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The French invaded Ireland to assist Irish Revolutionaries during the Rebellion of 1798. Between Napoleon not wanting to do it, several shipwrecks, a comically small army, invading after the rebellion was already largely defeated, and going on a side quest to create a French Revolutionary Proxy State, it may have been a bad idea.

SOURCES:

Dawson, Paul. French Invasions of Britain and Ireland. 1797–1798: The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George

The Irish Rebellion of 1798. From Part II - Western, Central, and Eastern Europe.

The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions , pp. 421 - 442

Revolution in Ireland 1798. https://www.leftarchive.ie/workspace/documents/14449-sp-revirl-1798-binder.pdf

https://www.libraryireland.com/frenchinvasion1798/battle-ballinamuck.php

https://www.jpnorth.co.uk/historical-research/ireland-in-the-1790s/general-humberts-account-of-his-expedition-to-ireland/

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/humbert%E2%80%99s-raid-ireland-1798

https://www.jpnorth.co.uk/historical-research/ireland-in-the-1790s/general-humberts-invasion/

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Once upon a time, during WWII, an artillery-spotting pilot looked at his tiny Piper Cub and wondered, "What if I strapped a bunch of rocket launchers to it?"

SOURCES:

Busha, James. Carpenter, Carol. Bazooka Charlie: The Unbelievable Story of Major Charles Carpenter and Rosie the Rocketer

What's New in Aviation: Piper Cub Tank Buster, Popular Science, Vol. 146 No. 2

Gallagher, Wes, Major Charles Carpenter, Once History Teacher, Now Legend in Patton's Army, The Rock Island Argus, 26 September 1944

"Bazooka Charles Goes After Nazis". Lawrence Journal-World. Associated Press. 1944-10-03

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/bazooka-charlie-the-audacious-pilot-who-took-on-german-tanks.html

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Palace coups, scheming brothers, the British, and a guy faking illness to get out of exile all converge in an imperial war of conquest.

SOURCES:

Tarapot, Phanjoubam (2003), Bleeding Manipur

Majumdar, R. C. (1960), "Rebellion in Manipur, 1891"

Majumdar, R. C. (2002), British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance, Part I

Yumkhaibam Shyam Singh. 1891 Anglo-Manipuri War And Rarely Known Manipuri Heroes. Journal of Positive School Psychology. History Department Imphal College.

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During the US Civil War, a group of men with some of the strangest names we've ever heard on the show accidentally fight a battle over a stagnant pond while their commanders were somewhere else.

SOURCES:

Breiner, Thomas L. "The Battle of Perryville: Bragg's Kentucky Invasion"

Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War

Hafendorfer, Kenneth A. Perryville: Battle for Kentucky.

Harrison, Lowell Hayes. The Civil War in Kentucky.

Sanders, Stuart W. "Carnage in Kentucky's Hills"

Shepherd, Joshua. "The Battle of Perryville: Death on a Dry River."

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A decades-long saga involving a failed military weapons project, carnies, stuntmen, methheads, a possible international drug smuggler, a murder, and, of course, a jet pack.

SOURCES:

Brown, Paul (2009). The Rocketbelt Caper: A True Tale of Invention, Obsession and Murder

Mullins, Justin (October 2005) "The Ups and Downs of Jet Packs. New Scientist. No. 2519

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-rocketbelt-caper-56202480/

https://rocketbelts.americanrocketman.com/history.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-26-me-23415-story.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/03/where-eagles-dare-the-jetpack-mystery.html

https://www.deseret.com/1999/7/28/19457763/rocket-belt-still-missing-but-feud-lives-on/

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We did in fact go to Ireland and we used this special moment to talk about a guy who got so into posting on Discord that he got charged under the Espionage Act. Thank you so much to our wonderful audience! This was an absolute blast.

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Joe and Nate discuss the 1944 airborne insertion in Normandy, the absolute chaos on the ground, and a very strangely cobbled-together American unit that somehow wound up holding off a German division in a small town called Graignes.

SOURCES REFERENCED:

Morgan, Martin K.A. Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy,

Ibid. Battle of Graignes: An HQ Company Heroic Last Stand in Normandy. WWII Quarterly. Vol 5, no 3

O'Leary, Margaret R.; O'Leary, Dennis S. (24 February 2011). Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story

Rabe SG. The Longest Day in Graignes. In: The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/battle-of-graignes.html

https://www.normandyamericanheroes.com/blog/graignes-bloody-sunday

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In 1945, after the nuclear weapons were already dropped, the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan. A front of the war the Japanese believed would hold on for years, crumbled in only a few weeks all in the middle of a cloud of confusion, various orders to surrender from the Emperor, and more than one ignored ceasefire.

SOURCES:

Glantz (February 1983), "August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria". Leavenworth Papers No. 7, Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth Kansas.

Nathan N. Prefer. The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria led to Japan’s Greatest Defeat. WWII Quarterly. Vol 9, No. 3.

Tillman, Barrett. When the Shooting Stopped: August 1945. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Boris Nikolaevich Slavinskiĭ, The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History 1941–1945, Translated by Geoffrey Jukes

Stephenson, Charles. Stalin’s War on Japan: The Red Army’s Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1945