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The Napoleonic Wars Podcast

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? What was his legacy on history? And why, more than 200 years later, does the conflict which he gave his name to still matter? Join award-winning Napoleonic historians Dr Zack White, Dr Luke Reynolds, Liam Telfer and Josh Redden as they host Europe"s leading show devoted to the American War of Independence, French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. From interviews with leading researchers, to deep dive debates on some of the big questions, this show is ideal for those who

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01:25:39

State of the Union - 5th Anniversary Special

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2025/04/01

Happy Birthday to the Napoleonic Wars Podcast!We see in the fifth year of the show with a special State of the Union episode, in which we get heated about the extent to which the British firebombing Copenhagen was justifiable, Zack and Luke go off on one about the 1857 India Mutiny (yeah, I know, Liam was exasperated too), and The Beau asks supposedly important questions about medals and cloak chains...We also feature a few of you lovely people talking about what the show means to

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01:02:14

1796: America's First Real Election

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2025/03/30

In the next instalment of the Birth of America series, Sara Georgini joins us to discuss one of America's most contested and most consequential elections.Check out her Sara's book here:https://global.oup.com/academic/product/household-gods-9780197647219

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07:51:37

The Peninsular War - The 1808 saga omnibus

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2025/03/26

The Peninsular War is one of our most consistently demanded topics on this podcast. Following recent requests to make access the series easier, we're compiling the 1808 related interviews into one epic 8 hour saga of an omnibus episode.Time stamps below.Topics include: where the Peninsular War came from, if Napoleon should have gone to war or could have avoided it, what happened at the Battles of Bailen, Rolica, Vimeiro, and Corunna, the controversial convention of Cintra, and whether the Peninsular

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01:17:00

1808: Rebellion at the Cape

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2025/03/23

Nigel Worden joins us to discuss a huge yet unique slave rebellion that broke out in Napoleonic era South Africa...Read about Nigel's research here: https://humanities.uct.ac.za/department-historical-studies/people-emeritus-staff/emeritus-professor-nigel-wordenCheck out his book here: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Making-of-Modern-South-Africa-by-Nigel-Worden/9780470656334

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00:10:53

Defending Quatre Bras - The fight for Gemioncourt

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2025/03/20

The farm of Gemioncourt of the Quatre Bras battlefield is under threat. In this special bulletin, Zack White unveils a new initiative 'Heritage 1815', which is fighting to safeguard the site, stop any prospect of bulldozers going near it, and look to find a way that Gemioncourt can become a place of learning for people to better understand the Battle of Quatre Bras, its significance in the Waterloo campaign, and wider European history.Join the Heritage 1815 mailing list at www.heritage1815.comFollow

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01:10:55

Britain's Worst Defeat? Bergen op Zoom

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2025/03/16

Did Britain suffer its worst defeat of the Napoleonic Wars at Bergen Op Zoom in 1814? If so, why? And how could this happen when the British Army was supposedly at the height of its powers in 1814? Andrew Bamford joins us for the concluding episode of his two part series looking at the British campaign in the Low Countries in 1813 and 1814. We discuss the bombardment of Antwerp, why it was doomed to failure in the first place, and what the British did next, leading to the attack on Bergen op Zoom.If

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01:07:42

Big or Small? Creating the Federal Government

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2025/03/16

What did the Founding Fathers really want the government to look like? Peter Kastor's new digital history project - "Creating a Federal Government" - looks beyond the elected politicians at the top to provide some answers to this and other questions . He joins Josh and Luke to talk all about it.Check out the project here.

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00:56:05

The Battle for Amelia Island

The Napoleonic Wars Podcast ·

2025/03/12

David Head returns to discuss a group of American rogues and their huge designs for a spinoff of the Spanish American Wars of Independence... in Florida.Read about David Head's research here: https://www.davidheadhistory.com/about

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00:57:40

Washington's Presidency

The Napoleonic Wars Podcast ·

2025/03/09

Peter Kastor returns to talk about Washington's domestic administration, foreign policy and his legacy.Creating a Federal Government project:https://creatingafederalgovernment.wustl.edu/Peter Kastor's profile: https://history.wustl.edu/people/peter-kastor

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01:18:17

Fédon's Rebellion

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2025/03/02

In 1795, the biggest slave rebellion in British history erupted on the island of Grenada. Led by Julien Fédon, it threatened to turn the Caribbean upside down...Read about Kit Candlin's research here: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/kit-candlin

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01:01:23

Lady Liberty at War: Women Soldiers of the Grande Armée

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2025/02/26

David Hopkin of Oxford University joins us to discuss the women - real and symbolic - who fought in the Grande Armée in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Who were they? How many of them were there? And how did pull it off?Check out the Folklore Society here: https://folklore-society.com/ Read about David's research here: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/david-hopkin

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01:09:33

Black Redcoats at War

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2025/02/23

Matthew Taylor joins us for the second part of a long-anticipated and fascinating interview on the subject of his first book: The Corps of Colonial Marines, aka 'The Black Redcoats'.Matt's book: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Black-Redcoats-Hardback/p/49346Check out our socials, join our mailing list or browse our shop at: https://linktr.ee/napwarspod

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00:58:35

Pirates of the Americas

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2025/02/19

Pirates, privateers, smugglers - whatever you call them they are fascinating! David Head joins us to talk about the early United States, the Spanish American Wars of Independence and a group of maritime brigands who took matters into their own hands...Read about David Head's research here: https://www.davidheadhistory.com/

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01:04:22

Redcoat Officers

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2025/02/16

Kevin Linch joins us for the fourth part of a long-anticipated and fascinating series on all things British Army.Check out Kevin's book, the inspiration for this series here: Pen and Sword Books: The British Army, 1783–1815 - Hardback Kevin's other work includes: Britain and Wellington's Army: Recruitment, Society and Tradition, 1807-15 | SpringerLink Check out our socials, join our mailing list or browse our shop at: https://linktr.ee/napwarspod

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01:07:57

Washington's Government

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2025/02/12

In the second instalment of the Birth of America series we welcome Peter Kastor to discuss the presidency of the most famous Founding Father...Creating a Federal Government project: https://creatingafederalgovernment.wustl.edu/ Peter Kastor's profile: https://history.wustl.edu/people/peter-kastor

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01:05:01

Catholics of the British Army

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2025/02/09

Religious discrimination is a problem as old as religion itself. For those living in Britain in the early 19th Century a long shadow of religious turmoil lay thick over society. Memories of papist plots, civil wars and the religious roller coaster of succesive Tudor monarchies may have been more than a century in the past but they had dominated the conversaion leading to stigmatisation and the exculsion of Catholicism on a government sanctioned scale. But what, if anything did this mean for the

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00:13:18

Political Friendship - A BSECS Special

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2025/02/08

Brendan Tam joins us to talk about friendship in politics, why party political alliances are much murkier than we tend to think, and how patronage could become an instrument of blackmail in the 18th century.Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/c/thenapoleonicwarspod

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00:15:01

Hanging Soldiers - BSECS Report

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2025/02/06

Andrew Dorman and Zack have a 'ding dong' about whether civilian courts were more or less lenient than military ones, and why the Irish Military Establishment really wasn't as rubbish as people claim.We also discuss wardrobe malfunctions and Zack whines about the cold for the umpteen-thousandth time. Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/c/thenapoleonicwarspod

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01:37:29

Kiss Me Hardy

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2025/02/05

Seth Le Jacq joins us to discuss his research in how the Royal Navy prosecuted homosexuality during the 18th century, in an interview that set fire to the question list and was run entirely off the cuff, in possibly the most lively and wide-ranging episode we've ever done. Find out more about Seth's work: https://www.sethlejacq.com Support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/thenapoleonicwarspod

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00:11:54

Sexual Deviancy, women and mourning - A BSECS Special

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2025/02/03

Dr Clementine Garcenot, Severine Angers and Ella Harford take time out of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference to talk about their research into women in the French Revolution, mourning in the Napoleonic Wars, and women's sexual deviancy in the 18th century.

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