Austerlitz 1805: Napoleon Gives Up the Pratzen Heights to Bait the Tsar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On 2 December 1805, near Austerlitz in modern Czechia, Napoleon's Grande Armée faced the Russian...
11 Okt 25min
Jutland 1916: Unread Flag Signals, Exploding Battlecruisers and Room 40
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On 31 May 1916 some 250 warships and roughly 100,000 men of the British Grand Fleet and the Germ...
11 Okt 26min
Military Logistics: The Ox That Eats Its Cargo and the Patton Fuel Crisis
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Napoleon took roughly 600,000 men into Russia in 1812 and fewer than 100,000 came back, most los...
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Military Dogs at War: Pelusium, Sergeant Stubby and Smoky the Yorkie
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The story of dogs in war runs from armored mastiffs to parachuting special operators. Greek and ...
11 Okt 23min
Mikhail Kutuzov: Shot Twice in the Head, Then Napoleon Outlasted
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mikhail Kutuzov was born into the Russian upper nobility in St. Petersburg in 1745, entered a mi...
11 Okt 25min
Mehmed II Takes Constantinople: Orban's Great Gun and the Throat Cutter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When 19-year-old Mehmed II took the Ottoman throne in 1451, European courts celebrated, and he p...
11 Okt 25min
Plate Armor Myths: Somersaulting Knights, Fluted Steel and Kevlar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From roughly the 9th to the 14th centuries European warriors relied on mail, tens of thousands o...
11 Okt 24min
Chivalry's Rebrand: Charlemagne's Horsemen to the Ten Commandments Hoax
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The word chivalry comes from the French chevalerie, horse soldiery, and at first described nothi...
11 Okt 24min
