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5 Most Costly Pyrrhic Victories In History
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2021
- A detailed look at 5 pyrrhic victories where the price of success was simply too high.
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Poor old Pyrrhus. Gets the type of battle named after him but he still doesn’t come out on top in this list!
Pyrrhus.
If he did, it would be a Pyrrhic victory, I fear!
@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 Pronounced 'Pearos' in Greek. They fail to mention that Pyrrus was the 2nd Cousin of Alexander on his mother's side, who was from Epirus. Both Epirus and Macedonia still stand in Greece to this day, including the ancient Macedonian capital of Pella.
Does taffy 3 qualify? The American side had destroyers and escort carriers against several battleships and cruisers and more destroyers than the USN had ships and still tired the Japanese navy back but predictably lost most of the destroyers and a few of the carriers or is it just a last stand that actually worked?
@@philvanderlaan5942 Anything but Pyrrhic. Truly heroic and consequential on the outcome of the war.
"Destroying an Empire to win a war is no victory. And ending a battle to save an Empire is no defeat." - Kahless
DS9--Way of the Warrior.
Says the liberal loony who destroyed an empire due to plot armor and by reenacting Dresden.
@@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370 shhhhhhh
You're right
I see you are a man of culture as well
British went full Skaven
"Waste their ammo on the front lines! Then we can attack with whatever is left."
Did half of their casuality came from their weapons blowing up?
They went full Zapp Brannigan in that battle.
@@Drazhoath1 Yes-yes!
@@michaelsinger4638 😂. For people who don't know the reference
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down"
To quote Legend of Total War,
"Murder, Death, Kill-Kill"
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Agreed, ever since I was a kid the artwork depicting the Revolutionary War and particularly this battle always captivated me
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Poor Napoleon. He had the world in his hand. Now he just sells jars of olives.
LOL
I feel ignorant please explain
@@user-tk2lf1dv3s Napoleon is brand of olives widely marketed in the US.
@@KowboyUSA lol thanks
To be fair they are pretty dank olives.
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The rebels against the crown
Later became the union of the north
Who had trouble with the rebels
Of the southern states
85 years later
Welcome to the coment section, where everybody is a war general and a historian
mfw unironically a military historian, but I don't ever say anything because there's bound to be more evidence that comes to light that invalidates whatever conclusions I might come up with
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Well you see, I'm actually both
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Phyrrhus: the man who gave these victories their name.
*Pyrrhus
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@@Black-Sun_Kaiser No
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First video on this channel I've seen and its very underwhelming to be honest. Couldn't get past Borodino part, as it was just regurgitated standard narrative garbage. Ooooh, the battle, aaaaah the retreat. And no mention that the French suffered most of their losses on the way TO Moscow and just half a sentence on a completely screwed up logistics of the invasion. Almost 40% of the whole French army and over 50% of the actual losses occurred BEFORE Borodino, through hunger, decease and desertion. Out of nearly 700.000 strong invasion force less than 200.000 took part in the battle on the French side. Partially due to some parts of the army unable to join the main force in time, but largely due to casualties already suffered. Yet the video's author repeats the simplest of narratives that is too outdated for Wikipedia even. Invasion was lost before it began due to underestimation of the logistical challenges involved, but the author needs Borodino to be the decisive factor, so he bends the facts to fit his narrative. Presentation is nice, but the content is questionable.
I like it. But the guy’s intonation is the same in EVERY sentence and it drove me nuts
@@ViktorDrakos I can understand that, but in my personal opinion I find the voice soothing. To each their own, of course.
@@rorythecomrade4461 it’s not his voice. He’s got a great voice. It’s the intonations. Every sentence has identical intonations. It’s as if he records it one sentence at a time
@Jayo Delaware then it sounds bad
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When a journalist Asked Napoleon why he didn't suicide after the loss of the battle of waterloo , Napoleon replied the real question is why i didn't suicide after the battle of borodino ?
Marshall Ney said that he had. Never seen such carnage
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Absolutely. I particularly like the one at 10:29, with the mirage of the Sphinx -- is that Napoleon's face on it?-- over his freezing cavalry.
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Small point - St Petersburg was the capital of Russia in Nepolianic times, not Moscow.
I disagree ... it's a rather big point.
Moscow was considered to be the 'cultural' capital of Russia despite st. Petersburg to he the official one. Napoleon hoped that by capturing Moscow, the Russians would be demoralized and sue for peace but that wasn't the case.
@@brianew anyway, moscow sure wasnt capital by that time...
@@krystofcisar469 No it wasn't
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I wonder if Chancellorsville would count! Lee's greatest victory, but, he lost a horrible amount of men in his understrength attacks, plus Stonewall Jackson..I have also heard that Lee himself suffered a minor stroke as the battle was much more closely fought than is given credit.....and that led to a certain indecisiveness at Gettysburg.
Confederate assults and the invasions certainly lead to losses that could not be sustained. Additionally, Gettysburg, Antietam and Franklin are examples of overwhelming Confederate losses resulting from attacks. Confederate General Johnson lead the defense of the west by preserving the army as long as possible, by trading land for time. Jefferson Davis tired of that strategy, and replaced him with the hyper aggressive Hood, who promptly destroyed the army at Franklin through repeated assults against overwhelming odds.
I’m not so sure that the problem at Gettysburg was “indecisiveness” - rather, General Lee was too determined to keep fighting, to keep seeking victory, when he should have retreated after the 2nd day, instead of continuing to attack on the 3rd day at Gettysburg. Continuing to fight after the 1st day might have been a mistake too - perhaps Lee should have pulled back and looked for ways around the Army of the Potomac, instead of throwing his troops at the Army of the Potomac on day 2. Lack of reliable intelligence may well excuse Lee’s mistakes (if there were any notable ones) on the first 2 days, but he had to know the score on the morning of the 3rd day, and he still ordered that infamous charge anyway…
@@mglenn7092 Day 2 might have been successful for the confederates, had the advances of the rebel right and left flanks been coordinated. The attack by Longstreet was delayed, yet was nearly successful in flanking the Federals at Little Roundtop. Had the rebels arrived there hours sooner, things might have turned out differently.
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One of the most fascinating (at least in my opinion) aspects of military history is all the "what ifs" that you can find. Some times a simple flanking maneuver from 1 side could have made a battle go totally favorable for them instead of it being a disaster, other times its making a split second choice in tactics on the fly which turns what was going to be a defeat into an unexpected victory.Of course then there is all the potential alternate histories that can spring forth when one envisions a battle play out differently then it did historically.
It mind blowing to think that at some point in history someone simply saying "march right" ended up setting a chain of events in motion that helped form the world we know today.
Yes. Take the battle of Midway. If the USN code breakers were unable to learn the target, would the US carriers have been already at sea. Nagumo wasn't stupid in re-arming his planes. He was coming under repeated air attacks from planes from Midway which would continuously tell the US Fleet where he was and would be disrupting his flight operations while he was trying to engage the American carriers. It was reasonable to expect that the element of surprise would give him time to deal with Midway first before a US fleet steaming from Hawaii would reach him. If he had knocked out Midway and was able to locate the US carriers before they located him it would have been a different battle and people might have been talking about Nagumo's brilliance.
Or just take the situational awareness of Dick Best, realizing that another squadron was attacking the Japanese carrier he was supposed to attack, he pulled out and took three other dive bombers to attack the other squadron's target. Akagi. Without this quick thinking there would have been the air wings from two Japanese carriers launching the counterattack and this might have been enough for Japan to win (taking out Yorktown in the first counterattack, and another carrier in the second).
I'm glad USA won this battle. I am just struck how the Japanese plans might have worked.
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2 things that weren't mentioned about Napoleon's downfall:
1. The Russian Cossacks constantly destroyed and looted Napoleon's supply lines, leaving his army without provisions from his territory. Because of the scorched earth tactics, Napoleon also couldn't live off of the land.
2. The summer Napoleon decided to invade in was abnormally hot. In the summer, Russia becomes a land of bogs and marshes, perfect conditions for disease to spread if warm. Napoleon's army lost a majority of its fighting capability due to disease; the winter just finished them off later on. The winter is more famous because of the fact that Napoleon basically abandoned his camp followers who were not as affected by the disease or battles. Also, Hitler's invasion accentuated Napoleon's failed invasion.
I think he meant the fact the French won yet lost so much. They had no winter clothing due to his arrogance, the same as hitler
Now do what happened to Russia when it invaded Ukraine
@@kaihiggins725 I think Napoleon wasn't planning on staying, only bringing the Russians in line with his Continental system.
Hitler was planning on a German occupation, but the problem was being over-optimistic that they could defeat USSR in four months. The limited German supply chain was geared to supplying the army enough to achieve this victory. It could then transport the several hundred thousand sets of winter clothing stockpiled for the occupation. But with fighting still going on with the related demand for resupply, they were stuck. (1) not enough winter clothing for everyone, and (2) limited transportation capacity (Food, ammunition, winter clothing.... pick two!)
Agreed. The battle of Borodino had nothing to do with the grand armys' defeat in Russia.
Most of the General Winter victories credited to Russia, actually happened to/in Ukraine. Nice to see those genius Russian generals get embarrassed when they tried to win in land that wasn’t theirs and they could figure out.
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The painting you show of Napoleon at the head of his HQ and staff is set in 1814, where he managed, with armies always outnumbered, to consistently beat the Allies as they tried to get to Paris. He was back to his very best in that 1814 campaign.
I am sure that gave him comfort in his exile.
"I gave my best... but I guess my best wasn't good enough..."
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I couldn't imagine being a British Redcoat on Bunker. You were literally made target practice.
Especially for the officers, cause even fun fact General Clinton lost his entire retinue in the battle.
Line up to die “we’re here because we’re here, because we’re here!” Famous British combat song.
Except it was breed's hill?
@Schlomo Homo Yeah...which was kinda the point of this video ?
Make way for Pitcairn's Marines!
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The older I get the more recent Napoleon feels
"Every time an old man starts talking about Napoleon, you know he's gonna die".
--Roger Sterling
I consider Napoleon among the top 3 Generals all time but he clearly erred tactically at Borodino. What would the outcome of the battle have been if he had trusted his most skilled GeneralDavout and allowed him to swing his army south and envelop the Russians from behind?
Putin would be speaking french.
Our comments would be written in French as whole Europe would have French and not English as common language? No unified Germany, no WW 1 & 2, no rise of USA over unified Europe, French speaking Europe.
@@phoenixrivenus9270 Unlikely. Russia is way to big and to far away from France for France to do to Russia what Russia did to Siberia.
Napoleon simply read Roman history, especially Caesar's letters, and Alexander, but mostly leaned on learning how Caesar handled things.
@@concept5631 the russian court spoke french so basically the communist revolution would have never happened. Thats the only difference that stopped the russian court from speaking french
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Watch your language
Actually by per cent-age of population, the 30 years war was more destructive than WW I OR WW II.
I sat this according to a book that explored violence through human history, including death tolls and how they ranked as a percentage of human population. He concluded that violence has been steadily decreasing as civilization spread and evolved. Not only that, but the genocide during WW II though terrible and which should never be re-conceived and allowed to go forward, was not new. In fact, many mass genocides have occurred through history.
Here is the book by Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
I recommend it, if you are interested in the topics I mentioned above.
I highly doubt it, even considering percentage of population or scale, etc, etc, Stalingrad alone is still the deadliest battle in history.
Most wars don’t even get to the casualties of that single fight.
How did Cannae rank?
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Unknown5, it's been a while since you posted any content. I've watched all the other topics.
I see. Its like going to the club and hooking up with a girl only to later wonder was it victory after spending $$$?
easier to get a hooker than a wife on your wallet
I like your analogy
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Yes i always take my entire navy along while' sightseeing along the coast'
Me too... makes it harder for pirates to take my entire fleet!
Y'all too, huh?
I mean if you don't are you really a ruler of great proportion?
“Most costly Pyrrhic Victories” and puts Pyrrhic war at #2 I love it lmao
Great job, as always.
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Honourable Mention:
The Battle of the Somme in WW1.
Feels like half of World War I was just one brutal stalemate or phyrric battle after another.
Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC. 2500th anniversary in 2021.
@@thunderbird1921 you're right
I feel like the french at verdun might not have seen the Somme as pyrrhic, given it - successfully - relieved them/distracted the Germans.
Plus it hurt the Germans proportionately more than the allies
And it didn’t mean the allies were worse off than when they started, that they lost more than they gained
Pyrrhic victory doesn’t just mean, ‘very costly awful battle that you still won’
The Somme accomplished it’s basic objectives though. Something like Passchandaele would probably fit better imo.
Time to watch another excellent Unknown5 video
You have such a soft spoken voice when you narrate the video!
The final battle of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent is a good example. Goes out to try and take Vienna, has most his army defeated by a stubborn lord. From the video about the ten greatest last stands in history I believe.
King Sobiesky of Poland undid the Suleiman's army at Vienna....how the Poles saved western Europe....and Christianity
I think it'd help your content if you had more top down views of the troops and their maneuvers
Big fan of your videos and I relisten to them regularly when I'm laying in bed. Might I suggest time stamps? That's be neat for me because I don't always want to start from the start every time.
You have the best videos and your voice is perfect sir.
He sounds like a whispering Spiffing Brit
Most Brits don't sound like that. I certainly don't
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire the spiffing brit is a youtuber
Fair enough, didn't know that
Russia was especially important to Napoleon because they supplied most of the hemp needed for rope and sail in the royal navy. He hoped to cripple England defences by cutting off the hemp trade, and he saw the royal navy as the main threat to his empire
After 3 months finally
A new video
2021 might be okay now
Great video.......Enjoyed listening to this while shoveling snow.
So Napoleon's invasion was an error. He should've stayed put and reversed the strategy, building a new fleet.
building large fleet is time consuming. British won’t give time to build new fleet to Napoleon and create new Coalition with Austria, Prussia and Russia. Napoleon just don’t have potential and powerful ally against those Coalition forces. but he shouldn’t have to invade Spain
@@TheT3MK4 napoleon would have won and France would be the undisputed continental power had he just consolidated his gains. He had ports he could have used to build a navy and the British would have ran out of gold essentially.
Had he won, you probably never see WW1 or the rise of Hitler. One of the more interesting what ifs of history.
Which would have taken about a decade.
Building a fleet wouldn't help without experienced sailors. The French had killed a lot of the more experienced naval officers during then Revolution, prior to that they had been in par with the British. Then the British used the tactic of blockading the French ships keeping them bottled up in port. Its actually hard to do that with the ships of the time and the result was the British crews becoming very experienced while the French were doing nothing. The British also encouraged their captains to use their initiative since they could trust them more. Before Trafalgar the French had a pretty good idea what the British plan would be but couldn't effectively counter it due to the quality of the French and Spanish crews. Building another fleet without finding a way of addressing this seems unlikely be a good strategy. Plus Napoleon repeatedly showed he had a poor understanding of Naval warfare but insisted on giving direct orders.
You can't just build a new fleet out of no where
Napoleon: just march forward nothing wrong can happen.
Cao Cao: yeah, didn’t work out so well for me either.
Care to explain?
@@666Kaca Cao Cao was a war lord during the three kingdom era and almost conquered all of China but failed at Red Cliff because for once he simply charged in and got smashed by his opponest.
@@florians9949 He was on the defensive at red cliff though, literally didnt charge.....chained his ships together and then huang gai led volunteers in fire ships to crash into his fleet before the rest of sun-liu alliance attacked. I knew you were refering to the battle incorrectly, thats why i asked for an explanation.
@@666Kaca My point is that he came in without a plan, in his mind he had supperior number so he didn’t need to make a plan. Even if he didn’t attack first he was still doing a zerg rush, he cames in the region without any real preparation or even thinking of contingency, a bit like Napeleon did even if it wasn’t the exact same cituation. Leson is always pan a head instead of presuming things will go your way, especially in foreign territories.
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I always feel most sorry for the horses. In the American civil war, twice as many horses died as soldiers and civilians, 1.5M vs. 720k.
Phyrric victory: a victory that comes with great loses from the part of the victorious side named after pyrros the king of epirus,cause most of his victories are characterized by this result i really didnt know that is used in english and any further Worldwide descriptions,wow i must admit i am amazed learning this fact
Most of his victories against Rome...
@@arseniebadarau9437 One more victory like that, and we are undone.
Im happy someone in the comments explained the word cause i had no idea wtf that meant lol
@@trevorprinz7805 The internet is at your fingertips, and you could have found out in seconds. You know that, yes?
@@trevorprinz7805 Pyrrhus invaded Rome in 280-275 BCE from Epirus, which is in western Greece, and he destroyed a series of Roman armies in several major engagements, assuming that by crushing their forces in the field he'd force the Roman Senate to negotiate with him. But they refused any negotiation whatsoever while his troops remained on Italian soil, and they just raised new Legions to face him. Each battle he won against the Romans was so costly that, while he was never technically defeated by them, he ultimately had to retreat back to Greece because they could sustain these absurd casualty levels and get replacement troops, and Pyrrhus just couldn't replace his losses.
As Red Star Legion pointed out, there is an anecdote where one of Pyrrhus' generals was congratulating him on his great victory over the Romans, and he responded with a line along the lines of "Another victory like that, and we are finished."
Pyrrhus is considered to be one of the greatest generals in Antiquity though, given that he won nearly every conflict in which he took part against anyone other than the Romans, and displayed a level of battlefield tactical understanding that astounded his contemporaries. When talking about the skill of Ancient generals, a common ranking is to put Alexander the Great first, Hannibal of Carthage second, and Pyrrhus of Epirus third.
Very nicely done and good choices.
Great video again well done and thnx.