The US manufactures a war against the indigenous people of the Great Plains. Part 1/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for the entire series: Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876" Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle. He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories. The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876 Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won. Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn
The British feed hundreds of Canadian soldiers into a wood chipper for no reason. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Fowler, Will. Allies at Dieppe. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-jubilee-dieppe-raid-1942 https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/battles-and-stages/battle-of-dieppe https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/dieppe-a-colossal-blunder
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The story of how the US poisoned the Marshall Islands with nuclear fallout and did nothing to clean it up. sources: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/02/27/castle-bravo-the-largest-u-s-nuclear-explosion/ https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/castle-bravo https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ Zohl De Ishtar "Poisoned Lives, Contaminated Lands: Marshall Islanders Are Paying a High Price for the United States Nuclear Arsenal" Seattle Journal for Social Justice. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/lost-sea/ https://borgenproject.org/thyroid-cancer-a-radiation-caused-healthcare-crisis-in-the-marshall-islands/ Oishi, Matashichi. "The Day the Sun Rose in the West: The Lucky Dragon, and I." University of Hawaii Press. *corrections* FDR died after completing 3 terms in office, barely made it 80 days into his 4th.
The conclusion to the war of the triple alliance. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
Part 4/5 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
Part 3/5 Suicide canoes, it turned out, would not be the wonder weapon Solano Lopez thought they would be. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70. warhistorymilitarypodcast
Part 2/5. The Paraguayan Army fights a battle against a field of cacti and hardly wins. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
Part 1/5. Paraguay picks a fight with an entire continent. Support the show https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
The founder of Scientology had a very stupid naval career Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Russel Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/intro.htm https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/primary-sources-l-ron-hubbard-leaves-the-navy https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/l-ron-hubbard/?safari=1
What if your local sports fans attempted a coup Support the show https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Procopius: JUSTINIAN SUPPRESSES THE NIKA REVOLT, 532 JB Bury. The History of the Later Roman Empire https://www.thoughtco.com/the-nika-revolt-1788557 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/nika.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/war-terraces-nika-riots-mm.html?safari=1