EARLY EPISODE: The Khivan Campaign of 1839
Added 2022-10-14 03:13:41 +0000 UTCThe Russian Empire attempts to invade a small khanate to steal their gold and loses to a winter storm.
Sources:
Morrison, Alexander, "The Russian Conquest of Central Asia"
"A Narrative of the Russian Military Expedition to Khiva under General Perofski", Translated from the Russian for the Foreign Department of the Government of India, Calcutta, 1867
‘Pray for the Camels’: The Winter Invasion of Khiva, 1839–41
Comments
Probably one of the best single episodes. Only about 10 made it back possibly. Only one British guy. Graveyard of Empires.
2022-12-08 22:02:23 +0000 UTCThe Retreat From Kabul. A very early episode
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2022-10-19 18:44:43 +0000 UTCWhat’s the episode about brits in afghanistan called? I can’t find it
Massimo Lotruglio
2022-10-19 16:09:09 +0000 UTCHow exactly do you reach that conclusion?
Snooder87
2022-10-18 21:18:44 +0000 UTCWhenever I read or hear about Russian expansionism into the Far East and Central Asia I makes me more convinced that Russia and the US are just two sides of the same imperial coin. In a way that other empires haven’t been
Ben
2022-10-17 01:00:40 +0000 UTCThe Russian army is a drunken incompetent brutal thieving war crimes machine across time and space.
Matt
2022-10-15 19:41:10 +0000 UTCI thought the LLBD bingo card was just all squares filled with “it gets worse”
Cat Mara
2022-10-15 08:25:21 +0000 UTCIt's a great movie! =P But glad someone else realized the same ref!
Hunter Bowlan
2022-10-15 05:11:06 +0000 UTCCant get enough of this show by the way, thanks for several years of fantastic podding
A Guy
2022-10-15 05:08:13 +0000 UTCThere's a shitty movie version of a young adult series I've never read called John Dies at the End. In one scene of that shitty movie a man's mustache flies off his face and attacks a protagonist, in another scene another protagonist sings about a camel holocaust.
A Guy
2022-10-15 03:07:15 +0000 UTCAfraid I'm not familiar with it, just with the Okinawan version, but flails for threshing grain in Europe looked pretty similar to nunchaku, except with longer handles, so you can probably find similar agricultural tools all over the world.
The Narrator
2022-10-14 22:39:21 +0000 UTCThe variant I'm thinking about originated from China then became widespread to regions such as the Central Asian Steppes and the Korean peninsula.
OgodaiHan
2022-10-14 19:17:13 +0000 UTCLike most of the pop culture "ninja" weapons, nunchacku were actually farming implements repurposed as weapons by peasants on Okinawa who weren't allowed to own swords. It was originally intended for threshing rice, but it turned out to also work for threshing heads ina pinch.
The Narrator
2022-10-14 18:53:43 +0000 UTCWinter storm on the LLBD bingo card?
Travis W
2022-10-14 13:10:20 +0000 UTCWinter bad, Ski Good. Snowboard... Chaotic neutral?
Jonas Schwammberger
2022-10-14 09:59:06 +0000 UTCNunchuks, as far as I know, are shortend versions of flails, which were widely used as cavalry and infantry weapons in the region.
OgodaiHan
2022-10-14 08:49:40 +0000 UTCWinter bad
Kelvin
2022-10-14 07:02:22 +0000 UTChe pulled a dale gribble and threw pocket pyrite in their eyes.
therpal
2022-10-14 06:51:08 +0000 UTCSteppe stories are always exciting, really gets the juices flowing
OgodaiHan
2022-10-14 06:03:41 +0000 UTC
