Dec 12, 2025 | Season 2
On August 2, 1867, a small group of U.S. soldiers found themselves outnumbered and surrounded in the Wyoming Territory. Armed with new rifles and shielded only by wagon-box walls, they faced hundreds of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors. In this episode, we...
Dec 11, 2024 | Season 2
In 1532, the tiny town of Guns is all that stood between the Ottoman Empire and Vienna. A young knight, Nikola Jurisic, inspired fewer than 1,000 villagers to stand up against the brutal daily assaults of nearly 100,000 Turks. The heroism of those defenders helped...
Sep 13, 2024 | Season 2
Rome spent centuries flexing its muscle as one of the greatest military forces the world has ever known, but on May 6, 1527 Rome failed to keep out a bloodthirsty army that spent the subsequent months murdering Romans and stripping the city of its wealth. Many of the...
Mar 9, 2023 | Season 2
You’ve heard of US military tragedies like Pearl Harbor and Custer’s Last Stand, but arguably the worst defeat on a US army force is so unknown that it doesn’t even have a name. Most call it St. Clair’s defeat, named after the general who lost...
Dec 15, 2022 | Season 2
Britain’s introduction to “modern” warfare came a few years before World War I against an unlikely foe: farmers on horseback. Except these farmers geniusly employed smokeless powder, machine guns, and trenches. The farmers were called Boers, and...
Nov 23, 2022 | Season 2
Simon Bolivar is known as The Liberator of South America, but on a hot summer morning in a sleepy Venezuelan village he nearly lost his entire revolution, and possibly the freedom of a continent. Moments from defeat, Bolivar was saved by an unlikely ally: British...
