40.000 Murieron Antes de Llegar | La Vida Brutal del Soldado de los Tercios

Did you know that 40,000 soldiers died before reaching Flanders? Not in battle. Just along the way. The historian Geoffrey Parker wrote that it was a miracle that any Spanish soldier had ever reached the Low Countries. Today we'll tell you why, and what we find is unlike anything you've been told. This is the real life of the soldier of the Spanish Tercios. Not the generals. Not the tactics. The foot soldier: the one who crossed the Alps on foot, spent years in a Flemish swamp without pay, mutinied in Antwerp, returned to formation... and in the end received only one word as payment. Honor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 IN THIS VIDEO: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — The unexpected fact: forty thousand dead before arriving 01:17 — The Spanish army that wasn't Spanish 03:45 — The Spanish Road: the feat before the feat 07:32 — Daily life: the swamp, the hunger, the comrade 12:32 — The Spanish Fury: it wasn't brutality. It was negotiation 17:31 — Rocroi and what the Empire gave back to its soldiers 20:46 — The question that has no clear answer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Do you think the soldier of the Tercio was loyal to the king, or simply had nowhere else to go? Write it in the comments. I want to read real answers. → Subscribe and turn on notifications. We release a new one every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SpanishTercios #BrutalLife #SpanishHistory #SpanishEmpire #SpanishFury #Flanders #Rocroi #RuinsOfPower #AncientHistory #AncientSoldier