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The Turtle was the world's first combat submarine, built during the American Revolution, and somehow, it didn't turn into an elaborate suicide device.

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https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/head-tilting-history/bushnells-turtle-revolutionary-submarine

https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2022/06/the-turtle-submarine-warfare-during-the-american-revolution/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1942/february/david-bushnell-and-first-american-submarine

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/submersible-history-revolutionary-war

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/david-bushnells-turtle-the-worlds-first-submarine/

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Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about one the stupidest but certainly bloodiest battle in Texan history.

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Ted Schwartz. Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution: The Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/medina-battle-of

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gutierrez-magee-expedition

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/magee-augustus-william

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-battle-now-has-three-site-markers-4568808.php

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Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about time the people of Carthage wove their own hair into weapons to defend their city from the Romans.

Spoiler: It didn't work.

Sources:

Adrian Goldsworthy. The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265–146 BC

David Norris. The Siege of Carthage: Death of an Empire. Military Heritage. Volume 26. No 1.

https://www.historynet.com/romes-final-war-against-carthage/

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Joe and Nate are joined by Trashfuture and No Gods No Mayor's Riley Quinn to talk about one of the shortest wars in history.

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https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/shortest-war-history/

https://www.thecollector.com/anglo-zanzibar-war/

https://www.history.org.uk/publications/resource/7950/the-shortest-war-in-history-the-anglo-zanzibar-wa

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Joe and Nate explore the time the French surrendered during WWII, leaving the British worried if their fleet was going to change sides and fight for the Nazis. Rather than waiting to find out, they conducted the naval equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.

Sources:

Philippe Lasterle. Could Admiral Gensoul Have Averted the Tragedy of Mers el-Kebir? The Journal of Military History. Society for Military History. Volume 67, Number 3, July 2003

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/operation-catapult-the-attack-on-mers-el-kebir/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/august/force-h-mers-el-kebir

https://bmmhs.org/mers-el-kebir-sinking-the-french-fleet/

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Joe is joined by the Zoo Crew to talk about the time Rome hosted the world's largest Goth convention.

Sources:

Zosimus. New History

Michael Kulikowski. Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric.

Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no 2. 2005.

Herwig Wolfram. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples.

The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 13

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Once upon a time, the US went to war against a small tribe in the pacific northwest, and, despite winning due to the massive power imbalance, they managed to get their asses kicked the entire time.

Sources:

Arthur Quinn. Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War

Terry Johnston. Devil's Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872–3

Robert McNally. The Modoc War: A Little Indian War Goes Big https://www.historynet.com/the-modoc-war-a-little-indian-war-goes-big/

Kurt Nelson. The Modoc War of 1872.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-modoc-war-of-1872/

https://www.militarymuseum.org/Modoc1.html

https://www.csuchico.edu/alva/projects/2012/the-beginning-of-the-end.shtml

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/labe/intro.htm

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Joe and Tom are joined by Trashfuture's Milo Edwards to talk about the time a bunch of guys named Mstislav got destroyed by the Mongols.

Sources:

Leo De Hertog. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World.

Richard Gabriel. Subotai The Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General.

The Chronicle of Novgorod. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/MF1914.pdf

Victor Kamenir. Russian Disaster at the Kalkha River. Military Heritage. Vol 20, no. 6

Robert Rossabi. All the Khan's Horses.