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Welcome to the Age of Napoleon.

Episode 82, The Fortunes of War.

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Anyway, we left off last time in early 1805.

The bulk of the French army had spent two years camped along the English Channel.

This had been a period of boredom, but the army had been honed to a deadly efficiency

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