If it Bleeds, it Leads! - The Crimean War - European History - Part 2 - Extra History

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    The Russians are on the attack trying to take over the black sea but this battle has a new front to defend. The ruthless views and sway of the media, as newspapers mock British commanders and drum up nationalistic fervor.
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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  11 місяців тому +139

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    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 11 місяців тому +2

      Bruh

    • @danielsantiagourtado3430
      @danielsantiagourtado3430 11 місяців тому +4

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    • @dominiczibuda5232
      @dominiczibuda5232 11 місяців тому

      Looking forward to watching this

    • @natonic8483
      @natonic8483 11 місяців тому +3

      boredom* 🤓

    • @rocko7711
      @rocko7711 11 місяців тому +1

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  • @plcthelegacy4131
    @plcthelegacy4131 11 місяців тому +631

    Fun fact, the Pickelhaube made its debut around this time. But it wasn't by the Prussians, it was an early prototype created by the Russians.

    • @Heroesflorian
      @Heroesflorian 11 місяців тому +25

      So... it was... P-Russians, with P for Pickelhaube?
      Ok, I'll see myself out...

  • @chowyee5049
    @chowyee5049 11 місяців тому +938

    The Crimean War was the origin story for some pretty cool people. Charles Gordon, Leo Tolstoy, etc.

    • @GaldirEonai
      @GaldirEonai 11 місяців тому +79

      Yep. Ultimately fairly inconsequential in terms of geopolitics (aside from some foreshadowing of WW1), but it definitely left an impression. Because it was the most public and publicized war ever until that point it changed the way millions thought about it. Suddenly both the horror and the terrible majesty of industrial war were at the forefront of everyone's thoughts.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +1

      Ah yes, Leo Tolstoy, the insane misogynist who abused his wife in a cult he ran in some forest. Really "cool". I liked the part in his book where he describes russian soldiers shitting in a fountain after pillaging a Chechen village, so glorious, much russian, very culture, wow!

    • @agustincorales4786
      @agustincorales4786 11 місяців тому +39

      Mary seacole! ^-^

    • @wow-roblox8370
      @wow-roblox8370 11 місяців тому +3

      @@agustincorales4786 yes, but that is not the start, and is in fact closed to the end…

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 11 місяців тому +33

      Florence Nightingale ^^

  • @Oxtocoatl13
    @Oxtocoatl13 11 місяців тому +400

    The British campaign up and down the Finnish coast was mostly a huge success, but there was one place where they were repulsed: not a fortress, but the tiny village of Kokkola. There, local seal hunters ambushed a british landing party, driving the brits off and capturing a landing craft. The boat was kept as a trophy and it can still be seen in the centre of Kokkola.

    • @FinnishDragon
      @FinnishDragon 11 місяців тому +57

      You can mess with us Finns who are from Southern Finland but please do not mess with the Ostrobothnian Finns from the Kokkola region because they are the traditional knife-wielding Finns.

    • @theamazingbatboy
      @theamazingbatboy 11 місяців тому +11

      That is a very cool nugget, cheers!

    • @shashwatsinha2704
      @shashwatsinha2704 11 місяців тому +11

      Impressive

    • @history-jovian
      @history-jovian 11 місяців тому +11

      Imagine you are landing, and you see, not a russian with a rife but a finn with a knive charging at you. What do you do? You either shoot or retreat.

    • @theamazingbatboy
      @theamazingbatboy 11 місяців тому

      @@history-jovian And thank god your pants are already wet!

  • @Ianskogberg
    @Ianskogberg 11 місяців тому +284

    Fun fact - the very first Victoria Cross (Britain's highest award for bravery in the field) was awarded for actions in the Baltic Sea campaign, in the by now little-known Battle of Bomarsund

    • @draco84oz
      @draco84oz 11 місяців тому +13

      The legend of the Victoria Cross is that the medals were made from cannon captured at the Siege of Sevastopol.*
      *some recent research has suggested this may not be the case

    • @FinnishDragon
      @FinnishDragon 11 місяців тому +9

      Yep. The battle of Bomarsund was fought at the Åland archipelago which belongs to the modern day Finland as a demilitarized zone.

    • @vikingsundlof9040
      @vikingsundlof9040 11 місяців тому +3

      There was actually three victoria crosses awarded for bravery during the battel aganist a incomplete fortress (Bomarsund) with guns outranged by british naval artillery

    • @scott2452
      @scott2452 11 місяців тому +3

      I believe Queen Victoria said that all her soldiers were brave. The Victoria Cross will be awarded for valor.

  • @stonewalker227
    @stonewalker227 11 місяців тому +70

    I honestly never thought I’d see Clifford the big red dog in a video about the Crimean war

    • @NightBlado
      @NightBlado 11 місяців тому +6

      A weird red dog instead of a Russian bear, thanks for the name!

  • @forexed8948
    @forexed8948 11 місяців тому +286

    the Crimean war was photographed, and the pictures from it are amazing as well as horrifying

    • @ASpaceOstrich
      @ASpaceOstrich 11 місяців тому +7

      Was it the first war to be photographed?

    • @forexed8948
      @forexed8948 11 місяців тому +27

      @@ASpaceOstrich Yes, at the time of opening of hostilities, the American civil war wouldn't begin for another seven years.

    • @jacobmcneer609
      @jacobmcneer609 11 місяців тому +2

      That's war for you.

    • @galanopouloc
      @galanopouloc 11 місяців тому +13

      ​@@ASpaceOstrichActually, as of recently, it's the second war to be photographed. Apparently someone had discovered recreational photos of an American medic from the Mexican American war which, while of poor quality, still give us glimpses of the event. So fun fact.

  • @Cheshire1501
    @Cheshire1501 11 місяців тому +153

    You could make the argument that British press hasn’t changed much since then

    • @Earthpeak
      @Earthpeak 11 місяців тому +42

      I recently went to London from America, and I’m not gonna pretend where I’m from is any better about its media, but some of the headlines I saw just walking around the street were…a lot.

    • @sabkabaap1758
      @sabkabaap1758 11 місяців тому +4

      bwahahahaha excellent take m8

    • @tashacooper1753
      @tashacooper1753 11 місяців тому +5

      @@Earthpeak we are both know for being impressively wrong on stuff

    • @Game_Hero
      @Game_Hero 11 місяців тому +13

      or you could make the argument that russian imperialism hasn't changed much since then, were they really wrong?

  • @Whisk3yKnight
    @Whisk3yKnight 11 місяців тому +512

    I honestly never thought about there being ANY battles in the Baltic-which really is crazy to think about

    • @rikuvakevainen6157
      @rikuvakevainen6157 11 місяців тому +37

      Here in Finland Batlic campaing was called Åland War, because the allies' navy bombared many fortresses, including Åland fortress. As a result of war Åland became a demilitarized area until these days.

    • @wallinollipekka
      @wallinollipekka 11 місяців тому +16

      During this campaign British forces attacks to city of Oulu and burn tar barrels which were already sold to British shipping industry. And few other places in The back sea.

    • @shadiafifi54
      @shadiafifi54 11 місяців тому +9

      When a campaign is so successful, it didn't result in any victories because it didn't have any battles.

    • @draphotube4315
      @draphotube4315 11 місяців тому +5

      Yeb it was quite the European war, also I know you from somewhere….. yeeeee that’s right, I know you from sw… AAAAAAAAAAH

    • @CG-yq2xy
      @CG-yq2xy 11 місяців тому +8

      *"Most people don't remember the Baltic theater of the Crimean War"*
      Meanwhile a literal whole continent away: _Sad siege of Petropavlosk-Kamchatsky noises_

  • @AtlasNovack
    @AtlasNovack 11 місяців тому +471

    The Crimean war really inspired a lot of art and media thats lead through to today hasnt it

    • @doomdimensiondweller5627
      @doomdimensiondweller5627 11 місяців тому +17

      I don't get this war and I have read the entire wikipedia article and I still don't get it
      Why was Europe so scared of Russia at the time ? To the point of working with the Ottomans. The Ottomans at this time still Attacked European ships including those of England and France. I just don't get why they were scared that Russia might start attacking their ships in the Mediterranean when the ottomans straight up were.
      Also I don't buy the religious angle. England was really secular and didn't care about the Catholic Orthodox split. France was still militantly secular and had just got done with the French revolutions where they destroyed Christian holy sites in France. They didn't even care about their own holy sites I don't buy that they would care about holy sites in the middle east.
      Also why were the Turks so weak ? I see people say that "ottoman decline is a myth" well if that is the case why did they just do whatever Europeans wanted in hopes of Aid. This war started because the Ottomans refused to say no. Do you think Mehmet or Suleiman would have ever said yes to European demands ?

    • @macgonzo
      @macgonzo 11 місяців тому +47

      ​@@doomdimensiondweller5627 During the 18th century Britain was concerned about Russian conquests in central Asia, focusing on their control of India, while Russia was concerned that Britain would expand further into central Asia... This confrontation was known as "The Great Game". It's likely that this war came about due to these factors.

    • @doomdimensiondweller5627
      @doomdimensiondweller5627 11 місяців тому

      @@macgonzo Ok but wouldn't letting Russia go after the Ottomans distract them from India.

    • @crazyman8472
      @crazyman8472 11 місяців тому +10

      Yeah, like “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden, inspired by The Charge of the Light Brigade! 😎

    • @islammehmeov2334
      @islammehmeov2334 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@doomdimensiondweller5627NO

  • @Escalotes
    @Escalotes 11 місяців тому +304

    As a direct descendant of an English survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade, I'm loving this deep dive into the history of its most famous action. Thanks EH!

    • @Mikebumpful
      @Mikebumpful 11 місяців тому +15

      It's fascinating that a misdirected minor cavalry manouver can become so famous because of a poem!

    • @Blairington
      @Blairington 11 місяців тому +15

      As a descendant of Earl Cardigan... Sorry.

    • @Escalotes
      @Escalotes 11 місяців тому

      @@Blairington it happens brother. Dulce est Decorum est a motherfucker

    • @flavivsaetivs5738
      @flavivsaetivs5738 11 місяців тому

      ​@@Mikebumpful and a song

  • @nathanseper8738
    @nathanseper8738 11 місяців тому +112

    "...The free press, which revealed itself as a far more potent weapon than the explosive shells at Sinop." That's so true it hurts.

    • @theEWDSDS
      @theEWDSDS 11 місяців тому +2

      Right as I was reading this it played XD

    • @nathanseper8738
      @nathanseper8738 11 місяців тому

      Really?

    • @theEWDSDS
      @theEWDSDS 11 місяців тому

      @@nathanseper8738 yes

    • @nathanseper8738
      @nathanseper8738 11 місяців тому

      @@theEWDSDS cool.

    • @nikolozgilles
      @nikolozgilles 11 місяців тому +1

      describing the free press as a weapon is misleading, it's more of a rabid dog, it will do anything to make money and most importantly follow that principle "if it bleeds it leads". Today some of the worst excesses of a free press are naturally controlled by the fact that a constantly lying and exaggerating press outlet will lose reputation, but that isn't always the case if the audience doesn't care about things like "factuality" or "being unbiased" and just wants to read stuff that already lines up with their ideas and beliefs

  • @aqf235
    @aqf235 11 місяців тому +93

    The Taiping Rebellion was the greatest conflict of the 19th century. The carnage probably exceeded all the other wars combined. But it's not talked about much here in the West. You should do a series about it one of these days.

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 11 місяців тому +17

      And then when they'd managed to conquer The Imperial Army and set up their own capital, they turned on each other and the whole thing came crashing down. It really is one of the most bizarre, as well as one of the bloodiest, conflicts in history. And that's not even getting into the insane (literally) way in which it began.

    • @CliffCardi
      @CliffCardi 11 місяців тому +23

      All because a college reject thought he was Jesus’ brother

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul 11 місяців тому +7

      @@WaterShowsProd They didn''t conquer the Imperial Capital(I think that's what you meant), they captured the secondary capital of Nanjing, not the actual capital of Beiping/Beijing/Peking depending on the translation.

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 11 місяців тому +5

      @@KaiHung-wv3ul That's right. Nanjing was the administrative capital for The Southern Region, wasn't it?

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 11 місяців тому +50

    During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and her team of nurses cleaned up the military hospitals and set up the first training school for nurses in the United Kingdom.

  • @anothersquid
    @anothersquid 11 місяців тому +112

    Crimean war is so underrated for it's importance. Thanks for doing this series!

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  11 місяців тому +5

      Absolutly! Our Patreons are great at getting these topics to the table!

  • @novo121
    @novo121 11 місяців тому +14

    Ottoman empire: yey we won the war. BFF right
    France and UK: Yes. Now give us Egypt, Tunis and Cyprus thanks

    • @islammehmeov2334
      @islammehmeov2334 11 місяців тому

      It doesn't matter what matter is the safety of Anatolia and our sacred and holy capital KONSTANTINE by the way TURKS did return in cyprus 🇹🇷☪️❤️💪☝️

    • @novo121
      @novo121 11 місяців тому

      ​@@islammehmeov2334 the thing that matters is that anatolia and Constantine must be ruled by byzantines again and I would rather see cyprus greek territory that Turkish.

    • @islammehmeov2334
      @islammehmeov2334 11 місяців тому

      @@novo121 but instead it is TURKIS 🇹🇷☪️❤️💪☝️🔪☦️✝️🖕😛

  • @mikedanilov8978
    @mikedanilov8978 11 місяців тому +57

    it's a small nitpick, but Cathedral of Savior on Blood chosen to represent Saint Petersburg on the map was built on the place of assassination of tsar Alexander the second, tsar Nicholas's successor, in 1880s-90s, so around 30-40 years after the events described here.

  • @paulcalixte2223
    @paulcalixte2223 11 місяців тому +26

    5:33 history repeating itself (give-or-take the press's role) with the Roman public's displeasure and frustration with the Fabian tactics used to wear down Hannibal, rather than rushing into a decisive battle

    • @samueleandriolo4517
      @samueleandriolo4517 11 місяців тому +1

      In the end they got the fucker

    • @theotherohlourdespadua1131
      @theotherohlourdespadua1131 11 місяців тому +5

      Fabian tactics isn't sexy, and frankly I understand why they don't like it. The central tenet of Fabian tactics is to preserve as much strength they have while making the enemy spend theirs, meaning they have to give up land and people to do so and try to outlast the enemy. It all means one thing: prolonging the war. Both sides don't like a long war because it makes occupation dangerous for the invaders and it taxes the unoccupied resources of the invaded, all the while fomenting war weariness within the populace of both camps...

    • @christopheralthouse6378
      @christopheralthouse6378 Місяць тому

      Yet these seem to be the tactics used most often as the high political leaders who started the conflict in the first place profit heavily off of a long and protracted war that ultimately costs countless lives and causes horrific devastation because why talk when you can exploit your populace to settle your disagreements for you…? 🙄😐😬

  • @whyyaskkwhyy
    @whyyaskkwhyy 11 місяців тому +13

    I see you using blue and yellow as a way to distinguish the french and britsh. Reminds me of another fight against the Russians

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +3

      Yeah the war with Sweden!

  • @leandroian26
    @leandroian26 7 місяців тому +6

    Seeing the story being simplified is amazing to hear. I hope that you could tell them some of the history in the Philippines, especially during the Spanish era or during the Philippine American War

  • @cfv7461
    @cfv7461 11 місяців тому +23

    I always thought that it was weird that this war had only being fought on such a reduced area as crimea. Turns out I was wrong.

    • @SilverMe2004
      @SilverMe2004 11 місяців тому +2

      There are a number of shore batteries in Oz that were built because of this war

  • @PT5-Shorts
    @PT5-Shorts 11 місяців тому +98

    Ok guys, let's have a more civil conversation than last time and set some ground rules
    -Must take place on at least 5/7 continents
    -Greatly Influence the world
    : What was the REAL first world war?

    • @theroundtable6371
      @theroundtable6371 11 місяців тому +15

      Toledo War

    • @eduardopupucon
      @eduardopupucon 11 місяців тому +36

      Ww1 didn't take place in 5 continents, there was no fighting in South america, so by your definition one of the world wars doesn't count.
      Btw it's the seven years war, or the league war.

    • @hiddentreasure2161
      @hiddentreasure2161 11 місяців тому +35

      @@eduardopupucon There was a naval battle near The Falkland islands, so if you count battles on the waters near the continents, then there was in fact fighting in South America

    • @sarpyasar5893
      @sarpyasar5893 11 місяців тому +3

      Austrian war of Succession

    • @rennor3498
      @rennor3498 11 місяців тому +33

      The seven years war from 1756-1763.
      Fought on 5 continents such as North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Africa, included powers such as: France, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Mughal Empire, Sweden, Denmark-Norway, an almost all the Native American tribes inhabiting wastern part of Canada, etc.
      It would have a profound impact in provoking future events such as the American Revolution as well as the French one, and it marked the overseas supremacy of Great Britain and also helped the ascendance of Catherine the Great in Russia.
      So forget wht we are told that we underwent two world wars, the Seven Years War had just as long lasting aftermath as the ''supposed'' WW2.

  • @cyclpiancitydweller9517
    @cyclpiancitydweller9517 10 місяців тому +6

    It's great you mentioned War and Peace. I recently finished reading it.
    Tolstoy was a master of storytelling.

  • @CactusJackIV
    @CactusJackIV 11 місяців тому +53

    One of the top(if no the top) history channel out there. Keep up the awesome work!

    • @masterrille
      @masterrille 11 місяців тому +1

      This and oversimlplified are my top 2

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  11 місяців тому +2

      Thank you!

  • @umbrum2
    @umbrum2 11 місяців тому +70

    Britain and France: this kind of imperialist aggression will not be tolerated!
    Also Britain and France: when it gets in the way of our imperialist aggression!

  • @wowyourereallyreadingthis
    @wowyourereallyreadingthis 11 місяців тому +9

    can't wait for the cavalry charge at Balaclava

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 11 місяців тому +2

      As recounted by C. Aubrey Smith in The Four Feathers, using walnuts and a glass of wine? 😄

  • @GpeanutDoggo
    @GpeanutDoggo 4 місяці тому +1

    This dude really knows how to advertise. Like this is the type of advertising that I’m okay with listening to and acknowledging. Not to mention the fact he puts it at the end of the video so you don’t have to skip over it to keep watching.

  • @ALLTHETIME-ALLTHETIME
    @ALLTHETIME-ALLTHETIME 11 місяців тому +8

    2:08 I know this is tiny, but it’s driving me crazy that they used a balance wrong instead of having columns

  • @philipboardman1357
    @philipboardman1357 11 місяців тому +8

    I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but the scales after @2:00 are backwards. An agreement favoring Russia would be weighted toward Russia. An agreement favoring the Ottomans would be weighted toward the Ottomans.

  • @Rosgakori
    @Rosgakori 11 місяців тому +4

    "And the Åland War was horrible, hooray hooray hooray, when with 300 ships did the Englishman sail to the Finnish shores~"
    I wonder if this series will touch on Åland War because I remember singing about that war when I was a kid at school.

  • @Ofiotaurus
    @Ofiotaurus 11 місяців тому +11

    Considering how the baltic front won the war (and being from that region) I wish that this series has atleast one episode dedicated to it.

  • @bencetary6094
    @bencetary6094 11 місяців тому +10

    To add my own piece to this show, I think next episode onwards, if the naval actions off crimea are mentioned, I will have something to add. While down in Wales I found in an antique shop a 1896 print memoir of a british captain. He told of his experience in 1854 and how he revisited the peninsula in 1894, comparing the two visits. It a short book, but a sobering read.

  • @mightyone3737
    @mightyone3737 11 місяців тому +11

    I love how Tolstoy served in Crimea and learned only wrong lessons/got off on other people dying, while Dostoevsky was imprisoned for fighting for the people and learned more truth than Tolstoy ever new. Maybe I'm biased, but of the great Russian authors, I think I least enjoyed Tolstoy, he seemed entirely a part of the elite, which he literally was. Maybe this is too harsh, but I didn't say he was a terrible artist, I more said that his art taught wrong things.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 11 місяців тому +16

    Love your videos guys! They always make my day!😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

  • @KaiserIkhwan
    @KaiserIkhwan 11 місяців тому +4

    i didn't think *free* press could influence public war opinion that much
    man i needed to know that

  • @bentoth9555
    @bentoth9555 11 місяців тому +6

    I don't think my World History class back in high school mentioned anything about the Baltic campaign when we covered this war.

  • @philtkaswahl2124
    @philtkaswahl2124 11 місяців тому +3

    Autocrats failing to predict the actions of leaders who actually try not to be autocrats and thus miscalculating seems to be a recurring theme.

  • @lisestar1218
    @lisestar1218 11 місяців тому +3

    it's really just heartbreaking that this account doesn't have official captions, I'm deaf but I love animated history videos and auto generated captions are very inaccurate at times.

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  11 місяців тому +1

      We are certainly working on it!

  • @giacomoromano8842
    @giacomoromano8842 11 місяців тому +41

    Out of curiosity, i noticed a bit of a lack about the Kingdom of Sardinia participation in the war. I know that it comes later, but seeing the heavy baggage of political machinations behind it, a mention could be useful to set up the intervention itself. It was fundamental in bringing Italy to unification and show a ideological side to the process that was brough first hand on the international theater.

    • @shashwatsinha2704
      @shashwatsinha2704 11 місяців тому +2

      And you are Italian

    • @connor4955
      @connor4955 11 місяців тому

      They might mention it later! only episode 2 and its only the 1st part of the war

    • @connor4955
      @connor4955 11 місяців тому +2

      Especially since this is told chronologically, The Silistria campaign happened in 1854 and Sardinia Piedmont didn’t join/deploy troops till 1855. Just be patient and understand this is following a chronological series of events of the Crimean War, not jumping around and talking about highlights and their impacts

    • @giacomoromano8842
      @giacomoromano8842 11 місяців тому

      @@connor4955 i understand it, maybe i feel odd about it because, for me, the crimean war was a part of a bigger and more convoluted system of political machinations and international moves so to unify italy. In the scope of the Crimean war, despite the """heroisms""" of the Sardinians regiments involved, our participation must have come out of left field, from an international point of view.

    • @essneyallen6777
      @essneyallen6777 11 місяців тому

      ⁠@@giacomoromano8842 please notice the irony, is the Crimean war the thing that's "part of a bigger system" of machinations? I know that that's how they teach it to us in middle school, but it speaks more to how provincial and self centered our school system teachings are than to the actual history...

  • @harsimaja9517
    @harsimaja9517 11 місяців тому +5

    Important to note that the Russians didn't invent the sea mine - there had been mines since ancient China, and they'd been used by the British since the 17th century, and extensively for over most of a century at this point. But the Russian Jacobi did invent a new kind of 'Jacobi mine', which this was

  • @altodragonmaster
    @altodragonmaster 11 місяців тому +5

    2:03-2:11 isn’t the balance backwards. The side with more power should be heavier and be lower not higher

  • @bigchungus4336
    @bigchungus4336 11 місяців тому +1

    Excellent episode

  • @sarpyasar5893
    @sarpyasar5893 11 місяців тому +6

    Also in the Turkish litelature one of our first modern theatre play was called homeland or silistre

  • @seanpoore2428
    @seanpoore2428 11 місяців тому +1

    Great job on the art in this one

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 11 місяців тому +4

    Incredible video as always! You are the best!😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

  • @frankharr9466
    @frankharr9466 11 місяців тому

    Fascinating so far.

  • @swordsnspearguy5945
    @swordsnspearguy5945 11 місяців тому +7

    ironic that the man who wrote the best book to use as a projectile was an artillery man

    • @bentrinker1937
      @bentrinker1937 11 місяців тому +1

      The war profoundly changed him. He wrote about what he saw in Sevastopol Sketches

  • @jameswadkins
    @jameswadkins 11 місяців тому +1

    Awesome editing

  • @toadofsteel
    @toadofsteel 11 місяців тому +5

    I disagree with the notion that this war was World War Zero. That honor belongs to the Seven Years' War. It was a century earlier, and also had action in North America (where the war actually started), whereas the only war happening on that continent in the 1850s was the completely disconnected Mexican-American War.

  • @user-cd4bx6uq1y
    @user-cd4bx6uq1y 11 місяців тому +3

    I'm glad I have internet on the vacation again

  • @Swedenball
    @Swedenball 11 місяців тому +1

    Let’s go a new video of extra history

  • @Kaiyanwang82
    @Kaiyanwang82 11 місяців тому +4

    "conspiracy" theories about dominating europe"
    "conspiracy theories"
    UH... EH, I had no idea you were like this.

  • @alexanderkidonakis9185
    @alexanderkidonakis9185 11 місяців тому +3

    Not letting the ship sink was next level awesome

  • @malachiphoniex8501
    @malachiphoniex8501 11 місяців тому +32

    I'm so glad that the man that influenced Ghandi and MLKJR is getting some time to shine.

  • @cosmedelustrac5842
    @cosmedelustrac5842 11 місяців тому +8

    It's so weird to see a free press criticize a sucessfull and blodless campaign whilst praizing a long and blody one.

    • @Dreamfox-df6bg
      @Dreamfox-df6bg 11 місяців тому +11

      The time when war was seen as something glorious and there needed to be battles with a lot of blood so that the winners could have their triumph.
      Remember from the beginning of the American Civil War where spectators gathered to watch the battle? That kind of crazy stuff.

    • @EnoshII
      @EnoshII 11 місяців тому

      it's not weird at all once you understand the hatred the people in charge of the press in the UK had for Russians

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +1

      @@Dreamfox-df6bg how is it crazy when I browse Spook boys before going to sleep to calm down? People put deaths to music and upload them on TikTok.

    • @theotherohlourdespadua1131
      @theotherohlourdespadua1131 11 місяців тому +1

      It took until WW1 to fully rub away the shine that is "glory in war" from the popular imagination...

    • @Toonrick12
      @Toonrick12 11 місяців тому +1

      @@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Fully? I disagree. I would say that it mostly removed the shine of it. Even then I do believe WWII reversed it partially.

  • @user-jb9cu7gr9z
    @user-jb9cu7gr9z 11 місяців тому +1

    8:21 can't wait for the next episode!!!!!!

  • @Raptor_Ren
    @Raptor_Ren 4 місяці тому

    I love how you brought up that the less bloody tactics are largely ignored even if they did more to end the war.

  • @cryptan6756
    @cryptan6756 11 місяців тому +5

    Loooove the colors of the British & French fleets.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 11 місяців тому +4

    It was in the Crimean War that the first Victoria Crosses were awarded.

  • @oskerbenz8655
    @oskerbenz8655 2 місяці тому

    Loved that "Yeah".

  • @sourabhmayekar3354
    @sourabhmayekar3354 11 місяців тому

    Thanks

  • @RandomSlovenianSoldier
    @RandomSlovenianSoldier 11 місяців тому +3

    I'm currently reading one of Tolstoy's books

  • @dragoslavgavranovic8650
    @dragoslavgavranovic8650 10 місяців тому +1

    I like the video.Can you talk about the Balkan war of 1912-1913 plzzz

  • @ChampMike25
    @ChampMike25 11 місяців тому +4

    Love your content 😄

  • @Manos_P_
    @Manos_P_ 11 місяців тому +4

    We want a video about the Greek revolution!

  • @commanderstorm8874
    @commanderstorm8874 11 місяців тому +3

    I can’t wait for the charge of the light brigade

  • @thebestteammate6528
    @thebestteammate6528 11 місяців тому +1

    Amazing

  • @zflowes
    @zflowes 11 місяців тому +10

    This episode has a lot of similarities with the first World War during the opening stages.

    • @troybaxter
      @troybaxter 11 місяців тому

      makes you also realize that a lot of the stuff going on in Ukraine today sounds very similar to the Crimean War, and in turn, WW1.

  • @rogerfranks6942
    @rogerfranks6942 11 місяців тому +3

    Please make longer history episodes😅

  • @Alexmajster1983
    @Alexmajster1983 11 місяців тому +3

    Hvala.

  • @olejnik5165
    @olejnik5165 11 місяців тому +3

    I hope u will cover the new military technologies and the fact that is called a first modern war

  • @tahamuhammad1814
    @tahamuhammad1814 11 місяців тому +26

    Fun Fact: you could argue the the first world war was the nine year's war, and counting every global war between the European great powers since then as a world war, I think there would be nore than 10 world wars!

    • @jansix4287
      @jansix4287 11 місяців тому

      It’s not a world war unless Germany attacks! 🇩🇪

    • @Kaiserboo1871
      @Kaiserboo1871 11 місяців тому

      According to Wikipedia, these are considered the “World Wars”
      1. Nine Years' War (1689 - 1697)
      2. War of the Spanish Succession (1701 - 1715)
      3. War of the Austrian Succession (1740 - 1748)
      4. Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763)
      5. American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783)
      6. French Revolutionary Wars (1792 - 1802)
      7. Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815)
      8. World War I (1914 - 1918)
      9. World War II (1939 - 1945)
      10. Cold War (1947 - 1991)
      11. War on Terror (2001 - 2021)

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 11 місяців тому

      This channel should make series on it since it seems almost completely forgotten.

  • @MorvranLive
    @MorvranLive 11 місяців тому +3

    I hope we get a full rendition of the charge of the light brigrade in this series.

    • @bentrinker1937
      @bentrinker1937 11 місяців тому +1

      He mentioned the battle of the alma at the end. There no way he can’t talk about the charge of the heavy brigade followed by the disastrous charge of the light brigade.

  • @caseyb1346
    @caseyb1346 11 місяців тому +1

    ope, came to the last video in this series that youtube algorithm brought me to. Time to completely forget extra history even exists by the time the next video comes. Later guys.

  • @jackcassidy7317
    @jackcassidy7317 11 місяців тому +1

    Good time rewatch the Mary Seacole series

  • @whatgamesweplay
    @whatgamesweplay 11 місяців тому +3

    I have a strange feeling, as if I've seen this episode several days ago, on some other website

  • @austinreed5805
    @austinreed5805 11 місяців тому +5

    Guns and canons have fired.
    Oh boy…get ready for a wild war.

  • @honeysauce5244
    @honeysauce5244 11 місяців тому +3

    8:47 I was in 8th grade this year and all i did was watch your videos and some other channels videos and my classmates thought i was some history expert so thank you 😄

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  11 місяців тому

      Keep up the good work!

    • @honeysauce5244
      @honeysauce5244 11 місяців тому

      @@extrahistory i definitely will 🤣

  • @unkownhistory7660
    @unkownhistory7660 11 місяців тому +3

    DO A SERIES ON 1857 REVOLT PLEASE

  • @FrankDad
    @FrankDad 11 місяців тому +1

    When Ahmed Ziad Turk is not listed at the end of an episode
    (Darts Vader meme)
    “Is Ahmed safe?”

  • @AhintofChan
    @AhintofChan 9 місяців тому +1

    It's wild to think that sometimes we call explosions fireworks and sometimes we call them bombs. Obviously theirs a different design, but think about how fireworks sometimes hurt people on accident, and bombs sometimes miss and just look pretty on accident. What a wild world we live in that a steel tube of gunpowder exploding in front of you is a relative experience.

  • @redornament3248
    @redornament3248 11 місяців тому +3

    0:44
    This guy's face is the definition of _horrified_ 💀

  • @Qjackful
    @Qjackful 11 місяців тому +5

    Me, a FGO fan, waiting for Florence Nightingale's contributions to get mentioned.

    • @bentrinker1937
      @bentrinker1937 11 місяців тому

      As an effective administrator? Might be a bit boring to hear about.

  • @doomdimensiondweller5627
    @doomdimensiondweller5627 11 місяців тому +15

    This will be a hot take. I believe if it was just Russia vs the Ottomans Russia would have won. I see people say otherwise but they can't argue why.

    • @islammehmeov2334
      @islammehmeov2334 11 місяців тому +1

      The OTTOMAN EMPIRE literally wes military and economy weak then gone were the days of MEHMET THE CONQUEROR SELIM THE GRIM AND SULIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT but still russia will alliances it self with great britain and france and they will still feel to conqueror and destroy the OTTOMAN TURKS

    • @db4517
      @db4517 11 місяців тому +13

      The russians definitely would have destroyed the ottomans

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +1

      Name one war in history which russia won without being supported by England and/or USA.

    • @tommy-er6hh
      @tommy-er6hh 11 місяців тому +9

      @@KasumiRINA one-The first Russo-Turkish War (1568-1570) occurred after the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan by the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The Ottoman Sultan Selim II tried to squeeze the Russians out of the lower Volga by sending a military expedition to Astrakhan in 1569. The Turkish expedition ended in disaster for the Ottoman army, which could not take Astrakhan and almost completely perished in the steppes, while the Ottoman fleet was wrecked in the Sea of Azov

    • @SilverMe2004
      @SilverMe2004 11 місяців тому +7

      @@KasumiRINA Battle of Kulikovo
      That is a very anglospheric view of Russian history.

  • @gingerbrick2263
    @gingerbrick2263 11 місяців тому +6

    Are you going to talk about the Circassians?

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +2

      Upvote this. Their entire story answers the question of "why people hate russians" rather well.

    • @Game_Hero
      @Game_Hero 11 місяців тому

      no one ever talks about the Circassians in anything, sadly.

  • @thepolishdestroyeroprpioru9164
    @thepolishdestroyeroprpioru9164 10 місяців тому

    I saw the "T" on Tolstoy and thought of Tchaikovsky's love of explosive percussion

  • @dawoodahmad8838
    @dawoodahmad8838 11 місяців тому +3

    2:01 the scale is the opposite of how it’s suppose to be😅

  • @Jagomate13
    @Jagomate13 11 місяців тому +1

    Could you please do an episode saga on Isabella d'Este Gonzaga ??

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 11 місяців тому +3

    4:20
    *sees color of arrow
    I see what you did there.

  • @happyhour4670
    @happyhour4670 6 місяців тому

    6:40 funniest part of the whole entire conflict

  • @thetruebeliever
    @thetruebeliever 11 місяців тому +4

    extra history actually covers history unlike... the history channel

  • @hmmkin6729
    @hmmkin6729 11 місяців тому +5

    I wonder if they will mention the Battle of Suomenlinna.

  • @giorgijioshvili9713
    @giorgijioshvili9713 11 місяців тому +22

    i like how Austrians and ottomans were fighting each other for century's but now they are working together stopping Russian army ironic

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 11 місяців тому

      👁️👄👁️

    • @islammehmeov2334
      @islammehmeov2334 11 місяців тому +5

      Don't forget they were alleys in ww1 too

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +3

      Austria is literally the only country in Europe that doesn't support Ukraine, as their former leader (not that one) danced with putin at her wedding, among other things... Turkey is leading sanction-avoiding hub now with almost ALL flights and sales to russia going through it, DESPITE it being in NATO. But yes, they do help Ukraine a lot, Baykar specifically but help in general. Ukrainians also sent help to earthquake victims in return.
      Funnily enough, despite Ukrainians helping everyone all the time, even when we're full of russia-shaped problems ourselves, when russians blew up the dam there was NO international help, Only singular volunteers. UN, Unicef, Red Cross, PETA, and IAEA are all upholding russian narrative that it was "nature" the rigged powerplant with explosives, mined the nuclear power plant, and is firing artillery from it into the town across the shore.

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 11 місяців тому +1

      I mean, France and Britain did pretty much the same thing against Germany ^^
      Since the end of the middle-ages, France and England fought pretty much everytime they could (War of Hundred Years ^^), and were opposites asides of very short-lived peace treaties, it got even worse with Napoléon, and even after the brief alliance in the Crimean War, they continued to rival for colonies.... then they both saw the rise of Germany and decided to reach ana greement, that was sealed in blood during WWI XD

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 11 місяців тому

      @@KasumiRINA Austria sent 10 000 helmets, bulletproof vests and 100 000 liters of gas to Ukraine, officially as a humanitarian help.
      Hungary sent nothing. I think the european country which don't support Ukraine is rather Hungary XD
      Well, of course there's also Belarus but it's basically a russian puppet ^^

  • @Shiroya_Rumika
    @Shiroya_Rumika 11 місяців тому +1

    I love how you use Blue and Yellow to Britain and France

  • @creatoruser736
    @creatoruser736 11 місяців тому +6

    Austria: "Hey Russia, remember when you helped us put down that revolt in Hungary in 1848? Well now we'll return the favor! LOL just kidding! Leave that area or we'll fight you."

  • @SouthernMercenary
    @SouthernMercenary 11 місяців тому +3

    Fun fact mines as they where called here where actually refereed to as Torpedoes during this time and it wasn't till closer to the 1900's that the terms changed to the current ones.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +1

      And now the word "mine" means too many things, mortar is literally миномет in BOTH russian and Ukrainian, and the shells are called mines. Furthermore, the verb for "rigging" with explosives is not known among even English-speaking Ukrainians so we say that russians "mined" (заминировали) the dam. So now everything is a "mina." Don't tell us you call shakhtars "miners", cause "мінер" is what we call sappers.

    • @1224chrisng
      @1224chrisng 11 місяців тому +1

      yeah, it's kinda like how the original bikes are now called penny farthings, the original torpedo was later retconned as stationary torpedoes before being renamed as sea mines

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 місяців тому +1

      @@1224chrisng I want to ride my penny farthingle I want to ride my penny farthings... doesn't really roll off the tongue innit.

  • @irinaisayev3882
    @irinaisayev3882 11 місяців тому +1

    1 2 hours i was looking for this and saw it was not relessed

  • @griffinsauer99
    @griffinsauer99 11 місяців тому +1

    Are we gonna see any of Mary seasoned this series

  • @Matt-ls1ng
    @Matt-ls1ng 11 місяців тому +2

    Admiral sir George cocksburn a hero

  • @weebnonce8327
    @weebnonce8327 11 місяців тому +3

    It feels eather coomon in history that tatically important battles and flashy generals are remembered far better that strategical and clever generals
    This cavalier attitude of manuveres and individual heroics is in reality less important than logistics and coherent strategy