The armies of the Crimean War were a product of their histories, their societies, and their cultures. They reflected the nations that deployed them. When they finally collide on the Alma River, their strengths...and weaknesses...will be revealed.

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Welcome to the Victorian Age, the 19th Century. The decline of the Ottoman Empire, the Sick Man of Europe, has caused an international crisis. Ambition, fear, escalation and miscalculation will pull Europe into the first modern conflict.

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A brief introduction to the Crimean War series and Europe in the 19th Century. Need some context before we get into the story? Don't know your Prussias from your Russias? Find the answers here!

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In today's Unfiltered Soldiers, it's time to take a look at the First World War beyond the mud and blood of trench warfare in France and Flanders. What was going on in Africa? China? The Middle East? The Balkans? Ukraine? Let's look at the Great War...beyond the Western Front.

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When World War I began, multiple German ships were in foreign waters. The story of the last German squadron at large, Admiral Von Spee's East Asia Squadron, is an epic drama on the high seas...but also shows how culture can change the tide of history.

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Today we meet the women who followed, suffered, and died with European armies in the age of gunpowder, 1450-1850. They are the invisible people of military history, some of the greatest unknown soldiers, the women of the army: the camp followers.

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During the leadup to the U.S. Civil War, American adventurers tried to invade and conquer new slave territories in the Caribbean. They were called the "filibusters", and their most infamous hero, William Walker, became Central America's historical villain.

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Brief update on the present and future of the Unknown Soldiers Podcast. No episode this week - sorry! But there's a bunch of good stuff just over the horizon...

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BONUS SHORT ROUND for the Imjin War. Don't let the title fool you. The iron hand of logistics can make or break an army, a campaign, a war...and it broke the Japanese invasion of Korea. Let's take an in-depth look at what it takes to feed an army.

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PART IV of the Imjin War. By 1598, the Japanese had failed to conquer Korea...if only they would admit it. The last years of the conflict will see some of the bloodiest and most horrifying events in Asian history...and their scars still refuse to heal.

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