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SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sinking forts, suicide gun boats, and one very dumb fake country. Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424 Sources: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/new-orleans-civil-war https://64parishes.org/entry/fall-of-new-orleans-and-federal-occupation-adaptation https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1962/april/fall-new-orleans https://www.historynet.com/big-trouble-big-easy-confederacy/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/conquering-the-queen-city/
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Check us out on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424 SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Japan creates a death trap that becomes so unlucky it becomes known throughout the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII Sources: David Lippman. Mogami: Japan's Luckless Cruiser http://combinedfleet.com/ships/mogami David Brown. Warship Losses of WWII Paul Dull. The Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The King of Spain hires a bunch of mercenaries to go to war and refuses to pay them leading to them sacking Rome for a paycheck. Sources: https://www.historynet.com/rome-ravaged/ https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/ https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/05/the-darkest-day-in-the-history-of-the-swiss-guard/ Idan Sherer. A Bloody Carnival? Charles' V Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527
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SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Scotland invades England with one of the largest armies in Scottish History and nearly wipe out their own government in the process. Sources: https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Marmion--A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070227045328/http://www.ourpasthistory.com/England/the-battle-of-flodden-field-or-branxton-moor Peter Reese. Flooden: A Scottish Tragedy Ida Taylor. The Life of James IV William Welsh. Butchered At The Battle of Flodden. Military Heritage Magazine. Volume 22, No. 4
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