The Tank: From a Water Closet Code Name to the Iron Triangle and APS
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1915 a secret British committee that included Winston Churchill was developing land cruisers ...
11 Okt 27min
The Honey War of 1839: Missouri vs Iowa Over Bee Trees and a Bad Survey
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1816 surveyor John C. Sullivan dragged a 66-foot Gunter's chain north from the mouth of the K...
11 Okt 19min
Ayacucho 1824: Starving Royalists Charge Downhill and Spain Loses Peru
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On December 9, 1824, about 7,000 royalist troops holding the heights of Condorcunca in the Peruv...
11 Okt 24min
Solferino 1859: Three Monarchs, a Blind Collision and the Red Cross
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 24, 1859, during the Second Italian War of Independence, roughly 300,000 soldiers collid...
11 Okt 21min
Skanderbeg's Revolt: Forged Orders at Krujë and 25 Years vs the Ottomans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1400s John Kastrioti, a regional lord in north central Albania caught between Venic...
11 Okt 17min
Black Powder: Tang Fire Medicine, Corned Kernels and Gunpowder Soup
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gunpowder began in ninth century Tang China, where Daoist alchemists seeking an elixir of immort...
11 Okt 23min
Sedan 1870: Moltke's Mousetrap and the Capture of Emperor Napoleon III
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the costly Battle of Gravelotte, Marshal Bazaine's Army of the Rhine, more than 154,000 me...
11 Okt 21min
Zama 202 BC: Scipio's Cannae Exiles and Open Lanes for Hannibal's Elephants
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After Cannae, where about 67,500 Romans were killed or captured in one afternoon, Rome hid behin...
11 Okt 23min
