@boss..i know its hard for you to understand this, but Napoleon was taught at west point and so were all of the great military thinkers of the past. Try reading the book,' The art of war' written in the 14th century. Name 1 general that Napoleon defeated that was note worthy? example Grant vs Lee? Patton vs Rommel? Most historians spoke of Wellington vs Napoleon but wait..Wellington won? Wellington was a simple general and napoleon was an emperor? Sit!! little boy!!
@kisstherain73 you seriouslly need to read a history book before you talk, KUTUSOV wasn't a great general? beningsen? blucher? archeduke charles of austria? WHO is wellington? of all the genreals i listed wellington is the most unknown at the time, only latter propaganda made wellington famous, nobody reckoned him back then!!!
you are clearly a product of hollywood and biased pop culture, you have no idea of the napoleonic era but you still think you know it all, typical anglo-saxon...
Patton was gay? lol...stupid frenchies...go back and eat your fish head soup 'pepe le pew'. Napoleon in the end...lost his country, his marriage, thone and hundreds of thousands of french troops. France was CONQUER...like soOo many times in its history. But on the lighter note. This movie is excellent!!..I saw it before.
@kisstherain73 do you know what topic patton and einsenhower chose to debate in their friendly meetings? you guessed it, NAPOLEON! so did every german,russian or american general mainly learn about in their military academy. not thrashing america or patton, just stating a fact, that is you're ignorant, and a loud mouthed one!!
You may think i am funny,but guess what?! Napoleon still lost battles. How many battles did ceasar lost? Alexander? Even better!!,,how about little old Wellington? And maybe you guys need to read a little more..Napoleon didn't just only use french troops to win his victories. The french revolution brought a damn dictator in the end. How ironic is that crap?!! And regarding Patton? He and his 2 ivory handle colt!!help saved your ' France' sorry ass in WW2. Read some history.
i never said he wasn't a good general....in his time? indeed he was was, but over all of history? I see others who were better. Don't get your panties all twisted. My minor is history. I have read many books regarding him. comprend ? oui? I am not stuck on one person in history. remember he was defeat by Wellington and was out smarted by the Russians. Rather you like it or not, these are the facts.
@kisstherain73 not exaclty for wellington ,prussian army join british during the battle ;but off course it exist better general than Napoléon... Louis Nicolas Davout !
@boss180888 j'avais lu 30000 dans une biographie de Napoleon mais après vérification c'est 12000 je revérifirais dans la biographie, il n'empêche que ça devait être beau à voir ;)
Thats all the france has?..Napoleon?...he would be the greatest if he wasn't defeated....but he was..and destory france itself. There were others who were better...khan,ceasar,cao cao, Patton..etc..Napollean was good..but not the best. Just be honest about history.
@kisstherain73 i actually like patton, but i can name you half a dozen of napoleon's marshalls who were better than him!! who was cao cao lol, and only alexandre the great was without doubt better than napoleon, napoleon being as good as caesar, hannibal or genghis!!!
@kisstherain73 sincerly, for him time, (1800-1815) he was the best strateg, if you study him, you will see that's all of his actio,s is thinking, he was very inteligent, just read a biography, it's will learn you something, you will see, i was like you before ...
@kisstherain73 You don't know much about Napoleon, huh ? His Grande Armée was the greatest war machine since the Roman Legions and before the Wehrmacht.
@kisstherain73 ahaha , funny guy ;) Patton ! lol i like him with his old colt ; the true american myth ,but be honest . its not same history , he is a chief , gengis caesar alexander napoleon was leader ! different , you are jalous ? why send stupid idea like compare different mens in differents age and contexte ! so...
When are we ever going to watch a Napoleon movie, with Napoleon and his generals speaking French rather than English. Its quite strange to hear English accents coming out of Marshal Ney's voice.
@Shadowtagg Well, yanks, english, aussies, Canadians, all anglo saxon english speaking... different shit from the same ass... or the other way around...
@cojoculo2000 just because I am from an primarily English speaking country doesn't mean I am ready to stoop as low as to have a conversation about an "Us and Them" mentality. Go back to youporn and wack off some more dick, nobody wants your racist slurs here!
@townsley2 I was simply trying to add some simple flair to an otherwise dull day I was having forgive me for injecting humour into your sad little lives, I realise now it was a foolish and conceted effort of entertainment.
How could u tell I have a sad live ?! r u so freaking clever ? also, sorry I didn't get the point. Thanks for the entertaining effort mate. Next time I meet my spanish friends I tell them I don't understand chinese, and when I chat with my german buddies I tell them I don't speak russian. They 'll laught out very loud according to ur sense of humour. Beside, did u know only 1/15th of the planet speak english as their native language ? U r undereducated, close minded and not funny !
@townsley2 I was making the point that a very clearly French film, would make no sense had I been studying Japanese rather than French, I did know that the percentage of the human population that speaks english is only minute compared that of other developing nations,but don't particularly care for your sharing of the joke to your international, multilingual friends, and FYI the English speaking population of the world as a percentage is somewhere inbetween 7.235% - 27.77% douche!
lLCLhar091Leclerc: Sorry, I couldn't find you comment with all the scrolling here, but let me explain, I do not mean that a British square should fight against a column or long line of French infantry. Rather, if they are overrun and infiltrated by French troops (and have the time), the square would be a worthwhile formation of defense. Otherwise, it is obviously face to face. Regards!
Wonderful scene from an amazing series! I wish I could have it too. I've never seen any film with so many well-uniformed extras, except maybe ":Waterloo" with the Yugoslav soldiers. The cavalry scenes I have never seen better than this!
Vive l'Empereur. Too bad there has never been a proper good firm About Napoleon... The Charge of The Cuirassiers in Colonel Chabert is better worth watching.
Boney, brilliant motivator of soldiers at all ranks, achieved fanatical loyalty, but he was a bloody self serving butcher.
His 'Waterloo' was always inevitable, as he exposed his citizen army all to often, to excessive risk, destroying the benefits from their veteran experience.
Those survivors would always be aware that he won those battles, and wars, but sold his soldiers lives cheaply, Friedland, Jena, Aspern, Eylau, Peninsular, etc.
Russian infantry didn't have that head dress till 1812, the one they wore at Eylau was similar to the French..... Also, if that was Marshall Murat leading the Cavalry charge, then he did it with a riding crop on the day, not a sword like this actor.
Also... The real Napoleon spoke French with an Italian accent.....
Otherwise, this is really good.
one day... someone will make a movie where solid iron cannon balls don't explode like shells... one day.....
ive seen the series and its great... in my openion one of the greatest shows out there. good acting great directing when it comes to battles. i recommend getting this show. Vive l'Empereur et Vive la France !
@SpainBlood001 It is definitely an excellent, outstanding series! I have collected and painted hundreds of French and Austrian soldiers (and some British, Bavarians, and Russians) of the epoch from the model lines of ITALERI and HAET mainly to commemorate the heroic days of Aspern-Essling and Wagram, but also Austerlitz, Waterloo, etc. I have some Saxons and Prussians to add as well. I already have 1,650 painted and about 800 more to do. Honor to the great heroes and commanders!
@FRAGIORGIO1 awesome.. do you mind if i take a look at your paintings? im often wating to find paintings of heroic battles fought in the days of the Bayonet
@SpainBlood001 I apologize for how I expressed myself. What I have painted is plastic model soldiers of 1:72 scale by the two companies mentioned, ITALERI AND HAT (or HAET, since the "a" has an umlaut or two dots over it). I could see if I could get help to put them onto a package capable of being put on Youtube. I'm not too knowledgeable about those things. It you think you would be interested yourself in modeling, look up the two companies in some toy or model stores.
@SpainBlood001 Take a standard package of, say, hussars, and, changing the painting scheme, turn them into several different regiments. I have books on the Napoleonic wars that show uniforms of different regiments of the different nations that help me make the models look as accurate as my mediocre abilities allow me. I made bases slightly smaller than a calling card for the soldiers by groups of 8 infantrymen and 4 cavalrymen. There''s an excellent group of French staff with Napoleon.
@SpainBlood001 Forgot to say, the French general staff with Napoleon, marshalls, and some Chasseurs de la Garde is by ITALERI. Anybody else interested in Napoleonic modeling can look up the two companies. In addition, ITALERI has a couple of kits at the scale of 1:32, if you want to begin on a larger scale until you get the practice. There isn't much variety at 1:32, however. As I remember, they had French dragoons and Austrian grenadiers, but of very good quality.
@SpainBlood001 For designating a regiment I used three bases of infantry (24) and three bases of cavalry (12). This way I had a number but was also able to designate a good variety of regiments . That's up to you. My grandsons and I had the idea to use them as chessmen. I made a chessboard 39 3/4 inches long (ca, 1 meter) by 29 3/4 inches wide (ca 55 1/2 cms), leaving some margin and making, not squares but rectangles for the playing pieces. I'll describe how we do it. (next)
@SpainBlood001 The King is frequently an emperor (France, Austria, Russia) with staff or guards, although Wellington is the British king piece with staff. The Queen could be the outstanding marshall & generals (four on horse). Castles are artillery groups (cannon and gunners). Bishops are heavy cavalry, and Knights are light cavalry (you have to know which is which to not get confused! ). Obviously, Pawns are infantry of whatever type.
@FRAGIORGIO1 that sounds pretty clever how you designed the chess board now was that a personal project or is under the company for production to the public?
@SpainBlood001 it's a personal project, with some input from two grandsons, particularly the older one who helped with some painting of the troops and horses, and he helped playing chess (and even beating me! --the nerve!). They're here at home in large box tops of filing boxes. But you can do it, or anyone else who reads about it and is interested, and it sounds like many are interested and knowledgeable.
@SpainBlood001 By the way, the 1:72 figures are only about an inch tall (2.5 cms). I strongly advise against taking them out of their frame, since painting with each one in your hand is impossibly difficult. It's easier to move from figure to figure on the frame and paint them all together. Some people may want to make larger groups of soldiers of a certain regiment. My decision was 24 for infantry and 12 for cavalry. Artillery varies according to the kit: one cannon, but gunners 4 to 6.
@FRAGIORGIO1 my respect to you.. it sounds brilliant.. ill have to borrow your idea some day and make myself a chess board like yours of course not as elaborate as yours.. but with the same concept.. chess is a good game to kill time but i always found the pieces rather boring .. after my tour in the army ill have to beggin this project with this idea itll change the way i see the game.. thank you for the information comrade
@SpainBlood001 It has been my pleasure to share with you, and thank you for calling me comrade. I hope that we will be so in spirit even though we will be on separate ways. By the way, you might be able to do something like this in your free time in the army. Maybe it will be a pleasant surprise for your sergeant or captain! Are you Spanish, because on my mother's side I had a great grandfather (Vicente Sanchez) who was a colonel under Maximilian and his parents were Spanish.
@FRAGIORGIO1 just thought of that.. i will need a hobby when stationed .. i am spanish, one day i got interested on finding out about my family before me.. by my mothers side was interesting turns out at some point before the regime changed in spain they were nobles i came to the states when i was young and it became my home.. so i joined the ranks to give back to the republic after its given us so much. my m.o.s is combat arms 19 delta cavalry scout.. i know it sounds strange but
@SpainBlood001 i always wanted to join the french foreign legion .. but to travel so far would be difficult though natural athlete just no resource to get there.. n that woud mean that my studies would hault. little story of mine
@SpainBlood001 u should watch Escape to the legion, starring bear grylls for instance, he says most people join becuase they think its cool and the mystique behind it, then once they're in, they think What the hell have i gotten myself into.
@SneaNordstrom oh no lol id never think that.. ive wanted to be a soldier all my life.. i am one now. im getting ready to go to the war.. i love the military.. although there are incompetent soldiers who dare call themselves officers.. i laugh in the inside.. a good officer is in the front like in the times of nepoleon.. not as far as possible front he battlefield.. to have a chance to join the legion.. what prestige
@stringerboi you nailed it my friend.. i see it everyday.. pathetic officers, if by the good graces of furtune i reach those ranks i wont be like them.. ill take care of my troopers. and lead from the front whenever possible. because if they fall im combat. ill be the one having to tell the family.. and i cant face them knowing i wasent there to do anything about it..
@SpainBlood001 Here in Texas we have Fort Hood where cavalry is stationed. I live about 150 miles south in San Antonio. Todos mis mejores deseos por tu exito en el ejercito, amigo. (I presume you know some Spanish, even though a lot of Hispanics lose it and some never learn any).
@FRAGIORGIO1 gracias ,todavía sé el español, es mi primera lengua.. aunque mi allience sea a este país pero nunca olvidaré las tierras que me dieron vida.. España. le agradézco amigo por las buenas suertes.. que el gran espíritu esta con usted camarada..
vive l'empereur! I wish this movie was available in english some nice scenes. though the cavalry charge is not realistic they would actually start at a walk then go toward trot and in the end gallop to make contact ,if they started at a gallop they would have blown their horses before they engaged. Nice movie though.
Depends on how far you have to charge. If it's close you don't have time to start at a trot to gain the momentum you need. Horses can run at full speed for longer then you think.
@PernatyZmey Unfortunately, it wasn't Napoleon who got what "he" deserved. It was the hundreds of thousands of brave soldiers who died --on both sides.
@TheVanya1900 How the Russians were humiliated in the Polish campaign and were forced to sign the Treaty of Tilsit and become allies with Napoleon. How did they win strategically. And don't Russians refer to Russia as the Motherland, because I thought that only Germans and German states call their country masculine.
@TheVanya1900 acutally bratha u guys lost the war in general. u guys retreated deep into your motherland. not facing the enemy is refusing to fight.. refusing to fight is actions by cowards... IF you cannot defeat the enemy than you should surrender. every great leader knows when he is defeated. in those days when you take the Capital of the opposing country the war is over my friend. No excuses. DONT get me wrong i have nothing against russians just saying how history is.
@SpainBlood001 No! Retreat to fight another and perhaps more productive day is what you do! Wow! That's how Washington waged it and how Kutusov and other great leaders did it. Even Napoleon after his Aspern-Essling defeat at the hands of Archduke Karl and the Austrian Imperials intelligently retreated, waited for more troops and came back to fight and win (a tough win) at Wagram.
@FRAGIORGIO1 washington.. lol look washinton was an idiot.. horrible general.. i get your point.. retreating is a stradegy but when you keep doing it.. you loose face.. n wars are watched by the world.. not just fought by sides.. sooo what im trying to say is your country looses prestige when you show your back.. like the romans said.. "people should know when there counuered" when people refuse to surrender it triggers crims against humanity to happen...
@SpainBlood001 You say "when people refuse to surrender it triggers crimes against humanity", and in part you're right. Alexander once told the people of a city, "If you refuse to surrender, and I conquer your city, I wil kill you all". The others retorted (unwisely probably) " IF!" He won; they died. But think of Waterloo when La Garde was invited to surrender by the British, they are supposed to have answered. "Merde!" (Shit!) Great response of a great group, but they died, sadly.
@FRAGIORGIO1 your right.. but this is during a battle.. some units will fight to the last.. but that cannot be helpd.. when the whole army is a stake its sometimes better to give up the sword than to watch your countrymen die just because a few in power were being stubborn. i guess what im trying to say is.. its better to die with glory n with a sense that you did whats right than to be slain with no gain.
@SpainBlood001 The Russians retreated ...and won! George Washington won a few battles, but mostly retreated....and won, --( with good help from French soldiers and sailors). You don't surrender because your capital is lost! That's foolishness, abstraction. You might surrender when you are surrounded by superior forces without hope of reinforcements and without munitions. But consider the incredible British victory at Rorkes-drift (of course that was a batlle, not a war).
@SpainBlood001 Napoleon's "victory" cost over 500,00 French dead) and no land. Napoleon took Vienna in May of 1809, but afterwards, he got beaten at Aspern-Essling. He barely won at Wagram with 60,000 men more than Archduke Karl of Habsburg. If Archduke Johann had arrived with his 25,000 on that Austrian left flank, how would Wagram have gone, even with Vienna in hand? Retreat to fight at a more opportune time and circumstances is a standard of military strategy.
@FRAGIORGIO1 true.. but that was hes downfall..he was a brilliant commander but he never could accept defeat.. or wouldnt you agree? . a truely great commander knows when its hopeless to win the battle or the war. now dont get me wrong if its a resistance your waging than your trying to push the invader out.. but even that id be careful to do.. because if im the ivader facing insurrections the best way to deal with it .. its taking the freedom fighters famlies a cruel tactic but saving your army
@TheVanya1900 Not this time, Vanya, but in 1812 that was true. When the Russians defend their heartland they will fight to the death and have done so most heroically many a time.
the Russians were still the great and ferocious Russians back then now they are reduced to nothing poor Russians for some reason nobody mentions them or praises them something they must be praised for, for their deeds in the Napoleonic wars.
@nounever, I agree, Russia does not get enough credit for weakening napoleon's power after defeating the French invasion of 1812. Had napoleon being succesful defeating Russia, his army could have in much better shape faciong off against Wellington & the other Aliied comanders later. .
@nounever The Russian people have been very heroic, suffering terribly to defend their homeland. We ought to honor them. Who has suffered more and been more heroic?
Hmmm....Russian infantry clearly needed the Duke of Wellington to form the infantry into unbreakable squares. Its how the British usually beat the French.
If a unit of french infantry hit an English square, french will completley detroy them, better, they could just wait and see the artillery do they're job ! Nothing worse than a non moving infantry force against artillery !
@ Char091Leclerc - you'r right! French cavalry usually swept all before it.
You are also right about the French tactic - form the cavalry & trick the British into forming the infantry into nice square artillery targets! Very unsporting (typical sneaky French).
The British 'thin line' versus the French 'column' was superior in terms of firepower - e.g. Picton's Guards at Waterloo. I think the Sudanese were the only army that managed to break a British square in hand-to-hand combat.
most squares are difficult to break unless the attackers were VERY well coordinated. however the 6th light infantry had their's broken when a fallen horse from the king's german legion crashed into the front and the rest charged through. this was at garcia hernanez. of course lancers were also deadly against a square!
@Char091Leclerc The square was particularly used against cavalry, although it was an excellent defensive position against infantry as well. Artillery is another question, of course, and no commander should be so foolish as to form a square against artillery!
Put let's say 200 dudes in a square formation, that's generaly 50 dudes aiming all in the same direction.
Now take 200 other guys, line formation, taking the square formation head on. One single line of fire agant 1/4 of one I think the victorious army is esay de guess. I don't agree when you say it is excellent against infantry, it actually sucks I believe ! It is excellent againt cavalry non the less.
squares are not just a british invention, it was part of the standard military tactics of the day- everyone used it. just depended on how steady the infantry was and if there was any enemy guns nearby. most of the brits at waterloo were behind a ridge, out of shot of the french canon, but the 27th weren't... and got slaughtered
@garythegit - I agree squares were used by all armies - in fact I onces read of the 'Whitecoats' at Marston Moor in 1643 formed a square against the Parliamentarians and refyused to surrender and were shot to pieces by roundhead artillary. maybe they were used even earlier?
I suppose as a formation against cavalry, the circular sheltron of the 12th - 13th century might be considered to be an ancestor... the idea was the same, but differed from pike walls in that it was on all sides. the scots used it to great effect at falkirk and bannockburn
@ragbones111 A line if more effective then a square when the calvery are charging from the front. More guns and baynoetts are brought to bare against the attack. By forming squares, your just asking for the enemy artillry to blast you to nothing. And if you know your Waterloo, Ney's calvery charge against the British squares ended in a draw, as he was able to bring up horse artillry to literaly destroy those sqares.
Très bon montage des deux parties du téléfilm de Simoneau, je regrette juste que l'on ne donne pas plus d'importance au maréchal Davout qui a supporté toute la bataille jusqu'à l'arrivée de Ney, le principal effort des attaques Russes. Je précise aussi que contrairement à ce qui est dit, Eylau n'est pas le premier engagement de la Garde dans une bataille Napoléonienne, elle avait déjà donnée à Austerlitz, contre la garde impériale Russe et en soutien de Davout à Telniz.
It is a four DVD serie, one DVD per part. It is French made by Yves Simoneau, I believe you might be able to find it in English version on Ebay or something like this!
If you find it, buy it, it is great!!
Les régiments de cuirassiers, impressionant n'est-ce-pas ! Et les grenadiers de la vieille garde! Ah lalalala, leur courage est epoustouflant!
@Char091Leclerc Napoleon was a great military genius (only Alexander on his par), with outstanding commanders, and his superb Grajde Armee. This series is excellent!
@Supduplemup it was simultaniously produced in english and french, so if you take it very serious it´s not the same movie cuz every scene was shot twice.
@Draksen- je postes en anglaise (because I am American!!!) Tu comprendez?Non?Zut!!
kisstherain73 2 days ago
"kiss mon cul" - tu postes en francais ou tu postes pas. On en a plein le cul des rosbifs aigris de ton genre. Dégage! Et vive l'Empereur!
Draksen 1 week ago
@boss..i know its hard for you to understand this, but Napoleon was taught at west point and so were all of the great military thinkers of the past. Try reading the book,' The art of war' written in the 14th century. Name 1 general that Napoleon defeated that was note worthy? example Grant vs Lee? Patton vs Rommel? Most historians spoke of Wellington vs Napoleon but wait..Wellington won? Wellington was a simple general and napoleon was an emperor? Sit!! little boy!!
kisstherain73 2 weeks ago
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boss180888 1 week ago
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@kisstherain73 you seriouslly need to read a history book before you talk, KUTUSOV wasn't a great general? beningsen? blucher? archeduke charles of austria? WHO is wellington? of all the genreals i listed wellington is the most unknown at the time, only latter propaganda made wellington famous, nobody reckoned him back then!!!
you are clearly a product of hollywood and biased pop culture, you have no idea of the napoleonic era but you still think you know it all, typical anglo-saxon...
boss180888 1 week ago
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Oh France ! Relèves toi des tes cendres !!!! Reprends la dignité, la puissance et le respect qui est la tienne !!!
Appel au derniers Français de France ! Votez FN !!!!
Vive la France !
tiairisper 3 weeks ago
empty non purposes wars!!result,millions of people died.damn emperialists!fascists!communists!!!
gulammemluk 4 weeks ago
Patton was gay? lol...stupid frenchies...go back and eat your fish head soup 'pepe le pew'. Napoleon in the end...lost his country, his marriage, thone and hundreds of thousands of french troops. France was CONQUER...like soOo many times in its history. But on the lighter note. This movie is excellent!!..I saw it before.
kisstherain73 4 weeks ago
@kisstherain73
Napoleon declared the war for the first time in 1808!
While he began his career in approximately 1796!
tiairisper 3 weeks ago
And who exactly did he declare war on? Britain's ally Portugal?
NapoleonCalland 1 week ago
@kisstherain73 do you know what topic patton and einsenhower chose to debate in their friendly meetings? you guessed it, NAPOLEON! so did every german,russian or american general mainly learn about in their military academy. not thrashing america or patton, just stating a fact, that is you're ignorant, and a loud mouthed one!!
boss180888 2 weeks ago
@kisstherain73
i would like to see you fighting all the major superpowers of the world at the same time and manage to achieve as much succes as napoleon had
montrastic 5 days ago
Of which DVD is this from; I'd love to have a copy.
19XWyomingGrizFan 1 month ago
It's not about how good he was, it's how good he ended, and he ended badly.
GUnitSeanAKAmong 1 month ago
You may think i am funny,but guess what?! Napoleon still lost battles. How many battles did ceasar lost? Alexander? Even better!!,,how about little old Wellington? And maybe you guys need to read a little more..Napoleon didn't just only use french troops to win his victories. The french revolution brought a damn dictator in the end. How ironic is that crap?!! And regarding Patton? He and his 2 ivory handle colt!!help saved your ' France' sorry ass in WW2. Read some history.
kisstherain73 1 month ago
@kisstherain73 Patton was gay
TheJEANFB 4 weeks ago 3
i never said he wasn't a good general....in his time? indeed he was was, but over all of history? I see others who were better. Don't get your panties all twisted. My minor is history. I have read many books regarding him. comprend ? oui? I am not stuck on one person in history. remember he was defeat by Wellington and was out smarted by the Russians. Rather you like it or not, these are the facts.
kisstherain73 1 month ago
@kisstherain73 not exaclty for wellington ,prussian army join british during the battle ;but off course it exist better general than Napoléon... Louis Nicolas Davout !
Djarzel 1 month ago
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The French were idiots they wasted money on European warfare and sold Louisiana and lost their Haitian slave colony...
Now France is isolated and no one really cares anymore...
Tokyo64Shinobi 1 month ago
VIVE L'EMPEREUR ET VIVE LA PATRIE
CHASSEUR74700 3 months ago
il faut s'imaginer 30000 cavaliers à la charge ...
malusaga 3 months ago
@malusaga 12000 20000 30000 combien alors vraiement? :(
boss180888 2 months ago
@boss180888 j'avais lu 30000 dans une biographie de Napoleon mais après vérification c'est 12000 je revérifirais dans la biographie, il n'empêche que ça devait être beau à voir ;)
malusaga 2 months ago
@malusaga merci, j'ai lu autant de nombres que je n'étais sure de rien.
boss180888 2 months ago
Thats all the france has?..Napoleon?...he would be the greatest if he wasn't defeated....but he was..and destory france itself. There were others who were better...khan,ceasar,cao cao, Patton..etc..Napollean was good..but not the best. Just be honest about history.
kisstherain73 3 months ago
@kisstherain73
You are funny with your clownish comment , Patton better than Napoleon lol . Napoleon won dozens of battles against the whole Europe .
"Thats all the France has" France are at war since 1500 years and has had some of the greatest warlords of the world .Learn history .
jeffkodiac 3 months ago
@kisstherain73 i actually like patton, but i can name you half a dozen of napoleon's marshalls who were better than him!! who was cao cao lol, and only alexandre the great was without doubt better than napoleon, napoleon being as good as caesar, hannibal or genghis!!!
boss180888 2 months ago
@kisstherain73 sincerly, for him time, (1800-1815) he was the best strateg, if you study him, you will see that's all of his actio,s is thinking, he was very inteligent, just read a biography, it's will learn you something, you will see, i was like you before ...
malusaga 2 months ago
@kisstherain73 You don't know much about Napoleon, huh ? His Grande Armée was the greatest war machine since the Roman Legions and before the Wehrmacht.
MaxRWF 2 months ago
@kisstherain73 ahaha , funny guy ;) Patton ! lol i like him with his old colt ; the true american myth ,but be honest . its not same history , he is a chief , gengis caesar alexander napoleon was leader ! different , you are jalous ? why send stupid idea like compare different mens in differents age and contexte ! so...
Djarzel 1 month ago
Murat etait le plus formidable chef de cavalerie de cette époque!!!
boss180888 3 months ago
When are we ever going to watch a Napoleon movie, with Napoleon and his generals speaking French rather than English. Its quite strange to hear English accents coming out of Marshal Ney's voice.
ConstantineJoseph 3 months ago
To the whole world : Take a look ! Napoleon is the greatest War Chief ever born !
HAIL TO THE FRANCE !
- A French soldier -
Inexplicabledeath 3 months ago 13
La Garde meurt mais ne se rend pas ! Vive l'Empereur, vive la France !
Yann022 4 months ago
La garde ne se bat qu'à la baïonette !!!
airsoftSCR 4 months ago
how would u pronounce Eylau
bprins20 6 months ago
@bprins20
Ah / ee / La / oo
Kalnaf 4 months ago
Why are the Grognards in parade uniform? They should be in blue trousers and blue greatcoat.
Lavard14 6 months ago
@9911aleksey Cheers dude downloaded it. Many thanks
rfmgunner 7 months ago
What is this scene from, a movie, documentry, series? can someone let me know. Many thanks
rfmgunner 7 months ago
super video
mattguellec 7 months ago
@Shadowtagg
LMAO at all the morons you pissed off with your "my Japanese is terrible" post. Sad how many people are too stupid to figure out you were joking.
brainshannon 7 months ago
what movie?
emperorfrance 8 months ago
VIVE LA FRANCE
dujardin18 9 months ago 18
I remember watching this on TV once here in the States.
Saberlena 9 months ago
0:38 holy hell its the Empire of the risen sun.
timothydavey1 10 months ago
There's no way I'll understand this my Japanese is terrible!
Shadowtagg 11 months ago
@Shadowtagg Dumbass, it is in French, and it was not made for dumb yanks...
cojoculo2000 10 months ago
@cojoculo2000 I realise that but sarcasm really is wasted on wankers who think all westerners are yanks. I is Aussie fool.
Shadowtagg 10 months ago
@Shadowtagg Well, yanks, english, aussies, Canadians, all anglo saxon english speaking... different shit from the same ass... or the other way around...
cojoculo2000 9 months ago
@cojoculo2000 just because I am from an primarily English speaking country doesn't mean I am ready to stoop as low as to have a conversation about an "Us and Them" mentality. Go back to youporn and wack off some more dick, nobody wants your racist slurs here!
Shadowtagg 9 months ago
@Shadowtagg
Did u quit school when u were 10 ??
townsley2 10 months ago
@townsley2 I was simply trying to add some simple flair to an otherwise dull day I was having forgive me for injecting humour into your sad little lives, I realise now it was a foolish and conceted effort of entertainment.
Good day sir
Shadowtagg 10 months ago
@Shadowtagg
How could u tell I have a sad live ?! r u so freaking clever ? also, sorry I didn't get the point. Thanks for the entertaining effort mate. Next time I meet my spanish friends I tell them I don't understand chinese, and when I chat with my german buddies I tell them I don't speak russian. They 'll laught out very loud according to ur sense of humour. Beside, did u know only 1/15th of the planet speak english as their native language ? U r undereducated, close minded and not funny !
townsley2 10 months ago
@townsley2 I was making the point that a very clearly French film, would make no sense had I been studying Japanese rather than French, I did know that the percentage of the human population that speaks english is only minute compared that of other developing nations,but don't particularly care for your sharing of the joke to your international, multilingual friends, and FYI the English speaking population of the world as a percentage is somewhere inbetween 7.235% - 27.77% douche!
Shadowtagg 9 months ago
What movie was this from?
armynurseboy 11 months ago
@armynurseboy Il s'agit d'un extrait du film "Napoleon" avec Christian Clavier
arsyesis 11 months ago
Enorme!
Soult57180 11 months ago
what movie is this scene from?
IGOTDOWNS 1 year ago
@IGOTDOWNS it's an extract of a french TV series. the name of the serie is "napoleon" an the actor is christian clavier
FSboarder 10 months ago
03:15 : La volée de mousquets Russe a-t-elle eu si peu d'effets sur les cuirassiers? Ça m'étonne.
Briselance 1 year ago
@Briselance En tirant sur leur cuirrase, les russes ne leur font aucun dégats, il faut viser leur parties où il ne possède pas d'armure.
Soult57180 11 months ago
Quelle honte d'avoir pris ce type Clavier pour jouer le rôle de l'Empereur.
bo2web 1 year ago
Chargez! That really puts you in the saddle and behind the musket of the battle.
kendoka0girl 1 year ago
at 35 seconds in the prussian flag is the japenese flag. Epic fail.
TheShart1234 1 year ago
La Garde Imperiale, the most elite and brave army regiment of its time.
TheMchuquillanqui 1 year ago
отстой
andrey9446 1 year ago
lLCLhar091Leclerc: Sorry, I couldn't find you comment with all the scrolling here, but let me explain, I do not mean that a British square should fight against a column or long line of French infantry. Rather, if they are overrun and infiltrated by French troops (and have the time), the square would be a worthwhile formation of defense. Otherwise, it is obviously face to face. Regards!
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
im enjoying having these great debates. it goes to show you that no matter where you come from people are brilliant in there own right
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
Wonderful scene from an amazing series! I wish I could have it too. I've never seen any film with so many well-uniformed extras, except maybe ":Waterloo" with the Yugoslav soldiers. The cavalry scenes I have never seen better than this!
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
what is this movies name
MrImpact45 1 year ago
Vive l'Empereur. Too bad there has never been a proper good firm About Napoleon... The Charge of The Cuirassiers in Colonel Chabert is better worth watching.
greghm 1 year ago
I love Napoleon. He brought France the glory it deserved. for a while...
corporateCoffee 1 year ago
omelette du fromage
firstjedi 1 year ago
Boney, brilliant motivator of soldiers at all ranks, achieved fanatical loyalty, but he was a bloody self serving butcher.
His 'Waterloo' was always inevitable, as he exposed his citizen army all to often, to excessive risk, destroying the benefits from their veteran experience.
Those survivors would always be aware that he won those battles, and wars, but sold his soldiers lives cheaply, Friedland, Jena, Aspern, Eylau, Peninsular, etc.
Sown his and their own destruction. S
SALTYWOOFHOUND 1 year ago
I don't speak French, but even a French version with English sub titles would be fine? Anyone know whether the DVD has English sub titles?
antred11 1 year ago
Russian infantry didn't have that head dress till 1812, the one they wore at Eylau was similar to the French..... Also, if that was Marshall Murat leading the Cavalry charge, then he did it with a riding crop on the day, not a sword like this actor.
Also... The real Napoleon spoke French with an Italian accent.....
Otherwise, this is really good.
one day... someone will make a movie where solid iron cannon balls don't explode like shells... one day.....
tplamont 1 year ago
ive seen the series and its great... in my openion one of the greatest shows out there. good acting great directing when it comes to battles. i recommend getting this show. Vive l'Empereur et Vive la France !
SpainBlood001 1 year ago 7
@SpainBlood001 It is definitely an excellent, outstanding series! I have collected and painted hundreds of French and Austrian soldiers (and some British, Bavarians, and Russians) of the epoch from the model lines of ITALERI and HAET mainly to commemorate the heroic days of Aspern-Essling and Wagram, but also Austerlitz, Waterloo, etc. I have some Saxons and Prussians to add as well. I already have 1,650 painted and about 800 more to do. Honor to the great heroes and commanders!
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 awesome.. do you mind if i take a look at your paintings? im often wating to find paintings of heroic battles fought in the days of the Bayonet
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 I apologize for how I expressed myself. What I have painted is plastic model soldiers of 1:72 scale by the two companies mentioned, ITALERI AND HAT (or HAET, since the "a" has an umlaut or two dots over it). I could see if I could get help to put them onto a package capable of being put on Youtube. I'm not too knowledgeable about those things. It you think you would be interested yourself in modeling, look up the two companies in some toy or model stores.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 Take a standard package of, say, hussars, and, changing the painting scheme, turn them into several different regiments. I have books on the Napoleonic wars that show uniforms of different regiments of the different nations that help me make the models look as accurate as my mediocre abilities allow me. I made bases slightly smaller than a calling card for the soldiers by groups of 8 infantrymen and 4 cavalrymen. There''s an excellent group of French staff with Napoleon.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 Forgot to say, the French general staff with Napoleon, marshalls, and some Chasseurs de la Garde is by ITALERI. Anybody else interested in Napoleonic modeling can look up the two companies. In addition, ITALERI has a couple of kits at the scale of 1:32, if you want to begin on a larger scale until you get the practice. There isn't much variety at 1:32, however. As I remember, they had French dragoons and Austrian grenadiers, but of very good quality.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 For designating a regiment I used three bases of infantry (24) and three bases of cavalry (12). This way I had a number but was also able to designate a good variety of regiments . That's up to you. My grandsons and I had the idea to use them as chessmen. I made a chessboard 39 3/4 inches long (ca, 1 meter) by 29 3/4 inches wide (ca 55 1/2 cms), leaving some margin and making, not squares but rectangles for the playing pieces. I'll describe how we do it. (next)
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 The King is frequently an emperor (France, Austria, Russia) with staff or guards, although Wellington is the British king piece with staff. The Queen could be the outstanding marshall & generals (four on horse). Castles are artillery groups (cannon and gunners). Bishops are heavy cavalry, and Knights are light cavalry (you have to know which is which to not get confused! ). Obviously, Pawns are infantry of whatever type.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 that sounds pretty clever how you designed the chess board now was that a personal project or is under the company for production to the public?
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 it's a personal project, with some input from two grandsons, particularly the older one who helped with some painting of the troops and horses, and he helped playing chess (and even beating me! --the nerve!). They're here at home in large box tops of filing boxes. But you can do it, or anyone else who reads about it and is interested, and it sounds like many are interested and knowledgeable.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 By the way, the 1:72 figures are only about an inch tall (2.5 cms). I strongly advise against taking them out of their frame, since painting with each one in your hand is impossibly difficult. It's easier to move from figure to figure on the frame and paint them all together. Some people may want to make larger groups of soldiers of a certain regiment. My decision was 24 for infantry and 12 for cavalry. Artillery varies according to the kit: one cannon, but gunners 4 to 6.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 my respect to you.. it sounds brilliant.. ill have to borrow your idea some day and make myself a chess board like yours of course not as elaborate as yours.. but with the same concept.. chess is a good game to kill time but i always found the pieces rather boring .. after my tour in the army ill have to beggin this project with this idea itll change the way i see the game.. thank you for the information comrade
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 It has been my pleasure to share with you, and thank you for calling me comrade. I hope that we will be so in spirit even though we will be on separate ways. By the way, you might be able to do something like this in your free time in the army. Maybe it will be a pleasant surprise for your sergeant or captain! Are you Spanish, because on my mother's side I had a great grandfather (Vicente Sanchez) who was a colonel under Maximilian and his parents were Spanish.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 just thought of that.. i will need a hobby when stationed .. i am spanish, one day i got interested on finding out about my family before me.. by my mothers side was interesting turns out at some point before the regime changed in spain they were nobles i came to the states when i was young and it became my home.. so i joined the ranks to give back to the republic after its given us so much. my m.o.s is combat arms 19 delta cavalry scout.. i know it sounds strange but
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 i always wanted to join the french foreign legion .. but to travel so far would be difficult though natural athlete just no resource to get there.. n that woud mean that my studies would hault. little story of mine
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 u should watch Escape to the legion, starring bear grylls for instance, he says most people join becuase they think its cool and the mystique behind it, then once they're in, they think What the hell have i gotten myself into.
SneaNordstrom 1 year ago
@SneaNordstrom oh no lol id never think that.. ive wanted to be a soldier all my life.. i am one now. im getting ready to go to the war.. i love the military.. although there are incompetent soldiers who dare call themselves officers.. i laugh in the inside.. a good officer is in the front like in the times of nepoleon.. not as far as possible front he battlefield.. to have a chance to join the legion.. what prestige
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 I hear you dude. Unfortunately those days are long gone, great leaders and emperors replaced by democratically PC officers
stringerboi 10 months ago
@stringerboi you nailed it my friend.. i see it everyday.. pathetic officers, if by the good graces of furtune i reach those ranks i wont be like them.. ill take care of my troopers. and lead from the front whenever possible. because if they fall im combat. ill be the one having to tell the family.. and i cant face them knowing i wasent there to do anything about it..
SpainBlood001 10 months ago
@SpainBlood001 Here in Texas we have Fort Hood where cavalry is stationed. I live about 150 miles south in San Antonio. Todos mis mejores deseos por tu exito en el ejercito, amigo. (I presume you know some Spanish, even though a lot of Hispanics lose it and some never learn any).
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 gracias ,todavía sé el español, es mi primera lengua.. aunque mi allience sea a este país pero nunca olvidaré las tierras que me dieron vida.. España. le agradézco amigo por las buenas suertes.. que el gran espíritu esta con usted camarada..
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 By the way, any modeling would be after basic training, which is pretty intense.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
vive l'empereur! I wish this movie was available in english some nice scenes. though the cavalry charge is not realistic they would actually start at a walk then go toward trot and in the end gallop to make contact ,if they started at a gallop they would have blown their horses before they engaged. Nice movie though.
gollum740 1 year ago
@gollum740
Depends on how far you have to charge. If it's close you don't have time to start at a trot to gain the momentum you need. Horses can run at full speed for longer then you think.
refuckulate420 1 year ago
Napoleon was a bloody butcher. He got what he deserved during his campaign in Russia.
PernatyZmey 1 year ago
@PernatyZmey Unfortunately, it wasn't Napoleon who got what "he" deserved. It was the hundreds of thousands of brave soldiers who died --on both sides.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
People was dying and nobility was laughing
essai75 1 year ago
"Charge à la bayonette!" J'adore ce film!!!!!
TheArtofWar1789 1 year ago
lol Only every 10th Russian has got 1 bulllet xD
GameAudiosInc 1 year ago
Is this film "NAPOLEON"?
TheVanya1900 1 year ago
We, russians, lost this battle tactically, but won strategically! For Faith, Tzar and Fatherland!
TheVanya1900 1 year ago
@TheVanya1900 How the Russians were humiliated in the Polish campaign and were forced to sign the Treaty of Tilsit and become allies with Napoleon. How did they win strategically. And don't Russians refer to Russia as the Motherland, because I thought that only Germans and German states call their country masculine.
austinoltj 1 year ago
@TheVanya1900 acutally bratha u guys lost the war in general. u guys retreated deep into your motherland. not facing the enemy is refusing to fight.. refusing to fight is actions by cowards... IF you cannot defeat the enemy than you should surrender. every great leader knows when he is defeated. in those days when you take the Capital of the opposing country the war is over my friend. No excuses. DONT get me wrong i have nothing against russians just saying how history is.
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 No! Retreat to fight another and perhaps more productive day is what you do! Wow! That's how Washington waged it and how Kutusov and other great leaders did it. Even Napoleon after his Aspern-Essling defeat at the hands of Archduke Karl and the Austrian Imperials intelligently retreated, waited for more troops and came back to fight and win (a tough win) at Wagram.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 washington.. lol look washinton was an idiot.. horrible general.. i get your point.. retreating is a stradegy but when you keep doing it.. you loose face.. n wars are watched by the world.. not just fought by sides.. sooo what im trying to say is your country looses prestige when you show your back.. like the romans said.. "people should know when there counuered" when people refuse to surrender it triggers crims against humanity to happen...
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 You say "when people refuse to surrender it triggers crimes against humanity", and in part you're right. Alexander once told the people of a city, "If you refuse to surrender, and I conquer your city, I wil kill you all". The others retorted (unwisely probably) " IF!" He won; they died. But think of Waterloo when La Garde was invited to surrender by the British, they are supposed to have answered. "Merde!" (Shit!) Great response of a great group, but they died, sadly.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 your right.. but this is during a battle.. some units will fight to the last.. but that cannot be helpd.. when the whole army is a stake its sometimes better to give up the sword than to watch your countrymen die just because a few in power were being stubborn. i guess what im trying to say is.. its better to die with glory n with a sense that you did whats right than to be slain with no gain.
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 The Russians retreated ...and won! George Washington won a few battles, but mostly retreated....and won, --( with good help from French soldiers and sailors). You don't surrender because your capital is lost! That's foolishness, abstraction. You might surrender when you are surrounded by superior forces without hope of reinforcements and without munitions. But consider the incredible British victory at Rorkes-drift (of course that was a batlle, not a war).
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@SpainBlood001 Napoleon's "victory" cost over 500,00 French dead) and no land. Napoleon took Vienna in May of 1809, but afterwards, he got beaten at Aspern-Essling. He barely won at Wagram with 60,000 men more than Archduke Karl of Habsburg. If Archduke Johann had arrived with his 25,000 on that Austrian left flank, how would Wagram have gone, even with Vienna in hand? Retreat to fight at a more opportune time and circumstances is a standard of military strategy.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 true.. but that was hes downfall..he was a brilliant commander but he never could accept defeat.. or wouldnt you agree? . a truely great commander knows when its hopeless to win the battle or the war. now dont get me wrong if its a resistance your waging than your trying to push the invader out.. but even that id be careful to do.. because if im the ivader facing insurrections the best way to deal with it .. its taking the freedom fighters famlies a cruel tactic but saving your army
SpainBlood001 1 year ago
@TheVanya1900 Not this time, Vanya, but in 1812 that was true. When the Russians defend their heartland they will fight to the death and have done so most heroically many a time.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
What the film???
TheVanya1900 1 year ago
Many Thank Yous Mon Ami!!!!!
gobearcubies 1 year ago
The brave men of those heroic times. Now all we get is Political Correctness, Gay-rights and Feminism.
LeMousqueteerBleu 1 year ago
est-ce que cela va suffire?
- non mais il n'empêche que c'est magnifique...
mrlegion21 1 year ago
Brave Maréchal Ney! il faut dire que j'ai eu l'honneur d'habiter la rue qui porte son nom!!!
spikwizflo 1 year ago
copy that mate. thanks.
Rico8458 1 year ago
MESSIEURS, L'EMPEREUR NOUS REGARDE
suuntzu 1 year ago
french only
Rico8458 1 year ago
@Rico8458no way. saw it in german. the series was shown all through europe in dubbed versions.
tresckow 1 year ago
the Russians were still the great and ferocious Russians back then now they are reduced to nothing poor Russians for some reason nobody mentions them or praises them something they must be praised for, for their deeds in the Napoleonic wars.
nounever 1 year ago
@nounever, I agree, Russia does not get enough credit for weakening napoleon's power after defeating the French invasion of 1812. Had napoleon being succesful defeating Russia, his army could have in much better shape faciong off against Wellington & the other Aliied comanders later. .
Wolfen443 1 year ago
@nounever The Russian people have been very heroic, suffering terribly to defend their homeland. We ought to honor them. Who has suffered more and been more heroic?
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
ckoi le nomde ce flim?
simonyoran 1 year ago
Any Napoleon Total War players here?
BVargas78 1 year ago
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-"There have been 53 major wars in Europe
France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43.
In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10.
Giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe".
BBC History
gipcambero 1 year ago
this looks a really good series
BVargas78 2 years ago
Hmmm....Russian infantry clearly needed the Duke of Wellington to form the infantry into unbreakable squares. Its how the British usually beat the French.
ragbones111 2 years ago
@ragbones111
Only unbreakable for cavalry !
If a unit of french infantry hit an English square, french will completley detroy them, better, they could just wait and see the artillery do they're job ! Nothing worse than a non moving infantry force against artillery !
Char091Leclerc 2 years ago 2
@ Char091Leclerc - you'r right! French cavalry usually swept all before it.
You are also right about the French tactic - form the cavalry & trick the British into forming the infantry into nice square artillery targets! Very unsporting (typical sneaky French).
The British 'thin line' versus the French 'column' was superior in terms of firepower - e.g. Picton's Guards at Waterloo. I think the Sudanese were the only army that managed to break a British square in hand-to-hand combat.
ragbones111 2 years ago
@ragbones111
Exactly !
Actually, Napoleonic Columns were something like, 20 men in front, and a column of 40 behind each one of them, that makes 800 men per column.
Only the two first lines of men could shoot, that's about 80 bullets.
At Napoleon's time, at 100 meters away, a bullter had 1 chance on 30 to hit. On 80 bullets shot, that doesn't make a lot !
The British could multiply there chances with a long line, so British couldn't really lose ! But still, it's less glorious ^^
Char091Leclerc 2 years ago
most squares are difficult to break unless the attackers were VERY well coordinated. however the 6th light infantry had their's broken when a fallen horse from the king's german legion crashed into the front and the rest charged through. this was at garcia hernanez. of course lancers were also deadly against a square!
garythegit 2 years ago
@Char091Leclerc The square was particularly used against cavalry, although it was an excellent defensive position against infantry as well. Artillery is another question, of course, and no commander should be so foolish as to form a square against artillery!
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@FRAGIORGIO1
Put let's say 200 dudes in a square formation, that's generaly 50 dudes aiming all in the same direction.
Now take 200 other guys, line formation, taking the square formation head on. One single line of fire agant 1/4 of one I think the victorious army is esay de guess. I don't agree when you say it is excellent against infantry, it actually sucks I believe ! It is excellent againt cavalry non the less.
Char091Leclerc 1 year ago
squares are not just a british invention, it was part of the standard military tactics of the day- everyone used it. just depended on how steady the infantry was and if there was any enemy guns nearby. most of the brits at waterloo were behind a ridge, out of shot of the french canon, but the 27th weren't... and got slaughtered
garythegit 2 years ago
@garythegit - I agree squares were used by all armies - in fact I onces read of the 'Whitecoats' at Marston Moor in 1643 formed a square against the Parliamentarians and refyused to surrender and were shot to pieces by roundhead artillary. maybe they were used even earlier?
ragbones111 2 years ago
@ragbones111
I suppose as a formation against cavalry, the circular sheltron of the 12th - 13th century might be considered to be an ancestor... the idea was the same, but differed from pike walls in that it was on all sides. the scots used it to great effect at falkirk and bannockburn
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ltflak 1 year ago
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@ragbones111 A line if more effective then a square when the calvery are charging from the front. More guns and baynoetts are brought to bare against the attack. By forming squares, your just asking for the enemy artillry to blast you to nothing. And if you know your Waterloo, Ney's calvery charge against the British squares ended in a draw, as he was able to bring up horse artillry to literaly destroy those sqares.
ltflak 1 year ago
"Grenadiers, l'arme au bras ! La vieille garde ne se bat qu'à la baïonnette." general Dorsenne so cool
etwisabeta 2 years ago
Is this a series? Whats it called, and where can I buy it
oneAlameda 2 years ago
Très bon montage des deux parties du téléfilm de Simoneau, je regrette juste que l'on ne donne pas plus d'importance au maréchal Davout qui a supporté toute la bataille jusqu'à l'arrivée de Ney, le principal effort des attaques Russes. Je précise aussi que contrairement à ce qui est dit, Eylau n'est pas le premier engagement de la Garde dans une bataille Napoléonienne, elle avait déjà donnée à Austerlitz, contre la garde impériale Russe et en soutien de Davout à Telniz.
MOUSQUETAIRE1661 2 years ago
That sounds like a good motto: Je n'ai pas encore perdu. I haven't lost yet.
wallace2k 2 years ago
Да хуйня там показана. Их первые редуты французские, встречали из русских пушек картечью. почти в упор.
bombimbom5 2 years ago
Vive l'Empereur et Vive la France !
J'adore ce film :)
Killerjsa 2 years ago 20
It is a four DVD serie, one DVD per part. It is French made by Yves Simoneau, I believe you might be able to find it in English version on Ebay or something like this!
If you find it, buy it, it is great!!
Les régiments de cuirassiers, impressionant n'est-ce-pas ! Et les grenadiers de la vieille garde! Ah lalalala, leur courage est epoustouflant!
Vive l'Empereur !
Char091Leclerc 2 years ago 9
Vive!
Ardashir999 2 years ago
@Char091Leclerc what's the name of the series? Is it pretty historically accurate?
soccerguy2433 1 year ago
@Char091Leclerc Sorry for misspelling your name in my previous comment --typo and carelessness.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
@Char091Leclerc Napoleon was a great military genius (only Alexander on his par), with outstanding commanders, and his superb Grajde Armee. This series is excellent!
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago
darsh may I ask the name of the series also is it available in America?
KiljanArslan 2 years ago
La bataille est bien faite mais on a l'impression qu'elle est en noire et blanc... les uniformes n'ont aucune couleur, c'est dommage...
Rostokouban 2 years ago
Is this series made in English or French? Ive seen a version in english too, I thought it the original
Supduplemup 2 years ago
It's a French serie.
darsh9999 2 years ago
oh okay, so the english version is not the original and its only translated by translators ?
Supduplemup 2 years ago
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jangostras 2 years ago
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No. The two versions are good. Clavier (Napoleon) played twice for every scene. One in french and the other in english.
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ltflak 1 year ago
@ltflak i'd rather see it in French but with english subtitles
BVargas78 1 year ago
@darsh9999 or italian? ;)
senzaspirito 1 year ago
@senzaspirito
Italian what?
darsh9999 1 year ago
@darsh9999
it's a collaboration between italian television RAI and french television FRANCE2;)
Pierlico 1 year ago
@Supduplemup it was simultaniously produced in english and french, so if you take it very serious it´s not the same movie cuz every scene was shot twice.
honkbonk84 1 year ago
@Supduplemup
it's an European production and you can to seek it in English
cumbas 1 year ago
MURAT! The greatest leader of cavalry to live! Vive la France. Murat at Waterloo? Europe speaks French to this day!!
d2m1r12 2 years ago 5
VIVE L'EMPEREUR!!!!!
AthaNapo1994 3 years ago 4
Longue vie à l'Empereur !!!
FUELT1 3 years ago 4
Finally, a good clip about Eylau without crappy Spanish dub!!
Kalnaf 3 years ago 6