Battlefield Detectives

Custer's Last Stand

The story of Custer's last stand is legendary. The Seventh Cavalry fought heroically against a horde of Indian warriors.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Researchers use satellite technology and archaelological finds to unearth the truth about what happened at Balaklava dur

The Gallipoli Disaster

Historians show how bad maps and worse intelligence produced the catastrophe of Gallipoli in 1915, and geologists reveal

What Sank The Armada?

The sinking of the Spanish Armada in the summer of 1588 has been attributed to English heroism, Spanish incompetence, an

Who Got Lucky at Hastings?

The sleuths set out to establish whether William the Conqueror's victory over King Harold at Hastings was really due to

Massacre at Waterloo

In episode 6, Battlefield Detectives: Massacre at Waterloo asks - was there more to Napoleon's defeat than the tactics a

Agincourt's Dark Secrets

Medieval warfare specialists investigate how terrain affected the way the 15th-century Battle of Agincourt was waged, wh

Trafalgar's Fatal Flaw

New research shows that Britain's most famous naval triumph, th 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, was anything but inevitable. F

Vietnam's Bloody Secret

Veterans from both sides explain how state-of-the-art weaponry and a huge budget failed to overcome the morale and inven

Native American Wars: The Apache

American Revolution: Battle of Monmouth

The Battle of Monmouth took place on 28th June, 1778 in rural New Jersey. It was a key moment in the Revolutionary War b

World War One: The Somme

The Mexican-American War: Battle of Palo Alto

American Revolution: Battle of Cowpens

The Civil War: Gettysburg

The Civil War: Antietam

Battle of the Bulge

Just days before Christmas 1944, a quarter of a million German troops launched a shattering offensive through the Ardenn

Battle of Britain

For four long months during the summer of 1940, the RAF and the German Luftwaffe fought an epic battle in the blue skies

American Revoluton: Oriskany

Siege of Masada

Two thousands years ago, Jewish freedom fighters defied the Roman legions at Masada for three years, choosing death over

World War One: Jutland

The Battle of Jutland between Britain and Germany was the largest naval action of all time. It was a confrontation that

The War of 1812: The Chesapeake and the Shannon

Pointe du Hoc

Dawn on the 6th June, 1944. The largest invasion in history is underway. Four miles to the west of the Allied landings a

The Civil War: Shiloh

Before dawn on Sunday April 6th 1862, shots rang out near Shiloh, on the west bank of the Tennessee River. A Confederate

Siege of Alesia

The Six Day War

In 1967 the tension in the Middle East had neared boiling point. Border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and J

Big Hole

Stalingrad

Far from being the final step in the conquest of the USSR, Stalingrad proved a bloodbath. Half a million Germans were k

The Battle Of Jutland

Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was a daring Allied plan to drive deep behind enemy lines into German held Holland. The intentio