Episodes
The Siege of Khartoum, 1885. Muslim Religious Zeal Cracks the British Empire. British-Muslim Policy Established.
Gordon’s fall shattered what remained of Egyptian authority in Sudan. The region, once claimed in m...
The Siege of Bilbao, 1937. Basque Culture Systematically Erased. Hitler Helps Spain in a Preview of WWII Atrocities and Experiments.
The fall of Vizcaya’s capital was both a tactical defeat and the moment the spine of Basque resista...
The Siege of The Alamo, 1836. The Violent Slaughter that made modern America. Heroic Last Stand.
The fall of the Alamo ignited a fierce, unrelenting resistance to Santa Anna’s advance, forging the...
The Siege of Sevastopol, WWII 1941-42. The Largest Military Invasion in Recorded History.
The battle for Sevastopol, and the wider fight for Crimea, siphoned off critical German divisions f...
The Siege of Khe Sanh, 1968. The Killing Stroke of Communist Vietnam's Final Major Offensive.
The North Vietnamese defeat marked the terminal collapse of their ambitious 1968 campaign: an orche...
The Siege of Fort Stanwix, American Revolution. 1777. Where an Insurrection Turn into a Revolution.
Britain’s failure to seize Fort Stanwix played a critical role in the collapse of their strategy to...
The Viking Siege of Paris, 886 AD. Just 200 Parisian Men Held Paris Against 30,000 Vikings.
The siege didn’t just test the walls of Paris, it revealed its worth to all of France. In holding t...
The Siege of Plataea, 429-427 BC. First Recorded Use of Chemical Warfare. Executions. Collapse of Hellenistic Honor.
Plataea represented the first large-scale deployment of siege technology and engineered tactics in ...
The Siege of Stalingrad, 1943. Hitler's Critical Error.
Germany’s failure to take Stalingrad did more than cost them a city, it collapsed the entire southe...
The Siege of Khartoum, 1885. Muslim Religious Zeal Cracks the British Empire. British-Muslim Policy Established.
Gordon’s fall shattered what remained of Egyptian authority in Sudan. The region, once claimed in m...
The Siege of Bilbao, 1937. Basque Culture Systematically Erased. Hitler Helps Spain in a Preview of WWII Atrocities and Experiments.
The fall of Vizcaya’s capital was both a tactical defeat and the moment the spine of Basque resista...
The Siege of The Alamo, 1836. The Violent Slaughter that made modern America. Heroic Last Stand.
The fall of the Alamo ignited a fierce, unrelenting resistance to Santa Anna’s advance, forging the...
The Siege of Sevastopol, WWII 1941-42. The Largest Military Invasion in Recorded History.
The battle for Sevastopol, and the wider fight for Crimea, siphoned off critical German divisions f...
The Siege of Khe Sanh, 1968. The Killing Stroke of Communist Vietnam's Final Major Offensive.
The North Vietnamese defeat marked the terminal collapse of their ambitious 1968 campaign: an orche...
