Blas De Lezo - The Incredible Spanish Navy General

Hey strafers. In todays video we're going to take an oceanic voyage around the 18th century with the incredible Blas De Lazo.

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[tizona]

Hard to find this story in British history books ..the biggest fleet the English had ever put together around 200 ships and 35.000 men .

[pabloalvez]

Don Blaz de Lezo holds the absolute winning record of battles - zero losses -, together with D. Álvaro de Bazan.

[mindu]

“Todo buen español debería mear siempre mirando hacia Inglaterra “ Blas de Lezo
The Spanish legend

[matoas]

*Los dos dislikes son de veteranos ingleses, grande Blas* ♥

[dugrober]

grew up not far from the Caribbean port of Cartagena and Blas de Lezo's statue in front of the San Felipe de Barajas fortress reminds me of my youth days. The place is magical, designed to repel all pirates attacking the city! Pirates of the Caribbean to me = Cartagena. Nowadays it is a UNESCO world patrimony and a beautiful city worth visiting. Great video mate.

[giovannygonzalez]

Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta, defended our Cartagena against the greed of the english crown. So humiliating defeat it was the king banned any commentary or document about that war.

[antoniohernandez-yxxu]

The story of this amazing bloke, WHO WAS ON THE WINNING SIDE IN EVERY SINGLE BATTLE HE WAS IN, should be made into a series of movies. In contrast to pirates, he was never involved in attacking the weak to kill, rob and destroy their property purely for selfish gain.

[carlosa]

Blas De Lezo always left a part of himself in every battle…Viva España & Hispanoamerica…

[vgrg]

Omg. This man was so physically battered through his career. First, his leg, then his eye, then his arm. This guy was a tough Spanish naval officer. A warrior.

[neglectedhistories]

Even Napoleon lost at Waterloo! But de Lezo just kept winning till the day he

[enriquepascual]

The 4 english worst navy disasters in history:
1°. La Rochelle (France) 1372. Spanish navy destroyed the whole englush navy.
2°. English Armada 1589. Spanish destroy or captured 75 english vessels and thousands english dead when attacking La Coruña and Lisbon, Drake is totally defeated.
3°. Cartagena de Indias 1741. Another english Armada totally defeated when trying to attack or invade in Spain, like in Cadiz 1625 for instance.
4°. Action of 9 August 1780. This the worst english navy logistic disaster in history. Spain captured a double english convoy, the booty 55 english frigates, briggs and indiaman, thousands prisioners, 80.000 muskettes, 1.600.000 pounds in golden the consequences, London stock exchange collapsed and Cornuallis lost in Yorktown.

[victorguzman]

If this hero was english we would have Holliwood film about it every year, we would all study his victory at school and absolutely everyone would know about him. He would be as known as characters like Napoleon.

[Rmn-]

Spanish hero, The English have always lied about their defeats

[petepotr]

Yeah!! The rain and mosquitoes? Tell the truth, your fleet was defeated by a smart spanish officer, and great soldiers, native and spaniards!!

[marcostation]

the english King order to delete the great humillación at Cartagena.
that is why brithis think their navy never lose until today.
but the propaganda is ending and is glorious to see

[josjaurejauregui]

Typhus had something to do with the defeat .diseases affected both parts, Englishmen being more affected ?...maybe.
But the key factor was the skillfulness of De Lezo, a really creative, experimented and effective militar. Most probably one of the best.
You can check it out.
Great video . Thanks from Spain .

[davidvillalba]

Blas de Lezo era el puto amo, deberían hacerle una peli, por cierto el del vídeo podría aprender a pronunciar Blas de Lezo que me chirrian los oídos de oírlo.

[garciamorenomanuelmg]

blas de lezo made great contributions to british underwater researc..
🔥 🏴‍☠️

[bilyluna]

Great video, where are u from AspectHistory?

[ethand]

Very interesting video! Thank you for the video