Send us a text "In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years..." - Mark Twain In this episode of The Hungry Historian, we dive into one of the darkest and most disturbing chapters of colonial history: the reign of King Leopold II over the Congo Free State. What began as a supposed humanitarian mission quickly descended into a brutal system of forced labour, mutilation, and terr...
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Send us a text "In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years..." - Mark Twain In this episode of The Hungry Historian, we dive into one of the darkest and most disturbing chapters of colonial history: the reign of King Leopold II over the Congo Free State. What began as a supposed humanitarian mission quickly descended into a brutal system of forced labour, mutilation, and terr...
There's Something Happening Here: The Vietnam War - Part I - The Ho Chi Minh Trail Mix
The Hungry Historian
49 minutes
10 months ago
There's Something Happening Here: The Vietnam War - Part I - The Ho Chi Minh Trail Mix
Send us a text “Just as Rome civilised the barbarians beyond its borders, we too have a duty to extend French culture and religion to the backwards peoples of the world.” - Paul Doumer, President of France On 8 March 1965, 3,500 US Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam. This marked the beginning of the American ground war in Vietnam. It's important to distinguish this as the ground war because as you'll find out, this wasn't the start of the Vietnam War as it was often historic...
The Hungry Historian
Send us a text "In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years..." - Mark Twain In this episode of The Hungry Historian, we dive into one of the darkest and most disturbing chapters of colonial history: the reign of King Leopold II over the Congo Free State. What began as a supposed humanitarian mission quickly descended into a brutal system of forced labour, mutilation, and terr...
