Siege of Vienna Complete Series - Extra History Reaction (Compilation)

You should review their Sengoku Jidai series, it is one of their best series about Japan's feudal period.

An interesting legacy of siege warfare from even before the use of explosives (when the technique was to excavate an unstable tunnel under castles and fortified cities with the roof only supported by timber props, filling the tunnels with firewood, then lighting it and sitting back and waiting for the props to collapse, then the roof and any fortifications above it followed).
In mining, a horizontal tunnel that leads to the active part of mineral extraction is called a sap (or an adit, but that's just an aside) - which is why the rank and file of engineering regiments are known as sappers. It all goes back to those miners recruited into army engineering regiments and their names (or as we would describe it now, jargon) for the parts of what was then, an art.

I know this content isn't exactly here to stay, but I'm loving the longform videos! Original content or not, 20+ minutes is great for me

I think it's less you can't account for weather so much as you can't control it. After all, weather isn't always unpredictable, and while an extreme outlier of intensity may surprises, the weather messing with you shouldn't.

U keep referring to the Lord of the rings, now I'm going to say sumthing very unpopular, I hate them movies, I watched about 1hr of the 1st one when it came out and just couldn't get into it

There was no decisive cavalry charge in Tolkien's books. Thats Peter Jackson's imagination.

How? How can fire undo stone?

The winged Husars Fantastic

fun fact, the Tolkien Family got their name from one of the Germans that accompanied the Polish King. during the battle he charged the lines and captured an ottoman banner in which conditions was was considered absolutely insane by his fellows, and they gave him the nicknam Toll-kuhn, which means "Mad" or "Foolhardy". That same madlad was one of Tolkiens ancestors.

Mom Why in the hell did you make a home made grenade?!?!?

Me I wanted it to go boom.

Mom You're grounded for a year!

Me But i still get to fire rockets at new years?

Mom Absolutely not!

Me Nooooo!!

I just discovered your channel, and I love it. There’s this British kids show called Horrible Histories, and I basically grew up on it. They’re historical sketches to teach kids about history in a fun way, and I feel like you would enjoy it. Afaik it’s very historically accurate, maybe you should check it out!

and then he started talking about Lord of the Rings 😲

Chris, have you seen the new Napoleon trailer that came out just yesterday? Would love to see your reaction to it once you're back!

NAPOLEON TRAILER #2

Our country's finest moment! And then in 1772, over one century later they partitioned Polish lands. Some "thank you" that was.

Something I've been wondering for a while now is why anyone would actually want to be an Ottoman General. If you win, you don't get the fame, but if you lose you get the punishment. Seems like a terrible deal. The best I can think of is that maybe you get some money or land for you contributions?

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Did you run into tasting history while you were there? He recently visited vienna as well

Dachhase.

Fun fact: Before Sobieski Arrived Kara Mustafa send him a bag of poppy. Which meant the number of his troops. King Sobieski as answer send him a bag of Pepper. Which menat maybe they are fever but much more Spicer :D

What a fun watch for evenings :D

Speaking of serendipity...I always thought the Battle of Chicamauga was decided because Rosecrans had shifted one Corps out of the line, and Longstreet's division happened to attack at just that moment, before a relieving Corps had gotten into position...so Longstreet basically faced nobody in his attack...The Union line had held all the way up to that point and probably would have prevailed otherwise.

Just for a reference in Lithuania 🇱🇹
Poland Lithuanian comenwealth is called ATR ( Abiejų Tautų Respublika)
In English it means ( Republic of the Two Nations ).

I knew a little about what happened, but I learned some stuff from this video. Plus, I liked the presentation. The cartoons were a delight. I look forward to the next episode.

This video has been so through, I wonder if they will mention the big faux pas Jon Sobieski made. He may have been a great general, but he could have used some diplomacy guidance on that day. It is possible that had he handled himself better after the battle, he might be a household name today. The emperor Leopold was not very pleased and not very forgiving.

As I was listening to this on my way to a football game in the Stockholm suburbs I tried imagining 18000 winged hussars storming the fields outside the subway window. It is almost impossible. It is too epic.

A 1500+ cavalry charge…
I’m just imaging LOTR’s Battle of Pellenor fields cavalry charge but on STEROIDS…
…Speaking of which, imma gonna go and rewatch that scene again.

Before 1930 Istanbul was named constantinople

The problem with Ottoman armies where how untrained their troops where, in battle only the Januaries equalled Western regular troops in fighting quality.
In essence the Ottoman army is a militia and they need to be really good at logistics to have that large mass of troops or they would struggle to win, it's a clear case of Quantity over Quality.

It's not just that a fortification gives you a manpower advantage (usually it's said you need at least 3-5 times as many soldiers to take a fortress than defend it), due to the protection behind the walls and the height (which is = reach and visibility) it adds to your weapons platforms, it's also that an army of 100,000 is needing so much supplies that it can be a 3rd of it never is there to actually fight as they need to forage (find / requisition / buy food) or to secure your supply lines if the supplies come with wagon trains or such maybe even on ships, like up the Danube) So 15,000 defenders vs 100,000 can work out just because they might need 35 or 40 thousand people to avoid starving themselves while besieging the city and 60-65,000 soldiers being on the verge of maybe not enough to take a city with 15,000 well entrenched defenders.


Careful, the Jenga comparison isn't really all that strong as even mortarless walls tend to be mostly the facing for a big pile of dirt and smaller rocks that forms the actual wall in between the big stone blocks. You cannot just shoot a stone out of the wall like that as it's backed by compacted rubble. You need to crush the stones, so the filling comes out and then enlarge the crater until a full out breach forms... and then you need to be fast or the defenders put up other defenses inside of the breach, which is why even "mines" with the big explosion loads that bring down wide stretches of wall or full towers did by far not always succeed, even if they killed hundreds of defenders. But setting up even a wooden pallisade or barricade inside of the gap would hold off the infantry when they try to enter the city...

"A time where arrows were used but also guns"...

Look up WW1 and the role of Flechettes in aerial combat (before outright bomber planes were a thing)...
They had automobiles, planes and zeppellns... but they used arrows thrown out of planes to attack groups on the ground!!!

You should respond to dave Chappelle's black bush bit from 2002, compare it to real life and give your take on what would happen in this day and time whet Europe has no strong unifying strategic goal, and no central force to lead the continent once again.

I think that you should read 'Shattered Sword'(Parshall and Tully) about the Battle of Midway. It wasn't that close.

THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

Grenades were used in china by 1000 AD. Digging below the walls and using gunpowder to crumble them was used as far back as han dynasty(cca 200bc-220ad)

and the winged hussars arrived... just to be partitioned by their allies in 100 years.

Funny you should mention Charlemagne.... My uncle who's into Genealogy has tracked my family as far back as Charlemagne

If you're interested in trench/mining warfare, I suggest you look up Mozi (c. 470 BCE ~ c. 391 BCE) of Warring States Period China. Mozi was a philosoper who founded the Mojia (School of Mo), which is pretty fascinating by itself, because before Legalism or Confucianism took the hegemony of ancient China Mozi's School of Mo was by far the most popular, wide-spread ideology in the bloody Warring States.

But what would be of interest here, is that his ideology led his school to follow a creed called "No attack" -- as a solution to bring peace to the hundreds of years of the Warring States. But his "No attack" doctrine wasn't mere pacifism, but rather, it developed into a martial doctrine of defense where he and his followers would actively join in any defensive side of a war, and help them in resisting the invasion -- everywhere. In doing so his followers thought they can make any would-be invaders of any country pay such a high price that wars would be stopped around the realm.

Therefore, his remaining texts dwell into his philosophies, but incredibly, also a section of his war texts remain where he writes down in detail all sorts of tactics of defense -- and one that includes how the defenders can drill a shfast deep into the Earth and send people down, and use certain devices and methods to detect incoming tunnel operations around the walls !! That's some 2,400 years ago !!

Amazing stuff. I'm pretty sure most of his works are translated, as well.

Fun fact, according to the book IBM of the holocaust. IBM to Hitler to help him track his population. The tattoo that was put on the prisoners was their IBM number.

Wing in husars are contested, the amount from 0 to 2, and why is it ? some parts of the equipement was a secret, the horse was a secret, trained only by selected people, and just like with english bow the secret was enforced with death penalty. The same with the pike weapon. The Wings could have existed as a noise generator but still it is disputed.

Hussar record is 6 death people with an Lithuanian rider.

The charge of the winged hussards is not the biggest one in history. It seems it's the one at the end of the battle of Eylau

Tell me, Einstein. We all know in Eastern Europe the janniseries were Christian boys taken from their families forced. Into Islam to Fight, but tell me genius what Muslims fought at vienna for Chrisendom

THEYRE EATING THE DOGS, THEYRE EATING THE CATS, THEYRE EATING THE PETS!

This needs to be a big budget movie.

Hello all from Vienna! In honor of this beautiful city that I'm currently visiting, this is a compilation of a series I did a while back from Extra History. I actually got to see a lot of historic artifacts from this battle in the Military History Museum here in Vienna today.