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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Epochs #131 | The Duke of Wellington: Part III

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week Beau and Carl discuss Arthur Wellesley’s later life. From the 100 days against Napoleon and the battle of Waterloo, to his political career, time as Prime Minister, old age and finally death.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi folks,

0:01.0

of Lottetetas, and this is the third of a three-part series.

0:05.9

We're doing on the Duke of Wellington, the conqueror of Tippu Sultan, the liberator of the Iberian

0:12.3

Peninsula, and now I suppose the nemesis of Napoleon

0:18.9

Yeah, well last time we left off where the Napoleonic forces had been beaten across Europe and Napoleon had been exiled to Elba.

0:28.0

The Emperor of Elba. The Emperor of Elba.

0:30.0

But he did escape. Now I'm not going to do the 100 days and Waterloo in all that much detail

0:36.2

because I've sort of done it twice already one in our series about Napoleon and I also

0:40.5

did a very early epochs reviewing the film the 1970 film Waterloo with

0:47.4

Critical Drinker did check that out yeah so I'm going to go over it a bit but I'm not

0:51.6

going to do it in fantastic detail.

0:53.0

If you want the detail of what happened to Napoleon and Elba

0:55.2

and how he got out, well, you can check out the previous e-bop.

0:58.2

Neither say he did escape from the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

1:02.4

He came up through France

1:04.8

turned a lot of his marshals including salt and nay

1:08.8

to come over to his side.

1:11.4

Will you shoot your emperor?

1:12.7

And yeah, and the Bourbon king, was it,

1:17.3

Lively the 18th, fled France.

1:20.0

And so we get the showdown at the at the field of all today, it's just south of Brussels.

1:26.4

So Napoleon decides he's going to he needs to march on the coalition forces or the British forces that are in Belgium.

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