The Holy Trinity - Waterloo - Battle of Waterloo - Napoleon Bonaparte's Final Defeat

[CliffordVII]

this was my favorite movie when i was 9 years old xD

[sebestyenification]

Fuck England and the QEEN in her asssssssssssssssss

[NobleKorhedron]

@sebestyenification: Oh be quiet you disgusting little worm!! I admit to LOATHING the British establishment, it's Govt. and it's policies but do you see me coming out with crap like you write?! NO SIR-EE BOB!!

[supraden]

MAIS BORDEL WHERE IS GROUCHY ????!!!!

[NobleKorhedron]

@supraden: Off chasing the Prussians - who quite obviously lost him 'cause they turned up around 5 o'clock and helped win the battle.

[supraden]

@NobleKorhedron yes i know my friend :) The french could not always win lol

[mvdnieuwenhof]

Anyone knows which French military march is played at 38:38?

[darkblablabla]

@mvdnieuwenhof La Victory est a Nous

[mvdnieuwenhof]

@darkblablabla Thank you!

[jamiej75]

@birongono

I dont understand how you call an empire that dominated a 1/3 of the world cowards, let alone say we barely helped at the battle of waterloo.

[nolan1854]

The Royal Family of England were (are) German. The Hanovarian connection were all German; some of the regiments in Welliongtons army were German, and who the heck do you think the Anglo-Saxons are?

[TheLloydA1]

@nolan1854 Not are,but do have very strong Hanovarian connections,so what point are you trying to make.

[xabi2025]

They had to be at least two (Wellington, Blucher) to beat Napoléon. This man was far too strong!

[bluesk8erboi]

They should make more movies like this, just one battle, and not filled with all the drama and romance crap, that fills modern movies.

[kahetel13]

@bluesk8erboi fat chance.... with the Twilight and othe silly shows and "instant gratification special effects (computer generated at that) and, the movies that fail simply because the actress was not Royally fucked or was a "HO", well , think it will be another 20 years before people get bored enough or stupid enough to ask for that:)

[Musikkingofthecookie]

Picton: The Man who gave us the style of the future.

[NobleKorhedron]

@Musikkingofthecookie: Actually, the baggage train couldn't join with Wellington for some reason and so Picton couldn't retrieve his dress uniform. He wasn't making a fashion statement. #grins

[Musikkingofthecookie]

@NobleKorhedron See, thats where you are wrong. It was a plan well strategized by Picton so he could have an excuse for being dressed in todays style ;D

[NobleKorhedron]

@Musikkingofthecookie: I call bullshit. Sir Thomas did not lose his clothes deliberately. End. Of.

[Musikkingofthecookie]

@NobleKorhedron You have now proven how astonishingly well-planned Pictons plan was :D

[jabbyjabjo]

i could see no value in sending in the scots greys simply ,to have them turn about then be mauld by french lancers,what a waste

[TheNewCommissar]

@jabbyjabjo They were able to spike the guns, and basically disabled a portion of Napoleon's artillery. There was no way for them to know they would be countered with fast, light cavalry lancers, and by the time they saw what was going to happen the horses were already winded from the charge across open ground, and could not escape. Really, the same disaster happened to both sides - the French lost all of their cavalry against English infantry squares in an attempt to knock out the Brit cannons.

[TheNetherlands01]

what the hell english flag dutch flag this was part of the dutch war en protecting belgium

yes a small army of english :p

[Musikkingofthecookie]

@TheNetherlands01 Although the Dutch and Belgian forces were a vital part, it was the British general Arthur Wellesley and his army togheter with the Prussian general Gebhard Von Blücher against Napoleon. It is considered a battle between the Seventh Coalition and France, and neither Holland nor Belgium was part of the Coalition :3

[darthconnor14]

Does anyone know what the music is called at 7:43 to 8:11 ?

[usbmp4voice]

What the name of this movie??

[1toscany]

@usbmp4voice "Waterloo", Director: Sergei Bondarchuk

Writers: H.A.L. Craig (story), Sergei Bondarchuk (screenplay), and 2 more credits »

Stars: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles

[Inishizbablut]

Are you the guard !!!!!

[BigDon62]

A small slight on GiiiR by Wellington at the 38:25 mark I fancy, the King was an avid farmer & ♥'ed turnips of course.

[liefvercron]

as he got older his genius faded

[Octavius0]

Who's the boy that'll kick Boney's arse?

OUR ATTY!

[shauntheassassin]

napoleon had an assassination attempts on christmas eve in 1800 which almost killed him when a massive bomb exploded near his carriage as he went to the opening night of haydn's opera creation.

[BigDon62]

@shauntheassassin Ummmm....The French have always impressed with their liking for military music & have one of the most stirring National Anthems in the world....Gentleman today's fox. To quote The Iron Duke ! Let's drink to anthems & well dressed adversaries....

[MrDabronx2010]

well you are in part right. however napoleon was an "obscure Lt." able to give some headaches to Nations. Again he is one of my favorite generals regardless his " impurity". Wellington was able to defeat him thanks to the Prussian army. Napoleon also committed some fatal mistakes. At my way the French had adverse luck not adverse Valour. France just came out from the horric revolutions exausted and "poor" however still able to bite hard.

[MrDabronx2010]

Napoleon Had the entire europe against Himself. Everybody was so jealous and insecure that they have to unite their forces to tear Him down. By themselvs could not resit to the French. Long life to Bonaparte.

[blackbeasthamish]

@MrDabronx2010 Unfortunately, Napoleon got too far up his own arse and forgot that in reality he was only a Corporal, unlike is adversary Wellington who was a member of the aristocracy. If the French hadn't chopped the heads of most of their own aristocracy they might have made a better job of things. Just a thought - Ha ha!!

[Shadowman4710]

@blackbeasthamish Napoleon was NEVER a corporal. He was commissioned as junior officer in the artillery before the revolution. In the fact, the Bonapartes were very minor Corsican aristocracy. You're thinking of Hitler.

[blackbeasthamish]

@Shadowman4710 He was in fact commissioned as a second Lieutant, but his troops gave him the name Petit Caporal ie "The Little Corporal" . By coincidence, Winston Churchill dubbed Hitler The Little Corporal, but he had in fact been a real Corporal in World War 1.

[kebengel]

@MrDabronx2010 the truth is napoleon offered empire and glory to a poor and pillaged population and could raise armies quickly because there was little alternative for the people. Other countries were not war mongering as such and by uniting and agreeing to commit 150,000 each to the campaign could limit casualties. Think of the difference compared to Napoleon risking his 600,000 grande army alone in russia. Think I know who the smart side was.

[snappy452]

@kebengel The truth is that the monarchic nations that surrounded France could not stand the thought of a major nation with a republican government and a large standing army; it was the greatest threat to the European aristocracy after the American and French revolutions had proven that a population united was no match for royal power. Napoleon might have gone mad with power with his Spanish and Russian campaigns, but for the most part, he was the one defending, not instigating.

[TheCGIMaster]

47:17

...Holy shit

[SuperBradva]

Fuck Wellington..vive l Empereur !!!

[ProtestantIRA]

thought I heard Dixie for a second at 16:04 lol

[cuzcatlan36]

napoleon, nothing but a murderer

[MrTamazoid]

Blucher provided the turning point in the battle but without the British there Blucher would have been defeated yet again. Napoleon is admired because he turned France into one of the super powers of the world and it took the entire forces of Europe to bring him down.

[verziehen]

"Blend?"

[expertstrategy]

@verziehen, Napoleon pwned Blucher since 1806. Napoleon was 5'6, taller than the average European you imbecile.

[Ixyon77]

@verziehen

I guess he was admired because he came after a chaotic period follwin the revolution. He brought stability to France an that's surely why the french seems to see him as a "liberator".

But for my part I'm not French. I just wanted him speaking french in the movie rather than english and believe me on that day he was able to speak french properly. Not difficult for an Italian to speak french if he wants it. It won't take more than 2 years as in the opposit way. Both based on latin

[Musikkingofthecookie]

@Ixyon77 not to forget that at this time french was the Lingua Franca

[birongono]

This film and the whole story of watercloset is a farce. There was no little wellington, nor an british army, as the british telltales writers would wish to be. The battle was carried out by the prussian general Blücher and his black riders at La Belle Alliance without any help. wellington came after the victory to steal Blücher's glory, as britons always do. Your soldiers proved along history to be a bunch of cowards and murderers

[RandallJonesey]

@birongono Wellington was there, in a defence position. His soldiers were mostly Germans. Then the Corsican attacked his troops and would have erased them from the face of the earth, had not the weather conditions and the attack of the Prussian army rescued him. W. is generally considered a good General, a good leader and nothing near a murderer. But he didn't defeat Napoleon, that is a myth. Leipzig was Napoleon's real "Waterloo". No one English was there.

[MrTamazoid]

@RandallJonesey  Your an idiot. There were 25 thousand British Soldiers at Waterloo

[RandallJonesey]

@MrTamazoid And does that, if true, refute anything I said ? How many soldiers do you think served under Wellington at the scene?

[MrTamazoid]

@RandallJonesey Sorry my bad I was supposed to quote the person bellow you who said there was no British army

[RandallJonesey]

@MrTamazoid No problem Mr Tamazoid; I was exaggerating a bit to make my point, i.e. no surprise you happened to snap on me. ;-)

[liefvercron]

@MrTamazoid napoleon was outnumbered 100k roughly to around 75 by a coalition of northern european minor nations prussia and britain fighting with the mud

[MrCagivaman]

@birongono Hahahahahahah. What a total wanker you really are you square headed fuck face.

So the guys in redcoats were there just to be shot at. Thank god for thr Germans hahahahahah, the guys that gave us the Holocaust.

[NeutralExistence]

@MrCagivaman

The British were using concentration camps, and committing genocide long before the Germans. The first concentration camps ever used were used by the British, they incarcerated huge groups of Dutch, and massacred the Native populations of several "new world" country's. I don't think either side can speak of "good", they are both evil.

[RalphAdriane]

I'll Break your bone apart, Bonaparte!

[Ixyon77]

For the most part of the WWII's movies the germans were keeping their own language and were subtiled. Personaly I find it more consistant and put you deep inside the movie. They should have done the same here. Really disapointed to ear Napoleon in English. It doesn't fit at all.

PS: I didn't say I wanted to see Napoleon speaking german of course :)

[verziehen]

@Ixyon77 Napoleon didn't even speak good French. He was born in Corsica of Italian heritage. An upstart pretender from the beginning, A dwarf exile loser at the end, defeated by a 72 old Prussian! Now Blücher is a soldier one can really admire! If Napoleon had not been a butcher, his best calling would be a quintessential clown. It is pathetic that the French cling to the dream of him being some kind of "liberator"! How amusing the talk of his tactics et al. He lost and best of all was shamed!

[1Historygenius]

Napoleon may not had been the best politician but a great military tactician. He was better than those Bourbon kings and the allies declared war on him when he returned in 1815 and Napoleon was not ready nor did I think he want to go to war.

[msinvincible2000]

all those poor soldier killed! And for what? Because she shot penguin wanted to rule Europe.

How I hate Napoleon!

[Griffinltd]

@msinvincible2000

Yeah, it's kind of funny how we perceive Napoleon as "the good" guy today, when really he was a tyrant. Then again, so was everyone during the time, Napoleon was just a successful one.

[msinvincible2000]

@Griffinltd I've never thought of him as the good guy, and I know many people who hate him. To me, the good guy is Wellington and Blücher