew him by his voice before I saw him.
'E's got a new hat, though.
Professor Alice Robert, most beautiful academic scholar.
Not so much any more. Haha.
What do you mean?
Celebrate the intellectual ability . Looks had nothing to do with it.
@@mightymike2192 YO00000 CAD, MIGHTY IDIOT
@@judibill72 Waaal NOT QUITE CORRECT
Wellington knew all about the sunken road by the farm and everything else about the battlefield of Waterloo, he'd identified the site a year earlier and recognised it would be a perfect spot to hold an advancing enemy.
The Peer was peerless.
@iberian5319 Yet if Wellington and his allied army had broke and retreated before the Prussians arrived Napoleon would've won so the British having the right to name to battle was right.
As I said Wellingtons aim was to hold until the Prussians arrived which he did, if the roles were reversed I'm certain Wellington would've had no problem allowing Blucher to claim the victory and name the battle on behalf of his Prussians who fought to hold the ground.
In an other British documentary about Waterloo, it is explained that Napoleon's artillery in certain places of the battlefield could make no more advance, being stuck in the mud, unable to reach Wellington's troupes. These researchers went to battle location and simulated the wet underground (it rained for 3 days before the battle) simulated the artillery and tried to make any move by help of several horses and men. Their conclusion was: Napoleon's artillery must have been completely stuck.
WITHOUT THE PRUSSIAN HELP, WE WOULDNT HAVE WON, BUT WE DON'T MENTION THAT, WHOOPS DMMMN !
Wellington knew the terrain, and the weather was a disadvantage for Napoleon's cavalry.
Any excuse
And here in Ontario Canada while metal detecting I found a Wellington half penny token that lists the battles on the penisular against Napolions army. The token was struck to pay the surviving troops many of whome ended up in Canada after the war of 1812 against the Americans 😉
AND UNLIKE THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY THE USA LOST THE BATTLE. WHO DO WE VERIFY? SIMPLY CANADA IS A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY.
The whole reason for the War of 1812 was for the US to grab Canada from the British while they were busy fighting the little Italian Napoleone.
The Canadians didn't want to be grabbed, and defeated the US Army which left with its tail between its legs.
I feel like they should've just asked ABBA.
You are the funniest
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I love that song but I like Stonewall Jackson's (American country singer) take in 1959 better:
Waterloo Waterloo
Where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has his day
Everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo
Little General Napoleon of France
Tried to conquer the world
But lost his pants
Met defeat
Known as Bonaparte's Retreat
And that's when Napoleon
Met his Waterloo
I feel like they should've just dug on the east side of London Waterloo.
NOW THE WHOLE STORY: I think the team has found only 3 skeletons at Waterloo. More than 25000 tons of bones (human/horse) from Napoleonic battlefields were exported to England to be processed into fertilizer at facilities in Doncaster. Sources from the 1860s report that bones from the Crimean War (1853-1856) ended up there as well. The mentioned "Waterloo Teeth" provided (as it was called) a "Healthy Waterloo Smile" for London's elite. The British were called the Vampires of Europe when all this happened.
Yes Victor Hugo was a guest at a Country estate near Doncaster when 20,00o Bushells of Bones from the mass graves at Waterloo, Austerlitz and Leipzig were ground down at a Bone Mill on the Don at marshgate and turned into Fertiliser, then ploughed into the fields where I live on the Escarpment.
@@MarkoZalad-x4j Thank you, I had not heard that. A few weeks ago I watched another attempt on UA-cam to rewrite this history. The "explanation" provided for the absence of bones focussed this time on the "1815 peasantry" supposedly burning bodies on an industrial scale as well as the "current locals" as "being uncooperative" to support archeological work at Waterloo to uncover the dead. Developers are accused of "disturbing the field of honour" so that "the evidence" will be lost forever. Trying to cover up the Fertilizer/Teeth story is one thing but pointing the finger at the "1815 peasantry" as well as the current locals is another.
@@MarkoZalad-x4j WHAT DOES THE FLOUR TASTE LIKE AROUND THOSE PARTS ?
@ PUT ME OFF GROWING vegetables in my Garden! There were 3 mills so flour was ground in a separate Mill, also a Mustard mill!
I knew Wellington cut down the trees after Waterloo as he owned the place, so he harvested his army too.
Always a program if professor Alice Roberts is in it.
Exactly what happened to HMS Hood, not a good idea to have ready use ammo with open doors to the turrets and the ammo and charge storage
YOUVE ANSWERED YOUR OWN QUESTION.
Any evidence of Sharpe onsite? ;-)
dr alice is a true wounder she is woundefull thanks
Shes a professor now I think
sure wish she would get rid of the nasty red and go back
A WHAT?
i could listen to Dr Alice read from washing machine repair manual.
I WISH SHE;D READ MINE, i CAN ONLY WORK ONE PROGRAMME, AFTER 15 YRS
Thank you, Dr. Alice Roberts and everyone!
I read somewhere that the bones of the soldiers buried at Waterloo were dug up and ground for fertilizer. Is that so?
And for making a kind of sugar..
yes , that was the norm in that age, it became so bad the practice was eventually outlawed.
Spread on the fields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia. At least they came home…
Yes. And to produce bone coal used to refine beet sugar in Northern France. There almost isn't a bone to be found left. That's where grandpa went! 😮
Funny how we can accept poor penniless workers being torn to pieces by the hundreds of thousands, yet we feel it is somehow undignified to treat their dead bodies with disrespect. We truly are a curious creature.
The Hawker Hurricane fly-by was an awesome touch. :-) Great story.
TVF spreading the Alice Roberts content across all their channels. I will follow it all.
Lovely and scholarly presentation. Thank You to all involved. 👌
Yay ,Phil has a new hat 😊
ONLY THE SECOND ONE IN 80 YRS
Marshal Grouchy's inability to make contact and engage the recently defeated but not destroyed Prussians under Marshal Blucher was the main reason. Wellington was in a tight fix when old gaurd advanced and is alleged to have said ' give me night or Blucher' .Blucher arrived first caught and the French in critcal moment and defeated Napoleon's army and maybe the first time truly defeated Naploeon who was left no real options but surrender.
The Town of Wavre had a deep ravine creek with two bridges , buildings that were on fire all resulted in a plug he couldn't get through quick enough
Grouchy was fighting his own battle at Wavre , at the time .
Napoleon asked for a parade the day after Ligny with all his troops, costing Grouchy nearly a day. And could have held Crouchy on his right flank to counter Wellington's plan, instead of imagining Blucher marching to Liege. Napoleon was aware of Blucher by two o'clock, long before the night.
Am seeing Alice at the State Theatre in Sydney Friday week, 29th Nov 2024. Love her stuff. Am from the UK living in Sydney since the early 80s. Brought up at Ruislip, next to Notholt Aerodrome where the 303 squadron flew from. My grandad had the contract for the paving in the war at the aerodrome. We used to in the summer hear the spitfire, lancaster and hurricane coming back from an air show to land at Northolt. Wed run out of the 1936 house, through the French windows to watch these 3 do a little show for us before they landed. Getting entional here. Mum was about 13 when the Battle of Britain took place and lived in that house. During the raids she would hide under the stairs, the safest place bar the Anderson shelters, (little airaid shelters fir a family in the back gardens), ( grandad had a contract to build those too). She would count the bombs, if she counted 6 she had survived, as the dropped in 6's. One time one landed on a house 2 doors down and on the house on the other side of the road. Both destoyed, amazingly, the families in their Anderson or out. Our house had the windows blasted out and the ceilings come down. Mum was ok, so were her Mum and Dad. Lucky for me and my brother. Lots ofvstories like this to tell. Mum was always scared of thinder. I never thought about it. My daughter at about 21 yrs was livingvwith Mum on a gap year before uni in Australia. Mum told her that was because she was scared of the bombs i feel so sorry for the kids and people in Gaza and Palestinevtiday being slaughtered in a genocide perpetrated by Israel and facilitated by the USA. If Mum was suffering from 13 to 92yrs, what will it be like for the Palestinans undergoing worse now?
THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR FAMLIES HISTORY, I WAS BORN IN 1941, DURING AN AIR RAID ON MY CITY. WE LIVED NEAR THE SPITFIRE FACTORY AT CASTLE BROMWHICH, AND OFTEN SAW SPITFIRES ROARING OVER OUR HOUSE, HEADING FOR R.A.F BASES. I SUGGEST THAT YOU SHARE AND EXPRESS YOUR OPINNONS , OF THE MIDDLE EAST WAR, WITH YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER'S, ETC, AS i USED TO DO, YOU MAY GET RESPONSES, FOR AND AGAINST YOUR VIEWS.
For those who forget the lessons of the past…
Wonderful museum there ..well worth a visit !
Sadly the Museum of London closed in 2022, but is due to re-open as the London Museum at a new site at Smithfield in 2026.
Excellent segment!
Word of warning, very little of this video is actually dedicated to the Napoleon Waterloo story.
OR ABBA
I met Napoleon, bloody nice chap
Overconfidence by the "Ogre" and leaving Davout in Paris- one shudders to think what Quatre Bras might have been like with him in Ney's place. And absolute coolness and battle control by Wellington, the "Sepoy General".
Where wid we be if it wisnae fur oor wellies?
The lovely Alison is here to explain ❤
Most appropriate, I watched the last segment of this on Remembrance Day
They forgot to mention that one of the key winning factors for the British defending the farm house was that they were the first British army (a portion of the defenders) equipped with rifles instead of muskets. That greatly increased the defenders' ability to hold off the French attack as rifles are much more accurate in hitting its target and with greater range. The reloading process is also much quicker with higher rate of fire. The French in formation columns after columns were mowed down by concentrated British rifle fire from the top of the wall!
1815 was a very wet year do to volcanic activity in Indonesia, it rained egregiously for the three day battle...on the 18th the French did not start at 7 0r 8 am as one could on a fine summer day but later , at 11:30 after the soaked fields could be negotiated...and we all know what the results of a late start can do to ones aims for the day....
moving in the mud was a slow sticky problem not the myth he waited for it to dry out .
No one tried to sell me their book on this video and that's awesome! 😎
And it is U.S. politics free! Bonus!😂
I have such a crush on Prof. Roberts. Smart, gorgeous and so cool
Little recognition of the Prussians collapsed Napoleon's right flank at Plancenoit , There was Nassau troops sent into bolster the Coldstream Guards losing men in Hougomount, That south wall had collapsed during battle in one section and it is now a replica , there may have been 3 french entries into the Estate not 2. Very little eye witness reports or letters of the actions but bullet fragment locations lead to this hypothesis.
Great episode. The Hurricane/Spitfire thing is a real triumph of branding over fact that should be taught in schools because in the modern world we need to constantly separate reputation and reality. Hougoumont Farm is amazing. We visited several years ago and sat in our camping car having afternoon tea and discussing the issues of access and location. To see ‘Phil the dig’ on that original road surface was really game-changing.
Awesome!
Napoleon made one mistake he should have brought up heavy mortars and Leveled Hougoumont
It seems they have been retrieved by farmers to be used as fertilizers !
thanks prof
Nice video
Wow that horde is fascinating,
Bluchers victory at Waterloo.....
Please remember that the Hurricane could suffer more damage and was more prevalent that the early Spitfire, God bless the Hurricane
To be fair Napoleon was badly sick, the stomach cancer he died from several years later was probably getting meaner. He actually did not leave his tent letting his generals unleashed. Ney and his cavalry shown their incredible bravery.
Also many of his finer staff officers who co-ordinated his plans were unavailable/ dead.
@@morningstar9233 yes , and of course Grouchy was trying to find his way to Waterloo. Very strange. He had light cavalry Hussards and Chasseurs à Cheval as scouts, in a francophone territory… really bizarre.
@@PierreGillet-i1x Yes. Its curious. I've read different reasons for Grouchy's decisions on that fateful day.
Blah blah blah he had hemorrhoids, he was cancer ridden, blah bah excuses excuses. The facts were he was a nasty piece of work and eventually he was out gunned and out strategised by supposedly inferior allies.
By the same reckoning Wellingtons army which had driven the French from Spain was mostly in America and he was left with a hodgepodge with all the problems involved .After holding the French most of the day it was the arrival on the field of the Prussians that finally ensured the Allied victory
Has it been established with any certainty if the 800 nassau troops defending the southern wall of hougamont were still using french muskets retained from when they fought for Napoleon only a couple of years previous or had been reissued with british weapons?
Where are the bones,if any, excavated in the Waterloo battle field ?
Only one or two bodies, they were dig up and turn to fertilizer
The sad thing is that most of the Poles probably never went home [or had long waites] because the Soviet Union invaded Poland by necessity, but they stayed after the war, so i'm sure many lived out their years in The UK.
You don't need an archeologist to figure out the fact that he was unable to slow down the Prussians.
51:30 Was that woman really drinking that putrid water?!
The russians arrived on the field and saved the day. He wanted to defeat the britts then attack the russe. Didnt pan out for le diable de Corse
Awesome the history of waterloo teethts..and the mistery of the bodies continues..
27:48 That skull is alive!
Clicked on thinking huh, Waterloo video i havent seen,and i am right,but i was hoping it was a video dedicated entirely to Waterloo archaeology. My reason being is because evidence from that battle,ie victims,bodies and such are gone,most corpses and bones left being used up amongst other things as fertilizer.
Every now and then they find some scant burials one two or three and thats if they are lucky. Very important question poised here,Imo British Tenacity is how they ended up winning that battle,and of course When Blucher arrived, it put the nail in the coffin for Napoleon's comeback.
I am about 90% sure one of my 5th great-granduncles fought in the 23rd Light Dragoons at Waterloo. I know that, at the end of November 1814, he was transferred to England from the 104th New Brunswick Regiment as the War of 1812 was wrapping up. I found someone with his name in that Dragoons regiment’s paybook that began on December 25, 1814, and that man fought at Waterloo. I just have to find the previous paybook to see if the man was a new member or had been in it for longer than just a few days or weeks. If he’s there any earlier than mid-December, he’s not my guy. The National Archives does have that earlier paybook, but it’ll cost me $$ I don’t have right now to get the pages scanned. Oh well, someday eventually!!
That's pretty cool, I hope you find out.
What was his name?
@@nickmiller76 George Goodwin. He’s listed as “Geo Goodwin” in the regimental records. There is another “George Goodwin” in a different regiment who also was at Waterloo, but I found that man’s enlistment record and he isn’t my guy. There isn’t any enlistment record for Geo Goodwin, so I am holding out hope he’s my relative.
Another factor that adds to my confidence in the family story is that I first found it published way back in 1900. It was included in a mini-bio in a sort of Who’s Who of New Brunswick for George’s great-grandnephew. That man was born just eight years after George died, so his parents probably knew George and told their son of his exploits in Belgium.
i have the biggest crush on alice and i dont care who knows
creepy.
She had flaming red hair when she worked on Time Team.
Dyed.
@@annbretagne2108 Condolences
The Hurricane section is very relevant even today, with Ukraine. They too are fighting for survival against an oppressor.
I see you are someone who watches the BBC 😂
You can’t reuse musket balls the French have already shot. It’s not like they are just lying on the surface.
Lord Wellington, the Iron duke, defeated Napoleón, deal with it...!
With a little help from his dear friends. The Prussians.
Unfortunately many people cannot stand the fact that a British general commanding an allied army defeated Napoleon.
You could say he came up a little… short
I’ll let myself out 😔
But, there are nearly no skeletons of the soldiers!!!. A good kept secret is that chalk from those skeletons was used for the sugar production. Maybe your ancestors have eaten some sugar with reminents of those soldiers.
was it not bone meal for fertiliser?
Did they do a gold dance?
Ethelred the ATM!
Nap-boy going to sleep for a couple of hours didn't help the French
Napoleon was very sick - either an ulcer or possibly even appendicitis.
Napoleon's Younger Brother Jerome of the 6th Division led the attack on Hogoumount. He was not of great Militarily or capital thinking and made many mistakes
With the observations of the sailor's skeletal injuries, we see the importance of navy rum
Short answer, a severe case of hemroids, and an opponent who planned the battle to the last inch
How come your title doesnt match the title of the actual video?.......Is it because you uploaded it without the owners permission?
i read a personal letter of a German soldier who has the same last name as I he lived a long time had 3 different wives about 15 kids who lied in leer Germany
Is there something changing in the British mentality? They admit that they were not the only heroes (last story of the Hurricane air plane).
Now for the inventions during history. I hope that the Brits and Americans become honest about these too.
is might intrstin to the the storry off the hessian dutch a cousin off the english king and what gneisenau odert the corps de guard with that peron in the east near his tent .
I love the prof but there’s some lazy reporting in this programme.
There's a curious relationship between the people of the UK and Poland.
Clise wnough to be rekateable, but geographically distant enough ot to have trod on each other's toes !
A large number of coins, the nearest bones? have tell something💀
Finding remains of beheaded individuals from a Roman occupation level aren't necessarily evidence of "Roman Brutality". A cleanly executed man means that their death would be considered quite humane for the time. No matter what brought the execution to pass. Rome and other states of the time had plenty of options for how to dispose of criminals and prisoners, that were truly brutal by any standard. All you need do is look at the mass burial of executed Vikings near the coast during Saxon times. Those men were hacked and beheaded in a killing frenzy by people who weren't very good at the job.
I've heard about that , I think there were 52 Vikings in that grave in southern England, and your right they were hacked to bits, not a clean job.
Experts believe they were captured then executed, and not killed in battle.
...as i know Blücher run with the german Caverlie in the masiv frensh canonfire to asist perhaps help some british troops ther what had given him ia hie numberl off lose in his unit and he was heavy woundet , later Dnewitz Geneisenau 1taken with solwer marching tropps over all frnsh line in the 10 time numberal off frensh man , ther mnust be t (some historian withe they taken all ther madels as metal off the dead frensh and ther was low funeral culture out off low recpect as time and condition)....
“We can see from his bones that he survived some nasty insults “ 😂 come on editors??
Don’t repeatedly show the same advert again and again ffs
Without Philomena I can't take this seriously.
thumbs down for you for your clickbait title.
Exploded gunship: some Russians smoking?
I don't think Alice realizes she has so many blokes around the world who have a crush on her....my wife came home from work and said my colleague wzsvtelling me today her husband has such a crush on Alice Roberts....random...but true
Creepy.
She knows.
Yet more hype on how Wellingtom and the English defeated Napoleon when the real winner of the whole campaign was Blücher and the Prussians who came to save Welligton from defeat. The weather saved him no doubt, for if there was no rain during the whole night he would have been attacked at 7a.m and defeated with all probability around 12-1p.m before the prussians could arrive to save him.
Britain had a better army and soldiers plus the right alliance with other countries and their armies.
4 minutes wasted for Blabla - I want money for pain and suffering ( irony off )
Honest question. At what point is it archeology, vs grave robbing? Is it after 8 years,, or after 140 years, or after 210 years. Somewhere inside of me,, I know that when I am put to my rest, I just want to stay there. I think someone digging me up to be put on display in a museum,, or worse,, stored away in some drawer of a 'collection'.,,,, The broach,, the Cross,, literally pried out of my cold dead fingers. Yes , there is a reason for archeology,, but some of it is just plain disrespectful.
The lady having her jaw removed from her body as well. Dead for barely 200years.
Studied all those skeletons but have not reburied a single one,the ultimate evil for those bodies when they lived would be being disinterred &piled into a box and then left there instead of being buried, modern day graverobbing called science even after studying is finished!
How many adverts do you think you need? This is ridiculous!
I am interested in everything and it is beautifully presented, but good grief!
So, 20,000 bodies were dug up and put in carboard boxes in a museum. Ms Taylor was laid to rest in church yard and now her final resting place in a box in a museum. Desecration.
What few know is that in the weeks leading up to Waterloo, Napolian was getting a lot of heat and bad press because his entire command staff was made up of white males.
DEI initiatives swept through his camp, and unqualified people were put in charge of key logistics and artillery, and the veteran leaders were pushed to the side.
The lack of experience and conflicting interests of the DEI hires brought his military to a grinding halt, communications broke down, and eliminating symbols of the patriarchy and colonialism took precedence over combat effectiveness and professionalism.
اووووه تقصد نابليون المستعمر 😂 اول شخص وضع عينه على فلسطين غزاة شياطين مستعمرين 😂
@@isazaid5858 you must be a retard low IQ dumb ass.
Please tell me what you think the above joke was joking about?
And napoleon was not a colonizers. He was a pure conqueror of his neighbors. No colonies. Just conquest.
And the colonizers from. EUROPE. *WHITE MEN" saved Europe and Asia from the French War machine.
Freaking special Ed Mfer you are.
Actually one of his most successful generals in Egypt was Alexander dumas father, Haitian and very black.
Fantastic lol 😂
@Hellbillyhok communists do not subscribe to DEI either. All your socialist idols killed ethnic minorities and any heterosexual deviation.
All are equal. None are raised above their fellow citizens. DEI is discrimination. You are the fascist.
Liberty and freedom for all. Not more liberty and freedom for some and less for others.
We must have reparation from Denmark, we've suffered enough.
How did you steal this from the BBC?
As historians Ulvaeus and Andersson have taught, Napoleon lost at Waterloo because he “did surrender.”
Although of course he didn't actually surrender until 15 July 1815, a month after the battle, to Captain F L Maitland of HMS Bellerophon.
Garbaage
I pay UA-cam money for adfree video's. So stop putting ads in your video's!
25:01
Click bait! I am disappointed that only a few minutes attention was given to the archeology of Waterloo. While the other aspects of this documentary are interesting they are decidedly off topic from the headline given to this video.
Oh puh-leeeze........
Wellington wasn't doing too well at Waterloo until Blucher and the Prussian army arrived.
You know the Brits. Legends in their own minds!
Wellington would not have been at Waterloo unless Blucher had promised to come to the battlefield.
Edited to correct predictive text error.
He was outnumbered and in command of a hastily assembled army made up of many nationalities, his brief was to hold his position until Blucher arrived which is exactly what he did.
Wellington's British/allied lines still held the ridge and two of the three farm houses against an overwhelming force for most of the day and into the evening until the Prussians arrived and were able to come up on Napoleon's right flank forcing Napoleon himself to abandon this carriage and rush away on horse back.
The Prussians wouldn't have arrived at all if Wellington hadn't stood and fought.
He did exactly what he said he'd do..
Held the line