3904 - Xerxes I of Persia: King of Kings
The Persian King who invaded Greece in 480 BC is remembered for his defeat at the Battle of Salamis, but he was much more than that. Xerxes...
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20 of 330 episodes3903 The blame game – sources for the battle of Agincourt
One of the first things to note about our surviving sources for the battle of Agincourt (or Azincourt), fought on October 25th, 1415, is jus...
3902 Buried Alive: Operation Tracer and the Secret of Gibraltar
In the Second World War, the Rock of Gibraltar stood like a sentinel at the gateway to the Mediterranean. Whoever held it could open or clos...
3901 Ancient Superpowers Collide: The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC
The Peloponnesian War pitted the two most powerful Ancient Greek states, Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, against each other i...
3810 The (Second) Battle of Mantinea Part2
The (second) battle of Mantinea, July 4, 362 BC: the final nail in the coffin of Spartan dominance. At the battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, a re...
3809 The (Second) Battle of Mantinea
At the battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, a resurgent Thebes led by its great statesmen and tactician reformers Epaminondas and Pelopidas defeated...
3808 The Battles of Hedgeley Moor and Hexham 1464 - Part 2
The Final showdown at Hexham, May 15th, 1464 John Neville probably marched along the north bank of the River Tyne along Carrel Gate. This ro...
3807 The Battles of Hedgeley Moor and Hexham 1464 - Part 1
A combination of two battles fought close together in Northumberland in April and May 1464 brought Lancastrian resistance to the Yorkist kin...
3806 - The Shingle Street Invasion That Never Was
Picture the Suffolk coast on a stormy night in 1940. Waves crash against a bleak shingle bank, the wind howls through the marshes, and black...
3805 Valour Lost - Part 3
In the third of this three part series we conclude our look at the eight recipients of the Victoria Cross who forfeited the award due to the...
3804 Valour Lost - Part 2
In the second of this three part series we continue our look at the eight recipients of the Victoria Cross who forfeited the award due to th...
3803 Valour Lost - Part 1
In this three part series we look at the eight recipients of the Victoria Cross who forfeited the award due to their later actions as well a...
3802 Colenso: Ireland's Forgotten Sacrifice in the Boer War
Yet another war believed to be over by Christmas. The Second Boer War was fought between the greatest empire the world had ever seen and a n...
3801 Alvarado's Leap
Modern historical scholarship has little lenience for hyperbole and any event that appears exaggerated is heavily scrutinized. The Spanish C...
3710 Soccer pitch invasion!: the Vienna battlefield discovery and the battle of Carnuntum, AD 170.
In late October 2024, under a Vienna sports field (Ostbahn-XI-Platz) on the Danube in the Simmering district, a site of ancient mass burial...
3709 Waterloo and the Irishmen of the 27th: The Inniskillings in the Heart of Battle Part2
The French infantry passed by the farm at La Haye Saint and advanced up to the ridge where Picton's 5th Brigade were literally lying in wait...
3708 Waterloo and the Irishmen of the 27th: The Inniskillings in the Heart of Battle Part1
The Congress of Vienna began in November 1814 and its aim was to provide a plan for a long-term peace within Europe after nearly 23 years of...
3707 The Battle Of The Wabash
"American Indian Wars" in the modern perspective focuses mostly on the American West in the second half of the 19th century with cowboys, Cu...
3706 I sing of (Welsh) arms and the man: the battles of Taliesin - Part 2
Another poem, "Gwaith Argoed Llwyfain", refers to another campaign against the Angles of Bernicia. It also provides remarkable insights. Her...
3705 I sing of (Welsh) arms and the man: the battles of Taliesin - Part 1
The works of the sixth century AD Brittonic poet and bard, Taliesin, survive in a fourteenth century Welsh manuscript of the Llyuyr Taliessi...