Napoleon - Cannon Fire

[quepacho64]

This guy looks and acts like Jhonny Knoxvile's grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- grand- father

[strokesfan1107]

1:31 is that Mr. Higgins?

[khamulshadow]

They really needed some proper fuses for the guns... ie. quills not modern explosives fuse.

[LutzDerLurch]

Silly Recoil of those Cannons.

[rammsteinfreak1996]

funny the cannon fire

[AndyCAgi]

Yay i want one of those canons on my backyard :D

[golgoth74]

I saw it in French, excellent, the bbc dramas are always pretty good (and i am french...)

[AndujarCZ]

excelent

[Gabbaz18]

Does anyone know what this programme was called?

[DINORAWR444]

its one of the "warriors" episodes on the military channel

[magicstorm1]

hurdles are those things they drop that looked like a wooden basket fences.

I dont understand why such a great emperor is called ant--christ.

[Koftarim]

Emancipation of the Jewish people in France essentially.

[IBrokeRules1and2lulz]

@magicstorm1 killed few million people through war? causes the first "world war" merssilesly kill russian austrian and muslim prisinors. Oh and he was a greedy son of a bitch. although he was great man, general, the guy he was preety bad.

Everything good you can say for napoleon can also be said to hitler although hitler was even more bad ass

[seb2455]

@IBrokeRules1and2lulz you forgot all his reforms , the napoleon civil code of law for france , the fact during thoses 20 odds years a man was valued by his prowess instead then being born to , the fact he saved the french republic . It can be argued that he was the one who wanted to expand france or his ideas thruout europe but it remain everytimes peace was prononced in europe it was because Napoleon had defeated the coallition against him. I would not rank him among the such of hitlers

[seb2455]

@IBrokeRules1and2lulz But I would easily rank him among peoples such as Julius caesar , hannibal In caesar case nobody see him as the Anti Christ but he clearly got an immense fortune from waging an illegal war against Gaul it is estimated about 1 millions gauls died during the gallic wars and 1 millions were made slaves. I don't see Napoleon as an Hero but I see him as an idealistic just as Caesar was whit his publics reforms and war waging and I thank him for not living under a Monarchy

[Perilix]

@magicstorm1 He was called by contemporaries as the anti-christ because he was going against the rest of europe. France was a republic, the rest of europe were comprised of monarchies, and they believe he upset the god-given rights of their kings or what-not.

[solwen]

@magicstorm1

He is called antichrist by englishs and some germans but he is like by the rest of Europe.

When they hear the word "Waterloo", Europeans think of defeat not victory (or they are brits)

[jodimest]

Does anyone know what those little square rags are that keep getting kicked into the air every time a cannon fires? Are they to keep the powder dry or something?

[P45K141N3N]

There weren't any fuse those days. When the lighter touched the cannon shot came less than in a second.

[Madmachine73]

God, yes they did have fuses! Fuses existed since pyrotechnics were used in warfare. The concept of lighting it directly is just so that it's more accurate on hits. Imagine cavalry passing trough your line of fire, would you use a fuse?

-No, because you'd never know when the canon would exactly fire and there are chances you wouldn't hit at the right time.

A fuse is basicly a rope covered witha bit of tar and gunpowder, so it's not something so dumb to think off, in those days.

[P45K141N3N]

What I've seen about canon replicas, the gunpowder lays just over cannon surface. And so on canon fires immediately. Yes it's possible that same cannons had fuse and some ones didn't.

[Madmachine73]

Oh but I didn't say they used it on cannons. These days they used fuses like on fougasse.

[calicheSCOT]

Fuses were quite common, they were often used in grenades and some types of artillery ammunition; such as shells and shrapnel shot.

[19thepyrochilibean]

are you 5?

[Askarethi]

I don't understand what Napoleon says at 0.33 "Ready with the ..." and the soldiers respond throw ----", so could anynone tell me what is that word that to me sounds like ratles or hadles?... i'm learning english so don't make fun of me. thanks :)

[guma163]

he says

"ready with the hurdles"

hurdles were those meshed covers they dropped

[Askarethi]

Thank you very much mate. =)

[biagiotti2006]

It sounds like he said something that sounded like "Hurdles", but I can't be sure due to the English accent (I'm from the USA).

By the way your English seems find to me.

[Askarethi]

Thanks a lot, and excuse for the delay i was some rude... ;)

[cocacolaluver747]

1:42

I love how he wasn't even afraid of that cannon ball coming to him.

That was kind of funny.

[AAtaman]

Maybe bravery

[UDI1995]

@cocacolaluver747

well it has no explosives in it.

[deBoeldieu]

Looks to be an excellent show. That's the BBC of course. So, we will never see it in France! Our documentary and fictions are so poor since 15 years...

[Averroes1979]

People who want the whole thing on DVD, its called BBC Heros & Villans-Napoleon

I strongly recomend it.

[xnmerry]

Those cannons are amazing. This film was great Tom Burke was also great.

[binfot]

Idiot!

"I always wanted to fight in a big battle. Now I know what´s it really about and wish to have spared that experience" - survivor of Waterloo

[yenhoho]

this is the siege of Toulon..british and spanish fleet under cannon fire of french artillery

[vicnameless]

This is incredible filmaking! I'll have to see the whole thing!

[billboi92]

since when do 24 pounders jump as high as that? that type of cannon built with the stability of the back tow and the side wheels usually helps prevent recoil as big as that?

[gv1955]

i rekon poor funding is the reason.

[teemanthefirst]

vive l empereur

[goofoffgoose73]

I wish I could see this whole Napoleon series. It's utterly brilliant. Thanks for sharing what you have!

[asc2323]

brilliant -napoleon could calculate a campaign down to the last grain of corn!

[guma163]

1812, can you post more videos like this about napoleon

[Askarethi]

Excellent videos of the Napoleon series my friend, could you upload more episodes of this series please?,i'd wish to see more .. congratulations.. :)

[guma163]

Amazing he did those trigometric functions in his head, from the span of time he closed his eyes to when he calculated distance and time, took only at best a few seconds. This is on top of sustained sleep deprivation from the battle before.

High school students today would struggle with that even including calculators, and 8 hrs of sleep.

[Madmachine73]

Now how come none have posted a comment on this one? : It's marvellous! Good job, mate anyways!