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...
