Conversations: The Marine "Bastard" Battalion, w/ Gregg Zoroya

Mr. Raphael is one of the United States' foremost authorities on the subject of the American Revolution and an author of twenty books. Howard Zinn called his A People's History of the American Revolution "The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have ever read." https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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King Charles II, also known as the "Merry Monarch," was a significant figure in English history, particularly during the Restoration period. But did you know that on the morning of February 2, 1685, the King fell to the floor in his bathroom because of potentially having poisoned himself by accident? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Specialist 5th Class Clarence Eugene Sasser served in Vietnam as an Army Medic. Through numerous wounds and excruciating pain, he continuously administered aid to fellow soldiers for 20 hours as his company was attacked in Vietnam. To hear more of Sasser's story listen to his episode on our other show; Warrior In Their Own Words. You can read Sasser's Medal of Honor Citation on the National Medal of Honor Museum website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Leaving the argument of which is better, Pepsi or Coca-Cola, for another time, did you know that the most popular soft drink in the world, Coca-Cola, was invented quite by accident in 1866 by an American pharmacist named John Pemberton trying to create a pain killer? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The story of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin’s death is perhaps as much an enigma today as it was when shared with the world by the Russian propaganda machine in 1953. But did you know that Stalin’s chances of living may just have been greater had he not waged war against his nation’s most skilled doctors shortly before suffering the stroke that killed him? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The affair between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra is one of history's most famous and intriguing love stories. But did you know that it also produced Caesar’s only male heir? Caesarion was destined to be both a Roman Emperor and an Egyptian Pharaoh. In the end, it was this very destiny that led to his premature death at the age of 17. https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Few people remember Napoleon III's attempt to use the turmoil of the American Civil War in the 1860s to sneak past the United States Monroe Doctrine and establish a French client state in Mexico. But did you know, it is in this context, many Mexicans and Americans celebrate Cinco the Mayo each May? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Did you know that in the 1930s, a historian named Harry E. Pratt studied Abraham Lincoln's purchase history and found a receipt for a fifty-cent purchase of cocaine just a month before Honest Abe would become president? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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