Hosted by Mick Prictor · EN · 23 episodes
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260+ battlefields on six continents. 2,500 years of conflict. I have walked the ground on every one of them. And I am still exploring!A military history resource like no other.Original analysis drawn from primary sources, GIS terrain analysis, and fieldwork on every battlefield covered on this podcast. Deep dives into the battles, campaigns, and tactical innovations that defined the conduct of warfare — from ancient warfare to the modern era.From the Pass of Thermopylae to Frederick the Great’s Silesian campaigns, Caesar’s battles for Gaul to the jungles of Vietnam. I have walked every one of them. BattlefieldTravels goes where the secondary sources don’t.The podcast is produced from original research by a retired Australian Army officer, former Black Hawk pilot, and doctoral researcher at the Australian National University — bringing four decades of operational experience and rigorous primary source scholarship to military history that is too often told at second hand.The full ar
Mick Prictor hosts Battlefield Travels, a history show with 23 episodes published.
This episode examines one of history's most famous last stands — the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, where King Leonidas of Sparta and a small Greek coalition held the narrow coastal pass of the 'Hot Gates' against Xerx
This episode examines one of the most contested questions in Jacobite War historiography — did the Duke of Cumberland's army use a modified bayonet drill at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746, and does the evidence
This episode examines the Battle of Chancellorsville from 30 April to 6 May 1863, Robert E. Lee's most audacious victory of the American Civil War and a masterclass in aggressive manoeuvre against a superior force. Gener
This episode examines the Battle of Cowpens on 17 January 1781, one of the most tactically sophisticated engagements of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rare examples in military history of a deliberate doub
This episode examines the Dalton Gang raid on Coffeyville, Kansas on 5 October 1892, the most dramatic bank robbery in the history of the American West, and the event that ended the Dalton Gang in a single fifteen-minute
This episode examines the First Battle of Elephant Pass from 10 July to 9 August 1991 , the largest single battle of the Sri Lankan Civil War and one of the most intense siege operations in modern Asian military history.
This episode examines Operation Hirondelle, the French airborne raid on Lang Son, 17-18 July 1953, one of the most audacious deep penetration operations of the Indochina War and a remarkable demonstration of French airbo
This episode examines the Siege of Fort William Henry in August 1757, one of the most dramatic and controversial engagements of the French and Indian War, and the event that inspired James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of t
This episode examines the Sieges of Kerak Castle, the series of military confrontations between 1183 and 1188 that made this Crusader fortress in modern Jordan one of the most strategically contested strongholds of the t
This episode examines the Siege of Alesia in 52 BC, the decisive engagement of Caesar's Gallic Wars and one of the most remarkable feats of military engineering in ancient history. Facing the Gallic confederation under V
This episode examines Operation Kingpin: the Son Tay Raid of 21 November 1970, planned and rehearsed under the code name Operation Ivory Coast. One of the most audacious special operations missions of the Vietnam War. A
This episode examines Operation Deadstick, the glider assault on the Caen Canal and Orne River bridges in the opening minutes of D-Day, 6 June 1944. Six Horsa gliders carrying D Company, 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buc
This episode examines the Ambush at Bắc Lệ on 23 June 1884, the skirmish in northern Tonkin that ended French diplomatic negotiations with China and triggered the Sino-French War of 1884-1885. A French column of approxim
This episode examines the Battle of the Little Bighorn on 25-26 June 1876, the most iconic engagement of the Great Sioux War and the most analysed military disaster in American history. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstron
This episode examines the Battle for La Fière Causeway, 6-9 June 1944, one of the most savage small-unit actions of the entire Normandy campaign and one of the least known. The La Fière causeway crossed the flooded Merde
This episode examines the Battle of Suomussalmi and the destruction of the Soviet 44th Division on the Raate Road, the defining engagement of Finland's Winter War of 1939-1940 and one of the most complete tactical defeat
This episode examines the capture of Aqaba on 6 July 1917, the audacious operation that transformed T.E. Lawrence from a liaison officer into a strategic architect of the Arab Revolt and established the Hejaz Arab Army a
This episode examines the Battle of Polygon Wood, 26 September 1917, the second of General Plumer's methodical bite-and-hold offensives during the Third Battle of Ypres, and one of the most tactically successful Allied o
This episode examines the Battle of Franklin on 30 November 1864, one of the most devastating and tactically inexplicable engagements of the American Civil War. It was the battle that effectively destroyed the Confederat
This episode examines the Battle of Rocroi on 19 May 1643, the engagement that ended Spanish military supremacy in Europe and announced the emergence of France as the dominant continental power of the seventeenth century
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