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The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #40 - The Road to St Helena

Cameron Reilly — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:57:23 +0000

Hey folks - do you think we can make David’s new book, THE ROAD TO ST HELENA, the #1 History book on Amazon? Buy five copies today, give them to your friends, and make Napoleon NUMBER ONE!

On today’s show, David examines the political machinations the British went through to make sure Napoleon never set foot on British soil. According to the British law of ‘habeas corpus’, Napoleon should have been given a fair trial, but of course several people in England didn’t want that to happen. Did all of the British feel the same way? What were the reasons for denying Napoleon the right to justice?

Listen to today’s show to find out!

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The theme music is La Marseillaise. Yes, we know it isn’t necessarily relevant to Napoleon but it’s hard to beat when it comes to French themes! The music at the end of today’s show is Marche de la Garde à Waterloo. You can find it, along with many other Napoleonic tunes, on this site. Thanks to Ben for the link!

Some Photos From A Listener

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:11:25 +0000

Listener Tim O’Dwyer from Australia, who describes himself as “an old Aussie lawyer (who believes he could do a good plea of guilty for Prince Talleyrand)”, recently visited France and Israel with his wife and submitted some Napoleonis snaps from his visits to Malmaison and Jaffa. See more in the Napoleon 101 Flickr group. Thanks Tim!

A new Biography Show is out!

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:45:47 +0000

I just thought I’d give a plug for the other show David and I are doing - The Biography Show - which has a new episode up about Helen Of Troy. Did she really exist? Or is completely fictional? Find out our thoughts on the show!

By the way, I was prompted to write this by a nice email I just got out of the blue from a guy at Apple telling me he’s a big fan of the new show! When a guy working on iTunes tells you he likes you show, it’s got to count for something!

The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #39 - Au Revoir France!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:22:49 +0000

I know it’s been a while between drinks, my friends, but there are good reasons. Listen to today’s show to learn more!

Today we finally… FINALLY… get Napoleon on “the boat”!

David walks us through Napoleon’s last days in France and his reasons for choosing to surrender himself to the British instead of making a run for the United States.

(Chateau la Malmaison - by Cameron Reilly)

(David in Napoleon’s bed chamber, Aix)

(Napoleon surrendering to Maitland, from the collection of J. David Markham)

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Napoleon manga

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:24:43 +0000

My thanks to Brian who, in the comments of a recent post mentioned there was a mange comic about Napoleon by HASEGAWA TETSUYA. I did some research and found an online store selling them.

I’ve found a site that discussed the comic which I’ve translated for your reading pleasure here.

The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #38 - Napoleon’s Options

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:48:16 +0000

Let me start off by apologizing for my audio - it seems I had the wrong microphone on. Luckily I’m just the button pusher so the impact is small.

In today’s episode, David explains the range of options Napoleon considered after his abdication of 22 June, 1815. Should he go to England, Russia, Austria or the United States?

Don’t forget to check out our new podcast The Biography Show on TPN where you will hear us talk about the lives of people such as Alexander The Great and King Hammurabi of Babylon.

(image is from a new comic about Napoleon inspired by this podcast and conceived by listener Per Ove Sleen from Norway!)

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Paris 2008 Map

Cameron Reilly — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:55:10 +0000

Paris 2008 Map

Originally uploaded by cameronreilly

Some of the places I’m visiting (and staying) on my trip to Paris in July. If you want to open it in Google Maps, use this link.

My Napoleon Library on Shelfari

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:29:28 +0000

I’m moving house at the moment and as part of the process, I’m documenting my library of books using an online tool called Shelfari.com. It also gives me an opportunity to create discussion groups around books and so I’ve created one around my Napoleonic collection (link). I think it might be an interesting tool for all of us to review Napoleonic books we’ve read. Please feel free to join and submit reviews of books you’ve enjoyed! I’ve only added one from my collection so far (David’s “Dummies” book, of course) but will be adding the rest over the next few days.

Napoleon invented the computer?

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:35:02 +0000

Well, not quite, but listener Arni Sigurdsson from Iceland found this website which explains how Napoleon was important to the development of the modern computer. According to the site:

Napoleon’s troops in Egypt buy shawls and start a fashion craze.

In Europe the shawls get made on automated, perforated-paper control looms.

This gives an American engineer Herman Hollerith the idea to automate calculation using punch cards.

Which get used to control ENIAC, the first electronic computer!

Thanks for the link Arni, fascinating!

The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #37 - Fouche’s Machiavellian Machinations

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:35:56 +0000

Somehow we managed to get another entire episode just out of Joseph Fouche, Minister of Police, Duke of Otranto, and his machinations after Napoleon’s abdication to try to ensure his own position of power in post-Napoleonic France. We also talk about what’s happening during this period of instability with Marshals Ney, Davout and Murat. Napoleon, although the topic of much discussion, is, in this episode, almost a minor character.

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You can join our Facebook discussion group by clicking this link –> Napoleon 101 Facebook Group.

Thanks to everyone for your continued support and for all of the terrific comments we get every week!

If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed:

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The Biography Show #001 - Alexander The Great

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:12:21 +0000

Well as you know, David and I have been threatening to inflict another podcast series on you for a while and I’m happy to announce that one of them is finally here!

And it isn’t the one we were expecting to launch first.

Introducing - The Biography Show.

The idea behind The Biography Show is to examine the lives of some of history’s most influential people. We kick off the series with a 90 minute talk about the life of Alexander III of Macedon, otherwise known as Alexander “The Great”.

We still intend on doing a Napoleon-type series on Caesar sometime this year but we’re both waiting for our schedules to clear up a little.

Paris accommodation

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:04:46 +0000

After the International Napoleonic Society conference that’s being held in Corsica in July, I intend on spending a few days in Paris (July 12 - 15). If anyone out there has recommendations on affordable accommodation, please let me know.

Audio Feed vs Video Feed

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:17:08 +0000

Okay, I’ve worked out why the video is coming down in the audio feed. If that happened to you, and you didn’t want the video, my apologies. Here’s how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

The reason it happened (I think) is that the iTunes feed on the main Napoleon page points to our meta-feed. It will suck down EVERYTHING.

If you want only the audio versions of the show, unsubscribe from the show in iTunes and use THIS AUDIO ONLY FEED.

If you want only the video, get THIS VIDEO ONLY FEED.

If you want it all, GET THE BIG DADDY FEED.

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The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #36 (Video) - The End Of The Empire

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:14:06 +0000

Welcome to a very special edition of the Napoleon podcast - now with added video! (NOTE: I will be putting up an embedded version of the video shortly as well.)

When David and I were recording the latest episode of the show yesterday I sprung on him the idea of capturing the video of our skype chat and putting that up as an added version of the show. My smiling mug is missing from this video (I forgot to check “capture picture-in-picture”) but that just means David takes up more of the screen.

We’ll take your feedback about whether or not seeing our faces has any value to you. If you would like to see more video, I’ll create a separate RSS feed for the video versions so you can just subscribe to them and have iTunes suck them down for you and throw them on your iPod.

IPOD VIDEO:
This version of the video is for downloading and placing on your iPod Touch or iPhone. It’s around 500Mb.
Download the iPod version of the podcast.

The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #36 (Audio) - The End Of The Empire

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:26:17 +0000

In this episode David explains the Machiavellian machinations of Joseph Fouche in the days after Waterloo; how Napoleon was trying to manage the destiny of the Empire from his bath; and the events leading up to Napoleon’s final abdication from the throne and then declaring a regency in the name of his son, Napoleon II.

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The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #35 - After Waterloo

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:51:43 +0000

First of all, let me wish you all a happy 2008 from David and myself.
Second, please allow me to apologize - both for the delay in this episode of our little show as well as the audio problems with it. As I explain in the introduction to the show, there was a major technical snafu with the recording (apparently a result of a Skype upgrade not playing nice with my recording software) which left David’s voice sounding like Darth Vader after a couple of Ambien. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to clean it up as best as I can. It’s still not perfect but hopefully won’t hurt your ears too much. I think for future shows I’ll record on the Macbook - we might even do a VIDEO episode (if, of course, any of you would be interested in watching our handsome mugs while we talk).

Now… on with the show notes.

After the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon had to make a series of strategic decisions. Can he save Paris? Can he still raise an army? Is all, finally, lost? In this episode, David takes us through some of Napoleon’s thinking and actions in the days immediately following his last appearance on the battlefields of Europe.

(Photo by shandara. Check out more Napoleonic photos at the Vive l’Empereur! Flickr group)

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The Waterloo Drum

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:58:43 +0000

A few weeks ago I took my kids for a drive out to Benalla in country Victoria to visit a few Ned Kelly memorial sites (Ned is a very famous Australian folk hero).

To my surprise, at the Benalla and District Historical Society, I discovered this display. It is, apparently, one of the drums used by the Dutch forces at Waterloo and was handed down to a local family.

Campfires Of Napoleon

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:47:19 +0000

One of my sisters gave me this gift for Christmas: “Campfires of Napoleon”, by Henry Clay Watson and published 1854 by Porter Coates in Philadelphia. Watson, a journalist and editor by profession, wrote the book when he was only 23.

It’s a very pro-Napoleon book written, I suspect, for high school kids a mere 33 years after Napoleon’s death. Each chapter covers one of his battles and is called “Campfires” because it imagines the stories being told around the bivouacs after the battle. As it is out of copyright, I’m tempted to read each chapter on a podcast designed for kids.

You can read the entire text online thanks to Google Books.

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Happy Birthday J. David Markham!

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:18:18 +0000

Dec 26 is Mr Markham’s birthday so please send him your birthday wishes. Rather than buy him a present, why not buy someone else a copy of one of his books as a gift? I’m sure he’d appreciate that.

When I originally had the idea to start a podcast about Napoleon, I thought about doing it myself but knew that my knowledge was sorely inadequate. When I started looking for a co-host, I had no idea I would ever be so lucky as to find someone like David willing to do the show. I thought I should share with you how that came about.

On my other podcast, G’Day World, I had earlier interviewed New York-based author Staton Rabin about her book “Betsy and the Emperor” (listen to the interview). When I finally was toying with the idea of the Napoleon show, I thought I’d try to get an author involved in each episode. I sent Staton an email asking if she would be interested in doing an episode on St Helena. She said she didn’t really consider herself an expert on the subject either, but knew a few historians and would be happy to introduce me. Her introductions didn’t need to go further than David. She introduced us via email and he said yes and I was very excited.

In all honesty, when we started the show, I never thought it would find much of an audience, I mean, who wants to listen to a show about a guy who has been dead for 200 years?? I just thought it would be awesome to have an excuse to talk to David once a month about one of my favourite subjects. And here we are, almost two years and 34 episodes later, getting close to wrapping up this series but planning lots of other projects together.
I am very fortunate to consider him a colleague and a friend and so, on behalf of myself, my family (David has had light saber duels with my kids via webcam), and you, his 30,000 closest friends, I’d like to say:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIRE!

The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #34 - The Battle of Waterloo Part 2

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:44:59 +0000

The Battle of Waterloo, along with the Battle of Wavre, was fought on 18 June 1815, and was Napoleon Bonaparte’s last battle. His defeat put a final end to his rule as Emperor of the French. It is probably one of the most famous battles in history. It has been the subject of much debate for nearly 200 years and we’ll probably still be debating it 200 years hence. We could have spaced this episode out over several more episodes but this show is about providing an introduction to Napoleon, we’re not trying to deliver the definitive commentary on his life, so we’ve covered the battle, as best we can, in a little over 90 minutes. What were the reasons for Napoleon’s defeat? Was it superior strategy on behalf of the Allies? Inferior strategy on behalf of Napoleon? Treachery? Incompetence? Illness? Bad luck? A combination of all of these?

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Napoleon love story page sells for €23,000

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:07:07 +0000

A single manuscript page from a love story written by Napoleon Bonaparte sold for €23,000 (£17,000) at Osenat auction house in France yesterday.
It was the first page of the final draft of Napoleon’s 1795 short novel Clisson and Eugenie, only 22 pages in its original handwritten form. The story, loosely based on the author’s brief romance with the sister of his brother’s wife, Desiree Clary, was not published in Napoleon’s lifetime. (link)

The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #33 - The Battle of Waterloo Part 1

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:44:36 +0000

On this episode we discuss the first two major battles of the 1815 Waterloo campaign - Quatre Bras (16 June) and Ligny (16 June). The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought near the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras, Belgium, on 16 June 1815 between Wellington’s Anglo-Dutch army and the left wing of the Armée du Nord under Marshal Michel Ney. The Battle of Ligny was fought on 16 June 1815 when French troops of the Armée du Nord (Army of the North) under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, defeated a Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal Blücher. Ligny was Napoleon’s last victory. Blücher’s defeated army survived to play a pivotal part two days later at the Battle of Waterloo.

Battle map of the Waterloo campaign:

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This show is based on David’s book “Napoleon For Dummies”. Click on the image below to purchase a copy!

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Thanks to everyone for your continued support and for all of the terrific comments we get every week!

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The theme music is La Marseillaise. Yes, we know it isn’t necessarily relevant to Napoleon but it’s hard to beat when it comes to French themes!

The TPN 2007 Survey

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:55:00 +0000

Hey folks - I would REALLY appreciate it if a few (thousand) of you could pop on over to the TPN 2007 Survey (link: http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/survey) and spend ten minutes filling it out. We need to collect some anonymous data on our audience demographics to use in discussions with advertisers. Thanks!

Napoleon podcast mentioned in The Robb Report

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:06:46 +0000

As David mentioned in #32, he was interviewed for the latest edition of The Robb Report magazine about his snuffbox. Here are the images!

The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast #32 - The Hundred Days Part Two

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:38:58 +0000

Re-established on the throne of Paris in April 1815, Napoleon introduces a new Constitution and begs the Monarchs of Europe and Great Britian for peace. His envoys are rebuffed and his letters returned unopened. The Allies, still ensconced at the Congress of Vienna where they have been since November 1814, declare Napoleon an international outlaw and prepare to attack with one million troops. Napoleon has inherited only 200,000 troops from Louis XVIII. He puts together his new team and prepares for the inevitable battle.

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You can join our Facebook discussion group by clicking this link –> Napoleon 101 Facebook Group.

Thanks to everyone for your continued support and for all of the terrific comments we get every week!

If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed:

Subscribe to TPN :: Napoleon 1O1 by Email
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If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this description in Wikipedia.
If you stumbled upon this episode of the show and you would like to start from the very beginning, go to our overview page for a full list of episodes.

The theme music is La Marseillaise. Yes, we know it isn’t necessarily relevant to Napoleon but it’s hard to beat when it comes to French themes!