The French Institute in Egypt: What did they achieve?
Charles Mackay reviews the experiences and achievements in Egypt of the extraordinary group of savants - engineers, scientists, mathematicians - who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Cairo and beyond ...
25 Aug 202441min
MARLENE DAUT on the Haitian Revolution
Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University, discusses the incredible 13-year period from 1791 to 1804 which saw self-liberated slaves, not least leader Toussaint...
15 Aug 202432min
Napoleonic Qs #4: Your questions answered
Clemens Bemmann is joined by Zack White and Alex Mikaberidze to work their way through the Napoleonic Quarterly mailbag. Topics include Napoleon's motives in Illyria, the reasons behind British succes...
9 Aug 20241h 32min
Episode 39: Q3-1801 - Bargaining chips
1801. July... August... September... Three months in which the British mount an opposed amphibious landing against French forces in Egypt... on Saint Domingue Toussaint Louverture promulgates a consti...
1 Aug 20241h 41min
Strategic insights: The Black Sea, then and now
Rachel Blackman-Rogers is joined by contemporary Black Sea maritime scholar Prof Deborah Sanders of Kings College London to discuss the history and evolution of Black Sea Navies, the historical signif...
27 Juli 20241h 3min
MARK LAWRENCE on Spain's 'Black Legend'
Spain's story during the Napoleonic period is an Atlantic one, as Dr Mark Lawrence of the University of Kent has pointed out. Fresh from recording on the War of the Oranges, which you can hear in epis...
17 Juli 202442min
The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801: Fischer v Nelson
Rachel Blackman-Rogers joins Alex Stevenson to discuss the First Battle of Copenhagen - featuring some tricky navigation, the Royal Navy's superior bludgeoning rate of firepower, some brutal diplomacy...
10 Juli 202448min
Episode 38: Q2-1801 - Nelson's blind eye
1801. April... May... June... Three months in which Horatio Nelson pulverises the Danish fleet at Copenhagen... Napoleon Bonaparte turns his ire on the pro-British Portuguese... and war breaks out bet...
3 Juli 20241h 33min
