🎧 Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory
🎧 Warfare • 26m
2 December is a special date for those fascinated by Napoleon Bonaparte. Not only is this the date he crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804, but also the date of his greatest victory a year later, the Battle of Austerlitz. James Rogers is joined by world-leading historian Andrew Roberts to dissect the conditions, tactics and aftermath of that cold, December day.
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Passages read by Matt Lewis
Music:
Not My Taste (a) - Doug B Rossi, Tony Phillips
Majesty (a) - Bradley Andrew Segal, Haim Mazar
Force of Nature (a) - John Christopher Lucas Lemke
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