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Episode 118: The Carolean death march

Episode 118: The Carolean death march

Disaster Area · Disaster Area

July 31, 201946m 15s

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Show Notes

Feeling hot this summer? It could be worse. In January of 1719 during the Great Northern War, six thousand troops from the Swedish army began what should have been a two-day walk back over the Norwegian border to their own empire, mentally and physically exhausted from a four-month-long losing battle. But then the snow came, and what was supposed to be a two-day hike turned into a week-long nightmare.