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The military history podcast specialists, looking at all aspects of war through the ages.
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...
At the battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, a resurgent Thebes led by its great statesmen and tactician reformers Epaminondas and Pelopidas defeated...
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...
A combination of two battles fought close together in Northumberland in April and May 1464 brought Lancastrian resistance to the Yorkist kin...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Modern historical scholarship has little lenience for hyperbole and any event that appears exaggerated is heavily scrutinized. The Spanish C...
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...
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...
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...
"American Indian Wars" in the modern perspective focuses mostly on the American West in the second half of the 19th century with cowboys, Cu...
Another poem, "Gwaith Argoed Llwyfain", refers to another campaign against the Angles of Bernicia. It also provides remarkable insights. Her...
The works of the sixth century AD Brittonic poet and bard, Taliesin, survive in a fourteenth century Welsh manuscript of the Llyuyr Taliessi...
On 5 March, 1804, a group of 233 convict rebels revolted against their incarceration in the British colony of New South Wales (corresponding...
It is the dream of every ancient historian that some new discovery will solve a mystery of the past – some newly discovered fragment of a lo...
The battle of Abritus saw the death of two emperors in battle against a foreign enemy – Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius, usually known...
At the conclusion of the Malayan Emergency in July 1960, plans were put into place to incorporate British North Borneo and Singapore into Gr...
For the battle of Chaeronea, we get none of the detailed deployment which we get for the subsequent battles of Alexander in sources such as...
Australia's involvement and commitment to the Vietnam War continued until 1973 when the last remaining platoon who were acting as guards for...
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1962. In July that year, the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) (or 'the Team...
Arthur Martin-Leake, serving as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 was the first man to be awarded a Bar to the Victoria C...
On September 22nd, 1862, already almost two years into the US Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation stat...
In the Spring of 334 BC, the 22-year-old Macedonian king, Alexander III (r. 336-323 BC - not yet 'the Great'), invaded the vast Achaemenid P...
Twelve years have passed since the disastrous Crusader Battle of Varna and three years since the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empir...
The Italian invasion of British Somaliland is an often-overlooked action of the Second World War. Although small and a backwater of the Brit...
Among the many brave acts of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (November 1878-September 1880), sixteen were awarded the Victoria Cross. Among this...
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Italy, a newly unified upstart Great Power, was looking to expand its political and economic influenc...
In the early stages of the Battle, aimed at capturing the high ground east and south of Ypres, the men of the New Zealand Division were task...
In AD 376 an entire nation of Goths (the Theruingi) gathered on the northern banks of the Danube and asked permission to enter and settle wi...
In AD 376 an entire nation of Goths (the Theruingi) gathered on the northern banks of the Danube and asked permission to enter and settle wi...
It is a rare thing that a man be awarded his country's highest award for bravery because of his actions as a Prisoner of War, but that is ex...
By the time of America's entry into WWI in April 1917, Eddie Rickenbacker was already famous. Always obsessed with engines, he had become a...
In late October AD 312, the fate of the future of the Roman world was decided near the Pons Milvius, the Milvian Bridge (the modern Ponte Mi...
The First Battle of Ypres came at the end of the strategic 'race to the sea' which occurred following the First Battle of the Marne in Septe...
This episode was written by Scott Forbes Crawford. An author based in Asia, he writes about ancient and medieval history in novels and nonfi...
During the Baltic campaign of the Crimean War, in August 1854, Lieutenant John Bythesea together with Stoker William Johnstone of Her Majest...
During the Baltic campaign of the Crimean War, in August 1854, Lieutenant John Bythesea together with Stoker William Johnstone of Her Majest...
The legions of Magnentius and Decentius in Amida had been raised by the former usurper Magnentius (a general who usurped against Constantius...
In the summer of AD 359, the armies of the Sasanian Persian Shahanshah ("King of Kings"), Shapur II (r. 309-379), invaded the Roman east. Th...
Our best source for Thutmose's battle of Megiddo are the Annals of Thutmose, an account kept by his scribe Tjaneni and then, almost twenty y...
The Battle of Megiddo, fought during the latter stages of the First World War over a week in late September 1918 against the Ottoman Turks,...
On July 31st, 1945, the Japanese cruiser Takao sat at anchor in Singapore dockyard. Little did her crew know that beneath the surface of the...
Only one man has ever been awarded both the Victoria Cross and the Iron Cross - Surgeon General William Manley. In 1864 he was awarded a VC...
When the Second Boer War was declared on October 11th, 1899, governments of colonies from around the British Empire offered to send troops t...
Benedict Arnold chose treason. In a shocking turn of events, one of the most talented American generals had turned traitor. The news sent sh...
Benedict Arnold spent years becoming a respectable merchant in Connecticut and the coming of the American War of Independence presented him...
Benedict Arnold, a name in the American lexicon that is synonymous with treason. History remembers Arnold solely for his attempted betrayal...