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🗓️ 15 July 2024
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July 15, 1815. After suffering a crushing defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British. This episode originally aired in 2022.
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0:06.0 | As a member of Noiser Plus at Noiser.com or in Apple Podcasts, |
0:10.0 | or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. It's December 2nd, 2005 and a battle is underway in what is today the Czech Republic. |
0:32.0 | A few miles outside the town of Austerlitz, a regiment of |
0:35.5 | Russian soldiers retreats from a battlefield where they've just been routed by the French. Among those |
0:40.9 | running for their lives, a young private dashes ahead, barely able to see through the thick snowfall. |
0:47.0 | He and his comrades are exhausted, but they keep running, fleeing certain death at the hands of the French, and trying to find cover or some way to escape. |
0:56.0 | Up ahead, the private makes out the shape of a large lake. |
0:59.7 | He groans in despair as he realizes they may be cornered. |
1:03.0 | The private and the rest of his battalion are forced to stop at the edge of the frozen water. |
1:08.0 | They look around frantically, hoping to find some way out. |
1:12.0 | The private unslings his musket. |
1:15.0 | With the point of his bayonet taps the translucent blue ice. |
1:20.0 | It seems thick enough, but he can't be sure. |
1:23.1 | Still he knows turning back is not an option. |
1:25.9 | So the young private takes a breath and steps out onto the icy surface. |
1:31.0 | His comrades followed closely behind. |
1:33.0 | They walked quickly, anxious to reach the other side of the lake, |
1:37.0 | but as they make their way across, |
1:40.0 | the sound of musket fire suddenly rings in the air. |
1:42.0 | The retreating Russians purl themselves prone |
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