The Defence of Baku - The Adventures of Dunsterforce Part 2 I THE GREAT WAR Special
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2017
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In part two of the Adventures of Dunsterforce, we follow the Hush Hush Army on their travels through the Caucasus. Picking up where we left off, the Dunsterforce leave Enzeli, clash with Jangalis en route, and head for Baku. They had to journey through territory controlled by warlords, cossacks and bolshevik soviets and when they arrived during the Siege of Baku, Dunsterville and his men meet the five dictators that make up the Centrocaspian Dictatorship.
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This is honestly the most amazing story I’ve ever listened to from WW1. Even in the horrors of modern war and revolution, this is an echo of the tales of Empire
WW1 is the death of empires.
L.C. Dunsterville is my great great uncle and really glad this was made as he is not well know outside military circles and was quite a character. His nephew was Hurbert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly (my great uncle) was the first British flyer in France of the war, and was the central figure in the arras memorial in both 2014 and 2017, well worth reading up on.
This is one of the most interesting story of the war, should be a HBO-series
Definitely!
Should have done that after lawrence of arabia
generation kill style
👍
Didn't see that you were covering the Dunster forceow until now. My Great-grandfather served in that force and was present at Baku. I've always fancied it made him a technical participant in the Russian Civil War (being in Russian territory when there's a civil war on!)
The Fatheland disregarding culture, he was on land owned by the Russian Republic or Russian SFR depending on opinion, it would eventually become part of a Soviet Azerbaijani Republic, but by means, he was in Russia.
Out of curiosity, do you have any stories from him or anything to say that confirms all this stuff? xD It seems almost too far-fetched to me sometimes haha.
Are you Azerbaijan, or was your great grandpa just a Russian serving in the army?
The Peace Mouse it was owned by the Baku Commune and later Centro-Caspian Dictatorship. However that’s not the reason it wasn’t part of the Russian Civil War, it’s not part of the Russian civil war because you have whites and reds working together with the British to fight World War I against the Turks, Azeris and Georgians. Had world war 1 been over the whites and British would have been fighting the reds, that would have been a part of the Russian civil war
This is why I love this show. Every week I learn about something I had never heard of before. And next thing I know I'm on a deep dive to find out all I can. I love it. Keep up the great work. You guys are among the best things on the web.
"See you next time which might be next year"
>Published on Jan 1
Welp see you in 1919 Indy!
:p
There should be a movie about Dunsterforce
This could also make for a great mini series on TV
We need a Kickstarter
I wonder if these events are so obscure purely because of the name.
@Aggressive Tubesock You know I remember when there was a time when movies weren't judged based on the color of their skin but by the character of the movie. If this is a story about white saviors sure I agree with you but this isn't, it's a story that tells the tales of many different peoples and it is interesting enough. The White savior british did not accomplish their mission, they merely served to tell the tale of chaos.
a Dunsterfilm
Precisely why this series should not end in 1918 or 1919. The Great War had after-shocks and effects well into the 20s and 30s, and were the major reason for World War II. I would vote this series to continue its weekly updates through the 20s and 30s.
Happy New Year 1918! Or 2018, whatever...
spoilers we still have to fight for 11 months
A fiery auto with the speed of molasses, a cloud of dust, and a hearty Hi-Ho Ford motorcars! Dunsterforce!
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! Dunsterforce rides again!
Nice Lone Ranger reference!
We made it to the last year of the war :(
this year the war will be over by christmas :/
Spoilers
They said that in 1914 too, pff don't lie.
Quite amazing, and totally unknown. I think that Dunsterville probably means Azeris, when he referrs to Tartars
Yes, it just russian that called all turkick/muslim tatars
Now I wish they could make a movie, or even a TV series, out of this. It's really amazing. Nice work and Happy 2018 to Indy and all the crew
Really puts thing into perspective, 100 years and although we’ve made cataclysmic technological advances, ideals that are decades old, are still thriving in certain areas in the world. Some things change, while others stay the same.
I know WWI was a meatgrinder horror show of Biblical proportions, but this was an genuinely thrilling, almost adventurous sounding, tale.
Woah I did not know this theatre was so ... Eventful? Yeah! Great Video!
Just so we're on the same page here, guys, I'm not the only one who keeps hearing Indy say "Dumpster Force", right?
Nope. I thought it was all the decongestants, but I keep hearing 'dumpster,' too. That and I keep thinking of _Dunston Checks In_ for some reason.
Julius von Brunk probably, I'm hearing Dunster Force.
Hi Indy, I remember hearing a story about a German mission to Afghanistan during ww1 in an attempt to get the Afghanis to rise up against the British in India. Basically the Germans took the worst possible route and by the time they arrived in Afghanistan it was too late. Although that didn't stop them from trying. they then proceeding to drink and eat pork while guests in the afghanis homes, angering the Afghanis to the extent that the Germans had to flee Afghanistan. If you have already done a video on the story please let me know. Otherwise I think it would make for a great special episode
Yeah, it's a story we have our eyes on too.
If you can find them maybr you can hire THE DUMPSTER FORCE!
4:14 - 5:00 😂😂😂 This is the most stereotypical first world war moment in terms of explaining
This is modern war... more or less
Happy New Year 1918!
All the love :D
SERIOUS
Congratulations
4:47 greatest way to say that the Great war was everything but simple
What a fun n interesting tale. We should see a movie about this. It doesn't deserve to be forgotten at all. Great job.
Ali and Nino is a great novel that talks about the siege of Baku.
yidgamer Thanks!
You're welcome! I hope you enjoy it!
A ship called the President Kruger...on the Caspian?? That's a long way from the Transvaal...
That's quite the Bizarre Adventure.
Happy New Year!
Excellent presentation. Had a bit of a difficult start but loving it overall. Will embed it with our history of the silk road, 1918.
This was amazing. This should be a movie.
What That, This is madness. Now Thanks for Point Chart. Bravo Dunsterforce
Fantastic piece you presented. i loved it. thank you.
There needs to be more movies/mini series set around this time period!
I love all the photos. & Those words of Dunsterville about revolution at 11:38 Those words are relevant for even now.
Hi Indy and Team, great episodes part 1 and 2.
Your videos are always so interesting! Thank you and happy new year!
This NEEDS to be a movie.
Great tale of an (unknown) campaign. But then I expected nothing less from you and your companions Happy New Year to you all.
4:45 this is... amazing.
This was much more interesting than I was expecting.
Cheers, great story, worth checking further into.
Really interesting unknown story, great work guys.
Happy New Year Indie and all The Great War crew!!! 🎆🎇✨🎈🎉🎊🎋
Happy New Year to the whole team of 'THE Great War'
Thank you for this little gem ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
Happy New Year Indy and The Great War Team !!!
Dunster was extremely observant, intelligent, progressive, and basically brilliant.... A rare man worthy of much respect
Amazing story thank you guys... You should do a special episode about mount lebanon great famine 1915-1918
Happy New year Indy and team!
Happy new year folks
What a story. A total chaos...
happy new year indy! :D
Utter chaos, I love it!
You should do a bloopers special for the new year :D
Cheers mate
Very interesting and amazing story
Fascinating.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, really enjoyed the special, looking forward to more. Question, how far do you plan to go past the great war? As of today you have only hundred years to catch up.
Happy new year Great War.
thank you,
This battle was like the Fall of Saigon for WWI
Hi Indy and Crew ! I love the show, you guys are amazing ! Well, i have a question for the Out of the Trenches. How archaelogical sites were treated in the war ? They were respected ? Destroied? Did any kind of object were discovered during the digging of trenches? A happy new year and support from Brazil! Thanks !
You guys should do a special on the Central Caspian Dictatorship I’ve tried to read about it online but I can find much.
Great story
would be a perfect McNale's navy comedy adventure series
great channel!
What a great Christmas gift you, Flo, and all the GW staff have put together! I will be very sad after 11/11/18 when you guys close up shop. Maybe you can follow the Versailles Treaty in 2019?
Please cover the Diktat des Versailles!
Professor Graves wait the Series will end in November??
Happy new year team, keep up the good work... A question for out of the trenches: nearly every battle yields prisoners, how many does every faction have by now (it must be nearly a million or so...) What were the conditions? Did they receive medical treatment and how many under which circumstances returned after the war?
Waste of british lives to aid incompetent revolutionaries. Still would love to see a movie about the whole thing.
arwing20 Ali and Nino is set in the period and touches the siege
Happy New Year.
No you're not done. This is your new job. All the war and revolution between the two half of the same war await you. I hope you and the crew take up the challenge
Please please please do a special on Persia!!
Hugely entertaining, Indy! But thanks, too, for the somber reminder at the end to put it all into perspective; "People died here." I wish you, Flo and the team all the best for the new year. Am I going to have to miss you guys after 11 November, or do you have something up your sleeve?
Thanks and happy new year for you too.
4:42 Literally LOL'd.
Luke Bunyip Me too
I hope we get another video by next year. You said next video might be next year!
Yes, I know that they record the videos, then post them another day.
Keep it up
... Ethan, proud of you.
Hello Well played
4:42 :D
I loved the story, but the suffering fixed that.
ah like the quotes
Dunster understood revolution!
4:15 - 5:06 ROTFLMAO from Serbia.
Ironically war would end christmas but ended a month before xmas
More post-war chaos please
OK now looking for part 1
The book has now sold out on Amazon. I wonder if this series had anything to do with it?
heh..hehe... Baku had a bacoup
Most of this will be repeated less than twenty years later during the Spanish Civil War. Enthusiasm and revolution meets reality. Foreign military advisors beating their heads against the wall of local customs. Supposedly allied factions at each other's throats. A hundred decrees and official statements, for every possible tactic. Combat mismanagement that makes Custer look like a brilliant victor at Little Big Horn.
Like here, if not for the sheer slaughter involved, it would have been an unbelievable comedy.
Well done Baku
Baku welcomed all of us!
1:27 I love your maps to death, but the place-names are ridiculously tiny, it's impossible to see what those places are if you didn't already know.
Dumpsterville -- is that in New Jersey?
Big off
Maybe i missed it, but isn't Baku a Azerbaijani city, so wouldn't the majority people of it be Azeris?
Baku was a boomtown, locals became an extreme minority as the population exploded because of the exploitation of the oil. F ex the Branobel Oil Company, strated by the Swedish Nobel brothers and the world´s largest in the world in 1914, was set up as late as 1876.
Azeris were mentioned in the 5:15 episode as "Tartars".
11:02 Hilarious!
Cool
Imagine if there was another conflict like this but in 1930 or 1940 with alot of other nations and deadlier weapons.
"You genuinely cannot make this stuff up" - LOL
2018 can't be happy. It'll spell the end of the Great War series
Staring at 4:30 this would be a great movie but no one would believe it.
wiring the front refers to laying telegraph lines?
and now we see the general effectiveness of "the dictatorship of the proletariat" in action.
can you please do a video on Portuguese uniforms
Baku speedrunning different governments