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

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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

Episode 256 - The Taiping Rebellion Part 1: Jesus Christ's Little Brother

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*PREVIEW* The Greatest Beer Run Ever

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Sinking forts, suicide gun boats, and one very dumb fake country.

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https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/new-orleans-civil-war

https://64parishes.org/entry/fall-of-new-orleans-and-federal-occupation-adaptation

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1962/april/fall-new-orleans

https://www.historynet.com/big-trouble-big-easy-confederacy/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/conquering-the-queen-city/

Episode 313 - The Fall of Confederate New Orleans

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*Preview* The Kuznetsov, Russia's Cursed Aircraft Carrier

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Japan creates a death trap that becomes so unlucky it becomes known throughout the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII

Sources:

David Lippman. Mogami: Japan's Luckless Cruiser

http://combinedfleet.com/ships/mogami

David Brown. Warship Losses of WWII

Paul Dull. The Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Episode 312 - The Mogami, Japan's Most Unlucky Warship That Refused to Die

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Episode 256 - The Taiping Rebellion Part 1: Jesus Christ's Little Brother

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