Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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During the Korean War, the People's Volunteer Army of China and the UN fought a meaningless battle over a hill shaped like a pork chop in order to leverage ongoing negotiations. Thousands died, and everyone claimed they won.

SOURCES:

Marshall, S.L.A. (1956). Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring 1953.

Hermes, Walter G (1966). "Truce Tent and Fighting Front". The United States Army in the Korean War. Vol. 2. Center of Military History.

The Korean War. The Battle on Pork Chop Hill. https://historynet.com/korean-war-battle-on-pork-chop-hill/

https://warhistory.org/article/july-6-11-1953-the-battle-of-pork-chop-hill-hill-255

https://web.archive.org/web/20061109043603/http://www.historynet.com/magazines/military_history/3034286.html

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The Union takes over the island of Galveston, Texas, and the Confederates aim to take it back with quite possibly some of the dumbest armored ships the world has ever seen.

SOURCES:

R. Thomas Campbell. Fire Over Texas: Galveston in the Civil War. April 2006. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no. 5

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1983/january/battle-galveston

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/magruder-john-bankhead

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/great-hanging-at-gainesville

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-battle-of

https://web.archive.org/web/20011115111011/http://history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-ag/bayou-ct.htm

Joe and Tom sit down to talk about the next 4 episodes of FMAB. It includes a heartbreaking funeral scene, a hypothetical Slovenian basketball player, getting abandoned on an island for a month, and the intricacies of dog medicine.

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Joe is joined by Chris and Quinn of Failure to Launch to talk about the first major battle of the First Crusades and how the Crusaders stumbled over their own feet to victory

sources:

Runciman, Steven (2005). The First Crusade. New York: Cambridge University Press

Historia Hierosolymitana

John France, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1996

Richardson, Scott. Dorylaeum: The First Christian-Muslim Clash of the Crusades. military Heritage. December 2007. Vol 9. No 3.

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