Episode 142 - Brave in Danger
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:39.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium. |
| 0:43.3 | Episode 142. |
| 0:46.7 | Brave in danger. |
| 0:48.8 | Last time we discussed the first year of the reign of the emperor, John |
| 0:56.0 | Zimiskees. Having murdered Nysephara's focus, John would have been |
| 1:00.6 | expecting a difficult first year in office. |
| 1:04.8 | His worst case scenario would have been civil war breaking out |
| 1:08.8 | at the same time as a foreign invasion. |
| 1:12.7 | Not only did he get exactly that, but by the end of the year he was looking at |
| 1:17.8 | war in east and west simultaneously. |
| 1:22.0 | Let's dive right into the fray. |
| 1:25.6 | To combat the Rus incursions into threase, John had sent his closest ally, |
| 1:32.0 | Bardus Sqlirus, with about 10,000 men. |
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