Death Raft: The Wreck of The Medusa

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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As The Medusa sailed from Rochefort in 1816, many aboard saw bright futures ahead for themselves. They were escaping a country torn asunder, harshly divided by war, revolution and eventual restoration. With the French Empire floundering and a band of Hard-Right ultra-royalists creating laws in France, the promise of a new start in a fresh land was enticing for many. Little did they expect to meet such a high degree of incompetency on their voyage, had they foreseen even a fraction of the horrors that lay ahead for them, many might have chosen to stay in France no matter the situation. SOURCES Miles, J. (2007). The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY. Savigny, J. B. Henry, and Alexandre Corréard. (1818). Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816. London: Henry Colburn McKee, A. (1975). Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft. Penguin Books, Auckland, New Zealand. Newworldencyclopedia.org. (2019). Banc d'Arguin National Park - New World Encyclopedia. [online] Available at: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Banc_d%27Arguin_National_Park [Accessed 28 Aug. 2019]. ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:44.0	As the Medusa sailed from Rosseau in 1816, many aboard saw bright futures ahead for themselves.
0:54.0	They were escaping a country torn asunder, harshly divided by war, revolution and eventual
1:00.7	restoration.
1:01.7	With the French Empire floundering and a band of hard-right ultra-royalists
1:06.4	creating laws in France, the promise of a new start in a fresh land was enticing for many.
1:15.2	Little did they expect to meet such a high degree of incompetency on their voyage. Had they seen even a fraction of the horrors
1:19.5	that lay ahead for them, many might have chosen to stay in France no matter the situation.
1:26.2	This is
1:40.2	season 3 episode. Today's episode I thought we go a little bit more horror than we have been of late.
1:47.3	I figure you know the nights are starting to roll in I'm starting to get back into that kind of
1:51.2	real horror kind of vibe.
1:53.0	We got October on the horizon.
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