Have to agree with Hollister. As much as I love to see the good old Anglo-Franc love hate relationship is still alive, that guy is a poor example of our countrymen.
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Nice sentence, you found it on google alone? good boy! you want your sugar?
Give me some of your intelligence fringecakeboy, you the perfect illustration of the brit!
"honi soit qui mal y pense", its the most noble of your chivalry order and i am sure you don't know the meaning, you know your kings spoke french, don't care, you'll never have it!
@pennbzh Last I heard, 25% of the Foreign legion is french - they get in by pretending to be French-Canadian or french-speaking Swiss - thats what I heard
@pennbzh Please don't get me wrong, I actually encourage healthy debate and free speech - but when it descends to swearing by some members, then it is no longer a healthy debate, but a pointless argument. So long as the debate is kept calm, then I have no quarrels at all - we are all entitled to an opinion, what-ever that opinion might be :)
It's what i said to you, thanks general channel because you are for nothing
thanks Austria and Russia who did the job during years for your glory
England liked very much fighting with Russian and Austrian blood
England is a selfish nation as we can still see today
1st French Empire with Napoleon was one of the greatest European terrestrial Empire, and you never had European terrest empire, to dangerous for you! maybe it was more easy to beat unarmed people across the seas
I can understand you, it's difficult for an English who eat always shit, to appreciate the real food, you know : like Napoleon, Art, culture, real food etc.. have nerver crossed the channel, it's a real problem to cross this channel, isn't it? sad, i sympathize with you.
I don't understand why England is not the most visited country of the world? your culture, your architecture, the landscape...no no iam joking!
It's France the most visited, and the world know why!
We are We are..... always "we are" with you!, good English boy!!
I see there is not only Napoleon who never crossed the channel but Intelligence and culture never crossed also!
You'd better thanks your best general, his name is channel, and at different period of history the problem was not your army not at all, the problem was channel, simply that.
But you can't understand, you know with your problem " lack of intelligence"
@fringecakeboy The brittish were cowards being scared like little bitches. Thats why Wellington was soo afraid about the prussians not getting there in time :(. Poor you!
Where you was in 1805 when French great army was at the top? answer : hidden on your island and paying Russia and others nations to fight in your place.
@pennbzh Not kicking the shit out of the combined French and Spanish Navy at the battle of Trafalgar then? :P Come on, you walked right into that one.
Yes, a great navy to stay hidden on your rock, and letting others do the fighting and dying when the storm rage, and then take up all of the credit in the end.
At that time England loved fight with Russian and Austrian blood
Congratulation it's was very effective, not glorious but very effective.
100%agree with you, you had a great navy, and we had a great army.
15 years and 7 coallitions of european nations to beat us, it was a short period but a fantastic european empire
@pennbzh But Britain was mainly a great naval power as Trail as rightly pointed out. Whats wrong with providing the finances for allies with large armies (unlike ourselves) to fight the French on the Continent? Bit of a no fucking brainer to me.
Whatever you say about Napoleon, no matter how great you think he was, no matter how many lands he conquered, the simple fact is he was still beat in the end.
@pennbzh You can't deny that Britain had a great part in the napoleonic wars, without British help the peninsula would not have become free, they would cause damage certainly but not freedom.And you cannot insult England in such a way, since the Iluminists that gave ended up inspiring the french revolution based themselves in the English Parliament and end of absolute monarchy like in France.Britain is a country with a great army.I have great respect for Napoleon, he was a great man , but so is
@pennbzh Welington, and yes Blucher helped a lot, that is true, and if Napoleon was in good health in the day of the battle and Grouchy had arrived Napoleon would surely have won.This was a time of great generals and men.I am sorry for my English.
You are so ridiculous, iam sad for you, all in the mouth nothing in the head.
I can see your answer : "You are a frog, English are the best, English English! poor guy!
I am 100% agree with expertstrategy : "You Brits are only good at letting others do the fighting and dying, and then take up all of the credit in the end."
It's England the cowards of the Napoleonic wars!
At the end the way you talk is the better proof of your ignorance and debility.
@pennbzh saved your sorry arses enough times though and beat you enough times agincourt,crecy,pioters,talavera,vimerio,quebec,etc and so on and so forth!go on kermit fuck off and stick an old garlic eclair right up your hole and hide in the maginot line before you get bashed by the germans again
Do what you are the best for! i mean stay hidden on your island and plotted as usual, let other fighting for you, and at the end where you are in sufficient number with other countries and sure to win, come on the continent to collect the laurels.
Thanks mother nature nothing else, it's you the cowards on your island, hidden who don't want when it's too much dangerous.
i prefer a german to a liar and never loyal english.
@expertstrategy AND ANOTHER THING WE WON AT WATERLOO AND TALAVERA AND WELLINGTON HAD NO INTENTION OF FIGHTING THE BATTLE AT QUATRE BRAS AS YOU MUST KNOW SEEING AS HOW YOUR SO CLEVER HE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO FIGHT AT WATERLOO BECAUSE HE CHOSE THAT GROUND THE YEAR BEFORE BECAUSE HE WAS A MASTER OF PICKING THE TERRAIN AS YOU'LL ALSO KNOW BEING SO CLEVER
I think somebody on this clip said there were 6000 Russian extras for this film. I was suprised that there were so few. However can you imagine witnessing the 600 000+ who were on the field during the battle of Leipzig in October 1813.
@ThePuschkin1986 WELL MY FRIEND,IN THOSE DAYS FOX HUNTING WAS A POPULAR PASTIME AMONG THE VERY RICH AND STUPID AND BEFORE EVERY HUNT THEY WOULD SAY"TODAY'S FOX" AND TOAST THE POOR UNLUCKY FOX THEY WERE ABOUT TO MERCILESSLY HUNT CATCH AND THROW TO THEIR HUNTING DOGS TO BE TORN TO SHREDS
@COUNTVLAIDMIR One doesn't exclude the other. Certainly not on the Napoleonic battlefield. The music and the marching and the sheer noise of a Napoleonic army were not only a way to raise the morale of your own troops but also a way of terrifying the enemy. Psychological operations has always had its place on the battlefield.
@gasdfw5: They are singing a version of the Military Shanty "Boney was a Warrior". I don't know when it was first written, it's use here may be anachronistic but:
"Boney was a warrior away, ay-ay! A warrior and a tarrier John France-Wah!" (Jean Francois)
"Boney fought the Russians away, ay-ay! The Russians and the Prussians John France-Wah!"
There are loads of different rambling verses, do a search and you'll find different versions but you get the general sense of it here.
CGI would muck a production like this up. It was great using the Russian army and the actual Drums and Pipes of the Gordon Highlanders in the movie.The4y don't make movies like this anymore.
@spudnick3490 When the movie was filmed on location in Russia in 1969, the producer got to use 6000 Russian troops and actual cavalry as extras who were trained by militray historians to fight according to the standards of the Napoleonic wars.The pioes and drums of the Gordon Highlanders, an actual Scottish Regiment whose ancestors fought at Waterloo also played themselves. No CGI was used and that is why this movie is a classic!!
Yeah I could tell that no CGI was used...It was pretty damn epic..This is non-CGI at it's best...But sometimes no CGI battles can be a bit iffy...But this is perfect
Other good non CGI movies are Battle of Britain, 1969 which used real pilots and actual aircraft flown by the British RAF and German air force and was filmed on location. A Bridge too Far used real American and British paratroopers against Dutch troops playing the Germans and was filmed on the actual battle site.
@spudnick3490 Except for the Arhhem bridge sequence which was filmed in nearby Deventer because kit still resembled WW2 Arnhem, much of the movie was filmed on atual location including the scene at Nijimegen bridge which cost a 1m to shoot without any takes because it had held up traffic. 1st BN, Parachute Regiment was one of the actual British units that played themselves in the movie. The 82nd and 101st provided the US element.
Seen this last week, thought it was excellent. Nice to see a real army of extras rather than boring CGI.
Also it was bugging me does Wellington say 'Gentlemen, today's fox' @7:40? or am I hearing it wrong? I wasn't sure if that was an actual quote of his.
@CalP0L it was british fashion (at least among nobility) to compare war to a hunt. when they went fox hunting they drank a claret and toasted to 'todays fox"
I can only imagine what the costume budget for this film was. It may be possible to translate it to today's dollars. But if this movie was made now there would be no need for mass produced uniforms. It would all be CGI.
@Theempore1234 Well there is no use in looking depressed and all, it will demoralize the men. A good commander must always put a good face in front of his men
It really wouldn't have made much difference for Napoleon's career had he won at Waterloo. He was already suffering from stomach cancer and probably wouldn't have lived more than six years. How ironic that the greatest minds can still succumb to desease.
@NCWC2 Its hardly ironic - the greatest minds when elevated to great status are put under immense pressure.. A businsess man of today gets a stomach ulcer - imagine leading an army, a nation, an Empire..
@andy7666 I'm saying it's ironic because he fought so many battles and was on the front lines so much and despite that he didn't die a warriors death in the field and was conquered instead by illness.
well i think a greneral must also be a good actor.
when he looks real relaxed this could have a positive effect on his men. it would be deffenety better for his troops moral than nervously running around.
during waterloo the emperor and a mamber of his staff went to take a closer look at the battle, napoleon sat down on his chair as allways with the staff member standing next to him. but whenever a cannonshot came close to them he jumped away because he was afraid , the emperor yelled WOULD YOU STOP DANCING AROUND WE ARE NOT IN THE TULLERIES
"they used 16000 soldiers form soviet army as extras in this film. Some claim the director comanded the seventh bigest army in the world." pretty awesome
@GulleGelderlander If you play Empire Total War or Napoleon Total War, Belgium is a country that can be invaded, as it was a territory during that time period. So yes, it did exist in a way.
@PatriotWalker76 I did not exist. That's a fact. You know that those Total War games are fiction? It's your goal to conquer en defeat the enemy. If you play as Napoleon you'll win the campain, although he got defeated in real. This is 1815, the term Belgium was created in 1830, when it gained independence from the Netherlands. Therefore the region was called the Southern Netherlands. Belgium is named after the Belgians who lived in Caesar's time (Roman Empire). Belgium did definitely not exist.
@PatriotWalker76 Not true. Belgium originally belonged to the Netherlands. Then the Dutch revolt began, the 17 provinces against Spain. Only the Northern provinces gained independence and became the Republic of Seven United Netherlands (modern Netherlands), Belgium remained the Spanish Netherlands, and later the Austrian Netherlands. When it rejoined the Netherlands I wasn't a province, Belgium's provinces joined the Dutch provinces.
I saw this movie with my dad in the theatre in 1970. It was wonderful on the big screen. Thank you for posting. The scene of the French formations marching past Napoleon with the windmill in the background is awe-inspiring. Dino DeLaurentiis' production was and is both powerful and beautiful.
The film includes some 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers as extras and 2,000 cavalrymen, some of which were Cossack horsemen ("it was said that, during its making, director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh largest army in the world"[1]). Fifty circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls. These numbers brought an epic quality to the battle scenes.
Does anyone know the song the brits are singing?
StrangerYouKnow 1 month ago
@StrangerYouKnow it's called 'Boney was a Warrior' i think (Boney=Bonaparte)
LucyHarcarty 20 hours ago
Have to agree with Hollister. As much as I love to see the good old Anglo-Franc love hate relationship is still alive, that guy is a poor example of our countrymen.
Ayius 2 months ago
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CaptainHollister 2 months ago 2
"they came on in the same old way....and we stopped them in the same old way"[arthur wellesley 1815]
fringecakeboy 2 months ago
@fringecakeboy
Nice sentence, you found it on google alone? good boy! you want your sugar?
Give me some of your intelligence fringecakeboy, you the perfect illustration of the brit!
"honi soit qui mal y pense", its the most noble of your chivalry order and i am sure you don't know the meaning, you know your kings spoke french, don't care, you'll never have it!
pennbzh 2 months ago
@fringecakeboy
Poor boy, iam afraid by your debility, you are 43 years old and nothing in the head, you are a shame for your compatriots.
When i read you iam wondering : maybe he is mentally disturbed, i hope for you that the case!
You are just able to argue with insult, it's the better proof of your intelectual poverty!
Just for your knowledge, in the french foreign legion there is French and not only non french.
In Dunkerque 1940 you were also running to save your arse from the Germans
pennbzh 2 months ago
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fringecakeboy 2 months ago
@pennbzh Last I heard, 25% of the Foreign legion is french - they get in by pretending to be French-Canadian or french-speaking Swiss - thats what I heard
CaptainHollister 2 months ago
Guys, please can I ask that we keep any discussions a little more civilised, thanks ;)
CaptainHollister 2 months ago
@CaptainHollister
you're right, I stop this discussion right now, I am afraid to be as stupid as fringecakeboy if I stay here.
i hope not finish like him when i will have his age. it's very sad!
pennbzh 2 months ago
@pennbzh Please don't get me wrong, I actually encourage healthy debate and free speech - but when it descends to swearing by some members, then it is no longer a healthy debate, but a pointless argument. So long as the debate is kept calm, then I have no quarrels at all - we are all entitled to an opinion, what-ever that opinion might be :)
CaptainHollister 2 months ago
@CaptainHollister very well said. spoken like a true 19th century British liberal :)
blueray1969 2 weeks ago
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fringecakeboy 2 months ago
@Trialbystone17
It's what i said to you, thanks general channel because you are for nothing
thanks Austria and Russia who did the job during years for your glory
England liked very much fighting with Russian and Austrian blood
England is a selfish nation as we can still see today
1st French Empire with Napoleon was one of the greatest European terrestrial Empire, and you never had European terrest empire, to dangerous for you! maybe it was more easy to beat unarmed people across the seas
pennbzh 2 months ago
@Trialbystone17
I can understand you, it's difficult for an English who eat always shit, to appreciate the real food, you know : like Napoleon, Art, culture, real food etc.. have nerver crossed the channel, it's a real problem to cross this channel, isn't it? sad, i sympathize with you.
I don't understand why England is not the most visited country of the world? your culture, your architecture, the landscape...no no iam joking!
It's France the most visited, and the world know why!
pennbzh 2 months ago
@fringecakeboy
We are We are..... always "we are" with you!, good English boy!!
I see there is not only Napoleon who never crossed the channel but Intelligence and culture never crossed also!
You'd better thanks your best general, his name is channel, and at different period of history the problem was not your army not at all, the problem was channel, simply that.
But you can't understand, you know with your problem " lack of intelligence"
Honi soit qui mal y pense,nice words isn't it?
pennbzh 2 months ago
@fringecakeboy The brittish were cowards being scared like little bitches. Thats why Wellington was soo afraid about the prussians not getting there in time :(. Poor you!
janeknr2 2 months ago
About the only time in History where the French were known for kicking the most ass and we still beat them :/ pfff.
Trialbystone17 2 months ago
@Trialbystone17
Read a book instead of saying bullshit.
Where you was in 1805 when French great army was at the top? answer : hidden on your island and paying Russia and others nations to fight in your place.
Great!!
pennbzh 2 months ago
@pennbzh Not kicking the shit out of the combined French and Spanish Navy at the battle of Trafalgar then? :P Come on, you walked right into that one.
Trialbystone17 2 months ago
@Trialbystone17
Yes, a great navy to stay hidden on your rock, and letting others do the fighting and dying when the storm rage, and then take up all of the credit in the end.
At that time England loved fight with Russian and Austrian blood
Congratulation it's was very effective, not glorious but very effective.
100%agree with you, you had a great navy, and we had a great army.
15 years and 7 coallitions of european nations to beat us, it was a short period but a fantastic european empire
pennbzh 2 months ago
@pennbzh But Britain was mainly a great naval power as Trail as rightly pointed out. Whats wrong with providing the finances for allies with large armies (unlike ourselves) to fight the French on the Continent? Bit of a no fucking brainer to me.
YaxKukMo1426 2 months ago
Whatever you say about Napoleon, no matter how great you think he was, no matter how many lands he conquered, the simple fact is he was still beat in the end.
LordWellington15 2 months ago
@LordWellington15 you are right, he was beaten at the end,
this means that you can be the best but if you have everybody against you......
And the french army of 1815 was not the great army of 1805.
pennbzh 2 months ago
Im English and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte I Is one of the people who inspires me, then Sun Tzu ect ect.
wigster600 3 months ago
@fringecakeboy
I have pity for you, 43?
Hopefully iam more intelligent than U and your 2 years old child's speech
"FUCK FUCK" it's nearly all U can say, an English in all his splendor!
Naturally England is not known for culture and intelligence but U are one of the best specimen i have seen
Thanks your best general "channel",instead of saying bullshits biggest than you
In the napoleonic wars it's you the cowards hidden on your rock, U should thanks Blucher but U are not enough intelligent
pennbzh 3 months ago
@pennbzh You can't deny that Britain had a great part in the napoleonic wars, without British help the peninsula would not have become free, they would cause damage certainly but not freedom.And you cannot insult England in such a way, since the Iluminists that gave ended up inspiring the french revolution based themselves in the English Parliament and end of absolute monarchy like in France.Britain is a country with a great army.I have great respect for Napoleon, he was a great man , but so is
MateusVIII 1 month ago
@pennbzh Welington, and yes Blucher helped a lot, that is true, and if Napoleon was in good health in the day of the battle and Grouchy had arrived Napoleon would surely have won.This was a time of great generals and men.I am sorry for my English.
MateusVIII 1 month ago
And...what about the Belgian, Dutch, Nassau and Braunschweig troops ? I didn't see any of them D:
vass02 3 months ago
@expertstrategy ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
fringecakeboy 3 months ago
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fringecakeboy 3 months ago
@fringecakeboy
You have 43 years old?
You are so ridiculous, iam sad for you, all in the mouth nothing in the head.
I can see your answer : "You are a frog, English are the best, English English! poor guy!
I am 100% agree with expertstrategy : "You Brits are only good at letting others do the fighting and dying, and then take up all of the credit in the end."
It's England the cowards of the Napoleonic wars!
At the end the way you talk is the better proof of your ignorance and debility.
pennbzh 3 months ago
@pennbzh saved your sorry arses enough times though and beat you enough times agincourt,crecy,pioters,talavera,vimerio,quebec,etc and so on and so forth!go on kermit fuck off and stick an old garlic eclair right up your hole and hide in the maginot line before you get bashed by the germans again
fringecakeboy 3 months ago
@fringecakeboy
I see, you are a poet!
Good english boy!
Do what you are the best for! i mean stay hidden on your island and plotted as usual, let other fighting for you, and at the end where you are in sufficient number with other countries and sure to win, come on the continent to collect the laurels.
Thanks mother nature nothing else, it's you the cowards on your island, hidden who don't want when it's too much dangerous.
i prefer a german to a liar and never loyal english.
pennbzh 3 months ago
WELLIGTON WAS THE FROG NEMISIS
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RIFLEMAN TOM PLUNKETT 1 - BRIGARDIER GENERAL Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais 0
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@expertstrategy AND ANOTHER THING WE WON AT WATERLOO AND TALAVERA AND WELLINGTON HAD NO INTENTION OF FIGHTING THE BATTLE AT QUATRE BRAS AS YOU MUST KNOW SEEING AS HOW YOUR SO CLEVER HE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO FIGHT AT WATERLOO BECAUSE HE CHOSE THAT GROUND THE YEAR BEFORE BECAUSE HE WAS A MASTER OF PICKING THE TERRAIN AS YOU'LL ALSO KNOW BEING SO CLEVER
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fringecakeboy 3 months ago
What do they scream, Our who?
heroicmarinelaughat9 5 months ago
I think somebody on this clip said there were 6000 Russian extras for this film. I was suprised that there were so few. However can you imagine witnessing the 600 000+ who were on the field during the battle of Leipzig in October 1813.
YaxKukMo1426 5 months ago
@YaxKukMo1426 their were 20'000 in total i think, their was a whole russian army core
TheMonoman14 5 months ago
'What are your plans?' 'To beat the French.' Makes me proud to be British.
NathanH97 6 months ago 6
@Sammy1234568910 Lol, poor Picton. His luggage didn't catch up with him in time. Awesome movie!
cannuck1 6 months ago
There's some simply brilliant acting in this movie.
Bankehamreogsmadre 6 months ago
Anyone know the song at 3:33?
Marduniya 6 months ago
"May I have your permission to try a shot?"
ಠ_ಠ
"Certainly not."
Ediblemittens 7 months ago 6
@Ediblemittens WOW stewie was at the battle of waterloo?
040392agh 6 months ago
"TODAY'S FOX" WELLINGTON WAS A BAD MOTHER FUCKER
fringecakeboy 7 months ago
@fringecakeboy
what does that mean, today's fox?
ThePuschkin1986 5 months ago
@ThePuschkin1986 Todays Fox is the French
YaxKukMo1426 5 months ago
@ThePuschkin1986 WELL MY FRIEND,IN THOSE DAYS FOX HUNTING WAS A POPULAR PASTIME AMONG THE VERY RICH AND STUPID AND BEFORE EVERY HUNT THEY WOULD SAY"TODAY'S FOX" AND TOAST THE POOR UNLUCKY FOX THEY WERE ABOUT TO MERCILESSLY HUNT CATCH AND THROW TO THEIR HUNTING DOGS TO BE TORN TO SHREDS
fringecakeboy 3 months ago
@fringecakeboy
ah now i got it. yes i am familiar with the foxhunting, alright. thank you very much.
ThePuschkin1986 3 months ago
@ThePuschkin1986 no problem mate i'm a proper fountain of knowledge
fringecakeboy 3 months ago
@fringecakeboy
alright. im looking forward to that ;)
ThePuschkin1986 3 months ago
Who is Napoleon's adviser at 8:14? Thank you.
Feddyfreak 7 months ago
@Feddyfreak That's Charles de la Bedoyere, a French General
Nasenbaerin 7 months ago
what are they cheering after he's yelling "who's the boy that'll kick bonnies ass"?
hippietitis69 8 months ago
@hippietitis69 OUR ATTY!! ( Arthur Wellesley)i dint know that either saw it on here a while back.
TheBourbonDuke 8 months ago
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5:48
Whose the lad that lathered the French?
Our Aggy!!
Octavius0 9 months ago
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Octavius0 9 months ago
music from 1:00 to 1:43? thank you
Theempore1234 9 months ago
@Theempore1234 its called the "March of the Most Badass Motherfucker in All of History"
Koguryeo19 9 months ago 14
I love the part where the British start singing Boney was a Warrior
wolfpackfan218 10 months ago
@blackbandannafilms Yes he was.
LordWellington15 10 months ago
All those soldiers were from the Soviet Army. The Director at the time commanded the Seventh largest army !
VisionarysDomain 10 months ago
@VisionarysDomain
....what?
spudnick3490 9 months ago
He plans to give the french a damn good thrashing!
121Swaleskid 11 months ago
when i see these kind of movies, i think "where the hell are they going to? a parade or a battle?"...
COUNTVLAIDMIR 1 year ago
@COUNTVLAIDMIR One doesn't exclude the other. Certainly not on the Napoleonic battlefield. The music and the marching and the sheer noise of a Napoleonic army were not only a way to raise the morale of your own troops but also a way of terrifying the enemy. Psychological operations has always had its place on the battlefield.
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chanctonbury63 1 year ago
@chanctonbury63 He also could not speak and had all his lines dubbed, im sure he was glad of the work tbh
TLSUk 10 months ago
@gasdfw5 Singing a rude song abt the Duke.
chanctonbury63 1 year ago
'I've no need of a white horse to puff me by God!' Different class of soldier was old Wellington!
tclade3 1 year ago
@gasdfw5: They are singing a version of the Military Shanty "Boney was a Warrior". I don't know when it was first written, it's use here may be anachronistic but:
"Boney was a warrior away, ay-ay! A warrior and a tarrier John France-Wah!" (Jean Francois)
"Boney fought the Russians away, ay-ay! The Russians and the Prussians John France-Wah!"
There are loads of different rambling verses, do a search and you'll find different versions but you get the general sense of it here.
digglyda 1 year ago
CGI would muck a production like this up. It was great using the Russian army and the actual Drums and Pipes of the Gordon Highlanders in the movie.The4y don't make movies like this anymore.
XXMPZEC 1 year ago 2
@XXMPZEC
Russian army?
What?
spudnick3490 9 months ago
@spudnick3490 When the movie was filmed on location in Russia in 1969, the producer got to use 6000 Russian troops and actual cavalry as extras who were trained by militray historians to fight according to the standards of the Napoleonic wars.The pioes and drums of the Gordon Highlanders, an actual Scottish Regiment whose ancestors fought at Waterloo also played themselves. No CGI was used and that is why this movie is a classic!!
XXMPZEC 9 months ago
@XXMPZEC
Really they were Russian troops?
Cool...I had no idea...
Yeah I could tell that no CGI was used...It was pretty damn epic..This is non-CGI at it's best...But sometimes no CGI battles can be a bit iffy...But this is perfect
spudnick3490 9 months ago
Other good non CGI movies are Battle of Britain, 1969 which used real pilots and actual aircraft flown by the British RAF and German air force and was filmed on location. A Bridge too Far used real American and British paratroopers against Dutch troops playing the Germans and was filmed on the actual battle site.
XXMPZEC 9 months ago
@XXMPZEC
"sometimes"
:)
spudnick3490 9 months ago
@spudnick3490 Except for the Arhhem bridge sequence which was filmed in nearby Deventer because kit still resembled WW2 Arnhem, much of the movie was filmed on atual location including the scene at Nijimegen bridge which cost a 1m to shoot without any takes because it had held up traffic. 1st BN, Parachute Regiment was one of the actual British units that played themselves in the movie. The 82nd and 101st provided the US element.
XXMPZEC 9 months ago
Wellington is pretty cool...For an Irishman..
tinrib656 1 year ago
@tinrib656 whats that soposed to mean eh ?!
sean124zv 1 year ago
Video is great, youtube servers are crap. 360p not playing without stoping every 10 seconds. FU Youtube!
Flygvapnet 1 year ago
haha, wellington is such a snob!!! :D
Gruenkreuz100 1 year ago
Damn stop letting Napoleon apear short! He was 5.2 french inches high (5.7 british inches or 1 meter 68 centimeter.)
Thats above the average.
Napoleons soldiers called him "Le petit corporal." (The little corporal") but that was just for fun.
Modern scientists have measured his corpse and it was 1 meter and 68 centimeter.
The average swedish soldier from year 1800 was 1 meter and 62 centimeter. (The swedish where high.)
But this film is still awesome and i really miss this kind of movies :(
VictumRoManius 1 year ago
Seen this last week, thought it was excellent. Nice to see a real army of extras rather than boring CGI.
Also it was bugging me does Wellington say 'Gentlemen, today's fox' @7:40? or am I hearing it wrong? I wasn't sure if that was an actual quote of his.
CalP0L 1 year ago
@CalP0L it was british fashion (at least among nobility) to compare war to a hunt. when they went fox hunting they drank a claret and toasted to 'todays fox"
GorinRedspear 1 year ago
@TheStandofTheLastGuy marlborough laid the foundations for the Army that Wellington won with
1991Historybuff 1 year ago
3 rounds a minutes lads. 3 rounds a minute. That's how you break a French column. That and a little bit of luck.
packjim56 1 year ago
@packjim56 one Sharpe in the ranks tends to help a lot too
GorinRedspear 1 year ago
@GorinRedspear. Oh, dear I think my Richard is showing.
packjim56 1 year ago
I can only imagine what the costume budget for this film was. It may be possible to translate it to today's dollars. But if this movie was made now there would be no need for mass produced uniforms. It would all be CGI.
hollywoodwerewolf 1 year ago
@hollywoodwerewolf Yeah, and it would suck in comparison though we would still eat it up.. :)
andy7666 1 year ago
"No need of a white horse to puff me, by God."
Damn, I love Wellington so much.
ericthefrootbat 1 year ago
@TheStandofTheLastGuy ancestor of winston churchill
040392agh 1 year ago
Cannon balls splattering in the mud do not skip along the ground far enough to do much damage, unless you are the guy at the very front.
shanghaibenny2 1 year ago
Im sure he would have been in firing range.
rodthegreat08 1 year ago
wat the freak. why is Wellington so so relax? it seems like he dosent care about the battle
Theempore1234 1 year ago
@Theempore1234 Well there is no use in looking depressed and all, it will demoralize the men. A good commander must always put a good face in front of his men
CrimsonGuard1992 1 year ago
It really wouldn't have made much difference for Napoleon's career had he won at Waterloo. He was already suffering from stomach cancer and probably wouldn't have lived more than six years. How ironic that the greatest minds can still succumb to desease.
NCWC2 1 year ago
@NCWC2 Its hardly ironic - the greatest minds when elevated to great status are put under immense pressure.. A businsess man of today gets a stomach ulcer - imagine leading an army, a nation, an Empire..
andy7666 1 year ago
@andy7666 I'm saying it's ironic because he fought so many battles and was on the front lines so much and despite that he didn't die a warriors death in the field and was conquered instead by illness.
NCWC2 1 year ago
Wellington wasnt at all like that!
ImperialGuard9001 1 year ago
how could the Duke be so relaxed before the srt of the battle worse put the newpaper on his face . =/=
yichen100 1 year ago
@yichen100
He's british
'nuff said :)
CaptainHollister 1 year ago 39
@CaptainHollister Because he was tempermentally cool as a cucumber. Not for nothing was he called the "Iron Duke".
tnecklover 1 year ago
@tnecklover ohh...ic..But it kinda werid to see a commander doing this when the battle was about to start dont u think ....
yichen100 1 year ago
@CaptainHollister
Also, he's Wellington! Almost the definition of calm and deliberate
ajferet 1 year ago
@CaptainHollister Before we fight we like to know what happened in the world and have a quick snooze :D
SpoOkyBeEf 4 months ago
@yichen100
Also, he is sitting trying to waste time.
shanghaibenny2 1 year ago
@yichen100
well i think a greneral must also be a good actor.
when he looks real relaxed this could have a positive effect on his men. it would be deffenety better for his troops moral than nervously running around.
MitchMaker 9 months ago
@MitchMaker funny you should say that
during waterloo the emperor and a mamber of his staff went to take a closer look at the battle, napoleon sat down on his chair as allways with the staff member standing next to him. but whenever a cannonshot came close to them he jumped away because he was afraid , the emperor yelled WOULD YOU STOP DANCING AROUND WE ARE NOT IN THE TULLERIES
040392agh 8 months ago
@yichen100 because he thought this battle was over before its started
nick21sammy 8 months ago
what song is that at the start of the video?
loserhailose 1 year ago
@loserhailose The french march? "La victorie est a nous"
ViccardXViccc 1 year ago
7:54 Duke of Wellington: I always like my men we dressed for the enemy. *Stares at General Picton wearing regular clothes.*
1Historygenius 1 year ago 2
Commanders have better things to do the Fiering at eachother aint that what they did?
Mattebubben 1 year ago
ahahah at 7:23 they totally 4got there lines and had to look at them
ColScots726 1 year ago
They should just have a shouting contest between the armies.
JesseB954 1 year ago
if you bring a band to battle, you're expecting to have something to celebrate
GorinRedspear 1 year ago
Can someone tell me what the british soldiers are chanting from 4:26 and after?
HidetoraHikimonji 1 year ago
@HidetoraHikimonji something about russians.
TheCommunistColin 1 year ago
@HidetoraHikimonji
Its a song at the time about Napoleon beating the prussians, keeping morale up.
"Bony beat the prussians, aye, aye, aye, bony beat the prussians aye, aye, aye.
who's the lad that leathers the French? Our atty!"
"Who's the boy with the hookey nose? Our atty!"
"Who gives cause to Marshall Soutt?" Our atty!"
"Who gives Johnny Francois a jolt?" Our atty!
"Who's the beak that will peck bony's bum?" Our atty!
"Who makes the Parlez-vous to run?" Our atty!"
Woodlander65 1 year ago 3
@Woodlander65, I do not really understand this "Our atty" thing in the song you mentioned around the time Napoleon defeated the Prussians.
expertstrategy 1 year ago
@expertstrategy
TheTimostemos 11 months ago
@Woodlander65
I thought they were chanting "Our Welly"like a nickname...thanks anyway,I love that scene...
HidetoraHikimonji 1 year ago
@HidetoraHikimonji The first name of the Duke of Wellington was Arthur, so Attie stil is a nickname for Wellington
LtcolSharpe 1 year ago
@HidetoraHikimonji i found it was a song called Boney was a Warrior google it if you want
AndyCAgi 1 year ago
i will love to see a remake of this movie !!
Fleax1973 1 year ago
"they used 16000 soldiers form soviet army as extras in this film. Some claim the director comanded the seventh bigest army in the world." pretty awesome
LambrettaSXsepcial 1 year ago
I miss the days where movies were full of people. Instead of it being full of CG.
Maddcap90 1 year ago
what medal is that ? the duke has?
Rico8458 1 year ago
Bonaparte had some very young generals on his staff, That General who's his aide looks like he's at least 25-28 years old,
Paladin1441 1 year ago
Bonaparte had some very young generals on his staff, That General who's his aide looks like he's at least 25-28 years old,
Paladin1441 1 year ago
They keep on talking about Belgians and Belgium. But they did not exist yet.
GulleGelderlander 1 year ago
@GulleGelderlander If you play Empire Total War or Napoleon Total War, Belgium is a country that can be invaded, as it was a territory during that time period. So yes, it did exist in a way.
PatriotWalker76 1 year ago
@PatriotWalker76 I did not exist. That's a fact. You know that those Total War games are fiction? It's your goal to conquer en defeat the enemy. If you play as Napoleon you'll win the campain, although he got defeated in real. This is 1815, the term Belgium was created in 1830, when it gained independence from the Netherlands. Therefore the region was called the Southern Netherlands. Belgium is named after the Belgians who lived in Caesar's time (Roman Empire). Belgium did definitely not exist.
GulleGelderlander 1 year ago
@GulleGelderlander I know that, but Belgium was a territorial province.
PatriotWalker76 1 year ago
@PatriotWalker76 Not true. Belgium originally belonged to the Netherlands. Then the Dutch revolt began, the 17 provinces against Spain. Only the Northern provinces gained independence and became the Republic of Seven United Netherlands (modern Netherlands), Belgium remained the Spanish Netherlands, and later the Austrian Netherlands. When it rejoined the Netherlands I wasn't a province, Belgium's provinces joined the Dutch provinces.
GulleGelderlander 1 year ago
Wellington is such a badass. "Sir what are your plans?" "To beat the French." *Puts the newspaper over his face*
Koguryeo19 2 years ago 70
@Koguryeo19 Only Christopher Plummer could do this role. He's got Wellington down to the T.
NCWC2 1 year ago 2
@Koguryeo19 Simplicity yet better than any strategy I believe.
ultramarine1234 1 year ago
@Koguryeo19 yes we can say the victor is the best
Wellesley was the best for 1 day
Napoleon was the best for 20 years...
lightnessss 9 months ago 13
@lightnessss yes, but you're only as good as your last battle
THthefirst 7 months ago
@lightnessss WHAT ABOUT WELLINGTON IN SPAIN,PORTUGAL AND INDIA THEN??????
fringecakeboy 3 months ago
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fringecakeboy 3 months ago
I LOVE COMING ON HERE AND PISSING PEOPLE OFF
fringecakeboy 3 months ago
but which 1 counted the most
abbracadabra1234 2 months ago
Computer graphics? *chuckles* It's 1970!
Hells, I was selling the game PONG
...six years AFTER this was filmed.
And people thought Pong was pretty advanced.
This was the days of real film.
QPhilms 2 years ago 4
it's called bony
matt2house 2 years ago
The facts are in " Decisive Battles " Vol. ii J.F.C. Fuller highly recommended
atavistos 2 years ago
what is the song the french are playing to march with?
eltonforlife 2 years ago
la victoire est a nous
hopfi100 2 years ago
@gasdfw5
My eyes are the source.
Oh yeah, and a degree in Graphic Art.:
And you?
hornetobiker 2 years ago
no computer graphics were used in this film at all. u must be blind if u think that
matt2house 2 years ago
you a dergee in graphic art? and where did you buy that if you can't see that this is no computer then youre not really einstein
040392agh 2 years ago
I saw this movie with my dad in the theatre in 1970. It was wonderful on the big screen. Thank you for posting. The scene of the French formations marching past Napoleon with the windmill in the background is awe-inspiring. Dino DeLaurentiis' production was and is both powerful and beautiful.
bewareofzealots 2 years ago
"to beat the french"
TheKiaaran 2 years ago 24
anybody know the name know the name of the march at 3.34 :O
pauloman16 2 years ago
"Will you kindly announce me, delancy."
j0andc0 2 years ago
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The animation for the extra soldiers is pretty lame.
hornetobiker 2 years ago
They didnt. They used 17000 men.
mingo1990 2 years ago 4
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Ha ha ha. Yeah right.
hornetobiker 2 years ago
No kidding, they used a russian division.
mingo1990 2 years ago 3
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Mate I was a graphic designer 25 years ago, and even then I would have been embarraseed to present work this bad.
hornetobiker 2 years ago
The film includes some 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers as extras and 2,000 cavalrymen, some of which were Cossack horsemen ("it was said that, during its making, director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh largest army in the world"[1]). Fifty circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls. These numbers brought an epic quality to the battle scenes.
mingo1990 2 years ago 4