Bite Size Battles

<p>For ten months, France and Germany fought a battle of endurance, fire and survival. Discover how Verdun became of the deadliest and most symbolic battles of the First World War</p>

<p>Off the coast of Greece, rival fleets, rival futures and rival empires collided. Discover hoe Actium destroyed the Roman Republic and made Augustus master of the ancient world. </p>

<p>On a dusty Greek plain, a divided world united to break an empire. Discover how Plataea ended Persia's invasion and reshaped history. </p>

<p>Outnumbered, exhausted and surrounded, 150 men stood against thousands. Discover how Rorke's Drift became one of history's most famous last stands. </p>

<p>A King's last charge, a battlefield of betrayal and a crown found in the mud. Discover how Bosworth Field ended the Wars of the Roses and launched the Tudor Dynasty. </p>

<p>Three Roman legions march into a German forest and vanish. Discover how ambush, terrain and betrayal shattered Rome's dream of endless conquest and reshaped the future of Europe. </p>

<p>Three days of brutal fighting on the hills on Pennsylvania turn the tide of the American Civil War. From Little Round Top to Pickett's Charge, discover how Gettysburg shattered Confederate momentum and reshaped the...

<p>Outnumbered and outmatched, Scottish rebels led by William Wallace and Andrew de Moray lure an English army onto a narrow bridge. Discover the real story behind one of medieval history's smartest victories, and how...

<p>Before Bagdad fell, a small peninsula decided the fate of the invasion. British forces launched a lighting assault on Al-Faw to secure vital oil infrastructure and keep the war moving. This is the quiet first battle...

<p>In the scorching heat of 1187, Saladin lures the Crusader army away from water and into a fatal trap. Surrounded, exhausted and outmanoeuvred, the Kingdom of Jerusalem collapses in a single day- a defeat that...

<p>A bold cavalry commander rides straight into disaster as Lakota and Cheyenne warriors overwhelm the US army in one of the most famous battles in American history. This is the story of overconfidence, miscalculation...

<p>A starving, exhausted English army faces a massive French force in the muddy fields of Northern France. With the odds stacked against him Henry V bets everything on the power of the longbow and a perfect choice of...

<p>Outnumbered by tens of thousands, a lone Roman force makes its stand against Boudica's massive rebel army in one of the most dramatic clashes in ancient Britain. Discover the day an empire nearly lost Britain- and...

<p>Trapped on a remote hilltop base, thousands of US Marines faced relentless bombardment from a much larger North Vietnamese force in one of the wars most intense and iconic sieges. From jungle fog to B-52 strikes...

<p>Montgomery and Rommel face off in the North African desert as two armies clash in a battle that will decide the fate of Egypt, the Suez Canal and the the entire war in the Middle East. This is the turning point that...