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The History Chap Podcast

Chris Green

214 episodes

3 weeks ago

Send me a message This is Part 2 of my story about the battle (and fall) of Hong Kong in December 1941. Listen to Part 1 Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese invaded the British colony of Hong Kong on the 8th December 1941. Smashing through the wonderfully named Gin Drinkers Line (which British military planners had optimisti...

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Send me a message This is Part 2 of my story about the battle (and fall) of Hong Kong in December 1941. Listen to Part 1 Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese invaded the British colony of Hong Kong on the 8th December 1941. Smashing through the wonderfully named Gin Drinkers Line (which British military planners had optimisti...

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Episodes (20/214)

The History Chap Podcast

The Battle of Hong Kong 1941 (Part 2)

Send me a message This is Part 2 of my story about the battle (and fall) of Hong Kong in December 1941. Listen to Part 1 Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese invaded the British colony of Hong Kong on the 8th December 1941. Smashing through the wonderfully named Gin Drinkers Line (which British military planners had optimisti...

3 weeks ago

31 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

220: The Battle of Hong Kong 1941 (Part 1)

Send me a message The battle for Hong Kong fought between the 8th and 25th December 1941, is overshadowed by the British defeat at Singapore and thus is often a forgotten chapter in World War 2. And yet, the British, Indian, and Canadian troops plus local volunteers who fought a grim and bitter battle against a Japanese enemy that outnumbered them is one that should be told and remembered. It is the story of the Gin Drinkers defensive line, a Dunkirk-style evac...

3 weeks ago

27 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

219: Marlborough: The General Who Never Lost A Battle

Send me a message John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough: The General Who Never Lost A Battle. Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, is widely regarded as Britain's greatest general — yet his remarkable story remains surprisingly unfamiliar to many. The Duke of Marlborough won five major pitched battles against Louis XIV's armies, including ...

1 month ago

34 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

218: Lawrence of Arabia - The Truth Behind The Legend

Send me a message Lawrence of Arabia: The Truth Behind The Legend Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Who was Lawrence of Arabia? The 1962 David Lean film, starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, introduced millions to the legend of T.E. Lawrence - the British officer who led the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in World War One. But how much of that legend is true? This episod...

1 month ago

30 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

217: Recipe For Disaster: The British Army's Officer Purchase System

Send me a message The British Army's Officer Purchase System 1664-1871 Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation For over two centuries, from 1660 to 1871, the British Army allowed officers to buy their commissions and promotions. Wealthy aristocrats like Lord Cardigan could purchase their way to command without ever seeing battle, leading to disasters like the Charge of the Light Brigade. ...

1 month ago

31 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

216: Seringapatam 1799: Storming The Tiger's Fortress

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. The British victory over Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore", during the 4th Anglo-Mysore War, at the battle of Seringapatam 1799. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

1 month ago

34 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

215: The Rum Rebellion: British Army Coup

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. On 26 January 1808, four hundred soldiers of the New South Wales Corps marched on Government House in Sydney and arrested Governor William Bligh. This was the Rum Rebellion - the only successful military coup in Australian history. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

1 month ago

21 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

214: The Mutiny On The Bounty: What Really Happened?

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. The Mutiny on the Bounty is one of history's most famous naval rebellions, but what most people know comes from Hollywood, not history. The films of 1935, 1962, and 1984 portrayed William Bligh as a tyrannical monster and Fletcher Christian as a heroic champion of the oppressed. But the real story is far more nuanced—and far more interesting. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make ...

2 months ago

18 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

213: Edgehill: The Most Haunted Battlefield in Britain?

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. EDGEHILL: THE MOST HAUNTED BATTLEFIELD IN BRITAIN? In December 1642, just weeks after the Battle of Edgehill, terrified villagers in Warwickshire reported seeing an entire battle being fought in the sky above their heads. Night after night, phantom armies clashed in the darkness—ghostly cavalry charges, spectral infantry formations, and the terrible sounds of dying men echoing across the frozen f...

2 months ago

14 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

212: What Happened to the Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade?

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. What happened to the survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, during the Crimean War? The answer is a tale of two fates. While some survivors found success and prosperity, others ended their days in workhouses and paupers' graves—a shocking reality that would eventually spark national outrage. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

2 months ago

19 minutes

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211: The Soldier Who Stole England's Crown Jewels

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. This is the story of the audacious theft of England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, by Thomas Blood, in 1671. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

2 months ago

14 minutes

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210: The British & Irish At The Alamo

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Did you know that one in eight of the defenders at the battle of the Alamo (Texas 1836) were actually born in the British Isles? This is their incredible and little-known story... Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

2 months ago

19 minutes

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209: Britain's Strangest Battle: Redcoats vs The Messiah

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. The Battle of Bossenden Wood, Kent 1838, when British redcoats took on farm workers led by a self-proclaimed Messiah. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

3 months ago

17 minutes

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208: General Grenfell Defeats Mahdists at Battle of Toski

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation On the 3rd August 1889, British general, Francis Grenfell, defeated a Mahdist invasion of Egypt at the battle of Toski. This is the story of that battle and of the general after whom Grenfell Tower in London was named. Support the show

3 months ago

15 minutes

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207: Besieged by the Zulus: Eshowe 1879

Send me a message Besieged by the Zulus: Eshowe 1879 Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation While the world knows about Rorke's Drift from the famous 1964 film "Zulu," another British garrison faced an even longer ordeal during the Anglo Zulu War of 1879. This is the story of the Siege of Eshowe - 71 days of isolation, disease, and determination deep in Zululand. Following the catastro...

3 months ago

23 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

206: The Forgotten Crimean War Battle That Was Fought In The Pacific

Send me a message The battle of Petropavlovsk 1854, during the Crimean War. A forgotten battle on Russia's remote Siberian Pacific coast. Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation In the summer of 1854, while the world's attention was focused on events in the Crimea, a combined British and French naval squadron was sailing towards the isolated Russian port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka ...

3 months ago

17 minutes

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205: The White Indian Mutiny 1858

Send me a message The forgotten story of the White Indian Mutiny. Following the Indian Sepoy Revolt, which began in 1857, the British government took over ruling India from the East India Company. As part of that transfer, they proposed that the European regiments within the EIC army would become part of the regular British army. Believing that their pay and promotion opportunities would be adversely impacted and the traditions of their old regiments (some older than almost all British army r...

3 months ago

14 minutes

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204: Dawn Attack on the Nile: The Battle of Firket 1896

Send me a message The Battle of Firket (also called the battle of Ferkeh or Firka), 7th June 1896, Sudan. It was the opening battle in General Kitchener's invasion of the Mahdist, fundametal Muslim state, that would end with his victory at the battle of Omdurman two years later. Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life. Ways You Can Support My Channel: Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

3 months ago

21 minutes

The History Chap Podcast

204: The Desert Rorke's Drift - The Battle of Mirbat 1972

Send me a message The Epic SAS battle in Oman - the battle of Mirbat 1972 Become A Patron Make A Donation In July 1972, nine SAS soldiers faced impossible odds in a forgotten battle that helped shape the Cold War. The Battle of Mirbat stands as one of the most extraordinary feats in British Army history - a modern-day Rorke's Drift where elite Special Forces held the line against overwhelming communist forces. Deep in the mountains of Oman's Dhofar province, a Marxist insurgency backed b...

4 months ago

19 minutes

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203: The Last Stand of the Shangani Patrol, 1893

Send me a message Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that bring British History to life. The Shangani Patrol: Major Wilson’s Last Stand Against Impossible Odds (1893) Become A Patron Make A Donation On December 4th, 1893, near the banks of the Shangani River in what is now Zimbabwe, fewer than 30 British soldiers under Major Allan Wilson made their final stand against over 3,000 Matabele warriors. Surrounded, outnumbered, and cut off from reinforcements by a raging ri...

4 months ago

28 minutes