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Napoleon in Italy Part 3 Early Access! (Patreon)

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2023-03-10 19:18:49
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2023-03-14 17:29:23
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Dear Patrons,

I am pleased to present the world premiere of our new Napoleon video! In this episode Napoleon sets off to invade Austria, and Field Marshal Wurmser marches to the relief of Mantua - but it doesn't quite turn out that way for either of them..

Big thanks to PMF Productions for their continued great work on this series.

Typos for Merch is in effect - if you're first to spot one, you get any item of merch from our store as thanks.

There are two more episodes to come in this series, and I am also working on our two-part series on the Abbasid Caliphate, so plenty to look forward to.

And did you know - today is the 8th birthday of Epic History TV! I'm not sure the channel would've made it this far without the amazing generosity and support of our Patreon members. So thank you once again, and hope you enjoy the new video!

Best,

Toby

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Napoleon in Italy Part 3 - The Battle for Mantua

Patreon early access

Comments

MitchyCool

Toby, you just made my day off a mini-vacation. Thank you!

Richard Fernandes

SUPERB! Now on to watch this Masterpiece of both Epic History Tv and PMF Productions

Andrew Herbst

Although I have only been on Patreon for just under two years, I have been watching and been a huge fan since 2015. Always impressed and always thankful for your work, Toby!

Nigel Pierce

Let’s go !!!!!!!! This made my day

Danny Loftis

And I was just thinking today, “hasn’t it been awhile since we heard from EHTV on Patreon?” 😂 Amazing work as always to everyone involved!

Sean Fitzgerald

Wow. A surprise to be sure but a welcome one. Happy birthday!

Nuka Cola

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

Jan Smigiel

That's the best way to start the weekend!

chris MacDonald

I believe its spelled Feldzeugmeister at the end of the video. I love the series keep it up!!!

Gavin Anand Saint Just Brown

I'd been led to believe that the Austrian Army was led by incompetents at this time, but you've shown that this clearly wasn't true. You have got to give Wurmser credit for doing as well as he did under the circumstances. Another great video!

Hugo

Thanks for the great work! Has to be like a dream to be able to make documentaries about your favourite historical topics, people being very appreciative about it and making a living out of it! Excited for future napoleonic era videos!

Sean Mac

I believe you dropped an i in Alvinci's rank. you have Feldzeugmester as apposed to Feldzeugmeister. also at 8:00 do you think you could put some kind a coversion from the Revolutionary Calendar that Napoleon is using and the Gregorian date you are using for when the letter was sent. Also the figure you gave for Austrian Casaulties at Rovereto lines up with the number of prisoners that were said to be taken in the narration, where there just that few wounded and killed at Rovereto?

Enzo

The speed of the French troops down the valley finally made me understand just how much of an advantage their speed was. Truly incredible

Yatty

"There are two more episodes to come in this series," Does this mean Arcole/Rivoli will be combined into one episode? Or will the march to Vienna and the campaign against Archduke Charles be summarized/left for a later, one-off video?

IHW

Yet another magnificent production. No one brings history alive as well as you and your team. I apologise if I sound a bit nit-picky, but I believe the map doesn't account for the French annexations of Nice and Savoy (mentioned in the first episode). Just something I noticed during my third viewing of the video. Keep well Toby, and keep up the good work!

Stuart Carver

At 4.50 would it not be more grammatically correct to say observer with the Austrian Army rather than with Austrian Army? 5 parts damn exciting I’m guessing the next one will go up to Arcole? Love the music during Wurmser’s dash to Mantua. feldzeugmesiter jozef alvinczi, how many attempts did Charles need for that one? I’ve watched this 5 times now and still struggle with that mouthful.

Niraj R Khatri

Only issue I have with this video is that it ended too soon

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks Chris! You've won the typo prize for being the first of several keen-eyed viewers to spot this! I'll message you...

Zachary Zytnick

The music from 8:01 to 11:09 is truly epic.. another great video :)

EpicHistoryTV

Good spot - you narrowly missed out being first to spot Feldzeugmeister! I don't think many people are conversant with the Revolutionary Calendar these day so I don't usually include those dates! Rovereto casualties, and most others, are estimates based, but yes, the vast majority of Austrian losses were prisoners.

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks Stuart! Charles is getting pretty good at handling the French, Italian, German and Hungarian pronunciations required for this campaign!

Gavin Gates

Another great video! I love hearing the names of future marshals

Sean Mac

I meant in your text of the letter that Napeolon sent. Where he said he would be in Bassano on the 22nd. I assumed that the letter you are quoting from is using the Revolutionary calendar and Napoleon doesn't mean that it will take him 18 days to march to Bassano.

Richard Fernandes

Kudos 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 for Charles' EPIC Narration! He too has been a VALUABLE Tool for Epic History Tv 's 8 Years of Historic Narration. You two makes a great Team.

Theodore Biv

What's the soundtrack called during those timestamp? epic indeed!

Yatty

If Napoleon followed the Directory's plan, he would not be at the head of three armies. Moreau and Jourdan were the senior, more prestigious commanders, and the young Bonaparte had not yet won enough, nor had his campaigns been given time to settle in, to have his victories talk for him. To make matters worse, the two French armies were poorly coordinated, with either of Moreau or Jourdan failing to support each other in crucial moments. EpicHistoryTV couldn't go into detail on the Rhine campaign since this video is about Napoleon, but this might have caused some confusion on the timeline. Jourdan is defeated by Archduke Charles at Amberg on 24 August, and falls back. This causes Moreau to withdraw his own army towards Ulm. Jourdan attempts to recover the initiative by counterattacking at Würzburg on 3 September, but is beaten by the Archduke once again, finally crossing the Rhine after another defeat at Limburg on 16-19 September. During all of this, Moreau has been far away in the south, unable to help Jourdan, and withdrawing his exposed army back to France. So Charles, after throwing Jourdan across the Rhine, rushes south to take on Moreau. Charles catches Moreau on 19 October at Emmendingen, defeats him there, and again at Schliengen five days later, driving Moreau across the Rhine as well. Now, Napoleon. Napoleon defeats the Austrians at Rovereto on 4 September, which is already after Jourdan's defeats at Würzburg and Amberg, and after Moreau has started his retreat to Ulm. If Napoleon clears the passes beyond Rovereto, he will have to march some 250 kilometers over the mountain passes, crossing the Alps, and arrive in Bavaria in around two weeks, assuming all goes well. He will leave Wurmser with a free hand in Italy, and Wurmser along with the Mantua garrison will clear out the outnumbered French forces holding the French supply lines, leaving Napoleon in a perilous position: no supplies, his line of retreat cut off by Wurmser, probably still in the middle of the mountains, and hundreds of kilometers from Moreau. If Napoleon manages to somehow push his army out of the mountains and reach Bavaria, he will arrive as Jourdan is getting drubbed at Limburg, and Moreau is already some 100 kilometers away withdrawing west, away from Napoleon. His only option is to march toward Moreau with whatever survivors he still has and hopefully get back to France that way. Moreau is not going to risk his skin to save Napoleon's army though, so Napoleon isn't marching just 100 kilometers to reach safety, he's marching 100 kilometers + the distance Moreau retreats every day away from Napoleon. In the worst case, Napoleon will find himself with a starved, tiny army on the eastern side of the Austrian forces as Archduke Charles is dealing with Moreau in the west. Any threat Napoleon may make to the Austrian rear is meaningless, as his army is by now too small and weak, and marching on the Austrian supply lines means marching away from Moreau even more. Napoleon could not have foreseen all this when he decided to chase Wurmser, of course. But his decision, to not expose his supply lines and line of retreat to Wurmser's 20,000 Austrians in order to follow a dubious plan by a government trying to coordinate three armies from hundreds of kilometers away in Paris, was sound. Furthermore, Napoleon would have already witnessed the failure of the last two French armies on the Rhine to work together in the 1795 Rhine campaign, and the infighting of French commanders in general, so he would have had good reason to suspect things were not going to go according to the Directory's plan on the other side of the Alps, even if he could not know for sure.

EpicHistoryTV

Ah I see what you mean now about the calendar (I got an email notification about your follow up message, but can't see it anywhere here! The Patreon message board can be annoyingly buggy sometimes). Yes you're right, he's referring to 22 Frudctidor, but it would be much more helpful to say 8 Sept. I',m going to change this, thanks for pointing out.

EpicHistoryTV

Good stuff. Yes, fair to say that by the time Napoleon abandoned the advance to Innsbruck, that plan was increasingly looking like a doomed enterprise. I think Boycott-Brown also mentions that by starting so late in the year, there was a high risk that the Alpine passes would be blocked by snow by the time Nap got there.

EpicHistoryTV

That one's called Arch Enemy. It's new commissioned music - you will only hear it on EHTV!

Tom Vansel

What an excellent video Toby, thank you again for this series.

Kerry Spray

The two French armies were not able to communicate directly. The directory was basically ordering them to attack at the same time and hope they could coo-ordinate after the battle got started. Which is a the same mistake the Austrians make over and over. Napoleon thought the order was folly but decided to not argue on this occasion and only stopped once he saw the counter attack. Had he followed through with the orders at that point, he likely would have lost much of Italy, at least in the short term. Its very debatable how much success they could have achieved up north given the lack of planning and direct coordination. In hindsight he probably made the right call but who knows he could have pulled something off.

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks Isaac! It's a good point, I'll look into this.

Southerner

Newish patron and Napoleonic Warfare junkie. These are absolutely brilliant. I've enjoyed watching the videos before reading accounts of a specific battle or campaign to get the "map" fixed in my heard. They're all great but I've really loved the Italian ones. And greatly looking forward to the one on Eylau.

EpicHistoryTV

Thank you Southerner, great to hear how much you're enjoying our Napoleonic videos! Best, Toby

Dmitri Peter Mataya

I became a patron for this series. Please keep up the incredible content

Borisz Laczko

This series got me hooked on reading Napoleon's biography, it's truly an amazing time in history.

Yatty

Will we get a production update post for part 4 or should we expect the part 4 drop to be a surprise?

EpicHistoryTV

Work is well underway on Part 4, as well as Abbasids Part 1. I hope to have an update and some sneak peeks soon!