The Conquerors - Season 1 (2005)

How, in the 11th century, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and military leader better known as El Cid, pushed back the invaders from North Africa in an attempt to reunite Spain.

How maverick explorer and renaissance man, John C. Fremont, conquered Spanish California for the US president James K. Polk with almost no resistance.

How, during the American Revolution, British general William Howe captured New York in an attempt to pacify by force the rebels led by George Washington.

How King David united the twelve tribes of Israel to conquer Jerusalem and establish a free Israelite nation some 1000 years before Christ.

How Napoleon won his greatest battle at Austerlitz against the Russian and the Austrian empires in 1805.

William De Normendie presses his claim on the Throne of Anglo-Saxon England and triumphs over and kills the Anglo-Saxon king,Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.Thereby becoming William the Conqueror and becoming the new King of England.

How Stalin's top general, Georgi Zhukov, conquered the heart of the Nazi Empire itself, Berlin, in 1945.

How English revolutionary Oliver Cromwell, who overthrew the unpopular king to become the de facto ruler of England, used his British New Model Army to brutally and mercilessly squash the Irish resistance force in 1649.

How Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led a force of 60.000 infantry and 5500 Union Calvary on a punitive march, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, through the Confederacy in late 1964 to end the American Civil War.