73 BC – 1959 AD

Moments when cornered individuals used brilliant deceptions, sheer nerve, or wild improvisations to slip away from certain doom.

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Round 1 · 73 BC
Spartacus Descends the Volcano
Trapped on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius by a Roman legion, Spartacus and his rebel gladiators executed a daring nighttime escape by rappelling down a sheer cliff using ropes woven from wild vines.
Round 2 · 1536 AD
The Sapa Inca's Golden Ruse
Pretending he needed to perform religious ceremonies and retrieve a hidden, life-sized golden statue of his father, Manco Inca slipped away from his greedy Spanish captors to launch a massive, empire-wide rebellion.
Round 3 · 1849 AD
A Freeman Shipped in a Box
Determined to escape the brutalities of enslavement, Henry Brown climbed into a cramped wooden shipping crate in Richmond and mailed himself on a harrowing twenty-seven-hour steamboat and railway journey to freedom in Philadelphia.
Round 4 · 1899 AD
A Future Premier's Midnight Run
Captured as a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, a young Winston Churchill scaled the wall of his makeshift prison and hopped aboard a passing freight train to secure his liberty.
Round 5 · 1959 AD
The God-King Flees in Disguise
Under the cover of darkness and a blinding sandstorm, the fourteenth Dalai Lama slipped out of his besieged summer palace dressed as an ordinary soldier to begin his permanent exile in India.