In the thorns at Resaca de la Palma, command fell apart in minutes. So Taylor sent May's dragoons at the guns. Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #Dragoons #MexicanAmericanWar

Clanker Lovers: Episode 82, "Brandon Herrera and the Stolen Bells," is yours early, starting tonight. San Pasqual, December 1846, and a private with a sack of cowbells. Everyone else gets it Monday, Nov 2 at 6 PM CT.

September 23, 1846. Monterrey fights house to house, and every street is a shooting gallery. Brandon Herrera has a string of dried chiles, a stolen cook fire, and a kitchen he means to turn into a weapon. youtu.be/K58B7-EMKPc

Brandon hands back the borrowed brass with one last joke. The road to Matamoros is open. Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #MexicanAmericanWar #History

May 9, 1846: 4,000 men dug into a 12-foot dry riverbed walled with thorn. Taylor brought 1,700. Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #ResacaDeLaPalma #MilitaryHistory

With the guns thinned by phantom bugle calls, the 5th and 8th went in with the bayonet. Arista's last charge broke. Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #ResacaDeLaPalma #MexicanAmericanWar

February 23, 1847. Mexican lancers turn the broken American left and ride for the train at Hacienda Buena Vista. Brandon Herrera has four clay jars, a well rope, and a gate that will not hold. forcedvalor.com/exploits/bra…

Taylor had it read to the whole army: Private Brandon Herrera, cited for "ingenious conduct in the chaparral." Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #BrandonHerrera #History

"We shall give them a concert they did not purchase." Brandon Herrera finds a use for idle bugles. Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #BrandonHerrera #History

The morning after Palo Alto, one private with borrowed brass set out to make a whole Mexican line face 3 ways at once. Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #ResacaDeLaPalma #MexicanAmericanWar

Fake charge calls from left, right and road until no officer could tell which army was blowing. "Now try the waltz, you popinjays." Ken Burns-style historical fan fiction. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=wGEbGUjz… forcedvalor.com #ForcedValor #Shorts #BrandonHerrera #MilitaryHistory

On May 9, 1846, Brandon Herrera finds three idle buglers at Resaca de la Palma. The chaparral eats a road call and spits it back in pieces. He offers a concert the Mexican line did not purchase. youtu.be/wGEbGUjzXGU

Kearny's worn-out dragoons hit San Pasqual in the rain, powder wet, Pico's lancers coming again. One private lifts the village cowbells and gives the next charge a herd that is not there. buff.ly/2mSxe8Q

May 8, 1846, on the prairie at Palo Alto. Brandon Herrera has empty crates, leftover tent canvas, and spare limber poles, and a Mexican battery still looking for a target. buff.ly/zHsOBd8

Monterrey would not fall from the street. Brandon Herrera made it fall from the kitchen. Dried chiles, a hot brazier, two stolen sombreros. buff.ly/i5aIrz1

The factory steam siren's ghost barrage erupts in a deafening symphony, shaking windows and echoing for miles. Germans panic, firing wildly at shadows as the relentless wail drills into their ears. #SoundDesign #Industrial

Ruhr Pocket, April 1945. A German rearguard holds the rail with 88s. Brandon Herrera eyes warm factory boilers, rooftop steam whistles, and coils of signal wire from a wrecked truck. buff.ly/GivQH9L

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Brandon Herrera and the Lying Bugles. At Resaca de la Palma, borrowed horns and a few well-placed lies send a Mexican line chasing charges that never existed. buff.ly/qcLQNYf

A soldier turned a riverside mill into a blinding powder cloud, choking German defenses on the Rhine. Ordinary baking supplies became a suffocating nightmare, stopping the enemy in their tracks. #WWIIHistory #MilitaryInnovation