Conquest
Conquest is a TV show on the History Channel hosted by Peter Woodward. In each 30 minute episode, Woodward teaches his small group of assistants a particular type of weapon, or a set of weapons from a particular time period, while demonstrating their function, describing their comparative advantages and disadvantages, and discussing their history. Episodes have ranged widely across history, from "Stone-Age Weapons" to "Air Combat" and even including "Unarmed Combat". As examples of the broad spectrum, Roman weapons and tactics, SWAT tactics and ninjutsu have all featured.
Episodes
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Actor and fight master Peter Woodward teaches the Conquest Team a brief history of the Medieval Broadsword and various combat techniques with it, both offensive and defensive. Then the team members face off to find who has best learned how to win with the Medieval Broadsword.
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Actor and fight master Peter Woodward teaches the Conquest Team a brief history of knives and daggers and various combat techniques with them, both offensive and defensive. Then the team members face off to find who has best learned how to win with the knives and daggers.
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Actor and fight master Peter Woodward teaches the Conquest Team a brief history of pirates. The team learns about the weapons of 17th-century Caribbean pirates and various combat techniques with them, both offensive and defensive. Then the team members face off against the crew of a merchant vessel to find out if they have learned how to win with pirate weapons.
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