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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 CAN'T MAKE IT TO THE SHOW? WE'RE STREAMING IT! GET YOUR LIVESTREAM TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1532091008449 SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys It is never a good time to go hiking in the swamp with 100,000 of your friends and two Emperors. Sources: https://earth-history.com/Europe/Goths/jordanes-goths-04-3rdcentury.htm https://historycollection.com/two-roman-emperors-brutally-died-battle-251-ad/ Jones, Christopher P. Further Dexippus (Online). Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. "Philippolis: Roman Disaster on the Western Border." Military Heritage. April 2008. Vol. 9. No. 5 The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12, The Crisis of Empire, AD
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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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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss the time that Alexander the Great altered the geography of the planet in order to build a huge land bridge and punish Tyre for not letting him visit the ancient world's most instagrammable temple. We've got merch available! Check out our store here: www.llbdpodcast.com/ sources: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/siege-of-tyre-alexander-the-greats-assault-on-the-persians/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-fall-of-tyre/ https://www.historynet.com/alexander-the-great-siege-of-tyre/ https://www.historyonthenet.com/engines-of-destruction-the-evolution-of-siege-warfare-alexander-the-great
In this episode, we revisit the 2000s warrior-scholar fixation of famously-unproblematic guys like David Petraeus with the advent of the Human Terrain System, or what you might politely call "military anthropology." Is it ethical? No. Did it work? No. Was it run by someone named Dr. Montgomery McFate? Yes. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-133688496 We've got merch available! Check out our store here: llbdpodcast.com/
Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The British military, faced with the seemingly insurmountable problem of a heavily defended port, decide that there is nothing that methed out kayak-borne commandos on a suicide mission cannot handle. Sources: CE Lucas Phillips. The Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of WWII Quentin Rees. Cockleshell Heroes: The Final Witness. Robert Lyman. Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/cockleshell-heroes-who-what-operation-frankton-ww2/ https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2024/10/2/operation-frankton-the-most-daring-raid-of-world-war-2 https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/operation-frankton-the-true-story-of-the-cockleshell-heroes/
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