Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

By James BartonEducationHistory
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Forgotten Wars episodes

  • The Spanish American War Part 4 - The Thriller in Manila
    In the last episode our mini-series on the Spanish American War, America takes the war to Spain's possession in the Pacific. America will eventually triumph, yet its success will sow the seeds of a new war that will be even more bloody.

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    31 min
  • The Spanish American War Part 2 - Enter the Rough Riders
    America goes to war with Spain, yet it will soon have to prove if it's army is up to the job. As chaos & incompetence grip the American war effort, Teddy Roosevelt forms the famous Rough Riders. Led by perhaps the most incompetent General in American history, they will soon be battling the Spanish in the jungles of Cuba

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    33 min
  • The Spanish American War Part 1 - Remember the Maine!
    Cuba is racked by war as rebels fight to be free of Spanish rule, neighbouring America is emerging as a Great Power on the World Scene. Join me as Spain and America collide leading to the birth of American Empire.

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    38 min
  • The Czechoslovak Legion in the Russian Revolution
    As World War One rages on and Russia collapses into revolution and civil war, the Czech Legion embarks on an epic journey across Siberia to get to the western front. As they travel across one of the most hostile environments on earth, they will face German plots, Bolshevik attacks and White Russian hostility.

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    39 min
  • Haitian Inferno - Liberty and Death in the Haitian Revolution
    What do Voodoo priests, Slaves fighting for their freedom and Napoleon Bonaparte have in common? The Haitian Revolution! After the slaves of Haiti rose up and overthrew their French masters, Napoleon sends a vast army to restore French rules and reimpose slavery. Yet he had underestimated the man the French would come to call the Black Spartacus, Toussaint L'Ouverture

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    43 min
  • The Winter War: Finland's fight for survival
    As World Two rages in Europe, Finland has to fight its own desperate struggle for survival as it is invaded by the full might of the Soviet Union. The Finns would earn the respect of world and legends would be born in this epic David and Goliath struggle.

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    33 min
  • The Great Game - The First Anglo-Afghan War
    A British army invades Afghanistan expecting an easy victory, instead it would lead to the worst British military defeat in the 19th Century. Join me for a tale of heroism, incompetence, super spies and disaster.

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    36 min
  • When Two Bulls Fight the Grass Gets Flattened

    For our first episode we head to East Africa in World War One. Far from the trenches of the Western Front, Paul Von Lettow Vorbeck leads German forces on an epic campaign to tie down as many Allied troops as possible, ending the war as Germany's only undefeated General.


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    39 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…