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Wagon Box
On August 2, 1867, a small group of U.S. soldiers found themselves outnumbered and surrounded in the Wyoming Territory. Armed with new rifles and shielded only by wagon-box walls, they faced hundreds…
Guns
In 1532, the tiny town of Guns is all that stood between the Ottoman Empire and Vienna. A young knight, Nikola Jurisic, inspired fewer than 1,000 villagers to stand up against the brutal daily…
S2E5 The Last Stand Of The Swiss Guard
Rome spent centuries flexing its muscle as one of the greatest military forces the world has ever known, but on May 6, 1527 Rome failed to keep out a bloodthirsty army that spent the subsequent…
S2E4 Wabash
You've heard of US military tragedies like Pearl Harbor and Custer's Last Stand, but arguably the worst defeat on a US army force is so unknown that it doesn't even have a name. Most call it St.…
S2E3 Colenso
Britain's introduction to "modern" warfare came a few years before World War I against an unlikely foe: farmers on horseback. Except these farmers geniusly employed smokeless powder, machine guns,…
S2E2 Carabobo
Simon Bolivar is known as The Liberator of South America, but on a hot summer morning in a sleepy Venezuelan village he nearly lost his entire revolution, and possibly the freedom of a continent.…
S2E1 Hulao Pass
When we think of the great military minds, we think of the standards: Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, etc. But in 621 a second son in frontier China would emerge from the desert to lead…
S1E7 Soissons
What does victory on the battlefield look like? Can you fail your objective but still change the war? The U.S. Marines at Soissons did just that. Failed by their planners, these Marines drove…
S1E6 Cerro Gordo
For being the United State's first war on foreign soil and featuring a Who's Who of future Civil War leadership, the Mexican War gets little attention. On several occasions the US was on the brink of…
S1E5 Kings Mountain
On October 7, 1780, a band of American backwoodsmen slowly encircled British loyalists. The loyalists had the numbers, the training, and the high ground, but on this day the traditional rules of war…
S1E4 Saragarhi
On a small hillock in a remote ridge on a forgotten frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan sat a small signal tower in a dusty village. In 1897, the 22 Sikh soldiers employed by the British army…
S1E3 Battle of Teutoburg Forest
The Roman Legions were the height of military professionalism of their day. How, then, was a young Roman officer able to cobble together a loose federation of lightly armed Germanic tribesmen and…
S1E2 Battle of New Orleans
Besides it getting made into a country folk song, the Battle of New Orleans has largely been forgotten. Which is a shame, because rarely has such a motley crew of fighters—US soldiers, US sailors,…
S1E1 Monongahela
There is room to argue that The Battle of Monongahela is the most "underrated" battle ever. After all, it sparked the world's first real world war, it shifted the boundaries of huge swaths of North…
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Battle Rattle has published 14 episodes since February 2021, covering topics in Documentary, History.
Battle Rattle is currently active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 58m.
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