Poltava 1709: Charles XII on a Stretcher and Sweden's Fatal Two-Hour Halt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After six years of victories over Denmark, Norway and Poland-Lithuania in the Great Northern War...
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Polish Winged Hussars: Hollow Lances, Feathered Wings and Vienna 1683
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Polish winged hussars, active from about 1503 to 1702, began as Serbian exiles called Rascia...
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Charles I on Trial: Ship Money, the Five Members and the Divine Right Ended
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On 4 January 1642 King Charles I marched into the House of Commons with about 400 soldiers to ar...
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The Janissaries: Devshirme Child Levy to the 1826 Auspicious Incident
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Janissaries, from the Ottoman Turkish yeniçeri, new soldier, were created in the 14th centur...
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Octavian vs Mark Antony: The Seized Will, Agrippa's Blockade and Actium
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 BC, his 18-year-old adopted son Octavian inherited his for...
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Battle of the Nile 1798: Foley's Inshore Gambit and L'Orient Explodes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1798 a French armada carried Napoleon Bonaparte's army, along with 167 scientis...
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Napoleon's 1812 Russian Campaign: Lost to Typhus Before the Snow Fell
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The legend says General Winter beat Napoleon in Russia, but most of the Grande Armée was gone be...
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Leipzig 1813: Saxon Defectors and the Corporal Who Blew the Elster Bridge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 1813 more than half a million soldiers converged on Leipzig for the Battle of the Nat...
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