Battlefield Detectives

  • Premiered: Oct 2003
  • Episodes: 32
  • Followers: 2
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Season 1
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Custer's Last Stand
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Oct 04, 2003
The story of Custer's last stand is legendary. But did it really happen that way? Now Archaeologists using the skills of a crime scene investigation have finally begun to uncover the .. show full overview
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Oct 11, 2003
Researchers use satellite technology and archaelological finds to unearth the truth about what happened at Balaklava during the most celebrated battle of the Crimean War. How disastrous .. show full overview
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The Gallipoli Disaster
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Oct 18, 2003
Historians show how bad maps and worse intelligence produced the catastrophe of Gallipoli in 1915, and geologists reveal how terrain won the battle for the Turks and lost it for the .. show full overview
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What Sank the Armada?
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Oct 25, 2003
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Who Got Lucky at Hastings?
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Nov 08, 2003
The battlefield detectives set out to establish whether William the Conqueror's victory over King Harold at Hastings was really due to his leadership and the Normans' modern methods of fighting.
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Massacre at Waterloo
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Nov 09, 2003
Was there more to Napoleon's defeat than the tactics and fighting prowess of the Allies? Now the latest scientific techniques are shedding crucial light on Napoleon's campaign. And a .. show full overview
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Agincourt's Dark Secrets
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Nov 23, 2003
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Trafalgar's Fatal Flaw
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Dec 13, 2003
New research shows that Britain's most famous naval triumph, th 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, was anything but inevitable. Far from executing a carefully developed plan, Nelson sailed .. show full overview
1x9 Season finale
Vietnam's Bloody Secret
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Dec 27, 2003
Veterans from both sides explain how state-of-the-art weaponry and a huge budget failed to overcome the morale and inventiveness of teh communist forces. Experts show how America never .. show full overview
1x11
Native American Wars: The Apache
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Nov 19, 2004
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American Revolution: Battle of Monmouth
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Nov 26, 2004
The Battle of Monmouth took place on 28th June, 1778 in rural New Jersey. It was a key moment in the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and her thirteen rebellious colonies, and was .. show full overview
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American Revolution: Battle of Cowpens
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Dec 17, 2004
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Battle of the Bulge
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Nov 14, 2005
Just days before Christmas 1944, a quarter of a million German troops launched a shattering offensive through the Ardennes. Allied troops were taken completely off guard. They .. show full overview
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Battle of Britain
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Nov 21, 2005
For four long months during the summer of 1940, the RAF and the German Luftwaffe fought an epic battle in the blue skies and over the green fields of south east England. The Battle of .. show full overview
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Siege of Masada
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Dec 05, 2005
Two thousands years ago, Jewish freedom fighters defied the Roman legions at Masada for three years, choosing death over slavery. Or did they? We join a team of experts as they use .. show full overview
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American Revoluton: Oriskany
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Dec 05, 2005
The Revolutionary War's Battle of Oriskany, fought in 1777 in New York, is recalled.
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World War One: Jutland
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Dec 12, 2005
The Battle of Jutland between Britain and Germany was the largest naval action of all time. It was a confrontation that the British wanted. An opportunity to unleash their lethal super .. show full overview
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Stalingrad
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Dec 23, 2005
Far from being the final step in the conquest of the USSR, Stalingrad proved a bloodbath. Half a million Germans were killed and almost three times as many Russians lost their lives. .. show full overview
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The War of 1812: The Chesapeake and the Shannon
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Dec 23, 2005
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Pointe du Hoc
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Dec 30, 2005
Dawn on the 6th June, 1944. The largest invasion in history is underway. Four miles to the west of the Allied landings at Omaha Beach, a flotilla of landing craft head towards Hitler’s .. show full overview
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The Six Day War
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Dec 30, 2005
In 1967 the tension in the Middle East had neared boiling point. Border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan had increased massively during the early 1960s, with .. show full overview
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The Civil War: Shiloh
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Jan 02, 2006
Before dawn on Sunday April 6th 1862, shots rang out near Shiloh, on the west bank of the Tennessee River. A Confederate army had launched a surprise attack on their unsuspecting Union .. show full overview
1x29 Show finale
Battle of Big Hole
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Jan 30, 2006
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Siege of Alesia
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Nov 05, 2006
BattleField Detectives examines the strategy and the technology behind the Siege of Alesia a battle in 52 BC between Rome forces led by Julius Caesar and the Gallic tribes under .. show full overview

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