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Episode 38: Q2-1801 - Nelson's blind eye
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1801. April... May... June... Three months in which Horatio Nelson pulverises the Danish fleet at Copenhagen... Napoleon Bonaparte turns his ire on the pro-British Portuguese... and war breaks out between the piratical Barbary States and the fledgeling US of A. This is episode 38 of the Napoleonic Quarterly - covering three months which show that, despite the wider drift towards a French-dominated peace, there is still plenty of scope for conflict.
09:26 - Mark Lawrence on the War of the Oranges between Portugal and Spain
31:17 - Liam Gauci on Tripoli's declaration of war against the United States
1:00:55 - Rachel Blackman-Rogers on the Battle of Copenhagen
107 episodes
Manage episode 427027971 series 3269825
1801. April... May... June... Three months in which Horatio Nelson pulverises the Danish fleet at Copenhagen... Napoleon Bonaparte turns his ire on the pro-British Portuguese... and war breaks out between the piratical Barbary States and the fledgeling US of A. This is episode 38 of the Napoleonic Quarterly - covering three months which show that, despite the wider drift towards a French-dominated peace, there is still plenty of scope for conflict.
09:26 - Mark Lawrence on the War of the Oranges between Portugal and Spain
31:17 - Liam Gauci on Tripoli's declaration of war against the United States
1:00:55 - Rachel Blackman-Rogers on the Battle of Copenhagen
107 episodes
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