This episode is pretty special – David and I recorded it sitting together, in the same hotel room, same city, same country and, as David likes to point out, on the same day (usually weâ€re in completely different timezones). As we were both in a strange city (San Francisco) and didnâ€t have access to our usual reference materials, we did a short show (for us thatâ€s under an hour!) looking at the Third Coalition and the build up to Austerlitz. We cut the show before we covered Austerlitz though because we want to spend some time on it and have all of our books around us! It was Napoleonâ€s favourite victory and possibly the peak of his military achievments.
In the Napoleonic Wars, the Third Coalition against the French Empire emerged in 1805 and consisted of an alliance of the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia, Naples, and Sweden.
In this episode we discuss:
(photo of Arc de Triomphe detail by zakw845)
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