Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction

Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. So how do you get from a subsistence economy where the great mass lives on the edge of famine and disaster? Funny you should ask, because Adam Smith desperately wanted this improvement for his native Scotland. Getting it would be like a miracle. He knew the mechanisms that led to prosperity and the obstacles that got in the way. And one day, in France he started a book, An Inquiry into The Nature and Cause...

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1799 Anglo Russian Invasion of Holland

1799 Anglo Russian Invasion of Holland

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A rapidly thrown together expedition to the Batavian Republic in expelled by the French. And yet, there were key successes and innovatio...

1 Jan 202533min

1799 Suvorov Ascendant; Napoleon Absent

1799 Suvorov Ascendant; Napoleon Absent

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers the 1799 campaigns in Italy and Switzerland and Suvorov's art of war. The title is a play on Clausewitz's work on the topic,...

25 Des 202442min

1798 France, the Neighbor from Hell

1798 France, the Neighbor from Hell

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We take a look at 1798, a year when Clausewitz defines 5 French outrages that would have led to a general European war. 1. The occupatio...

18 Des 202426min

1797 Napoleon, Rivoli and Fishguard

1797 Napoleon, Rivoli and Fishguard

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The last invasion of Britain and Napoleon's Rivoli campaign along with his final drive towards Vienna obviously deserve to be in one sing...

11 Des 202440min

1796 Napoleon and Archduke Charles Shine

1796 Napoleon and Archduke Charles Shine

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Napoleon reveals to the world his multi faceted genius and Archduke Charles has a hell of a Rhine campaign, defeating 2 armies, both larg...

27 Nov 202445min

1795 Land Campaigns

1795 Land Campaigns

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Pichegru and Jourdan try taking the Austrians on the Rhine in a pinser move. But Pichegru's march on Clerfayt's magazine in Heidelberg i...

20 Nov 202415min

1794 War of First Coalition, Pichegru Hero of the Revolution

1794 War of First Coalition, Pichegru Hero of the Revolution

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 1794 from the Pyrenees fronts, with massacres of Basque villagers to the Battle of the Black Mountain. The Italian front has Napoleon, ...

13 Nov 202427min

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 Okt 202435min

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