Brian Chontosh: The Marine Who Ran Out of Guns
During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, First Lieutenant Brian Chontosh and his Marines were caught in a coordinated ambush on Route 1. With the road blocked and fire closing in around them, Chontosh ordere...
13 Elo 1h 13min
Semiramis: Queen of War, Mother of Legends
Semiramis did not come to the ancient world to sit quietly on a throne and wave at peasants. She came to rule. With an army at her back, a crown on her head, and the kind of ambition that makes neighb...
6 Elo 1h 19min
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville: Around the World and Into the Guns w/ Ridiculous History
in part two of our crossover with Ridiculous History, Ben and Pat join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown to follow Louis-Antoine de Bougainville—a mathematician, soldier, explorer, and the first Frenchman to ...
30 Heinä 51min
George Rogers Clark: The Frozen March That Won the Northwest w/ Ridiculous History
In part one of our crossover with Ridiculous History, Ben and Pat join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown for one of the most insane military road trips of the American Revolution. With roughly 170 exhauste...
28 Heinä 1h 8min
Hector: The Blood-Soaked Shield of Troy
Getting ready to watch The Odyssey? Well here's the prequel... When Paris steals Helen and brings the armies of Greece crashing down on Troy, it falls to his older brother Hector to clean up the mes...
16 Heinä 1h 4min
Henry Knox: The Cannon King Who Won America’s Independence
This Fourth of July, we’re telling the story of one of the greatest American heroes almost nobody remembers. Before he became George Washington’s trusted general and America’s first Secretary of War,...
9 Heinä 59min
The Death Match: The Soccer Game That Defied the Nazis
A soccer game so legendary it inspired a Hollywood blockbuster… but did it really happen the way we’ve all heard? During the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a ragtag team of former professional footballe...
1 Heinä 52min
