Episode 22: Q2-1797 - Rogue statesman

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1797. April… May… June. Three months in which a victorious French general secures generous peace terms from Vienna... national elections in France prompt yet another political crisis… and the Royal Navy faces a series of mutinies that puts British security on a knife-edge. This is episode 22 of the Napoleonic Quarterly – covering three months in which Bonaparte the statesman takes centre stage.

[09:40] - Michael Broers on the Preliminaries of Leoben

[31:20] - Ruth Scurr on the 1797 French elections

[57:47] - Rachel Blackman-Rogers on the Nore and Sheerness mutinies

Plus from [23:05] a deep dive into the Austrian military courtesy of Charles Esdaile

And from [1:07:44] Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze size up the state of Europe, including Prussia and Russia, as the First Coalition draws to a close.