Embarrassing Military Fails in History

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Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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Chris Kane

[Simplehistory]

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[alexanderthoms]

Fun fact, after the British Invasion, a British Commander informed Lord West over the phone by saying, “I’m afraid we’ve invaded Spain, but we don’t think they’ve noticed.”

[BrickSoldierz]

0:32 Operation Tiger
2:40 Sponsor
4:18 Battle of Crete
7:04 British Invasion of Spain
9:17 Charge of the Light Brigade
12:39 Battle of Adwa
15:13 Battle of Karansebes
17:39 Battle of Red Cliffs

[KidarWolf]

I remember that incident of the British invading Spain by mistake. My sibling and I's immediate reaction: "Gibraltar has a big rock, the beach you landed on doesn't - kind of a dead giveaway, chaps!"

[OscarOSullivan]

The Royal Marines landing on south Spanish coast as opposed to Gibraltar for a training exercise is the only military blunder were you can see the funny side.

[johnrust]

For the British marines accidentally invading Spain, I half expected John Cleese as Sir Lancelot to pop out and say, "Sorry. Sorry, everyone. We sometimes get carried away."

[barbadosgelson]

That Spanish mayor has a great sense of humor.

[myrcewalda]

My great great great grandfather survived the Charge of the Light Brigade, as a corporal in the 17th Lancers. Last summer in London I met a Kazakh gentleman whose ancestors had commanded a cossack unit which tried to plug the gap caused when the Light Brigade eventually reached the Russian gunners. A sobering but tantalising prospect that our ancestors quite possibly crossed swords. We had a jolly good chat over a few drams of whisky.

[CT--]

That Gibraltar incident reminds me a bit of an incident that happened in the Czech Republic in 2020. Due to a navigation error, several Polish soldiers occupied a chapel on the territory of the Czech Republic and prevented the locals from accessing it until they were informed that they were not in Poland but in the Czech Republic.

[Erreul]

The fact the Para’s in Crete got smoked so heavily and still went on to do what they did is an absolute testimate to their program.

[pabcu]

Also never forget, a Toilet destroyed an entire submarine

[JAlucard]

My favorite military disaster has to the MISADVENTURES of the Baltic fleet sailing to Port Arthur during the Ruso-Japanesse war

[samuel]

I wouldn't call the accidental invasion of Spain an embarrassment because Spain themselves clearly took it in stride and both side had their fun with it.

[Nicky]

Honestly, I was fully expecting The Battle Of Little Bighorn to be on here. General Custer was way in over his head believing that superior firepower was gonna take down the Sioux, never realizing the enemy had a superior positional advantage and outnumbered them 3, 000 to 700.

[jokodihaynes]

"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill.

[maddoxmonteza]

Germans: *land on Crete*
meanwhile the local Cretans: Time for the durability test.

[Roofus]

Bro shoulda mentioned the navy seals who got caught storming a beach in mogadishu and were met with cameras and tourists.

[kylewatson]

The battle of Karansebes has to be THE most embarrassing defeat. Defeat? I don't even think it could be considered a defeat if you're firing on your own guys.

[corymorimacori]

“You’re a superpower, but who paid the price with the endless destruction of Russian lives!” Rasputin

[derkaiser]

The only positive of the Charge of the Light Brigade was the Russians thought the English Calvary were maniacs who would gladly die to advance on their positions and it scared them greatly. Also, it was not mentioned the gallantry of the French calvary who advanced to save their British ally and diverted a lot of the Russian fire which is how the Light Brigade escaped.