Wellington, Napoleon and the 'Spanish Ulcer' carry History on Maps through a pause
A 32-day-old animated map of the Peninsular War, from the 1807 invasion of Portugal to 1814, is the video viewers keep opening.
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Story of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
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[Napoleonic Wars] Peninsular War Every Day (1807-1814) in 1 minute using map #napoleon #spain
What do History on Maps viewers watch when no new map goes up? Mostly Spain, it turns out, around 1810.
The channel posted nothing new over the week, and the video doing the most work is "[Napoleonic Wars] Peninsular War Every Day (1807-1814) in 1 minute using map." It runs from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and the fight over the Spanish throne to the arrival of a British force under the Duke of Wellington, the long campaign the description calls the "Spanish Ulcer" for how it drained the French Empire. A month after it went up, it is bringing in more daily views than anything else on the channel, more than twice the pace of the next one.
That next one is older and bigger: the Mexican-American War, traced from the Rio Grande to Mexico City, has passed half a million views in seven weeks. Behind it sits Operation Weserübung, the 1940 German invasion of Denmark and Norway, with a description that does real explaining: Swedish iron ore through Narvik, Denmark's surrender in under six hours, Norway holding out for 62 days, and a Kriegsmarine that lost half its destroyers winning it.
The channel as a whole ran a little below its usual pace and added about a thousand subscribers, holding at 417,000. Among the history and explainer channels near its size, Geo All Day and Survive History drew the biggest crowds, while Sunn m'Cheaux was the one running right on its normal pace. For a channel that compresses whole wars into sixty seconds, a week off still looked busy enough.
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The videos drawing views on History on Maps right now
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- History on Maps
- Subscribers
- 417,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 394,443
- Videos published this week
- 0
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The Duke of Wellington, who led the British in the Peninsular War, later defeated Napoleon at which 1815 battle?
Wellington, with Blücher's Prussians, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in June 1815, ending the Hundred Days.
