Regiment Sambre et Meuse March by the West Point Band

[Rostokouban]

They look like napoleonic soldiers...

[rmorecook]

@Rostokouban West Point was founded during the age of Napoleon. The full dress uniforms are the original ones worn at the time of founding. Bob M

[GARRABLANCADECHILE1]

/watch?v=lwxs35Ik_DA autentic sambre et meuse

[FlierFrank172]

Too bad the announcer didn't know when to shut up.

[UnCanadienFrancais]

Cette marche est la musique utilisée pour la chanson régimentaire du Régiment de la Chaudière! Seul régiment Canadien français à avoir fait le débarquement de Normandie et aussi le seul régiment ce jour là à avoir accomplie tout ses objectifs !

Aere Perennius !

[tgv3000]

VIVE LA FRANCE !!!!

[lefripier]

@tgv3000 Non, Vive la Belgique!

[tgv3000]

@lefripier : pourquoi ??? C'est un régiment français quand même !!!

[lefripier]

@tgv3000 Oui, mais l'entre sambre-et-meuse, c'est où j'habite, en Belgique :)

Gardons ce qui nous appartient, je n'ai rien contre la France, mais vous avez tendance à nous piquer certaines choses de chez nous (les frites, la bière, le chocolat...) :P

[tgv3000]

@lefripier : désolé pour vous mais je n'ai jamais visité la Belgique, je ne connais donc pas votre département.

Quant aux frites, bières et cie on en consomme dans le monde entier....alors.....bon appétit puis qu'il est l'heure de diner....

[elgor89]

@lefripier Mais tu saus bien que la belgique a eu une histoire très agitée et que tous les pays d'europe ou presque s'y sont battus. A l'époque, sous la révolution, Il y avait une armée de sambre et meuse qui devait se battre dans le coin

[Marcolepsie]

@lefripier : "Le département de Sambre-et-Meuse est un ancien département français, dont le chef-lieu était Namur.

Le département fut créé le 1er octobre 1795 lors de la réunion des territoires de l'actuelle Belgique et de la Principauté de Liège à la France, et fut dissous en 1814.

Le numéro du département était le 97."

(Wikipédia)

[elgor89]

@tgv3000  Ben non ! il n'y a jamais eu de régiment de sambre et meuse. Il y a eu cependant une armée de sambre et meuse durant la révolution. Cette marche a été créée en 1879 pour célébrer tous les régiments de la révolution

[13xerces]

1794/95 ?.Pardonnez mon ignorance mais c est un régiment américain ou français ? Quelle est sont histoire?merci.

[diphyly]

@13xerces : oui, vers 1794-95...

[diphyly]

FYI people, there are lyrics coming along. The chorus is: "Le régiment de Sambre-et-Meuse Marchait toujours Au cri de liberté Cherchant la route glorieuse Qui l'a conduit à l'immortalité." translation that works with the music: "The regiment of Sambre-and-Meuse Always marched Shouting for liberty Seeking the glorious path That drove it to immortality"

[13xerces]

Ce régiment s est battu en France ?

[Cassecouille8]

USA <3

France <3

Vive l'Empereur!

[jplully]

Sambre et Meuse that are two rivers in Belgium. Why do they call it The Regiment like that ?

[13laciotat]

@jplully :pourquoi dites vous cela? Ces 2 rivières prennent leur source en France! Why do you say that? These 2 rivers have both their spring in France! American humor I suppose? PS/ the old french district " département de Sambre et Meuse" is now in Belgium, that's true but not during the french revolution's wars.

[amesbancal]

Do you count the hanovrian mercenaries in the English army ? This being said, the English have more merits for Waterloo (although their Guards used an unfair tactic: they hid behind the weats when the Old guard attacked) confronting the best European army than in Trafalgar where their fleet was superior in ships, tactics and command.

[pcouillez]

@ZEtruckipu Is your country the US? because to be honest you came right at the end (as always) and the job was almost done by the French and English forces

[Wastedgrunt]

@pcouillez As always? I hope your realize that its not America's job to jump into European wars and affairs. Obviously all the work was done by the British and French, they were right next to the fighting, with their land at stake.

[KMW52]

@pcouillez I suppose we came right at the end in WWII also when we saved your country for you once again?

[TheAfrikaner]

vive la France ma patrie bien aimée

[LittleFrenchy72]

the U.S keeps on saying that they make everything but they take everything from others :( copy cats

[rmorecook]

@LittleFrenchy72 we certainly have not copied this fabulous march - though we have many fine ones of our own. Best wishes, Bob M

[LittleFrenchy72]

@rmorecook i stand corrected.

borrowed then :P

but usually its good to sing the lyrics of the march their preety good.

[rmorecook]

@LittleFrenchy72 The French fleet at Yorktown was the final kick in the behind to the British there, leading to the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington. Perhaps we play the French National March in memory of that great event?

[hoosieryank1967]

@rmorecook It would have to be a Bourbon March--like this, perhaps?

[NewPaltzIndie]

@LittleFrenchy72 well the US is a nation of many cultures and ethnicities, what else would you expect? and Sousa, an American composed many famous marches played by military bands around the world today

[jeje6868]

@ZEtruckipu

Dieu benisse l'Amerique, and long live France !

[jeje6868]

Honneur et Patrie

[jroack]

This fairly decent coverage of Graduation Parade at West Point. The senior classmen have already marched and are assembled in the reviewing line. The three under classes are passing in review in a final honor to the senior cadets before they graduate. It's a very moving ceremony and well attended by visitors. The march, Sambre et Meuse, is rearranged with additional elements of other West Point songs and tunes intermixed resulting in what is titled "The Official West Point March" jro

[ZEtruckipu]

I could be used by them,i don't know but this is certainly not a nazi hymn. It was written in 1879, after the defeat of the war of 1870. It consequently turned to patriot feelings of all frenchmen in order to take back l'alsace lorraine.

[bibouba]

@ZEtruckipu

No was rewritten in 1867.

[tokra4040]

Listen french and the others European country march before of spoken !!!!

[rmorecook]

This is a favorite march at the University of Ohio too

[nattrpt]

I think you mean that it's a favorite of The Ohio State University Marching Band (known as "The Best Damn Band in the Land"). Yes indeed. They play the march at every home football game as part of the pre-game ceremony, during which the musicians form the word, "Ohio" in script (thus, "Script Ohio"). It has been described as the greatest musical tradition in American football!

[rmorecook]

exactly

[nattrpt]

Unfortunately, it is also played in connection with the incorrect author "Turlet," after an American arrangement with the incorrect title, French National Defilé March, which is rather remarkable when one in the USA believes that defilé [processional] is something essentially different from pas redoublé, [quickstep] as it is in this case.

[nattrpt]

The United States Military Academy Band has a very long history of performing Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse" since the beginning of the 20th century. They use an arrangement by J.S. Sérédy that was published by Carl Fischer Music Company of New York about 1903.

[nattrpt]

At the request of a senior officer, the music director of the 18th Infantry Regiment, Joseph François Rauski (1837-1910) arranged this march for military band, first performed in 1879 at the Place de Verdun in Pau. Rauski should be praised for its arrangement but should not be credited as the composer [who was Jean Robert Planquette (1848-1903)] , since little new thematic material had been added. It is therefore not correct to write that Rauski on themes from the song, composed the march.

[Fridomfry]

Thanks a lot for these informations. Here's s.o. who did his homework.

[Frankouchii]

Thank you, dankon, merci !

I'm proud to be french, as you of you own country.

[Fridomfry]

I guess the explanation is that there are American patriots who are also open-minded. And who remember that France and the US have been allied in a few small historical events like two world wars and the US Independance war, the Gulf war and the war on terror in A'stan

Perhaps you would also request American symphony orchestras to cease playing Mozart or Tchaikovsky (= enemy countries!) and play only Leonard Bernstein ???

[rmorecook]

Thank you LaFayette! If you'd like to be on my march of the day list just sent me your email address. You will get lots of Sousa but many others too. Bob M

[cumbas]

& it should not be forgotten that in the beginning this music had been created by Planquette to accompany a patriotic poem for the glory of heroes of the Regiment "Sambre and Meuse" of the young French Republic in 1792 (see my video in "video response" for more informations ^^ ;-) )

[re6356]

This march would certainly be amongst my ten favourites, it is certainly a rousing piece. I believe the composer was Planquette.

[cumbas]

yes it's well 'Robert Planquette' who composed in 1867 this French Patriotic March :-)

[mbwolf61]

Beat Michigan

[budw84]

Go Buckeyes

[rapiddominace]

we play it better than these guys do

OH -

[stevenstreets3]

Go Bucks! OH IO

[cumbas]

and i put also my "Sambre & Meuse" video in the video comments :-)

i speak in this (English Sub) the history about the most important battle without any doubts of the French Revolution :

"The Battle of Fleurus" where the regiment of the french citizen-soldiers "Sambre et Meuse" illustrated

[cumbas]

rmorecook i put (if you allow it to me) your rare video in my playlist about "The music and march of the French Republic and The First Empire" whith mine :-)

[rmorecook]

yes oui of course I am honored that you choose it.

[cumbas]

normal, it's a famous French military music plays by a famous foreign military school of a Republic old friend of my country and of the French Republic, USA

And this video is so much rare!!

so yes it's normal that i put this video in my playslist ;-)

don't forget that, despite of the false propaganda do by any ennemis of our old friendly these last years, we are the oldest allies and friends and the 2 oldest modern democratic Republic of the Free World

[cumbas]

Guys if you want speak between objective, honest and not incultivated guys : Don't speak whith the roast-beef!! ^^

these guys are too fanatic, too incultivated (they know only their old false propaganda) to speak whith us about true and objective history

so like me, to scorn and be unaware these little incutivated guys :-)

They will never admit the truth, it's vs all the propaganda that they learns since their early childhood

[Fridomfry]

"the French got their arses kicked at Waterloo"

Actually it was an army of survivors and outlaws which was beaten at Waterloo by the European coalition. The monarchy had been restored in France the previous year, and ol'Boney already exiled. He came back in a desperate attempt, against the will of most French who were fed up with him. French diplomacy at the Vienna congress still represented the king, not Napoleon. Thus it was in a position to defend French interests.

[psweep]

And then the French got their arses kicked at Waterloo. Bringing an end to ol'boney himself. So it's luck that some part of the old france exist somewhere.

[amesbancal]

how any powers to defeat France at waterloo? without the Prussians the English would have been beaten!

[rapiddominace]

not so fast my friend

[Wastedgrunt]

@amesbancal The British made up 1/6 of the army. But it wasn't just Waterloo the British won, Trafalgar was all theirs. My respects to all the fine men who died at Waterloo, Ligny, and Quatre Bras.

[chimera4561]

@amesbancal not really the prussians arrived too late, it was the fact that soult was away with his trooops at the time that the french lost waterloo

[julien0540]

I'm surprised to hear a french march played by americans.

[rmorecook]

Hi Julien - not only is it being played but not the prestigious event at which it is played. Graduation at the military academy. America eternally indebted to Lafayette and others including the French fleet which helped us win the Revolution. Best wishes Bob M

[ChivKnight]

how so? The French were one of our greatest allies and are the reason we won the Revolution.

[warrenhobb]

Yep, the only reason!

[AulicExclusiva]

France is America's oldest ally: our leading supporter in the War of Independence. George Washington's great friend and fellow commander, the marquis de La Fayette, is an American national hero of that same war.

America's volunteer air squadron in World War I (in the service of France) was known as the La Fayette Esquadrille.

[BKerve5894]

the best damn band in the land plays this song script ohio

[MrQuebec]

Quelle mythologie!!!

[zeezee15]

It's great music aye. But quite disconnected from that Frenchman. He quit the army before the desperate battles of 1792. He is really an enigma, not quite trusted by Republicans, Royalists and Bonarpartists.

[cumbas]

Et les rois ont exterminés le peuple apr milliers (leur peuple) et asservi des hommes juste pour leur bon vouloir pendant presque 2 millénaires !!!

dégages petit royaliste de (extrême minorité d'aliénés passéistes)

Ici c'est le monde des grandes et fières républiques démocratiques :-)

[Fridomfry]

cumbas, faut voir les choses en face: les grandes et fières républiques démocratiques ont fait massacrer beaucoup plus de gens que les rois. Je suis Républicain, mais il faut bien reconnaître que c'est la République qui a remplacé:

- la guerre en dentelles opposant de petites armées par la guerre des masses

- le droit des gens par la guerre totale

- les autels à Dieu par les autels de la Nation

- les monastères par des casernes

C'est la France républicaine qui a déclaré la guerre en 1791.

[moialex01]

@fridomfry c'est totalement faux,les armées étrangères ont envahie le territoire nationnal en première (à moins que valmy ne soit plus en france..),quand au roi,il s'est compromis et à trahi le pays.

[Fridomfry]

C'est bien la France républicaine qui a déclaré la guerre en 1791 à l'Autriche. Ensuite, en effet, elle s'est laissé envahir! Bref, elle a eu tout faux. Déclarer une guerre sans l'avoir préparée, c'est criminel et grotesque quel que soit le régime: la France républicaine de 1791, Napoléon en 1812 (Russie), Napoléon III en 1870, la 3e République en 1939. Des millions de Français ont payé de leur sang ces âneries criminelles.

[MrQuebec]

La France fait ce qu'elle peut.

[cumbas]

thank you "West Point" for this tribute to one of the most famous french military march of the french revolutionary armies and citizens armies who defending the young French Republic of 1791 against all the royal armies of the kingdoms of Europe !!!

Vive la liberté, vive la France et vive les USA au passage !!!

Long live Liberty !!!

Long live France !!!

Long Live USA !!!

[HautBreton]

Liberté, quelle liberté? Celle de se faire quillotiner?

Vive le roi, vive la france!

[LuciusAlexandre]

Non celle de mériter ce qu'on a. Et pas de l'hériter de son arriere arriere arriere arriere arriere oncle qui a défendu le cheval d'un Charlemagne ou d'un Clovis.

VIVE L'EMPEREUR! VIVE LA FRANCE!

[Ricky02trumpet]

Esta es la mejor marcha del mundo

[fredthesoldier]

It's the regimental march of Régiment de la Chaudière too

[Fridomfry]

The music stands among the best marches. The lyrics recall the deeds of a French unit of 1792. The "regiment de Sambre & Meuse" was one of these volunteer units which faced the professional armies of the old European monarchies in Austrian Belgium. The regiment was poorly led by an ageing general and got surrounded. It fought up to the last man.

[tryme75016]

mais alors tu as vu ça ou que lafayette etait oublié?

[tryme75016]

please iberico, i love spain and its people, but please, if yoou don't know a subject, don't speak about about it....

[iberico88]

Ah si ! Je sais de quoi je parle... ou alors j'ai pas de chance... je suis tombé sur un groupe d'ignorants finis.

Désolé...

[mf83]

Why Sambre et Meuse at West Point???

[singladura232]

excelente transmisión.

[peterann1]

AFVN/AFRTS rules! (Check the leader)

[esnacionalis]

exelente video! gran marcha :)