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Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/123683504 Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator PRE ORDER YOUR EMU J...
Mar 05, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Joe and Nate explore the time the French surrendered during WWII, leaving the British worried if their fleet was going to change sides and fight for the Nazis. Rather than waiting to find out, they conducted the naval equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. Sources: Philippe Lasterle. Could Admiral Gensoul Have Averted the Tragedy of Mers el-Kebir? The Journal of Military History. Society for Military History. Volume 67, Num...
Mar 03, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Joe is joined by the Zoo Crew to talk about the time Rome hosted the world's largest Goth convention. Sources: Zosimus. New History Michael Kulikowski. Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric. Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no 2. 2005. Herwig Wolfram. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peo...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview. For the entire episode support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lions-led-by-ft-122609808
Feb 19, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Once upon a time, the US went to war against a small tribe in the pacific northwest, and, despite winning due to the massive power imbalance, they managed to get their asses kicked the entire time. Sources: Arthur Quinn. Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War Terry Johnston. Devil's Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872–3 Robert McNally. The Modoc War: A Little Indian War Goes Big https://www.historynet.com/the-modoc-wa...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Joe and Tom are joined by Trashfuture's Milo Edwards to talk about the time a bunch of guys named Mstislav got destroyed by the Mongols. Sources: Leo De Hertog. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. Richard Gabriel. Subotai The Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General. The Chronicle of Novgorod. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/MF1914.pdf Victor Kamenir. Rus...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview. For the whole episode go to our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121558125?pr=true
Feb 05, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys check out our merch store! https://llbdmerch.com/ Marines storm ashore a rainforest-bound, diseased-filled, swampy death trap of an island to take an airfield with no strategic value. Sources: Bernard Nalty. The Green Inferno. Frank Hough. The Campaign on New Britain John Miller. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul Al Hemingway. The Incessant Rains of the Green Inferno. WW...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out The Worst of All Possible Worlds: https://www.worstpossible.world Joe is joined by the cast of The Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about the time the US attempted to open Korea with gunboat diplomacy in 1871. Sources: Thomas Duvernay. Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea Eric Niderost. Military Heritage Magazine. August 2002. Vol 4, no. 1 http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100407175...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ The conclusion to our series on the Shimabara Rebellion!
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview. To listen to the entire episode support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/120043217?pr=true
Jan 15, 2025•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon and get the final episode of this series right now: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Part 2/3
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview. For the entire episode, support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-lions-led-119556306
Jan 08, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon and get the second part in this series right now! https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-episode-2-119362620 Check out the merch store! https://llbdmerch.com/ *Correction* Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the invasion of Korea, not Tokugawa Hideyoshi. Once upon a time in Japan, shitty landlords, high taxes, and religious persecution united a diverse band of Christians, Samurai, Ronin, and farmers under the leadership of a teenager, believed to be an Apostle, in order to rise u...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview, listen to the full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119074069?pr=true
Jan 01, 2025•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our Merch! https://llbdmerch.com/ Francis joins Joe to talk about one of the most memorable battles of the Vietnam War, which was completely and utterly pointless. Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20190515114632/https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/1683/168300010494.pdf https://www.history.com/news/hamburger-hill-controversy Frank Boccia. The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview, to listen to the whole episode, support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/118650518
Dec 25, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys CHECK OUT THE MERCH STORE! https://llbdmerch.com/ George Washington crosses the Delaware! and then everyone's feet start bleeding. Sources: Henry Wood. The Battles of the American Revolution William Stryker. The Battles of Trenton and Princeton John Ferling. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence Vince Hawkins. The Battle of Trenton. Military Heritage. Vol. 5, No. 5
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview. For the entire episode support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-118212060
Dec 18, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ A King has a fever dream and launches the 7th crusade, following the exact same battle plan as a previous failed crusade because he thinks he's built different. He isn't. Sources: Jonathan Riley-Smith. The Oxford History of the Crusades Alexander Mikaberidze. Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World A Historical Encyclopedia Christopher Marshall, Warfare in the Latin East,...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview, for the full episode support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117750397?pr=true
Dec 11, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys We're on Bluesky @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social The English launch a raid against the Spanish city of Cadiz. Instead of planning anything whatsoever, the English get drunk on the beach and die. Correction: James VI/James I. Not James IV Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20070311113513/http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20292%201626.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20061003025931/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.u...
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Dec 04, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out the merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Patton sends his soldiers into a tunnel meat grinder, suffering his first and only real defeat as a commander during WWII Sources: Anthony Kemp. The Unknown Battle: Metz John Nelson Rickard. Patton at Bay: the Lorraine Campaign, September to December, 1944 Duane E. Shaffer. Patton’s Lost Battle. Warfare History Network Ryan McLachlan. Battle of Fort Driant – World War II’s S...
Dec 02, 2024•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview. To get the entire episode support our show on patreon: www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out the merch store: llbdmerch.com/ All aboard the Battle Bus
Nov 27, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Check out the merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ A British engineer attempts to create a weapon for breaching the Atlantic wall. He does not succeed. Sources: Brian Johnson. The Secret War. https://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-rolling-rocket-bomb-designed-kill-nazis-almost-killed-dog-instead/ https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/the-great-panjandrum-scares-a-dog/1123500263001 https://allthatsinteresting.com/panjandrum
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a preview. To get the entire episode support our show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out the merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Joe and Tom ponder the existence of Armenians in the Marvel Universe and the charity work of the DGVVA
Nov 20, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ The conclusion!
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