1812 Napoleon Invades Russia
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Napoleon never intended to invade as far as Moscow. It was just supposed to be the 2nd Polish campaign. But Napoleon's hammer blows kep...
27 Aug 202542min
1810 1811 Wellington's Defense of Portugal
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The 1810 and 1811 campaigns in Iberia were defined by an absence- Napoleon’s absence. Napoleon had won the battle of Wagram in July of 1...
13 Aug 202533min
1809 Thomas Cochrane, Spain and the Basque Roads
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover resistance to the French invasion of Catalonia in 1808. What can a lone frigate do? And then the battle of the Basque Roads (i...
30 Juli 202539min
1809 Wellington and Archduke Charles, again? Wagram and Talavera
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Austrian pro war party is emboldened by the French defeat at Bailen. By April 1809 Archduke Charles is leading the newly reformed Au...
23 Juli 202555min
1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Talleyrand represents a strand of the ancient regime, the old nobility that thrives and leads, right through the monstrosity and glory of...
9 Juli 202534min
1808 Wellington, Dupont and Napoleon over the Chasm
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover Napoleon's sneaky invasion of Spain, its preamble and Napoleon's motivations. This is followed by a look at Wellington's invasi...
2 Juli 202547min
1807 Napoleon's Glory Years, Part 3
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers the 1807 Campaign in Poland and the eventual Treaty of Tilsit. This is the true apex of Napoleon's glory and possibly the ha...
18 Juni 202536min
1806 Napoleon's Glory Years Part 2
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. After Austerlitz Napoleon keeps the Grand Armee together in Central Germany. This allows him to rip up the map of Germany and redraw it t...
4 Juni 202547min
