Napoleon's Marshals Part 5 - Epic History Reaction

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[AngryBot-_]

Funny enough at queen victoria coronation in 1838, marshal soult attended the coronation and Wellington was there and said to soult "I have you at last" so fascinating

[diederikceuppens]

Fun fact about the trial of Marshall Ney
When his lawyer said that Marshall Ney could not be put on trial because he was german
Ney angrily shouted 'I am French and will always be French'

[briceoka]

To me Suchet is the best Marshal, loyal to the end, firm, won every battle, had independent command for most of his career and cared for civilians and his men. Yes, he didn't fight in the East but you can only face who's in front of you and it shouldn't be held against him.

[antoinedoyen]

An anecdote about Ney. During the attack on Russia, Ney was riding on his horse with his officers and a group of Russian prisoners shouted: Marshal Ney!! Marshal Ney!! Ney stopped his horse and said "how do you know who I am??" The Russians answered him: "Marshal Ney, we've seen you charging at the head of your cavalry for 10 years!!"

[Some.cases.]

Marshal Suchet, great at every assignment you place him. If you want him as officer in the field, officer in desk, division command, corps command, marshal and governnor, he was great at every turn.

[Akabari]

Suchet also offered to smuggle Ney out of the country even though he knew the risks, but Ney declined.

[MrPapes]

Ney stands out to me among the rest of the Marshals as a true believer to the core. The man really did pass on every opportunity he had to save himself, though in his mind doing so probably would have cost him his honor.

At his trial, his lawyer tried to argue that his client could not be tried for treason, as Ney's hometown of Sarrelouis had been annexed by Prussia through treaty that same year, making him (technically) a citizen of Prussia. This prompted Ney to interrupt him by standing up, famously saying, "Je suis Français, et je resterai Français!"

"I am French, and I will remain French!"

[abthedragon]

Suchet is my personal favorite out of all the marshals on this list. He's a capable commander, a superb administrator, he can be trusted in independent command and unlike most of the other Marshals in Spain, he was like "hey maybe if we're occupying another country, how about we treat the people with respect so they're not as likely to revolt." Heck, the fact that the people he formerly occupied prayed for his soul when he died, says a lot. I feel like he could have helped turn the tide in certain theaters of the war if he was just given the chance.

[nightking]

Am I the only one that thinks Marshal Ney is the most iconic Marshall. Certainly the most memorable of the later half of the Napoleonic wars. When your called the bravest of the brave, its hard to not be cemented in history. Also he has the most marshall look out of all of them. Also I agree with VTH. The actor Dan O’Herlihy is uncanny in resemblance to Ney. I think everyone would know him as the old man, head of OCP in Robocop

[yashjoseph]

Fun fact: Soult was also responsible for the creation of the French Foreign Legion in 1831. As Minister of War, he wanted to reform the French military and increase its strength, so he had the Legion created to bolster the army's numbers and help garrison the recently conquered Algiers. Apparently, when the Legion was created, the army detested it and was considered a lower posting. The Legion was even called the "Bastard of Soult". Funny story considering the legendary and fearsome reputation the Legion would later gain.

[vladimirzarate]

As you said, Spain and Russia were the graveyards of the french empire, even the most tough marshals were traumatized like in the siege of zaragoza where marshal lannes said to napoleon that this conflict was a nightmare and had to end

[wattoucheng]

Ney really lived (and ultimately died) in accordance with his much deserved epithet: bravest of the braves.

He couldn't claim the military mastermind of Davout or the organizational skills of Berthier but he is undoubtedly the most fearless of all marshals. Being the highest-ranking officer in his corps and still commanding cavalry charges from the front is the stuff of legends.

[mahesito]

Here in Spain this is our "Independence War, " 10% of the population died between battles, diseases and hunger. After the war many of the former guerrillas became "bandoleros" bandits. This became such a problem that our police force Guardia Civil was founded in 1844 to combat them. This banditry problem, and the Carlist Wars meant that Spain missed the first train of industrialization and would lag behind the rest of Europe for a century. Unrelated but I went to a reenactment of the battle of Albuera shown in the video when i was a kid!

[KeganStucki]

Your recent appearance on Drawn of History was so funny! "You look like the kind of guy that sits when he pees, and stands when he poops." 😂😂😂😂

[Edax_Royeaux]

I think Ney gets scapegoated at Waterloo. Ney called for the Imperial Guard to attack the British when they were still trapped in squares and Napoleon denied this request, but then had the Imperial Guard attack anyway when the British had reformed into lines on high ground. Wellington had been nearly be killed during Ney's attack by tirailleurs and having been trapped in square for some time, had lost track of the battle. This would have been the ultimate moment to strike with the Imperial Guard over open ground against infantry squares, but Napoleon was indecisive. Ney had successfully displaced Wellington from his superior defensive position and Napoleon did nothing with that.

[Marguerite-tvtq]

"This man is a Lion! His courage gave me Europe!" - Napoleon said about Marshal Ney after his decisive victory in the battle of Friedland on 14 June 1807. After this splendid victory Napoleon reached the apogee of his power, he actually became the master of Europe.

[British_patriot]

Just got my UK exam results today, glad to say I passed them all with a grade 8 (A*) in history. Pretty much all my history revision was watching you react to WW1 content so thank you so much Chris.

[reecedignan]

Interesting bit of history about Ney’s trial.

His lawyer and deviance council actually managed to kind of find him a way out of it.
They noted that Ney’s home region after the changes in French boarders no longer resided in France. As such they could not prosecute him under French law but would have up gain the permission of the other kingdom to prosecute him first.

On hearing this marshal Ney stood up and to his own lawyer and those around declared “I am French, and will always be French” completely killing his own lawyers defence.

Ney stood by his actions and life and in many ways he went out as a soldier loyal to his country to the end.
And while he does live up to the title “Bravest of the Brave” in many ways he also lives up to the idea of the born soldier, for Ney very clearly showed what a Born Soldier is all about.

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The fact that Ney gets a shout out as the bravest of the brave in the Sharpe novels, considering the protagonist of those books, should tell you all you need to know about him

[popeye]

Ney's fanaticism was both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. It made him want to prove himself but it also blinded him against thinking strategically. In the end Ney's execution took the bullet that really Napoleon deserved.
Ney loved France. Napoleon loved himself.