EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

Alberta born but lived some formative years in Letterkenny kind of rural Ontario, kudos to Quin for recognizing and explaining the different kinds of history Canadian children are taught. It's so deeply engrained it's difficult to articulate sometimes. Great episode Quin! Hoping for more Canadian content with you!

Cook seems to be the 17th century Kadaffi.

As a half-Canadian (but only ever lived in the U.S.), I do enjoy learning about Canadian history. I'm actually half Quebecois; my grandparents crossed the divide, so to speak (my grandmother was from a French-speaking family, my grandfather English). They got married in the 1950s, so it was less of a thing than it might have been, but my limited understanding is that it was still mildly scandalous.

As an English-speaking Ontarian, I remember learning about this, but it's been too long to remember if anyone was treated like a hero. I can confirm that we didn't learn about how incompetent Montcalm was though.

The battlefield is now a really cool national park where every year a huge summer festival is held.

Nanaimo bars are from Vancouver Island where Nanaimo is

“Why are you eating my fuck baguette” would make for a killer tee shirt

Tom's Dutch accent sounds like Sean Connery

I’m losing it at the idea of a Québecazi attack

Nordiques, don’t you mean the Colorado Avalanche?

Really enjoyed the episode, great job Quinn! I'm a Franco-Ontarian, and while I don't entirely remember what I was taught, the vague idea/vibes of what I do remember learning are along the lines of "those dastardly anglos beat us and we fought honourably and then they murdered/expelled the acadians." I don't believe we ever learned about the atrocities Wolf had committed along the St Laurence or the sheer incompetence on the French side

For some reason I'm imagining someone wearing a Perry the platypus hat taking well taking a dump because shit just got serious

I just knew you weren’t gonna say anything bad about Temeraire 😂 Naomi Novik does actually have a series of what if Napoleon had dragons

As someone who lives in Ohio: Midwest showdown for Toledo. The game; battleship. Stakes: high. Mood: somber. Bathrooms: Unisex.

Quinn is a great guest host. 👍

Just here to say that Quinn is a wonderful addition to this extended universe.

Too bad the pirates of the Bahamas and Jamaica couldn't achieve solidarity.

My enemy is also Cook. In my city Melbourne they literally have something called Cooks Cottage. They dismantled his parents place in Yorkshire shipped it here and rebuilt it brick by brick in a public park. He never even lived there. Our cultural reckoning with Cook and colonialism is a massive fascy dog whistle issue here.

I'm from the far north living in the deep South, so nanaimo bars are very difficult to acquire. When you mentioned them my husband said "Oh, those are the things I'm not allowed to eat because I value our relationship"

As an Anglo Ontarian in French immersion at an English high school in the 2000s I was taught Montcalm was a tragic hero, Wolfe an idiot who got lucky/took an outrageous risk that payed off, and Vaudreuil an incompetent busybody civilian who should have stopped interfering in military decisions. Very interesting to hear a wildly different account.

Good job Quinn. Like the new variety. What ever happened to Nick, question for Joe. Been listening for a year and half so far but kind of lost on where nick went.

Boy does looting and pillaging keep soldiers busy!

Dragons in Napoleonic warfare is just the Temeraire book series by Naomi Novik

haha no way, about to go to my job right underneath the plains, can't wait listening to this eating my mcdonalds beside the plains!

Great job Quinn! However, the last battle of the Seven Years War in North America was the Battle of Signal Hill in Newfoundland on September 15, 1762.

Nanaimo bars are from Nanaimo lmfao

My grandfather was at the Battle of the Bulge and thought he got hit with a bullet only to discover it was actually a frozen piece of cow dung that got kicked up by a passing vehicle. I imagine that felt similar to getting hit by those very out of range musket balls.

Great episode!

Just sent a photo to my friend of a building near me in Bangkok that has an exterior design that makes it look like peeled layers, with the caption ‘buildings are like onions, they have layers’, then 10 minutes later Joe re-quotes it 🧐

Yo dude the new intro music SLAPS. Who is it?

I actually once read a book in german about napoleonic era dragon warfare, but sadly I forgot the name

Two things. While a weaponized T-Rex against grapeshot would be amazing. There’s a line in Jurassic World talking about having Velociraptors in Tora Bora, and I’ve thought a Raptor vs Bin Laden movie was needed from that. Second, if the Australian Aboriginals hadn’t killed off all the Megafauna in Australian tens of thousands of years ago, and instead bred and trained them, we could’ve seen British cavalry charges at Waterloo with some epic animals.