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All SandRhoman History videos
Every video on our English channel, sorted by era: ancient warfare, medieval sieges and battles, early modern pike-and-shot warfare and the fortress sieges of the 18th and 19th centuries. Each video lists its academic sources in the description on YouTube.
Ancient world
15 videos
- The Battle of Thermopylae 480 BC: Truth, 300, Propaganda
- How to Catch a War Elephant
- How Caesar Besieged an Army While Surrounded
- Food in Ancient Rome (Cuisine of Ancient Rome) - Garum, Puls, Bread, Moretum
- Housing and Houses in Ancient Rome - Domus, Insula, Villa
- Ingenious Siegecraft: The (Staggering) Siege of Syracuse 213-212 BC
- The Origins of War (500,000 BC–3,000 BC)
- Warfare in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia 3,500 BC—1200 BC
- The Origins of War in Ancient India 5,000 BC—300 BC
- The Earliest Sieges in History (and How they Worked)
- The Origins of War in Ancient China 10,000 BC—221 BC
- Warfare in the Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 BC—609 BC
- Warfare in Ancient Persia 550 BC–330 BC
- The "Hoplite Revolution Debate" (feat. 22 Students from the University of Zurich)
- 4 Ways Women Took Part in Sieges in Ancient Greece (and sometimes even decided them)
Middle Ages
43 videos
- The Fall of Burgundy & the Rise of the Habsburgs — The Burgundian Wars 1474-77 (Full Documentary)
- Why England’s Longbowmen Dominated Medieval Battlefields
- Dover: The Siege That Built England
- William of Kensham: The Outlaw Who Saved England (First Barons' War 1215-1217)
- How to Defeat the English (English Tactics in the Hundred Years’ War—and How to Counter Them)
- When Castles Were Besieged, Did Medieval Armies Attack Peasants Too ?
- How Hard Was It to Supply Arrows to Archers in Battles?
- Tactical Defense vs Strategic Offense: How to Win a Battle in the Middle Ages (1000–1500 AD)
- Crossbow vs. Longbow: Which Was the Superior Weapon in Medieval Sieges? | A Video Essay
- Hussite Wagon Forts - A Challenge To Heavy Cavalry In The Late Middle Ages | Late Medieval Warfare
- Swiss & Burgundian Ambitions: The Way into the Burgundian Wars (Pt. 1)
- Swiss Resistance: Battle of Grandson 1476 | Burgundian Wars Pt 2
- Inflection Point: Battle of Morat 1476 | Burgundian Wars Pt 3
- The Fall of Burgundy: The Battle of Nancy 1477 | The Burgundian Wars Pt. 4
- How Alfred the Great Combatted Viking Invasions
- Viking Warfare: Of Myths and Reality
- Why Everybody Disagrees on the Efficacy of the English Longbow – A Video Essay
- The ‘Infantry Revolution’ of the Late Middle Ages - A Video Essay
- How Medieval Artillery Revolutionized Siege Warfare
- How to Start a Fight in the Middle Ages
- "The Combat of the Thirty" 1351
- How to Lay Siege to a Medieval Fortress (1000-1300)
- Byzantium Falls: The (Staggering) Siege of Constantinople 1453
- Stopping the Ottoman Advance: The (Staggering) Siege of Belgrade 1456
- Black Army of Hungary | Some of the Most Sought-After Mercenaries of Europe
- 5 Misconceptions about Medieval Sieges in Movies
- Genoese Crossbowmen | Some of the Most Sought-After Mercenaries of Europe
- How to Raise a Medieval Army
- 4 Misconceptions about Medieval Shield Walls in Movies
- Christian Conquest: The (Staggering) Siege of Jerusalem 1099 (First Crusade)
- Holy Intervention: The (Staggering) Siege of Orléans 1428 / 29 | Hundred Years' War
- Longbow vs Crossbow - A Video Essay
- What Do We Know about “Medieval Flame Throwers” Known as "Greek Fire"?
- Byzantine Military Revolution: The Army That Brought the Empire to A Golden Age in the 10th Century
- Swiss Mercenaries: The End of Cavalry Superiority in the Late Middle Ages
- Fact and Fiction: Both (Viking) Sieges of Paris 845 / 885
- The Golden Age of Free Companies
- The First Free Company in History (Catalan Grand Company)
- The Norse Bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperors
- Germany's Most Renowned Free Company
- England's Most Renowned Free Company
- The First Private Armies in History (feat. Prof. Morillo)
- How Medieval Monasteries Waged War (feat. Baden State Museum)
Early modern era (1500–1700)
73 videos
- The Day Medieval Warfare Died: The Battle of Pavia 1525
- The Flemish Troy: The (Staggering) Siege Of Ostende 1601-04 | Eighty Years War
- Defining the Century: The (Staggering) Siege of Antwerp 1584/85 | Eighty Years' War
- How to Lay Siege to a Samurai Castle in the Late Sengoku Period
- Resistance to the Bitter End: The (Staggering) Siege of Maastricht in 1579 | Eighty Years War
- Habsburg Catastrophe: The (Staggering) Siege of Mantua 1629 | Thirty Years' War
- Flooding for Freedom: The (Staggering) Siege of Leiden 1573/4 | Eighty Years War
- The Fall of Holland: The (Staggering) Siege of Haarlem 1572/73 | Eighty Years' War
- The Dutch 'Military Revolution' During The Eighty Years War | Early-Modern Warfare
- How To Lay Siege To A Star Fortress In The 16th and Early 17th Century
- The Sack of Rome 1527 - The Darkest Hour of the Landsknechts
- The Real Three Musketeers
- Black Riders | Most Sought-After Mercenaries in Europe
- The Winged Hussars and the ‘Military Revolution’ in the East | Evolution of Warfare
- The (Staggering) Siege of Vienna 1683
- Why Firearms Took the Place of Bow and Arrow - The Rise of the Musketeer in Europe
- Dutch Ingenuity: The (Staggering) Siege of Geertruidenberg 1592/93 | Eighty Years War
- Gustavus Adolphus: 'The Father Of Modern Warfare'
- How Gustavus Adolphus Combated the Winged Hussars
- The Battle of Breitenfeld 1631 Hour by Hour | Thirty Years War
- How Pikemen Changed the Face of European Warfare
- Second Longest Siege in History: The (Staggering) Siege of Candia 1648-1669
- The Battle of Lützen 1632 Hour By Hour | Thirty Years War
- Dutch Defiance: The (Staggering) Siege of Breda 1624/25
- How to Defend a Star Fortress Forever in the 16th and Early 17th Century
- How Dueling Worked in Early-Modern Europe
- Moving into War | Soldiers‘ Lives
- Life in Military Camps | Soldiers' Lives
- Training & Drill | Soldiers’ Lives
- Why Did Soldiers Fight? | Soldiers' Lives
- Opposing the Ottomans: Battle of Khotyn / Chocim 1621 (400 Years Anniversary)
- Invasion of Sweden: Prelude to the Polish-Swedish War 1566-1600 (Pt. 1)
- Impregnable Fortress: The (Staggering) Siege of La Rochelle 1627
- The Battle For Livonia 1600-1611 | The Polish-Swedish War (Pt. 2)
- The Battle For Lithuania 1617-1626 | Polish-Swedish War (Pt. 3)
- The Battle For Royal Prussia 1626-1629 | Polish-Swedish War (Pt. 4)
- Love for Sale: 'Ladies of the Night' in Early-Modern Europe
- “The Wild Fields”: The Dangerous Frontier of the Great Steppe
- Wild EAST: The Cossack World
- Ottomans at the Gates: The First (Staggering) Siege of Vienna 1529
- "The Heaviest Cavalry in the West": The French Gendarmes
- Early Field Artillery | Evolution of Warfare 1450-1650
- “Dutch Swamp Dragon” - The (Staggering) Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch 1629
- How A Galley Slave Drove the Spanish Empire Into Bankruptcy
- How Artillery Became The King of Battle (1500-1800)
- The Rise of Spain: The Spanish Army From the Conquest of Granada to the Tercio 1480-1530
- Malta Resists: The (Great) Siege of Malta 1565
- Imperial Masterpiece: The Battle of Nördlingen 1634 | Thirty Years' War
- 17th Century Naval Warfare: The Age of the Galley
- The Cataclysm: The Outbreak of the Thirty Years War 1555-1618 (Pt. 1)
- Invasion of Russia: The Battle of Klushino 1610
- How the Ottomans Conquered Cyprus—and Triggered Lepanto
- The Powder Keg: The Bohemian Revolt 1618-1620 | Thirty Years War (Pt. 2)
- Lepanto 1571: Shattering the Idea of Ottoman Invincibility
- Vauban's Siegecraft: Perfect Fortresses and Infallible Sieges ~1700
- A Case Study of the Perfect Siege of Ath 1697
- Internationalization: The Thirty Years War Grows into a European Catastrophe 1620-1623 (Pt. 3)
- In Defense of the Scottish Renaissance Army
- The Galloglass: Ireland's Axe Wielding Mercenary Class
- Beyond Europe: The Global Dimension of the Thirty Years War 1624/25 (Pt. 4)
- Denmark-Norway Intervenes in the Thirty Years War 1625-1629 (Pt. 5)
- 7 (Great) Sieges that Transformed the Thirty Years War in 1628 (Pt. 6)
- Sweden Intervenes in the Thirty Years War 1630/31 (Pt. 7)
- 5 (Great) Battles that Transformed the Thirty Years War in 1632 (Pt. 8)
- Landsknechts: Some of the Most Sought-After Mercenaries of Early Modern Europe
- Pike and Shot Warfare - The Spanish Tercio | Early-Modern Warfare
- Barbary Pirates: The Masters of the Mediterranean Slave Trade 1500–1830
- Janissaries: The Ottoman Soldiers Recruited From Enslaved Christian Boys
- Eastern vs Western Siegecraft: When the Chinese Besieged a Russian Star Fortress in 1686
- When the Chinese Besieged a Dutch Star Fortress – The (Staggering) Siege of Zeelandia 1661/62
- The Golden Age of the Condottieri: The Powerhouse of the Renaissance Mercenary Market
- The Russian Alternative to Pike and Shot Warfare: Guliai-Gorod ("Wandering Town")
- Why China Turned to European Guns
18th and 19th centuries
16 videos
- Scalp Hunting in the Ohio Valley: The (Staggering) Siege of Fort Pitt – Pontiac’s War, Part 2
- The Great Native War Against Britain: The (Staggering) Siege of Fort Detroit | Pontiac’s War, Pt. 1
- How to Lay Siege to Forts in America in the 17th and 18th Centuries
- The Battle of Leuthen (1757): Frederick the Great’s Masterpiece
- Conquering Canada: The (Staggering) Siege of Quebec and the Fall of New France
- 1758: The Year the French Empire Collapsed in North America
- The (Staggering) Siege of Fort William Henry (1757)
- Mayhem on the New York Frontier: The (Staggering) Siege of Fort Stanwix 1777
- 18th Century Naval Warfare: The Age of the Ship of the Line
- Why the Bayonet Replaced Pike and Shot: From 1650 to the Napoleonic Wars
- The Highland Charge - The Famous Shock Tactic of the Scottish Clans
- How to Lay Siege to a Polygonal Fortress in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- The European Siege That Decided American Independence: The (Great) Siege of Gibraltar 1779–1783
- The Decisive Siege in the Peninsular War: The (Staggering) Siege of Badajoz 1812
- Why Soldiers Volunteered for Almost Certain Death in Napoleonic Sieges
- The Decisive Siege of the American Revolutionary War: The (Staggering) Siege of Yorktown 1781
Across the ages
8 videos
- "A Production Line of Death”: How Volley Fire Changed the Face of Battle (and Where it Originated)
- How Sailors Went to the Loo in the Age of Sail
- Historiography, Theory & Objectivity | Can History Be Objective? - The Veto Power of the Sources
- The Rise of Gunpowder in Europe
- 'Small War' and Why it is Big
- 7 Pike Formations That Dominated The Battlefields of Their Time
- Historical Champion Warfare (and Why it Was Kinda Common)
- What Motivated Soldiers to Be the First to Climb the Siege Ladder?