Episode 372 - The Siege of Petropavlovsk

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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COME SEE US LIVE OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1501072671769 SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys In this episode, Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss a lesser-known battle in the Crimean War in which the British attempt to capture a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula after getting massively lost at sea (in an era where this wasn't supposed to happen) and getting waylaid when the King of Hawai'i invited them to the barbecue. We are not making any of this up. Sources: JR Stone. RJ Crampton. 'A Disastrous Affair': The Franco-British Attack on Petropavlovsk. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/disastrous-affair-the-francobritish-attack-on-petropavlovsk-1854/D765F9B46DA8B5A0C6D55460466220A6Mark N Lardas. Petropavlosk: The Crimean War's Forgotten Battle. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/petropavlovsk-the-crimean-wars-forgotten-battle/ John Stephens. The Crimean War in the Far East. Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 3. No. 3 (1969)

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. We're doing another live show. This time, we are going to be live October 4th at the
0:07.4	Flying Duck in Glasgow, Scotland, our first time in Scotland. Come get your tickets now. The links are
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1:39.6	Thank you. and join the Legion of the Old Crow today. Hello and welcome to the Lions owned by Donkey's podcast. I am Joe and with me is Tom and Nate and you're still in the bunker with me. Bellas, how are you doing?
2:01.0	I feel like it's unfair to call this the bunker. The actual bunker was far more concrete everywhere, dirt everywhere. There could be concrete under this. Maybe, but it's nice, you know, if you feel like home. It's their home bunker. We're slowly becoming more and more beleaguered by podcast psychosis as we riff more and more into the podcasting, satanic zone. Tom's gotten married and he has a dog called Blondie now. Fellas, last week, we talked about a siege.
2:04.3	And by last week, as for our listeners, for us, it's about 20 minutes ago.
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