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🗓️ 13 March 2023
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0:00.0 | History that doesn't suck is a bi-weekly podcast, Delirino Legit, seriously researched hard-hitting |
0:04.0 | survey of American history through entertaining stories. |
0:06.5 | If you'd like to support HTTDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving it Patreon.com |
0:11.3 | forward slash History that doesn't suck. |
0:13.2 | It's early in the pre-don morning, August 4, 1914. |
0:26.2 | Only one day since Germany declared war on France. |
0:29.1 | And Germany's SMS-Gurben is steaming westward through the Mediterranean. |
0:33.6 | She's an impressive vessel. |
0:35.5 | The Gurben only launched two years ago. |
0:37.9 | Well after that revolutionary year of 1906, when Britain's big guns only battleship, the |
0:42.7 | HMS Dreadnacht, so drastically up to the anti-enabled warfare that the world's natives now |
0:47.8 | speak of battleships as pre-Dreadnacht or Dreadnacht. |
0:51.8 | The Gurben isn't a battleship, but she does belong to a new breed that merges Dreadnacht |
0:56.4 | guns with first-class cruiser speed. |
0:59.0 | The battle cruiser. |
1:00.6 | And as the morning dawns, the commander of the state of the art 23,000 tonn German warship, |
1:06.5 | the 50-something dark-haired rear admiral of French immigrant descent, Wilhelm Sushon, |
1:11.9 | is pleased to see his objective in the distance. |
1:14.8 | Philippeville, French Algeria. |
1:20.7 | Approaching the city, Wilhelm has the Gurben slowed down. |
1:24.6 | He's situated on the craggy coast of France's long-held and most prized of colonial territories, |
1:30.0 | Algeria. |
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