117. The Industrial Revolution: Skilled Workmen

117. The Industrial Revolution: Skilled Workmen

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This is one of the less intuitive ideas about the origins of the Industrial Revolution. An historically unique concentration of skilled workmen were available in pre miracle England to translate the ideas of early modern science and technology into real industrial products and processes that worked. The apprenticeship system with weak guilds was a uniquely British system, and is therefore a serious potential candidate for th...

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1798 Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay

1798 Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The focus is on Nelson's great victory, but we also cover the Battle of the Pyramids, the Siege of Acre and the Battle of Mount Tabor. T...

30 Loka 202435min

Global War on the Far Side of the World

Global War on the Far Side of the World

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. You get a cumulative eff...

16 Loka 202420min

1797 Spithead Mutiny, the Nore and Battle of Camperdown

1797 Spithead Mutiny, the Nore and Battle of Camperdown

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The 1797 mutinies went hand in hand with financial crisis. This was the most dangerous period for Britain and the miracle during the Fre...

9 Loka 202428min

1797 Cape St Vincent, Jervis and Thomas Cochrane

1797 Cape St Vincent, Jervis and Thomas Cochrane

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The new French and Spanish alliance is ascendant in the Mediterranean. The strategic move the Spanish make is more dictated by the roya...

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1795 1796 Naval Campaigns

1795 1796 Naval Campaigns

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover some of the heroic events that increased pride and self confidence of the Royal Navy: Pellew's defeat of a 74 with 2 frigates a...

11 Syys 202438min

The Glorious First of June

The Glorious First of June

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This looks at the Glorious First of June campaign, covering all the engagements with extra attention to the 1st of June Was it a Frenc...

28 Elo 202437min

1793 French Revolutionary War; War of the First Coalition

1793 French Revolutionary War; War of the First Coalition

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 1793 is a year of opportunities thrown away. The allies dominate the poorly disciplined French army, but waste the summer in pointless s...

14 Elo 202425min

149. 1792 French Revolutionary Wars

149. 1792 French Revolutionary Wars

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers the first year of the War of the First Coalition, which ends with the "homicidal philanthropy of France." Brunswick's invasi...

7 Elo 202419min

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