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  • -"Cela suffira t'il Sir ?"

    -"Non, mais il n'empêche que c'est magnifique !" (Napoléon à Eylau)

  • Vive le général Marbot

  • merci pour les infos. Si vous avez des info sur l'histoire du casque de cavalerie dont la garde républicaine est héritière, je suis preneur. cordialement

  • Why didn't the infantry form square?

  • You'd be surprised how long that takes - to be caught by a charge while trying to form squares is worst than being caught in line. The line's weakness are it's flanks - if there's enough cavalry to flow around the flanks, or the line breaks and the cavalry get's through - the line is done.

  • WTF la République Française et le Premier Consul à la Bataille d'Eylau ? Fail de la part du réalisateur.... De plus on ne voit que des cuirassiers alors que c'est l'ensemble de la cavalerie française qui a chargé, d'abord au pas, puis en accélérant petit à petit...

  • In some of these scene convicts are used to for death scenes for realistic footage and people can't tell the difference. They don't even believe they are lied to in the audience that hard because some film makers and their backers desire more realism.

  • @Norrington516..Agreed...look at the charge of the Light Brigade...seen as heroic but the truth be told a miss understanding of orders and an over egoed major whom did not deliver the correct orders. But a cavalry charge that wins the field WILL always go down in military history as a glorious moment.

  • charging with horse into a line of infantry with bayonets fixed only works if you have superior numbers and you hope that their line breaks as its a fool hardy manoeuvre!.This was dramatically demonstrated at Waterloo against the British! The Napoleonic War started to see the last of such use of the cavalry in such heroic charges such as this, however this must of been a magnificent sight to see!

  • @16lydgate Yes definitely, but Eylau was really a desperate moment for Napoleon. He had captured Eylau village at very heavy cost and this was compounded by a disastrous frontal attack by a French corps on the Russian line. Napoleon was forced to use his cavalry reserve to buy time until reinforcements could tip the balance. Not one of his better fought battles - but much la gloire for all!

  • @16lydgate

    I guess you meant "Napoleonic WarS".

    Napoleonic Wars consisted in seven wars.

    France won 5, allied won 2.

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  • Beautiful.

  • Greatest charge led by the greatest cavalry commander. Murat <3

  • The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number. The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. - Revelation 9:16-18

  • Impressionnante, bien filmée, mais pleine d'erreurs !

    Les cavaliers - surtout la cavalerie lourde - ne chargeait pas ainsi, mais botte à botte.

    - Et pas sur une ligne.

    - pas si désorganisé.

    - On ne galope que sur les derniers 50-70 m.

    - Et que fait en 1807 ce drapeau... du Consulat !!! :shock: :shock: Si je ne trompe, on ne charge pas avec son étendard, surtout pas en première ligne, tout seul. C'est un cadeau à l'ennemi !

    - Ennemi qui ne se met même pas en carré !

    Beau mais faux !

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  • @DT195909

    Entièrement d'accord. C'est beau, mais c'est truffé d'erreurs....

  • @Agounet Peut-être que l'essentiel n'est pas là.

  • @DT195909 est-ce que cest possible pour ecriver cette poste en englais, mon francais est tres mal, et je suis interessé en ton post... merci

  • @DT195909 Je me trompe pe mais la formation en carré n'est pas encore utilisé a ce moment...

  • @Jabthecat Napoléon s'en était servie à la bataille des pyramides, dix ans plus tôt.

  • @Nettempereur ce qui réflète bien ce que je disais... je me trompe... merci! lol

  • @Jabthecat de rien :)

  • @DT195909 Mais beau !

  • @DT195909 Briseur de rêves lol ^^

  • amazing

  • Tres belle charge, bien filmee bien illustree

  • wow it's beautiful at 1:03

    can you tell me the name of the film and who won this battle please ?

  • @espana00091 movie : colonel Chabert, but it's not a war movie. And the French won of course.

  • For Honor, For Glory, For the Emperor, CHARGE !

  • vraiment beau, la poésie dans la tragédie ... le monde avait besoin de siecle Lumières, la Révolution, de Napoléon

  • Napoleon's army would be one of my favourites if it wasnt by the things they made in my country. ''Tengo por enemiga a una nación de doce millones de habitantes, bravos y exasperados hasta el extremo... Todo lo que se hizo aquí el 2 de mayo, es odioso....; No se ha tenido ninguna consideración para este pueblo.... No, señor: Estáis en un error, vuestra gloria se hundirá en España...". Letter from Jose to Napoleon.

  • @RTO41

    La falta lo tiene napoleon por la invasion de Espana.

    No los soldados franceses.

    Y el gran pintador espanol de este epoca te lo dije: el horror fue en los dos dados.

    Salutacion de Francia.

  • @kamurashi

    Je vais essayez de parle en français :)

    C'etait Murat qui a ordonné les executions de 2 de Mai et qui aussi a ordonné les massacres et las exhumations de les restes de grands héros espagnols (pour example,la exhumation de Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar,aussi appelé le ''Cid'') Le blame c'est ne pas de Napoleon oú de ses soldats,c'est de Murat.

    J'espère que tu m'as compris (mon français c'est ne pas tres bonne)

    Salutations de l'Espagne.

  • @RTO41

    salutations, j'ai bien compris et je suis même d'accord avec toi, Murat s'est comporté comme un barbare en Espagne.

    Mes amitiés à l'Espagne.

  • Well see what they did in Spain, they hope they died baddly!

  • Nothing if not atmospheric. 

  • What is the name of this movie please? Is it "le colonel chabert"??

  • @TheConfederate1863 Yes. the one filmed in 1994.

  • Anyone know the name of this movie?

  • @DevilsMachine Le Colonel Chabert

  • @ZaarielMB Thanks

  • @DevilsMachine Note that it isn't a war movie. This is the only battle scene of the film, a kind of prologue.

  • Lucky for those frog cavalrymen those infantry weren't British ;)

  • @StefanDryden even though they would be crushed by the mighty Ney, Lasalle, Desnouettes like always.

  • respect from germany =) i wish sometimes our country had a better history

  • Esa es una carga de caballeia

  • Epic

  • I'm British and to be honest I dont think there is anything more glorious and terrifying than watching currasiers in a charge.

  • Coreceros franceses, Caballeria pesada por exelencia

  • Napoleon said to Murat "You'll let these people destroy us ?" And Murat charge with 12000 horses, the greatest cavalry charge of history !

  • @musiclas1 don't forget the smirky smile he gave before lol.

  • @musiclas1 No. I think there have been equally huge cavalry charges in various battles. I mean, there are definately battles from the classical era which involved more than 12,000 cavalry in a single charge. Also, the 12,000 Marshal Ney sent without Napoleon's direct command at Waterloo were pretty much annihilated as they were caught between the British Infantry Squares. Bristling with Bayonets and raked by crossfire volleys, the French had no hope of breaking the Squares. It was a disaster.

  • @ThePalaeontologist Eh ! thanks to the prussian cavalry which came to help Brits who where seriously shaken by the Ney cavalry charge !

  • @musiclas1 12,000 Cavalry attacking you would shake you up a bit! After the huge artillery bombardments on the British too! The British held their line hours before the Prussians arrived. When they did, they did so at a knife edge moment in the battle - Napoleon scolded Ney and sent in the Imperial Guards in their deep column with other units. Wellington had his men hold behind the hill. They sprung their volleys in thin red line and sent the french reeling. But it was not over...it was at risk.

  • @musiclas1 When the British command sighted the obscured mass of movement far away in their telescopes, they could not know whether this was the force that had been sent to chase the Prussians from Quatre-Bras or a renewed Prussian assault itself. The French,l being closer, could tell soon enough it was the Prussians. Napoleon told his commanders to tell the men it was a reinforcing French army - a very grim thing to do but I suppose needed for the sake of morale. The British did most fighting.

  • @ThePalaeontologist It'a pity we never saw british troups against Napoleon on the continent during 15 years ! (except small battles without Napoleon in Spain !). British fight Napoleon by sending Prussian, German, Austrian, Russian troups etc... but never with English ones ! LOL !

  • @musiclas1 Woah woah woah...this is so wrong what you say. The British had 115,000 men against Napoleon in the 1815 100 Day Campaign alone. Have you ever heard of the Peninsular War? Vitoria? Duoro? Talavera? Busaco? Vimiero? All involved British soldiers from English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish regiments. What the bloody hell are you saying? Of course they had Prussian elements in the army, but only I small percentage. I respect the defenders of La Haye-Sainte! I respect Blucher! Allies in arms!

  • @ThePalaeontologist 115 000 in 1815 ! whaouaw ! at the end of course, what an exploit ! It's like I say before, only in Spain (and Portugal OK) !

  • @musiclas1 If French controlled Spain and Portugal, then Napoleon could have won against the rest of the Europeans. The Peninsular War was a vital part of the Napeleonic Wars, and the British were the ones doing the majority of the fighting here. Lets think about it - the British were not interested in commiting to the war to defeat Napoleon, initially. They wanted to prevent the French from invading Britain and only worked to hold the French at bay and sabotage their expansionism. This, we did.

  • @ThePalaeontologist

    Just remember that most of the wars Napoléon fought were actually declared by Europeans coalitions founded by the UK.

    And this since the beginning in 1792, when Napoléon didn't even rule France yet...

  • @musiclas1 actually, the greatest cavalry charge in history was at the battle of Vienna, but this too was of an incomprehensable magnitude, testimony to the great horsemanship of Murat, just like in Dresden.

    Vive l'empereur !

  • @musiclas1 Certainly a great charge but the "greatest cavalry charge in history" is a big claim. Greatest by which criterion? Numbers? There is plenty of competition for that title and before anyone gets in a knot about the issue, please recall the many large Middle Eastern and Asian armies through the ages that were made up almost entirely of cavalry. In Europe, their battles don't get much attention but that doesn't mean they should be ignored.

  • @somewhere6

    Middle Eastern and Asian armies tended not the "charge" in the direct sense of the word. But really the charge at Eylau is considered the largest ever achieved in the history of the world.

  • VIVE L'EMPEREUR BONAPARTE !!!

  • Said to be not just one of the largest recorded cavalry charges in history but probably one of the greatest.

    I've always thought if not for General Winter then there would probably be 10+ coalitions to try and preserve the balance of power (or as the "victors" say)!

  • Greatest cavalry charge in history!!

  • I think the winter background would mean they are in Russia charging at a Russian square.

    Many of these horses and cavalrymen died not just from the battles but from the cold when they withdrew from Moscow to Prussian border.

    They may also faced the fierce Cassock horsemen. According to a story some Cassocks stripped any French invaders captured, naked and tied him on the tree before throwing water on him. Then then left him to die, freezing to death!

  • @DavBlc7 I think they are Austrians, the french flag says Premier Consul, (the first Consul) Who is of course Napoleon, so he was not yet Emperor during this engagement.

  • @DavBlc7 no they are in East Prussia near Königsberg, it's the battle of Eylau in 1807, not the invasion of Russia.... and it's Cossack, not "Cassock"

  • Ce n'est pas la charge a eylau, regarder l'étendard a 0:40 "Le premier consul" et "république française" A eylau la france est un empire et napoléon sont empereur

  • the ifantry should of formed sqaure

  • @LutzDerLurch, I totally agree...

  • These soldiers brought us the code civil: freedom! A rethinking of an old crusty Europe ... Napoleon was change! And this video is showing 100% power ... my french is too bad to write this!

  • @il2gambit They also massacre milions many of wich civlians burned down Churchs and Monastaries raped pillage and destruction such as anny other war.

  • @ImperialGuard9001

    "They also massacre milions" You say anything and you think that Portuguese have never made massacres .

  • @jeffkodiac The killing of millions did came very much later - a big battle or great war of that time was when 500k men invade Russia. The Grande Armee was the first and only (West) European Army. Without the French Revolution we would be sitting here in Europe like in Africa or like in the Russia of 1900. Of course not anything was made well, but the french administration was able to finish wars with a peace without destroying everyone and anything

  • @il2gambit

    Napoleon made a mistake in Russia but it changed the way of war. I'm think that the European monarchies never accept the idea of revolution and they would never have allowed France and Napoleon to live in peace.

  • @il2gambit

    Idiot.

  • @mrktyb specialist.

  • Haut les têtes! La mitraille c'est pas de la merde!

  • where is the this scene came from? is it from a movie or something? im very interested to know the tittle! and plan to watch it.

  • @punic026 It was written in the description: "Extrait du film "Le Colonel Chabert" (1994)" = 'Extract from the movie "Le Colonel Chabert (The Colonel Chabert)" (1994)'. But I don't think that you can find it.

  • greatest cavalry charge of the Napoleonic wars, led by the greatest cavalry commander

  • Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...

  • @lostmymindin79 Only in Literature.

    

  • Colonel Chobert - darn nice movie. Can't seem to find it on DVD, though.

  • This is a pretty impressive scene. I love how disciplined the Cuirasseurs were... I can only imagine how terrifying the view of the charge was from the Russian line.

  • In soviet russia....... oh never mind.....

  • @wigster600

    Imperial Russia. Not Soviet.

  • @bazilmynazzle it was meant to be a joke, like the "in soviet russia sandwich eats you!" but seeing as it wasnt soviet i put nvm thanks for ruining it /trollface

  • @wigster600

    Hah, alright. Gotcha'.

  • Murat is the best cavalry commander..no question about it..magnificient

  • Great video and battle..vive la Empereur!!!

  • La photographie de cette scène est magnifique. C'était vraiment le temps où les mots courage, honneur et don de soi avaient encore un sens.

  • Imagine you are a foot soldier and you hear, and then see, this coming at you.

  • From what I get from IMDB.com this is the French Curaissers(heavy)Cavalry charge against the Russian Army.

  • <_< that God may forgive me... but that is just glorious... Napoleon once did an attack like that ... a general asked "will that solve?" Napoleon smiled looking at his telescope and said "no ... but it's wonderful ..."

  • Cette charge est magnifique elle me donne la chair de poule, ayant eu un aïeul dans la grande armée cela me rend fière et j'aime lire des livres sur le 1er empire et cette époque glorieuse.

    Mais comme dit goliadkine plus haut dans son méssage, "on prend la mesure de la chute", la chute de notre pays.

    Il y aurait tellement à dire......

    Je veux juste lancer un coup de gueule à propos de la Légion d'honneur Que Napoleon avait crée en 1802 et qui aujourd'hui a perdu son sens.

  • @pennbzh La légion d'honneur est cô toutes les décorations en général,c'est-à-dire un instrument de propagande,un "hochet" qu'on agite. Et alors?Une médaille a le sens que lui donne son possesseur. Le pauvre type en train de canner sur le champ dit d'honneur, la rosette peut le consoler, mais ça ne le réssuscitera pas. Et tant mieux si ça flatte certaines vanités, ça ne lui fait pas plus de mal que de bien au précédent. Après tout,ce n'est qu'un bout de ferraille suspendu à une pièce de chiffon.

  • @Ecrelinff Sauf que la légion d'honneur donne des privilèges et pas qu'à la personne qui la détiens, mais aussi à ses enfants et petits enfants, un accès au plus grande école de la république gratuitement mais aussi dans des maisons de retraites luxueuses avec une pension plus élevé.

  • Pour moi c'est l'honneur suprême que la nation Française peut rendre à un Homme ou une Femme pour fait d'arme ou mérite civil.

    Et aujourd'hui cette récompense est bradée par nos politiques, elle ne vaut plus un Kopek, ont la donne à qui la veut, meme mieux on la réclame! Céline Dion, Dany Boon, l'équipe de France Foot, etc..., de qui se moque t-on? les vrais méritant ne l'auront jamais car il sont dans l'ombre

  • @pennbzh : on a donné des legions d'honneur a des pauvres poilus de 90 ou 95 ans qui en on vus et revus et j'en passe , et ça juste avant qu'ils ne meurent, et là on donne a tours de bras des medailles a des tocards de la chansons ou du chowbiz, pour un film ou une chansson a la con , a ce moment là il fallait decorer des vrais acteurs Français ; Bourvil ,Fernandel,etc...... mais comme ils etaient Français, on en a rien a foutre.n'est ce pas???.

  • @1pierrepoli Enfin les artistes sont fait chevalier de la légion d'honneur soit le grade le plus petit de cette distinction en comprenant 5. En temps de paix les couillons brossent les couillons. Mais bon si l'économie est une guerre, on est en train de la perdre. La révolte va sonner quand la misère frappera à nos portes.

  • @1pierrepoli je suis tout a fait d'accord avec toi

  • @1pierrepoli Tu as parfaitement raison.L'exemple qui pour moi reste flagrant est celui de Dany Boon.Franchement,a t-il le même mérite que les nombreux hommes partis défendre la France loin de chez eux,pour préserver l'intégrité et la puissance de notre nation,quitte à y laisser leur vie?La Légion d'HONNEUR est avant tout une récompense pour les héros de la patrie et c'est un manque de respect que de les comparer à ces personnes seulement guidées par le désir de richesse et de gloire

  • @theodu29900 Dany boon a beau faire rire et faire le sympa, il est certain qu il ne risquera pas sa vie pour le pays ,

  • @1pierrepoli Bien dit monsieur.

  • What about Marshal Murat? I am missing him? In many books it is mentioned he led the attack of the cavalry to save the day. Is this true, or did he just orderd the attack an stay behind the lines (not the Murat I learned so far :-))

  • @JediFerdi ;;;tout a fait ,

    Murat en personne a dirigé l'attaque de cavalerie ,le film ne montre que des dragons, mais ce jour là ,pratiquement tout la cavalerie Fraçaise a donné et a sauvé la journnée; ça a étè la plus grande charge a cheval de tous les temps.

  • @1pierrepoli le film montre des cuirassiers et uniquement des cuirassiers reconnaissable a leur ...

    cuirasse :)

  • @krixx691 oui,dans l'extrait il sagit de cuirrassiers,

  • The "Testudo" or tortise shell could be modified for square formation as well.

  • vive la france

  • Why the infantry didn't form a square?

  • @MateusVIII Pbecause they do not do it, they were not trained on this course ... It was Napoleon who invented "Square"

  • @benjiAkatosh calm down man.And napoleon invented the square???

  • @benjiAkatosh Napoleon invented Square ? not because he used this tactic in the battle of the Pyramids then u consider him the inventor of this tactic

    greek hoplites used squares also

    pikemen used squares against cavalry and infantry in the medieval era

    so no, napoleon didn't invent the square formation at all

  • @MateusVIII

    Why your parents made you?Same silly question as yours.

    5 minutes of pure adrenaline,but 2 secondes for acting.

  • @s3fredo Man calm down, just comenting, you don't have to act like that.

  • @MateusVIII

    I just respect the courage of those mens who died.Who invented the "squarre" we don't care but for info Napoléon invented le "Carré" before.

    Et si je te parles en Francais tu comprends rien non plus crétin non?

  • @s3fredo Hey!!!! I speak a little bit of french!!!!!!

  • @MateusVIII It's difficult to form square in the middle of a line that stretches for miles.

  • @ltflak Not at all , and all the infantry of the time were trained to do it .

    Basically the line breaks apart with one company facing the charge , the companies on either sideform the sides of the square , and the companies behind the line in reserve form the back of the square .

    The thing that is wrong with this film is that these are Cuirasseurs , HEAVY Cavalry , you dont launch them in an extended mass scattered horse race , but as a solid mass in tight formation , at a canter at most ..

  • Dommage qu'il n'y ait pas de "cascades" à cheval.

    C'est toujours impressionnant à voir à l'écran.

    Enfin, le rendu reste tout de même excellent.

    Avec quelques centaines de chevaux, on ne peut pas non plus filmer des miracles^^

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  • 0:24 magnifique

  • ROHAN

  • what movie is this from? Do want!

  • @Gneisenau "le colonel chabert" from a novel by honoré de Balzac

  • Une des plus grandes charges de l'histoire et peut être la plus grande ! 80 escadrons soit de 10 000 à 12 000 cavaliers démolissant le centre russe et menés par un Murat armé d'une simple cravache ! et tout ça sous une tempête de neige

  • @elgor89 ça me fout la chair de poule ! Quelle gloire ! Vive le premier Empire !

  • @elgor89 de neige et de balles

  • And that's what they get for having a mustache.

  • Benningsen arrive et fonce vers la grnde armée avec ses 80 000 hommes et ses 400 canons. Les Français sont moins de 60 000. Une énorme colonne russe s'avance et détruit le corps de Augereau. L'empereur demande à Murat " laiserra tu nous nous faire dévorer par ces gens? ". Murat charge avec ses 10000 cavaliers et sabre par deux fois les Russes.

  • Humbles et dignes! Vive la Grande Armée!

  • Vive l'Empereur! Honneur Fidélité!

  • Which movie is this?

  • @colimbo010

    Le colonel Chabert

    Great movie

  • @colimbo010 read the info, you can see "Extrait du film "Le Colonel Chabert" 1994

  • One of the fantastic cavalry charges in history. Sad that glory like that does come around that easily in modern times.

  • "the point, use the point! it always beats the edge"

  • quel est le film?

  • le colonel chabert

  • Merveilleux film : rares sont les adaptations littéraires françaises réussies... Ce film en fait partie.

  • J'avoue ne pas avoir lu le texte mais j'ai trouvé le film réussi. Pas uniquement en vertu du jeu des acteurs mais en raison de cette atmosphère qu'il parvient à créer, sinon à restituer. Le sentiment de voir des tableaux d'époque soudain prendre vie.

    Et puis ce colonel Chabert, ce grand seigneur, dernier d'une lignée disparue, vestige de cette France défunte, étrangère à la veulerie, à la mesquinerie bourgeoise... On prend la mesure de la chute.

  • where can i find this movie online please!!! please help

  • i don't think you can buy an american compatible dvd of "le colonel chabert". i have the vhs version and have been waiting for the dvd for years. fantastic movie.

  • what a great scene! so emotional

    i cant understand that some guys edit this beautiful scene and put stupid music on it and destroy the great mood with their march music

    they understand nothing

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  • @CloseCombatantt Bravo! It is the contrast between the violence of the fight ant the intimate melancholy of the Schubert's sonata who creates the right mood.

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