🚨 New episode🚨- General Desaix has arrived on the battlefield! Special guest Charles Mackay joins the show to discuss this close aide of Napoleon’s.
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Ik zie dat de NOS hier zijn best heeft gedaan om dit bericht ook af te voeren naar de stort. Meer dan terecht.
The date will slip. Multiple times.
Four separate armies need to concentrate. Supplies must move across Europe. Diplomatic assurances have to be made.
Coalition warfare is slow. June gives Napoleon weeks to act first. Could they have moved sooner? 2/2
USS United States by Geoff Hunt. She was one of the US Navy’s six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794.
#USNavy #Tallships #AgeofSail
Ze zullen uiteindelijk op elkaar moeten gaan schieten.
Dat zal ook geen verrassing zijn dan.
Het is duidelijk dat het wiel niet in China uitgevonden is.
En als dat wel zo zou zijn, willen ze er niet van weten.
Zegt alles in deze.
Nu wordt het welletjes tijd voor Karel VI op BlueSky.
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The latest Reason to Revolution delivery from Helion books. Finland?! Finland! In the Napoleonic Wars. 🇫🇮 📚 #histbookchat
10 April 1796: French forces under General Jean-Baptiste Cervoni were defeated by Austrian forces led by Feldzeugmeister Johann Peter Beaulieu at the Battle of Voltri in Northern Italy during the Italian campaign of 1796-1797, which was part of the War of the First Coalition.
In einem Augenblicke wo sich der politische Horizont von neuem bewölkt, wird eine Darstellung der Stärke der Französischen Heeresmacht der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit nicht unwerth seyn.
Alexander Mikaberidze’s The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Really enjoying this. Napoleonic Wars are a gap in my knowledge base and the global context and impacts really helps.
My new podcast on Redcoat History is out.
I hope to be doing a few more of these soon:
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10 April 1814: British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces under Field-Marshal Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington, defeated Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult's forces at the Battle of Toulouse. The battle happened four days after Napoleon's abdication, but the commanders had not yet received the news.
Schanzenborden.
Schanzenborden.
Ok - it’s bread and water for the rest of the month: Volume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars has arrived 😭 🇫🇷 📚 #histbookchat
📜 Hundred Days News, 8 April 1815
Napoleon published a secret treaty from January between Britain, Austria, and Louis XVIII, aimed against Prussia and Russia.
Classic Napoleon. Find the cracks, widen them, and try to break the coalition before it breaks you. 1/2 🧵
Bei #Kaiserslautern und #Trippstadt eroberte das Regiment 2 Fahnen, 12 Kanonen, 2 Haubitzen, 29 Pulver- und Munitionswagen, 2 Feldschmieden, 60 Bagagewagen, 2 Lafetten, und 450 Beutpferde; auch machte es überdies 1500 Gefangene.
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5 April 1813: Prusso-Russian forces under General Peter Wittgenstein engaged and defeated French forces commanded by General Eugène de Beauharnais at the Battle of Möckern during the German Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition.
📸 Battle of Möckern by Otto Fikentscher, 1863
5 April 1799: Austrian forces led by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Pál Kray defeated the French Army of Italy under General Barthélemy Schérer at the Battle of Magnano in northern Italy during the War of the Second Coalition.
2 April 1801: A Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the Dano-Norwegian navy under Vice-Admiral Johan Olfert Fischer and Vice-Admiral Steen Andersen Bille at the Battle of Copenhagen during the War of the Second Coalition.
#OTD 2 April 1801 the Battle of Copenhagen - Contrary to popular (British) belief the Danish-Norwegian Navy was not destroyed:
Of 28 ships of the line 7 old hulls were engaged in the battle with 7 lost/captured (25%)
Of 14 frigates 3 were engaged with 1 lost (7%)
#Navalhistory
📜 Hundred Days News. At the end of March 1815, Napoleon had not yet moved north, yet confusion already reigned on the Allied side.
The Prince of Orange initially wanted to invade France. The Prussian commander Kleist refused. The armies were not ready for such a move.
1/3 🧵
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31 March 1814: Allied forces entered Paris following the surrender of the city, effectively ending the War of the Sixth Coalition. This pivotal event, which followed the Battle of Paris, led to the immediate downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte, forcing his abdication and exile to Elba.
🚨New episode🚨- General Scharnhorst has arrived on the battlefield! Special guest Ethan Soefje joins the show to explore Scharnhorst’s revolutionary reforms, his role in transforming the Prussian Army, and how his ideas laid the foundations for modern warfare.
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Op deze dag in 1746 werd de Spaanse schilder Francisco de Goya geboren. Zijn werk ondermijnde de schilderconventies uit zijn tijd, waarmee hij de weg baande voor het realisme en impressionisme. Zeker aan het einde van zijn leven werden zijn schilderijen steeds donkerder
Poster advertising the lecture 'From Waterford to Waterloo: Irish soldiers in the Age of Revolutions.' with Dr Ciarán McDonnell in Central Library on Wednesday 8th April from 6:30 – 7:30 PM. FREE EVENT – BOOKING REQUIRED For bookings and information please contact Central Library on: 051 849975 or email centrallibrary@waterfordcouncil.ie.
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