Napoleon - The Final Battle

[rocksonice3333]

poor midget drummer

[Romansteel13]

@rocksonice3333

He's not a midget, he's a young polish hussar.

Napoleon did not discriminate, the only stipulation was bravery.

[rocksonice3333]

@Romansteel13

arent hussars light cavalry? They were exceptionally brave and anyone who lived to see age 30 could call himself a Black Guard. Also how could polish be there in Battle of Toulon? were the French using mercenaries? If anyone could enlighten me then it would be awesome. also the comment about "midget" was a funny joke.

[Romansteel13]

@rocksonice3333

Wrong Hussars could be on foot as well.

They wore wings.

This young man was featured in the Napoleon Miniseries where he played a Winged Polish Hussar in the battle of Austerlitz.

He is not a midget by any means.

The man is at least 6 foot tall.

[projectbrumaire]

Hes 23!!!

[etwisabeta]

Your joking .... No I'm not (slow motion)

[SSUstufRudel]

2:36 What sounded moving past them was a Jet fighter.. LOL

[MrBillcale]

long live the memory of the glorious emperor of the french people

long live Napoleon !

vive Napoleon!

vive mon Emperor !

[WakeUpLincoln]

PS : there's a mistake in this movie...Freron was in love with pauletta, but it was almost 10 years after TOULON, when Bonaparte was First Consul, and he sent off Freron out of France because he got some other idea for the future of his sister!!!!

a mistake of 10 years, it's a big mistake from a nationall TV channel. Need to find some better historians for their movie...great actors anyway !!!!

[WakeUpLincoln]

i think to all people on earth who dream of liberty !!! the liberty will never be given to you, you should battle rude for it!! and i hope you'll get some Bonaparte to help you !! citizen of North Korea, citizen of palestine, citizen of England (oh sorry one tell me they are free) get up stand up you deserve to be free !!!!

[WakeUpLincoln]

never in history a human body with such powerful life in it exist !!! what the hell such a man could exist !!! a he crush the kings who asserved the citizen of Europe before Bonaparte liberate them !!! it's an era where wars was Liberty versus monarchy...thanks to him France was liberated from slavery of kings and  new citizen get their carrers open to talent !!!

[gyrofoam1]

Buonaparte was a Megalomaniac who wanted to be the King of Europe.

[MrBillcale]

my hero!!

[MrBillcale]

what a guy!! long live france!

[gyrofoam1]

Hitler was a far superior mass-murderer than this piece of Trash.

[shehzad28]

@gyrofoam1 thats a joke, right?

[gyrofoam1]

Buonaparte - an Italian megalomaniacal mass-murderer who couldn't hold on his woman.

[Pandasiatique]

@gyrofoam1 French

[gyrofoam1]

@Pandasiatique He was Italian - all his family were Italian. So was his name; Napoli-eon Buona-parte. He changed the spelling which was better for joining the French army.

[Pandasiatique]

@gyrofoam1 He was French. He Fought FOR FRANCE. And with the flesh of French men and women.

Vive l'Empereur des Français.

[gyrofoam1]

@Pandasiatique He joined the French army and became King - that doesn't make him French.

[Pandasiatique]

@gyrofoam1 Napoleon was born in Corsica in 1769, one year after France had bought it from Genoa. So technically Napoleon was born as a French citizen.

Corsicans had their own dialect which is slightly different than Italian. Now was Napoleon more Corsican or French? I would say that in his early years he displayed many Corsican traits but as he became used to life in Paris and became the ruler of France his attitude became more like that of a Frenchman.

[gyrofoam1]

@Pandasiatique O.K......but he was still Italian.

[Pandasiatique]

@gyrofoam1 No he is French :).

[gyrofoam1]

@Pandasiatique Actually, he's dead. When he was alive he was Italian.

[Pandasiatique]

@gyrofoam1 @gyrofoam1 No he was french :).

[solwen]

@gyrofoam1

Did he consider himself as italian ? Never.

Are corsican italian ? Hell no.

Was Genoa italian at that time ? No, Italy didn't even exist in 1800

Do north italian and especially piemontese (near Genoa) consider themselves Italian today ? Highly debatable.

Napoleon the great spoke french, always said he was french, was born in France and dedicated his live to France. Does that make him french ? Obviously yes.

Are you upest that the greatest leader if all time was french ? Apparently

[gyrofoam1]

@solwen Wrong. He was born in Corsica of an Italian Family. Italy Did exist long before 1800!!. Of Course he said he was French, you silly boy - he was going to take their aimless 'revolution' and Use it's starving people to conquer Europe.

[solwen]

@gyrofoam1

Italy was created in 1870 by Garibaldi...

His family lived in corsica since the 16th century (300 years before he was born). So he was not Italian (and again Genoa was not italian).

In all the account and memories about him he never said (and he never considered) he was italian (even when he was a young boy and not an emperor ...). No historian, not a single people of that time said he was italian so get over it: He was not english, italian, chinese or wathever. He was French

[gyrofoam1]

@solwen He was Italian, bub - get over it.

[solwen]

@gyrofoam1

Names of his parents/brothers/sisters/uncle­s : Charles, lucien, pierre, louis-lucien, marie, charlotte. All italian names as you can see.

Even if you whine about it a lot, the worlds knows Napoleon the great was french (like richard coeur de lion was).

[gyrofoam1]

@solwen I already listed a bunch of his Italian family names - do you think i don't know what I wrote? - stop whining about a megalomaniacal midget who couldn't hold onto his woman, as if you're proud of the jerk. You Want him to be French. Why? Hitler was a better mass-muderer than Buonaparte. German people don't brag about Hitler.

[ViriathusVingathor]

@gyrofoam1

He was corsican and french,and so what,the first kings of England were french/norman.

Hitler and Napoleon have little to do,Hitler was depressive maniac,a murderer with no talent for warfare,he had its ministers doing nearly everything for him except his speeches,the most probable was that he was just part of a zionist conspiracy to destroy Europe.

[gyrofoam1]

@ViriathusVingathor Zionist conspiracy?? You dumbass Nazi bastard - you're Sick in the Head.

[ViriathusVingathor]

@gyrofoam1

While Napoleon did most by himself,he spent interminable hours administering its territories in civil matters not just war matters,he was brilliant in the battlefield,and outside of it,to the point of being irreplaceable,he never had intentions of being a mass murderer,despite he had to take severe measures against catholic fanatics in Iberia,some of the laws made in the napoleonic code are still used today in several european and american countries.

[gyrofoam1]

@Pandasiatique Giovanni, Benedetto, Pier-Antonio,Sarzanna, all Italian names. Francesco - who took the family to Corsica when it was part of Genoa

[MrBillcale]

you may be long dead

but you are still my hero

VIVE LE EMPEROR!

VIVE LA FRANCE!

[DuPuieproductions]

Did this really happen? It absolutley looks nothing like Waterloo.

[Reaper757]

@DuPuieproductions

This is just before the Siege of Toulon :)

[wwIIgamer1]

DROPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

[vHumboldt77]

this guy looks like a filthy thief having come out of a London prison of the time....one could expect that after almost 2 centuries, the British tried to hold a more balanced view of a battle that, save for the help of Blücher, Lord Wellington would have lost...

[vHumboldt77]

apologies --I realize this is the siege of Toulon, not Waterloo. I wonder why it says "the last battle".

[kmsw15]

great ACTOR!!!

[etwisabeta]

nice speech

[golgoth74]

If i go forward, follow me

If i retreat ... me

If I a am killed, revenge me

one of its many famous sentences

en français dans le texte:

Si j'avance suivez moi

Si je recule tuez moi

Si je meure, vengez moi

Excellent drama from the BBC, as usual (and i am french..)

[archiebunkerville]

looks like history had made room for us after all...

shot will bounce off me canaon balls will swurve with fear!

you will come with me and watch me take it!

if i go forward follow me!

if i retreat shoot me

and if i am killed avenge me

AVENGE ME!

WHAT A GUY!

NAPOLEON bonaparte was the shit

he is my hero

[Blackeneer]

He sais, "If i retreat, shoot me"

[lelysblanc1793]

@golgoth74 Et bien mon cher il serait temps de revoir vos cours d'Histoire... Cette citation n'est pas de Napoléon mais de Henri de La Rochejaquelin généralissime de l'armée Catholique et Royale pendant les guerres de Vendée. C'est du plagiat... La Rochejaquelin était un sainte homme alors que Napoléon un vrai boucher...

[ImperialGuard9001]

@golgoth74 Those words didnt came from Napoleon originaly(words that have been adopated by several political factions such as National Fascist Party to Politicians). Those words came from a counter revolutionary leader called Henri du Vergier basicaly a man that was opositive party of Napoloeon in this days.

[MrGidderz]

@golgoth74 that is not a quote from Napoleon. The BBC got it wrong. It was from a royalist leader fighting against the republic in la Vendee!

[TheWilliamcale]

I have no words to describe Bonaparte's merit: much technical skill, an equal degree of intelligence, and too much gallantry..."

—General Jacques François Dugommier, at the Siege of Toulon

[TheWilliamcale]

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte

French general & politician (1769 - 1821

[TheWilliamcale]

who says the french are cowards?

[TheWilliamcale]

long live the emperor

[Askarethi]

I don't understand some words of his speech although I understand the message, so could someone help me writing it on a comment? I'm learning english thanks :). I saw this show last week it's amazing

[delicados123]

Amazing speech, i can feel it down to my bone marrow and heart. Really deep, and makes you rationalize that you can accomplish everything that you desire.

[MrBillcale]

@delicados123 i would have followed him inot hell.. i think i might have

[chicoven]

Me desconcierta un poco oír a Napoleón hablando inglés, cuando fue Ingleterra su principal enemiga (las vueltas que da la historia).

Por lo demás, buena producción...

[Octavius0]

cheers!

[xGamesAndStuffsx]

This is not the last 10 minutes of the series, this is the last 10 minutes of the first Episode in a series of four.

[dannyboyesx23]

the third of napoleons army that went to find blucher fought the prussians the day after waterloo and won!

[KronprinzAdam]

The ones led by Grouchy?

[wak567]

anyone know what the music is

[binfot]

it would help to just read the info box right of the movie...;-)

[joward2]

Vive l'Empereur

[Hroboatos]

Riveting. Top BBC production.

[Lafayette912]

I WAS there I was gnrl Desales, with manning the guns... (just jking) I meant on battle scenes, the paintings, etc. (I do accept that Napoleon lost but not to England! but to Blucher.

[britishpatriot01]

britain beat him in the end :)

[tortue2008]

Yes when the best french soldiers had died during the previous glorious campaigns and France was all alone against the whole forces of the past, kings ands tyrans of all kinds.... Before the English did not even dare to face them

[britishpatriot01]

trafalgar

the peninsular war

eygypt

and its hardly a glorious campaign if all your best soldiers die now is it

[Lafayette912]

Actually, Napoleon's army at Waterloo was the most experienced army he ever commanded. The quality of the french troops, had not dimished. But something was different, Napoleon, wasn't the same one of 1802, he was 46 years old... That was that made him to be defeated. (Btw the British, did almost nothing, just stood there, the Bulow troops, Blucher's were the one that ultimately won the battle and continued the pursuit up to Paris.)

[britishpatriot01]

erm so with the extra years of experience his skills of been a general diminished?

the british standing there was the plan napoleon used to many soldiers on the british such as the struggle for hougomount so when the prussians did arrive the frecnh would be beaten

if the british did almost nothing how would they have held on for the entire afternoon?

[Lafayette912]

For one, Reille's Division that assaulted Hougomont, was diversionary attack, (to draw more british troops here), and in that aspect it was succesful because even while been charged upon the british maintained many of their cavalry there. 2nd, The French were fighting a uphill battle, so that adds to the difficulty, and the superior french canons, could do nothing but destroy the british ones. And last, the French actually killed more british, than the british AND prussians killed french. pyrric

[britishpatriot01]

it wasnt succesful because it drew a large force of french away and hougomount never fell.

the french should have waited forthemud to dry to makethe battle easier but since the french just cant fight they didnt think.

if casulty rates come down to it the allies lost ww2

at the end of the day the french lost you cannot deny that so why are you othering to argue when you know you can never win?

[Lafayette912]

In Ney's Cavalry charge, the british squares were in the verge of destruction, allied cavalry didn't wanted to charge, gunners fleed to never come back, (And btw most if not all of these were not british, Im just saying "british", because allies sounds bad), "If Napoleon would have committed the Imperial guard at this Time, The Battle would have been won"-Alessandro Barbero, The battle was actually lost in the last hour/mins...

[britishpatriot01]

verge of destruction thats the point the british didnt lose the french did so you cant argue no matter how close it was to going either way france lost you need to accept it mate

btw the forces besides the prussian reinforcements fought flying british colours which means they were a british army

[Lafayette912]

But it was not because britain, Napoleon lost at a tactical level(ofcourse he would have won have the army of Wellington not been there) but because of the Prussians. (And That Wellington's army was no more than a rabble of recruits, kinda remainding me, of the soviets in WWII.) oh and I remember seen many regiments, and brigades, namely the Brunswickers, Hanoverian, and Belgium using their own colours in the battle.

[britishpatriot01]

it was because of britain every allied nation was needed in the battle for victory.

"oh and I remember seen many regiments, and brigades, namely the Brunswickers, Hanoverian, and Belgium using their own colours in the battle."

oh sorry i forgot you were there

[NapoleonCalland]

no they didn't! the prussians fought under their own colours as an independent force - the most powerful kingdom in Germany! if their commander, Field-Marshal Blucher hadn't insisted on joining up with Wellington even after the British and Prussian joint defeat two days before Waterloo, Wellington would have been in even deeper s*** than he turned out to be at 19h00 on Sunday the 18th of June 1815 when the Guard rolled forward...

[britishpatriot01]

i said excluding the prussians genius

[britishpatriot01]

for the love of god man why cant you accept that napoleon lost a bttle 200 hundred years ago?

[ikickedu]

Epic hero.

[africanchina1]

Hurray for the Emperor of the French!

[paulgallagher13]

what a man

[mamelucoderribado]

awesomweeeeeeee