Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Joe, Tom, and Nate take to the stage at the Rich Mix in London to talk about the time the Republic of Texas attempted to invade Santa Fe, New Mexico without food, water, or even knowing where Santa Fe was on a map.

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French and English colonies in North America go to war as a part of the larger War of Spanish Succession. Soon an allied force of French soldiers, militia, and Native Warriors are snowshoeing their way from New France to Massachusetts in order to destroy the town of Deerfield.

SOURCES:

Calloway, Colin Gordon. After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England

P.G. Smith. "This Force of French and Allied Warriors Snowshoed 300 Miles to Terrorize a Small Town in Massachusetts." P.G. Smith https://historynet.com/deerfield-raid-massachusetts/

https://www.americanheritage.com/deerfield-massacre

https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-02-28/320-years-ago-the-raid-in-deerfield-was-at-the-center-of-the-fight-for-control-of-north-america

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/raid-on-deerfield/

https://deerfieldraid1704.org/

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Once upon a time the Russian Empire funded the construction of what might be the world's dumbest tank that is arguably not a tank at all. Larger than any of its peers during WWI, the Tsar Tank goes down in history due to its strange shape, weird wheels, and the fact that developers of the Battlefield video game series thought it was too unrealistic to put it in one of their games.

SOURCES:

Zaloga, Steven. Grandsen, James. Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two.

Milsom, John. Russian Tanks, 1900-1970

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-tsar-tank-is-possibly-the-strangest-tank-ever-devised

https://www.rbth.com/defence/2014/09/29/the_first_russian_tanks_a_long_and_difficult_road_to_the_battlefield_40199.html

https://www.thearmorylife.com/tsar-tank-russias-secret-wwi-weapon/

http://www.landships.info/landships/tank_articles/Lebedenko.html

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