Dan Sickles: Human Meme

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  • @mccabber24
    @mccabber24 4 роки тому +8187

    Imagine posting a video with a smooth, well put together ending
    *this post was made by the Abrupt, Mid-Sentence, ending gang*

  • @keizervanenerc5180
    @keizervanenerc5180 4 роки тому +1643

    He died at age 94 in 1914... imagine living for another 51 years with 1 leg. Looks like life memed him right back

    • @Predator20357
      @Predator20357 4 роки тому +19

      BRITISH MAN COLONIZE if there was someone like that, That would be quite scary, well disciplined and is able to take quite amazing risk and come out on top

    • @sameggenton1077
      @sameggenton1077 4 роки тому +56

      And I imagine late 1800s - early 1900s America wasn’t very wheelchair friendly

    • @thattotalwarguy7911
      @thattotalwarguy7911 3 роки тому +17

      @BRITISH MAN COLONIZE Actually no, he died only a month before Franz Ferdinand's assassination.

    • @cookiecraze1310
      @cookiecraze1310 3 роки тому +9

      Lived through 1 world changing war and died the year another started. I say that as a Brit btw.

    • @romanempire4495
      @romanempire4495 3 роки тому +11

      Nah. He did well for himself. Had three kids, served as a congressman, retired in 1869 with the rank of Major General, served as minstre to Spain and was rewarded the medal of honor. A fulfilled life, I'd say.

  • @Flopsos
    @Flopsos 4 роки тому +3914

    Well, that ending was very interesting... and abrupt

  • @lukesarazin1097
    @lukesarazin1097 4 роки тому +1051

    Sickles: Cheats on wife constantly
    Wife: Cheats too
    Sickles: "Unacceptable!"

    • @Alystas
      @Alystas 3 роки тому +48

      Patriarchy in a nutshell

    • @Sabrowsky
      @Sabrowsky 3 роки тому +33

      Basically the norm back in the day yeah.
      Different times, different ways, more hypocrisy.

    • @rubenfedred9646
      @rubenfedred9646 3 роки тому +8

      Both of them are horrible people just because someone cheats on u doesn't give u the right to cheat back aka have a talk with your spouse and if u are unable to find a solution then get a divorce

    • @lazywargaming6752
      @lazywargaming6752 3 роки тому +32

      @@rubenfedred9646 she was his underaged wife who he had known since she was an infant

    • @easygzus9064
      @easygzus9064 3 роки тому +6

      Don't hate the player...

  • @johnniewalker877
    @johnniewalker877 4 роки тому +3304

    “What the hell do you mean you LOST my foot?!” -Dan Sickles Probably

    • @AtaMarKat
      @AtaMarKat 4 роки тому +54

      “There was a foot...”

    • @johnniewalker877
      @johnniewalker877 4 роки тому +17

      Xochitl-Czesława-Milagros-Dominica, HIE it’s not in the exhibit with the rest of the leg though

    • @gears7734
      @gears7734 4 роки тому +18

      He sounds like he wouldn’t be happy even if he was hung with a new rope

    • @deltasword1994
      @deltasword1994 4 роки тому +6

      Maybe he shouldn't have lost it first

    • @gunnerbodie
      @gunnerbodie 4 роки тому +3

      Don’t believe me, but I am related to him and that is kinda disrespectful. But you go ahead and make fun of me all you want.

  • @jolunrohthocoudis526
    @jolunrohthocoudis526 3 роки тому +115

    Later in his life they asked him why so many generals had been cast into statues and monuments at Gettysburg and why he didn’t have one. To which he replied “The whole damn battlefield is a monument to me.”
    I wish to god I could believe in myself like Sickles believed in himself

    • @mitchellwright5478
      @mitchellwright5478 10 місяців тому +4

      Shit man that’s wit that’ll take a man where he wants

  • @victortisme
    @victortisme 4 роки тому +1227

    This video was cut short so unexpectedly, I mistook it for Dan Sickle's leg

  • @rangergxi
    @rangergxi 4 роки тому +184

    His "excelsior" brigade was literally a bunch of homeless drunks lead by firemen. A true legend.

  • @rosenburg9981
    @rosenburg9981 4 роки тому +2848

    Alternative titles;
    Humemeity
    Historical humemes
    Literal cancer

    • @zaikolebolsh5724
      @zaikolebolsh5724 4 роки тому +27

      Opisie dopsie man did the thing

    • @manofcultura
      @manofcultura 4 роки тому +42

      Mad lads 2 electric boogaloo

    • @crocidile90
      @crocidile90 4 роки тому +14

      Better one (it memes an actual show name) 3M: Man, Moment, Meme

    • @jakd3872
      @jakd3872 4 роки тому +6

      hahah just seen this after posting my Idea :D Historical Humemes got my Vote 😂😂😂

    • @lordviddax9748
      @lordviddax9748 4 роки тому +4

      Oh the Humemeity!

  • @KiIroywasHere
    @KiIroywasHere 4 роки тому +1061

    I can’t believe you skipped over the part where he embezzled the money for a bust of himself for his own monument.
    That’s a galaxy brain move if I’ve ever seen one.

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher 4 роки тому +86

      Are we sure that President Trump isn't a reincarnated Dan Sickles?

    • @sunk5244
      @sunk5244 4 роки тому +37

      12-D chess.

    • @VunderGuy
      @VunderGuy 4 роки тому +9

      @@eldorados_lost_searcher
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    • @thelastholdout
      @thelastholdout 4 роки тому +68

      @@VunderGuy The hell was this comment? Are you really that triggered by jokes about Trump?

    • @April_a26
      @April_a26 4 роки тому +38

      @@VunderGuy when you're so defensive about your shitty candidate you write a paragraph about a joke.

  • @Flopsos
    @Flopsos 4 роки тому +1755

    I see johnny has become a historian with an armchair...
    an armchair historian

  • @alexandersassaman1822
    @alexandersassaman1822 4 роки тому +465

    Having been to Gettysburg, I come to the conclusion that Sickle chose the peach orchard because it had a better field of fire than the segment of the line he was originally supposed to defend, which was uneven and would have allowed the Confederates to advance fairly closely before they could target them with a significant amount of small arms fire.
    That being said, Sickles deprived himself of artillery support from Little Rountop and quick access to reserves by moving so far away from the main line. By isolating himself, he became the perfect target for a Confederate assault.

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher 4 роки тому +46

      Having studied this battle since I was about six years old, I believe you're correct.

    • @warhawk9566
      @warhawk9566 4 роки тому +16

      I mean even if that's true, I think the losses speak for themselves

    • @Cordman1221
      @Cordman1221 4 роки тому +63

      Maybe, but putting himself in the Peach orchard gave the Confederate artillery the ability to ass pound his corps with zero counter battery fire from Big and Little Round top. The Union had an absolutely bananas artillery advantage at Gettysburg and Sickles pissed that away because he hated Meade, and a lot of Union men died in a hail of cannon fire for no other reason than "fuck you boss I'ma do what I want".

    • @rjohnson1690
      @rjohnson1690 4 роки тому +8

      I agree 100% other than the fact LRT wasn’t a very good artillery position.

    • @johnyossarian1135
      @johnyossarian1135 3 роки тому +4

      I'm pretty sure that he just forgot his infinity gauntlet and he couldn't use his pre thought out strategy of click-click yeety.

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    @nickathanas1898 4 роки тому +3067

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    • @ho0dra
      @ho0dra 4 роки тому +17

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    • @manofcultura
      @manofcultura 4 роки тому +37

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    • @kommandantvalentine6272
      @kommandantvalentine6272 4 роки тому +11

      Trump is gonna go to nuke russia and when he pushes the button he just watches his screen go "but first a word from raid shadow legends"

    • @FischerFilmStudio
      @FischerFilmStudio 4 роки тому +1

      Not Fact Fiend... they aint no shills!

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 роки тому +4

      Nancy Pelosi's insanity is sponsored by raid Shadow Legends lol

  • @greenmountainhistory7335
    @greenmountainhistory7335 4 роки тому +426

    Clearly he’s playing 34th dimensional underwater tic-tac-toe

  • @luminous6520
    @luminous6520 4 роки тому +1728

    I hearby petition for the creation of the series “meme ships” and “meme aircraft”!

  • @splunky6314
    @splunky6314 4 роки тому +216

    I remember visiting Gettysburg, standing in the peach orchard, looking at where the Confederate artillery was and thinking, "What the hell was that guy on?"

    • @Baelor-Breakspear
      @Baelor-Breakspear Рік тому +1

      @@alejandrokaplan1984 🤣 at least now he’s handless. Another win for Dan

    • @Baelor-Breakspear
      @Baelor-Breakspear Рік тому

      @@alejandrokaplan1984 🤣 at least now he’s handless. Another win for Dan

  • @DivinityOfBLaze
    @DivinityOfBLaze 4 роки тому +1333

    Wait, did the video just get cut off at the end? Did you accidentally forget to upload the correct file?

    • @moritamikamikara3879
      @moritamikamikara3879 4 роки тому +185

      Chances are he had a rendering bug and uploaded it without realising it didn't render all the way
      I had this happen to me on my channel Duke of Txtspeak a couple of times.
      Although I'd fixed it by now

    • @nicholaspaat7302
      @nicholaspaat7302 4 роки тому +52

      Thats the joke, he wanted to cover 2 meme stories of Dan but it only scratches the surface of the Dan Sickles rabbit hole

    • @dndboy13
      @dndboy13 4 роки тому +78

      dude handed the rendering and uploading job to Dan Sickles, who got sidetracked by looking at photos of his lost femur

    • @mafiousbj
      @mafiousbj 4 роки тому +18

      Playing too much Raid shadow legends can cause that :p

  • @qmanbeep4203
    @qmanbeep4203 4 роки тому +248

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    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +611

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      @Joshua_23 4 роки тому +2

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      @arkadeepkundu4729 4 роки тому +13

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  • @CursiveLeaf
    @CursiveLeaf 4 роки тому +51

    “You better not fuck this up”
    -General Meed order’s during battle of Gettysburg

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    @duncanmcokiner4242 4 роки тому +573

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      @sovietspy8866 4 роки тому +42

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    • @GSixFiveFourThreeFourDashTwo
      @GSixFiveFourThreeFourDashTwo 4 роки тому +36

      Tf is that profile pic

    • @loscopihues2343
      @loscopihues2343 4 роки тому +2

      That shit was cancer

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      @duncanmcokiner4242 4 роки тому +3

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      @coh2conscript851 4 роки тому +2

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  • @brianverbanickjr.5551
    @brianverbanickjr.5551 4 роки тому +219

    * sees Dan Sickles in title *
    Me: ah and time to talk about how he almost lost the battle of Gettysburg

    • @B0BBARKER444
      @B0BBARKER444 4 роки тому +32

      How he never got court martialed for putting his troops in the peach orchard I'll never understand

    • @JessZomb
      @JessZomb 4 роки тому +24

      @@B0BBARKER444 Maybe they didn't do anything because he lost his leg and thought he was either going to be dead or out of action and therefore no longer a threat.

    • @1320crusier
      @1320crusier 4 роки тому +24

      The way Ive looked at it is that that crazy fucker accidentally threw a massive monkey wrench into the Confederate plans for the day. He basically stumbled into disrupting the coordinated attacks on the union flanks .

    • @JessZomb
      @JessZomb 4 роки тому +16

      @@1320crusier Maybe but at the same time... this man's rather petty vendetta costed people their lives.

    • @brianverbanickjr.5551
      @brianverbanickjr.5551 4 роки тому +6

      @@1320crusier I would say he helped the Confederates come very close to winning the battle

  • @goldeneagle3088
    @goldeneagle3088 4 роки тому +316

    Ya Boi rocking that Mustache and the 12th dimension chess play

    • @SeanHiruki
      @SeanHiruki 4 роки тому +6

      That stach is nothing compared to Joshua Chamberlain’s

  • @Hubert_Cumberdale_
    @Hubert_Cumberdale_ 4 роки тому +256

    Do one on Conrad von Hötzendorf, his ineptitude was hilarious.

    • @michaelstein7510
      @michaelstein7510 4 роки тому +54

      Both he and Luigi Cadorna were hilariously incompetent in command. So many soldiers died due to their horrible tactics and strategies.

    • @natureman494
      @natureman494 4 роки тому +29

      I maintain that he had franz Ferdinand killed to start a war of Austrian colonialism in Europe

    • @bogdangabrielonete3467
      @bogdangabrielonete3467 4 роки тому +9

      @@michaelstein7510 Cripple fight !

    • @Bread-nx9fo
      @Bread-nx9fo Рік тому +4

      It’s actually so insane how a stooge like him could condemn hundreds of thousands of men to their deaths with stupid offensives after stupid offensives, and entire dead generation

  • @ethanhatcher5533
    @ethanhatcher5533 4 роки тому +352

    Keep this Civil War train rolling by doing John Bell Hood, the Confederacy's Black Knight from Monty Python

    • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
      @LadyTylerBioRodriguez 4 роки тому +21

      Or John B Gordon the human pin cushion. Shot like six times and lived. Although Hood got fucked up in the war.

    • @conagherdenson2194
      @conagherdenson2194 4 роки тому +18

      Poor Hood. He was a clever brigade commander but couldn't handle higher echelon commands

    • @ethanhatcher5533
      @ethanhatcher5533 4 роки тому +16

      @@conagherdenson2194 yeah, it seemed like he could only attack (and not very well) as a army commander. I mean look how quickly his defense fell apart at the Battle of Nashville

    • @ethanhatcher5533
      @ethanhatcher5533 4 роки тому +12

      @Thatguywiththerandomskit s "You're a looney" George Thomas, also Nashville 1864

    • @erikjimenez9235
      @erikjimenez9235 4 роки тому +10

      What about Sherman who made hotlanta hotter !

  • @paulvonlettow-vorbeck4302
    @paulvonlettow-vorbeck4302 3 роки тому +32

    "That Peach Orchard lookin' kinda fresh tho..."
    -Gen. Daniel Sickles

  • @danielgarza1209
    @danielgarza1209 4 роки тому +99

    I remember hearing about this dude when I toured Gettysburg. 10/10, would perform stupid tactical manoeuvers out of spite again.

  • @spoxx1802
    @spoxx1802 4 роки тому +67

    Zhang "The Dogmeat General" Zhongchang would be a good addition to this series.

  • @mack7235
    @mack7235 4 роки тому +552

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    • @patrioticamerican6414
      @patrioticamerican6414 4 роки тому +76

      Mack Williams I would rather watch raid shadow legends for 10 hours rather than one mike Bloomberg ad

    • @samuelshort327
      @samuelshort327 4 роки тому +30

      Patriotic American buy my way into an election headass

    • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
      @LadyTylerBioRodriguez 4 роки тому +12

      The battle where we all lose.

    • @providedyeti1518
      @providedyeti1518 4 роки тому +18

      Patriotic American thank fuck someone said it

    • @pitiponk1
      @pitiponk1 4 роки тому +6

      As an European thank God I'm spared of this, altho we have other problems here :/

  • @Mustang-wt1se
    @Mustang-wt1se Рік тому +13

    This has only convinced me Sickles single handedly won Gettysburg by blundering so hard on the flank it convinced Lee to attempt Pickett’s charge on the center

  • @francesco8000
    @francesco8000 4 роки тому +194

    You know after hearing the story about the way men like Dan Sickles got a high military rank and the reason he just decided to disobey the order the fact that General Lee won so many battles doesn't sound that impressive.
    It doesn't take a military genius when you are a commander with experience and you are fighting ex politicians and\or people that just do what they want for the memes.

    • @buckplug2423
      @buckplug2423 4 роки тому +41

      Yeah. Although he was a genius, it's just that this broke-dick enemy he was up against in the early years made his genius even more apparent.

    • @InchonDM
      @InchonDM 4 роки тому +24

      It's like beating up on the Italians in the World Wars. When so many of their generals are nobility failsons who crack at the first sign of danger, no amount of bravery from their troops is going to save them.

    • @alex_zetsu
      @alex_zetsu 4 роки тому +19

      PH missed out that Sickles saw the ground in front of him as higher and after Lee won many battles with the high ground, Sickles became obsessed with it.

    • @firebat724
      @firebat724 4 роки тому +5

      @@alex_zetsu he was ordered off high ground at Chancellorsville that was used as a artillery platform for the Confederate army. The Union forces and his corps suffered greatly for this. He also proposed attacking elements of Jackson's flank attack that he believed to be retreating Confederates. If his advice would have been followed the battle would probably have turned out differently.

    • @joejohnson8789
      @joejohnson8789 4 роки тому +6

      @@alex_zetsu so he's the basis for Obi-wan Kenobi?

  • @ILikeToLaughAtYou
    @ILikeToLaughAtYou 3 роки тому +17

    My 4th great-uncle fought for the Confederacy... with the Artillery... he was part of the company that was firing at the Union troops in the battle Sickles lost his leg.
    Crazy to think that cannon might have been fired by my bloodline.

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    @EuroCrow283 4 роки тому +348

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      @Joesolo13 4 роки тому +31

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    • @maelkew3337
      @maelkew3337 4 роки тому +8

      @@Joesolo13 true so too true

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      @ghazghkullthraka9714 3 роки тому +1

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    @sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214 4 роки тому +27

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    @bluedog843 4 роки тому +51

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  • @28stabwounds91
    @28stabwounds91 4 роки тому +128

    Meade: Hey Dan, super big battle coming up, might decide the outcome of the war, so you’re on the position I told you to take right?
    Sickles: Well, yes, but actually absolutely not

  • @OldManJacan
    @OldManJacan 4 роки тому +114

    I love this series, it probably wouldn’t be a long video if you focused just on him but I feel Bazooka Charlie deserves a mention in this series as a US pilot who destroyed/disabled 6 tanks with his plane which was an unarmed scout plane, aside from the 8 bazookas strapped under the wings

    • @gallantcavalier3306
      @gallantcavalier3306 4 роки тому +4

      Old Man Jacan I would love to see that as a video.

    • @Yarkoonian
      @Yarkoonian 4 роки тому +1

      What

    • @zockertwins
      @zockertwins 4 роки тому +2

      @@gallantcavalier3306 Go and recreate it in War Thunder

    • @zockertwins
      @zockertwins 4 роки тому

      @@PanzerVII-df8hg The I15 bis, one of the very first soviet planes is a very light aircraft with 6 rockets that you can destroy tanks with.

    • @iamthehype3684
      @iamthehype3684 3 роки тому

      What?

  • @curiousentertainment3008
    @curiousentertainment3008 4 роки тому +41

    I’d be pissed too if just my femur and not my entire leg was in the Smithsonian. If I have it amputated why have one bone on display?

  • @thefrenchkiwi9435
    @thefrenchkiwi9435 4 роки тому +113

    Oh look! It's general Snapping Turtle McGee!

  • @tkdmike9345
    @tkdmike9345 9 місяців тому +2

    One of my ancestors was a captain in the civil war, and his older brother was a major in one of Dan’s regiments. He resigned a couple months before Gettysburg, and he previous regiment got mauled at Gettysburg. 60% casualty rate and every officer over the rank of Lieutenant killer or wounded. He literally dodged a bulletz

  • @barrybend7189
    @barrybend7189 4 роки тому +45

    Meanwhile Pickett: what's a company?

  • @ltrain4479
    @ltrain4479 4 роки тому +4

    I'm glad Dan Sickles gets some attention, the guy was character. In March 1864 he wrote an anonymous letter to the Newspaper under the name "Historicus" and defended his actions at Gettysburg. He referred to himself in 3rd person and its hilarious, everyone should read it. People like General Meade and General Barnes responded it to with their own letters and Sickles responded to those. The dude even made it to the 50th reunion of the Battle in 1913. At Chancellorsville, 2 months prior, the Confederates took high ground put their artillery up there and badly hurt his Corps. Its still unknown if he was instructed to be on Little Round Top or not. The area he was given originally (north of little round top) was not good for Artillery. The peach orchard offered a little higher terrain for his guns, he was afraid the Confederates would use it to bombarded his troops again. That was one of his reasons for moving forward. General Longstreet would later credit him for doing this, I'm sure that inflated his ego even more, haha.

  • @ff05t81t
    @ff05t81t 4 роки тому +377

    Alternante title: IRL Memelords

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 4 роки тому +19

      the only alternative title I've seen that is somewhat better than the current one

    • @xxgimpl0rdxx22
      @xxgimpl0rdxx22 4 роки тому +1

      No

  • @mikeyfisher4256
    @mikeyfisher4256 4 роки тому +21

    Ah yes, I remember fondly when a canon ball severed my leg at the Y E E T F I E L D

  • @21Wyvern
    @21Wyvern 4 роки тому +27

    In modern terms, it's called "diminished compacity" and not considered a viable defence in modern juris prudence.

  • @ethanwmonster9075
    @ethanwmonster9075 4 роки тому +37

    Nobody:
    Civil War Documentary Soundbyte: *A direct cannonball hit severs hit his leg*

  • @firebat724
    @firebat724 4 роки тому +6

    Here is a great story from Sickles later in life. He returned to Congress and was influential in passing bills through Congress that would help preserve the Gettysburg battlefield. At this point people began to start putting moments on the battlefield and the third corps monument was supposed to have a bust of Sickles in it but the money that was raised for it was stolen (some people think that he actually took it). The third corps monument to this day still has no bust of him in it. When a reporter asked him if he was upset about not getting a moment on the battlefield he responded with "son this whole damn battlefield is my monument".

  • @pavarottiaardvark3431
    @pavarottiaardvark3431 4 роки тому +1

    Imagine having Buchannan get you off of a murder charge only for him to fuck up preventing a war that causes you to lose a leg.

  • @dreyvankarameikos4131
    @dreyvankarameikos4131 4 роки тому +62

    I'm european and i'm fascinated with yankie vs dixie civil war

    • @patrioticamerican6414
      @patrioticamerican6414 4 роки тому +1

      Dreyvan Karameikos GO DIXIE

    • @kingzahhak911
      @kingzahhak911 4 роки тому +13

      The fact that anything south of Washington DC is a testament to the fact Sherman did not go far enough.

    • @jeltje50
      @jeltje50 4 роки тому +14

      @@patrioticamerican6414 why would you cheer the traitors that wanted to keep slavery.
      Yikes.

    • @patrioticamerican6414
      @patrioticamerican6414 4 роки тому +2

      Burned Edits it was more states rights that they fought for not slavery

    • @patrioticamerican6414
      @patrioticamerican6414 4 роки тому +1

      Burned Edits and Lincoln pardoned many of the “traitors”

  • @spacejamsham2440
    @spacejamsham2440 4 роки тому +6

    I remember watching the documentary Gettysburg in high school thinking “what an idiot, damn peach orchard lover” and now it all makes sense

  • @elzy2755
    @elzy2755 4 роки тому +17

    Great video! We need more of these comedic historical videos on UA-cam , I’m glad we have you!

  • @andrewliu2458
    @andrewliu2458 4 роки тому +17

    Girls und Panzer Das Finale 2 released on Blu-ray/DVD yesterday, so it should be online not too long from now

  • @turbowolf302
    @turbowolf302 4 роки тому +67

    My man sponsored by Raid:Shadow Legends. He's finally a real boy.

  • @S4HUN
    @S4HUN 4 роки тому +25

    Brand new Girls und Panzer episode
    Just sayin'

  • @slime7136
    @slime7136 4 роки тому +23

    Hey, I'm a european and I like the american civil war. You have made me sad and depressed

  • @highjumpstudios2384
    @highjumpstudios2384 4 роки тому +5

    “Come on guys, let’s go see my leg! It’ll be awesome!” -Daniel Sickles probably

  • @chrisca
    @chrisca 4 роки тому +25

    Let's appreciate for a second that on 2:00 he dresssed his hair in the same fashion as Dan "Madlad" Sickles

    • @eazy8579
      @eazy8579 4 роки тому

      But He didn't have that bitchin' stache, so only half credit

  • @oscarin13
    @oscarin13 4 роки тому +1

    Dan Sickles at the Battle of Gettysburg is like that kid who doesn't know what he's doing during the kindergarten Mom's day festival.

  • @Flopsos
    @Flopsos 4 роки тому +72

    Johnny has sold his soul to Raid Shadow legends

    • @austins.8442
      @austins.8442 4 роки тому +5

      @Dmitri Patronov ok big pp man

    • @InchonDM
      @InchonDM 4 роки тому +9

      Never gonna blame a man for getting paid. I respect the memes, but memes can't pay leeches like landlords and Comcast.

    • @InquisitorThomas
      @InquisitorThomas 4 роки тому +2

      InchonDM I agree, but I wish Raid Shadow Legends wasn’t such a prolific sponsor because every ad I hear for it sounds incredibly fake.

    • @Flopsos
      @Flopsos 4 роки тому +5

      I am NOT against johnny getting sponsored, i just don’t like how almost all the RSL adds sound really similar and fake. (i have one account btw, don’t randomly make accusations)

    • @Flopsos
      @Flopsos 4 роки тому

      Austin Sirois How is making baseless accusations a good thing?

  • @HSMiyamoto
    @HSMiyamoto 4 роки тому +3

    It is interesting to imagine how Sickles would be remembered if he had been killed in the Peach Orchard. My guess is he would have become an honored dead hero, like George Armstrong Custer, another headstrong commander who also led his men to annihilation.

  • @ClamChowder_FireBuff69
    @ClamChowder_FireBuff69 4 роки тому +38

    *when you charge the confederates and end up on Human Meme*

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher 4 роки тому +5

      More like left his flanks and center dangerously exposed in the timeless tactic, "I present you my genitals, please kick them."

  • @dzelman444
    @dzelman444 3 роки тому +2

    Don't forget that the man he murdered was ALSO the DA that would have normally prosecuted murderers... He REALLY stacked the deck.

  • @juanaltredo2974
    @juanaltredo2974 4 роки тому +53

    I'm not european, I'm american, as in southamerican, but i love american civil war

    • @VunderGuy
      @VunderGuy 4 роки тому +1

      No you're not. You're at best South American and at worse whatever actual country you come from. Not American. And you never will be American. So stop with the word play you types like to play and admit it.

    • @withcheeseproductions
      @withcheeseproductions 4 роки тому

      @@TheBananamonger and all the Irish immigrants fighting in the war as soon as they got off the boats

    • @daveyishere55
      @daveyishere55 4 роки тому +6

      @@VunderGuy I'm sorry to break it up to you but we all live in the Americas, so technically we're all Americans here boy
      Only because people from the U.S are called that it doesn't mean you own the word. Especially when in other languages you're not called Americans but rather something along the lines of United Statents

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 4 роки тому +8

      @@VunderGuy >South Americans, living on the continent of the Americas, are not Americans
      You got a galaxy brain, I can tell.

    • @AAAAAA-zw7oh
      @AAAAAA-zw7oh 4 роки тому +3

      @@VunderGuy wow, where did you study geography?

  • @tubaboytom
    @tubaboytom 4 роки тому +1

    If my leg was in a museum I probably wouldn't shut up about seeing it either. It's my fucking leg.

  • @Sabrowsky
    @Sabrowsky 4 роки тому +7

    Saddens me that this series hasnt been continued yet.

  • @ODST_Parker
    @ODST_Parker 4 роки тому +2

    "Yo, where's my fuckin' foot?" - Dan Sickles, probably

  • @StonedWidowOnDoom
    @StonedWidowOnDoom 4 роки тому +56

    2:18 Did you just assumed my interest based on my geographically location????
    I'm pan-historical!

    • @eduluz5577
      @eduluz5577 4 роки тому +3

      one joke

    • @westhuizenarchives2614
      @westhuizenarchives2614 4 роки тому

      Dan Lebowski Yss he did.

    • @StonedWidowOnDoom
      @StonedWidowOnDoom 4 роки тому

      @@TheRedKing247 "Borrowed from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (pan-), combining form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”)"
      If I have to explain the joke further, it is not funny anymore.

    • @TheRedKing247
      @TheRedKing247 4 роки тому

      @@StonedWidowOnDoom r/woooooosh

    • @StonedWidowOnDoom
      @StonedWidowOnDoom 4 роки тому

      @@TheRedKing247 I'm an old man and don't understand your modern slang.

  • @andpat1432
    @andpat1432 4 роки тому +2

    As soon as you said “he had President Buchanan come and shake his hand in front of the jury” I instantly got why this guy’s a meme

  • @puggers111
    @puggers111 4 роки тому +16

    How about "The Man, The Meme - (person)"

  • @richbarr5959
    @richbarr5959 4 роки тому +1

    You have to wonder if maybe the insanity wasn't entirely temporary.

  • @jfridy
    @jfridy 4 роки тому +4

    My military history professor loved pointing pictures of Sickles (he lived into his 90s!) when he was old seems to have him surrounded by young women. The man was a legend, if only though his ability to fail upwards.

  • @StephenColbert27
    @StephenColbert27 4 роки тому +1

    Among Sickles's defense lawyers? Lincoln's future Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton.

  • @maxbuster1508
    @maxbuster1508 4 роки тому +10

    "Human meme" right ? I can feel a Leo Major episode coming and it will be glorious

    • @ThompsonExpress
      @ThompsonExpress 3 роки тому +1

      Leo Major
      Land on Normandy
      Finds a truck with Nazi cyphers codes
      Ditches UK's commander and gives it to Canadian commander instead.
      After that, he works as a scout. Meet the SS.
      Kill four of them, One of those four throw a white phosphorus grenade before his death, blinding Major's left eye
      Medic: "Yeah you can go home"
      Major: "About 'bout Nah calice. I just need one eye lol"
      After he comes back to his unit, is tasked to find a unit of zombies. (Low-motivated, fresh, French-Canadian recruit)
      Instead finds almost 100 Wehrmacht soldiers.
      Capture them by himself, kills 3 Germans who tries to escape to make a point.
      Almost dies by SS troops that fires back at him and the prisoners
      Deliver 93 Germans soldiers to his commander
      Ditch the DCM because he though Montgomery was an idiot
      Later, during a patrol, his truck strikes a mine and kill everyone on board, expect Leo.
      His back, 4 ribs and his ankles broke.
      Leo: "Nah i can still fight"
      Him and best bud Willy Arsenaud infiltrate Zwolle for a scout mission.
      German kill Leo's best friend.
      Leo Major drop the politeness
      SINGLE HANDELY capture the town.
      His plan was to confuse the enemy by making as much noise as possible, using his Sten Gun, few MP-42 and Willy's grenade bag.
      He capture couple of Germans soldiers and make them prisoners by bringing them back to the Allies Camp.
      He do that 10 Times, by groups of 8-10 soldiers.
      Kill four SS Officer and burn down the Gestapo HQ in Zwolle, as well of the SS HQ in Town.
      FINALLY accomplish one of his orders. Was to link up with the local resistance.
      He finally recover the body of his best friend and bring it back to his HQ, who still havent advanced yet.
      Later that morning, Canadian soldiers arrives in town, sparing the town of a massive attack.
      Got the DCM.
      Finally leave the army after the war.
      He did, ALL THAT, at 23 years old, within a year, after his father told him he was a worthless piece of shit that couldnt do anything in life.
      ANd that skipping his later time in during the Korean army. Where he got another DCM by basically requesting an Artillery Barage on his position, his man surviving and winning an important battle.

  • @johncreed9433
    @johncreed9433 Рік тому +2

    Dan Sickles perfectly embodies the Angry American stereotype

  • @Kimchii_kk
    @Kimchii_kk 4 роки тому +19

    I know that the only human meme is Johny for not uploading in so long

    • @leighz.5401
      @leighz.5401 4 роки тому +1

      And when he finally did, it just abruptly ends mid-sentence

  • @charlesgrybosky1916
    @charlesgrybosky1916 4 роки тому +1

    The “yeetfield” of Gettysburg??? 😂😂😂😂 I almost spit my coffee out when I saw that one.

  • @Vasari12
    @Vasari12 4 роки тому +18

    2:20
    >Be me
    >Dutch guy
    >In the Netherlands
    >Has a USA and CSA flag
    I ain't clickin' off, boy.

  • @pokefreak480
    @pokefreak480 4 роки тому +5

    Raid Shadow Legends ad, time to start tapping my screen.

  • @joshtherocky
    @joshtherocky 4 роки тому +11

    hey bro i love you, got me into history and i appreciate it

  • @DerultimativeOzzy
    @DerultimativeOzzy 4 роки тому +2

    Honestly, Dan Sickles sounds like an absolute Chad. Imagine doing the opposite of what your command was telling you and it working out because a cannon ball hits right on the field as the commander is pointing at. Also it doesn't happen that often that someone can be part of a Museum attraction and still be alive.
    Not a flawless person, but definitly high on the Chad ranking.

  • @markkusallinen3469
    @markkusallinen3469 4 роки тому +3

    Fun fact: Dan was so popular, they named popsicles after him

  • @The_Romanian_Terror
    @The_Romanian_Terror 2 роки тому +2

    Dan is the man
    - Goes to England
    - Is in a ball with the royal family
    - Ignores said ball and royal family because 4th of July
    - Just sits there looking at a painting of Jorge washingmachine not acknowledging everyone's presence
    - leaves
    Freedom loving gigachad mindset

    • @TheUSgoverment
      @TheUSgoverment Рік тому

      If biden was as patriotic like this guy everyone would've died from the nuclear Armageddon 6 months ago

  • @omganotherun
    @omganotherun 4 роки тому +4

    11:45 Vid ended like it just took a cannonball to the leg.

  • @pybro4755
    @pybro4755 4 роки тому +1

    You know one of the most interesting things i learned about gettysburg that im suprised wasn't mentioned was the charge of the 1st minnesota, Essentially after sickles made the worlds best fuckup, meade went back and looked for any regiment to plug the gap, The 1st minnesota was essentially the only one. And they were told to fix the gap that by this point was being overrun by confederates. They were sacrificed in order to buy 5 minutes, they made 15.

  • @Flopsos
    @Flopsos 4 роки тому +16

    Yes! finally i could catch one of your video’s

  • @shanewhitaker5649
    @shanewhitaker5649 4 роки тому +2

    You know..as a kid repeatedly touring the Gettysburg battlefield and repeatedly hearing of stupid sickles and knowing the story of the peach orchard..this is the perfect character to head this series

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 роки тому +9

    Seconds after Dan touches the lid: *Oh no I broke it*

    • @endo4137
      @endo4137 4 роки тому +2

      Oh hey Avery, you're everywhere.😄

  • @germanyjones2700
    @germanyjones2700 3 роки тому

    I’ve seen this video a few dozen times and recommended it as often. Too much fun

  • @calvin5541
    @calvin5541 4 роки тому +3

    His whole life was a massive bruh moment

  • @DanMcLeodNeptuneUK
    @DanMcLeodNeptuneUK 4 роки тому +1

    Guess what Morty... I'm a Sickle Prick!! Got myself into a pickle, Morty!

  • @antizionist1293
    @antizionist1293 Рік тому +4

    Meade is my great great great great grandfather!

    • @derps8690
      @derps8690 10 місяців тому +1

      good for you now stop hating jews

  • @wrayday7149
    @wrayday7149 2 роки тому +1

    I bet no one else ever went to the extreme lengths like Dan did to get a peach.

  • @lordadmiralclanker2132
    @lordadmiralclanker2132 4 роки тому +12

    “That’s the sound of all the European viewers clicking off”
    Moments later: “but she did curtsy at the queen”
    Me from the UK: “Interesting”

  • @edwardharding8005
    @edwardharding8005 4 роки тому +1

    Fiction couldn't create a character like Dan Sickles! His post Civil War career is amazing, and despite the loss of a leg, he kept up his activities with the ladies. I just discovered your channel and enlisted. I see that you have a bit of Stan Freberg, in that you make history FUN!

  • @cdcdrr
    @cdcdrr 4 роки тому +3

    I was under the impression Raid: Shadow Legend tightly controlled the wording of its ads on UA-cam, but it seems not even they can stop Potential History from giving them a few jabs.

    • @KRDecade2009
      @KRDecade2009 4 роки тому +1

      Clearly you haven’t seen what Internethistorian has done to them

  • @zesky_cult
    @zesky_cult 4 роки тому +1

    There is a memorial for Sickles at Gettysburg that was supposed to feature a bust of Fantastic Dan in it. Dan took the money for the bust for himself so the monument has an empty spot in the middle of it

  • @lonelybag8510
    @lonelybag8510 4 роки тому +6

    hey dude... guess what. girls und panzer der finale 2 just came out, we'll be waiting for it. XD

  • @sord3377
    @sord3377 4 роки тому +2

    This guy was so ridiculous that I decided to write a short paragraph about this guy when my teacher wanted us to use vocabulary words. I'm in highschool.

  • @thereluctantdoomer3439
    @thereluctantdoomer3439 4 роки тому +3

    I'm not mad about his marrying 16 years olds but I do like how he stuck it to the Brits.