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Season 1

  • S01E01 Bosworth Field 1485

    The 15th century saw two royal families engaged in a bitter struggle for control of the English throne. The Wars Of The Roses culminated after 30 years in the Battle of Bosworth Field - a story of murder and betrayal.

  • S01E02 Culloden 1746

    An account of how this battle established Britain's identity as a Protestant democratic state and still has significance for Britain and Europe today.

  • S01E03 Hastings 1066

    A look at the Battle of Hastings, exploring the technology and weaponry used and how the Norman Conquest changed England's history forever.

  • S01E04 Marston Moor 1644

    As daylight began to fade on the 2nd July 1644, the largest military encounter of the English Civil War began. This bloody battle finally came to a close when Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads slaughtered the last of Charles I's Royalist infantry.

  • S01E05 The Boyne 1690

    This episode explains the role of this battle in creating a Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, which left a lasting mark on the politics of Northern Ireland.

  • S01E06 Waterloo 1815

    This episode looks at how this battle in Belgium saw the destruction of the career of one of history's greatest soldiers and changed European politics forever.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Bannockburn 1314

    Looks at the Scottish struggle for independence from England, which spectacularly climaxed with a battle at Bannockburn against a huge English army.

  • S02E02 Blenheim 1704

    Looks at how the Duke of Marlborough marched his army 500km across Europe and, with his Austrian allies, defeated a seemingly invincible French army.

  • S02E03 Austerlitz 1805

    Explores this masterpiece of military strategy as, in a lightning campaign, Napoleon marched his army into the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

  • S02E04 Vimy Ridge 1917

    Vimy Ridge was an impenetrable fortress and thousands had died trying to attack it but it took four Canadian Divisions just hours to conquer it.

  • S02E05 Agincourt 1415

    A major English victory against a numerically superior French army in the Hundred Years War. The battle occurred late October 1415 near modern day Azincourt in northern France. Henry V's victory had a crippling effect on France and started a new period in the war during which Henry married the French kings daughter and his son was made heir to the throne of France. However his battlefield successes were not capitalized on by his heir Henry VI.

  • S02E06 Naseby 1645

    Battle of Naseby, was a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, fought on 14 June 1645 between the main Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. It was fought near the village of Naseby in Northamptonshire. After a disappointing performance by the Parliamentarian army at the Second Battle of Newbury at the tail end of the 1644 campaign season that failed to inflict a decisive defeat on the Royalists, Oliver Cromwell worked to push the Self-denying Ordinance through Parliament, intent on re-forming Parliament's forces into a more effective, centralised force. This political campaign was successful, forming the New Model Army.