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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, William Trimple.

Do you know what I actually in awe of you because you've got a flight to catch in not very many hours so well

how new?

Well if you knew that A I wasn't packed B I wasn't checked it.

There's a man I know. There's less for that direction. Yeah I was half expecting you to sort of turn up with socks over your shoulder

and piles of laundry paper place.

It's quite a paddock.

There was a cross sort that was hidden and is out of view, but that's now well eaten.

I'm so glad you have, and the only reason that you'd be motivated to be dragged out of the chaos that is your

packing is because we've got an absolute corker of a subject today to talk about.

And now just remind everyone,

this comes off the back of our wonderful episodes

with Orlando Fijis on the Crimean War.

And just tell us, just for those who may not have and by the way why haven't you listen to those

podcasts just yet a thumbnail sketch of where we're at and why the Crimean was such an important

place then as it is now but then in particular it was one of the first wars of its kind wasn't it? It's three empires clashing.

There is the Ottoman Empire which we dealt with in our second series,

which is under assault by the Russians who are moving through Ottoman territory, not only in the Caucasus and in the north of the Black Sea, but also in the

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