Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ For this week's bonus, we're discussing the late-'60s insurgency in South Korea, back at a time when the DMZ was more of a concept than an actual barrier, and the North Korean military trained an elite commando unit to sneak across the border in 1968 with a mission to kill South Korean president Park Chung-Hee. They got... closer than you might think. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/131204772

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025

SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Come see us in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Tom takes us on a journey exploring the origins and crimes of The Order, an American Neo Nazi terror group led by a dork ass loser and adult convert to Mormonism. Sources: The Order: Inside America’s Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt The Long History of White Nationalism in America by George Hawley https://lithub.com/the-long-history-of-white-nationalism-in-america/ The History of Tax Resistance: How Pocketbook Worries Became Ideological by Joseph Thorndike https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2024/01/22/the-history-of-tax-resistance-how-pocketbook-worries-became-ideological/ British Israelism: Critical Dictionary of Apocalytic and Millenarian Movements by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce https://www.cdamm.org/articles/british-israelism C-SPAN Cities Tour - Coeur d'Alene: Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLyDE0kDK-w The Rise and Fall of Aryan Nations: A RESOURCE MOBILIZATION PERSPECTIVE by Robert W. Balch https://www.jstor.org/stable/45294187 The Order - Rise of the Far Right: Robert J Mathews by ABC Broadcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2rfOGNwIU&t=172s

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025

GET THE FULL EPISODE ON PATREON HERE: patreon.com/posts/130683478 COME SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND: bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…ival-southbank/ Freed from the oppressive yoke of G Gundam, we venture into a different OVA series where Gundam is actually... good? We watched Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, a show about the horrors of war seen through the eyes of a child who, while not exactly bright or good at school, is somehow able to outsmart every single adult in this show. To include entire military organizations and spy agencies?

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2025

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys COME SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ In which the casus belli of two 14th-century Italian city states going to war was, in popular consciousness at least, the theft of a town's wooden bucket. Some Germans get involved as well. Sources used: https://allthatsinteresting.com/war-of-the-bucket https://www.historynet.com/what-we-learned-from-the-battle-of-zappolino-1325/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2020/10/18/beyond-the-pail-the-unbelievable-war-for-the-oaken-bucket-2/ https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/bloodiest-medieval-war-fought-bucket.html http://www.zappolino.it/battaglia.htm

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2025

Come see us live in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ A conflict breaks out between a newly independent Mexico and a newly back-to-having-kings France. It culminates in a small series of armed incursions and blockades in 1838-39. Did it start because of an aggrieved French baker? Did Napoleon’s armies advance the science of military optics because their commander wanted to look at feet? In this episode (the first one where Nate has researched, written, and hosted), we get to the bottom of the semi-apocryphal Pastry War. Sources: Atwater, James D.; Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo. "Out from Under: Benito Juárez and the Struggle for Mexican Independence." Doubleday: Garden City, N.Y., 1969. Muñoz, Rafael Felipe. "Santa Anna, el dictador resplandeciente." Fondo de Cultura Económica: Mexico, 1982. Penot, Jacques. "L'expansion commerciale française au Mexique et les causes du conflit franco-mexicain de 1838-1839." Bulletin Hispanique 75-1-2, 1973. pp. 169-201 Toussaint, Éric. "Le système dette : Histoire des dettes souveraines et de leur répudiation." Les Liens qui libèrent: Paris, 2017.

Transcribed - Published: 25 May 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2025

We finally did it! Thank you for joining us on this very stupid journey. GET THE REST OF THE EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/128927315 COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON JUNE 22ND bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…ival-southbank/

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

COME SEE US IN LONDON: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ A Moluccan terror group took over a train in the Netherlands, leading to the longest train hijacking in history. It only ends when Dutch Commandos launch one of the worst rescue operations in European history. Sources: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048555796-004/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopTs6kSVyzglNe9ZE0NzwO_2weL5McjhDU6iWQ3mOsH7_gDPyjF https://www.sbs.com.au/language/dutch/en/article/40-years-on-questions-remain-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-1977-dutch-train-siege/4y5ex2171 https://nltimes.nl/2017/05/30/dutch-govt-releases-transcriptions-1977-train-hijacking https://www.dutchnews.nl/2018/07/court-clears-marines-for-killings-in-1977-moluccan-train-hijacking/ https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/hansina-uktolseja-1955-1977/ https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/16/archives/20day-ordeal-aboard-the-hijacked-dutch-train-as-described-by-those.html https://nltimes.nl/2018/07/25/dutch-state-accountable-1977-train-hijackers-deaths-court-rules https://nltimes.nl/2018/05/08/moluccan-train-hijackers-die-new-witnesses-say https://web.archive.org/web/20070716051414/http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article721950.ece/Herdenking_voor_kapers_van_trein_bij_De_Punt_1977_ https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Treinkaping+bij+De+Punt&page=7&sortfield=datedesc&cql%5B%5D=%28dategte+%2201-01-1977%22%29&cql%5B%5D=%28datelte+%2231-12-1977%22%29&coll=ddd&redirect=true&identifier=ddd:010959646:mpeg21:a0156&resultsidentifier=ddd:010959646:mpeg21:a0156&rowid=2 https://nltimes.nl/2014/11/20/unarmed-hijackers-killed-train-hijacking https://www.dutchnews.nl/2017/10/marines-in-court-over-shooting-of-activists-in-1977-de-punt-train-hijacking/ https://apnews.com/general-news-b390fa1dad6147ab9179c262a49f80b4 https://time.com/archive/6848782/terrorists-the-commandos-strike-at-dawn/

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys GET YOUR TICKETS TO SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ George Patton launches a very badly thought-out mission to rescue his son-in-law from a POW camp. Sources: http://oflag64.us/ewExternalFiles/whitaker-richard-tfb-article.pdf https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/costly-failure-pattons-raid-liberate-hammelburg https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/task-force-baum-george-pattons-controversial-mission-to-rescue-his-son-in-law-from-a-pow-camp.html https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/witnessing-pattons-failure-a-prisoners-view-of-the-task-force-baum-raid/

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

GET THE REST OF THE EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/128348764?pr=true COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON JUNE 22ND https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2025

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Come see us live in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Once upon a time, the British Navy built one of the worst submarines ever put to sea and then promptly smashed them into one another repeatedly. Sources: N.S Nash. K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions. Edwyn Gray. Disasters of the Deep: A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Accidents & Disasters Anthony Preston. World's Worst Warships https://web.archive.org/web/20150924120339/http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/issues/archives/issue_49/KforKatastrophe.html https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-battle-of-may-island-january-1917-and-k-class-submarines-of-the-first-world-war/

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys COME SEE US LIVE ON JUNE 22ND: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ The conclusion to the Armenian Genocide series.

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2025

Support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys GET TICKETS TO SEE US ON JUNE 22ND IN LONDON: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Part 3/4 For full bibliography see episode 1 show notes.

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

Come see us live in London June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Joe and Tom take the stage at Rich Mix to tell the story about the world's first military high speed train chase. Get the whole episoide on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/126771552

Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2025

Come see us live in London June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Part 2/4 Sources: Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else. Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Taner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide Taner Akçam. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide Taner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akçam. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire Vakahn Dadrian. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity. Khatchig Mouradian. Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916 Simon Payaslian. The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present.

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2025

Episodes 38-42 of G Gundam involve a horse being made to pilot a gundam. Is this animal abuse? Which country does the horse represent? Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126238814 TICKETS FOR APRIL 11TH: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator TICKETS FOR THE BIG FAT FESTIVAL IN JUNE: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Joe, Tom, and Nate live in London talk about the time the Russian Empire sent a fleet around the world to fight the Japanese Imperial Navy. COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! We're performing at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday, 11th April. Tickets availbable here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator THERE'S ALSO A LIVESTREAM: get tickets to view the April 11th show from anywhere in the world! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator Get more bonus episodes like this on our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Live show tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Live stream tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator This is the story of the Metz Yegern, The Great Evil Crime, or, what it would later become known as, the Armenian Genocide. Sources: Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else. Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Taner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide Taner Akçam. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide Taner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akçam. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire Vakahn Dadrian. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity. Khatchig Mouradian. Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916 Simon Payaslian. The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present.

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

All good rebellions start at a bar. Note that we did not say 'successful' there. Quinn Madsen from the Failure to Launch podcast joins us as a guest host to discuss a time when francophone and anglophone Canadians joined forces to fight the British in hopes of declaring independence. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/125794323 COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! We're performing at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday, 11th April. Tickets availbable here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator

Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2025

All good rebellions start at a bar. Note that we did not say 'successful' there. Quinn from the Failure to Launch podcast joins us as a guest host to discuss a time when francophone and anglophone Canadians joined forces to fight the British in hopes of declaring independence. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/125794323 COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! We're performing at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday, 11th April. Tickets availbable here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator

Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2025

GET YOUR LIVE SHOW TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator LIVE STREAM TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys When America entered WWI they found their Navy seriously lacking. To fill the gap, FDR bought a bunch of yachts from his rich friends and tried to turn them into subchasers. It did no go well. Sources: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2015/june/gilded-men-and-suicide-fleet https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2011/january/when-frank-jack-met-maggie https://airmail.news/issues/2024-8-24/the-new-york-yacht-club-goes-to-war https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1973/june/eagle-boats-world-war-i https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170527.htm

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The Turtle was the world's first combat submarine, built during the American Revolution, and somehow, it didn't turn into an elaborate suicide device. Sources: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/head-tilting-history/bushnells-turtle-revolutionary-submarine https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2022/06/the-turtle-submarine-warfare-during-the-american-revolution/ https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1942/february/david-bushnell-and-first-american-submarine https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/submersible-history-revolutionary-war https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/david-bushnells-turtle-the-worlds-first-submarine/

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2025

Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator PRE ORDER YOUR EMU JIMA SHIRT HERE: https://llbdmerch.com/products/llbd-emu-jima-shirt SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about one the stupidest but certainly bloodiest battle in Texan history. Sources: Ted Schwartz. Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution: The Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/medina-battle-of https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gutierrez-magee-expedition https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/magee-augustus-william https://www.expressnews.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-battle-now-has-three-site-markers-4568808.php

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator PRE ORDER YOUR EMU JIMA SHIRT HERE: https://llbdmerch.com/products/llbd-emu-jima-shirt SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about time the people of Carthage wove their own hair into weapons to defend their city from the Romans. Spoiler: It didn't work. Sources: Adrian Goldsworthy. The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265–146 BC David Norris. The Siege of Carthage: Death of an Empire. Military Heritage. Volume 26. No 1. https://www.historynet.com/romes-final-war-against-carthage/

Transcribed - Published: 10 March 2025

Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/123683504 Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator PRE ORDER YOUR EMU JIMA SHIRT HERE: https://llbdmerch.com/products/llbd-emu-jima-shirt Joe and Nate are joined by Trashfuture and No Gods No Mayor's Riley Quinn to talk about one of the shortest wars in history. Sources: https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/shortest-war-history/ https://www.thecollector.com/anglo-zanzibar-war/ https://www.history.org.uk/publications/resource/7950/the-shortest-war-in-history-the-anglo-zanzibar-wa https://altezzatravel.com/articles/the-anglo-zanzibar-war https://explorethearchive.com/anglo-zanzibar-war

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2025

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Joe and Nate explore the time the French surrendered during WWII, leaving the British worried if their fleet was going to change sides and fight for the Nazis. Rather than waiting to find out, they conducted the naval equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. Sources: Philippe Lasterle. Could Admiral Gensoul Have Averted the Tragedy of Mers el-Kebir? The Journal of Military History. Society for Military History. Volume 67, Number 3, July 2003 https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/operation-catapult-the-attack-on-mers-el-kebir/ https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/august/force-h-mers-el-kebir https://bmmhs.org/mers-el-kebir-sinking-the-french-fleet/

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2025

Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Joe is joined by the Zoo Crew to talk about the time Rome hosted the world's largest Goth convention. Sources: Zosimus. New History Michael Kulikowski. Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric. Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no 2. 2005. Herwig Wolfram. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 13

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Once upon a time, the US went to war against a small tribe in the pacific northwest, and, despite winning due to the massive power imbalance, they managed to get their asses kicked the entire time. Sources: Arthur Quinn. Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War Terry Johnston. Devil's Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872–3 Robert McNally. The Modoc War: A Little Indian War Goes Big https://www.historynet.com/the-modoc-war-a-little-indian-war-goes-big/ Kurt Nelson. The Modoc War of 1872. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-modoc-war-of-1872/ https://www.militarymuseum.org/Modoc1.html https://www.csuchico.edu/alva/projects/2012/the-beginning-of-the-end.shtml https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/labe/intro.htm

Transcribed - Published: 17 February 2025

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Joe and Tom are joined by Trashfuture's Milo Edwards to talk about the time a bunch of guys named Mstislav got destroyed by the Mongols. Sources: Leo De Hertog. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. Richard Gabriel. Subotai The Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General. The Chronicle of Novgorod. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/MF1914.pdf Victor Kamenir. Russian Disaster at the Kalkha River. Military Heritage. Vol 20, no. 6 Robert Rossabi. All the Khan's Horses.

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 5 February 2025

Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys check out our merch store! https://llbdmerch.com/ Marines storm ashore a rainforest-bound, diseased-filled, swampy death trap of an island to take an airfield with no strategic value. Sources: Bernard Nalty. The Green Inferno. Frank Hough. The Campaign on New Britain John Miller. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul Al Hemingway. The Incessant Rains of the Green Inferno. WWII History Volume 9, No. 7 Sidney Phillips. The Fighting Conditions on Cape Gloucester. (video interview) https://marinesidphillips.com/sid-phillips-on-capegloucester.htm

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2025

Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out The Worst of All Possible Worlds: https://www.worstpossible.world Joe is joined by the cast of The Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about the time the US attempted to open Korea with gunboat diplomacy in 1871. Sources: Thomas Duvernay. Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea Eric Niderost. Military Heritage Magazine. August 2002. Vol 4, no. 1 http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100407175236/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/marine_amphib_korea.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20041011181532/http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/sherman.htm https://hsp.org/blogs/hidden-histories/the-other-korean-war-a-little-known-conflict-in-american-history

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2025

Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ The conclusion to our series on the Shimabara Rebellion!

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025

Support the show on Patreon and get the final episode of this series right now: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Part 2/3

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 8 January 2025

Support the show on Patreon and get the second part in this series right now! https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-episode-2-119362620 Check out the merch store! https://llbdmerch.com/ *Correction* Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the invasion of Korea, not Tokugawa Hideyoshi. Once upon a time in Japan, shitty landlords, high taxes, and religious persecution united a diverse band of Christians, Samurai, Ronin, and farmers under the leadership of a teenager, believed to be an Apostle, in order to rise up against the Lords of Shimabara and the Shogun himself. Part 1/3 Sources for this series: Robert Bellah. Tokugawa Religion. Ivan Morris. The nobility of failure: tragic heroes in the history of Japan Jonathan Clements. Christ’s Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion

Transcribed - Published: 6 January 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 1 January 2025

Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our Merch! https://llbdmerch.com/ Francis joins Joe to talk about one of the most memorable battles of the Vietnam War, which was completely and utterly pointless. Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20190515114632/https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/1683/168300010494.pdf https://www.history.com/news/hamburger-hill-controversy Frank Boccia. The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill Robert L. Durham. 101st Airborne fight for Hamburger Hill. Military Heritage. Vol. 21, No. 4

Transcribed - Published: 30 December 2024

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Transcribed - Published: 25 December 2024

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Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2024

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Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2024

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ A King has a fever dream and launches the 7th crusade, following the exact same battle plan as a previous failed crusade because he thinks he's built different. He isn't. Sources: Jonathan Riley-Smith. The Oxford History of the Crusades Alexander Mikaberidze. Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World A Historical Encyclopedia Christopher Marshall, Warfare in the Latin East, 1192–1291 Douglas Sterling. The Battle of Al Mansourah and the Seventh Crusade, 1251

Transcribed - Published: 16 December 2024

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Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2024

Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys We're on Bluesky @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social The English launch a raid against the Spanish city of Cadiz. Instead of planning anything whatsoever, the English get drunk on the beach and die. Correction: James VI/James I. Not James IV Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20070311113513/http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20292%201626.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20061003025931/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/cadiz.htm https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/cadiz-expedition-1625-m.html https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781315257228-16/expedition-cadiz-1625-ronald-bedford-lloyd-davis

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2024

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Transcribed - Published: 4 December 2024

Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out the merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Patton sends his soldiers into a tunnel meat grinder, suffering his first and only real defeat as a commander during WWII Sources: Anthony Kemp. The Unknown Battle: Metz John Nelson Rickard. Patton at Bay: the Lorraine Campaign, September to December, 1944 Duane E. Shaffer. Patton’s Lost Battle. Warfare History Network Ryan McLachlan. Battle of Fort Driant – World War II’s Strangest Engagement? War History Online

Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2024