The Canadian who Murdered his way Across Africa | Scramble for Africa, Colonialism, British Empire
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Scramble for Africa, Colonialism, British Empire, Congo, Congo Free State, Mahdist War, Colonial Empires, Imperialism Africa, African History
knowing king leopold's history, he probably hired this guy BECAUSE of his brutality, not in spite of it
Stop pushing the Leopold 10 million myth. It just makes it easier for your opposition to brush you off as a dumb dumb.
@@RoosterNutz12 How is it a myth? covering up atrocities seem to be in the craze these days.
@@RoosterNutz12 I never cited any numbers, but the brutality of Leopold's Congo is historical fact.
@@RoosterNutz12 you sound like a tinfoil hat weirdo
@@RoosterNutz12 As a general rule, if it's bad news it's probably true. Call me a cynic for saying so.
'If we came upon any locals who failed to greet us with a hearty shout of 'God save the Queen,' we had no choice but to conclude that they were hostile.'
Friggin BASED eh!
@@honourableI1 cringe bri ish momment don't clank those clankers you call teeth britbong
@@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404 rather have no teeth than not be ENGLISH
Sounds legit.
@@honourableI1 Nothing based killing Civilians and colonizing. Ironic he called them savage when he was bring one. Also Cringe.
Story: Bloody phycopath killing natives indiscriminately and committing war crime
Song: Relaxing inspiring native music
Those natives were also cannibals, killing each other and eating eachother. Funny how the story didnt say that, but definitely had to label the white fella a "psychopath" 😁
@@MikePurdue-ky9pm Welcome to Pre-Modern Africa
@@MikePurdue-ky9pm He could have very well still been a psychopath. I'd imagine it'd be a lot harder for a person with empathy to massacre such a brobdingnagian amount of people than a person with psychopathy, even if the people being killed were pretty bad themselves
@@MrMars-sx3db well, yeah. Seeing a person kill another person, and then EAT them, would make just about anybody turn psycho.
@@MikePurdue-ky9pm Evidence? Do you have evidence mate? Or are yah talking out of her arse?
"Canadians are so nice!" ...
@Joe Kangeroo Found the Canadian
@Joe Kangeroo Obviously, you're too rude to be one. Oh wait...
@Joe Kangeroo Got any more salt for this thread?
@Joe Kangeroo Obviously it's more irritating for you if it causes you to jump down someone's throat due to a joke.
@@basedmongoloid2278 hahahahaa i like your style! Just turning his attack of words towards him.
This is what happens when you tell a Canadian that Starbucks is better than Tim hortons
Lol
Truth be told Tim Hortons does suck, got bought out by Burger King long ago and now they sell frozen pre made stuff.
McDonald's McCafe coffee has the old recipe.
@@TrickiVicBB71 timmies farmers biscuits do hit different tho
So Canadians just colonize and murder Africa because of Starbucks? Not even funny
Oh yeah, an American coffee shop is better than Tim Hortons, let's just fck up Africa for it then. Very funny and totally makes sense
This guy completed the main storyline and then just started rampaging around the map.
GTA - Grand Theft Africa
Grand theft Africa? So, just regular Africa then.
@@TehOmnissiah no but regular UA-cam clown.
Forgot to save before going on a rampage
Unfunny. This is why I'm glad Europeans are going to become a minority in their own countries.
Psychopathic Canadian on Africa
Sounds like a regular Vicky 2 game to me
Yup and it's why I'm not really interested in war gaming the colonial period.
@@danmorgan3685 wyah
@@danmorgan3685 sounds like you dont like war gaming in general...
@@danmorgan3685 you're a baby crying about reality. Colonalization was s justified thing
@@firstlast5454 I war game the following periods: The American Revolution, the War of Spanish Succession, the War of the Roses, the Viking Era, WWI, and WWII. I've also played various Sci-fi and fantasy games. That's just the table top miniatures side of things.
Interesting story. Looked it up further. Only 100 or so of his 500 strong party survived in the end. When the locals realized they could not match them in open battle, they started using guerrilla warfare...
good but been better if none survived
@@frankmill2.07 Amen a pity that poison arrow did not kill their leader. Might have saved some lives.
Guerilla warfare?
Savages!
@@stevengreen9536 Many, if not most of the tribes in Africa were not archery civilizations. Their predominant weapons were spears. Long lances for close fighting and short javelin type brush spears for throwing. Some used blowdarts but no substantial ranged weapons. If they were archery tribes who specialized in recurve and reflex bows, the colonists would be utterly annihilated.
@@BlueSkyCountry The casualties would be higher for sure. But you forget one thing. The colonists still had guns and heavy cannons.
The irony is that he believes himself to be the moral, righteous, civilizing one.
Well he was.
@@Reactionary_Harkonnen based
As we believe to be the moral, righteous, civilized ones today. In the end, 100 years from now, people will probably see us with contempt, laugh at us for being dumb, and never really try to understand us (which means never being able to even judge us fairly and knowingly).
The same way we do that to people of the past nowadays. And we feel superior about it.
@G Naz Still more civilized then you big guy. 😎👉🏻👉🏻
@G Naz cloned back from cool based assimilated minorities.
You should make a video about Mussolini's plan to reinstate the Habsburg monarchy in central Europe
That does sound interesting
The what now? Damn was he delusional.
@@franzfanz yes because he’s a fascist
So he wanted to remake Roman AND the Habsburg Empires?!
@@cloudftw113 yes yes he did
The indigenous peoples had a lot of experience with the Arab slavers, so when Europeans showed up they knew they should probably run.
True story.
Arab slave trade still has black indigenous people as slaves.
America does too but nobody knows they are slaves, but we do know struggle. Crazy thing is white people are now in the same boat, just in the front of the boat.
Their somali brothers sold africans aswell
@@freezaphreeze4298 bro bs its white men vs everyone yall are the boat were just fighting to stay afloat. The government does everything for you but wipe your ass.
@@freezaphreeze4298 LMAO
That wasn't very polite
Not very "civil", eh? 😉
Canada is a close third behind the United States and Britain when it comes to committing crimes against humanity outside of its borders.
@@GoodBaleada what list? Surely there must be other countries that are ahead of canada
@@Vrangelrip like for instance when Libya tried to start a pan-african currency and Hillary Clinton absolutely destroyed the richest country in Africa with more democracy and socialism than any place in the Western hemisphere...
A Canadian was second in command.
@@GoodBaleada Probably inside their borders more so than outside of them. Canada, like the United States, was or is a colony of an empire. I doubt Canada surpasses France, Spain, Japan, the Dutch, or Belgium when it comes to a recent history human atrocities outside their borders but perhaps I don't know what I am talking about.
Frantz Fanon once wrote:
"Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply"
I don't think a statue of Fanon would last too long - his tripe and dribble makes no sense. There were no countries invaded - the colonizers drew country boundaries and went on their sociopath runs of looting and destruction. Only the colonizers/invaders get rich.
So the same as we do today with capitalism 😂 just the slaves are anyone who is not rich nothing changed then
the virgin invading a country to enslave its people vs the chad invading a country because their government wont leave them alone
@@sephritine5481 only someone with abundance of privilege could say something so delusional and inaccurate.
I’ve just been reading Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and this is a very accurate example of why he wrote that book
True, but at the same time it is definitely a critique of imperialism
Oh definitely not, but I think the point still stand, yes?
@Benghali In Platforms Almost as if he were saying something about the base equality of human depravity...
Sure, didn’t I know until now that it was the goddamn incident that inspired the heart of darkness.
See also: Mathew Charles Lamb, a Canadian spree killer who joined the Rhodesian Army during the Bush War on the advice of his psychiatrist.
@Mialisus agreed
Rhodesians never die
As you do.
Lol, to get it out of his system?
@@basedmongoloid2278 where's it at then
Imagine just being some African minding your own business and a guy comes out of nowhere and calls you a hoser soorry ehh, as the yeet you into a boat.
XD
Ummm the Natives were attacking him first over 90% of the time if you actually watch the video. They even killed some of his men when separated as well as one of his native scouts got killed.
Do you people listen?
@@Reactionary_Harkonnen
After the first couple of indiscriminate massacres I’d say they were pretty justified in labeling him and his gang a ‘kill on sight’ target
@@Reactionary_Harkonnen He clearly says and documents he was invading on their land- and DID NOT want to seek trade and so was killing able bodied men or warriors and enslaving them and women. So it's not ATTACKING when someone is invading your land with a company of armed men, WITH the intention of ZERO diplomacy and selling it without your consent to a foreign nation that would then later come and literally be known for genocides and massacres comparable to the Nazis.
I don't know what type of slow colonial apologist you are, but I'm sure if any company of people invaded a Nation in Europe they would be met with similar if not worse attacks.
@@marthlink5015 "Reactionary" Harkonnen is a fitting name considering his very interesting and very public list of subscriptions. That guy is probably a white nationalist.
The least polite Canadian in History
The most polite Canadian in history
He was polite. He was a polite killer. I haven't heard one swear word in his account lol
video: genocide music: relaxing music for studying and relaxation 10 hours
Wtf lol 😆
Its true
Genocide music
Isn’t that musical dissonance?
This is like a real life horror movie, strange men arriving with terrible weapons slaughtering everything in their path for no other reason than sheer spite.
Bro id watch that
It's called terrorism.
They were for a reason there, the Mahdist Revolt.
@@NapoleonBonaparde The people they were slaughtering weren’t mahdists lmaooo. The mahdists lived in cities and had guns and spears.
@@NapoleonBonaparde they weren't even in Sudan?
Yeah we aint gonna talk about this in Canada
Ironic how he has places named after him there and is venerated.
Because it was done to support King Leopold not Canada. One thing is for sure though every horrendous crime that happened in Canada was done under the leadership of a royal family somewhere.
"I saw beneath his ivory skin a mix of pride, power, ruthlessness, terror, and despair."
~ Joseph Conrad
He calls them savages but he is the real savage
Well they were.
Savage? No, he was something far, far worse.
@@hazzmati Why?
@@matheuroux5134 Apparently, he did not hear this VERY important phrase; "Native Peoples of Africa were NEVER, EVER SAVAGES! They just did things differently!"
@@danmorgan3685 You're ignorant.
Hey Jabzy.
I was one of the early subscribers to your channel (you even drew me once when that was one of your Patreon rewards, not sure if it still is). I fell out with your channel for a few years.. I'm very happy to see how much your production quality has greatly improved. This was a great video. I'll try to catch up with the other ones!
Cheers mate
Thanks a lot man!
@@JabzyJoe Yeah, Jabzy! You always had the most variety in your quality content.
they burned villages because the natives were being too loud?! did I hear that correctly?
Yeah, kinda cool isn't it. There are a lot of apartment complexes that
need urban renewal also.
It's probably more like the natives were shouting at them since they were already at conflict with them. I wouldn't be surprised if the intertribal warfare consisted of shouting matches before battles like the Zulus before Shaka zulu
Crud..
@@meisterproper8304 or you can call them war cries just like most armies in the world used and still use
Can you blame him? I mean, who _doesn't_ hate noisy neighbours?
Legend has it that this all started when a Canadian walked up to african and said... and i quote "im not your buddy guy" and the african clicked "im not your guy friend"
Terrence and Phillip!
I'm not your friend buddy
Lame joke.
Banana was a settlement at the mouth of the river Congo. Bananas are named after it. If someone is psychotic in the U.K. We have several phrases. One of them is to say 'They've gone bananas.' Similarly; If someone is neurotic, the phrase 'Gone Doolally' is often used.
Doolally was a hospital in India for those British empire soldiers with battle fatigue in the first Afghan wars. Wikipedia wrongfully reports that going bananas is a late 1960's American college campus slang term related to the term 'Going Ape.' William Grant Stairs & men are the real reason the phrase came about. Welsh soldiers were most probably the first to coin the phrase. A large proportion of English phraseology & a fair bit of foreign language integration's hark back to military ventures as far back in time as the middle ages.
Next time you here someone say ''Gone Bananas.'' You may think of Captain Stairs.
Thank God someone is finally taking Canada down a peg
Yea I’ll peg Canada down
😳
Let's not confuse his nationality over who he was working for - Leopold's Congo Free state.
Agree - as a Canadian i despise our penchant for other worldly holier than thouness...
"Oh it's my birthday. One wonders if one has killed enough natives to make any difference"
One wonders if we should all go back too killing each other at least there was resources and it was fair ie who ever performed the best got the most
As a Canadian I’ll be the first to say we can be very brutal. Most of the time is when we go to war and that’s been well established throughout history. Now this guy though was something special, nasty piece of work. I’m not proud that a Canadian was involved in this but this is history and we need to learn from others mistakes.
Dude he was a mercenary, stop bein a bitch this guy was an absolute chad with a maxim removing cannibals.
@@Luke-ef1px based
The guy was a mercenary he was getting shot up my arrows what do you think he's going to do?
fun fact : whenever he killed the natives, he said sorry.
@@Reactionary_Harkonnen The African tribes he faced were all spearmen, not archers. If they were archers, none of his expedition would have made it back home. Africans by the 1600s knew about firearms and knew that they were not sorcerers' staffs that made lightning. A good archer or bowhunter versus a 19th century rifleman is equally matched in effectiveness. Stairs was lucky that all of the tribes he faced were close up melee fighters, and even then, only 100 of his 500 strong party survived.
This is one heck of a Heritage Minute
Lmfaoooo
Noble Canadian explorer eliminates savage cannibals and unreliable employees
SAVAGE!
The men under his command were just as despicable for following him.
It's sort of hard not to shoot and kill when they shoot arrows at you.
The Natives were attacking him first over 90% of the time if you actually watch the video. They even killed some of his men when separated as well as one of his native scouts got killed. The only reason it seems like a massacre is because they were so far behind in technology.
Do you people listen?
@@Reactionary_Harkonnen Perhaps don't intrude on people's land? Or am I to understand you'd welcome me with a nice cup of tea as I rummage around your belongings with a rifle in hand?
@@joujou264 I find this funny how such subjects turns leftists as Nationalist and strong borders all of a sudden.
Anyways we don't know the whole story because it just starts off him getting shot by arrows. It seems in the video he was trying to escape or pass by those areas from fighting another war somewhere else or something.
@@Reactionary_Harkonnen And I find it funny how there are still people around using colonial era excuses for those same colonial atrocities even after colonialism has been discussed globally as a vile crime to the people it had been done to. Stick to your own rules about borders then if you don't want them flung back into your face.
@@joujou264 The Refugees of the past 6 years have little to do with anything that happened in the 18 hundreds.
Also I think you'll find that colonialism brought bad but also good things too.
So deplorable how 'specimens' will defend themselves and their own land.
@@adamthundercock155 you know better than anybody how worthless a person you are.
@Tadhg O'Rourke no I don't. The Bantu speaking population is native to the region.
@Tadhg O'Rourke of course. Granted, non European residents in Europe don't impose apartheid on native Europeans.
@Tadhg O'Rourke I was saying Europe is for native Europeans only when it comes down to it. If native Europeans want the non native population to leave, they have every right to expel them. The dishonesty of drawing an equivalence between Rhodesia and the presence of non Europeans in Western Europe was my point.
@Tadhg O'Rourke Africans benefit more from whites in Africa in the long run than the other way around. I don't mind them at all. My only point was against European or Indian only spaces in Africa, which offends me. I do not mind either being in Africa at all.
I think this guy is working as a cop arresting pastors in Alberta right now.
And he WAS NOT sorry!
Thank You for spending your time to make this..blessings
"they were the aggressors"... the guy who shoots people on sight for carrying weapons (which is their right to do), having a village where he wanted to march through or just minding their own business.. did it not occur to this guy that he was stealing their stuff and butchering them and word spreads... i get brutality for actual crime but it seems the only criminals here were this guy, his men and his slave trader buddies
@Nicholas Leonel honestly probably would have the guy burned at the stake not just for killing natives but literally just robbing one of them. Anyone who isn’t a murderous thug or a socialist totalitarian must have their property defended with an iron fist
The Canadians didn't just murder their way across Africa. They did a pretty bang-up job in their own "backyard."
Too many psychopaths did what they wanted in Africa. The European idea of civilizing the continent made death.
Dude sub-sahara Africa had the biggest slave trade in the world and in history before the Europeans are even Arab stepped in.
my idea of civilizing is to hang anyone who steals or kills indiscriminately (although to be fair the only one really doing that his him)
Keep up the good work Jabzy! Good to see all your hard work is starting to get more views!
"then i was struck in the chest by a poison arrow"
...good...
My reaction was: "Oh, no! HE SURVIVED!!!"
Whenever i try to comment here, it never shows up. But i bet this one will since i didnt type what i've been trying to type. Because youtube has a bias.
Hahahah, i knew it would stay. Cause i cant say my side. The minute i speak my side, i get labelled for "hate speech". Gotta love fascism
Too bad he survived, hm?
person: "murdered his way across africa"
me: "sounds anglo to me"
person: ".. canadian"
me: "literally the same thing"
I love when Canadians act like their country has never done anything wrong in the past then when they see this their reaction hilarious.
@@nope6908 they still treat natives very badly, and it was much much worse in the past. Some also use crazy mental gymnastics to deny it. And Canada has been recently exporting a lot of alt-right braindead fools across the world
I was once walking around Canada talking about Trudeau being French. And a Canadian man with a Vancouver accent that sounded very similar to an American accent started yelling at me. He said “I hate Trudeau and the French, WE ENGLISH should have made them all speak our language, we won the war in 1763 (before Canada was a country and it was on England)” It was a weird interaction and it made me realize just how English many Canadians feel.
@@Gamenetreviews honestly English Canadians harping on about the French Canadians are just silly. They're getting all sorts of immigrants from all over the world and their problem is one of the few non Anglo communities that is there as long/longer than them?
@@nope6908 we have never done anything wrong, we only respond in kind for the empire.
This was so disturbing to listen to. This man was a true sociopath. The worst part to me is that he gunned natives down with a maxim gun because he was bored.
And the crazier part is that there are people in these comments DEFENDING HIM!
You should read the comment section on this video it gets worse and worse people are justifying the guys actions
@@Youngblood457 Any colonial power ever: **does something objectively horrible**
The comments: ThEy HaD a GoOd ReAsOn!!! It WaS a DiFfErEnT tImE!”
Like bro. That doesn’t change the fact that your hero did something unforgivable.
He basically treated the natives as just some more game to be hunted for entertainment or to remove a nuisance.
Most Canadians Like 99.9% Have Never Heard of This Guy.....and I can see why
He worked for belgium, you can't boame all of canada only because he was canadian.
An excellent finding, the diary and words of a true colonist. So I can further understand that part of the history in concrete details.
Don't know if he can be qualify as the truest, but certainly as one of the most controversial ones.
"dont matter what will happen, we have the maxim"
based.
Guy seems like kind of a chad ngl, marching across sub-saharan Africa with a merry bunch of Arabs, assorted Muslims, and Englishmen. Would make a hell of a movie, if Hollywood wasn’t pozzed.
Wtf? You think killing random people with guns is cool?
@@admirekashiri9879 hell yeah
@@half-life3971 then you're sick
Imagine slaughtering a whole village, including happy children, and thinking _they're_ the savages.
If the world was a class room, Canada is like the quiet kid in the back.
They seem nice, unassuming, polite, quiet, but it's always the quiet ones isn't it?
Dark
There used to be a country nicer than Canada, we took care of those hosers.
maybe in the past, lately though its more like the brown nosing, ass kissing, know it all that always has their hand up, reminds the teacher to check homework and all kinds of other things no one likes
And the worst part is he not sorry at all.
I think the worst part is the murdering
I'm Canadian, and in studying British India, I've never come across 1 Canadian in the history books employed in British India, even though Canada was 90% British & French.
Now you know why. A guy like that would cause a mutiny.
Very very interesting, I love these historical argoments.
Ooh I'm early to this one.
To you the day The Canadian came to your village was the most important day of your life , but to him it was only Tuesday.
Its so ironic that this guy is from Canada of all places
..... so it would be more appropriate, if he would be... maybe German...and not Canadian??
Canada was more racist back then especially before the civil war they more racist then southern states thank God that change.
@@heuckepeuckeborserian4798 I'm German-Canadian so hail down to me as I'm the most evil person on this planet.
@@redline1916 naah, the most evil person on this planet is still "Heidelbert Kludehausen" and not you....
If you look up what they did to their natives... not really, tbh. Even how they treat them now is horrible.
Watching and listening to this has made my blood run cold. I can't believe that a man could think himself righteous, if he did, whilst killing, torturing and enslaving people who were getting on with their lives and he had the effrontery to say that they attacked him and chose to be enemies. How self righteous was he!
What’s almost as disturbing is that I saw several people separately argue for this guys side against the natives and try to justify his massacres
i dont get it either... my whole thing is the defense of property and if im not mistaken in England proper they hung people for robbing stores, i dont have a problem killing torturing and even enslaving people that kill and torture or enslave people minding their own business. The guy is as self aware as the KGB doing horrifying things to innocent people while not realizing they are the villain
Wow!! 😬😬 Excellent video but devastating/barbaric, historical events.🤔
He calls himself old in this video. William Grant Strairs died at 28. How was he old?
Back in the 1800s. That was Old
@@slazeblaze319 no it wasn't infant mortality was unfortunately very high so average age of death was low but in reality most people who reached adulthood lived into their seventies and eighties.
@@thegreaserking A fact that so many people fail to grasp. The Romans took German Warrior prisoners who were in their 70s. Yet I still speak with people who think everyone died of old age at 35 in the bad old days.
@@robplazzman6049 Yes, it's annoying that people don't understand how life expectancy works. It's a misnomer so I see why they think that. They should have average age of life and have life expectancy mean two different things. Augustus was sickly his entire life and still lived into his 70's.
@Giff Trav true
I love this work
Interesting videos on this channel.
Now that's a bronze age mindset.
Were the Sea peoples smug British time travellers?
can you make a video on the british expiditions in Madagascar and their interactions with the Imerina kingdom?
Sounds more like a normal colonial story than a psychopath.
believe that's the point, no person would read what happened during the scramble as sane. horrific what they did to the continent
@@Brianf66999 but that's the point isn't it?
That these were normal people with bad ideas. Not some psychopaths who acted on their own.
@@boser_ketchup3101 They certainly didn't act on their own but were far from normal even by the standards of their era.
@@TheWoollyFrog how can you be sure of that? There were thousands and thousands of Nazis who killed civilians. They were also normal people, so how can you be sure of that?
I think it's totally possible for normal people to act like that. Look at ISIS etc.
@@boser_ketchup3101 What do you mean by "normal"? It is a bit of a taboo for historians to comment on a long-dead figure's mental health. And that is because we may never know for sure. However, from a psychological perspective, he is exhibiting symptoms of antisocial personality disorder. And you can start as a "normal" person and be shaped by traumatic events into a person that is not "normal" when it comes to mental health. As for his actions being "normal" behaviour at the time, this lad and the likes of Leopold II were criticised by their respective governments, peers, the media once their acts became public knowledge.
The Madhist regime was brutal. Before the Sudanese and Nubians were casually Muslim. The region was still Christian until it got taken out by the Ottomans.
@عبدالله حسان الفاروق there’s Berbers in Sudan?
@عبدالله حسان الفاروق sorry to break it to you brother man but Sudanese Arabs and Beja are black people unless they look like they ancestors from Hejaz.
@عبدالله حسان الفاروق The Senussi were incredible, it’s sad that almost no one in the west knows about them. Fought for four non-stop decades.
@عبدالله حسان الفاروق so your tribe are the ones who's killing the black africans in dafur? Right
@عبدالله حسان الفاروق oh ok, thought you were sudanese.
William Grant Stairs was mercenary during much of his career
The horror. The horror.
you earned a sub
Even in the 19th century, Stairs was criticised by the British for his brutality. His exploits with Belgium meant that the UK lost Katanga and Stairs was not warmly received, and pleasingly the most he died of malaria at the age of 28.
Could you put your sources in the description? I'm a teacher and it would be interesting to use something like this as a historic exercise!
You can find some of his book online here - books.google.com.tr/books?id=925cbmVY-QUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=william+stairs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW18q4isnwAhVZNuwKHUpsBmkQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=william%20stairs&f=false
Didn't they teach you how to do research in "college"?
This is literally canadian officers in ww1
Lol the British officer corps called the Canadians "Top Men" for a reason
more stories like this please
Stairs appeared to be a soldier of fortune, rather than a Commonwealth patriot. In those days the dividing line between Canadian hailing from Halifax , Britisher, seemed quite fuzzy. Canada did not have its own Navy, it seemed Canada mostly provided soldiers that were expected to have interoperability with the British Army. Much the same as how the Cdn. Army is expected to have 'interoperability' with the US Army. The word in quotation marks essentially means proxy force. Its funny how the Americans when referring to Commonwealth troops up to the end of WWII use the term British, which is not meant as a pejorative. Its just their convention. So Belgium causing havoc in the Congo. Not much different than for the segment of the twentieth century from WWII through to the rest of the century. Francafrique.
These sort of accounts should be taught in African schools, UA-cam is blessing.
Do you do French subtitles, I plan to build a school in the near future, and I want to give African kids a raw account of their history.
I'm afraid I'm a monoglot
If you give me a week or two, I can do a transcript for you. Are you interested?
@@JabzyJoe ah that's a shame, you have intriguing historical lessons, that's not well covered in a lot of African schools.
@@JabzyJoe monolingualism can be cured
Why did he not just peacefully go through the land? He could had even traded for food, trinkets and slaves
Why attempt to purchase a limited amount of food trinkets and slaves when you can take everything by force?
They found that pillage and murder was more sucessful. 'Friendship we don't want, as we would gain very little meat and probably have to pay for the bananas'
Place was probably a total tourist trap, bleed you dry financially and physically.
@@mappingshaman5280 maybe not the slave part but generally not if im not mistaken at this time the British empire in England proper literally hung thieves they guy was a hypocritic lunatic to be fair though
Due to centuries of Arab slave raids it would take quite the diplomat to overcome the natives' fear of light-skinned gun-toting strangers reliably enough to live off of trade with them while keeping up a fast enough travel pace to rescue Emin Pasha. Plus, this guy was obviously there for the violence.
Me living in Canada, listening to the dialogue, and knowing who William Grant Stairs is:
The level of contempt, and a delusional superiority complex that Europeans had like wow lol. They literally colonized Africa all thanks to one technological tool. A gun. That's it.
The lame thing is there is an Island in Canada named after him, and a Street.
You should delve into banking history a good source documentary is The Money Masters history they’d like forgotten should be told great video got a new subscriber
The only Canadian who didn't regularly apologise for everything
@@mle7231 A bit awkward to mention this, but we only apologize and act polite because it’s culturally expected of us, usually we’re not being genuine and just want to get the interaction over with.
@@JollyOldCanuck I always act polite sincerely, although yes, Im sure many other of us fake it.
@@ozymandias3329 Living in the GTA just squeezes the kindness out of you, the rent and traffic are soul crushing.
@@JollyOldCanuck I'd imagine so. My dad was Hunted by a gang there, im a Westerner now, so rent and traffic aren't that bad here.
@@ozymandias3329 People are holding bidding wars over rental contracts now, I think Ontario will see a mass exodus like California if nothing is done to deflate the housing bubble soon.
Thanks to these brutal exploits and the groundwork they laid the Congo remains one of the most violent places. With such horror the blood doesn't so much dry as seep from the pages of history to the present.
You can't always blame past crimes for whats happening today. Europe had many wars with equal amount of brutality and we don't slaughter each other nowdays. The Area i live in got devastated in the 30 years war like 5 times by different factions and there a still phrases that have their origin in describing the brutality of the swedish mercenaries
@@meisterproper8304 I agree with that sentiment except in the case of the Congo. It and it’s people were brutally subjugated and enslaved by Belgium until 1960.
America ended slavery 150 years ago but its affect on our society remains.
Very true John.
@@meisterproper8304 Let's see, we have neighboring powers who speak more or less similar/familiar languages on one hand, and on the other hand we have foreign powers landing in a foreign place and accosting people who look differently from them and speak differently from them who were minding their business prior to the arrival of these absolute strangers. If you can't see how you just tried to compare apples and oranges, then there's a big problem.
Besides, even at the worst, the Europeans had spoken and unspoken rules of engagement with one another. They were still neighbors. All of that decorum went out the window when it came to dealing with far away "savages". Why do you think Hitler gets more hate to this day than Churchill or Leopold II of Belgium? Because he mainly went after other Europeans.
Sad how most of The Congo and DRC peoples and pygmies were experimented on and killed. All innocent lives gone and a lot were amputee. Well some of these people succeeded from these crazy people. But theres always will be good and bad to everyone’s history the truth is sad at times and good. But some part of this in some one way don’t correlate to each other.
You really should write the main historical character's name somewhere, in the title or description. To help any historian searching the subject find your video.
"African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892" -- here's a collection of his diary entries
I... I don't even know what to say to all of THIS...
Are you american?
I only disgust towards this man
This shit is infuriating but not suprising....
@SAMUEL NAUMETS these things (colonialism & white supremacy) have a daily impact on the lives of people today. So miss me with the attempt to minimize my response.
@@jasonm1405 Nope. "White supremacy" certainly does not exist in todays society. Your biased leftwing news might tell you that it does, as an attempt to make everyone angry at eachother and divide us by skin color. That way you'll be too focused on non existant racism, rather than the real corruption going on called "THE GREAT RESET". Sadly it seems to work on weaker minded folk. You've been distracted. Ill tell you what does exist today though... A huge chip on your shoulder, from something that happened hudreds of years ago, that YOU werent even involved in.
There are monuments to this guy in Kingston
Was his full diary ever published to read?
I'll say this, for a conquering empire, they knew who they were sending. It's not like his mission was to spread love and peace
Hold on you're telling me soldiers go out to kill people in war. Brha that's new to me. Are you sure brha? I think you may be lying.
@@Reactionary_Harkonnen No he means they intentionally sent psychopaths to commits rape, murder and destruction of civilians.
In Canada you don't rake leaves the leaves rake you
The commander looks just like Ryan in F9
I'm from africa and i haven't known this man.
The sad story is that this is never told in our school
He wasn't taught in many places tbh. I assumed atrocities occurred like during any empire building, but his barbarism even shocked the colonial powers.... so he was brutal in a brutal period.
I've yet to find a more remorseless coloniser, but I've not read every report. Maybe you know others?
Just looked online this Canadian has an island named after him in Ontario
Thats awesome what an absolute chad
@@Luke-ef1px Imagine being such a based Chad jogger hunter that they literally name an island after you
The first date he said out loud was June 17th. Juneteenth was slave emancipation day.
June 19th is the right day
@@desia252love Yup, I'm a bonehead. Thanks.
Who cares.
Canadians don't want you to know this simple trick
Wow history was brutal for my country and many others (basically all). Who would've thought?
Why would you shoot at people trying to flee
To terrorize the area and maybe he enjoyed it ....
So they don’t come back.
@@smithcas86 Was that really a concern considering they burned their possessions
So you don't have to shoot them again in some other battle.
@@thesudaneseprince9675 People tend to get angry when you burn their shit. Best to shoot them before they come back angry AND organized.
Well at least he died before he reached 30.
If hell is real, he's been there a while.
And we would you go if you died at 28?
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Victoria 2:a yes this is a regular tuesday
This is an informative topic but I only make one small request that the background music is a little quieter please. Its giving my little autistic brain a touch of difficulty.
As an African and a former Muslim learning about the history of continent, I feel relieved to be born in more enlightened time, plus I do not hold any grudges or hate towards any Europeans for atrocities of their ancestors.
I believe Africa as a continent needs to look to the future instead of crying about the past and dead lost.
Yep, Africa is a lot more than just a place Europeans colonised. I'd feel the same way if my entire history was taught as if it was nothing more than being invaded. The same way all films with black lead characters always seem to be about racism
Brother you are very big hearted and magnanimous!
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Very interesting story
So the video is really interesting, but I feel that the choice of music for it was extremely poor due to how it clashes with the extremely heavy subject.