Show Notes
This time around we’ll be covering the years 1759 and 1760.
Years in which the Grand Duchess Catherine and Frederick the Great will be taking stock of their own respective situations and enacting plans to safeguard their own respective futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Napoleon gets busy on Elba, Alexander finds redemption, the 7th coalition is formed and down in south-east Asia there is a humungous explosion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's episode features a diplomatic game that Napoleon somehow found a way to lose.
It's 1813 - Napoleon is back in Paris and he has put together a new army.
In the sixth and final part of this min-series we follow the remnants of Napoleons Grande Armée as they plod they plod their way, half-starved and half-frozen, back towards safety.
Napoleon had sat in an empty, burned-out Moscow for weeks waiting for a response from Alexander.