Impregnable Fortress: The (Staggering) Siege of La Rochelle 1627

The Catholics don’t give a fuck

Is this the only seige done properly?

So yet another conflict with religion (or religion used as an excuse) at its base.

The english showing up, going "we'l help you!" then realising its too tough and going back to hide in england is repeated so much throughout english/british military history

Cardinal Richeleu also invented the table knife

My heart cries every time you pronounce an Italian c as an hard c. It’s ch, not k. Also, when there’s a s in front of it, it becomes sh (it’s shipione, not skipione)

Viva Cristo Rey! Viva Iglesia Catholica! ✝️🕊🇻🇦

I swear we have a town in West Sussex with the same name

Charles I ran this incompetent farce by the English relief force and then dared imagine himself wise enough to be an absolute monarch. Incredible.

Smh Charles I really sent fucking George Villiers against Richelieu, one of the greatest, most ruthless statesmen of all time... That's like sending a housecat to battle against a full-grown tiger.

I dont know about the other stuff but by by watching this I realised that I have been pronouncing “Monteplier” incredibly fucking wrong my entire life. 😂😂😂

Love these

Is this where Roy Kinear died?

It should be noted the failure of the Duke of Buckingham and the suffering of the Huguenots angered people in England so much it led to attempts from parliament to impeach him and the King dissolving parliament twice to prevent it. The Duke was soon assassinated.

The failure and unpopularity of the King during this era combined with fears surrounding the reprehension in France contributed directly to the English Civil War the next decade.

Huguenots.... ahhhhh Huguenots!!!

typing error: It's Catherine de Parthenay, not Cahterine.

well fed, well clothed and well paid?????
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that sounds better than any employer nowadays

This is the fault of the impotence of commender of 1st English fleet.

I was re? Who cares about re know need plat your sheeps on the entrence of la Rochelle!!!!

That’s why I don’t like Catholics . Popes are blood thirsty tyrants

benjamin of Rohan seeks help from Londor

If you believe in the Biblical heaven, you've got to believe that men like this French "King", who carry out these awful acts against their own people, and portend to do so under the will of God (when in fact it is solely to obtain more power and absolute authority), will have a very unpleasant judgement day. Not to mention anything of the members of the Catholic church and clergy who fed and participated in this type of behavior for hundreds of years while claiming to be the representatives of God on earth.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, well I guess the French bastard got off scott-free and paid no consequences for his disgusting actions. Kind of depressing, no? 🤷‍♂️

What powered the 'torpedo'?

Good descriptions. Not sure if it is a using text to voice but it would better to pronounce the French names correctly e.g. Hugenot does not end with the sound "not" and Aix should be pronounced something like "ikes"

Nothing is impregnable.

Heretics make great firewood.

The three musketeers brought me here

Jean Guitton playing with the big head cheat code.

I would have plugged the sewers, float them right off the toilets

those curiositystream cutscenes were annoying as hell, we are here to watch your videos, not documentaries with terrible dubbing.

My God, this guy's speaking is impossible to listen to. Every other word has a gap between it like he's pausing for dramatic effect

Great content! I enjoy that your channel covers several sieges in history. Many channels focus on great battles, but masive battles were unusual in history. Wars were won by long sieges and the ocupation of strategic locations.

The fall of La Rochelle marked the death of the last seed of liberty in France, which would inevitably descend to absolute monarchy until replaced by even more centralized republic.

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you should do a video on mongol siegecraft

Go check "Le cardinal de Richelieu au siège de La Rochelle" (Henri-Paul Motte, 1881) painting
Very famous one

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Some of my ancestors came from LaRochelle and some went there to escape
the Holy Inquisition, some died in the siege but some managed to escape
by ship to New France.

Richelieu should have tortured all the normaltrash who subjected the weaker people in their city to such suffering to death.

As pointless a resistance as in Ukraine. Normaltrash are ever quick to subject weaker people to all kinds of suffering in the name of whatever ridiculous normalcy they decide in their arrogance "everyone" should "bravely" submit to.