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Epic History Newsletter #21 (Patreon)

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2025-01-10 17:30:02
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Dear Patrons,

Welcome to Epic History Newsletter number 21, and our first update for 2025. We hope many of you have had a chance to revisit some classic Napoleonic episodes via the mammoth compilations we released over the festive period - Path to Power and Napoleonic Wars All Parts. You'll be pleased to know we've also got some new videos heading your way... plus, if you can read Chinese, an appeal for research assistance! See below.

Production Updates

Battle of Trafalgar

The dramatic climax to our Nelson's Battles in 3D series is in its final stages, and we plan to launch it here on Patreon at the end of next week. A few sneak peeks to whet your appetite...

American Revolution Episode 1

Animation of Part 1 is underway . So far relations among the Anglo-American production team remain cordial, but we haven't got to Lexington yet... This will be a February release, here's a few sneak peeks from Patrick:

Work also continues on Rise of China Part 2 (covering warlords, civil war, the Long March and Japanese invasion) and World War 2.

Chinese language research assistance

As you have hopefully seen, our Rise of China series features many historical quotes, which we display in both English and Chinese text. We are working from English secondary sources, and are struggling to find our quotes in the original Chinese - largely because we cannot read Chinese! Simply translating the quotes back into Chinese does not always give an accurate result, as one eagle-eyed viewer has already noted. If YOU can help with online research to find the original Chinese for our quotes, please message us!

One Cool History Thing

Did you know - there is a significant correlation between the number of inscriptions found from Ancient Egypt (such as the Rosetta Stone) and volcanic activity (as indicated by ice cores)?

Volcanic activity > colder temperatures and less rainfall > lower Nile river levels > bad harvests > social unrest > government issues edicts. One of many fascinating facts I've learned reading Peter Frankopan's The Earth Transformed. Factoring climate into the historical record is completely eye-opening - did the Romans just get lucky by living in 'the Roman Warm Period 300 BC - 500 AD?

That's all for this week, but we'll be back soon with the Battle of Trafalgar! Thanks as always for your tremendous support.

Toby

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Comments

TankerBricks

Looking forward to Trafalgar. Two of my relatives served at Trafalgar, both on HMS Ajax- one as the Purser, the other I'm not sure.

KuhlerKarl

Great News! Will Chuck narrate the American Civil War or will Charles do it?

Kevin Xu

Hey! Let me know what quotes you need and I’ll coordinate with my wife to find the Chinese equivalents!

EpicHistoryTV

Assuming you mean the Revolution, Charles will be the main narrator, though we're planning to have American voices for some of the eyewitness accounts. Like Voices of the Peninsular but on a much more limited scale.

Richard Fernandes

Fantastic Toby! Looking forward for the next video next week! Keep up the great work as always 😉

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you Kevin! Once again, you are narrowly our second highly qualified volunteer, but I think we will also post the list here in the comments, so that anyone can help if they feel inclined. Stay tuned.

Andrew Herbst

Excited about these! I was thinking back to your Tom Shippey episode, have you considered getting Andrew Roberts and/or Adrian Goldsworthy on the show? Would enjoy another 1 off with a fun expert involved

Stuart Carver

Good choice, don’t mind some American voices and there are other great narrators out there but for me Charles is the best ,and at this point, synonymous with the channel.

Stuart Carver

Some great stills to whet the appetite. If only I spoke Chinese….or you didn’t speak English 😂

HanzChen

I can understand the pain of translating Chinese. I worked in a Museum in China and working with the English division was very difficult as many Chinese words have such complex meanings that its almost impossible to translate it to English. I don’t want to be weird but AI has been a great tool to help translate complex Chinese into Understandable English.

The CIA

Hey! More than happy to help with identifying sources and finding original quotes!

Kevin Xu

We need an epic history discord for the Chinese community members haha

The Imperialist

I am so happy that you are covering the American Revolution I also hope you can one day cover the medieval european conflicts as well such as the dutch war of independence or a series about the Spanish Rise to power in Europe. Perhaps a lesser known topic like muslim rule of Iberia anyways I hope all of you had a nice Christmas Holiday.

EpicHistoryTV

For those who kindly volunteered to help with our Chinese quotations, here are some we need help with for the first two episodes. Just a quick reminder: we are looking for the original text, with a source, rather than a translation. That is for all except number 3, which was originally in English, so for this we are looking for an accurate translation. Many thanks in advance! 1. “We have only one thing to learn from the barbarians, and that is strong ships and effective guns.” - Feng Guifen, 1861 (We believe the original text can be found in ‘Jiaobinlu kangyi’ by Feng Guifen) 2. Reform and be strengthened. Guard the old and die.’ - Kang Youwei, 1898 (We believe this is in ‘应诏统筹全局折’ by Kang Youwei, 1898) 3. ‘It will be my object to help my 400 million countrymen, and to endeavour to make the blessings of the Republic a reality.’ - Sun Yat-sen, 10th March 1912 (in North China Herald, 5 April 1912.) (The North China Herald was an English language newspaper so we are looking for a Chinese translation for this quote.) 4. “I very much look forward to the destruction of the old universe, because from its demise will come a new one, and will it not be better than the old?” - Mao Zedong (A Patron has provided this version: 吾人甚盼望其毁，盖毁旧宇宙而得新宇宙，岂不愈于旧宇宙耶!) 5. The progress of our revolution should be divided into stages... The first stage is a period of destruction, during which military rule is installed. - Sun Yat-sen, 1923 (Original text can be found in Sun’s book ‘三民主义’ or 'Three Principles Of The People') 6. “The world under heaven, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus, it has ever been.” - Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 14th century novel) (“話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分” - Translation from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54b49aa1e4b077053aeef09e/t/6152535dcaa86513d9e890b4/1632785245778/The+Northern+Expedition.pdf) 7. “This fight is important not only because it will decide the fate of the warlords. But whether or not the Chinese nation and race can restore their freedom and independence also hangs in the balance.” - Chiang Kai-shek, 1926 in an address to his generals 8. ‘China needs... a Chinese Mussolini’ - North China Standard, 12th May 1928 9. ‘If we do not weed the present body of corruption, bribery, idleness and ignorance, and establish instead a clean and efficient administration, the day will soon come when the revolution will be started against us.’ - Chiang Kai-shek, 1936 (concerned with the ‘weak and rotten’ state of the KMT) 10. “Has there ever been in history a long march like ours? No, never. The Long March is... a manifesto.” - Mao Zedong, 1935 11. “Look at the map and note the smallness of Japan compared to China. Can anyone doubt that we shall triumph?” - Chiang Kai-shek, 1937 If you are able to help, do feel free to post replies here or contact us in a direct message via Patreon.

Eric Teng

Hey, I will be most glad to help with the Chinese translations too :)

Vaidya Devank

hahahaha i love you put a joke "the relations between the american and ango team remains cordial" i really doubt it would last tho