The Age of Napoleon
@AgeofNapoleon
A history podcast about the Napoleonic era
Welcome new followers! If you want to begin listening, there's no better place to start than episode 1: traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL2699869176.…
New episode! In late 1809, Napoleon negotiated a punitive peace treaty with Austria and survived a strange assassination attempt. Meanwhile, the British launched a surprise invasion of the continent and dealt with political controversies at home. podtrac.com/pts/redirect.m…
Episode 126 is now available ad-free to Patreon subscribers. The free version will be out shortly. patreon.com/posts/episode-…
Episode 125 is now available ad-free to Patreon subscribers. The free version will be out shortly. patreon.com/posts/episode-…
I posted a sad personal update on Patreon. Townes the cat, the source of the occasional errant feline noise in the background of the show, has died. patreon.com/posts/rip-town…
Heritage 1815: a committee of Napoleonic historians working to safeguard the future of sites from the Waterloo campaign. Following news of the planned sale of Gemioncourt Farm & 8.5 hectares of land on the Quatre Bras battlefield, the committee has issued a statement 🧵1/
I wrote a thing for @forevermagusa and I couldn’t have done it without my favourite podcast in the universe @AgeofNapoleon
Pls be good to yourself and read this mini-essay my friend Marina wrote on the subject of Napoleon (broadly defined) forevermag.net/Marina-Scholtz…
Family was important in Napoleonic France for deciding whether a man could be conscripted – and not just because families could buy a man out, lie for him, or help him hide. Here’s a quick rundown of maybe unexpected ways that family members could help you escape conscription.