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  • St Albans 1455: The Day the Roses Made War!

    St Albans 1455: The Day the Roses Made War!

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    🚩 In the spring of 1455, England stood on a knife’s edge. After years of political infighting, mistrust, and royal instability, the kingdom braced itself for open conflict between two of its most powerful noble factions. What had begun as court intrigue and whispered conspiracy was now poised to erupt into war.

    At the heart of the storm stood the fragile figure of King Henry VI, a monarch whose bouts of mental illness and indecisive rule had left a dangerous power vacuum. Into that vacuum stepped Richard, Duke of York, a prince of royal blood with a claim to the throne and growing support among the realm’s discontented nobles.

    At St Albans, a decisive blow could shift the balance of power in the realm and set the precedent for noble rebellion or royal repression. Across England, nobles watched, cities held their breath, and common folk whispered that civil war had finally come.

    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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    Filmstro

    📚 Sources:
    St Albans 1455: The Anatomy of a Battle – Andrew Boardman (2024)
    The First Battle of St. Albans – Andrew Boardman (2006)
    ‘Politics and the Battle of St Albans 1455’ – C.A.J. Armstrong (1960)
    The Battles of St Albans – Peter Burley, Michael Elliott and Harvey Watson (2007)
    Philip A. Haigh – The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses
    Terence Wise and Gerry Embleton – The Wars of the Roses

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  • Fight for the Roman Empire begins – Battle of Bedriacum, 69 AD

    Fight for the Roman Empire begins – Battle of Bedriacum, 69 AD

    🚩 In 69 AD, the Roman Empire tore itself apart. Nero’s suicide ended the Julio-Claudian dynasty, plunging Rome into a year of chaos—the Year of the Four Emperors. Galba seized power, but his austerity bred hatred; Otho murdered him for the throne. Yet his rule was short-lived, as Vitellius, a brutish general from Germania, marched on Rome. Their clash at the First Battle of Bedriacum was decisive. Otho, defeated and despondent, took his own life.

    But fate had yet another contender: Vespasian, a seasoned general commanding Roman legions in Judaea. His forces crushed Vitellius at the Second Battle of Bedriacum, dragging Rome out from the fires of civil war. Vespasian founded the Flavian dynasty, marking a clean break from the decadence of the Julio-Claudians.

    This transition mattered. The Julio-Claudians ruled by birthright, often spiraling into tyranny. The Flavians rose through merit and military power, stabilizing an empire teetering on ruin. The principate was no longer the domain of emperors born into it — it was now earned by those who could hold it. Rome, bloodied but unbroken, had reinvented itself.

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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    EpidemicSound
    Filmstro

    📚 Sources:
    The Histories – Tacitus (2009)
    The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present, 2nd Revised Edition – Richard Ernest Dupuy & Trevor N.Dupuy (1989)

    #ancient #documentary #history

  • Towton, 1461 – Britain’s Bloodiest Battle – Wars of the Roses

    Towton, 1461 – Britain’s Bloodiest Battle – Wars of the Roses

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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    Filmstro
    All this scoring action – Kevin MacLeod

    📚 Sources:
    Christopher Gravet & Graham Turner – Towton 1461: England’s Bloodiest Battle (2003)
    Philip A. Haigh – From Wakefield to Towton: The Wars of the Roses (2001)
    Edward Hall, Chronicle
    Michael Hicks – The Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 (2003)
    John Sadler – Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field, 1461 (2011)

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  • Battle of Bosworth, 1485 – Fall of the Last King and a dynasty that ruled for 331 years!

    Battle of Bosworth, 1485 – Fall of the Last King and a dynasty that ruled for 331 years!

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

    📝 Writing by Damien Peters

    📷 Green screen footage by Green Screen Magic https://www.youtube.com/@greenscreenmagic

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    EpidemicSound.com
    Filmstro
    Impact Allegretto – Kevin MacLeod

    📚 Sources:
    Works cited:
    Primary Sources:
    Dominic Mancini – The Usurpation of Richard III
    Polydore Vergil – Historiae Anglicae

    📚 Secondary Sources:
    Phil Caradice – Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor
    Glenn Ford and Ann Curry – Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered
    Michael K. Jones – Bosworth 1485: The Battle that Transformed England
    Nicholas Michael and Gerry Embleton – Bosworth 1485
    Mike Ingram – Battle Story: Bosworth 1485
    Michael Hicks – Wars of the Roses 1455 – 1485
    Philip A. Haigh – The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses
    Charles Derek Ross – Richard III
    Terence Wise and Gerry Embleton – The Wars of the Roses

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  • Chancellorsville, 1863 – Robert E. Lee’s Greatest Battle – American Civil War

    Chancellorsville, 1863 – Robert E. Lee’s Greatest Battle – American Civil War

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

    🚩 Many thanks to Professor Andrew J. Mitchell for his excellent research and writing.

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    🖼 Image credits:
    Battle of Fredericksburg–the Army o.t. Potomac crossing the Rappahannock in the morning of Dec. 13′ 1862, under t. comd. of Gen’s Burnside, Sumner, Hooker & Franklin – Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZC4-1757) https://lccn.loc.gov/91482051

    Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862 – LC-DIG-pga-06131 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-3365 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-1649 (b&w film copy neg.) https://lccn.loc.gov/90709058

    📚 Sources:
    Gary Gallagher, Chancellorsville: The Battle & Its Aftermath. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

    T. Glenn Pait and Matthew Helton, “The crippled brain that prolonged the Civil War: General Joseph Hooker’s concussions at Chancellorsville.” Journal of Neurosurgery. 53: 3. (September 2002), https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.6.FOCUS22210.

    Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).

    Carl Smith, Chancellorsville: Jackson’s Lightning Strike. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004).

    #civilwar #history #documentary

  • How did the Scottish clan system collapse?

    How did the Scottish clan system collapse?

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    🚩 Why Did the Scottish Clan System Collapse? Many pinpoint the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746 as the moment where everything changed for Scotland’s clan system, as King George’s troops crushed the Jacobite rebellion. In what today might be considered ethnic cleansing, the ruling King of England ordered all supporters of the Jacobite cause be slaughtered, including many of the clans that populated the Scottish Highlands. This was followed by the notorious Highland Clearances and bitter disputes over land ownership, during which any final traces of Highland clans were forced on mass to the sea coast, the Lowlands or abroad.

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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  • Battle of Forum Gallorum, 43 BC ⚔️ The Rise of Caesar Augustus (Part 1)

    Battle of Forum Gallorum, 43 BC ⚔️ The Rise of Caesar Augustus (Part 1)

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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    #caesar #rome #augustus

  • Battle of Strasbourg, 357 AD ⚔️ Julian saves the Western Roman Empire

    Battle of Strasbourg, 357 AD ⚔️ Julian saves the Western Roman Empire

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