Battlefield Britain Ep04 Spanish Armada Part 6/6

[Hazelden321]

England everyone we love our heroes till we have to pay for them. xD

[01daredevils]

first top liked comment he's going mental second one "legendary"................ made me rofl zoo hard :D

[phtevlin]

Some of the boy sailors of the Armada were spared by the locals and adopted into Irish families.

[NerdierThanYou1002]

How do you die of shame?

[PhoenixGearfried1166]

who beat Napoleon ? anyway are Spanish still awesome they just couldn't get to the English

so i think we got lucky But (i think Nazi army was strongest luck for us they got beat=>

[plusultra86]

British Rubbish!

Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741)

Expedition of St. John (1780)

Attack on Cadiz (1797)

Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)

All Spanish victory

[Angus1966]

@plusultra86 British rubbish is it - well your just a wog , go back to the Americas and yer slave trade - whatever - call the brtis rubbish - wog.

[Komnenit]

Wow.. 'Exaggeration' is the word for this documentary. You should better expose the english defeats in 1589 (Contraarmada) and 1741 (Cartagena de Indias).

And by the way, Spain remained as first world power until the 1660's when FRANCE (not England) under Louis XIV became new power in Europe!

[Mistermax30]

@Komnenit Angry cuz the worthless Spanish got their asses kicked eh?

[Komnenit]

@Mistermax30 Haha, please google 'Battle of Cartagena de Indias 1741'.

After that, we'll see who is going to be angry, after you discover that 28.000 worthless english got PWNED by 3000 spanish and 600 indian archers.

Suerte, amigo ;)

[Mistermax30]

@Komnenit Lol, just jerking your chain there...

[Komnenit]

@Mistermax30 Don Blas de Lezo

[AlternityGM]

Another great episode. It was pivotal war that utimately changed both the Spain & England. Some of the Spanish who crashed in Ireland mingled w/ the local Irish. That's where the "Black Irish" comes from.

[dshuggans]

"Greed and arrogance"... sound like the Papacy.

[MegaEminemD12]

@dshuggans Sounds more like every religous man on earth

[MegaEminemD12]

@dshuggans Sounds more like every religous man on earth

[smithbrain]

good they killed the spanish. Spain is an evil country they deserved to fail

[thepredatorpl]

@smithbrain, idiot. How can a country be good or evil? People are good and evil, not countries, and the british have proven much more often in history to be evil than the spanish.

[smithbrain]

@thepredatorpl I say it is evil on the fact that most spainards are far more evil then most good honest english folks

[thepredatorpl]

@smithbrain, you are either a 5-year-old or joking. :D

[rakuencallisto]

How the hell can you die of shame?

[Kevdudeful]

PEACE SHELFORD!

[MrBIBBLEDOG]

what year was this

[MrBIBBLEDOG]

what year was this I want to know if this was before the revalointion war between u.s. and england

[SactosBomb123]

@MrBIBBLEDOG Your so dumb you cant even spell revolution.. DOESNT YOUR COMPUTER HAVE SPELL CHECK?? and this war was before the revolution.. LIKE WAY BEFORE.

[Highice007]

just currious, where there any Welsh sailors? England and Wales had been united when the Welsh King of England (King Henry VII) became king, but I don't know if the Welsh were famous for being good sailors as well.

[1floony]

floony

[XxXAngelOfPainXxX]

When the English captured the remaining washed up Spanish sailors on the Irish coast and sold them back to Spain... it had by that time resulted in humiliation and a national tragedy for Spain. I also saw a video on this war showing the English lighting up beacons when they first caught sight of the Spanish Armada approaching on the sw coast and the beacon lighting quickly spread to the rest of the country and notifiied ppl they had reached our horizons. Very clever system of the English.

[rakuencallisto]

@XxXAngelOfPainXxX

The Chinese were doing this thousands of years ago on the Great Wall.

[gvillegmcck]

@rakuencallisto Don't you mean the Mongolians?

[rakuencallisto]

@gvillegmcck

No, I don't

The Chinese who built the Great Wall used lanterns between each post to signal messages between one another for HUNDREDS OF MILES.

If invasion was imminent, the Chinese would have notice far before their invaders arrived.

[gvillegmcck]

@rakuencallisto Oh, ok I misunderstood what you meant earlier.

[KailisJuan]

AMIGOS: Take a botle of your wine or beer come to visit our country and forget this... you are wellcome

[crocfme]

The sailors should've set sail at the first fair wind and rammed their ships into the docks....

[Lachausis]

0 facts about u 1. You're reading my comment 2. You're realizing that's a stupid fact 4. You didn't notice I skipped three 5. You're checking now 6. You're smiling 7. You're still reading my comment 9. You didn't realize I skipped eight 10. You're checking again and smiling about how you fell for it again :) 11. You are enjoying this 12. You didn't realize there's only supposed to be ten facts. Copy and paste this to 1 video. And tomorrow will be the best day ever!

[Valiantwing]

Well i agree that the british are a naval Nation with great Skill but one thing its not...Europes leading Nation...ever...

[alexp9999]

awesome show, 4 stars, i wish they'd make a new show for us to enjoy =)

thumbs up Mr. and Mr. Snow =)

[Highice007]

@alexp9999 Agreed, Want to see Trafalger, Waterloo, and Roark's Drift

[karatepirus]

We have a very dark history. Full of greed and arrogance. But I am glad to say that we, as a nation, have changed and now show more respect to our heroes and noble allies.

[StefanZ17]

Nonsense! This Armada story is misleading. While the Spanish did lose the 1588 sea battle, the Spanish Navy did subsequently recover to gradually gain control of the sea lanes and wining most of the ensuing naval battles. By 1603, after Queen Elizabeth's death, James I sued for peace because a financially exhausted England could no longer continue and the peace treaty of 1604 cemented most of Spain's goals for the war.

[scarletjamable]

There's a few areas I fail to understand, if anyone could please explain...

i./ What method of communication did sailors use at sea in this era?

ii./ Why did the Spanish carry treasures and gold with them whilst going to war?

[scarletjamable]

Very interesting documentary, quite humourous in parts, although it ended very tragically for both the Spanish and English sailors.

Unfortunately, the English crown still behaves disgracefully to war veterans to this day.

The Spanish Armada was an impressive and handsome fleet and must have been most terrifying to have been viewed approaching the British Isles.

The different military tactics employed by both sides were extremely interesting to observe.

Beautifully presented.

[Jeet27]

Typical English government and royalty, they shit on their own people. And it's still going on today.

[sibbo2468]

we still fight for pennys, tho im going to join the army soon because fighting for britian is the greatest thing i could do in my life

[zaho87]

What kind of a nation would rather kill its heroes rather than reward them. I feel pity for the British people, serving a crown that is based on greed and arrogance. No government with such goals is worth to fight and die for.

[WhenOrangesAttack]

@zaho87 Yeah, We Suck.

[Cupit29]

@zaho87 We're not like that anymore. lol

[madeddi]

@zaho87 and sadly, not much has changed since then.

[JohnAlthani]

@zaho87 well,that's just a usual human being.What a disgrace to our race.

[Soogeun]

@zaho87 3 words. Battle of Britain

[mwillis1000]

@zaho87

All nations were like that back then nit just us. And it was England not Britain retarded fuck.

[binarytekk]

@zaho87 English people, not British.

[ozipk]

@zaho87 First you say crown then government. And you write about events that happened 500 years ago as if they are now. Also, take a look at the history of medieval Bulgaria and tell me you don't find anything as bad.

[superfortress96]

@zaho87 soviet russia?

[Grimrippa1]

@zaho87 They fought for their country and independance not for a government. The USA government in the form of Lincoln attacked the southern states for his own ambitions and then used the slave situation to gather support and shame any european country from supporting the 'rebels'. Think before you comment, please.

[zaho87]

@Grimrippa1 Soldiers fight because they are ordered by their government. This applies to every nation, USA is not an exception. Independence, liberty and so on are just motives and causes, but wars are wars, no matter the political or personal goals. You should think about it.

[Graham6762]

@zaho87 What if they have a volunteer army?  No one forces you to join the army or to fight.

[FireFistPortgas]

@Graham6762 doesnt really matter if they refuse to pay you and leave you to rot on the open seas... Way to go, this pretty much shows how most nations got their victories; over the backs of underpaid, underrewarded and unreconized folksmen... And then they wonder why piracy got a boost around that period...

[thousandson556]

@zaho87 screw u dick

[davecook51]

@zaho87 Everyone in those times. No nation was immune. Read your history

[madhammudeux]

@zaho87

Maybe if you were a little more enlightened to the times this battle took place in you wouldn't make such stupid comments.

Try reading, it helps.

[flamezealous]

@zaho87 There will Always be an England! Sail on Britannia!!

[Angus1966]

@zaho87 I feel sorry for the discriminating Catholic spanish , for what did they get for serving the pope - seven virgins and a nice house in heaven promise.

[leegeorgeson]

As if the crown couldn't afford to pay them. Even if they had to raise taxes and even if they had to wait for the economy to pick up (not sure how much money they had or how well the economy was doing) they could have still paid them, they all should have been given a knighthood. Also history shows that if money circulates, money is made. I know I would have rewarded my people well...

[henrusha]

shitty actors

[kidadam4]

This was a great win. But the crown was awful. It's sickening how they never let them off the ships.

[warpedcomedy]

@kidadam4 What do you mean?

[kidadam4]

@warpedcomedy How the forced them to stay on the ships, just so that they didn't have to pay them for saving the country.

[warpedcomedy]

@kidadam4 First off, I'm not British. Secondly, I agree, that was also atrocious.

[kidadam4]

@warpedcomedy I'm sorry if I'm wrong by the wway, just I thought the soldiers were kept on the ships so that nobody had to pay them for the work.

[mongoose100989]

legendary

[Komnenit]

@mongoose100989 I would say that the british defeat in 1741 in Cartagena de Indias was more legendary. The armada invencible had only 126 ships, when England attacked Cartagena they sent 186 ships, this time, there was no weather, only brave 3000 spanish soldiers that defeated 27000 english!!!!

THIS BATTLE IS LEGENDARY but you dont know of it because the english historiography wanted (and wants) to rub out this humilliation from history.

Viva Cartagena de Indias!