Michigan, led by a 22 year old governor, invades Ohio to claim Toledo. PRE ORDER THE SHIRT: https://llbdmerch.com/ SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Emmanuel, Greg (2004). The 100-Yard War: Inside the 100-Year-Old Michigan–Ohio State Football Rivalry. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons. pp. 8–10. ISBN 0-471-67552-0. "The Ohio–Michigan Boundary War: Battle of Phillips Corners Marker #2–26". "The Toledo War". Geography of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region. Michigan S...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Italy invades Ethiopia, gets churned into a chunky, sauce-like liquid. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Raymond Jonas. The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire Greg Blake. The First Italo-Abyssinian War: The Battle of Adwa Greg Peduto. Italy's Failed African Gambit
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Crusaders attempt to drive the Ottomans out of the Balkans. It does not go well. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Aziz Antiya. Crusades in the Later Middle Ages http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_nicopolis.html https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/crusader-disaster-at-nicopolis/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/march-to-destruction-nicopolis-1396/
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast *CONTENT WARNING* Joe and Tom discuss The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema, a dictator nicknamed The Pol Pot of Africa. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Tufts Mass Atrocity Endings for Equatorial Guinea Paul Kenyon. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa. https://web.archive.org/web/20230306160338/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3610187/If-you-think-this-ones-bad-you-should-have-seen-his-uncle.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230517050409...
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys 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.
May 28, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The story of the most deadly submarine disaster in American history. Support the show and get episodes like this a week before everyone else, plus bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/14/questions-about-infamous-lost-sub-thresher-resurface-navy-releases-new-documents-tied-decades-old-mystery.html https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/what-killed-thresher https://www.history.com/this-day-in-histor...
May 21, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast A blind man tries to charge a line of English longbowmen. It ends exactly like you think it does. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.historyextra.com/period/plantagenet/what-happened-battle-crecy-edward-iii-hundred-years-war-victory-why/ Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy, 1346 Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significance https://www.historytoday.com/archive/edward-iii-and-battle-cr%C3%A9cy https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/deat...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast The conclusion to the saga of the Taiping Rebellion! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
May 07, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trouble in the heavenly kingdom! part 3/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Taiping rebellion spreads and the rebels create the world's weirdest gunpowder Part 2/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast A man fails a civil service exam, loses his goddamn mind, and leads China into the deadliest civil war in human history. Part 1/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Johnathan Spence. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. Stephen Platt. Autumn in the heavenly kingdom Jian Youwen. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Crassus attempts to go to war to build his own resume. He ignores everyone's advice and marches his legions into the most predictable defeat on earth. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Plutarch. Crassus. Mary T. Boatwright. The Romans: From Village to Empire Roman-Persian Wars: The Battle of Carrhae
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast A sex worker turned pirate queen builds a more powerful navy than the entire navy of China. Support the show! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ching-shih-chinese-female-pirate
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about the time that Crusaders forgot that humans need water to live. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Nicholson, R. L. Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader States Phillips, Jonathan (2002), The Crusades 1095–1187 Lacey, James. Crushed at the Horns of Hattin
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast The conclusion to the Battle of Tannenberg series Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast The story of the battle of tannenberg continues part 2/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe and Nate begin the story of one of the most legendary battles from the beginning of WWI. It is much dumber than you think. Part 1/3 support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Once upon a time the United States came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114 https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61771?lang=en https://news.yahoo.com/1871-us-almost-acquired-dominican-135435379.html https://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7 CORRECTION: Samuel Doe was murdered by Prince Johnson, an ally of Charles T...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-were-the-soviet-night-witches https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-wit...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the Nazis built a death trap out of wood and thought it would be perfect for the Hitler Youth. Correction: The Gloster Meteor was a jet that also saw limited action in WWll Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Heinkel-Salamander.html http://www.aviation-history.com/heinkel/he162.html https://shop.historynet.com/blogs/new-the-latest-from-historynet-com/the-10-worst-fighters-of...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast The conclusion to The Troubles series Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Listen to the Beneath The Skin Podcast: https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPod Follow Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys
Feb 06, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. During this episode we talk about Bloody Sunday and how and why nobody has ever been held accountable. CONTENT WARNING: This gets pretty grim. Support the show! Get bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys Listen to The Beneath the Skin Podcast:https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPod
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles. In this episode we cover the famine, independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition, and more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Listen to the Beneath The Skin Podcast: https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPod Follow Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tom O'Mahony (@gotitatguineys)Host of the Beneath The Skin Podcast takes Joe on a trip through The Troubles of Northern Ireland. Part 1/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe is once again joined by the show's producer Nate to talk about how in the middle of a stagnated war, two teams of knights got together to kill each other out of boredom as a crowd of spectators watched on. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: Barbara Tuchman. A Distant Mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20121105020628/http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/chroniqu/texts/AINSWORT.HTM Steven Muhlberger. The Combat of the Thirty, Deeds of Arms Se...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe is joined by producer Nate (@inthesedeserts)to talk about the time the CIA attempted to invade cuba with a handful of guys and some repurposed fishing trawlers. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2134 https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB355/bop-vol3.pdf https://www.historynet.com/cold-war-bay-of-pigs-invasion/ https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion https://web.archive.org/web/20160621043713...
Jan 02, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast The horrible conclusion to King Philip’s War Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War
Dec 27, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast The war finally starts and the colonial authorities immediately make everything much worse. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy Joe's books: https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Corps-Military-Sci-Fi-Forlorn-ebook/dp/B0B5YJD7J2/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=0F9hR&content-id=amzn1.sym.e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_p=e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_r=BJFJ8DMEE9M0Y60XFEVE&pd_rd_wg=HG18o&pd_rd_r=03aa9132-cb25-484a-a41e-dd419379f0a4&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf...
Dec 19, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast The little known story of the most apocalyptic war in American History. Part 1/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast the Empire of Japan built the largest battleship the world had ever seen and then decided to use it in the dumbest way possible. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Russel Spurr. A Glorious Way to Die https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/last-nf.html https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yamato-was-hell-sink%E2%80%94and-it-went-out-bang-nuclear-blast-192257
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
