Isandlwana 1879: Chelmsford's Unfortified Camp and the Buffalo Horns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In January 1879, British High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle Frere, acting without London's appro...
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Trench Warfare: Vauban's Zigzags, the Lochnagar Mine and Drone-Era Dugouts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Digging in is far older than 1914: Julius Caesar described flooded trenches at Alesia, and Thucy...
11 Okt 26min
Scipio Africanus: Neptune's Tide at New Carthage to Torn Senate Ledgers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Publius Cornelius Scipio, born around 236 BC into the Cornelii Scipiones, reportedly saved his c...
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Roman Centurions: Sideways Crests, the Vine Staff and the Primus Pilus
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Centurions wore their helmet crests turned sideways so their own men could find them in the chao...
11 Okt 25min
Waterloo 1815: Muddy Cannon, Quatre Bras Defiance and the Guard Breaks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 13, 1815, the powers of Europe declared Napoleon Bonaparte an outlaw, six days before h...
11 Okt 26min
The Trebuchet: Cortés's Failed Shot, Acre's 92 Engines and Modern Use
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1521, with his gunpowder exhausted at Tenochtitlan, Hernán Cortés had his engineers build a t...
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Lepanto 1571: Galleasses, a Wind Shift and Janissaries Hurling Oranges
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On October 7, 1571, more than 400 oared warships met in the Gulf of Patras in the last great gal...
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First Battle of the Marne 1914: Kluck's Turn and Hentsch's Retreat Order
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Between September 5 and 12, 1914, the German advance through France under the Schlieffen Plan's ...
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