EARLY EPISODE: The Siege of Petropavlovsk
Added 2025-07-13 17:32:27 +0000 UTCIn this episode, Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss a lesser-known battle in the Crimean War in which the British attempt to capture a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula after getting massively lost at sea (in an era where this wasn't supposed to happen) and getting waylaid when the King of Hawai'i invited them to the barbecue. We are not making any of this up.
Sources:
JR Stone. RJ Crampton. 'A Disastrous Affair': The Franco-British Attack on Petropavlovsk. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/disastrous-affair-the-francobritish-attack-on-petropavlovsk-1854/D765F9B46DA8B5A0C6D55460466220A6Mark N Lardas. Petropavlosk: The Crimean War's Forgotten Battle. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/petropavlovsk-the-crimean-wars-forgotten-battle/
John Stephens. The Crimean War in the Far East. Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 3. No. 3 (1969)
Comments
Listened to this episode for the first time yesterday morning and then an earthquake hits Kamchatka. Sorry everyone, my b.
Aaron Zimmerman
2025-07-30 13:27:04 +0000 UTCIs this where the earth quake just hit?
Mark Laird
2025-07-30 11:10:46 +0000 UTC
