It seems the end of the video got cut off! So I'll say here, thanks for watching, I hope you're enjoying these videos and your support is really greatly received! Thank you so much, and see you on the next video!
Yes I agree ,that is why you have the Household Cavalry in England and the Republican Guard in France.I hope to someday see the Republican Guard parade down the Champs Elysses on Bastille Day.
Scouting, screening, combat, and pursuit. British hussars rarely skirmished especially when battle was joined during the Napoleonic wars. The best hussars were Austrian (Hungarian, where they started) and the French.
@@janek_xxbobaxxwokowicz_xxf7185 There were no hussars in Poland! The Hussars were always light cavalry, while the winged cavalry were heavy cavalry in armoured dress!
Good vid, just a slight correction; the French didn't have to live of the land, because they didn't have the same kind of supply systems. It's the inverse; they lived of the land and as such, they didn't need the same type of supply systems. It comes down from the military doctrine that Napoleon worked out in Northern Italy (and here, it was the one case when it was because of the bad supply situation). The fact that the French didn't have large supply collumns following them around, their armies moved at lightning speeds compared to other nations. That's why the French, especially in the early decades of the Napleonic wars (let's say... 1792-1808), outmanoeuvred and outflanked the armies of the Austrians, Russians and Prussians alike; the French made progress that didn't seem feasible to the coalition armies. This however did lead to a "hard counter" in the Russian scorched earth tactics.
During the peninsular war ''this living off the land'' by the french, well the french according to accounts by Wellington or wellesley as he was known then, behaved ''appallingly'' towards the spanish/portuguese thought out french occupation, when the french forces arrived at small isolated villagers towns for resupply, they took pretty much what they wanted, livestock, food , etc stripped bare in some cases leaving very little ,for the locals indulging in rape,murder, and other atrocities committed, yes the french acquired a bad reparation as the new masters this led to spanish people forming small bands of militia, partisans , seeking retribution on any small group of french soldiers ,they could get there hands on, any single frenchman alone out foraging, was unlucky for him tortured and killed, the french retaliated causing further atrocities, wellington made sure his army wasn't going to antagonised or provoke any similar attacks the french encountered, He brought his own supply chain, and any goods take from spanish locals ,were paid for in form of gold, he did not tolerate any ill treatment, rape robbery ,stealing, he had large forces of provost military police to keep in check his troops they were subjected to harsh brutal military punishment, always under the lash across their backs, small or large infringements wellington was ruthless, he hung british soldiers who committed serious crimes and made sure the spanish were aware of this, so that they in turn wouldnt be attacked by maruardaring spanish partisans in guerrilla type warfare, least wellington wanted was two enemies instead of one to deal with as the french had suffered to there cost .
I have a Hussars Lion Head sabre buckle found by detector in Belarus. Also a heap of buttons - including Imperial Guard / 61st / 108th Line regiments + Sappers Buttons etc; found near banks of the Berezina.
If you were a subsistence farmer, the absolute worst disaster that could befall you, other than perhaps the plague, was the passage of a French army through your area.
In that era , the passage of ANY army through an agricultural area was a disaster because the armies of that time subsisted on the " fat of the land " .or in some cases , the lean of it . That's why scouting parties were a necessary part of an armies movement , they not only were on the lookout for enemy troop movements , but food sources as well .
8:53 - Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace" 2016, Great Britain, TVseries, it is Nikolai Rostov (Jack Andrew Lowden) - Pavlogradsky hussar regiment uniform of the Russian army.
First french hussars established by hungarian Laszló Bercsényi who fought in Rákóczi's War of Independence against Habsburg Austria because France supported the kuruc rebbellion. The 1st Parachute Hussars Regiment in the French Army still called Bercheny.
I can’t see their modern day equal….no clothing or uniform nowadays has quite the sting and aura hussar uniforms had, you knew a man wearing it was a badass and a particular type of man, as well as looking dashing. No uniform now days really inspires this.
Yes it did clip. Interesting vid. We play BP with most, if not all, brigades deployed as Blinds (cards, some of which are real brigades, some of which are not) then use spotting distances to see whether the brigade is either 'confirmed' (as being a real brigade whereupon it's marked as being 'real' ) or 'identified' where the spotting unit is close enough to actually make out what the specific units are (this happens at arty max range). Provides a very useful role for light cavalry. It's just a pity that in BP that broken units are just removed from play and that there's no routing units for light cavalry to run down.
You spoke that the Hussars were not used during the battles, because their style of fighting, their weapons, etc., was not fitted for direct charges, and even against heavy cavalry. Still in the 1848-49 Hungarian-Austro-Russian war (called the Hungarian Freedom War), the Hungarian hussars were used against infantry in battle formations or Austrian heavy cavalry, because this was almost the only Hungarian cavalry unit, which they could use. The Hungarians had though very few lancers and cuirassiers (a few hundreds), but more than 10 000 Hussars, the Hussars being the traditional Hungarian cavalry by excellanse. And in many battles the Hungarian hussars managed to defeat infantry and heavy cavalry. For example in the battles of Szolnok, Mezőkövesd, Piski, Nagyszeben or Komárom. So, when it was no other choice, the Hussars excelled also during the pitched battles.
Re the individuality of the light cavalry regiments. Often men were sent out in pairs on scouting trips trying to keep in sight of other pairs so as to ensure that if any enemy were sighted the information could be sent back to the officers very quickly.
Its so weird that most of Europe stop using body armor and went into battles pretty much with the cloths on their backs while most of the Middle-East and Asia was still wearing body armor. The only time we saw the effectiveness of European vs Medieval army was Napoleon invasion of Egypt. Anyone know why?
actually european armies still had armour, their shakos and leather helmets (and to a lesser extent tricorn/bicorn hats) were designed to protect against saber blows and bayonet strikes. the real question is why didn't they where as extensive armour as other places... i imagine its got to do with the larger number of firearms. guns were more common in europe and only expensive plate armour (such as that worn by cuirassiers) provided any protection for this. most saber attacks were from cavalry so for infantry head gear was enough, and most melee attacks were bayonets which would at the time easily penatrate mail armour. this means the only reasonable armour would be cheaper plate armour or brigandine-style armour. but while cheaper than ball-proof plate it was still expensive, aswell as heavy, while provideing only protection from baynots. due to the length of european battles of the period you also have the issues of heat stroke, cuirassier cavalry experienced this alot, now imagine infantry who have to do alot more physical marching. so in short the cost to benefit level was low, only proof against 1 of the 3 main threats europeans faced, and the extra weight and heat insulation was a bigger issue to due longer battles and greater expectations of marching. this is why europeans largely stopped useing metal armour, and to a lesser extent textile armour. asiatic armies on the other had had less access to guns (relatively) and bows were still fairly common (even as late as 1911 in china), and thus the threats that armour protected from was higher relatively.
hey buddy how about lancers ...history ect.....love the Lancers ......Polish and can you do some on the Armies why not you can do it... thanks for all your work this is na great hobby .... right ....
It really did. I'm reading an autobiography at the moment, and the hussar has just had to transfer to the uhlans because they couldn't afford to stay in the hussars!
Their jacket was used that way as shield against saber. Right hand side holding the saber, left hand side shoulder and arm protected by thick jacket. Style and prestige nonethless.
@@NapoleonicWargaming I always thought maybe Ney has this Intension at Waterloo, but the artillery didn’t follow through or there was a mis communication perhaps. They would have only had to adjust the elevation of their cannon by a few degrees and could’ve inflicted high damage on the square
@@rhysnichols8608 yeah, that has been suggested. Because the British were on the reverse side of the slope, they would have been limited to horse artillery really. Still would've been nasty though!
@@NapoleonicWargaming Yes mate, I feel like a man as experienced as Ney would not make such an amateur day 1 style mistake, there’s probably a lot of nuance behind his reasoning
It was an interresting video but I think you forgot one important element which is guerilla warfare, raids, ambush, harrassing and other types of irregular warfare. While the term guerilla was popularized with the spanish insurrection against Napoleon, the concept behind them were already known. It's the type of warfare that prevailed in North America and was theorized by Maurice de Saxe (not sure tho if the north american experience had any influence on his work) and called those types of actions "petite guerre". Regiment of light troops (like the "chasseurs de Fisher"composed of infantry and cavalry) were raised to fight this "petite guerre". Many of those types of action are associated with the way the cossacks fought as light cavalry and I believe other light cavalry were also engaged in similar types of actions but I think that their success and impact on the war made them stand above the rest.
There was also the fight of Portuguese/Brazilian colonial against the Netherlands occupiers of what today is the northeast of Brazil, during the Iberian union. They and their indigenous allies use tactics of war of the native people with firearms to fight the European style Dutch army that was sent to conquer the region in one of the first recorded uses of something that reassembled a guerrilla warfare in the modern era, it was so effective that the Portuguese crown would later send this colonial army to reconquer parts of their empire in Africa that was lost to the Dutch during the 30 years war
@Legal Vampire Some regiments like chasseurs and jaeger usually did have darker uniforms but camouflage was not really a thing back then, instead they would use their speed and maneuverability to achieve the effect of surprise
No screening = screening (blocking the enemies view and distracting) Counter scouting can entail this, but also means killing enemy scouts, providing rouses, and fighting scouts etc
Haha, I do wonder about the adverts they pick. I once was going to watch a video about the Fall of Singapore and they had a British Army recruitment video!
It seems the end of the video got cut off! So I'll say here, thanks for watching, I hope you're enjoying these videos and your support is really greatly received! Thank you so much, and see you on the next video!
This is what I love about the Napoleonic era; it wasn't just about fighting ability, it was also about how cool you looked individually and as a unit.
Yes, the cooler the uniform, the cooler you were.
I'd argue that looking cooler was much more important than ability on the field.
@@Joe_Friday pp000ppppppp
Yes I agree ,that is why you have the Household Cavalry in England and the Republican Guard in France.I hope to someday see the Republican Guard parade down the Champs Elysses on Bastille Day.
You may have been sniped by a skirmisher but atleast you had drip
"Any hussar who is not dead by the age of thirty is a blackguard." : Compte de Lassalle.
You should check out my video on him!
blackguard = canaille ? Non Lassalle disait "jeanfoutre" = no good waster, bludger
Jim Smithers pretty closed body
Wholly agree.
Some Marshall said something about a soldier making it to 30 is a coward and he didn't expect himself to make it to 30
Scouting, screening, combat, and pursuit. British hussars rarely skirmished especially when battle was joined during the Napoleonic wars. The best hussars were Austrian (Hungarian, where they started) and the French.
Yeah. The British were a bit too bloodthirsty!
Poland disagrees
Hussars were Hungarian originally.
@@janek_xxbobaxxwokowicz_xxf7185 There were no hussars in Poland! The Hussars were always light cavalry, while the winged cavalry were heavy cavalry in armoured dress!
@@juz3r1 sounds like coping to me
Good vid, just a slight correction; the French didn't have to live of the land, because they didn't have the same kind of supply systems. It's the inverse; they lived of the land and as such, they didn't need the same type of supply systems. It comes down from the military doctrine that Napoleon worked out in Northern Italy (and here, it was the one case when it was because of the bad supply situation). The fact that the French didn't have large supply collumns following them around, their armies moved at lightning speeds compared to other nations. That's why the French, especially in the early decades of the Napleonic wars (let's say... 1792-1808), outmanoeuvred and outflanked the armies of the Austrians, Russians and Prussians alike; the French made progress that didn't seem feasible to the coalition armies. This however did lead to a "hard counter" in the Russian scorched earth tactics.
During the peninsular war ''this living off the land'' by the french, well the french according to accounts by Wellington or wellesley as he was known then, behaved ''appallingly'' towards the spanish/portuguese thought out french occupation, when the french forces arrived at small isolated villagers towns for resupply, they took pretty much what they wanted, livestock, food , etc stripped bare in some cases leaving very little ,for the locals indulging in rape,murder, and other atrocities committed, yes the french acquired a bad reparation as the new masters this led to spanish people forming small bands of militia, partisans , seeking retribution on any small group of french soldiers ,they could get there hands on, any single frenchman alone out foraging, was unlucky for him tortured and killed, the french retaliated causing further atrocities,
wellington made sure his army wasn't going to antagonised or provoke any similar attacks the french encountered, He brought his own supply chain, and any goods take from spanish locals ,were paid for in form of gold, he did not tolerate any ill treatment, rape robbery ,stealing, he had large forces of provost military police to keep in check his troops they were subjected to harsh brutal military punishment, always under the lash across their backs, small or large infringements wellington was ruthless, he hung british soldiers who committed serious crimes and made sure the spanish were aware of this, so that they in turn wouldnt be attacked by maruardaring spanish partisans in guerrilla type warfare, least wellington wanted was two enemies instead of one to deal with as the french had suffered to there cost .
Forgot to mention, small men on small horses. Lt. Cav tended to be shorter than Hvy Cav.
True. But the British didn't tend to follow that, especially later. Everyone else did though.
Yes, small light modern day jockeys!..
I have a Hussars Lion Head sabre buckle found by detector in Belarus. Also a heap of buttons - including Imperial Guard / 61st / 108th Line regiments + Sappers Buttons etc; found near banks of the Berezina.
If you were a subsistence farmer, the absolute worst disaster that could befall you, other than perhaps the plague, was the passage of a French army through your area.
In that era , the passage of ANY army through an agricultural area was a disaster because the armies of that time subsisted on the " fat of the land " .or in some cases , the lean of it . That's why scouting parties were a necessary part of an armies movement , they not only were on the lookout for enemy troop movements , but food sources as well .
I always thought the same thing. You probably would want to live on the coast. Maybe pirates would get you then.
Being a Hussar meant you probably had the most swagger, and probably got laid more than the chasseurs.
😂😂😂😂😂 all 'bout that swagg
Guard chasseur enters the chat
8:53 - Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace" 2016, Great Britain, TVseries, it is Nikolai Rostov (Jack Andrew Lowden) - Pavlogradsky hussar regiment uniform of the Russian army.
Those hussar uniforms are unmatched in all of military history.
The Hungarians knew how to dress... :)
First french hussars established by hungarian Laszló Bercsényi who fought in Rákóczi's War of Independence against Habsburg Austria because France supported the kuruc rebbellion. The 1st Parachute Hussars Regiment in the French Army still called Bercheny.
Hussar uniforms must have been fanny magnets back in the day. Very dashing
I can’t see their modern day equal….no clothing or uniform nowadays has quite the sting and aura hussar uniforms had, you knew a man wearing it was a badass and a particular type of man, as well as looking dashing. No uniform now days really inspires this.
I'm not even into wargaming - but I enjoyed this for it's historic value.
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Love your channel, so informative and great history lesson
Yes it did clip. Interesting vid. We play BP with most, if not all, brigades deployed as Blinds (cards, some of which are real brigades, some of which are not) then use spotting distances to see whether the brigade is either 'confirmed' (as being a real brigade whereupon it's marked as being 'real' ) or 'identified' where the spotting unit is close enough to actually make out what the specific units are (this happens at arty max range). Provides a very useful role for light cavalry. It's just a pity that in BP that broken units are just removed from play and that there's no routing units for light cavalry to run down.
You spoke that the Hussars were not used during the battles, because their style of fighting, their weapons, etc., was not fitted for direct charges, and even against heavy cavalry.
Still in the 1848-49 Hungarian-Austro-Russian war (called the Hungarian Freedom War), the Hungarian hussars were used against infantry in battle formations or Austrian heavy cavalry, because this was almost the only Hungarian cavalry unit, which they could use. The Hungarians had though very few lancers and cuirassiers (a few hundreds), but more than 10 000 Hussars, the Hussars being the traditional Hungarian cavalry by excellanse. And in many battles the Hungarian hussars managed to defeat infantry and heavy cavalry. For example in the battles of Szolnok, Mezőkövesd, Piski, Nagyszeben or Komárom.
So, when it was no other choice, the Hussars excelled also during the pitched battles.
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Thanks dude!
Keith Carradine was in the film, not his older brother David.
Image at 5:15 to 5:35(or so) is the remnants of the Light Brigade at Balaclava after the devastating charge. Not a Napoleon painting.
Looks cool though dont it?! ;)
Thanks for the video, I’m reading War & Peace and found this info to be helpful!!!
Re the individuality of the light cavalry regiments. Often men were sent out in pairs on scouting trips trying to keep in sight of other pairs so as to ensure that if any enemy were sighted the information could be sent back to the officers very quickly.
I only recently learned why hussars wore their hair in braids at their temples! That's awesomely badass!
Its so weird that most of Europe stop using body armor and went into battles pretty much with the cloths on their backs while most of the Middle-East and Asia was still wearing body armor. The only time we saw the effectiveness of European vs Medieval army was Napoleon invasion of Egypt. Anyone know why?
actually european armies still had armour, their shakos and leather helmets (and to a lesser extent tricorn/bicorn hats) were designed to protect against saber blows and bayonet strikes.
the real question is why didn't they where as extensive armour as other places... i imagine its got to do with the larger number of firearms. guns were more common in europe and only expensive plate armour (such as that worn by cuirassiers) provided any protection for this. most saber attacks were from cavalry so for infantry head gear was enough, and most melee attacks were bayonets which would at the time easily penatrate mail armour. this means the only reasonable armour would be cheaper plate armour or brigandine-style armour. but while cheaper than ball-proof plate it was still expensive, aswell as heavy, while provideing only protection from baynots. due to the length of european battles of the period you also have the issues of heat stroke, cuirassier cavalry experienced this alot, now imagine infantry who have to do alot more physical marching.
so in short the cost to benefit level was low, only proof against 1 of the 3 main threats europeans faced, and the extra weight and heat insulation was a bigger issue to due longer battles and greater expectations of marching. this is why europeans largely stopped useing metal armour, and to a lesser extent textile armour.
asiatic armies on the other had had less access to guns (relatively) and bows were still fairly common (even as late as 1911 in china), and thus the threats that armour protected from was higher relatively.
6:37 Which movie is that from ?
That uniform 😀👍
Napoleon is often seen in the uniform of the Chasseurs a cheval.
He is! Check out the video that dropped on Monday where I discuss that! 😀
@@gozza7199 Yes of course , unlike your name sake who I believe liked to dress down on occasion.
According to Andrew Roberts book he wore two uniforms,one was the Chasseurs a cheval.
Great video- I've always struggled to understand what these guys did :-)
hey buddy how about lancers ...history ect.....love the Lancers ......Polish and can you do some on the Armies why not you can do it... thanks for all your work this is na great hobby .... right ....
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS THANK YOU VERY MUCH ...
Quality stuff.
Much appreciated
If I could pick one time to travel back to it would be this one or the Roman Empire 100 bc what about u guys ?
Huzzah and tally ho! So flash! So dashing!
.... But I do still prefer the heavies!
"Keith " Carradine. Yes. a superb film.
Interesting video. Thanks a lot!
Love your videos. Thank you so much.
How much cost at that time hussar uniform. Quality and precise made details of decorations must take enormous amount of work
It really did. I'm reading an autobiography at the moment, and the hussar has just had to transfer to the uhlans because they couldn't afford to stay in the hussars!
Labour was cheap
Why are they using only One Sleeve of their Jacket?
Their jacket was used that way as shield against saber. Right hand side holding the saber, left hand side shoulder and arm protected by thick jacket. Style and prestige nonethless.
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Was it a viable tactic to use Calvary to force infantry into a square, then have close cannon support to then decimate the infantry?
Oh yes! In fact that was very much the ideal
@@NapoleonicWargaming
I always thought maybe Ney has this Intension at Waterloo, but the artillery didn’t follow through or there was a mis communication perhaps. They would have only had to adjust the elevation of their cannon by a few degrees and could’ve inflicted high damage on the square
@@rhysnichols8608 yeah, that has been suggested. Because the British were on the reverse side of the slope, they would have been limited to horse artillery really. Still would've been nasty though!
@@NapoleonicWargaming
Yes mate, I feel like a man as experienced as Ney would not make such an amateur day 1 style mistake, there’s probably a lot of nuance behind his reasoning
Have you seen the DiD Napoleon 1/6 figures?
Hussars were excellent for taking out Enemy artilleri and enemy skirmishers
in total war yes
It was an interresting video but I think you forgot one important element which is guerilla warfare, raids, ambush, harrassing and other types of irregular warfare.
While the term guerilla was popularized with the spanish insurrection against Napoleon, the concept behind them were already known. It's the type of warfare that prevailed in North America and was theorized by Maurice de Saxe (not sure tho if the north american experience had any influence on his work) and called those types of actions "petite guerre". Regiment of light troops (like the "chasseurs de Fisher"composed of infantry and cavalry) were raised to fight this "petite guerre".
Many of those types of action are associated with the way the cossacks fought as light cavalry and I believe other light cavalry were also engaged in similar types of actions but I think that their success and impact on the war made them stand above the rest.
There was also the fight of Portuguese/Brazilian colonial against the Netherlands occupiers of what today is the northeast of Brazil, during the Iberian union. They and their indigenous allies use tactics of war of the native people with firearms to fight the European style Dutch army that was sent to conquer the region in one of the first recorded uses of something that reassembled a guerrilla warfare in the modern era, it was so effective that the Portuguese crown would later send this colonial army to reconquer parts of their empire in Africa that was lost to the Dutch during the 30 years war
@Legal Vampire Some regiments like chasseurs and jaeger usually did have darker uniforms but camouflage was not really a thing back then, instead they would use their speed and maneuverability to achieve the effect of surprise
A pity that an army relying so much on horses would neglect them to the point of using inappropriate saddles, as you describe
Counter - scouting = Screeening
No screening = screening (blocking the enemies view and distracting)
Counter scouting can entail this, but also means killing enemy scouts, providing rouses, and fighting scouts etc
Really cool video mate
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Great video!
A Chasseur was a chicken stew, wasn't it?
Brilliant
Video of the Hungarian Military History Museum in English: ua-cam.com/video/P8kiiLSI0sA/v-deo.html
Didn't Napoleon preferred to wear the Chasseur a Cheval uniform?
He did!
Napoléon wear most of the time the uniform of chasseur à cheval DE LA GARDE , not the same thing
@@frac2727 fair point! Check out my video on the guard cav, I talk about it in there
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Haha, I do wonder about the adverts they pick. I once was going to watch a video about the Fall of Singapore and they had a British Army recruitment video!
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