Origins of a Naval Legend
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The Sea Wolf’s Best Trick: How Cochrane Faked a Plague

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Why the Arctic Matters Now

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Who Were the Gauls? The Truth Behind the Celtic Tribes

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Why Were Rome and Parthia Eternal Enemies?

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The Dark Ages: How Ancient Greece Lost the Power of Writing

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Nader Shah: Iran’s Last Conqueror - Nader Saves Persia

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The Deal of the Century: Why the Dutch Traded New York for Nutmeg

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How Dreadnought Made Fleets Obsolete

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Pontiac’s War: The Alliance That Defeated British Forts

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The Real Causes of the War of 1812

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The Spice War: How the Dutch Seized the East Indies

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Scipio's Masterpiece - Zama 202 BC - Second Punic War DOCUMENTARY

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The First Colonizers of Taiwan: The Dutch East India Company

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How Medieval Records Lie to You

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Duelists and Boxers: Unique Gladiator Types You Never Knew

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Greatest Ottoman Military Catastrophe - Great War DOCUMENTARY

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Thomas Cochrane vs. The Royal Navy: A Legend is Born

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How One Bodyguard Almost Took Over the Roman Empire

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Who Were the Ancient Germanic Peoples? Origins and Life

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Ukraine Embarrasses Putin in Kupiansk - Russian Invasion Continues

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How England Was Forged by War - Medieval History DOCUMENTARY

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Sengoku Jidai FULL DOCUMENTARY

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How Rome Lost Its Empire

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WWI’s Forgotten War in Asia - Clash of Japan and Germany

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Slavery, Secession, and the Road to War - Fort Sumter to Chancellorsville

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Origins of a Naval Legend

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How the Pirates and Blackbeard Were Defeated - Early Modern Era

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Headhunters of the Rainbow Bridge

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Was Jutland 1916 a British Failure or a Strategic Victory?

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The First Corporate Empire

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Mehmed II Fights Everyone - Ottoman Empire DOCUMENTARY

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The Reality of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Peace Plans

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Austronesian Origins of the Taiwanese People

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Khmer Empire: Rise, Glory and Fall

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Choose Your Fighter - Roman Gladiator Edition

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Why So Many Wars in the Middle East? Kings and Generals DOCUMENTARY

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The Bronze Age of Achilles

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Before Islam: The Faith of the Mongols and Turks

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First Dutch Voyage to Indonesia

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Covadonga 718: Birth of the Reconquista - Medieval History DOCUMENTARY

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Origins of Gladiatorial Combat

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How One Murder and One Trial Broke Rome Forever - Ancient History

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What did the World Learn from the American Civil War?

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The Rage of Achilles: The Climax of Homer's Iliad

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The Ship That Shaped Medieval Europe

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Taiwan's Indigenous Tribes: Surviving 400 Years of Colonization

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Priscus and Verus: The Gladiators Who Both Won Their Freedom

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South Africa’s Long War in Angola

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Heinrich Goldechen vs. Konrad von Weida: Two Careers in the Teutonic Order

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Secrets of Bronze Age Italy - Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY

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The Qoorchilar: The Elite Turkoman Bodyguards of the Safavids

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Second Crusade - Full Story, Every Battle EXPLAINED in 4 HOURS

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The Wolfsegger Hausbuch: A Guide to Late Medieval Noble Life

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Pokrovsk Crisis - Russian Invasion of Ukraine Continues

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The Ghollar: Safavid Persia’s Christian Slave-Soldiers

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1337 is a Great Starting Date for Europa Universalis V!

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Operational Manoeuvre Group (OMG): The Soviet Blitzkrieg Strategy

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How the American Civil War Finally Ended - Early Modern History

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Auftragstaktik: The German Command Method That Promotes Flexibility

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How Charlemagne Built post-Roman Europe’s First Super Army

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Bait and Bleed: The Strategy of Making Rivals Fight Each Other

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Blenheim 1704: Marlborough’s Masterstroke - Early Modern History

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he Foxhole: The Essential Defensive Position of Modern Warfare

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Revenge for Teutoburg - Germanicus Strikes Back - Roman History

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The Tofangchilar: Shah Abbas's Elite Persian Musketeers

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Romans, Parthians, Khazars and Arabs Fought for This Land

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Stay-Behind Operations: The Clandestine Resistance Strategy Explained

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Minoan Crete: Myth Versus Reality - Ancient Civilization DOCUMENTARY

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Hieronymus Münzer: The Nuremberg Doctor Who Traveled 15th-Century Iberia

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The Confederacy’s Last Desperate Gambit - American Civil War Animated

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Shah Abbas's Masterpiece: Trojan Horse Tactics at the Battle of Tabriz

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Nicholas II – The Most Incompetent King Ever?

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The Powell Doctrine: General Colin Powell's Rules for Military Intervention

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Charlemagne’s Bloody War Against the Saxons - Verden Massacre

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Bellum Se Ipsum Alet: The Strategy of Making War Feed Itself

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How the Ottomans Took Crimea - Ottoman Empire DOCUMENTARY

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Safavid Artillery and Muskets: The Military Reforms of Shah Abbas I

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Rise and Fall of the Medici Dynasty - Renaissance History DOCUMENTARY

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Siege Warfare: The Three Key Elements of Capturing a Fortress

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How Augustus Lost His Empire - Roman Empire DOCUMENTARY

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Counterinsurgency: How Modern Armies Fight Irregular Warfare

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Russia Advances, Ukraine Hits Back - Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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he Periclean Strategy: Athens' Winning Plan in the Peloponnesian War

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Tokugawa Ieyasu Outfoxed - Sengoku Jidai DOCUMENTARY

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Commerce Raiding: The Naval Strategy to Cripple an Enemy’s Supply

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Samnites: Rome’s Early Nemesis - Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY

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The Qizilbash: The 'Redheads' Who Forged the Safavid Empire

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Medieval Europe's Forgotten Christian Genocide

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Decapitation Strike: The Ultimate Nuclear First Strike Strategy

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From Samurai to Superpower: Rise of Japan DOCUMENTARY

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The Breslau Beer War: A Medieval Conflict Over a Barrel of Beer

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How to Defend Against the Ottomans - Medieval History DOCUMENTARY

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The Military-Industrial Complex: Eisenhower's Warning

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Grant vs. Lee: Clash of Titans - Civil War Continues

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Mutually Assured Destruction: The Cold War Doctrine That Prevented Nuclear War

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Russia’s Brutal Conquest of Siberia

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The Cappadocian Greeks: The Turkic-Speaking Christians of Turkey

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Comanches - A Nomadic Empire on the American Plains

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India and Pakistan - All Wars DOCUMENTARY

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Mazdakism: The Ancient Religion of Shared Property and Radical Ideas

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