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Ugh! [Gunshot]

We're gonna look at probably the two

Greatest warriors of the early 20th century.

Theodore Roosevelt versus Lawrence of Arabia.

I love this matchup.

I think these are two amazing men,

And what they've accomplished in their lives

Is incredible.

Roosevelt was a politician, a leader,

A hard charger, a cowboy.

Very smart, focused, had a ton of willpower.

In 1898, he created the rough riders

To take san Juan hill,

Winning the Spanish-American war.

Against t.E. Lawrence.

This man found a way to overcome

Any obstacle that got in his way.

1916 to 1918,

He managed to unite the Arabs in a revolt

That allows the British empire

To defeat the ottoman empire and win world war I.

The time periods at which they were fighting

Were actually fairly close together.

So we're gonna see a lot of similar type of weapons.

Roosevelt's gatling gun could spit out

900 rounds per minute.

Versus the Vickers.

I can't wait to see these two weapons

Go head-To-Head.

These are two dynamic characters.

Both physically fit,

Both psychologically strong.

It's the ultimate test of the toughest guy.

These are two brilliant guys.

They're great warriors.

I'm excited to see how this thing unfolds.

Male narrator: teddy Roosevelt,

The all-American hero

Who led his famous rough riders

On a suicide charge that turned the tide

Of the Spanish-American war.

Great Britain's first special operative.

He built a fierce Arab army

To fight against the powerful Turkish ottoman empire

And help seal the allied victory

In the first world war.

To find out, the history of war

And modern science collide,

As former navy seal Richard "Mack" machowicz

Dives deep into the tactics of the warriors

Behind the weapons.

Biomedical engineer Geoff desmoulin

Applies 21st century technology to unlock new data

On arsenals of the past.

And e.R. Physician armand dorian dissects the trauma

And reveals the physical and psychological traits

That shaped these legends of war.

This groundbreaking data

Will be paired with historical research

And entered into an all-New digital combat engine.

Two legendary combatants will be resurrected.

History will be rewritten.

But only one will be crowned...

deadliest warrior.

Welcome to the fight club.

Here our experts will unlock historical insights

That will determine which legendary leader

Is deadliest,

Lawrence of Arabia--

The fearless British officer

Whose ferocious Arab army

Used guerrilla-Style sneak attacks

To bring down a mighty empire...

Or teddy Roosevelt,

The brash and brawny u.S. Army colonel

Who overthrew Spanish tyrants in Cuba

Before becoming the 26th president.

As a physician, I want to break it down

With the tale of the tape.

In their prime, we have Roosevelt,

39 years old, 5'8", 210 pounds,

T.E. Lawrence, he's 29 years old,

5'5", 130 pounds.

Big difference.

80-Pound difference.

Roosevelt, at a young age, he had severe asthma,

As well as severe vision issues.

But he trained heavily.

The guy was fit.

Then you have Lawrence of Arabia.

He could run a mile under five minutes.

He didn't drink. He didn't smoke.

This guy was in great shape.

Doc, I think you make a great point.

Lawrence is special.

He speaks seven languages.

A student of architecture.

This man wandered through all the middle east

Just to prove he was tough enough to do it.

Roosevelt, he was the assistant secretary

Of the navy.

He resigns his position

So he can fight in the Spanish-American war.

Physically tough, mentally tough,

And able to execute when it mattered most

On a battlefield.

Couldn't agree more, Mack.

And for the first time on deadliest warrior,

We're gonna take a look at crew-Served weapons.

So up to five guys on both weapons.

Moving on to rifles.

What I love about these weapons

Is that they're both bolt-Action.

We've got some pretty interesting tests set up

To evaluate these.

Narrator: the weapons' test results

Will be entered into the new digital combat engine

Created by Robert Daly,

A former green beret and designer

Of more than 30 military-Based video games,

Including the deadliest warrior game.

To simulate 5,000 battles between these two combatants,

The engine will combine the weapons data

With over 100 x factors,

Critical intangibles assigned values

Based on extensive historical research

Of each warrior's life, tactics,

And psychological profile.

This is a fantastic matchup

Because you look at these two individuals,

And they're larger-Than-Life characters.

And because they're leaders,

We have to take them in a leadership role.

So it's five on five--

Teddy and his rough riders

Versus Lawrence and his bedouin tribesmen.

Narrator: wielding weapons

For Lawrence of Arabia, Richard Reid,

A first-Class marksman

With special forces and espionage training

From the British army.

What Lawrence managed to do

Has really been unmatched by any other warrior.

His leadership qualities,

His modern approach he took to warfare

Was so ahead of his time.

Narrator: providing crucial historical analysis,

Former bbc reporter

And renowned t.E. Lawrence scholar Gavin Scott.

What made him such a powerful person

Was that he harnessed his willpower

To his imagination.

He wanted to change the world.

And he also had the ability

To inspire others to do the same thing.

Narrator: fascinated with Arabic culture,

Lawrence traveled throughout the middle east

As a young man.

There he witnessed Arabs suffering atrocities

At the hands of the ottoman Turks.

[Gunshot]

Determined to avenge this savagery,

Lawrence volunteered as a British army liaison officer

In 1916.

World war I had been raging for two years.

The ottoman Turks, Germany's ally,

Ruled over the crucial Arabian oil fields

With an iron fist.

Lawrence's mission:

Help the British build an Arab army

To battle the Turks and win the war

For the allies.

The Arabs respected Lawrence enormously

For his ability to do the things

That they prized-- Ride camels, shoot.

They admired him because he was even tougher

Than they were.

Narrator: Lawrence used this trust and admiration

To unite the Arabs against the mighty ottoman empire.

His hit-And-Run tactics led to key victories

For the allied forces.

He moved fast, effectively,

And he got out of the way as soon as the job was done.

He would vanish into the desert

With his men

And appear hundreds of miles away

And do it again.

This empire had lasted for half a millennium,

Had dominated the middle east.

And he brought that empire to its knees.

Narrator: but can this devil of the desert

Conquer the brilliance and bravery

Of Theodore Roosevelt?

Handling the weapons for teddy Roosevelt

Is quay terry.

Huh!

Narrator: an 18-Year veteran

And former gunnery sergeant with the u.S. Marines,

Terry has combat-Trained American troops

All over the world.

What made colonel Roosevelt a great warrior

Was his leadership abilities.

There are certain things that you do

In a battle situation

That normal people wouldn't want to do,

And colonel Roosevelt did them.

Narrator: joining the charge

With in-Depth knowledge of Roosevelt's battles,

Weapons, and tactics,

Military historian and armorer Gary Harper.

Theodore Roosevelt said,

"The best thing you can do

"In an emergency situation is the right thing.

"The second best thing you can do is the wrong thing.

The worst thing you can do is nothing at all."

Teddy Roosevelt never did nothing at all.

Narrator: Roosevelt's obsessive need

To prove himself in battle

Has its roots in his childhood.

He had the stigma of believing

That his father was a coward during the civil war

For buying his way out of service,

And it haunted him.

He needed to prove himself for his honor.

Narrator: as an adult,

Roosevelt was a devoted public servant.

In 1898, he was serving

As assistant secretary of the navy

When the uss maine sank in Havana harbor

On Spanish-Ruled Cuba.

America declared war on Spain,

And Roosevelt gave up his desk job

To join the fight.

He hand-Picked his own army unit

And called it the first u.S. Volunteer cavalry regiment.

The press named them the rough riders.

He wanted something that epitomized

The nature of America.

So he was giving people

From all these different walks of life

A chance to participate,

From Harvard and Yale students

To the dregs of the streets,

From cowboys to statesmen.

Narrator: from the moment they hit Cuba,

The rough riders were overwhelmed

By tropical heat and disease.

With his loyal soldiers growing weaker by the hour,

Roosevelt knew he had to strike hard and fast

Or be wiped out by the enemy.

The opposing Spanish forces were entrenched

In heavily fortified positions

At the top of san Juan hill.

Roosevelt rallied his men

And fearlessly led the rough riders

Into a hail of bullets.

The strategic position was captured,

A legend was born,

And America's reputation as a world power

Was secured.

Roosevelt knew that in order to be that power,

We had to exhibit, display,

And prove that power.

Narrator: both Lawrence and Roosevelt

Used modernized long-Range, rapid-Fire weapons

To mow down their enemies.

Now these death machines will be tested

Against each other,

Shot for shot, kill for kill.

Roosevelt took out the Spanish

With the gatling gun,

Mechanized mayhem that first saw battle

In the civil war.

The gatling gun.

Purely an American invention.

Ten barrels, ten bolts, ten firing pins.

It's hand-Cranked.

You can reach rates of fire

Of up to 900 rounds a minute.

In 1968, this weapon was reconstituted

As the mini-Gun on our helicopters.

It was actually invented

By a doctor during the civil war.

Dr. Richard Jordan gatling

Thought if he could invent a weapon

That would fire as fast as a company of soldiers,

They wouldn't draft so many men

And send them off to war.

So it's basically like ten bolt-Action rifles

Working together in concert over and over again.

Yes, especially when you go to clean it,

You realize it's ten bolt-Action rifles.

Perfect.

Here's the test.

It's a defensive scenario.

You have the high ground. You must keep it.

Narrator: to test the accuracy

And effectiveness of each weapon,

Our experts will fire 250 rounds

To take out 15 static troops

And three advancing soldiers as fast as possible.

And you will be timed.

Roosevelt experts, you're up first.

On three, two, one!

Crank 'em out!

That is awesome.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah! [Laughter]

Holy [bleep].

[Shooting continues]

You would not want to be running

Into that thing, man.

Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.

Yeah, baby!

Ohhh!

Whoa, ho, ho, ho.

Yep, that's it.

Time, 1 minute, 11 seconds. Wow.

First moving target,

You've got multiple rounds delivered.

Through the face, jaw,

Through the chest, center of the mass.

I mean, this is instant kill.

Number two, beautiful demonstration

Of multiple rounds, all center of mass.

You're in double digits here on one guy.

Oh, wow, look at this.

Straight through the chest, fractured that sternum.

Multiple rounds delivered in the belly.

This is an instant kill,

And that's what we want to demonstrate.

Okay, guys, looks like you're

Three for three on the moving targets,

And on the static targets,

10 hits out of 15 targets.

At 1 minute, 11 seconds.

It really comes down

To looking at these charging targets.

I imagine if you were coming up that hill

Behind these guys,

And you were literally watching guy after guy

Get mowed down,

That's gonna have a huge psychological play on you.

You're going to feel that sense of being intimidated

And dominated on that battle space,

And I think those are gonna be big x factors

That we're gonna plug into the sim.

When I started seeing the holes and the blood,

It became like squirting a water hose.

There's no recoil on the gun.

It's gonna do exactly what I want it to do.

There's the eerie feeling I have to shoot

Through the dead bodies to get to the live ones

At the bottom of the hill.

It looks like a very nice gun.

I think it would look great in a museum

Or at a parade.

But Lawrence's Vickers

Is 50 years newer

And 50 times as deadly.

Narrator: coming up...

The bullets fly as Lawrence takes aim

At the competition.

Geoff separates fact from fiction

To reveal the lethal power of two legendary weapons.

And all hell breaks loose in the chaos of close combat.

[Grunts]

Narrator: Lawrence of Arabia.

Teddy Roosevelt.

Who is deadliest?

Narrator: teddy Roosevelt,

Rough-Riding hero of the Spanish-American war...

[Men shouting]

...versus Lawrence of Arabia,

The fearless desert warrior of world war I.

He divided, then destroyed his Turkish enemy

With a brilliant strategy of diversionary attacks

Against their vital Hejaz railway supply line.

It would've been tempting to destroy the railway.

But he realized that by blowing up

Individual trains

And giving the Turks time to repair it,

There would be a constant supply

Of trains and troops and loot coming down that line

That he could pick off at will.

So by not completely destroying it,

But by disrupting it, he kept draining

The Turkish manpower and Turkish resources

Into a useless enterprise.

Narrator: this legendary showdown

Kicked off with Roosevelt's long-Range weapon of choice,

The gatling gun.

Now Lawrence of Arabia fires back

With his own rapid-Fire killer,

The Vickers.

The British army's primary machine gun

For more than 50 years

Served up death at 500 rounds a minute.

The Vickers made all the difference to Lawrence

Because he was up against superior forces

In terms of numbers.

And he was able to give

His irregular forces

A powerful weapon, which evened the odds.

It fires a .303 round.

By cooling the system,

You could do much longer bursts of fire.

Water would be put in through this tap

And drained out through this tap at the end.

But in the desert,

Water is obviously in short supply.

So it's not unheard of

For soldiers to urinate for it to operate.

But the uric acid would actually be very damaging

To the gun itself.

Also, urinating under pressure is very difficult.

[Laughter]

And then there's that.

Narrator: to test the Vickers

For accuracy and effectiveness,

The Lawrence team will fire 250 rounds

At 15 static targets

And three simulated charging enemy soldiers.

The time to beat:

The gatling gun's 1 minute, 11 seconds.

Fire!

Nice.

Jam. Jam.

Somebody needs to piss in the tube!

[Laughter]

Nice and slow, nice and slow.

Ohhhh, yeah, baby.

Now we're talkin'.

Oh! Easy pickings.

Easy pickings. Yeah.

Nice! Check that out.

Ohhh.

All right, clear. 1 minute, 41 seconds.

30 seconds slower than the gatling gun.

Narrator: the Vickers ties

The gatling gun's three instant kills

On the moving targets.

Look at this one. Dead center.

That big, juicy aorta.

You shoot that, they're gonna bleed out,

Drop their blood pressure in a few seconds,

Be unconscious, and die.

And talking about a juicy aorta,

Check that out.

The jacket on this is completely peeled back.

This going through your body

Is a lot of transferred energy.

Exactly.

You see all these little fragments?

It's not a smooth little circle

That we think of a bullet.

It's just tearing away tissue.

And talking about the Vickers,

You're three for three on the moving targets,

And I counted 11 for 15 on the static targets

In 1 minute, 41 seconds.

As soon as I opened fire, I encountered a blockage.

As soon as the gun was corrected,

I can quite casually relax and pick off targets.

And I had a long burst of fire.

For all the challenges we found with it,

This weapon did do the job

That Lawrence needed it to do.

It wiped out the Turks who were standing in his way.

It enabled him to win.

With all said and done,

You've got one barrel.

You had a few jams.

But you couldn't fire that weapon

Until you cleared that barrel.

With the gatling gun, we've got ten barrels.

If I have a problem, I can pull a bolt

And continue firing with the other nine barrels.

Narrator: Lawrence's Vickers

Hit more targets.

But Roosevelt's gatling was faster and didn't jam.

So which rapid-Fire gun gets the edge?

I have to admit I was giving my edge

To the Vickers right off the bat.

I thought it was the more recent technology.

But after seeing these two tests,

I'm liking the gatling gun.

Multiple rounds in each target,

Instant kills.

It goes to show you,

It was designed by a doctor.

Listen, that gatling gun was already proven

By the time it got into Roosevelt's hands

Versus a piece of technology

That hadn't yet seen its heyday.

I think, clearly,

My edge goes to the gatling gun all the way.

Narrator: for long-Range weapons,

Edge: teddy Roosevelt.

As the enemy was suppressed by long-Range firepower,

Both Lawrence's Arab army and Roosevelt's rough riders

Would advance with bolt-Action rifles.

Lawrence's Arab army terrorized the Turks

With the s.M.L.E.

The short magazine lee-Enfield

Was the British military standard issue

For over 50 years.

The main benefit of this rifle

Was the speed of the bolt-Action.

Troops were able to cock and reload the next round

Very rapidly,

Between 25 to 40 rounds per minute.

So if you had a section of men firing

At that speed,

It was often mistaken for machine gun fire.

Narrator: Roosevelt's rough riders

Take aim with... Ugh!

Narrator: the krag,

The u.S. Army's first smokeless powder carbine.

Very light, very accurate.

Shoots the .30-40 krag round.

Five-Round internal magazine,

Or you can single-Shot it

Through what is acclaimed as the smoothest bolt

Ever invented.

Narrator: the killing capacity

Of each bolt-Action rifle will be tested

By measuring muzzle velocity and target damage.

In addition, Geoff will measure

Each weapon's recoil force,

A key factor that can negatively affect accuracy.

When you pull that trigger,

You've got the gases pushing on this bullet,

Pushing it down the barrel.

But there's an opposite and reactive force

Traveling through the stock

And back into this man's shoulder.

Narrator: a load cell attached

To the butt of each rifle

Will measure recoil force.

Experts will fire live rounds through a chronometer

Into a block of fbi-Certified ballistics clay

To determine muzzle velocity

And get an assessment of the overall damage.

Richard's up first,

Firing Lawrence of Arabia's s.M.L.E.

Whoo!

Narrator: next, quay takes aim

With Roosevelt's krag carbine.

Nice.

Muzzle velocity.

Off the s.M.L.E.,

We got 2,592 feet per second.

Versus the krag, 1,958 feet per second.

Narrator: a higher muzzle velocity

Offers potential for more damage to the target.

But Geoff has to examine the ballistics clay

To get a complete picture

Of the rifle's destructive power.

Let's take a look at quay with the krag.

And what i'm getting off the temporary cavity here

Is five inches at the widest point.

Looking at the s.M.L.E.,

I'm measuring a full width

Of this clay block, which is 5 1/2 inches.

We got a higher muzzle velocity off Richard's s.M.L.E.

And i'm seeing here a larger temporary cavity.

So in my opinion, the s.M.L.E. Does more damage.

Narrator: next, Geoff examines the load cell readings

To determine each rifle's recoil force.

On the krag,

Only a recoil of about nine pounds.

Let's take a look at the s.M.L.E.

Okay, big difference, actually.

Over 37 pounds of recoil.

That's a huge factor.

I mean, if you look at the body size

Of these two warriors,

You've got Roosevelt--

He is 5'8", 210 pounds,

And he's got the lighter rifle with the less recoil.

Then you take Lawrence, on the other hand,

He's 5'5", 135 pounds.

He's got the heavier weapon with a much larger recoil.

Somebody constantly takes recoil into their shoulder

In a drawn-Out battle,

That's gonna be a factor.

And that's an x factor

With regards to endurance and physicality

That we can put into the sim.

Let's not forget, though,

That Lawrence was supremely fit.

This was a guy who could run

A sub-Five-Minute mile.

If anyone could take the kind of punishment

You're talking about, Lawrence could.

There is more recoil with this weapon.

But as you saw, it causes more damage.

The krag is beautiful to shoot.

That kick that it gives? Childish.

I mean, you could shoot this thing all day long.

Narrator: coming up...

Bolt-Action rifles taste the heat of battle.

And later,

Mack tears apart the tactics that beat the odds

And claimed victory

For these two legendary warriors.

This is a brutal battle.

Narrator: teddy Roosevelt

Or Lawrence of Arabia?

Who will be the deadliest warrior?

Narrator: Lawrence of Arabia,

The British special operative who built an Arab army.

Their bloody battles

Against the massive Turkish war machine

Changed the course of world war I...

Versus teddy Roosevelt.

His heroics in the Spanish-American war

Captured the respect of the world

On his way to becoming America's 26th president.

He had a saying.

He would rather go down in glorious defeat

Than share the ranks with those timid souls

That knew neither victory nor defeat.

He not only went where the action was,

He dropped everything to do it.

Narrator: Geoff's first round

Of bolt-Action rifle tests

Revealed Lawrence's s.M.L.E. Inflicts more target damage.

But it also takes a higher toll on the shooter,

Delivering four times the recoil impact

As Roosevelt's krag.

Now let's find out

Which rifle is more accurate and deadly

Under the 20th century battle conditions

Our warriors faced.

We know that both Lawrence of Arabia

And Theodore Roosevelt had to storm

Entrenched positions.

The area between your trench and your enemy's trench

Was known as no-Man's-Land.

Narrator: to test each rifle's accuracy,

Maneuverability, and reload time,

Our experts will attack an opposing enemy trench

With eight targets--

Three static, three moving,

And two reactive popups.

First, they'll run to a concealed firing position

75 yards out and fire ten rounds.

Next, they will advance 15 yards

Through the no-Man's-Land,

Avoiding razor wire and simulated artillery strikes,

To a second position

And fire ten more rounds.

So quay, you're up first with the krag.

On three, two, one!

Chaaaaaarge!

[Dramatic music]

Oh, yeah!

[Grunts]

Nice.

Oh, he missed it.

Dead center, nice.

That was a hit.

Narrator: quay must reload

The krag's five-Round magazine

One bullet at a time.

Got it.

There we go. There you go.

Oh, yeah!

Here he goes, second firing position.

Move it, move it, move it. Get down, get down.

Get down! Get down!

Oh, ho, ho, ho!

I'm telling you, though, the reload is killing him.

That's it. Yeah, sweet.

That's it. There you go.

He's making mincemeat of those targets.

Whoa!

The charge is awesome.

Nice shot.

Excellent!

There you go. That's another one.

Oh, yeah! [Laughter]

That's great.

Nicely done.

Time!

Nice work.

2 minutes, 26 seconds.

Narrator: eight targets.

Eight instant kills.

It looks like it's ricocheting off the sandbag,

Tumbling, causing a lot bigger hole.

That by itself is an instant kill.

Narrator: quay killed every target

And scored 16 hits with 20 shots from the krag.

Total hit ratio, 80%.

You brought your best game to the table,

Moving in and taking your shots,

Reloading your magazine.

You got all of your instant kills.

When you're talking about x factors for the sim,

Roosevelt and his rough riders

Demonstrated calm under fire.

What really it comes down to is the training.

Roosevelt's men were very well trained

With these carbines.

They knew what they were doing.

They knew how to use them.

I've been through similar training,

And you can see the results.

All right, Richard. What do you think?

I have a longer barrel, better accuracy,

And a magazine that holds ten rounds.

So I hope to do the same amount of damage,

But in a shorter amount of time.

On three, two, one!

Chaaaaaarge!

[Dramatic music]

Oh, ho!

Get down, get down, get down!

That's it.

There we go. There you go.

Nice shot.

There you go.

Oh, popup target.

Excellent.

He's getting those rounds off nice.

Ah, he missed it.

That's another one.

Stay low, stay low.

Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.

Narrator: Richard reloads the s.M.L.E.

Using a ten-Round stripper clip.

Nice.

That looks like a miss.

There you go. There you go, brother.

Whoa! There you go.

Nice, that was a hit.

Missed it.

Nice shot.

Come on, bring it home, bring it home.

That is a hit.

Time!

2 minutes, 15 seconds. Nice work.

Excellent, excellent. Excellent.

This by itself is an instant kill.

But you're gonna get the trachea, maybe not rupture it,

But you'll tear it. It'll leak.

This guy is untouched. He lives to fight.

Narrator: Richard killed seven

Out of eight targets.

He scored 14 hits with 20 shots

From the s.M.L.E.

Total hit ratio, 70%.

When you're under pressure, it can be difficult.

Especially with the heavy artillery fire

That was simulated in this exercise.

But the great thing was the bolt action.

It meant that you could fire your ten rounds very quickly.

Once again, I think the krag proved itself.

Lighter, more maneuverable,

All eight targets, instant kills.

Narrator: Lawrence's s.M.L.E.

Caused more damage and had a faster reload time.

But Roosevelt's krag proved more accurate,

With a quarter of the s.M.L.E.'S recoil.

So which bolt-Action rifle gets the edge?

On the controlled test, I liked the s.M.L.E.

Because there was more damage there.

Moving to the dynamic shooting environment test,

I liked the s.M.L.E. As well.

He was able to move through it faster--

2 minutes, 15 seconds versus 2 minutes, 26 seconds--

Because he's got

A ten-Round magazine on this weapon.

The rifle that actually hit the right spot

Every single time,

Whether it was in the controlled study

Or on the field in the dynamic study,

Was the krag.

With the s.M.L.E.,

The recoil is so much greater.

Now, you put that in a long gunfight,

That's gonna start wearing on your shoulder.

You're not gonna have the perfect position

After a while.

With the krag,

You're talking about an advantage with functionality.

With the s.M.L.E., you're talking about

An advantage with technology.

It's basically a wash.

To me, it's even.

(Announcer) For medium-Range weapons,

It's dead even.

Up next...

With Roosevelt ahead,

Can Lawrence even the score

With his close-Range killer?

And Mack jumps into the trenches

Of two great victories--

Roosevelt's charge up san Juan hill...

We're gonna die if we stay here.

Narrator: and Lawrence's siege

At the port of aqaba.

This is a complete diversionary tactic.

Narrator: teddy Roosevelt

Or Lawrence of Arabia?

Who is deadliest?

Narrator: Lawrence of Arabia

Versus teddy Roosevelt.

Mack will examine the battlefield tactics

Of these two legendary leaders,

A crucial x factor used by the digital combat engine

To help determine which combat commander is deadliest.

What is one of Roosevelt's

Favorite battlefield strategies and tactics?

A charge.

I like to think of it as to suppress

And slaughter his enemy.

Suppress and slaughter.

Give me a perfect example of that.

Battle of san Juan hill.

We're gonna use the touch table

And go there now.

There it is, Cuba. Our backyard.

We have san Juan hill.

We have Spanish in trench positions,

Waiting for an enemy to attack them.

Roosevelt and the rough riders,

They're in a riverbed.

They're taking artillery fire.

They're taking small arms fire.

He's in trouble, right?

They just start delivering effective fire on top of them.

Yes, Roosevelt is looking at this going, "we're dying.

We're losing men and we're doing nothing."

So this gatling gun detachment, they begin firing.

The gatling gun coming online

Starts delivering suppressive fire.

Roosevelt hears this distinctive fire,

Looks up the hill, sees these Spaniards starting

To go down.

The men raise a cheer, and with him at the lead,

They come out of their position and charge.

It takes them eight minutes to reach the top.

In that eight minutes, the gatling gun detachment

Fires 18,000 rounds.

Wow. They're attacking from the front.

They're attacking from the side,

Almost in a flanking maneuver.

And they capture san Juan hill.

And this all leads to winning the Spanish-American war.

Oh, yes-- Spain never came back,

Did they?

Narrator: when the fight moved

Into the trenches,

The warriors unsheathed their close-Combat blades.

The rough riders' knife of choice:

The bowie hunter.

Its clip point design allows

A faster, deeper thrust.

It's tough, and it can do a lot of things.

You can fix your horse, open a can of beans.

But it was also used and really well adapted

For hunting.

Clip point, blood groove.

This same concept is used by the marine corps today.

Well, I think yours looks very helpful

On a camping trip.

But if I was going into battle,

I'd prefer to have this.

Narrator: Lawrence of Arabia's

Preferred blade weapon:

The jambiya dagger,

The traditional knife of nomadic Arab tribes.

The scabbard's got a much larger curve to it

Than the actual dagger.

The reason for this

Is they'd be carried and hooked onto a belt

In their clothing

So that when the dagger was drawn,

The scabbard would stay hooked

Down underneath the belt.

Lawrence, you know, he adopted the clothing,

He adopted the jambiya.

And in fact, just how proud he was

Is indicated by the fact

That in the last image we have of him,

The marble effigy on his sarcophagus,

There is his jambiya in his belt.

Narrator: because trench warfare

Was confined chaos,

Geoff will test the damage

And close-Quarter effectiveness

Of each blade as enemies close in

From both sides.

Right over there will be a pig coming down

On this zipline.

Take him out.

But you'll also have to react

To your second target coming towards you

At 180 degrees.

Take him out.

Quay, you'll be up first

With Roosevelt's bowie hunter.

Narrator: a 3-D orientation sensor

Will measure the impact velocity of each blade

To determine which one delivers

The quickest kill.

On three, two, one!

Release the pig!

Nice.

Yeah! Yeah! Nice!

Excellent. All right, quay.

This is not an instant kill.

It's not even a mortal wound.

It's gonna hurt, may make his arm useless,

But he's still gonna be able to fight.

Target number two, a beautifully delivered blow.

This one is deep enough to cause an instant kill.

And this is exactly where you wanna go.

The blade is heavy.

It's made for stabbing.

It goes right in.

Narrator: one mortal wound.

One instant kill.

Impact velocity, 42 miles per hour.

Up next, Lawrence's deadly jambiya dagger.

Release the pig!

There you go, excellent.

Ohhhh, ohhhh!

Oh, ho, ho!

Nice.

This is a huge laceration.

This is gonna love to bleed.

It's not gonna kill by itself,

But when you get into the stabs higher up,

You did another laceration here.

This one is close to three inches,

Which is great because you're lacerating

Through all of those vessels there.

This is an instant kill by itself.

Narrator: the jambiya scores

Two instant kills.

The blade's curved design helps increase

Richard's impact velocity to 51 miles per hour,

20% faster than the bowie hunter.

In the end,

You had to strike out a lot of times.

You get it once and it kills,

That's all you need.

You have to stab it 50, 60 times,

Lot of wasted energy.

Narrator: Roosevelt's bowie hunter

Proves to be a deadly, efficient killer.

But the curved blade of Lawrence's jambiya dagger

Delivers swift death with both thrusts and slashes.

So which blade gives its warrior the edge?

I think when you're entering that trench

And you want to deliver that lethal blow,

Which one sends a more intimidating message?

So I guess in this case, size does matter?

Size is definitely intimidating.

Narrator: for close-Range weapons,

Edge: Lawrence of Arabia.

Because battlefield tactics are an essential x factor

For the digital combat engine,

Mack analyzes Lawrence's guerrilla warfare methods.

What is one of Lawrence's favorite battlefield

Strategy and tactics?

To hit hard and to vanish into the desert.

He called it a phantom army.

Perfect example is the way that he took

The port of aqaba here.

All right, let's go there.

The obvious thing to do is to head straight for aqaba.

It's too obvious. [Laughs]

Because the Turks are too powerful.

So he would be certainly destroyed

If he tried to do a direct assault.

Absolutely. So he has to fool them.

He wants the Turks to believe he's actually going

To Damascus, way up in the north.

All right, Damascus, here we come.

North to Damascus.

See this explosion there?

The Turks would send a train. He'd blow it up.

That convinced the Turks that his objective

Was Damascus.

So they race up here. What's Lawrence do?

[Laughing] he races down here.

This is a complete diversionary tactic, isn't it?

Yes.

Narrator: as Lawrence's phantom army

Tactic unfolds,

The bulk of Turk forces race to Damascus,

Leaving only one Turkish battalion

To defend aqaba.

Now it's gonna be a pitched battle.

The Arabs didn't really want to attack the Turks

Because the Turks had machine guns.

So what does Lawrence do?

He goes up to the hill,

And he buries his head in his hands.

And that infuriates them.

They are humiliated by this.

Lawrence actually figures out

"I'm gonna use psychological warfare on my own guys."

Exactly, yes.

"I'm gonna call their manhoods into question."

Yes.

And they literally wipe out this battalion.

Totally.

300 dead, 200 prisoners.

And Lawrence has proven his phantom strategy and tactics

Work on the battlefield.

They took aqaba and changed

The whole outcome of world war I.

Changed the history of the middle east.

Roosevelt was fortunate

To come out of san Juan hill alive.

His suppress and slaughter worked for him

On that day.

But when you look at t.E. Lawrence's ability

To adapt, improvise, and overcome

On the battlefield,

His use of deception in the deserts of Arabia,

T.E. Lawrence gets the edge.

Narrator: for battlefield tactics,

Edge: Lawrence of Arabia.

Next, the neck-And-Neck battle

Between two legends of war explodes

In a fierce and final showdown.

Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia.

Who is deadliest?

Narrator: teddy Roosevelt

Versus Lawrence of Arabia.

Who is deadliest?

Our team of specialists has tested and analyzed

The weapons these two battlefield icons brought

To this showdown.

For long-Range weapons, Lawrence's Vickers machine gun

Came up short against Roosevelt's gatling gun.

In medium-Range weapons, a dead-Even draw

Between Roosevelt's more accurate krag carbine

And Lawrence's more powerful s.M.L.E. Rifle.

In close-Range weapons,

Roosevelt's bowie hunter was sliced apart

By Lawrence's curved-Blade jambiya dagger.

For battlefield tactics,

Roosevelt's suppress and slaughter strategy

Was outflanked by Lawrence's phantom army.

Robert Daly has entered the crucial weapons data

Into the digital combat engine.

His team of engineers and historians

Has also completed their vital research

And assigned numeric values to more than 100 x factors.

There's all of these intangibles

That really make the difference

When you go out on the battlefield--

What their diet is,

What their technology is.

Our historians and our researchers

Go through all this data

And rate everything from 1 to 100,

100 being the perfect warrior.

How do you factor in calm under fire

Inside the sim?

Calm under fire

Does swing towards teddy in this

Because teddy really did have to go in there

And mix it up.

I mean, he's shooting Spaniards

At 15, 20 feet.

Calm under fire for teddy is an 86,

Versus Lawrence's 81.

Makes sense to me. It really does.

When you think about not only physical endurance,

But the psychological endurance that they had to have

To withstand the elements,

To withstand the desert,

To withstand the jungle environment.

It really comes down

To Lawrence's sub-Five-Minute mile.

And look at the hardships that he's going through.

For endurance, we rated teddy at a 71

But Lawrence at an 88.

Okay, guys, the x factors were close

In this one.

The test results were close in this one.

Let's run the sim.

Narrator: the digital combat engine

Will execute 5,000 battle simulations,

Pitting teddy Roosevelt and four rough riders

Against Lawrence of Arabia

And four of his bedouin fighters.

[Dramatic music]

[Arabian-Inspired music]

Men, get that gatling gun forward!

Move it!

Right there, right there! Turn it! Set it down!

[Rapid gunfire continuing]

[Click, click]

Leave it. Let's go!

[Bullets ricocheting]

Get up, run! Get up that hill!

Let's go, let's go! Move it!

Move! We got 'em on the run!

Cease fire, cease fire.

[Tense music]

[Huge explosion]

Spin it around!

[Dramatic music]

Soldier, man the gatling!

[Screams]

Oh, sir! Are you okay?

I'm okay. Move!

[Battle cry]

Agh!

Agh!

[Groans]

Aah!

This is one of the closest battles

That we've had to date.

Teddy ends up winning slightly,

2,582 to Lawrence's 2,418.

It was so close.

Narrator: Lawrence of Arabia prevailed

In the majority of x factors,

Like endurance and tactics.

But he couldn't overcome

The overwhelming advantage

Roosevelt's more reliable gatling gun had

Over Lawrence's Vickers.

Teddy Roosevelt's gatling gun

Ended up scoring 10,316 kills,

Versus Lawrence's Vickers' 7,544 kills.

Lawrence had many of the x factors

Going for him.

He had newer technology.

But newer does not always mean better.

You got teddy and his rough riders

Having that tried-And-True technology.

I knew it was gonna be close,

And the fact that teddy was able to pull it out,

It goes to show that a guy

Who may have started off

With severe illness like asthma, poor vision,

Can not only be an unbelievable warrior,

But beat a warrior like Lawrence of Arabia.

One of Theodore Roosevelt's greatest attributes

Was his ability to pick a target

And keep going at it, no matter what.

This guy had this iron will

To get things done

And would never quit until he accomplished them.

Aah!

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