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Military Blunders & Miracles

Military Blunders & Miracles

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Military Blunders & Miracles opens with a scout walking straight toward enemy lines until machinegun fire erupts at three to five yards — and that single image tells you everything about what this military podcast does with war.

This is a documentary podcast built on true military stories, one complete history reconstructed per episode from war diaries, after-action reports, and the accounts of men who were actually there. No host chiming in with commentary, no filler between segments — just the events themselves, rebuilt scene by scene: the decision, the chaos, the cost. You get the full arc of a battle or a single desperate hour, told with enough detail that you can feel the mud, the heat, the seconds before contact.

The subject matter ranges wide across military history but stays anchored to the same question every time — how do ordinary men survive impossible situations, and how do military commanders' choices, good or catastrophic, decide who lives. You will hear how seven thousand men had seventy-two hours and no escape at the Bismarck Sea, how two hundred men bought an army time at Arundel, how a runway at Henderson Field refused to die under constant military assault, how a port at Cherbourg was won and then destroyed within an hour, and how one admiral defied direct military orders during the fight for Manila. Elsewhere, ULTRA intelligence shapes a reckless leap by MacArthur, and soldiers at Peleliu simply refuse to stop fighting long after the odds turn against them. These are not textbook summaries — they are close, human reconstructions of military decisions made under fire.

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  • The six guns fired high - did Marmaduke's men make it?

    The six guns fired high - did Marmaduke's men make it?
    Sep 12 2026
    A Union battery fires six artillery pieces at the Marais des Cygnes mounds at dawn, but every shot overshoots - did Marmaduke’s men escape in time?

    The six guns fired high - did Marmaduke's men make it?

    In this episode we lay out the movements, orders, and miscalculations on the morning of October 25, 1864, as Marmaduke’s rearguard held the mounds while Price’s army tried to withdraw. What decisions and errors turned a planned attack into a disappearance that left a camp abandoned?

    Date: October 25, 1864
    Person: Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke
    Location: Marais des Cygnes River, Linn County, Kansas
    Event: Rearguard action after the Battle of Westport
    Force size: More than two thousand men in Marmaduke’s command

    - Six three-inch ordnance rifles opened fire at 4:00 a.m., each aimed with a fifteen-degree elevation.
    - Major General James Blunt wanted to flank, but Major General Samuel Curtis ordered a frontal assault.
    - Brigadier General John Sanborn led the attack after Major General Alfred Pleasonton delegated and rested.
    - The Confederate camp showed warm coals, half-butchered livestock, and abandoned cooking over embers when Union troops arrived.
    - Price’s campaign began September 19 with 13,000 cavalry and aimed to spark uprising, divert Union troops, and influence the 1864 presidential election.

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    19 min
  • The Day Two Loaded Howitzers Surrendered Without Firing at Nineveh

    The Day Two Loaded Howitzers Surrendered Without Firing at Nineveh
    Sep 10 2026
    A Confederate brigade at a ford with two howitzers thinks the enemy is repelled - but Union cavalry nears. Did they make it in time?

    The Day Two Loaded Howitzers Surrendered Without Firing at Nineveh

    In this episode, we set the scene on November 12, 1864: roads, orders, and the decisions that put a brigade on the Front Royal Pike with two howitzers ready to fire. We follow the movements, misreadings, and timings that turned a prepared position into a rout - and ask how misperception and timing changed everything.

    Date: November 12, 1864
    Location: Front Royal Pike near Nineveh, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
    Person: Brigadier General John McCausland
    Person: Brigadier General William H. Powell
    Event: Eight-mile Union cavalry approach that captured two howitzers

    - McCausland posted dismounted skirmishers across the pike and into the fields, creating a screen that looked like a prepared defense.
    - After initial contact, Colonel William Badger Tibbits’ First Brigade pressed, then pulled back, reinforcing McCausland’s belief the enemy had withdrawn.
    - Sheridan’s intelligence had Powell’s Second Brigade already moving south: three regiments trotting eight miles down the pike with Spencer repeating rifles.
    - McCausland’s assignment was to guard the Front Royal Pike as Early’s “insurance policy” for a safe eastern corridor back to New Market.
    - The brigade held two twelve‑pound howitzers loaded and ready while Union cavalry under Powell closed the distance from the north.

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    18 min
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