a mad biscuit
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Hi Folks. New video is up. Check it out!
The Battle of Mycale, 479 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T54f...
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Hello Folks. New video is out! Tune in tomorrow, Friday 11/17, at 12:00 PM EST, for the Battle of Plataea!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kItDJ...
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More medieval helmets. Which one is your favorite?
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What is your favorite style of medieval helmet?
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The Battle of Montgisard was fought on the 25th of November 1177, between the Kingdom of Jerusalem, led by King Baldwin IV, and the Ayyubid Sultanate, led by Sultan Saladin.
In 1177, Philip of Alsace, went on a crusade to the holy land, joining, Raymond of Tripoli's expedition to attack Hama in northern Syria. A large crusader army, followed him. This left the Kingdom of Jerusalem with very few troops to defend its territories in the south.
Eager to take advantage of Jerusalem's vulnerability, Saladin invaded the Kingdom of Jerusalem from Egypt, and started raiding the crusader lands with an army of some 30,000 men. Learning of this, the 16-year-old King of Jerusalem, Baldwin IV, suffering from leprosy, led an outnumbered Christian force to intercept and engage Saladin's army. Baldwin's army consisted of only 375 knights, 80 templars, and some 4,000 infantry and archers. Saladin continued his march towards Jerusalem, allowing his army to be spread out over a large area, pillaging and foraging, thinking that Baldwin would not dare to attack him with so few men.
Baldwin's army swiftly intercepted Saladin's men, taking them by surprise and inflicting a crushing defeat on the Ayyubids, in what was one of the most remarkable and extraordinary victories of the crusades. The Muslim army was routed and pursued for twelve miles. Saladin fled back to Cairo, reaching the city on 8 December, with only a tenth of his army.
New video documentary coming soon!
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In a previous poll, I asked my subscribers what is your favorite time period of history to learn or read about. The majority answered medieval times.
Of the below choices, which is the most interesting to you? If you had a time machine and could go back to see and experience any of the events during these times, which time would you choose?
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For the animated battle documentaries on this channel, which game series do you prefer see?
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The Battle of Bannockburn took place in 1314, over two days, June 23–24. King of Scots, Robert the Bruce led his army against King Edward II of England, winning a great victory during the First War of Scottish Independence.
King Edward II invaded Scotland with a force of 25,000 men, the largest army to ever invade Scotland, and marched on Stirling Castle, a Scottish royal fortress occupied by the English, which was under siege by a Scottish army. However, before Edward could relieve the fortress, their path was blocked by the army of Robert the Bruce, who, despite being outnumbered, provoked the English to do battle.
Robert trained his men to use schiltron tactics, using tight, compact formations of troops forming a wall of spears, or phalanx. These tactics used by the Scottish pike formations proved very effective against the English cavalry, resulting in the Scottish winning a heroic victory over the English, destroying the English army, capturing several English nobles and forcing the English king to flee.
The Battle of Bannockburn is one of the most celebrated, and pivotal moments in Scottish history. New video coming soon!
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The Battle of Nájera was fought on 3 April 1367 to the northeast of Nájera, in the province of La Rioja, Castile, medieval Spain. It was fought during the first Castilian Civil War, a struggle over the throne of Castile, which pitted King Peter of Castile against his half-brother Count Henry of Trastámara.
The civil war in Spain turned Castile into a proxy of England and France during the Hundred Years' War, with England and France both taking sides in the conflict. Their motivation was to gain control over the Castilian fleet (Castilian naval power was far superior to that of England or France's at the time).
King Peter of Castile was supported by England, Aquitaine, Majorca, Navarra and mercenaries hired by the Edward, the Black Prince of Wales. His rival, Count Henry, was aided by a majority of the nobility and the Christian military organizations in Castile. The Kingdom of France and the Crown of Aragon did not give Henry official assistance. But many Aragonese, and French troops loyal to his general, the Breton knight and French commander Bertrand du Guesclin, fought on his side.
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"In Archaic Greece, in Renaissance Italy and in the vast expanse of the heroic Old Stone Age, at the middle of the Bronze Age of high chariotry, lived men of power and magnificence in great numbers. We are in every way their inferiors. Physically, spiritually and in intellect they exceed us in every way. I give example: our elite athletes, our special forces operators, are nothing compared to them. We find Paleolithic bones, the femur, so robust that nothing from our runners or power-lifters equals. These men were capable of sustained speeds unimaginable today. You know about [the battle of] Marathon, but not the whole story. The real physical feat wasn’t just the soldier who ran the twenty miles or so back to Athens to warn the people. The entire army ranged on the beach in heavy bronze armor, facing the enemy. After the Persians landed, the Greeks charged them from more than a mile away. The Persians were amazed at the line of gleaming bronze running toward them and their war cry. These men ran a mile in very heavy armor and also carried six-foot-plus ashen spear-spike. They drove the invaders into the sea. And right after this great effort they marched, still in armor, all the way back to Athens without pause, to prevent the Persians from making an opportune landing there. I don’t think any special military units would be able to equal this feat today, and these were the average citizens of Athens."
- The Bronze Age Mindset
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