How did the Prussian Army Dominate Europe in the 1800s? | Animated History

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8:51 " September 3rd, 1814 saw a tectonic shift in Prussian society..." Or, dare I say, a Teutonic shift?

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It’s hard not to admire after their defeat against Napoleon that they actually took their defeat to heart and tried to learn from their mistakes. Instead of playing the blame game that even now effects countries today.

Fun Fact: The US hired the Prussian officer Friedrick Von Stuben during the American Revolution because Generals like George Washington wanted to instill disciplinary standards, customs and courtesies, and infantry doctrine to the ranks. The US Army still holds many of these traditions to this day.

“Laws are like sausages, It’s best to not see them being made.” - Otto Von Bismarck

Prussia’s modernized army discipline, resulted in a Prussian victory; the war was formally concluded on August 23 by the Treaty of Prague. The treaty assigned Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia

I would love a vid on the Portuguese Colonial War. It is a criminally underrated and super fascinating war that lacks publicity.

Griffin may have overlooked a key detail on ‘how’. Prussia observed the American Civil War and noted how railways became quintessential in the Union’s operations and eventual victory. This led to Prussia to invest more into building more lines/networks of rail. Rails + their quicker mobilisation system (compared to stringent French camp reporting) made transport more effective.

1. Officers through skill and ability not nepotism or connections 2. Less corporal punishment more emphasis on tactics 3. Conscription with just reason 4. Advanced weaponry and its mastery. 5. Flexible chain of command, quick response. (mission type tactics-Auftragstaktik) - personal note

Prussia's military is very interesting, excited to learn more about it!

"March divided, fight united" was copied from Napoleon's Corps. Each Corps was a self-contained mini-army: Infantry, cavalry, artillery and services; able to fight on its own, but could quickly join up with other corps for larger engagements. This made better use of what road networks there were, and also aided in foraging if magazines were not readily available.

Fun fact: After his death in 1831, General Carl von Clausewitz was buried in the cemetery in Breslau (today's Wrocław). In 1971, at the request of the GDR authorities, the ashes of the general and his wife Marie Sophie were transferred to his hometown of Burg near Magdeburg, where they were buried in the Ostfriedhof cemetery, where he is to this day.

For me Prussia is the major example of "Learn from your own mistakes"

“They're just constructed in an unorthodox manner” - British military observer during the Franco-Prussian war

Its really a wonder to notice that the compulsory military conscription was actually a major factor in pushing heavy german emigration to the US in the 19th Century. This created an irony: even though Prussia grew economically very rapidly in the 19th Century but emigration to the US always kept increasing and increasing. Edit: One major factor pointing towards this push factor of military conscription is that Germans were a major immigrant group in the Americas, even though they had no colonies of themselves there. More Germans emigrated than the English or the French relative to population size, that too when the home country was witnessing an industrial boom !

My great grandfather would be very happy to know his great grandfather (Scharnhorst) was mentioned in this video. This man rarely gets mentioned anywhere. Thank you so much for honoring him in this video, this subject and Gerhard’s story are both near to my heart.

¨No plan survives contact with the enemy¨ Interstingly, that same principle was one of the keys of success of Roman legions where centurions could allow their maniples to function indepently

The Zoom meeting in 6:18 with that backgrounds hahaha.

19:04 i like how napoleon approves prussian artillery lol