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The Holy League is formed to fight off the Ottomans, resulting in a lot of guys catching flintlocks to the face, a pirate double cross, and spies in blackface.

Sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211013195205/https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-important-was-battle-lepanto

Brummett, Palmira. “‘The Lepanto Paradigm Revisited: Knowing the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century,’ 63-93, in A. Contadini, and C. Norton, Eds.,The Renaissance and the Ottoman World (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013).” The Renaissance and the Ottoman World , 2013.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-lepanto-the-best-days-work-in-centuries/

https://www.historynet.com/twilight-of-the-galleys-off-lepanto/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/muslim-equipment-at-the-battle-of-lepanto/

For this month's History of Armenia, Joe and Ani discuss the history of the most decorated Armenian-American military veteran in US history: a midwest Armenian-American named Victor Maghakian who was, without exaggeration, an absolute beast during the Pacific campaign of World War II.

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In this episode, Joe regales Nate and Tom with the story of the Schwerer Gustav, a novelty oversize rail cannon designed to be as big and stupid as possible. It required you to lay down double track anywhere it went, effectively creating the first Fortnite build mode. It looked like the Magitek Factory except real. It did not work very well and was used far less frequently than you'd expect.

Sources:

Ian Hogg. German Artillery of WWII

https://www.historynet.com/hitlers-monster-tanks/

https://www.historynet.com/krupp-28-cm-k5e-railway-gun/

https://www.forcesnews.com/heritage/wwii/super-gun-hitlers-most-powerful-cannon-was-used-battle-against-russia

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/schwerer-gustav-the-biggest-cannon-during-wwii

https://www.slashgear.com/1430418/biggest-gun-ever-used-in-combat-schwerer-gustav-dora/

For this month's LLBR, Joe and Tom reconvene to discuss episode 2 of Neon Genesis Evangelion ("The Beast"). It's an episode that speaks to our respective early-teen years of listening to terrible music on headphones and being depressed. Some of us have not stopped doing this and that's okay too.

Cover art by Unzealous

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The conclusion to our series on the English Peasants' Revolt

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The world's most violent stag do hits the town.

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Peasants in Essex and Kent rise up after multiple tax hikes and one too many laws are written regulating their hats, shoes, and diets. Soon, London would burn.

Sources:

Dan Jones. Summer of Blood: Peasants' Revolt Of 1381

Alastair Dunn. The Peasants' Revolt: England's Failed Revolution of 1381

Andrew Prescott. The Hand of God: The Suppression of the Peasants' Revolt

John Hatcher. Plague, Population, and the English Economy, 1348-1530

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It is never a good time to go hiking in the swamp with 100,000 of your friends and two Emperors.

Sources:

https://earth-history.com/Europe/Goths/jordanes-goths-04-3rdcentury.htm

https://historycollection.com/two-roman-emperors-brutally-died-battle-251-ad/

Jones, Christopher P. Further Dexippus (Online).

Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. "Philippolis: Roman Disaster on the Western Border." Military Heritage. April 2008. Vol. 9. No. 5

The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12, The Crisis of Empire, AD