San Jacinto 1836: Santa Anna's Afternoon Nap and an 18-Minute Rout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Antonio López de Santa Anna presented himself as a federalist reformer, then on taking the presi...
11 Okt 17min
Salamis 480 BC: Themistocles' False Message Lures Xerxes Into the Strait
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Xerxes I invaded Greece to finish the grudge his father Darius I held over Athens' role in the I...
11 Okt 14min
The Katana: From Backup Dagger to Clay-Quenched Steel and Strict Sword Laws
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From the 12th to 14th centuries, mounted samurai fought mainly with the yumi bow and the yari sp...
11 Okt 24min
War Pigeons: Cher Ami, the Siege of Paris and Maidenform's Pigeon Vests
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Military homing pigeons are bred rock doves, and the racing homer created by 19th century Belgia...
11 Okt 21min
Valmy 1792: Kellermann's Cannonade, a Felled Windmill and a New Republic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1792 the French Revolution looked fragile. Louis XVI had been stripped of power...
11 Okt 22min
Tannenberg 1914: Samsonov's Uncoded Radio and the Frögenau Cauldron
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1914 Germany's Schlieffen Plan sent most of its army west and left only the Eighth Arm...
11 Okt 25min
Grunwald 1410: Two Bare Swords, a Feigned Retreat and the Teutonic Fall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Teutonic Order came to the Baltic in the 13th century to fight pagans and spent a century ra...
11 Okt 23min
Sekigahara 1600: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Secret Deals and a Two-Hour Rout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in the late 1590s, his heir Hideyori was five years old, and Tokuga...
11 Okt 24min
