Admiral Yi Sun-sin: Turtle Ships, Myeongnyang and a King's Betrayal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Yi Sun-sin was born in 1545 in Hanseong, modern Seoul, to a family blacklisted after his grandfa...
11 Okt 25min
King Pyrrhus of Epirus: Elephants at Asculum and a Roof Tile in Argos
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born around 319 BC, a second cousin of Alexander the Great, Pyrrhus of Epirus was smuggled out o...
11 Okt 23min
Stamford Bridge 1066: The Axeman on the Bridge and Hardrada's Fall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Edward the Confessor died childless in January 1066, the Witenagemot chose Harold Godwinson...
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Alesia 52 BC: Caesar's 25 Miles of Walls Against Vercingetorix
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 53 BC Julius Caesar, deep in debt after buying his consulship, had spent years carving up Gau...
11 Okt 25min
Spartan Agoge: Boy Herders, the Krypteia and the Hippeis Draft
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From the age of seven, every boy who hoped to become a Spartiate citizen was removed from his fa...
11 Okt 21min
Treaty of Versailles 1919: Clemenceau, Wilson and the War Guilt Clause
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 28, 1919, five years to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, the All...
11 Okt 23min
Thermopylae 480 BC: The Carneia Festival, 700 Thespians and a Goat Path
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After his father Darius was beaten at Marathon in 490 BC, Xerxes set out to absorb all of Greece...
11 Okt 20min
Somme 1916: Leaked Attack Plans, Creeping Barrages and the First Tanks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the Chantilly Conference in December 1915, Britain, France, Russia and Italy agreed on simult...
11 Okt 22min
