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Back to Search84. A Tale of Two Nurses: Seacole & Nightingale
Season 4 Episode 13
The Lady with the Lamp, the great nurse who forever changed public health for the better: Florence Nightingale lives large in the national consciousn…
2 years, 7 months ago
83. The Charge of the Light Brigade
Season 4 Episode 12
The Crimean War continues to drag on. The allies' siege of Sevastopol is grinding to a stalemate. The Russians seek to counterattack to tip the balan…
2 years, 7 months ago
82. Crimea: The War on Repeat
Season 4 Episode 11
A slow grind of sieges and massacres. Long distance bombardments and gruelling inch-by-inch trench warfare. Battles for Sevastopol, Odessa, and contr…
2 years, 7 months ago
81. The Graveyard of Empires
Season 4 Episode 10
After the calamitous retreat from Kabul left thousands of British dead, the East India Company wants revenge. They will call upon the Army of Retribu…
2 years, 7 months ago
80. 1842: The Retreat from Kabul
Season 4 Episode 9
As the British occupation of Kabul collapses, the troops flee. What follows is one of the darkest events in British imperial history. A treacherous j…
2 years, 7 months ago
79. Invading Afghanistan: The Return of a King
Season 4 Episode 8
It is 1839 and Britain has declared its intention: to invade Afghanistan and return Shah Shuja to the throne. Despite its vast size, the British inva…
2 years, 7 months ago
78. The Battle of the Spies
Season 4 Episode 7
The rivalry between Russia and Britain continues to grow as both of their attentions begin to centre more and more on Afghanistan. In a bid to gain i…
2 years, 7 months ago
77. The Great Game Begins
Season 4 Episode 6
It will all begin on the banks of the River Niemen. Tsar Alexander forms a pact with Napoleon; the Russian Empire, along with the French, will try to…
2 years, 7 months ago
76. The Empress & The General
Season 4 Episode 5
With her reign in peril in three separate arenas, Catherine begins to turn her attention to a young soldier, Grigory Potemkin. What follows is one of…
2 years, 7 months ago
75. Catherine the Great: The Golden Age
Season 4 Episode 4
Not a drop of Russian blood. A woman in a world ruled by men. A loveless marriage to a man who lacked even a shred of empathy. The odds were always s…
2 years, 8 months ago