Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Once upon a time the King of Portugal started a war that went so badly it collapsed his dynasty and killed three different kings all at once. BUY JOE'S BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-War-Military-Sci-Fi-Undying-ebook/dp/B0CQ6BH6BD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26EUS2ZHZB3Z9&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1706440190&sprefix=joe+kassabian%2Caps%2C211&sr=8-1 SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys SOURCES: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/08/343746/why-the-battle-of-the-three-kings-lives-on-in-moroccan-memory https://www.historynet.com/three-dead-kings-war-in-morocco/#:~:text=By%20midafternoon%20on%20Aug,and%20North%20Africa%20for%20decades. https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Medieval/BattleOfTheThreeKings

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The conclusion to the Satsuma Rebellion! SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys SOURCES: Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern Japan William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai. Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.

The heroic story of how Samurai Warlord Saigo Takamori rose up against the changing of the times. But actually, it wasn't really about that at all. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern Japan William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai. Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword. https://www.historynet.com/satsuma-rebellion-satsuma-clan-samurai-against-the-imperial-japanese-army/

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Joe and Nate talk about the time South Vietnam attempted to invade Laos. It did not go well. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys SOURCES: Sources: https://www.comanchero.org/LamSon719.html https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/invasion-02172021125804.html https://www.jstor.org/stable/27016309 Robert Sander. The Invasion of Laos, 1971 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024288 https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/mauled-in-laos/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-nightmare-mission-into-laos-operation-lam-son-719/

Chinese soldiers defended the Great Wall of China armed with swords, axes, and martial arts....in the 1930s SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.historynet.com/last-battle-great-wall/ https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/the-forgotten-story-of-japans-attack-on-the-great-wall-of-china-5b7f75e326b8 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-imperial-japan-seized-great-wall-china-91386 https://www.republicanchina.org/war.shtml

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Once upon a time enemies put aside their differences to collectively ignore their officers orders. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce https://www.history.com/news/christmas-truce-1914-world-war-i-soldier-accounts https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-the-christmas-truce https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25206-2004Dec24.html Max Hastings. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War

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You've heard of the Kamikaze. Now learn about where they got their name. Sources: https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/kamikaze-001995 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/141104-kamikaze-kublai-khan-winds-typhoon-japan-invasion https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japans-kamikaze-pilots-wwii https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/how-typhoon-sank-kublai-khan-weatherwatch https://www.thoughtco.com/the-mongol-invasions-of-japan-195559 https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/divine-winds-triumphant/

Circus performer, champion boxer, first ever African American combat pilot, club owner, Jazz artist, and spy. Eugene Bullard was one of the coolest men to ever live. *SUPPORT THE SHOW* https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys *LIVE SHOW TICKETS* Night one: bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…s-live-podcast/ Night two: bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…odcast-27jan24/ Sources: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/eugene-j-bullard https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20231112-eugene-ballard-pioneering-african-american-aviator-who-flew-for-france-in-wwi https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bullard-eugene-jacques-1894-1961/ https://www.historynet.com/eugene-bullard-americas-first-black-fighter-pilot/

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*CONTENT WARNING* The conclusion to the Beslan School Siege *LIVE SHOW TICKETS* Night one: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-live-podcast/ Night two: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-live-podcast-27jan24/

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This is the story of how Chechen Terrorists and the Russian state joined forces to create the worst school attack of all time. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys GET YOUR LIVE SHOW TICKETS RIGHT HERE: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-live-podcast/ Sources: Timothy Phillips. Beslan: Tragedy at school number 1 John Giduck. Terror at Beslan HBO. Children of Beslan

Captain Cook shows up in the Hawaiian Islands and pisses off the entire population ending in the funniest possible outcome. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Richard Tregaskis. Hawaii's Warrior King: King Kamehamaha The Great Glyn Williams. The Death of Captain Hook: A Hero Made and Unmade Hawaiian Historical Society Reprints 1787, 1788,1789 Val Wake. Who Killed Captain Cook?

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Before Benedict Arnold became the world's most famous traitor, he tried to invade Canada, it went about as well as you'd expect. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.americanacorner.com/blog/quebec-assault https://www.americanacorner.com/blog/1775-invasion-quebec https://www.historynet.com/invasion-of-canada-during-the-american-revolutionary-war/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/arnolds-flawed-invasion-of-quebec/

Once upon a time Irish-Americans thought it would be a good idea to invade Canada from the US. It did not go well. CORRECTION: Andrew Johnson* EDIT: I meant David Fincher Sources: https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1774fenian_e.html https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2019/03/15/civil-war-vets-wanted-invade-canada-liberate-ireland.html https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fenians/index.aspx https://www.jstor.org/stable/24778340 https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Century19th/FenianRaids https://www.historynet.com/fenian-raids-invasions-of-british-ruled-canada/

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The conclusion to our Battle of Stalingrad series! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Last chance to preorder some merch: https://llbdmerch.com/products/stalingrad-street-fighting-academy-t-shirt

Part 4/5 of the Battle of Stalingrad! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Pre order some merch: https://llbdmerch.com/products/stalingrad-street-fighting-academy-t-shirt

This is a preview, for the full episode become a patreon supporter here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91202542?pr=true The first episode of our new side series, LLBR, where Tom and Joe watch robot related media! For this first series arc we're watching G Gundam, the most insane thing ever thought up by the Gundam universe.

Part 3 of 5 of our battle of stalingrad series. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys get some merch! https://www.patreon.com/posts/pre-order-your-90833773

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The horrors beyond human comprehension continue! Part 2/5 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: David Glantz. Stalingrad I-III Anthony Beevor. Stalingrad. Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War. Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.

*This is a preview of a bonus episode. If you want to listen to the whole thing, support the show on Patreon* https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Pete Ellis was a marine who not only foresaw the pacific theater of WWII, but pretty much invented the modern US Marine Corps. He was also a drunken madman who went on one of the worst spying missions in American history.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/90133415 In late September 2023, Azerbaijan invaded what was left of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh after starving the population and holding them hostage since December 2022. Over 100,000 people are now in Armenia after they have been forced to flee upon fear of death or worse. The Armenian state on its own cannot handle the immediate needs of this many refugees. Our goal is to give a targeted monthly grant to the families most in need. Those with many young children, widows, the disabled, and others in the amount of 100,000AMD (253$) for 6 months per family. We can expand this program as funds allow. They can use this money any way they see fit. Mostly to cover rent in a country where rental costs have gone up over 300% in the last 2 years. If you already support the show, you're already supporting the program. However, if you would like to donate more or make a one-time donation, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. In this show we always talk about the people caught within the grinding gears of history, those who have been allowed to fall through the cracks of blind military violence, international apathy, and the brutality of empire. Together, today, we can choose deeds over words unlike so many other international organizations, governments, and world powers that we have tasked with doing so.

The story of one of the most horrific battles in all of human history. Part 1/5 Support the show, get the entire series right now: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: David Glantz. Stalingrad I-III Anthony Beevor. Stalingrad. Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War. Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.

Striking factory workers hold off an attempted amphibious invasion launched by Pinkertons with guns, bombs, and fire ships. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homestead-strike https://battleofhomestead.org/the-battle-of-homestead/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-strike-homestead-mill/ https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-homestead https://archive.org/details/jstor-25102447

This is a preview. For the entire episode go here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/89709631?pr=true Tom and Joe watch Master and Commander, otherwise known as why life in the navy sucks.

The terror group the United Red Army was born out of the fires of the anti imperialist student movement of japan but rapidly turned into a death cult. Within a few weeks even taking a shower would be considered counter revolutionary. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Yoshikuni Igarashi. Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution, 1971–1972. Patricia Steinhoff. Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the Japanese Red Army NHK World. The United Red Army: A Troubled Legacy

This episode is just a preview. Get the whole thing here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-65864515 Joe is joined by Sarah of It Came From the Sea to talk about that time when the navy teleported a ship and melted people into ship centaurs(or didn't but that's no fun)

A badly designed submarine becomes the face of the french navy while accidently doing everything it can to convince people that the crew might be nazi agents. Support the show! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: William H. Langenberg. The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bizarre Surcouf Christopher Miskimon. Seizure of the Surcouf https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/post/seizure-of-the-surcouf-operation-catapult https://www.theday.com/local-news/20161119/french-subs-visit-to-new-london-launched-conspiracy-theory/

*this is a preview. to get the full episode support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88848996?pr=true A few weeks ago Tom made a patreon goal that if we hit 5500 supporters we would read horrible fan fiction starring Muammar Gaddafi, Josef Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. It's horrible and you've been warned.

In the final episode of the series, we learn about the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Deutscher Herbst, or "German Autumn" of 1977. In two months in late 1977, the leadership of the first generation of the Red Army Faction would murder a high-profile German industrialist (and former SS officer), hijack a plane, and commit group suicide. And let's just say it made an impression in West Germany. Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People. Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction. Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex

This is a preview, get the whole episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-83890971 The US invents a reason to invade the tiny island nation of Grenada based on plans made from some tourist maps.

In this episode, we cover the early- to mid-1970s bombing campaigns of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, and some of the... interesting personalities of the group members. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People. Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction. Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex

It's part 2 of our 4-part series on the Red Army Faction, in which Tom takes the lead to explain to Joe the story of 1960s German left-wing militants, their eventual downfall, and--in this episode--something you might describe as 'the world's least enthusiastic hunger striker.' Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People. Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction. Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex

We've decided to answer your questions. We chose from a list and assembled the cast of Joe, Nate, and Tom to do our best to give honest feedback... or something like it. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lions-led-by-q-1-87857214

Tom takes the wheel for another series. This time the Red Army Faction, a German left wing terror group funded by bank robberies and fueled by chain smoking. Get the whole series now on the Lions Led by Donkeys Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys/ Sources: The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People. Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction. Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex

This is a preview, for the whole episode get access here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-d-60639257 What if you sucked so badly at your job you almost accidentally killed the president

US Marines and Soldiers invade the fortress island of Saipan and end up hating each other almost as much as the Japanese. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: http://www.battleofsaipan.com/seabee.htm Philip Crowl, "Campaign in the Marianas", vol. 9 Richard Frank. Downfall: End of the Imperial Japanese Empire https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/saipan-a-crucial-foothold-in-the-marianas/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/duel-to-the-death/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-war-between-the-smiths-high-command-feud-at-saipan/

Joe, Francis, and Shocks watch the 2018 film, 12 Strong which comes out looking even more ridiculous as few years later. Get the entire episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87002249?pr=true

Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the time the US and North Korea almost went to war over a poplar tree. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/axe-murder-north-korea-1976/562028/ https://ns.clementspapers.org/briefing-books/korea-tree-incident https://medium.com/@qz_li/korean-axe-murder-incident-48f3e16e47b6 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/14/north-korea-1976-axe-murder-incident-215605/

Everyone has heard of Charles Taylor, the brutal dictator of Liberia. This is the story of his son, Chuckie Taylor, an American born nerd turned head of Liberian national security, international diamond smuggler, and one of the worst war criminals in Liberian history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys *UPDATE* WE FOUND HIS RAP MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/@BentmanOfficial/about Sources: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/chucky-taylor-liberias-other-monster/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/09/charles-taylor-jr-torture-liberia https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2009/January/09-crm-021.html Johnny Dwer. American Warlord: A True Story. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/23/liberia-war-crimes-chucky-taylor

Get the whole episode on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-toyota-war-49241965 Muammar Gaddafi invades Chad with one of the most powerful armies in Africa. What happens next is one of the most lopsided defeats in military history.

Bad customs officers cause an uprising so bad it contributes to the fall of rome. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Alessandro Barbero. The Day of the Barbarians. Peter Heather. The Fall of the Roman Empire. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-gothic-wars-battle-of-adrianople/ https://www.historynet.com/adrianople-last-great-battle-of-antiquity/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/roman-disaster-at-adrianople/

Get the whole episode and tons of other bonus content here: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Joe, Francis, and Shocks discover that Sharpe is pretty much just James Bond but poor and in the army.