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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.

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Marines storm ashore a rainforest-bound, diseased-filled, swampy death trap of an island

to take an airfield with no strategic value.

Sources:

Bernard Nalty. The Green Inferno.

Frank Hough. The Campaign on New Britain

John Miller. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul

Al Hemingway. The Incessant Rains of the Green Inferno. WWII History Volume 9, No. 7

Sidney Phillips. The Fighting Conditions on Cape Gloucester. (video interview) https://marinesidphillips.com/sid-phillips-on-capegloucester.htm

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Joe is joined by the cast of The Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about the time the US attempted to open Korea with gunboat diplomacy in 1871.

Sources:

Thomas Duvernay. Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea

Eric Niderost. Military Heritage Magazine. August 2002. Vol 4, no. 1

http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100407175236/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/marine_amphib_korea.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20041011181532/http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/sherman.htm

https://hsp.org/blogs/hidden-histories/the-other-korean-war-a-little-known-conflict-in-american-history

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The conclusion to our series on the Shimabara Rebellion!

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