5 First Hand Accounts of War Through The Ages (From Ancient Rome to The Somme)

🤣A disclaimer because a historical first hand account might be disturbing. Know what's disturbing? Emperor Elagabalus locked up a lion, a monkey, and a snake in a temple and fed them nothing but human 🍆. His friends are teaching your children, sleep well.

these battles were brutal

Time for an update!!!

Its surprising that in the 13th century their called Turks.

What a waste of life I wish humans would stop fighting the rich people wars

I wish you'd read aloud the circumstances of each battle. I listen to these at work and hearing about the battle, but missing out who it is or where kindve sucks in the beginning

I'm curious as to what was considered a missile in 57 BC.

From all roman empire battle you choose gaul not the punic wars and the Battle of zama ? You're is Very eurocentric 😂

The first one is quite unique, it’s not only a first person view of Roman warfare but Caesar’s first person view. We literally know how Caesar saw, fought in and triumphed in an engagement, everything he felt and what he saw…mind blowing

Most wars are fought for the honor of some dickhead that thinks he's boss. Utter madness.

Nobody:
Some French Guy: "Yeah I went and started a fight with these Turks and all hell broke loose. The King showed up and everything, lol."

If I didn't have cerebral palsy I would have joined in military service my father was in military service for 3 years as an MP my grandfather serve during the Cuban missile Crisis my step-uncle was a Vietnam some of my family members have served in Afghanistan

War is war. War is hell. War is suffering. But war seems to be the Bain of human existence…not one century or even decade can go without one because of terrorism. Pretty sad eh.

I love the respect people of the further past gave to their enemies. They always give them credit and compliment them in ways even though they fought. It shows that hate wasnt such a driving force as it is today.

As long as humans are capable of killing animals, they will always be able to kill other humans. True world peace starts at home.

My grandma told me and my brother stories growing up about yhe family but I never really knew if they were real or not. The past couple years ive researched and found that yes they were true. The muddy creek massacre was my maternal family side.

Mother of god

People think war is something to celebrate or make movies about but it's just seems like people drafted into a situation that is hell on earth

Dammit I have a job interview tomorrow morning, and now at midnight I find this treasure trove of ancestral lore?

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I can’t wait to hear the bs my spoiled young countrymen will come up with, their even softer then the brits.

This dude and his team is without doubt the best documentarian. History of the universe/earth and now this channel my God, thankyou for making great content

Captivating. Epic narration

"An overdose of rum"
That's a good one!

Me: Watching Slipknot videos
My recommendations: This irrelevant nonsense.

Imagine what an account from a person living during the conquests of Atilla the Hun must've been like.

The one from the Crusades could be a bit longer there is much more from it.

5 Brutal First Hand Accounts first story was written in 3rd person but we changed it to first lol

The first world war was absolute madness. A tremendous loss of life on both sides with so little territory gained in the Western front with millions of deaths. So many young men died, and for what? For an even more terrible war to begin 21 years after the first one's end.

______War Never Changes, its....ALWAYS....FUNDED....by the Exact same BANKS
BOTH "sides" of just about EVERY modern War were FUNDED by the same Banksters.

Hard to tell how accurate the account by Cesar is, but ita incredible how highly he spoke of his enemies

Man sitting there with his nose hanging off, “Milord, I appear to be wounded. Might I go ask those over there for help?”

Except war did change. Mortality rates increased dramatically during the 19th and 20th century.

dope

The contrast between the vivid reality described by ceasar and the fantastical tale told by the frenchman is amazing

I love how Genuine and respectful towards the enemy the roman commander was

War never changes

The only thing that changes in war are the people that fight them

Did you interview all of these guys? That’s pretty cool.

Why all soldiers on preview are asian? Crusaseder, frenchy, rome soldier.

It very much depends on the individual.

I was in Afghanistan for multiple deployments with a SOF group. Thoroughly enjoyed myself

That 1807 excerpt is from the famous Retreat to Corunna, when the British were handily losing the war on the Iberian Peninsula. The Greenjackets, elite skirmishers who used rifles instead of smooth bore muskets, were so hated by the French that they rarely took prisoners. A Greenjacket could comfortably hit targets at 200,300, and up to 500 yards, when a musket was inaccurate past 50.

When will we put an end to war, before war puts an end to us?

The scariest thing about the Somme account is the guy running the odds. When studying about WW1 and WW2 I've often thought I might do the same thing, it's petrifying to hear that it's reality

The Rifleman from the Peninsular War is an interesting one. Riflemen under Craufurd at that time were some of the best soldiers in the British Army: usually literate and numerate, with good eyesight, volunteers, as well as those 'difficult' men other Regiments wanted rid of (usually with some intelligence).
This meant they were a mixed lot, everything from 'Gentlemen rankers' to criminals.
The number of books called 'The Recollections of Rifleman --- ' attests to this.
I found a memoir from WWII (in which my father served in Egypt and Italy, and into Austria, by 'Rifleman Dalby'. After my father read it, he reckoned he knew the men mentioned, as the names were altered, but still descriptive, and the name or number of the units had been shifted 'one to the right'.

Dalby was probably a man my Dad knew as 'Prof', and there was an Irishman there called 'Mick' in the book (IIRC), but he was Paddy Doherty, my fathers close friend.
The book covers the Italian campaign from the British viewpoint, and how these men were the first to enter the Third Reich (Austria), and tells how all of this is almost forgotten, as reporting of the Italian campaign fell off almost to nothing after June, 1944.