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  • As a British person I'd get annoyed at how pompous the Americans dipict our officers if 1) it weren't so damn true and 2) they do make such splendid, almost comical characters to watch.

  • @2:53 makes me scared now

  • americans seem to forget that britian had 200,000 men fighting napoleon while this was happening.

  • @ManicMammoth Napoleon was 14 when the American Revolutionary Wars ended. The day before the Battle of Camden, Napoleon was celebrating his 11th birthday.

    Sure, France helped a lot and the British would probably have won otherwise, but it was nothing to do with Napoleon and a lot more to do with Louis XVI.

  • @EvansRowan123 yeah my mistake i was thinking of the 1812 war but france helped alot in the relovutionary war too and were the factor that tipped the balance.

  • @ManicMammoth

    I don't think Americans forget that. There are Lafayette streets and statues and even a quasi historical action movie like this recognizes the French help.

  • English against English. Me for one was gald the usa gave the ruling class a good kicking. I am English and proud,but I still love the US and I got married there

  • English people... seriously, you just get INFRONT of the ENEMY by WALKING and you get READY to KILL how elegant you are there.

  • This was a good movie!

  • Play this on maximum volume on your computer, with rainy mood in the background on lowest volume but with still high computer volume, turn off the monitor and just listen to it haha

  • I used to be a Patriot like you... but I took an arrow in the knee. XD

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  • People had some retarded ass tactics back then... find some cover for god's sake....

  • @leongradoazz

    The guns were so inaccurate that this was the best way to fight among civilized Europe, because if they all fired at once is was not only demoralizing, in close range this was devastating if used correctly. Cover works for skirmishers with rifles or long muskets shooting at people in a forest, but melee weapons still had their place, as did cavalry and cannons. What good is a cannon shooting at people in cover spread out? This is just the way warfare developed in Europe.

  • @leongradoazz Its a bit difficult to reload a 5ft, muzzle loading musket while hiding, and with an accurate range of about 40 metres and reloading time of about 45 seconds, there arent a whole lot of places you could hide anyway if you actually wanted to hit something. That being said, this movie is inaccurate anyway.

  • here you can see how europe acts and how america fails.... seriously, europe is drilled, serious, thinks twice, loyal, rich, want me to continue? :/ and compare it to america... not much left to say i guess....

  • "These rustics are so inept. It nearly takes the honor out of victory... Nearly..."

    Love that quote :D

  • America gets fucked in this shit

  • 22 People got their head lobbed off by stray cannonballs

  • pinkeys killing pinkies and they are all men.

    men fucking stink.

  • 1:59 i used to be a redcoat, but then i took a bullet to the knee :)

  • I have to say I am proud to be allies with Brittan!

  • Boo England!

  • i wonder how many extras did they use in this scene?, its a wonderful battle scene

  • @andresrojas22 many of the soldiers were generated by  the computer. Only like a quarter of them were extras

  • @legogenius75 well that sucks

  • Redcoats (Ecluding the officers) were made up of 90% Criminals, people in debt, or sentanced to death, making them an incrediablly tough fighting force even without training, they were the scum of english society the other 10% were incrediablly Patriots and volunteers who had no idea about the horror of being a redcoat soldier. How I love the sight of Redcoats marching and showing the enemy whos boss!

  • The one part in the Patriot that I actually liked ^_^

  • Who the hell created this kind of warfare?

  • @Xrosder In reality, a good general could prevent any major losses of his men. It all depended on the quality of the soldier and his weapon, along with how a general arrayed his troops. In the war of independence it was a different story, the Americans relying on numbers, but it was mostly the same for them too.

  • @Xrosder

    Marching lines is a tactic that existed during Ancient times. It was one of the only tactics available to Egypt and the Hittites with the only X Factor being chariots.

    You can change up those lines and have the men drill to move around in a line a certain way but... but until the invention of repeating weapons and machine guns, lines were the only way.

  • Why are the british marching like it's a fucking parade? Shouldn't they be going a bit faster?

  • @Jc40k1 Get 5,000 of your friends, give them 5ft long sticks and tell them to run 500 yards at the same pace and keeping tight ranks without tripping eachother over or stabbing each other.

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  • @TheRhinehart86 oh sorry, wrong reply.

  • @TheRhinehart86 I meant they should be marching a bit faster, not like running but not marching with their knees up. Look at the battle scene in barry lyndon.

  • let's see the americans fight the British, the americans fight the Natives, the americans fight other americans, the americans fight the Spanish, then the Germans, then the Germans again, then the Koreans, then the Vietnamese, then a cold war (actually a era of many wars all mastered by the two main powers during this time) with the Russians, then the Iraqi's, then the Afghanistan and then the Iraqi's again (or at least the terrorist element in those two nations) oh boy what a country

  • "great britan ..... est. 2000000 AD ....... masters of warfare for over 2000 years :D 

  • love america and i love my own contry too :D we dint really get along here did we :D ....... can u guess where im from ?

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  • Ossim a bluegrass band!

  • I do love how the British troops march into battle with their own band playing.

  • @largesatsuma Thats what most nations done while marching into battle in the napoleonic wars ;D

  • Thumbs up for the peasant Americans who kicked the red coat's asses

  • @ricak47 American peasants plus the continental army plus the French plus the Spanish.

  • @ricak47 The other way round, sir.

  • @TheEpicBrit In this battle yeah but eventually the Americans won the war.

  • @ricak47 yeah, but we should think to the present time, im glad we are allies/friends. :D

  • @TheEpicBrit Yeah.

  • THE BRITISH GRENADIERS!!!

  • Yeah, kill those rebellious bastards. RULE BRITANNIA!!!

  • @jameskirkstone why do not you insist, you took the danger very seriously, and now we're all paying the consequences of your withdrawal

  • Those British Grenadiers are true men .... After many rounds of American muskets were fired at them they still kept marching in rank, in step, (and that no emotion look in their face lol).

  • Every episode of Sharpe is better than The Patriot.

  • I liked The Patriot, except for those stupid comments such as "rustics". At this point in the war, the Brits generally respected the Americans in battle.

  • i see all ur comments then alls i can think is..... now who is the world power bitch USA MOTHER FUCKER, best military in the world,

  • @MrRucknroll True, the U.S is a powerful and admirable country which stood for and stands for fine ideals. But try and sound less stupid went you advertise your pride, people might even take you seriously.

  • @MrRucknroll wrong you have the largest millatary in the world my colonial cousin in fact britain has the best army in the world as you would put it we are just not that big so just get of your high horse we are allies for fuck sake.....

  • @MrRucknroll Britain has the SAS

    America has speacial forces soldiers who are trained by these elite soldiers (Delta force maybe others). As mentioned by someone else Britain has the worlds best quality of soldiers just not the biggest.

  • @Drdans41 for one, alls im saying is the military of the usa is way more powerful then Britan (example: we have roughly 2.9mil military personel, where britain has only 400k) usa has 11 aircraft carieers, whereas britain has 1.....) usa has around 18k military aircrafts whereas britain has 2k..... so whos military is better

  • @MrRucknroll Please learn English properly before you talk to us. Thank you. Britain has no need for aircraft carriers, the USA is thousands of miles away so it does. The RAF uses the Eurofighter Typhoon, the most advanced fighter jet in active service. The Royal Navy is building two Queen Elizabeth II class aircraft carriers, the most advanced of their time. The British Army has the toughest basic training in the world. The US might have the numbers but the British have the skills.

  • @MarkramUK It's also worth remembering that with all there strength, they haven't actually won any wars by themselves. Britain however won a war on the other side of the world only 30 years ago, a war America advised we couldn't win.

  • @alexsau91 Not to mention the war of 1812, the only time America has faced a real power on its own, Washington DC gets burned to the ground(only time in history) by a (British) enemy fighting 3000 miles from home, while simultaneously fighting alone against all of Europe under Napoleon AND conquering India and South Africa, all without radios or steam ships, much less cruise missles and stealth bombers. Face it Yanks, youre pussies compared to the Brits ;)

  • @MrRucknroll are you dumb your army is based on numbers us British have the 2 best regiments in the world and, scene as your army is based on numbers Russia and China have better armys and in a war would frankly obliterate you and im not saying Britain would win because we dont have the numbers but we have way better trained troops

  • @liverfaliure well actaully china has about the same amount of people in the miltiary, and russia is nowhere near how many we got dumbass

  • @MrRucknroll no... China has 750 000 more troops and we are not accounting for allies here your allies are us British and the Canadians i think and china has most of Asia

  • @liverfaliure and russia.

  • @TheEpicBrit in the cold war their tec had all of your scientists and engineers confused well you dont have good engineers, or scientists so what can you expect

  • @liverfaliure has america found out a way how not not to get fat by eating mcdonalds?

  • @TheEpicBrit isn't the U.K. ranked number 3 in fattest countries in the developed world?

  • @porterbehling isn't america ranked number 1?

  • @TheEpicBrit no, it's number 3, just the other two are very small compared to the U.S., germany is very close behind the U.S. also.

  • @TheEpicBrit oh, sorry, among the developed world yes, and again germany is like right behind.

  • @TheEpicBrit nope, hell, America isn't even ranked number one anymore. It's 8th i believe (of course the ones in front of us are mostly pacific island nations), still, the U.K. is close to America, so you really shouldn't look down on America for obesity (though i agree it isn't a good thing) . I mean, when over 1/4 of the citizens from the U.K are obese, you can't mock other countries of obesity.

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  • Press 4 on your keyboard.

    Now press 9.

    You get the general idea of how the Americans fared without French help.

  • i used to fuckwith the british empire... then i took a cannonball to the face...

  • @bower651 Yes! The best 'Then i took a _____ to the _____' joke i've seen to date.

  • @OliByGolly1 :3 thanks, my friend was spamming this joke in Skype while i was watching this and i just shouted before he could finish "BUT THE I TOOK A CANNONBALL TO THE FACE" needles to say he said it was random and unnecessary :D

  • @bower651 That's what you get for messing with the British...

  • Wtf..terrible war

  • Its obvious because of the help of two Australian time travellers (ledger and gibson) that America was able to beat Britain.

  • 2:00 nuff said

  • @Dreadios 2:35 onwards - 'nuff said' :)

  • Oh those rustic Americans! British people are so damned evil-always shooting Scots with arrows or blowing up planets ( We will mourn for you Alderaan).

  • AOE III  lol!

  • @Josellyson Empire total wwar!!!!!! :D

  • THUMBS UP FOR THSCHIBUTI !! 

  • THUMBS UP FOR BRITIAN!!!!

  • @KyleDudeify its funny cuz they lost

  • We can settle the debate here. THUMBS UP FOR AMERICA!!!!

  • WANTED THIS ATITUDDE THE SECOND WORLD WAR IS KILLING British and American

  • Whenever we see closeups on redcoat soldiers (privates) in movies, they always look too posh and refined. In reality they'd look rough, dangerous, and salt of the earth, like an angry Pete Postlethwaite.

  • @crapatev It depends on the regiment really. If the officer was one of those proud to serve their country and king he'd make his men have themselves and their uniforms looking spotless. If it was just a gentleman who was in the army to make money he probably wouldn't care, because for him his men were just fodder.

  • @crapatev that would be more accurate after all, the americans continentals would look even worse

  • @crapatev As Wellesley said: This army is composed of the scum of the earth, I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God they terrify me

  • @crapatev Its one thing to LOOK rough and tough (Great Britain), its another to BE rough and tough (Colonists)

  • @crapatev may he rest in peace

  • @MAnnaconduit1 Indeed. A great actor.

  • @crapatev monty python would be a closer match up

  • 2:55 GG

  • Hail Britannia!

  • We would of kicked your arse if Sharpy and his chosen men were there! haha :-) (just having a laugh before anyone gets all defensive)

  • With out the french we would be singing god save the queen

  • Fucking pawned by cannonball

  • God Save Heath Ledger.

  • All i can say is, they didn't have nylon flags back then...

  • they should make games like this in first person online and all i know about mount and musket but i dont understand mods

  • @larmoth Try battlegrounds II for half life 2

  • @pandapop999 I tried that game and the linebattles are not like this movie at all. Its a good attempt but you always get people spoiling the old fashioned atmosphere talking about other games loudly with their idiotic voices. Its a good game but it is often spoiled by the people in it.

  • Rule Britannia.

  • Rule Britainia :) 

  • ohhh I miss the days where we were the world's only Superpower...

    how the tables have turned. Now the USMC is bigger than the whole british army...

    Karma...it sure bites you in the arse :(

  • @alikos88 But bigger is not neccesarily but mate :) sure they have a Bigger military. The U.S. is massive compared to wee Britain. Amercians and British Rule Pretty equal i would imagine. America Does have quite an amazing Military as does the British. But Now that America's foolish Government is cutting the defense budget it might not be as good. Which would be unfourtunate :(

  • @DrinkToIreland

    dont know how much longer UK will have an amazing military. Cheers to the MoD!

    there cutting back everywhere, no carrier capability for a bloody decade or so and the possibility of axing the ghurkas always on the table...arrrgh damn it all. We need to get back in shape or we'll be behind the frenchies at this rate

  • @alikos88 Yep, and they are bringing out more cuts. Wait for "Army 2012" to be released come Easter time. Losing another 4 Infantry Battalions amongst anything else. Won't have an Army left before long...

  • @Hampshirelad91 "Army 2020" I mean.

  • @Hampshirelad91 If we get rid of Fucking Labour we'd be fine lad. But those pussies want us to bring in every fucking muslim and lay down our bloody weapons and stop having a fuckin military

  • @alikos88 be quite a shame if the U.K were behind the frenchies :\

  • @alikos88 But i am hoping to join up in the Black Watch as an infantry Officer. Someones got tae do the fightin :P

  • @DrinkToIreland

    best of' luck. ahhh I remeber when I was out of school I wanted ot join the guards... never got around to it :(

  • @alikos88 The Grenadier guard? Well theres always time :P never know might want to do that later on :)

  • @DrinkToIreland Was just looking at your page mate and you're obviously a very patriotic jock, so I felt inclined to inform you that there is also the Scots Guards. I was in training for the Grenadiers but left, but yeah there are two English Guards Regiments (Grenadiers and Coldstream (although the Coldstream also recruit in a very small area of Scotland), the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards and the Welsh Guards.

  • @Hampshirelad91 I was thinking either the Black watch or British Royal Marines. But I am actually from America. I just have strong Scottish blood/heritage/family/traditio­n. :P Fathers side all scottish. He loves Scotland and said if was to move anywhere in his life would be there and sometimes wish he had. :P

  • @alikos88 Yeah i'm thinkin either Black Watch or the British Royal Marines. My Father was in the U.S marine Corps but I am definetly joining the British Military and it's either The Black watch in the Army or the Marines

  • @DrinkToIreland

    my grandfather was Canadian. He was in the Black Watch - Canada's Black Watch. I did not know they had one. Theres a lot of Scottish heritage in Canada. Especially in Nova Scotia... for obvious reasons.

  • @alikos88 Oh yeah. Canada is a British Commonwealth so they have strong British ties :)

  • would the cannon balls acctuly make those explosions

  • @thousandson556 Most likely, if it didn't it just simply bounced and moved until it lost momentum. Would still be dangerous.

  • @97ginoVDB ahhh right i was wondering obviously the force would be huge but yer

  • I should have guessed this was a Mel Gibson film. Why does he hate so much???

  • HAHAHAHAH the smugness of our guys at the end is hilarious, run you yank bastards!!

  • @scarletcrusade77 tbh the British were naive in this conflict. They could have come out much better if they appeased the colonies

  • In the end all you are doing is arguing over the actions of our ancestors, bury the past people.

  • Hahaha i love how at the end they made that british commanders look like some evil jerks. Americans do that with all their enemies in every movie...

  • @MrJustsomerandomguy i think it makes us british look awesome

  • @thousandson556 Im from Russia and I hate it when Americans always make us look like some bad guys

  • @MrJustsomerandomguy i know :O Russians arnt all that bad

  • @MrJustsomerandomguy

    Wait for the Americans who remember the Cold War to die off and that "Russian hating" will start to decline.

    The more historically inclined Americans have probably already lost those feelings.

  • @tenchimuyo69 Shit man, I'm still waiting for America to stop shitting on the Germans for WW2. Yea Hitler was a dick, but I can't stand the disrespect the Germans get for two decades.

  • @MrJustsomerandomguy Yeah when in reality. Those Officers are fighting for their soldiers lifes. They probably could care less about this war. But they chose to vilianise them

  • Fighting over the internet is like the special Olympics, even if you win you're still a retard...

    lol, who am I kidding, Fuck you America.

  • @soulofthenorth hahaha, best comment so far :)

  • @soulofthenorth A truly unsophisticated attempt at a philosophy. And just so you know, you cannot call someone a "retard" because "to retard" something is an action, and you cannot name someone as an action because it means the same as calling someone a "slow".

  • @ILOVETHE1700s Shut up you dick... 

  • @soulofthenorth That just justifies my point now, doesn't it...

  • @soulofthenorth lol what is it with british people and this war. you dont see german, or japanese people going on ww2 videos and being such pricks about it. by saying stuff like "actually the only reason we lost this battle is because......bla bla bla moan moan moan" get over yourself. british people suck. and America still beat you no matter what you say. so hahahahahahah

  • @daspoon456 WOW if Britain suck so much why are parts of America such shitholes your whole goverment is like a comedy sketch

  • @SweetiBelleTrixieSwa lol what does the american goverment have to do with britian? typical brits, always blaming others for your problems.

  • @SweetiBelleTrixieSwa britain should kiss our asses, we beat you in one war. Then saved your ass in two wars...... suck harder please, you havent quite wet america's balls yet good sir!

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  • @OdinzProductions Please, just say US. America is made of more countries than just one with war addict, double moral red necks. No offense.

  • @OdinzProductions britain is the reason america exists. and while i may be assuming this, but without the efforts of britain, france and russia, america may very well have not came out on top in world war one and less so, two, they couldn't have handled germany and japan alone.

  • @OdinzProductions Mate America dosen't have any balls Vietenam you got your asses handed to you while Britain dominated argentina in our war so how about suck our balls and stop jumping on all our badwagons

  • @SweetiBelleTrixieSwa why is your country a nanny state.

  • ..........And that folks, is why France had to help.

  • @OfficialRJLextro yeah french along with spanish,dutch and native americans and all british had is help from some native americans and some dutch mercanaries, and we still kicked there ass until they resorted to using gurrila tactics.

  • @scarletcrusade77 Indeed in this war w/o all of their allies they would've had their Arse kicked. :P

  • @scarletcrusade77 American ingenuity bitch.

  • @Gracefulandings American luck and desperateness not ingenuity, bitch.

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  • @OfficialRJLextro

    Yeah, fucking yanks always forget that one. Anyhoo, all friends now eh?