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The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict.
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Episode 309 - The 1527 Sack of Rome
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The King of Spain hires a bunch of mercenaries to go to war and refuses to pay them leading to them sacking Rome for a paycheck.
Sources:
https://www.historynet.com/rome-ravaged/
https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/05/the-darkest-day-in-the-history-of-the-swiss-guard/
Idan Sherer. A Bloody Carnival? Charles' V Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527 -
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 7: Piss Gundam
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Episode 308 - The Battle of Flodden Field
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Scotland invades England with one of the largest armies in Scottish History and nearly wipe out their own government in the process.
Sources:
https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Marmion--A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070227045328/http://www.ourpasthistory.com/England/the-battle-of-flodden-field-or-branxton-moor
Peter Reese. Flooden: A Scottish Tragedy
Ida Taylor. The Life of James IV
William Welsh. Butchered At The Battle of Flodden. Military Heritage Magazine. Volume 22, No. 4 -
Episode 307 - Task Force Smith
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In the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.
Sources:
https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/
https://www.thenmusa.org/task-force-smith-and-the-problem-with-readiness/
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chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://www.moore.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2022/Spring/PDF/LessonsFromThePast.pdf
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/task-force-smith-americas-entry.html
https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Korea/ExecutiveLeaderFailures -
*PREVIEW* The Death of Mussolini
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Episode 306 - The Battle of Brisbane
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Joe and Nate talk about the time a bunch of drunken American soldiers caused a pitched battle between themselves and their allies while stationed in Australia during WWII
Correction: Indigenous Australians were given Australian citizenship at the same time other Australians (1949) however, the quality of that citizenship was not equal to that of non-indigenous Australians. This continued for decades and as many indigenous Australian activists have pointed out, continues in various forms to this day.
This included discrimination on enlistment. Some areas of Australia legally allowed indigenous people to enlist, but in practice, turned them away based on how they looked. Others were enlisted but not paid. Others were paid, but not equally and kept in segregated units and virtually none received benefits.
sources:
https://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/bob.htm
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84830
https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-battle-of-brisbane-how-world-war-ii-mass-riot-startedg/78b4e1be-bd3d-4d35-aef0-8b196213f4e7
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/culture-clash-americans-in-world-war-ii-south-pacific/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/battle-of-brisbane.html
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/brisbane-news/diggers-lay-into-yanks-in-brisbane-battle-20171122-p4yx5o.html
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/homefront/us_forces