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400 years ago, a trio of tiny kingdoms were perched on some damp islands off the coast of Europe.

Within three short centuries, these islands would become the centre of an empire which ruled a quarter of the globe and on which the sun never set.

I'm Samuel Hume, a historian of the British empire, and my podcast Pax Britannica follows the people and events that built that empire into a global superpower.

Learn the history of the British empire by listening to Pax Britannica everywhere you find your podcasts.

Or go to pod.link slash Pax.

Welcome to the age of Napoleon.

Episode 77, The Symposium.

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This episode will be a bit different.

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