The History Network
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The History Network
A fortnightly military history podcast looking at all aspect of war throughout the ages.
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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 was discov...
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. Dutch sk...
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 constant...
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, Custer and t...
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. Here, the lea...
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 Taliessin, The Boo...
3704 Australia's Irish Rebellion
On 5 March, 1804, a group of 233 convict rebels revolted against their incarceration in the British colony of New South Wales (corresponding to modern...
3703 The Battle of Abritus AD 251 - Part2
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 lost histori...
3702 The Battle of Abritus AD 251 - Part1
The battle of Abritus saw the death of two emperors in battle against a foreign enemy – Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius, usually known as Trajan...
3701 Heroism in Borneo
At the conclusion of the Malayan Emergency in July 1960, plans were put into place to incorporate British North Borneo and Singapore into Greater Mala...
3610 The Battle of Chaeronea
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 Arrian, Pl...
3609 Australian Bravery in the Vietnam War - Part 2
Australia's involvement and commitment to the Vietnam War continued until 1973 when the last remaining platoon who were acting as guards for the Austr...
3608 Australian Bravery in the Vietnam War - Part 1
Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1962. In July that year, the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) (or 'the Team') first a...
3607 Martin Leake VC
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 Cross he re...
3606 The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863
On September 22nd, 1862, already almost two years into the US Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation stating that,...
3605 The Battle of the Granicus
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 Persian Emp...
3604 The Siege of Belgrade 1456
Twelve years have passed since the disastrous Crusader Battle of Varna and three years since the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453....
3603 The Italian Invasion of Somaliland 1940
The Italian invasion of British Somaliland is an often-overlooked action of the Second World War. Although small and a backwater of the British empire...
3602 Heroics of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
Among the many brave acts of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (November 1878-September 1880), sixteen were awarded the Victoria Cross. Among this relativel...
3601 The Italo-Turkish War
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Italy, a newly unified upstart Great Power, was looking to expand its political and economic influence into nei...
3510 Heroics On The Edge of Passchendaele: The New Zealand Division and the Capture of La Basseville, July 1917
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 tasked with ca...
3509 The Roman Empire’s darkest day: disaster at the Battle of Adrianople, 9 August, AD 378 - Part2
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 within the E...
3508 The Roman Empire’s darkest day: disaster at the Battle of Adrianople, 9 August, AD 378 - Part1
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 within the E...
3507 Hanoi Hero: James Bond Stockdale
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 exactly why...
3506 One Against Seven: Eddie Rickenbacker Proves Himself (Again)
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 mechanic t...
3505 A Ruse Gone Wrong: The Battle of the Milvian Bridge
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 Milvio, Ital...
3504 Multiple firsts at the First Battle of Ypres, 1914
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 September 1914,...
3503 The Luck of Li Guang: A Cavalryman’s Charge Through the Han-Xiongnu War
This episode was written by Scott Forbes Crawford. An author based in Asia, he writes about ancient and medieval history in novels and nonfiction alik...
3502 William Johnstone - Part 2
During the Baltic campaign of the Crimean War, in August 1854, Lieutenant John Bythesea together with Stoker William Johnstone of Her Majesty's ship H...
3501 William Johnstone - Part 1
During the Baltic campaign of the Crimean War, in August 1854, Lieutenant John Bythesea together with Stoker William Johnstone of Her Majesty's ship H...
3410 Eyewitness to war: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Siege of Amida AD 359 - Part 2
The legions of Magnentius and Decentius in Amida had been raised by the former usurper Magnentius (a general who usurped against Constantius in Gaul b...
3409 Eyewitness to war: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Siege of Amida AD 359 - Part 1
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. This invasio...
3408 What’s in a name? The Battle of Megiddo from Thutmose III to World War One - Part 2
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 years later...
3407 What’s in a name? The Battle of Megiddo from Thutmose III to World War One - Part 1
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, was so-nam...
3406 Tackling the Takao – bravery beneath the waves of Singapore harbour
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 water, Ro...
3405 Iron Valour
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 for his ac...
3404 Bushmen against the Boers – Australians in the Boer War
When the Second Boer War was declared on October 11th, 1899, governments of colonies from around the British Empire offered to send troops to contribu...
3403 The Treason of Benedict Arnold - Part 3
Benedict Arnold chose treason. In a shocking turn of events, one of the most talented American generals had turned traitor. The news sent shockwaves t...
3402 The Treason of Benedict Arnold - Part 2
Benedict Arnold spent years becoming a respectable merchant in Connecticut and the coming of the American War of Independence presented him with an op...
3401 The Treason of Benedict Arnold - Part 1
Benedict Arnold, a name in the American lexicon that is synonymous with treason. History remembers Arnold solely for his attempted betrayal and his su...