HeyJaredThe History of Russia Podcast
A podcast exploring everything related to the History of Russia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 119 - 1812 (Part Four) The Road to Hell (opens the original)
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Napoleon had sat in an empty, burned-out Moscow for weeks waiting for a response from Alexander. But the Russian emperor had stayed silent and so Bonaparte had decided it was time to head back west. What he didn't know is that his retreat would become one of the biggest military disasters of all time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 118 - 1812 (Part Four) Fall in Moscow (opens the original)
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Today we are going to see how and why Napoleon reached Moscow so easily But, here's the question. Would he be able to do the second of the two things he wanted to do and force Alexander to the negotiating table and get him to surrender? We’ll also be making short visits to Iberia and the Caucasus, and then for no other reason than I think it’s interesting and it puts things into context in terms of events happening on the global stage, we’ll cover a couple of slight diversions that had taken pla
Episode 117 - 1812 (Part Three) Borodino (opens the original)
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This week we follow the Grande Armée on the road to Moscow. However, in between Napoleon and Russia's ancient capital was the village of Borodino which Kutusov had occupied and this time it looked like the Russians were going to stand and fight. We'll also be taking a brief look at what was going on in Spain and the Caucasus and I offer my thoughts on why Napoleon was aiming for Moscow and not St Petersburg and what it was actually like to be an ordinairy soldier in a Napoleonic era army Please
Episode 116 - 1812 (Part Two) The Roads to Smolensk (opens the original)
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Today’s episode will feature two main events - a long, muddled chase. Barclay De Tolly pulling back, Bagration trying to catch up with him, neither of them quite knowing where each other was and Napoleon's marshals trying to make sure that the two Russian armies never quite managed to meet up and combine forces And in August, almost 2 months after the invasion had started, we will have our first battle - well sort of. We also have a couple of other sideshows to keep an eye on, neither of which w
Episode 115 - 1812 (Part One) And so it begins (opens the original)
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This time around, we’ll be covering just the two things, the somewhat inevitable fall of Speransky and the events that would lead up to and include Napoleon’s full scale invasion of Russia in June 1812. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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