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Lions Led By Donkeys
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 339 - The Great Panjandrum
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A British engineer attempts to create a weapon for breaching the Atlantic wall. He does not succeed.
Sources:
Brian Johnson. The Secret War.
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-rolling-rocket-bomb-designed-kill-nazis-almost-killed-dog-instead/
https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/the-great-panjandrum-scares-a-dog/1123500263001
https://allthatsinteresting.com/panjandrum
01:12:4225/11/2024
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 11: Jordan B. PeterGundam
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Joe and Tom ponder the existence of Armenians in the Marvel Universe and the charity work of the DGVVA
10:0520/11/2024
Episode 338 - The First Boer War: Part 3
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The conclusion!
01:33:0418/11/2024
*PREVIEW* History of Armenia 36: The Armenian Mafia, The Mormon Cult, and the Fuel Scam
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10:4713/11/2024
Episode 337 - The First Boer War: Part 2
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01:17:1311/11/2024
*UNLOCKED* The Death of Mussolini
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The story of how a very stupid dictator ended up swinging upside down in front of a cheering crowd.
sources:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-benito-mussolini
https://www.history.com/news/mussolinis-final-hours
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/how-did-benito-mussolini-die-the-story-behind-il-duces-last-moments/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/benito-mussolini-death
Ray Mosley. The Last 600 Days of Il Duce.
01:04:2006/11/2024
*PREVIEW* The Battle of Damascus 1148
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09:5706/11/2024
Episode 336 - The First Boer War: Part 1
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A bunch of racist, libertarian farmers who hate taxes revolt against the British. No, not that time, the other time.
Sources:
Laband, John. The first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881
Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War.
Meredith, Martin. Diamonds, Gold, and War: The Making of South Africa
Pretorius, Fransjohan. The Boer Wars.
Palmer, Gough. The Besieged Towns of the First Boer War
01:32:4904/11/2024
Episode 335 - The Battle of The Catalaunian Plains
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The Huns go to war against Rome in what turns into one of the bigger "Greater Unifying Theory of Fuck That Guy" Moments in history.
Sources:
Jordanes. The Getica
Bury, John Bagnall. History of the Later Roman Empire.
Man, John. Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome.
Stoddard, Brooke. The Battle of the Catalunian Plains.
01:13:3228/10/2024
*PREVIEW* The Crash of the USS McCain
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10:0123/10/2024
Episode 334 - The Battle of Saragarhi
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Stranded in the mountains of Afghanistan, 21 Sikh soldiers face off against thousands of Afghan tribesmen. Hamstrung by British military racism and some of the dumbest battle plans the brits could come up with, they fight till the last.
Sources:
Jay Singh-Sohal. Saragarhi: The Forgotten Battle.
Col Kanwaljit Singh. Saragarhi Battalion: Ashes to Glory
https://www.sikhnet.com/news/battle-saragarhi-tale-sacrifice-and-unyielding-bravery-sikh-history
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/when-21-sikh-soldiers-stood-against-10000-men-the-battle-of-saragarhi/
01:45:5921/10/2024
*PREVIEW* Robot Jox
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10:3516/10/2024
Episode 333 - The New York City Draft Riot
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A riot against the Civil War draft quickly turned into something much darker, and soldiers were recalled from the battlefield to put it down.
Sources:
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html&title=The+New+York+City+Draft+Riots+of+1863&desc
Beard, Rick. City Under Siege: The New York Draft Riots
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/draft-riots
https://history.nycourts.gov/case/court-cases-related-to-the-new-york-city-draft-riots-1863/
Dupree, A. Hunter and Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. "An Eyewitness Account of the New York Draft Riots, July, 1863"
Anbinder, Tyler. "Which Poor Man’s Fight?: Immigrants and the Federal Conscription of 1863."
01:27:4614/10/2024
*PREVIEW* Sarkis Soghanalian, The Armenian Viktor Bout
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10:1709/10/2024
Episode 332 - Miyamoto Musashi, The Troll Samurai
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Once upon a time, a man became a wandering warrior, testing himself against the best in the land and beat the hell out of them with a combination of hyper violence and trolling.
Sources:
Miyamoto Musashi. The Book of the Five Rings
O’Brien Brown. Miyamoto Mushashi: Samurai Legend
William Scott Wilson. The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
01:13:2907/10/2024
*TRAILER* Lions Led By Donkeys Presents: The Kupiansk Dispatches
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03:0105/10/2024
*PREVIEW* The 2024 Q&A
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12:1002/10/2024
Episode 331 - The March of the 10,000
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Greek Mercenaries get trapped after a job goes wrong. Now, they have to try and find their way home in a series of war crimes, ragers, and making the worst boots known to man.
Sources:
Xenophon. Anabasis.
Robin Lane. The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand
https://www.thecollector.com/ten-thousand-greek-hoplites/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-cunaxa-and-the-march-of-the-10000/
01:07:1730/09/2024
Episode 330 - The Rwandan Genocide: Part 4
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The Conclusion to the Rwandan Genocide series.
sources used for this series:
Scott Straus. The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus. Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Scott Straus. Rwanda, RTLM, and Mass Media Effects.
Jean Hatzfeld. Machete Season.
Philip Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.
Alison Des Forges. Leave None to Tell The Story: Genocide In Rwanda.
Roméo Dallaire. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Case Files. https://unictr.irmct.org/en/cases
01:31:2323/09/2024
*PREVIEW* The U352, The Dumbest U-Boat of WWII
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11:0318/09/2024
Episode 329 - The Rwandan Genocide: Part 3
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Scott Straus. The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus. Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Scott Straus. Rwanda, RTLM, and Mass Media Effects.
Jean Hatzfeld. Machete Season.
Philip Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.
Alison Des Forges. Leave None to Tell The Story: Genocide In Rwanda.
Roméo Dallaire. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Case Files. unictr.irmct.org/en/cases
01:17:1416/09/2024
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 10: Why Are There Horses?
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12:0511/09/2024
Episode 328 - The Rwandan Genocide: Part 2
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Scott Straus. The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus. Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Scott Straus. Rwanda, RTLM, and Mass Media Effects.
Jean Hatzfeld. Machete Season.
Philip Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.
Alison Des Forges. Leave None to Tell The Story: Genocide In Rwanda.
Roméo Dallaire. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Case Files. https://unictr.irmct.org/en/cases
01:23:0209/09/2024
*PREVIEW* A Civil War of Drunks
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10:2404/09/2024
Episode 327 - The Rwandan Genocide: Part 1
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Content Warning
Over the course of only around 100 days, horrific acts of violence, a genocide long in the making but seemingly deployed overnight, swept through the nation of Rwanda. This is the story and history of the Rwandan Genocide.
Part 1/4
Sources:
Scott Straus. The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus. Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Scott Straus. Rwanda, RTLM, and Mass Media Effects.
Jean Hatzfeld. Machete Season.
Philip Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.
Alison Des Forges. Leave None to Tell The Story: Genocide In Rwanda.
Roméo Dallaire. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Case Files. https://unictr.irmct.org/en/cases
01:02:2602/09/2024
Episode 326 - The Battle of The Plains Of Abraham
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Quinn, one of the hosts of Failure to Launch, takes us on a journey to one of the most important battles in Canadian history.
01:14:3626/08/2024
*PREVIEW* Operation Ginny
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09:4221/08/2024
Episode 325 - Viktor Bout, The Merchant of Death: Part 2
Part 2/2
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*since the time of recording, all prisoners involved in a possible exchange for Viktor Bout have been released.
Once upon a time the film Lord of War was made about the international arms dealer Viktor Bout. They had to tone it down in order to make it more believable. Bout, a possibly, maybe GRU operative became the premier arms smuggler for anyone in the world who needed it, contributing to the deaths of untold millions and fueling wars that continue to rage to this day.
sources:
Estulin, Daniel, Shadow Masters
Greg Cambell. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/magazi…-and-the-man.html
archive.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/…venience.htm
www.cbsnews.com/news/viktor-bout-…-brittney-griner/
www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/…ernationalcrime
Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun. Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible.
01:34:3718/08/2024
Episode 324 Viktor Bout, The Merchant of Death: Part 1
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*since the time of recording, all prisoners involved in a possible exchange for Viktor Bout have been released.
Once upon a time the film Lord of War was made about the international arms dealer Viktor Bout. They had to tone it down in order to make it more believable. Bout, a possibly, maybe GRU operative became the premier arms smuggler for anyone in the world who needed it, contributing to the deaths of untold millions and fueling wars that continue to rage to this day.
sources:
Estulin, Daniel, Shadow Masters
Greg Cambell. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/magazine/arms-and-the-man.html
https://archive.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/wanted/2008/0624convenience.htm
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viktor-bout-russia-arms-dealer-merchant-of-death-brittney-griner/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/09/armstrade.internationalcrime
Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun. Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible.
01:10:0312/08/2024
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots Presents: Chappie
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09:4907/08/2024
Episode 323 -Doug Hegdahl, The Incredibly Stupid One
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Once upon a time a POW pretended to be so stupid that his captors assumed he wasn't a threat. It turned into one of the largest North Vietnamese intelligence failures of the Vietnam War.
Sources:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.usni.org/sites/default/files/users/rsmith/Poor%20Peasant.pdf
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/holy-cow-history-17880270.php
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/70-02000/70-2654.html
https://www.lowellmilkencenter.org/programs/projects/view/douglas-hegdahl-the-incredibly-stupid-one/hero
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13062045/vietnam-war-hero-doug-hegdahl-stupid-one-memorize-names.html
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/amazing-pow-douglas-hegdahl/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930093201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901396,00.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930060007/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901221,00.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080918094431/http://www.geocities.com/talesofseasia/rossperotandparis.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20091024130127/http://geocities.com/talesofseasia/doug.html
Cutler, Thomas. A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy
01:09:0504/08/2024
*PREVIEW* The Battle of Shipka Pass
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09:4801/08/2024
Episode 322 - Alvin York
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Alvin York started WWI as a conscientious objector and finished it as a bloodthirsty demon built for war.
Sources:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/sergeant-alvin-york-personal-accounts-that-reveal-his-true-story/
https://www.historynet.com/alvin-york-hero-argonne/
Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
01:15:4928/07/2024
*PREVIEW* The Battle of New Market LIVE FROM THE HAGUE
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11:0626/07/2024
Episode 321 - The Invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom
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The Satsuma Domain launches an invasion of the Ryukyu Islands leading to a battle of samurai, muskets, and barrels full of snakes.
sources:
Stephen Turnbull. The Samurai Capture A King: Okinawa 1609
MG Haynes. Samurai Invasion: Japan's 1609 Conquest of Ryukyu
https://en.tabi-samurai-japan.com/story/event/562/
Yuan Jiadong. Satsuma’s Invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom and Changes in the Geopolitical Structure of East Asia
01:18:1621/07/2024
Episode 320 - The Whiskey Rebellion
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Bad tax law almost starts a new American Revolution only a few years after the last one.
Sources:
William Hogeland. The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/whiskey-rebellion
John Allen Miller. How Whiskey Almost Started a War. https://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/rev_war/whiskey.htm
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/george-washingtons-proclamation-whiskey-rebellion
01:20:4114/07/2024
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 9: The Gundam is Meat
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10:0610/07/2024
Episode 319 - The Makin Raid
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A Marine officer builds a special forces unit on the ideas of Maoism and launches one of the strangest raids of WWII
Sources:
Duane Schultz. Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America's First Special Forces
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-makin-raid-what-really-happened-to-the-marines/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/raid-on-makin/
https://www.historynet.com/gung-ho-makin-raids-strange-legacy/
https://www.historynet.com/marine-veterans-recount-daring-raid-on-makin-atoll/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/evans-carlson-forms-carlsons-raiders/
01:20:2908/07/2024
*PREVIEW* The Strange Journey of the SMS Emden
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10:2303/07/2024
Episode 318 - The Münster Rebellion: Part 3
The conclusion!
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01:22:0030/06/2024
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 8: Lube Proof Gun
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10:0625/06/2024
Episode 317 - The Münster Rebellion: Part 2
The horrors continue!
part 2/3
Sources:
Anthony Arthur. The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster
Peter Vansittart. The Siege.
Paul Ham. New Jerusalem: The short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect
01:08:2123/06/2024
*PREVIEW* The Strange British Anti Tank Weapons of WWII
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10:2017/06/2024
Episode 316 - The Münster Rebellion: Part 1
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What starts as a rational critique of the Reformation turns into a wild, sex crazed, blood thirsty, and heavily armed cult ruled by a man who thinks he can cure blindness by spitting in someone's eye while mass executions take place via comically oversized anime sword.
The Anabaptists of Munster eventually turn everyone against them from Martin Luther to the Catholics to their own believers who simply like their wives.
Content Warning: Everything, throughout the series.
Part 1/3
Sources:
Anthony Arthur. The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster
Peter Vansittart. The Siege.
Paul Ham. New Jerusalem: The short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect
01:09:3616/06/2024
Episode 315 - Bacon's Rebellion
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A colonial American uprising that united white men who wanted to steal more native land, slaves, and indentured servants against a corrupt Governor.
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Sources:
https://virginiahistory.org/learn/bacons-rebellion-virginia-years-1675-1676
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p274.html
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/bacons-rebellion-1676/
https://www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/research-and-collections/essays/a-history-of-bacons-rebellion-in-six-sources
Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
01:05:2010/06/2024
*PREVIEW* The Battle of Palmito Ranch
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09:0003/06/2024
Episode 314 - The Zeebrugge Raid
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Untrained soldiers and suicide submarines raid a port during WWI with mothballed ships, reinforced with armor made from used mattresses and sandbags.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/war_sea_gallery_06.shtml
https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/post/the-raid-on-zeebrugge-23-april-1918-for-england-and-st-george
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-12161
https://issuu.com/faircountmedia/docs/special-operations-outlook-2018/s/72765
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/zeebrugge-a-gallant-raid-on-saint-georges-day/
01:18:5503/06/2024
*PREVIEW* The Greatest Beer Run Ever
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09:3528/05/2024
Episode 313 - The Fall of Confederate New Orleans
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Sinking forts, suicide gun boats, and one very dumb fake country.
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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/
01:06:0626/05/2024
*Preview* The Kuznetsov, Russia's Cursed Aircraft Carrier
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10:3821/05/2024