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Battlefield Detectives

Season 2
What explains the massacre at Waterloo? Why was Gallipoli such a disaster? What role did luck play at Hastings?
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  1. S2 E1 - Native American Wars: The Apache
    November 19, 2004
    45min
    TV-PG
    For over 300 years, the North American Apache tribes were remarkably successful, beating opponents who were wealthier, better armed, and apparently more organized.
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  2. S2 E2 - American Revolution: Battle Of Monmouth
    November 26, 2004
    46min
    TV-PG
    A key moment in the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and her 13 rebellious colonies, the Battle of Monmouth took place on June 28, 1778, in rural New Jersey.
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  3. S2 E3 - The Mexican-American War: Battle Of Palo Alto
    December 10, 2004
    46min
    TV-PG
    On May 8, 1846, Mexico and the United States met in battle at a place called Palo Alto, near Brownsville, deep in Southern Texas.
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  4. S2 E4 - The Civil War: Antietam
    December 20, 2004
    45min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  5. S2 E5 - The Civil War: Gettysburg
    December 20, 2004
    46min
    TV-PG
    July 1-3, 1863: Over three hot days, Union and Confederate forces clashed in and around a small Pennsylvania town.
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  6. S2 E6 - Revolutionary War: Oriskany
    December 5, 2005
    45min
    TV-PG
    In August 1777 on the New York frontier, an 800-strong column of patriot militia was marching to relieve Fort Stanwix, under siege by the British.
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  7. S2 E7 - The War Of 1812: The Chesapeake And The Shannon
    December 23, 2005
    45min
    TV-PG
    In 1812, the US and Great Britain are once again at war. American "super frigates" win a series of crushing naval victories over the British Royal Navy warships.
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  8. S2 E8 - Alesia
    January 13, 2006
    45min
    TV-PG
    In the late summer of 52 BC, Julius Caesar, Rome's most brilliant general was pitted against the great Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix.
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