Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast Lions Led By Donkeys

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The Satsuma Domain launches an invasion of the Ryukyu Islands leading to a battle of samurai, muskets, and barrels full of snakes.

sources:

Stephen Turnbull. The Samurai Capture A King: Okinawa 1609

MG Haynes. Samurai Invasion: Japan's 1609 Conquest of Ryukyu

https://en.tabi-samurai-japan.com/story/event/562/

Yuan Jiadong. Satsuma’s Invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom and Changes in the Geopolitical Structure of East Asia

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Bad tax law almost starts a new American Revolution only a few years after the last one.


Sources:


William Hogeland. The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/whiskey-rebellion

John Allen Miller. How Whiskey Almost Started a War. https://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/rev_war/whiskey.htm

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/george-washingtons-proclamation-whiskey-rebellion

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A Marine officer builds a special forces unit on the ideas of Maoism and launches one of the strangest raids of WWII


Sources:

Duane Schultz. Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America's First Special Forces

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-makin-raid-what-really-happened-to-the-marines/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/raid-on-makin/

https://www.historynet.com/gung-ho-makin-raids-strange-legacy/

https://www.historynet.com/marine-veterans-recount-daring-raid-on-makin-atoll/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/evans-carlson-forms-carlsons-raiders/

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