Meet Napoleon's Most Useful Soldiers
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In this video, a reenactor from the French 45eme Infanterie Regiment de Ligne explains the role of the sapeur in Napoleon's army. These soldiers were extremely versatile, being responsible for the building and dismantling of camps, breaking down barricades and serving as regular line infantry.
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The drip is immaculate
Yes😂
We need outfits like that now
Civilization really went down hill since then 😤
the beards are a requirement
He got that shit on yo.
I mean Napoleonic drip was always god tier
Have you seen the French old guard?
Lets thank the cameraman for going back in time to interview this soldier
Apparently some random cameraman grabbed and Interviewed him while he was busy Holding his position against enemies attack,
resulted in 200.000 casualties and a bitter defeat
@@jensenraylight8011 aw shucks!
The soldier is still alive from Napoleonic era
@@Charaposnapoleonic Wars was more than 200 years Ago Bro
@@Da_Defaulterits a joke
It’s fun to see what Vermin Supreme gets up to in his spare time.
A pony for everyone
I am Vermin Supreme, a friendly facsist, a tyrant you can trust
I knew this comment would be here 😂
...Cozy still wants the free pony
"Vive l'Empereur!" - Vermin Supreme
Thats why Napoleon was so successful, He had Santa Claus on his payroll.
😂
Russian Winter:
@@bismanaufa5618 Santa Claus was the only reason they’re even able to get out of Russia.
@@bismanaufa5618Santa dipped to North Pole
Ye olden Sapper: "me and me axe"
Modern sapper: "C4 BABYYYY"
Screw your C-4, to hell with your e-tool, GIMME A DAMNED AXE!!
Men of culture know of the modern engineers running with a Jesus Christ Cross inflicting the fear of God in a suicidal sprint of pure Glory!
@@TheR0m0 Essayons! 🏰 Sappers Forward🫡
In Poland saper means minesweeper
@@TheR0m0 i can see them marching with Sabaton - the last stand on full blast.
Historically accurate Christmas elf
Why the nazi symbol?
@@rodrigochiberio5472 it's not
That is not the nazi Swazi it the one that stands for peace
It's a tursaansydän, heart of Iku-Turso. Ancient Finnish symbol.
@Honne1064 oh cool. Buuut if you focus on the middle part, it definitely looks like a swazi
My first role is a sapper, my second is zapper, and it's Santa during the winter.
Guts and blackpowder?
Imagine him with those French fatigue caps called Bonnet de Polices he would actually look like Santa
@@Idk15-g4syeah.
Free my boy Jacob 😢😢😢
@@Idk15-g4s Guts and blackpowder 12 year old addict
this man is the final boss of napoleon's army
You save all your health potions for this fight
'°'
Before Santa was a jolly gift giver he ran down the Prussians in Bohemia.
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@@uhe3431is this joke really that funny to laugh 3 times?
@@uhe3431 is this joke really that funny to laugh 3 times?
Therapist: Napoleonic Santa isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Napoleonic Santa: Please allow me to introduce myself.
lol 😂
Hon hon hon
Oui Oui Oui, Mahrry Chrestmas Monsieur!
😂
There's an account from the Battle of Waterloo where one of these guys, a really big guy, broke into the English strong point at Hougemont, using his axe to smash down a door.
He was the only one that got in. It turns out that the axe does not beat bayonet.
You can always tell the veteran reenactors by the sun faded uniforms and we'll used gear.
Bruv napoleanic wars was somewhere in the 1800s how the heck would the vets be alive in 2024
@@hed6541 bruv "Veteran Reenactors" not veterans IE Reenactors who have done reenacting for some time.
@@hed6541. Looks like someone doesn't know what the word reenacting means.
G&B comunity eould like to tank you for your service
"Dont talk to jean yet, let the sappers finish building" ahh fit😭🙏
G&B MENTIONED
Interesting.
In the USA we use the term Sappers.
In Vietnam the VC has Sappers. They would go in first before the main attack on the FOB.
A sapper, in the sense first used by the French military, was one who dug trenches to allow besieging forces to advance towards the enemy defensive works and forts over ground that is under the defenders' musket or artillery fire. It comes from the French word sapeur,[3] itself being derived from the verb saper (to undermine, to dig under a wall or building to cause its collapse). This digging was referred to as sapping the enemy fortifications
Me and the boys chilling at San Sebastián when I see no sappers: 💀
The Zombies must have rubbed there stupidness onto you-barry
@@TiernanOleary ”I’m not even gonna lift this for you dumbass because you all gonna get picked off” - also Barry
Playing sapper was such a fun role in the Mount and Blade Napoleonic Wars dlc. Need to get around to one of the more recent games for that sort of thing like Steadfast (and I hope you get team killed less for digging)
Holdfast sucks , don’t even bother
@@Slim-Thicc it's a fun game
GOATed game
I’ve played over 1200 hours
like 10 years ago when I was into the regiments side of that game, I always was eager to play as a sapper. Whenever we'd get arty I'd gladly be digging away making a little hill fort for the cannons
Wow this blood and iron update is very realistic
My role is musician. I play the fife.
We're not getting out of Catacombes de Paris with this one...
Can you play _La Victoire est a Nous_ for us, please?
@@Delta68700 YES WE ARE! *VIVE LA FRANCEEE*
Bruh they ate the priest man, 💀
dude dont hit the bomber dude
Get paid more, because you might not live long enough to spend it. Sounds about right.
except it's not like an ordinary foot soldier lived long. Being a veteran or specialist at least gave you hope that your life had value
"Souvent construire, parfois détruire, toujours servir !"
"Usually making, sometimes destroying, always serving !"
🫡 ⛏️⚓
Napoleon: let him cook
Bro came straight from Guts and Blackpowder
Real
Straight from Catacombs de Paris
@@psevdonim787 he must have seen barry
It's cool to see older British gents cosplaying as French soldiers
Shows that World Peace is possible.
Now that's quality dwarven content. Rock & Stone, Sapper!
Did I hear a rock and stone?! ⛏️🪨
@@el_Malik42 To the bone!
Awesome video! Love this lived-in history
Not sure how I found this channel but I love seeing these reenactment guys sharing the history. So interesting! Thanks
As a marine corps sapeur of the 6th engineer regiment of Angers, I am happy that our corps of arms is being honored! Thank you!
Can't believe you got one of the OG's!
Sappers IRL: engineers that help set up camp.
Sappers in blood and iron: fort construction, large combat axes, will fuck up your day with a rat maze, will turn houses into Impenetrable fortress.
They also build bridges in frozen water during the Russian campaign
@@PLASMAMATEtrue dat.
@@PLASMAMATEthose are pontonniers which technically was not the exact same role. Pontonniers were specialised in building Pontons bridges. Although during the revolutionary wars pontonniers and sapeurs were the same
@@PLASMAMATEBerezina reference G&B
We also do counter-mining, counter-IED, explosives, support for infantry mobility, combat mining, etc.
Well they looked stylish doing it
I love it when reenactment actors know everything about their roles! It’s like being able to go back in time and chat with their real historical counterparts!
"Sapeur"! This is the motto of the french sapeurs (corps of engineers): "Parfois détruire, souvent construire, toujours servir!" - "Sometimes destroying, often building, always serving!"
Bro is living longer then all of us
You know times are hitting us hard when even Santa Claus has to pick up a side job.
Excuse me sir, how much shambles there at berezina?
Dude shut up please, not everything is guts and blackpowder
Imagine this absolute unit of a man dripping in blood from head to toe with a battle axe charging right at you.
Gotta get back in to War of 1812 reenacting. The coat and the shako are calling to me 😮
I don’t just like world War, but I also like G&B
Ah yes, Vermin Supreme fought at Waterloo, that tracks
Of course he did
Guts & Blackpowder reference
"Guts & Blackpowder reference" ahhh 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏
He was there.
I’ve always been fascinated with the cavalry charge. It takes a lot of discipline to stand still while they are charge at you. It’s complete chaos because they are fighting in lines with ever deadlier tech. It’s just a bloodbath.
WOW! This is exactly how I'd picture one too
That's fucking aweosme
Guts and Blackpowder fit.
Sorry about that
I remember fighting you in assassin's Creed 3😤 I haven't forgotten!
Surely such valuable men would be kept away from regular line infantry; who could be easily replaced
Sappers are part of the grenadier(veteran shock troops) company for the line infantry regiment and usually kept in reserve but when they are called out it's usually a high risk task like clearing obstacles under fire, destroying a gate, or removing barricades out of a breach in the wall of a fort/city in the first wave
imagine being a solider and being charged at by an old man with a blunderbuss and an axe
Most epic beard.
Guts and blackpowder reference 💀💯
I love how he looks like they traveled back in time and kidnapped him like :
"Hey, can you tell us how it is to be a Sapper?"
*"Sure thing, sir."*
Need a dispenseur here!
Please tell me I’m not the only person here that plays guts in black powder
you got old guard?
i play it too bahahh
I play to
I really hope these guys get their own episode
Whats vermin supreme doing in napoleons army?
Genie in a battle.
Bro is old guard🔥🔥🔥
Literally. I don't want to know how did he got Old yeller
Santa really got into the lore.
*“We need a barricade.”*
Never underestimate the strength of a backbone called Infrastructure.
You now hold the company’s new flag…
historically accurate sapper
I see you have a grenadier thing on ur strap so your a sapper grenadier?
After 30 years as a Combat Engineer (USMC, ret. 2014), not much has changed except the uniform and axe.
i cant believe that uniform looks so good since its over 200 years old
My favourite unit in Age Of Imperial games.... Also with Dragoon unit...
I agree with him being a sapper is a dangerous job I know because i died alot playing as sapper class in Holdfast
Cool bit of history! Thank you for the fun bit of knowledge (:
Make An 1er Grenadiere Garde(Viellie De Garde)?
I never knew Santa fought for Napoleon
This would make a sick Christmas movie
WE MAKING IT OUTTA MOSCOW WITH THIS ONE🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
“We need sappers to get wave 36 to get old guard guys🗣️🗣️”
- once a guts and black powder fan like my ass
Santa knows how to break into peoples houses and fix them when he's done delivering his payload of presents
Gandalf has joined napoleons army it seems
Bro I thought that was Vermin Supreme on the thumbnail
He survived all war💀
Guts and blackpowder looking realistic 🥶
Old Guard drip is real🔥🔥
So....this is what Santa does during off-season when he has down time between Christmas holidays.
They’re like a Seabee sniper unit, sick!
Essential in the fight against the cannibals.
Do you guys have old guard regiments?
His insignia; the flaming grenade, is the origin of the one I wore.
Yeeeesss, we will get old guard within this one
Excelente explicación. 🇵🇪
It has been 200 years and this guy still hasnt retired from the french army? no wonder there are so many protests
I’m pretty sure this guy’s bashed my head in a couple times in blood and iron.
In Britain sappers are the only soldiers allowed to grow a beard even today
Wait why
Can we please get a short of when the Sapeur snuck up behind you all gleefully with his axe? "English? No no, over there."
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one of the main reasons their army held on for so long. if it wasnt for them, they wouldnt be as far as they were.
Dude speaks from experience
I would've thought they wouldn't be fighting unless absolutely necessary.
The regular infantry would be fresh and waiting, when the sapuers got done busting their ass on the obstacle, and then they just get into line?!
I'm assuming they wouldn't be the front line, or main assault, but I'd happily charge in first to give them a break, knowing those badasses are coming right back in behind you!
I got chills a little bit 😬
They're shown at the front closing the line between the grenadiers and the voltigeurs of two batalions. Having the shortest muskets they are probably not in an obligation to shoot. But facing a cavalry charge they have to fill the gap, hence the tall hats.
This guy looks epic
Santa before Xmas... 🎉
how does a man look so unhinged and friendly at the same time?
Gandalf taking up war reenactments and mead drinking in his retirement...
What would they build apart from constructing camps?