EARLY EPISODE: The Khivan Campaign of 1839
The 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
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Probably one of the best single episodes. Only about 10 made it back possibly. Only one British guy. Graveyard of Empires.
What’s the episode about brits in afghanistan called? I can’t find it
The Retreat From Kabul. A very early episode
Whenever 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
How exactly do you reach that conclusion?
The Russian army is a drunken incompetent brutal thieving war crimes machine across time and space.
There'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.
Cant get enough of this show by the way, thanks for several years of fantastic podding
Winter storm on the LLBD bingo card?
I thought the LLBD bingo card was just all squares filled with “it gets worse”
Nunchuks, as far as I know, are shortend versions of flails, which were widely used as cavalry and infantry weapons in the region.
Like 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.
Winter bad
Winter bad, Ski Good. Snowboard... Chaotic neutral?
he pulled a dale gribble and threw pocket pyrite in their eyes.
Steppe stories are always exciting, really gets the juices flowing