Napoleonic Warfare is Rock Paper Scissors | Austerlitz & The Peninsular War (Part 6/10)

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1:33And that was five parts leading up to Trafalgar. And now we start five parts leading up to Waterloo.

1:54Welcome back to Finverse History. I'm joined by Horatio Gould. It's part six. Fellas, prostates out. get them out your ass i don't know what that means pink sock you'll need to we're gonna stay from back in we're we need to take your prostate out your ass pink socket have a look at it and put it back in yeah we've done trafalgar because we're now embarking we're right this is the thick of it right we could not be thicker yeah this is the midst yeah there's musket you're up all night my prostate's fucked it's imploded i've been my i don't piss anymore it falls out right it dribbles out because i've been reading through the battles that we're going to encounter this episode it's about more what you cut out than what you leave in really i've last night i went through it all i motorboated my tome yeah fellow school shooters so many battles too many he won them all yeah fellow school shooters hold your napoleon tomes i don't think many people have said fellow school shooters because it's not much of a community my school shooters now that's the problem with school shooters do they identify as school shooters i don't know if they i think they'd view themselves as like vigilantes or like fighting for justice i don't think it's like yeah i'm a school shooter no it's just it's like the word jew it can be a it depends which how much tank you put on yeah exactly school shooter i'm a school shooter we're a community of school shooters yeah fellow school shooters hold your napoleon tome high put your right hand on it uh get your penis out we're going to go through the battles of napoleon central europe okay this is a big one last chance ladies go away to recap uh napoleon and his his fleet has been defeated at trafalgar sure the french navy is effectively destroyed nelson is dead right but fear not he's given up on sea napoleon that's all that's over doesn't matter yeah fuck it i don't care yeah the army that was amassing at bourgogne that was waiting for the channel to be cleared.

3:53They've turned around and he's gone, fuck it. Let's go the other way. It's another Operation Sea Lion. Totally. We had plans that the invasion exists in a book and that's it, basically. So we're going east. Now, before we get into these battles, I would like to cook for a while on Napoleonic land warfare. Please. Because we've only really talked about it in the forum. The forum is yours. The Reddit forum is yours. The assembly hall is mine. I've got a gun. I have barricaded the door shut. Right. Okay. So you're going to listen to my manifesto and then I may let you leave. All right. That's how we're doing this.

4:33So now Napoleon, of course, had introduced mass conscription, one of the first people to do that. That is why he is so dominant is that he's got so many more men. But Napoleonic warfare on land, as you've said before in this series, is so enchanting to men because it's essentially, we can all understand how you do it. Right. Because it is basically just chess. Yeah. Very simplistic chess. It's satisfying because it's penetrable enough that you will fill in the gap saying, I would have done that as well. I know why he did that. And so I could do that. Well, I would have done that. I will do that.

5:08Because it's obvious. I'll show them all tomorrow at school. Because when you read it, it makes it sound like it was obvious. Yes. So it's nice thinking, well, I would have thought of that as well. But also when you're watching the animations with the arrows, which I was last night and Amanda went to bed long before I started doing that. This is where the arrows actually make sense. When you get to World War II, it's a fucking mess. You can't see what's going on. So, Napoleonic Warfare on land is a triangle. Yeah. Cavalry, artillery, infantry. Right. And it's a bit like rock, paper, scissors. Okay.

5:37In that you're trying to, some things beat other things. Right. Charlie, let me cook. Some things beat other things. It's not that. Why? What is it? Apparently, if you pretend to punch someone before you do rock, paper, scissors, then they're more likely to do scissors. You said this. I don't know why. In fact, we talked about this for 10 minutes in the pod before. Not on this pod, we haven't. We did. Really? Genuinely, yeah. Oh, my God. Because I think it's that they get scared and then like... You sure it's not your other podcast? Maybe it was the other podcast. I've never heard that before.

6:04A scissor is... Yeah, it's interesting. A scissor is more... It's not interesting. It's more powerful than a fist because it's made of metal. So the next thing you do rock, scissors... Who doesn't know that? Well, subconsciously, no one knows in many ways. right napoleonic warfare on land is essentially rock paper scissors i guess you can use that as a metaphor because there's a way if you the threat of force might make someone more go for a more attacking option when actually rock was the choice to make right you know okay there's there is something there is something napoleonic you know going like this saying i could do that means that they'd like that you've interrupted me my cooking sorry i was making a meal and now charlie's just knocked the pan in the bin okay so you're not getting fed is my point no sorry please please And I'm the king, so I'm meant to be able to cook.

6:48You know what kings are like? Always cooking. They're always cooking kings, yeah? As the youth say today. Anyway, prostates out, fellas. So, cavalry, artillery, infantry, right? And it's like rock, paper, scissors in that cavalry will massacre infantry if they're in a line. If infantry are in a defensive square, then the cavalry, the horses with the swords on top, they will just charge towards the square, but they'll get spooked because they won't willingly impale themselves. All right? So if you're in a defensive square, you're all holding your bayonets out and the horses don't go near it. But why wouldn't you do a defensive square then?

7:27Because it takes time to get into a defensive square. Yeah. Right? So if a cavalry charge surprises you out of the woods and you're in a line, you're fucked. It's a defensive bukkake, right? Please. you will turn your backs and you wank outwards yes exactly it's exactly it's paul golding at a bukhaki that's um that's entirely muslim men paul golding's going right well i'm not doing this sorry no it's a muslim woman isn't it it's a muslim woman and then the whole of britain first wanking around that's a defensive napoleon defensive square yeah very easy to understand okay then you have artillery now artillery loves nothing more than to shoot at a defensive square because it's a rigid they're tight together tight together yeah you know uh two birds one stone basically yeah you shoot a cannonball you can hit loads of different people right uh artillery does not like a line so what you're going to try and do oh that's good what napoleon would try and do is use combined arms prostates out fellas right because if you can trick if you can faint with your cavalry to make people form a square if you can basically yeah step over right you faint with the cavalry horses yeah right they form a square because they think they're going to be charged but then you unveil your artillery and just bomb them to shit checkmate that's pretty good i would have thought that that's what i mean this is great it's warfare that the layman the boring layman can understand so uh now essentially that's napoleonic warfare and why napoleon is so brilliant is that he can read his opponent's minds and he sets traps for them right in this era that we're talking about that they all fall into yeah because it's all about forcing the mistake right at this stage it's going i think if i do this then you'll do that and if you do that then i can do this and i'll win yeah so it is rock paper scissors you're completely right yeah it's rock paper scissors so yeah but instead of doing that it's more that's not hang on so what so it's more going like like as if you're going to do rock well so you go to punch someone in the face you pretend to punch them kind of anywhere i did the shoulder and um then you go like that and then then you immediately call the rock paper scissors on and then they will defensively is the psychology just because you've already shown them a fist i think it's just like they feel really threatened no no it's because you've shown them a fist so that's in their head but it's not a rock so they go oh he's i reckon he's going to do rock yeah but rock destroys scissors so i think i think it's just like i've got i need to get some all i can do is i need to get some scissors not i need to get that's something as napoleon once said don't interrupt the enemy while they're making your mistake I need to get some scissors or pretend to punch him in the face first I need some scissors Charlie quick question our listeners will be wanting to know do you when we say rock paper scissors what game are you playing and are actual scissors involved and actual rocks no no you just introduce more kind of mind stuff quickly tell everyone what you have for breakfast please I had two eggs rye bread half a fish cake and a whole pack of broccoli and porridge and bananas yeah it was pretty shocking all in one go A whole pack of tender stem broccoli before 9am.

10:35Half an old fish cake. That's fucking insane. When you pour the yolk into the fish cake. But why so many different meals? Really hungry. Homeless tapas, that is. Are you going to eat a big lunch? We've got massive lunch coming. I am, peach and ham. Yeah. Anyway, so with that in mind, Napoleon marches east because while Britain has dominated at sea, in order to stop him on land, William Pitt, the younger prime minister, has been financing coalitions of nations to stop him in Europe. He's Gaddafi-ing it. He is Gaddafi-ing it. This is when the British prime minister is Colonel Gaddafi, okay? William Pitt, the younger.

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13:20No. No explanation. Because he's just really fast. Because he's just quick as hell. He's just quick. You don't need to, it doesn't concern you. He's just, yeah. You don't need to know. None of your fucking business. Shut up. Go away. Stop listening. Because he just is. Because he just is. Have you ever heard that on an history podcast? And I've heard he was great at miniature tactics because he just was. He just is. He just is. He just is. And there's no, just shut up.

13:44Yeah. I wish Holland and Sandbrook would do that more. it just was because they did because why do you care it's not your business it was really fucking really fast no because his army didn't have supply lines right and so they were foraging as we said they were truffle pigs as Charlie said onions they were picking up onions just eating them like apples because they're stinky French cunts and then they would move faster they'd also be able to move like the Prussians for example at this day and age the Prussians are just moving in a fucking line. Yeah. Like it's a village where someone's on fire and they're passing a bucket of water on a huge line.

14:22Idiots. Yeah. Well, you should do it like you're searching for a missing girl. Exactly. Spread out. Why is that Geordie woman in the lake? Why is her dog fine? Now, Napoleon is marching east. Fast. Why is he so fast? Fuck off. He just is. Now, we get to the Ulm campaign. Ooh. Oh, prostate's out. Pink socket. I was Chachibit-ing some very childish things on the train on the way in. Like what? Best military commander of all time. Best, biggest, Napoleon's best victories. Yeah. I was just ranking stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Ulm came in second. Because this is, your generation can't understand stuff without putting in a list.

15:00I need a list. I need Jackmate to do a tier system. Jackmate. Right. Okay, Napoleon's battles. S tier, A tier, B tier. Right, we've got to go. Oh, Astrid is S tier. You've got to. Astrid is just the S tier, isn't it? You know? Ulm, A tier. Yeah, it's still good, but you know. But 1805, this is Napoleon, like Messi, has multiple primes in his career. He does. This is a career built with multiple primes, but this is probably his ultimate prime. This is 2012 Messi. This is 91 goals in the calendar season. This is unplayable. Unplayable. This is probably the prime of primes. It's Napoleon 1805. 1805 to 1807, Napoleon is unplayable.

15:36Yeah. Okay. So Austria knows he's coming, right? So Austria makes the first move, right? They go into Bavaria. but we're in the first Reich at this point yes now Austria believed France is still preparing for an invasion of Britain however Napoleon is so fucking fast because he just fucking is because he is right that he just basically encircles them before they even fight so he just goes all the way around this is one of the great encirclements of all time basically yeah the most successful encirclement he takes an entire Austrian field army out the game without killing many people any shots fired yeah he basically just encircles an entire Austrian army that was thinking he was ages away, but he was so fast because he just fucking is fast.

16:18Because he is. Because he is just really fast that he impinses the Austrians, encircles them, and then just signed a treaty and Austria just knocked out through pure speed. So they haven't even picked up the weapons. They've just been sitting chilling. Just chess. Just literal just chess, right? Can we have a, is there a map of the Orm? Get a map of the Orm campaign up, right? We don't need to know if Napoleon had Healy's, would that have helped? Wait, hold on. AI's got an answer. No, Healy's would not have helped Napoleon. Rolling on tiny plastic heel wheels across 90th century European muddy battlefields, cobbled roads and snow-filled Russian steps would have dramatically, would have drastically accelerated its defeat rather than securing a victory.

16:56I mean, I'll tell you what, AI is impressing me how it always answers the question. It always gives. And it's always, no. And in my head, that's the tone. No, please leave me alone. is it apart from any geographic stuff is it an aura issue as well can you know i think you could i think if you're winning battles i think you can make anything that might be seen lame you can reverse it reclaim it like if napoleon was healing his way to victory then suddenly the healy's would be a very aura farming thing to do are you saying healy's and i'm just saying if he no if napoleon wins austerlitz and then when they're doing the peace treaty he comes hands in his pockets and he he leaves in then it's sick it's sick it's absolutely sick now if he loses it if he's got we're coming that when they're negotiating waterloo i think you lose a bit of aura there yeah um right we haven't we've got so many battles right the listeners are pink socking themselves when i just want to see the arrows i want to see some of these arrows look at these arrows get these arrows arrow you uh napoleon encircles an entire austrian army the The other reason that he does this, right, the Austrians fuck it, in that they're waiting for the Russian allies for backup.

18:07But basically, Napoleon gets into that gap to basically encircle them before the Russians get there. The reason the Russians aren't there is that they're using a different calendar. So the Russian army is 12 days behind where the Austrians think they are. Yeah, they're using the Mayan calendar. Why are you using the Mayan calendar? Centuries old and so far away. uh austria is essentially knocked out of the coalition he then needs to move against russia now russia okay as is his want very very coy militarily it's always running away going oh no don't don't you get me nether regions that's what it wants it wants you to follow it into its deep dark mucky hinterland yeah oh no don't chase me yeah right but uh napoleon we in by december 1805, okay, he is looking for a decisive confrontation.

19:02A confrontation of annihilation. He wants to take Russia out of this conflict, but they're being so coy and, oh no, don't catch me. And what are Russia fighting Napoleon for at this point? Is it because they're part of the Third Coalition and it's because they're trying to Britain are paying them. Britain are paying them and they're just trying to contain Napoleon's quest for Liebing's realm in the East. Basically. Right. And so, this is all... What is French for Lieb and Traum? We have that.

19:36Espaces vital. Espaces vital. Espaces vital. Yeah. A bit more romantic. It's raining in my heart. Okay. So, by December 1805, Napoleon is trying to pin down the Russians to actually have a ding dong. Come here and fight me. The Russians keep running back. So what he does... He wants Ding to meet Dong. Hey? He wants Ding to meet Dong. He wants Ding to meet Dong. Ding? This is dong. Okay. Dong ding. Now I've introduced you over the email. I'm going to get off this thread. Okay. Take me off the thread. I don't care. I don't want to see the ding dong. Just ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, all the way down the email thread.

20:10Take me off. Right. So what he does is he sends envoys, okay, to the, I think this, but it's still a point. There's an Austrian, some allies with the Russians. It's mainly Russians, right? he sends peace envoys the whole time saying hey let's come to terms let's come to terms it's all good don't worry let's chill right meanwhile he discovers this field this terrain outside uh what's now berno in the modern day czech republic okay and near village of austerlitz prostate czech fellas it's still there it's still there just it's hanging on by a fucking thread so we plow on napoleon okay and as and what is also great about this era of warfare is that terrain is crucial so it's like cricket it's like a wicket inspection yes is today the day yeah is this field is there enough slope it dries it'll be good for spin bowlers a bit of a slope to it the law bowling up the slope that'd be good in these conditions so it's very very cold okay we come to december the 1st 1805 the night before the famed battle oh no was that that why that wasn't a power cut no that's the night time oh right i see i see okay let's let's set this so this is yeah right remember people are listening yeah i don't know if that feels that falls upon the prussian no you just you just turned off the lights off right i i don't think i like the creative initiative but turning the all the lights off i don't know that adds a feeling of night at a visual podcast people are just checking that their video feed is broken yeah they'll think the youtube video is broken anyway so the night it's night before it's the night before the battle of austerlitz free freezing yeah sorry what's that right it's been nighttime birds i'm trying to do nighttime in the czech republic charlie find a czech republic bird right and get a night call yeah Your best does not make me feel like it's night time.

22:13Right. We've got so much to get through. Yeah. I'm trying to help you so hard. Yeah. Bear in mind. This is the problem how big a breakfast. Because Charlie's been at sea this series. Because it's got so much history. We're going to have to do 11 episodes. He's had no chance to have interjections. We're going to have to do 11 episodes. And he's come in and he's determined to derail this. I could just tell. Yeah. We're going to have to. Night time is in Czech. Broccoli. In Prague. Let's just keep going. Yeah. Right. While he's distracted, we must move. It's misty. Okay. the birds the Czech birds are singing yeah right Napoleon rides through the French bivouacs cheering troops with lit torches and they're celebrating the first anniversary of his coronation because he's made himself emperor about a year ago is that the straightest a birthday can be basically yeah before you send them all to slaughter you yeah it's hard for a straight man to celebrate his birthday I genuinely I genuinely just but people celebrating your first anniversary of your coronation coronation as emperor.

23:10Yeah. That's pretty straight. That is pretty straight. I just went to the beach this time. How old are you? 35? 36. Just turned 36. Did I miss it? Yeah. I didn't say anything. No, because I'm straight and I just get on with it. I'd like you to tell me next time. Birthdays are a weakness. They are a weakness. They are. It's the soft underbelly of the year. Do you know what I got? I got drunk and then I, this is a 36 year old birthday for you. I got drunk. I was on holiday with the family so, you know, there's only so much fun you can have. Sure. I got drunk and then about 8pm I drunkenly subscribed to a new type of olive oil from I generally said fuck it I went oh fuck it this sounds like it made me live longer subscribed you got an olive oil subscription I have got a Sardinian volcanic polyphenol rich olive oil subscription from the crank doctor called dr sarah dr sarah what does he look like hey what does he look like no it's a woman it's a woman who went to came oh i thought so her first name's sarah right right sorry but she's like dr brian sarah that's how misogynistic i am no no i was like oh yeah so dr brian sarah dr sarah to be more intimate in emails even though it's clearly all um yeah you know copy and paste but um i did give because apparently i read this article olive oil you know people in the blue zones that's dr brian's error it's like that it's like that riddle of the surgeon yeah yeah how's the operator's own child it's a woman oh um yeah apparently supermarket olive oil is actually trash and doesn't and so but in yet in blue zones everyone lives long because they're having olive oil that's actually olive oil right uh and so i I can't judge.

24:55I'm the most susceptible to these things. I know, I know. I thought you backed me up here. I've got so much, but I've nearly always proven wrong. The fiber powder is collecting dust, even though it is just dust. Well, what do you mean? That's just more fiber powder. That's actually a good investment. It's an appreciating asset. It's just growing fiber powder in your house. No, but I did give a spoonful to my Cypriot neighbor, which is not a euphemism. I gave a spoonful of the olive oil. Was it so you'd stop humping your leg? To my Cypriot neighbor, and he said, fuck me, that is good. stuff fucking hell fucking hell that's good stuff that okay so how much you're paying can you disclose how much you're paying a month i think it's 60 quid a month for three bottles of olive and they're quite thin bottles but they are from they are from a village in maybe they're not maybe i've been completely huddling but it does i've been having a tablespoon but also if you don't know every morning i'm having a tablespoon of olive oil it's sort of like i think with that sort of stuff it is sort of like the sucking off your dad in the amsterdam glory hole story where i'm not subscribed to that no i'm saying with that sort of things it's better you don't know yeah exactly so you can just enjoy sucking a random knob yeah if you don't what you don't know can't hurt you so the fact that you think it's from some like old sardinian woman who's 106 years old yeah has all these mates walks uphill all day yeah that you can have that even though it's probably made in a factory in burton probably is it probably is made in the middle of you don't need to know that i don't need to know i'm sucking my dad off i'm not reading the label I'm not reading the label yeah I'm just enjoying the cock because I'm on a stag do Christ we're talking about Austerlitz alright we're going to have to do 11 episodes anyway so Napoleon the researcher's head is in her hands I was messaging her at 10pm last night about this script out the window 10 minute riff on olive oil do you like me?

26:50do you think I'm a good boss? really into get wake up wake up am I doing am I alright are we good midnight wake up wake up wake up wake up this is not important are we good do you like me am I fun am I fun to work with what do you tell your mates about me I see myself as more of an entertainer first than then a boy oh Christ right right Napoleon has finalized a trap to lure the Russians into attacking him. Because meanwhile, in the village of Austerlitz, at a big manor house, okay, the Austrian leader and the Russian guy, they're like, we've been running away too long. We've got to fucking fight this country, right?

27:35So they decide they're going to do it. Yeah, they're going to go for it. But Napoleon has lured him into a masterclass of a trap because he has ceded the high ground of the Prats and Heights. Yeah. Which overlook this field. Just to explain why we're at in like sort of bumming terms, it's that Napoleon is chasing with the knob and the Russian ass. Do you remember when I talked about how I have sex? I leave my Prats and Hives. Yes. So Napoleon is chasing after that target of the ass with his knob. Yeah. And then suddenly they decide we can't be arse men forever. Cock must meet cock to see which.

28:13We must dock. Yeah. So he turns around and now Austerlix is a docking situation. Well. Whose force is going on to the foos? They think it's an app, but there's a whole fucking load of other cocks coming around the back to fuck up the arse. Yeah, okay. So. And then he's stuck in the docking. He's docking and he's getting. Yeah, fuck, he's a nightmare. It's basically a human centipede. Napoleon's a genius, right? Why? He just was, all right? He just was. He just was. No business. So stop talking about Eiffel Towering, Phoebe, right? She brought that up 15 times. Keep trying to manifest it happening.

28:46Honest to God. Right. Right. So Napoleon has deliberately weakened his right flank. He's amassed his troops at the bottom of this hill, this sort of sloping field rather. But he's left the right very, very, very light. And he's also given them the high ground. But what he's done is he's hidden a lot of infantry troops in the valley below the heights. But thankfully, on the morning of the 2nd of December, there's a big mist, right? So they're even more concealed than they would have been. Now, the Russians think brilliant, and they move a lot of their forces off the heights down towards the south, okay, towards the infantry that were kind of massed towards the village of Austerlitz.

29:30Now, they are able to hold the line because there are people from Vienna that are joining them shortly. So they're actually not as exposed as they look like they are at the start of the battle. So beyond that map, you've got Vienna down there, which Napoleon's just taken, and he sends more forces up there. So... At the moment they're setting up, it still kind of looks like two lines looking at each other. So you've got the red is the Austrian and Russian allies and the blue is Napoleon. Now you'll see the south of the map. Where are the hidden forces in this? So basically his centre, you see those double columns there?

29:58Those are hidden, right, in the valley. And the two blue lines by that lake, that's the village. So the Russians are going... And the small dots on the far right is his fake weak flank. Yeah, exactly. So he's going down that way. They're going down that way. And all the red squares are on the Prats and Heights there, right? So they go down and they basically abandon the heights. And then about 8 a.m., 9 a.m., suddenly the sun pierces through the mist. And this huge French infantry column charges up the heights. And the Russians say they genuinely came out of nowhere. It came out of thin blue air.

30:34We didn't see them before. And they storm the heights. The center. Storm the center. They take the high ground very quickly. and then suddenly cavalry charges from the side because, to refer to myself earlier, to footnote myself, to quote myself again, because cavalry is most effective against an infantry that is not prepared for it, it's an absolute bloodbath. Not only that, okay, I'll fast forward a bunch of it. It's probably someone in the stomach before they've tensed. Yes, it is, right? Then the Allied army is split in two. His signature move, he busts a pussy open, right? That's Napoleon's signature move.

31:19Cavalry upon the shoulder. Yeah. Don't let her have time to form a defensive square. Yeah. Cavalry upon shoulder. Because then it's all a complete bloodbath, the Russians realize they've been tricked. They start fleeing. And then Napoleon takes the covers off his artillery. Yes. Right? I'm breaking up. I'm so hard right now. And the artillery start fucking firing at them as the Russians are running across what they now realise is a frozen lake. So they're basically on, well, they're on ice. And it's probably the best scene in Ridley-Scots. Easily the best scene. Cannonballs are shattering into the ice and horses and Russian men are just tumbling into the ice, drowning.

32:03Cannonballs are smashing horses to shit. It's an absolute bloodbath. It is a rout. And by the end of the day, Napoleon has pulled off one of the ultimate tactical masterclasses in warfare history. Did he have less troops? Way less troops. Yeah. Completely outnumbered. And he deliberately, it's a bit like someone playing a left-footed right-back and like trying to get you to attack down that side so that you can then go behind them by overloading that way. Maybe. I don't know. That tracks. So Napoleon wins. Yes, Napoleon wins.

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