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Thursday, May 17, 2012
John Kelly, who had left rural County Kilkenny in 1935 to join the British army, found himself sitting in a bar in newly-liberat..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Jasper, Murray and Lindsay are joined by Michael Park to look at Elite units of the Hellenistic Era, the discussion revolves rou..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Lancaster Bomber was one of the finest heavy bombers in the service of any nation during the second world war. It was the pl..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
In the usual wide ranging discussion Jasper, Michael, Lindsay and special guest Jesse Obert look at the Roman Navy. Questioning ..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Vimy ridge is an escarpment in France close to the Belgium border, gently rising on one side and somewhat steeper on the reverse..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
VTOL stands for Vertical Take off and Landing. While helicopters clearly fit a description of vertical take off and landing, the..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
In 1208, Pope Innocent III called forth a crusade to destroy enemies of the Catholic Church. This crusade was not to fight Musli..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
In this episode we look at the Assyrians, 930BC to 630BC, their empire stretched from Egypt to Babylon, it was the first great i..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
World War II began in the early hours of the 1st September 1939 when the elderly German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fir..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal was one of the most incredible soldiers of the British ..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Sassanid Empire would prove to be the last of the Persian middle-eastern empires, and would also be the last great ‘ci..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
In the summer of 1779, American Major General John Sullivan marched his 5,000 Continentals into the Finger Lakes region of weste..
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
On May 7th 1954 the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu surrendered to Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces. For the last 54 days it had ..
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The Late Roman Empire and its successor state, the Byzantine Empire, relied heavily on mercenary units to make up the bulk of th..
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
During the American Civil War, the common term used was "sharpshooter", which pays tribute to the Sharps Rifles that were used a..
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