Latest Great battles Podcast Episodes
Crossover Special - Anthology of Heroes
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - August 05, 2023 20:50 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsHey guys, it’s been a bit since last we had some new content but the next couple weeks we’ll have some fresh audio for you. Today, however, we have a friendly takeover as Elliot, host of Anthology of Heroes, takes over the podcast feed and talks about the “scramble for Africa”. Anthology of Hero...
War A to Z ▪️Abenaki Wars
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - March 29, 2023 20:42 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsWhen the English colonists first came to the New World there was friction but, given the limits of the colonists population and power, no large scale conflict. The Abenaki homelands consisted of most of modern day New England and North East Canada. At first they had no issue with the English, so...
Battle of Königgrätz 3 July 1866
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - March 07, 2023 20:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsFew battles in history are so complete and decisive as Koniggratz. In a day the Austro-Prussian War was won and ended. The brilliant Moltke the Elder faced a much larger Austrian army and roundly defeated it. That, however, doesn’t mean it was easy. On July 3rd, 1866 Moltke and his army’s fate h...
War A to Z ▪️Abd el-Krim
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - February 27, 2023 20:02 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsMuhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, otherwise known as Abd el-Krim, was President of the Rif Republic, a Moroccan freedom fighter, and a guerrilla warfare specialist. He led his people through the Third Rif War and won a resounding victory against the Spanish at the battle of Annual in 1921. ...
War A to Z▪️ Abbasid Revolution
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - January 03, 2023 02:52 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsWar A to Z ▪️ Abbasid Revolution ▪️ Date- 747 A.D. - 750 A.D. Location - Khorasan province Iran Participants - Umayyads vs Abbasids Key Players - Caliph Marwan, Governor Nasir Ibn Sayyar, Muhammad Ali, Abu Muslim Key Battles - Merv, Nahavand, Isfahan, Mosul ▪️ The Issue - The powerful ...
War A to Z ▪️ Abbas I The Great
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - January 02, 2023 02:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsWar A to Z ▪️ Abbas I The Great ▪️ Born - January 27 1571, Iran Died - January 19 1629, Iran ▪️ Wars/Battles of Note - Uzbek-Persian Wars, Turko-Persian Wars, Mogul-Persian Wars, Tabriz 1603,Sis 1606, Siege of Baghdad 1624-1626 ▪️ Through a combination of guile, patience, and determinat...
Battle of Marengo 14 June 1800
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - September 02, 2022 02:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsNapoleon Bonaparte is, almost always, in the “Mt. Rushmore” greatest military commanders of all time conversation, and rightfully so. That being said, he wasn’t without a great many flaws, and long before Waterloo, Napoleon suffered his fair share of defeats. Marengo doesn’t fall into the loss c...
Battle of Manzikert 26 August 1071
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - August 10, 2022 18:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsAs the title makes clear, this is not the promised battle of Marengo! Nope, it’s still very busy up here in Maine and the tourist season has yet to slow, so getting the new episode written up has been a bit more of a struggle than I anticipated. To hold you guys over while I finish up the Mareng...
Battle of Blenheim 13 August 1704
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - June 24, 2022 02:53 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratings“For this campaign I see so very ill a prospect that I am extremely out of heart.” So wrote the man most responsible for today’s battle and one of Britain’s greatest military victories, the battle of Blenheim. Music by DopeBoys Sources Upon Request Follow Along On Twitter, Instagram, Facebo...
Battle of Schellenberg 2 July 1704
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - May 16, 2022 16:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratings"I had scarcely finished speaking when the enemy's battery opened fire upon us, and raked us through and through. They concentrated their fire upon us, and with their first discharge carried off Count de la Bastide, the lieutenant of my own company with whom at the moment I was speaking, and twe...
Battle of Vigo Bay October 23 1702
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - April 28, 2022 01:04 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsLet’s go back to the year 1702, a time when Spanish treasure ships still sailed the open seas. Let’s go back to the age of sails and cannon, of Sun Kings and wars of succession. To a time when the Royal Navy was just coming into its own, and the Bourbon navy was about to find out what the cost o...
Battle of Narva November 19 1770
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - April 21, 2022 02:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsLet’s go back to the year 1700, a cold, gray late November day in Estonia. Let’s go back to the age of muskets and bayonets, of dragoons and hussars. To a time when the Lion of the North, the Last Viking, young Charles XII of Sweden was sizing up his first meal, Peter the "not yet" Great of Russ...
Battle of Kleidion July 29, 1014
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - April 07, 2022 01:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsLet’s go back to the year 1014, a late summer in the Balkans where Basil II, of the Byzantine Empire, has brought his army to destroy his oldest foe. Let’s go back to the final days of the Bulgarian Empire of Czar Samuel, seventy years old and still willing (and able) to lead his army into the f...
Battle of Ipsus 301 BC
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - March 31, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsA little bit of a pivot this week; instead of the Battle of Kleidion (which will just get pushed back a week) you’ll be listening to a chat between myself and Brett from the Whiskey Tango Podcast. I’ve got a nasty little cold that’s keeping me from recording but Brett and I have been talking abo...
Battle of Clontarf 23 April 1014
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - March 23, 2022 23:56 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratings“They fought then, and each of them endeavored to slaughter the other; and they fell by each other, and the way that they fell was with the sword of each through the heart of the other; and the hair of each in the clenched hand of the other…” - Cogdha This week on cauldron we are going back to ...
Battle of Svolder 9 September, 999 or 1000 AD
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - March 17, 2022 03:35 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsThe first cycle of episodes in the Cauldron re-boot featured exclusively battles from antiquity and the truly ancient world. This next cycle will see us hop in the imaginary time machine and fast forward from the sandy beach outside of Troy, zooming past the rise and fall of a dozen or more empi...
Siege of Troy ?BCE
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - March 04, 2022 11:50 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsI am (as you all probably guessed) a huge Dan Carlin fan and I often find myself re-listening to his different series. Recently I put fresh ears on his King of Kings episodes about the ancient Persians. One rough quote, or paraphrase is probably more accurate, from historian Pierre Briant that s...
Battle of Kadesh 1274 BCE
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - February 24, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsFrom Megiddo to Kadesh almost 200 years passed with Egypt at the pinnacle of its power. From modern day Sudan to the southern border of modern day Turkey, Egypt reigned supreme. They weren’t unchallenged and certainly, like their life-giving river itself things where often in flux; uprisings, re...
Battle of Megiddo 1457 BCE
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - February 17, 2022 04:53 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsMegiddo is an interesting story; by bringing along court scribes Thutmose III allows us to follow along in his footsteps and see the battle as he saw it. Now, obviously we can’t take everything the scribes wrote at face value; propaganda is as old as written history, and probably older, but at l...
The Battle Of Umma Vs Lagash
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - February 10, 2022 03:06 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsFor the re-launch of Cauldron I've chosen the fight between Umma and Lagash as our starting point. Certainly not the first battle in human history but in my humble non-historian opinion the first that we can really get a clear narrative picture of. It’s ancient ancient history, 2,116 years befor...
*Bonus* Battle Blunders - The Retreat From Kabul
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - March 02, 2021 11:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsEach of the contests in this series will showcase a martial failure from generals unfit to command or overly confident of their abilities to simple poor planning and the untimely (often unwanted) intervention of meddlesome politicians. I'm going to tell the story of the battle, just like a regu...
Kokoda: Beyond the Legend with Dr. Karl James
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - February 12, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsIn this episode, I talked to Dr. Karl James, the head of military history at the Australian War Memorial. The book he edited, Kokoda: Beyond the Legend, was the principal source for this series, and let me tell you, it's a fantastic read! Various contributors, including Antony Beevor, weave toge...
Battle of Rivoli Jan 14, 1797 – Jan 15, 1797
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - January 22, 2021 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsNo general can say they will use the central position, and therefore, they will win. There is no plug and play preset list of maneuvers to fit all circumstances that guarantee victory. Victory relies on much more, and Napoleon understood that. His ability to sense the enemy's intention and force...
The Battle of Rivoli - A Conversation With Joshua Provan
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - January 15, 2021 21:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsI had a great conversation with Josh of the Adventure in Historyland blog and author of the book Wild East: The British in Japan 1854-1868. He knows his stuff, and his passion for history comes through loud and clear! We talked about all things Napoleon, the Italian Campaign, and Rivoli. Josh do...
The M16 and Ia Drang - Firearms Historian Matt Moss Of The Armourer's Bench
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - November 28, 2020 14:06 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsThis was a lot of fun, and I hope pretty educational; I know I learned a ton. I reached out to Matt and asked him to join me for 20-30 minutes to talk about Vietnam's small arms. Instead, he gave me almost an hour of his time! Jammed with insight and information, the hour zipped right by. We cove...
Battle of Ia Drang - Nov 14, 1965 – Nov 18, 1965
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - November 20, 2020 11:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratings"After the bravado, you're left with the anguish." Col. Nadal US 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment Air Mobile Few battles have shaped the modern American mind while remaining mostly anonymous to the general public quite like Ia Drang. An iconic engagement that defined not just a war but a g...
The Siege of Fort William Henry - Aug 3, 1757 – Aug 9, 1757
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - November 07, 2020 17:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsThe seeds of what would eventually become the Seven Years War or French and Indian War, a truly global conflict, were planted the moment Europeans landed in North America. Empire building was hungry work, and the British and French in the mid-18th century had become ravenous. In North America, t...
Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - September 25, 2020 17:06 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
The Battle of Naseby - 14 June 1645
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - August 26, 2020 19:52 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsThe battle of Naseby decided the English Civil War in that by the day's end, King Charles I no longer had an effective field army. The two cavalry displays that define the fighting are a masterclass, one in battlefield control, and one in a lack of control. The brilliant command of Oliver Cromwe...
The Battle of Monte Cassino - 17 January – 18 May 1944
Cauldron - A Military History Podcast - July 06, 2020 23:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsIn this episode, we are diving into one of the more controversial and least covered battles of WWII - the fight for Monte Cassino. A sideshow to the main events of Normandy and the Eastern Front, the Italian Campaign was no less violent or brutal, consuming men and material at the same rate as t...
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