Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

By James BartonEducationHistory
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Forgotten Wars episodes

  • The Kingmakers Last Battle - The Battle of Barnet

    England has been torn apart by the epic rivalry between the Houses of York and Lancaster. The humble rose—the emblem of both houses—has become an omen of death and destruction across a ravaged land.


    On the battlefield of Barnet, two men are locked in a final struggle: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick—the man history remembers as the Kingmaker—and the very king he helped place upon the throne, Edward IV.


    Here, their feud will finally be settled. #militaryhistory #history #waroftheroses #england #englishhistory

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    59 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - Conquest of the Dutch East Indies
    The Empire of the Rising Sun stands on the edge of seizing the main target of its blitzkrieg, the Dutch East Indies. As the Dutch, Americans, Australians and British unite under a single command to resist the Japanese juggernaut, Japan will launch arguably its most brilliantly executed campaign of the entire war. #history #historynerd #pacificwar #militaryhistory #worldwar2

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    55 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - Singapore Surrenders
    Fortress Singapore stands alone as the British and Commonwealth forces are humiliatingly driven out of Malaya. As General Percival continues to make blunder after blunder, General Yamashita is under immense pressure himself from Tokyo to win this campaign quickly. The scene is set for an epic battle that will end in Britain's worst ever humiliation. #pacificwar #militaryhistory #history #historynerd #singapore #worldwar2

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    59 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - Collapse in Malaya
    It’s the British Empires turn to endure the Japanese Blitzkrieg. Malaya and Singapore are meant to be the strongholds of the empire in the east, but behind the façade alies a highly fragile reality. As Japanese troops pour into Malaya, Britain is about to face the consequences of two decades of blunders. #history #militaryhistory #worldwar2 # britishempire #historynerd #pacificwar

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    56 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - The Fall of the Philippines

    December 1941. The world looks on in horror as American ships burn at Pearl Harbour.


    But Pearl Harbour is only one part of a vast surprise offensive. Its goal: nothing less than the conquest of Southeast Asia.


    Starting with the Philippines, in this new series we’ll follow the Japanese Blitzkrieg as it sweeps across the Pacific, overrunning empires that had taken centuries to build and changing the fate of Southeast Asia forever.


    #Worldwar2 #pacificwar #history #militaryhistory #historynerd


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    57 min
  • The Plot that Started the Boer War - The Jameson Raid

    There’s Gold in Them There Hills!


    It’s 1896, and the Boer Republic of the Transvaal is awash with gold after the largest gold discovery in human history. Yet even as they celebrate their newfound riches, in the shadows a conspiracy is forming to seize control of their entire nation.


    Cecil Rhodes—arch-imperialist and the richest man in South Africa—is about to launch one of the most daring and disastrous adventures in the history of the British Empire:

    The Jameson Raid. #history #militaryhistory #southafrica #boerwar #britishempire #historynerd



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    55 min
  • The Miracle that Saved Europe - The Polish Soviet War
    It's 1920, and out of the wreckage of the First World War a new, fragile Polish state has emerged. But to the east a storm is coming. The Red Army of Vladmir Lenin is racing across the steppes, determined to spread the Revolution at the point of a bayonet. Poland stands in their path - the red bridge into the heart of Europe. The future of Poland, and perhaps Europe itself, hangs in the balance. #history #militaryhistory #sovietunion, #poland #war #historynerd

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    58 min
  • Bootleggers VS The Klan - Prohibition Wars

    1920s America. A land of jazz, Prohibition, gangsters and prosperity. But in southern Illinois, a war is raging.


    The local Ku Klux Klan is mobilising to wipe out bootlegging once and for all.


    There’s just one problem.


    The bootleggers are going to fight back.


    #america #gangsters #militaryhistory #history

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    50 min
  • Rome’s Most Corrupt War - The Jugurthine War

    The enemies of Ancient Rome tried many different tactics to defeat them, from the ambushes of Arminius, to the legendary Parthian cavalry archers, who turned the sky black with their arrows. However Jugurtha, King of Numidia, had the most unique strategy of all. He tried to bribe every Roman he came into contact with, usually with remarkable success.


    The Jugurthine War would undermine faith in the Roman Republic, while bringing to prominence ambitious and dangerous men such as Marius and Sulla. The seeds of their great rivalry would be sown in the sands of North Africa, eventually to engulf the state in the first of many civil wars. Rome would regret ever hearing the name Jugurtha.


    #history #romanempire #militaryhistory #Romans #historynerd

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    58 min
  • America's Deadliest Riot - The New York Drafts Riot

    What was the worst riot in American History? Watts in 1965? Detroit in 1967? The LA riots in 1992 after the Rodney King beating? These were nothing compared to the mackdaddy of them all, the New York City Draft riots. The Big Apple in 1863 was a vast pressure cooker just waiting to blow, riven by racial and class tensions, combined with disillusionment towards the Civil War raging outside. When Abraham Lincoln introduced a draft to fill the depleted ranks of the Union Army, violence exploded on an almost unimaginable scale. As the city descended into bloody chaos, it would take the same US army regiments that had just been victorious at Gettysburg to retake the streets. #history #militaryhistory #america #newyork #civilwar



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    57 min

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Forgotten Wars covers the conflicts overlooked in popular history. Journey to World War One in East Africa with an undefeated German General, trek across Siberia during the Russian Revolution with…