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Here is a list of the show Battle Field Dectectives on the History Channel.
Native American Wars: The Apache.
Airs on Saturday, July 16 at 11:00am ET
For over 300 years, the North American Apache tribes were remarkably successful, beating opponents who were wealthier, better armed, and apparently more organized. Apache warriors gained an unrivalled reputation as fighters. In this hour, historians explore two important battles to try and uncover the secrets of their success. Archaeologists and forensic scientists investigate and compare the weapons used by the Apache and their last enemy--the US Army. A military geologist unpicks clues to Apache use of the landscape itself to help defeat outsiders. And at the sites of the Battle of Cieneguilla (1854) and Hembrillo (1880), remote locations in New Mexico, we uncover tantalizing clues. But how did the Army eventually overpower the Apache? Battlefield Detectives reveals the answer. TVPG
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The Civil War: Antietam.
Airs on Saturday, July 23 at 11:00am ET
General Robert E. Lee's first invasion into the North ended in the Battle of Antietam--the bloodiest single day in the Civil War--and in all US history. Just 12 hours of fighting resulted in nearly 23,000 casualties. On September 17, 1862, two determined armies gathered near Sharpsburg, a quiet backwater near Antietam Creek in western Maryland. Union forces were desperate to repel the South's invasion of their territory. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, its back to the Potomac River, was fighting for its very existence. Much was at stake. But just why was Antietam such a terrible killing field? Now the latest forensic techniques are shedding new light on the question. Experts from the fields of archaeology, geology, weapons technology, and pathology investigate this uniquely horrific moment in American history. TVPG V
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The Civil War: Gettysburg.
Airs on Saturday, July 30 at 11:00am ET
July 1-3, 1863: Over three hot days, Union and Confederate forces clashed in and around a small Pennsylvania town. When the Battle of Gettysburg ended, the two exhausted sides had inflicted more than 50,000 casualties upon one another--the largest battle ever fought on American soil. The third day is considered the Confederacy's "high-water mark"--when General Robert E. Lee lost the decisive battle of the Civil War. But scientific battlefield evidence now suggests that by the time the artillery began firing that day, the Confederate fight was already doomed. And when Pickett's Charge--the famous full frontal attack against Union lines--got underway, the battle effectively was over. Experts in physics, geology, crowd control, and cartography join forces with military historians to better understand this epic battle. TVPG
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World War II: Operation Market Garden.
Airs on Saturday, August 6 at 11:00am ET
September 17, 1944: An Allied plan to drive deep behind enemy lines into German-held Holland begins. In history's largest airborne operation, more than 30,000 US, British, and Polish troops are dropped behind enemy lines to try to end WWII by Christmas. Devised by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Operation Market Garden was far from a decisive masterstroke--it was one of the worst Allied defeats of the war. The question is, why? Using innovative research on the ground over which the campaign was waged, we uncover new insights in the fields of intelligence, communications, weaponry, and terrain. Was it a daring plan that almost succeeded, or fatally flawed before it began? TVPG V
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Agincourt's Dark Secrets.
Airs on Saturday, August 13 at 11:00am ET
A battlefield investigation of Henry V's English victory over the French, made famous by William Shakespeare. The English were heavily outnumbered, battle-weary, retreating, and--according to contemporary chronicles--suffering from dysentery. Yet they still beat the French. How could this have happened? Was it simply the power of the English longbow? TVPG
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The Gallipoli Disaster.
Airs on Saturday, August 20 at 11:00am ET
The largest amphibious assault of WWI, it became the most public disaster of the Allied campaign, destroyed reputations, including those of Churchill and Kitchener, and created a war hero for the Turks--Kemal Ataturk, who later founded modern Turkey. Military historians have consistently blamed the Gallipoli disaster on commander incompetence, but we tell a different story. Did the Allied leadership ignore scientific experts? Was the campaign doomed to failure due to geographical reasons? TVPG
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World War I: The Somme.
Airs on Saturday, August 27 at 11:00am ET
During WWI, trenches and barbed wire ran across Europe from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. On July 1, 1916 at 7:30 a.m., after a week of artillery bombardment designed to destroy German barbed wire and concrete bunkers, 27 British divisions advanced on 16 German divisions. Expecting minor resistance, as they picked their way across no man's land, guns opened fire, shells burst overhead, and waves of men were gunned down. Almost 60,000 British were killed or wounded--a military catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. Filmed at the battlefield, in laboratories, and on firing ranges--archaeologists, military historians, and other experts, including metallurgists and geologists, conduct tests to replicate and understand the factors that turned one terrible day into the British Army's bloodiest. TVPG V
Native American Wars: The Apache.
Airs on Saturday, July 16 at 11:00am ET
For over 300 years, the North American Apache tribes were remarkably successful, beating opponents who were wealthier, better armed, and apparently more organized. Apache warriors gained an unrivalled reputation as fighters. In this hour, historians explore two important battles to try and uncover the secrets of their success. Archaeologists and forensic scientists investigate and compare the weapons used by the Apache and their last enemy--the US Army. A military geologist unpicks clues to Apache use of the landscape itself to help defeat outsiders. And at the sites of the Battle of Cieneguilla (1854) and Hembrillo (1880), remote locations in New Mexico, we uncover tantalizing clues. But how did the Army eventually overpower the Apache? Battlefield Detectives reveals the answer. TVPG
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The Civil War: Antietam.
Airs on Saturday, July 23 at 11:00am ET
General Robert E. Lee's first invasion into the North ended in the Battle of Antietam--the bloodiest single day in the Civil War--and in all US history. Just 12 hours of fighting resulted in nearly 23,000 casualties. On September 17, 1862, two determined armies gathered near Sharpsburg, a quiet backwater near Antietam Creek in western Maryland. Union forces were desperate to repel the South's invasion of their territory. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, its back to the Potomac River, was fighting for its very existence. Much was at stake. But just why was Antietam such a terrible killing field? Now the latest forensic techniques are shedding new light on the question. Experts from the fields of archaeology, geology, weapons technology, and pathology investigate this uniquely horrific moment in American history. TVPG V
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The Civil War: Gettysburg.
Airs on Saturday, July 30 at 11:00am ET
July 1-3, 1863: Over three hot days, Union and Confederate forces clashed in and around a small Pennsylvania town. When the Battle of Gettysburg ended, the two exhausted sides had inflicted more than 50,000 casualties upon one another--the largest battle ever fought on American soil. The third day is considered the Confederacy's "high-water mark"--when General Robert E. Lee lost the decisive battle of the Civil War. But scientific battlefield evidence now suggests that by the time the artillery began firing that day, the Confederate fight was already doomed. And when Pickett's Charge--the famous full frontal attack against Union lines--got underway, the battle effectively was over. Experts in physics, geology, crowd control, and cartography join forces with military historians to better understand this epic battle. TVPG
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World War II: Operation Market Garden.
Airs on Saturday, August 6 at 11:00am ET
September 17, 1944: An Allied plan to drive deep behind enemy lines into German-held Holland begins. In history's largest airborne operation, more than 30,000 US, British, and Polish troops are dropped behind enemy lines to try to end WWII by Christmas. Devised by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Operation Market Garden was far from a decisive masterstroke--it was one of the worst Allied defeats of the war. The question is, why? Using innovative research on the ground over which the campaign was waged, we uncover new insights in the fields of intelligence, communications, weaponry, and terrain. Was it a daring plan that almost succeeded, or fatally flawed before it began? TVPG V
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Agincourt's Dark Secrets.
Airs on Saturday, August 13 at 11:00am ET
A battlefield investigation of Henry V's English victory over the French, made famous by William Shakespeare. The English were heavily outnumbered, battle-weary, retreating, and--according to contemporary chronicles--suffering from dysentery. Yet they still beat the French. How could this have happened? Was it simply the power of the English longbow? TVPG
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The Gallipoli Disaster.
Airs on Saturday, August 20 at 11:00am ET
The largest amphibious assault of WWI, it became the most public disaster of the Allied campaign, destroyed reputations, including those of Churchill and Kitchener, and created a war hero for the Turks--Kemal Ataturk, who later founded modern Turkey. Military historians have consistently blamed the Gallipoli disaster on commander incompetence, but we tell a different story. Did the Allied leadership ignore scientific experts? Was the campaign doomed to failure due to geographical reasons? TVPG
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World War I: The Somme.
Airs on Saturday, August 27 at 11:00am ET
During WWI, trenches and barbed wire ran across Europe from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. On July 1, 1916 at 7:30 a.m., after a week of artillery bombardment designed to destroy German barbed wire and concrete bunkers, 27 British divisions advanced on 16 German divisions. Expecting minor resistance, as they picked their way across no man's land, guns opened fire, shells burst overhead, and waves of men were gunned down. Almost 60,000 British were killed or wounded--a military catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. Filmed at the battlefield, in laboratories, and on firing ranges--archaeologists, military historians, and other experts, including metallurgists and geologists, conduct tests to replicate and understand the factors that turned one terrible day into the British Army's bloodiest. TVPG V
