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October 23, 2026 2.4x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 756,936 views a day, 2.4 times a normal day (312,058).

Video surging 7.1x the video's usual pace

Survive History's wounded hoplite has to crawl out of battle

Louee Dessent's reenactment follows the injured soldier out of the phalanx, then explains what happened when the fighting stopped.

Channel: Survive History · Story of October 18, 2026

This week on the channel +2.2M views this week

Barley bread, cheese and rare meat: Jacoba Dutoit on what Greek hoplites ate

Survive History's diet episode passed 100,000 views in three days, and its comment section keeps asking one question: where is the fish?

Channel: Survive History · Story of October 8, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

You Wouldn't Want to be Wounded in an Ancient Greek Hoplite Battle

Video published

October 13, 2026

Video views so far

671,065

Video views, pace per day

14,743

Views on its first day

36,208

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.9% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.2% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
You’d Do This To Enter Manhood in Ancient Greece	October 21, 2026	0:48 short	25,067	3,075	18,590	980	10
Could You Actually Survive a Hoplite Battle?	October 17, 2026	0:56 short	219,234	14,214	81,427	5,357	121
You Wouldn't Want to be Wounded in an Ancient Greek Hoplite…	October 13, 2026	0:52 short	671,065	14,743	36,208	12,741	181
Getting the Gods on Side Before Battle in Ancient Greece	October 9, 2026	1:13 short	21,111	240	7,039	940	25
The Ancient Greek Diet Wasn't All That Tasty	October 5, 2026	1:09 short	269,222	7,002	36,904	8,796	313
Training for War in the Ancient Greek Phalanx	October 1, 2026	0:40 short	53,371	577	16,038	1,845	32
How Much Armour Did an Ancient Greek Hoplite Need?	September 27, 2026	0:56 short	131,957	3,168	-	3,992	73
Some Hoplite Armour Was Made of This Surprising Material	September 23, 2026	0:46 short	43,846	440	-	1,380	18
Was This Iconic Greek Helmet Effective in Battle?	September 19, 2026	0:59 short	67,881	258	-	2,304	49
Could You Win an Ancient Greek 'Hoplite Race'?	September 15, 2026	0:48 short	44,886	400	-	1,623	34
Getting Ready for the Gym in Ancient Greece	September 11, 2026	0:51 short	66,851	243	-	2,606	53
Ancient Spartans Sometimes Got Drunk at Breakfast	September 7, 2026	0:41 short	344,302	620	-	8,566	211
This Was the Worst Job in an Ancient Greek Army	September 3, 2026	0:48 short	471,615	1,692	-	12,838	179
You’d Never Want To Drop Your Shield as an Ancient Greek Ho…	August 30, 2026	0:49 short	122,164	265	-	4,614	59
This Is How You’d Tell Friend From Foe During a Hoplite Bat…	August 27, 2026	0:44 short	521,058	2,404	-	13,620	175

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

26.7 in the category: 21.1

comments per 1,000 views

0.5 in the category: 1.3

a video's usual first day on this channel

25,104 views

short vs long

15 short (up to 3 minutes), 0 long
average views per short video: 204,908

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Could You Survive as a Soldier in Napoleon's Army?	October 18, 2023	45:10	2,213,812
Could You Survive in Wellington's Elite Rifle Brigade?	March 31, 2024	48:03	730,409
Could You Survive in a Roman Fort? | Legionaries and Auxili…	December 10, 2023	50:12	727,483
Could You Survive Inside a WW1 Tank?	May 30, 2026	48:06	717,576
Could You Survive the Jacobite Rebellion?	August 30, 2024	55:06	568,225

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
How a Pikeman Would Fight on a 17th Century Battlefield	February 17, 2024	0:59	12,674,596
A Nasty Weapon Carried By Highland Clansmen in the 18th Cen…	September 28, 2024	0:59	8,548,136
You Wouldn’t Want To Get Injured in the Napoleonic Wars	April 14, 2024	0:59	7,692,407
Napoleon's Soldiers Used This Intense Musket Drill	November 19, 2023	1:00	6,531,389
Who Got To Carry a Thompson Submachine Gun in WW2?	August 18, 2024	0:56	6,206,980

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 23, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 756,936 views a day, 2.4 times a normal day (312,058).
2. October 19, 2026Video surgingYou Wouldn't Want to be Wounded in an Ancient Gre… The video ran that day at 178,475 views a day, 3.8 times its usual pace (47,109).
3. October 18, 2026Video surgingYou Wouldn't Want to be Wounded in an Ancient Gre… The video ran that day at 207,840 views a day, 7.1 times its usual pace (29,250).Read the story