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Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 2
Flash Point History - June 04, 2024 01:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Mamluk Armada appears in the Indian Ocean! It is deployed against the son of the Viceroy, Lourenço de Almeida. However, the young Almeida is determined for redemption in his father's eyes for his prior failure at the battle of Dabhol. His need to regain his father's favor leds him to make se...
Age of Discovery - Francisco de Almeida - Part 1
Flash Point History - April 24, 2024 04:51 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsWith the battle of Cochin over, the Portuguese enter into a phase of conquest in 1505. This is spearheaded by the first Portuguese Viceroy, Francisco de Almeida. However his story is not just about a man committed to his king and country, but also of a father and his only son. Flash Point...
Age of Discovery - Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Flash Point History - January 28, 2024 23:09 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratings1504 The Zamorin of Calicut is on the warpath and about to hit the city of Cochin with a sledgehammer force of over 60,000 soldiers. The Portuguese have 150 men - but one very capable commander. The fate of the Portugeuse Empire in India now hangs in the balace. Flash Point History YouT...
Age of Discovery - Vasco Da Gama - Part 4
Flash Point History - January 02, 2024 22:44 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratings1503 The Portuguese Empire in India faces major head winds. Vasco da Gama underestimates his old rival, the Samudri Raja of Calicut, and nearly pays for it with his life. Yet despite Portuguese resilience, the Samudri and his men prove that they are in it for a fight. Flash Point Histor...
Age of Discovery - Vasco Da Gama - Part 3
Flash Point History - November 17, 2023 23:33 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratings1502 Vasco da Gama is placed in charge of the Fourth Portuguese Armada and returns to the Indian Ocean. In his last voyage he came as an explorer - this time he comes as a crusader and brings holy war with him Flash Point History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTYmTY...
Age of Discovery - Pedro Álvares Cabral
Flash Point History - September 12, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsDec 1500 The Portuguese trading outpost in Calicut has been destroyed. In the night a vast mob attacked, razed it, and killed nearly everyone inside. Pedro Cabral orders his ships to bring their canons to bear on the city. Diplomacy has ended and now there is only need for revenge. The Portugu...
Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Part 2
Flash Point History - August 10, 2023 19:02 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsAugust 1498 Vasco Da Gama makes his way north along the Malabar Coast of India. He is on the run. Negotiations have broken down with the King of Calicut - who has deployed a fleet to hunt down the Portuguese. On August 30th the King's men intercepts Vasco's ships. 70 small ships approch and fi...
Age of Discovery - Vasco da Gama - Part 1
Flash Point History - July 22, 2023 18:54 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratings1498 - a Portuguese Fleet of four ships has travelled for nearly a year and now is in the middle of a vast ocean. It has covered a distance of 12,000 miles (half the circumfrence of the Earth). Its crew has suffered malnutition, disease, and hosital encounters. Was it worth it? Suddenly on the e...
Age of Discovery - Bartolomeu Dias
Flash Point History - June 30, 2023 04:51 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsIts 1487 and Bartolomeu Dias has traveled further than any European. He takes a gamble, subjecting his fleet to the will of nature. For 30 days he and his men are adrift on the open ocean at the pity of the winds and currents. But then they spot land. Was this just another bay on the endless coa...
Age of Discovery - Henry the Navigator
Flash Point History - May 28, 2023 16:11 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsWe begin the new series in the Age of Discovery with Henry the Navigator. He was warrior, a prince, and a businessman with an eye for seeing opportunity. His exploits in terms of ship building, the caravel, mapmaking, and being a sponsor on several expeditions, gave Portugal an easly lead. ...
Queen Isabella of Castile - Reconquista - All Parts - The Life of a Legend
Flash Point History - May 27, 2023 00:21 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsCombined all parts of the Reconquista: Isabella series into one long format. We look at the life of the Queen Isabella of Castile. To some a saint, to others a demon, to history a Legend. Flash Point History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTYmTYuan0fSGccYXBxc8cA Con...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 6 - Epilogue
Flash Point History - May 05, 2023 01:49 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista is over and Spain is on the fast track to becoming a global superpower. But do the ends justify the means? We look back now and ask, was Isabella a Saint? Or was she a Demon? Flash Point History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTYmTYuan0fSGccYXBxc8cA ...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 5 - The Fall of Granada
Flash Point History - April 14, 2023 17:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe grinding war in the Kingdom of Granda continues. However, its days are numbered. Infighting amongst the Nasrid cripple its offensive power and Ferdianand and Isabella are more determined than ever to complete the Reconquista. Flash Point History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube....
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 4 - Holy War
Flash Point History - February 18, 2023 17:22 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsWe now enter into the final stage of the Reconquista 1481 - The treaty that has held the unease peace between Castile and Nasrid Granada is broken. The Sultan Abu Al-Hasan takes advantage of Castilian weakness and launches an attack on the Castilian city of Alhama. The last war of the Reconqui...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 3 - Return of the Queen
Flash Point History - November 05, 2022 01:23 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista continues as Isabella becomes Queen! On Dec 13, 1474 Isabella crossed her own Rubicon - she staged a coup and became the Queen of Castile. No woman had sole power over the kingdom in over 250 years. Immediatly she would come into conflict with her neighbors and her own husband. ...
Queen Isabella - The Reconquista - Part 2 - Composure
Flash Point History - August 06, 2022 00:42 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! Isabella's life as a young adult is filled with danger. There are many that would be happy to see her married off, placed in exile, or simply killed. However, she proves her resolve. Despite massive adversity, she holds her...
Queen Isabella - The Reconquista - Part 2
Flash Point History - August 06, 2022 00:42 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! Isabella's life as a young adult is filled with danger. There are many that would be happy to see her married off, placed in exile, or simply killed. However, she proves her resolve. Despite massive adversity, she holds her...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 2 - Composure
Flash Point History - August 06, 2022 00:42 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! Isabella's life as a young adult is filled with danger. There are many that would be happy to see her married off, placed in exile, or simply killed. However, she proves her resolve. Despite massive adversity, she holds her...
Queen Isabella - The Reconquista - Part 1 - Prologue / Profunda Tristeza
Flash Point History - June 17, 2022 17:13 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! We begin with her early life. Isabella was born into a kingdom that was a far cry from its glory days. Improvished and on the brink of civil war, Castile had descended into a dark age under the weak rule of her older half b...
Queen Isabella - Reconquista - Part 1 - Prologue / Profunda Tristeza
Flash Point History - June 17, 2022 17:13 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! We begin with her early life. Isabella was born into a kingdom that was a far cry from its glory days. Improvished and on the brink of civil war, Castile had descended into a dark age under the weak rule of her older half b...
Queen Isabella - The Reconquista - Part 1
Flash Point History - June 17, 2022 17:13 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Reconquista continues into the life of Queen Isabella of Castile! We begin with her early life. Isabella was born into a kingdom that was a far cry from its glory days. Improvished and on the brink of civil war, Castile had descended into a dark age under the weak rule of her older half b...
WOTW - BONUS EP 3 - PART 5 - The Fourth Crusade
Flash Point History - March 23, 2022 01:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsWe continue the story of The Eastern Roman empire into the time of the Fourth Crusade. What began with the greatest of intentions became one of the more destested chapters in history. Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FPHx Leave some feedback: [email protected] F...
WOTW - BONUS EP 3 - PART 4 - The Third Crusade: Richard the Lionheart Vs. Saladin
Flash Point History - October 09, 2021 23:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsRichard the Lionheart and Saladin were military masterminds. The Third crusade pit each man against the other. The prize was the city of Jerusalem. Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FPHx Leave some feedback: [email protected] Follow along on Facebook: https://...
WOTW - BONUS EP 3 - PART 3 - Komnenian Restoration and the Rise of Saladin
Flash Point History - July 02, 2021 20:03 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe First Crusade was a spectacular success for the Christian armies. During this time the Byzantine Empire entered a golden age known as the Komnenian Restoration. However, with the fall of Edessa in 1144, the Islamic world begins to coalesce. Zengi and his son Nur ad Din create a powerful stat...
WOTW - BONUS EP 3 - PART 2 - The Conquest and Fall of Constantinople
Flash Point History - May 12, 2021 06:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe story of Byzantium continues through the high point of the reign of Basil II and then into the nightmare that followed the battle of Manzikert only to enter the time of the crusades. Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FPHx Leave some feedback: [email protected]...
WOTW - BONUS EP 3 - PART 1 - The Conquest and Fall of Constantinople
Flash Point History - January 24, 2021 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsWe take a break from the Reconquista to describe a cataclysmic event that occurred on the other end of the Mediterranean. A titanic struggle between Islam and Christianity was occurring for control of the greatest city in Christendom - Constantinople. We start at the beginning as the Byzantine E...
WOTW - 11 - Part 3 - Reconquista The Last Kingdom of Islam - The Golden Age
Flash Point History - July 23, 2020 22:35 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe story of the Reconquista continues into the time of Muhammad V who ruled over Nasrid Granada during her Golden Age. However, just to the north, Muhammad's friend and ally, Peter I of Castile, would be engaged in a series of wars that would affect nearly all the major contestants of Western E...
WOTW - 11 - Part 2 - The History of the Black Death
Flash Point History - May 03, 2020 22:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe Black Death was the greatest pandemic in history. While it was estimated that 30-40% of Europe perished, world wide the death toll came to over 200 million. The story of the Plague is the story of a perfect storm where just the right developments in history met one the fiercest of killers wi...
WOTW - 11 - Part 1 - Reconquista The Last Kingdom of Islam - Moors of Granada
Flash Point History - November 18, 2019 20:37 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsIn the early 13th Century, the Reconquista has advanced as never before. Under the warrior King of Castile, Ferdinand III, Al Andalus has been diminished to a fragment of her former glory. But her legacy is not over yet. A new kingdom arises in Granada and led by a skilled and resourceful line o...
WOTW - 10 - Part 2 - Reconquista The Next Generation - Alphonso X The Wise King
Flash Point History - June 08, 2019 17:07 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 430 ratingsThe year is now 1252. Ferdinand III, the warrior king of Castile, is dead. He leaves his son the most powerful kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula. Alphonso X comes to power, and while he has ambitious goals he has even greater challenges. While he may become the warrior king his father was, he mak...
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