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• Napoleon being such a good general, he can (nearly) knock out a European army allied against him using barely trained conscripts. It gets to a point where the only way European armies can beat Napoleon's forces is by running away from them.
• General Winfield Scott belting the living Jesus out of General William Harney in The Pig War. After an entire video's worth of Harney being an unpleasant, xenophobic maniac and doing everything in his power to goad Britain into war, it's intensely satisfying to watch the blithering idiot's commanding officer reduce him to incredibly manful screams.
  • The British officers refuse to play Harney's game and start a war over the San Juan Islands. The normally dour Scott compliments them for their common sense.
• From the U.S. Civil War, upon Ulysses S Grant's decisive but costly victory at the Battle of Shiloh, other military officials try to have Grant fired for his blunt tactics and alcoholism. Lincoln stands up for his general:
  Lincoln: Well, what does he like to drink?
  Military Official: I believe whiskey, sir.
  Lincoln: (tossing bottles at the officials) Then send him more.
• The First Punic War video ends with a Sequel Hook that would make the Marvel Cinematic Universe proud. The First Punic War may have been lost, but someday, maybe not in Hamilcar's lifetime, Carthage will have its revenge. Hamilcar tells his infant son "You are vengeance!" His wife says to stop calling his baby "Vengeance", because the baby has a name:
  Wife: His name is:
  Screen: HANNIBAL
• The way Rome won the First Punic War:
  "The victors appeared to be declaring themselves victorious. Meanwhile the vanquished were getting ready for round five."
• The video on the Second Punic War demonstrates why, exactly, Hannibal would be remembered in history as one of the greatest and most terrifying enemies Rome would ever face. He routinely outwits and outmaneuvers the Romans, using both the flaws of Roman culture and his own insane strategies that no one would dream of using to consistently get the drop on and defeat numerically superior armies while taking little-to-no casualties of his own. This all culminates in the battle of Cannae, where he famously managed to encircle and destroy an army that outnumbered him 4-to-1.
  • Clearly, Napoleon must have read the Hannibal playbook, as both of them had the same traits that made them great military leaders: they commanded the loyalty of their troops, they utilised the element of surprise, their armies were incredibly fast, and they used innovative tactics. As a result, their enemies had the same tactic when it comes to dealing with them: by running away, that is, avoiding fighting them head-on, instead trying to wear them out.
• One cannot forget Hannibal's father, Hamilcar. Not only did he bring an end to the Mercenary war and restore order to Carthage, but he managed to turn a seemingly hopeless situation completely upside down with his conquest of Spain. Not only did this allow Carthage to pay back its debts far sooner than both it and Rome had expected, but it also created a well-equipped, well-trained army that would later be used by Hannibal to invade Rome. In a matter of decades, Hamilcar had managed to near-single-handedly reverse the economic downfall Carthage had fallen into as a result of its war reparations and expand its territory to a greater extent than before the war. While Hannibal may have been the one to actually invade Rome, Hamilcar is the one who made it possible.