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The Catalan Grand Company: The First Free Company in History
This is the story of how a band of Catalan outlaws who lived on the frontier between the Muslim and Spanish kingdoms became some of the most sought-after mercenaries in history, defeating the Ottomans, the Byzantine Empire, and finally becoming the masters of Athens. Called the Grand Catalan Company, they were arguably one of the first-or even the first-mercenary companies in history. They usually hired themselves out to the highest bidder but only as long as they got paid. Many an emperor or duke who hired the Catalan Company learned this the hard way.
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Free Companies: The Age of Mercenary Companies
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Renaissance Italy was marked by both continuous warfare and economic growth. Against this backdrop arose the Condotta, the contract system of hiring mercenaries, which was arguably the most distinct characteristic of the period. Initially, soldiers hired themselves out to the highest bidder as “free lances,” the lance being the smallest unit of army organization at the time. This is the origin ...
The Two Real Viking Sieges of Paris 845 and 885
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In this video we will ask which historical events inspired the part of the show Vikings. The Vikings stood at the gates of Paris many times and Paris was attacked by Vikings at least five times. Ragnar, or rather the Viking leader Reginherus, was the first to reach the city, while Rollo was one of the leaders of the last Viking siege of Paris. It was this final assault that inspired many of the...
The Janissaries: The Ottoman Sultan’s Slave Soldiers
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Start with InVideo AI for free and create upto 4 videos for free but with a watermark. If you want to publish videos without a watermark consider upgrading to a paid plan which starts at as low as $20/month. invideo.io/i/SandRohmanHistory In this video, we explore how the Janissaries became the Sultan’s elite, why they were recruited from enslaved Christians, how they fought, and why they were ...
Barbary Corsairs: The Most Feared Pirates in the Mediterranean Sea
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Go to expressvpn.com/SandRhoman and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free! The Barbary corsairs were some of the most feared pirates in history. From their bases in North Africa, they terrorized seafarers and inhabitants of the Mediterranean coast. They robbed valuable goods and abducted thousands of people to sell into slavery. The Barbary corsairs sailed as far as Newfoundland,...
China's Long Road To Empire 10,000 BC-221 BC
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Go to tryfum.com/SANDRHOMAN and use code SANDRHOMAN to save an additional 10% off your order today. The Great Wall of China and the famous terracotta army vividly symbolize the power of ancient China-to the point that they have even been featured in movies . In The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor , a 2008 release that did no honor to the 1999 classic, the army even came back to life . The his...
The Earliest Sieges in History (and How they Worked)
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Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get up to 60% OFF your subscription ➡Here: go.babbel.com/t?bsc=sandrhomanhistory-jan2024&btp=default&RUclips&Influencer..Jan-2024..USA-TATAM..1200m60-youtube-sandrhomanhistory-jan-2024 When did the first sieges take place, what did they look like, and what siege equipment was used? In this video, we address these questions and search for v...
Historical Champion Warfare (and Why it Was Common)
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🚀 Install Star Trek Fleet Command for FREE nowt2m.io/SandRhomanHistory and enter the promo code WARPSPEED to unlock 10 Epic Shards of Kirk, enhancing your command instantly! How to easily redeem the promo code 👉 t2m.io/promo_STFC In this video, we want to explore whether single combat has ever existed, how it might have worked and what we can learn about ancient Greek and Roman societies from t...
Ancient India from the 'Pacifist' Indus Valley Civilization to Alexander the Great's Invasion
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Take care of your mental health and visit our sponsor: BetterHelp.com/Sandrhoman. Clicking this link gets you 10% off your first month of BetterHelp. In the 4th century BC, an Indian army marched along the Hydaspes River and took battle order near modern-day Jhelum. This region bordered the Persian Empire but instead of Persians, they encountered a strange force clad in heavy armor under the co...
Pike and Shot Warfare - The Spanish Tercio | Early-Modern Warfare
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Pike and shot warfare emerged in response to forces dominating the battlefields such as the Swiss mercenary and the gendarmes, the French heavy cavalry. These powerhouses dominated their respective troop types throughout the late Middle Ages. During the Pike and Shot age, the first to successfully stand firm against these forces combined were the Spanish. But they had to learn it the hard way d...
Landsknechts: Most Sought-After Mercenaries in Early Modern Europe
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The Landsknechts - arguably one of the most famous, most effective and most sought-after mercenary troops of Europe, but sometimes also pitiless plunderers and ruthless rogues. Armed with dreaded pikes and 2 handed swords the Landsknechts were admired by their allies and feared by their enemies. Here’s how the Landsknechts became a force to be reckoned with. Many contemporary historiographical ...
Swiss Mercenaries: The End of Cavalry Superiority in the Late Middle Ages
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In this video we discuss how the cavalry’s long-held dominant position on the battlefield was challenged by pure infantry armies in the 15th century. To show this in an exemplary way we will look at the role the Old Swiss Confederacy played in this development. Before we continue: none of this means that the later French Gendarmes, Winged Hussars or German Black Riders were ineffective or unimp...
The Highland Charge - The Famous Shock Tactic of the Scottish Clans
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The Highland Charge was the shock tactic that scored the Scottish clans of the 17th and 18th centuries a reputation as fearless and fierce fighters. But this charge is usually only known for its disastrous application at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. It was recently quite well depicted in the TV-Series Outlander, which we’ll use along side our own artwork at some points in the video for illus...
The First Armies: Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia 3,500 BC-1200 BC
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Checkout Total War: PHARAOH here: play.totalwar.com/SandRhomanHistory In the very south of Egypt, in the temple of Abu Simbel, a wall / mural relief tells the story of one of the first great battles of history, the Battle of Kadesh. The victory of the Egyptian ruler Ramesses II was elaborately staged: Several depictions along the Nile from present-day Luxor to Abydos tell of the great deeds he ...
The Origins of War (500,000 BC-3,000 BC)
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In a part of the Nile Valley that was soon going to be flooded by the construction of the Aswan Dam, the archaeologist Fred Wendorf made a groundbreaking discovery. In 1964 he found a prehistoric burial site which contained 61 skeletons near the border between Egypt and Sudan. This burial site, called Jebel Sahaba, was constructed by members of the Qadan culture about 14,000 years ago. Because ...
Why the Bayonet Replaced Pike and Shot: From 1650 to the Napoleonic Wars
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Why the Bayonet Replaced Pike and Shot: From 1650 to the Napoleonic Wars
Byzantine Military Revolution: The Army That Brought the Empire to A Golden Age in the 10th Century
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Byzantine Military Revolution: The Army That Brought the Empire to A Golden Age in the 10th Century
"Greek Fire": The Elusive Medieval Liquid Fire
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"Greek Fire": The Elusive Medieval Liquid Fire
The 5 Great Battles of 1632 | Thirty Years War 8
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The 5 Great Battles of 1632 | Thirty Years War 8
Swedish Intervention: Gustavus Adolphus Challenges The Emperor | Thirty Years War 7
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Swedish Intervention: Gustavus Adolphus Challenges The Emperor | Thirty Years War 7
The 7 Great Sieges of 1628 | Thirty Years War 6
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The 7 Great Sieges of 1628 | Thirty Years War 6
Let's Get It Right: Longbow vs Crossbow - A Video Essay
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Let's Get It Right: Longbow vs Crossbow - A Video Essay
Danish Intervention: Wallenstein's Rise | Thirty Years War 5
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Danish Intervention: Wallenstein's Rise | Thirty Years War 5
Joan of Arc: The (Staggering) Siege of Orléans 1428 / 29 | Hundred Years' War
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Joan of Arc: The (Staggering) Siege of Orléans 1428 / 29 | Hundred Years' War
Beyond Europe: The Global Dimension of the War | Thirty Years War 4
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Beyond Europe: The Global Dimension of the War | Thirty Years War 4
The Galloglass: Ireland's Most Sought-After Mercenaries
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The Galloglass: Ireland's Most Sought-After Mercenaries
In Defense of the Scottish Renaissance Army
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In Defense of the Scottish Renaissance Army
Beyond Germany: The Internationalisation of the War | Thirty Years War 3
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Beyond Germany: The Internationalisation of the War | Thirty Years War 3
A Case Study of the Perfect Siege of Ath 1697
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A Case Study of the Perfect Siege of Ath 1697
France's Perfect Fortresses and Infallible Sieges (~1700 CE)
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France's Perfect Fortresses and Infallible Sieges (~1700 CE)

Комментарии

  • @sanjacoboVIIestuardo
    @sanjacoboVIIestuardo Час назад

    Even today, our paratroopers also be called "almogávares"

  • @KaisarBety
    @KaisarBety Час назад

    Thanks i had trouble raising my own army, this video help me configure it now.

  • @garygallagher7269
    @garygallagher7269 2 часа назад

    My name Gallagher, Gall was where we get galloglass, we were a royal family that sat at the high table

  • @zeul1337
    @zeul1337 3 часа назад

    14:02 my man actually said "hitherto"

  • @tancredbleedsred
    @tancredbleedsred 5 часов назад

    As much as I despise limeys, I do have to admit their civil wars are fascinating.

  • @BrightSaurus
    @BrightSaurus 6 часов назад

    Just go around it

    • @Gizrildarenus
      @Gizrildarenus 4 часа назад

      You can’t it’s a circle and even if you boated your way there they would destroy your ships either way (btw brightsaurus I love your RON vids)

    • @BrightSaurus
      @BrightSaurus 4 часа назад

      @@Gizrildarenus it's France, all you do is go around it

    • @Gizrildarenus
      @Gizrildarenus 3 часа назад

      @@BrightSaurusdon’t forget about the naval fortresses and the blockade that France made from the British and the rest of Europe

    • @BrightSaurus
      @BrightSaurus 3 часа назад

      @@Gizrildarenus go around it

    • @Gizrildarenus
      @Gizrildarenus 3 часа назад

      @@BrightSaurus e

  • @iseeyou5061
    @iseeyou5061 6 часов назад

    The decisive moment seems to came after Austria-Ottoman war which means there are roughly a lull moment in the siege for 10 years. And since Ottoman cannot fully blockade Candia due to Venetian navy, that means Candia are not fully besieged and give Venetian opportunity to bolstered Candia defense once Ottoman return. Which i find amusing because the invasion of Crete start with a quite successful strategm of war by pretending to invade Malta but the Gazi Pasha failure to conquer Candia itself before the Jannisary retracted had bloated the siege for 21 years.

  • @Sir_Lancel0t
    @Sir_Lancel0t 7 часов назад

    As someone who have a time machine, this video is very helpful

  • @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN
    @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN 8 часов назад

    Would the English longbowmen not be considered an earlier professional army compared to the Gendarmes?

  • @micheldesjardins8813
    @micheldesjardins8813 9 часов назад

    The scottish schiltrons during the first scottish war of independance back in the 14th century. Also battle of Courtrai 1302 where the goedendag used by the flemish were excellent at repelling the french's charges.

  • @danielthehuman4662
    @danielthehuman4662 10 часов назад

    Guy at 5:25 has a big ah head

  • @StickyBarcelona
    @StickyBarcelona 11 часов назад

    visca catalunya lliure

    • @thenoblepoptart
      @thenoblepoptart 9 часов назад

      The last time I went to Barcelona I saw yellow ribbons painted onto the streets. A sign of independence???

    • @StickyBarcelona
      @StickyBarcelona 8 часов назад

      @@thenoblepoptart yes, more or less, it was in support of some political prisoners (who were jailed on separatist causes)

  • @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN
    @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN 12 часов назад

    How did they manage to fight the English when both of them used St George’s cross?

  • @mikekolokowsky
    @mikekolokowsky 13 часов назад

    Ants go to war.

  • @mrpoxycat3967
    @mrpoxycat3967 14 часов назад

    Amazingly they got taken over by just letting the enemy in without a fight.

  • @ynnck247
    @ynnck247 15 часов назад

    great video

  • @LehySnek
    @LehySnek 15 часов назад

    You really love that dwarfy looking guy with the pipe, huh? xD

  • @filipbertram78
    @filipbertram78 16 часов назад

    ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍

  • @filipbertram78
    @filipbertram78 16 часов назад

    ❤️🤍💚

  • @monanopsin
    @monanopsin 16 часов назад

    1:35 it is a detail but "your majesty" or "sire" is more accurate to apostrophize the king of France

  • @DukeVictory
    @DukeVictory 19 часов назад

    I agree with all the technical aspects of the formations and weapons, but I think it also leaves out the simple factor, that the swiss normally had a strict no prisoners rule, for the simple fact, that a nobleman's ransom was a fortune for any farmer and would be a risk to the formation for people chasing after it. I also think that this plays into some of the fear and terror of those battles.

  • @mikec6111
    @mikec6111 20 часов назад

    5:19. That is an expert segue my friend.

  • @sirannikus
    @sirannikus 21 час назад

    But what if they used Level III enchanted trebuchets?

  • @dailm8056
    @dailm8056 22 часа назад

    There is a very obvious error in this video, and it was intentional The Shang Dynasty was not the first dynasty in China at all. The Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty in China The Xia Dynasty was not a void dynasty as he said except for historical documents. There are no ruins to prove it. On the contrary, there is a huge city ruins in the village of Erlitou, Henan Province, with huge city walls, city arterial roads, eight palaces and many noble tombs unearthed in one corner of the city, as well as bronze workshops and weapons, jade, pottery, and more. The urban underground drainage pipe network must be made of ceramics. The ruins of this city date back to 3,800 years ago, which is obviously 500-600 years earlier than the last capital of the Shang Dynasty, "Yin Ruins". Moreover, this site was first discovered in 1976 and has been excavated for more than 50 years now. This site is very famous in the Chinese archaeological community. Although it does not have a systematic text unearthed like the Yin Ruins, it also has 500 pottery words, which is obvious. It was the last capital of the First Dynasty of China, because the location of this area and the time of the city's decline are consistent with historical documents in C14 You unilaterally avoided this important site and chose to skip it directly, saying that the Shang Dynasty was the first dynasty in China. This is obviously a very amateurish approach.

  • @julienlengrandlambert
    @julienlengrandlambert 23 часа назад

    I never comment on videos but here I really want to salute the efforts to use the correct prononciations for names of cities, people and more. French, Dutch and all impressively correct, super work!

  • @ABCshake
    @ABCshake День назад

    A game based on 17/18th century seige warfare would be amazing

    • @Hvginn
      @Hvginn 3 часа назад

      Yeah, the Total War series are disappointing when it comes to sieges.

  • @mahino420
    @mahino420 День назад

    i believe that in prehistory war was rare because it was simply too costly for a hunter gatherer society to fight their equivalent when they had to hunt animals easier than their fellow hunters

  • @miguelmontenegro3520
    @miguelmontenegro3520 День назад

    European noblemen's only weakness: Unable not to charge

  • @jeanladoire4141
    @jeanladoire4141 День назад

    I visited a lot of vauban's forts. Very impressive walls

  • @requiem6465
    @requiem6465 День назад

    I wonder if Cadia was inspired by this story?

  • @Cody38Super
    @Cody38Super День назад

    It's not fucking "Bō" it's "BoW" as in - after a performance, an actor takes a BOW!

  • @daspence2374
    @daspence2374 День назад

    I thought most single combats were fought during the prebattle phase as a way to boost moral, at least thats how the examples i can remember from history were used

  • @iseeyou5061
    @iseeyou5061 День назад

    Huh. While both K&G and Sandrhoman tell the story for siege of Belgrade and that the Hungarian take Ottoman bait. In here however the peasant are basicly an auxilliary troops for Hungary and seems to affect the battle little(narratively) while in K&G, the peasant are what safe the Belgrade because they're the one that sally out to loot and resist the Ottoman which allow Hunyadi to join and repulse the staggered Ottoman. However it's an old K&G so probably the video coverage would change later once Ottoman history catch up into Siege of Belgrade

  • @alpharius6781
    @alpharius6781 День назад

    I was looking for Videos on the Siege of Cadia but this is just as good. Very nice Video

  • @Ancona37
    @Ancona37 День назад

    Do you have any foot notes ?

    • @SandRhomanHistory
      @SandRhomanHistory День назад

      bibliography is in the description. some footnotes are usually shown on screen. let me know what you look for and I might be able to link you some stuff.

  • @ChineseAncientStories-cb8uo
    @ChineseAncientStories-cb8uo День назад

    Only the strongly armed can be free.

  • @mustafakocabas6215
    @mustafakocabas6215 День назад

    If the Habsburger wouldnt hide in Linz with more than 200 k soldiers and fought against the Sultan Suleiman they would loose for 100 percent. Suleiman attacked Vienna only to intimidate the Habsburger and lock them to a open field battle. After the ottomans couldnt find the hiding soldiers the Sultan wrote a message to Sharlken where he said come to Vienna to fight me like a man and don't hide but still the Habsburger didnt answer and kept hiding. If they dared to face him probably whole Europe would belong to the ottomans💀💀. That was just unlucky for the ottoman empire

  • @itsmealex8959
    @itsmealex8959 День назад

    Im sorry, the SECOND LONGEST?!?

  • @_DeadEnd_
    @_DeadEnd_ День назад

    Some 39 millennia later, Vauban's descendant met his match on Hydra Cordatus.

  • @DirectorBird
    @DirectorBird День назад

    Sebestianne crab de bobon

  • @hbicgrizzly8212
    @hbicgrizzly8212 День назад

    lolol Bubenburg lololol Buben lolol

  • @robertlandin40
    @robertlandin40 День назад

    Hmmmm…… these “bastion forts” seem to be very widespread around the world. Something ain’t right here.

  • @KenDelloSandro7565
    @KenDelloSandro7565 День назад

    +VIVA CRISTO REY

  • @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
    @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 День назад

    Cavalry is not dead, they just switched up from horses to airplanes, and NO, before anybody says anything, no tanks don't count as cavalry, they for better of worse chariots, the same goes for choppers, HELICOPTERS not motorcycles ok, but yes motorbikes can count as the next generation of horses, I mean the Third Reich did that a couple of times, KNIGHTS OF THE SKY NEVER DIE!

  • @chickendude1695
    @chickendude1695 День назад

    I thought the backgrounds looked familiar but wasn't sure from where till i saw those inkarnate prefabs lol

  • @thibs2837
    @thibs2837 День назад

    Vive la France et à l'unisson

  • @eurasia1963
    @eurasia1963 День назад

    Its never been proven that Egypt won,ramesses made a peace treaty after with the Hittite king ......not the behaviour of the great conqueror,also the Hittites were using iron while the Egyptian army had bronze,a much inferior metal for weapons

  • @johnosborne1873
    @johnosborne1873 День назад

    SUCH an interesting topic. Thanks for the education!

  • @moesmirani8697
    @moesmirani8697 День назад

    Try Project reality

  • @KOBALT124
    @KOBALT124 День назад

    I showed my video to my Albanian friend he turned into a Janissary.