In the topic of insane roman battles, I'd say the Battle of Ilerda deserved to be on this list. A battle where the caesarians wins despite losing the actual fighting part. That's nuts
They didn’t really losing the fighting the part when they worked to capture the army than Destroy them. Which Caesar could’ve easily he had a massive Calvary led and could’ve just enveloped them but he didn’t want to kill a lot of Roman’s early on in the war as to stay popular
@@Yrkr785 He is talking about the raids on the eastern side of the river and the engagement on the hill and before the walls of the city. In all of those Caesar suffered tactical defeats
@@rainman3768 Actually Octavian and Agrippa complemented each other really well. Without Octavian political and financial protection Agrippa will never rise.
No in this case, Caesar made one of his famous dice roll and managed to get 1/2 of his legion across the Adriatic Sea despite Bibilus (his Co-Consul, and one of Pompeiian faction's general) blockade. Roman Calendar requires Pontifex Maximus, the highest elected religious officer to make manual adjustment to the calendar so it won't be out of alignment. Caesar is Pontifex Maximus, but he had been busy the past 10 years, wars in Gaul and the ongoing Civil War, so he didn't have time to make those adjustment, and the calendar was wildly out of wack. The Pompeiian faction thought it was early Winter, making the crossing suicidal, but Caesar knew it was only late Autumn, still dangerous, but manageable. However, he ONLY got 1/2 of his troops across and almost none of the supply. Thus the food problem.
It's fascinating how in most Roman battles the number of total soldiers are almost always over 40k. Then in Medieval total soldier numbers rarely get over 40k. It's usually like 1k guys vs 2k other guys
@@ventu7907 While the plague that wiped out 1/3rd of Europe happened in the middle ages, there are still many instances of plague before then. For example, when Justinian was fighting the Persians
@@dyingearth 40k is a small number, it's good that qin china didn't have borders with rome, literally in just one battle, Qin state had 550k troops compared to Zhao 450k troops, 1 million men, when the battle ended, 700k casualties were the cost. These kind of battles were only found in WW1 and WW2 in Europe. China had an army of over 2 million men compared to Roman 550k, all of rome would have been wiped out to pieces+the only reason why Rome survived was because it got lucky that Hasbrudal didn't meet with Hannibal and was wiped out, had he meet with Hannibal, rome would have been sacked.
Hannibal is such an underrated tactician. I know he's often in the conversation when it comes to history's greatest generals, but I still don't think people understand how brilliant he really was.
Carthage couldn't win. One total genius versus the entire Roman juggernaut. Hannibal could win devastating victories in battle, but Rome could always replenish their forces, when Hannibal couldn't.
Other insane battles to note. Battle of Actium, where Augustus learned how to win a war the Caesar way. Battle of Triconoma?, where Armenian cav got encircled by Lucullus's infantry. All of Sextus Pompey's battles, because fighting off the second triumperate with all their resources at their disposal for up to ten years with just pirates is ridiculous. And one of Aetius's? battles where his enemy lost their commander but won the battle.
Battle of Tigranocerta wasn’t too special the Armenian suffered from mercenary Mania and had mercenary cavalry that chased the Roman’s too far and got encircled. The cool was the siege of tigranocerta where the Armenians defeated the Roman besiegers but lost as the city made of war slaves rose up in revolt and opened the gates for the Roman’s causing Tigranes to surrender
If you're referring to Aetius who defeated Atilla, then yes, he did lose a commander of the Visigoths in battle. It might have been a calculated move so to offer support to the fallen Visigoth's son who would oppose the Huns who were defeated but not utterly defeated.
I agree with Actium, but I think Marcus Agrippa was the real mastermind behind Actium. Octavian was a competent general, but Agrippa was the real Chad.
What about the battle of Watling Street? Boudicca tried to overwhem 10,000 Romans in a chokepoint with 200,000 poorly-armed Celts. She was so confident in her chance of victory that she let civilians set up wagons behind her army to watch. When the battle turned south, her army couldn't properly retreat due to the wagons and got butchered. What could have been a simpe tactical retreat turned into a war-ending defeat.
I will NEVER understand why.... kinda like Spartacus she tried to engage in a stand up fight....if she had maintained her previous tactics Rome may have withdrawal from the Isle.... could have changed a lot..... just my opinion
@@Donathon-xt2nl yea, and in both cases rome just wanted a pitch battle and both time they got it in the end, and promplty smashed the poor trained opposition
I personally always love the Battle of Chaeronea for how blatant of a lie everyone just let Sulla get away with when he claimed the casualties afterwards.
Sulla's sack of Athens was brutal too. Its no wonder the Marians went full military dictatorship bc they had to commit all the way or they were dead anyways. The stories of the spiked boots though... One man who sacrificed himself in a temple hoping for the doom of the Marians.... Things got real dark in the 80s and it gets overlooked by the Triumvirate struggles that built up Augustus.
That's pretty much every Roman battle. They exagerated the enemy numbers, exagerated the enemy casualties and greatly diminished their own casualties in the sources.
The Battle of Ilerda should be in here, the fact that the battle was decided not necessarily through martial skill but a race between both armies is insane. The Battle of Pharsalus is an honorable mention as well.
One of my favourite battle is the Battle of Carrhae. The absolute decimation of Roman army by Surena was mind blowing. And the effects it had on Roman politics was immense.
@@Vasilefs_Terranorum Decimation has two meanings, one is killing 1/10th of a group, and other is killing a large number of group. However, I agree that I should've used another word lol.
great topic, great video. I love the battle of cannae, it just show how much of a tactical genius Hannibal was, and it's just as incredible that the roman managed to recover after this, a testament to the power of the roman spirit
Notable missing battles: Lucullus’ victory against a massive Armenian army at Tigranocerta in the 60s of the 1st century BC; Julian’s decisive victory against the Alemanni in 358 AD; Septimius Severus’ final victory against Clodius Albinus In 197 AD; The battle of Mount Gropius in the 80s of the 1st century AD in which two legions and auxiliaries won over 80,000 (so it’s said) Caledonians; The battles of Cynoscephalae (197 BC) and Pidna (168) in which the Roman legions led by Flamininus and Paulus respectively defeated the Macedonian phalanx; Rome’s first and only victory (sort of) against Pyrrhus in the 270s 3nd century BC at Maleventum (later rechristened Beneventum); Claudius II’s crushing victory over the Goths at Naissus in 268 AD, taking revenge for the defeat Rome had suffered in 251 at Abrittus; Constantine I’s victories over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge (312 AD) and Licinius at Adrianople (316 AD) and Crisepolis (323 AD); Galerius’ victory over the Persians at Nisibis in 298 AD; Ventidius Bassus’ spectacular victories over the Parthians in 39 or 38 1st century BC; Varus’ disaster at the Teuteburg forest in 9 AD; Valens’ crushing defeat at Adrianople in 378 AD; Germanicus’ victory over Arminius at the Idistavisus river in 16 AD; Sulla’s victories in the Social War at Nola (90 BC), against Mithridates at Chaeronea and Orchomenos In 86 and against the Marians at Porta Collina in 83 BC; Marius’ victories against the Teutones at Aquae Sextiae (102 BC) and the Cimbri (with Lutatius Catulus) at Vercelli in 101 BC, so taking revenge for the disaster of Aurausius
The fact Rome kept fighting after Cannae is what's insane to me. People love to cite battles where like 5 Romans BTFO a horde of feces covered cave people, but a willingess to lose half a generation bc you infanticide girls and thus have a ridiculous surplus of men with no marital prospects and thus nothing better to do but die in a battle, that's... well, insane.
You and whatifalthist are my two favorite youtubers, giving great history videos for me to please my evolutionary need for Roman and geopolitics battles
But whatifalthist is extremely biased and makes so many mistakes its insane. There's a subreddit dedicated to the authenticity of History in media and it had several posts about this channel. Oh well different strokes for different folks I guess/its you choice to watch what you want.
@@ShahjahanMasood I haven’t seen many actual criticisms of his research or opinion, I would be happy if you could like me them so I could understand why you don’t like him
@@emmetblade9156 I sounded a little condescending didn't I? Sorry about that. That was not my intention. It just makes me frustrated how he insulted many great cultures in his videos including mine.
Please keep these clips COMING! I really LOVE Your videos. I have learned more about the Holy Roman Empire from you than in 2 decades of school and social studies
Every Roman battle was absolute insane, it doesn't matter if we are talking about the number of men on each side, the strategies used, or the reason why they even started, these things were like fever dreams
These battles remind me of the American Civil War battles with the logistically starved, agrarian, and undermanned Confederates winning many but not enough strategic battles while losing to the industrial and greatly supplied Union soldiers who outnumbered the Confederates. I suspect at best militarily the American Civil War was a war of attrition. The South simply didn't have the power and strength of the North.
Yeah that's why Lee invaded up North twice, he knew they were running out of supplies but also knew that if he could embarrass the North on their own terf it would make D.C peace out, taking over the Mississippi River was a massive blow, and having no navy to fight the blockade meant they couldn't get resupplied
The American civil war was the fight of Liberty (UNION) VS tyranny (Confederate States) The confederate states had support of the British empire, hopefully the American Republic defeated both British empire and confederate states
@@democracyisnon-negociable3819 Did you fail high school grammar and history? Both Britain and France needed the Confederacy's cotton and other goods but did not want to attack the Union blockade. Afer the Emancipation Proclamation was announced changing the goal of the war from stopping the Separation to ending Slavery Britain and France supported the United States. Both France and Britian recently ended slavery in their nations so in supporting the Confederation the hypocrisy would have been obvious. Had Britain and France attacked the Union, the Confederacy would have won the war.
Battle of Zama deserves a mention. Senate denies Scipio an army to invade Africa, so he gathers all his old veterans and defeats Hannibal in open battle
Also the Eastern Roman Empire had some pretty wild shit going on. Belisarius in particular was a master of pulling insane tricks from scratch. He defended Rome from the besieging Ostrogoths just with mounted archers skirmishes and in his last battle he led to victory a few hundreds of farmers and retired soldiers against thousands of Kutrigurs simply by having his men shaking some trees in order to pretend there were more of them and scaring the shit of out of the enemy.
The Battle of Mount Gindarus (also known as battle of Cyrresthica), (Syria 38 BC) is one of the most underrated Roman military victories, particularly surprisingly so as it earned revenge for one of Rome's most infamous and humiliating defeats, Carrhae. Having your legionaries actually being able to encircle and slaughter Parthian mounted cataphracts is pretty insane, and if you add to that that they managed to kill the enemy commander, who was the heir to the throne of the Parthian empire, turning the tide of what would have otherwise been a devastating invasion, Mount Gindarus earns its place as one of the greatest, overlooked roman military successes.
Will you make a video on the crisis of the third century? It’s not necessarily a popular topic on UA-cam but it’s quite fascinating how some Illyrian generals just saved Rome like that.
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Battle of Philippi actually Cassius was a decent general, Antony was just slightly better. And I think Brutus didn't wanted to live anyways at that point so he desired to get killed in battle
Battle of Carrhea. 10K horse archers are send to slow down 45K Romans. Their secret? have a camel taxi service resupply them with arrows until dark in which they could just pick off what was left of the Romans. Then fill their commanders throat with molten gold :)
Roman losses are greatly exaggerated actually.. Polybius most likely overclaimed the Roman losses to create an narrative of doom, to increase the importance of Scipio who defeated Hannibal with smaller force at Zama.. Yet, if you look at what all historians were writing about Cannae, you notice things don't line up - they say Romans lost 50000men out of 80000, and 20000 captured, yet, Scipio Africanus formed 2 full legions out of survivors, who, as punishment were exiled to Sicily.. at the same time, Hannibal released all captured Italians, hoping they will join his cause, but executed Romans as Rome refused to pay ransom.. So unless all men that retreated from Cannae were Romans (which they most definitely were not, as majority were from cavalry, after all even Scipio Africanus was at Cannae as young Equite and managed to escape), there wouldnt be enough survivors to form two legions in the first place...
@@JaM-R2TR4 that is some tasty food for thought Don't think its publicly accepted/realized that most of the historic narrative they believe in is propaganda
It's difficult to imagine such huge losses in single battles, to picture the devastation left behind, to be the guy up next after the first 30 thousand guys were killed.
No one really knows what happened to his wife and daughter. After his death, his wife took his place over for a little while, but after she gave up power, she and her daughter vanished from the history books. Maybe they just left and just went living a normal life, ir something happened to them. We don't know
I have to ask, what is this glorious tune? I’ve heard it with Sam O’Nella Academy, but I must ask what it is (beginning one). And this is a wonderful video, by the way. (:
Brandenburg Concerto No4 by Bach, though this version in question (and probably it is the same one you've heard in Sam O'Nella Academy) is performed by Kevin MacLeod.
Anthony the only decent general? Cassius defended Syria with 8000 soldiers after the disaster at Carrhae against 30000 Parthians and threw them back over the border. Granted at Philippi he was uninspired but overall he was a good general, maybe better than Anthony, despite being defeated by him.
Not the first person to ask me due to the name I use. In truth, it actually doesn't have anything to do with it. I just liked the word when I saw it written, and that was it.
If you go later in history, Antioch on the Meander where the army of the Byzantine offshoot Nicaea is on the verge of being annihilated by the Seljuks, when the Seljuk sultan gets killed and beheaded. It ensured the survival of Nicaea, which would eventually recover Constantinople in 1261.
On Battle of Dyrrachium, Caesar mused that Pompey would've won had he pressed the battle. As with most things with Caesar, it's better to be lucky than good.
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I always like the Battle of Watling Street between Paulinus and Boudica, If they lost the battle the romans would be expelled from britannia and all the romans citizens masacre, It was the biggets last stand
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I thought Pompey won that one because caesar attacked and yalf his men went the wrong way in no man's land so they narrowly avoided a slaughter... isn't this the one with the story of how caesar attempted to stop the bannerman or whatever the guy holding the eagle standard was called... caesar tried to stop him from retreating but the guy was scared shitless and was basically attacking caesar in a fearful retreat and caesar was only saved by a bodyguard who cut the guy's arm off... also I thought this was the one where Caesar said something along the lines of - 'the war would be over if a better general was leading .... or whatever it was about how if Pompey would have just pressed a counterattack right away as they retreated then he would have won the war right there and then .... yeah I'm pretty sure that was all this battle... but you said Pompey won because of a well executed attack or something but it was really just good defense and good luck that the half of caesar's troops that would have flanked and whooped up on Pompey troops...they accidentally made a wrong turn in no man's land at the fort they were attacking and instead of flanking to get a slaughter win for caesar, they instead took a wrong turn and got themselves cornered and slaughtered themselves by PPompeystroops... so yeah was just a bad luck fail on Caesars part, not a good aattacby pompey... like caesar said... the failed sneak attack turnd slaughter retreat was 1 push counterattack from taking caesar's camp and slaughtering and capturing his men and ending the civil war right there, but for some reason Pompey let them retreat to their camp, happy with just a victory in the slaughter of a good bit of caesar's men... proving to everyone that caesar was just a man and could be beaten... he just should have been smarter..
In the topic of insane roman battles, I'd say the Battle of Ilerda deserved to be on this list. A battle where the caesarians wins despite losing the actual fighting part.
That's nuts
They didn’t really losing the fighting the part when they worked to capture the army than Destroy them. Which Caesar could’ve easily he had a massive Calvary led and could’ve just enveloped them but he didn’t want to kill a lot of Roman’s early on in the war as to stay popular
@@Yrkr785 He is talking about the raids on the eastern side of the river and the engagement on the hill and before the walls of the city. In all of those Caesar suffered tactical defeats
Vercingétorix would have won at Alésia if the druid had made his famous potion
Heh. I got that reference!
Unfortunately Obelix fell into it and drank all of it
@@chiefmasterofdeepwarrens3208 Cant have shit in Gaul
Why did you not help the Byzantines
ayo my newspaper still runs that comic
I find it kind of funny that Caesar and Pompey just created trench warfare in a civil war.
two can play at that game
You know Romes gone to shit when Antonys the best general out of 4 armies
lol
Well that is his only competence. Octavian was really lucky he had Agrippa
@@svarf1752 Honestly. Antony called him "the man who owes everything to a name," but really it was the name + Marcus Agrippa
@@rainman3768 Actually Octavian and Agrippa complemented each other really well.
Without Octavian political and financial protection Agrippa will never rise.
@@rainman3768 which is ironic considering anthony would be nothing if he didn't hang from caesars coattails himself.
“Caesar’s army had food problems” you mean his army was as normal?
Yeah no shit 😅😅😅
No in this case, Caesar made one of his famous dice roll and managed to get 1/2 of his legion across the Adriatic Sea despite Bibilus (his Co-Consul, and one of Pompeiian faction's general) blockade. Roman Calendar requires Pontifex Maximus, the highest elected religious officer to make manual adjustment to the calendar so it won't be out of alignment. Caesar is Pontifex Maximus, but he had been busy the past 10 years, wars in Gaul and the ongoing Civil War, so he didn't have time to make those adjustment, and the calendar was wildly out of wack. The Pompeiian faction thought it was early Winter, making the crossing suicidal, but Caesar knew it was only late Autumn, still dangerous, but manageable. However, he ONLY got 1/2 of his troops across and almost none of the supply. Thus the food problem.
It's fascinating how in most Roman battles the number of total soldiers are almost always over 40k. Then in Medieval total soldier numbers rarely get over 40k. It's usually like 1k guys vs 2k other guys
Logistics and a centralized bureaucracy to maintain a standing army.
Mostly because the plague just casually wiped out 1/3rd of Europe's population
@@Murad_el-Kaffas that happened very late into the Middle Ages
@@ventu7907 While the plague that wiped out 1/3rd of Europe happened in the middle ages, there are still many instances of plague before then. For example, when Justinian was fighting the Persians
@@dyingearth 40k is a small number, it's good that qin china didn't have borders with rome, literally in just one battle, Qin state had 550k troops compared to Zhao 450k troops, 1 million men, when the battle ended, 700k casualties were the cost. These kind of battles were only found in WW1 and WW2 in Europe. China had an army of over 2 million men compared to Roman 550k, all of rome would have been wiped out to pieces+the only reason why Rome survived was because it got lucky that Hasbrudal didn't meet with Hannibal and was wiped out, had he meet with Hannibal, rome would have been sacked.
Hannibal, in my estimation, pulled off the greatest tactical land victory at the Battle of Cannae. Sheer fucking obliteration.
Hannibal is such an underrated tactician. I know he's often in the conversation when it comes to history's greatest generals, but I still don't think people understand how brilliant he really was.
@@horationelson8173 agreed, unless you’ve studied history u wouldn’t really think about Hannibal.
@@horationelson8173 Why is that? How was he so brilliant?
he just played a strategy and his opponents fell into them every time right?
Hannibal after Cannae then spent the next 14 years in stalemate in Italy while Scipio captured Spain and then invaded north Africa.
Carthage couldn't win. One total genius versus the entire Roman juggernaut. Hannibal could win devastating victories in battle, but Rome could always replenish their forces, when Hannibal couldn't.
Other insane battles to note.
Battle of Actium, where Augustus learned how to win a war the Caesar way.
Battle of Triconoma?, where Armenian cav got encircled by Lucullus's infantry.
All of Sextus Pompey's battles, because fighting off the second triumperate with all their resources at their disposal for up to ten years with just pirates is ridiculous.
And one of Aetius's? battles where his enemy lost their commander but won the battle.
Battle of Tigranocerta wasn’t too special the Armenian suffered from mercenary Mania and had mercenary cavalry that chased the Roman’s too far and got encircled. The cool was the siege of tigranocerta where the Armenians defeated the Roman besiegers but lost as the city made of war slaves rose up in revolt and opened the gates for the Roman’s causing Tigranes to surrender
If you're referring to Aetius who defeated Atilla, then yes, he did lose a commander of the Visigoths in battle. It might have been a calculated move so to offer support to the fallen Visigoth's son who would oppose the Huns who were defeated but not utterly defeated.
@@3baxcb hes talkimg about againt the other dude in aetius' civil war, the count died in the battle, but still beat aetius
Just remembered, count boniface was his name
I agree with Actium, but I think Marcus Agrippa was the real mastermind behind Actium. Octavian was a competent general, but Agrippa was the real Chad.
What about the battle of Watling Street? Boudicca tried to overwhem 10,000 Romans in a chokepoint with 200,000 poorly-armed Celts. She was so confident in her chance of victory that she let civilians set up wagons behind her army to watch. When the battle turned south, her army couldn't properly retreat due to the wagons and got butchered. What could have been a simpe tactical retreat turned into a war-ending defeat.
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@@laughsatchungus1461 I mean 200,000 vs 10,000 more than often not is pretty decisive.
@@kakyoin9688 exactly
I will NEVER understand why.... kinda like Spartacus she tried to engage in a stand up fight....if she had maintained her previous tactics Rome may have withdrawal from the Isle.... could have changed a lot..... just my opinion
@@Donathon-xt2nl yea, and in both cases rome just wanted a pitch battle and both time they got it in the end, and promplty smashed the poor trained opposition
I personally always love the Battle of Chaeronea for how blatant of a lie everyone just let Sulla get away with when he claimed the casualties afterwards.
Sulla's sack of Athens was brutal too. Its no wonder the Marians went full military dictatorship bc they had to commit all the way or they were dead anyways. The stories of the spiked boots though... One man who sacrificed himself in a temple hoping for the doom of the Marians.... Things got real dark in the 80s and it gets overlooked by the Triumvirate struggles that built up Augustus.
That's pretty much every Roman battle. They exagerated the enemy numbers, exagerated the enemy casualties and greatly diminished their own casualties in the sources.
The Battle of Ilerda should be in here, the fact that the battle was decided not necessarily through martial skill but a race between both armies is insane.
The Battle of Pharsalus is an honorable mention as well.
One of my favourite battle is the Battle of Carrhae. The absolute decimation of Roman army by Surena was mind blowing. And the effects it had on Roman politics was immense.
"decimation"
lol
So 90% of the Roman army survived?
@@Vasilefs_Terranorum Decimation has two meanings, one is killing 1/10th of a group, and other is killing a large number of group. However, I agree that I should've used another word lol.
No they got decimated all right.
@@yahyapatel8100 see it's funny because the Roman commander was Crassus who reinvented decimation
great topic, great video.
I love the battle of cannae, it just show how much of a tactical genius Hannibal was, and it's just as incredible that the roman managed to recover after this, a testament to the power of the roman spirit
Lack of large centralized governments + more expensive equipment + a reorientation towards heavy cavalry is part of what drove army sizes down
Notable missing battles:
Lucullus’ victory against a massive Armenian army at Tigranocerta in the 60s of the 1st century BC;
Julian’s decisive victory against the Alemanni in 358 AD;
Septimius Severus’ final victory against Clodius Albinus In 197 AD;
The battle of Mount Gropius in the 80s of the 1st century AD in which two legions and auxiliaries won over 80,000 (so it’s said) Caledonians;
The battles of Cynoscephalae (197 BC) and Pidna (168) in which the Roman legions led by Flamininus and Paulus respectively defeated the Macedonian phalanx;
Rome’s first and only victory (sort of) against Pyrrhus in the 270s 3nd century BC at Maleventum (later rechristened Beneventum);
Claudius II’s crushing victory over the Goths at
Naissus in 268 AD, taking revenge for the defeat Rome had suffered in 251 at Abrittus;
Constantine I’s victories over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge (312 AD) and Licinius at Adrianople (316 AD) and Crisepolis (323 AD);
Galerius’ victory over the Persians at Nisibis in 298 AD;
Ventidius Bassus’ spectacular victories over the Parthians in 39 or 38 1st century BC;
Varus’ disaster at the Teuteburg forest in 9 AD;
Valens’ crushing defeat at Adrianople in 378 AD;
Germanicus’ victory over Arminius at the Idistavisus river in 16 AD;
Sulla’s victories in the Social War at Nola (90 BC), against Mithridates at Chaeronea and Orchomenos In 86 and against the Marians at Porta Collina in 83 BC;
Marius’ victories against the Teutones at Aquae Sextiae (102 BC) and the Cimbri (with Lutatius Catulus) at Vercelli in 101 BC, so taking revenge for the disaster of Aurausius
Notable missing and he's got their whole history lol
@@mawile3037 Well romans had a lot to be proud of. Especially at Idistavisus
Glad to see Bassus' mentioned for once, the Avenger of Carrhae
@@agrippa5643Idistavisus wasn't really important to be honest.
Anyway i like that you wrote "so it's said" for the 80,000 Caledonians but didn't doubt the massive army at Tigranocerta.
Can you do a video on Octavian/Augustus? I just find him interesting and you make awesome videos.
It's not on my to-do list, but it is a video I'll probably do later down the line.
The fact Rome kept fighting after Cannae is what's insane to me. People love to cite battles where like 5 Romans BTFO a horde of feces covered cave people, but a willingess to lose half a generation bc you infanticide girls and thus have a ridiculous surplus of men with no marital prospects and thus nothing better to do but die in a battle, that's... well, insane.
You and whatifalthist are my two favorite youtubers, giving great history videos for me to please my evolutionary need for Roman and geopolitics battles
But whatifalthist is extremely biased and makes so many mistakes its insane. There's a subreddit dedicated to the authenticity of History in media and it had several posts about this channel. Oh well different strokes for different folks I guess/its you choice to watch what you want.
@@ShahjahanMasood I haven’t seen many actual criticisms of his research or opinion, I would be happy if you could like me them so I could understand why you don’t like him
@@emmetblade9156 I sounded a little condescending didn't I? Sorry about that. That was not my intention. It just makes me frustrated how he insulted many great cultures in his videos including mine.
@@ShahjahanMasood which video of his? No worries just interested in your point
Virgin Getorix vs Chad Caesar.
*1812 Overture Tchaikovsky blares*
Ah, I see a fellow unbiassed man of culture here )
Please keep these clips COMING! I really LOVE Your videos. I have learned more about the Holy Roman Empire from you than in 2 decades of school and social studies
Every Roman battle was absolute insane, it doesn't matter if we are talking about the number of men on each side, the strategies used, or the reason why they even started, these things were like fever dreams
Not every battle mate. That's an overstatement.
Well, if we don't consider the fact that numbers in Roman sources are always extremely unreliable.
These battles remind me of the American Civil War battles with the logistically starved, agrarian, and undermanned Confederates winning many but not enough strategic battles while losing to the industrial and greatly supplied Union soldiers who outnumbered the Confederates. I suspect at best militarily the American Civil War was a war of attrition. The South simply didn't have the power and strength of the North.
Yeah that's why Lee invaded up North twice, he knew they were running out of supplies but also knew that if he could embarrass the North on their own terf it would make D.C peace out, taking over the Mississippi River was a massive blow, and having no navy to fight the blockade meant they couldn't get resupplied
The American civil war was the fight of Liberty (UNION) VS tyranny (Confederate States)
The confederate states had support of the British empire, hopefully the American Republic defeated both British empire and confederate states
@@democracyisnon-negociable3819 Did you fail high school grammar and history? Both Britain and France needed the Confederacy's cotton and other goods but did not want to attack the Union blockade. Afer the Emancipation Proclamation was announced changing the goal of the war from stopping the Separation to ending Slavery Britain and France supported the United States. Both France and Britian recently ended slavery in their nations so in supporting the Confederation the hypocrisy would have been obvious. Had Britain and France attacked the Union, the Confederacy would have won the war.
@@desertwolf8089 still the glorious American Republic defeated both British empire and separatist confederates
Obviously you're a grammar school drop out who wrote history in your own image and opinions.
I think Battle of Arausio is often overlooked, 120k lost, 80k romans and 40k allies caused by stupidity from the general
Good ole Caepio
@@andrewpestotnik5495 Good Ole selfish, arrogant and dismissive Caepio to put it lightly.
Battle of Zama deserves a mention. Senate denies Scipio an army to invade Africa, so he gathers all his old veterans and defeats Hannibal in open battle
Really nice to see an informative Portuguese UA-cam channel! Please continue!
Also the Eastern Roman Empire had some pretty wild shit going on. Belisarius in particular was a master of pulling insane tricks from scratch. He defended Rome from the besieging Ostrogoths just with mounted archers skirmishes and in his last battle he led to victory a few hundreds of farmers and retired soldiers against thousands of Kutrigurs simply by having his men shaking some trees in order to pretend there were more of them and scaring the shit of out of the enemy.
I love how utterly depressed spectrum sounded when talking about cannae
petition for a video on 10 insane losses
I feel Arausio should have been there somewhere, the sheer comedy of Caepio stupidity is hilarious
The Battle of Mount Gindarus (also known as battle of Cyrresthica), (Syria 38 BC) is one of the most underrated Roman military victories, particularly surprisingly so as it earned revenge for one of Rome's most infamous and humiliating defeats, Carrhae. Having your legionaries actually being able to encircle and slaughter Parthian mounted cataphracts is pretty insane, and if you add to that that they managed to kill the enemy commander, who was the heir to the throne of the Parthian empire, turning the tide of what would have otherwise been a devastating invasion, Mount Gindarus earns its place as one of the greatest, overlooked roman military successes.
"this is the only naval battle on this list" I don't know, Agrippa had some great battles against Pompey and Anthony
every single battle the romans fought in one word: brutal, absolutely f**kin brutal!!
Great job! Very entertaining telling of some awesome military history.
Historia civilis has a fantastic video about the battle of dyrrhachium that really shows in full detail how insane it was
So GLAD you mentioned Rome's epic clash with Hannibal at Cannae.
great video, I love learning about Rome and your videos are so fun to watch
Will you make a video on the crisis of the third century? It’s not necessarily a popular topic on UA-cam but it’s quite fascinating how some Illyrian generals just saved Rome like that.
I like Rome,but Carthage will be always in my heart.
Your salty heart i hope
Great video thanks!
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Battle of Philippi actually Cassius was a decent general, Antony was just slightly better. And I think Brutus didn't wanted to live anyways at that point so he desired to get killed in battle
The battle of philippi is a battle where both sides are retarded and the least retarded won
His conduct in the aftermath of Carrhae speaks to a pretty high level of competence. He also had some naval success during the civil war.
Munda? The day Caesar fought not for victory but his life?
The voicenter combined with sly comedy is great.
Battle of Carrhea. 10K horse archers are send to slow down 45K Romans. Their secret? have a camel taxi service resupply them with arrows until dark in which they could just pick off what was left of the Romans. Then fill their commanders throat with molten gold :)
Ah yes. The great roman race to the sea. Gotta love history
Imagine after losing at Cannae and having the audacity to demand Hannibal pay rent🤣🤣🤣🤣
Btw who are the reenactment group you use
Roman losses are greatly exaggerated actually.. Polybius most likely overclaimed the Roman losses to create an narrative of doom, to increase the importance of Scipio who defeated Hannibal with smaller force at Zama.. Yet, if you look at what all historians were writing about Cannae, you notice things don't line up - they say Romans lost 50000men out of 80000, and 20000 captured, yet, Scipio Africanus formed 2 full legions out of survivors, who, as punishment were exiled to Sicily.. at the same time, Hannibal released all captured Italians, hoping they will join his cause, but executed Romans as Rome refused to pay ransom..
So unless all men that retreated from Cannae were Romans (which they most definitely were not, as majority were from cavalry, after all even Scipio Africanus was at Cannae as young Equite and managed to escape), there wouldnt be enough survivors to form two legions in the first place...
@@JaM-R2TR4 wow, I never thought about it like that.
@@JaM-R2TR4 btw would you know what reenactment group was used at the beginning?
@@yaboyed5779 😂😂😂
@@JaM-R2TR4 that is some tasty food for thought
Don't think its publicly accepted/realized that most of the historic narrative they believe in is propaganda
Damn this is one of the videos of all UA-cam.
It's difficult to imagine such huge losses in single battles, to picture the devastation left behind, to be the guy up next after the first 30 thousand guys were killed.
Vercingetorix: you'll have to siege!
Caesar: *no YOU!*
Great video, as always!
Belissarius campaigning in Tunisia and Italy is utterly crazy and equally amazing
Love these roman videos
Man, I really like your voice
Also, is it true that Emperor Aurelian's daughter married Shapur I?
No one really knows what happened to his wife and daughter. After his death, his wife took his place over for a little while, but after she gave up power, she and her daughter vanished from the history books. Maybe they just left and just went living a normal life, ir something happened to them. We don't know
@@aromanlegionnair5096 She was the first Empress of Rome. so they say.
Awesome channel earned a Sub...
Also, i can't help but notice your rustic Atlantic flavoured english accent. Pretty sure you're Portuguese am i right?
Why is your name "Spectrum" btw?
Like I said in another comment on this video, I just happened to like the word.
@@spectrum1140 reasonable enough. Love your work, though. You're one of my go-to history guys.
I haven’t seen it but can you do the 7 Roman Kings of the Roman Kingdom?
@Spectrum where is the EU Nations ranking video, you can't hide from your past forever!
I have to ask, what is this glorious tune? I’ve heard it with Sam O’Nella Academy, but I must ask what it is (beginning one).
And this is a wonderful video, by the way. (:
Brandenburg Concerto No4 by Bach, though this version in question (and probably it is the same one you've heard in Sam O'Nella Academy) is performed by Kevin MacLeod.
@@spectrum1140 Thank you, sir!
I'm sorry, but Pharsalus takes the cake for me. What Caesar did their still blows my mind.
That’s quite hard on Agrippa I would say both he and Anthony were the two best generals at philipi
Anthony the only decent general? Cassius defended Syria with 8000 soldiers after the disaster at Carrhae against 30000 Parthians and threw them back over the border. Granted at Philippi he was uninspired but overall he was a good general, maybe better than Anthony, despite being defeated by him.
Cassius was a superb general
Battle of cape bon my man
Next, do top 10 Roman generals
It's funny how the Carthaginians pulled the same tactics at Cannae as they did at Cape Ecnomus.
battle of Adrianople in 378 AD could've been included as well, this battle pretty much led to the fall of the western empire
Are you on the spectrum, Spectrum? hahahaha
He’s Portuguese for a reason lmao
Not the first person to ask me due to the name I use. In truth, it actually doesn't have anything to do with it. I just liked the word when I saw it written, and that was it.
Spectrum is such a g.
@Spectrum Would you do a video on Marcus Tullius Cicero?
If you go later in history, Antioch on the Meander where the army of the Byzantine offshoot Nicaea is on the verge of being annihilated by the Seljuks, when the Seljuk sultan gets killed and beheaded. It ensured the survival of Nicaea, which would eventually recover Constantinople in 1261.
On Battle of Dyrrachium, Caesar mused that Pompey would've won had he pressed the battle. As with most things with Caesar, it's better to be lucky than good.
0:06 Pergamon be like 👀
Cassius was a good general~
And a good admiral~
Caeser would not have made him a Legate after he was overtaken otherwise~
I think my whole block heard me laughing at 2:20
Could you do a video on the Dacian wars?
For me it's either Philippi, Cannae, or Alesia
PLEASE JUST DO MORE VIDEOS ON WORST TO BEST RULERS!!!! Do something like The Holy Roman Empire ( not holy not roman not an empire) or English kings or the cluster fuck in italy or worst and best Popes. But seriously you make fun videos
#GoodHistory
Russia is coming
@@BritishRepublicsn well i cant argue they had horrible rulers and great ones peter gonna be the best and nikolai the worst or ivan the terrible
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I always like the Battle of Watling Street between Paulinus and Boudica, If they lost the battle the romans would be expelled from britannia and all the romans citizens masacre, It was the biggets last stand
Check out the song - Alesia by the band Rome.
good vid
Does anyone know which program he uses to recoed the video? Like moving the images around etc.? :)
If you ever do the pharohs know this you can ignore these dynasties
II*.VII.VIII.IX*.X*.XIII*.XIV.XV*XVI
Do not ignore Hotepsekhemwy Nynetjer Khasekhemwy Khety I Merikare Neferhotep I Sobekhotep IV Khyan Apepi Khamudi Nebiriau I Sesostris IV Dedumose I
You forgot battle of Actium
Cassius oof’d soooo hard 🤣
Compared to Pharsalus Dyrrachium doesn't get as much attention in documentaries and shows like Rome (HBO) and Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire
The second battle of Tapaw would be a strong 11
It's all fun and games and then we get to Cannae😶
Honourable mention, tge battle of Teutoburg.
Do you own any Roman coins?
Hey, what happened to the EU countries raked video?
No battle of the frigidus?
I thought Pompey won that one because caesar attacked and yalf his men went the wrong way in no man's land so they narrowly avoided a slaughter... isn't this the one with the story of how caesar attempted to stop the bannerman or whatever the guy holding the eagle standard was called... caesar tried to stop him from retreating but the guy was scared shitless and was basically attacking caesar in a fearful retreat and caesar was only saved by a bodyguard who cut the guy's arm off... also I thought this was the one where Caesar said something along the lines of - 'the war would be over if a better general was leading .... or whatever it was about how if Pompey would have just pressed a counterattack right away as they retreated then he would have won the war right there and then .... yeah I'm pretty sure that was all this battle... but you said Pompey won because of a well executed attack or something but it was really just good defense and good luck that the half of caesar's troops that would have flanked and whooped up on Pompey troops...they accidentally made a wrong turn in no man's land at the fort they were attacking and instead of flanking to get a slaughter win for caesar, they instead took a wrong turn and got themselves cornered and slaughtered themselves by PPompeystroops... so yeah was just a bad luck fail on Caesars part, not a good aattacby pompey... like caesar said... the failed sneak attack turnd slaughter retreat was 1 push counterattack from taking caesar's camp and slaughtering and capturing his men and ending the civil war right there, but for some reason Pompey let them retreat to their camp, happy with just a victory in the slaughter of a good bit of caesar's men... proving to everyone that caesar was just a man and could be beaten... he just should have been smarter..
The classical era was fucking mad. Almost everything after didn't compete until the early modern period.
10 Insane Portuguese Battles
Can you do greek mythology?
When will you be ranking every roman consul? Or if not consul why not dictators?
Every single roman governor, consul, senator, king, client ruler and emperor from 753 BCE to 1461 CE ranked
Finally
Turns out the Roman Military really likes Wendy’s.
Nothing from Sulla or Marius ?
I Think the battle of yarmouk should be number 1