78. France; The Enemy; Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers the year 1800. We get Napoleon's first year as First Consul, and the two campaigns that drive Austria out of the 2nd Coaliti...

15 Jan 202542min

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

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 Dec 202442min

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 Dec 202426min

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 Dec 202440min

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

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

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