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The Napoleonic Wars Podcast

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? What was his legacy on history? And why, more than 200 years later, does the conflict which he gave his name to still matter? Join award-winning Napoleonic historians Dr Zack White, Dr Luke Reynolds, and Liam Telfer as they host Europe's leading show devoted to the American War of Independence, French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. From interviews with leading researchers, to deep dive debates on some of the big questions, this show is ideal for those who want to start building their knowledge or deepen their understanding of the period.

Making Napoleon's Marshals

96 hours 22 mins; March 28, 2026

Cavalry in the Napoleonic Age Part 1

62 hours 39 mins; March 21, 2026

Emergency Broadcast: Saving Napoleonic History

42 mins; March 19, 2026

Marshal Massena

63 hours 47 mins; March 14, 2026

Most powerful woman of the Napoleonic era

93 hours 47 mins; March 07, 2026

Redcoat Light Infantry

60 hours 29 mins; February 28, 2026

Napoleon's Unified Europe?

78 hours 42 mins; February 21, 2026

Fighting like Napoleon's Men: French drill 1789-1815

65 hours 33 mins; February 14, 2026

Battle of Cape St Vincent

64 hours 24 mins; February 07, 2026

The Battle of La Boissiere Ecole: The 1815 Allied Invasion of France through two sets of eyes and two sets of cameras

78 hours 8 mins; January 31, 2026

Sharpe's Greatest Hits

75 hours 17 mins; January 24, 2026

Surviving as a Napoleonic Soldier

35 mins; January 17, 2026

Napoleon's Imperial Guard: Myth & Reality

57 mins; January 10, 2026

The British Army in Combat

72 hours 19 mins; December 31, 2025

Napoleon's Greatest Marshal: Berthier vs Davout - The Grand Final

81 hours 13 mins; December 24, 2025

Britain's Forgotten Recruits: The Fencibles

66 hours 43 mins; December 20, 2025

The East India Company: Origins

64 hours 33 mins; December 13, 2025

Mutiny

66 hours 11 mins; December 06, 2025

Hougoumont: The fire at Waterloo

54 mins; November 29, 2025

The Battle of Talavera: The Peninsular War Saga

45 mins; November 22, 2025

The Talavera Campaign 1809: The Peninsular War Saga

57 mins; November 15, 2025

Wellington & Napoleon: Your Questions Answered

82 hours 30 mins; November 08, 2025

Waterloo: Staging the Battle in the Capital

42 mins; November 01, 2025

Wellington vs Napoleon: The Great Debate

69 hours 50 mins; October 25, 2025

Leipzig - The Battle of the Nations

71 hours 30 mins; October 18, 2025

Beyond Marriage: Sex, Desire, and Deviancy in the Napoleonic era

77 hours 51 mins; October 11, 2025

The Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Masterpiece?

71 hours 56 mins; October 04, 2025

The Eve of Austerlitz

64 hours 13 mins; September 27, 2025

The Battle of Assaye

64 hours 11 mins; September 20, 2025

Siege Warfare - An Unavoidable Evil

56 mins; September 14, 2025

Bread, Boots and Bullets - Logistics of the British Army

70 hours 50 mins; September 06, 2025

Waterloo Medals

74 hours 56 mins; August 30, 2025

Wars of Revolution and Empire: The People's Perspective

60 hours 34 mins; August 23, 2025

The Battle of Oporto - the Peninsular War saga

89 hours 5 mins; August 16, 2025

Napoleonic Monuments: The Committee of Taste

63 hours 21 mins; August 09, 2025

Redcoats: Careers and Promotion in the British Army

67 hours 27 mins; August 02, 2025

Sex, lust and flirting in the Napoleonic Era

67 hours 22 mins; July 26, 2025

Eylau: Napoleon’s Bloody Stalemate in the Snow

73 hours 13 mins; July 19, 2025

Who lost America? A War of Independence Special

75 hours 45 mins; July 12, 2025

Napoleon’s Armies of the Confederation of the Rhine

72 hours 32 mins; July 05, 2025

Napoleon's Greatest Marshal: The Second Semi-final

132 hours 14 mins; June 28, 2025

The Crisis of the Battle of Waterloo: Live

211 hours 50 mins; June 24, 2025

President Adams' America: Sedition, Aliens and Quasi War

63 hours 26 mins; June 21, 2025

Waterloo's Great Turning Point

85 hours 55 mins; June 17, 2025

17th June 1815: Storm and Strategy

65 hours 11 mins; June 16, 2025

Waterloo Hour by Hour

52 mins; June 14, 2025

The Battle of Wagram

75 hours 18 mins; June 10, 2025

Scandal and Family: Queen Charlotte

58 mins; June 07, 2025

Recruiting Redcoats

62 hours 58 mins; June 03, 2025

Battle of the Marshals: Semi-final 1 - Berthier, Massena, Soult, Lannes, Bernadotte & Oudinot

135 hours 57 mins; May 31, 2025

The French Light Infantry

52 mins; May 27, 2025

Battle of Medellin (Peninsular War saga) - Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

70 hours 59 mins; May 24, 2025

Black Redcoats - The final chapter

76 hours 32 mins; May 17, 2025

Marshal Berthier - Napoleon's Right Hand

61 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2025

Marshal Lannes - A Life (part 2)

53 mins; May 10, 2025

Lannes - Napoleon's Best Friend?

54 mins; May 06, 2025

Infantry in Battle - An 18th Century War of War Special

77 hours 44 mins; May 03, 2025

Marshal Ney - The Bravest of the Brave

86 hours 26 mins; April 29, 2025

Meet the Composer

81 hours 5 mins; April 26, 2025

Marshal Murat: All Balls & No Brains?

76 hours 49 mins; April 22, 2025

Peninsular War Guerrilla Leaders

75 hours 15 mins; April 19, 2025

Napoleon's Stolen Army: A Peninsular War story

82 hours 8 mins; April 16, 2025

Building the US government

67 hours 42 mins; April 14, 2025

Wellington Congress - A Hot Mic Special

45 mins; April 12, 2025

The British Officers

79 hours 42 mins; April 05, 2025

State of the Union - 5th Anniversary Special

85 hours 39 mins; April 01, 2025

1796: America's First Real Election

62 hours 14 mins; March 29, 2025

The Peninsular War - The 1808 saga omnibus

471 hours 37 mins; March 25, 2025

1808: Rebellion at the Cape

77 hours 0 mins; March 22, 2025

Defending Quatre Bras - The fight for Gemioncourt

10 mins; March 20, 2025

Britain's Worst Defeat? Bergen op Zoom

70 hours 55 mins; March 15, 2025

Big or Small? Creating the Federal Government

67 hours 42 mins; March 15, 2025

The Battle for Amelia Island

56 mins; March 11, 2025

Washington's Presidency

57 mins; March 08, 2025

Fédon's Rebellion

78 hours 17 mins; March 01, 2025

Lady Liberty at War: Women Soldiers of the Grande Armée

61 hours 23 mins; February 25, 2025

Black Redcoats at War

69 hours 33 mins; February 22, 2025

Pirates of the Americas

58 mins; February 18, 2025

Redcoat Officers

64 hours 22 mins; February 15, 2025

Washington's Government

67 hours 57 mins; February 11, 2025

Catholics of the British Army

65 hours 1 min; February 08, 2025

Political Friendship - A BSECS Special

13 mins; February 08, 2025

Hanging Soldiers - BSECS Report

15 mins; February 05, 2025

Kiss Me Hardy

97 hours 29 mins; February 04, 2025

Sexual Deviancy, women and mourning - A BSECS Special

11 mins; February 02, 2025

Hessians - Scapegoats of the American Revolution?

65 hours 7 mins; February 01, 2025

Maternity in the 18th Century - A BSECS Special

15 mins; January 31, 2025

The Georgian Group - A BSECS Special Report

11 mins; January 30, 2025

Redcoats in Madrid

72 hours 35 mins; January 28, 2025

Gout, sex and manliness - a BSECS Special report

8 mins; January 27, 2025

Birth of the USA: Confederation America

71 hours 52 mins; January 25, 2025

Britain's Forgotten Campaign: Graham and the Netherlands

70 hours 0 mins; January 21, 2025

Broadway is Burning

76 hours 6 mins; January 18, 2025

The Burial of Sir John Moore

5 mins; January 15, 2025

Light Infantry of the 18th Century

69 hours 25 mins; January 11, 2025

Making the Musket

70 hours 53 mins; January 07, 2025

Napoleonic Democracy: Myth and Reality

78 hours 0 mins; January 04, 2025

The Corunna Campaign - Peninsular War Saga 7

88 hours 5 mins; December 31, 2024

500,000

4 mins; December 30, 2024

In Conversation with Beatrice de Graaf

88 hours 20 mins; December 29, 2024

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