Glory And Defeat - The Franco-Prussian War 1870/71 (Full Documentary)

Pre-Order the Glory & Defeat Book Now: https://store.nebula.app/glorydefeat
The Franco-Prussian War was a pivotal moment for Europe in the 19th century. It unified Germany into a single empire while toppling the French one. In six month the world got a taste of modern warfare and a bitter rivalry that would last into the 20th century.

» SUPPORT US ON PATREON
https://patreon.com/realtimehistory

Chapters
00:00:00 Ems Dispatch Crisis
00:11:41 Why France Fought the German States Alone
00:21:55 Military Overview
00:46:04 Opening Battles: Saarbrücken, Wissembourg, Wörth
01:05:54 The Siege of Strasbourg
01:16:49 Battles of Gravelotte and Mars-La-Tour
01:27:39 Siege of Metz
01:38:56 Battle of Sedan
01:54:50 Why France Didn't Surrender After Sedan
02:05:47 French All-Out War
02:16:38 The Pope's Army
02:27:31 Strasbourg Falls
02:38:17 Rise of Guerrilla Warfare
02:49:50 The Battle of Orléans
03:06:13 Battle of Chateaudun
03:24:22 The Last Imperial Army Surrenders
03:34:23 The 1st (Failed) Paris Commune Uprising
03:45:43 The Weird And Only Naval Battle of The Franco-Prussian War
03:56:43 Bismarck Gets Closer To German Unification
04:07:24 Battles of Amiens and Beaune-La-Rolande
04:18:19 Battle of Villiers-Champigny
04:28:23 Battle of Beaugency
04:37:33 Battle of Nuits-St. Georges
04:48:04 Christmas During the Franco-Prussian War
04:59:42 German Artillery Shells Paris
05:10:31 Army of the East
05:19:58 Battle of Belfort Gap
05:30:31 Kaiserproklamation
05:42:04 Peace
05:54:18 Paris Commune

» THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS
John Ozment, James Darcangelo, Jacob Carter Landt, Thomas Brendan, Kurt Gillies, Scott Deederly, John Belland, Adam Smith, Taylor Allen, Rustem Sharipov, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Marcus Bondura, Ramon Rijkhoek, Theodore Patrick Shannon, Philip Schoffman, Avi Woolf, Emile Bouffard, William Kincade,
Daniel L Garza, Stefan Weiß, Matt Barnes, Chris Daley, Marco Kuhnert, Simdoom

» SOURCES
For a complete list of sources for each episode, please look for the individual episode videos on YouTube.

» OUR STORE
Website: https://realtimehistory.net

» OTHER PROJECTS
16 DAYS IN BERLIN: https://realtimehistory.net/16-days-in-berlin
RHINELAND 45: https://realtimehistory.net/rhineland45
THE GREAT WAR: https://youtube.com/thegreatwar

»CREDITS
Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Cathérine Pfauth, Prof. Dr. Tobias Arand, Jesse Alexander
Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig
Director of Photography: Toni Steller
Sound: Above Zero
Editing: Toni Steller
Motion Design: Toni Steller, Philipp Appelt
Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com
Digital Maps: Battlefield Design
Research by: Cathérine Pfauth, Prof. Dr. Tobias Arand, Jesse Alexander
Fact checking: Cathérine Pfauth, Prof. Dr. Tobias Arand

Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster

Contains licensed material by getty images
Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3
All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2022