Henry V Beyond Shakespeare: The Arrow at Shrewsbury to the Siege of Rouen
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1403 the 16-year-old Prince of Wales took an arrow six inches into his face below the left ey...
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Roman Legion Mechanics: Quincunx Lines, the Signifer's Bank, Fustuarium
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 55 BC Caesar's fleet stalled off Britain until the aquilifer of the 10th Legion leapt into th...
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Decimation: From Crassus's Lottery to Cadorna's Firing Squads in 1917
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Decimation, from the Latin for the removal of a tenth, was described by Polybius as a lottery in...
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Plataea 479 BC: A Botched Night Retreat and Mardonius Killed by a Rock
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 479 BC, a year after Salamis, the Persian general Mardonius faced a Greek alliance of ...
11 Okt 26min
Praetorian Guard: Rome's Bodyguards Who Auctioned the Empire in 193
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Praetorian Guard began as nothing more than a temporary detail guarding the praetorium, the ...
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Towton 1461: Fauconberg's Wind-Borne Arrows and the Cock Beck Rout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On Palm Sunday 1461, between 50,000 and 65,000 men, roughly 2 percent of England's population, m...
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Passchendaele 1917: Messines Mines, Plumer's Bite and Hold, Endless Mud
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1917 the British held the low ground of the Ypres salient while the Germans watched from the ...
11 Okt 23min
Romanos IV at Manzikert 1071: Andronikos Doukas Abandons the Emperor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Romanos IV Diogenes took the Byzantine throne in 1068, the empire's eastern defenses were a...
11 Okt 26min
