Battle of Waterloo

Warfare

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4.5 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After 12 years of battles against the French Republic’s various neighbours, this was Napoleon’s final stand. Although many associate its name with a Eurovision winning hit from 1974, the Battle of Waterloo was in fact devastating to the Republic and its Allied opposition. 24 thousand French and 19 thousand Allied soldiers died on this battlefield. On the 206 anniversary of the battle, Zack White returns to Warfare to discuss whether the battle was inevitable or the Allied victory certain, and if the credit for winning should be as heavily placed with Wellington as it is. Zack expertly guides us through the political and military lead up to the battle, the events of 18 June 1815 and the actors involved.

Zack specialises in crime and punishment in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars at the University of Southampton, and is the creator of the online hub TheNapoleonicWars.net.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome back I'm your host James Rogers and this is the History
0:03.6	Hit Warfare podcast if it is your first time here we are dedicated to the strategies
0:08.1	technologies, technologies, leaders and wars that have changed the course of history
0:12.3	speaking of which we're focusing on the Battle of Waterloo in this
0:16.0	episode and especially Napoleon's litany of mistakes that led him to drawing defeat from the
0:21.7	jaws of victory. It is of course the 2006
0:25.1	anniversary of Waterloo so it's a perfect time to get the brilliant historian and
0:30.5	Napoleon Nutt Zach White back on the podcast,
0:34.0	he takes a step by step through this monumental world-changing battle.
0:38.0	So here he is.
0:40.0	Zach White on the Battle of Waterloo. Hi Zach, welcome back on to the History Hit Warfare Podcast. How you doing today?
1:00.0	I'm very well James. It's great to see you again again it's great to be back so soon after we discussed
1:04.0	how Napoleon perhaps wasn't the greatest thing since sliced bread but yeah I'm really looking forward to
1:09.4	discussing Waterloo with you today probably one of history's most unnecessary battles and certainly one of its most
1:14.5	misunderstood. Ooh okay misunderstood and unnecessary yeah well you were a hit the last time you
1:21.9	came on zak so we had to get you back on.
1:23.7	It's a 2006 anniversary of Waterloo, and so we need to know all of the details.
1:29.6	You've tempted us there.
1:31.5	So take us into it. What were the origins of this battle? If I just ride back
1:37.2	through my mind a little bit, had Napoleon not just been in exile?
1:41.7	Absolutely, and this is why it's unnecessary.
1:44.3	Napoleon had lost the war.
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