Boring Administrative History; Intelligence and Communication

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The key at this point is Talleyrand is getting ready to leave Napoleon and enter into a form of opposition against him, because he sees N...

10 Des 202523min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode Talleyrand barely escapes France ahead of a death sentence. Then the British decide he might be a spy, well he might have b...

3 Des 202545min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It is somewhat preposterous for an origins of the industrial revolution podcast to feature so much a French diplomat. That would be true...

26 Nov 202538min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This is a deep dive into the problems of 1814 (being terror and bitterness) and the solution: Legitimacy, Huge, vast problems gripped Eur...

19 Nov 202548min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Convention of Plesswitz ends and war begins again August 11. The focus is on driving Napoleon out of Germany and then the action tur...

12 Nov 202526min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Of the large political entities in Europe in 1813 the Austrian empire was one of the oddest, from a modern perspective and possibly the m...

5 Nov 202532min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Trying to recover from defeat in 1812, Napoleon had enormous obstacles to overcome. But these were NOT obvious at the time, surprisingly...

29 Okt 202530min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We examine the question: "Who won the bloody war anyway?" The Canadians won, the Native Americans lost, the British won, the Americans lo...

15 Okt 202536min