The History Chap Podcast
Join Chris Green - The History Chap - as he explores the stories behind British history - the great events, the forgotten stories and the downright bizarre!Chris is a historian by training, and has a way of bringing history to life by making it relevant, interesting and entertaining.www.thehistorychap.com
Episodes
214 episodes
216: Seringapatam 1799: Storming The Tiger's Fortress
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 Suppor...
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215: The Rum Rebellion: British Army Coup
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 ...
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214: The Mutiny On The Bounty: What Really Happened?
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...
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213: Edgehill: The Most Haunted Battlefield in Britain?
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 report...
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212: What Happened to the Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade?
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 s...
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211: The Soldier Who Stole England's Crown Jewels
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:
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210: The British & Irish At The Alamo
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...
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209: Britain's Strangest Battle: Redcoats vs The Messiah
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:
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208: General Grenfell Defeats Mahdists at Battle of Toski
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.Ways You Can Support My Channel:Become A Patron
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207: Besieged by the Zulus: Eshowe 1879
Besieged by the Zulus: Eshowe 1879Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.Ways You Can Support My Channel:Become A Pa...
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206: The Forgotten Crimean War Battle That Was Fought In The Pacific
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 Channe...
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205: The White Indian Mutiny 1858
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 Euro...
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204: Dawn Attack on the Nile: The Battle of Firket 1896
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 O...
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204: The Desert Rorke's Drift - The Battle of Mirbat 1972
The Epic SAS battle in Oman - the battle of Mirbat 1972Become A PatronMake A DonationI...
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203: The Last Stand of the Shangani Patrol, 1893
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 P...
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202: Irish Convict Rebellion in Australia 1804: The Castle Hill Rebellion
The Castle Hill Rebellion: When Irish Revolutionaries Fought British Redcoats in Australia (1804)Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
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201: When Hawaii Almost Became British...by Mistake!
Chris Green is The History Chap, telling stories from British history.This is the moment in 1843 when for 5 months the British occupied Hawaii.Not part of some master plan, but because a Royal Navy officer went way beyond his orde...
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200: 48,000 Shells in 2 Hours: Why Was Acre Attacked in 1840?
48,000 shells in 2 Hours: Why Was Acre Attacked in 1840?Become A PatronMake A Donation...
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199: Zulu's Greatest Injustice: The True Story of Henry Hook VC
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.The movie "Zulu"'s Greatest Injustice: The True Story of Henry Hook VC.Become A Pat...
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198: Britain's Forgotten First Victory In The Crimean War
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling forgotten stories from British history.The Forgotten Victory: Battle of Bomarsund 1854 - The Baltic Campaign That Shaped the Crimean War
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197: Britain's Forgotten Chinese Territory: Weihaiwei
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling forgotten stories from British history.This is the story of Britain's forgotten naval port in China - Weihaiwei (1898-1930)Become A ...
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196: General Charles Gordon - the reality vs the film “Khartoum”
The 1966 film "Khartoum" tells the story of General Charles Gordon and his battle with the Mahdi in Sudan.But how close to historical reality was the film?Chris Green is The History Chap; telling forgotten stories from British histo...
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195: When Britain Fought Russia: The Tsar's Fatal Miscalculation
Why did Britain end up fighting Russia in the Crimean War, 1854-56?Chris Green, is the History Chap; telling forgotten stories from British history.Become A Patron
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