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Early Access to the Retreat from Moscow (Patreon)

Published:
2019-12-15 12:55:03
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2026-06

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Hello Patrons, 

Here it is, Napoleon's 1812 Retreat from Moscow, ad-free and a week before anyone else will get to see it. I hope you enjoy it. It's a longer video than usual, but I wanted to try and do justice to this incredibly dramatic and poignant story. I look forward to your feedback and let me know if you spot any mistakes!

I'll share a link to the YouTube version with its sponsor spot as soon as it's ready (if anyone's looking for a World of Tanks sign-up code I can help you out..)

Thank you again for all your support, and may I take this opportunity to wish you a very happy festive season. 

Toby

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Napoleon in Russia 1812: The Retreat

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Comments

Gordian III

I loved watching this : ) perhaps the best video from you ( so far ; ) ). The music was abseloutely magnificent as well. ♥

Drifter

Wow! amazing job! Where did you get all these images? Anyway you can post them? They would make some amazing background pictures

Luca Schneider

Wow this video has set the standarts for quality in my opinion. Never before have i seen such a greatly animated video. I for sure will watch it many times over. Btw the courage displayed by Napoleons army is just magnificent especially Marshall Ney and his troops.

Respublik

Any recommended reading specifically about Napoleon's stay in Moscow and the retreat?

Richard Fernandes

SUPERB Job as always! The Long wait was Worth It! Quality over Quantity 👍🏻. There's nothing else to suggest about this latest video. Congrats for You Toby & Mr. Charles Nove. You both are an unbeatable duo when it comes to History Video. Keep up the great Work as always 👍🏻.

EpicHistoryTV

The memoirs of General Caulaincourt are a brilliant primary source, or another very good book that collates many letters and memoirs of the retreat is '1812: The Great Retreat' by Paul Britten Austin.

Azuolas L. Adlys

It was painful to watch the video after weather felt below -10 C, than to -20 C, than even to -30, and when Napoleon reached Vilna, again to -37 C. This cold weather is pretty rare even in these freeze-lands. I live in Vilna for almost 30 years and felt -35 C only once in my life, your face skin burn, lips crack, eyelashes turn to crystals. Poor soldiers, both russians and french. Thank you for the video!

Erik Drysdale

Totally epic! Another excellent video. The horrific weather and logistical planning reminds me of the Soviet-Finnish winter war in some regards (albeit 100+ years before it!)

Sitraka Forler

The music...the music at the end with such a beautifull quote T^T Dam this is superbe ! Bravo to all the team !!!!

Michael Maley

Phenomenal video as always, it was absolutely harrowing, keep up the amazing work. Toby and Charles, I hope you have a great Christmas!

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you Azuolas. And that's very interesting to hear, I've never experienced anything below -10 so difficult to imagine.

Richard Fernandes

Enjoy The Holidays! Merry Christmas to all Epic History TV.

Gavin Anand Saint Just Brown

Well done again Toby! This one plays out almost like a nightmare. Really appreciate you highlighting the polyglot nature of Napoleon's army and the fact that even when staring death in the face, armies are still capable of performing extraordinary feats, in battle or retreat. Look forward to you covering what happened over the next two years. Merry Christmas!

Resident Elect

This was both enthralling and heartbreaking. I knew the retreat was an utterly abysmal experience for all involved, but had not appreciated just how horrendous it was. I've yomped in sub zero temperatures, all the while dressed in modern combat fatigues, wet weather gear, and had plentiful food, water (and cigarettes!!) as well as APCs and helicopters to rely on for safe and relatively comfortable transportation for long journeys. Irrespective of the politics and why they were there, I feel heartbroken for every single one of those men and women. Thank you so much Toby, as it is events like this, recounted in such detail, which make me so thankful to be alive in an age where such hardships are becoming rarer and our leaders strive to prevent conflict instead of causing it.

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you. It is indeed a horrifying tale, and one I wanted to cover in detail for various reasons. For one thing, in the midst of catastrophe, it contains some of the most extraordinary examples of bravery and military skill of the Napoleonic Wars - Ney's escape from Krasny, and the Dutch engineers at the Berezina being the most obvious. On a story level, there's also something incredibly poignant about this tragic fate of a once all-conquering army (the old hubris > nemesis storyline). And finally, I wanted to highlight that for all the excitement of cavalry charges etc, ... it's logistics that really matter!

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks Gavin, and to you! Very glad that's the impression you got, it was precisely what I was aiming for with the music etc! Essentially, a horror film.

Richard Fernandes

You are a ROCK on History Videos Productions, Toby 🔥

Gabriel Cormier Labrecque

I live in Mtl, Quebec, where winters are maybe a bit milder but similar to Russian ones.

Gabriel Cormier Labrecque

We rarely get anything under -25C but I can swear those types of temperature are hard to imagine until you feel it, You can hardly breath from how cold the air is, The frost can even feel like razors going through you body, pieces of metal could even stick to your fingers when you touch them. Your lips and skin cracks open if you stay outside too long uncovered And if you are unlucky enough that the wind blows strongly...

Richard Fernandes

Here's something I'll like to share with all of You, that I found this Afternoon reading about The French Retreat. Segur in his Memoirs, recounts an episode of a Message Napoleon delivered to his Old Guard before a feint attack He launched at Krasny: With his birch walking stick in hand, Napoleon placed himself at the helm of his Old Guard grenadiers, declaring "I have played the Emperor long enough! It is time to play general!" (32). Segur's Memoirs, page 202.

Chirag

An absolute masterpiece! I tip my hat to you sir!

EpicHistoryTV

It's a great line. There's a great observation from a Russian colonel at the same battle, describing the Old Guard advancing past the Russian forces 'like a hundred gun warship moving through fishing boats'.

Damien Pugh

Great video and love the series! Loved the inclusion of British propaganda throughout. Any good sources to view them? Thank you.

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you! As you may know James Gilray and Isaac Cruickshank were the leading exponents of the art in this period, and you can find most of their works through your preferred search engine. There's also a great collection at the Anne SK Brown Military Collection of the Brown University Library, which is what I use for the series: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/collections/id_619/?q=cruikshank&search_field=&selected_facets=keyword%3ACaricatures+and+cartoons

Alexander Strankov

Just another masterpiece, above everything I was shockingly surprised hard things like Maloyaroslavets pronounced that good and close to the original, I guess it was not that easy but your attention to detail is mindboggling.

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you, great to hear! We don't always nail the pronunciations, but I always do the research and Charles always gives it his best shot!

Richard Fernandes

Indeed! That's why Kutuzov postponed the all to go offensive that He had planned, after seeing how The Old Guard marched.

jk kim

My god this is THE most shocking and saddest history video I've ever encountered. All those agonies and suffering.... All those laid at the mercy of mere fortune and hand of enemys... The very reverse side of glorious victory is grievous pains.

Norman

where is the script ?