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3308 – Fix Bayonets! An heroic old-fashioned charge in the Korean War
‘1951 had begun disastrously for the United Nations forces in Korea. On December 31st, 1950, the Chinese 13th Army breached UN defences below the 38th parallel as part of the Third Phase Campaign and, on January 3rd, Seoul was evacuated by the US Eighth Army. The Eighth Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Matthew B.…
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My Road to Mandalay
Don Townsend joined the British army as a private in 1940 and saw service in Egypt, then India and Burma. After five years of active service he left the army as a Major. Angus is joined by Don’s son, David has compiled his father’s wartime letters home to his family and future wife into the…
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3302 – The Battle of Alcazar
By mid-afternoon on the 4th of August 1578, three monarchs lay dead on the battlefield of Alcazar in Morocco: two Sultans and King Sebastian I of Portugal. The consequences of their deaths would resonate for decades throughout Europe and North Africa. The Battle of Alcazar is known by several names, all of which are attempts…
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3207 – The Northwest Indian War (part 2)
“At last, the rule of the tomahawk and musket, which for more than twenty years had made the forests, the rivers, and the plains beyond the Alleghenies a torture chamber and a burial ground… had reached its end”. – historian Thomas Boyd This episode was written by Christopher Waters Christopher Waters is an armchair historian…
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2604 – The Battle of Leuctra
After the failed peace negotiations in 371, King Cleombrotus marched his army into Boeotia. He camped at the town of Leuctra and waited for the Boeotians to arrive. Accounts give the strength of Celombrotus’ army at 10,000 men with up to 2,000 Spartan hoplites, the remainder made up of hoplites from other Peloponnesian allies. Thebes…
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2601 – Fort Ligonier and the Fall of Fort Duquesne
In May 1754. A young George Washington’s first combat experience occurred at the Battle of Jumonville Glen located in southwest Pennsylvania in the Ohio Valley, where he defeated a small group of French on a diplomatic mission to inform the British that they needed to leave the area; it was French territory and quickly became…
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2404 The Battle of Bunker Hill, part 1
“On June 17, 1775, over one thousand New England militia stood on a hill overlooking Charlestown, Massachusetts and Boston Harbor. Arrayed in front of them in their scarlet and white uniforms, brushed clean for the occasion, were regiments of the British Army. Their goal was to take this hill from the erstwhile colonists-turned-rebels and fortify…