Last Known Survivors of Famous Battles - Mark Felton Reaction
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Truly the greatest historical content crossover.
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A great irony about the Crimean War is that Great Britain and France wanted to keep Russia from taking the Dardanelles and keep the Russian Black Sea Fleet out of the Mediterranean Sea. 60 years later in WWI they wanted to take the Dardanelles in part so the Russian Black Sea Fleet could enter the Mediterranean Sea
As an old guy, myself, I remember the last Civil War veteran, as I was 7 when he passed. My grandfather, was a veteran of both World Wars, serving in the trenches in WWI and as a naval officer in WWII.
I’ve asked some people that were born in the twenties and thirties if they knew any Civil War veterans. They idea that they could have always blew my mind. No one ever said yes though, even though my Dad’s hometown, Gettysburg SD was founded by veterans of the battle.
The last surviving US veteran of the Spanish Civil War just passed away a year or two ago. That's impressive
my grandfather served in I & II, he knew his grandfather, who served in the GAR, who served in blackhawk & probably was known to lincoln and/or grant
Speaking of tortoises, the oldest animal living in captivity was the tortoise Adwaita. He was born around 1750 and was once in the possession of the famous Robert Clive ("Clive of India", 1725-1774). Adwaita died in 2006, at the approximate age of 255, although it is possible that he was even older.
This tortoise was born 20 years before Napoleon Bonaparte, at a time when Frederick the Great of Prussia was still alive.
In 1985 I was 14, and I got to meet Lillian Gish, who was born in 1893 she was the very first American movie actress ever signed by Hollywood. and, at that time, had made her final film. She was my grandmother's favorite actress and I do own a photo of her autographed. Just to clarify Mary Pickford was her best friend and Mary was from Canada.
I was in the Queen Alexander Royal Army Nursing Corp in the late 1960s based in the Royal Herbert Military Hospital London. There we nursed Chelsea Pensioners , some of whom had been in the Boer War as young drummer boys. The stories they told were amazing: walking behind a man and wondering why he was wearing a black coat, only to realise he was covered in flies. Some had been on the march to and subsequent relief of Mafelking. High adventure for lads who were 13 or 14 years old at the time.
My tech teacher assistant in middle school, Mr. Bill Grun was a Navy Sargeant in WW2. He was such a friendly guy and was in his 90s when I had him as an assistant teacher. In 9th grade, we were talking about Vietnam and we were doing a music choir concert singing protest songs from the 60s and 70s, and Mr. Grun came forward and sang Blowin In The Wind. He had such a great voice. He sadly passed away a couple years ago.
What’s a Navy Sargeant?
@The Kiwi Industry Correction: He was not a Naval sergeant. But he was involved in Iwo Jima and Okinawa as it being the "8 weeks of hell." He described jt.
Grün is a German surname. The German Navy had Sergeant as a rank. Your tech teacher was a Nazi soldier!!!!
@Bonzi Buddy No he wasn't! He was NOT in the German army, definitelty not a Nazi, and not German! He fought for America!
I got to meet a WWI vet one time when I worked at a Best Buy. He was in his mid 90s (this was about 10+ years ago) he served in the Air Core of the Army. Before it became The Air Force.
I thanked him so many times. He was so humble and nice.
Mark Felton has a knack for exploring aspects of World War II that slips peoples minds or gets lost in the vastness of the war, such as something like this, or the following of individual infamous units, such as the French-SS who fought all the way to Berlin, or the Dirwelanger Brigade, etc. His channel is pretty great.
I watch Mark, and am amazed at the detail he covers. As a 🇨🇦, the confrontation of the Soviets, by 800 Canadian paratroopers at Wismar in 1945, prevented the USSR from occupying Denmark while being totally out gunned.
It is something I never learned in school!
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
The Crimean War is a bigger deal in the UK. Basically every school child learns about it, but we learn very little about the actual war, its mostly focused on one figure associated with it, Florence Nightingale and her nurses. She's a huge figure in British history of the period and helped revolutionise nursing and the conditions in the hospitals the wounded were being treated in. She's known and the lady with the lamp and would be a good subject to cover if you can find a biography video of her.
Hey VTH! Small lotr correction. The charge of Faramir never actually happened in the books. In the books, Faramir was gravely wounded during the retreat from Osgiliath near the causeway forts which isn't depicted in the movies. In the movies, Denethor sends Faramir to retake Osgiliath where he gets wounded instead. Therefore, Tolkien couldn't have based that scene off the light brigade if it never even happened.
I was lucky to know my great grandmother who passed away last year aged 100. Loved listening to her story’s about when she was a kid in the 1920s and 30s. Her war time story’s were also super interesting. We were very close as I spent a lot of time with her. She was always jolly and loved her family.
There were former slaves who actually lived long enough to have their voices recorded in the 30s, telling us firsthand what slavery was like. You can listen to them in archival databases.
I've definitely thought about how close we are to the last WW2 veterans, especially since my grandpa died just last year at age 102. He served in the Finnish army all throughout the Winter War and the Continuation War.
That's awesome! Did you ask your grandpa if he knew Simo Hayha "The White Death"? Wouldve been awesome if he knew him
@@JKribbit That's pretty unlikely.
I’m so glad that you’re reacting to a Mark Felton video! I’ve enjoyed his videos and yours for quite some time now, but the overlap never occurred to me. Kudos to whoever suggested this to you 🎉
Dr.Felton is a great history storyteller, his channel is on par with JD’s and ABT and your channel Chris. His presentation is always very well researched and his passion is equal to all of you guys on UA-cam
few years ago i met max levitas who was one of if not the last survivng member of the battle of cable street. When jews irish communists and trade unionists Stopped the British union of fascists and oswald mosley. From marching cable street in the east end of london. His family were russian jews that ran from the pogroms in tsarist russia. He was born in ireland. Was a fire warden during ww2 still active politically for his whole life when i met him he was 100 years old. If there is one criticism i have of him he was a Tottenham supporter. However just speaking to him the way still at a 100 years old his passion while talking bout cable street was inspiring.
When I was a little kid, we had a next door neighbor in his nineties that was born durring the Civil War. My grandfather was hired as a scout for a wagon train to earn money for seminary school. His uncle was in the cavalry under Kilpatrick, Farnsworth and Sheridan, so he may have learned the skills necessary to be a scout from him and his cousins, later becoming one of the early Boy Scouts Masters.
My grandfather served in WWII & Korea, in the Army Corps of Engineers. He was in Germany after the war with my grandma & dad (who learned German at a young age, including some crass language & curse words according to my grandpa, which did not amuse my grandma. Lol)
My maternal grandmother was in the civil air patrol during WWII & was responsible for going through the neighborhood to make sure everyone had their lights out & blackout curtains up when a siren went off. I didn’t know this about her until long after she died.
There are
Many things I’d like to ask all of them but I didn’t think about it when I was a kid.
It really is amazing how much can happen during just a lifetime or two. What seems so ancient to us really isn't in some respects.
This also makes me think of something that I discussed with someone earlier today. When a generation is gone, they're gone for good, and it's really quite a loss. For example, this generation is the last one that will share the earth with the WW2 generation. It's a shame that more people don't realize the treasure being lost.
When I saw the picture of the tortoise I knew that Mark Felton was going to go for the fact that tortoises can live absurdly long lives.
People really underestimate the longevity of tortoises
Some species have the potential to live up to 250 years old.
"We Were Soldiers," watching it for the first time, is unlike any other war movie I've ever seen. Imagine living from Custer's Last Stand all the way into World War II and even after. That's incredible, and then to hear about somebody who was at Rorke's Drift living to around the same time. A guy at San Juan met H.W. Bush and Colin Powell? That is nothing less than insane
The Crimean war was probably one of the first wars where we have a significant amounts of photographic evidence.
However much like the US civil war it's static landscape photography, because of the wet plate process in use and slow lens speed.
Every time I start cleaning my house, the Mark Felton intro play in my head.
Harry Patch, the last British Tommy used to cite his proudest achievement during WW1 was that he didnt kill anybody as he used to shoot above their heads. All his war time memories were memories he never spoke about even to his wife until he turned 100 years old when he finally spoke about them and they were deeply moving. As a youngster he worked on the Wills Memorial Building in Bristol which is still one of the most Iconic buildings in the city... today being the law faculty for Bristol University.
In later life Harry Patch lived in a nursing home in Wells, Somerset. At the time I was a taxi driver and enjoyed taking Harry out many times. He was bright as a button and was forever a gentleman. A favourite outing was to a local pub for fish and chips. The staff and fellow residents of the home adored him - he had a lovely personality, and an eye for the ladies. Harry is commemorated by a beautiful memorial stone outside the Wells Museum close to the beautiful Wells Cathedral. A wonderful old gentleman.
Britmonkey's British Constitution should be a very interesting video for you. He is quite funny and presents it in a way you'll love. It's three parts, about 15 mins each, so a good fit for your reactions.
For those who don’t know, as they never show a picture of the Character of Colour Sergeant Bourne from the movie Zulu, he is the man with the fantastic mustache who says “Zulu’s sir, Thousands of ‘em” among some other fantastic lines. He is objectively the best character in the movie Zulu.
"...... Because we're here, Lad....and no one else."
Please more Mark Felton!
Also amazing to think: the last survivor of the War of 1812 lived long enough to have his funeral procession filmed. It's on UA-cam
My mom's family is Lakota from the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota and her family owns the land where Sitting Bull had his cabin. Also one of my uncles had a great grandmother who survived Wounded Knee. From what I remember her husband and 2 children were killed and she lived until about 1910 I believe. My aunt has a picture of her and you can see the pain and grief in her eyes. She remarried but that trauma never left.
Ira Fistell was a long time radio talk show in Los Angeles. He mentioned once that one of the people that he worked with when he first started in radio in Wisconsin in the 1960's was the grandson of an American Revolution veteran.
I hope you do more Mark Felton videos. I really enjoy his content.
Love Mark Felton's channel. He covers some really interesting obscure stories of history. When I read his name now, I hear the intro music lol
Hugo Broch is the last Luftwaffe ace and is still alive at 101
An interesting thing to consider about Harry Patch is that he will probably have one of the most unique age a person can lived to as he lived to the age of 111 years, 1 month, 1 week, and 1 day. What is even more fascinating about that is he was a veteran of the very war with its armistice on 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
I remember Spanish American War veterans still around as a kid. I think the last one died in 1993. Back in 1991, I took a flight from Paris to Gatwick and in the seat next to me was a British veteran of WW I. He was very much a gentleman and was wearing a suit. In 1991 though, one would occasionally still run into WW I veterans occasionally.
Great content as always! Thank you for all you do!
My grandfather could’ve met many Civil War soldiers since he was born in 1935 and there were still Civil War soldiers alive which i think is mind blowing
I absolutely LOVE and am fascinated by learning about last living survivors of historical events. Any other videos like this one would be greatly appreciated
30:20 so just to put it on perspective, when the great war hero timothy served at crimea ottoman sultan was abdulmecid, 31st ottoman sultan, when timothy died she saw recep tayyip erdoğan elected, who is still our current president of modern day türkiye
Dude I really appreciate your passion and respect for history. It's obvious how much you would have loved to meet the people portrayed in this video and talked with them for hours
The amount of pure knowledge in your head is insane! Been watching for ages but never stopped to appreciate it
Yes! I'm excited to see this. Dr. Felton has TONS of really excellent and sometimes rather unknown content to react to, I look forward to more!
I love stories of these vets who survived the wars that long is amazing. The same thing like The Waterloo Battle French Soilder.
Mark Felton makes such interesting videos! His videos always answer questions that you never knew you had.
Very fun to see you react to Mark Felton!
He has some great video topics which I'm sure you'll love!
Hope to see more of you reacting, and contributing to his videos, and of course others!
This is great, would love to see more Mark Felton on this channel
Thank you for the reaction video to Mark Felton. His channel was the first vlog I subscribed to. I also own several of his books.
Follower from the Black Hills of South Dakota. I recommend you come this way if you want to provide more Native American content or visit Mt Rushmore and Rapid City (the City of Presidents).
My father was in a news reel about the fighting in Burma. It was actually filmed in Ceylon/Sri Lanka!
He was later involved in the battle of Imphal.
I've watched many of Mark Felton's videos and thought you would like reacting to them Chris and this was one of them. His strange units of history videos might be fun for since it may have stuff you may not know. Hope to see more in the future!
That was great! I’d love for you to do more historical photograph reactions. Those were fantastic as well
more Felton, please and thank you!! 😁😁
Some of my two fav history channels!
Hearing Chris talk about Faramir's charge against Orc forces at Osgiliath gave me goosebumps!
I'd love to hear him read passages from the books :D
Absolutely love Mark Felton’s content!
Great video today!! Felton has another video of the Last living WWII Veterans of certain units & actions.
This was fascinating to watch.
Can you imagine surviving Manasas, Antium, and Fredericksburg... Dude had to have seen hundreds of his unit die. The worst Route of the Union, the bloodiest battle of the war, and the bloodiest charge of the war. That's insane
That's amazing.
Awesome stuff Brother, thank you for sharing.
Would love to see more reactions to Mark Felton videos. He's got a lot of interesting ones
Same here, more reactions to Mark Felton
Yay! I love Mark's channel.
"Irene Triplett (January 9, 1930 - May 31, 2020) was the last recipient of an American Civil War pension. Her father had fought for both the Confederacy and later the Union in the Civil War".
Great stuff. Do more Mark Felton videos!!
Your content is incredible!
Yes! mark felton does some of my favorite historic content, him and historia civilis are my favorites
God that was such a incredible video, this brings back memories of my great grandma and my dad aunt, they both past away 2019 at the age of 90 and 89 but they told me such a incredible story from the past with the Japanese invasion and the communist in our country, my only regret 8s that I didn't record them talking about it
loved this one
Really enjoyed that 😊
Hi, Chris, just watched again it is so good. I was just thinking how luck favoured all of these they could all have died in battle instead of living such long lives. Thanks for that.
Since you read all the comments i think mine would also be read, i have a recommendation to make for a series, Rome Strikes Back by Epic History TV, this series is phenomenal and you will definitely adore it for multiple reasons.
1- it will allow us to learn about another period of history that you don't usually check here in the channel which is the era of Justinian the great.(as the theme of the channel states: let's learn history together)
2- the series is centered about not only one of the most brillant Generals in history but one of the most humane, one that uses the hearts and minds strategy to perfection.
3- the series contains a lot of drama LOL and it makes it even more interesting.
4- Epic History TV uses first hand accounts of a brilliant historian which is something you like (learning about history from the people that made it)
5- the production quality is amazing!!!!
I really hope you check it.
In a world full of Razorfists, I'm glad we have VTH around.
Totally an interesting subject, need to grab a cup of coffee and watch this immediately.
Since you mentioned recommendations: The history of Islam by Caspian Report is a 5 part series and excellent when it comes to the very first years of the religion in its region of origin. Very fascinating and a lot to learn, especially coming from an American who was never taught the details of that time period!
I had 2 late friends who were at Pearl Harbor on Sunday December 7th 1941 and have talked with a lot of WWII veterans. I wish that I could have recorded each and every discussion I had! I also unwittingly knew WWI veterans. We are also fairly quickly losing Korean War veterans.
Love me some Mark Felton. He always has very good videos.
I love watching your videos your the best Chris
Great video! In the future, I want to see you react to more CGP Grey videos like The Most Deadly Job in America or How to Become British Monarch.
Excellent video Dr Mark Felton is the best
Recent research suggests last survivor of Waterloo was actually a Prussian in Bulow's corps, and Faramir doesn't ride out in a doomed scene, in the books he's commanding a rearguard withdrawing from the Rammas Echor and is wounded. Imrahil rides to his rescue.
The regiment at Rorkes Drift was from Warwickshire, and I think Bourne may have refused commission due to the costs of the officers mess
Hey Chris! Not sure if you covered this, but this type of video reminded me of an episode of the Game Show "I've Got A Secret" where the contestant was a witness of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Like you said, what he must have seen in his life, from 1865 to being on a television game show? That must have been wild!
Great video as usual, Chris. The charge of the Light Brigade was the inspiration behind the song The Trooper by Iron Maiden.
I remember about 4-5 years ago when I worked at a Texas Roadhouse and a WW2 vet came and I told won of my younger coworkers her take a look you might never see another WW2 vet again.
Hello friends!
Guten Tag
Great stuff. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the channel “Civil War Diaries “ by BirdDogg. They show many interviews with Civil War veterans talking of their experiences. Amazing to see and hear men who fought in war. They also read diary entries and much more.
I think the Roosevelt footage was from the film End of the Trail with Erle C Kenton playing Roosevelt from 1936. The images I found look strikingly close to Theodore.
Also my dad (is still alive) was born in 1937. So he lived through all the major wars since WW2. He saw the US put a man on the moon. The Start and end of the cold war. All the technological advancements, Radio,->8 track-Cassette->CD->DVD->Blu Ray->Streaming etc. it is fascinating if you look back through history. We have probably viewed more history and advancements than anyone prior in Human History (Technology, Medicine, Science and overall knowledge).
Always great content and reaction from you, I really enjoy this channel. Was going to mention that The Infographics Show just did a video on what the US would be like if they lost the American Revolution, would be great to hear your thoughts on it
According to IMDB there is a short movie from 1898! called "Battle of San Juan Hill", produced by a Siegmund Lubin. That considered I think that could have been a documentary or at least have featured the real rough riders, wich would explain the TR lookalike.
I hadn't heard of the Crimean War until my late 20s. The Russian annexation of it in 2014 had happened, and I was listening to my favorite Clash song, "The Card Cheat", and there's a line that said "From the Hundred Year War to the Crimea". I had to look it up after that haha
Thanks!
I believe one of the problems with accepting a commission of Officer in the 19th century was that you were often expected to buy your own equipment.
That said, in my own profession (software development), it's a well known friction in that a lot of companies, becoming more senior requires moving into management but good engineers don't necessarily make good managers and if your love is building things, it's not nearly as much fun when your job is to make sure other people build things.
My great uncle started WW2 in Africa. Then fought has way across Africa and was in the landings on Sicily. Fought his way up the Italian peninsula, then was redeployed for D-Day. Fought his way through to Germany and ultimately ended up on a landing ship doing practice drills in the Pacific when the first nuclear bomb went off.
And Holy shit was he a mean card player 😆
Greatest topic to talk about, I think it's just cool to think these men beat the odds and broke the life expectancy rate of their time
I can't wait to see The Little Big Horn Sight with your videos.
I LOVE mark Felton!!!
Also I’m subbed to Mark Felton Productions now. His intro there sounds great. Like that music. I should comb through his videos and see what I want to watch sometime.
While this fellow was not the last survivor of the Civil War or WWI, but he was the only veteran to serve in both wars. Peter Conover Hains served in both the Civil War and WWI. Hains served as a 1st Lt. with the 2nd Regiment of Artillery of the Union Army, approximately a year into the Civil War. That year, 1862, he allegedly led men into 30 skirmishes and battles, and was commended and awarded for his bravery. It was he who ordered the first shot to be fired in the Battle of Bull Run, and was awarded for actions in the Battle of Hanover Church.
Hains finally retired from active duty in 1904, but he wasn’t quite done yet.
He was 77 years old, a retired Major General with extensive combat and peacetime experience, and WWI shook the nation as the U.S. dove in headfirst in 1917. The military needed him back, and he answered the call. He served for a year during the war, staying stateside where he was the chief engineer at Naval Station Norfolk. His service there allowed for a younger officer to deploy overseas and fight in Europe. Maj. Gen. Hains retired (again) in 1918.
He died not long afterward in 1921. As far as anyone knows, he is the only person to have served in both the Civil War and the first World War.
1:09. Hey that's me!
I think Tolkien based the Rohirrim charge (The one with King Theoden in it, Faramir didn't ride with Rohirrim but Gondorian soldiers) on the battle of the Catalaunian plains. Which was a Roman led charge I believe back in the 5th century or something. Maybe he did get inspiration on the charge with Faramir from the the charge of the light brigade though. could be...
I was watching this again few days ago and I was like "man it would be great if Chris reacted to this" and here we are
I have never seen anyone react to the channel Oceanliner Designs. He has some great videos on several historical vessels, like Why was the S.S United States so fast, Why did HMS Hood Explode, and How Carpathia rescued Titanics survivors. I think they're all worth a look at.
That or Mustard. I've literally never seen anyone react to Mustard before
Oceanliner designs are really good, I would recommend him to anyone!
You should look up Gaspar Wallnöfer. He was the oldest soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in WW1. He was born in 1837/38 and as a 10 year old boy participated in the 1848 revolution in Italy under Field Marshal Radetzky. In 1866 he again fought as a Tyrolian Kaiserjäger against the Italians in the 3rd war of Italian independence. He was awarded the gold medal for bravery when he captured a cannon during the battle of Custozza. He once again took up arms against his old foe Italy in WW1 and fought in the Tyrolian state milita to defend his home. Apparently he survived the war but there is no further information on his life after that.