I don't hold the left to  my standards, I hold them to theirs. That's where you get this wrong.

Jolson didn't mean his blackface disparagingly; he seriously meant to promote black culture to a mainstream audience. His intentions were good, though his method was certainly clumsy, though not at all exceptional for the Twenties.

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In this episode, Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss a lesser-known battle in the Crimean War in which the British attempt to capture a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula after getting massively lost at sea (in an era where this wasn't supposed to happen) and getting waylaid when the King of Hawai'i invited them to the barbecue. We are not making any of this up.

Sources:

JR Stone. RJ Crampton. 'A Disastrous Affair': The Franco-British Attack on Petropavlovsk. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/disastrous-affair-the-francobritish-attack-on-petropavlovsk-1854/D765F9B46DA8B5A0C6D55460466220A6Mark N Lardas. Petropavlosk: The Crimean War's Forgotten Battle. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/petropavlovsk-the-crimean-wars-forgotten-battle/

John Stephens. The Crimean War in the Far East. Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 3. No. 3 (1969)

Episode 372 - The Siege of Petropavlovsk

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The Holy League is formed to fight off the Ottomans, resulting in a lot of guys catching flintlocks to the face, a pirate double cross, and spies in blackface.

Sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211013195205/https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-important-was-battle-lepanto

Brummett, Palmira. “‘The Lepanto Paradigm Revisited: Knowing the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century,’ 63-93, in A. Contadini, and C. Norton, Eds.,The Renaissance and the Ottoman World (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013).” The Renaissance and the Ottoman World , 2013.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-lepanto-the-best-days-work-in-centuries/

https://www.historynet.com/twilight-of-the-galleys-off-lepanto/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/muslim-equipment-at-the-battle-of-lepanto/

Episode 378 - The Battle of Lepanto

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The largest battle of the U.S. War of Independence took place in... Gibraltar? On the southern tip of Spain? The rock that the Brits care about a lot? And there weren't any Americans involved? Josh Boerman, friend of the show and host of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and Ill Conceived podcast, joins us for this strange transatlantic chapter of American history.

Sources:
Roy Adkins. Leslie Adkins. Gibralter: The Greatest Siege in British History
https://www.historynet.com/rock-legend-gibraltar/
https://www.thecollector.com/great-siege-gibraltar-us-revolution/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/grand-assault-on-gibraltar/

Episode 379 -The Great Siege of Gibraltar ft. Josh Boerman

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Julius Caesar and the Gauls create a world's most murderous version of lasanga as regular siege becomes a double siege, turns into the final nail in the coffin of a rebellion against Rome.

Sources: 
John Saddler, Rosie Serdiville. Caesar's Greatest Victory

https://www.historynet.com/caesar-gaul-alesia/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/caesars-grand-siege-at-alesia/

https://www.historyonthenet.com/engines-of-destruction-roman-advancement-of-siege-warfare

Episode 380 - The Siege of Alesia

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During WWII, the US launched a mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which only went so well due to Yamamoto really not caring about his own safety and ignoring constant warnings from his subordinates.

Sources:

Doug Hampton. Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II

Burke Davis. Get Yamamoto.

Hiroyuki Agawa. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/killing-yamamoto-operation-vengeance-from-roger-ames-cockpit/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/death-of-admiral-isoroku-yamamoto/

Episode 381: Operation Vengenace

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Once upon a time, the British Empire sent a very badly planned rescue mission halfway around the world to save a man who didn't need to be saved. It ended in hilarious failure.

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https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nile-expedition

Michael Asher. Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure

Charles Trench. The Road to Khartoum: A Life of General Charles Gordon

Mike Snook. Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum

Simon Craig. Breaking the Square: Britain Takes on Mahdi at the Battle of Abu Klea. Military Heritage Magazine. Vol. 3 No. 3.

Episode 382 - The Gordon Relief Expedition

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The first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons.

Sources:

Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Randolph Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865

Stephen Hardin. Texian Illad.

Andrew Torget. Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850

Episode 383 - The Texas Revolution: Part 1

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Episode 384 - The Texas Revolution: Part 2

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Towards the end of the Crimean War the Russians invade the Ottoman Empire, coming up against the Fortress City of Kars. Command of the Ottoman forces fall to an old drunk, British man who may or may not be the bastard child of Prince Edward, all of the Turkish officers under him are actually Hungarian, and one American catholic.

Sources:

Winifred Baumgart. The Crimean War: 1853-1856

Raugh Harold. The Victorians at War: 1815-1914

Humphrey Sandwith. The Siege of Kars 1856

William Edward David Allen, Paul Muratoff. Caucasian Battlefields: The History of the Wars of the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921

Episode 388 - The Siege of Kars

Travis, Jake, and Liv sift through the gems in the latest dump of Epstein documents released by the House Oversight Committee. The records show interactions with individuals across politics, academia, finance and media, including Noam Chomsky, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, and author Michael Wolff. We cover Epstein’s comments about Trump, Michael Wolff’s creepy work with Epstein, Bannon’s request to visit “the island” the day that Epstein was arrested in New Jersey, and the notorious email in which Epstein’s brother references a “photo of Trump blowing Bubba.” Plus: how the QAnon and conspiracist communities are spinning the new revelations. 


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The Feds lowers rates, but Trump is enraged anyway; Democrats host teens to talk about climate change; and Democrats try to get past the Obama era.

Date: 09-19-2019

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