Episode 116 - 1812 (Part Two) The Roads to Smolensk

This week we follow the Grande Armée on the road to Moscow. However, in between Napoleon and Russia's ancient capital was the village of Borodino which Kutusov had occupied and this time it looked lik...

2 Sep 34min

This time around, we’ll be covering just the two things, the somewhat inevitable fall of Speransky and the events that would lead up to and include Napoleon’s full scale invasion of Russia in June 181...

18 Aug 39min

In Today's episode we'll be visiting a number of different locations.First, Iberia — because Napoleon's other war, the one being fought in Spain and Portugal, was quietly draining exactly the men, mat...

7 Aug 26min

Today we're going to look at what Tilsit actually meant first of all for Russia. What it did to the domestic mood, what it meant economically, how it left a messy war with the Ottomans (yes, Russia nd...

31 Jul 30min

Napoleon continued to sweep all before him - on land. But at sea, it was a different story.Prussia decided to join the allied coalition, and imediately regreted it. Which meant that Alexander had no o...

22 Jul 31min

It's 1804 and a new coalition was being formed (the 3rd) to try to and defeat Napoleon and the French.However, in the following year the French emperor would again show just why he was one of the grea...

15 Jul 28min

Paul is dead, Alexander is the new Tsar and so today we're going to cover the first two to three years of his reign — roughly 1801 to 1803, where surely, things in Russia could only get better... Host...

8 Jul 33min