This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You're here to witness the catastrophically awesome exploits of history's greatest badasses. Not only that, you're here to see what happens when badasses collide, when glory and doom hang in the balance, when two men enter one man leaves.

Fear the camel (547 BC) --The Battle of Salamis (480 BC) -- The sacred band of Thebes (371 BC) -- The Second Punic War (218-201 BC) -- The Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) -- Boudicca's revolt (AD 61) -- Ad decimum (AD 533) -- The last caliph (AD 763) -- The great heathen army (AD 865-873) -- The third crusade (1189-1192) -- Kono Michiari (1281) -- Alba gu Brath (1303-1314) -- Trial by combat (1389) -- The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) -- The fall of Constantinople (1453) -- The Araucanian War (1541-1724) -- The Imjin War (1592-1598) -- James Macrae (1720) -- The Rani of Jhansi (1857-1858) -- Gettysburg (1863) -- Samurai showdown (1864) -- Von Bredow's death ride (1870) -- Rorke's drift (1879).