by cameron | Aug 15, 2007 | General
Listener Marc Bergevin Vollebekk in Ottawa has created a Napoleon 101 group in Facebook as a place for us to discuss the topics on the show! Thanks Marc! You can join the group by clicking this link –> Napoleon 101 Facebook Group.
by cameron | Aug 7, 2007 | Images
Napoleon Gance Poster (2) Originally uploaded by cameronreilly Isn’t David Markham the bomb!?! He sent me this marvelous, fully framed and original poster from the 1980 restoration of Abel Gance’s 1927 silent epic “Napoleon”. I love it. This is...
by cameron | Aug 1, 2007 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
In this episode, David talks us through The Battle of Borodino, which took place on September 7, 1812, and was the largest and bloodiest single-day battle of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than a quarter of a million soldiers and resulting in at least 70,000...
by cameron | Jul 8, 2007 | General
We have partnered with a London-based company called Pods in Print to provide written transcriptions of the Napoleon 101 podcast starting at this stage from episode #21. Access to the transcripts requires a subscription. It’s US$12.95 for one month or $120 a year....
by cameron | Jul 4, 2007 | Napoleon news
From the BBC this morning: A love letter from Napoleon to his future wife, Josephine, has fetched some £276,000 ($556,000; 409,000 euros) at an auction in London. In the letter – one of only three known to have been sent to Josephine by the French emperor...
by cameron | Jul 2, 2007 | General
Your reviews on iTunes. Your emails. Contest entries. Posts on our blog. We ask for so little. I know what you’re thinking: What else can I do to help support my friends at the Napoleon 101 Podcast? This year for the first time ever we’re going to go for an...
by cameron | Jun 28, 2007 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
On June 24, 1812, the Grande Armée of approximately 600,000 men, the largest army assembled up to that point in European history, crossed the river Neman and headed towards Moscow. In this episode, we focus on the first few months, and follow Napoleon as he captures...
by cameron | Jun 21, 2007 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
In this episode we explore the political events that resulted in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, the tragedy that formed the central events of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and which saw Napoleon raise the largest army in history up until that time,...
by cameron | Jun 19, 2007 | Napoleon news
This story from the St Paul Tribune in Minnesota tells about a recent reenactment of the Battle Of Waterloo held on the site of the actual battle in Belgium: History buffs from Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Holland and elsewhere said the Waterloo commemoration is...
by cameron | Jun 11, 2007 | Napoleon news
The sword was carried by Napoleon — who was not yet emperor — into the battle of Marengo in June 1800, when he launched a surprise attack to push the Austrian army from Italy and seal France’s victory, sold Sunday for more than $6.4 million, an auction house...
