Episode 15 - The Battle of Jadotville

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On this episode we discuss the Battle of Jadotville, a little known battle during the Congolese Crisis that pit a company of badly armed Irish UN Peace Keepers against an Army of african tribesman, French Foreign Legionnaires, and everyone else looking for a paycheck. Donate to us on patreon if you think what we do is worth a buck: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on twitter @lions_by follow Joe on Twitter @jkass99 follow nick on twitter @nickcasm1

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0:00.0	And the And then, Change,
0:23.0	J. We'll sing a song, a soldier song with cheering,
0:35.0	a soldier song, with cheering cheering rousing chorus as round our blazing
0:47.0	blazing fires be throng the starry heavens o' us.
0:57.0	Inpatient for the car.
1:01.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of the lines led by Donkeys podcast.
1:06.0	That's right. I'm your host Joe. I am your host Joe. I am the co-host Nick and thank you for surviving our last incredibly depressing
1:17.9	episode. It was long as long as long as long as long as all of them yeah no
1:20.5	is actually second longest after when I had Tom on.
1:23.7	Yeah.
1:24.7	But that's mostly our fault for not having any limitations on time before we went in.
1:28.8	The last like 20 or 30 minutes, I think it was Twitter beef.
1:31.4	It was because of who we are, we have a lot of Twitter Beef.
1:36.4	So today... I did enjoy that episode though. I did it a lot. You know it's still the highest
1:40.5	ranked episode we've ever made. Nice!
1:43.0	Which is kind of ridiculous in retrospect to seeing how I have put dozens of hours of research into some of these episodes
1:52.0	and I literally went
1:53.4	into that one blind and it is still outranks all my hard works but that's cool
1:57.6	thanks Tom so today we're gonna head back to the continent of Africa and as always we have to play the groundwork.
2:08.0	So today the battle or siege of Jadoville and not going to pronounce it like that the whole episode it is
2:16.4	just called Jadoville yeah it's French Belgian but you know all the documentary just called Jatutville.
2:24.0	Yeah, it does, they do.
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