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“On the 8th I shall be at Bassano. If the enemy waits for me, there will be a battle which will decide the fate of this whole country.”
#OnThisDay 1796 Napoleon defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Bassano, in northern Italy.
His victory meant that the Austrians that had come to relieve the siege of Mantua were now forced to take refuge inside the city instead! This influx of defeated soldiers, for a garrison already short of food and riddled with disease, would prove disastrous.
Discover the campaign many consider Napoleon’s finest in our full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm1Rh...
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“Of all my fifty battles, the most terrible was the one I fought at Borodino.”
#OnThisDay 1812 Napoleon’s Grande Armée met the Russian army in battle 70 miles west of Moscow, at Borodino. With around 70,000 casualties, it was the bloodiest day’s fighting of the Napoleonic Wars.
Napoleon’s reluctance to send forward his Imperial Guard at a crucial moment may have robbed him of a decisive victory - instead he won only what many consider a pyrrhic victory.
Watch every move of the battle in our video: https://youtu.be/mGAPEckPXzs
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“I cannot, if I am in the field for glory, be kept out of sight.”
Horatio Nelson’s gamble at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) was characteristic of the future admiral. In a moment of brilliant tactical improvisation, he attacked the Spanish head-on, capturing two ships in quick succession. His action turned what was likely to have been an indecisive clash into a brilliant victory.
You can watch the first episode of our Nelson’s Battles series now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/03mCCwemhBA … and then head over to nebula.tv/epichistory to watch The Battle of the Nile!
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The US Army’s first military campaigns after independence were disastrous affairs. When Major General St.Clair led a force against Native Americans in Ohio in 1791, his troops were short of everything from food, to clothing, axes, and scouts.
The short-service contracts of some soldiers actually expired mid-campaign. Freezing and hungry, they set off for home - although officers bribed a few into staying by offering them winter coats!
Before the crucial battle, St.Clair detached some of his best troops to protect the army’s supplies - he wasn’t worried about the enemy, he was worried they might be raided by deserters from his own army!
In such circumstances, the bloody outcome of the Battle of the Wabash River was not so surprising - although it constituted a major humiliation for the infant United States of America. Follow every step of the campaign in our documentary youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU...
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1258: Civil war, assassinations and anarchy had left the once mighty Abbasid Caliphate vulnerable to foreign invasion. By the time the Mongols descended upon Baghdad, Abbasid power in the Middle East was a shadow of its former self.
Discover the remarkable rise and chaotic collapse of this powerful empire in our documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8hhw...
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A common World War One myth is that it led to most women entering the workforce for the first time.
In fact, in pre-war Britain, a third of women were already in work. During the war that number grew by about 10% (from 4.2 million to 4.6 million).
The real change was that women moved from lowly-paid jobs in textiles and domestic service to much better paying jobs with greater responsibility - in munitions factories, but also on the railways, post offices, policing, etc. Following the war, these women were forced to give up these jobs and return to more menial work.
Via Hew Strachan and @HistoryToday
Painting: ‘For King and Country’ by Edward F.Skinner (1918)
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Our new series is like nothing we’ve ever done before. Using detailed 3D animation we’ve brought to life some of the biggest naval battles of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars, starting with the Battle of Cape St. Vincent!
https://youtu.be/03mCCwemhBA
And if you enjoyed that, you can watch Episode 2, The Battle of the Nile, right now on Nebula! nebula.tv/epichistory
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“Killing of an English knight outside Paris, 1437”, an illumination from "Chroniques d'Angleterre" by Jean de Wavrin (15th century).
This gruesome scene from the Hundred Years War contains several interesting details - the knight and his horse have been brought down by blows from axes and halberd. A man is now poised to deliver the killing blow with what looks like a rondel dagger, which is ideally suited for finding the weak points in plate armour.
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The latest Epic History newsletter is out now! Sneak peeks at upcoming videos 'Voices of the Peninsular War' and 'Battle of Marengo', other production news, and regular feature 'One Cool History Thing'. It's on Patreon but it's free for all followers:
www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-13-111068512?utm_med…
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What are your top 3 historical video games of all time?
Some personal favourites from the olden days…
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