Luke BallWill the real last samurai please stand up?The Battle of Shiroyama, the final stand of the Satsuma Rebellion, which effectively brought an end to the samurai class on 24 September…Sep 29, 2022Sep 29, 2022
Luke BallThree Hundred AragviansThe final stand of three hundred highlanders from the Aragvi valley, an epic encounter that happened on 11 September 1795, when Georgia was…Sep 9, 2022Sep 9, 2022
Luke BallThe Siege of SzigetvárThe battle that supposedly saved Western civilisation, which started on 6 August 1566, when a huge Ottoman army changed its course to put…Aug 4, 2022Aug 4, 2022
Luke BallThe Taiping Rebellion and the Fall of NankingThe fall of Nanking, the capital of the unrecognised rebel state in China, on 19 July 1864, which finally brought an end to the bloodiest…Jul 21, 2022Jul 21, 2022
Luke BallCascading effects and the Battle of ConcepciónThe final stand of seventy seven Chileans high up in the Andes against a Peruvian force seventeen times their size on 9–10 July 1882.Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Luke BallThe stolen village of BaltimoreThe almost forgotten story of the 107 English settlers who were stolen from Ireland by North African pirates on 20 June 1631.Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Luke BallThe Night Attack at TârgovișteVlad the Impaler’s famous night attack against the Ottoman Empire on 17 June 1462.Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Luke BallRage against the system — the JacquerieThe peasant uprising that traumatised French aristocracy, a brief but violent groundswell that collapsed on 9–10 June 1358.Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Luke BallFor money and a title — Betrayal at AntiochHow one man’s betrayal led to the fall of the mighty fortress of Antioch on 3 June 1098.Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Luke BallMystic Massacre and the Puritans genocidal warThe near annihilation of a powerful and prosperous Native American tribe on 26 May 1637.Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
