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Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit Warfare Podcast I'm your host James

Rogers and this is the part two that you have been waiting for to mark the

200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death, we have the brilliant

Zach White. And he takes us through what happens as Napoleon starts to fall from grace.

His first exile, then his second exile after his defeat at Waterloo, and his ultimate

death in abject poverty on the island of St Helena. So here he is, the brilliant Zach White on the death of Napoleon. Okay, enough of his victories. I think we can start to get to the point where we see him descend. So tell us a little about his defeats. I think it's probably fair to say that Horatio Nelson becomes a bit of a nemesis of his.

Napoleon kind of guides himself away from great naval battles, mainly because of the destruction of the French Navy, and is more of a

astute ground commander. Do you think that's fair? I suppose that's fair given his artillery

and military background, right?

Yeah, I'm not sure if Nelson specifically was somebody that Napoleon singled out as a great

nemesis.

Certainly, Nelson was by name is the only one who presided over some crushing victories for the British Navy

and there's a long tradition of British success over the course of this conflict, so Clorious 1st of June, for example.

So there are a few of them there, but certainly it's very clear that I think

somebody describes this as is that the lion versus the whale, this sort of great struggle where

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