Episode 41: Q1-1802 - Saint-Domingue burns
1800. January… February… March… Three months in which the British and the French finally end the war with the Peace of Amiens… The French force sent to reassert control over Saint-Domingue meets with ...
18 Loka 20241h 37min
1802-03: PLANNING MEETING!
Yes, it's time for the Festival of Structured Bureaucracy once again! From the makers of the 1800-01 planning meeting... there comes another laborious and sometimes painful process of determining what...
12 Loka 20241h 29min
The Battles of Algeciras: Saumarez v Linois, June-July 1801
Bernie Campbell is joined by Rachel Blackman-Rogers, lecturer in defence studies at Kings College London, and Olivier Aranda, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Brest, to discuss a re...
4 Loka 202452min
Napoleonic D-Day: The British in Egypt, 1801 (w/Phil Ball)
Is this the most significant opposed landing of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars? The assault on the beaches of Aboukir Bay by British forces under Abercromby [from around 13:00] was certa...
27 Syys 202454min
Episode 40: Q4-1801 - 'Vive Bonaparte!'
1802. October... November... December... three months in which the longstanding contest between the British and the French switches from the battlefield to the negotiating table... After two complete...
18 Syys 20241h 42min
The French Institute in Egypt: What did they achieve?
Charles Mackay reviews the experiences and achievements in Egypt of the extraordinary group of savants - engineers, scientists, mathematicians - who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Cairo and beyond ...
25 Elo 202441min
MARLENE DAUT on the Haitian Revolution
Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University, discusses the incredible 13-year period from 1791 to 1804 which saw self-liberated slaves, not least leader Toussaint...
15 Elo 202432min
Napoleonic Qs #4: Your questions answered
Clemens Bemmann is joined by Zack White and Alex Mikaberidze to work their way through the Napoleonic Quarterly mailbag. Topics include Napoleon's motives in Illyria, the reasons behind British succes...
9 Elo 20241h 32min
