Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino 1812

Here is the latest episode of our Napoleonic Wars series - the giant slugging match of Borodino. It's our longest and most detailed battle sequence ever, and I hope you enjoy it! If you like what we do there are many ways to support the channel.... 👉Buy EHTV merchandise at our shop teespring.com/stores/epic-history-tv-merch-shop 👉Or visit our Patreon page for ad-free early access and other perks www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV Next episode will cover the retreat from Moscow, and will be out shortly before Christma

"Beware the man who's old in a profession where men die young" Hats off to you Mikhail Kutuzov

For this episode, I’m taking a shot for every time he says “with heavy losses on both sides” 💯

the battle lasted only one day and in total there were 74,000 casualties in total, that is insane

How Bagration and Barclay spent all the campaign arguing yet leaving their differences for the battle only for Bargration to die in it really hits me.

Napoleon's decision not to commit the guard was right. It's easy for us to complain after watching a full report of the actions,reserves, plan etc. of the battle, but napoleon didn't know what the Russians had left behind their line and after the french costly attacks he learned that everything he throws would survive (if it survives) only at half strength or less. The guard troops were too valuable for such cause especially 800 leagues away from home. This was real life, not a video game. Great video and thanks for the amazing content Epic History, have been waiting long for this one!

This was by far one of the most thrilling documentaries I ever saw.

A french veteran from the great army said after Borodino " Russians are hard and tough to fight - you have to kill them twice " All the french and Russian soldiers really fought with courage and honor.

"Soldiers face the enemy, let's go and get killed"...most bad ass words ever spoken in battle

Imagine facing Davout,Murrat and Ney 3 of Napoleons best generals at the same time. Bagration did very well holding the line despite his untimely death. Respect

It takes a lot to win on legendary difficulty!

Love and respect to Russia from France 🇫🇷 ❤🇷🇺

By far the best YouTube history channel without any doubts I've ever seen. The quality is so superb that it looks like there's a huge company behind these documentaries

Unbelievable that one guy alone makes these videos in a bombastic manner... greatest respect an gratitude to you sir

I thought for a moment that the video felt much shorter than usual, but when checking it's length i realized it was just that i had been so fantastically engaged in it that it made 19 minutes feel like less than 5! This series just keeps outdoing itself in quality of production and i can't wait for the next one!

Oh man THANK YOU for this vid! Been waiting for years

This series is brilliant, I've just binge watched the entire thing. The narrator has such a relaxing, lovely voice. I love the use of paintings and art, thanks for making this

Interresting how many people I know think all/basically all of napoleons losses in Russia came from the winter. But his army was already down half the size before the Battle (The Battle everyone conveniently forgets). Thank you Epic history for making this reminder so darn good and interresting.

Never have a clicked so fast. A top quality production as always!

Thank you for posting this. Awesome!