Battle of Edgehill 1642 DOCUMENTARY (English Civil War)
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The Battle of Edgehill took place on October 23rd 1642, and was the first major field battle of the English Civil War- a conflict which transformed Britain.
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Addaway okay!
Great order-of-battle doc. My direct ancestor, Thomas Sheppard, was in Balfour's Lifeguard Regiment on the left which moved to the rear. The Lifeguard Regiment followed the Lobsters in their late charge that broke the center line of the Royalists. He was later captured at Oxenton and held for 5 weeks before making his escape. Bedford, in charge of the horse for Parliament, went over to the Royalist side after this and participated in their siege of Gloucester.
Whoever would've won on that day, whether Essex or Charles, they would've been declared...
...The Edgelord.
2 edgy 4 me
I grew up in Powick opposite the church and you can still see musket ball holes in the side of the building, so awesome to see the history represented :)
Brilliant work - the scene setting was particularly excellent.
You have a fantastic commentary voice for historical event I love it!
Thank you very much!
If you're enjoyed this video, please do consider sharing it and so on; I enjoy making these kinds and would love for them to reach more people who are interested in this kind of thing.
Also, while I'm here let me point out a minor factual error- I got the towns of Tewkesbury and Shrewsbury confused in my notes at some point while writing the script for this- Shrewsbury is most certainly not in the Severn Valley!
Thanks for watching guys
I hadn't done anything on the civil war until I took a module this year (I'm in my third year of university), and had no idea how much went on in my local area. Going to have more videos on it soon. Thanks for watching mate
Sound narrative - well done.
Great video 👍
As always it was a pleasure for me to watch!
glad to be of service!
Just found this channel, love the video! This period is in dire need of more attention. I hope you do more of this kind of thing, seems like a step away from the rest of your content but it's very well done!
+Mr Sniffles Thanks for watching man! Going forwards I'm looking to make this history series my main piece of content, so I'm glad you liked it.
I am going to be doing more on the civil war as well; next video will be out on 25th Nov and will cover the events around Bristol in 1643
Good video and voiceover. Hope to see more. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice vid keep them coming 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you!
Good content.
Wilhelm scream - nice XD
are you 12 years old?
Been waiting for an English civil war video.
omg hi
glad to be of service :)
good vid...thanks
It's a lot of work I know, but I live near to the Hopton Heath civil war battle site, do you plan of doing any more civil war battle videos describing the troop movements?
Awesome
I didn't know how this battle would turn out but for about the first half it had an eerie resemblance to Cannae
Wow, the Parliamentarians got absurdly lucky that almost the entire Royalist cavalry, despite being so good in a fight, were so poorly disciplined and led. It's mind-boggling--they defeated the inferior enemy cavalry, and assumed the battle was effectively won--which it WOULD HAVE BEEN, if they had continued to fight instead of chased after fleeing troops and looting. It really is insane--they didn't even try to go after the enemy's last cavalry and its commanders, vulnerable as they were.
It was also kind of dumb for the Parliamentarians to not reinforce their musketmen to prevent them from being dislodged by dragoons.
It was also somewhat dumb for the Parliamentarians to risk being caught in battle when they had substantial reinforcements on the way--but not yet arrived. Concentration of force is important, and if with a distinct numbers and supply advantage on their side, it was the Parliamentarians' war to lose with that kind of battle.
+SaltyWaffles The Royalist Cavalry’s ill-discipline was a recurring the civil war, but I supposed what you do have to consider is the battlefields are much larger than we imagine them to be, so the cavalry might have been fighting up to half a mile from the main battle line; in the heat of the moment they assume the battle is won and chase after.
Well, the reason the Parliamentarians were so eager to join battle is that they were getting constant panicky messages from Parliament urging them to stop the King from marching straight down to London and capturing it. Holding London was incredibly important for the Parliamentarians and they undoubtedly would have lost the war had the King captured it.
Lions led by donkeys, as always.
This is early in the civil war, few of the participants were professional soldiers. Many were poorly trained local militia of which there is a story of a military exercise where one rank of musketeers shot down their own front rank!!
Welcome to time commanders?
I have to assume you watched that, because I so called you ending the intro with "The english civil war has begun." It's totally their setup! XD I was kind of expecting to see total war on the screen. Still, brilliant commentary style.
I used to love Time Commanders as a kid- great show!
It’s retry amazing that the parliamentary forces recovered from that initial cavalry charge
Hi, I was wondering about the role of the artillery in this battle. Also I was confused by the picture used for artillery as it is wheel and not a gun.
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Just discovered this channel
wooooo big up Kineton
i heard him scream don’t try to hide it
Will or can you move your old history movies to your new channel? They are so hard to find on this channel
So far as I know there is no way to ‘move’ a video from one channel to another.
Do you have a playlist of your English Civil War videos? they are very entertaining and informative.
Wooo king found a good home in York.
Given the obvious superiority of the royalist cavalry, why not mix the parliamentarian cavalry with pike infantry? Was the concept of combined arms not developed at this point? I thought it had been about a decade earlier.
Thanks.... I guess I could have read this stuff, but I would never have got round to it. Why we weren't taught all this in school I just don't know.
I too find the lack of Civil War teaching in school to be a shame
John Pym did a lot to escalate the situation. He had several of Charles' advisers impeached and one(the Earl of Strafford) executed, he threatened the royal family at one point to get Charles to sign the execution order for Strafford, and after the failed coup he demanded that the king hand over control of the military to him. When Charles refused Pym raised an army to force the king to give in. At which point Charles raised his own army.
The war began on 22 August 1642, and Pym died on 8 December 1643, so he was still very much alive.
Pym made sure Laud got the chop too.
!! Why on earth did they stay stationary? Counter charge is the simplest thing of all time surely
" Counter charge is the simplest thing of all time surely"
And always results in a win right? 100% .... jesus
*Kekel Man* Of course not. But if you counter charge, at least you're unit is moving and maneuvering too, making for a less easy target.
"Of course not. But if you counter charge, at least you're unit is moving and maneuvering too, making for a less easy target."
Are you serious?
You are charging the enemy and this is supposed to minimize losses because you are "making for a less easy target" ?
I hope this is some kind of cringy attempt to troll me.
Kekel Man The fact that you reacted so aggressively and you're not even thinking about the positive impact of counter charging is pretty cringy to me.
"you're not even thinking about the positive impact of counter charging"
Nice straw man.
But you are fine with the argument "you are a less easy target" as if charging the enemy is going to minimize losses.
Well then teach this new solution at military academies I am sure this will go well.
Ah yes, the English Civil War. The very reason why the British have never been very keen to get rid of the monarchy again...
So King Geroge III was king in name only? I thought he was the one to set up Constitutional Monarchy. My source is a BBC (official voice of GB) documentary.
BBC George III The Genius Of The Mad King
. It has been time since I've watch it. I may just be remembering it wrong. You know us Americans with ole Georgie 3.
*Britannian civil war or war of the three kingdom
Nicely done, but a shame a lot of the details are circa "Shell guide to battles 1974" and the battlefield interpretation is now well out of date. I'm always amazed at how much Victoriana about this battle persistently lives on in "modern" accounts (including the battlefield orientation). But an excellent general guide to the battle and very watchable. Thank you!
Most of the details for this battle come from Peter Gaunt’s recent military history of the civil war, in addition to articles from the Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, which iirc is also quite recent.
I’d be interested to read things that contradict what I’ve read before if you have any recommendations
Same thing happened at naseby too.
It seems to have been a theme yeah- really emphasises how important the discipline the New Model Army instilled was to its success
Why would he go through Banbury? Tis a horrible place.
True, should've gone through Stratford instead
They were Banburying
The first English civil war? Does the fight between Stephen and Matilda (The Anarchy) not count nor the War of the Roses? What was the civil war after this war for it to be 'first'? The Gloriious Revolution? Is confusing!
I believe the The Anarchy and Wars of the Roses aren't considered 'civil wars' because of their feudal character. Its only possibly to think of civil wars once the concept of a nation state is established, I think.
The Second English Civil War was fought 1647-48, again between the King and Parliament/The Army. There were then further wars over the next decade or so, culminating in the Restoration in 1660. Another name Historians use for this period is 'The Wars of the Three Kingdoms', which better captures the 20 year period of unrest across the British isles
Is this the war of roses or is that another war?
That was an earlier conflict between two Houses with claims to the throne , York and Lancaster with white and red roses as their respective emblems .
I live near Worcester
when your team looses the game because some start hunting for kills then for the objective.
yis bois
>calls parlimentary's rebles YES finlay someone who dosent say they both same legitimacy to rule GLORY BE TO KING CHARLES, CHOSEN BY GOD TO RULE ENGLAND
(+scotland but who cares about scotland)
+good movie
+talks bout the ESSENSIALNESS of cavalry in the civil war period
+talks about significance
> review - the best edgehill vid on yt srsly Addaway you outdo yourself yet again
> gd comment mate
> thanks for watching
First English civil war... What? Wasn't the War of the Rose's the first English civil war?
Bunch of Limeys rolling around rough trade in the muck.
Douglas Stewart called history mate
Enough of your porn fantasies
In a draw the defender wins. So sayeth I.
its because if Charles that monarchs are not allowed to enter the house of commons
This was an edgy battle.
indisciplined cavalry in time the New model army of parliament forbade leaving the field.
Yeah, the New Model Army was pretty transformative
goes to show commonors may tend fare best in assorted fields, Mongols a next case.
But what of the Powelshipshirehamwickbury Prefectureshire's levying of Crownship tithe bip bop bing bong knickers? Surely that was worth mentioning.
*Woosh-ter*
... I'm not entirely sure about the point you're trying to make, but I would put the pronunciation as wuss-ter.
No point. Just amused by English idiosyncrasies that have survived into the modern age. You probably take it for granted that place names aren't pronounced the way they are spelled.
The Woolly Eel
Worcester
Leicester
Warwickshire
Norwich
Berwick
These names were invented to confuse the Germans during the war don't you know!
why you no funne
It is a sad thing that Ireland, Scotland and Wales didn't make a strong pact and destroy tyrannical England
Oh fuck off you ignorant stupid cunt, political conflict was a lot more complicated than your ethnic hatred. Not to mention the fact that the king himself was Scottish, I hate bigots like you, are you even from any of these countries you dumb cunt?
Why ?
I'd have beheaded Prince Rupert that evening for being a total F*ckwit. To my thinking Rupert's idiocy caused the loss of Charles' head.
I mean I’m not sure how much personal responsibility you can attach to Rupert- the army had only been formed for a few months, and the cavalry was made up of impulsive nobility/gentry who didn’t take kindly to much discipline.
You also have to bear in mind that Rupert was a skilled military commander in his own right; you can look at the victory at Powick Bridge and at the Siege of Bristol in 1643 (another video of mine)
Undoubtedly though, Royalist cavalry indiscipline through the war cost Charles dearly
Battle of the edgiest
I was rooting for the royalists :(
Why are cavalry men often so dumb? Instead of wheeling to decide the battle the just chase their counterparts off the field?
The colours should have been reversed ...
A process that saved English and human freedom from following the path of Rome.
Nonsense
Bloody royals, how many English have died because of them. waste of money.
For the Republic!! Monarchistic scum :D
The irony is that the parliamentarians during the civil war didn’t fight for a republic; their slogan was ‘for king and parliament’. Only a small minority favoured killing the king
Fucking useless cavalry.
UNLIKE FOR LYING
He wasn't the king of England, he was the king of Britain, as both nations were technically joined in 1603.
Untrue- the act of union wasn’t until 1707. Charles was King of England, Scotland and Ireland, separately. The Civil Wars are sometimes called ‘The War of the Three Kingdoms’ because of this
Charles I was technically only King of England, despite the fact that his father ended up being James VI of Scotland and James I of England. This was the sort of _de facto_ joining that many pieces of "Britain", such as the Isle of Man, exist in today.
However, the Act of Union (with Scotland) was indeed ratified by England and Wales in 1706, and by Scotland in 1707, under the rule of Queen Anne.
Still, it didn't exactly merge the nations. Just having the same monarch doesn't mean that the nations are merged. Just ask a Canadian.
random guy He was definitely King of Scotland as well- in fact his coronation in 1633 caused some controversy, since it didn’t take place at Scone, the traditional site for Scottish Kings to be crowned. Nevertheless, you’re correct in the assertion that he was very much England-oriented as he visited Scotland rarely following his crowning. From a political standpoint Scotland was more or less run by the Kirk and nobles until it was subjugated by Cromwell some time later.
It was in a personal Union.
blah blah f'n blah, is there a channel anywhere that just talks about the battles?
Sorry if its not quite for you- I just think it important to try and give a sense of how the battles came to be and the importance of them
It's not just you, all the battle channels are doing it now. There used to be a few that focused on the battles themselves, which I liked. If I want the world view and the background, there are plenty of videos that do that already...
The English fighting the English? I can't support a loser!
I wish the Monarchy won. Maybe it was better then, but now we're run by cucks with no backbone who only care about multiculturalism..