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The world's most violent stag do hits the town.

Episode 375 - The English Peasants' Revolt: Part 2

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The conclusion to our series on the English Peasants' Revolt

Episode 376 - The English Peasants' Revolt: Part 3

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In this episode, Joe regales Nate and Tom with the story of the Schwerer Gustav, a novelty oversize rail cannon designed to be as big and stupid as possible. It required you to lay down double track anywhere it went, effectively creating the first Fortnite build mode. It looked like the Magitek Factory except real. It did not work very well and was used far less frequently than you'd expect.

Sources: 
Ian Hogg. German Artillery of WWII
https://www.historynet.com/hitlers-monster-tanks/
https://www.historynet.com/krupp-28-cm-k5e-railway-gun/
https://www.forcesnews.com/heritage/wwii/super-gun-hitlers-most-powerful-cannon-was-used-battle-against-russia
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/schwerer-gustav-the-biggest-cannon-during-wwii
https://www.slashgear.com/1430418/biggest-gun-ever-used-in-combat-schwerer-gustav-dora/


Episode 377 - The Schwerer Gustav

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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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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.

Sources:

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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