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Striking factory workers hold off an attempted amphibious invasion launched by Pinkertons with guns, bombs, and fire ships. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homestead-strike https://battleofhomestead.org/the-battle-of-homestead/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-strike-homestead-mill/ https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-homestead https://archive.org/details/jstor-25102447
This is a preview. For the entire episode go here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/89709631?pr=true Tom and Joe watch Master and Commander, otherwise known as why life in the navy sucks.
The terror group the United Red Army was born out of the fires of the anti imperialist student movement of japan but rapidly turned into a death cult. Within a few weeks even taking a shower would be considered counter revolutionary. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Yoshikuni Igarashi. Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution, 1971–1972. Patricia Steinhoff. Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the Japanese Red Army NHK World. The United Red Army: A Troubled Legacy
This episode is just a preview. Get the whole thing here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-65864515 Joe is joined by Sarah of It Came From the Sea to talk about that time when the navy teleported a ship and melted people into ship centaurs(or didn't but that's no fun)
A badly designed submarine becomes the face of the french navy while accidently doing everything it can to convince people that the crew might be nazi agents. Support the show! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: William H. Langenberg. The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bizarre Surcouf Christopher Miskimon. Seizure of the Surcouf https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/post/seizure-of-the-surcouf-operation-catapult https://www.theday.com/local-news/20161119/french-subs-visit-to-new-london-launched-conspiracy-theory/
*this is a preview. to get the full episode support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88848996?pr=true A few weeks ago Tom made a patreon goal that if we hit 5500 supporters we would read horrible fan fiction starring Muammar Gaddafi, Josef Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. It's horrible and you've been warned.
In the final episode of the series, we learn about the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Deutscher Herbst, or "German Autumn" of 1977. In two months in late 1977, the leadership of the first generation of the Red Army Faction would murder a high-profile German industrialist (and former SS officer), hijack a plane, and commit group suicide. And let's just say it made an impression in West Germany. Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People. Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction. Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
This is a preview, get the whole episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-83890971 The US invents a reason to invade the tiny island nation of Grenada based on plans made from some tourist maps.
In this episode, we cover the early- to mid-1970s bombing campaigns of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, and some of the... interesting personalities of the group members. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People. Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction. Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
It's part 2 of our 4-part series on the Red Army Faction, in which Tom takes the lead to explain to Joe the story of 1960s German left-wing militants, their eventual downfall, and--in this episode--something you might describe as 'the world's least enthusiastic hunger striker.' Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People. Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction. Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
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