Bannockburn 1314: Bruce's Axe Blow and Schiltrons That Sank English Knights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 1313 Robert the Bruce held a disputed crown and was still fighting Balliol loyalists as well ...
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Robert Clive at Plassey 1757: Forged Signature, Red Treaty and Dry Powder
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Clive made his name in 1751 at Arcot, capital of the Carnatic, where in his mid-twenties ...
11 Okt 27min
Condottieri: Hawkwood's White Company to Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rich Italian city-states such as Florence, Venice and Genoa had money but little appetite for fi...
11 Okt 22min
Remembrance Poppy: McCrae's Flanders Fields to Poppy Fascism and FIFA Fines
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The red Flanders poppy, Papaver rhoeas, grows where soil has been violently disturbed. Its seeds...
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Kadesh 1274 BC: Ramesses II, the Shasu Spies and a Draw Sold as Victory
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1274 BC, in the fifth year of his reign, Pharaoh Ramesses II marched north to retake Kade...
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Siege of Vienna 1529: Suleiman's Guns Stuck in Mud, Count Salm Holds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Ottomans crushed Hungary at Mohács in 1526 and King Louis II drowned when his horse sl...
11 Okt 22min
Lechfeld 955: Otto I, Bishop Ulrich and the Magyar Bows Ruined by Rain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For about 90 years Magyar horse archers had raided Western Europe. In 953 King Otto I's son Liud...
11 Okt 15min
Pyrrhic Victories: Asculum, the Siege of Ostend and Japan's Lost Pilots
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!King Pyrrhus of Epirus beat Rome at Heraclea and at Asculum in 279 BC, but the price was his eli...
11 Okt 23min
