@@toddharig8142 ? I don't get it, hospitals, schools, food, medecine, direct financial aids, how does that send "the economy" abroad? Or are you complaining that companies who literally build and bring everything necessary from the smallest tool to the engineers necessary to exploit resources get some money out of it?
@@moiseman Uhm what? Are you seriously suggesting that the 18th and 19th century colonizers had altruistic motives when they conquered and colonized the world? Or are you talking about modern day outsourced labour in poorer countries in the global south? If its the latter then you're still wrong. Companies don't build, its the labourers who build and create. Believe it or not but stuff existed and was created before the concept of companies existed. Not sure why you decided to go full capitalist bootlicker when that wasn't the topic. It is especially funny that you yourself did subconsciously make the connection between colonization and capitalist exploitation without me even bringing it up while in your next breath you defend it. I bet you're gonna make the case that sweatshops are good and that they help poor people and the economy of the global south. This would ignore the fact that Western powers have a history (recent ones at that) of supporting and staging coups in any country that tries to nationalize their natural resources as well as showing a lack of awareness on how we impose extremely unfair trade deals on countries that stand little to no chance of resisting our influence and power. As for direct aid i suggest you look up how they too often are used as weapons to disrupt economies. One example being how Somalian food aid managed to harm farmers and local production. Obviously its more complicated than that but then again its up to you to look it up. Links have a tendency to get comments deleted or shadowbanned so i'll leave you to it. Anyway I digress. Feel free to not respond, I have no interest in prolonged YT arguments where one gets called a loser for leaving the conversation out of sheer frustration/exhaustion.
Napoleon is my “favorite“ historical figure because even though he did many things wrong and fucked up many things it is still fascinating to watch a random Corsican dude beating the shit out some of the most powerful nations in the world multiple times
mine is genghis khan. He is just the most successful person (militarily speaking) ever. He went from essentially no power to the single most powerful person in hman history
@@abebuenodemesquita8111 Yeah and in the end the Empire collapsed after his dead and making on hell of a Dynasty in china what a chad for real The Yuan are my favorite Chinese dynasty pretty much china as is finniest
The reason the allies didn't execute Napoleon was that that would set a precedent that if you defeated a country in war you could execute their monarch which would obviously make a lot of monarchs and nobles very anxious. Back in those days royals rarely faced personal consequences to war they might lose territory, wealth or simple prestige but it would never be their wealth it would never be their own lands that were lost it would just be the dirty peasants who would foot the bill. Monarchs would usually be captured and ransomed back for a lot of money.
"which would obviously make a lot of monarchs and nobles very anxious" - and... it shouldnt be the point when someone spanks you and tells you "stop invadind and conquering europe (and russia)"? Not to mention *how* terrifying Napoleon was. It took them 7 (seven!) freaking coalitions of the biggest empires of this age to finally put him down, youd think they would want to get rid of him for good
@@Donovan333 To be fair. How can Tommy "react" to the video if he knows nothing about it. He said himself that he knew absolutely nothing abut the Napoleonic Wars and was using this vid to learn.
@@theeternalsuperstar3773 you make comments or comparisons to other events in history or connect it to his content like how he did a little with hoi4. But sitting and watching the video adding almost nothing isnt ok
@@TheSkyGuy77 at that time they have so much pride in their military I think it was because of Louis XIV after his winnings and Napoleon restoring the old title of Marshall and propaganda.
@@yodef6828 if he didn’t just rant over the video half the time that would be great. If he would pause and then talk awesome but no he will actively miss the video to chatter about some shit for 20 mins
Napoleon is in no way a good person, definitely not as bad as Hitler but he still tried to take over all of Europe turning it into a dictatorship with him at the top, so there are definitely similarities.
@@Battyj He liberated countries, abolished serfdom, got rid of churches opression, introduced Industrial Revolution, basic equality and some rights. Sure afterwards he got cocky and crowned himself an Emperor, but any other European monarch was not bettet than him
Napoleon knew about the fog covering his center at Austerlitz because he had personally reconnoitered the battle field in the previous days. He had seen that early in the morning, the fog lay low in the valley of the stream, and it burned off by about 10-11am. He even predicted the exact course of the battle to his own generals the night before.
It's a shame that the Polish legions were never included in Oversimplified's videos, they played a major part in the Italian campaigns and the war with Russia in 1812
You forgot to mention their involvement in the Peninsular War. Look up the battle of Somosierra - a Polish cavalry charge smashed through several lines of prepared Spanish defences in a narrow mountain passage. It's pretty crazy how European nations just fought all over the place in these times.
I agree, I think it would have been also interesting if he mentioned how in Haiti the Slaves revolted against the French, and how the Polish garrisons statuoned there changes sides and joined the slaves revolt Then again he has to cut some details unfortunately, because if he added these details He would need to be consistent and add other small Details
Fun fact: at Waterloo there was an Italo-austrian guy Wellington wanted cause he won different battles lead against french troops in spain and knew how to speak german so he could say to the prussians what to do
Blitzkrieg relied a lot on vernichtungkrieg and could not hold many fronts simultaneously or even colossal battlefield. In contrast, napoleons tactic could hold many fronts and didn’t rely on destroying the enemy entirely. Although, yes, they are both quick. But Napoleon only attacks land while Blietzkrig attacks from land and sky. Although, Blietzkrig was invented by a Frenchman, Charles de Gaulle, in the book « La France et son armée, » which proposed this tactic for France. Germany eventually used it against France...
Napoleon and his generals visited the tomb of Frederick the great in Berlin after their victory against Prussia and when they did Napoleon said: "Hats off gentlemen. If this man were alive today we would not be standing here". Shows how much respect Napoleon had for Frederick the great.
Tommy doesn't really watch these videos, he sorta just glances at the screen now and again and talks about the first thing he see's then goes back to watching his chat.
To be honest, there were so many people harassing him over and over again in every stream about it that he didn't really enjoy it. He only asked about facts like once or twice in chat and didn't bother reading it because of the spam
I cant understand how anybody could watch that or be a streamer and react. You cant concentrate on the video because they go either mental in the chat or tommy is talking constantly or a new subscription or donating is arriving. It drives me nuts. His videos are pretty nice but his reactions drive me crazy
@@lucky8043 ikr it was so annoying seeing him constantly move his head around here and there completely ruining his experience with the video and how he kept talking in the middle of the video without pausing
man from germany observes an overgeneralized view of a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions
The best part of Horatio Nelson is that he lost one of his arm in another conflict AND he was seasick. I'm not kidding. This dude was soo seasick that he had to sleep almost on every journey so he doesn't feel sick and throw up. Imagine being seasick and yet fucking slapped Napoleon silly. That, is soldering.
Not really, he used poland more than he helped it. Using polish soldiers at samosierra, in Haïti, in italy, making the duchy of warsaw a logistical platform for his russian campaign and taking every ressources from it, taking nearly 100 000 men for his "Grande armée" in russia and all that for a wife and nothing more than a small duchy. And to had insult to the injury, in France there is a saying "boire comme un polonais" which means "drink like a pole", he said it because during the russian campaign after a night of drinking like every other soldiers, polish soldiers could go march like they did not drink and other were hungover. And now in France it just means you are an alcoholic
They didn't execute Napoleon because all of them were huge Napoleon fans, he fought all of Europe and won multiple times, even if he was the enemy they had huge respect for how amazing he was on the battlefield. I remember hearing a story somewhere about how when he was exiled in Elba, they had a British ship patrolling around the island to ensure he didn't leave, and the captain was a fan of Napoleon and became friends with him, which helped Napoleon eventually fool him and escape under his watchful eye. You see a similar level of respect in WW2 between British and American generals and their German counterparts, especially with Rommel, one of the American generals was actually quoted as being sad that they missed their chance to fight the legendary Rommel in North Africa when Rommel pulled out.
I feel like Tommy has reacted to Napoleonic wars like 3 times. I remember him telling us about the re-enactment of the Battle of Leipzig. Still a good story though.
55:47 The reason is Nationalism and Napoleon's heroic-like influence on the French People. Killing someone like him could have been the trigger to future wars and unnecessary conflicts. Edit: 1:08:50 I strongly agree with you. One doesn't have to leave a trace in the world to "truly live." Life is all about living your life and be grateful for it.
Tommy should watch Epic History TV, they did a whole series on the Napoleonic wars that goes into a lot more depth, and is a lot more dramatic and epic, its also long but you just do one video at the start of the stream and its all g. The series is a 10/10 some of the best content on YT he needs to see it.
I really love Tommy, but he talks way too much while the video is playing. He often miss jokes and important informations. That's kinda annoying and sad. He should always stop the video if he wants to talk about something
@@Thematic2177 Not really, I simp for France a lot more, I just think that the word kaiser sounded cool. Other than that I don’t really give a shit about Germany.
We don't make paintings for War because the opinion of War has changed from "War is glorious and should be celebrated" to "War is hell and nobody should have to go through that"
They actually annexed a lot from France (the early conquests of the Republic), some earlier peace treaty proposed to Napoleon would have actually let him keep more territories. But he chose to keep fighting, and got the worst deal. I don't think the allies could really take more from France. France also had to give a lot of money.
what napoleon did wasnt really blitzkrieg in the sense of infantry tactics of driving wedges between enemy lines and preparing encirclements, it was similar tho in his innovative artilery usage, basically have your guns really close to the enemy and blast them at point blank range (at the time artilery was usually held far away from the battlefield so they dont get captured cos they were ridiculously expensive)
16:07 I don't know if anyone already told you who that is or if you will even see this, but that is Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister serving from 1721 until he resigned in 1742.
I very much know the feeling of being overwhelmed and simply impressed imagining how past battles went down. This exact feeling is why I started to study History in Aachen a couple of years ago.
What I was wondering from your commentary is how Germans remember ancestors that fought first with Napoleon then against him. My great grandfather I believe was discouraged from joining his brother in the Union Army or cavalry regiment because he had two young daughters and a wife who's mother had lost a teenage older brother in the Napoleonic wars in 1813. Since he died two months after the battle of Leipzig, it is unknown if it was from a weakened condition due to disease or a wound or a prolonged condition from an earlier year. The vague information that was handed down seems to indicate that another relative may have been involved we have no record of. When Tracing back ancestors, sometimes actions make more sense when all the family members are considered.
Oversimplified is truly a good channel but at the end of the day when it comes to Napoleon content. Epic TV beat’s all. They may be long but truly a worthy watch and objective.
"Lack diversity" So what if it's an all-white cast? The only people who give a crap are SJW's, and for all intents and purposes they matter to nothing.
If you guys are really interested in the warfare of the 18th and 19th century, especialy the Napoleonic wars or more precisely how the british under Wellington managed to defeat him slowly but surely I highly recommend you to read the novel serie ''Sharpe'' by Bernard Cornwell. It's about a british soldier called Richard Sharpe who starts as a private and climbs up the ranks. You learn a lot of the different nations warfare and about some historical battles (of course slightly modified to fit the main character). By the way Bernard Cornwell also wrote a lot of other great books and novel series, like the saxon/ Uthred saga, on which the Netflix series The Last Kingdom is based. So yeah read those books.
14:55 idk why I'm commenting on a 2yr old video but Hitler famously studied Napoleon and was inspired by his tactics, influencing the blitzkrieg greatly
I hate how the treaty at the end of the napoleonic war was so fair but the treaty of versailles was so harsh and still people dont compare the two but still say its not harsh
It is a common misconception, the Versailles treaty was not harsh at all toward Germany. In fact, it gave Germany time to pay back the debt of war, kept its unity, its industry, was neither invaded nor occupied, and was spared the symbolic submission with a capture of Berlin. Germany got treated way more harsher after WW2.
visited the hms victory in portsmouth (including the admiral's uniform of nelson, bloody in which he died) and it was remarkable, though you could only visit certain parts and the roof of the decks was like 1,60m above the floor, but maybe the sailors back then were a lot smaller
at 14:11 the russians were under the command of probably the only general who was napoleon's equal at the time; suvorov thankfully for napoleon and unfortunately for the russians he died shortly thereafter but i'm pretty sure he never lost a battle, something not even napoleon could say
@@lordbonney9779 And I'm telling you, what you thought isn't true. Even if you only count the battles, why don't you count the battles at sea? Or the whole war in Spain and Portugal that bled France?
@@sld1776 in the Liberian region we never fought Napoleon, we fought his Generals. May I reiterate my point. We, Brits, only fought NAPOLEON, as in the man, once at Waterloo.
Prussia was the buffer state that stopped the Russian bear, Prussian capitulating probably gave Russia it's only real chance to get close enough to nepoleon without the risk of his classic supply cutting attacks
Narrator: Starts talking about an intricate and compelling battle plan of Napoleon's Dommy: SO ANYWAYS IN A WEIRD WAY IT'S A LOT LIKE (x-event in history) IF U RLY THINK ABOOT IT
Fun fact: The coronation of Napoleon's brother as King of Spain began the Independence movements in America from Spain. Mexico wanted to become Independent to wait for the return of Fernando VII, then the leaders were killed and the focus changed.
Oversimplified videos are the best man...
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Imagine living on a small island, then Napoleon rolls around and starts improving infrastructure and the economy
That was such a Chad move on his part.
That's what happened to Africa during the late 18th and early 19th century lol
@@moiseman Not so much improving as rerouting. Infrastructure aimed at sending "the economy" abroad to the colonizers.
@@toddharig8142 ? I don't get it, hospitals, schools, food, medecine, direct financial aids, how does that send "the economy" abroad?
Or are you complaining that companies who literally build and bring everything necessary from the smallest tool to the engineers necessary to exploit resources get some money out of it?
@@moiseman Uhm what? Are you seriously suggesting that the 18th and 19th century colonizers had altruistic motives when they conquered and colonized the world?
Or are you talking about modern day outsourced labour in poorer countries in the global south? If its the latter then you're still wrong. Companies don't build, its the labourers who build and create. Believe it or not but stuff existed and was created before the concept of companies existed.
Not sure why you decided to go full capitalist bootlicker when that wasn't the topic. It is especially funny that you yourself did subconsciously make the connection between colonization and capitalist exploitation without me even bringing it up while in your next breath you defend it.
I bet you're gonna make the case that sweatshops are good and that they help poor people and the economy of the global south. This would ignore the fact that Western powers have a history (recent ones at that) of supporting and staging coups in any country that tries to nationalize their natural resources as well as showing a lack of awareness on how we impose extremely unfair trade deals on countries that stand little to no chance of resisting our influence and power.
As for direct aid i suggest you look up how they too often are used as weapons to disrupt economies. One example being how Somalian food aid managed to harm farmers and local production. Obviously its more complicated than that but then again its up to you to look it up. Links have a tendency to get comments deleted or shadowbanned so i'll leave you to it.
Anyway I digress. Feel free to not respond, I have no interest in prolonged YT arguments where one gets called a loser for leaving the conversation out of sheer frustration/exhaustion.
40:25 fun fact, House Bernadotte is still the royal house of Sweden. The current king is a direct descendant of the Napoleon's Marshal.
That moment when Sweden brings back the Napoleanic empire
@@sharfaraznewaz5496that would actually be crazy 😂
Could’ve been the same with Murat when he became king of Naples but decided to join Napoleon in 1815 and got destroyed
Napoleon is my “favorite“ historical figure because even though he did many things wrong and fucked up many things it is still fascinating to watch a random Corsican dude beating the shit out some of the most powerful nations in the world multiple times
And Napoleonic code
My favourite historical figure is Julius Caesar .
mine is genghis khan. He is just the most successful person (militarily speaking) ever. He went from essentially no power to the single most powerful person in hman history
@@abebuenodemesquita8111 Yeah and in the end the Empire collapsed after his dead and making on hell of a Dynasty in china what a chad for real The Yuan are my favorite Chinese dynasty pretty much china as is finniest
I thought they’ll handle Russia’s snow because Europe also snows during there winter, very weird
Tommykay: I have to make an interesting title.
The title: IRL german reacts to napoleonic war.
it's markoni doing the titles isnt it
I feel like tommys editor is underrated. He helps alot.
yea hail marconi , the true , only emperor
of tommykay channel
@@ryanmurray7941 lmao
he is the god of youtube
Dang, i thought he was underrated, i barley ever hear anyone talk about him. Maybe im bot paying enough attention.
Some of the editing is annoying but mostly its decent
The reason the allies didn't execute Napoleon was that that would set a precedent that if you defeated a country in war you could execute their monarch which would obviously make a lot of monarchs and nobles very anxious. Back in those days royals rarely faced personal consequences to war they might lose territory, wealth or simple prestige but it would never be their wealth it would never be their own lands that were lost it would just be the dirty peasants who would foot the bill. Monarchs would usually be captured and ransomed back for a lot of money.
This ^ if you are a Monarch, executing defeated Monarchs sets a bad presentient for yourself lol
He also was heavily respected among his subjects and a lot of them would basically probably make him a martyr
@@aaronfolsom2666 yep meaning if he died someone would have taken his place
@@TVmantitan779 it probably would’ve been similar to post WWI
"which would obviously make a lot of monarchs and nobles very anxious" - and... it shouldnt be the point when someone spanks you and tells you "stop invadind and conquering europe (and russia)"?
Not to mention *how* terrifying Napoleon was. It took them 7 (seven!) freaking coalitions of the biggest empires of this age to finally put him down, youd think they would want to get rid of him for good
tommy logic
pauses the video for small talk
doesn't pause the video for big talk
dommy logic
@@TommyKay d o m m y .
@@TommyKay 🅱ommy
This shows how much Tommy loves his fans. He said he wouldn't react to more Oversimplified because he claims the ads, but Tommy's doing it anyway.
I mean, tbh he should since tommy doesn’t “react” very much and does full screen of his video as lol
Yeah, it’s justified for the amount of people not going to watch the vid now
@@Donovan333 To be fair. How can Tommy "react" to the video if he knows nothing about it. He said himself that he knew absolutely nothing abut the Napoleonic Wars and was using this vid to learn.
@@theeternalsuperstar3773 you make comments or comparisons to other events in history or connect it to his content like how he did a little with hoi4. But sitting and watching the video adding almost nothing isnt ok
@@theeternalsuperstar3773 don’t get me wrong,love Tommy. But the reactions are kinda a joke lmao
Summary of this video
40%: “oh I didn’t know that”
30%: becoming a Stan of admiral nelson
30%: “Yoo this is just like roleplay in [insert game here]”
HAHAHAHA
@@TommyKay / hello
When you conquer almost all of Europe quite literally DEFENSIVELY.
France was THAT OP back then I guess
@@TheSkyGuy77 at that time they have so much pride in their military I think it was because of Louis XIV after his winnings and Napoleon restoring the old title of Marshall and propaganda.
@Divalvaro France OP, pls nerf
Says the one who unified Terra and conquered a million planets
Portugal, Spain and Russia want to know your location.
Tommy: "Duke of Wellington I don't know who that is"
The video: *Am I a joke to you?*
dommy adhd
"It's over, Napoleon! We have the high ground."
"YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER!"
But Napolean Isnt anakin and Won
"Don't try it"
4th time watching the oversimplified video, entertained every time
Same here, it is really a majestic video
@@yodef6828 if he didn’t just rant over the video half the time that would be great. If he would pause and then talk awesome but no he will actively miss the video to chatter about some shit for 20 mins
British propaganda at peak performance when a german is comparing Napoleon to AH
Yes, I'm surprised that Napoleon is mostly represented bad in UK. We don't have that issue in Russia
@@AmirSatt Even in the US and Canada many people seem to think Napoleon is evil because the British said so
Yeah in Napoleonic time the Brits were the baddies
Napoleon is in no way a good person, definitely not as bad as Hitler but he still tried to take over all of Europe turning it into a dictatorship with him at the top, so there are definitely similarities.
@@Battyj He liberated countries, abolished serfdom, got rid of churches opression, introduced Industrial Revolution, basic equality and some rights. Sure afterwards he got cocky and crowned himself an Emperor, but any other European monarch was not bettet than him
2021 and millions of people watching, learning, and remembering what Napoleon did. He really have achieved immortality.
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bruh tommy somehow has the tallent to start speaking when the questions he had are being answered or the funny bits are happening
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Napoleon knew about the fog covering his center at Austerlitz because he had personally reconnoitered the battle field in the previous days. He had seen that early in the morning, the fog lay low in the valley of the stream, and it burned off by about 10-11am. He even predicted the exact course of the battle to his own generals the night before.
İ cant believe tommy really managed to miss the napoleons big head memes back to back.
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interesting event
interesting comments
It's a shame that the Polish legions were never included in Oversimplified's videos, they played a major part in the Italian campaigns and the war with Russia in 1812
Interesting, were they helping the French or in the coalition army?
@@hanglei9865 french
@@hanglei9865 The coalition was with the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians, essentially enemies, so the only real choice was the French
You forgot to mention their involvement in the Peninsular War.
Look up the battle of Somosierra - a Polish cavalry charge smashed through several lines of prepared Spanish defences in a narrow mountain passage.
It's pretty crazy how European nations just fought all over the place in these times.
I agree, I think it would have been also interesting if he mentioned how in Haiti the Slaves revolted against the French, and how the Polish garrisons statuoned there changes sides and joined the slaves revolt
Then again he has to cut some details unfortunately, because if he added these details
He would need to be consistent and add other small
Details
I was waiting for this so bad
TommyK is the equivalent of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Handsome, strategic and at average height at his time
More like average number of hair on his head at his time.
finally someone says it..
Lmao true
As soon as Oversimplified uploaded I thought "Tommy is gonna have a good time watching this one"
Same lmao
But than he skipped important and funny parts
@@langeweileonline4720 donos
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And the chat is pretty uninteresting too. So boring (no offense). I just don't like very serious stuff.
14:36 “One of the early versions of Blitzkrieg”
To be quite honest, the Napoleonic Wars were truly the precursor to the World Wars
No war1870 precursor to the world war
sorry for my bad English
Yeah, napoleonic war
100 years war
These wars are so large in scale that it could be call a world war
@@lo_qc 7 years war was basically WW0
"The Duke of Wellington, I don't know who that is". sometimes Tommy you need a slap for not paying attention.
Fun fact: at Waterloo there was an Italo-austrian guy Wellington wanted cause he won different battles lead against french troops in spain and knew how to speak german so he could say to the prussians what to do
14:35 Tommy, you are exactly right. Napoleonic tactics are essentially Beta-Blitzkrieg.
Blitzkrieg relied a lot on vernichtungkrieg and could not hold many fronts simultaneously or even colossal battlefield. In contrast, napoleons tactic could hold many fronts and didn’t rely on destroying the enemy entirely.
Although, yes, they are both quick. But Napoleon only attacks land while Blietzkrig attacks from land and sky. Although, Blietzkrig was invented by a Frenchman, Charles de Gaulle, in the book « La France et son armée, » which proposed this tactic for France. Germany eventually used it against France...
@@TheGaillot yeah but de gaulle is the only one that used it.
You mean, isn't the only one who used it?
52:20 "here's a tip for any future dictators watching the stream" hahahahaha, Tommy knows his fanbase
Seeing Tommy not knowing about Friedrich the Great was sort of unexpected and disappointing
How is that even possible? Do they not teach German history in Germany?
14:06 He missed another joke: Russia was Stalin in Switzerland
Stalin wasn't in switzerland...
@@boranates1320 Stalin, Staling
@@boranates1320 it's a pun
"It is better to be feared than loved." - Something I heard on the internet
That's what Machniavelli said
Niccolo Machiavelli said that, because he was a realist. Not a moralist.
Not true tho
@@TheSkyGuy77 his last name sounds alot like a georgian last name
@@sarahluise3153 you're not true it is better (to some extent a large one though) but still it is better
“Napoleon beta tested blitzkrieg” I loled so hard 😂
Napoleon and his generals visited the tomb of Frederick the great in Berlin after their victory against Prussia and when they did Napoleon said: "Hats off gentlemen. If this man were alive today we would not be standing here". Shows how much respect Napoleon had for Frederick the great.
The pausing didnt bug me. It was the talking over the video and thanking subs and missing several parts of the vid itself that bugged me.
Tommy doesn't really watch these videos, he sorta just glances at the screen now and again and talks about the first thing he see's then goes back to watching his chat.
To be honest, there were so many people harassing him over and over again in every stream about it that he didn't really enjoy it. He only asked about facts like once or twice in chat and didn't bother reading it because of the spam
It seems he has very low attention time, he should just not read the chat and only answer the donations.
I cant understand how anybody could watch that or be a streamer and react. You cant concentrate on the video because they go either mental in the chat or tommy is talking constantly or a new subscription or donating is arriving. It drives me nuts. His videos are pretty nice but his reactions drive me crazy
@@lucky8043 ikr it was so annoying seeing him constantly move his head around here and there completely ruining his experience with the video and how he kept talking in the middle of the video without pausing
man from germany observes an overgeneralized view of a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions
He fought 60 battles and lost 7 of them
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He’s like the Mike Tyson of battles lol
I like how Tommy doesnt really react to the video but to his chat.
The best part of Horatio Nelson is that he lost one of his arm in another conflict AND he was seasick. I'm not kidding. This dude was soo seasick that he had to sleep almost on every journey so he doesn't feel sick and throw up.
Imagine being seasick and yet fucking slapped Napoleon silly. That, is soldering.
This is epic
i just want to say that napoleon did a lot for Poland thats why he is in national anthem than you :)
What did napoleon for poland?
@@ekaterina472 he restored it
@@determinay769 Napoleon be like: Poland has 50 cores in the area and doesn't infringe on where I want to expand. POLAN STRONK
Not really, he used poland more than he helped it. Using polish soldiers at samosierra, in Haïti, in italy, making the duchy of warsaw a logistical platform for his russian campaign and taking every ressources from it, taking nearly 100 000 men for his "Grande armée" in russia and all that for a wife and nothing more than a small duchy.
And to had insult to the injury, in France there is a saying "boire comme un polonais" which means "drink like a pole", he said it because during the russian campaign after a night of drinking like every other soldiers, polish soldiers could go march like they did not drink and other were hungover. And now in France it just means you are an alcoholic
@@nicoadada6160 What do you expect? It still was much better than occupation of Austria, Russia and Prussia
They didn't execute Napoleon because all of them were huge Napoleon fans, he fought all of Europe and won multiple times, even if he was the enemy they had huge respect for how amazing he was on the battlefield. I remember hearing a story somewhere about how when he was exiled in Elba, they had a British ship patrolling around the island to ensure he didn't leave, and the captain was a fan of Napoleon and became friends with him, which helped Napoleon eventually fool him and escape under his watchful eye. You see a similar level of respect in WW2 between British and American generals and their German counterparts, especially with Rommel, one of the American generals was actually quoted as being sad that they missed their chance to fight the legendary Rommel in North Africa when Rommel pulled out.
“Why is no one making a movie about this guy?”
Because he’s not American 🤷♂️
I'd seriously recommend EpicHistoryTV for the military history. The way they represent Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars is pretty detailed.
those vids are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long
@@TommyKay watch it in your free time, you're missing out on an amazing series
I read that when he confronted the soldiers he said “if anyone wants to stop me, shoot now” or something to that effect.
"If there's among you a soldier who wants to kill its Emperor, here I am !"
I feel like Tommy has reacted to Napoleonic wars like 3 times. I remember him telling us about the re-enactment of the Battle of Leipzig. Still a good story though.
55:47 The reason is Nationalism and Napoleon's heroic-like influence on the French People. Killing someone like him could have been the trigger to future wars and unnecessary conflicts.
Edit: 1:08:50 I strongly agree with you. One doesn't have to leave a trace in the world to "truly live." Life is all about living your life and be grateful for it.
Fun fact: italian guard was the first unit to enter in moscow because their bravery in borodino battle
Also Napoleon was from an Italian noble house so yeahhhh
he kept looking at chat every 2 seconds
The video could also be called "German reacts to twitch chat"
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Tommy should watch Epic History TV, they did a whole series on the Napoleonic wars that goes into a lot more depth, and is a lot more dramatic and epic, its also long but you just do one video at the start of the stream and its all g. The series is a 10/10 some of the best content on YT he needs to see it.
Also Oversimplified pretty blatantly coped Epic History TV's videos. Some lines and phrasing are nearly identical.
I really love Tommy, but he talks way too much while the video is playing. He often miss jokes and important informations. That's kinda annoying and sad. He should always stop the video if he wants to talk about something
Exactly, I don't get it, he's really frustrating
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When you’re French and know more about Frederick The Great than the average German. Seriously wtf ?!
That's just because you're a simp for Germany.
@@Thematic2177 Not really, I simp for France a lot more, I just think that the word kaiser sounded cool. Other than that I don’t really give a shit about Germany.
We don't make paintings for War because the opinion of War has changed from "War is glorious and should be celebrated" to "War is hell and nobody should have to go through that"
Imagine when we die we can watch anything that ever happened would be so cool
Is like saying you wanna die cuz you can see what happened in history
They actually annexed a lot from France (the early conquests of the Republic), some earlier peace treaty proposed to Napoleon would have actually let him keep more territories. But he chose to keep fighting, and got the worst deal.
I don't think the allies could really take more from France. France also had to give a lot of money.
Napoleons tactics are the early version of blitzkrieg
french when there was an napoleon:*STRONG*
when french has no napoleon:
*sob*
i hate how tommy did not react at all to Napoleon losing 500 - 600 thousand men because of attrition, he didnt notice it at all.
what napoleon did wasnt really blitzkrieg in the sense of infantry tactics of driving wedges between enemy lines and preparing encirclements, it was similar tho in his innovative artilery usage, basically have your guns really close to the enemy and blast them at point blank range (at the time artilery was usually held far away from the battlefield so they dont get captured cos they were ridiculously expensive)
it was the spanish fighting napoleon who invented the guerilla warfare
16:07 I don't know if anyone already told you who that is or if you will even see this, but that is Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister serving from 1721 until he resigned in 1742.
Epic History TV did an absolutely fantastic series on Napoleon if you wanna react to that as well.
I very much know the feeling of being overwhelmed and simply impressed imagining how past battles went down. This exact feeling is why I started to study History in Aachen a couple of years ago.
Last time i was this early Napoleon just put down the uprising in touloun.
What I was wondering from your commentary is how Germans remember ancestors that fought first with Napoleon then against him. My great grandfather I believe was discouraged from joining his brother in the Union Army or cavalry regiment because he had two young daughters and a wife who's mother had lost a teenage older brother in the Napoleonic wars in 1813. Since he died two months after the battle of Leipzig, it is unknown if it was from a weakened condition due to disease or a wound or a prolonged condition from an earlier year. The vague information that was handed down seems to indicate that another relative may have been involved we have no record of. When Tracing back ancestors, sometimes actions make more sense when all the family members are considered.
"What are the stats of Napoleon..." The best general in history.
Oversimplified is truly a good channel but at the end of the day when it comes to Napoleon content. Epic TV beat’s all. They may be long but truly a worthy watch and objective.
I like how you conveniently cut out the part where Tommy went insane on chat when they couldn’t explain the raid on Copenhagen.
ye not good to see
At this point i love watching tommy watching oversimplified more than just watching it alone😁
would recommend learning about Lord Thomas Cochrane, such an interesting life and managed to achieve a lot
>Watches a video about the Napoleonic Wars
"Duke of Wellington? I don't know who that is"
They don’t make movies on people like admiral Nelson because the movie would lack diversity.
Have Nelson be played by a Vietnamese dude
"Lack diversity" So what if it's an all-white cast? The only people who give a crap are SJW's, and for all intents and purposes they matter to nothing.
They would make some of them randomly gay.
It's awesome that everyone is interested in history now because of oversimplified
I’ve been looking forward to this!
If you guys are really interested in the warfare of the 18th and 19th century, especialy the Napoleonic wars or more precisely how the british under Wellington managed to defeat him slowly but surely I highly recommend you to read the novel serie ''Sharpe'' by Bernard Cornwell. It's about a british soldier called Richard Sharpe who starts as a private and climbs up the ranks.
You learn a lot of the different nations warfare and about some historical battles (of course slightly modified to fit the main character).
By the way Bernard Cornwell also wrote a lot of other great books and novel series, like the saxon/ Uthred saga, on which the Netflix series The Last Kingdom is based. So yeah read those books.
You should watch the Epic History series of the Napoleonic Wars. His videos mainly focuses on the battles Napoleon fought. From Toulon to Waterloo.
From Toulon to Waterloo, except the two campaigns of Italy and the campaign of Egypt unfortunately.
@@lahire4943 if only.
14:55 idk why I'm commenting on a 2yr old video but Hitler famously studied Napoleon and was inspired by his tactics, influencing the blitzkrieg greatly
I hate how the treaty at the end of the napoleonic war was so fair but the treaty of versailles was so harsh and still people dont compare the two but still say its not harsh
It is a common misconception, the Versailles treaty was not harsh at all toward Germany. In fact, it gave Germany time to pay back the debt of war, kept its unity, its industry, was neither invaded nor occupied, and was spared the symbolic submission with a capture of Berlin. Germany got treated way more harsher after WW2.
An hour of tommykay I gotta bring my popcorn and coke
visited the hms victory in portsmouth (including the admiral's uniform of nelson, bloody in which he died) and it was remarkable, though you could only visit certain parts and the roof of the decks was like 1,60m above the floor, but maybe the sailors back then were a lot smaller
The more I read chat the more braincells I lose.
at 14:11 the russians were under the command of probably the only general who was napoleon's equal at the time; suvorov
thankfully for napoleon and unfortunately for the russians he died shortly thereafter
but i'm pretty sure he never lost a battle, something not even napoleon could say
Imagine you're in school and some guy with a way more detailed face and a military uniform is there
Scipio Africanus vs Hannibal Barca docu. On YT, very good. Also, basically anything on Julius Caesar (the man who Napoleon tried to immitate)
I love how we Brits take such pride in defeating Napoleon and we only fought 1 battle against Napoleon in 7 wars.
1. This isn't true.
2. You are severely discounting the effect of the blockade of nearly two decades.
3. Without UK finance Napoleon wins.
@@sld1776 I was talking about the military side of it and by military I mean land armies.
@@lordbonney9779 And I'm telling you, what you thought isn't true. Even if you only count the battles, why don't you count the battles at sea? Or the whole war in Spain and Portugal that bled France?
@@sld1776 in the Liberian region we never fought Napoleon, we fought his Generals.
May I reiterate my point. We, Brits, only fought NAPOLEON, as in the man, once at Waterloo.
The brits arent proud of beating napoleon . They cant be.
Prussia was the buffer state that stopped the Russian bear, Prussian capitulating probably gave Russia it's only real chance to get close enough to nepoleon without the risk of his classic supply cutting attacks
Facts: Waterloo was a German victory, with the British assisting.
British victory*
Narrator: Starts talking about an intricate and compelling battle plan of Napoleon's
Dommy: SO ANYWAYS IN A WEIRD WAY IT'S A LOT LIKE (x-event in history) IF U RLY THINK ABOOT IT
im sorry but how did Tommy manage to miss the majority of the jokes
There's napoleon film called Waterloo it is one of the greatest historical war film of all time about napoleon wars
I salute the editor Tommy wasn't interested in making this at all watchable.
51:56 we have auch re-enactments in a small town near Berlin and as a kid I was furious that no one played dead and only one man was acting wounded.
The bombing of Copenhagen, properly the first terrorist attack by the British along with the eradication of Danish people in England.
I have had the honour to walk upon the HMS Victory. It was a lovely experience.
Epic history tv's napoleonic wars series is also worth a look
Fun fact: The coronation of Napoleon's brother as King of Spain began the Independence movements in America from Spain. Mexico wanted to become Independent to wait for the return of Fernando VII, then the leaders were killed and the focus changed.
Tommy: Watches a video that culminates in the Duke of Wellington trouncing Napoleon
also Tommy: Duke of Wellington? I don't know who that is.
17:01 the way this gentleman laughed, made my day so happy thanks
Hippolyt:🗿🗿🗿