The NQ masterplan
It was always the plan that we would use this quieter period before the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars to ensure the podcast is firing on all cylinders before we hit 1805. With the help of many liste...
9 Nov 202446min
Are we getting battles all wrong? (w/Graeme Callister)
Dr Graeme Callister, Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at York St John University, joins Clemens and Alex S to explore the nature and character of battle during the French Revolutionary and N...
31 Okt 20241h 5min
Q&A: The French Revolutionary Wars
As we've reached the Peace of Amiens it felt like a good time to pause and review the French Revolutionary Wars... Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze took questions from Quartermasters about a ...
23 Okt 20241h 13min
Episode 41: Q1-1802 - Saint-Domingue burns
1800. January… February… March… Three months in which the British and the French finally end the war with the Peace of Amiens… The French force sent to reassert control over Saint-Domingue meets with ...
18 Okt 20241h 37min
1802-03: PLANNING MEETING!
Yes, it's time for the Festival of Structured Bureaucracy once again! From the makers of the 1800-01 planning meeting... there comes another laborious and sometimes painful process of determining what...
12 Okt 20241h 29min
The Battles of Algeciras: Saumarez v Linois, June-July 1801
Bernie Campbell is joined by Rachel Blackman-Rogers, lecturer in defence studies at Kings College London, and Olivier Aranda, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Brest, to discuss a re...
4 Okt 202452min
Napoleonic D-Day: The British in Egypt, 1801 (w/Phil Ball)
Is this the most significant opposed landing of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars? The assault on the beaches of Aboukir Bay by British forces under Abercromby [from around 13:00] was certa...
27 Sep 202454min
Episode 40: Q4-1801 - 'Vive Bonaparte!'
1802. October... November... December... three months in which the longstanding contest between the British and the French switches from the battlefield to the negotiating table... After two complete...
18 Sep 20241h 42min
