Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 243, the

Sieges of Athlete of Mercy. This show is ad-free due to member support. And as a way

of thanking members for keeping the show independent, I offer members only content, including

extra episodes and rough transcripts. This week on the member's feed, Zee and I talked

for about an hour or so on some of the things we find most interesting about the story of Alfred

thus far. Here's a clip. What I loved hearing about was how not just these armies were

bouncing from bird to bird, but messengers were as well. Messages could suddenly information

could bounce from these things quickly and safely on a level that they hadn't been able

to before. And as someone who really likes tower defense games, I'm super excited about

that. You know what it reminds me of actually is Hadrian's Wall. How they had Hadrian's

Wall set up where all they had the big fortresses, but they had those little fortlets as well.

And they were set up specifically. So and they had a road on the inside. So you could quickly

send messages and you can ferry troops wherever they were needed. And that's in the local

history. And Alfred was bringing all the greatest minds of the area. Yeah, I wonder.

You might have known about that. And if you didn't know about that, you might have known

about other tactics that use something similar or they could be recreating something they

learned on their time of an alpha me if they were trying to move messages between small

rating bands. Yeah, you can get instant access to that episode and all the other members

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