Voices of Waterloo

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

205 years ago today, 60,000 men were slaughtered in the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon Bonaparte's French army was finally defeated by an almighty coalition of troops from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau, led by the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher. I was joined on the pod by Zack White, who has set up Voices of the Battlefield, an oral history project featuring 41 readings of eyewitness testimony from the campaign. In this podcast, we listened to these accounts, which ranged from a 10 year old triangle player remembering the chaos of the battlefield, to Wellington's own remorse at the horrific bloodshed.

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:00.5	folks, Dan Snow here.
0:01.6	I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit.
0:06.1	I'd love for you to be there.
0:07.5	Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London,
0:10.4	in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years.
0:14.1	You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes.
0:17.6	Look forward to seeing you there.
0:24.6	Okay. show notes. Look forward to seeing you there. Hello everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's history. It's the 18th of June 2020. That means two things.
0:32.7	Two things. One is it 205 years ago today, the Battle of Waterloo was fought.
0:48.2	Napoleon Bonaparte's French army was defeated by a powerful coalition of the Duke of Wellington's British and Allied army and the Prussians under Marshal Bluka, the decisive end of the Napoleonic War.
0:57.0	Napoleon would be dispatched as a prisoner exile to the tiny island of St Helena, one of the most remote places on earth,
1:01.3	guarded over by a British garrison for the remaining years of his life.
1:08.7	It also means that five years ago, this week, I launched the History Hit podcast.
1:11.2	It seems like yesterday I sat in a hotel room.
1:12.8	I think it was in Belgium.
1:14.7	It was during the reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo.
1:17.6	I was there with my dad and I decided to interview my dad,
1:20.3	who's got a great passion for Waterloo, about that battle.
1:22.9	And we broadcast that as the first podcast.
1:27.2	That was listened to by a couple hundred people.
1:32.1	And now History is listened to by millions of people all around the world every single month.
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