Napoleon Bonaparte: Rise to Power

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this archive episode, Dan talks to Adam Zamoyski, a historian who has written a biography of Napoleon, about the early life and rise to power of one of the most remarkable men in history.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Dance Nose History Hit.
0:02.7	200 years ago this week, Napoleon died in St. Helena, one of the most remarkable lives
0:08.8	and careers in the history of Europe.
0:12.7	He died a British prisoner on one of the most remote scraps of land in the world.
0:18.6	I visited St. Helena last year and we've got a lot of content about Napoleon and his
0:22.4	death available at historyhit.tv.
0:24.2	Please go and check it out.
0:25.6	It's like a digital history channel where you get documentaries, podcasts, audio
0:32.0	and all sorts of things.
0:33.0	You're going to love it.
0:34.2	We got a documentary of me visiting the place the room when Napoleon died.
0:38.3	It's all laid out just as it was 200 years ago.
0:41.0	Big anniversary folks go and check it out there.
0:43.2	Also while you're there, you can enjoy some of the more remarkable other history of a
0:47.1	really wonderful island, St. Helena.
0:48.6	I fell in love with the place.
0:50.3	Please go and check that out on historyhit.tv.
0:51.3	It's like Netflix, but just for history.
0:54.1	It's a big focus on Napoleon this week.
0:56.1	There's a focus on Napoleon on this podcast too.
0:59.4	Because a few years ago I talked to the very brilliant historian Adam Somosky.
1:03.1	We went to discuss the whole of Napoleon, excuse me for a bit of a biography, but in the
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