The Battle of Dorylaeum Ft. Failure to Launch
independent historians specialising in military disasters and command failures
MedievalTactics & Battles
Essential · Edition 2026-07-10
Lions Led By Donkeys covers the 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum during the First Crusade — the Crusader column's near-destruction by Kilij Arslan's Seljuk cavalry and the improvised relief that turned the fight. At over an hour with guests from the Failure to Launch podcast, there's room to dig into the tactical mismatch between Western heavy cavalry and Turkish horse archers, and the command chaos that nearly ended the Crusade before it reached the Holy Land. The show's irreverent tone works well here because the source material is genuinely chaotic.
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