Battle of Sedan: How did Prussia Win The Franco-Prussian War? | Animated History
The Battle of Sedan,
How did Prussia Win the Franco-Prussian War?
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Wilhelm I to Napoleon III : Sir I have fought against Napoleon I and you sir are no Napoleon I
4:10 that is a myth, it was just used wrong and wrong place at the wrong time during the battle
Sehr anschaulich.
What I find most incredible about the Franco-Prussian War is that France effectively started it, with the sole war goal of humiliating Prussia, and then France got utterly destroyed and became a laughing stock internationally until WW1. I don't think France's reputation ever recovered, to be honest.
Discipline: 300% Precision: 500% Glory: Incomprehensible!
6320 prussian and 12310 france soldiers killed
ANOTHER French advantage was the fact that they STARTED the war on the excuse that the North German Confederation was finally able to defend itself from French invasions, which they had been doing for 1,000 years since Charlemagne. France also attacked Germany starting both world wars.
272 french people did not accept their lost
Somebody has correctly mentioned Krupp field guns. Let me amplify that. The Krupp field guns were made out of modern steel. The French used bronze cannon because "everybody knows" that bronze cannon had won the battle of Waterloo, and that "iron cannon will burst". The Prussian Army wasn't everybody. The Steel cannon outranged bronze cannon by double or more. Also, it is pointless to rifle a bronze cannon, because the bronze is softer than the iron cannon ball. So the rifled Krupp field guns were far more accurate.
Practically, this is "Invade Greece for the Italy" France version
Who's here watching old vids?
france: Its over prussia i have the high ground prussia: are you sure about that france: yeah prussian: well then is my artilary bombarding yours
appreciate the animation. it helped with me reading Quntin Barry books on the war
You should do your maps like this again. I feel they’re more informative than the current format
On a more peaceful note, this war spreads the idea of wargaming throughout the world.
There is no word "impactful" in the English language to my knowledge. That is, I have never heard or read from the expressions of any respected scholar or writer in English such an utterance. Are words adjectives as "signficant" or "consequential" not in your vocabulary?
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/impactful
It’s actually Otto von Bismarck he did a thing he always had a plan Prussia watched the American civil war they noticed that a good railroad schedule is more powerful than any gun
Plus using telegraph to organize, marshall, and concentrate forces was a war skill that they learned from the Yankees.
Oh our Griffy Johnson, how much you have changed
5320 prussian and 11310 franch soldiers ware killed
Maybe France should've had a coupe
Thank you so much! I'm German and in history class I gave a speech about it. Your video helped me a lot.
The correct term is, of course, ”The Franco-German war”. The leading French politicians never belived all German states would side with Prussia.
I'm a simp for otto von bismarck
JeezussKryst man, its not Mac maHON! Its th same name as Ed McMahon
i belive we won the world wars because of luck
Cette guerre n'était pas gagné d'avance mais la fra'ce effectivement avait la supériorité technologique comme pour leurs fusils à poudre blanche contrairement au allemand et leurs poudre noire, la france a mal gérer cette campagne car elle s'est mal préparé elle s'est en effet pas inspiré de la guerre de sécession qui était la guerre la plus récente et aurait pu servir le haut commandement français
If someone can answer please my question that would be cool, how fit were the soldiers in those days, I know they did not go to the gym, but were they fat, very physically fit because of the things they carry, or were they as fit as soldiers today, in training did they do any physical training like pushups or no?
Fun fact: Wilhelm I was a grandson of Fredrick William ii not Fredrick ii who had no children
Napoleon III was opposed to the war. It was the Parliament that declared war. He knew the war would be very very difficult. Also, Napoleon was seriously ill with kidney stones (since before the war) and therefore he conceded command to MacMahon. But accompanied the army given he did not like the idea of remaining in Paris while his men died in the war. He would later die from complications related to kidney stones (after being exiled) which were practically untreatable back in the day.
Hmm yes...
150 years! Gott mit uns!
French survival is based on the Brits
I'm occupying Nancy today mate, sorry Naanngsi not neancy
1:08 Yes, that seems to be a running gag with Irish commanders in this era for some reason.
bruh the thumbnail said battle of Sedan i thought this is about Sedan vs Hatchback or something
Moltke's Animation model is honestly super hot.
When war broke out France did not stop civilians using the trains so the French army had a huge problem getting enough trains to move their men, horses and equipment. French mobilisation was so chaotic that many French soldiers never reached their units, which was not helped by the fact the units themselves kept moving around. Contrast this with the Prussians who had mobilisation not only well planned but had been equally well practised by the troops. And no civilians travelled by train.
The Birth of modern-day Germany.
Simple explanation of how Prussia beat France. Prussia is superior to all else and French military achievement is a joke
It's about Prussia not the German Reich, right?! So why are those flags there?!
Prussia's tactics were so effective it is still studied into the modern era in military tactical school's.
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You have never fought a war until you've fought against the Prussians!
"God fights on the side with the best artillery" said Napoleon...but it seems Prussia was listening and France was not.
"Depression army" XD hehe
Prußens Gloria... Johann Friedrich Piefke... trvision.net/detail/video-1ELjttkTKug.html
Und, the Deutsche rub it in every chance they get... honoring Maçon by starting out playing Prußens Gloria... the victory marsch for the 1871 Franco-Prußens War! trvision.net/detail/video-no1z37x8muc.html
Fun fact: Prussia had better maps of France than France itself.
@Kommandanter Not in the sense that they didn't have the maps, but they did not bring them along, as they planned to invade Germany. As I recall some commanders resorted to search schools for maps when it became clear that the fighting would take place in France and getting good maps from HQ would take too long, especially with the unreliable French railway planning.
@Dmitri N. Rodrigues Because they didn't have Bismarck pulling the strings at the time. That dude was so sharp he almost predicted when WW1 would start down to the day and the reason why the war would start ("Some damn fool thing in the Balkans").
Is this actually true? Interesting if so.
False. The French army had excellent maps of France but they expected to fight in Germany so didn't take them.
Interesting that just 71 years later they would ignore all lessons learned about mobilization, logistics and the importance of knowing the enemy's geography, at the invasion of USSR, and get completely beaten.
Battle of 2003 Honda Civic
Who goes to war over a gaw'damn 4 door car. Only a coupe' (pronounced coo'paye) is worthy of slaughtering an entire country over. Because you can't spell slaughter, without laughter! duh...
The use haphazerd use of German/Prussian troops remains confusing. i can only imagine the confusion people have.
How the French handled the battle in Sedan reminds me how my previous employer did things.
Ever since this I guess France just took to surrendering...
True German Efficiency
7:37 Morocco was not a French colony at that time.
Fierce and efficient the Prussians were... Undeniable combat spirit
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It is rather interesting how historians here on TRvision over look the fact that Napoleon the 3rd was a very sick man at the time, he had kidney stones and could barely walk, or sit strait let alone mount a horse …back in the day kidney stones could not be easily treated and the man would later die of it. He was never an active commander during the Franco-Prussian War. Simply accompanied the army. His only input was the relief attempt that turned into the Battle of Sedan. Which would have worked fine had the battle plans not been stupidly published a week or so in advance under the orders of the French Cabinet to appease the displeased general public -- which was read by the German high command and in turn exploited. Moreover, France was a constitutional monarchy at the time and the Emperor had no executive authority. I think it is unfair to call a man who won two wars and had a successful military career as a commander before his ill-ness incompetent. Sometimes one is just unlucky.
Why do you use the imperial German flag German empire didn't for then yet
The needle-rifle might have been somewhat obsolete by this time, but it was still a VERY effective rifle, very accurate, and still pretty fast for its era. Yes the chassepot was more "advanced", but it really wasn't that much more effective in combat than the needle-rifle, it was just slightly more durable but not enough to matter in this situation, so you can't really put much emphasis on the idea that the chassepot was "better", because it didn't really show it in the thick of the battle where it counts the most. That's like comparing something like the american blot-action M1903 (springfield rifle) to the German bolt-action Kar-98k Mauser, if one was somehow better than the other, you still wouldn't be able to tell the difference in combat effectiveness. In either case, chassepot or needle-rifle, Springfield or Mauser, both had a plenty strong enough bullet (i don't care how much you like the 30-06, it really isn't "much better" then the 8mm Mauser), both were very accurate, and both reloaded fairly quickly, the margins (if any can be reasonably noted) were so small that it never really mattered to start with.
Didn't know most of what happened in this battle. So nice job guy.
You may have more firepower, but if your enemy has better priorities for logistics they'll have more bullets.
"King Wilhelm was the grandson of Frederick II of Prussia" I believe Frederick the Great had no children... Wilhelm I was the grandson of Frederick the Great's nephew, actually.
The only real general France had was Napoleon 1. He was Corsican, not French. Any questions?
Germany wasn't that power house at that time more like a backlevel agraculture region divided in old fashion monarcies. That's why France didn't pay much attention to their eastern border knowing themself were Europe's superpower military and cultural. Bismarck counted high risking war with France while bavarian king Ludwig II was a big fan of french culture not really willing to go in war with them. I guess the other European powers kept quite because they were expecting France will win quickly.
Uh, what? A backlevel agraculture region? What about the Rhineland, the steel factories, the krupp corporation, the Rurh boom? Sure, Ludwig was a large factor in these victories but Bavaria wasn't the sole reason, and the ngc definitely wasn't a backwater agriculture nation
I know it’s not the Franco-Prussian war but what is it with Gaels such as Macmahon and Mackensen commanding foreign troops
Von Moltke is my great great grandfather
It was Bismarck, just Bismarck. He is a god :D
@simon dupper You can't even get a straight date right ? ^^ Damned uneducated 13yo boyz In WWI, you mean when Brits saved their position in Europe and the world with French blood ? Right ? When UK had more population than France and still had 3 times less wounded, and almost 2 times less killed, with less involved soldiers ?
ww1
@simon dupper You changed 60 years into 40 year, you're lame. And wtf happened in 1910 ? Dude, please start learning about history, you're pitiful :-)
@simon dupper in 1930 ? Wtf ?
@Selina Ansen after that? You mean after the British saved you 40 years later?
The ONLY victory scored by the French was thanks to Italian general Giuseppe Garbaldi, who headed a multinational unit 5000-strong, the "Army of the Vosges"...the only "French" unit which was able to capture a Prussian flag in that war...
The ONLY victory scored by the French was thanks to Italian general Giuseppe Garbaldi, who headed a multinational unit 5000-strong, the "Army of the Vosges"...the only "French" unit which was able to capture a Prussian flag in that war...