Translation for French Victory exclamation? Sounds like "Uga Uga!"

[Didz]

Funnily enough I've recently been scouring the internet for an accurate recording of an Prussian battle cry to include in my video guidance to the ETW Prussian Campaign.

I had a rough idea what I was looking for because a couple of French soldiers of the period had described it in their memoires. So, I knew for example that the French used to mimic the shout the Prussia cavalry made just before charging by shouting back at them 'Au Rat! Au Rat! Au Rat!'.

After a lot of rummaging around I eventually discovered a video clip of an East German Army miitary parade, during which, the regiments commander made an impassioned speech, and to my delight the regiment responded with the attached cheer. Which I think is just about as close as anyone can get to mimicing the sound the French described.


As you can hear I fiddled with the tone and tempo of it in Audacity to provide some variation for my video's, but basically it does sound a bit like 'Au Rat! Au Rat! Au Rat!

Incidently, it's worth looking up the YouTube clips of the 'Rebel Yell' from the American Civil War. It's absolutely nothing like the modern version used by American's today, and much closer to a Native American war cry, from which it probably derived.