Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

*CONTENT WARNING* Joe and Tom discuss The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema, a dictator nicknamed The Pol Pot of Africa. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Tufts Mass Atrocity Endings for Equatorial Guinea Paul Kenyon. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa. https://web.archive.org/web/20230306160338/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3610187/If-you-think-this-ones-bad-you-should-have-seen-his-uncle.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230517050409/https://www.icj.org/the-trial-of-macias-in-equatorial-guinea-the-story-of-a-dictatorship/

A group of Native Americans launch one of the longest fighting retreats in North American military history in order to escape genocide at the hands of the US government. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Bruce Hampton. Children of Grace, The Nez Perce War of 1877 Elliot West. The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-last-battle-of-the-nez-perce-war/ Elliot West. Dreamweaver.

The story of the most deadly submarine disaster in American history. Support the show and get episodes like this a week before everyone else, plus bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/14/questions-about-infamous-lost-sub-thresher-resurface-navy-releases-new-documents-tied-decades-old-mystery.html https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/what-killed-thresher https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-submarine-sinks-in-atlantic https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featureperil-in-the-depths-the-worlds-worst-submarine-disasters-4191027/ https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2ffoia%2freadingroom%2fHotTopics%2fTHRESHER%20RELEASE https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/rip-how-mechanical-problem-led-uss-thresher-its-eternal-patrol-92421 Norman Polmar. The Death of the USS Thresher

A blind man tries to charge a line of English longbowmen. It ends exactly like you think it does. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.historyextra.com/period/plantagenet/what-happened-battle-crecy-edward-iii-hundred-years-war-victory-why/ Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy, 1346 Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significance https://www.historytoday.com/archive/edward-iii-and-battle-cr%C3%A9cy https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/death-by-longbow/ https://www.wired.com/2009/08/0826crecy-cannon/

The conclusion to the saga of the Taiping Rebellion! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Trouble in the heavenly kingdom! part 3/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The Taiping rebellion spreads and the rebels create the world's weirdest gunpowder Part 2/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

A man fails a civil service exam, loses his goddamn mind, and leads China into the deadliest civil war in human history. Part 1/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Johnathan Spence. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. Stephen Platt. Autumn in the heavenly kingdom Jian Youwen. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement

Crassus attempts to go to war to build his own resume. He ignores everyone's advice and marches his legions into the most predictable defeat on earth. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Plutarch. Crassus. Mary T. Boatwright. The Romans: From Village to Empire Roman-Persian Wars: The Battle of Carrhae

A sex worker turned pirate queen builds a more powerful navy than the entire navy of China. Support the show! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ching-shih-chinese-female-pirate

Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about the time that Crusaders forgot that humans need water to live. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Nicholson, R. L. Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader States Phillips, Jonathan (2002), The Crusades 1095–1187 Lacey, James. Crushed at the Horns of Hattin

The conclusion to the Battle of Tannenberg series Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The story of the battle of tannenberg continues part 2/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Joe and Nate begin the story of one of the most legendary battles from the beginning of WWI. It is much dumber than you think. Part 1/3 support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Once upon a time the United States came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114 https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61771?lang=en https://news.yahoo.com/1871-us-almost-acquired-dominican-135435379.html https://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7 CORRECTION: Samuel Doe was murdered by Prince Johnson, an ally of Charles Taylor, but not Charles Taylor himself.

Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-were-the-soviet-night-witches https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots

Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the Nazis built a death trap out of wood and thought it would be perfect for the Hitler Youth. Correction: The Gloster Meteor was a jet that also saw limited action in WWll Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Heinkel-Salamander.html http://www.aviation-history.com/heinkel/he162.html https://shop.historynet.com/blogs/new-the-latest-from-historynet-com/the-10-worst-fighters-of-world-war-ii https://www.hotcars.com/the-me-262-the-fighter-that-could-have-changed-world-war-2/ Christopher, John (2013). The Race for Hitler's X-Planes.

The conclusion to The Troubles series Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Listen to the Beneath The Skin Podcast: https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPod Follow Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys

Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. During this episode we talk about Bloody Sunday and how and why nobody has ever been held accountable. CONTENT WARNING: This gets pretty grim. Support the show! Get bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys Listen to The Beneath the Skin Podcast:https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPod

Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles. In this episode we cover the famine, independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition, and more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Listen to the Beneath The Skin Podcast: https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPod Follow Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys