The Ems Dispatch: Bismarck's Edited Telegram and the Fall of Napoleon III
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1870 France under Napoleon III watched Prussia, fresh from crushing Austria in 1866 and leadi...
11 Okt 24min
Rorke's Drift 1879: Mealie Bags, Biscuit Boxes and a Night Under Siege
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On January 22, 1879, the main British column under Lord Chelmsford was destroyed at Isandlwana. ...
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Big Bertha: Krupp's 42 cm Howitzer That Smashed the Belgian Forts in 1914
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rifled artillery made old masonry star forts obsolete, so France and Belgium buried their defens...
11 Okt 23min
Richard III and Bastard Feudalism: Bought Loyalty That Broke at Bosworth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Richard of Gloucester was born in October 1452 into an England run on bastard feudalism, where s...
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Barbed Wire: Glidden's Coffee Mill Patent to Range Wars and Trenches
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Civil War, settlers on the treeless Great Plains had no stone or timber for fences. In...
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Babur at Panipat 1526: Wagon Forts, Cannon and Lodi's Panicked Elephants
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Babur, a Timurid prince born in the Fergana Valley and descended from Timur and Genghis Khan, re...
11 Okt 21min
Marathon 490 BC: Miltiades' Thin Center and the Hoplite Sprint at Persia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!About a decade before Marathon, Athens and Eretria sent 25 ships to support the Ionian revolt an...
11 Okt 22min
Arminius and Teutoburg: Rome's Hostage Prince Who Erased Three Legions
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Around 8 BCE a boy of about 10 from the Cherusci tribe was taken to Rome as a hostage after the ...
11 Okt 24min
