Battle Of Hemmingstedt, 1500 ⚔️ Thermopylae of Northern Europe
➤ Battle of Hemmingstedt, February 17th 1500 – This is the first time I tried a bit of 3D so the video took a bit longer to make than usual.
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The Danish always loose.
The Peasants must Have Been Templars and Teutonic knights in Hidding A Plot Twist.
A lot of interesting stuff here. The protection of marschland, or swomps. Also battling knights. Maybe the "godendag" was used. It seems the dutch figured out a perfect length of the spear or lance to fight the knight or his horse. Too long? It was cut off by the horseman. To short? He could reach you with the sword or morning star. But at a lengths of somewhere between 180 cm to 250 cm you could outreach the sword, your lance could be protected, and several units could get in closer. It's easy to understand the longer lance. Simply fear makes you want to keep your enemy further away.
How to find the music of the battle?
Peasants !!!!!
I know this is not important to the video but in German EI like in Holstein is an "ay" sound, IE has an "ee" sound.
I doubt the numbers and the casualties.
"Funny" side note: One of the todays country flags of this area proudly shows the soup pot in which Danish tax collectors were drowned if the need arised. When I was a school boy we had to learn by heart the poem (Pidder Lüng) that tells the story of the last drowning which led to another war with the Danish king. Today the whole area belongs to Germany.
leave em' alone dick-martians!
So we have a more modern Thermopylae here.
Did you know there's also a more modern Horse of Troy? During the dutch war of independence, dutch forces captured Breda in 1590 by hiding a small number of forces in a peat boat (Peat being a fuel for stoves and the like that was common in dutch lands at the time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Breda_(1590)