Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

The American Revolution left a lot of people behind. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: Egerton, Douglas R., Death of Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America Lanning, Michael Lee. African Americans in the Revolutionary War.

Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. *correction, England has won a World Cup. In 1966. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/ https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941

The story of the deadliest woman in military history Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Lady Death: The Memoir of Stalin's Sniper - Lyudmila Pavlichenko https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/

The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.history.co.uk/article/ww2-heroes-the-story-of-major-digby-tatham-warter https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/digby-tatham-warter-disabled-a-german-tank-with-an-umbrella.html https://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I0973&tree=Tatham#cite1

Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore up a crumbling government. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wars-fought-stupid-reasons-stray-dog-caused-war-greece-bulgaria-1925.html https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/07/roll-over-and-play-dead-the-ridiculous-war-of-the-stray-dog/ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/desires-of-a-modern-indian/war-of-the-stray-dog-a-war-sparked-by-ridiculous-reasons/?source=app&frmapp=yes http://www.thathistorynerd.com/2017/03/war-of-stray-dog.html

2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/ https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html

Francis Horton, one of the hosts of the What a Hell of a way to die podcasts takes the wheel to tell the story of his home state of Missouri and the weird Jesse James grifting cave. *Corrections* Francis mixed up the Pottawatomie massacre and the Raid on Harper's Ferry. The massacre occured in 1856 and the raid in 1859 which ended in Brown's uprising being put down by famed asshole Robert E Lee and Brown's death. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

WWII officially ended on September 2, 1945. It went on a lot longer for some people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-japanese-wwii-soldier-who-refused-to-surrender-for-27-years-180979431/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan https://archive.today/20130717075553/http://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes/1949-01-10/page-5?tag=kufuku&rtserp=tags/kufuku%3Fndt=by&py=1949&pey=1951 "Straggler Reports to Emperor", Pacific Stars and Stripes, p. 1, June 8, 1960 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19800405&id=J3pQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6758,842754

Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-riot-of-bamber-bridge-1943/ https://www.stripes.com/history/2021-06-24/bamber-bridge-race-riot-blacks-wwii-1792183.html https://theconversation.com/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasnt-the-race-riot-of-one-night-in-june-1943-98120 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3677385.shtml

Roman invades Mongolia, becomes a legally reincarnated god, murders thousands. Sources: The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live. *clarification: Estonians aren't slavic people. However, Russian and Baltic German nobility saw them as slavs due to their peasant status. No, this makes no sense. Sources for all related shows: The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUq7IUU300 Willard Sunderland (2014) The Baron’s Cloak, A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The famed Rough Riders were a liability Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Typhus! Yellow Fever! Malaria! And more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire. Sources for all 3 episodes: Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-3.html https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/how-buffalo-soldiers-helped-win-the-spanish-american-warand-saved-teddy-roosevelt-7716090 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

A bunch of christian knights get hijacked to knee cap some people over boat debt. Sources: https://www.historynet.com/fourth-crusade-the-second-siege-of-constantinople/ https://www.thecollector.com/fourth-crusade-siege-constantinople-fall-of-byzantine-empire/ Hindley, Geoffrey (2003). The Crusades: A History of Armed Pilgrimage and Holy War Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The Ottoman Empire trips over its own dick into WWI, orders an army to attack up a mountain in the middle of winter without shoes, and commits a genocide. sources: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60960/wwi-centennial-turkish-debacle-sarikamish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew39InPunOY https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/armenian.htm https://www.armenian-genocide.org/1915-1.html https://fx.substack.com/p/today-in-caucasian-history-the-battle-4ab Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ivan-pavlovich-soviet-soldier.html?chrome=1 https://www.rbth.com/history/326983-5-soviet-superheroes-in-ww-2 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/russian-rambo-of-wwii.html?chrome=1 Support the show www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Support the show get bonus stuff: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/historyculture/index.htm https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-pacific/aleutian-islands-campaign.html https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/aleutian-islands-attack-1942 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/today-in-history/forgotten-campaign-wwii-aleutian-islands-campaign.html https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-aleutian-islands-recapturing-attu/

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-163b-1a-komet/nasm_A19530072000 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-super-scary-legend-nazi-germanys-me-163-rocket-fighters-18494 https://books.google.com/books?id=xiADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124&dq=popular+science+%22A+two-room+wing%22&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q&f=true "Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet". Wings of the Luftwaffe Volmar, Joe (1999). I Learned to Fly for Hitler https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/10/the-german-rocket-fighter-that-dissolved-its-pilots-alive/