Episode 99: Dangers of Every Kind

The Age of Napoleon Podcast

Everett Rummage

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In January of 1807, Napoleon ordered his men to make winter quarters and turned his attention to an exciting, but dangerous new mistress with a hidden agenda. But before the month was over, fate would draw the Grande Armée back out on campaign. Also, I am writing Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze's name here in the notes, in case some of you are wondering how to spell it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.2	Welcome to the Age of Napoleon, Episode 99, Dangerous of Every Kind.
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0:50.0	We left off last time in the waiting days of 1806.
0:53.7	Napoleon and the Grand Armee were in Central Poland.
0:57.4	The spirits were low.
0:59.2	Poor weather had turned every road in Poland into a morass of mud.
1:03.6	The army's logistics system had failed.
1:06.8	Napoleon's headquarters estimated somewhere around 40% of his forces were absent without
1:11.8	leave, roving the countryside, looking for food.
1:16.0	Not only were the men hungry and freezing, the army had been struck by dysentery, killing
1:20.8	hundreds and leaving thousands of survivors weak and miserable.
1:26.1	Their new Russian opponents had proved far more tenacious and resourceful than the hapless
1:31.0	Prussians.
1:32.6	The Grand Armee still had not lost a major battle, but their victories in this phase of
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