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Napoleon Bonaparte Surrenders

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

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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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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