Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

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Forgotten Wars episodes

  • The First Boer War Part 3 - Majuba Hill
    After suffering devastating defeats at Laings Nek and Ingogo, the British start negotiating with the Boers. But an increasingly erratic General Colley, desperate for redemption, seizes Majuba Hill. What follows is one of the most devastating defeats in British History. #Britishempire #Boers #History #Britain

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    36 min
  • The First Boer War Part 2 - 'May Eton Flourish'
    Britain's war against the Boers continues to be a bloody fiasco after defeats at Laings Nek and Ingogo. Meanwhile the British garrisons in the Transvaal struggle to hold on with no support.

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    39 min
  • The First Boer War Part 1 - A Tale of Boers and Brits

    Its South Africa in 1880 and Britain is about to drift into a war with the local Boer farmers, a war so disastrous that they won't win a single battle. Join me for tale of incompetence, arrogance, diamonds and a commander who couldn't tell the difference between cows and armed Boers.


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    38 min
  • Mad Mike Hoare - War Lord of the Congo
    Today we enter the murky world of mercenaries in Cold War Africa. 'Mad Mike' Hoare became a global celebrity as he led his famous 5th Commando against the Simba rebellion in the Congo, and then tried to overthrow the government of the Seychelles in possibly the worst coup in history. Yet behind the glamour there was a dark side of ex-Nazis, war crimes and rampant looting.

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    52 min
  • Operation Uphold Democracy - Clinton vs the Spirits
    At the end of the Cold War coups, cartels and cocaine have left Haiti in chaos, leading to yet another American occupation. Join me for a tale of a Voodoo priest president waging a spirit war on Bill Clinton, an anti-American militia leader who was a CIA agent, and how not to rebuild a shattered nation.

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    45 min
  • Occupying Haiti - Gangsters for Capitalism
    As World War One rages in Europe, America invades the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. Join me a for tale where the US Marines commit one of the largest bank robberies in history and battle Voodoo priests, all in the name of Wall Street.

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    49 min
  • The Battle of Hattin Part 1 - God Wills It
    Its 1187 and the Crusader States face the gravest threat in their history, Saladin. Join me for a tale of bravery, treachery, nobility and stupidity as the countdown to the Battle of Hattin begins.

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    42 min
  • Wilson and the Revolution Part 2 - Hunting Pancho
    Pancho Villa - Bandit, revolutionary hero, general, war lord. Down on his luck in the civil wars of the Mexican Revolution, he launches a devastating attack on America, the 9/11 of its day. Soon American troops will be hunting Pancho across a war torn Mexico in the last days of the old west.

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    47 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…