The History Chap Podcast

Send me a message The Battle of Blenheim 1704: Marlborough's first of four great victories over the French. 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 1704, the Duke of Marlborough embarked on one of the most audacious military campaigns in British history.  With Vienna under threat from a...

Send me a message Florence Nightingale, the "Lady with the lamp" is one of the most famous British women in history. But, what did she really achieve? 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 Buy a copy of Mary Seacole's autobiography  https://amzn.to/4qfNoox (this is my Amazon aff...

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 t...

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.    ...

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 m...

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 R...

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 wa...

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

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 Suppor...

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...

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...

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 nationa...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 a...

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 advers...

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: Bec...

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...

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 Mata...

Send me a message 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. Become A Patron Make A Donation On the morning of March 5th, 1804, the sound of musket fire echoed across the hills northwest of Sydney, marking the largest convict uprising in Australian history.  But the...

Send me a message 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 orders! Become A Patron Make A Donation Support the show

Send me a message 48,000 shells in 2 Hours: Why Was Acre Attacked in 1840? Become A Patron Make A Donation In November 1840, a British naval squadron unleashed one of the most devastating bombardments in military history against the ancient fortress of Acre.  In just over two hours, Admiral Sir Robert Stopford's fleet fired 48,000 shells, reducing walls that had withstood Napoleon himself to...