New episode! During his 15 years in power, Napoleon put an indelible mark on his adopted city: Paris. The First Empire was a formative period in the history of the city, but what did it mean for average people? t.co/rBWfq2ftoz
After seeing the actor François-Joseph Talma play Julius Caesar on the stage, Napoleon corrected him: "Emperors aren't like that. You use your arms too much: men in power are more restrained in their movements; they know that a gesture is an order, a look is death."
On this day in 1769, a son was born to two minor Corsican nobles, Carlo and Letizia Buonaparte, at their family home in Ajaccio. They gave him a traditional family name: Napoleone.
On this day in 1806, British forces in Buenos Aires surrendered to a force of mostly locally-raised militia under Santiago de Liniers -- a shocking victory that would prove to be an important early milestone on Argentina's road to independence.
On this day in 1792, French revolutionaries carried out the "second revolution," storming the Tuileries Palace and massacring the guards. Napoleon himself witnessed these events, and would later call it the worst battlefield he had ever seen.
On this day in 1796, Napoleon led the Army of Italy to victory over the Austrians at the Battle of Castiglione. Despite being outnumbered by the enemy, with the fortress of Mantua unconquered in his rear, Bonaparte was able to pounce on an isolated Austrian column.
On this day in 1798, a British fleet under Horatio Nelson shattered the French Mediterranean fleet at the Battle of the Nile, one of the most spectacular naval victories of the age. Nelson's triumph left Napoleon and the Army of the Orient stranded in Egypt.
New episode! Napoleon's new treaty with Russia had totally transformed European geopolitics. What did it mean for the future of the continent? For France? For Napoleon himself? https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/1E7F5E/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML3384239850.mp3?updated=1690854777
I just finished recording episode 104, "Man of the Century," it should be out tomorrow.
