A group of Native Americans launch one of the longest fighting retreats in North American military history in order to escape genocide at the hands of the US government. 

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Sources:

Bruce Hampton. Children of Grace, The Nez Perce War of 1877

Elliot West. The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-last-battle-of-the-nez-perce-war/

Elliot West. Dreamweaver.

Episode 262 - The Nez Perce War

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The first episode of our new side series, LLBR, where Tom and Joe watch robot related media! For this first series arc we're watching G Gundam, the most insane thing ever thought up by the Gundam universe.

*Preview* Lions Led By Robots Episode 1

Once upon a time Irish-Americans thought it would be a good idea to invade Canada from the US. It did not go well.

CORRECTION: Andrew Johnson*

EDIT: I meant David Fincher

Sources:

https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1774fenian_e.html

https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2019/03/15/civil-war-vets-wanted-invade-canada-liberate-ireland.html

https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fenians/index.aspx

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24778340

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Century19th/FenianRaids

https://www.historynet.com/fenian-raids-invasions-of-british-ruled-canada/

Episode 284 - The Fenian Raids

Captain Cook shows up in the Hawaiian Islands and pisses off the entire population ending in the funniest possible outcome.

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Sources: 

Richard Tregaskis. Hawaii's Warrior King: King Kamehamaha The Great

Glyn Williams. The Death of Captain Hook: A Hero Made and Unmade

Hawaiian Historical Society Reprints 1787, 1788,1789

Val Wake. Who Killed Captain Cook?

Episode 286 - The Death of Captain James Cook

This is the story of how Chechen Terrorists and the Russian state joined forces to create the worst school attack of all time.

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Sources:

Timothy Phillips. Beslan: Tragedy at school number 1

John Giduck. Terror at Beslan

HBO. Children of Beslan

Episode 287 - The Beslan School Siege: Part 1

The conclusion to the Satsuma Rebellion! 

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SOURCES:

Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern Japan



William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration



James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877



Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai. 



Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.

Episode 295 - The Satsuma Rebellion Part 2: Imperial Goon Cave

Joe and Nate explore the history of Fragging in the US military and the case of Alberto Martinez, a soldier who almost certainly killed two officers during the Iraq War and got away with it. 

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Sources: 

George LePre. Fragging: Why US Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam

https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2017/01/27/alberto-martinez-acquitted-killing-local/22538316007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21frag.html

https://journalnow.com/witness-soldier-changed-before-fatal-iraq-blast/article_95ae16fb-b3e6-51b8-b445-d609e6d77e94.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/nyregion/16guard.html

Episode 297 - The History of Fragging and the Case of Alberto Martinez

The conclusion to the story of a boy and his Chindits.

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SOURCES:

John Diamond. British General Orde Wingate's Blurred Legacy

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/2/13/orde-wingate-and-combat-leadership

David Rooney. Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance.

Episode 300 - Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Part 2

The Imperial powers of Europe and Japan humiliate China until they create an uprising of magical martial artists who are terrified of period blood. 

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Sources: 

David Silby. The Boxer Rebellion and The Great Game in China

Diana Preston. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic History of China’s War Against Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

Henry Keown-Boyd. The Fists of Righteous Harmony

Joseph Esherick. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising

Episode 301 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 1: Unbeatable Army of Ultra Nerds

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Joe and Nate talk about the time a bunch of drunken American soldiers caused a pitched battle between themselves and their allies while stationed in Australia during WWII

Correction: Indigenous Australians were given Australian citizenship at the same time other Australians (1949) however, the quality of that citizenship was not equal to that of non-indigenous Australians. This continued for decades and as many indigenous Australian activists have pointed out, continues in various forms to this day.

This included discrimination on enlistment. Some areas of Australia legally allowed indigenous people to enlist, but in practice, turned them away based on how they looked. Others were enlisted but not paid. Others were paid, but not equally and kept in segregated units and virtually none received benefits.

sources:

https://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/bob.htm

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84830

https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-battle-of-brisbane-how-world-war-ii-mass-riot-startedg/78b4e1be-bd3d-4d35-aef0-8b196213f4e7

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/culture-clash-americans-in-world-war-ii-south-pacific/

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/battle-of-brisbane.html

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/brisbane-news/diggers-lay-into-yanks-in-brisbane-battle-20171122-p4yx5o.html

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/homefront/us_forces

Episode 306 - The Battle of Brisbane

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In the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/

https://www.thenmusa.org/task-force-smith-and-the-problem-with-readiness/

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA381834.pdf

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://www.moore.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2022/Spring/PDF/LessonsFromThePast.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/task-force-smith-americas-entry.html

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Korea/ExecutiveLeaderFailures

Episode 307 - Task Force Smith

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