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What led to Sgt. Phelger’s strange death? This true story follows Team Rock Mat during the Vietnam War, featuring US Marines and an unexpected encounter with a deadly Bengal tiger.

00:00 – Introduction
04:08 – Sgt. Robert C. Phleger
06:56 – Team Rock Mat and Razorback Ridge
08:24 – Tiger Ambush
17:03 – Sgt. Larkins
20:51 – Event Analysis

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Also watch – This Bear Should Not Exist! The MacFarlane Bear, 1864

Sources:
Kirkeby, Ken. “The Strange Death of Sergeant Phleger.” Sporting Classics. February, 2002. https://sportingclassicsdaily.com/the-strange-death-of-sergeant-phleger/

“London Marine Killed by Tiger.” NewsPapers. Accessed October 01, 2024. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-circleville-herald-obituary-for-robe/48504566/?locale=en-US

Norton, B.H. Force Recon Diary, 1970. Ivy Books, New York. 1991.

Norton, B.H. “Norton, Bruce. US Marine Corps.” Transcript. Vietnam 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War Commemoration. May 07, 2022. https://www.vietnamwar50th.com/assets/1/28/Norton_Bruce_Captions_Transcript.pdf

“The Animals: Bengal Tiger” Cougar Mountain Zoo. Zoological Society of Washington and Cougar Mountain Zoo, 2024. https://www.cougarmountainzoo.org/animals/bengal-tiger/

“Unfriendly Tiger Comes Up 2nd Best in Test with Marine,” News Paper Article. Tan Son Nhut Association, 1975. https://www.tsna.org/documents/53.pd

A detailed breakdown of the true story of Pelham’s Corner during the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862. How two Confederate Napoleon cannons, led by Major John Pelham and Captain Mathias W. Henry, halted an entire Union corps.

00:00 – General Lee and Jackson scout the Rappahannock River
00:59 – Fighting in Fredericksburg, Dec 12, 1862
02:27 – General JEB Stuart and Major John Pelham
03:45 – The 1857 Napoleon Smoothbore Cannon
04:21 – Pelham’s Corner Battle
10:50 – Significance of Pelham’s Corner

Sources:

Bryant, James K. The Battle of Fredericksburg: We Cannot Escape History. The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2010.
https://archive.org/details/battleoffrederic0000brya/page/n5/mode/1up

Glyer, Peter “Stuart’s Horse Artillery (Part 2) Pelham’s Corner,” Mercer Square. February 18, 2022. https://mercersquare.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/stuarts-horse-artillery-part-2-pelhams-corner/comment-page-1/

Hassler, William W. Colonel John Pelham: Lee’s Boy Artillerist. University of North Carolina Press, 1960. https://archive.org/details/coloneljohnpelha0000hass/page/n9/mode/1up

Person, Gustav. “The Model 1857 12-pounder.” Warfare History Network, August 2010. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-model-1857-12-pounder/

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