Battle of Blenheim 13 August 1704
“For this campaign I see so very ill a prospect that I am extremely out of heart.” So wrote the man most responsible for today’s battle and one of Britain’s greatest military victories, the battle of ...
24 Jun 202239min
Battle of Schellenberg 2 July 1704
"I had scarcely finished speaking when the enemy's battery opened fire upon us, and raked us through and through. They concentrated their fire upon us, and with their first discharge carried off Count...
16 Mai 20221h
Battle of Vigo Bay October 23 1702
Let’s go back to the year 1702, a time when Spanish treasure ships still sailed the open seas. Let’s go back to the age of sails and cannon, of Sun Kings and wars of succession. To a time when the Roy...
28 Apr 202243min
Battle of Narva November 19 1770
Let’s go back to the year 1700, a cold, gray late November day in Estonia. Let’s go back to the age of muskets and bayonets, of dragoons and hussars. To a time when the Lion of the North, the Last Vik...
21 Apr 20221h 1min
Battle of Kleidion July 29, 1014
Let’s go back to the year 1014, a late summer in the Balkans where Basil II, of the Byzantine Empire, has brought his army to destroy his oldest foe. Let’s go back to the final days of the Bulgarian E...
7 Apr 202239min
Battle of Ipsus 301 BC
A little bit of a pivot this week; instead of the Battle of Kleidion (which will just get pushed back a week) you’ll be listening to a chat between myself and Brett from the Whiskey Tango Podcast. I’v...
31 Mar 20221h 11min
Battle of Clontarf 23 April 1014
“They fought then, and each of them endeavored to slaughter the other; and they fell by each other, and the way that they fell was with the sword of each through the heart of the other; and the hair o...
23 Mar 202247min
Battle of Svolder 9 September, 999 or 1000 AD
The first cycle of episodes in the Cauldron re-boot featured exclusively battles from antiquity and the truly ancient world. This next cycle will see us hop in the imaginary time machine and fast forw...
17 Mar 202256min
