Hehe I'm kinda on the other side of this, we always had those weird 80's early 90's reject reel slow national geographic style, hollowed unenthusiastic voiced narrator going on about all the uninteresting parts of a volcano or literally put you to bed cultural cruise type ones exploring old dark alleyways studying random things... I enjoyed this type documentary or the occasional ancient Rome history documentaries... We did get a few "tales of the gun" and "how the west was won" in highschool sometimes, even civil war journal a couple times... It's all different now though LOL, poor kids today, haha and I thought I had it bad.. it's really a shame Different F'in world now. Off topic... We had a crazy mom type manic middle aged teacher in "home heeeck!" As I called it who made us was a few tv recorded "little house on the prairie" clips about random life facts and having these skills she was " trying to impart to us, hopefully willing minds"... 😂 LMAO I think back now and wonder if that crazy loon was stoned outta her mind half the time... Sewing pillows and little quilts and mending "practice bears" lol! Then baking brownies hahahaha 🤣
@@charlotteh6068 that's awesome, keep learning all you want. Then learn more, and when you think you have researched enough... Yup! Do some more... I ended up at 13 kinda interning with the seamstress at a dry cleaners all because I got obsessed with 18th and 19th century uniforms and clothes and my dad wouldn't buy a kid all those uniforms so I chose to make them and I do it still 16 years later for all kinds of people
First known firing of any type of gun in England was 1304, the English fired a Kraken, short barrell on a pole at the Scots. First illustration of a piece of ordnance occurs in a treatise by one Walter de Millemete entitled De Officiis Regum (On the Duties of Kings). Dated 1326, it is preserved in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. The gun was called a vaso from the Italian for a vase which it closely resembled. The Gunner is pictured in the act of firing the piece by inserting a red-hot iron into the vent. The projectile leaving the muzzle was a species of arrow known as a dart, carreau or quarrel. The gun has no carriage; it simply lies on a trestle table in this drawing and others they are aimed at doorways. In 1346 the English were using tubes fixed on a rack, called a Ribaldequin, loaded with gunpowder and lead pellots at the French at the Battle of Crecy 1399 Richard 11 took Pole Guns on his invasion of Ireland, not known how many but there were 35 Handgonnes were recorded to be in the Tower of London at the time. As a point of reference firearms were not recorded a Muskets untill 1527, first record of a matchlock musket. At this time guns started to be named after Birds of Prey, Falcon Saker, Robin and Musquette (French for a Male Sparrowhawk) which is where we got the word Musket.
Dude I literally just looked up “First time England saw a gun” and this video popped up. I think UA-cam was leading me to ur comment Bc it’s exactly what I was looking for!!
The gun history Carrie's with world history oriental,European and u s history ad well and it is refreshing as I recall SUBJECTS I learned in my h.s and college ;about the past that it projected especially theimposition of unreasonable taxes. The Boston tea party where there was a massacre . And also the three musketeers.
Gunpowder ingredients: 1. Coal (it is the fuel, but will not burn fast enough), so you add.... 2. Sulfur (to accelerate burning), but now it's so fast that the air is not enough to it, 3. Saltpeter (potassium nitrate, KNO3) --> to provide oxygen for the rapid burning;
@@calonarang7378 I think they burned specific woods for better results, so yes. Note: I have no personal experience with these things, only what I read in the internet.
It should be noted that these German gunsmiths learned hiw to make rifles in Europe. The Germans and other European armies employed jaeger units armed with rifles before the Revolution., and Hessian mercenaries like my ancestors operated as jaegers during that war.
Yep, and the Jaeger had the same origins as the American Rifleman - 'Jaeger' translates literally to 'hunter' and resulted from German experiments in organizing units of elite marksmen who were familiar with the terrain, to range ahead of the army and pick off enemy troops. These tactics were also understood by the colonial French in the Caribbean and Southern America during the 17th century. The boucaniers used 6-7ft long guns to hunt for wild pigs and cattle. The marksmanship and familiarity of these men with even with the smoothebore muskets, made them fearsome opponents for the Spanish on Hispaniola. When the English arrived in the region, they made allies of these French (mostly dispossessed Huguenots) to use as scouts, to hunt victuals, and as marksmen during their raids.
Notice how “ The British” at Lexington had “ British “ accents in this video , and “ The Americans” had “ American” accents. In fact of course , those on both sides were British at the time and both sides would have had similar sounding accents. Time plays tricks with folk memory.
What we think of today as the "proper British accent" is, from what I've heard, a modern thing. Fwiw, the "British accent" of the 1700s wasn't that different from the modern American speech.
22:20 You need to give two calibers for all smoothbore muskets, you can't just say "The Brown Bess was about .75 caliber". The shot has a smaller caliber than the bore, in order to make loading as easy as possible. In the case of the Brown Bess the calibers are 0.75 for the bore, 0.69 for the shot. 23:00 Some nuance is needed in describing the accuracy of smoothbore muskets, because yes, they were extremely inaccurate. But that is "extremely inaccurate" by modern standards. I often get the impression that people think of musket accuracy as being about the same as the shot spread of a video game shotgun, when in fact no weapon in history has ever been so inaccurate as that. Some number might provide more context. Contemporary writers seemed to consider about 75 yards to be the point target effective range for a smoothbore musket (not that they would have used that exact terminology), meaning that about 75 yards is about the range that they expect a single shooter to be able to hit a single man-sized target (although, with an accuracy of ~30 arcminutes (0.5 degrees), about 50 meters is about the distance at which a perfectly aimed musket will put every shot inside a 40cm circle (the average width of a human from shoulder to shoulder is a bit over 40cm)). They considered the "battle range" (the distance at which a battalion of troops could effectively engage an opposing battalion formed in close order, roughly equivalent to the modern concept of "area target effective range") of a smoothbore musket to be about 200 yards. Depending on the type of musket and how well maintained it is it would have an accuracy of around 24-36 arcminutes (0.4 degrees to 0.6 degrees, at 100 meters that gives an impact area from 0.7 meters-1.05 meters wide). For comparison, the minimum acceptable accuracy for a modern military rifle is about 4 arcminutes (0.067 degrees, at 100 meters that gives an impact area just under 12cm wide), with some military rifles achieving an accuracy of 2 arcminutes (0.033 degrees, giving a 6cm impact area at 100 meters). But of course they did not have modern rifles to compare them with at the time, so they likely would not have thought of smoothbore muskets as being particularly inaccurate. 24:08 A good soldier get get off 3 AIMED shots in a minute. I too have seen people achieve 4 or 5 shots in a minute, but those shots are not being aimed at a target (they were shooting for speed only, sometimes even using unrealistic range gimmicks like holding extra cartridges between the fingers of the right hand). 24:25 0.69 caliber bore, 0.65 caliber shot. 26:12 Technically a rifled barrel only fires a bullet more accurately. A smoothbore can shoot exactly as far, but there isn't as much point in firing at those distances since there isn't a high enough probability of actually hitting something. So a rifled barrel has a longer "effective range", but the effective range is dictated by accuracy, not by a hard limit on how far the shot can actually travel.
Then theres the total amount of powder and quality of powder used. Manufacturer states for my 50 max is 110 grs ffg. Given lack of powder and people already making their own. Army used to go by penetration of a 3/4 pine board as being considered effective range. I use that standard😁
The Ottoman (Islamic State) Caliphate defeated the Holy Roman Byzantine empire using Canons and muskets turned Christiandom Constantinople into Istanbul. They were the first to put canons on ships.
@@rogermirano2541 For example that "guerrilla tactics were unknown for the Europeans" and "rifles were the truly American made guns" this is truly incorrect, there were rifled guns (aka rifles) in Europe well before they were made in America "The spirally grooved gun barrel is considered German in origin, invented by Augustus Kotter of Nuremberg circa 1520"
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@@jamesmayle3787 I’m Muslim, so don’t waste your time, Issa wasn’t ever Lord, he’s a prophet of Allah, same as Mosa and Mohammed Look up my last name, and Prophet Mohammed’s name, You’ll see ( No I’m not related to him )
As an Assasins Creed Fan this is why i was so intrigued to see this documentary from how They went from the early flintlocks in italy during ezio lifetime To the muskets and flintlock upgradea in AC3 AC4 and Rogue and Unity Then how they develop rifles in AC Syndicate and the first ever puckle gattling guns In the late 1860s And also a mafia fan To seeing the prohibition WW1 guns in Mafia 1 to the WW2 Mafia 2 Tommy guns and Revolver upgrades and shotguns And first ever snipers In Mafia 3 during the late 60s during vietnam times Along with battlefield and COD WW2 and world at war and black op games
Our Revolutionary War had its seeds in the English Civil War, IMO. Many of the Puritans who settled New England were supporters of Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads, and thus were against Royal Authority, and even against the very idea of Monarchy. New Englanders, I don't think, were ever comfortable with rule by an English King. So, they picked on issues to express their opposition. I think the taxation and representation issues were smoke screens for the real issues that grated which was "rule by a king".
The same could be said of the French Revolution, the Glorious Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. Though much less celebrated, the English Civil War probably served as their main precedent. But the problem with the Parliamentarian victory was a classical one: the idealistic Cromwell soon became a tyrant/despot/autocrat himself. The English people hated his theocracy and reverted back to the crown. Washington was aware of that, and carefully avoided Cromwell's later course of action.
@@casper-z9rkls6gl Very true. Social movements, anti-monarchist ideas were all connected, and influenced each other. And, yes, Cromwell became a dictator. His Puritan thinking is what made him a dictator. The Puritans in New England in 1600's were intolerant. Capital crime to be Catholic, or Quaker, or just different sometimes. History is interesting.
@@carywest9256 Southern colonies had different reasons for supporting separation from England. There were no descendants of Roundheads in the southern colonies. They were settled and controlled by Cavaliers (second/third sons who got very little in inheritance under primogeniture) who left England to seek their fortunes. The plantation economy created its own reasons for separation.
@@carywest9256 BTW... if you want to better understand why the people of the old south, and the north think differently, and how that came to be ...I recommend the book, "Seeds Of Albion" by David Hackett Fischer. It is one of the best history books I have ever read. I hope you find it interesting.
Roger's Rangers are the original Special Operations unit in North America, and eventually inspired both the SAS of Britain, and eventually the US Army Rangers. Finally, the US Special Forces (Green Berets) would adopt the crossed arrows as their insignia, recognizing the incredible contribution of Native American training for the original Special Operations guerilla tactics.
I know it would take more time and effort to have someone narrate/ read out this info. I am glad I found your video as the info on it is just what I was looking for. I just found learning about this subject in your video so abrasive. The A.I. voice is so unpleasant, and I think you would get a lot more people watching with a natural voice. Good information though👍. Thanks
If you need someone to help you mix the audio, I will be happy to help. The master's volume has been pushed into outer space. Sound normalization and compression are not difficult.
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I’ve been trying to think of different concepts for an alternate history. If the Roman Empire didn’t fall or there were no dark ages, and manufacturing and scientific knowledge never declined or stagnated, then the evolution of firearms would be very different. It would still take past the year 1000 for gunpowder to come about, but more elaborate cross bows and possibly even air gun type technology might’ve come about before the introduction of gunpowder, and that would lead to an even faster evolution of firearms because they would already have the basic concept down, and possibly even rifling. The concept of semi automatic would’ve come about faster even without the invention of air guns beforehand, simply because the manufacturing knowledge would be more widespread when they first came about in the 1600s, and be adopted faster by militaries. But if air guns existed before, it’s possible they could have semiautomatic rifles only decades after the introduction of gunpowder to the west. This would lead to literally almost a thousand years of 19th-early 20th century style warfare mixed with the aesthetics and politics of those times. The period of knights in plate armor when guns were on the battlefield wouldnt be a short blip of history. Then as manufacturing increases, even if they don’t come upon modern computing, they would have tubes eventually, and be able to make much more advanced tubes and tube based technologies. Almost steam punk.
The Bible is truth. Please do these four steps to understand that. They have an accumulative healing effect on your soul. Forgive your parents, break down before Jesus Christ, ask for forgiveness, and read Genesis Mathew and one book you chose yourself. I’m serious. The Bible is truth. Jesus Christ is lord.
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@@jamesman6668 Clowns tell jokes, like the horse you rode in on. I am a guide along the path. Someone who’s been to the end and back. Jesus Christ is the ultimate truth. That’s what you’ll find inside your heart if you opened it up. The key is forgiveness. Our parents specifically, because they’ve loved us to some degree, they’re supposed to be the easiest people for anyone to forgive. That step out on faith shows a lot. Forgiveness means there’s love in your heart. It heals a part of your soul that keeps you blind to the spiritual realm. That’s what makes everything click. After genuinely doing your inner healing, you learn things that make the next steps make more sense. They have an accumulative healing effect on your soul. Step two is breaking down before Jesus Christ. Bare your soul in prayer. Be honest, genuinely submit to the possibility God is real and he loves you. Then ask for forgiveness. Afterwards, all it really takes to understand the important things are three books of the Bible, basically a couple dozen pages. Genesis Mathew and one you chose yourself. These four steps are all it takes to realize what all who seek find, Jesus Christ is Lord.
British Empire learned Rocket Technology from Tipu Sultan tiger of Mysore India, muslim sultan who helped finance the American Revolution against his enemy the British empire with silver and gold he also donated War Ships The Ahmedabad and Hyderabad plus 2 more ships, top allied of Thomas Jefferson
Arquebus, French pronouncement of the German/Dutch word Hakenbuß/Harkenbußé meaning hook canon/Hook-Gun. In which is hung "like an amulet" from a riveted or welded ring on the knight's chest plate. So he may then lift, stuff, & fire with-in seconds. Primitive but indeed effective.
As I understand the matter English Merchants were also 'short changing' colonists in the America's by means of reducing the capacity of the standard one gallon keg used for trade. Because of such dishonesty customers were not getting full value for their money and as a result the US has maintained it's gallon at a smaller volume than the Imperial gallon ever since.
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15:20 Actually the Atlatl punched right through Spanish Armor..... Cortés was ambushed in Tenochtitlán and barely escaped with his life, In order to conquer the city Cortés returned with an army made up of natives, enemy tribes and victims of the Aztecs.
17:31 Ahh, (arrgh?!) pirates! Always looking for bright new dresses to steal. Here we see them, noticing how well that lady's crimson outfit would go with their curtains, snatching this poor innocent soul, to drag her off, where they can take her garment away and add it to their wardrobe. She'll catch a chill, you monsters! You fine-dressed monsters!!
Funny! During the 14 hundreds blacksmiths were capable to craft breach loading "handguns" for lords of course (Those who could afford it) but it was a possibility. In the 12 & 13 hundred the Germans (Of Course) made a canon with a breach loading ability. Designed with a mug shaped shell loaded with an Iron ball round and powder before placed in the canon's Breach. And it would be prept with 6 to 10 rounds(Mugs) ready to load, Fire, change, clean, reload, place in, then repeat. Not saying this to be "in your face" just a cool history fact.
The American Wsr for Independence ended in 1783. The French Revolution started in 1789 and Napoleon rose to power in 1798, IIRC. The English and the French were, undoubtedly, fighting somewhere because that's what they did at the time.
We were among the least taxed areas of the Empire and yes, the British did offer to give us some representatives in the House of Commons. If we had stayed, WW1 and WW2 would not have happened as Britain would be too formidable for Germany to challenge. We also could have served as her army, allowing Britain to build even more ships and keep colonial soldiers in England. If we had stayed in the Empire, however, we would all be speaking English.
Yeh, naw buddy, I prefer to speak my English without an English accent. And as far as the world wars not happening, I don’t see how you come to that conclusion. And also, fuck taxes in general, I mean you say we where “the least taxed in the empire” while I disagree with that, I don’t have any numbers in front of me to prove my point so I’ll just say I disagree and leave it at that, but that being said, who cares if we where “the least taxed”?? I’m pretty sure the taxation without representation was only part of the reason for declaring independence I mean the MAIN reason was because king George was a tyrant and we where ALL living under tyrannical rule by a tyrannical monarchy that wanted us to be nothing more than subjects and tax money contributors. So what exactly are you trying to say? You’d rather us all be flying Union Jacks? You think we should have stayed under British rule? I’m glad we aren’t, I’m glad we declared independence and revolted. Now we are (pretty sure at least in MOST respects) one if the most powerful countries in the world. And also one if the most free. A lot of people disagree but imo any country where the people have and bear arms is a free country. And the fact that our constitution solidifies that right among others in concrete, yeh I feel like the US is a pretty damn free country.
@@Nebulasecura your right but it’s not just because of current events and the current political climate and things going on, what’s about to happen has been coming for decades.. I (and no one else I know that feels like I do) don’t want violence. WE REALLY don’t want violence but I’m afraid the point of no return has come and gone YEARS ago, it’s been building and building really since the War of Northern Aggression ended (civil war if your a damn yankee l) I mean just look at what’s going on with the election. The half of the country that didn’t vote for Biden is pretty much being told we don’t matter, get over it, fraud hell or high water Biden is the next president and no matter how much you expose the LITERAL FUCKIN FRAUD and corruption in the Democratic Party and in this election, it doesn’t matter, he still won. They are now alienating and disenfranchising literally half of the country right now and it’s only a matter of time until this thing goes hot. All that being said I didn’t vote for trump I voted libertarian but I’m just as pissed because A LOT of votes got stolen, switched, changed (whatever you wanna call it it doesn’t matter, it’s fraud all the same) from Jo Jorgensen too to keep her from breaking the 5% cap and given to Biden. And if/when they actually try to go through with this whole thing and prop Biden up and actually nominate him as president at the end of this month regardless of how much evidence we have shown if it being fraudulent and then cheating, well... We aren’t going to just give it to em, they are going to have to take it, by force if necessary. And that’s just all there is too it my friend.. Stay safe and keep your ear to the ground and you powder dry, some shit is about to GO DOWN!!!!
@@jordannewsom4578 Amen. George Washington was certainly very right when he warned of the consequences of these political parties, and now his prediction has almost uncannily come true. And while I don’t consider Trump to be the easiest president to talk about, its absolutely absurd how much disrespect and anti-American the media has been. I believe in a just and fair election, this was the total opposite of what the founding fathers intended for this republic. Indeed we must stock up and be ready for either another war between these political ideologies, or another Revolution. This makes the red scare of the 20th century look tame in comparison. I consider the American war between north and south not as a civil war, but as an unavoidable tragedy that resulted in the tragic loss of hundreds of thousands of men. Regardless of their cause, they died for their beliefs and should be honored, regardless of which side they were on.
Privateer: noun; morally courageous teams of patriots, aiding their nation by hindering Her enemies' activities and profits, and paying taxes. Piracy: verb; when a brutal and immoral cut-throat gang goes about bullying and stealing, but doesn't pay taxes.
its funny how documentaries like this were super boring in school, but now i find myself bingewatching these lmfao
I can relate😂
i don’t care if this video is 30 minutes long i will still watch
i like this and im 9
Hehe I'm kinda on the other side of this, we always had those weird 80's early 90's reject reel slow national geographic style, hollowed unenthusiastic voiced narrator going on about all the uninteresting parts of a volcano or literally put you to bed cultural cruise type ones exploring old dark alleyways studying random things... I enjoyed this type documentary or the occasional ancient Rome history documentaries... We did get a few "tales of the gun" and "how the west was won" in highschool sometimes, even civil war journal a couple times... It's all different now though LOL, poor kids today, haha and I thought I had it bad.. it's really a shame
Different F'in world now.
Off topic... We had a crazy mom type manic middle aged teacher in "home heeeck!" As I called it who made us was a few tv recorded "little house on the prairie" clips about random life facts and having these skills she was " trying to impart to us, hopefully willing minds"... 😂 LMAO I think back now and wonder if that crazy loon was stoned outta her mind half the time... Sewing pillows and little quilts and mending "practice bears" lol! Then baking brownies hahahaha 🤣
@@charlotteh6068 that's awesome, keep learning all you want. Then learn more, and when you think you have researched enough... Yup! Do some more... I ended up at 13 kinda interning with the seamstress at a dry cleaners all because I got obsessed with 18th and 19th century uniforms and clothes and my dad wouldn't buy a kid all those uniforms so I chose to make them and I do it still 16 years later for all kinds of people
These are the type of documentaries I miss these days. It's a real history lesson.
Unlike school they show u a small clip of a town being slaughtered
There's all sorts of docs everywhere what are you talking about
@@chocciemliki7910 fr school will take a whole unit which would prolly take at least two weeks when you can just watch a video and be just as informed
I miss the McRib
Agreed, if this was on the history channel today, it would be "how aliens made guns".
“Before there could be guns, there first must be gunpowder” a lot deeper than it should be
how? could you explain?
@@logi-operations if you don’t get it than explaining it probably would confuse you more tbh
@@jennatalls8722 i imagine you wearing a monocle
He's right you know , it is deep
It’s like pepper, but the sneeze is lethal
0:50
The lion is like 'oh shit, they got guns.'
Now these are the type of documentaries I wish we had. I could binge watch these all day.
First known firing of any type of gun in England was 1304, the English fired a Kraken, short barrell on a pole at the Scots. First illustration of a piece of ordnance occurs in a treatise by one Walter de Millemete entitled De Officiis Regum (On the Duties of Kings). Dated 1326, it is preserved in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. The gun was called a vaso from the Italian for a vase which it closely resembled. The Gunner is pictured in the act of firing the piece by inserting a red-hot iron into the vent. The projectile leaving the muzzle was a species of arrow known as a dart, carreau or quarrel. The gun has no carriage; it simply lies on a trestle table in this drawing and others they are aimed at doorways. In 1346 the English were using tubes fixed on a rack, called a Ribaldequin, loaded with gunpowder and lead pellots at the French at the Battle of Crecy 1399 Richard 11 took Pole Guns on his invasion of Ireland, not known how many but there were 35 Handgonnes were recorded to be in the Tower of London at the time.
As a point of reference firearms were not recorded a Muskets untill 1527, first record of a matchlock musket. At this time guns started to be named after Birds of Prey, Falcon Saker, Robin and Musquette (French for a Male Sparrowhawk) which is where we got the word Musket.
That was nicely and concisely informative. Thank you very much, for this knowledge. :-)
Thank you for informing me and giving me more knowledge kind sir
It’s true I was there
Not true. It dates back way before than that and it was in China
Dude I literally just looked up “First time England saw a gun” and this video popped up. I think UA-cam was leading me to ur comment Bc it’s exactly what I was looking for!!
Evil does not reside in the GUN, it resides in the heart of the person who uses it.
Gotta love the original content you guys put out
The gun history Carrie's with world history oriental,European and u s history ad well and it is refreshing as I recall SUBJECTS I learned in my h.s and college ;about the past that it projected especially theimposition of unreasonable taxes. The Boston tea party where there was a massacre . And also the three musketeers.
Im high asf eating peanut butter watching this
Lol
funny how the chinese were searching for immortality and found the thing that took you away from life with a single spark
Last time I was this early the colonies were still under British rule!
This is really well made
Gunpowder ingredients:
1. Coal (it is the fuel, but will not burn fast enough), so you add....
2. Sulfur (to accelerate burning), but now it's so fast that the air is not enough to it,
3. Saltpeter (potassium nitrate, KNO3) --> to provide oxygen for the rapid burning;
Is it true by providing different carbon sources, would change the behaviors of the powder?
@@calonarang7378 I think they burned specific woods for better results, so yes. Note: I have no personal experience with these things, only what I read in the internet.
Narrator said about gunpowder, "foul smelling black smoke". I love the smell of gunpowder smoke.
I love history. Real history
It should be noted that these German gunsmiths learned hiw to make rifles in Europe. The Germans and other European armies employed jaeger units armed with rifles before the Revolution., and Hessian mercenaries like my ancestors operated as jaegers during that war.
Yep, and the Jaeger had the same origins as the American Rifleman - 'Jaeger' translates literally to 'hunter' and resulted from German experiments in organizing units of elite marksmen who were familiar with the terrain, to range ahead of the army and pick off enemy troops.
These tactics were also understood by the colonial French in the Caribbean and Southern America during the 17th century. The boucaniers used 6-7ft long guns to hunt for wild pigs and cattle. The marksmanship and familiarity of these men with even with the smoothebore muskets, made them fearsome opponents for the Spanish on Hispaniola. When the English arrived in the region, they made allies of these French (mostly dispossessed Huguenots) to use as scouts, to hunt victuals, and as marksmen during their raids.
Notice how “ The British” at Lexington had “ British “ accents in this video , and “ The Americans” had “ American” accents. In fact of course , those on both sides were British at the time and both sides would have had similar sounding accents. Time plays tricks with folk memory.
This is far from true, American colonies had their own language and speech for long before
Well the redcoat regulars brought over for the war would have had british accents.
What we think of today as the "proper British accent" is, from what I've heard, a modern thing. Fwiw, the "British accent" of the 1700s wasn't that different from the modern American speech.
@@wreckitron no
@@johnmullholand2044 not true
Damn, muskets were really the original “switches”🤣🤣🤣🤦🏾♂️
Love it man hated watching it in school tho
22:20 You need to give two calibers for all smoothbore muskets, you can't just say "The Brown Bess was about .75 caliber". The shot has a smaller caliber than the bore, in order to make loading as easy as possible. In the case of the Brown Bess the calibers are 0.75 for the bore, 0.69 for the shot.
23:00 Some nuance is needed in describing the accuracy of smoothbore muskets, because yes, they were extremely inaccurate. But that is "extremely inaccurate" by modern standards. I often get the impression that people think of musket accuracy as being about the same as the shot spread of a video game shotgun, when in fact no weapon in history has ever been so inaccurate as that. Some number might provide more context. Contemporary writers seemed to consider about 75 yards to be the point target effective range for a smoothbore musket (not that they would have used that exact terminology), meaning that about 75 yards is about the range that they expect a single shooter to be able to hit a single man-sized target (although, with an accuracy of ~30 arcminutes (0.5 degrees), about 50 meters is about the distance at which a perfectly aimed musket will put every shot inside a 40cm circle (the average width of a human from shoulder to shoulder is a bit over 40cm)). They considered the "battle range" (the distance at which a battalion of troops could effectively engage an opposing battalion formed in close order, roughly equivalent to the modern concept of "area target effective range") of a smoothbore musket to be about 200 yards. Depending on the type of musket and how well maintained it is it would have an accuracy of around 24-36 arcminutes (0.4 degrees to 0.6 degrees, at 100 meters that gives an impact area from 0.7 meters-1.05 meters wide). For comparison, the minimum acceptable accuracy for a modern military rifle is about 4 arcminutes (0.067 degrees, at 100 meters that gives an impact area just under 12cm wide), with some military rifles achieving an accuracy of 2 arcminutes (0.033 degrees, giving a 6cm impact area at 100 meters). But of course they did not have modern rifles to compare them with at the time, so they likely would not have thought of smoothbore muskets as being particularly inaccurate.
24:08 A good soldier get get off 3 AIMED shots in a minute. I too have seen people achieve 4 or 5 shots in a minute, but those shots are not being aimed at a target (they were shooting for speed only, sometimes even using unrealistic range gimmicks like holding extra cartridges between the fingers of the right hand).
24:25 0.69 caliber bore, 0.65 caliber shot.
26:12 Technically a rifled barrel only fires a bullet more accurately. A smoothbore can shoot exactly as far, but there isn't as much point in firing at those distances since there isn't a high enough probability of actually hitting something. So a rifled barrel has a longer "effective range", but the effective range is dictated by accuracy, not by a hard limit on how far the shot can actually travel.
This guy gets it!
Nice
Then theres the total amount of powder and quality of powder used. Manufacturer states for my 50 max is 110 grs ffg. Given lack of powder and people already making their own. Army used to go by penetration of a 3/4 pine board as being considered effective range. I use that standard😁
The Ottoman (Islamic State) Caliphate defeated the Holy Roman Byzantine empire using Canons and muskets turned Christiandom Constantinople into Istanbul. They were the first to put canons on ships.
14:47 "what do you mean, 'get in the sea,'? It's a great hat!"
"God says no, now bugger off, you feathery show-off..."
This series SHOULD be called the history of firearms. They spend 1/10th the time actually talking about the design of the firearms...
Thanks I plan to use this as a primary resource for my research and evolution of guns
Don''t a lot of facts are incorrect.
@@desthomas8747 what facts?
@@rogermirano2541 For example that "guerrilla tactics were unknown for the Europeans" and "rifles were the truly American made guns" this is truly incorrect, there were rifled guns (aka rifles) in Europe well before they were made in America
"The spirally grooved gun barrel is considered German in origin, invented by Augustus Kotter of Nuremberg circa 1520"
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@@jamesmayle3787 I’m Muslim, so don’t waste your time, Issa wasn’t ever Lord, he’s a prophet of Allah, same as Mosa and Mohammed
Look up my last name, and Prophet Mohammed’s name, You’ll see ( No I’m not related to him )
Gotta love the accents they give the messages that resemble what their actual Accent would have been and that they do re-enactments of the fighta
THEY ARE TURNING THE FROGS GAY!!!
RIP David Carradine. He was a great narrator as was Charlton Heston.
"these weapons were valued by militaries, but also by less reputable groups"
Me when hearing the music: ..The Irish?
Great work! How does this only have 11k views after almost 8 weeks with 200k subscribers?
Because it's about guns. Also, its 30 minutes or so and some may not want to sit through 30+ minutes. But UA-cam has a thing against guns also.
UA-cam bans likes for political reasons.
Algorithm bullshit
UA-cam ghost bans firearms related content.
As an Assasins Creed Fan this is why i was so intrigued to see this documentary from how They went from the early flintlocks in italy during ezio lifetime
To the muskets and flintlock upgradea in AC3 AC4 and Rogue and Unity
Then how they develop rifles in AC Syndicate and the first ever puckle gattling guns
In the late 1860s
And also a mafia fan
To seeing the prohibition WW1 guns in Mafia 1 to the WW2 Mafia 2 Tommy guns and Revolver upgrades and shotguns
And first ever snipers
In Mafia 3 during the late 60s during vietnam times
Along with battlefield and COD WW2 and world at war and black op games
What?! The comcept of snipers and rifles was round way before the Vietnam war
Our Revolutionary War had its seeds in the English Civil War, IMO.
Many of the Puritans who settled New England were supporters of Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads,
and thus were against Royal Authority, and even against the very idea of Monarchy.
New Englanders, I don't think, were ever comfortable with rule by an English King.
So, they picked on issues to express their opposition.
I think the taxation and representation issues were smoke screens for the real issues that grated
which was "rule by a king".
The same could be said of the French Revolution, the Glorious Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. Though much less celebrated, the English Civil War probably served as their main precedent. But the problem with the Parliamentarian victory was a classical one: the idealistic Cromwell soon became a tyrant/despot/autocrat himself. The English people hated his theocracy and reverted back to the crown. Washington was aware of that, and carefully avoided Cromwell's later course of action.
@@casper-z9rkls6gl Very true. Social movements, anti-monarchist ideas were all connected, and influenced each other.
And, yes, Cromwell became a dictator.
His Puritan thinking is what made him a dictator.
The Puritans in New England in 1600's were intolerant. Capital crime to be Catholic, or Quaker, or just different sometimes.
History is interesting.
@@craigkdillon Hence,the difference between Southern & yankee way of thinking!!!
@@carywest9256 Southern colonies had different reasons for supporting separation from England.
There were no descendants of Roundheads in the southern colonies. They were settled and controlled by Cavaliers (second/third sons who got very little in inheritance under primogeniture) who left England to seek their fortunes.
The plantation economy created its own reasons for separation.
@@carywest9256 BTW... if you want to better understand why the people of the old south, and the north think differently, and how that came to be ...I recommend the book, "Seeds Of Albion" by David Hackett Fischer.
It is one of the best history books I have ever read. I hope you find it interesting.
Great film 👍🏼
Thank you!
Wait 0:42 the Gun 2??? I didn't know they came out with a second one! I thought this was about the original kind!!
Interesting stuff.
Dawg the chinese with those explosive arrows be like: THE MAGIC OF THE GRAND FIRE DRAGON
Good job
The spear thing reminded me of the first torpedoes which were just hanging on a long stick. Ships would come close and poke one another.
Roger's Rangers are the original Special Operations unit in North America, and eventually inspired both the SAS of Britain, and eventually the US Army Rangers. Finally, the US Special Forces (Green Berets) would adopt the crossed arrows as their insignia, recognizing the incredible contribution of Native American training for the original Special Operations guerilla tactics.
Just amazing👍
Thank you very much 😑🙏🏼
This should be in every school in America.
I know it would take more time and effort to have someone narrate/ read out this info. I am glad I found your video as the info on it is just what I was looking for. I just found learning about this subject in your video so abrasive. The A.I. voice is so unpleasant, and I think you would get a lot more people watching with a natural voice. Good information though👍. Thanks
Is that the Shellshock menu music in the intro??
I love history hence the making of this song, Come listen now.
Excellent presentation; thank you...
10:45 is just the finding out after fucking around lmfao
How brave someone has to be to stand infront of people shooting at them in a open field and no cover
From my parents World Book Encyclopedia, I carve knowledge always.
Awesome
First thanks so much and second from where do you take the shots from the revolutionary war I would like to see the movie or documentary tnx
LionHeart FilmWorks how do you convert firearms into non-firearm weapons anyway?
If you need someone to help you mix the audio, I will be happy to help.
The master's volume has been pushed into outer space. Sound normalization and compression are not difficult.
Give this guy a sub..he's so close to the 200k..😊🇬🇧
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I got an ad for the NRA, I feel like that’s appropriate
I got a barbecue ad
I’ve been trying to think of different concepts for an alternate history. If the Roman Empire didn’t fall or there were no dark ages, and manufacturing and scientific knowledge never declined or stagnated, then the evolution of firearms would be very different. It would still take past the year 1000 for gunpowder to come about, but more elaborate cross bows and possibly even air gun type technology might’ve come about before the introduction of gunpowder, and that would lead to an even faster evolution of firearms because they would already have the basic concept down, and possibly even rifling. The concept of semi automatic would’ve come about faster even without the invention of air guns beforehand, simply because the manufacturing knowledge would be more widespread when they first came about in the 1600s, and be adopted faster by militaries. But if air guns existed before, it’s possible they could have semiautomatic rifles only decades after the introduction of gunpowder to the west. This would lead to literally almost a thousand years of 19th-early 20th century style warfare mixed with the aesthetics and politics of those times. The period of knights in plate armor when guns were on the battlefield wouldnt be a short blip of history.
Then as manufacturing increases, even if they don’t come upon modern computing, they would have tubes eventually, and be able to make much more advanced tubes and tube based technologies. Almost steam punk.
I wonder if they’ll bring up the jezail? Those were beautiful old guns
Indeed.
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Awesome 👍👍👍👍
Only 200 years ago people used muskets. How far have we come in that short of time?!
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@@jamesmayle3787 What a clown
@@jamesman6668 Clowns tell jokes, like the horse you rode in on.
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Jesus Christ is Lord.
I thought that Robert Rodgers was the father of the first rangers
You are correct, and to this day U.S. Army Ranger School students are required to memorize his Standing Orders.
I’d say Benjamin Church was. King Philips war and queen annes war a bit before Rogers.
People’s library army of the Chinese communist party is best known for the guerrilla fighting style.
No audio 🔇
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Love your work, thnks
12:57
Just remembering where im at
25:50 😂
Nothing smells so good as the smell of gun powder in the early morning.
Idk how to feel about a powwow song playing in this lmao
I diddnt see no maxim gun in that opening.
British Empire learned Rocket Technology from Tipu Sultan tiger of Mysore India, muslim sultan who helped finance the American Revolution against his enemy the British empire with silver and gold he also donated War Ships The Ahmedabad and Hyderabad plus 2 more ships, top allied of Thomas Jefferson
Cool.
Imagine someone breaking into your house and you whip out the 13th century hand cannon w/ a beam 🫣🔥
Barrel riffling was invented in Augsburg in 1498 ☝️🤣😂
He didn't say it was invented at the time he was speaking about it. He said it had long known at the time the Americans were making there rifles.
Hey, that’s a few years before that one battle where people learned how good guns were! Great timing.
16:24 It is written as it is spelled, it is not the same thing.
Hello from Bosnia and Hercegovina pozz ppn vitezovi
where is episode 6 and 7
What’s y’all’s favorite gun?
5:11 A small touchhole lol
the “Aquabus” come one guys, seriously? 😂
Arquebus, French pronouncement of the German/Dutch word Hakenbuß/Harkenbußé meaning hook canon/Hook-Gun. In which is hung "like an amulet" from a riveted or welded ring on the knight's chest plate. So he may then lift, stuff, & fire with-in seconds. Primitive but indeed effective.
God created man. Sam made them equal. But John Moses made American's Automatically Superior! B.A.R.
Not always are Crossbows are slower .
love the accent
As I understand the matter English Merchants were also 'short changing' colonists in the America's by means of reducing the capacity of the standard one gallon keg used for trade.
Because of such dishonesty customers were not getting full value for their money and as a result the US has maintained it's gallon at a smaller volume than the Imperial gallon ever since.
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There is evidence of snap lock flint weapons dated from 1520s in portugal
10:12 AMONG US
IKR
15:20 Actually the Atlatl punched right through Spanish Armor..... Cortés was ambushed in Tenochtitlán and barely escaped with his life, In order to conquer the city Cortés returned with an army made up of natives, enemy tribes and victims of the Aztecs.
17:31 Ahh, (arrgh?!) pirates! Always looking for bright new dresses to steal. Here we see them, noticing how well that lady's crimson outfit would go with their curtains, snatching this poor innocent soul, to drag her off, where they can take her garment away and add it to their wardrobe. She'll catch a chill, you monsters! You fine-dressed monsters!!
During th Brown Bess loading you forgot to Half Cock the musket and forgot to put the ball down the barrell.
i like this and 🙃
21:57 this guy speaks as if he just did a FAT shot of fentanyl
25:17 the only black guy in the line thinking "just act like you fired, just act like you fired, just fit in"
Why Irish music for the age of piracy?
09:00 That’s an AR15
Liberals be like
Why can I watch this when I’m at home with great interest but find it boring when I am in school?
Foul smelling black smoke? I respectfully disagree.
Man is not as wise as he thinks he is. It took 3 to 4 centuries for man to make breech loading from muzzle loading gun.
Funny! During the 14 hundreds blacksmiths were capable to craft breach loading "handguns" for lords of course (Those who could afford it) but it was a possibility.
In the 12 & 13 hundred the Germans (Of Course) made a canon with a breach loading ability. Designed with a mug shaped shell loaded with an Iron ball round and powder before placed in the canon's Breach. And it would be prept with 6 to 10 rounds(Mugs) ready to load, Fire, change, clean, reload, place in, then repeat.
Not saying this to be "in your face" just a cool history fact.
And don't forget that the war of independence happened at the same time as the war with France and Napoleon, making it harder for the english
The American Wsr for Independence ended in 1783. The French Revolution started in 1789 and Napoleon rose to power in 1798, IIRC.
The English and the French were, undoubtedly, fighting somewhere because that's what they did at the time.
the first mass produced guns were implemented by ottomons and mughals as early as 1350 and 1526 resoectively your content is europe centric .
more like American centric :D
We were among the least taxed areas of the Empire and yes, the British did offer to give us some representatives in the House of Commons. If we had stayed, WW1 and WW2 would not have happened as Britain would be too formidable for Germany to challenge. We also could have served as her army, allowing Britain to build even more ships and keep colonial soldiers in England. If we had stayed in the Empire, however, we would all be speaking English.
Yeh, naw buddy, I prefer to speak my English without an English accent. And as far as the world wars not happening, I don’t see how you come to that conclusion. And also, fuck taxes in general, I mean you say we where “the least taxed in the empire” while I disagree with that, I don’t have any numbers in front of me to prove my point so I’ll just say I disagree and leave it at that, but that being said, who cares if we where “the least taxed”?? I’m pretty sure the taxation without representation was only part of the reason for declaring independence I mean the MAIN reason was because king George was a tyrant and we where ALL living under tyrannical rule by a tyrannical monarchy that wanted us to be nothing more than subjects and tax money contributors. So what exactly are you trying to say? You’d rather us all be flying Union Jacks? You think we should have stayed under British rule? I’m glad we aren’t, I’m glad we declared independence and revolted. Now we are (pretty sure at least in MOST respects) one if the most powerful countries in the world. And also one if the most free. A lot of people disagree but imo any country where the people have and bear arms is a free country. And the fact that our constitution solidifies that right among others in concrete, yeh I feel like the US is a pretty damn free country.
@@jordannewsom4578 at the rate the political system is going here though, that time may be in jeopardy soon.
@@Nebulasecura your right but it’s not just because of current events and the current political climate and things going on, what’s about to happen has been coming for decades.. I (and no one else I know that feels like I do) don’t want violence. WE REALLY don’t want violence but I’m afraid the point of no return has come and gone YEARS ago, it’s been building and building really since the War of Northern Aggression ended (civil war if your a damn yankee l) I mean just look at what’s going on with the election. The half of the country that didn’t vote for Biden is pretty much being told we don’t matter, get over it, fraud hell or high water Biden is the next president and no matter how much you expose the LITERAL FUCKIN FRAUD and corruption in the Democratic Party and in this election, it doesn’t matter, he still won. They are now alienating and disenfranchising literally half of the country right now and it’s only a matter of time until this thing goes hot. All that being said I didn’t vote for trump I voted libertarian but I’m just as pissed because A LOT of votes got stolen, switched, changed (whatever you wanna call it it doesn’t matter, it’s fraud all the same) from Jo Jorgensen too to keep her from breaking the 5% cap and given to Biden. And if/when they actually try to go through with this whole thing and prop Biden up and actually nominate him as president at the end of this month regardless of how much evidence we have shown if it being fraudulent and then cheating, well... We aren’t going to just give it to em, they are going to have to take it, by force if necessary. And that’s just all there is too it my friend.. Stay safe and keep your ear to the ground and you powder dry, some shit is about to GO DOWN!!!!
@@jordannewsom4578 Amen. George Washington was certainly very right when he warned of the consequences of these political parties, and now his prediction has almost uncannily come true. And while I don’t consider Trump to be the easiest president to talk about, its absolutely absurd how much disrespect and anti-American the media has been. I believe in a just and fair election, this was the total opposite of what the founding fathers intended for this republic. Indeed we must stock up and be ready for either another war between these political ideologies, or another Revolution. This makes the red scare of the 20th century look tame in comparison. I consider the American war between north and south not as a civil war, but as an unavoidable tragedy that resulted in the tragic loss of hundreds of thousands of men. Regardless of their cause, they died for their beliefs and should be honored, regardless of which side they were on.
Don't y'all remember that America started as a Dutch colony, if the Netherlands never gave America to England the world would be very different
Privateer: noun; morally courageous teams of patriots, aiding their nation by hindering Her enemies' activities and profits, and paying taxes.
Piracy: verb; when a brutal and immoral cut-throat gang goes about bullying and stealing, but doesn't pay taxes.
My man don’t work for forensic files no more ??
11:03 Peter griffin
Some chinese say ming invent flintlock ?
Is that true, they even say qing dynasty invent the earliest machine gun.