Category: America: Secret Wars

022: How Al-Qaeda Invaded Georgia

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Akhmeta Municipality, home of the Pankisi Gorge, highlighted in Green via Wikimedia

The years immediately after 9/11 were a weird time. Every adult in the world went a little insane. The US and Putin’s Russia were intelligence allies. Al-Qaeda really was inside Georgia – just not that one. Trevor is joined by Roberto of altogether too many projects to discuss the Pankisi Gorge Crisis, and how US training and advisors helped combat both fundamentalist insurgents and anti-corruption protestors. Roberto is the host of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and co-host of Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) and Quest for Power.
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Leupp – Georgia and the War on Terrorism

Manning – Folklore and Terror in Georgia’s ‘Notorious’ Pankisi Gorge

The AP – Green Berets Land in Georgia For 2-Year Training Program

Bush – Presidential Letter, September 19, 2003

Bush – Presidential Letter, March 20, 2004

Cecire – How extreme are the Extremists? Pankisi Gorge as a Case Study

Civil.ge – Timeline-2005

Filkins – U.S. Entangled in Mystery of Georgia’s Islamic Fighters

GlobalSecurity.org – Georgia Train and Equip Program (GTEP)

Grennan – Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge and the Global War Against Terrorism

McGregor – Ricin Fever: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Pankisi Gorge

Menabde – Pankisi Gorge: A Resurgent Flashpoint in Georgia?

Myers – World Briefing\Europe: Georgia: Region Under Control

Quinn-Judge – The Surprise In the Gorge

Traynor – Georgia: US opens new front in war on terror

USDoS – Country Reports on Terrorism 2021: Georgia

Welt – Shaking up the System: Georgia and the War on Terror

021: The Pig War (Canadian Almost War 5)

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George Vancouver’s Map of the San Juan Islands, 1798
Charles Wilkes’ Map of the Oregon Country, 1845

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 5, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Pig War and the boundary disputes that gave us Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
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Unfortunately, production on this series has been a nightmare and the full bibliography was lost in a technical error (not realizing my laptop had disconnected from wifi and stopped auto-saving). Here is an abbreviated version:

Coleman – The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History
Shewmaker – Daniel Webster and the Oregon Question Available to Purchase
Polk – Inaugural Address
Polk – First Annual Message to Congress
Vancouver – A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America
Wilkes – Map of the Oregon Territory
Oregon Treaty, 1846
Treaty of Washington, 1871

20: The Creole Case (Canadian Almost War 4)

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Joseph Cinquez was the leader of a revolt among African slaves aboard the Spanish ship "Amistad" en route to Cuba in June 1839. The slaves seized control of the ship but were soon recaptured and charged with murder and piracy. This portrait was done while Cinquez (or "Cinque") awaited trial in New Haven, Connecticut. John Quincy Adams represented the Africans before the Supreme Court, and thanks to his eloquence, they were set free and allowed to return to Africa. Sheffield's portrait is sympathetic and informal. The text quotes Cinquez's sober and moving speech to his comrades on board ship after the mutiny. He said, "Brothers, we have done that which we purposed, our hands are now clean for we have Striven to regain the precious heritage we received from our fathers. . . . I am resolved it is better to die than to be a white man's slave . . ." Commissioned by the publisher of the New York "Sun," the print was described and advertised for sale in the account of the capture of the "Amistad," published in that newspaper's August 31, 1839 issue. (The "Sun" account, evidently erroneous in this detail, names the artist as "James" Sheffield.) The Library's impression of the lithograph was deposited for copyright the same day. - from Wikimedia Commons
Print portrait of Sengbeh Pieh (a.k.a. Joseph Cinquez) in The Sun, August 31, 1839. Possibly the same portrait that Madison Washington reportedly saw during his time in Philadelphia.

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage.
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Douglass – The Heroic Slave

Home – Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

Jervey and Huber – The Creole Affair

Jones – The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations

Momodu – The Creole Case

National Archives – The Amistad Case

Rediker – The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Sorrell and Berry – This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People

US DOS – The Amistad Case, 1839

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

019: The Patriot War (Canadian Almost War 3)

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The Battle of Saint-Eustache by Lord Charles Beauclerk, 1840

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 3, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Patriot War, a failed Canadian Revolution where the US somehow managed to fight and lose on both sides.
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Guillet – The lives and times of the patriots; an account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Bonthius – The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism with a Gun?

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Ducharme – Closing the Last Chapter of the Atlantic Revolution

Forcese – Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War

Kilbourn – The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada

Kinchen – The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters

Read – The Rising in Western Upper Canada 1837-8: The Duncombe Revolt and After

Sewell: Mackenzie: A Political Biography

Waxman – The Caroline Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense

018: The Aroostook War (Canadian Almost War 2)

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Map of the Aroostook Border dispute (and Indian Stream) via Wikimedia

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 2, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Aroostook War, a conflict between the United States, British New Brunswick, and the forces of nature.
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Aroostook War Songs:
Greenwood & Burns – Aroostook War Fighting Song

Wallace House – The Soldier Song (Aroostook War) 

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Campbell and Campbell – The Aroostook War of 1839

Carroll – The Passionate Canadians: The Historical Debate about the Eastern Canadian-American Boundary

Maine Council – Aroostook War: HIstorical Sketch and Roster of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men

Meander Maine – The Pork and Beans War

Paradis – John Baker and the Republic of Madawaska

Perry – “Maine and Her Soil or Blood!” Political Rhetoric and Spatial Identity During the Aroostook War in Maine

Live Show At Intelligent Speech!!!

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Communes, Cults, and Caliphs: Battles Against Private Property in Ancient Iran Left to right: Babak Khorramdin, the court of Khosrow Anushirvan, and a Qizilpash warrior

Intelligent Speech 2025 is coming! The event will feature a gathering of excellent history podcasters THIS SATURDAY. That’s FEBRUARY 8, 2025 at 10:00am US Eastern Time for an all day event featuring presentations, panels, and live Q&A with a ton of history podcasts. If that doesn’t convince you, this episode is last year’s History of Persia Presentation. Get those tickets ASAP!!!
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017: The Republic of Indian Stream (Canadian Almost War 1)

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The bust of Luther Parker we look at during the episode via Wikimedia (edited by Trevor Culley)
Map of the Indian Stream region via Wikimedia

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 1, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the fascinating little Republic of Indian Stream.
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Brown – The Struggle for the Indian Stream Territory
Keedy – The Constitutions of The State of Franklin, The Indian Stream Republic and The State of Deseret
Showerman – The Indian Stream Republic and Luther Parker
Tsai – America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community

016: Occupation and Genocide in Croatia

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The Loggia of Trogir, c. 1910

Trevor is joined by Aurora and Roberto from Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) to form an unholy alliance of altogether too many podcasts and discuss how the United States occupied a slice of the Croatian coast after World War 1 and helped the newly formed Yugoslavia fend off Italian nationalists. Also, the Italians invent fascism along the way.
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Davidonis 1943 – American Naval Mission in the Adriatic, 1918-1921

Davidonis 1945 – American Naval Mission In The Adriatic, 1918-1921

Field – Split, 1919

Hughes-Hallett – Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War

Imperial Valley Press 27  – Knox Queries About Marines

Jakir – Reactions in Dalmatia to the Treaty of Rapallo 1920

James – Says Serb Troops Recaptured Trogir

Morning Press 48.23 – U.S. Navy Ousts Italians From Dalmation City

NHHC – NH 111504

Nye – Dalmatia, Centre of War’s Shifting Spotlight

NYT – U.S. Marines Saved Italians At Trogir

NYT – Trogir Recovered Without A Fight By Olympia’s Men

San Luis Obispo Daily Telegram 178 – Senate Wants Facts As To Landing

Simonelli – The lions’ retaliation: D’Annunzio and the italian nationalist mythology in Dalmatia

015: Teresa Urrea and the Yaqui Revolt

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Teresa Urrea la Santa de Cabora, c. 1900

Trevor was joined by Anthony from Disastrous History (@DisastrousHstry) to discuss the history of the Yaqui people of modern Sonora, their conflicts with Mexico, when those clashes crossed the border, and the story of a magical prophetess-healer-saint-revolutionary.
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Fort Huachuca Museum – Huachuca Illustrated The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca Vol. 1
Fort Huachuca Museum – Huachuca Illustrated The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca Vol. 2Garcia – Desert immigrants: the Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920
Hu-DeHart – Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
Johnson – The Cyclopedic review of current history Vol. 6 1896
Miller – The Yaquis Become American Indians: The Process of Federal Tribal Recognition
Ruiz and Korrol – Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community
TTU – Early Research Into Yaquis Native Americans Had Support From West Texas Region 
Valdez – Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture
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014: Shinmiyangyo the ExtraForgotten Korean War Part 2

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The Sujagi of Eo Jae-yeon, captured and taken aboard the USS Colorado in 1871

Trevor is joined by Cody Reynolds of the Accidentally on Purpose network (https://linktr.ee/aopnetwork), the Imperfect Men Podcast (@imperifectmenpod), and We Effed Up (@WeEffedUp) to discuss how Americans desperately tried to force the Korean Kingdom of Joseon to trade in the 1800s. Tomb raiding, stupid battles, and sword fights ensue.
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Duvernay – Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea

Long – Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers…

Chung – General’s Flag Returns Home From US

Eckert, et al. – Korea Old and New: A History

GlobalSecurity – SS General Sherman Incident

Hamilton – Korea, (224-225)

Howe – The Forgotten “Weekend War” A Comprehensive Account of the 1871 Korean Expedition

Hwang – American campaigns for flag’s return

IRFA – Stanislas Féron

Neff – The tiger hunters

Oppert – A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea

Shields – US’ 1871 invasion of Ganghwa Island

Tyson – Marine Amphibious Landing in Korea, 1871

US Army – Korean Campaign 1870, Full-Text Citations