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Season 8 · Episode 415

Battlestations!

Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · Scott Monty

December 12, 202434m 35s

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Show Notes

"You look like a general who is planning a battle" [HOUN] The Battle of Marengo, by Louis-François Lejeune (public domain - Wikimedia Commons)

One simple sentence in "The Abbey Grange" served as the spark to the fuse of this Trifles episode. In one sentence, Sherlock Holmes referenced two of Napoleon's battles — each with a different outcome.

But it made us curious: what other famous battles were mentioned, either outright or by implication, throughout the Canon? We chose to discuss six of them. It's just a Trifle.

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Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0