by cameron | Feb 1, 2008 | Podcast, video
Welcome to a very special edition of the Napoleon podcast – now with added video! 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...
by cameron | Jan 31, 2008 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
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...
by cameron | Jan 27, 2008 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
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...
by cameron | Dec 27, 2007 | Images
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,...
by cameron | Dec 27, 2007 | General
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...
by cameron | Dec 27, 2007 | General
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...
by cameron | Dec 13, 2007 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
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...
by cameron | Dec 7, 2007 | Napoleon news
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...
by cameron | Dec 6, 2007 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
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...
by cameron | Nov 27, 2007 | General
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...
