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Hanging with History

The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the

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30:04

1803 Evacuate Malta?

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2025/02/26

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question We take a look at how the Napoleonic Wars broke out. Napoleon had a different understanding of the world situation than the Addington government and the British public. We also examine the failure of Russia to mediate between the two powers. We go into both the understanding of the British for why restating the war was a good idea, and Napoleon's of keeping the peace. In the end Napoleon would haver had to concede a...

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20:50

Napoleon's American Dream and the Louisiana Purchase

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2025/02/19

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question Napoleon, from his bath, angrily threw a snuffbox at his brothers Joseph and Lucien. Worse, a lot of the nice warm bathwater splashed out, right onto Joseph's shoes..... With the naval armistice of late 1801, Napoleon quickly put together a huge invasion force to retake Haiti. American food and natural resources, rich exotic crops from Haiti and the Windward Islands, manufactures supplied by France. This was his dream...

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32:41

The Peace of Amiens; the Road to War

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2025/02/12

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question A peace that leads to War? We look at the clash of realities from philosophical to practical questions of empire between France and Britain. From the beginning, key British decision makers like George 3 and Pitt the Younger, saw the peace as an experiment. It wasn't likely to work, so much against it. However, the war had run on too long. The people were demanding peace, the mob both demanded peace and associated th...

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30:10

1801 Pitt Absent; Napoleon Ascendent

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2025/02/05

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question We are covering 1801. The 3 key issues are: Pitt resigns over catholic emancipation. He is replaced by his friend Addington. Pitt is to Addington as London is to Paddington. This strange interlude is illustrative that though Pitt may not be in office, Pittites commonly are for the rest of the 2nd Hundred Years War. Napoleon begins his peace offensive. It starts with the end of the Quasi War with...

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35:41

1799 Bruix, Algeciras and the British Nightmare

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2025/01/29

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question"I was between the devil and the deep sea."The Royal Navy's nightmare was that a powerful French fleet would break out of blockade and fall upon inferior blockading squadrons down the coast, destroying Royal Navy squadrons while a combined Franco-Spanish fleet only gets larger and larger.Bruix almost pulled it off. He arrived at Cadiz. Admiral Lord Keith was blockading with 15 ships of the line. Bruix had 25 ships of th...

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42:32

1800; Marengo, Hohenlinden and the End of the 2nd...

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2025/01/15

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis covers the year 1800.We get Napoleon's first year as First Consul, and the two campaigns that drive Austria out of the 2nd Coalition. On the British side we get the Act of Union and the combination of the Irish and British Parliaments. Naturally, we get Catholic Emancipation as a consequence.What? NO? we don't. Oh, that's gonna be weird.

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33:01

1799 Anglo Russian Invasion of Holland

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2025/01/01

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionA rapidly thrown together expedition to the Batavian Republic in expelled by the French.And yet, there were key successes and innovations that point the way to the future. We'll focus on these as we cover the events of the invasion itself.The new Light Infantry doctrine of the British Army, that John Moore and the Duke of York push through the Army, over all their resistance to change, is part of the package that makes British infa...

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42:01

1799 Suvorov Ascendant; Napoleon Absent

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2024/12/25

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis 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, and Clausewitz is a major source.Massena, Moreau, Joubert and Jourdan try to fight campaigns dominated by the presence of Suvorov the greatest Russian commander of all times.Suvorov dominates Italy, defeating three French armies in 3 major battles.Archduke Charles begins the campaign in Switzerlan...

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26:48

1798 France, the Neighbor from Hell

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2024/12/18

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe take a look at 1798, a year when Clausewitz defines 5 French outrages that would have led to a general European war.1. The occupation of the Papal States, followed by the kidnapping and death of the Pope.2. The conquest of Malta, from the Order of Saint John of the Hospital. A clear violation of international law, as it stood at the time. It drew Tsar Paul into the war.3. The invasion of Switzerland and formation of ...

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40:10

1797 Napoleon, Rivoli and Fishguard

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2024/12/11

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe last invasion of Britain and Napoleon's Rivoli campaign along with his final drive towards Vienna obviously deserve to be in one single episode. Not.It is merely the conceit of combining all the land warfare of 1797 into a single episode that allows this. The Fishguard invasion is only rivalled for drama, action, and intensity by the Texas Chicken War of 1719. The Rivoli campaign is truly a marvel of Napoleonic warf...

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45:47

1796 Napoleon and Archduke Charles Shine

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2024/11/27

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionNapoleon reveals to the world his multi faceted genius and Archduke Charles has a hell of a Rhine campaign, defeating 2 armies, both larger than his.Napoleon defeats 4 different armies, and creates, and uncreates republics in Italy. He shakes down Pope Pius and Tuscany for millions in cash while doing it, and begins the whole process f looting Italy's great art treasures. He accomplishes all this with his own underfunde...

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1795 Land Campaigns

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2024/11/20

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionPichegru and Jourdan try taking the Austrians on the Rhine in a pinser move. But Pichegru's march on Clerfayt's magazine in Heidelberg is a disaster witnessed by Davout. Was it treachery?The French are driven back across the Rhine as Wurmser builds up a new army.The Spanish fronts see a collapse as the French break out of the Basque country into Navarre and Castille. The Treaty of Basel ends the war on good terms for th...

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27:52

1794 War of First Coalition, Pichegru Hero of the...

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2024/11/13

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question1794 from the Pyrenees fronts, with massacres of Basque villagers to the Battle of the Black Mountain. The Italian front has Napoleon, as a mere artillery general, plan a maneuver to get the Piedmontese out of their Alpine fortifications, Massena executes it successfully.The Rhine front sees the French struggle with the river crossing and when they do cross the Austrians defeat them.This year reveals the way the Revolution destroye...

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35:49

1798 Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay

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2024/10/30

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe focus is on Nelson's great victory, but we also cover the Battle of the Pyramids, the Siege of Acre and the Battle of Mount Tabor.The strategic choice of Egypt as a way to defeat Britain, may sound crazy, but we go into French thinking. This is Napoleon's and Tallyrand's best thinking on the subject. It may not be that hopeful, whole lotta steps involved, but it's te best they got.

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20:46

Global War on the Far Side of the World

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2024/10/16

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. You get a cumulative effect of seemingly slow British progress, that in the end removes all French influence overseas by 1811. Then, problems with the Americans predominate.There is a good deal of discussion about Elphinstone's campaign to take Capetown and the Battle at Saldana Bay.

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28:46

1797 Spithead Mutiny, the Nore and Battle of Camperdown

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2024/10/09

You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe 1797 mutinies went hand in hand with financial crisis. This was the most dangerous period for Britain and the miracle during the French Revolutionary Wars.The Royal Navy spent most of 1797 convulsed and unable to sail. Fortunately, the French were in no shape to come out after the events we covered in the last few episodes. The Dutch were a different story.. They had a fleet at Texel, 16 ships of the line read...

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30:18

1797 Cape St Vincent, Jervis and Thomas Cochrane

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2024/09/25

The new French and Spanish alliance is ascendant in the Mediterranean. The strategic move the Spanish make is more dictated by the royal revenue requirements and political strategy rather than naval strategy. The outcome is the Battle of Cape St Vincent, where Nelson makes an enduring reputation. We then cover the remarkable career of Admiral Jervis, he is a hero of reform and an irresponsible villain who leaves France unprepared and vulnerable to Napoleon's planned in...

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38:19

1795 1796 Naval Campaigns

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2024/09/11

We cover some of the heroic events that increased pride and self confidence of the Royal Navy: Pellew's defeat of a 74 with 2 frigates and Cornwallis' Retreat. We also have Richery's expedition which demonstrates the capabilities of the French. They were not always incompetent.The 1795 Great Winter Campaign, the Battle of the Groix and the 1796 attempted invasion of Bantry Bay are the core events of this episode.

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37:10

The Glorious First of June

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2024/08/28

This looks at the Glorious First of June campaign, covering all the engagements with extra attention to the 1st of June Was it a French strategic victory or was the Royal Navy the winner in this series of battles?We also do some comparing and contrasting the of the Marine National and the Royal Navy.It's all so very nautical.

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25:41

1793 French Revolutionary War; War of the First...

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2024/08/14

1793 is a year of opportunities thrown away. The allies dominate the poorly disciplined French army, but waste the summer in pointless sieges, even after the road to France is wide open. All the allies are narrowly focused on selfish interests rather than interested in setting France to rights. The siege of Dunkirk reveals the British are also not ready for war.The battle of Neerwinden and the other major actions of the war in Belgium. There is also coverage of the Pyr...

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