Orléans Through 1,400 Years: Attila, Joan of Arc and Two 1870 Battles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A single Wikipedia disambiguation page for the Battle of Orléans becomes a map of how one French...
11 Okt 20min
Guerrilla Warfare: Mao's Three Phases, Che's Foco and Lawrence's Gas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Guerrilla warfare rests on one rule: never meet a stronger force on open ground. The word, Spani...
11 Okt 24min
Little Bighorn 1876: Custer's Split Command and Reno's Timber Rout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 1876, Sitting Bull saw a vision of soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers, whi...
11 Okt 22min
Fourth Crusade 1204: Venetian Debt and the Sack of Constantinople
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The four bronze horses on St. Mark's Basilica in Venice were taken from Constantinople in April ...
11 Okt 25min
Blitzkrieg Myth: 2.7 Million Horses, Pervitin and Liddell Hart's Spin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1940 invasion of France, most of the German army walked and relied on 2.7 million horses ...
11 Okt 24min
The Bayonet: Plug Blades at Killiecrankie to the Trowel and Sawback
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The dictionary traces the bayonet to Bayonne, but the first recorded version appears in a Chines...
11 Okt 25min
Siege of Baghdad 1258: Hulegu, the Caliph's Gold and a Rolled Carpet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1251 Möngke Khan gave his brother Hulegu, a grandson of Genghis Khan, a fifth of the Mongol E...
11 Okt 27min
Scorched Earth Warfare: From Scythian Wells to the Nero Decree
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode traces the deliberate destruction of food, water, shelter and infrastructure to den...
11 Okt 23min
