65.1 Napoleonic Wars - Intro

A History of Europe, Key Battles

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Peace could potentially have lasted after the treaties of Lunéville and Amiens of 1801 and 1802 had the great powers accepted each others’ spheres of influence. However, the agreements turned out to be just a short truce. Napoleon’s continued annexations in Europe and apparent ambitions in the Mediterranean and Near East alarmed the British and Russians. The French suffer defeat at Trafalgar but manage to occupy Vienna. The Russians then withdrew back eastwards, while the Austrians hastened to make peacewww.patreon.com/historyeuropewww.historyeurope.netMusic from Beethoven - Symphony Nr 3 'Eroica', played by Czech National Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of www.musopen.orgPicture: Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor_Napoleon in His Study at the Tuilerie

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to a history of Europe Key Battles podcast.
0:31.4	This is the first part on the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815.
0:49.5	It was just before noon on Tuesday, 15th, 1769, in the town of Ejaccio on the Mediterranean
0:58.0	island of Corsica.
1:00.0	A minor noblewoman of Italian origin Maria Letitia Buonaparte suddenly felt labour pains on her way home from church.
1:10.0	She only just had time to get into the
1:12.2	house before she gave birth. Her son, whom she named Napoleon, would go on to change
1:19.1	the course of European history. In the war between 1803 to 1815, named after him, 5 million lives were lost, in terms of a proportion
1:30.4	of the total population, equivalent to the First World War of 1914 to 18. This is in addition
1:38.0	to the 2 million lives lost in the French Revolutionary Wars, which immediately preceded the
1:44.0	Napoleonic Wars and discussed in the French Revolutionary Wars, which immediately preceded the Napoleonic Wars, and discussed
1:45.7	in the last episodes.
1:49.3	The only previous war which compares is the Thirty Years' War, 1618 to 1648.
1:56.9	The conflict was global in reach, with worldwide repercussions, but left a particularly deep scar in Europe that would last for generations.
2:05.6	The The
2:20.3	The The
2:37.0	The Napoleon's meteorite grise from minor nobility in Corsica to the most powerful ruler in Europe
3:12.6	would not have been possible without the French Revolution of 1789. He was trained at the
3:19.2	Military Academy at Brienne, then at the Ecole Militaire in Paris, where he specialised in artillery.
3:27.2	He rose rapidly through the ranks and benefited from the high turnover of officers
3:31.9	and a new system of promotion based on merit rather than noble status.
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