Megiddo 1457 BC: Thutmose III Takes the Aruna Pass Against Kadesh
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Armageddon comes from Har Megiddo, the Mount of Megiddo, a fortified city controlling the Via Ma...
11 Okt 19min
Richard III the Soldier: Edinburgh, Hastings and the Last Bosworth Charge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the crown, Richard III was the loyal lieutenant of his brother Edward IV. Slight where Ed...
11 Okt 18min
The Paris Gun 1918: Krupp Shells That Reached the Stratosphere
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At 7:18 in the morning on March 23, 1918, an explosion hit the quai de la Seine in Paris with no...
11 Okt 23min
The Spartan Mirage: Helots, Landowning Women and the Collapse at Leuctra
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The French classicist François Ollier called it the Spartan mirage: an idealized picture of Lace...
11 Okt 23min
Persian Immortals: The 10,000-Man Rule, Wicker Shields and Gold Spears
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The masked, black clad Immortals of the film 300 have little to do with the Achaemenid Empire's ...
11 Okt 23min
Kriegsspiel: Reisswitz's Umpire, Fog of War and the Inventor's Exile
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the 1800s, military games were elaborate forms of chess on grids of colored squares. In 1...
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Plains of Abraham 1759: Wolfe's Cliff Climb and Montcalm's Fatal Charge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1759, during the Seven Years' War, General James Wolfe arrived outside Quebec w...
11 Okt 25min
War Elephants: The Mahout's Chisel, Flaming Pigs and Timur's Fire Camels
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A war elephant's driver, the mahout, carried a chisel and hammer so he could kill his own animal...
11 Okt 25min
