*PREVIEW* The Mutiny of the Batavia: Part 1
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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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Episode 348 - The Battle of Cape Gloucester
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...
Episode 347 - The Shinmiyangyo Incident ft. The Worst of All Possible Worlds
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...
Episode 346 - The Shimabara Rebellion: Part 3
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*PREVIEW* The Fu-Go Balloon Bombs of WWII ft. Dr. Patrick Wyman
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Episode 345 - The Shimabara Rebellion: Part 2
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 12: Send in the Clowns!
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Episode 345 - The Shimabara Rebellion: Part 1
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...
*PREVIEW* The St. Nazaire Raid
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Episode 344 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill
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...
*PREVIEW* History of Armenia 37: Armenia's Sad, Pathetic, Neo Nazi Movement
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Episode 343 - The Battle of Trenton
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
*PREVIEW* The West Point Eggnog Riot
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Episode 342 - The Seventh Crusade and the Battle of Mansurah
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,...
*PREVIEW* The Battle of Fort Fisher
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Episode 341 - The Cadiz Expedition
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...
*PREVIEW* Pearl Harbor w/ The Worst of All Possible Worlds
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Episode 340 - The Battle of Fort Driant
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...
*PREVIEW* The Time The Cops Tried To Invade Haiti
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Episode 339 - The Great Panjandrum
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
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 11: Jordan B. PeterGundam
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
Episode 338 - The First Boer War: Part 3
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*PREVIEW* History of Armenia 36: The Armenian Mafia, The Mormon Cult, and the Fuel Scam
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Episode 337 - The First Boer War: Part 2
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*UNLOCKED* The Death of Mussolini
We thought we would unlock a bonus episode to bring some laughs to people on such a shitty day. Support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys The story of how a very stupid dictator ended up swinging upside down in front of a cheering crowd. sources: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-benito-mussolini https://www.history.com/news/mussolinis-final-hours https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/how-did-benito-mussolini-die-the-story-behind-il-duces-last-moments/...
*PREVIEW* The Battle of Damascus 1148
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Episode 336 - The First Boer War: Part 1
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store! https://llbdmerch.com/ Part 1/3 A bunch of racist, libertarian farmers who hate taxes revolt against the British. No, not that time, the other time. Sources: Laband, John. The first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881 Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War. Meredith, Martin. Diamonds, Gold, and War: The Making of South Africa Pretorius, Fransjohan. The Boer Wars. Palmer, Gough. The Besieged Towns of the First Boer W...
Episode 335 - The Battle of The Catalaunian Plains
Support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store! https://llbdmerch.com/ The Huns go to war against Rome in what turns into one of the bigger "Greater Unifying Theory of Fuck That Guy" Moments in history. Sources: Jordanes. The Getica Bury, John Bagnall. History of the Later Roman Empire. Man, John. Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome. Stoddard, Brooke. The Battle of the Catalunian Plains.
*PREVIEW* The Crash of the USS McCain
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Episode 334 - The Battle of Saragarhi
Get tickets to our show in Belfast this weekend! https://www.universe.com/events/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-belfast-tickets-83V5QD Can't make it to belfast? we're streaming it! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-live-in-belfast-tickets-1008166803047?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1 Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out the merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Stranded in the mountains of Afghanistan, 21 Sikh soldiers fac...