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The American Revolution left a lot of people behind. 

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sources:
Egerton, Douglas R., Death of Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

Lanning, Michael Lee. African Americans in the Revolutionary War.

Episode 187 - Colonel Tye and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution

What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa?  One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time. 

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Sources: 

The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf
Allister Sparks. Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup

Fun times with the USMC on the beach! *

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Sources: 

With the Marines At Tarawa
One Square Mile of Hell
https://www.historynet.com/remembering-bloody-bloody-tarawa/

Episode 189 - The Battle of Tarawa

Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people. 

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Sources:
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/uss-iowa-first-came-explosion-then-cover.html
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/
A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up

Episode 193 - The USS Iowa Turret Explosion

The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps. 

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Sources for all related episodes:

Showalter, Dennis. (2013) Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II.

Guderian, Heinz (1937). Achtung – Panzer!

Nipe, George (2011). Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140912164146/http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm

Hill, Alexander (2017), The Red Army and the Second World War,

Episode 194 - The Battle of Kursk Part 1: Hitler is Bad at His Job

Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk.


Correction:

Panzer V - Panther
Panzer VI - Tiger

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Episode 195 - The Battle of Kursk Part 2: And Firebombs!

SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!" 

They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk. 

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Episode 196 - The Battle of Kursk Part 3: Lunch in Kursk!

The soviets launch their killing blow against the nazi army, ending the Battle of Kursk

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Episode 197 - The Battle of Kursk Part 4: Drowning In Blood

Circus performer, champion boxer, first ever African American combat pilot, club owner, Jazz artist, and spy. Eugene Bullard was one of the coolest men to ever live.

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Sources:

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/eugene-j-bullard

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20231112-eugene-ballard-pioneering-african-american-aviator-who-flew-for-france-in-wwi

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bullard-eugene-jacques-1894-1961/

https://www.historynet.com/eugene-bullard-americas-first-black-fighter-pilot/

Episode 289 - Eugene Bullard. The Coolest Man to Ever Live

On the first episode of the Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast we talk about WW1 Italian military leader Luigi Cadorna. A man so bad at his job his own soldiers mutilated themselves to get out of working for him. 
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Sources for this episode:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luigi-Cadorna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqqOzSEfIak
Dan Carlin's Blue Print to Armageddon
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/most-treacherous-battle-world-war-i-italian-mountains-180959076/

Ep. 1 Luigi Cadorna

On this episode Joe and Nick talk about Field Marshal Douglas Haig who led the majority of the UK's efforts during WW1, including the brutal battles of the Somme and Passchendaele.

Remember kids: Just because you're bad at math doesn't mean that you too may one day lead millions of men to their deaths.

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Episode 2 - Sir Douglas Haig

On episode three we talk about Bill Millin, the Mad Piper of Sword Beach and how sometimes you just have to fight fascism without wearing underwear. We touch on Nick's time storming the beaches of Normandy for the glory of My Chemical Romance and the joys of waterlogged wool clothes.

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Episode 3 - Bill Millin

On this episode of the Lions Led by Donkeys we talk about Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and his Soviet House of Death during the Battle of Stalingrad. Nick chugs Vodka to keep his horrible illness at bay long enough to record, we decide that the glorious Soviet Union would never lie in battle reports, and come to the conclusion that the Wermach was little more than Star Trek Red Shirts at this point of the war.

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Episode 4 - The House Built Out of Dead Nazis

On this episode we talk about Pavel Grachev, the Russian Minister of Defense who ordered the storming of Grozny while piss drunk during the First Chechen War.

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Episode 5- Pavel Grachev

The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict.

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