Nagashino 1575: Melted Coin Bullets and the Three-Volley Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early summer of 1575 Takeda Katsuyori, son of the feared Takeda Shingen, besieged Nagashi...
11 Okt 25min
Landsknechte: Maximilian's Pike Mercenaries, Zweihänder and the Snail
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Landsknechte were German mercenaries who fought across Europe from the late 15th to the earl...
11 Okt 22min
Seven Years' War: Washington's Jumonville Ambush to Wolfe at Quebec
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 1754 a 22-year-old Virginia militia officer, George Washington, ordered his men...
11 Okt 19min
Gallipoli 1915: Baedeker Maps, Drip Rifles and the Birth of Anzac Day
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By late 1914 the Western Front had frozen and Russia needed a supply route through the Black Sea...
11 Okt 24min
Fabius Maximus Cunctator: The Warty Delayer Who Starved Hannibal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Quintus Fabius Maximus, born around 280 BC into the Fabian family, was mocked as a child as slow...
11 Okt 25min
Hastings 1066: Harold Godwinson's Two Forced Marches and Feigned Flights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edward the Confessor died on January 5, 1066, and the English nobles elected Harold Godwinson, E...
11 Okt 24min
Adwa 1896: Menelik II and Empress Taytu Rout Italy's Lost Night March
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The road to Adwa began with the 1889 Treaty of Wuchale. Its Amharic text said Ethiopia could use...
11 Okt 21min
Crécy 1346: Edward III's Longbowmen and the Rain-Soaked Genoese
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In July 1346 Edward III landed in Normandy with about 15,000 men and launched a chevauchée, a de...
11 Okt 20min
