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The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict.
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Episode 421 - The Battle of Dorylaeum Ft. Failure to Launch
2w ago01:09:31Tap to summarizeSUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out Failure to Launch: https://open.spotify.com/show/67k2E47btdeWWdljZAmf9A GET JOE'S BOOK: Ebook, Audiobook, and Paperbacks now available! https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ Or you can buy the ebook and audiobook directly from us: https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/ Get Nate's band's debut album here! https://secondhomesband.com/ Joe is joined by Chris and Quinn of Failure to Launch to talk about the first major battle of the First Crusades and how the Crusaders stumbled over their own feet to victory sources: Runciman, Steven (2005). The First Crusade. New York: Cambridge University Press Historia Hierosolymitana John France, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1996 Richardson, Scott. Dorylaeum: The First Christian-Muslim Clash of the Crusades. military Heritage. December 2007. Vol 9. No 3.
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*PREVIEW* Maurice Wilson, The Man Who Wanted To Crash His Plane Into Mount Everest
3w ago00:10:14Tap to summarizeGET THE ENTIRE EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys/posts/bonus-episode-to-162593771?pr=true
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Episode 420 - The Sicilian Expedition
3w ago01:20:22Tap to summarizeUSE CODE DONK50 TO GET 50% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH ON PATREON UNTIL THE END OF JUNE http://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys GET JOE'S BOOK Ebook, Audiobook, and Paperbacks now available! https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ Or you can buy the ebook and audiobook directly from us: https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/ Get Nate's band's debut album here! https://secondhomesband.com/ Hoping to get one over on their Spartan enemies, Athens is tricked by some fancy furniture and sweet chains and invades Sicily. Before the operation can even start, one commander who is trying to stop the invasion frames another for the crime of sacrilege, leading him to defect to the Spartans and convince them to join the war to stop Athens. Somehow, that isn't even the strangest thing that happens over the next two years. SOURCES: Ellis, Walter M. Alcibiades. New York: Routledge, 1989 Kagan, Donald. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Translated by Richard Crawley. Strauss, Barry S., and Josiah Ober. The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990 Porter, Barry. Misplaced Aggression: The Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. Military Heritage. Vol. 9 No. 2.
Transcribe →*PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 2
4w ago00:09:55Tap to summarizeGet the full episode on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys/posts/bonus-episode-of-161960001 GET JOE'S BOOK! Ebook, Audiobook, and Paperbacks now available! https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ Or you can buy the ebook and audiobook directly from us: https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/ Get Nate's band's debut album here! https://secondhomesband.com/ Joe, Nate, and Tom get the Guise together in Part II of our new series on the French Wars of Religion as tensions rise, and discuss medieval Laura Loomer, it being about ethics in troubadour journalism, and physical ailments that don't improve for being lanced. This series appears thanks to research done by our friend and colleague Dr. Joel Butler.
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Episode 419 - The Battle of Castillon
Jun 2201:04:09Tap to summarizeBUY JOE'S BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ Don't want to use amazon? Get the Ebook and Audiobook directly from us: https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-epub Get Nate's band's debut album here! https://secondhomesband.com/ During the closing of the Hundred Years' War the English decide to launch a cavalry charge against in an entrenched French army, directly into the barrels of hundreds of cannons. It does not end well. SOURCES: Welsh, William. Castilion: The Last Battle of the Hundred Years' War. Military Heritage. April 2008. Vol. 9, No. 5. Curry, Anne. (1993). The Hundred Years War. New York. St. Martin's Press. Grummitt, David (2010). "Castillon, Siege and Battle of". In Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. Nolan, Cathal J., ed. (2006). "Castillon, Battle of (July 17, 1453)". The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000–1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. Vol. 1. Greenwood Press. https://web.archive.org/web/20051028021944/http://www.xenophongroup.com/montjoie/castilon.htm
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Episode 418 - Operation Aphrodite
Jun 1501:02:03Tap to summarizeSUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON. USE CODE DONK50 TO GET 50% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys LISTEN TO BLOOD WORK: https://open.spotify.com/show/5jt9RZSCVMJ1KS84QHB9jJ BUY JOE'S BOOK 'THE HIGHLANDS BURN' https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AVUPB28MBUYO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NNgKYnCYiqAJJS_eOQD2UYzjUqrfsCV8e6mhEpEOu8dyC1MKfbuv5t1cX6Cv-Kw5Hm3lFM_2vWG3Dc3EnyW4xSOR0eGi5GLaqW0TcrcO5Vf6VMd4F2keDTuQ1DlRS-GBNr24jKul0TozZWTct2sAiq3zX-82f5yk8oWl8KkPE2vH_sELnUhQbW_R3A330VM65hxbAUa56Ppyxfo9tMa38b_Qv1L4w4yYCj7rktOrxlw.KjrRckJzI25gb9P-yCrRS0hCQGw1qvYFlzBrcOT0wIs&dib_tag=se&keywords=THE+HIGHLANDS+BURN&qid=1780860988&sprefix=the+highlands+burn%2Caps%2C307&sr=8-1 Don't want to use Amazon? Buy it the ebook from our store: https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-epub Get the audiobook: https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-audiobook Joe and Tom are once again joined by Gregk Foley of Blood Work to talk about the US Army's Operation Aphrodite during WWII. When a bunch of engineers attempted to create the world's first suicide attack drone. It resulted in a series of dead pilots, nearly blowing up several British villages, and one dead Kennedy. SOURCES: Freeman, Roger. The Mighty Eighth. Spark, Nick. Television Goes to War. https://web.archive.org/web/20080417214556/http://www.mugualumni.org/secretarsenal/page9.html Gary, Edwin. Operation Aphrodite's B-17 "Smart Bomb." Olsen, Jack. Aphrodite: Desperate Mission. https://archive.org/details/aphroditedespera00olse Webb, Mason. Operation Aphrodite. WWII Quarterly. Fall 2014. Vol. 6 No. 1
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Episode 417 - The Time the US Army Tried to Train Racist Attack Dogs Ft. Gregk Foley
Jun 801:05:31Tap to summarizeUSE CODE DONK50 TO GET 50% OFF YOUR PATREON SUBSCRIPTION https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys LISTEN TO BLOOD WORK: https://open.spotify.com/show/5jt9RZSCVMJ1KS84QHB9jJ Buy The Highlands Burn: https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX Get the audiobook (read by Joe) https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-audiobook During WWII the US Army developed a top secret program to create racist attack dogs on a swamp island off of the coast of Mississippi. This is the story about how Japanese-American soldiers were forced to act as bait for packs of untrained, starving, and abused dogs all because a Swiss psycho, who had no experience training dogs, convinced the US Army that each race smelled differently. SOURCES: https://www.npca.org/articles/3798-the-dog-trainers-of-cat-island https://historynet.com/dog-training-pacific-war/ https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article277536763.html https://www.uswardogs.org/WWII https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/dogs-defense-how-skip-spot-and-rover-went-fight-world-war-ii https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/national-dog-day https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/uncle-sam-needs-to-borrow-your-dog.htm
Transcribe →*PREVIEW* The Santa Fe Expedition (Live in London)
Jun 300:10:14Tap to summarizeJoe, Tom, and Nate take to the stage at the Rich Mix in London to talk about the time the Republic of Texas attempted to invade Santa Fe, New Mexico without food, water, or even knowing where Santa Fe was on a map. Get the full episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/159999155 USE CODE DONK50 TO GET 50% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH SUBSCRIPTION THROUGHOUT JUNE GET JOE'S BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ DON'T WANT TO USE AMAZON? NO PROBLEM: https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-epub https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-audiobook
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Episode 416 - The Raid On Deerfield
Jun 101:15:24Tap to summarizeUSE CODE DONK50 AND GET 50% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys BUY THE HIGHLANDS BURN: https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QWHSPAADI07D&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uLEY0I7D6t0IC9GWsF7SH1FKEgKqsqTLmV4PQ_lLi-wVUCYgTqIv0BWd9_-x3VzP.xn7v2CqU5MjngXmmSbYvVGsY_fxkvgsz-LA2tkhHHTs&dib_tag=se&keywords=joseph+kassabian&qid=1774247705&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C176&sr=1-1 CONTENT WARNING French and English colonies in North America go to war as a part of the larger War of Spanish Succession. Soon an allied force of French soldiers, militia, and Native Warriors are snowshoeing their way from New France to Massachusetts in order to destroy the town of Deerfield. SOURCES: Calloway, Colin Gordon. After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England P.G. Smith. "This Force of French and Allied Warriors Snowshoed 300 Miles to Terrorize a Small Town in Massachusetts." P.G. Smith https://historynet.com/deerfield-raid-massachusetts/ https://www.americanheritage.com/deerfield-massacre https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-02-28/320-years-ago-the-raid-in-deerfield-was-at-the-center-of-the-fight-for-control-of-north-america https://historyofmassachusetts.org/raid-on-deerfield/ https://deerfieldraid1704.org/
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*PREVIEW* The History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 5
May 2700:10:34Tap to summarizeThis is a preview. For the entire episode support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/159368663?pr=true&forSale=true
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